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 poorer countries, where the provision