The latest report on NAPLAN results has highlighted the need for educators and policymakers to “leave the politicking at the door” and work together to deliver the reforms Australia’s school system needs to lift student achievement. Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said the 2016 NAPLAN National Report confirmed the preliminary results from August…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Press conference, Canberra Topics: NAPLAN National Report; Turnbull Government’s Quality Schools, Quality Outcomes reforms; Future schools funding arrangements; How-to-vote cards; Republican movement 13/12/2016 09:45AM Simon Birmingham: These NAPLAN results confirm information that has been contained in international reports over the last couple of weeks. We see results that show at best…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on SKY News with Kieran Gilbert Topics: NAPLAN National Report; Turnbull Government’s Quality Schools, Quality Outcomes reforms; Republican movement 13/12/2016 08:33 AM Kieran Gilbert: Good morning, and welcome to the program. The latest NAPLAN results have confirmed that students from non-English speaking backgrounds, from migrant families are outperforming the average on both…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC TV News Breakfast with Virginia Trioli Topics: NAPLAN National Report; Turnbull Government’s Quality Schools, Quality Outcomes reforms; Republican movement 13/12/2016 07:36AM Virginia Trioli: We’ll return to the latest NAPLAN data, which shows some very disappointing results in literacy and numeracy. For more, the Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham joins us…
A popular parenting app is getting a refresh in time for the school holidays thanks to the Turnbull Government, with hundreds of articles, activity suggestions and advice to help families with children of all ages. The Learning Potential app has been downloaded 118,000 times since it launched in August last year and the latest updates…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on Weekend Sunrise with Monique Wright and Andrew O'Keefe Topics: Politics in classrooms 12 December 2016 Andrew O’Keefe: Teachers in three states will go ahead with a plan to wear t-shirts to school, protesting Australia’s offshore detention policy. The planned campaign has been organised by a group called Teachers for Refugees and…
After sitting on the sidelines for months since her appointment as Labor’s Education spokesperson, Tanya Plibersek has finally decided to insert herself into the national conversation about how to improve student outcomes and has embarrassingly contradicted herself in a series of interviews on key portfolio topics. Just this morning the Shadow Education spokesperson lauded…
A leading international education snapshot released overnight shows Australian science students are now seven months behind where they were in 2006, an Australian maths student is a year of schooling behind where they were in 2003 and Australian students’ reading abilities have also dropped by a year since 2000. Minister for Education and Training…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on 2GB Drive with Ben Fordham Topics: Programme for International Student Assessment; Turnbull Government’s Quality Schools, Quality Outcomes reforms; Technology in schools; Political advocacy in classrooms 07 December 2016 03:36PM Ben Fordham: Hundreds of primary and high school teachers are set to wear pro-refugee T-shirts in classrooms next week. Up to 500…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on FIVEaa Mornings with Leon Byner Topics: Programme for International Student Assessment report; Turnbull Government’s Quality Schools, Quality Outcomes reforms; Vocational education funding 07/12/2016 10:33 AM Leon Byner: We’ve talked about jobs and we’ve announced 100 jobs, some of which are executive positions between 50,000 and 80,000 a year at the best…