Schools, develop the general capabilities or entrench disadvantage: ACARA

Margaret Ryan

By Margaret Ryan
Community contribution / August 30, 2018

Australian schools risk “increasing equity and disadvantage” if our education system ignores its responsibility to develop general capabilities in all young people, Robert Randall, ACARA CEO has said.

Joining a recent Gonski 2.0 public forum in Sydney, Randall offered his views on the University of NSW’s panel ...

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