The second report into Australia's education system headed by businessman David Gonski detailed a number of recommendations for how to address the country's falling testing results.
But world-renowned Finnish education authority Pasi Sahlberg suggested one important recommendation was overlooked; more emphasis on teaching students a foreign language.
Professor Sahlberg pointed to the OECD (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) rankings, where Australia is at the bottom of 34 countries in high-school graduates leaving school with a second language.
