Education Needs Reform

As the coalition parties have tried to reach mutual agreement on a shared policy platform that the government will soon declare in parliament, they have rarely touched on policies which require long-term structural reforms, particularly regarding education. Instead, they have pushed for promises they made to voters during the electoral campaign to be included in the government’s policy statement.

The majority of them are bread-and-butter issues which directly and immediately affect the livelihoods of people who have high expectations for the new government to deliver……….