Achieving our educational goals : A declaration for system transformation

This paper comes as the Melbourne Declaration is under review, and concludes that the vision and aspirations of the Melbourne Declaration have not been realised. To date, efforts towards education system improvement have not delivered the desired results. And the opportunities offered and outcomes achieved by Australia’s education system are far from fairly or evenly distributed. This is not a shortcoming of the Melbourne Declaration and its vision, but rather a failure by Australia’s education systems to take appropriate actions.