Australian expertise and knowledge will be applied to assist India increase the skills of its workforce through international trainer and assessor courses mapped to Indian standards. Minister for Education and Training Senator Simon Birmingham tonight told the Australia India Business Council that the first of three pilot courses—a collaboration between Kangan Institute and Indian training…
DetailsNurses, farmers, police, emergency service employees and other parents who are struggling to match their work hours with conventional childcare options are invited to participate in the Australian Government’s new Nanny Pilot Programme from early 2016. Minister for Education and Training Senator Simon Birmingham said the pilot will provide subsidised care for about 10,000 children…
DetailsSubject: Higher Education Reforms E&OE… DAVID PENBERTHY: Well two weeks ago South Australian Liberal Senator, Simon Birmingham, was sworn in as the Federal Minister for Education after Malcolm Turnbull became Prime Minister and in one of the biggest policy shifts by the new government it was confirmed yesterday that the plan for higher education reform…
DetailsSubject: Higher Education Reforms; Vocational Education and Training E&OE… IAN HENSCHKE: Simon Birmingham is the Education and Training Minister and he’s just announced that he will not reintroduce the government’s higher education bill in to Parliament for another vote this year. Politics is about the art of the achievable is it, Simon Birmingham? SIMON BIRMINGHAM:…
DetailsThe wonderfully witty and wily Mark Twain once remarked that education is “the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.” Based on Mr Twain’s observation, with such an esteemed, learned and well educated audience gathered here in this one location you may very well represent the collective pinnacle of miserable uncertainty! Nonetheless, it is a…
DetailsSubject: South Australians in Cabinet; Higher Education Policy E&OE… MATTHEW ABRAHAM: Well B1 and B2 with us here in the studio. Simon Birmingham, he is a Liberal Senator, he his Minister for Education, welcome. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Good morning, Matthew. MATTHEW ABRAHAM: You’ve thrown off those Assistant Minister shackles. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: All gone! MATTHEW ABRAHAM: All…
DetailsSubject: Higher Education Reforms; Secondary Education E&OE… MICHAEL ROWLAND: Now, away from the international stage and back to domestic politics now. Malcolm Turnbull's new Cabinet is settling into the job, and one of those given a promotion is South Australian Liberal Senator Simon Birmingham. VIRGINIA TRIOLI: He's taken over the Education Ministry, formerly held by…
DetailsSubject: Stretton Centre; Submarines; Urban Rail Projects E&OE… JAY WEATHERILL: [inaudible] and no better place and no better name to have such an ambition than the name of Hugh Stretton, a fantastic public intellectual who has really [inaudible] to understand the world of work, it’s connection to with how cities operate, and in this growing…
DetailsSIMON BIRMINGHAM: Thank you very much, Dermott, for that welcome. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning it is a delight to be with you with you all here today and to be with you here on my fifth day as the Federal Minister for Education and Training and my first outing here in my home state,…
DetailsSubject: Higher Education Reforms; Submarines; School Funding; Teacher Quality E&OE… GRAHAM RICHARDSON: Simon Birmingham, welcome to the program. SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Great to be with you, Richo. GRAHAM RICHARDSON: Now, you’ve had one hell of a promotion, I mean, I don’t think ten days ago you would have been sitting there dreaming that you’d be the…
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