Assistant Minister for Education and Training, Senator Simon Birmingham, today met with the Indian Government Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy, to discuss skills priorities for both countries. “Today’s meeting has helped build our bilateral skills relationship with India so we can seize emerging opportunities in both our countries,” Senator Birmingham…
Subject: (South Australian VET) E&OE… MATTHEW ABRAHAM: Simon Birmingham is the Assistant Minister for Education and Training. There’s a fair bit of federal cash floating around for funding TAFE, particularly for competitive options in TAFE which includes the private sector- Simon Birmingham, welcome Senator. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good morning Matthew, David and listeners. MATTHEW ABRAHAM: Senator…
DAVID PENBERTHY: Well at a time when unemployment stands at the highest level on the mainland here in South Australia – it jumped by 0.7 per cent last month to 7.1 [per cent] – the last thing we want to see in this state is people being laid off unnecessarily. Well the expectations are that…