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Secret education business : Comments
By Graeden Horsell, published 15/3/2007Greater accountability and transparency in our schools would allow parents to make informed decisions when choosing a school.
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For the idea to be used in Oz there would have to be major changes first. The plethora of different syllabi must be scrapped. That is essential. Secondly, because Oz has a far greater percentage of schools that are 'independent' (mainly religion based) the excising of them from the system would make the whole thing little short of farcical.
A further point is that although some attempt is made in UK to 'measure' the crucial matter of value adding, it appears to be done on suspect generalised ideas of the economic/social background of the school. For proper measuring of value added there must be regular testing of each child, that record following the individual so that the students own value add can be assessed. The schools value add would be a sort of integral of those individual performances. One thing is certain: the use of post codes as a measure is nonsense. Clearly there can be 2 or more schools in the same postcode but which have very different 'quality' of intake.
But at least this article faces the reality that something must be done. So a qualified pat on the head!