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The panel set up to inform the upcoming National School Reform Agreement (NSRA) has now reported. During 2024 the shape of our schools for the next four years will be decided. Australian Learning Lecture (ALL) believes that the panel has opened the door for overdue and well-rounded reform of the framework of Australia’s schools. It’s not before time. Improving outcomes for all clearly states that “the current system entrenches educational ...

ALL has joined forces with Melbourne Assessment, Deakin University, RMIT, The University of Melbourne and the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre to establish whether learner profile data can provide value in the tertiary selection process.

Several new resources have emerged from the partnership focussing on FutureSchool between ALL and ACEL Australia.

In Choice and Fairness, the point is made that Australia’s education system is internationally unusual and that comparable countries have very different policies and practices. While Australia does not need to imitate, it can learn from these nations. One of the countries is Canada which in the late 19th century, extended full public funding to schools serving minority religious communities.

While much of the media has focussed on the achievement gap between rich and poor students in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results, there are many several interesting takeaways which have not received media attention yet.

The Australian Learning Lecture was one of many organisations to make a submission to the panel reviewing the NSRA agreement.

Since the launch of our publication Choice and Fairness: A Common Framework for all Australian schools, we have given many briefings to different organisations, politicians, and interested individuals and have engaged with the media to move the discussion from the status quo to how Australia could have a more equitable school system. We also presented our proposal to the National School Reform Agreement panel in late September.

During 2022, the Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL) partnered with the Australian Learning Lecture (ALL) to engage, share, and learn from schools that are making significant changes in schooling to meet the needs of the future. These are case studies from that partnership.

ACEL and ALL established a cooperative relationship to actively engage the ACEL community in discussion of the principles and ideas of the future school, with a focus on identifying a number of
Australian schools to lead the discussion and to share their learning. This paper by Sue Buckley, ACEL, highlights the successes of the partnership.