Keith Pitt: So I’m here today with Simon Birmingham, the Federal Minister for Education and of course the Senator the South Australia to open wonderful facilities right here in St James in Hervey Bay. This is a great opportunity for us to give direct feedback to the Federal Minister for Education about what’s important to the…
DetailsKieran Gilbert: Joining me now this morning in the Canberra studio to discuss this and the other issues of the day, the Education Minister Simon Birmingham. Minister thanks for our time, now we’re just a few months out from the poll, it’s been said that the published polls don’t reflect the internal polling. I don’t…
DetailsSimon Birmingham: Today I’m pleased to announce a positive resolution in relation to our inquiries into three schools and their eligibility for government funding. Starting way back in May of last year, the Commonwealth undertook an audit of six schools affiliated with the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils. And in our assessment of that we’ve…
DetailsSimon Birmingham: … technology network of universities, some of our most technology rich and intensive universities have agreed on principles around intellectual property arrangements that will make it far simpler for them to be able to engage with business, and importantly far simpler for business to be able to engage and collaborate with universities. And…
DetailsTom Tilley: So many questions came out of that story just there, and thankfully we have the Education Minister Simon Birmingham here to answer them. Simon Birmingham, thank you so much for joining us. Simon Birmingham: G’day Tom, great to be with you. Tom Tilley: First things first: this week you’ve reiterated that Christopher Pyne’s deregulation plans were…
DetailsFiona Wyllie: And higher education is in the news again today. The Federal Minister for Education has announced a review into university entrance standards, and confirming cuts to university funding is still a possibility in the May Budget. He faced protests last night, and now he is with us on Statewide Drive, the Minister for Education…
DetailsNarelle Graham: Without too much further ado, the Turnbull Government’s Education Minister Simon Birmingham is in day two of a visit to regional South Australia today. The Minister was in Port Lincoln yesterday, today it was Port Augusta and Whyalla that were on the itinerary and the visit coincides with a report that the Government…
DetailsSimon Birmingham: … in many ways for Australia’s future then getting our embrace of maths and sciences as part of our education system right and to set people up for the future, a future in which young Australians are best equipped to fill the jobs of the future and to create the jobs of the future,…
DetailsSarah Tomlinson: But first today, the Minister for Education and Training is visiting schools and preschools on the Eyre Peninsular, and a little later today in Whyalla. He spoke with Deane Williams when he was in Port Lincoln, and Deane asked him about the very young children he met in the city yesterday and whether he…
DetailsSonya Feldhoff: Well here today on Friday, March 11th, we’re a week away from the deadline for parents to get their children vaccinated before being involved in the whole no jab, no pay policy that the Federal Government has launched in a bid to try to see our immunisation rates jump. Now we are aware that…
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