National Education System

I was proud to announce today our policy to introduce a national curriculum for maths, English, science and history.

The curriculum will bring consistency and sense to eight separate systems that produce varying degrees of success. A key component will be our close engagement with the states to ensure appropriate regional requirements are met. This will be a system that is not shackled by ideology but is developed via consensus and agreement.

The nationwide curriculum is the third plank in our education revolution, together with maths and science students having their HECS bill slashed under our $111 million proposal and $450 million a year being provided for four-year-olds to have 15 hours per week of pre-school learning.