Letter to The Age

Young people are entering a highly unpredictable world and the skills required to thrive in this environment are not captured in a ranking (Principals urge education authorities to scrap ATAR, 10 Feb). The ATAR score is a narrow and inadequate representation of a student’s 13-year journey, and it does not reflect their myriad individual strengths or talents. The excessive emphasis on the ATAR as a marker of academic proficiency has become overwhelming. Australia is the only country that employs such a system. It is essential that we create new metrics that are more than just academic, so that each student leaves school feeling confident, capable, empowered, and prepared for life-long learning in an AI world.

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