''Schools produce 'illiterate' students''--www.theage.com.au/
headline
if u accuse me anti Oz by posting not-so-good -news of Oz,
then pl e mail to CSJ and www.theage.com.au/.--
Tell them, he and the paper , is also anti--Singapore and
anti--Australia
respectively.
Come.There are many who have studied in Oz.
Tell me if it is true? pl e mail SG studetns who are studying
in Oz now.
Be patient.Just wait for few days of Senate report.
Read word by word yourself.
darling.Dunt tell me we cant trust Oz Senate report!!
Oz PM ''Mr Howard said the teaching of English had been allowed to
drift into a "relativist wasteland", and that text messages and Big
Brother were robbing children of their cultural heritage.''
A report with political motivation?
I salute SG parents who send their kids to Oz.
Oh.They are in Very Good school.No problems.Heng Ah...
I am sorry if i disturb the long held believe that schools
down under is good.Pl note that I dare not say
anything about Oz schools.
I just table their media report and the respected Senate
report for our friendly and cooling chit chat.
U are welcome to talk SG school system here.
Schools produce 'illiterate' students,Jewel Topsfield,September 13,
2007--www.theage.com.au,
AUSTRALIAN teenagers commonly complete secondary school without
a firm grasp on how to construct a complex sentence, a Senate
committee is believed to have found.
In a provocative report to be released today, the committee is
believed to have expressed alarm at the fact that some students can
go through six or more years of school and emerge functionally
illiterate.
The majority report is expected to say that trainee teachers are
more concerned with classroom management than teaching theory, and
they often feel ill-prepared for the classroom at the end of their
degrees.
The inquiry, by the Senate's standing committee on education, was
announced in February, hours after Prime Minister John Howard said
some school curriculums contained "incomprehensible sludge".
The timing of the inquiry prompted claims that it was a
politically motivated exercise in bashing Labor states claims
believed to have been echoed by Labor members of the committee in a
dissenting report.
The Age believes the report will cite evidence that students
emerging from secondary school with restricted vocabulary and
without a firm grasp of complex sentences somehow manage to go on
to higher education.
It is believed the committee found much dissatisfaction with the
bachelor of education degree, mainly due to the poor grounding
offered in some university subject disciplines.
The report is likely to recommend that the lobby group Universities
Australia encourage a more rigorous and evidence-based approach
when educating trainees on methods of teaching literacy and
maths.
It is also expected to recommend that federal and state education
ministers negotiate a comparable year 12 certificate with common
national standards that could be assessed in public exams.
The report is believed to say that researchers have shown that the
quality of teaching is the single most important influence on
students' performance.
However, it is likely to say the lack of a definition of teacher
excellence hinders recognition and rewarding of teachers,
specifically in terms of academic achievement.
The committee is expected to recommend a review into the
remuneration of teachers to encourage more people into the
profession and improve retention rates.
Under a future Coalition government, the states would be forced to
introduce performance-based pay for teachers, a common national
curriculum in key subjects and public year 12 exams in order to
receive their share of $42 billion in federal funding from
2009.
The day the inquiry was announced, Mr Howard said the
teaching of English had been allowed to drift into a "relativist
wasteland", and that text messages and Big Brother were robbing
children of their cultural heritage.
Federal Education Minister Julie Bishop has also repeatedly
criticised standards in state schools.
The inquiry received 73 submissions and held eight public hearings
across the country.
An education psychologist at RMIT University, Kerry Hempenstall,
told the inquiry that the written expression of his postgraduate
students was generally poor and he often fixed basic spelling and
grammatical errors in their assignments.
Senior Canberra education bureaucrats warned that young Australians
were inadequately prepared for the 21st century.
The committee's Labor senators, in their dissenting report, are
believed to say the Government has commissioned 22 reports on
standards and teacher education since 1998, but has failed to act
on them.
They are also believed to claim the inquiry did not take into
account the Federal Government's failure to fund programs
adequately or to provide constructive policy to raise
standards.
2.Dunt Fxxx me.The report is
here.13.09.2007.
Quality of school education,13 September 2007,© Commonwealth of
Australia 2007
ISBN 978-0-642-71856-3
Lets read the Senate report then talk.
3.Inquiry
into Academic Standards of School Education
The report will now be tabled on 13 September 2007.good news
thats today...
Quality of school education,13 September 2007,© Commonwealth of
Australia 2007
ISBN 978-0-642-71856-3
