E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Same sex marriage;tertiary subsidies for domestic New Zealand students; academic freedoms; superannuation 05/09/2017 12:49PM Samantha Maiden: And joining us now live is the Education Minister Simon Birmingham to discuss that story that we were talking about in relation to New Zealand and also the same-sex marriage debate as well. Let’s start with…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Education Reform 04/09/2017 Simon Birmingham: Thank you very much Martin. Happily they are the green bells, and even more happily apparently I have a pair, briefly, to be able to with you here tonight, so even through red ones I will be staying put. Can I too acknowledge the Indigenous owners of…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on Sky News, AM Agenda with Kieran Gilbert Topics: Newspoll, energy security, citizenship 04/09/2017 07:05AM Kieran Gilbert: Minister, thanks so you much for your time, you must be encouraged by some of the numbers in this Newspoll? Simon Birmingham: Look, Kieran, the Government, wherever the polls go, keeps on with the job…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Gonski education funding; reforms to tertiary education 01/09/2017 Simon Birmingham: Thank you for your welcome to country. As some of you would’ve heard me say before, I’m acknowledging the Kaurna people here in the Adelaide plains and all of Australia’s Indigenous people, but also acknowledge [indistinct] education in particular continue to learn…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Topics: Newspoll, energy security, citizenship 04/09/2017 07:05AM Kieran Gilbert: Minister, thanks so you much for your time, you must be encouraged by some of the numbers in this Newspoll? Simon Birmingham: Look, Kieran, the Government, wherever the polls go, keeps on with the job as people would expect and over the last couple…
One hundred preschools across Australia will trial a new Turnbull Government program set to boost curiosity and skills in science, technology, engineering and maths. Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said the announcement of the start of the new Early Learning STEM Australia (ELSA) pilot coincided with National Literacy and Numeracy Week kicking off…
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…