Gillard too embarrassed to mention the revolution

24/01/12

Four years after promising an ‘education revolution’ the self proclaimed ‘education Prime Minister’ Julia Gillard has today admitted she has failed to improve education standards, said Christopher Pyne, Shadow Minister for Education.

In the media today Ms Gillard has described Australia as becoming the ‘runt of the litter’ regionally because we are losing ‘the education race’ with Asian competitors.

In a press conference, when asked to defend her record, Ms Gillard was too embarrassed to even mention the so-called ‘education revolution’.

“It is astonishing that after four years and lofty promises, Ms Gillard didn’t even mention the ‘education revolution’. Now Ms Gillard talks about an ‘education race’, but blames others for the last four years of results that show her spend-a-thon has had no impact on student learning.

“As national testing results revealed yesterday, despite Labor’s rhetoric, grandiose promises and billions spent, student learning is stagnating.

“The Gillard Government has cut funding to the Coalition’s literacy and numeracy programmes and cut funding to science and maths programmes. At the same time it has wasted billions on halls some schools didn’t want or need and on a laptop giveaway programme, rather than on what really matters,” Mr Pyne said.