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Simon Birmingham tops Australia's 5 most powerful educationinfluencers in 2017
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Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham pulled one from the hat and passed the Gonski school fundingplan through Parliament. Louie Douvis
The AFR Magazine's hotly anticipated annual Power issue
includes lists of the key players across five different industry
sectors. Here, the top five education influencers.
The landscape in school education was turned upside down in
the past year. Federal Minister Simon Birmingham stole Labor's
clothes and pushed Gonski school funding – once Labor's signature policy – through
Parliament. It was a brazen attempt to neutralise the political advantage Labor has
long enjoyed on the school funding issue. But it was also a move that made sense;
cutting through the complex and ad hoc legacy of decades of deal-making to
introduce a consistent way to distribute education money based on children's and
schools' needs.
At all levels of education the pace of technological change is picking up. The
traditional way of transmitting knowledge – a teacher talking in front of a class – is
giving way to learning from electronic devices, with class time focused on discussion
and interaction. New technologies – such as augmented and virtual reality, machine
learning and artificial intelligence – are gaining a foothold forcing universities,
colleges and school systems into a root-and-branch examination of what they do and
why.
To cap this off, questions are being asked about the ability of today's education system
to meet the needs of young people at a time of rapid technological change, in which
hard-won skills and knowledge can quickly go out of date.
by Tim Dodd
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44 likes 2 commentsThe hotly-anticipated annual Power issue of @afrmag is out on FridayOctober 6.⠀ ⠀ It includes lists of the key players across five different industrysectors. ⠀ ⠀ To kick it off scroll through our gallery to see the top fiveeducation ��influencers.⠀ ⠀ The landscape in school education was turnedupside down in the past year. ⠀ ⠀ Federal Education Minister SimonBirmingham stole Labor's clothes and pushed Gonski school funding – onceLabor's signature policy – through Parliament. So it's little wonder he came inat number � .⠀ ⠀ � : School funding architect David Gonski.⠀ � :@misterwootube star and maths teacher Eddie Woo.⠀ � : UniversitiesAustralia chair Margaret Gardner.⠀ � : NSW Education Department headMark Scott.⠀ ⠀ Read more on afr.com tomorrow and keep checking ourInstagram each day as we reveal Australia's most influential people.⠀ ⠀ �:@hewart ⠀ ⠀ #power #education #influencer #afrpower
1. Simon Birmingham
The federal Education Minister pulled one from the hat and passed the Gonski school
funding plan through Parliament. It was a tour de force, trapeze-without-a-net
political performance, in which the Coalition breathed life into a scheme originally
formulated by Labor. Birmingham's achievement is to create, for the first time, a
consistent school funding system across Australia which is based on a realistic
assessment of the need of each child. Money starts flowing next year and the test will
be in how it is spent.
2. David Gonski
Where would Birmingham be without Gonski, the sidekick who flanked him and
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as they stunned Canberra in May with the "Nixon to
China' news that the Coalition would reverse course and back the Gonski school
funding plan. Gonski's appearance at the press conference gave the move credibility
as well as the announcement that he would lead a review which will report on how
the extra $24 billion in school funding over the next 10 years should be spent.
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3. Eddie Woo
Five years ago Woo, a young maths teacher with a gift for explanation, started
videoing his classes for a student who was ill with cancer. Other students watched,
word spread, and that was the genesis of Wootube, his maths YouTube channel with
nearly 60,000 subscribers and millions of views. Woo, who is head of maths at the
1900-student Cherrybrook Technology High School in Sydney, has won numerous
teaching prizes, is a powerful advocate for teachers and good teaching, and is
increasingly a voice in the media.
4. Margaret Gardner
One of Australia's longest serving vice-chancellors, Gardner became head of
Australia's largest university, Monash, in 2014 after nine years in charge of RMIT
University. Now, as chair of Universities Australia, she is representing all universities
in their opposition to the federal government's proposed 4.9 per cent cut to university
teaching subsidies, and leading them as they adjust to a world in which graduates
need broader skills and expect many career changes through their lives She is leading
a huge effort to consolidate Monash as a major knowledge and research hub.
5. Mark Scott
The former ABC chief, now head of the NSW Education Department, is applying his
famously data-driven mindset to Australia's largest school system. Scott does not
shrink from having a public profile and he's using it to push education forward. His
mantra is individualised learning so that each kid gets what they need. Teachers
should be more like doctors, he says, first diagnosing a learning problem and then
addressing it with a specific prescription.
The AFR Magazine Power issue is out on Friday October 6 inside The Australian
Financial Review.
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