Sentences with phrase «education minister»

The former education minister said that for successive governments there had been a «lack of political will to show that some academies are not doing well».

A shadow education minister since 2005, he was a member of the education select committee before that.

As education minister she had responsibility for the introduction of comprehensive schools.

He is trying to achieve what no federal education minister has done before him — establish a truly national needs - based funding model — but with less money and more caveats.

The Australian Government and state and territory education ministers have committed to addressing the teacher supply issue with a nationwide data solution.

He sits around a cabinet table with three previous education ministers.

He had been appointed education minister eighteen months earlier.

A new school funding model being proposed aims to free up funds to help education ministers resolve their differences in state funding, and deliver needs - based funding in full.

So education ministers are unable to give any indication of funding changes, in part because a consultation is still taking place and more particularly because it isn't in their gift to decide.

«As a former education minister, I bring recent experience of the policy and challenges the committee will face in the year ahead,» he wrote.

Australian Education Union (AEU) Federal President Correna Haythorpe said the research further strengthens the case for minimum entry scores for teaching courses and has called for Education Minister Simon Birmingham to take action.

No 10 indicated it had «ruled out» this move even as higher education minister David Willetts was defending the policy on air.

Commenting following the publication of this year's school banding data, Aled Roberts, Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Education Minister said:

The funding boost, announced by Education Minister Leighton Andrews, is the second in as many years.

Last week shadow universities minister Gareth Thomas stepped in to up the pressure on higher education minister David Willetts, writing to him with a request that he release documentation between his office and the AHRC.

What we are seeing is an inadequate allocation in the budget; 1.2 billion is woefully inadequate for four terms for the 2018 fiscal year,» the former deputy education minister said on the Point Blank segment of Eyewitness News.

This weekend examiners in Wales are regrading English papers taken under the WJEC examining board, after Welsh Education Minister Leighton Andrews ordered a review of results.

Angela Burns, Conservative shadow education minister in the assembly, said: «These truly appalling figures show Wales» educational performance has at best stagnated, and at worst declined, and that in educational terms, Labour ministers have wasted the past three years.»

In the Assembly he is Shadow Education Minister for the Lib Dems and also speaks on Welsh Language and Older People's issues for the Party.

The former schools inspector was commissioned by Education Minister Huw Lewis to undertake a comprehensive and wide - ranging review of the national curriculum and testing.

It followed a letter from Education Minister Lord Nash outlining a number of issues to be addressed by the school.

Federal President for the Australian Education Union Correna Haythorpe, together with a delegation of parents and students, is scheduled to meet with Education Minister Christopher Pyne and Labor leader Bill Shorten in Canberra to put disability education funding back at the centre of the conversation.

But when the reforms were introduced in England, the then Welsh Education Minister Huw Lewis chose not to introduce the same changes in Wales.

Speaking to Citi News» Duke Mensah Opoku, the former Deputy Education Minister said there is no purpose tied to these funds especially when the governing NPP is claiming that the budget for several sectors has been cut down.

«The funding increase is out of step with education minister Simon Birmingham's repeated claim that funding does not matter as much as other features of schooling such as curriculum or quality teachers.

The Sir Isaac Newton School in Norwich was opened by Education Minister Elizabeth Truss, a Norfolk MP, who said free schools allowed parents and students to get the education they wanted where they live.

But in June 2016, this decision was reversed by new Education Minister Peter Weir and pupils will now be allowed to sit GCSE grades from English exam boards giving results using the 9 - 1 system.

It was one of the key topics at this month's meeting of education ministers from the G7 group of leading industrial countries, held in Japan.

At the time of the event the then Education Minister Elizabeth Truss said: «Our new, forward - thinking, computing curriculum, backed by industry experts, will raise standards, show students how to make computers work for them and give them the skills and knowledge they need to compete with their peers from around the world.

«they will have more power to nip trouble in the bud,» vows Shadow Education Minister Nick Gibb.

Victorian Education Minister James Merlino and Member for Western Victoria Gayle Tierney announced that Evan Savage will be the first principal of the brand new school.

Girls did better than boys in every country tested, a result which Federal Government Education Minister Simon Birmingham said needs to be addressed.

A new high - rise school will be built in inner Sydney, New South Wales Education Minister Rob Stokes announced.

New South Wales» new Education Minister Rob Stokes has laid out his priorities for education in the state.

Earlier this week, Northern Ireland Education Minister John O'Dowd indicated he was willing to introduce new rules to allow flexibility on the school starting age.

Mr Lightman called on education ministers to ensure there was «planned, phased and coherent change; and freedom to innovate without the fear of a poor Ofsted inspection».

In fact, the announcement by Education Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh is akin to the government saying that it is going to pay for the secondary education of the children of rich people.

The school funding wars are set to erupt again when federal, state and territory education ministers meet in Adelaide on Friday.

The WJEC examining board worked over the weekend after Education Minister Leighton Andrews said grade boundaries had been set in a way that was unfair to candidates in Wales.

But Queensland Government Education Minister Kate Jones slammed the proposal, arguing the Minister had failed to garner support from the states and territories at a meeting in Adelaide last week, which discussed the Federal Government's proposed test.

Former Labour education minister Lord Adonis has called the level of interest charges «indefensible», and the head of the Russell Group of universities has called for a reassessment of interest rates.

The warning by NSW education minister Adrian Piccoli — that any reduction in the federal funding NSW receives would mean «war» — speaks precisely to the policy and political challenges ahead.

«I get along with women, I have eight sisters you know,» the former Education Minister told Paul Adom - Otchere, host of Metro TV's «Good Evening Ghana».

«It is essential that the system of applying to higher education is as open and accessible to students as possible,» said higher education minister Bill Rammell.

Conservative Education Minister Liz Truss has rejected Liberal Democrat calls for tighter controls on free schools in England.

Given Martin Dixon is a former school principal, principals, teachers and school communities should have had a state education minister who genuinely understood education.

Two weeks ago Education Minister Sam Gymiah told MPs: «It is patently unfair that Knowsley received nearly # 750 less per pupil than Wandsworth.»

UK Government Education Minister Michael Gove was critical of Welsh Education Secretary Leighton Andrews» subsequent decision for directing the WJEC (previously known as Welsh Joint Education Committee) exam board to regrade Welsh students.

Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson, speaking because the finance minister was unavailable, reiterated the real estate board's view that August's sales reflect a return to normal volumes after an overheated period.