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Flat White

The devolution of Western teaching

6 April 2023

6:00 AM

6 April 2023

6:00 AM

The National Curriculum is broken. So too is the profession of instruction and teaching. Each new Education Minister – be they state or federal – arrives with a commitment to ‘start turning things around’, while admitting that ‘it is a difficult task, of course’.

The stated task is difficult because, despite the good intentions of these ministers, ‘decent folk’ (that is the phrase we use now, isn’t it?) do not know their subject matter.

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