Australia crashing down international leaderboard for education, falling behind Kazakhstan, by the ABC.
The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is conducted every four years and shows local students crashing further down the international leaderboard.
Since 2011, it shows Australia plunging from:
18th to 28th on Year 4 mathematics
12th to 17th for Year 8 maths
12th to 17th for Year 8 scienceAustralia is still in 25th place for Year 4 science results.
Kazakhstan — a Central Asian country satirised in the Sacha Baron Cohen film Borat and with a population smaller than ours — soared past Australia in all four categories.
This is a travesty and a result of left-wing (and probably even some right) social engineering.
The education unions want ever more money to pay teachers. Well we recently had six years of Labor Governments and class sizes have been dropping for decades. Not working.
How about hiring smarter teachers, not more teachers? The average entry score into university for teachers in Australia is low, especially compared to Kazakhstan.
