Saturday, August 26, 2006

Could this be the death knell for OBE in WA?

It appears that the University of Western Australia has finally woken up and admitted that it has no faith in the OBE style English "Course of Study" introduced last year into all schools in Western Australia.
Article from "The West Australian"
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=4531
The other Courses of Study were unanimously rejected by the teachers in WA earlier in the year causing the courses to be delayed for yet another year while they are re-written (to make them legible?).

OBE still remains a sensitive issue to the Minister of Education (and Google) Ljiljanna Ravlich who in a recent mail out to all year 10 parents that we now have a system of education called "Standards and Outcomes based education".
Of course this is nothing more than a ploy to dress up the festering chancre of OBE in another cloth. The minister must think that parents are as stupid as she is if she thinks they will see the system having undergone any change at all.