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How could it be possible that we could spend one-third of our national budget on education, force our children to suffer 12 long years of primary and secondary tuition and then still have half of them come out and be unfit to get a job?
Is that a scandalous situation or what? The deficiencies of our school system have been brought home by employers who say that two-thirds of our youngsters are ill-prepared for the workplace by the time they leave school. They aren't even complaining about the students: they are saying that our schools are failing these young people. It doesn't get any better with tertiary education, either.
More than 50% of bosses believe that universities are failing to provide graduates who are job-ready.
The truly ludicrous thing about this is that most of the employers complaining about our school system say that one of its major faults is that it focuses on getting students ready for university, not the workplace.
But, then, when they get to and through uni, they are still not prepared for the workplace. What the hell is going on? The issue really matters for two reasons.
The first is that we are spending one in every three dollars we pay the Tax Office on education and the system clearly is not working. That is waste on a monumental scale.
The second reason is that we are failing our young people. We force them through the stress of fifteen years or more of ‘education' but still don't equip them with the skills needed to earn a living.
More fool us because it is our hard-earned taxpayer dollars that are being wasted. Education bureaucrats are busy defending their reputations but it is up to us to demand better outcomes.
losing our eyes to this mess is not helping anyone.
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Stirring the possum