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The post-secondary education and skills system is our greatest asset as rapid technological and digital change alters the tasks and capabilities required to stay in work and lead successful and fufilling lives.
In October 2017, Jennifer Westacott argued that we have a system that is not fit-for-purpose and that there are fundamental problems we need to solve in the post-secondary education and skills system.

This paper is intended to provide a comprehensive solution to what ails the current public school system and its place in societal development – a system that is failing badly in the face of ever complex fundamental challenges to our survival, let alone our thriving as a species. What follows is a ‘big’ proposal. Once started the ‘four drivers’ feed on each other as a system in motion. Most important, the timing is right.

Australian schools have been through many changes over the years, but how much of this amounts to progress is open to question. No doubt there are schools that have made huge progress in how they provide good teaching and achieve results that often exceed expectations. Then there are schools that continue to struggle, often due to inadequate resources and personnel needed to design educational opportunities for the children they serve. In a big ...

Across the world assessment is not working. We are not evidencing the kinds of dispositions and capabilities that
society increasingly wants. Educational jurisdictions are placing too much reliance on high-stakes, standardised testing. They are testing the wrong things in the wrong ways. High-stakes assessment is having a damaging impact on the health and wellbeing of students and it is not giving universities, colleges or employers the ...

A quality education empowers our children and young people. It unlocks their full potential and provides opportunities to help them succeed in life. The NT government outlines its education engagement strategy.

This Discussion Paper by Charles Fadel is intended
to advance the imperative for multidimensional assessments of countries’ competencies.

Over the past decades ‘twenty-first century skills’ has become a widely, and uncritically accepted, educational meme. Bill Lucas argues in this Centre for Strategic Education that four decades on, the phrase is increasingly irritating. Its use of the word ‘skill’ is unhelpful. Its refusal to distinguish between skills that are eternally useful, as opposed to those which are legitimate responses to the world we live in now, is lazy.

Creating a Graduate Profile is a critical first step that lays a foundation for achieving improved outcomes for young people. It offers a renewed vision and shared definition of the college-, career-, and civic-ready student, serves as an impetus for shifting instructional practices and engaging students in deeper learning, and requires a shift in assessment that provides young people authentic ways to demonstrate their knowledge and skills. ...

The world's best-performing education systems is the sketch of a treatise, an attempt to lay out a framework for a debate that is overdue and urgently needed. Marc Tucker asks in this CSE Leading Education Series what would it take for education systems to adapt to what might be a very different future?

This paper by Michael Fullan for the Centre for Strategic Education is intended to provide a comprehensive solution to what ails the current public school system and its place in societal development – a system that is failing badly in the face of ever complex fundamental challenges to our survival, let alone our thriving as a species. What follows is a ‘big’ proposal.