Thanks very much Phil, I’m slightly less frustrated this season as I was last season as an Adelaide Crows fan but it’s still very much early days. To Phil Honeywood, perhaps Australia’s preeminent advocate for international education, and thank you for, not only having me here today and for you through the IEAA convening this…
DetailsSubject: (Budget 2015) E&OE… DAVID PENBERTHY: Joining me now is the South Australian Liberal Senator, The Assistant Minister for Education and training, Simon Birmingham; Simon, thanks for your time. What ever happened to the budget emergency? SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well David we still face very serious and challenging budget circumstances and some of the announcements in…
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The 2015 Budget is part of the Commonwealth Government’s plan to build a strong, safe and prosperous future for all Australians. The Government is investing around $6 billion this year to support training that gives apprentices and vocational students the high quality training they need for modern Australian workplaces. This includes funding through the Government’s…
DetailsThe next step in the Australian Government’s VET reforms will be taken this week when the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Amendment (Enforcement) Regulation 2015 is tabled before both Houses of Parliament. The Regulation was tabled in the Senate this morning and will be tabled in the House of Representatives tomorrow. Since April 2…
DetailsSubject: (May Budget) E&OE… KIERAN GILBERT: This is AM Agenda. With me now, the Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Andrew Leigh and the Assistant Education Minister, Simon Birmingham; Good to see you both. First of all to you, Andrew Leigh, on the economics of all this. I understand Labor doesn’t want families to lose any payment but…
DetailsVocational students and employers will have a simpler, more responsive national training system under projects agreed today by Commonwealth, State and Territory Skills Ministers. Assistant Minister for Education and Training Senator Simon Birmingham chaired today’s meeting of Skills Ministers as part of the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Industry and Skills Council. “Vocational education and…
DetailsA new industry and skills committee has been established to provide effective industry leadership to the vocational education and training (VET) sector in Australia. The announcement coincides with the COAG Industry and Skills Committee meeting being held in Melbourne today. Assistant Minister for Education and Training, Senator Simon Birmingham, announced the composition of the Australian…
DetailsSIMON BIRMINGHAM: …to direct future qualification frameworks and arrangements to be responsive to those future needs of our economy. We’ve already of course announced the new models in relationship to training package development that will put industry reference committees at the heart of that process and in the next few days I hope to announce…
DetailsGood morning ladies and gentleman and thank you very much for that welcome it is a pleasure to join you today for the National English Language Training Accreditation Scheme conference 2015, blessedly known as NEAS because the full title in and of itself is a bit like the English language test. It is a delight…
DetailsSubject: (VET Reforms) E&OE… LINDA MOTTRAM: One of the practices of concern around some of these colleges is where they operate under different business names but from one business address and one address offers fee assisted courses using federal funding, VET FEE-HELP, as it’s called, and then the other side of the business, the different name, offers the same…
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