The Australian education minister Alan Tudge disagreed with calls saying increased education funding would lead to better student results. Instead, Tudge said recruiting quality teachers was more important and pointed to the United Kingdom (UK) as an example where more qualified staff resulted in improved student results. The UK has cut spending while achieving better results in reading, maths, and science over the last 10 years, and Tudge believes that Australia should look to them as Australia strives to improve the national education standards. “In the past decade, the UK has cut per-child school funding by 9 percent in real terms, while also giving principals more freedom over management decisions such as setting staff pay,” Tudge told The Age. Meanwhile, in Australia, Tudge notes the country’s PISA test results have declined despite a 38 percent increase in funding over the last decade. But the minister added that the government had no plans …