We are concerned that too few teaching professionals have had the benefit of reading the Final Report. Neither the consultancy nor the Consultation Document deals with the need for re-culturing. The out-dated administrative structure designed for a past era under a colonial style government must be drastically altered. Finally, the documents also have not put sufficient emphasis on the need to down-size the ED over time. It is already an over-blown bureaucracy.
Taxpayers have a right to demand value.
It may appear politically incorrect to emphasise down-sizing in a recession but an overly heavy bureaucracy will discourage real change which will have long term negative effect. The chairman of the EC is a member of the Executive Council and plays a political role in forcing change within the civil service on education policy but the accountability links are non-existent. The Once and Future City, para 88-91. See footnote 2 para 92-94.