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SirRumpole said:
If you are going to quote from subscriber only publications would you at least say who wrote the article.
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As reported today, the Australian Council for Educational Research is the latest organisation to point out why spending more is not the answer to better educational outcomes. The challenge, identified by ACER chief executive Geoff Masters in a new report, Five Challenges in Australian School Education, is better application of existing government funding based on evidence-based strategies. Three-quarters of Australia’s fastest growing industries need graduates with strong science, technology, engineering and maths skills. Secondary students’ participation in physics and advanced maths, however, has declined steadily for 20 years. Fewer than 10 per cent of Year 12 students study advanced maths. Fewer than 15 per cent take physics.


Perhaps if you had been astute enough and read the complete article you would have read the report was by Geoff Masters...

Are you OK with that now?
 
noco said:
As reported today, the Australian Council for Educational Research is the latest organisation to point out why spending more is not the answer to better educational outcomes. The challenge, identified by ACER chief executive Geoff Masters in a new report, Five Challenges in Australian School Education, is better application of existing government funding based on evidence-based strategies. Three-quarters of Australia’s fastest growing industries need graduates with strong science, technology, engineering and maths skills. Secondary students’ participation in physics and advanced maths, however, has declined steadily for 20 years. Fewer than 10 per cent of Year 12 students study advanced maths. Fewer than 15 per cent take physics.


Perhaps if you had been astute enough and read the complete article you would have read the report was by Geoff Masters...

Are you OK with that now?
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The article was subscriber only and I'm not a subscriber to the Australian so I could hardly read the complete article could I , but thank you for the author's name.

Quoting selecting parts of a full article that is not publicly available is not informative, however the low rates of maths and science studies is a worry. Maybe somewhere in that article the author provides a reason why this is the case. IMHO maths and science should be compulsory to Year 12.
 
SirRumpole said:
The article was subscriber only and I'm not a subscriber to the Australian so I could hardly read the complete article could I , but thank you for the author's name.

Quoting selecting parts of a full article that is not publicly available is not informative, however the low rates of maths and science studies is a worry. Maybe somewhere in that article the author provides a reason why this is the case. IMHO maths and science should be compulsory to Year 12.
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Maybe the problem is that maths and science are hard subjects.

Same as why there is a decline in uni students doing engineering, science and maths courses, but there are now 50% of students going on to university.

What subjects are they doing?:rolleyes:
 
sptrawler said:
Maybe the problem is that maths and science are hard subjects.
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"We choose to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard" (JFK).


That's the point really we are becoming lazy, and this is where we need teachers that make hard subjects easy because they know how to explain complex ideas. So it comes down to teacher practical experience, ie get some engineers to teach engineering so they can relate their actual experiences to their students rather than just book learning. (As you said in another thread which I saw after I posted this).

Same as why there is a decline in uni students doing engineering, science and maths courses, but there are now 50% of students going on to university.

What subjects are they doing?:rolleyes:
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Social Science probably.
 
Lack of teachers actually teaching or explaining the subject material. If students don't get it- tough luck and move on.
 
Barnacle Bill says his team is united........It does not appear so when 17 of his team are going against him on border control...The Green will have a say as well when they form a coalition with Labor on a hung parliament.....

Bill says there will be no deal with the Greens under a government I lead.....Now where have I heard that saying before?

The people smugglers are already gearing up to start again.


http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...|heading|homepage|homepage&itmt=1463353193627
 
sptrawler said:
Maybe the problem is that maths and science are hard subjects.

Same as why there is a decline in uni students doing engineering, science and maths courses, but there are now 50% of students going on to university.

What subjects are they doing?:rolleyes:
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Just to re ignite my favourite dislike, of sending people to uni, just because you haven't got a job for them.

Then blaming the lack of remuneration for the pi$$ poor outcomes.:rolleyes:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/educ...ammed-over-atar-leniency-20160530-gp71qi.html

Labors policy of keeping every one in school forever, is blowing up in our faces.IMO
 
sptrawler said:
Just to re ignite my favourite dislike, of sending people to uni, just because you haven't got a job for them.

Then blaming the lack of remuneration for the pi$$ poor outcomes.:rolleyes:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/educ...ammed-over-atar-leniency-20160530-gp71qi.html

Labors policy of keeping every one in school forever, is blowing up in our faces.IMO
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I think people should be educated on how gaining a teaching qualification in no way guarantees a teaching position, let alone permanency.

Schools are run very much as a strict by the book mentality, which relegates naturally analytical and mouthy males to the manual arts, maths and IT subjects, where they have a better chance of escaping the imbedded equivalent of a school Khansaa Brigade (what's in a name :rolleyes:):rolleyes:.

Contrary to public opinions of teachers carrying out parental roles, in fact they are disciplined and shamed if they make the mistake of taking an interest in individual basket case children, if they chastise the kids for poor behaviour, if they touch a student, if they use non Khansaa approved language, if they innovate, if they exceed KPIs to the shame of their cohorts, etc
 
It looks like another Labor brain fart, has hit the fan, sounds like the gonski report opened up some scams.IMO:D

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/s...-wa-due-to-bogus-courses-20160719-gq97tk.html

Here is an extract of one persons opinion.

He said Gonski education reforms began a privatisation process that included the outsourcing of many VET courses, but the regulator had not kept up with the ensuing proliferation of private providers.

"They are paying these private RTOs as they are gutting Tafe," he said.

I wonder who is supplying the private RTO's.lol
 
sptrawler said:
It looks like another Labor brain fart, has hit the fan, sounds like the gonski report opened up some scams.IMO:D

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/s...-wa-due-to-bogus-courses-20160719-gq97tk.html

Here is an extract of one persons opinion.

He said Gonski education reforms began a privatisation process that included the outsourcing of many VET courses, but the regulator had not kept up with the ensuing proliferation of private providers.

"They are paying these private RTOs as they are gutting Tafe," he said.

I wonder who is supplying the private RTO's.lol
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Gonski was never properly funded by the useless Labor Party......The world's greatest treasurer, Swannie, was relying on the money from the Mineral Resources Tax to fund Gonski....Money that he did not receive.....It cost more to administer than the money received.
 
The useless Palazczuk Labor state Government in Queensland has created more jobs in the Public sector than in the private sector......8000 in the public arena and 6000 in the private.

Unemployment in Queensland is way above the national average.

The state debt is going up and up.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opi...r/news-story/e0cb0be63c82a370e153196d9fab5b85

After shuffling debt between the general government ledger and the balance sheets of state-owned corporations rather than cutting spending to reduce Queensland’s debt Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Treasurer Curtis Pitt are continuing to spend up big.
 
The useless Labor Party just never seem to get things right......The push in South Australia for renewable energy is costing ten times more than the Eastern states....

Power from Wind and Solar Power is far more expensive than power generated from coal fired power stations.

I hope the useless Queensland state Labor Government does not follow suit of their cohorts in South Australia.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...t/news-story/21f55240943a306feacf2e48eed0f826

Energy crises in South Australia and Tasmania have shown that unilateral state-based renewable energy measures were distorting the national market and could trigger damaging price surges in eastern states, one of Australia’s leading energy specialists has warned.

The head of energy policy at the Grattan Institute public policy think tank, Tony Wood, said *governments might have to *consider paying subsidies to keep back-up power sources such as gas-fired electricity available, even if they were only used *occasionally.

Mr Wood also said moves from Victoria and Queensland to shift to 40 and 50 per cent renewable generation would increase power prices and volatility in the network on the eastern seaboard.

It comes as energy industry *insiders agree a South Australian-style scenario, where prices have surged regularly from under $100 per MWh to over $1000, was possible in eastern states without *reforms to the national market.

“We see it as a risk,” an executive from one electricity generator told The Australian.

The alarming comments came as the part-owner of South *Australia’s electricity distribution network said governments needed to focus on developing more *reliable back-up power sources to avoid price spikes.
 
noco said:
Gonski was never properly funded by the useless Labor Party......The world's greatest treasurer, Swannie, was relying on the money from the Mineral Resources Tax to fund Gonski....Money that he did not receive.....It cost more to administer than the money received.
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The Australian treasury now receives how much for each tonne of Liquid Natural Gas we export?
 
orr said:
The Australian treasury now receives how much for each tonne of Liquid Natural Gas we export?
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The export commodity prices of our resources is based on supply and demand...

How much do receive for our iron ore, coal and nickel?

They are all down ATM.
 
noco said:
The export commodity prices of our resources is based on supply and demand...

How much do receive for our iron ore, coal and nickel?

They are all down ATM.
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So narrowing to LNG, I ask again, with your imperative, 'down to what?
 
noco said:
The export commodity prices of our resources is based on supply and demand...

How much do receive for our iron ore, coal and nickel?

They are all down ATM.
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As I posted a couple of years ago, in a discussion with Sydboy, we should be charging a tax on tonnage or volume, not on profits.

Then whatever the seller or buyer agree is a fair price doesn't matter, we get a tax on the amount they extract.

The super profits tax was stupid, no one is making a super profit now, but we are giving away more resources than ever.:cry:

This is the dumbest period in our history.IMO We are selling our resources at give away prices, no one is making anything from it, we are just digging it up to give to someone at cost. dumb,dumb,dumb.

Our resources are the cheapest to extract, so a tax on tonnage wouldn't adversely affect the competitivenes. IMO

The problem with a super profits tax is, we can't even get the big companies to pay tax, so how the hell were we going to make them pay a super profits tax? dumb, dumb, dumb

Jeez I'm a pleb and can see how dumb it is, most Aussies can probably see the same, it isn't rocket science.
How stupid do pollies think we are.
 
Queensland is going backwards under the Labor Palaszczuk Government......They have become anti business.....Palaszczuk promised JOBS....JOBS....JOBS.

14,000 new jobs since coming to office......8000 extra public servants costing the state billions extra each year....6000 private enterprise jobs......What a disgraceful performance.


http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/com...iness-sign-in-queensland-20160816-gqu18d.html

A number of harmful and irrational decisions from the Palaszczuk Government has those looking to invest in our state scratching their heads and looking to invest their billions elsewhere.

It is an issue all Queenslanders need to be very concerned about.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. Photo: Tertius Pickard

It has become clear in the eyes of the business community the Annastacia Palaszczuk-led government is anti-business and anti-development.

Put simply, the Palaszczuk Labor Government has thrown up the "closed for business" sign, which not only has ramifications for our economy but also for the way the state is viewed.
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Does Bill Shorten and Chris Bowen understand simple economics?

Does Bill Shorten and his socialists MP's have any concern for the National Interest of Australia and how they are heading this nation down the road to ruin?

The answer is NO and NO.

With Labor it is all about point scoring and how they can make the government look bad.

So I say to Bill Shorten, how about playing the right game in the interest of all Australians.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...tory/303b345c5ee405cf0284422d60d5a1e1?login=1


Australia’s debt could blow out by more than $100 billion if the budget is wrong in its prediction that the economy will return to pre-crisis growth and the *Turnbull government is unable to win Senate support for all of its outstanding savings *measures.

An analysis prepared by Deloitte Access Economics shows the vulnerability of the debt outlook to both the government’s failure to get budget savings passed through the parliament and to the reliability of Treasury’s economic forecasts.

“Consistently since 2011, Australia has budgeted that things wouldn’t get worse in China and that there would be enough bipartisanship to pass things in the Senate,” Deloitte Access partner Chris Richardson told The Australian.

“In practice, neither of those two things has come to pass and the risk is that it stays that way. China has disappointed and so has bipartisanship.”

The Turnbull government is putting pressure on Labor to *approve long-blocked savings measures when parliament resumes, following warnings from ratings agency S & P Global that Australia’s AAA rating is in jeopardy.

Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens has also called for “a more hard-nosed conversation” about putting public *finances onto a sustainable footing, or else they would be forced by a crisis.
 
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