Premier acts on new-age courses 2 All-round First Edition

WEST Australian Premier Alan Carpenter has taken control from his Education Minister to add substance and remove ideological bent from the state's new-age, outcomes-based schools curriculum. Mr Carpenter has insisted that the new music course require students to learn a musical instrument, and...

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Published inThe Australian (Canberra, A.C.T.)
Main Author Ean Higgins, Paige Taylor
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Canberra, A.C.T Nationwide News Pty Ltd 07.06.2006
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Carpenter, Alan
Ravlich, Ljiljanna
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Summary:WEST Australian Premier Alan Carpenter has taken control from his Education Minister to add substance and remove ideological bent from the state's new-age, outcomes-based schools curriculum. Mr Carpenter has insisted that the new music course require students to learn a musical instrument, and curriculum writers will now be instructed to remove a "values" component worth 25 per cent of all science courses. Mr Carpenter, who was the education minister from 2001 to 2005, yesterday denied he had issued instructions to Ms [Ljiljanna Ravlich], in whom he said he had full confidence. But on Friday, she broke her silence with a blitz of media engagements.
ISSN:1038-8761