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 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…
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…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on Channel 9 TODAY with Lisa Wilkinson Topics: Programme for International Student Assessment; Turnbull Government’s Quality Schools, Quality Outcomes reforms 07 December 2016 06:20AM Lisa Wilkinson: Well Australia’s high school students are up to two years behind the world’s best pupils. That’s according to a new report…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC AM with Kim Landers Topics: Programme for International Student Assessment; Turnbull Government’s Quality Schools, Quality Outcomes; Energy security 7 December 2016 7:10AM Kim Landers: Well Simon Birmingham is the Minister for Education and Training and he joins me from Melbourne. Minister, good morning. Simon Birmingham: Good morning, Kim. Good to…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on SKY News with Kieran Gilbert Topics: Programme for International Student Assessment report; Turnbull Government’s Quality Schools, Quality Outcomes reforms 07/12/2016 08:07AM Brooke Corte: Well we've seen this morning new international data which has certainly prompted concerns about the teaching of core subjects in Australian schools. Figures have shown students in Australia…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on ABC 891 Adelaide with Spence Denny Topics: Programme for International Student Assessment report; Turnbull Government’s Quality Schools, Quality Outcomes reforms 07/12/2016 09:05AM Spence Denny: Well we've seen another fall in the standard of 15-year-old Australian school students. Now this is a test specifically done on that age group; it's data from…
E&OE TRANSCRIPT Interview on LAFM Tasmania Talks with Brian Carlton Topics: Programme for International Student Assessment; Turnbull Government’s Quality Schools, Quality Outcomes reforms; 07/12/16 11:37AM Brian Carlton: The man who hopefully has some kind of plan in place is the Federal Minister for Education Simon Birmingham; I have him on the line now. Minister, good…
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…
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…