Education takes a dramatic new course
FOR the first time, all Australian students will study dance, drama, media arts, music
and the visual arts until year 10, under a draft new national curriculum released yesterday.
A spokesman for the national curriculum reporting authority, ACARA, said all schools would
be required to offer those subjects to students, but schools would have some discretion as
to how they taught them.
The Education Minister, Peter Garrett, said making the arts a key part of the new national
curriculum would have ''huge'' positive impacts for students.
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