E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Higher education funding 30 August 2017 Question: Minister, Joanna Mather from the Financial Review. The university sector has a very strong union and we’ve seen a fairly dramatic development in terms of Murdoch’s enterprise agreement being axed. Tell me, what barrier has industrial relations been to universities becoming more efficient as I…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Marriage equality survey and campaigns; Higher education reform; Tony Abbott’s travel 30/08/2017 06:05PM Patricia Karvelas: While controversy rages about the campaigning around the same sex marriage survey, a leading constitutional expert doubts whether it will go ahead at all. The survey’s currently subject to a challenge in the High Court which will…
The Turnbull Government is lifting the bar on teaching quality with the rollout of performance assessments for new teachers graduating in 2018. Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said universities and education experts in partnership with the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) would outline how they would assess teaching students against…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Higher education funding 30/08/2017 Michael Stutchbury: … introduce the Minister for Education and Training. So it’s with great pleasure that I do introduce Simon Birmingham, the Minister for Education and Training. Since 2015, the first Education Minister in the first Turnbull Ministry. The minister, of course, is a Master of Business Administration…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Reforms to higher education 30/08/2017 10:25AM Simon Birmingham: Thanks very much for coming along today. What I’ve sought to do today is to outline once again the pace and the rationale for why it is we need to see some changes in relation to higher education policy in Australia, changes that have…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC Radio Adelaide with David Bevan and Ali Clarke Topics: Tertiary Education; Student Debt; Enterprise Agreements 30/08/2017 08:35AM David Bevan: Well, every Wednesday we bring three federal MPs from South Australia – they have to be South Australian through and through – to discuss the big national issues. We have in…
Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon Julie Bishop MP and Minister for Education and Training, Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham today announced the successful applicants for grants under the 2018 New Colombo Plan mobility program. The 2018 New Colombo Plan mobility grants will support 13,000 undergraduates from 40 Australian universities to live, study and complete…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Dodgy child care operators in Victoria, Labor’s taxes 24/08/2017 08:48AM Rafael Epstein: So we’ve had a number of calls this week from both child care operators and parents who use those small family day care child care operators saying the money’s stopped. The Federal Government is cracking down on smaller child care…
TRANSCRIPT E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: QLD Government’s failure to monitor child care standards, child care reforms 23/08/2017 04:37PM Ben Davis: Thanks for your company this afternoon. I’ve been asking you about making child care more affordable and your stories. Even if you don’t have kids or grandkids in child care, we’ve still got skin in the…
TRANSCRIPT E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: SA Government’s failure to monitor child care standards, child care reforms 23/07/2017 12:12PM Alan Hickey: But first to our child care centres. And, of course, they are becoming an increasingly important part of our lives, aren’t they? And we learned today that one in five South Australian child care centres have…