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Julia Gillard on Insight

Boy that Deputy PM gets around. Last week Q & A, next week it's Insight, discussing school academic results.

jgBoy that Deputy PM gets around. Last week it was Q & A, next week it’s Insight, and we still haven’t gotten around to Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader? yet.

Julia Gillard, who is also Minister for Education, will discuss a “new era of transparency” with Jenny Brockie and a forum of guests, as academic results from schools is to be posted publicly at the end of this year.

“There’s nothing more important in this country to the shape of its future than what’s happening in schools today,” says Gillard.

But opponents of this proposed system, say that it will only stigmatise the worst schools and demoralise the teachers and the students. The Minister says that this proposal will allow the government to identify and properly resource the schools that need the most help.

Debating the points will be students, teachers and parents and New York schools boss, Joel Klein who led the charge to reform public schools in New York City.

Insight will be broadcast on Tuesday, 18 August at 7:30 pm on SBS.

6 Responses

  1. That’s exactly my point Kevin, they never allow party members to cross the floor unless they want to be banished from the party. That right there is not how democracy works, not obeying ‘the master’ without question for every policy decision, good, bad, and insane.

  2. To be fair Benno, the ALP has never allowed it’s member’s of parliament to cross the floor and vote against the party line. It isn’t a new policy and was around even back when Australia refused to have diplomatic relations with China.

    Certainly though the Madatory Internet Filter plan seems illadvised and costly. The evidence so far seems like it would have little effect on actually protecting children. I suppose it should be interesting to see what they are saying about Education policy as well. In many ways the line the government is taking on schools, ie. league tables and such seems to be a more traditionally conservative idea on education policy.

  3. This isn’t exactly the place for a political discussion, but it seems like ALP are just an extension of communist China, although not many people are seeing it. The party line forbids any members from voting against party line, no matter how stupid the policy. Yes ALP are doing some good things, but do yourself favour and google ‘Australia internet censorship’. That’s not the only thing that irritates me about them, but it is the biggest one.

  4. Benno!!! you should be a shame….

    i don’t know if you are liberal side or not.

    just to let you know the new ALP are the only one that have done something in the educational system.
    when liberal in power, the education side wasn’t improving at all, therefore the labor government have to pick all the damages that liberal have created.

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