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Today Australia’s education ministers are meeting and school attendance is high on the agenda. Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has repeatedly flagged this as one of his key concerns.
To use the language of a school report, the teacher shortage plan is a good effort and a positive start. But there are areas that need improvement.
The new federal education minister has kicked off what could be a major reset of university research funding in Australia, with a review and stern letter to the Australian Research Council.
Two teacher educators look at how we can keep students in teaching degrees. Reimbursing them for professional placements in schools would be a start.
Australia’s education ministers have asked their departments to come up with a new plan to address the teacher shortage by December.
Today, state and federal education ministers will meet in Canberra to discuss the teacher shortage. It will be their first in-person meeting for more than a year.
New Grattan Institute analysis shows there are more than 100,000 teaching assistants in classrooms across the country.
In this week’s NSW disaster, federal-state relations have been much smoother (acknowledging that things can fray somewhat as the clean-up goes on). The Albanese government learned from watching its predecessor’s problems.
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has committed to a “reset” of relations between government and universities, and promised more effort to boost the proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds, in a major speech on higher education.
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jason Clare on Australia’s education challenges
Michelle Grattan speaks with New Education Minister Jason Clare as he finishes travelling the country taking soundings in the education sector.
The teacher shortage in Australia has reached crisis levels. We will fix this by improving the conditions for existing teachers, not with cash incentives for university students.
“Well, the boss has got the bug, so you’ve got me.” Labor campaign spokesman Jason Clare fronted the media the morning after Anthony Albanese tested positive for COVID, and the contrast didn’t go unnoticed
Under the Labor NBN plan up to two million extra homes will get fibre-to-the-premise without additional cost to the government.
AFP commissioner Andrew Colvin has defended police raids at the Melbourne office of Labor’s deputy Senate leader Stephen Conroy and the home of an ALP staffer.
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