Let Secondary Education Develop Every Kind of Talent

The final five years of Secondary Education keep learners within one school community while developing three equal-dignity domains — Core Academic, Technical / Vocational / Craft, and Sport — with graduation requiring excellence in at least two of the three and pathways remaining open enough that early choices do not become permanent labels.

Every LGA also guarantees gifted-development pathways for exceptional academic, technical / vocational / craft and sporting talent, and specialist education and support capacity for children with disabilities and additional learning needs, while ordinary schools remain responsible for inclusion wherever appropriate; the meaning of excellence, assessment, certification, gifted selection, disability support, staffing, facilities and operating models belong in the relevant Education Policy Papers.

The purpose is to treat different forms of talent seriously rather than making academic ability the only respected route and leaving technical, craft or sporting excellence as second-class alternatives.