Coalition to review Australian education curriculum in bid to reverse fall in student results

Government will start with maths and science while establishing national institute to advise teachers on ways to improve student outcomes

The federal government will review the national curriculum starting with maths and science in an effort to reverse a long-term decline in Australian students’ results in standardised testing.

Education ministers met in Alice Springs on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss a suite of reforms to deal with Australia slipping to the OECD average in maths, the first time results in one of the three core competencies has done so since international comparisons began in 2000.

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