EnhanceTV Current Affairs Highlights RSS Feed http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvhighlights/?category=47 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:45:33 1000 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=171505 In China they're setting blistering speed records. From the go-fast, rich kids quickly amassing stables of super-cars to the developers building sky-scraping hotels - start to finish - in just 14 days. One local rich list estimates China has almost a million millionaires, 600 billionaires and the numbers keep growing at a staggering rate. Private jets are flying out of showroom hangers at mach 1. The economic transformation of China has been electrifying, but with Europe teetering and the U.S. plodding can the biggest tiger of all keep on roaring? The super-rich you'll meet in our 2012 return certainly think so. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=170415 An investigation into a new approach to education aimed at improving the standard of school teaching. For some time now there's been a bruising debate about the balance of funding handed out to public and private schools. No one doubts it's an important debate, but many educators believe it has helped obscure an even more fundamental question about where the money is spent. Over the past decade, the Federal Government has spent billions of dollars trying to lower class sizes, increase the use of computers and boost investment in school buildings. At the same time, Australia's educational performance relative to key neighbouring countries has been falling. The question is why? http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=171043 Panellists include: Penny Wong - Finance Minister, Joe Hockey - Shadow Treasurer, Judith Sloan - Economist and businesswoman, Miriam Lyons - Director of the Centre for Policy Development and Joe Hildebrand - News Ltd columnist.