I've posted the Public Education Review presentation which aired tonight on all TV and radio stations (some more seamlessly than others I understand) on YouTube so that people who missed it can watch.
I had to break it into 3 approximately 10 minute parts due to time limitations and YouTube, and unfortunately I didn't start recording until about 5 minutes in when Dr. Brown had finished with his introduction (not intentional I promise).
PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
I'll comment more later, but I can't say I was surprised. The assessment was predictably abysmal, but the 10 recommendations sound like a decent start, although I'm not sure in a first impression that they go far enough.
But it covers much of what I (in a number of Gazette Op-Eds), and others, mostly in the UBP have been saying for some time (read the UBP's Education papers presented by Grant Gibbons recently, here and here, as well as many of the Budget and Throne Speech replies as well as op-eds by the former Shadow Education Minister Neville Darrell), usually to be met with howls of derision and ridicule by the Government.
Decentralise, eliminate or drastically reduce and restructure the Ministry, retrain and improve standards.
Not rocket science really but it is helpful to have an independent assessment with some benchmarks to measure against going forward.
