Federal Education Minister Alan Tudge has said that Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu should not be taught to children in schools. Dark Emu, published in 2014, claims that Indigenous Australians were not just mere hunter-gatherers, but were actually sophisticated agriculturalists. The validity of the claims have since been brought into question by experts, yet the…
Plans to Teach Academics and University Students to Identify Foreign Interference on Campus
Australian university staff and students will be taught how to recognise foreign interference threats on campus and report them to authorities under newly proposed rules. The changes have been put forward as part of the new foreign interference guidelines for universities. They are intended to strengthen their ability to counter influence from the Chinese Communist…
Plans to Teach Academics, Students to Identify Foreign Interference on Campus
September 5, 2021
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Australian university staff and students will be taught how to recognise foreign interference threats on campus and report them to authorities under newly proposed rules. The changes have been put forward as part of the new foreign interference guidelines for universities. They are intended to strengthen their ability to counter influence from the Chinese Communist…
NSW Records Its Worst Year 9 Reading Score in NAPLAN, But National Results Surprisingly Steady
Preliminary NAPLAN results were released today revealed that Australia’s overall education performance has remained steady, but New South Wales (NSW) Year 9 students recorded the worst results in reading since the testing system began. One in ten students failed to reach the national minimum standard (NMS) for reading, putting the NSW Year 9 cohort behind…
Australia’s Proposed Curriculum Must Be Rewritten With ‘Fundamental Changes’: Education Minister
Australian Education Minister Alan Tudge has told the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) that it must substantially rewrite its draft national curriculum or it will not be approved. The proposed curriculum that was released in April attracted heavy criticism across all subjects, including the removal of all references to Australia’s democratic and Judeo-Christian…
‘Absolute Garbage’: Education Minister on Academic’s Call to Rename English
Australian Education Minister Alan Tudge has called an academic’s proposal to rename English to “Language Arts” absolute nonsense. University of Melbourne senior lecturer Melitta Hogarth told a conference for the Australian Association for the Teaching of English that she believed using the name English was an “act of assimilation,” reported The Courier-Mail. Hogarth, an Indigenous…
Australia is Becoming Less Literate as Writing and Literacy Standards Drop Significantly
July 27, 2021
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Australian literacy levels have been in freefall since the turn of the century, and this has resulted in underprepared school leavers and a decline in teacher expertise, according to an analysis by the Centre of Independent Studies. In their latest paper, authors Deidre Clary and Fiona Mueller found that one in five Year 9 students…
Childcare Assistance for Parents and Centres Across Greater Sydney
Parents in New South Wales who choose to keep their children at home during the lockdowns will not be required to pay childcare gap fees to keep their kids enrolled. Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Education Minister Alan Tudge said the measures were designed to help take the financial pressure off both families and childcare…
Universities Given Till the End of the Year to Adopt Freedom of Speech Code
June 3, 2021
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Australian Education Minister Alan Tudge has given universities until the end of this year to enforce a freedom of speech code, threatening to use legislation if universities refuse or cannot implement it. “You cannot pursue truth without freedom of expression. You cannot create knowledge without freedom of academic inquiry,” Tudge said in a speech to…
Ditch NAPLAN Tests For System That Puts Students First: Report
The Gonski Institute for Education is calling for the government to ditch NAPLAN tests rather than reform them and replace the standardized exams with tests that put the interest of students first. In its new report, ‘Putting Students First,’ the Gonski Institute has proposed new sample-based testing of students that “builds trust and capacity,” moving away…
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