Talk:Victorian Essential Learning Standards

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Rich Farmbrough - I'm not sure what you mean when you say the page needs clean up...

As the Wikipedia:Cleanup guidelines say "If you are adding the "cleanup" tag to an article instead of this page, please explain what needs cleaning up on the talk page. Problems that are obvious to you may not be obvious to other editors. Tags which are unexplained are subject to removal."

This is the first entry in this article's Talk page, so doesn't that mean your cleanup tag is subject to removal?

Vcaaweb 04:25, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for you work here. I added the cleanup tag, Rich just put the date on it. Actually, I added the tag while removing the prod tag which had been placed by another user. When prodding the article, the other user gave the reason: "Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, more like a pamphlet." (vide). Although I disagree (strongly!) with the idea of deleting this valuable information, I can see the user's point. Specifically, this article needs to be referenced from authoritative sources and brought into line with the manual of style; the bulleted lists need to be balanced by a great deal more explanatory text.

My apologies for not making this clear at the time; I was a bit caught up in making sure that the article wasn't deleted. :-) Cheers, -- Visviva 05:09, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am curious why this was deleted. Some body could rework the issue in a NPOV statement.

Yet another change in the education framework. The VELS is the third program to be introduced into Victoria in the past decade, with the CSF in 1995 and the CSF II in 2000. This virtually means that every review of the education system that has taken place in the last 10 years has resulted in a major overhaul of the entire system. Considering that P-10 is a span of 11 years, a student undergoes at least one change, but potentially two changes in the way he/she is educated during the critical stage of primary and early secondary education. This can potentially be confusing to the students.

I think the article is a bit bias and in a sense advertising the VELS. Why not research on the net controversies?, or some thing on VELS.