Standards set for English proficiency

If “[i]t is widely acknowledged across the Australian tertiary education sector that many students are to a large extent unprepared for university study and for the culture of university-level study”, then clearly the problem lies in the primary and secondary sectors.

There’s something dreadfully amiss when young people can’t read and write fluently at a high standard after 13 YEARS of schooling.

Turning universities into remedial institutions is not the answer.