Titled The Bureaucratisation of Public Education in Australia, the report from Save Our Schools crunches ABS data to chart the ...
A 'bloated bureaucracy' is crippling our public school system: report
For years Australian teachers have lamented the tightening grip of bureaucratic control over their classroom practice – but now a new report has the data to show the extent to which a ‘bloated bureaucracy’ has spread throughout the public school system, soaking up funding and, by some accounts, reducing teachers’ efficacy in the process.
One NSW teacher told EducationHQ that the micro-auditing of classroom practice has brought on stress and induced a permanent sense of being behind.