Education
People First policy
Education Policy
Education standards should not be set by career bureaucrats in big government. Education should be a competition of ideas and devolved where possible to schools, communities and parents.
The creation of the National Curriculum in Canberra by the Howard Government has not only created another layer of bureaucracy in the education sector, it has placed greater burden on teachers to comply with dictates from the government bureaucracy whose views do not align with mainstream Australia.
The creation of the National Curriculum has also seen a drop in essential skills such as reading, writing and arithmetic as the Canberra bureaucrats have used their power to introduce "ideologies" into the National Curriculum rather than teaching our children STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) skills.
People First will abolish the National Curriculum and delegate responsibility for it back to State governments and the school community including parent associations. Sex education will be banned from the classroom as it is the responsibility of the parents to deal with these issues at home.
People First will also seek to reallocate funding from universities to trade schools including the Military Apprenticeship scheme. Tertiary education needs to be focused on rebuilding our manufacturing, our infrastructure and our military capabilities.
HECs support will only be provided to Australian Citizens and on some South Pacific Islanders other than New Zealand. HECs support will be limited to one degree.
HECs fees will be dropped for Teachers and Nurses.
Mutual recogniation rules around immigrant qualifications will also be tightened to ensure workplace, education and safety standards are not lowered.