for public schools? why are Finland, Canada and Japan doing far better in terms of their public education, the private schools in their countries don't receive any funding and the public system educates 99% of all students in the following three countries and they all have high tech equipment in all schools in the countries and they have a level playing field, whats up with Australia? Can't we aspire to be like them, or isn't it that simple? please comment? fruitsalad and zafir, here is the link for proof: http://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/details/education.aspx#weakness Some Quotes: "What is Canada doing right? Canada’s strength is in its public system that provides many Canadians with a good education and the basic skills they need to enter the workforce and achieve substantial success. The system’s primary focus is on delivering education to young people, aged 5 to 25. Over the past 15 years, raising the high-school graduation rate has been a major educational priority—a response to the growing consensus that high-school graduation is the prerequisite stepping stone to post-secondary education, now deemed essential to success in the labour market. Canada has one of the highest rates of high-school and college completion in the world. While Canadians are at school, they become well educated, for the most part, in core subjects like mathematics, reading, and science." Some Quotes cont.: "How would Canada rank if Finland were excluded? Taking Finland out of the reckoning would produce significantly different results. Canada would become the top-performing country. Almost all peer countries would improve their grades. Depending on one’s view of the “Finnish Threat,� this may be a more realistic assessment of Canada’s performance in the Education and Skills category. It is one that better reflects Canada’s absolute and relative performance both in the last year and over time."
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I find it ironic that you've asked a question about education standards in Australia which is unintelligible, lol.
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Source please? I don't see anything in the article that even mentions public shooling, or that puts it at second lowest in the OECD. It shows better education outcomes in Finland and to some extent Canada, and we are somewhere in the top 5 depending on which statistic you look at. Finland to achieve this spends around 30% more on education as a percentage of GDP, so it comes at a cost. Of course we can aspire to do better. Where we do poorly compared to Canada is the high school and university completion rates, not in the skills achieved.
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As far as educational outcomes are concerned, I was unaware that the OECD differentiated between public and private education. The education statistics I was able to find on the OECD website showed Australia in a positive light. As with all countries there are areas we can improve on, but overall it look OK. Perhaps you could provide a link to your source of information. EDIT: Not sure how you managed to come to the conclusion that Australia is 2nd last out of the OECD countries listed, when the link you posted clearly shows Australia as 6th out of 17 OECD countries, and on a par with Japan, Switzerland and Sweden. How can we possibly be 2nd last? Just in case you don't know which countries are members of the OECD, here's a list: http://www.oecd.org/document/58/0,3343,en_2649_201185_1889402_1_1_1_1,00.html
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You should always treat statistics with suspicion. They are generally produced by people that wish to make a point and that point is seldom the truth.
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Au contrare mon ami! Australia is in the top 4 of educational standards in the world.Wherever you got your statistics they aren't telling the whole story.Why do you think all those foreign students come here for a better education?
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Its probably not because of the schools but because the kids don't really care about grades. Well that's what it's like at my school.
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