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What future for public education in the stupid country?
by Chris Bonnor

Chris Bonnor is a public education consultant and advocate. He is the co-author (with Jane Caro) of The Stupid Country – How Australia is dismantling public education published by UNSW Press in 2007.

He has served as principal of two schools and until 2006 was President of the NSW Secondary Principals’ Council.

He is especially known in the education community and occasionally to the wider public through published articles in the Sydney Morning Herald and Daily Telegraph, various online publications and through media commentary on education issues.

He can be contacted through the website www.thestupidcountry.com

Chris Bonner

Chris Bonnor

What future for public education in the stupid country?

‘What future for public education in the stupid country’ is an urgent question to ask in the light of a new Federal Government and mounting evidence that our framework of public and private schools doesn’t work.

This workshop will include a stocktake of why we have public education and what is its current shape and form. It will include the challenges to public education and how these are being met, with the implications for each school.

In particular the workshop will look at:

  • The context of Australian public education – a view over time and space
  • Shifts and trends in public and media commentary on education in 2008
  • Behind-the-scenes moves which might change the shape of public education in the future
  • Shifting priorities and themes in public education advocacy
  • The options available to public education schools and systems
  • Policy options for governments to accommodate both public and private education
  • Future scenarios
  • How secondary schools might prepare for the future

Page last updated July 2008