Impoverished fare for poor cousin

With the release of COAG's workplan, Damon Anderson reflects on the skills reform agenda and finds it lacking imagination. We are purportedly in the midst of an education revolution involving major investment in school infrastructure and revitalisation of higher education. The Rudd Government's manifesto aims to inaugurate an era of institutional renewal to propel Australia's schools and universities into the globally networked knowledge economy and equip them to tackle the big questions of our time. By comparison, the prospects are less inspiring and more austere for the poor cousin of the...