Last night on the Late Debate on Sky News Australia, there was a segment on the dumbing down of teaching degrees, with hundreds of students with an ATAR less than 50.00 being accepted into them. It turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy, with teachers no longer able to teach, so they focus more on the woke side of I doctrination.

The current university model for training teachers isn’t just flawed, it’s actively lowering standards. If we actually care about kids education, we should be seriously considering scrapping teaching degrees from universities and bringing back proper, standalone teachers colleges like in the past, which was suggested by Caleb Bond.

Education faculties have become saturated with woke ideology and campus politics. Instead of doubling down on evidence-based English, maths, science and the other fundamentals, too much time is spent on abstract theory about identity, privilege, and systemic power. Whatever your view on those topics, they are not the core skills required to teach a child to read, write, or understand maths. Every hour spent on ideological indoctrination of woke ideas is an hour not spent mastering the craft of teaching.

Then there’s the standards issue. Universities are accepting teaching students with ATARs below 50.00. That’s a serious red flag. If we’re bringing in candidates who performed in the bottom half of academic rankings, what message does that send about the profession? Teaching should attract strong academic performers, especially in primary education where literacy and numeracy foundations are built. Low entry thresholds combined with theory-heavy coursework create a pipeline that doesn’t prioritise excellence.

The old teachers colleges were unapologetically vocational. Teaching was treated like a disciplined craft, not an ideological playground or a fallback degree for people who couldn’t get into something else.

If student outcomes are stagnating and teacher burnout is rising, the training model deserves serious scrutiny. Raise entry standards. Strip out the woke bullshit. Refocus on practical skill and subject knowledge.

Bring back teachers colleges and make teaching a high-standards profession again.

Jasin wrote on Feb 24^th, 2026 at 2:38pm:



Teaching standards and teacher quality are not about funding.

Yes, some private schools have swimming pools, tennis courts and fully equpped theatres, gyms and music departments.

But what is far more important is that they have discipline, ethos of excellence, achievement and high expectations.

Governent sink schooks in certain urban areas are dealing with large cohorts of students and parents who do not value either discipline or high education standards.
Teachers in such schools spend most of their time with trying to contain the dregs of the class. That the curriculum is dead boring, tendentious and totally uninspiring doesnt help.

Government selective schools have been captured by the customers of swatting coaching colleges. They are full of Asian kids whose tiger mothers want them to be doctors and dentist, whether the kiddies want to be or not.

PUBLIC education has been captured by an 'pwogwessive' activist cadre of unionists, academics, bureocrats and teachers.
Parents are paying private fees to get their kiddies out of such a system. Needless to say, some of the private schools can be as tendentious as the Teals - in whose electorates many of them are.

MattE wrote on Feb 24^th, 2026 at 2:25pm:


What makes you think teachers colleges will solve any of those problems?

Bobby. wrote on Feb 24^th, 2026 at 8:09pm:

Many of the Dawkins universities WERE teachers' colleges.

Bobby. wrote on Feb 24^th, 2026 at 8:09pm:

It wasn’t until I went to University that I saw how self centred, unworldly and downright dumb many academics were.

Last night on Sky, is it?

Oo-er, sounds a bit rude.

What are the bots on X saying?

Jasin wrote on Feb 25^th, 2026 at 11:59am:



Some lecturers are good and some aren't.

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote Yesterday at 5:34pm:



I spoke to many French studies - school teachers -
they had strong English accents when speaking French.  LOL
It's very hard to lose the accent unless you live in a country for 10 years or more.