Acting federal education minister Stuart Robert told a private schools conference the bottom 10 per cent of the nation's teachers were not up to scratch, and angered public school leaders by praising private schools for employing only quality teachers and delivering model examples of education.

He told Liam Bartlett on 6PR Mornings a dense curriculum was also to blame for a plummeting performance in international education benchmark tests, despite increased funding of the sector.

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