New values for modern education
--> 26% of Australian students – more than 1 in 4 – fail to complete year 12 at school or a vocational equivalent, according to the Educational Opportunity in Australia2015 report by the Mitchell Institute. And the numbers are worse for those from socio-economically disadvantaged areas and worse again for Australian Indigenous students. Is this a failure rate that a business would put up with? What if your business lost 1 of every 4 of your customers a year? Every year? Wouldn’t your business be in crisis mode? So where is the panic from government? Why aren’t the customers of our education system – the students and their parents and guardians – up in arms? And the ultimate end-users – the businesses that need bright, creative new employees – why aren’t they screaming for change? How did we become so complacent about failing the next generation of employees and employers, of entrepreneurs and innovators? In poor...