Australian Education System
Our kids aren’t getting smarter. They are going backwards.
Dear Editor,
I selected this topic from your newspaper heading. ‘Prime Minister Julia Gillard’ set an ambitious goal for Australian education to be ranked as a top-five country in reading, mathematics and science by 2025. But according to the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) Report, in 2000, Australia’s education system was ranked number two in the world for reading and mathematics and ranked three for science. Today, we’re number eight for science, number ten for reading and number seventeen for mathematics. The decline is equivalent to more than half a year of schooling. Why did this happen and why did our education system fail? We have to find the answer to these …show more content…
Is this happening? The PISA report said there is a wide gap between Australian students in different parts of the country and socioeconomic status which still affects the student outcomes. According to your newsletter, Australian students from a wealthy background were five times more likely to do well compared to a student from the lowest socio-economic group. That’s true, we all know there is a significant relationship between the socioeconomic status and the educational performance of the students. We are seeing a large and widening gap between the education resources deployed to rich and poor children. This is a significant issue to achieve the educational goals in Australia.
Another essential part of education is gender equality. Girls’ education is essential to the achievement of quality learning relevant to the 21st century. But the report also shows that girls hold a much more negative view about mathematics. Approximately one-third of females in Australia reported that they did not think that mathematics was important for later study compared to one-fifth of males. Negative feeling for maths and science subjects are the reason for the low performance. So our teachers should encourage them and they need to use techniques and experiments to exciting the
Dear Editor,
I selected this topic from your newspaper heading. ‘Prime Minister Julia Gillard’ set an ambitious goal for Australian education to be ranked as a top-five country in reading, mathematics and science by 2025. But according to the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) Report, in 2000, Australia’s education system was ranked number two in the world for reading and mathematics and ranked three for science. Today, we’re number eight for science, number ten for reading and number seventeen for mathematics. The decline is equivalent to more than half a year of schooling. Why did this happen and why did our education system fail? We have to find the answer to these …show more content…
Is this happening? The PISA report said there is a wide gap between Australian students in different parts of the country and socioeconomic status which still affects the student outcomes. According to your newsletter, Australian students from a wealthy background were five times more likely to do well compared to a student from the lowest socio-economic group. That’s true, we all know there is a significant relationship between the socioeconomic status and the educational performance of the students. We are seeing a large and widening gap between the education resources deployed to rich and poor children. This is a significant issue to achieve the educational goals in Australia.
Another essential part of education is gender equality. Girls’ education is essential to the achievement of quality learning relevant to the 21st century. But the report also shows that girls hold a much more negative view about mathematics. Approximately one-third of females in Australia reported that they did not think that mathematics was important for later study compared to one-fifth of males. Negative feeling for maths and science subjects are the reason for the low performance. So our teachers should encourage them and they need to use techniques and experiments to exciting the