Australia's education performance is stalling, indigenous students are falling further behind and the global financial crisis is preventing educated and skilled young Australians from getting a job.
The glum picture will emerge today as the Council of Australian Government Reform Group issues its latest snapshot of how the states and territories are performing across national agreements in education and training. It will warn that Australia is at risk of failing to meet a number of its key targets.
While the ACT continues to outperform the other states and territories in many of the benchmarks, it too has weak areas in high school achievement and in indigenous performance.
COAG Reform Group chair Paul McClintock warned that the ACT could not afford to rest on its performance when compared with the rest of the country, and needed instead to continually improve on past years - or risk being overtaken by the other states.
Three years ago the reform group began annual progress reports on education and skills in an attempt to reach performance benchmarks agreed between all states, territories and the Commonwealth.
Mr McClintock said that literacy and numeracy performance had seen some improvements - specifically in Years 3 and 7 reading, and Year 5 numeracy.
Yet performance across Year 9 was problematic in all states and territories, with Mr McClintock suggesting priority spending to lift NAPLAN performance had been channelled into the early years of education at the expense of the high school years - although it may be shown to flow through later.
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The glum picture will emerge today as the Council of Australian Government Reform Group issues its latest snapshot of how the states and territories are performing across national agreements in education and training. It will warn that Australia is at risk of failing to meet a number of its key targets.
While the ACT continues to outperform the other states and territories in many of the benchmarks, it too has weak areas in high school achievement and in indigenous performance.
COAG Reform Group chair Paul McClintock warned that the ACT could not afford to rest on its performance when compared with the rest of the country, and needed instead to continually improve on past years - or risk being overtaken by the other states.
Three years ago the reform group began annual progress reports on education and skills in an attempt to reach performance benchmarks agreed between all states, territories and the Commonwealth.
Mr McClintock said that literacy and numeracy performance had seen some improvements - specifically in Years 3 and 7 reading, and Year 5 numeracy.
Yet performance across Year 9 was problematic in all states and territories, with Mr McClintock suggesting priority spending to lift NAPLAN performance had been channelled into the early years of education at the expense of the high school years - although it may be shown to flow through later.
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canberratimes.com.au
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