Subject: Jobs for Families E&OE… Simon Birmingham: Good afternoon, and thank you for coming along today. The Government has, consistent with our commitments, introduced to the Parliament today the Jobs for Families child care reforms. These are important reforms to our child care arrangements, and because they will enable is us to implement a new…
Subject: literacy and numeracy standards among trainee teachers E&OE… John Compere: Almost one in ten trainee teachers, eight per cent of teachers, do not make the grade when it comes to the basics of literacy and numeracy, which, when you think the job of teachers is to help kids acquire the same skills, this is…
Subject: Pilot literacy and numeracy test for teaching graduates E&OE… Matthew Abraham: Simon Birmingham is the Education Minister, Minister welcome. Simon Birmingham: Merry Christmas, Matt and Dave. Matthew Abraham: No, Simon Birmingham. You don’t … David Bevan: Nice try. Simon Birmingham: I don’t get the ham? Matthew Abraham: You don’t win… David Bevan: You don’t…
Subject: Code Club Australia E&OE… Annie Parker: My name’s Annie Parker, I’m the founder of Code Club Australia. It’s a pleasure to have everybody here today, and especially to welcome Trent Zimmerman and the Minister for Education to see one of our… one of our newest Code Club’s actually. These guys have only been up…
E&OE… Simon Birmingham:…will introduce legislation for a new child care subsidy. And a new child care subsidy of the Turnbull Government will be simpler, fairer and more affordable for Australian families. Our child care arrangements will ensure that those families who work the most hours will receive the most support for hours of subsidised child…
Subject: Child Care Reform E&OE… Sarah Tomlinson: The Turnbull Government has announced that it will support grandparents with subsidised child care for those who are the primary carers for their grandchildren. This initiative is part of the Jobs for Families package, and to tell us more we’re joined by Minister for Education and Training, Senator…
Subject: Child Care Reform E&OE… James Carleton: The Turnbull Government will use the final sitting week of the year to legislate its $3.5 billion revamp of the child care sector. Under the Jobs for Families package the existing child care rebate and child care benefit will be replaced by a single payment from July 2017,…
E&OE… David Speers: Now this issue we’re going to look at now about private colleges and what students are paying, what the taxpayer is paying as well, has been well on the boil for a while. The Australian newspaper reports today that $1 billion in taxpayers’ money has gone to about 15 private colleges that…
Subject: Child care access and affordability E&OE… Rafael Epstein: So if they moved child care charges to something based on an hourly rate, instead of a daily rate, what would it mean for you? It’d make it cheaper for the Government. They’re moving resources – the Federal Government, under Malcolm Turnbull – trying to shift…
Phil Staley: Children sure seem to know how to send a Facebook message, a Snapchat message or a tweet, don’t they? But it seems that’s not translating into actual computer literacy skills. Data out this week says over half of year six and year 10 students don’t have a basic standard of computer literacy. The…