Education reform - It’s time for an honest discussion

THE recognition of the need to have a real, honestdebate about our education system, how it serves our students, our society and its integrity — and how it is funded — seems to be gathering momentum.

In these troubling times, this is a very welcome reality check and hopefully it will lead to the kind of changes that might make politicians’ grandstanding about a knowledge-based economy a tad more plausible.

It just may be that, at this low and disheartening moment, we can at last see that without world class standards right across our schools, colleges and institutes we have limited options and are squandering potential.