I read this article Fixing disadvantaged students key to fairer, better economy by Ross Gittins a few days ago and could not agree more on this issue with him.
The first step in ensuring all our children get a decent education is better early childhood learning – a vital issue I’ll leave for its own column.
The next step is ensuring the money governments spend on schools is biased in favour of those students needing more help, not those schools that have managed to screw better deals out of the politicians over the years.
The advent of many modern technologies has destroyed old jobs and created news just as rapidly. We are entering a new phase of automation for many mundane tasks. You just have to look at things like washer machine, robot vacuum cleaner, manufacturing robots etc. Not just manual and manufacturing landscape are quickly changing even the relative new industries such as computer software etc are also changing, testing, deployments and many other aspects of it are getting automated as well. What happens is we need less manual software tester, more automated testers who can write code and maintain the automated tests. This is happening every in the Australia and the whole world.
Education is a key factor to facilitate this change, just to be able to read is maybe enough 50 years ago to gain useful employment, it is no longer the case for much more technically oriented jobs. We need to make everyone understand that education is important and also make it relevant to modern society. One interesting example of the success of East and South Asia immigration groups, one of the key is the value they put on the education of their children. Not everyone who is good education will be successful, but proportionally more of them will be so compared to the ones who are not.
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