John Smith wrote on Jan 11
th, 2024 at 11:40am:
Frank wrote on Jan 11
th, 2024 at 9:46am:
Government data shows the pass rate under Labor has fallen to 65 per cent compared to about 80 per cent under the Coalition between 2017 and 2021. Since the May 2022 election, 288,603 citizenship tests were administered to August 31 last year, with 187,574 tests passed.
So labor have higher standards then the libs, who were just passing any old tom dick or habibi
The real scandal is not the failure of foreigners to grasp the fundamentals of civic life. The real problem is this is in line with the growing ignorance within this country about the principles that form the bedrock of Australian democracy.The numbers tell the story.
Data from the Department of Home Affairs shows that just 65 per cent of would-be citizens passed the citizenship test on Australian values between June 2022 and August 2023.
But compare that with the most recent figures on civics proficiency among Australian year 10 students: just 38 per cent made the grade.
Here is why that is a problem:
In 2021, a committee of the NSW Legislative Council produced a report that says “the teaching of Australian history has become fertile ground for promoting social and political issues – including priorities which reflect an ideological bias – at the expense of core facts”.
It found the teaching of history had become “cluttered with educationally questionable source verification, postmodernist theory and political messaging”.
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