School funding to be 2013 centrepiece

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard wants school funding to be the centrepiece of Australian leaders' discussions in the new year.

The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) briefly considered initial advice about overhauling funding and the commonwealth's national plan for school improvement during its meeting in Canberra on Friday.

Education ministers also met, in Adelaide, to further look at school funding.

They noted there was more detailed work to do early in the new year.

"We want to get the benefit of that work and we want it to be a centrepiece of COAG discussions next year," Ms Gillard told reporters in Canberra.

"Today we had a brief discussion ... because I indicated to my colleagues that I want to make that central work to the first COAG meeting of next year."

She has previously said she wants COAG to agree to a new funding system at that meeting, expected to be held in March.

Federal Schools Minister Peter Garrett said on Friday he was confident further progress would be made early in the new year.

The federal opposition seized on reports COAG only spent about five minutes talking about schools, with education spokesman Christopher Pyne saying Ms Gillard was "too embarrassed to even have a discussion on the topic at COAG".

The prime minister called that a silly attempt to try and measure the worth of issues by the amount of time spent discussing them.

"Only someone who is a fool with no plan would take that kind of approach," she said.

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