‘Keeps me up at night’: NAPLAN data to spark schools overhaul
Education Minister Jason Clare says new school performance data to be released on Wednesday will show students from regional areas and poor families dominate those below the minimum standard, underlining the need for a “serious” overhaul of primary and high schools.
An accord process inquiring into higher education begun under Mr Clare has shown the number of students at university will need to double to 1.8 million by 2050 to meet future economic needs. But the minister said his biggest worry, and a risk to meeting that need, was the diminishing pipeline of students finishing high school.
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