The Minister for Education, Alan Tudge, resorted to fudging figures to denigrate Australia’s school performance at the The Age education summit last week. He claimed the UK as the new benchmark for education performance but he misrepresented its results by ignoring serious flaws in them and other evidence showing no improvement. He also fudged data on school funding and student results in Australia.
Join Henry and Trevor Cobbold as they discuss fighting for equity in education.
This conversation was originally broadcast on 3SER's 97.7FM Casey Radio in May 2021. It was produced by Rob Kelly.
