education - hofreps - 1970

Contexts in which the word education was used in the House of Representatives during the 1970s

asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Is the Department of Education and Science presently engaged on an inquiry into scientific and industrial research in Australia, known as Survey and Comparison of Research and Expenditure or alternatively as Project SCORE? [More…]
As the honourable gentleman would know, his question also concerns two other Ministers - my colleagues the Minister for Trade and Industry and the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
In view of the world wide consternation caused by the use of DDT and other contaminating pest killers, I ask the Minister for Education and Science whether the Government is taking any action to prevent the use ofDDT in Australia. [More…]
The Australian Education Council, made up of the State Ministers for Education, met in Perth on 23 and 24 February 1970. [More…]
The principal item of business was to review progress in the Nationwide Survey of Educational Needs at the primary and secondary level and in teacher education. [More…]
The determination of priorities for the further expansion of education services in each State is a matter for the Government of that State and it is for the Commonwealth to determine priorities in respect of the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]
When the Commonwealth and State Ministers of Education have considered the results of the Nation-wide Survey of Educational Needs, Commonwealth and State Governments will determine the action they will take to improve the standards of education in all schools. [More…]
Has he consulted with his colleagues, the Minister for Health and the Minister for Education and Science, with regard to it so that this 8% or more of the population may receive social services based on an informed approach to their needs? [More…]
Is it a fact that a conference of State Ministers for Education was held in Perth recently to assess the results of surveys of urgent education needs made in all States. [More…]
Did the Victorian Education Minister, Mr L. H. Thompson, point out the need for a multimillion dollar campaign to improve the 80-year old- and even older - State primary and secondary schools in Melbourne’s inner suburbs. [More…]
Is he able to say whether up to 80 per cent of the students attending these schools are migrants and whether any facilities exist at them to provide special English classes or compensatory education of the type needed for children reared in a high density environment. [More…]
As a result of these meetings, Ministers have agreed to action in the law enforcement, health and education areas, to provide concerted and coordinated activity by the Commonwealth and the States to combat drug abuse problems. [More…]
What is the cost of taxation deductions allowed for the fees of students at (a) universities, (b) colleges of advanced education, (c) teachers’ colleges and (d) technical colleges. [More…]
How soon will the Minister for Education and Science be able to state the number and proportion of qualified students who unsuccessfully sought enrolment this year in universities and colleges of advanced education? [More…]
We are internationalists when it comes to music, drama, literature, science, education and a host of other human fields of activity. [More…]
Has consideration been given to amending the Estate Duty Assessment Act to exempt from duty not only the value of works of an devised or bequeathed for religious or public education purposes, but also the value of works of art devised or bequeathed for exhibition in parks or squares or buildings open to the public. [More…]
Bequests of works of art to public museums and public art galleries in Australia are exempt as bequests for public education purposes. [More…]
For what forms of education in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea does the Administration charge fees. [More…]
During the course of this investigation data on total expenditure on pre-school education was not available in sufficient detail to enable valid comparisons to be made between Australia and overseas countries. [More…]
Pre-school Education: Expenditure (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
When his Department was asked by his predecessor to look into the whole matter of international comparisons of educational expenditure, did the Department investigate the relative expenditure on pre-school education in Australia and comparable countries! [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science upon notice: (!) [More…]
Since his predecessor’s answer to me on 24 September 1968 (Hansard, page 1427) has the Government reviewed any aspects of its education at pre-school, primary, secondary and technical levels and the setting up of a commission on the lines of the Universities Commission. [More…]
For the same reasons a meaningful statement of this type sought by the honourable member cannot be made about Commonwealth Advanced Education and Commonwealth Secondary scholarships. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Which Catholic and independent school authorities have been invited to conduct their own survey of educational needs on similar lines to the survey decided upon by the State Ministers of Education at their meeting in Adelaide in March 1969. [More…]
Student enrolments in schools of engineering for 1965 and 1967-72 in colleges of advanced education, which includes institutes of technology, are given in the First and Second Reports of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education; these enrolment details comprise actual and estimated numbers. [More…]
These increased numbers have placed a substantial burden on available resourses and both State and Commonwealth governments have made considerable efforts to cope with pressures on State education systems. [More…]
State governments have devoted increasing proportions of their budgets to education while each year the Commonwealth has increased its special purpose educational grants to the States. [More…]
Any requests for further Commonwealth asis t a ncc to the education system of any particular [More…]
State will be considered in the light of the results of the Survey of the Needs of Government and Non-government schools in all States and Territories now being completed under the sponsorship of the Australian Education Council. [More…]
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Is it a fact that there is a growing crisis in education in South Australia, particularly at the primary and secondary levels, and that the State is unable to meet pressing demands in the areas of building, transport, teacher training, administrative costs and salaries. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the views of education experts that the situation is the direct consequence of the lack of Commonwealth finance at all levels of education. [More…]
If so, will he immediately recommend a special purpose grant of $20 million the allocation of which to be the sole responsibility of the State, to enable South Australia to meet the crucial needs of its education programme. [More…]
No statistics of the numbers of students who have obtained either a Commonwealth University scholarship or a Commonwealth Advanced Education scholarship after repeating the final year of secondary schooling are available. [More…]
341) Mr Reynolds asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
How many qualified applicants have (a) sought entry and (b) been admitted into the schools of engineering in each of the institutes of technology and colleges of advanced education in Australia in each of the last 5 years, or, where more recently established, in each of the years of existence. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
How many persons who have been awarded Commonwealth (a) university and (b) advanced education scholarships in each of the various States in each of the years for which records are available have gained the awards after repeating the last year or form of their secondary school studies. [More…]
The State Ministers presented their requests for Commonwealth grants in 1970-71 in the fields of housing, health, education and employment. [More…]
In the field of education, it was accepted that lack of opportunity in the pre-school ages imposed a permanent handicap and that the Commonwealth, in consultation with the States, should examine how the need at this level could be met. [More…]
How many officers are employed by the Adult Education Council in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
improve world living standards and promote economic, social and cultural progress and terms of trade; promote self-determination of peoples; provide adequately independent United Nations financial resources; communications, information and education to promote a world point of view; increase the universality of membership and effectiveness of the United Nations. [More…]
Why are native teachers, education officers, nurses, co-operative officers, artisans and stenographers paid less than one-third the wage rates of their expatriate counterparts. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Education and Science been directed to a letter in the ‘Canberra Times’ this morning and to an article in that newspaper several days ago referring to an alleged rejection by Cabinet of a request from the Australian National University Council for increased student membership of that Council? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science: In view of the fact that all of the other States have this year increased the fees charged in universities and colleges of advanced education, can the Minister say why Victoria, alone of all the States, has deferred for the time being its projected 20% increase in university fees and the still larger increase which is contemplated for fees in colleges of advanced education? [More…]
In addition, the Committee has set up working parties of experts to carry out ad hoc projects and is able to draw on the expertise of the Health Education and Mental Health Committees of the National Health and Medical Research Council. [More…]
Included were such matters as cooperation, liaison, training, controls over the illicit movements of drugs, education, research, treatment of addicts, psychotropic substances and penalties for drug offences. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Is the Commonwealth Government carrying out an inquiry into education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
On the other hand, if one took the figures over the 6-year period and also had regard to the fact that New South Wales has taken advantage of the offer of the Commonwealth to have teacher training courses supported in colleges of advanced education, under which they will get $3. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government does not wish to intrude unnecessarily into the fields of education and health. [More…]
Education: Pre-schools (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science upon notice: - What progress has his Department made with the survey of research and development activities in Australia. [More…]
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What corrective and specialised education facilities are available in the Australian Capital Territory for children with specific learning handicaps. [More…]
Total floor space occupied by the Commonwealth in Temple Court is 40,363 square feet, occupied by the Attorney-General’s Department and the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
-I did see the report, and I would point out to the honourable member that the Australian Education Council has been conducting a survey of needs in secondary and primary education in Australia. [More…]
Members know it is the policy of Liberal governments that all Australians are entitled to a proper standard of education. [More…]
The results of that survey were before a meeting of the Australian Education Council last Monday fortnight. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
In view of the Government’s support of the dual system of education and the strain that would be placed on government schools and teaching staff if the independent school system was to fail, will the Minister examine the position of both independent and government schools with the object of increasing Commonwealth assistance in areas of greatest need in our education system? [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Will be bring up to date the information on pre-school education in the States and Territories which his predecessor gave me in his answer on 28th November 1968 (Hansard, page 3492) and 25th February 1969 (page 120) and can he give [More…]
I ask the Acting Minister for Education and Science (Dr Forbes) whether this will inhibit the development of the project. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
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In the absence of the Minister for Education and Science I direct my question to the Prime Minister. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister inform the House what stage has been reached in making public the results of the surveys by the States of their educational needs? [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the severe shortage of recurrent funds in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Have any (a) State Ministers for Education, (b) administrations of colleges, (c) staff associations of colleges or (d) other bodies made any requests to him for additional grants of recurrent funds by the Comomnwealth; if so, who made the requests. [More…]
The latter figure does not include adjustments which may result from implementation of the recommendations made last year by Mr Justice Sweeney in the report of the Inquiry into Salaries of Lecturers and Senior Lecturers in Colleges of Advanced Education; nor does it take account of the effects of recommendations in respect of academic salaries made this year by Mr Justice Eggleston. [More…]
Can he state what is the estimated additional cost which each additional migrant imposes on State, semi-government and local government instrumentalities for the provision of (a) water supply, (b) sewerage and drainage, (c) road, (d) education, (e) health and (f) welfare services in each major urban area in Australia. [More…]
Liberal-Country Party politicians and officials whether in New South Wales, Canberra or the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, have realised that their policies on such issues as development, welfare, education, financing of health services, rural problems, defence and foreign affairs are obviously not supported by the electorate. [More…]
How many students is the Commonwealth sponsoring this year and what amount did it spend in fees for sponsored students in the last year for which figures are available at (a) universities, (b) colleges of advanced education, (c) teachers’ colleges, (d) technical colleges and (e) other educational institutions under the (i) Commonwealth Co-operation in Education Scheme, (ii) the Colombo Plan, (iii) Special Commonwealth African Assistance Plan, (iv) Australian International Awards Scheme, (v) South Pacific Aid Programme and (vi) South East Asia Treaty Organisation. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What would be the cost to the Commonwealth of paying the fees of the present number of students at (a) universities,(b) colleges of advanced education, (c) teachers’ colleges and (d) technical colleges, whose fees are not already paid by Commonwealth and State departments and instrumentalities. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the annual report of the Department of Education and Science for the year ended December 1969. [More…]
My answer to the rest of the question is: Yes, I noticed what the Premier of New South Wales had to say in the course of presenting a Budget which is going to do an immense amount for education, hospitals and other services in the State of New South Wales, all of which has been made possible bythe new and enlightened approach of this Government assisting that Government in the interests of New South Wales. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
-I ask the Minister .for Education and Science a question. [More…]
Did the report of the Australian Education Council indicate that there was a shortfall of some $ 1,448m for educational needs of State schools in the next 5 years? [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
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The following progress reports were made available by the Education Departments of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. [More…]
The Education Department of Queensland was unable to supply any details. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Is the New South Wales Department of Education responsible to any person or authority in the Australian Capital Territory for its activities in theAustralianCapitalTerritory: if so, who is that person or authority. [More…]
What arc the intentions of the Government regarding the setting up of an independent education authority in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
and (2) Education in the Australian Capital Territory is administered under the A.C.T. [More…]
Education Ordinance . [More…]
The Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science is the Minister responsible under the Ordinance. [More…]
(4) and (5) I am currently considering the desirability of having an inquiry made, into the administration of education in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
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Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
When did his Department receive (he report of Sir George Currie’s working party on an Independent Education Authority for the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: - (1) Will he bring up to date the information on colleges of advanced education which his predecessor gave me on 16th September 1969 (Hansard, page 1425). [More…]
It should be remembered that, after (he submission of applications for admission to universities, there are always some who decide to enrol in a College of Advanced Education, or other tertiary institutions, others who decide to return to school in the hope of gaining a scholarship in the following year or who, for one reason or another, decide not to proceed with tertiary education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What was the number and proportion of qualified students who unsuccessfully sought enrolment this year in universities and colleges of advanced education (Hansard, 14th April 1970, page 1035 and 9th June 1970, page 3120). [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
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Is it a fact that the Public Service Board has adopted a scale of salaries for pharmacists which differentiates between graduates of universities and of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What sum specifically for capital expenditure has the Commonwealth (including its banks) in the last financial year (a) spent, (b) transferred as grants or loans direct to (i) State, local or semigovernment authorities, (ii) autonomous health, education and welfare organisations and overseas recipients and (iii) private industry, including all compensation and capital subsidies and price support to private industry except by way of relief of temporary natural disasters, and (c) received, as grants or loans, from other countries. [More…]
My question to the Minister for Education and Science is supplementary to that asked a few days ago by the honourable member for Wilmot concerning the apparent shortage of places in the Univerity of Tasmania for second year medical students in 1971. [More…]
each Premier and (b) each Premier written to him concerning the Premiers’ reaction to die nation-wide survey of educational needs which was presented to the Australian Education Council on 25th May 1970 (Hansard, 15th October 1970, page 2199). [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I gave some rounded off figures for total expenditure on education in Australia and stated the current figure as being over $2,000m per annum. [More…]
Tertiary Education: Courses in Social Work (Question No. [More…]
What means test is imposed upon applicants for education awards under the Services Trust Funds Act. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What statutes have been made by the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
The only substantial reply has been received from the South Australian Minister of Education, dated 1st October 1970. [More…]
Representatives of alt State Education Departments discussed my requests in some detail at a meeting with officers of my Department on 8th October 1970. [More…]
That meeting was convened by the Secretary of the Australian Education Council. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
On what dates did be write to the State Ministers for Education asking them to indicate the relative urgency’ of the capital works mentioned in. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science upon notice: [More…]
34 Education Programme 1970-71 - Ministerial statement - Motion to take note of paper: Resumption of debate on the motion, That the House take note of the paper. [More…]
Some 2.5 million people are our responsibility, and to advance them to a more significant stage of economic development requires an infrastructure, health, education, road systems and so on and the measure that is before us now will assist us in doing this. [More…]
and (2) Canberra College of Advanced Education Statutes made by Council and approved by the Governor-General: [More…]
It is most essential in the education of children to have them participate in sport. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
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Details of qualifications of Australian Capital Territory teachers in government schools are held by the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The information currently available to my Department of the New South Wales Department of Education in answer to these questions are set out in the tables below. [More…]
The basic records are held by the New South Wales Department of Education as far as government schools are con cerned. [More…]
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Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
25 cents in $1 for physical education equipment purchased by Parents’ and Citizens’ Associations. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The source of information prior to 1969 for (1) and prior to 1970 for (2) is the New South Wales Department of Education and this Department is unable to extract it with the resources they have available. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The age at appointment of headmasters in Australian Capital Territory schools can only be obtained from personal record cards which are with the New South Wales Department of Education, and not available to me. [More…]
However, the following information supplied by the New South Wales Education Department relating to all promotions positions may be of interest. [More…]
Figures for resignations from Australian Capital Territory schools in the form requested can only be obtained from the individual teachers’ personal record cards which are held by the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]
The only reliable source of this information is with the New South Wales Department of Education, which is unable to devote the resources necessary for its extraction in the detail required. [More…]
However, the following tables for the years 1969 and 1970 have been prepared from staff returns available in the Canberra Office of the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]
Independent schools in the Australian Capital Territory provided information as part of the nationwide survey of educational needs in primary and secondary schools and in teacher education for the period 1971-75. [More…]
It has not been possible, with the resources availableto my Department and the New South Wales Department of Education, to obtain the information sought by the honourable member. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
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In view of the fact that such age groups are those most affected not only by the Federal Government’s defence and foreign policies but also by such policies as recruitment for the Public Service and quotas and fees for higher education, will he give an assurance that such legislation is passed before the next elections for this House? [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
There are two branches inmyDepartment concerned with education in the mainland Commonwealth Territories. [More…]
Education Services Branch and the Northern Territory Education Branch. [More…]
How many (a) male and (b) female public servants arc (i) class 2/3 clerks and (ii) class 4 clerks onthe current staff of the’ branch of his Department which is concerned with education in the Commonwealth Territories. [More…]
How many officers of this branch (a) have university degrees, (b) have other professional qualifications, (c) arc without professional qualifications (other than typists), (d) have former teaching experience and (e) have formal qualifications in education apart from simply teaching experience. [More…]
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Planning of the survey of relevant activities of the Colleges of Advanced Education has not been finalised. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What amounts or assistance have been contributed by the Commonwealth Government in each of the latest 3 years for which figures or estimates are available by way of subsidy, tax exemptions or other financial assistance to non-profit, non-statutory organisations concerned with (a) military, paramilitary and related activities of military value, including cadet corps, gun clubs, flying clubs and ex-service organisations, (b) community welfare, including education, non-industrial science, health, emergency services, home help and institutional care and (c) sport, physical recreation and physical culture, including the Boy Scouts Organisation. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Education and Science, the first since his restoration to the Cabinet upon which I- [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science will be aware oi the serious effect of foot-rot in sheep on tha wool industry, especially in the present period of economic difficulty for that industry. [More…]
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Education: Non-government Institutions (Question No. [More…]
I have interpreted the honourable member’s question as a request for information about Commonwealth and Stale schemes of direct financial assistance lo non-government primary and secondary schools, as well as to residential colleges affiliated wilh universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
In its programme of assistance to universities and colleges of advanced education, the Commonwealth Government makes provision for the support on a capital and recurrent basis for residential colleges as follows: [More…]
I have received advice from the Prime Minister that he has appointed Mr Mackellar to be a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs in the place of Mr Fairbairn, the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
The last of the State Ministers for Education replied lo ray predecessor’s letter of 1 1th September 1970 on 17th March 1971. information from non-Government schools is still being collected and will he analysed wilh that information from Government schools. [More…]
Education: Assistance to Private Schools in Bendigo Electorate (Question No. [More…]
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On what dates has each State Minister for Education written to his predecessor or him since his predecessor’s answer ofl 29 October 1970 (Hansard, page 3090) to indicate the relative urgency of the capital works mentioned in the Nationwide survey of Education Needs issued on 1st September 1970. [More…]
Thai there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capita] Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
In respect of each agreement what provisions apply regarding (a) annual intake of migrants, and (b) migrants’ (i) employment classification (ii) age (iii) education and (iv) health. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Will he consult with his colleagues on the desirability of changing the Colombo Plan and other related procedures so that, instead of Asian and African students being brought to Australia for secondary and tertiary education, highly qualified [More…]
Australian graduates in all faculties would be encouraged to teach in Asian and African universities and schools of advanced education for periods of 3 months or more with the resulting benefits that (a) more students could be educated in their own countries than is possible under the various schemes by which overseas students now enter Australia and (b) Australian boys and girls would not continue to be excluded from Australian universities to make way for non-Australians. [More…]
The Victoria Institute of Colleges is the statutory authority in Victoria charged with the balanced development of tertiary education other than that which is the responsibility of the universities. [More…]
In discharging this function, it is the State authority responsible for co-ordinating proposals for Commonwealth contributions under the Advanced Education Program. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Is the Victoria Institute of Colleges the only body authorised to disburse Commonwealth moneys for the purpose of tertiary technical education. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious -deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of Stale education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance .from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
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I refer to the concern the Minister expressed yesterday about the development of migrant education and welfare programmes. [More…]
Can he also estimate the consequent loss in Government revenue - revenue which would be used to the benefit pf the whole community, including such purposes as health, education and social services? [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
National Development Education and Science Primary Industry the Interior the Army Supply [More…]
Antarctic Division, Department of Supply CSIRO, Department of Education and Science [More…]
Australia has sought and received assistance for the Territory of Papua New Guinea under the Commonwealth Co-operation in Education Scheme and other Commonwealth programmes as follows: [More…]
Commonwealth Co-operation in Education Scheme and (b) other Commonwealth programmes. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
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What would be the estimated cost of (a) increasing the weekly allowance for the first child of civilian widows to $3.50 and (b) granting an education allowance to the children of civilian widows equal to that of repatriation widows for the year 1971-72. [More…]
Allowances paid under the Soldiers’ Children Education Scheme vary in amount depending on the age of the child, whether the child resides at home or is living away from home and according to the type of education or training being undertaken. [More…]
, asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What assistance for education costs is available for children of low income families in Commonwealth Territories? [More…]
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How many (a) Aboriginal and (b) other Australian children from the Northern Territory are assisted to receive (i) primary, (ii) secondary, (iii) university and (iv) other education elsewhere in Australia, and what is the nature and cost of such assistance in each category. [More…]
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How many (a) Aboriginal and (b) other Australian children from the area are assisted to receive (i) primary, (ii) secondary, (iii) university and (iv) other education elsewhere in Australia? [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What were the numbers and percentages of students who (a) were enrolled in the third last year of technical education, (b) completed or sat for examinations for scholarships and (c) were awarded scholarships in each State and Territory in the year 1970? [More…]
Will the Government take steps to prevent, curtail or restrict radio and television advertising of liquor or to require equal facilities to be made available by licensed broadcasters for education concerning the effects of liquor. [More…]
Can the Statistician give figures of expenditure by State governments on pre-school’ education in 1969-70 (Hansard, 12th June 1970. page 3683)7 [More…]
Has the Minister for Education and Science seen reports of a statement by Mr Hudson, the South Australian Minister of Education, relating to an increase in educational allowances as against taxable income? [More…]
Advanced Education Act 1967-1970, I present the report of the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education for the year ended 31st December 1970. [More…]
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They also enable action to be co-ordinated where the States have powers; for example, in the field of migrant education. [More…]
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What steps have been taken to involve nursing education with colleges of advanced education as recommended last year in the reports on nursing education in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Proposals for the introduction of new courses in Colleges of advanced education are made by the colleges and State co-ordinating bodies in submissions put to the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education on a triennial basis. [More…]
When the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education has studied these proposals it will submit its recommendations to me, and these will then be considered by the Government. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Can he say what proportion of the (a) nonAboriginal and (b) Aboriginal population of (i) primary school, (ii) secondary school and (iii) tertiary level (specifying level) age received (A) fulltime and (B) part-time education in (I) each State and Territory and (II) Australia in the last year for which figures are available and for the year 10 years earlier. [More…]
From each State, senior officials of government agencies which are involved in fauna conservation, together with representatives of the Commonwealth Department of Customs and Excise, Education and Science, and Interior; of the CSIRO and the Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries, Territory of Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Commonwealth Co-operation in Education Scheme [More…]
The matter referred to is one which falls within the authority of the Ministerial Member for Education in the House of Assembly for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Administrator on the advice of the Ministerial Member for Education has provided the following information: [More…]
The Ministerial Member for Education advises Dr Everingham that he will have an assessment made of the value to linguistic and ethnological research of the work ‘Sobraniya Socineniya’ appearing in Hemisphere, August 1971. [More…]
The members of the Advisory Committee on Education, Messrs W. J. Weeden, C. E. Beeby and G. B. Gris presented to me on 30th October 1969 their report on Education in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
When will he table the Weeden report on education in the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971, I present the annual report on migrant education for the year ended 30th June 1971. [More…]
Ministers discussed a range of matters including the general organisation of the administration of Aboriginal affairs; arrangements for consultation of Aboriginal opinion; recent legislative and administrative action in relation to Aboriginal reserves; problems and needs in the fields of health, housing, education and employment; and progress in combating discrimination. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
secondary school education. [More…]
The matter referred to is one which falls within the authority of the Ministerial Member for Education in the House of Assembly for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Administrator on the advice of the Ministerial Member for Education has provided the following information: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Does the Government take a serious view of the rising economic barrier to higher education? [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The Australian Education Council met for 2 days in Brisbane on 27 and 28 May 1971. [More…]
Proceedings of the Australian Education Council are private but when the Commonwealth and States have agreed to some course of action it is normally the subject of the public announcement. [More…]
The only joint public announcement to be made following the meeting to which I have referred at (1) was that relating to agreement between the Commonwealth and the States on the establishment of an Australian Council on Awards in Advanced Education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Where and when have there been meetings of the Education Council or its working parties since 25th May 1970. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education and Science a member of tha Australian Education Council or does it still comprise only State Ministers for Education? [More…]
My question is addressed to the Prime Minister, although it should concern the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Will he bring up to date the information which his predecessor gave on 25th September 1970 (Hansard, page 1749) on colleges of advanced education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
I call the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
This clause allows for the dependant to be a spouse or a child over 16 and under 21 who is receiving full time education and is substantially dependent. [More…]
(a) The types of fees and charges levied by colleges of advanced education vary from institution to institution; in the college sector the following types of fees are found - teaching; laboratory; excursion; library; materials; examination; residential; student union, associations, and council; general service; sports association; other miscellaneous charges. [More…]
Information on the level of fees and charges levied by colleges of advanced education is available from college hand books. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What (a) types and (b) levels of fees and charges were levied in each college of advanced education and institute of technology in 1971. [More…]
In addition, one child took correspondence lessons, but details of the education type and standard are not known. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
be sought from the State Minister for Education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
For how many of its employees did the Commonwealth pay fees in 1970 at (a) universities, (b) colleges of advanced education, (c) teachers’ colleges (d) technical colleges, and (e) other educational institutions. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, 1 present the first annual report of the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education for the year ended 30th June 1971. [More…]
What steps have been taken, as recommended by the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare in its report tabled on Stb May 1971 on Mentally and Physically Handicapped Persons in Australia, (a) to co-ordinate those functions relating to the health, welfare, education and employment of handicapped persons at present being exercised by the Departments of Health, Social Services, Labour and National Service, Interior, Education and Science and Repatriation, and (b) to collaborate with the States on legislation and services for the handicapped. [More…]
What professional, technical or other courses offered by the Canberra College of Advanced Education are not recognised for qualification purposes by certain Government Departments and instrumentalities such as the Bureau of Mineral Resources. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
As the Government has established an Australian Universities Commission and proposes to establish a commission on advanced education, is there not a case for the establishment of an Australian schools commission? [More…]
An Education Liaison Officer is a member of the staff of the Australian High Commission in London. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Are education officers employed at the Australian High Commission in London. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station TVQ consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What was the (a) number and (b) percentage of qualified students in each State who unsuccessfully sought enrolment this year in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s policy in respect of educating the public on the hazards of smoking is to intensify health educational programmes directed primarily towards young people. [More…]
In the Territories for which the Government is responsible health education programmes include material such as films and brochures. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education and Science information for the House on the results of the policy announced some time ago related to the teaching of the English language to adults and children resident in Australia after emigration from overseas countries where English is not the lingua franca? [More…]
My question, which I address to the Minister for Education and Science, relates to teacher training. [More…]
I addresss my question to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
I was misrepresented by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) at question time and I wish to make a personal explanation. [More…]
He said that I had made false statements about teacher education. [More…]
He said that on Monday I had stated that teacher education is the only form of tertiary education towards which the Commonwealth makes no permanent commitment. [More…]
On other occasions I have stated that the Commonwealth has not undertaken the same comprehensive and continuing commitment for teacher education that it has made for all other forms of tertiary education. [More…]
They are not, as is made plain by his Department’s submissionlast July to the Senate Standing Committee inquiring into what should be the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education throughout Australia. [More…]
The Martin Committee on the future of tertiary education in Australia, which was established in August 1961, recommended in August 1964 that the Commonwealth should make the same provisions for buildings, equipment and staff in teachers colleges as in universities. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station TEN consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
forward planning, through the Universities Commission, for dental education; “and [More…]
May I suggest that we have a cognate debate covering the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill, the Australian Commission on Advanced Education Bill and the Australian Universities Commission Bill? [More…]
I believe the Tasmanian Report is also available to the public on request from the Tasmanian Education Department. [More…]
Copies of the report of the Australian Capital Territoryand Northern Territory Surveys were made available to members on 5th October as an attachment to my statement on the Commonwealth Education Programme for 1971-72. [More…]
Information on the recruitment of overseas teachers since 1970 was supplied by the Education Departments of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. [More…]
The Queensland Education Department was unable to provide any details. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary education fees for 1972, will cause increased hardshipforasignificant proportion of tertiary students. [More…]
That tertiary fees and concomitant living coats are a formidable barrier preventing significant numbers of students entering tertiary education who nevertheless have the ability to do so. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary fees for 1972is immoral, in that Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education are being further restricted to that minimal section of the Australian population who can afford to send their sons and daughters onto higher education. [More…]
That all education should be free including tertiary eduction. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergencyfinance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
will he obtain the information from each State and Territory Education Department. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Can he also say what was the level of these fees and charges, and what was the total amount raised by schools in (a) each level and (b) all 3 levels of education in each State in the same year. [More…]
4592) Mr Whitlam asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What was the outcome of the meeting in October 1971 between the Directors-General of Education and the Secretary of his Department to discuss the report of the Advisory Committee on the Teaching of Asian Languages and Cultures, which his predecessor sent to the State Education Ministers in October 1970. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
number of other staff in relation to each college of advanced education in Australia for each of the last 5 years. [More…]
Why are 70 per cent of Commonwealth Advanced Education Scholarships declined (question No. [More…]
Education: Servicemen’s Children in Holsworthy-Inglcburn Area (Question No. [More…]
askedthe Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What would be the cost to the Commonwealth of paying fees of the present number of students at (a) universities, (b) colleges of advanced education, (c) teachers’ colleges, and (d) technical colleges, whose fees are not already paid by Commonwealth and State Departments and instrumentalities. [More…]
and (b) The estimated costs for the financial year 1971-72 for universities and colleges of advanced education are$1 3.1m and $3.4m respectively. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: (.1) What was the value of all Commonwealth (a) secondary scholarships and (b) technical scholarships awarded in (i) each year and (ii) all years since each scheme was introduced._ [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Was a letter written on behalf of the Prime Minister on 9th July 1971 to the Brighton Boys’ Technical High School Parents’ and Friends’ Association stating, that the Commonwealth Government believed that, with access to a new field of taxation, the improved grants arrangements agreed to at the June 1970 Premiers’ Conference, and the additional financial assistance provided as a result of the recent Premiers’ Conference, the States were well placed to meet their financial responsibilities for education and the other services they provide? [More…]
That the increase in tertiary education fees for 1972 will cause increased hardship for a significant proportion of tertiary students. [More…]
That tertiary fees and concomitant living costs are a formidable barrier preventing significant numbers of students entering tertiary education who nevertheless have the ability to do so. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary fees for 1972 is immoral, in that Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education are being further restricted to that minimal section of the Australian population who can afford to send their sons and daughters onto higher education. [More…]
That all education should be free including tertiary education. [More…]
I do not accept that the Government has failed to honour its promises and obligations to the Catholic educational system. [More…]
On 5th October 1971, I gave the House details of the Commonwealth Education Programme for 1971- 72, and on 9th December 1971, the Prime Minister announced the provision of additional assistance for Government and Independent schools. [More…]
Both of these clearly show that the Government is fulfilling its obligations to all sectors of Australian education. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen) will pay some attention - if he will get off the air and stop talking to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) - because this matter involves his Department. [More…]
How does the Minister for Education and Science justify the claim he made yesterday that the parents of the 75 per cent of children who attend government schools do not care about their children’s education and that parents of private school students do? [More…]
The Statistician collects statistics of advanced level courses in which students were enrolled in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Data for individual colleges of advanced education are not available. [More…]
For the purposes of these statistics, colleges of advanced education are institutions listed in the appropriate States Grants (Advanced Education) Act as colleges of advanced education, together with the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What tertiary courses were taught in each individual college of advanced education in each State and Territory in each year from 1969 to 1971. [More…]
These subjects included some which primarily involve the medical profession itself; some which primarily involve the States; and some which relate to medical education. [More…]
The Minister for Health has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: (1), (2) and (3) Apart from the actual provision of health services, the social and economic aspects of health care encompass a wide range of matters such as health education, environmental health and social conditions. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What criteria were used in his predecessor’s statement of 31st May 1971 that Australia’s education standard is equal to that of advanced overseas countries. [More…]
What fees are charged for pre-school education at Puckapunyal. [More…]
MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND SCIENCE [More…]
I was amazed to hear the honourable member for Kingston (Dr Gun) say that the policy of the Labor Government in his home State, of South Australia would become a model for the education policy of any future Labor government of Australia. [More…]
I thought that he would want to disown the South Australian Government’s policy on education, because of the figures. [More…]
a fact that a number of children in remote areas of the States are denied a proper education simply because their parents cannot afford to pay the high costs of transport and accommodation involved in allowing the children to gain a proper education in a town or city far distant from their homes. [More…]
If so, what financial assistance does the Commonwealth provide or does it intend to provide to ensure that children from remote areas are given at least an equal opportunity with city children to gain a proper education. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
If so, will he take steps to bring about the changes in education and research advocated therein; if not why not. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
In which colleges of advanced education (a) are degree courses now being provided and (b) is it planned to provide degree courses. [More…]
The first 2 utterances of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in his second reading speech were, firstly, that it gave him pleasure to introduce the Bill and, secondly, that honourable members would agree with him that it was an important piece of legislation. [More…]
My friend, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), during the course of the second reading debate pointed out that employees are not represented on the Commonwealth Public Service Board. [More…]
If so, what steps are to be taken by the Office of Aboriginal Affairs to encourage the use of vernacular Aboriginal languages for the purpose of Aboriginal education in areas where these languages are in common use. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
If so, win he ask the Australian Universities Commission to investigate the potential of this technique for reducing the cost of university education in Australia. [More…]
I wish to ask the Minister for Education and Science a question. [More…]
The honourable member for the Australian Capital Territory (Mr Enderby) knows full well that under present arrangements the New South Wales Government through its Department of Education has the responsibility under an agreement to provide teachers for the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science: In the representations it made to him did the Australian Teachers Federation express opposition to the idea that this matter be subject to the approval of the Public Service Board? [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notifice: [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Government’s current 3-year programme of unmatched capital grants to the States for the building of teachers training colleges ends in June next year, and bearing in mind the recommendations in the recent report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts on teacher training, can the Minister say whether that programme will be extended or modified? [More…]
Do certain education institutions such as La Trobe University offer a course in the Teaching of English as a Second Language. [More…]
Can he say whether the Victorian Education Department is faced with a severe shortage of staff in its State secondary schools and for this reason has decided not to allow its teachers to concentrate on migrant English. [More…]
Can he also say whether any other State Education Department has taken similar action thus decreasing the already small numbers of teachers qualified to teach English to migrants. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
I understand from Press reports that at a symposium held in Albury in 1971, the Honourable W. C Fife, M.L.A., did say that a university in the Riverina would not be planned before the 1976-78 triennium and that he went on to mention the proposed college of advanced education at Wagga, the development of which could be affected by any early action to establish a university in the same area. [More…]
Is he able to say whether the Honourable W. C. Fife, M.L.A., representing the New South, Wales Minister for Education, informed the’ Riverina University League Conference held in Albury in 1971 that the New South Wales Government would defer consideration of the Riverina University until the 1976-78 triennium, and that the New South Wales Government’s decision on the University would depend on the Commonwealth Government’s attitude to finance for it. [More…]
I understand that variations to salaries paid to teachers employed by the Victorian Education Department are promulgated by the Teachers’ Tribunal under powers conferred by the Teaching Service Act of the Parliament of Victoria. [More…]
Variations to salaries are advised by means of Teaching Service (Classification, Salaries and Allowances) Regulations which are published in the Victoria Government Gazette’ and the ‘Education Gazette and Teachers’ Aid’. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Has the Department indicated that there is a great need for staff dealing with rural health and health education. [More…]
The Government is satisfied that the new measures I have outlined will represent a milestone in improving the education of all Australian children. [More…]
Will the Minister for Education and Science make plain why the Government’s decision of last week to bring in new financial assistance arrangements affecting all schools is effective from next year? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science: In its recently announced proposals of financial assistance to Australian schools did the Commonwealth seek to weight grants in favour of independent schools? [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Has the Australian Universities Commission received a request from Parramatta District Hospital for funds to help with capital expenditure required to provide facilities for post-graduate medical education. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The Employment Training Scheme for Aborigines; The Country Apprenticeship Scheme; The Permanent Forces PostDischarge Training Scheme; The Employment Training Scheme for Married Women PreviouslyRestricted from Employment by Domestic Responsibilities; The Employment Training Scheme for Persons Displaced by Technological Change; The Rural Reconstruction Employment Training Scheme; The National Service Vocational Training Scheme, administered in conjunction with the Departments of Education and Science and Primary Industry for the Repatriation Department; The Disabled Members and War Widows’ Training Scheme, administered in conjunction with the Repatriation Department [More…]
If we apply to this Institute the principle which Government supporters apply to those engaged in rural industries, particularly wool growers, I would have though that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp) who is sitting beside him at the table would bend over backwards and accept the advice that they have just been given. [More…]
Does he agree that personnel undertaking any such study should include representatives of a number of government departments, such as the Departments of Defence, Education, Civil Aviation, etc., and that this wide-ranging inquiry should take place as soon as possible? [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
In which (a) universities and (b) colleges of advanced education are (i) diploma and (ii) degree courses in physical education provided in each State and Territory. [More…]
The States are responsible as far as their own secondary schools are concerned for the administration of funds made available to them under the Commonwealth Secondary Schools Libraries Programme within a broad general programme which is submitted to the Minister for Education and Science by the State Minister for Education concerned for his approval. [More…]
Under these circumstances the information sought by the honourable member would be best sought from the State Department of Education concerned, as the detailed information sought is not available to my Department. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The new buildings will provide residential accommodation and education facilities for a total of 310 students and accommodation for 25 to 30 staff. [More…]
and (3) Some time ago the New South Wales Government sought and obtained the Commonwealth’s agreement in principle to financial assistance towards the acquisition of land for the purpose of establishing tertiary education institutions in the future. [More…]
I understand that the New South Wales Government has taken steps to acquire some land at Campbelltown for tertiary education purposes and is likely soon to make a formal request to the Commonwealth for financial assistance towards this acquisition. [More…]
Education and Science upon notice: [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the First Report of the Price Committee appointed by the Minister for Education to inquire into various aspects of higher education in New South Wales which recommended in August 1961 that land should be acquired in the southern and western parts of the Sydney Metropolitan area for university development. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Can he add anything to the answer on the open university given by the then Minister for Education and Science on 10th March 1971 (Hansard 1971, page 816). [More…]
Does the Minister for Education and Science regard the Government parties as the only major parties totally involved in the education of all Australian children? [More…]
I address my question to the Minister for Education and Science in his capacity as representing here the posh private schools. [More…]
by leave - The Treasurer (Mr Snedden) has already mentioned, in the Budget Speech, some significant features of the Government’s education programme for this financial year. [More…]
I should like- to give the House further details of the programme, which covers a wide range of activities and reflects the emphasis which the Government continues to place on the development of educational services. [More…]
I shall begin by outlining the progress that is being made with existing activities, and I shall then move on to deal with major new developments in the Government’s programme, in particular developments in Commonwealth scholarship schemes and in Commonwealth financial support for teacher education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Will he bring up to date the information which former Ministers have given on pre-school education on 25th February 1969 (Hansard, page 120) and 21st August 1970 (page 424). [More…]
The Minister wants to keep fobbing me off and to deny the information to the Opposition and the public, lt is the right of the public to have this information because, after all, it is their money which is financing education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Al what year of technical education in each State and Territory are students eligible for Commonwealth technical scholarships. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What action has been taken to provide country children who are denied access to full education above the primary level with away from home allowances and the cost of travel as promised by the former Deputy Prime Minister at the General Elections in 1969. [More…]
Education: Away-from-Home Allowances (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What (a) numbers and (b) percentages of students in (i) each and (ii) all of the following schools (a) sat for or applied for and (b) were awarded (I) Commonwealth secondary scholarships, (II) Commonwealth university scholarships and (III) Commonwealth advanced education scholarships in (A) each and (B) all of the years since each scholarship scheme was introduced: [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the report of the Australian Research Grants Committee for the 1970- 72 triennium, the report of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education for the 1973-75 triennium, and the report of the Australian Universities Commission for the 1973-75 triennium. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The Department of Education and Science obtains information on education activities overseas, but information on pre-school expenditure is not available in sufficient detail to permit a meaningful comparison lo be made between Australia and other countries. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What efforts have been made to obtain sufficient data 10 permit comparison of expenditure on pre-school education to be made between Australia and overseas countries (Hansard, 12th June 19W, page 3661). [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Did the then Minister for Education and Science tell me on 25th September 1970 (Hansard page 1756) that it was not realistic to attempt to estimate the cost of my proposal to provide all eligible Australian children with pre-school education of the nature and standard now provided in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Did his predecessor tell me on 17th August 1971 (Hansard, page 185) that he was unable to comment on Professor Goldman’s estimate that pre-school education on the scale applying in Canberra could be provided throughout Australia for little more than $40m a year and could be provided in the inner-city areas of the State capitals for little more than $20m. [More…]
Was his Department’s estimate of the cost of pre-school education included in the estimates of the Australian Labor Party’s education proposals which he gave me on (a) 9th September 1969 (Hansand, page 970), (b) 10th November 1971 (Hansard, page 3225) and (c) 9th March 1972 (Hansard, page 827). [More…]
How many teachers does his Department estimate would be required to provide all children in the States with the standard of pre-school education provided in Canberra. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the annual report of the Department of Education and Science for the year ended December 1971. [More…]
Pursuant to section 30 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967-70, I present the report of the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education for the year ended 31st December 1971. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science a question. [More…]
Last week he told me in answer to a question upon notice that more than 4,100 additional teachers would be required to provide all children in the States with the standard of pre-school education provided in Canberra and that the estimated cost of training the additional teachers would be $25m, ‘which would’, to use the Minister’s words, ‘of necessity be spread over several years’. [More…]
Has the Minister for Foreign Affairs seen reports that Jews wishing to leave the Soviet Union are being forced to pay for their freedom by being charged, on a sliding scale commensurate with their education, for their visas? [More…]
Minister for Immigration) - by leave - I wish to inform the House of the measures by which effect will be given to the Government’s announced policy of placing increasing emphasis on migrant counselling and selection and migrant education and welfare services. [More…]
I claim to have been misrepresented not only by the Minister for Education and Science who has just sat down but also by quite a number of those on the other side of the House. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The theme of the drug education programmes which have been set up in the Stales through the Drug Education Sub-Committee is Education for Living’. [More…]
If so, will he ask the Drug Education Committee to make a special effort in opposing this drive to attract young drinkers. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Will the Unesco Education Congress be held in Australia in 1973? [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The tables below show the enrolment projections made by those independent schools whose completed questionnaires were received in time to be incorporated in the report of the Nation-Wide Survey of Educational Needs - Information Furnished by Non-government Schools tabled on 5th October 1971. [More…]
Table 11 which relates to nonCatholic independent schools excludes figures for the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory since (i) Non-Catholic independent schools in the Northern Territory were not included in the Survey as they, receive special assistance from the Commonwealth for Aboriginal education, (ii) There are only 2 non-Catholic independent schools in the Australian Capital Territory and publication of data for such a small number would breach the Commonwealth’s undertaking that data concerning individual schools taking part in the Survey would not be made public. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
As foreshadowed in my Budget Speech, the Government has introduced legislation to provide an income tax deduction of up to $400 a year for expenditure by a taxpayer on his own education. [More…]
Hashe received a request from the Taxpayers Association that expenditure incurred by a taxpayer on his own education, when it is associated with the present or intended vocation of the taxpayer, be allowable as a taxation deduction or amortised over a period of years. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What is the counsellor/student ratio in each (a) university and (b) college of advanced education. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
By what amount and percentage will fees payable in colleges of advanced education in 1972 exceed the fees payable in 1971. [More…]
and (2) The initiative for the establishment of a college of advanced education or a university in a State rests with the government of that State. [More…]
When a State takes such initiative, the Commonwealth looks to the Australian Commission on Advanced Education or the Australian Universities Commission for advice. [More…]
No proposal has been received from Victoria for the establishment of a college of advanced education at Wodonga. [More…]
However, I would draw the honourable member’s attention to the fact that a Study Centre of the Riverina College of Advanced Education commenced operation at Albury in 1972. [More…]
At the following colleges of advanced education the teaching fees payable for full-time ‘diplomatype’ courses increased from 1971 to 1972 as shown: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What action has been taken on the recommendation which the Victorian Decentralisation Advisory Committee on the Selection of Places outside the Metropolis of Melbourne for Accelerated Development made on 26th September 1967 for the establishment of a college of advanced education at Wodonga. [More…]
The proposal involves the construction of new buildings to provide residential and educational facilities for 310 male and female Aboriginal students preparing for secondary education or undertaking 3-year post primary courses. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science a question, upon notice: [More…]
There are naturally differences which reflect the views of the State education authorities on school laboratory design. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science whether he is prepared to participate in a debate organised by the Technical Teachers Association of Victoria? [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971, I present the annual report on migrant education for the year ended 30th June 1972. [More…]
Can the Minister for Education and Science indicate the extent to which applications have been received for the Commonwealth Teaching Service both in the Northern Territory and in the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]
Statistics relating to income tax deductions allowed for education expenses per child for whom the deductions were allowed were last compiled in respect of the 1967-68 income year. [More…]
However, the total number of children for whom education deductions were allowed was not compiled in respect of the 1967-68 income year. [More…]
No other statistics are available of numbers of children classified by the size of the income tax deduction allowed for their education expenses. [More…]
The only other income tax statistics that may be of assistance to the honourable member are statistics for the 1969-70 income year of numbers of taxable individuals classified by the amount of the deduction allowed per taxpayer for education expenses. [More…]
For how many dependent children do taxpayers claim education deductions (i) smaller than$ 1 00, (ii) greater than $100, (iii) greater than $200 and (iv) greater than $300. [More…]
The total amounts of deductions allowed for education expenses in the income tax returns of taxable individuals tabulated for the income years 1967-68 to 1969-70 were as follows: [More…]
What sum was claimed for education expenses by taxpayers in the last 3 financial years for which figures are available. [More…]
What was the loss to taxation revenue because of education expenses in each of those years. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the Graduate Career Council’s Newsletter of March 1972 in which the Council expressed the fear that the recent emergence of difficulties of various kinds in the placement of graduates creates an undesirable uncertainty in the minds of students and recent graduates as to the value of tertiary education and its relevance to satisfactory employment. [More…]
What is being done in Australia to ensure that jobs are available for students when they have completed their education. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education and Science noted the departmental minute tabled in the Senate in which the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs commented that the Acting Minister for Supply at the time of the Jetair Australia Ltd transactions was the present Minister for Education and Science and that he was doubtful about the transaction and reluctant to enter into it? [More…]
Mr MALCOLM FRASER (Wannon - Minister for Education and Science) - Mr Deputy Chairman, 1 suggest that the order for the consideration of the proposed expenditures agreed to by the Committee on 31st August be varied by postponing the consideration of the proposed expenditure for the Department of the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts, the Department of External Territories and the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Does the Bureau of Census and Statistics have an estimate of the amount spent by individuals on education. [More…]
The latest estimates of personal consumption expenditure on education services are published in ‘Australian National Accounts, National Income and Expenditure, 1970-71’. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Which of the recommendations in the Report on the Commonwealth’s Role in Teacher Education which the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts tabled on 22nd February 1972 have been (a) adopted or (b) rejected by (i) the Commonwealth and (ii) the States. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What (a) was the actual amount paid in 1971 and (b) is the estimated amount to be paid in 1972 by (i) each State Government and (ii) the Commonwealth towards the cost of educating a pupil in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (I) the Roman Catholic education system and (II) the nonCatholic private sector and what proportion of these costs was met from the combined State and Commonwealth grant. [More…]
5783 were heavily committed on matters relating to the Government’s Education Programme for 1972-73. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
In the absence oi the Minister for Education and Science I direct my question to the Prime Minister. [More…]
Is it a fact that with the proposed fiat rate Commonwealth and State per capita recurrent subsidies to pupils in non-state schools plus taxation concessions on educational expenses of up to $400 per child, student children of parents in the upper income group will be receiving up to 85 per cent of the equivalent costs of educating a child in a State government school. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What progress has been made on curriculum proposals in (a) junior science, entrusted to the Committee of Management of the Australian Science Education Project (Hansard, 15lh August 1968, page 219; 28lh August 1969, page 918 and 16th September 1970, page 1250), (b) social science, entrusted to the National Committee on Social Science Teaching (Hansard, 16th March 1971, page 969), (c) senior secondary school physics, proposed by the Academy of Science in September 1970, (d) Asian languages and cultures, entrusted to a sub-committee by the Directors-General of Education at their annual meeting in October 1971 (Hansard, 9th December 1971, page 9523) and (e) woolclassing, chemistry, mathematics and human biology, referred to in the answer of 9th April 1970 (Hansard, page 10.14) by the then Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Has a request been received from the Victorian Government for the issue of a stamp to commemorate the centenary of State education in Victoria in January 1973? [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The Child Migrant Education Program is the responsibility of my colleague, the Minister for Immigration, and funds for the program are appropriated to his Department. [More…]
The Department of Education and Science is responsible for providing educational advice and assistance, for acting as the agent of the Department of Immigration and for the development of teaching methods, materials and teacher training courses. [More…]
The information which the honourable member has sought is contained in the following two tables based respectively on Table VII and combined Tables IX and XI of the Report of the Minister for Immigration on the Migrant Education Program for 1971-72 tabled in this Parliament on 20th September 1972. [More…]
2), the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
2) and the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What are the existing and proposed facilities for tertiary and technical education in the Northern Territory. [More…]
There are at present 2 educational institutions in the Northern Territory providing facilities for tertiary and technical education. [More…]
They are the Darwin and Alice Springs Adult Education Centres, for which the Commonwealth Government assumed administrative responsibility from the South Australian Department of Education from the beginning of 1972. [More…]
Facilities for tertiary and technical education in the Territory will be greatly expanded with the establishment of the Darwin Community College. [More…]
The Darwin Adult Education Centre conducts 5 main types of post-secondary courses. [More…]
part-time technical college type courses such as for the certificates of the South Australian Education Department in Supervision and Dressmaking and courses leading to licensing in the plumbing and electrical trades. [More…]
general education courses including public examination and matriculation courses and courses for promotion in the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
general adult education courses including recreational, language and migrant English, typewriting, dressmaking and art courses. [More…]
During 1972 there have been more than 5,500 subject enrolments at the Darwin Adult Education Centre. [More…]
I repeat that the Commonwealth accepted the recommendations of the Australian Commission of Advanced Education in full as they affected the individual colleges of advanced education. [More…]
As a result the Commission believes that student numbers in colleges of advanced education will rise from the present figure of about 54,000 to 81,000 at the end of the triennium. [More…]
I will remind the House of the extent of the expenditure on higher education. [More…]
In the last triennium the total capital involved for colleges of advanced education was slightly over $100m. [More…]
continuation of war pension to all children over the age of 16 years undergoing fulltime education, $0.8m. [More…]
The matters referred to, except where students are assisted or sponsored by the Papua New Guinea Public Service Board, now fall within the authority of the Ministers for Education, Health, Forests, and Agriculture Stock and Fisheries in the House of Assembly for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Report that the Committee is unable to complete its inquiries into State and Municipal Costs and Revenues in the Australian Capital Territory, and, Aspects of a Statutory Authority to administer education in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Will he take action as a matter of urgency to see that Victoria’s migrant children are not denied the English teachers upon whom their wider education so largely depends? [More…]
What action has the Minister for Education taken to provide emergency grants for needy students at tertiary institutions? [More…]
Minister for Education [More…]
It arises from the aspect of migrant education which 1 raised with him at question time on Tuesday. [More…]
Did the Victorian Director of Education say on Wednesday that no additional teachers would be employed under the Child Migrant Education Program until general teaching requirements had been met? [More…]
Will he consider amending the Child Migrant Education Program so that where State governments refuse to employ English language teachers the Commonwealth Teaching Service will do so? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]
In 1970 a survey of needs of the State Government Education Departments was completed. [More…]
How does the Minister relate the findings of the survey of needs to the areas of education not covered in the survey, notably, technical education and pre-schools? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education whether he can give the House information regarding progress in moves to introduce legislation to assist pre-school kindergartens, especially in regard to the payment of salaries to the teaching staff. [More…]
The Minister for Education has advised me that he has replied to representations for Commonwealth assistance for the establishment of a Chair of Peace at Murdoch University by explaining that any allocation of moneys for this purpose would be a matter for the University itself to determine and that the necessary funds would need to be found from the University’s normal recurrent funds. [More…]
Can the Minister for Education inform the House on a proposal for the training of teachers of the handicapped, known as the Thomas Report? [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present a report on the recommendations for the implementation and development of a program of bilingual education in schools in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I have certainly become convinced of their importance, for instance, for the Aboriginal population in the Northern Territory and feel that in that area there needs to be total family education if a child is to be benefited. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education aware that quarrels over domestic financial arrangements are often found to be a major contributor to disagreements between married couples ending in separation and divorce? [More…]
Will he encourage courses on home management to be made available at secondary schools and adult education centres with a view to reducing one of the major causes of disruption to nuptial bliss which, I understand, often occurs after the salary of the wage earner has been reduced? [More…]
My question to the Minister for Education relates to the Commonwealth secondary school libraries program. [More…]
Can the Minister provide any explanation of why the Victorian Education Department chose to spend only $500,000 of the $2,315,862 made available to it? [More…]
It has been a notable feature of some of the States that, when there are grants such as the S46m over the triennium for technical education, they ask for the right to spend the money on sites, which may indicate that they do not have building plans. [More…]
My Department placed no trainees in technical colleges in the year ending 30th June 1972 because the responsibility was transferred to the Department of Education in December 1971. [More…]
Mas he carried out any examination into the provision of special schools for handicapped children and granting of assistance under Commonwealth education programs. [More…]
What arrangements has he made for special schools for handicapped children to receive assistance under Commonwealth education programs. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the report on the survey of child migrant education in schools of high migrant density in Melbourne. [More…]
and (2) Surveys carried out in February of each year from 1964 have provided estimates of the numbers of persons aged 15-24 years who had attended full-time at a school, university, college or other educational institution in the previous year, and who were not intending to return to full-time education. [More…]
I have arranged with my colleague the Minister for Education for talks between our 2 Departments on ways of improving the child migrant education program. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
I have written to the Minister for Education on the matter and there has already been discussion between our 2 Departments. [More…]
I would hope that courses for adults also would be free, but this will depend upon the medium of instruction (for example, there would be a minimal cost if the courses were provided as part of Adult Education programmes or evening courses). [More…]
The responsibility for developing citizenship courses for adult migrants is the subject of discussion with the Department of Education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education, relates to the report prepared by the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education which was tabled in the Parliament last week and in which it was suggested that a university should be situated in the vicinity of Dandenong. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Some information has been conveyed to the Australian Universities Commission by the State Minister of Education but I understand that final detailed information has yet to be provided. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Has the Premier or the Minister for Education of Victoria at any time provided detailed information on such matters as the structure and courses of Victoria’s fourth university and the relationship of the university with teachers colleges and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I table the report on teacher education prepared by the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
We of the Australian Country Party in general congratulate the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) for his energy and initia-. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education a question. [More…]
Is he aware of Press reports that Mr Scanlan, the Assistant Minister for Education in Victoria, has said that the Federal Government through the Minister has refused a request for an emergency grant of $17m for handicapped children in Victoria? [More…]
The Victorian Minister went on to say that special grants had been made for technical education and isolated children without reference to the Interim Schools Committee on a previous occasion. [More…]
asked the Minister tor Education, upon notice: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report on secondary education for Canberra. [More…]
Prior to last Christmas, by administrative methods, the Government did all that it could by way of education and facilities as regards family planning. [More…]
The Australian Universities Commission received some additional information from the Victorian Minister of Education since the Report was tabled. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The Government has accepted the timing in its report, and the assistance to teacher education will commence on 1 July this year - not 1 July next year, as was indicated, possibly because of a misprint, in the Australian’ newspaper. [More…]
Financially, the Government has moved far beyond the Cohen report, which recommended that the Commonwealth contribution to teacher education over the next 2i years should be $83.9m. [More…]
I take this opportunity to say that the Cohen report is a notable statement on education planning, and its implementation will contribute to the quality of teaching throughout Australia. [More…]
The Australian Government thanks Dr Cohen and the Committee for their outstanding service and the State education authorities for their co-operation. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]
asked the Minister far Education, upon notice: [More…]
As in the case of the other advisory commissions in education, the Schools Commission will not be a very large body, and its members will not be appointed as formally representing particular organisations. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
What was the date on which (a) the Report of the Nation-wide Survey of Educational Needs was first made available to the Australian Education Council, and (b) each authority participating in the Survey made public its section of the report. [More…]
There were 495 teachers employed in Victoria (447 in State schools, 48 in Catholic schools) under the Child Migrant Education Program as at the beginning of the 1973 school year. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Has he had discussions with the West Australian Minister for Education concerning the Government’s proposals for assistance to non-government schools in Western Australia. [More…]
The Report on the Nation-wide Survey of Educational Needs was not a report that was made available to the Australian Education Council; it was a report published by the Australian Education Council, in September 1970. [More…]
The report published by the Australian Education Council did not have a separate section for each State. [More…]
How many teachers are employed in Victoria under the Child Migrant Education Program. [More…]
Has he been able to establish whether the Victorian Director of Education, Mr Brooks, was expressing Victorian Government policy when he said on 6 March 1973 that additional teachers would not be employed under the Program until general teaching requirements had been met. [More…]
The Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission is currently examining proposals for assistance by the Australian Government for all forms of primary and secondary education, including education in non-government schools. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]
For how many of its employees did the Commonwealth pay fees on (a) an unbonded and (b) a bonded basis for (i) universities, (ii) colleges of advanced education, (iii) teachers’ colleges, (iv) technical colleges and (v) other educational institutions in 1971 and 1972? [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
How many applications have been received for each level of assistance made available byhim for the education of isolated children. [More…]
Later information is not available to that shown in the previous answer on the percentages of students completing secondary education, as the source study referred to in that answer has not been repeated. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Can he give comparative statistics on the percentage of students completing secondary education, undertaking tertiary education and completing tertiary education later than those given by his predecessor on 8 March 1972 (Hansard, page 756). [More…]
The number of taxable individuals who were allowed concessional deductions for education expenses included in the 1969-70 income year statistical tabulations was 1,311,763. [More…]
The statistics for the 1970-71 income year indicate that an additional $83m of income tax would have been payable by taxable individuals whose assessments were included in the 1970-71 statistics if deductions for education expenses had not been allowed for that year. [More…]
Statistics of the number of taxpayers who were allowed education deductions for the 1970-71 income year are not available. [More…]
to (5) Income tax statistics of deductions for education expenses are not classified by the type of school, college, etc attended by the children in respect of whom the deductions are allowed. [More…]
Will he tabulate the expenditure by the (a) Commonwealth Government, (b) State Governments and (c) private sector on (i) primary, (ii) secondary and (iii) tertiary education during the latest financial year for which figures are available. [More…]
In the case of tertiary education, will he also analyse the expenditure on (a) universities, (b) colleges of advanced education, (c) technical colleges, (d) military colleges and (c) teachers colleges. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]
Is the Minister able to indicate whether the Government proposes to adopt the recommendation of the Committee in respect of assistance towards the education of handicapped children? [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to a reported critical statement attributed to the principal of Nudgee College, Brisbane, and relating to the report of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission? [More…]
universities and (b) colleges of advanced education, who have been identified as training to become teachers in each State and the Australian Capital Territory in 1972. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
What percentage of students at (a) universities and (b) colleges of advanced education in each State and Territory were training to be teachers in 1972 (Hansard, 28 March 1972, page 1297). [More…]
What percentage of teacher trainees is attending (a) university and (b) colleges of advanced educa tion and hold (i) university and (ii) advanced education scholarships. [More…]
In what way do the new migrant education centres, announced by him as an initiative of his Government, differ from the proposal on the same subject announced by the previous Minister on 31 August 1972. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The amendment requires the States or the colleges of advanced education to report to the Australian Universities Commission on the expenditure of money granted to them, or which was purported to be granted to them, under the emergency legislation- this Bill- when it left this place. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
-I support the amendments proposed by this Bill to the original legislation which was introduced by the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) when he was Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
How many members of each committee have qualifications in pre-school education. [More…]
Information in respect of the Departmentof Education and all authorities under the control of (he Minister for Education as at 30 June 1973 is: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The States are receiving their share of the costs of tertiary education through grants under section 96 of the Constitution, and this amount is being deducted from the grants to the States, as agreed at the Premiers Conference of June 1973. [More…]
I might mention also at the outset that the appropriations for the child care program appear in the Budget not under education but under the functional classification of social security and welfare. [More…]
The Treasurer (Mr Crean) has already outlined the very substantial increases which will take place in expenditure on education for 1973-74 over the previous financial year. [More…]
The increases confirm the speed with which the Government has moved not only to implement announced policies but also to introduce additional measures vital to the great transformation in accessibility of education to young people, which is the Government’s aim. [More…]
This transformation in accessibility of education will offer greater prospects than ever before of meeting the reasonable and legitimate educational expectations of all Australians. [More…]
Before I describe in more detail the elements which make up the Government’s comprehensive program in education, I will highlight in summary form some of the significant initiatives the Government has taken and some of the more substantial increases in expenditure on continuing programs which are reflected in the Budget. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
What was the total (a) full-time and (b) part-time enrolment in (i) each college of advanced education and (ii) all colleges of advanced education in (a) each State and Territory and (b) the Commonwealth in 1971 and 1972 (Hansard, 2 March 1972, page 572). [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education whether, in categorising schools, the Karmel Committee recognised that, because of greater stability of staffing, the average age and therefore the average salary of teachers in independent schools are higher than the average age and salary of teachers in government schools. [More…]
Pursuant to section 30 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967-1970, I present the report of the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education for the year ended 31 December 1972. [More…]
to develop and introduce environmental education programs and [More…]
The partially demolished block is being removed to Duntroon for use by the Association for Modern Education. [More…]
A preliminary estimate of the cost to the Commonwealth on account of University academic staff is $M.6m in 1973 and, after allowing for the assumption of full financial responsibility by the Commonwealth for tertiary education, $30m in 1974. [More…]
The Australian Government has indicated that it supports the application of the recommended salary increases, as appropriate, to colleges of advanced education; preliminary estimates of the resultant cost to the Commonwealth are $3. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education: What amount has been allocated to country areas in the Australian States under the isolated children’s allowance scheme instituted by this Government a few months ago? [More…]
The sort of accommodation needed for technical education can be very varied. [More…]
There are aspects of technical education which require factory type accommodation. [More…]
There are other aspects of technical education which simply require ordinary classrooms. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]
In some States the cost is borne by the State Department of Education and in others by the State Department of Transport. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Have any proposals been made for the establishment of a university in Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong, which would combine the existing colleges of advanced education and teachers colleges as part of the university. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
How/vcr, the honourable member might like to approach the Victorian Minister of Education and seek a copy of the submission from him. [More…]
The development of specific accommodation for students is a matter for educational institutions in liaison with the Australian Commission on Advanced Education and the Australian Universities Commission. [More…]
We have a director of education from one of the States on the body that we propose for the Schools Commission. [More…]
All we are attempting to ensure is that those who are most closely and deeply involved are institutionally involved at the highest levels of advice to the Government right through the whole system of education, extending beyond the State Education departments and into the independent sector involving parents, groups and also teacher groups. [More…]
Members of the Opposition are persuaded by the point made by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and by the honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds). [More…]
I have discussed this with the Opposition spokesman on education, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), and we put this forward in all seriousness. [More…]
After the definition of “ Australian Capital Territory ‘, insert the following definition: “ ‘ Australian Education Council ‘ consists of the Australian Minister and every State Minister. [More…]
By the amendment that I have moved, the Opposition seeks to add to the list of definitions a definition of ‘Australian Education Council’ which, as honourable members will know, consists of the Commonwealth Minister for Education together with the Ministers for Education of the various States. [More…]
It is the view of the Opposition that, because the matters under examination by the Schools Commission will affect all schools, the administration of State Departments of Education and the provinces under the responsibility of State [More…]
Therefore the Opposition believes that there are certain places where the Australian Education Council ought to be given a positive role in the Bill itself. [More…]
For that reason, and for the sake of clarity, we seek to have a definition of the Australian Education Council included in the list of definitions. [More…]
As the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has said, the House was in a somewhat unclear situation at the time we were discussing this matter last week. [More…]
Department of Education [More…]
asked the Minister for Education upon notice: [More…]
Will he bring up to date the information on degree courses at colleges of advanced education which his predecessor gave on 9 March 1972 (Hansard, page 869). [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1973/19731016_reps_28_hor86/#subdebate-29-0)
Degree Courses in Colleges of Advanced Education [More…]
The information which follows is based on material supplied to me by the Australian Council on Awards in Advanced Education. [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1973/19731016_reps_28_hor86/#subdebate-29-0)
The Council, which is a national body, maintains a register in which are entered those awards offered in colleges of advanced education throughout Australia which have met the Council’s requirements for national registration. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]
To enable a factual comparison of past and present government programs in education, will the Minister indicate the amount of Commonwealth grants which will be paid to government and nongovernment schools in the current year, and also the comparable anticipated levels of assistance for 1974 and 1975? [More…]
If it was a written communication will the Prime Minister table a copy of it as the Minister for Education has done in relation to his communications with Professor Karmel? [More…]
and (3) I have had a preliminary exchange of views with the Minister for Education and the question is to be further considered between us. [More…]
In addition, I propose that the matters should be examined by the Migrant Education Committee of the Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
asked the Minister for Immigration, upon notice: <1) ‘Have the discussions which he arranged between his Department and the Department of Education on ways of improving child migrant education taken place. [More…]
Has he taken any steps in conjunction with the Minister for Education and the -Minister for the Environment and Conservation to implement the course he feels is desirable. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to a reported reply by the New South Wales Minister for Education, Mr Willis, during a recent question time in the New South Wales Parliament in which he stated that the additional money provided in this year’s Commonwealth Budget for education for New South Wales was about a mere$10m? [More…]
I suggest that further consideration of the proposed expenditure for the Department of Education be postponed. [More…]
The following is the latest available information on teacher resignations published by the various State Education Departments and authorities. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present a copy of the report on the conference of the Australian Education Council, held in Melbourne on 14 and 15 June 1973. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]
As it has been alleged by some State governments that money has been taken away, will the Minister inform the House on the situation in respect of grants to the States for tertiary education? [More…]
A number of Opposition spokesmen and sometimes State Ministers have discussed the increased Commonwealth expenditure on tertiary education as simply a self-balancing item - a put and take job - whereby the States have lost general grant. [More…]
Last financial year Commonwealth expenditure on tertiary education was SI 66m. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Education: Pre-school Centres (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Can he say what is the average annual cost in each State, excluding Government subsidy, of education and care of a child in a pre-school centre. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The States Grants (Universities) Act 1973 and the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1973, which were recently passed by the Parliament, make provision for the allocation of unmatched Common wealth funds to the States to be used as loans and grants to needy students in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The legislation requires that annual reports are to be provided by universities to the Australian Universities Commission, and by the States, on behalf of colleges of advanced education, to the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The States Grants (Universities) Act 1973 and the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1973, which were recently passed by the Parliament, make provision for the allocation of unmatched Commonwealth funds to the States to be used as loans and grants to needy students in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The legislation requires that annual reports are to be provided by universities to the Australian Universities Commission, and by the States, on behalf of colleges of advanced education, to the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
What sums were expended on Aboriginal welfare from the day the previous Minister took office to 31 August 1973 in each of the following categories: (a) projects, (b) housing, (c) land, (d) sporting associations, (e) sporting activities, (f) education, (g) health, (h) personal loans or grants and (i) other. [More…]
asked the Minister for ‘Education, upon notice: [More…]
How has the $3m provided for needy tertiary students been allocated to the various universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The House will be interested to know that the Assistant DirectorGeneral of the Victorian Education Department has been authorised by the Victorian Minister for Education, Mr Thompson, to writeto schools in the following terms: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Is the Minister for Immigration aware that the Prime Minister told this House on 20 November that the Government may advise overseas students that it is their duty to go back to the country which gave them their basic education but that it does not deport those students and that if students choose to remain in Australia they will be permitted to stay? [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Does he recall my asking him in the House to document and evaluate the Katherine Project and its success in advancing the education of Aborigines in the Community School; if so, has this work commenced. [More…]
Before the debate is resumed on this Bill I should like to suggest that it may suit the convenience of the House to have a general debate covering this Bill, the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
3), the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
3) and the Commission on Advanced Education Bill, as they are related measures. [More…]
A number of questions concerning educational statistics were asked by the former Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
Other questions relate to policies which have either been or are being discontinued as a result of the present Government’s initiatives in the area of education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education; upon notice: [More…]
The Acting Minister for Education, the PostmasterGeneral (Mr Lionel Bowen), has a job to do and I can sympathise with him. [More…]
Schools for the State in which the school is situated, declares in writing to be the school authority for that school for the purposes of this Act; “ special school “ means a school in a State (whether or not it is a school or institution at which primary education or secondary education is provided) - [More…]
at which special education is provided for handicapped children, or if education other than such special education is provided at that school, that school in so far as it provides such special education; and [More…]
which is approved by the Minister, in writing, on the advice of the State Education Minister for the State, for the purposes of Part VI; [More…]
Can the Commonwealth Statistician give figures of expenditure by State governments on pre-school education in 1972-73. [More…]
Has the Acting Minister for Education seen reports that the Government is being asked to provide an amount variously estimated at from $3m to $15m in grants to the schools to which honourable members opposite send their children? [More…]
The Commonwealth Statistician has provided details of expenditure by State Governments from their own resources on pre-school education during 1972-73 in Table 1. [More…]
In addition to the amounts spent by State Governments from their own resources on pre-school education, State Governments spend grants made available by the Australian Government under the States Grants (Preschool Teachers Colleges) Act 1968. [More…]
If it was a written communication, will he table a copy of it as the Minister for Education has done in relation to his communications with Professor Karmel. [More…]
For the information of honourable members as Acting Minister for Education I present the annual report of the Department of Education and Science for the period 1 January 1972 to 19 December 1972. [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971, I present the annual report on migrant education for the year ended 30 June 1973. [More…]
As Acting Minister for Education I table the report of the Australian Pre-schools Committee entitled ‘The Care and Education of Young Children’. [More…]
The proposed expenditure on non-government schools should provide more than sufficient assurance that the Government wishes to afford parents a real choice in the education of their children. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Education, upon notice: [More…]
The Australian Country Party supports the amendments moved by the Acting Minister for Education (Mr Lionel Bowen). [More…]
These amendments have been discussed and agreed to and I will take the opportunity of speaking on these education Bills when the Minister brings forward the States Grants (Schools) Bill, which I believe he will do in a minute. [More…]
That was the real issue and members opposite fought it tooth and nail to help a select group of people run education for it. [More…]
In particular, we agree to give prominence at the beginning of clause 13, which deals with the functions of the Commission, to the obligation on the Commission to consult and cooperate with education authorities in the [More…]
It is necessary for the Australian Government to decide its own policy for the mineral resources based on the long-term benefits for Australia, and for this special attention should be paid to changes in the international relation of supply and demand for mineral resources, to future changes in the competitive power of Australian mineral resources, to relations between other countries, to changes in the relative position and standing of Australia in the world, to changes in the industrial structure within Australia, to the development of technological reform, to changes in the degree of national interest in the development of technological reform, and to the promotion of living and education standards. [More…]
It had nothing to do with education at all. [More…]
It was a question of trying to influence education for the Leader of the Opposition’s own political ends and for that reason we rejected it. [More…]
Tabled by Mr Beazley: Teacher Education 1973-75 - Report of Special Committee on Teacher Education - 8 May 1973. [More…]
The document continues: Institutions of Tertiary Education in Sydney, Melbourne, Albury-Wodonga - Location, Nature and Development (Report tabled 3.5.73) [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education: What is the situation with respect to the $3. [More…]
67m allocated in the Budget for pre-school education for New South Wales? [More…]
What progress is being made by other States in the expenditure of the $10m allocated for pre-school education? [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present a report on the conference of the Australian Education Council, 28 February- 1 March 1974. [More…]
In view of the educational importance of children visiting Canberra, will he consider providing school groups visiting Canberra with transport from the Commonwealth fleet for up to 2 days so that they may visit this area without extreme cost? [More…]
Will he also consult his colleagues, the Minister for Education and the Minister for Transport, in an endeavour to rationalise the cost of fares for school groups coming to Canberra, especially those from distant States from which the fares are prohibitive for a short visit by a school group, so that the national capital will become accessible to Australian school children? [More…]
Government expenditure will not be cut because I believe that there is still so much that has to be done in the public sphere to overcome years of neglect - and in no other field is that more evident than in the fields of education and health. [More…]
My question, which is addressed to the Minister for Education, is in some ways supplementary to the question addressed to the Treasurer by the honourable member for Kingston. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education seen reports of Opposition spokesmen promising to cut public expenditure and reduce taxation by at least $600m while simultaneously stepping up very greatly government outlays for defence and health insurance? [More…]
Some tertiary education institutions carry out work on selective surfaces, silicon technology, photochemistry, photoelectricity and - organic photovoltaic substances. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education aware of the statement which appeared in the Victorian Teachers Union journal made by the Director-General of the Public Works Department that the Victorian Education Department was wasting money on a crazy school building policy, had panicked and was building too many schools and that the school maintenance program was years behind what it ought to be? [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Is the Minister for Education aware of the nationwide concern which has been aroused by the delay in implementing the pre-school report despite promises that the Government would, as from 1 January, take over financial responsibility for establishing and operating pre-school centres and child care centres? [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Education who is responsible for child-minding centres. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education seen a professional report commissioned by the Boronia High School Advisory Council that shows that in the first 2 forms of 12 selected high schools in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne more than one-quarter of the children are urgently in need of remedial attention? [More…]
Realising that literacy is a prerequisite for success at secondary level, can the Minister indicate what action has been taken or will be taken by the Australian Government to assist the Victorian Education Department in overcoming the extreme shortage of remedial specialists so that this incidence of illiteracy and general low level of comprehension, which leads to failures in school and thwarts the hopes held by parents and their children, can be overcome? [More…]
to (3) The provision of correspondence education in the States, including special tapes for isolated children, is essentially an area of responsibility of State Education Departments. [More…]
However, the Australian Government is providing substantial financial assistance for the education of isolated children and, through its scheme of Assistance for Isolated Children, provides an allowance of up to $350 p.a. [More…]
With regard to the education of isolated children in the Northern Territory, which is a responsibility of my Department, a two-year program to equip correspondence pupils with battery-operated players and slide-filmstrip viewers will commence this year. [More…]
As recommended in the Karmel Report, the Schools Commission has been asked to consider the question of the provision of additional financial assistance to the States to enable them to provide improved education services to isolated children. [More…]
It should be noted, however, that both through its programs of general building and recurrent grants and of assistance for disadvantaged schools the Commission is already providing the States with resources whereby a range of education services, . [More…]
including the education of isolated children, can be developed throughout the community on the basis of need. [More…]
Isolated School Children: Correspondence Education (Question No. [More…]
11) Mr Malcolm Fraser asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Although they do not know it, 400,000 people, mostly young, who are in institutions of education not assisted by the universities, colleges of advanced education or schools commissions owe Mr Kangan and his Committee a debt of gratitude. [More…]
The history of technical education has never been bedevilled with religious and denominational rivalries, nor seriously plagued with social divisions, privilege, and obvious snobbery. [More…]
Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education- Ministerial Statement, 10 April 1974. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education aware that a number of Victorian government schools which were promised library and art/ craft buildings have now been advised that these will be seriously delayed? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]
Will the recommendations of the Kangan Committee on Technical and Further Education to establish a commission and to provide Si 05m be implemented from 1 July 1974? [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the preliminary report by the Commission on Advanced Education on non-government teachers colleges. [More…]
(a) Australian Telecommunications Mission (26), (b) West Kalimantan Roads Project (13), (c) Denpasar Water Supply System (7), (d) Aeronautical Telecommunications Network (6), (e) Bogor Water Supply System (3), (f) Australian/Asian Universities Co-operation Scheme (6), (g) Miscellaneous: Education and Communications (4). [More…]
Will he .now give an undertaking that there will be no cutback in expenditure on primary schools, secondary schools and technical and further education? [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Has he had prepared under contract a report on the requirements for computer education in Australia. [More…]
A study plan has been developed and its feasibility discussed with the Department of Education at Monash University in Victoria. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the Department of Education Report for 1973. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report from the Hospitals and Health Services Commission entitled ‘Continuing Medical Education’, dated August 1974. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The Agency will also assume responsibility for the Scheme of Commonwealth Co-operation in Education, which hitherto has been a responsibility of my Department. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
I table a statement of Government programs in education. [More…]
The UNITAR study, which is being carried out by the Education Research Unit at the Australian National University, aims to assess the significance of the factors that account for the ‘brain drain’ and emigration and return between developing and developed countries. [More…]
On behalf of the Minister for Education, for the information of honourable members I present a report entitled ‘Technical Education in the Australian Capital Territory’ dated September 1974. [More…]
It will be clear from the Budget Speech that the Government is continuing to give priority to the needs of education. [More…]
I wish to outline the new measures that are implicit in this Budget For reasons of time, I must speak in broad terms and about selected areas; but, so that honourable members may have details of the Government’s education program, I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a fuller statement covering all aspects of that program. [More…]
The honourable member for Bennelong (Mr Howard) talked about education and what we were doing to take away the rights of people-parents and individuals- to obtain the education they required. [More…]
Surely no one in Australia can lay charges at the door of the Australian Labor Party, which has been in office since December 1972, because of what it has done for the education of children in this country. [More…]
The only people who can lay charges against the Government are those who have not read the appropriations for education. [More…]
As far as the 3 commissions are concerned- that is, the Schools Commission, the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education- we are dropping the word ‘Australian’ because it is not necessary. [More…]
Is it intended to accede to the Royal Australian Nursing Federation’s request to grant, over three years, $3m as a fund for nurses obtaining tertiary qualifications, and to enhance nursing education programs. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The Royal Australian Nursing Federation, in submissions to the Hospitals and Health Services Commission and its Committee on Health Careers (Personnel and Training), sought unspecified funds in support of nurse education and training initiatives. [More…]
RANF, on behalf of the Working Party on Goals in Nursing Education, has already received funds under the Health Services (Research and Planning) Program to enable a survey of proposals for changes in nursing education to be undertaken. [More…]
The RANF submissions have canvassed a wide range of proposals for enhancing nurse education and training. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Other members are the Assistant Director, AIS and representatives of the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Overseas Trade, Education, Labor Immigration, Aboriginal Affairs, Film Australia, QANTAS, Australian Tourist Commission, Australian Government Publishing Service and Radio Australia. [More…]
Department of Education. [More…]
The Commission also appoints specialist committees to advise it on specific program areas such as science, education, music and spoken English. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Professor John Bloomfield (Western Australia), Professor of Physical Education, University of Western Australia, former surf champion. [More…]
Mrs Wendy Ey, nee Hayes (South Australia), lecturer in Physical Education, Commonwealth Games athlete. [More…]
Mr Geoff Frier (Tasmania), State Supervisor of Physical Education, former state representative in swimming, lifesaving and basketball and senior league footballer. [More…]
Miss Eunice Gill (Victoria), Senior Lecturer, Department of Physical Education, University of Melbourne, past President, coach manager State and national levels for netball. [More…]
Mr Howard Mutton (South Australia), Inspector of Physical Education, former South Australian cricket representative, State coach of South Australia amateur football league. [More…]
Can he say what (a) physical education and (b) national fitness programs have been undertaken with (i) Australian Government (ii) State Government and (iii) local government financial support. [More…]
Red Cross, Parents and Citizens, Sporting Bodies, all Service Clubs, Aged Welfare, Youth Groups, Local Government, Asthma Foundation, Arts and Cultural Groups, Silver Chain, Education and many others. [More…]
Department of Education [More…]
The Albury-Wodonga Interim Regional Working Committee for Welfare Education and Welfare Coordination is the body initially funded under the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
-(Fremantle-Minister for Education)- For the information of honourable members I present a report prepared for the Department of Education entitled: ‘Recommendations Concerning Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory’. [More…]
Education Officers of my Department visit schools which have grant holders enrolled in order to maintain contact both with students and with school principals and teachers. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
-(Fremantle-Minister for Education)- For the information of honourable members I present the annual report of the Commonwealth Scholarships Board for 1973. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
I believe it was associated with another education institution in the city of Townsville. [More…]
Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1972-1973, 1 present a statement of approvals given during 1974 in respect of the grant for special education in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present a report by the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education on supplementary funds for programs administered by that Committee. [More…]
2) and the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill as they are associated measures. [More…]
But every other commission, the Schools Commission, the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education, has been given the entitlement- as measures going through the House this week will have demonstrated to honourable members- to adjust grants according to the changed purchasing power of money. [More…]
If in point of fact the amount proves insufficient it will be quite competent for the Richardson Committee or the permanent Commission on Technical and Further Education to make recommendations to the Australian Government to adjust grants accordingly. [More…]
The amendment I have moved seeks to provide an additional $ 18.82m to the States as general recurrent grants for technical and further education. [More…]
The Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education has reported to me that a further $ 18.82m is necessary to compensate them. [More…]
Whether apprentices eligible for trade courses have been unable to gain access to courses in schools conducted by the Education Department; if so- (a) how many apprentices are affected, indicating in which trades; (b) when apprentices in each of the trade classifications will be placed in classes: and (c) what is the position regarding availability of trade courses for the year commencing February, 1 975? [More…]
I said in Brisbane, and I repeat here, that when the history books are written listing the achievements of this Whitlam Labor Government, they will list the achievements relating to social services, pensions and education, but its contributions to the growth of a prosperous manufacturing industry will rank very high. [More…]
What safety education programs are being conducted or planned. [More…]
What co-ordination is there with State authorities in respect of research, education or safety legislation. [More…]
Similarly, general road safety education programs would apply to these vehicles when driven on the roads. [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971-1973 I present the Annual Report on Migrant Education for the year ended 30 June 1 974. [More…]
Senior executive positions have been taken to include officers at or above the level of Education Officer, Class 2 or Clerk Class 7. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
-Has the Minister for Education seen the report on a proposal for the abolition of free tertiary education and free tertiary student allowances? [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The tables exclude private institutions, and a small number of government supported institutions which do not fall within the normal definition of ‘ university ‘ or ‘college of advanced education’. [More…]
My Department does not propose to open any new office for migrant education in the City of Parramatta. [More…]
Special services for migrants in the Western Suburbs of Sydney in the special field of education will continue to be provided through the New South Wales Ministry of Education ‘s Migrant Education Services. [More…]
These services are operated by the Ministry of Education on behalf of the Australian Department of Education. [More…]
asked the minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Did he receive advice from the former Minister for Immigration that it was proposed to establish in the City of Parramatta an office of the Department of Immigration to assist particularly in the fields of local migrant welfare, information, education and the issue of passports. [More…]
If so, what proposals does his Department now have to provide a specialised service for migrants in the Western Suburbs in the special field of education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Education)- I move: [More…]
This organisation was formed in March 1965 to provide for consultation and cooperation amongst non-Government overseas aid organisations, between those organisations, Governments and other organisations and for community education on overseas development assistance issues. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education: What was the old system of so-called scholarships? [More…]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics publishes relevant data in ‘Survey of Leavers from Schools, Universities or Other Education Institutions, February 1974’ (Reference No. [More…]
Of these 9.9 per cent commenced at University 8.2 per cent commenced at Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]
3.2 per cent commenced at Technical and Further Education institutions [More…]
Of these 7.9 per cent commenced at University 11.2 per cent commenced in Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]
4.9 per cent commenced at Technical and Further Education institutions 3.8 per cent commenced at other post-school institutions. [More…]
Furthermore, from another source, the Acting Commonwealth Statistician is currently compiling statistics of the number of students who completed secondary schooling in 1973, and who subsequenly were attending either a University or College of Advanced Education in 1974. [More…]
13.7) and ‘Colleges of Advanced Education l974’(ReferenceNo. [More…]
1973 is the latest available information for both Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What percentage of (a) all school leavers and (b) female school leavers in Australia enter tertiary institutions for further education? [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Will the anticipated huge cost cause the Government to decrease pensions and spending on such matters as education and defence. [More…]
1 member nominated by the Secretary to the Department of Education; [More…]
3 members nominated by the Australian Education Council; [More…]
Is the Minister for Education aware of reports that the inadequate supply of finance for technical education in the various States is currently a matter of considerable concern? [More…]
Has the Australian Government been making substantial funds available to State governments for this important sector of education? [More…]
If so, is the Minister satisfied that these funds, in addition to normal State government expenditure, are being directed to technical education? [More…]
Australian Education Council held in Perth during 17 and 18 April 1975. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the statement by the Director of Secondary Education in Victoria that more than 2000 students in Victoria alone have already transferred from non-government schools to state secondary schools this year? [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Education aware of delays being experienced by students in the payment of allowances under the tertiary education assistance scheme? [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report by the Hospital and Health Services Commission entitled ‘A Report on the Integration of Health Services and Health Education Facilities in the Illawarra Region’. [More…]
1 ) Did the Minister receive advice from the former Minister for Immigration that it was proposed to establish in the City of Parramatta an office of the Department of Immigration to assist particularly in the fields of local migrant welfare, information, education and the issue of passports. [More…]
At the end of sub-clause (1) add the following paragraphs: ‘(g) 1 member of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia appointed by the Prime Minister; ‘(h) 1 member of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia appointed by the Leader of the Opposition; and “(i) 1 member appointed by the Minister on the nomination of the Minister for Education. [More…]
For colleges of advanced education, details are not published by individual institution, and State aggregations are given in the annual publication, ‘Colleges of Advanced Education’, reference No. [More…]
Similar information is not available for colleges of advanced education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
What funds were provided for pre-school education (a) by the Australian Government and (b) from the States, own resources in each State in 1 973-74. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What are the details of the way in which the sum of $3 million to assist destitute students at universities and colleges of advanced education has been allocated. [More…]
In particular, (a) what definitions have been used by universities and colleges of advanced education to categorise a student as destitute, (b) what sum has each body dispersed and what amounts have been by way of grant or loan, (c) where loans have been given, what are the terms and (d) how many students have been assisted by the scheme. [More…]
-I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]
Education who have not as yet received any tertiary allowance payments for 1975. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Committee for the Review of the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, dated May 1975. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Who are the members of the advisory group of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders which has been appointed to formulate advice to the Schools Commission on education for the people. [More…]
Technical and Further Education Commission Bill 1975. [More…]
to further training and education in fields related to the conservation, improvement and presentation of the national estate; [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present an urban paper prepared by Professor Henry Maddick entitled Education and Training of Local Government Administrators in Australia ‘. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
and (4) I refer the honourable member to my statement on 25 July 1974 (Hansard page 638) when I presented the Report by the Tertiary Education (Services’ Cadet Colleges) Committee. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present 2 reports prepared by Mr N. J. Thomson on means tests applying under schemes of student assistance entitled “The Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme- Means Test ‘ and ‘Schemes of Assistance to School StudentsMeans Test’. [More…]
-Mr Speaker, I wanted to ask the Minister for Education whether he would be prepared to move that the report that he tabled be noted so that this House could be given an opportunity to discuss a report of considerable significance. [More…]
I understand that the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) wished to raise a matter in relation to the report presented by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the second report of the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education on needs in technical and further education in Australia, together with a ministerial statement by me on the report. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the progress report on the bilingual education program in schools in the Northern Territory dated December 1 973. [More…]
457 (Hansard, 1 August 1974, page 1040) concerning the employment of recreation officers by the Government, how many (a) youth workers, (b) social workers, (c) sport coaches, (d) drama instructors, (e) physical education instructors and (f) other categories of people that he would describe as recreation officers or recreation workers does the Commonwealth employ. [More…]
Department of Labor and Immigration Department of Social Security Department of Foreign Affairs Department of Education Department of Police and Customs Department of the Media Department of Housing and Construction Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the fourth triennial report on advanced education by the Commission on Advanced Education, together with a statement on that report. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
As has been pointed out by the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson), who represents the shadow Minister for Education in this House, these Bills simply seek to bring into line a situation that has operated for some time. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
What funds have been provided to Victoria under the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974. [More…]
While Mr Fraser claims that the Budget: penalises those families that do save, through life or superannuation policies for their old age, and that want to provide a different kind of education for their children - the economics writer for the National Times and the Sydney Morning Herald, Mr Alan Wood, has pointed out that in reality: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education: Has the pattern of grants for education by the Australian Government produced the crisis in education in New South Wales alleged by the New South Wales Minister for Education, Sir Eric Willis, or is this another attempt by a State Minister to blame the inadequacies of his administration upon the Australian Government? [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice. [More…]
Australian Government Departments and Instrumentalities, State Government Departments and Instrumentalities, Australian Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education, and in extremely rare instances where the work cannot be carried out elsewhere in Australia, commercial users. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the annual report of the Department of Education for 1974. [More…]
Pursuant to section 30 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967-70, I present the report of the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education for the year 1 January 1974 to 31 December 1974. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
In addition the Department administers payments to the States for housing, education, health, welfare and employment responsibilities. [More…]
The remaining $50m of the total of the estimated $192m for Aboriginal expenditure by departments other than the Department of Aboriginal Affairs is the responsibility of the departments of Education, Housing and Construction, and Health. [More…]
I am not sure that I should not call the Minister for Education next. [More…]
-I will oblige, Mr Speaker, by addressing my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]
Will the Minister inform the House of the respective amounts of capital grants for technical education in Victoria from the Australian Government and the Victorian Government in this financial year? [More…]
What is the effect on the technical education program in Victoria of the disparity in these grants? [More…]
promotional campaigns in respect of a Consumer Education Program and popularising the Canberra bus services. [More…]
I gave the justification for that in the following words: ‘It would be self-defeating if the system of wage indexation were to attempt to insulate the community from tax measures designed to redistribute resources for the benefit of the community in the form of improved public facilities in fields such as education, health, welfare, personal benefits, urban improvement and so on. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
What is the annual cost of (a) the Schools Commission, (b) the Universities Commission, (c) the Commission on Advanced Education, (d) the Technical and Further Education Commission and (e) the Council for the Curriculum Development Centre. [More…]
What is the total cost of education administration borne by the Australian Government. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Committee on Technical and Further Education for the period 1 July 1975 to 31 December 1976 together with an accompanying statement. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to a Press statement by Sir Eric Willis, the New South Wales Minister for Education, in which he claimed that I had an incredible hide to claim that the total i cost of work at a number of schools in my electorate was financed by the Commonwealth and that it was not possible to apportion to the Commonwealth a specific amount from the total cost of a particular project? [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a statement relating to funds for the Education Commission for the 1976 calendar year. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education seen recent criticisms of the amount of money to be made available for Victorian Government schools in the calendar year 1976? [More…]
-The persistent line of discussion of the Victorian Minister for Education is to suggest that if a report is made to this Parliament, as was the Schools Commission report, he is entitled to receive all of the money referred to in the report as assigned to Victoria and that there is some compulsion on the Australian Parliament to adopt the report. [More…]
What was the result of the work undertaken by the Joint Board of Christian Education to investigate the role played by churches in youth work with the aid of a grant from the Australian Government. [More…]
We think that the name Australian Teaching Service is appropriate because we agree with the Leader of the Opposition when he was the Minister for Education when he said that the name should imply a unified teaching service. [More…]
I also present a short statement by me on the Government’s funding policy for the 4 national education commissions. [More…]
Since that time I have announced in Parliament that a report of the Departments of the Media and of Education, entitled ‘Television Equipment in Australian Schools 1974’, is available in the Parliamentary Library and have released an information paper by the Department of the Media entitled ‘A consideration of the implications of section 13 of the Australian Labor Party’s media platform*. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the annual report of the Australian Council on Awards in Advanced Education for 1974. [More…]
’s public education program. [More…]
1 ) My Department exchanges views on this matter with other countries through international organisations interested in education in rural areas. [More…]
I believe that Australia has a considerable contribution to make to international discussion on this topic, particularly on schemes of financial assistance to isolated children, correspondence education and use of radio for educational purposes in rural areas. [More…]
Australia has recently hosted (October 7-16) a Commonwealth Educational Broadcasting Conference at which delegates from many countries of the Commonwealth did discuss the role of broadcasting in education including the provision of education to remote areas. [More…]
The education program of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in which Australia is actively involved, includes two specific projects currently being implemented related to education in sparsely populated rural areas. [More…]
They are: ‘Basic Education and Teacher Support in Sparsely Populated Areas’; ‘Alternative Resources and Technologies for Learning’. [More…]
Australia has already contributed to international exchanges on this topic in another part of the OECD/CER education program. [More…]
The Australian project which has been accepted by OECD and included in the Early Childhood Education program is: ‘Evaluation of Pre-School Services for Geographically Isolated Children in Queensland’. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
25 17 relating to membership of the Interskola organisation which studies the problems of education in sparsely populated rural areas, does his Department exchange views on this matter with other countries with similar problems or belong to other organisations interested in education in rural areas. [More…]
Is it considered that the Australian or State Departments of Education would increase their understanding of these problems by membership of Interskola [More…]
Education in Rural Areas (Question No. [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971-1973 I present the annual report on migrant education for the year ended 30 June 1975. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs: Has a decision been taken regarding the continuation of interpreter-translator training courses initiated in 1975 at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the Institute of Languages of the University of New South Wales, and die Canberra College of Advanced Education? [More…]
Yes, I am aware of the anomaly which the honourable member has pointed out, and my colleague in another place, the Minister for Education, has undertaken that inquiries will be conducted to see what can be done to remove the anomaly. [More…]
My question which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education relates to the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs aware that whilst additional funds have been made available to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology to allow the continuation of the translator and interpreter courses for 1976, following a question asked in the House by me, it is believed that funding as of next year will be on a triennial basis and that funds will be distributed through the Commission on Advanced Education, which finances the Institute on a per capita basis without earmarking funds? [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Committee on Post-Secondary Education in Tasmania, together with a statement by the Minister for Education relating to that report. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report on the Australian Education Council meeting held in Sydney on 1 2 and 13 February 1976. [More…]
Before the debate is resumed on this Bill I should like to suggest that it may suit the convenience of the House to have a general debate covering this Bill, the States Grants (Universities) Amendment Bill, the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill, the [More…]
States Grants (Advanced Education) Amendment Bill and the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Amendment Bill as they are associated measures. [More…]
-I draw the honourable member’s attention to the fact that he spoke during the second reading debate last night on a number of Bills which I introduced on behalf of my colleague in another place, the Minister for Education. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education: Has he seen a report that the Government has imposed financial guidelines on the recommendations of the Universities Commission, the Schools Commission, the Commission for Technical and Further Education and the Commission on Advanced Education? [More…]
Does the decision herald drastic cuts in education expenditure? [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) There is no record of any direct grants by the Department of Education to the Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross, New South Wales, during the last five financial years. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What sums, and for what purposes, were given to the Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross, New South Wales, by (a) direct grants and (b) section 96 grants administered by the Department of Education in each of the last five financial years. [More…]
It is not acceptable to State Education Ministers. [More…]
In each case the Minister for Education would, as a matter of course, consult with the Schools Commission. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Did Wollongong University College make a submission to the Australian Universities Commission’s Medical Education Committee involving a proposal to establish a Graduate Medical School at the College in September 1 972. [More…]
It is regrettable that on another day which was given a name by many people to whom it meant a lot, namely E Day, we have seen in this Parliament a deliberate and concerted attempt by members of the Labor Party opposite to disrupt and wreck E Day and, more seriously, to prevent the right of access of constituents who travelled hundreds and hundreds of miles to Canberra to talk with their members about the pressing problems of education. [More…]
I believe the Labor Party showed its true colours in respect of education today. [More…]
It was obvious from the very outset that members opposite were determined to wreck and destroy E Day and to prevent the people who came here from talking to supporters of the Government including myself who have a genuine commitment to education. [More…]
Wilmot (Mr Burr), to rejoin a Tasmanian delegation with which we had been discussing education matters since before 10 o’clock this morning. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
What sum has been paid by the Department of Education to each airline for air travel within Australia during the last 2 years. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
When does the Department of Education intend to authorise a federal grant for the completion of St Joseph’s Primary Catholic School library at Springvale. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
What commitments for expenditure in 1976-77 and 1 977-78 does the Department of Education have. [More…]
-Pursuant to section 9 ( 1 ) of the Education Research Act 1970, 1 present the annual reports of the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education for 1973- 74 and 1974-75. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
How many private business colleges are receiving a subsidy for students under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, and how many have had applications for subsidy rejected. [More…]
5 ) What is the future of the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]
Pursuant to section 14 of the Schools Commission Act 1973 I present the Schools Commission report for the triennium 1977-1979, together with a statement by the Minister for Education relating to that report. [More…]
Pursuant to section 15 of the Universities Commission Act 1959-1974 I present the Universities Commission report for the triennium 1977-1979, together with a statement by the Minister for Education relating to that report. [More…]
Pursuant to section 15 of the Commission on Advanced Education Act 1971-1973, I present the report of the Commission on Advanced Education for the Triennium 1977-1979, together with a statement by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) relating to that report. [More…]
Funds will continue to be made available for housing, education, employment, health, legal aid etc. [More…]
The Minister for Education has supplied the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Minister for Education has received representations from a number of interested persons and organisations concerning the level of allowances. [More…]
The level of benefits payable under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme in 1977 will be determined in the light of this investigation. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Will the Government look at the possibility of pegging the Tertiary Education Allowances Scheme payments to the level of unemployment benefits. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report on the meeting of the Australian Education Council held in Cairns during 8 and 9 July 1976. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present a report of the Working Party on Languages and Linguistics to the Universities Commission entitled Languages and Linguistics in Australian Universities, together with a statement by the Minister for Education relating to that report. [More…]
The Trustees, after careful examination of existing staff resources, have recommended an increase in the number of professional and managerial staff- particularly in the fields of conservation, curatorship, education and display. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that the difficulty many tertiary students from poor families are having in existing under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme has led to wide post-budget ill feeling amongst student groups. [More…]
Committee of Inquiry into Education and TrainingMinisterial Statement, 9 September 1976- Terms of Reference. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
As indicated by the Treasurer in his Budget speech the question of the re-introduction of tertiary education fees for some categories of students is part of an urgent investigation now going on. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Department of Education for 1975. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the annual report of the Australian Council on Awards in Advanced Education for 1975. [More…]
Can he assure the House that the recent attack in the Senate by the Minister for Education on the Professor’s integrity, which preceded the ABC’s action, should not have been interpreted by the ABC as a declaration of the attitude of the Government as a whole? [More…]
It is correct that the Minister for Education has undertaken a review of student allowances, including the tertiary allowance. [More…]
The Treasurer reported in August that when that review was completed the Government would consider the result of that review and the Minister for Education would report on it. [More…]
The Treasurer also said it was expected that the review would be completed by October and that the Minister for Education would be reporting early in October. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education aware that, despite the assurances given by the Minister for Education that the level of financial assistance for students was being closely examined, a minority of tertiary students conducted a strike last week over allowances paid under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme? [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
am asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
What stage has been reached by the interdepartmental committee reviewing fees for tertiary education students. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question. [More…]
Its role and functions are being examined as part of the review currently being made of Australia’s training and education aid program. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
am asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Has the Department of Education taken any steps to ascertain the needs of teachers in the schools for which it is responsible in relation to multiple copying of copyright material. [More…]
Has the Department had discussions with State Government Departments of Education about this copying. [More…]
3 ) Is the Department aware of the details of the system of permissions for copying of copyright material being developed by the State Department of Education in Queensland. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) How many offset duplicators are available for the use of teachers in schools for which the Department of Education is responsible. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Are any instructions provided to teachers in schools Tor which the Department of Education is responsible in relation to compliance with the Copyright Act 1 968- 1 973. [More…]
Does the Department of Education treat an infringement of copyright by a teacher whilst performing his or her duties as a personal liability of the teacher concerned; if not, what steps has the Department taken to protect teachers from an action for infringement. [More…]
Pursuant to section 30 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967 I present the annual report of the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education for the year ended 3 1 December 1975. [More…]
The Australian Medical Association would do anything, one would think, to promote constructive and informed discussion of medical education in Australia. [More…]
What is the estimated cost of maternity leave in (a) the Commonwealth Public Service, (b) universities and (c) colleges of advanced education for 1976-77. [More…]
The Minister for Education has supplied the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) provides a total amount of $121,405,000 in respect of schemes of student assistance for tertiary study administered by the Department of Education in the financial year 1976-77. [More…]
The following schemes of assistance for tertiary students will be administered by the Department of Education in 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
What is the total amount available for all tertiary education assistance schemes for 1976-77. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Education relating to the programs of the education commissions for the 1977-79 triennium. [More…]
The position of my colleague in the other place, the Minister for Education, in regard to this matter is not personally known to me. [More…]
The Minister for Education has supplied the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) The Departments of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Treasury and Education, the Public Service Board, and the Income Security Review Committee Secretariat. [More…]
am asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Education relating to changes to education administration in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Education relating to the nongovernment schools building program; advance approvals of grants and loan guarantees. [More…]
I merely request the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, who is at the table, to advise the Minister representing the Minister for Education that I believe that immediate, thorough and favourable consideration should be given to the allocation of special grants to St John’s College, Lakemba, and to other schools- not only in New South Wales but also in other parts of Australiawhose young pupils are faced with a similar souldestroying problem. [More…]
Brother Luke had become alarmed at a reduction in funds from the Catholic Education Office in Sydney, which meant a reduction in English as second-language teachers at St John ‘s from three to two. [More…]
I have discussed the matter with the Minister representing the Minister for Education in this House. [More…]
I have given a copy of the letter to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and a copy to the Minister representing him. [More…]
Permission for the incorporation was given by the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer [More…]
Funds provided through the Commonwealth Department of Education for pre-school services in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory and through the Department of Aboriginal Affairs for special pre-school services for aboriginals are not included. [More…]
Pursuant to section 30 of the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974, I present a statement of payments to the [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the fifth main report of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty entitled Poverty and Education in Australia. [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 I present the annual report on migrant education for the year ended 30 June 1976. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
I would hope that the Minister for Education not only would relate Government activity to the area of children’s problems but would also devise special means to find adults with problems and, having found them, have programs designed and set up in certain areas in order to allow the adults concerned to overcome their very serious hardship. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What was the amount appropriated for expenditure by the Department of Education in the Division of Macarthur in the financial years 1972-73, 1973-74, 1974-75, 1975-76 and 1976-77. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer: [More…]
-I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]
-The proposed members have been carefully selected to form a team balanced as far as possible in terms of factors including geographical location, educational specialisation, and variety of community experience. [More…]
A large number of people have been nominated for the Committee and it is the strong hope of my colleague, the Minister for Education, that those who did not achieve selection this time, will renominate in future. [More…]
I commend to the House the formation of this specialist committee in Aboriginal education. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report on the meeting of the Australian Education Council at Hobart, Tasmania, in February of this year. [More…]
School leavers are now defined as comprising all persons under the age of 2 1 who, at the time of registering with the CES, had ceased full-time primary or secondary education within the previous 6 months. [More…]
b ) persons who had ceased full-time primary or secondary education within the previous 3 months. [More…]
Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]
Might I just point out in this House the attitude of the Opposition to the proposals in this Bill to create the new Tertiary Education Commission and separate councils for the different sectors. [More…]
In the Senate, Senator Wriedt, on behalf of the Opposition, said: … the Opposition will not oppose the concept of including the technical sector in this new Tertiary Education Commission because we feel that there have been sufficient safeguards written into the legislation to ensure that the technical sector is not disadvantaged. [More…]
Mention was made of the fact that 10 per cent of our students take advantage of tertiary education throughout Australia. [More…]
However, I believe that in country areas only 2 per cent of our young people have the opportunity and are able to take advantage of tertiary education, mainly because of the lack of facilities. [More…]
We believe it sets a basis for education in the tertiary area to develop in a manner best suited to the needs of the Australian people (Quorum formed). [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Australian Education Council discussed the matter and decided to establish a joint Federal/State Working Party of representatives of education and of labour and employment departments to act as a steering group to develop proposals on career guidance in schools and to improve services available to young people making the transition from school to work. [More…]
am asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 8 March 1 977: [More…]
Did the Education Council at its meeting in February 1 977 consider the September 1 976 report of the Working Party on the Transition from Secondary Education to Employment; if so, with what results. [More…]
Transition from Secondary Education to Employment: Report of Working Party (Question No. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s questionIt is not possible to provide information in respect of payments to individual government schools except in relation to grants made under the Special Projects (Innovations) Program. [More…]
am asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 8 March 1977. [More…]
Pursuant to section 9 of the Education Research Act 1970 I present the sixth annual report of the Education Research and Development Committee, 1975-76, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Education. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 9 March 1 977: [More…]
What was the ratio of students going on to tertiary education to children of the relevant age of the population in the years 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, and in each year since 1960. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Information showing the relationship between numbers of school leavers proceeding to universities and colleges of advanced education and numbers of children in the relevant age group in the population, for the year specified by the honourable member, is not available. [More…]
Ratios are also shown for colleges of advanced education from 1968. [More…]
Ratio of the numbers of undergraduate students in universities and colleges of advanced education to the total population in the 17-22 age group [More…]
Includes enrolments in teachers colleges which became colleges of advanced education. [More…]
the Drug Education Program; [More…]
The aim of the School Dental Scheme is to provide free dental care including health education to all children under 1 5 years of age with initial emphasis on the primary school children. [More…]
Before the debate is resumed on this Bill, I should like to suggest that it may suit the convenience of the House to have a general debate covering this Bill, the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Bill, the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Amendment Bill, and the States Grants (Universities Assistance) Amendment Bill, as they are associated measures. [More…]
With the report I also present a document which I have received separately from Mr Michael Gallagher, who is the education research officer of the Australian Union of Students and who was a member of the committee. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
by leave- In October last year I announced substantial increases across the board for 1977 in allowances for the 10 student assistance schemes administered by the Department of Education. [More…]
1 ) Will he indicate how, when and where the Federal Government has participated in the UNESCO/UNEP international program in environmental education. [More…]
1 ) Has the Government taken any action to encourage the development of environmental education in Australian schools; if not, why not. [More…]
If so, what actions have been taken and, in particular, what emphasis has been placed on the development of appropriate curricula and educational resource materials and the development of pre-service and in-service education programs for teachers. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Commonwealth Department of Education for 1 976. [More…]
The bilingual education program is undergoing an evaluation by my colleague at the present time. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Education: Have staff ceilings imposed on the Aboriginal bilingual education program in the Northern Territory been lifted due to the fact that the scheme was started only in 1973 and it was envisaged that there would be an increasing need for staff as the [More…]
am asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education: [More…]
-Pursuant to sections 13 and 14 of the Schools Commission Act 1973 I present the Schools Commission report for 1978 together with a statement by the Minister for Education relating to this report. [More…]
On behalf of the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) and for the information of honourable members, I present the report of Sir Bede Callaghan, C.B.E., following his inquiry into the structure of industry and the employment situation in Tasmania together with a statement made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) on behalf of the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Senator Cotton). [More…]
As pointed out in the other place by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), the Government shares the concern of the Opposition that it should not be possible for governments to act without the knowledge of the Opposition, indeed not without the knowledge of all members of the Parliament, both in this House and in the other place. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 5 October 1977: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) and (2) Statistics showing the number of children who have been designated as illiterate on leaving their secondary education during recent years are not available. [More…]
However in 197S at the request of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties, the Australian Council for Educational Research conducted a survey of literacy and numeracy standards in Australian schools. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 15 September 1977: [More…]
Are statistics available showing the number of children who have designated as illiterate on leaving their secondary education during recent years. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 17 August 1977: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question. [More…]
The projections have been based on the assumption that present demographic and education patterns will continue in the future; any departures from current trends may cause the projections to differ significantly from actual future enrolment statistics. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 16 August 1977: [More…]
1 ) What major programs were funded by the Department of Education in the electoral divisions of (a) St George, (b) Banks, (c) Barton and (d) Lang during 1976-77, including recurrent and non-recurrent expenditure. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the annual report of the Australian Council on Awards in Advanced Education for 1976. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Education, given to the Senate by the honourable gentleman today, on programs of the education commissions for the 1978-1980 rolling triennium. [More…]
Notices have been received from the Minister representing the Minister for Education that at the next sitting he will present a States Grants (Schools Assistance) Bill and a States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill. [More…]
Clause 13 (Non-payment for 6 weeks of unemployment benefit in case of persons ceasing education) [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 4 October 1977: [More…]
Before debate on this Bill is resumed, I would like to suggest that it may suit the convenience of the House to have a general debate covering this Bill and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill as they are associated measures. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘whilst not opposing the provisions of the Bill, the House is of opinion that (a) there is insufficient funding for technical education in Australia, and (b) the Government’s intention to transfer a major section of tertiary education funding to the States will be to the detriment of tertiary education’. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 13 October 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 13 October 1977: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Pursuant to section 8 of the Education Research Act 1970, I present the annual report of the Education Research and Development Committee 1976-77, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Education relating to the report. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Those matters have been examined by myself and my colleagues, the Minister for Health, the Minister for the Northern Territory and the Minister for Education. [More…]
Pursuant to section 30 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1 967 1 present the annual report of the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education for the year ended 31 December 1976. [More…]
The Academy will comprise: Accommodation, including messing and staff facilities for military and civilian staff and cadets; academic facilities to cater for the faculties of arts, science and engineering; central administration and military education facilities; a stores complex and a marine facility for training and recreational purposes; indoor physical fitness centre, and other sporting facilities; and site works and engineering services. [More…]
Academic buildings are to be constructed in accordance with space and cost restraints established by the Universities Commissionnow the Tertiary Education Commissionand will be provided in accordance with accepted university standards. [More…]
It is also relevant to observe that a number of other important Commonwealth activities, in such fields as education, child care, Aboriginal affairs and the environment were first the responsibility of the Prime Minister of the day but are now in other portfolios. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
and (2) The information requested in respect of the Department of Education is set out below. [More…]
The information does not include expenditure by statutory authorities within the Education portfolio. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 March 1978: [More…]
1 ) What amounts of travel and subsistence expenditure of the Department of Education were spent on (a) overseas and (b) domestic travel during 1976-77. [More…]
Department of Education: Expenditure on Travel and Subsistence (Question No. [More…]
The Departments of Foreign Affairs, Health, Education, Aboriginal Affairs, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Home Affairs and Finance are currently represented on the interdepartmental committee. [More…]
That includes housing, health, education and so on. [More…]
One of the bodies that one might expect the Minister would have to consent to being involved in providing its services would be the Queensland Department of Education and, similarly, the Queensland health authorities. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 March 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the meeting of the Australian Education Council which was held in Aukland, New Zealand, on 27 January 1978. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Australian Education Council Working Party on the Supply and Demand for Teachers in Australian Primary and Secondary Schools 1978-85. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the operations of the Aboriginal pre-apprentice training scheme being carried out by the College of Further Education, Port Augusta, to allow young Aboriginals to enter industry as apprentices. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]
1 ) How many copies of (a) each daily newspaper and (b) each weekly publication are purchased by (i) the Head Office and ( ii) other offices of the Department of Education. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: 1 draw the honourable member’s attention to the Prime Minister’s reply to Question No. [More…]
Yes, it is intended that tertiary education institutions will be involved in the Interchange Program. [More…]
Are there any plans to include the administrative, research and teaching staff of tertiary education institutions in the program. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 14 November 1978: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Is it a fact, as is stated in the OECD report, that if Australia had the same proportion of young people involved in full-time education as Japan, 150,000 more people would be involved? [More…]
Is it a fact that if Australia had the same proportion of young people involved in full-time education as the United Sates that half a million more young people would be involved? [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the Tertiary Education Commission draft report on study leave together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Education relating to the report. [More…]
am asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 5 April 1978: [More…]
Which of the positions in the Department of Education have been identified as those where at least 10 per cent of the occupant’s time is spent dealing with clients in a language other than English (Hansard, 2 June 1977, page 2529, and 4 April 1978, page 969). [More…]
It is pleasing to note that the present deficiencies have been recognised and that increasing prominence is being given in undergraduate medical education to the economic implications of health care with particular emphasis on the issues associated with medical services. [More…]
Before the debate on this Bill is resumed, I should like to suggest that it may suit the convenience of the House to have a general debate covering this Bill and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill 1978 as they are related measures. [More…]
Recently in a debate in this Parliament a question was raised about the high cost of salaries in the tertiary education area. [More…]
There is no doubt that tertiary education is one of the most important functions in our society. [More…]
It will be the case for all time that education is one of the real labour intensive service industries. [More…]
Action to overcome the shortages is being taken through the immigration program, a number of training programs, including CRAFT, and initiatives taken by the Government to increase resources for technical education. [More…]
If the legislation were set on its proper course, if the Government were serious about getting the grass roots of this problem and looking at the issue of unemployment, its effects, and the rationalisation of industry together with the co-ordination of education programs for the purpose of achieving rationalisation side by side with retraining, and if the legislation had the scope to deal with population policies, the size and shape of population for the future and where those policies fit in with the immigration program and the availability of employment, we would - [More…]
Pursuant to section 30 of the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974 I present a statement of payments to the States authorised under that Act for the financial year 1 976-77. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Funds for research in universities are provided within the grants of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 14 March 1978: [More…]
They concern the management of Aboriginal sacred sites, education and so on. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question. [More…]
The Department of Education does not operate any staff canteens. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 24 May 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 June 1978: [More…]
1 ) What arrangements are made in the Department of Education and statutory authorities under the Minister’s control for the recycling of waste materials such as paper, metals and glass. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The estimated cost for maternity leave in the Department of Education is as follows: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 26 May 1978: [More…]
1 ) What has been the cost of maternity leave in the Department of Education during the years (a) 1976 and (b) 1 977, and (c) in the period January 1 978 to date. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the report of the Department of Education for 1977. [More…]
5 ) Has his Department estimated a likely crude oil saving following an education and publicity campaign to encourage the use of regular grade petrol of 92 octane rating. [More…]
Taxation is like a great big funnel: Money from taxation is taken in one end from the people who can afford to pay taxes and is filtered out the other end for community services such as education and health. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a statement by the Minister for Education on programs of the Schools Commission for 1979. [More…]
Grants are also made to the States for the provision of health, education and other services and for the provision of housing. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the final report of the Tertiary Education Commission on study leave in universities and colleges of advanced education, together with a statement by the Minister for Education. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the recommendations of the Tertiary Education Commission on recurrent grants for universities and colleges of advanced education for 1980-81 together with a statement by the Minister for Education on programs of the Tertiary Education Commission for 1979-81. [More…]
and (4) No discussions on future Australian education assistance have been held with the British or New Zealand Governments. [More…]
We would expect the British and French Governments to ensure that existing services, including education are maintained. [More…]
No formal approach has been made to the Australian Government to expand its assistance to the education sector beyond our existing assistance by way of training awards. [More…]
If so, is he able to say whether (a) education in French language schools will be separately and entirely funded after independence by a special direct grant from the French Government thus relieving the New Hebridean Government of budgetary responsibility and assuring the future of French eucation; (b) education in English language schools will be the direct responsibility of the New Hebridean Government itself, which will not receive any special grant from the British Government apart from its continuing responsibility to pay a diminishing budgetary grant each year to cover all services and; (c) the equipment, pupil-teacher ratio, staff salaries and buildings in the English schools are already disadvantaged compared to the French schools in the New Hebrides. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a discussion paper by the Schools Commission entitled Some Aspects of School Finance in Australia, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Education. [More…]
These summer vacation courses were planned by a Committee comprising persons from various ethnic groups, State and Commonwealth officers and representatives of tertiary education institutions that were to conduct one or more of the courses. [More…]
Each Committee was chaired by an officer of the Commonwealth Department of Education. [More…]
Courses were conducted by tertiary education institutions and by the State Adult Migrant Education Services. [More…]
These include the Crawford Study on Structural Adjustment and the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training; in addition the Government has established an interdepartmental committee to consider what studies might be commissioned into the impact and implications of new technology on industry and employment. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 19 September 1978: [More…]
What co-ordinative and consultative arrangements presently exist between the Department of Education and each of the State governments. [More…]
They conclude that banking will lose 30 per cent of its employees in 10 years, with insurance and education similarly affected, and that the job creation promised by France’s seventh national plan is not likely to eventuate. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 27 September 1978: [More…]
1 ) How many new courses were submitted by Western Australian tertiary institutions to the Western Australian Post-Secondary Education Commission for approval during the last 12 months. [More…]
Do the courses approved satisfy the Tertiary Education Commission’s guidelines for such approvals and in particular are they being offered within available financial and academic resources as referred to in the Tertiary Education Commission’s Report for the 1979-81 Triennium, Vol. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report on progress in education since 1976. [More…]
1) Of the $ 19.9m allocated to migrant education in the 1978-79 Budget, what sum is to be spent on (a) extending courses for teaching English to migrants, (b) providing English instruction in industry and (c) extending the home tutor scheme. [More…]
1 ) The amount in the appropriations for my Department for education for adult migrants and refugees is: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 17 August 1978: [More…]
What endeavours are being made by the Department of Education to promote the learning of languages in schools throughout Australia. [More…]
What is the estimated value of (a) overhead costs incurred and (b) salaries paid to academic, professional and technical staff employed in universities, tertiary institutions and colleges of advanced education in respect of public broadcasting during the1977 academic year. [More…]
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT CENTRE Mr FIFE (Farrer- Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs)- On behalf of the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Staley) and for the information of honourable members I present a report by the Curriculum Development Centre entitled ‘A Parents Guide to Social Education Materials Project’ together with a text of a statement by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]
Before the debate is resumed on this Bill I would like to suggest that it may suit the convenience of the House to have a general debate covering this Bill and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill as they are associated measures. [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 1 present the report on the operation of the Act for the year ended 30 June 1977. [More…]
I also present the report on the operation of the Act in relation to the adult migrant education program for the year ended 30 June 1978. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Department of Education did not make a submission to the Review. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Department of Education has provided the following figures: [More…]
I would have liked to talk about the reintroduction into our school curriculum of physical education and sport. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Ellicott), in association with the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), to see whether we can start right at the base level and inculcate into our young people a desire to be healthy and fit. [More…]
I hope that the House will believe that these letters are representative of modern education. [More…]
The education that critics tend to believe is trendy and socialistic is much more sensitive than the education we received. [More…]
Perhaps with the world in the hands of children receiving this sort of education, by the time 25 years has passed it will be a much better world than the one we have created for them. [More…]
Health and medical education. [More…]
Education for human relationships, does the Government intend to ( a ) accept or ( b ) reject. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 28 February 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 27 February, 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
In the opinion of the Director of Education in the Northern Territory the follow-up course will enhance the effectiveness of the training to such an extent that the course will be made compulsory from this year. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
This Bill does not increase any of the nongovernment schools general recurrent and migrant education grants as the necessary adjust-, ments to these grants have been effected previously. [More…]
They are not based on the priorities of the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt), the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) or the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle). [More…]
a capital grant of approximately $130,000 (plus professional fees and other associated costs) to enable the Association to construct a new centre on land to be leased from the Queensland State Department of Education at Fig-Tree Pocket. [More…]
Before the debate is resumed on this Bill I would like to suggest that it may suit the convenience of the House to have a general debate covering this Bill and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill 1979 as they are associated measures. [More…]
1 ) Can he state whether the United States Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare recently stated that it was his opinion that a full 20 per cent of cancers may be caused by occupational exposure to industrial carcinogens. [More…]
Has the Department of Aboriginal Affairs had discussions with State electoral authorities, as it has had with the Australian Electoral Office (Hansard, 5 April 1978, page 1 100), with the object of drawing up continuing programs of electoral education for Aboriginals. [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 I present a report on provisions for child migrant education for the year ended 30 June 1978. [More…]
-by leave-The Joint Committee of Public Accounts released a statement on 31 May 1979 giving detailed terms of reference for its proposed inquiry into the funding of tertiary education. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Education on guidelines for Education Commissions for 1980 to 1982. [More…]
2 by Dr A. Graycar, School of Social Sciences, the Flinders University of South Australia; and ‘Australian Assistance Plan in Tasmania: Report of the Second Evaluation’, by Mr J. W. Ife, Department of Social Work, Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]
In 1977, the number of apprentices generating CRAFT Technical Education Rebate was as follows: [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to allow the Tribunal to make determinations or reports on academic salaries for: Firstly, newly established Commonwealth tertiary institutions; secondly, new categories of academic staff; and thirdly, particular categories of staff in all States and Territories for either universities, colleges of advanced education or both without having to undertake a general review. [More…]
The Bill also corrects an ambiguity as to whether the Remuneration Tribunals Act 1973 covers technical and further education institutions which resulted from the creation of the Tertiary Education Commission which encompasses these institutions. [More…]
J. L. Carrick, Minister for Education and Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Tertiary Education Commission for the triennium 1979-81, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Education relating to the report. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the text of a statement by the Chairman of the Australian Education Council on the Williams report on education, training and employment. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the annual report of the Commonwealth Department of Education for 1978. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
There were additional students enrolled in education courses in 1973 as follows: [More…]
These additional student enrolments have not been included in the calculation of the 1.8 per cent above, as they have already been included as university and college of advanced education enrolments in calculation of the Australian 17-22 year old participation rate in the answer to Question No. [More…]
Proportions (expressed as percentages) of persons aged between 17 and 22 years enrolled in 1973 as attending technical and further education institutions. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 30 May 1979: [More…]
3240 (Hansard, 22 May 1979, page 2225) what proportion of persons aged between 1 7 and 22 years was enrolled in 1973 as attending (a) teachers colleges (i) full-time and (ii) pan-time and (b) technical and further education institutions. [More…]
Department of Education 1977- 78- Nil. [More…]
The Task Group comprises representatives from the Departments of Employment and Youth Affairs, Education, Finance, Health, Industry and Commerce, Prime Minister and Cabinet and Social Security (Social Welfare Policy Secretariat). [More…]
How many persons have been assisted by the (a) National Employment and Training Scheme, (b) Community Youth Support Scheme, (c) Government’s various apprenticeship schemes and (d) Education Program for Unemployed Youth, in each year since 1975. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report by the Minister for Education on Progress in Education 1979-80. [More…]
Pursuant to section 30 of the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974 and section 20 of the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Act 1976 I present a statement of payments to the States under the States Grants Act. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Education relating to programs of the education commissions for 1980. [More…]
Did the young Commonwealth leaders recommend that the attention of Commonwealth governments be drawn to the urgent need for reviewing education systems in order to establish a firm relationship between education, employment and the requirements of national development? [More…]
Also, is the Minister aware that the Colombo meeting recommended that the employment orientation of education should be strengthened by the introduction of early work experience schemes and that these schemes provide combinations of work experience, training and job-seeking skills? [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The basic allowance of $4,200 per annum is almost double the maximum allowance payable under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]
The Government will keep the level of Postgraduate Allowances under review, but any consideration of increases in allowances must be viewed in the light of the funds available for expenditure on all aspects of education. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 21 August1979: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present an index to the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]
1 ) The Capital Territory Health Commission has not decided to discontinue the two-year nurse education course administered by the Royal Canberra Hospital. [More…]
Like all other State and Territory health authorities the Commission is examining its nurse education programs in the light of the recommendations contained in the Report of the Committee on Nurse Education and Training submitted to the Tertiary Education Commission in August 1 978 and the changing needs of the profession. [More…]
There was direct consultation between the Chairman of the Commission and the RANF on the proposed changes to nurse education in the ACT. [More…]
The Federation was also represented on the Committee of Inquiry into Nurse Education and Training. [More…]
Will the Minister arrange for screenings in Parliament House, Canberra, of a series of films produced for public information and education by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
Pursuant to section 30 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967 1 present the report of the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education 1978. [More…]
The Minister for Finance (Mr Eric Robinson) will appreciate that the State College of Victoria is, in a sense, a federation of teachers’ colleges in Australia with the status of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
As I understand it, the matter has been taken under advisement by the Tertiary Education Commission and so on. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, may I have your indulgence to suggest that the House have a general debate covering this Bill and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill (No. [More…]
Whilst I know that he was criticising the States generally for their contribution to education, I noticed that his criticisms were not concerned with Queensland, although I feel sure that he was very concerned with Queensland and the Queensland Government. [More…]
The cognate debate on these two machinery Bills, the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill (No. [More…]
2) and the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Bill, brings together the two major concerns about education in this country. [More…]
I refer to the stagnation in tertiary education and the open threat to the continued functioning of the Schools Commission. [More…]
The days when a government was committed to funding education according to the needs of education as assessed by the education commissions have clearly passed. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
to (4) The Government is presently considering the Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts titled Children and Television. [More…]
Which of the recommendations of the inquiry of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts into the impact of television on the development and learning behaviour of children, has the Government (a) accepted or (b) rejected. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 27 September 1979: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 26 September 1979: [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, may I have your indulgence to suggest that the House has a general debate covering this Bill and the Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill 1979 as they are related measures. [More…]
I table a copy of the statement by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) on the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]
My Government has instituted an enquiry into Australia’s future needs in postgraduate education in management and will legislate to provide the funds necessary to ensure that there are adequate facilities in Australia for post-graduate education in business management of the highest quality. [More…]
My Government is at present cooperating with the States in a nation-wide survey of educational needs at the primary and secondary levels, and for teacher education including in-service training. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Education and Science a question about the marine institute which it is proposed to establish at Townsville. [More…]
One asks the question, quite reasonably, having heard the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) say that he proposed to reduce taxation by $200m before the end of 1972: How does the Government propose to do this considering the pressures for increased expenditure in education, housing and other areas of health?’ [More…]
There are Ministerial Members for Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries, Education, Labour, Posts and Telegraphs, Public Health, Public Works, and Trade and Industry. [More…]
What the people are getting de facto is education in a presidential system while being told that it is evolution towards a Westminster system. [More…]
1 want to stress the .point on the education that the Government thinks that it is giving. [More…]
Julius Nyerere, Milton Obote, Hastings Banda, Kwame Nkrumah and Jomo Kenyatta were all ostensibly, in the mind of the British, given an education in the Westminster system. [More…]
All I am saying is that the education is coming not from your words but from the form of government that you are in fact operating as a model before their eyes. [More…]
The Labor Party delegation asked the people there, including Ministerial Members, if they thought the House of Assembly should control education, agriculture and fisheries and so on, and listed what amounted to the whole structure of self government. [More…]
On the other side we see grave deficiencies in public needs, such as education. [More…]
This committee is made up of Sir Richard Woolley, the Astronomer Royal, Professor Fred Hoyle, Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge University, Professor Olin Eggen, Director of the Mount Stromlo Observatory, and Dr E. G. Bowen, Chief of the Radiophysics Division of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, together with Mr J. F. Hosie of the Science Research Council in Britain and Mr K. N. Jones of the Department of Education and Science, Canberra. [More…]
During this interim period the two governments have acted through the Science Research Council in London and the Department of Education and Science in Canberra. [More…]
The advice of the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Health and the Department of Education and Science was also taken by the Australian delegation. [More…]
And if I had to select one field which concerns them immediately and where they hope to see much more Commonwealth activity, it would be the field of education. [More…]
In a country like Australia, which is developing and expanding so rapidly, and where the available resources have to be spread over so many urgent needs, stresses and strains must appear in the education system. [More…]
Education is only one facility that has suffered. [More…]
The money available for education has to be spread so far and so thinly that facilities in many cases have become quite inadequate. [More…]
I can speak only of Victoria, and I know the tremendous achievements that have been made in education in that State; the number of new schools built, the expanded teaching service, the reordering of priorities to give education a major slice of the State budget, the overall improvement in the quality of education. [More…]
In his Speech, His Excellency mentioned three principal matters his Government would be concerned with in the field of education in this session. [More…]
The third one is, perhaps the most important, for he announced that the Commonwealth was cooperating with the States in a nation-wide survey of education needs at the primary and secondary levels. [More…]
The States know best what their own education needs are and the Commonwealth should be guided by what the States say their needs are. [More…]
But when those recommendations are made, I hope that the Commonwealth will be adventurous, that it will not halt the new initiative it has taken in education, and that if the needs of a national education system call for it, then the Government will not hesitate to take an even greater involvement in education than it has in the past. [More…]
The Commonwealth has already made vast expenditures on education and its expenditure is increasing. [More…]
This increasing expenditure should be an indication of a continuing interest and involvement by the Commonwealth in education. [More…]
I can only hope, as do my electors, that this involvement will continue, and that when the national inquiry is completed and the recommendations come forward the Commonwealth will take an even larger and more generous part in the national education system of this nation. [More…]
His Excellency also said that special grants for educational research would be made. [More…]
It is only by a continuing examination of the educational process, and scientific research, that there can be a continued improvement in the quality of education throughout Australia. [More…]
The most effective means of providing a rough approximation of equal opportunity is education. [More…]
Access to an effective education system therefore is vital to a democratic society. [More…]
Another bone of contention, which is related to economic inequality, is that the sons and daughters of the less skilled workers in the community are less likely to receive a university education than the offspring of professional workers. [More…]
Do they propose less education for the mentally well endowed so that we can attain parity of educational achievement between the sons of bricklayers and the daughters of teachers? [More…]
lt has been cogently argued that already 20th century educational philosophy has moved away from intellectual training and towards social adjustment. [More…]
In a society where rapid advances in technology are not automatically advances in human values or the quality of life, education in ideas will become more important. [More…]
Having studied the many forward looking changes introduced by the Minister, such as the creation of the Office of Aboriginal Affairs, the setting up of the Capital Fund for Aboriginal Enterprises, the Study Grants for Aboriginals, the employment programme to assist Aboriginals and the amounts of money passed on to the States for disbursement throughout the fields of education, health and housing, one would have expected to see some radical changes already taking place in the standard of living of the vast majority of Aboriginals. [More…]
1 stress this matter because if the Government is genuine in its desire to advance the Aboriginals to the level of the rest of the community, it ought to get to the root cause of Aboriginal backwardness and attack the problem where it begins - through ill-health caused by inferior and scandalous housing conditions and lack of proper postnatal care and education. ‘ [More…]
Unfortunately time did not permit a thorough investigation of education but only a very cursory glance at Collarenebri school and little more than a S-minute chat to some of the school teachers. [More…]
I am no longer able to argue that State governments are responsible for government schools and therefore aid is being given to private schools in the main - and I agree with the dual education system. [More…]
In the ministerial statement last May of the present Minister of Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), when he was AttorneyGeneral, he said: “The Commonwealth and the States have now reached agreement’. [More…]
When this proposal was first advanced by Senator Dittmer in September 1963 and by Senator Murphy in May 1964, the Prime Minister, then Minister-in-Charge of Com monwealth Activities in Education and Research, asserted that the proposal had no high priority, tie again brushed the subject aside when Senator Murphy raised it again in May 1965. [More…]
Education - ignored almost entirely; in the health field - a wilful stubbornness in propping and patching up at vast additional expense an unjust and inadequate scheme; the literally vital matter of hospitals ignored; cities ignored utterly; in a passage which acknowledges the growing burden of State debts, the far more onerous burdens on local government and semi-government authorities altogether disregarded; total nonrecognition of the intolerable burdens of land costs and interest rates on home buyers; the critical need for long term restructuring of our primary industries is by-passed; nothing of the sense of urgency about aboriginals which the national disgrace and the national mandate of 1967 alike demand; refusal to acknowledge that in New Guinea our international reputation is absolutely at stake. [More…]
The greatest single step towards the political education of New Guineans this Parliament itself could advance would be to make a formal declaration that Australian aid and Australian assistance will continue after independence. [More…]
There is not one aspect of the many sided task we have to do in New Guinea - in defence, in development, in commerce, in welfare, in education - in which the value of the Australian contribution will not be enhanced when we cease also to be rulers. [More…]
They are served a solid sectionalised and professionalised diet of education from the close of their primary school days. [More…]
The Australian Labour Party was founded by men who strove for the wider horizons of education, the principle of loyalty to their fellow workers and their community, the need for associations to achieve these purposes and concepts of justice and democracy for every individual. [More…]
Failures of accommodation, staffing and facilities in the State education system, even where sound planning and policy is palpably absent, are excused on financial grounds. [More…]
The blame for the inbuilt inequalities in the State education system, brought about by the purchase of facilities and equipment on the iniquitous subsidy system which forces parents to pay heavily and means that areas of greatest need are those least able to obtain these extras, is placed on a parsimonious Federal Government, and perhaps with partial justification. [More…]
States abrogate their initiative in tertian’ education by saying that the Australian Universities Commission dictates the terms of development and maintenance of tertiary institutions. [More…]
The States are moving more and more to regionalisation of services such as health and education. [More…]
On the one hand, Commonwealth payments in areas such as social services, education and housing have been too low and have been inequitable; on the other hand, a scale of taxation at least 10 years out of date has made Commonwealth collections too high, and inequitable. [More…]
In the recent election the Labor Party placed considerable emphasis on questions such as the cost of land and rent, education, hospitals and urban development, all areas the essential control of which lies with the State governments. [More…]
The other is to consider a conscious and orderly transfer of power to the Commonwealth, especially in such areas as transport, education, health and housing, where the Commonwealth increasingly is required to foot the bill on matters over which it has no direct control. [More…]
Until 1961 it was used to excuse the Commonwealth from direct financial assistance to preuniversity education. [More…]
And there is another way, the way of democratic and constructive method, of reason, education and responsibility, of the encouragement of racial, inter-racial and multiracial co-operation and of the denial of violence and force. [More…]
The average Australian worker wants to dress as well as he can, to own the best home he can buy, to drive the best motor car and to give his children the best possible education. [More…]
In the field of education vast strides have been made. [More…]
We are pinpointing the research done firstly in Commonwealth departments, then in State departments, then in universities and colleges of advanced education, then in mining and manufacturing industries and other businesses and finally in nonprofit organisations. [More…]
In regard to colleges of advanced education, we will take the advice of State Ministers. [More…]
For social and economic advancement the personnel requirements are also pre-school, kindergarten, primary school, secondary and technical school and adult education teachers, infant health sisters, homemakers, youth counsellors and supervisors, em ployment counsellors and supervisors, cottage parents and hostel managers, all with understanding and skills required to deal with Aboriginal and part-Aboriginal people and situations. [More…]
But you can ask: ‘What have you done to reduce infant mortality, neonatal mortality, child mortality, maternal mortality, to eliminate tuberculosis’ - from which Aboriginals are almost the only sufferers - ‘to lift levels of employment and of education, and to train adults who are illiterate?’ [More…]
If those three Ministers work together I think they can produce some new sort of scheme which will show a totality of view of Aboriginal health, education and well being, and allocate to it the resources that should be allocated. [More…]
We know the general approach - improvement of social and economic circumstances, education, and the initiation of maternal standards common in a ‘white’ population. [More…]
It is part of an approach on a number of fronts, where standards of education, housing and so on all are concerned. [More…]
If you merely look at nutrition you will fail; if you merely look at education you will fail; if you merely look at housing you will fail; and if you merely look at unemployment you will fail. [More…]
The main emphasis of the debate falls on the domestic issues of the economy, namely, health, housing, primary industry, education and social welfare. [More…]
Transport people, pollution authorities, education departments, social services departments and the other departments with responsibilities and authority act as though their associated departments did not exist. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science whether he is aware of an application for a living allowance by a Mr Rodney Moran who is attending the University of Western Australia on Commonwealth scholarship No. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the serious problems concerning pre-school education in New South Wales, problems related to payment of adequate salaries for teachers and ancillary staff, provision of teacher training facilities, and costs associated with building, equipping and maintaining preschool kindergartens? [More…]
In view of the acknowledged importance of pre-school education in the overall educative process, what action is contemplated by him to overcome the situation with regard to pre-school education in New South Wales? [More…]
-I think the interest of the Government in pre-school education is evidenced by its action in the area where this matter is the Government’s particular responsibility. [More…]
The State Governments have in the main left the matter of pre-school education to private organisations and have established a pattern of paying subsidies to these organisations. [More…]
The New South Wales Government, instead of having pre-school education in its education system, has given a subsidy to support private organisations undertaking pre-school training. [More…]
Of course, I conferred with the State Ministers in Perth in February on this matter but their main concern was with expenditure in the areas of primary and secondary education. [More…]
I was pleased to hear honourable members on the Government side of the House declare their support for equality of opportunity for the education of all Australian children. [More…]
I should be pleased to welcome their voting with us when next the question of educational opportunities is debated. [More…]
It is very important that this Parliament should allocate funds to the States directly earmarked for the development of the outer perimeter areas of the great cities; for the provision of the extra educational facilities required and the extra forms of education required; for the provision of the necessary local government finance for roads, footpaths, playing fields, public halls and the rest; and for the provision of the necessary transport facilities. [More…]
The argument may well be raised that the Western Australian State Government recently took from its housing allocation some $2m for the purposes of education; but this only emphasises the inadequacies which exist in Commonwealth-State relationships, for a crisis situation has been created in the provision of education facilities. [More…]
These situations only highlight a compounding situation of a lack of adequate provisions for education facilities by both Federal and State governments. [More…]
With a lack of classrooms, classes larger than the experts recommend, a shortage of teachers, a drift away from Australia of some of our best teachers - attracted overseas by more equitable wages and conditions - we are again disappointed to see that despite the anxiety of the electorate no proper provision for relief in the education field in basic matters affecting all families is mentioned. [More…]
Greater Federal responsibility in education is essential if a solution is to be found. [More…]
Nearly 3 years have elapsed since the Government was given the responsibility for Aboriginal welfare and still no accurate figures are available about almost any area that requires concentrated attention - health, education or housing. [More…]
Does the Minister for Education and Science agree that the standards in many areas of the State education systems are well below the desirable standards? [More…]
Accepting that it is necessary to have the facts before taking action, can the Minister say when the co-ordinated inquiry into educational needs being conducted by the States will be completed? [More…]
In education we work towards goals which we think are good and as we get towards reaching them we move the goals further forward. [More…]
All experience in education in countries which are moving and are not static shows this, so that at any given point of time it is always possible to say that in particular areas of education in the community the standards are not as high as would be desired. [More…]
This survey, conducted by the States, is to determine the needs for the next 5 years in primary and secondard education and in teacher training. [More…]
The Australian Education Council met on 23rd and 24th February in Perth. [More…]
In his 1969 Budget speech the State Treasurer announced: ‘Queensland might have difficulty meeting tertiary education needs in the 1970-72 triennium’. [More…]
Over the next few years a severe quota system will develop and unless the Griffith building programme is put into operation immediately many young Queenslanders who matriculate will be denied the benefits of a university education. [More…]
Another area of education which continues to receive the blind eye treatment from this Government is the State primary system. [More…]
We in the Labor Party must, however, continue to stress that much of the aid given has been mishandled because it has neglected to apply the fundamental principle of first determining the needs of the whole of our education system and applying (he finance in a strict order of priorities on a wellknown overall plan of requirements. [More…]
I mention first of all education. [More…]
The facilities and opportunity for education in all aspects should be available on a basis of equality for all children and adults too in all parts of Australia irrespective of State boundaries. [More…]
I am not saying that the States should relinquish education, but a need exists for that close collaboration to bring about the desired result throughout the length and breadth of Australia. [More…]
We find all the investment capital we want for, say, hire purchase companies whilst our investments in real development projects such as water conservation and education are starved of funds. [More…]
I look forward to advocating more Commonwealth involvement in all forms of education and in assisting local government bodies to provide their vital services to satisfy the great and numerous needs of our cities. [More…]
Other interests include a need for the greater education of our people concerning the lack of substance in the domino theory as it applies to the old French Indo-China; a need for a thorough overhaul of our tax system and the possibility of continuing research outside the Taxation Branch in a Canadian type tax foundation; a need to stimulate efficiency and productivity among smaller businessmen by the formation of a United States type small business administration department of the Commonwealth Government; and a need to co-ordinate the economic policy of our Commonwealth in one department rather than suffer the present confusions of this policy being determined on an ad hoc basis in many different departments. [More…]
The organisation has already received almost $56,000 in donations and if the Commonwealth Government were to give $ for $ the Queensland Countrywomen’s Association would still be providing a very valuable contribution to education in the State at a very low cost to the community. [More…]
The answer can’ be summed up in one word and that is ‘education’. [More…]
I suggest that this Government again in co-operation with the State authorities expands the present drug education scheme in order that all parents, teachers, our Australian youth - in fact everybody - are familiar with the problems of the misuse of drugs and the shocking results that this habit can produce. [More…]
(a) Under the concessional deduction provisions of the income tax law, deductions for education expenses, including the cost of necessary books and fees, are allowable to a tax payer where the expenses are necessarily incurred by him for or in connection with the fulltime education of a person who is less than 21 years of age and is a child of the taxpayer or is a person for whom the taxpayer is entitled to a dependant’s deduction. [More…]
Where a part-time student incurs expenditure on his own education, the general provisions of the income tax law apply in determining whether a deduction is allowable. [More…]
He suggested that the interviewer examine other proposals in the Party’s platform, such as those with respect to education. [More…]
Education will become more and more an important matter of government in the 1970s. [More…]
Special grants have been announced for educational research and for the construction of teacher training colleges. [More…]
These are all marks of progress in the field of education. [More…]
I am confident that each year we will see greater progress in all fields of education. [More…]
One has only to look at the lack of opportunity in education because of socio-economic disadvantages. [More…]
This is a country where there is land hunger, where there is a tack of political education, where the people have come to believe that Australians are determined to retain economic dominance over them as neighbours and to preserve social1 privileges over them as fellow residents. [More…]
Not only is the population increasing but there are rising expectations in standards of education, hospital facilities and other communty services. [More…]
Whether you are discussing off-shore oil, education or housing, state governments do not have rights. [More…]
I think most, honourable members will agree with me on the importance of education. [More…]
Whenever I discuss this matter publicly I usually get a question from a teacher something along these lines: ‘There is enough paternalism and bureaucracy in the State Education Department already. [More…]
It is not surprising that this lofty attitude to the tying of grants is resented by officers in the State education departments. [More…]
With some justification they look upon the Commonwealth as a Johnnycomelately in education, anyway. [More…]
In my view the function of the Commonwealth should be to formulate national policy and what might be termed ‘social and economic priorities’ such as how education will be used as an instrument of social and economic welfare. [More…]
So broad priorities would be determined at a national level, but this would not mean centralisation of all educational policy making. [More…]
A national education policy should enable every individual to develop and to realise all his or her abilities and to use them to best advantage. [More…]
Nobody should be denied access to complete education merely through lack of finance. [More…]
This is an elitist education policy and it is based on a false premise. [More…]
It assumes that money spent on education is money dissipated. [More…]
In truth, Mr Deputy Speaker, education is a highly productive investment. [More…]
In fact, some economists believe that expenditure on education is more productive than expenditure on fixed assets. [More…]
I am not saying that the economic argument is the only basis for educational expenditure. [More…]
But I do make this point in rebuttal of those who look at education expenditure from a purely economic standpoint. [More…]
It is an extract from a letter written by the present Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) to a constituent of mine. [More…]
If we are setting out to give everybody an equal opportunity in life, we should bear in mind that, if we give a child from an underprivileged family the same education as a child who has an adequate home environment, the child from the underprivileged family will make less of that same education. [More…]
Therefore, to give both children the same opportunity in life, we must give additional educational assistance to the underprivileged one. [More…]
In other words, if we are to have discrimination in education, it should be in favour of the underprivileged. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingston dealt with the question of education tonight so there is no need for me to discuss that matter. [More…]
I am sure that this attitude will commend itself to all Australians as a middle term objective since it will result in greater export income, more employment opportunities for highly economic industries and, consequently, more funds available for State expenditure on education, social services and health. [More…]
In-service training arrangements will be required in industry, for school teachers, and in many other areas, and there will have to be programmes for education of the public. [More…]
The Weights and Measures (National Standards) Regulations 1961 made metric units legal in addition to the customary units based on the foot, the pound and the gallon, and metric units are already in wide use in Australia in, for instance, pharmacy, electronics, the chemical and photographic industries, national mapping and, of course, in education. [More…]
For the different sectors of industry, of commerce and of education it will actively commence at different times and proceed at different rates. [More…]
All of the money is going to State Education Department colleges but at least 10% of the places attributable to the expenditure of these grants will be made available to students not bonded to State Education Departments. [More…]
Winners of Commonwealth advanced education scholarships and university scholarships may apply their scholarships to courses at these colleges. [More…]
This increase is designed to assist the States with their teacher education programmes at a realistic and reasonable level and was determined in the light of current experience and knowledge of building costs. [More…]
Another major factor is the amount of matched assistance that New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania are receiving for teacher education in Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]
The need to improve the quality of the teaching force is central to the task of improving the quality of education generally and these grants will enable the States to provide new and replacement teacher education facilities at a better standard and a good deal earlier than they could hope to do from their own resources. [More…]
This, of course, is not the only Commonwealth assistance in this field of education. [More…]
Over 40% of government teacher trainees are in universities and the Commonwealth shares fully in the cost, both capital and recurrent, of their education. [More…]
Furthermore, the Commonwealth is now supporting teacher education in Colleges of Advanced Education - for this triennium, in New South Wales, Queensland, arid Tasmania. [More…]
Those people who can spend a lot on the education of their children or on the health of their children are the ones who attract government subsidies. [More…]
The present allowable tax deduction of $300 for education expenses for each child is inadequate. [More…]
From 1927 to 1935 he was a teacher with the Victorian Education Department and in 1935 he took up journalism in New South Wales. [More…]
We lived not far from each other in Narrabundah and on many occasions stood on the same platform, when I was the Minister for Education and Science, at functions throughout the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Separate statistics are not available of income tax deductions for education expenses in respect of students attending institutions of each one of the . [More…]
colleges of advanced education, [More…]
Yes.I understand the undertakings were made following representations to the U.S. airlines by officials of the Departments of Transportation and Health, Education and Welfare. [More…]
The fact is that we do produce a tremendous amount of information which is of great value to the community, particularly education wise. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science made no reference whatever to them. [More…]
It seems to me that the proposition put by May in this case has a complete relevance to the question at present before the Chair because it is clear for the reasons that the Minister for Education and Science gave earlier in the debate that what we are in substance talking about is the incident in the [More…]
For the first time in open Parliament we had the sign that the left wing of the Party had taken over and the Leader of the Opposition, who is a man of some education and background, realised that unless he got with it he was finished. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition will understand that many applicants for scholarships apply for different types of scholarships and many applicants seek enrolment at more than one university and perhaps also at a college of advanced education. [More…]
Physical education is very important in the upbringing of the young, especially in towns where there are coloured and part coloured children playing and working alongside white children. [More…]
The Minister for Education, Mi Thompson, last night criticised the plan to take the campaign into the schools. [More…]
If the Leader of the Australian Democratic Labor Party comes to an education or migrant meeting - although I deplore most of his politics - I will stand beside him. [More…]
Many of these people have not had a sufficient education because their parents were unable to afford to pay for hired labour while they attended school. [More…]
A similar situation applies with respect to education and all other things that go to make up State rights. [More…]
You would need a legal education to find your way through the document. [More…]
Thirdly, 3 or 4 weeks on a ship provided opportunity, so far as migrants from Europe are concerned, to teach them English and to inform both British and European passengers more fully on such important matters as government in all its phases, education, housing, hostels, employment and so on. [More…]
by leave - I wish to give the House some details of further assistance to be provided by the Commonwealth for educational research. [More…]
This provision is another active step by the Commonwealth designed to improve the quality of Australian education and thereby to advance the development of our society. [More…]
At present the Commonwealth is providing support for educational research in a number of ways. [More…]
The Australian Research Grants Committee has, since its inception, recommended for support selected educational research projects. [More…]
During this year, for example, grants totalling $80,000 will be made for educational research under this scheme as compared with 332,000 in 1969. [More…]
Direct Commonwealth assistance for educational research is also provided in the annual grant to the Australian Council for Educational Research and in the sum of $250,000 which has been made available during the 1967-1969 and the 1970-1972 triennia under the advanced education programme for research into the problems of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The Australian Science Education Project is one such development - this is a joint 6 State and Commonwealth programme of research into the development of improved courses and materials for the teaching of science in the first 4 years of our secondary schools. [More…]
A further research project currently supported by the Commonwealth is an investigation into possible new methods of selection for tertiary studies - in the previous 2 years the Australian National University, the University of Western Australia and The Tasmanian Education Department have been involved with the Commonwealth in this project and in this year it is likely that all Slates will be so involved. [More…]
It stressed that problems of communication, co-ordination and identification of areas of national importance in educational research exist al all levels of education. [More…]
Hence the establishment of effective means of communication of research findings and of research in progress was seen by that meeting as one of the necessary prerequisites to any effective expansion of educational research. [More…]
I propose to establish a body, to be known as the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education, to advise me on the ways in which this money should be distributed. [More…]
The Committee will be free to give consideration to proposals submitted from government bodies, such as State education departments, as well as from institutions. [More…]
by leave - The Opposition welcomes the statement that has just been made by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) and supports the idea of the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education. [More…]
Professor Partridge is not an educationalist. [More…]
An educationalist might attempt to steer too emphatically in the direction of his own educational specialities and interests. [More…]
There is however a probability that because the Chairman conies from a university - and after all universities have facilities for research into their own problems - this may lead to pre-school, primary, secondary, technical and agricultural education not receiving the optimum attention. [More…]
Although I realise that the $80,000 is not the sum total of the Commonwealth’s activities in educational research, we should still recognise that the $80,000 being spent in this direction this year is not a great deal for educational research, nor will it support a great range of research projects. [More…]
I should have thought that such a sum could be spent on pre-school education alone, on selected aspects of primary education alone or on secondary education alone. [More…]
The New South Wales State Government has to spend more on education and health alone than it receives from the Commonwealth. [More…]
New South Wales needs 50% more than its present allocation for education. [More…]
Therefore, when we come around to looking at who can go to universities, we find that the people who enter universities are those who have had the best educational background. [More…]
But the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) took up 10 minutes of the time allotted to the Grievance debate to read a statment that could have been made at any time of the day. [More…]
The word Education’ has been so bandied about in recent years that one wishes one could find a synonym rather than use the word. [More…]
Within the broad field of education there is today an activity we identify as the education of the deaf, lt is a bona fide, honest to goodness activity and it is necessarily related to other fields. [More…]
It is a subdivision of the broader field of education generally. [More…]
I say quite deliberately that no subject has been more studiously neglected than the education of profoundly deaf children. [More…]
They are entering a world in which economic and scientific advances require higher and higher levels of education. [More…]
Such a child will probably follow the general pattern and leave school at the age of 16 years with at best a grade V or grade VI education - much the same as he or she would have had 20 or 25 years ago. [More…]
Of course, there are the isolated and admirable examples of deaf children achieving fame despite the substandard facilities offered to them, but our education system is not directed towards this minority group. [More…]
Nine of those deaf children have proceeded to tertiary education. [More…]
Let me be frank: The disability resulting from severe deafness is both complex and pervasive and calls for a range of educational and other efforts that are equally complex. [More…]
The Federal Government will need to offer a programme of planning grants to be used to assist and to encourage the States to develop individual State plans for the education of the deaf. [More…]
They also look to New Zealand for help in many ways - as, for instance, the close relation between Fiji and Wellington, for assistance in education. [More…]
The standards of health and education in Asia are poor. [More…]
We are on the fringe of Asia and have to know as much about our neighbours as Britain ever did about her empire, yet there has been no co-ordinated attempt by the Department of Education and Science to see that these things are studied in a systematic way. [More…]
If we have not got them, it is high time that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) tried to find out why we lack this type of person. [More…]
It is a strong human desire for people to aim to leave to their children - not huge estates which are not protected by legislation but, on the contrary, heavily taxed - either businesses or enough of their savings for their children to have adequate comfort or an adequate education. [More…]
We will not promise the community that death duties can be lifted because there are great calls on the Government for finance for education, health and other things that we know about. [More…]
Fees are charged by the Administration for education provided at Territory primary and secondary schools, technical colleges, postsecondary training institutions and for adult education in Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
The most recent available document which surveys the types of social security schemes operating overseas is the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare’s publication ‘Social Security Programmes Throughout the World 1967’, which gives the principal features of schemes inthe following countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Ceylon, Chad, Chile, China (Nationalist), China (Communist), Colombia, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Dahomey, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Germany (Federal Republic), Germany (East), Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea (South), Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Luxembourg, Malagasy Republic, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Arab Republic, United Kingdom, United States of America, Upper Volta, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam (South), Vietnam (North), Yugoslavia, Zambia. [More…]
The complexity and diversity of the schemes operating in the countries surveyed by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare are such that it is not possible to provide a concise and accurate summary, and hence the publication mentioned above is recommended to the honourable member. [More…]
In contrast with this, the proportion of non-formal education programmes gained only 1.1% and the arts 0.6% of the total time. [More…]
As the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) said in his second reading speech, the provision of an Austraiian Institute of Marine Science in the tropics, particularly because of the various oceans which surround Australia, will make a most important contribution to both fundamental and applied science, not only in Australia but in the world. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science is aware that one of the planks of the Australian Labor Party policy is the establishment of an international airport at Townsville. [More…]
In his second reading speech, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), who is sitting at the table, neatly described the Government’s reasons for establishing the Marine Institute. [More…]
Australian education and research for generations have expected to be ill-equipped. [More…]
But I wish to commend again the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), the Government at large and those individual honourable members on either side of the House who have been responsible for having this come forward by or at this time. [More…]
I would underline that point verbally be cause that may well go for some of the universities in this country and for other institutions concerned with education of one sort or another. [More…]
The Commission recommends that the United Science Foundation expand its support for undergraduate and graduate education in the basic marine-related scientific disciplines and plan post doctoral and mid-career marine orientation programmes in consultation with the academic and industrial marine communities. [More…]
I would suggest that the first and foremost essential - I hope the Minister for Education and Science, who is sitting at the table, will hear me on this - is to have a good director for such an institute. [More…]
by leave - Mr Speaker, one of the major new immigration initiatives to be taken by the Government in the course of this Parliament is in the area of migrant education - an area vital to the effective integration of migrants into the Australian community. [More…]
The Government has approved details of a comprehensive programme of migrant education which will strengthen existing provisions and give effect to the policy announced by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) on 8th October 1969 of Commonwealth financial support for new, improved and expanded facilities for the instruction of child and adult migrants in the English language. [More…]
New areas of need have become evident, and whilst there have been practical reasons in the past to concentrate on speaking and understanding the English language, the comprehensive programme now proposed will provide for more emphasis in the future to be placed on reading and writing English, on meeting the individual needs of migrants and on their citizenship education. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) has been good enough to outline to the Parliament proposals dealing with migrant education to which he will give legislative effect in the near future. [More…]
The Minister’s statement that the Government will enlarge the child education programme and will extend it to include adults, both before and after entry, is something which all honourable members must welcome. [More…]
I am pleased also to note that evidently the Minister and the Department of Immigration are taking note of submissions made in this Parliament and at immigration conventions, and by interested organisations, about the need for something to be done in the field of education. [More…]
I am reminded particularly of the problem associated with the education of the children of migrants. [More…]
That is why the financial arrangements outlined by the Minister in relation to training courses and other aspects of education should be welcomed by all members of the Parliament. [More…]
I have had first hand experience of the migration education programme to date, having studied what happens overseas and what is done on shipboard. [More…]
I am reminded also of what was said at that Convention by Miss Olive Nichols, District Inspector of Schools in the Sydney city area for the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]
Whilst we deal with the problems of children and teachers and questions relating to the social and economic integration of migrants, at this stage there appears to be a much more lively interest being taken by the Government and organisations in the education of adult migrants. [More…]
I refer to a paper that was presented to the Citizenship Convention held this year in Canberra by Professor W. F. Connell, head of the Department of Education at Sydney University. [More…]
One aspect of the migration programme that appears to come under criticism at this stage is that, whilst thousands of migrants are being brought to the country, the States are not being given a commensurate amount of money to provide education, housing and other factors associated with a great migration programme. [More…]
If this programme is fulfilled in the way that the Minister has outlined today and comes to fruition as he has said, it undoubtedly will be a forward step in providing for the education of migrants and their integration into the community. [More…]
Immigration has thrown a great burden on the States and on education in particular. [More…]
I hope the Minister, in co-operation with the State Department of Education, can bring some immediate relief to the Chester Hill Public School through these proposals he has placed before the House. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
How many (a) government sponsored and (b) privately sponsored students in teacher education were admitted to each (i) teachers college (ii) college of advanced education and (iii) university in Australia for each of the years 1969 and 1970. [More…]
However, details of the total numbers in categories (a) and (b) for 1968 are contained in statistical bulletin Colleges of Advanced Education and Teachers Colleges’ published recently by the Commonwealth Statistician. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
10% of student places which become available as a result of Commonwealth expenditure should be open to students not bonded to the State Education Department. [More…]
The National Health and Medical Research Council has stated that health education is probably the most effective way to attack the smoking problem, and my Department has co-operated in the provision of this education to school children within the Commonwealth internal Territories. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
In America the former Secretary of Housing, Education and Welfare and now head of the Urban Coalition, John W. Gardner, has bluntly stated that the present system of medical care delivery is outworn, expensive and outrageously inefficient. [More…]
The third principle is that the national expenditure on health must rema n in balance with our expenditure in other areas such as education, national development and social welfare. [More…]
What action has been taken to rectify the position discussed by Professor W. F. Connell in his back-ground paper ‘Education for Adult Migrants’ for this year’s Citizenship Convention. [More…]
1 refer the honourable member to the Ministerial Statement which I made in the House of Representatives on 23rd April 1970 on Migrant Education. [More…]
The comprehensive programme outlined in that statement with respect to adult migrants and’ intensive courses will provide remedies in a number of the areas to which Professor Connell referred in his paper ‘Education for Adult Migrants’. [More…]
There are some aspects to which Professor Connell referred, for example, the emphasis upon vocational education and the question of allowances to be paid to migrant students attending part-time accelerated courses or, as Professor Connell suggests, semi-intensive courses, which are receiving further consideration by my Department in consultation with the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
However, the National Health and Medical Research Council has stated that health education is probably the most effective way to attack the smoking problem. [More…]
Education is generally the responsibility of State Governments, but the Commonwealth is co-operating in the provision of health education within Commonwealth internal Territories. [More…]
However, the student general nurse carries different responsibilities to those of the nursing aide, and is in the process of receiving an education which leads to a professional career in nursing. [More…]
To be eligible for selection, applicants must meet qualifications required in respect of age and education and .have a minimum of 20 hours flying training. [More…]
What are the respective salaries and allowances paid to (a) Europeans and (b) indigenes employed by the Administration of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in the positions of (i) Education Officer, Grade 1, (ii) Assistant Magistrate, (iii) Cooperative Officer, Grade I (iv) Patrol Officer, (v) first-class tradesmen and (vi) medical technologists. [More…]
Perhaps a more equitable approach is to finance health services from taxation just as we finance education, social welfare and most other public services in this country. [More…]
It applies in education and other fields. [More…]
Yet this will not deter the Government, I am sure, on any future occasion from coming out and again costing Labor’s proposals as far as health, education or any other matter might be concerned. [More…]
During the course of the last week or so th.- following question on notice regarding a matter of education was submitted: [More…]
ls it a fact that there is a growing crisis in education in South Australia, particularly at the primary and secondary levels, and that the State is unable to meet pressing demands in the areas of building, transport, teacher training, administrative costs and salaries. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the views of education experts thai the situation is the direct consequence of the lack of Commonwealth finance at all levels of education. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), to whom the question was directed, answered: [More…]
It is a truism to say that there is not an education authority in the Commonwealth that is not crying out for more money for immediate and urgent needs, lt is equally true to say that the State education authorities and their Governments, whatever their Party complexions, are finding State financial resources quite inadequate to meet new and multiplying demands. [More…]
Since the end of World War II there have been many inquiries, much research both here and abroad, visits and return visit’s of education administrators and practising teachers at home and all around the world, and ceaseless representations to governments on education matters by teacher organisations. [More…]
The one common denominator that emerges from all these activities is a seemingly unanimous opinion and conclusion that the urgent problems of education can be solved only by the injection of massive Federal financial aid to State education systems. [More…]
As it now seems abundantly clear that this desirable end can only be achieved by the advent of a Labor administration in the Commonwealth, it is nevertheless possible that this Government, lacking an overall national education policy and with its well-known penchant for piecemeal and patchwork remedies, might consider the granting of special aid in 2 areas of very special need in the field of education. [More…]
These are expensive enough to be outside the capacity, in spite of subsidy systems, of State Departments of Education and there are still many parts of the Commonwealth where there are few central libraries, even poorly equipped ones, in primary schools at all. [More…]
In the light of these costs, the following comments in a report published last year by the American Library Association and the National Education Association of the United Slates of America might well apply to Australia: [More…]
Education of high quality is expensive, but far more cosily is the waste of human resources in poorly educated students whose talents are lost to this nation. [More…]
I referred earlier to the lack of an overall national education policy on the part of this Government. [More…]
In 1969 the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), in a statement publishing Labor’s education aims in the journal of the South Australian Institute of Teachers, said it was his opinion that the Government Parties sought continuously to dampen public interest in education matters by their denial of a critical situation in education and by resisting demands for a national inquiry into education. [More…]
But if palliatives are the best - and they seem to be - that the people of Australia can expect from the Government, I would draw their attention in addition to the matter I have spoken of with regard to the extension of the library grants scheme to primary schools, to another area of the education scene in South Australia where urgent action is needed. [More…]
The problems of retardation in South Australian schools are handled by a Psychology Branch within the Education Department. [More…]
In doing so J would point out that this country’s expenditure per head on education in relation to its gross national product is still well below that of other comparable countries, ft compares with that of Afghanistan. [More…]
The quality of the education we give our children will, in the long run, decide the future of our country. [More…]
This Government has failed to recognise the needs of education, lt has made a political whipping horse of education and has been completely hypocritical and discriminatory in its attitude towards education generally. [More…]
Taking into consideration the fact that the Government has been in office for so long, one would expect it to look at education from an adult point of view. [More…]
and (5) The Adult Education Council is an advisory body only; it advises the Administrator on adult education and comprises representatives of Administration departments, voluntary organisations and indigenous interests. [More…]
The actual conduct of adult education activities are undertaken by Departments, voluntary agencies and individuals. [More…]
There are 5,976 adult students enrolled in courses conducted by Department of Education. [More…]
The course also contains an element of general education, including simple arithmetic. [More…]
Secondary classes (evening and correspondence): The classes are designed to cater for working adults who wish to further their formal education. [More…]
The courses are concerned largely with the introduction of new food crops and cash crops, improvements in diet and health education; the promotion of women’s interests and activities: the detection and control of diseases of humans, animals and crops; and improving production methods to provide money income. [More…]
and (4) There are 5,500 Papuans and New Guineans enrolled in adult education courses conducted primarily for them, i.e., literacy, secondary and technical classes. [More…]
There is no recorded breakdown into racial groups of adult students attending other courses conducted by the Department of Education but it is estimated that of the remainder 80 are Papuans and New Guineans and 396 are expatriate students. [More…]
Analyse just about any of the big issues - Vietnam, the right to strike, education, law and order - and it boils down to a class question, meaning that is a conflict as to whose interests should come first - the bosses or the working class. [More…]
We did not impose charges for primary and secondary education. [More…]
Not only would the Papuan and New Guinean interests be protected in all enterprises which might be instituted, but the Council also notes the major effort that would be devoted to education and training so as to provide the skills necessary for active participation. [More…]
If we can have a total involvement of the fire brigade, if education and the police services are universal, why can health services not be universal as well? [More…]
ft seems to me that our society has arrived at the stage at which the effort we put into giving totality and universality to education ought to be put into health services too. [More…]
The average working class man who arrives in Australia with his family is struck by the inordinate costs of social welfare in Australia both in the field of education and in the field of health, lt would pay honourable members to make a study of the advantages and disadvantages of the British medical service. [More…]
I hope that within a short time I will be able to confer with the other Commonwealth Ministers involved - my colleagues the Minister for Primary Industry and the Minister for Education and Science, and others - and report to Cabinet. [More…]
In the debates that have preceded the present debate we have applied ourselves to the consideration of questions concerning the nation’s health and the housing and education of our people, and in every regard, no matter what test one applies, this Government is found wanting, that it has let the Australian people down. [More…]
The actual matters in the Bill are themselves not very explicit but in his second reading speech the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) referred to the importance of a study of marine life, the potential of the sea and, particularly, the need for conservation of the marine environment. [More…]
My answer to the last part of the honourable gentleman’s question is that I would agree with the social worker, who must be respected because, as I understand it, he has had a great amount of experience with young people taking drugs, if he said that health education wrongly directed or in the hands of amateurs can be counterproductive or can be more harmful than useful. [More…]
So the only conceivable answer is health education and the provision of the appropriate amount of money to support the kind of health education programme that is needed. [More…]
The kind of health education we need would be not only the education of parents so that they will be aware of the possible dangers and how to alert their children to those dangers, but also the education of the community itself to look for things such as the quality of life rather than the material things which tend to drive people on to seeking false methods of gaining euphoria. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) in introducing the Bill said: [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science mentioned in the course of his second reading speech that this conversion would be a relatively long term process. [More…]
We probably will not be fully metric until about 1980 according to the plan which has been outlined to us by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen). [More…]
Almost without exception education authorities in this country favour the early adoption of the metric system because it would simplify and unify the teaching of mathematics and science. [More…]
But it is possible, as has been said by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) and other speakers, that the time factor could be important in this conversion to the metric system. [More…]
So an interdepartmental committee has been established under the chairmanship of a representative of my colleague, the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for Banks (Mr Martin) that public servants have kept pace with the rise in national productivity, but the benefits of increased productivity can be and are distributed in many other ways - in higher wages, the avoidance of price increases that might otherwise occur, and increased expenditure on community services such as education and social welfare. [More…]
A lot of these people who live in this area of low income do not have the benefits of much education and find it difficult to equip themselves to handle the challenges of daily living. [More…]
We do not seem to have any quibble about public inquiries when we are dealing with public mental health or education. [More…]
This is so also in respect of education. [More…]
This incompetence is illustrated further by the attitude to this whole affair of the former Attorney-General, now the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Bowen), who has adopted a rather strange silence in this matter. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) assured the House that he had looked at the documents tabled last Friday wilh anxious care. [More…]
At that third meeting, the one on 26th September, the Minister for Education and Science was in atendance. [More…]
It is true that at that time the Minister for Education and Science was not a member of the Cabinet. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science is one of the guilty men in that Cabinet. [More…]
There is no escape by the Minister for Education and Science through the unworthy subterfuge that the Minister for National Development was exceeding his instructions. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science would have given anxious care to these proceedings at the March meeting. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science accompanied the Minister for National Development to the meeting on 26th September. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science, then the AttorneyGeneral, would have read these minutes. [More…]
The silence of the Attorney-General, as he then was - now the Minister for Education and Science - is one of the most sinister and ignoble features of all these proceedings. [More…]
It is quite clear from this transcript that the Attorney-General, the present Minister for Education and Science, was continuing the discussions which the Minister for National Development had initiated in March last year. [More…]
Now, Sir, the matter boils down to this: Every Minister who was at the September meeting - Federal and State - and who has recorded a view on the matter, except our Minister for Education and Science, is firmly of the opinion that a commitment was entered into by the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science, as Attorney-General, went along with everything they said. [More…]
Any but the most legalistic reading of the transcripts will bear out the belief of every Minister who had spoken before today, and the transcript gives the lie to what the Minister for Education and Science has said in his first statement on this matter immediately before I rose. [More…]
One could cite quote after quote from the minutes, including statements by the Minister for Education and Science, that verify and underline this. [More…]
Did the Minister for Education and Science inform the post election Cabinet of the undertakings to which he had committed the Government in company with the honourable member for Farrer? [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science is as deeply involved in this matter. [More…]
They have been knowingly dishonoured, at least by the Prime Minister, under whose authority his Ministers acted and in the name of whose Government those undertakings were given, and by the Minister for Education and Science, who was a direct participant in them. [More…]
It is acknowledged by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), who was then the AttorneyGeneral, that when we met in September we were discussing Commonwealth legislation beyond the 3-mile limit and State legislation up to the 3-mile limit. [More…]
In other words, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), the former Attorney-General, will be left high and dry. [More…]
It is worth noting that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), who was then the Attorney-General, appeared on behalf of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Mr Bowen, then the Attorney-General and now Minister for Education and Science and a member of the Cabinet. [More…]
1 mean the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
If the terms of surrender about which I heard are drawn up, I would say that the evidence today of the Minister for Education and Science will prove that he is not the only member of the Ministry who is completely wrong in relation to the interpretation of the situation presented by the honourable member for Fairer. [More…]
We have heard the former Attorney-General, the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
What has been said about the honourable member for Farrer I believe can be said across the whole nation with regard to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen). [More…]
But, of course, one has to take into account the fact that the Minister for Education and Science was present at the meeting. [More…]
The honourable member for Chisholm referred to the honourable the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), formerly the AttorneyGeneral, as having had such and such to say of the discussions. [More…]
As far as I am concerned, following the 15 years for which 1 have been a member of this House, if I have to place reliance upon the judgment, the integrity, the sincerity and the keenness of observation of the honourable member for Farrer against that of the present Minister for Education and Science, my vote goes to the honourable member for Farrer because the Minister for Education and Science, during his time in this House as Attorney-General, continually associated himself with the [More…]
Honourable members have heard today a clear assertion by my colleague, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) that at the time he did not understand that a commitment had been given on 26th September 1969 of the sort that the honourable member for Farrer believes was given. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable member for Farrer himself would be the first to agree that my colleague, the Minister for Education and Science, would not make that assertion if he did not firmly and sincerely believe in it. [More…]
The conclusion to which I have come, reading the transcript for myself with a great deal of anxious care, is the same as that of my colleague the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
The facts to which I have referred in relation to my colleague the Minister for Education and Science, I suggest, dispose of any suggestion that he has been guilty of a breach of faith in this matter. [More…]
Some action may be taken on Sir George Currie’s working party’s recommendation for an independent education authority- [More…]
This Bill provides legislative basis for the comprehensive programme of migrant education which I announced in the House on 23rd April 1970. [More…]
The Bill, Mr Speaker, relates to the total area of migrant education, which lor purposes of simplicity may be dealt with under 3 main headings - the adult programme, intensive courses and child migrant education. [More…]
As foreshadowed in my statement on 23rd April the Government has approved the detail of a major review of the adult education programme in source countries where pre-embarkation instruction is given, during the journey to Australia anr! [More…]
The number of ship-board education officers will be increased and with the growing emphasis upon air travel we will consider providing educational facilities in aircraft as circumstances permit. [More…]
As a general rule only migrants who have reached a certain educational level are able to benefit effectively from this particular type of instruction. [More…]
The child migrant education programme represents a new area of Commonwealth participation. [More…]
Because what is planned in the adult programme and with intensive courses is essentially an extension of existing programmes, the Bill is concerned largely with the area of the major new initiative in child migrant education. [More…]
The short title - Immigration (Education) Act 1970 - indicates that the source of power for the Bill derives from the immigration provision in the Constitution. [More…]
The State Education Departments and the independent school authorities are being informed that the Commonwealth will meet from existing appropriation costs within the approved programme which are incurred in the special instruction of migrant children as from 1st April 1970. [More…]
Non-English speaking immigrants are not specified because English speaking immigrants and their children as well as their non-English speaking counterparts are to be provided with courses in citizenship education which are referred to in paragraph (b) of sub-clause (1.) [More…]
Clause 5 relates to the proposed new arrangements for the child migrant education programme as well as to existing arrangements for adult migrants and for fulltime intensive courses of instruction. [More…]
The Department of Education and Science, which will be assisting in the development of the child migrant education programme in the States and will be responsible for producing appropriate teaching materials, will be establishing a committee to advise on the design and content and production of text books and other material for the child programme. [More…]
The committee will include representatives from State Education Departments as well as the Department of Immigration and the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
Some State Departments of Education have already taken steps to meet the problems encountered by migrant children in their schools and for this purpose are employing teachers in the special instruction of migrant children. [More…]
I referred in my statement to the House on 23rd April to the need for research in the fields of both adult and child migrant education. [More…]
Clause 8 provides authority for the conduct of such research which will be undertaken by the Department of “ Immigration and the Department of Education and Science in conjunction with the research units of the State Education Departments and of appropriate tertiary institutions. [More…]
of clause 9 is intended to provide for the situation where the State Education Department or independent school authority may wish to purchase teaching and learning materials which are not suitable for production under the arrangement referred to in clause 5 but which may be considered necessary to the effective implementation of the child programme. [More…]
Clause 10 makes the normal provision for the administration of any part of the migrant education programme to be delegated by the Minister and is in accordance with the provision of such delegation used frequently in other Acts. [More…]
The Bill is intended to give legislative force to the programme of migrant education which the Government believes to be a matter of national importance. [More…]
5m has been provided in the current financial year for migrant education. [More…]
Education: Aid to Non-Government Schools (Question No. [More…]
99) Mr Whitlam asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a survey of aid to non-government schools carried out by the Professor of Education at Monash University, Professor P. J. Fensham. [More…]
Education: Ministerial Meetings (Question No, 92) [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What requests or suggestions were made at the meetings of the Directors-General of Education in Melbourne in November and of the Ministers of Education in Melbourne in November and of the Ministers of Education in Perth in February for legislative or administrative action by (a) the Commonwealth, (b) the Territories and (c) the States. [More…]
I think that the November meeting referred to in the honourable member’s question was a meeting held in Melbourne on 17th November 1969 to discuss educational television. [More…]
The meeting was convened by my colleague, the Postmaster-General, and attended by the State Ministers for Education and myself. [More…]
The State Directors-General of Education and representatives of the various Government authorities concerned with educational television in Australia were also present. [More…]
The meeting recommended that a special committee comprising Commonwealth and State representatives should be established to study recent technical development in the field of educational television and report to another meeting of Federal and State Ministers. [More…]
At the meeting the State Education Ministers requested that additional finance should be made available to the A.B.C. [More…]
to expand its activities in the educational television area. [More…]
The meeting, which was a meeting of the Australian Education Council comprising the State Ministers for Education, took place on February 23 and 24. [More…]
I attended this meeting on part of the second day and following consideration of the preliminary reports of the nation-wide survey of educational needs which is being sponsored by the Council, it was agreed that a joint Commonwealth/State Working Party be set up 10 co-ordinate the reports of the various Stale surveys for submission to a special meeting of State Ministers and the Commonwealth Minister to be held in late May 1970. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The Acting Commonwealth Statistician has advised that the development of statistics on the necessary basis has been taken up as part of a comprehensive examination of education statistics generally. [More…]
He points out, however, that the development of uniform statistics of technical education is made difficult because of differences between States in the counting of students and the organisation of courses. [More…]
746) Mr Whitlam asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
However, as university graduates enrolled at teachers colleges frequently undertake the Diploma of Education, figures are shown in the table below of Australian National University graduates who commenced the Diploma of Education at other Australian universities in 1968 and 1969. [More…]
While no comprehensive details on the incidence of disability among children in overseas countries arc known to be available, a recent report by the British Department of Education and Science estimated the number of disabled children in the United Kingdom who required special education as 1.32 per cent of the school agc population. [More…]
1 ask the PostmasterGeneral whether any consideration has been given to supplying television education programmes on tapes or by some other means to schools in remote areas where television is unlikely to extend for some considerable time. [More…]
Finally, if the matter has not been considered, will the Postmaster-General give it his early attention with a view to giving children in those remote areas the opportunity to gain an improved education? [More…]
A meeting attended by myself and the Minister for Education and Science on behalf of the Commonwealth, and by State Ministers for Education, was held late last year to discuss educational television. [More…]
At that time Ministers believed it was desirable not to proceed, apart from the expenditure of a little more money, beyond the point which the Australian Broadcasting Commission had attained in relation to educational television. [More…]
Until we have further discussions and there appears to be unanimity between the State Ministers and the Commonwealth any further expansion in this area of educational television is not likely. [More…]
Extreme disillusionment with remuneration, working conditions, education and training, and professional status have pushed nurses to the unparalleled position of threatening strike action. [More…]
On the score of education and training of nurses, only now is there some activity to upgrade their standard and quality. [More…]
This belatedness is in site of the references of the Martin and Wark committees on higher education. [More…]
The Martin Committee urged, to use its own words, the provision of higher education for all who have the desire and capacity for it. [More…]
The Wark Committee, as far back as 1966, urged positive action on higher education for nurses at colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Entrance standards and training techniques and the possible employment of the resources of colleges of advanced education require further examination. [More…]
Quite obviously education for nurses needs radical recasting. [More…]
Remuneration, conditions of employment, education, training and, most importantly, professional status drastically need attention. [More…]
It is exceeded only by their average per capita expenditure on primary education, which amounted to SI 7.03. [More…]
Amongst the major problems facing the nursing profession today one of the most important is education. [More…]
Quite recently a report prepared for me by a special Australian Capital Territory committee on nursing education has been released for public discussion. [More…]
The report stresses the need to adapt and improve the educational component of nursing training and recommends an early examination of the feasibility of establishing a central nursing school in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I have also, in line with recommendations in the report, asked my Department to look into the question of an Australian Capital Territory nursing education authority and to discuss with the appropriate authorities the possible establishment of a tertiary level basic course in general nursing and post-graduate courses. [More…]
1 have no doubt that this subject of nursing education is one which can be usefully discussed between the States and the Commonwealth and 1 will do my best to see that such discussions take place. [More…]
According to the report prepared for me by the Australian Capital Territory Committee on Nursing Education it seems there may have to be a change in emphasis away from hospital oriented nursing training towards a more generalised nursing and public health basic education. [More…]
In addition even to the factors of financial rewards for nurses and of education, there are other matters which impinge on nursing. [More…]
For example, the Commonwealth has seen fit to intervene in the field of tertiary education, in certain fields of university education and in respect of providing colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Well, is nursing training not education? [More…]
Is it not tertiary education? [More…]
This means, of course, that the pay, education and status of nursing aides must be upgraded. [More…]
On the matter of education we of the Opposition support the principle espoused by the Truskett Committee in New South Wales, that nursing training should no longer be the responsibility of the hospitals but that a special college should be set up charged with the training of all nurses and that that college in each State should have the status of a college of advance education. [More…]
It is not just a question of salaries, although that is important, but also of working conditions, education and professional status. [More…]
This is the place above all where new educational techniques ought to be applied. [More…]
As one who has been involved in educational training, I can say that they certainly do not get it in our teachers colleges. [More…]
There seems to be implicit in this whole business the old concept that applies in technical education. [More…]
This is a belief we have to get over, and 1 am heartened to hear that at least here in the national capital inquiries are being made and moves are afoot, to bring nursing training within the province of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It is heartening that it will happen in the new college of advanced education at Bathurst. [More…]
To review the role of the nurse and the midwife in the hospital and the community and the education and training required for that role, so that the best use is made of available manpower to meet present needs and the needs of an integrated health service. [More…]
In a changing society where the standard of education is rising, it is only right that these young lasses should be assisted in every way possible to upgrade their standard so that they can take their place in the world in a very worthy profession. [More…]
We should be looking towards investing as much as we can on education, because this is a very great way of increasing our national prosperity. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government is at present conducting a number of inquiries into particular aspects of education such as the teaching of Asian languages and cultures in Australian schools. [More…]
1 assume however that the honourable member’s question refers to the nationwide survey of educational needs which is currently in progress. [More…]
Although the Commonwealth Government is participating in this survey in respect of the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, the survey is sponsored by the Australian Education Council which comprises the si* State Ministers of Education. [More…]
(a) and (b) The Australian Education Council survey covers all aspects of primary and secondary education and teacher education in government and non-government schools. [More…]
It is being carried out by the education departments and by the non-government school authorities in each State. [More…]
and the Northern Territory, (c) The Survey of government schools was commenced in mid 1969 and non-governmental schools were invited to participate later in the year, (d) At the Australian Education Council Conference, held in Perth on 23 and 24 February 1970, the principal item of business was a review of progress of this survey. [More…]
(e) As the survey is under the sponsorship of the Australian Education Council, any publication of the report is a matter for the Council to decide. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
My Department continually reviews assistance available to Australian students in consultation with State Education Departments. [More…]
of Advanced Education and with the National Union of Australian University Students. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What number and percentage of (a) male and (b) female teachers (i) resigned or (ii) took leave from the Education Department in each State in the last year for which he can obtain this information. [More…]
How many (a) male and (b) female teachers were employed by the Education Department in each State in the last year for which he can obtain this information. [More…]
How many (a) male and (b) female students were being trained as teachers by (he Education Department in each State in the last year for which he can obtain this information. [More…]
(i) The following table shows the number and percentage of total teachers who resigned from the Education Department in each State for the latest years for which information is available. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Is the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education currently proposing to incorporate training in speech therapy into colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The speech therapy colleges in New South Wales and Victoria have been supported as colleges of advanced education by joint Commonwealth Slate grants since 1967. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s decision to support these speech therapy courses in this way was reached after the States concerned had made submissions seeking such support, and the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education had recommended to the Government, in 1966 and again in 1969, that this support should be provided. [More…]
Graduates from the Australian speech therapy colleges are admitted to higher study courses in some overseas institutions, and their qualifications are expected to be more generally accepted when the work of colleges of advanced education becomes better understood. [More…]
Since the two colleges have been accepted as colleges of advanced education they have had access to greatly increased financial resources which has enabled them to raise both the number of students and the quality of their training. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
1 would not say that the problem has been solved any more than I would say that the difficulties of Aboriginal education and employment have been totally solved in any part of Australia. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education and Science had brought to his attention the occurrence of a series of fires in Melbourne when State schools have been destroyed or, iri some cases, seriously damaged? [More…]
Will he see whether there is some form of assistance that the Commonwealth can give to Victoria to help it overcome this loss to its education system that it has suffered? [More…]
In no State of Australia is the person in charge of the education of the deaf an educator of the deaf. [More…]
States do not even have comprehensive State plans for the education of their deaf. [More…]
There is no single authority to co-ordinate educational and para-educational facilties within most States. [More…]
Grants from the Fund to the CSIRO will in future be made by the Minister for Primary Industry after consultation with the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
The rates which we recommend are in our opinion no more than sufficient to ensure that Members shall have available for the maintenance of themselves and their families, for the upkeep of their homes, for the education of their children, and for other outgoings normally paid by persons in private employment out of their remuneration, the full amount of their parliamentary salaries (less, of course, the compulsory Retiring Allowance contributions). [More…]
This does not imply that 1 think parliamentarians have to have any spec : al education - tertiary education - though this will probably increasingly be the case. [More…]
Men of education and quality, but without private means, would be deterred from entering public life. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), who is in charge of the passage of this Bill, is present in the chamber and I hope he will take note not only of my remarks but those of the learned bodies throughout the world who have considered marine science at great length. [More…]
I believe that there is great opportunity here for the Minister for Education and Science to discuss with the MinisterinCharge of Tourist Activities (Senator Wright) the best way that the new Institute can be exploited from the tourists’ point of view. [More…]
As the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H, Bowen) has shown an obvious interest in matters of scientific research, I should like to draw his attention to two previous proposals that have been put to the Government by the Australian Academy of Science, both of which are in a field comparable with the proposed Australian Institute of Marine Science. [More…]
This legislation enables Monash University and the University of Tasmania to complete 2 halls of residence, which were not the subject of Commonwealth matching grants in the last triennium because, in the words of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) ‘unavoidable delays in planning meant that the amount of Slate funds expended on these projects up to 31st December 1969 was insufficient to attract the full Commonwealth grant’. [More…]
And these men arc distinguished by a certain sanity, which, to be sure, may in part bc the product of social and political experience, but is assuredly in part due to the type of education that the English receive in school and college. [More…]
We talk in America endlessly of educational technique; there Ls, I grant, something in it. [More…]
Clearly this is a matter on which we could speak at great length if we were to take into account the general philosophy of university education, what we do for the students during their time at university and how they are accommodated. [More…]
If it were not for the existence of that local university college it would not be possible for the sons and daughters of many workers to live at home, work part time and go along to the university college part time to acquire a tertiary education. [More…]
I know from my own experiences the advantages of a higher education and what I missed by not having the opportunity to go to a university. [More…]
We are on the thin end of the ration financially from the Kensington University and the sooner we are severed from them and the sooner wc can speak in our own right and get our own direct allocation the better it will be for tertiary education in the area. [More…]
The part they play in education might be demonstrated by the fact that in April 1969 there were 46 affiliated residential colleges accommodating 6,641 students and 26 halls of residence accommodating 4,313 students. [More…]
compulsory and secular education of all citizens placed a heavy financial burden on the States. [More…]
In supporting the Bill, I express the hope that we will continue to improve in every field the standard of education throughout the Commonwealth because we have a need to do it. [More…]
Those people who have studied education overseas realise this only too well. [More…]
This Bill deals with the problems of Roberts Hall and, as the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) staled in his second reading speech, due to delays in planning, the matching grants from the State had not caught up with the Commonwealth amount for the triennium to 1969. [More…]
Residential halls as such assist this education by helping students to sort out what they feel is right and wrong and to express their feelings in this way. [More…]
I am sure it is going to give us much better rounded personalities among the educated people the universities produce because despite all that is said about university students, the majority of them come out as useful citizens, some of them perhaps with my political views or the political views of the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
But I would suggest that the gaining of a degree is not necessarily the measure of the education of the individual and that many who have failed to finish but who have essayed this part time activity are much better suited for the community because of it. [More…]
But more than that, as some honourable members have been pointing out, they provide a more rounded education at the university for those students who are able to attend them. [More…]
We regard them as a valuable means of assisting in education at the universities. [More…]
Recently the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) visited one of the schools in Tregear. [More…]
The position is becoming completely chaotic, notwithstanding that the Housing Commission planned in co-operation with the New South Wales Department of Education to build schools which it thought would cope with the school populations of those suburbs. [More…]
I appeal to the Minister for Education and Science to co-operate with his counterpart in the New South Wales Government, firstly on the provision of educational facilities in the area. [More…]
I think, if he could co-operate with and meet the local State member, Mr Southee, the member for Blacktown, at the moment - a redistribution of boundaries has just occurred - the Minister for Education in the State Parliament as well as myself as the local Federal member, we could sit down and try to work out some ways and means of overcoming what will become a very serious problem. [More…]
Education is only one of the problems of this area. [More…]
However, as a first step to overcoming the great problems of this area I ask the Minister to give an undertaking that we can set to with the local State member and the Minister’s counterpart in the State Parliament to overcome the serious problems in regard to the educational facilities in this very important area. [More…]
It is an Australia-wide problem and the honourable member will probably be aware that a survey is being conducted of the needs both in secondary and primary education as well as teacher training for the next 5 years. [More…]
I want to deal with two matters concerning education that are vital to Victorian people and in particular to country students in that State. [More…]
Most importantly Labor’s proposal in Victoria is that it will concentrate upon coordinating adult education, and predominant amongst its tasks will be the provision of external studies. [More…]
While the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) is at the table, I would like to ask him whether such a request for assistance from the Commonwealth has been put to him by the Minister for Education in Victoria. [More…]
There is one last point I want to deal with: I asked a question of the Minister for Education and Science last week concerning the very distinct likelihood that fees in colleges of advanced education and universities in Victoria would rise next year.’ [More…]
I would point out at this stage - I am making this statement on the basis of what has happened in other States - that in the other 5 States of Australia the fees at universities and colleges of advanced education have been rising. [More…]
Is this because Sir Henry Bolte believes in free education or cheap education? [More…]
Does he want to remove the inequalities in education? [More…]
The reply the Minister for Education and Science gave me last week was very interesting. [More…]
Naturally, being a representative of the Liberal Government in Canberra, the Minister for Education and Science was not going to say that Sir Henry Bolte has not raised them for the very simple, shrewd opportunist reason that he has an election to face. [More…]
The answer was an evasive one but what the Minister for Education and Science did say in reply was interesting. [More…]
He said virtually that every State government, under the existing financial arrangements between the State and Commonwealth governments, has a vested interest in raising university fees and college of advanced education fees. [More…]
It has less money to pay towards the cost of the universities and colleges of advanced education and it can get that recouped by the Commonwealth, anyway. [More…]
Now, what has happened in the field of colleges of advanced education? [More…]
In the New South Wales Institute of Technology there has been an overall increase of up to 50%; in the Tasmanian Advanced College of Education, an increase of 10%; in the South Australian Institute of Technology, a 20% increase; and in the Western Australian Institute of Technology, an increase of up to 50%. [More…]
Is it because Sir Henry Bolte believes in cheap education? [More…]
Does he want to cut down the costs of education? [More…]
Mr N. H. BOWEN (Parramatta - Minister for Education and Science) - by leave - I want to make 2 brief points as the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Kennedy) was dealing with matters of education. [More…]
The second thingI would say without going into the matter of the policy speech is to call the attention of honourable members to the reports which have been appearing in the Press of the policy on education stated by the Victorian Executive of the Australian Labor Party, of the ultimate reduction and phasing out of aid to independent schools. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Must not the Government’s neglect seriously aggravate inequality of educational Opportunity to the special disadvantage of less well off families and also impair the flow of skill so sorely needed in the Australian economy? [More…]
Year by year there is a review of the whole spectrum of scholarships, including not only secondary and technical scholarships but entrance scholarships to universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
One can take that point of view not only in relation to education and science but in relation to practically every other field. [More…]
I think he is probably aware that that is the reason why the effort has been put into tertiary education scholarships up to this point of time. [More…]
It is a significant measure advancing teacher education. [More…]
The only criticism J make is that the Commonwealth intervention in this field of tertiary education would have transformed education if it had been carried through a decade or more ago when I recollect it being urged by the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) and others. [More…]
These certificates should relate to a form of teacher educa tion which ensures that their professional capacity is remedial for children who are in need of remedial teaching - a weakness of the Australian educational system. [More…]
The Commonwealth should use its influence to see that teacher education is truly professional. [More…]
This assistance to education is crucial because the teaching profession’s quality determines the quality of the rest of education. [More…]
In other words, he must arrive at some philosophy of education. [More…]
The education of the teacher must be broad, even if the teacher specialises. [More…]
If it moves further to use its good offices with the States to get all 7 governments to make a true profession out of teaching, to ensure higher national standards and to link the teachers colleges with university education faculties, it will be carrying teacher education forward to its next phase. [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) that this contribution by the Government is extremely generous, particularly in view of the fact that Australia, like almost every country in the world these days, sees a most explosive position in regard to the provision of education and, of course, the most vital elements of all in education are those who teach. [More…]
We have a very special environment in northern Australia and one would logically, I imagine, establish a teachers training college - one of the essential facets of education generally - in a town that is renowned for education, if such a town is offering. [More…]
But your own State of New South Wales, Mr Deputy Speaker, has recently proved, I believe by a survey, that it has set out to create special instruments and special bodies to concentrate on and give their specialised attention to decentralisation, particularly in the category of education. [More…]
The survey showed they had encouraged, deliberately, various enterprises, including educational facilities to participate. [More…]
We greatly appreciate the fact that the increase has been from $24m to $30m in this tri.ennium and I am sure it w l) add greatly to the wealth of culture and education in this nation. [More…]
Nevertheless, the provision of this money is not in itself sufficient because there seems to be plenty of evidence to clearly indicate that despite the fact that this money will be made available and the States will make good use of it, there is still a crisis in education. [More…]
Mr Cutler, the New South Wales Minister for Education, has said: ‘I would love to do more. [More…]
Some responsible authority should examine the problems associated with the education of our children. [More…]
But, from a national point of view, there should be an immediate investigation of the broad needs in education so that every youngster, no matter what school he attends, gets a proper education. [More…]
So we have the problem that in middle class or poor areas there are fewer opportunities for youngsters with ability to obtain sufficient education and fewer opportunities to attend university. [More…]
The Premier’s argument was with the Commonwealth, not with the Minister for Education and Science - we will exempt him from this one. [More…]
He said that one-tenth of that amount would be of immense help to him in New South Wales for works associated with health, education and so on. [More…]
In the field of education alone, the State Government of New South Wales is spending on the State schools $60 per pupil. [More…]
In looking at where responsibility lies, why would not education get a top priority? [More…]
What opportunity of progress has any youngster if he is not given assistance and given every opportunity to have the maximum education? [More…]
I heard the Minister for Education and Science say earlier that he has to look at the available resources. [More…]
There is something radically wrong with the administration of education, bearing in mind that State taxes in New South Wales are amongst the highest in Australia. [More…]
I think it may be fairly stated that this Bill is to provide massive aid for education. [More…]
At the same time as that is known, I would like to make it clear, as I think has already been suggested elsewhere, that this measure should be seen as part of an education programme of much wider connotation than mere bricks and mortar. [More…]
It is fairly clear that the States are as receptive to aid for education as they are to aid for any other purpose. [More…]
I understand that this is more so in the field of secondary and primary education - although the need has not very much arisen yet - than in education at the tertiary level. [More…]
The honourable member for KingsfordSmith (Mr Lionel Bowen) in the major part of his speech drew attention to some other areas of education not dealt with in this Bill. [More…]
I can only suggest that, while what he said may have some element of truth and justice, there is not very much point at this stage in trying to bring in the whole field of education beyond and below the level dealt with in the Bill. [More…]
If we do, we find that the honourable member for KingsfordSmith says that he wants a load of aid in other areas of education. [More…]
I indicated in my opening remarks that I think this measure is a great, contribution to education in the broad and to teachers colleges in particular, but to me the structural features of education are much more important. [More…]
A feature of the second reading speech of the Minister for Education and Science was that he drew attention to 10% at least of places in these colleges being made available for private students, that is students not bonded to State Education Departments. [More…]
If there is any point to this it is that education is a continuum. [More…]
I prefer to leave this question to another time because as I said when referring to other people raising this point, this is not the place to discuss the whole broad field of education. [More…]
Another allied facet of this matter which should be given attention is the provision for teacher training in colleges of advanced education of $500,000 in Tasmania, $3.2m in New South Wales and S1.5m in Queensland. [More…]
This raises another educational issue about which, I have no doubt, the Minister could give me some assurance. [More…]
I know that some people, including myself, are a little unclear as to what might be the relationship between teacher training colleges and advanced colleges of education. [More…]
However, on consulting the dictionary I found that this is of classical origin; so perhaps he is fulfilling his dual role as Minister for Education and Minister for Science in an admirable fashion. [More…]
I trust that this Bill will be seen as a significant development of national education. [More…]
Despite the imperfections of what we may have in other fields and the fact that we are not able to tax ourselves out of existence, I trust that shortly we will see other areas of education develop in similar fashion under this Government. [More…]
There are some comments I would like to make in reference to the second reading speech of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen). [More…]
This increase is designed to assist the States with their teacher education programmes at a reasonable and realistic level. [More…]
It warns that the second generation post-war baby boom children - due to hit the schools in the 1970s - will make it impossible for the Education Department to adequately staff schools later in the decade. [More…]
Yet the Education Department plans to provide only an extra 1,250 places by 1973,’ he said. [More…]
Present Education Department plans provide for $20 million being spent over five years, but if we are to have any hope of meeting the second baby boom at least $30 million needs to be spent on teacher colleges in the next three years.’ [More…]
Incidentally, the union had been informed by the Victorian Education Department that high schools alone in Victoria were short of 250 mathematics and science teachers this year. [More…]
This is a very important point at all levels of secondary education, whether it is at the first form or at the sixth form. [More…]
His chances of succeeding in the education system are tremendously reduced. [More…]
I would like the Minister for Education and Science to tell me exactly what is meant by the term ‘reasonable and realistic’. [More…]
He stated that these are the following: The population of each State; the amount available to each State in the current triennium - I think he means by this the amount that the States have available already - and the amount of matched assistance that New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania are receiving for teacher education in Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]
The need to improve the quality of the teaching force is central to the task of improving the quality of education generally, and these grants will enable the States to provide new and replacement teachers, educational facilities, and a good deal earlier than they could hope to do from their own resources. [More…]
Why is it, if the aim behind the Commonwealth’s expenditure on education is to improve the quality of the teaching force, that these organisations are complaining consistently? [More…]
The Minister made some reference to the fact that the Commonwealth does spend money in other areas of education as well. [More…]
It spends money on colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]
It does not matter whether it is for colleges of advanced education, teachers colleges, universities, or what it is, as long as the Government continues with this very difficult regulation that the States shall provide so much it will continue to have trouble. [More…]
Unfortunately, over the last few years there has been a shameful history of exclusion of people from universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
We simply cannot get enough people trained and qualified to undertake teaching while the continual rationing of education in colleges of advanced education and universities continues. [More…]
Is is not about time that the Commonwealth sat down and started to survey the field of teacher education as a whole instead of just nibbling at one section of it - the provision of capital expenditure? [More…]
After all, the Commonwealth has already infringed State rights - if that is the argument to be used to keep the Commonwealth out of teacher education policy - in the assistance it gives to colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]
Why do we not have a full scale tertiary education policy, not just one policy for one section and one for another section but for the 3 as a whole? [More…]
In this area teacher education needs a special boost along.’? [More…]
On what basis does the Commonwealth decide that universities at the present moment should have their finances depressed and colleges of advanced education have theirs boosted, while the teacher training institutions remain at a virtually static level? [More…]
What sort of policy have we for supervising and co-ordinating the whole field of tertiary education? [More…]
Should the Commonwealth Parliament not be telling those States which are still laggard in implementing sections of the Martin report - for example with reference to autonomy for teachers colleges and a teacher education board - what to dcr? [More…]
What are we doing to accelerate the movement by States to sever the teacher education authorities from the State departments? [More…]
It is a testimony to the insignificance of teacher education. [More…]
The in-service training in Australian education systems is really a mockery. [More…]
I understand that in the Victorian Education Department the amount that the Department spends on in-service training is equivalent to $1 a head. [More…]
It embraces not just the subject matter that he is teaching; it embraces the method by which he is teaching, and the philosophy, psychology and practice of education. [More…]
One of the main reasons why country education is not comparable with city education and why the country student has only half the opportunity that the metropolitan student has to go to a university is that teachers in country areas suffer from discrimination. [More…]
At the present moment many teachers are reluctant to go to country areas because they cannot continue their education there. [More…]
Some of them leave their country schools because they cannot continue their education. [More…]
The first of them was a comment to the effect that the Commonwealth should not have engaged in this piecemeal approach to remedying the problems of education, but that it should be looking in detail by means of a survey of some sort or some more detailed inquiry into the real and overall needs of education in Australia. [More…]
When I interjected, perhaps somewhat out of order, and reminded him that the Commonwealth and the States were already at this time involved in an inquiry into the needs of education in Australia he replied that it was too late to be engaging in inquiries of this nature. [More…]
It seems to me that one cannot on one hand say that the Commonwealth should be conducting a detailed inquiry into the overall needs of education in Australia and on the other hand assert that if there is such an inquiry in progress at the moment it is too late, it is a waste of time and the Commonwealth need not go on with it anyway. [More…]
It is a criticism of the activities of the Commonwealth in education which is quite frequently made. [More…]
The only point I want to make about that is that it is in my view a completely unwarranted and unjustified criticism of the activities of the Commonwealth Government in these particular education projects. [More…]
The former Minister for Education and Science, who is now the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser), at the very least has completely denied that there is any such intrusion by the Commonwealth in that respect or that there is any excessive supervision of the size of windows, doors, the heights of walls and so on to which the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith specifically referred. [More…]
It seems to me quite legitimate to say that the Commonwealth should take far more of a part in the education programmes of the States and it should take a part in more specific programmes to improve education in the States. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that the honourable member for Bendigo took the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) to task for the statement made in his second reading speech when he said: [More…]
This increase is designed to assist the States with their teacher education programmes at a realistic and reasonable level and was determined in the light of current experience and knowledge of building costs. [More…]
What the Minister was saying was that there is an identifiable need in education in this particular area; that there is a desperate need for a great increase in the teaching force of all the State education departments, and indeed in the private school system. [More…]
There will always be a need for an increased and improved teacher education programme. [More…]
There will always be a need for an improved and expanded school building programme and a financing programme for every single aspect of education and not only for the provision of school teachers. [More…]
It seems to me fair to say that the Bill marks another substantial contribution by the Commonwealth Government to the improvement of education in Australia. [More…]
The benefits for education in Australia will be seen in an increase in the number of teachers available in the nation, an improvement in the quality of teaching and the acquisition by the States of substantial assets in the form of teacher college buildings. [More…]
The Commonwealth is making a real and substantial contribution to education in the States. [More…]
There has been a call made throughout this nation for action in education. [More…]
The expenditure of millions of dollars on teachers colleges is having a direct impact on education in Australia. [More…]
It is concrete evidence that this Government does not merely talk about education, but that it is acting. [More…]
The second point that should be made is that the payment of grants to a State under this legislation is conditional on 10% of the new places at teachers colleges in the State made available by the grants made under the legislation being held by student teachers not bonded to serve State education departments. [More…]
That provision in the Bill is another assistance to the independent school system which contributes so much to education in Australia and which is so deserving of support. [More…]
The legislation should be welcomed from all sides because, as I have said, it will make a substantial contribution to improving the quality of education in Australia - and there is plenty of scope for improvement. [More…]
A great deal of criticism has been levelled at the Commonwealth and State governments in recent years for what is alleged to be a neglect of education. [More…]
I am quite sure that many of the critics do not appreciate the tremendous problems that all governments in Australia have in providing adequate classrooms, equipment and teachers and in providing a better quality of education. [More…]
The problem of education is not merely one of providing classrooms, teachers and money; it is a problem of doing so in the sprawling suburbs where the people live and where the education must be provided. [More…]
It is a problem of catering for a school population that is staying at school longer and is demanding more education. [More…]
It is a problem of keeping up with all the modern refinements of a sophisticated education system requiring modern equipment and facilities and better trained teachers. [More…]
Above all, it is a problem of finding the resources for a costly education programme at the same time as finding resources to develop a continent - to build dams and engage in all the construction and developmental projects that Australia is engaged on at present. [More…]
If the critics of the education system in Australia mean that Australia’s education system still has deficiences and areas of inadequacy, then I readily agree with them. [More…]
If, on the other hand, they mean that governments in Australia today do not have an awareness of the importance of education and of the need greatly to improve the quality of education being provided here, then I reject those criticisms completely. [More…]
Who can look at the increased involvement of the Commonwealth Government in education in the last few years and say that it is not concerned? [More…]
Above all, who can deny that the Commonwealth has a vital role to play in education or that it is not taking positive steps to realise that role? [More…]
It grieves me when I look at the achievements of the State governments and of the Commonwealth Government in education in recent years to see the critics wipe those achievements aside completely as though they were nothing and condemn Australian governments for neglecting education. [More…]
Honourable members may recall that 1 took issue with him when he raised the alleged interference by the Commonwealth Government in the intricate details of the States carrying out the specific education programmes that the Commonwealth is involved in at the moment - the science block programme, libraries programme and the teachers college programme. [More…]
Criticisms and comments were made that the project was not proceeding as rapidly as it should, and as this was a project that initially was being financed by the Commonwealth Government I made inquiries about the progress of the job at the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science. [More…]
Although this is perhaps not a matter on which there might be a wide degree of public support at present - there is certainly some support - the Commonwealth should investigate other areas of education where it can help and where it can take part. [More…]
It is significant, of course - and I referred to this before - that there is in progress at the moment a survey of the educational needs of Australia. [More…]
After all, the Martin inquiry did set out to try to estimate what was the likely school population at different levels of education and the likely number of teachers who would be required to service such a number of children. [More…]
Every Education Department worth its salt in Australia has a research section and part of its task is to do just this thing. [More…]
I welcome anything that will help education. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science and certainly the Government have given us no indication of the objectives. [More…]
I know from my own experience that the New South Wales Education Department would have been glad to know early last year whether the Commonwealth would be continuing to make capital grants for teachers colleges. [More…]
The previous one left the service and went to a much better paid position in industry or commerce; or more likely went overseas to seek a position there; or possibly accepted a position to teach at a university or a new college nf advanced education; or maybe accepted a job in a teachers’ college. [More…]
This scarcity of teachers is not only in primary and secondary schools but even at the lower level of pre-school education and kindergarten, and then again at the tertiary level. [More…]
I want to say a few words, if I may, about the special problems of technical education and the supply of teachers for it. [More…]
In my experience technical education in this country has been very much the poor relation of our education family. [More…]
I suppose that in the New South Wales Technical Education Department there are more part time untrained (in terms of teaching) teachers than there are qualified teachers in the sense of having had a course of teacher training. [More…]
I have been party over the last 3 years to an examination of this problem and to designing a more professionally suitable course of teacher education for technical teachers in the State of New South Wales. [More…]
When people who have not had any professional education in the art of teaching appear before classes and pretend to teach they must detract from the status of teaching as a profession. [More…]
No wonder State Departments of Education ignore the professional teacher organisations. [More…]
It will be appreciated because there has been a lot of unrest due to there being not enough qualified teachers to have the schools right up to date as far as education is concerned. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) has told us where these projects are to be built. [More…]
This would be in the best interests of education and in the very best interest of decentralisation, in spite of what city people might say. [More…]
That was his contribution to the debate on this education Bill. [More…]
The honourable member for Mallee and the honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr Brown), who seems to be the prince of complacency in this place when it comes to any matter of consideration, ought to examine whether these meagre amounts and this meagre approach by the Commonwealth will solve the education crisis. [More…]
It is my firm conviction that every child in those State schools is served worse with educational and teaching facilities than back in the 1930s. [More…]
Do not, for heavens sake, let us become complacent about education, whether it is in Victoria or anywhere else. [More…]
My colleague, the honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds), pointed out that there is a piece-meal and dilatory approach to the question of education. [More…]
The teacher is the key to future education. [More…]
There are population pressures on the education system. [More…]
But in areas such as mine there are higher educational aspirations which are imposing the greatest possible demand on higher education facilities, that is. [More…]
It has always been my disappointment that education planners and the census people and others have never been able to sense the higher level of education aspiration which one may find in the parent body in areas such as mine. [More…]
Certainly each child is important, but without the trained and effective teacher the education system collapses. [More…]
Are these measures and is the attitude expressed in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) going to solve some of the problems, such as the need for raising the level of professionalism of teachers. [More…]
I have here an article from the Bulletin’ written by Mr Fitzgerald, the Chief Research Officer of the Australian Council of Educational Research. [More…]
This, of course, is one of the principal disabilities from which the educational system is presently suffering. [More…]
I believe, therefore, that some discussion of university education is relevant at this point, although I do not propose to embark upon such a discussion. [More…]
If he took the trouble of studying the policy of the Australian Labor Party on teacher training and education, he would find that some years ago it was resolved that no teachers ought to be bonded. [More…]
I am a product of the bonded teacher training system myself, both before the Second World War in primary education and after the war during the reconstruction training scheme. [More…]
In a period of 5 years a woman now aged 30, wilh her leaving certificate or even her intermediate certificate, could become a qualified teacher with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Diploma of Education and have perhaps 30 years professional opportunity before her. [More…]
I know that in some countries the authorities have expanded teachers colleges into independent institutions but I believe that the intellectual capacity of teachers and the stimulus that flows from association with other faculties would be of advantage to the education system. [More…]
Canberra should have an independent education authority. [More…]
This is the area where the Government could carry out experiments and adopt a progressive approach to many matters which would set the rest of the Australian educational systems moving. [More…]
As my friend the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) pointed out earlier, not so long ago it was regarded as a minor aberration if I spoke on education. [More…]
It is an instructive historical pursuit to look back at some of the speeches made by our former great national leader the right honourable Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, and what he had to say about these things and then turn to the flowing eloquence of my friend the honourable member for Diamond Valley and the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
One notes that over 10 or 12 years honourable members opposite have progressed elaborately from being absolute State righters to almost dislocating their shoulders from patting themselves on the back for what they are doing for education. [More…]
in reply - It is generally agreed that there is a shortage of teachers and that that is one of the major problems in education in Australia. [More…]
In the same way the Commonwealth is making grants to colleges of advanced education which are adopting courses for teachers. [More…]
The honourable member for KingsfordSmith (Mr Lionel Bowen) spent a good deal of time referring to the general problems of education and those affecting teachers, lt is true, as he said, that there are other problems affecting teachers which are not touched upon by this Bill. [More…]
He seemed to be troubled by the reference to this increase being designed to assist the States with their teacher education programmes at a realistic and reasonable level. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
On countless occasions over the last 12 months the honourable gentleman and his predecessor have told honourable members who have asked questions about government and non-government schools that the answers would appear from the nation-wide survey of educational needs which was being prepared by the States for the Education Council. [More…]
All Premiers and State Ministers for Education have received copies of Mr Justice Eggleston’s report and have been informed of the Government’s intentions, lt is for each Stale Government to decide whether it will support the recommendations of Mr Justice Eggleston. [More…]
The Opposition welcomes the statement that has been made by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) concerning academic salaries. [More…]
Mr Justice Eggleston made his fundamental survey for this report in 1964 and what he is doing now, apart from making suggestions about colleges of advanced education and one or two other matters, is updating the actual salary level. [More…]
Reference was made in the State submissions to the fact that any determination of academic salaries as a result of this report would have repercussive effects on the salaries paid to teachers in colleges of advanced education, as a consequence of the recommendations made by my colleague Mr Justice Sweeney. [More…]
Two others I proposed at the 1967 Senate elections, on education and natural disasters, were rejected; another on overseas control of resources was partly debated, and the 2 on poverty and housing have never even been debated. [More…]
At the next Senate election, and at the House of Representatives elections, I shall propose joint standing committees - for example, on Aboriginals, science and technology, health, education and welfare and technical change as my Party’s platform ordains, and, as I have often advocated, on such matters as law reform, Commonwealth-State agreements and New Guinea. [More…]
In March he suggested committees on external affairs and defence; transport and communications; trade, industry and labour; legal, constitutional and home affairs; health, welfare, education and science; and national finance and development. [More…]
of course, almost limitless and could certainly include such matters as Commonwealth-Stale relationships, migration, tariff policy, law reform, censorship, industrial relations, constitutional review, poverty, pollution, urban renewal, education policies and so on. [More…]
Before we accept the recommendations of States we should have cost benefit studies and the studies should be publicised, so that if the projects are phony or if they are for political purposes only, then because of the publicity the whole world will see that they are phoney, that they are political, that they are a waste of public money which is needed for a score of other things with infinitely higher priority, whether in regard to rural industries, education or whatever it may be. [More…]
If we are to establish a firm economy it must be done on the basis of secondary industries, and education and science have an enormous part to play in this. [More…]
During the debate this afternoon and this evening almost every possible aspect of Government policy, from education to, occasionally, water conservation, has intruded. [More…]
question about the Commonwealth and State ministerial conferences on the Weeden Committee’s report on educational television which was made in October 1964 and tabled in May 1966. [More…]
I note from the communique the honourable gentleman issued after the last of these ministerial conferences last November that appreciation was expressed for the manner, in which the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s educational programmes were prepared, in both content and quality, and that the State Education Ministers requested that additional finance should be made available to the ABC to expand its activities in the educational television area. [More…]
1 ask the honourable gentleman whether he took account of this unanimous request by the Stale Education Ministers - I believe they were all political allies of his - when he told the Australian Broadcasting Commissioners the week before last that the increase in their appropriation for the next financial year would be no greater than the increase in their appropriations in this and recent years. [More…]
How much additional finance has he agreed that the ABC should have for this additional activity which has been sought by all the Education Ministers in the States? [More…]
I might say to him that I, together with my colleague the Minister for Education and Science and the State Ministers for Education, regard educational television as of tremendous importance and this aspect will be taken into consideration in the final determination of the estimates for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
He is aged 56, and has the degrees of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Education. [More…]
He was for some time Assistant Secretary of the Education, Arts and Sciences Section of the Prime Minister’s Department, and was a member of the Council of the National Library. [More…]
A child who is physically, mentally or socially handicapped shall be given the special treatment, education and care required by his particular condition. [More…]
Is the standard and quality of education being provided good enough? [More…]
That is no reflection on the people providing the education. [More…]
I make this assessment on the basis of the deficiencies in the educational system for what could be called ‘normal children’. [More…]
Quite clearly there will be failings in the education of children who are handicapped. [More…]
Referring to education, I now want to quote from the 15th Annual Report of the Queensland Subnormal Children’s Welfare Association. [More…]
The education of children is a society responsi bility and therefore a Government responsibility - whether the child happens to have an IQ of 40 or 140, and in this so-called age of enlightenment it should not be necessary to have to justify such a statement. [More…]
Suffice to say that at present, society, through its government is making provision for the education of subnormal children on the cheap. [More…]
The problem is not expenditure in the field of capital commitment; it is the recurrent expenditure on education, on providing the services of experts, paramedical specialists or even visiting medical specialists where this sort of aid for the rehabilitation of handicapped children is provided. [More…]
… the hospitals have the major concern of medical care, the Education Department the primary focus of education, the Commonwealth Social Service Department is established for payments of benefits and medical and vocational rehabilitation and the Department of Labour and National Service is responsible mainly for employment. [More…]
There are 11 such regional advisory committees in New South Wales consisting of representatives of education and public health bodies and child and social welfare officers, to help guide and advise the New South Wales Government and local workers for the cause. [More…]
In addition, as an example of the co-operation that has been developed in New South Wales between the statutory and voluntary agencies, the Department of Education has established an OF school for 48 moderately handicapped children, some of whom are accommodated in the Westhaven children’s hostel. [More…]
In other fields, such as education, we have done immense things. [More…]
lt is called ‘Guidelines for State Plan Programmes for Education of Handicapped Children’. [More…]
It is a problem throughout Australia which should call for the attention and co-ordination, not only of the States and the Commonwealth, but of the Department of Social Services, the Department of Health, the Department of Education and Science and the Treasury. [More…]
Voluntary organisations have undertaken almost too willingly the care and education of, in particular, mentally handicapped children from the pre-school years through to the sheltered workshop. [More…]
However, no Government expects voluntary organisations to undertake the education of non-handicapped children. [More…]
1 refer to those handicapped children at present being educated by State education departments. [More…]
Perhaps this could be done under the auspices of the Department of Education and Science, that is, through institutions of advanced education. [More…]
Some slow learners - children with intellectual handicaps, or social and emotional problems - have to wait up to three years to get places in Victorian Government special education schools. [More…]
These conclusions are among the findings of a survey of the State’s special education facilities made by the Victorian Teachers’ Union field officer, Mr Barrie Rimmer. [More…]
The decision by the Commonwealth Government :o enter the field of capital assistance to places such as Minda gives tremendous relief not only to those conducting the homes but especially to parents and others who understand the value of early guidance and education for these children. [More…]
Succeeding governments in South Australia have shown a continuing awareness of the problem and a first rate school operated by the Education Departmen. [More…]
lion in other places - h.ii been spectacular Ten years ago, when I was on the board, education was considered almost unnecessary - almost unkind. [More…]
It was unfair to weary handicapped children with attempts at serious education. [More…]
I make the point that all of us will have to do some rethinking and to examine our own attitudes in the light of the success of modern education methods such as those being perfected today at Minda. [More…]
The importance placed on early training and specialised education, and the Home’s success, in actually placing former mentally handicapped children in full employment, has meant that many children ultimately will be able to lead a normal life. [More…]
Apart from the effect on the lives of the other members in the family it seems absolutely certain that the secret of success is the commencement of the skilled training and education as a child. [More…]
The child who is physically, mentally or socially handicapped shall be given the special treatment, education and care required by his particular condition. [More…]
We have a long way to go to measure up to the standard set not only by the world but by the Public Instruction Act of New South Wales, which makes the State responsible for the provision of education services for all children on a free and compulsory basis. [More…]
A. Richardson in a forum known as the ‘New Frontier and headed The Provision of an Adequate Education, for the Handicapped Child’. [More…]
Professor Richardson is Professor of Education at Flinders University. [More…]
In the Netherlands about 5% of the 7 to 15 agc group are accommodated in special schools/ most of I hem built since 1945, with facilities and’ equipment which would make the majority of teachers in our special education services very” envious. [More…]
In many parts of Australia children scoring less than a 30 IQ are not eligible to participate in our free and compulsory education system. [More…]
It is the same way that we finance the education of healthy, wholesome, robust Australian children, and that is by way of uniform taxation so that everybody contributes according to his capacity to pay. [More…]
First, it should provide for the establishment of a handicapped children’s education and health authority which has the responsibility landed on its table. [More…]
I do not care two hoots about who runs and who finances the education of young handicapped p–op’e. [More…]
Honourable members on the Opposition side of the House know that in the education field schools in the inner suburban areas that rely on government subsidy do far more poorly despite the fact that they have greater needs than schools in the wealthier areas. [More…]
As far as the education of handicapped children is concerned, there is no statement of rights. [More…]
Of course the Commonwealth completely disregards the fact that health authorities and education authorities throughout Australia are in desperate financial straits. [More…]
The Commonwealth has made a survey of Australia’s needs in education and it should be able to do this in the field of social welfare and assistance to handicapped children. [More…]
Every single child in Australia has a right to an education that will develop all of its capacities no matter how extensive they are or how limited they are. [More…]
At present everybody recognises that a normal child has a right to develop to a stage of education which will bring out all of his capacities. [More…]
But in theory it is admitted that A walls and a teacher will providethe education that will bring out the latent ca pacities of normal Victorian children: But. [More…]
Set these things as the standard of what the handicapped child needs and you can guarantee that the child has not got them, This is simply because nobody in Australiais prepared to accept full responsibil ity for the education of handicapped children [More…]
Part of the reason for this state of affairs is the general shortage of these specialists and the starvation that we foster in our system of tertiary education. [More…]
In Victoria, there is a shortage of places in these day schools run by the Victorian Education Department. [More…]
A check cannot be kept on them because some will go to various places and the Education Department has not always the facilities to keep following them. [More…]
The Commonwealth Department of Education and Science has in its files the recent Babbage report. [More…]
a report by a national advisory committee on the education of the deaf in the United States of America. [More…]
Our Commonwealth Department also has the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf Committee report to the board of directors on the interim guidelines of educational progress for deaf chil dren. [More…]
Improved education of the deaf is unlikely without a new research effort. [More…]
A satisfactory system for the education of the deaf requires the availability of many medical, audiological and psychological social services and other diagnostic services not ordinarily associated with education. [More…]
Such services are, however, essential to the field of special education of which education of the deaf is but a part. [More…]
There is urgent need to raise the level of hopes in the field of education of the deaf. [More…]
At St Louis in the United States of America many children have been taught to speak and have attained secondary diplomas and 12 have gone on to tertiary education. [More…]
Under State legislation the parents have to pay for the education, transport, etc., of a child in a school for handicapped children when that child is over 16 years of age. [More…]
Training, as defined in the Bill, means vocational or other training and includes general education. [More…]
What is the position in regard to mongoloid children who are incapable of receiving vocational and educational training? [More…]
the Bill between the States which provide free education for all children and those where education is provided by subsidised voluntary organisations. [More…]
We refer to the exclusion of Slate education departments from the benefits of the Act as defined in section 6 of Pail 1. [More…]
The Commonweatlh Government has heretofore declined to grant assistance in this direction on the grounds that education is the responsibility of the State governments. [More…]
In South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania the education departments have accepted the responsibility to provide free education for all children. [More…]
The other States have provided financial assistance to enable parents and health departments lo co-operate in providing ‘training centres’ and more recently, to enable parents to provide schools staffed by education department teachers. [More…]
In these circumstances, exclusion of the State education departments from the benefits envisaged by the Act would have the result: [More…]
That those States which have left to voluntary organisations the bulk of the responsibility to provide training facilities for their handicapped children are now lo be relieved of a very substantial proportion of their existing contribution, and, (2) those Stales which have accepted full responsibility to provide appropriate professional education facilities are specifically excluded from the Commonwealth assistance available under the provisions of this Bill. [More…]
State education departments may possibly lead to the abandonment of State schools for the disabled in those states presently providing them, lt will certainly mean the end of any possibility of a unified nation-wide system of free education for the handicapped. [More…]
There will be, in the interpretation of the words ‘training and education’, the maximum flexibility. [More…]
So will general education for which special facilities are required. [More…]
Bui when you come to the child, generally speaking this is the province of the State, particularly since it is not always easy lo distinguish between the education of the partially retarded arid the education of the normal child, and education in the States is and remains a State matter at primary and secondary levels. [More…]
This we do because it is not normally the function of the Stale to provide boarding facilities for children, although it is normally the function of the State to provide day education for children. [More…]
I had a letter today from the Colleges of Advanced Education in Victoria which indicated the difficulty that they face in that State because for every $1 that the Commonwealth provides the State has to find $1.85. [More…]
The same people are served whether the public funds derived from them by the Commonwealth are spent upon, say, postal services and’ civil aviation or upon education and hospitals, and whether they are spent by the Commonwealth Department of National Development or a Slate Department of Public Works. [More…]
I have pointed out in the House before that if the capital expenditure on civil aviation is taken with the expenditure on post offices, which are Commonwealth functions, as against the capital expenditure on education and hospitals, which are mainly State functions, it will be found that there is a higher capital expenditure on civil aviation and post offices than there is on schools and hospitals. [More…]
Nevertheless I believe that by and large the States, in terms of the responsibilities that they still have to undertake - responsibilities such as education, health, public law, public transport and so on - really are inadequately reimbursed by the Commonwealth in relation to their responsibilities. [More…]
One has to look only at the sample of Slate elections recently to see that one of the most dominant issues was education. [More…]
Education in Australia will not be improved unless the Commonwealth provides considerably more than it provides at present. [More…]
Professor Karmel of the Adelaide University stated that at least 1% more of the gross national product should be spent on education- in the foreseeable future. [More…]
In respect of implementing that agreement, it was subsequently agreed at later CommonwealthState conferences on the subject, that health education programmes should be instituted and directed mainly towards school children. [More…]
These educational programmes have been mainly a State function, but the Commonwealth has co-operated in its own Territories. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to E. L. Millard’s ‘Freedom in a Federal World’, Edition 5, published in New York in 1969 and compiled on the basis of 16 year discussions by the Conference Upon Research and Education in World Government. [More…]
Those discussions were carried out by my colleagues the present Treasurer and the present Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education and Science seen the reported comments in recent days of 2 visiting educationists advocating the abolition of system? [More…]
ls the Minister aware of the utter external examinations from our education impracticality of the English visitor’s assertion - he is here on a government fellowship - that the teacher’s job is to find out what the child requires for his growth and to provide it rather than to teach to a denned body of knowledge usually known as a syllabus? [More…]
Has the Minister considered the destructive absurdity of the Americanbased educationist’s remarks that real life, supported by television and films, is far in advance of systematic learning as a means of educating the young? [More…]
-I did read these particular statements; in fact, I have become a compulsive reader of any statement on education. [More…]
But I have noticed that there is as much variety of opinion amongst educationists as there is amongst lawyers and scientists, and some of them assert their views just as dogmatically as do the members of other professions. [More…]
The 6 State governments which are responsible very largely in this field and the Commonwealth Government are not likely to be stampeded by Press reports of the views of transient visitors from different educational systems. [More…]
When the Prime Minister, in his policy speech last year, announced the establishment of an advisory committee on development and research in education this gap was seen as capable, we hoped, of being filled, and I am currently working on the establishment of this committee which will be recommending the initiation or support of basic research. [More…]
They go on to tertiary and technical education in much greater numbers. [More…]
We have had the area or farm school system of education in country areas in Tasmania now for some 40 years. [More…]
I take this opportunity to acknowledge the effort contributed by my predecessor and the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) when he was AttorneyGeneral in the evolution of the dispute settling procedures. [More…]
The Department of Civil Aviation recently offered thirty cadetships for local officers to study at the Institute of Higher Technical Education in Lae and sixteen cadets have commenced so far. [More…]
Of all these how many are (a) at universities in each Stale Cb) at colleges of advanced education or institutes of technology in each State and (c) nf mature age doing matriculation and leaving or their equivalent in each Slate. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
1) What wasthe average amount paid in fees by students at the Canberra College of Advanced Education in each year since the college was established. [More…]
What was the (a) amount and (b) percentage of the college’s income received last year from (i) fees paid by the Commonwealth under the Advanced Education Scholarship scheme, (ii) fees paid by the Commonwealth in respect of studies by staff employed under the Public Service Act, (iii) other fees and (iv) Commonwealth grants. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Moderately mentally handicapped children receive their education at two special schools in Canberra. [More…]
Pre-school education for the moderately mentally handicapped child is provided at Malkara while special extension facilities for 16-18 year olds is provided at Koomarri School. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education and Science had a recent opportunity to inspect the University of Queensland and to observe the very difficult conditions under which many of the staff and students are working? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science a question. [More…]
I should not like the House to adjourn without asking him whether he is yet able to give an answer to a question I asked him 8 weeks ago, namely: How soon will he be able to state the number and proportion of qualified students who unsuccessfully sought enrolment this year in universities and colleges of advanced education? [More…]
The Administration’s radio service was created to spread education and teach the elements of politics, agriculture and a broad range of social services to the indigenous people. [More…]
During these 2 decades chaos has continued to grow in specific sectors of our community - in education, housing, roads, health and hospitalisation. [More…]
The functions of government are to ensure the well being, comfort, health, education and betterment of people wherever they may live. [More…]
The survey will embrace all parts of the economy, and will be divided into four principal sectors: government (Commonwealth and the States), business, higher education and private non-profit organisations. [More…]
In the higher education sector, a pilot study is currently in progress in selected universities as a preliminary to a full scale survey of the universities to take place later in the year. [More…]
My Department also intends within the next few months to make arrangements with State Government authorities for the survey of the Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Finally, I would say that there are many areas of need in relation to education. [More…]
Does he realise that vast population increase, once considered highly desirable, is now being questioned due to the pressures it places on education, health and social welfare services, housing and land prices and the consequent diminution in the quality of life that over-crowded cities have on our environment? [More…]
For instance, on the matter of migrant education, which will come before us shortly, I think it will be incumbent upon every honourable member who represents those people in this place to say something about the subject to show that he is giving it consideration. [More…]
Another provision of the Bill is that the allocation of research funds to the CSIRO will be determined by the Minister for Primary Industry in consultation with the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
However this particular provision in the Bill gives the Minister for Primary Industry the right to allocate funds to the CSIRO and the BAE; in the first instance in consultation with the Minister for Science and Education and in his own right in respect of the BAE. [More…]
How many (a) Aboriginal and (b) other Australian children from the Northern Territory are assisted to receive (i) primary, (ii) secondary, (iii) university and (iv) other education elsewhere in Australia, and what is the nature and cost of such assistance in each category. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (The Minister for Education and Science has provided information in respect of community and private schools in the Northern Territory. [More…]
CEDA is proposing that the barriers to structural change be removed and that the processes of adjustment be promoted by a greater emphasis on applied economic research; more effective extension work and industry education; measures to speed up mobility into and out of the industry, with part of the adjustment costs to be borne by the Government; selective taxation incentives; and long term project loans. [More…]
The answers will be found in complete and independent research, in consequential policy formation and in education. [More…]
Has this percentage of reimbursement meant a very severe restriction of State facilities, including education and health? [More…]
threw one up to the Minister for Education and Science, Mr Bowen, and Mr C. H. Webb (A.L.P., W.A.) [More…]
This compensation has been designed on an averaging basis to cover all of the common incidents of working in mining areas, some of which are isolation, somewhat limited medical and dental and hospital facilities, limited secondary education facilities, higher cost of goods and services, climatic conditions and healing costs, limited entertainment facilities and limited shopping facilities …. 1 maintain that these are the requirements which the Income Tax Assessment Act lays down for any area of Australia to qualify for a zone allowance classification. [More…]
The award for this industry has a special loading to compensate these people for isolation, the high cost of living, limited educational facilities and so on. [More…]
We often call upon the hapless policeman, who is not educated for this fairly delicate role in our society and which calls for a high degree of judgment based on, I feel, a well informed mind drawing on a reservoir of education over some years. [More…]
Because of the major deficiencies in housing, education, transport and health there is no doubt that this percentage will increase at the expense of the rural sector and possibly at the expense of the manufacturing sector. [More…]
They will see nothing wrong with interrupting a child’s schooling at the secondary level when the aim of the dead father was to give him the advantage of a tertiary education. [More…]
On 3rd September 1969 Mr Munro again wrote to the then AttorneyGeneral, now the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) asking that he consider the order of priorities to enable the Draftsman’s attention to be given to the Compensation Bill. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education and Science aware that the University of Melbourne is closing down its external studies programme and that the Monash University Professorial Board is reported to be reluctant to establish external studies despite a statement by the Victorian Minister for Education that the Victorian Government will make a grant of $100,000 to the Monash University for the programme to be commenced? [More…]
In view of the obvious need for such facilities for teachers and others who cannot physically attend a university, is there any action which his Department can take to see that external studies are made available for those desirous of furthering their education at tertiary level? [More…]
The most that that university is prepared to offer is external studies courses in education for graduates. [More…]
My question refers to the recent statement on university salaries by the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
I refer to the one major recommendation of Mr Justice Eggleston’s report which I believe is educationally unfortunate, namely, the award of a lesser percentage increase at the bottom of the lecturing scale than at the higher levels. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science a question supplementary to that asked him by the honourable member for Maranoa. [More…]
The honourable gentleman will recall telling me on 2nd June that the printed report of the survey of education needs in government schools would be available generally in about a month from the date of the meeting of the Education Council, which was on 25th May. [More…]
I ask: When will the survey of education needs in non-government schools be completed and similarly made available? [More…]
-I should remind the Leader of the Opposition that this survey is obtained by the Australian Education Council which consists of the State Ministers for Education. [More…]
Having said that, I do confirm that so far as the report dealing with government schools is concerned it was the hope expressed by the State Ministers for Education who constitute the Council that they would be able to print and release the report in about a month. [More…]
It is very difficult to say when the final figures for those States will be available and therefore even more difficult to say when the report could be made available or whether the State Ministers for Education would see fit to publish it when they received it. [More…]
The net effect of these recommendations would be to give cadets much more freedom and make their life comparable with that of students at other institutions of higher education. [More…]
But, with military education developing so rapidly and moving into closer alliance with conventional academic scholarship, bastardisation cannot be tolerated; all vestiges of it must be eradicated. [More…]
The maximum fee for each district within the overall ceiling of $30 was set by the Ministerial Member for Education acting on the advice of the local District Education Committee. [More…]
The rates payable in each area within a district were set in turn by the District Education Committee subject to the Ministerial Member’s approval. [More…]
Provision is made for the fee for individual students to be reduced or waived by the District Education Committee in cases of hardship. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Income tax deductions under the heading of education expenses are allowable to a parent if the child is receiving full-time education at a school. [More…]
This requirement is satisfied where the child is of an age to receive education of the kind furnished by a standard kindergarten and the establishment to which the fees are paid provides such educational facilities. [More…]
Payments made to a child minding centre solely for the purpose of providing for the care or supervision of a child do not qualify as education expenses and are outgoings of a private or domestic nature. [More…]
Will he take steps to amend the taxation law: (a) to allow part-time students a claim for education expenses on a basis similar In that applying to full-time students; and (b) to allow the parents of students over age 21 the same deduction as that applying to students under 21. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
ns asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Do scholarship winners obtain any lax concessions on any expenditure they may make in undertaking the education the scolarships facilitate. [More…]
As tuition fees and other statutory fees incurred by the holder of a Mature Age scholarship are paid direct to the university by the Department of Education and Science, the holder does nor pay such fees from his own resources. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Since his Department was asked by his predecessor to look into international comparisons of educational expenditure, have sufficient data become available to permit comparisons of expenditure on pre-school education to be made between Australia and overseas countries (Hansard 22 April 1970, page 1510). [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What is the value of the Commonwealth technical training grant made to the Victorian Education Department for the Castlemaine Senior Technical College in the 1967-69 triennium. [More…]
can he say if the grant has yet been allocated to the Technical College by the Victorian Education Department. [More…]
and (4) I do not have the information the Honourable Member seeks and can only suggest that he take the question up with the Victorian Education Department authorities. [More…]
Annual pedestrian education campaigns are conducted on a national basis through the mass media. [More…]
The Public Service Board is closely following recent developments in accountancy courses conducted by Institutes of Technology and Colleges of Advanced Education and will give close attention to the recruitment conditions which might be necessary to ensure that the Commonwealth Public Service attracts a reasonable proportion of the output from the Colleges. [More…]
Did his predecessor tell me on 24th September (Hansard, page 1922) that significant differences betweenthe States in the method of providing pre-school education have added to the problem of separating out figures of expenditure on pre-school education. [More…]
Which States have been unable to supply the further details of expenditure on education which the Commonwealth Grants Commission has sought. [More…]
The 2 most important differences between the States in the method of providing pre-school education are as follows: [More…]
To some extent, such children would be receiving what could be regarded as the equivalent of pre-school education. [More…]
In Tasmania, pre-schools are conducted by the Education Department while in all other States they are staffed and administered by a Kindergarten Union or Association or, to varying extents, by local government authorities. [More…]
and (4) Boththe Commonwealth Statistician and the Commonwealth Grants Commission, as part of their normal work, regularly seek further details of education and other social services expenditure from State authorities. [More…]
In June 1969 the Grants Commission sought information from the Slate Education Departments on education expenditure by the Stales on non-government schools. [More…]
These figures do not include expenditure incurred by State education departments in respect of children attending government schools, with the special exception of expenditure on government pre-schools in Tasmania - see answer to (2). [More…]
In interpreting these figures, it should be borne in mind that some Stale Governments might be said to be indirectly supporting pre-school educationto the extent that general purpose grants by them to local authorities would be availableto help finance expenditure by those authorities on pre-school education. [More…]
He was to further his education, he said, on the way other people thought and felt on such matters as foreign affairs, defence and Che ability of Australia to help people in South East Asia, Africa and elsewhere. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I wish to inform the House that the Minister for Education and Science, Mr. N. H. Bowen, will be leaving Australia tomorrow for Venice to lead the Australian delegation to the UNESCO Inter-governmental Conference of Ministers on Cultural Policies to be held from 24th August to 2nd September. [More…]
Mr Bowen is expected to return to Australia on 13th September and during his absence the Minister for Health, Dr Forbes, will be Acting Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
by leave - I wish to provide the House with some further details of the Government’s education programme for 1970-71, as outlined by the Treasurer (Mr Bury) in the Budget Speech. [More…]
This increase in Commonwealth expenditure on education results both from the introduction of new measures as well as the development of programmes which are already in operation. [More…]
The Opposition welcomes the statement that has been made by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen). [More…]
We welcome, of course, the 25% increase in Commonwealth expenditure on education but it may well be that the most significant part of the statement that has been made by the Minister occurs as late as page 11. [More…]
There, under what is a very dramatic heading for anybody who remembers the controversies of the last decade, we have in a Government statement a heading ‘Nation-wide Survey of Educational Needs’. [More…]
I am sure all honourable members who have spent the last decade in this Parliament will know how frequently we on the Opposition side have asked for a nation-wide survey of educational needs. [More…]
The Minister for Health (Dr Forbes) who will act as Minister for Education and Science during the absence of the Minister for Education and Science at a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation meeting told us in the House that the Commonwealth would not conduct a survey of educational needs because if it did it would commit the Commonwealth Government necessarily to heavy expenditures because of the expectations it would raise. [More…]
We now have the State Ministers for Education forming a body which will make a survey of Australian educational needs and that, if it is actually implemented and carried out, redeems any weaknesses that there may be in this paper. [More…]
The standing weakness In the Government’s statement on education is that it is another instalment in a series of piecemeal interventions into education instead of a systematic attack. [More…]
In some of the States 47% of those who get a tertiary education get a tertiary education in teachers’ colleges and it is doubtful if a higher percentage of young people than that is attracted to the profession. [More…]
It has recognised by this action a special need - a special weakness, if you like - in Australian commercial education. [More…]
A special weakness with a much more general effect is the shortage of teachers of science and mathematics, if the Commonwealth would grant special teaching scholarships in science and mathematics it would be remedying a serious weakness developing in high school education. [More…]
Surveys of education around the world have shown that Australia is deficient in its scientific and mathematical education and I do not need to stress to the House that this has significance for all education and for industry afterwards, because weaknesses in scientific and mathematical education depriving us of the numbers of students who should be getting advanced scientific and mathematical education in universities do have adverse industrial effects quite apart from Australia’s particular need for trained scientists. [More…]
The news given by the Minister about the South Australian Government’s withdrawal from providing teachers for the Northern Territory is extremely important and it raises the question of the need for the Commonwealth to have its own teachers colleges, which it is doing to some extent with the College of Advanced Education, and to undertake seriously teacher training for its territories and for Papua and New Guinea. [More…]
So long as the Commonwealth is beholden to the State of New South Wales for the staffing of schools in the Australian Capital Territory, and, even more importantly, so long as it is beholden to the State of South Australia for the staffing of schools in the Northern Territory, to that extent the Commonwealth’s capacity to vary its educational policy is limited. [More…]
It is significant that in the same breath as the Minister is announcing South Australia’s gradual withdrawal from the staffing of schools in the Northern Territory he is announcing a very welcome diversification of Commonwealth educational policy and activity in the Northern Territory in the founding of a new educational institution in Darwin. [More…]
If the Commonwealth has its own trained teachers and really takes full responsibility for education in its own territories it can make all the decisions that are needed for the type of education that should be offered in those territories. [More…]
I think that there are special needs in the Northern Territory in particular because the children living there, in contrast with those living in the Australian Capital Territory, do suffer serious educational disabilities because of the very nature of the Northern Territory. [More…]
We add the hope that the nationwide survey of educational needs will mark the end of sporadic Commonwealth intervention in the field of education and lead to much more systematic assistance to education. [More…]
Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) groan on this afternoon. [More…]
No literacy test is administered as minimum education standards are set. [More…]
No exact data comparing the standards in the four countries is available and in any case accurate comparisons of this nature between countries, particularly as regards education, arc very difficult to make. [More…]
the educational level is set at ‘high school graduate’. [More…]
No formal educational standard is set in the United Kingdom. [More…]
Canadian entry standard is Grade Vlll, or the educational level reached by a child of 13 years. [More…]
In summary, the minimum medical standards for enlistment are about the same in the four countries, the minimum psychological standard is higher in Canada and the minimum educational education level higher in USA and Canada. [More…]
Committee on nursing education. [More…]
This report contained recommendations on the commencement of general nursing and post-graduate courses at the School of Advanced Education in Canberra, the establishment of an A.C.T. [More…]
Nursing Education Authority and a School of Nursing. [More…]
The co-ordination of present pro grammes of dental health education and promotion of additional ones. [More…]
That in view of the crisis envisaged in the supply of trained dentists to provide a denial service to the Australian community the Commonwealth Government should, through the Australian Universities Coinmission, give high priority to forward planning for dental education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, uponnotice: [More…]
By what amount and percentage (a) did the fees payable in 1969 and (b)will fees payable in 1970 in colleges of advanced education exceed the fees payable in 1966 when Commonwealth advanced education scholarships were first awarded. [More…]
There is a wide range of fees levied for the various courses offered by more than forty colleges of advanced education, and it is not practicable to provide complete details. [More…]
Although there is no standard academic or other qualification for appointment as unit Resettlement Officer, it is common for Education or Instructor Officers, many of graduate status, to occupy such positions. [More…]
asked the Minister [or Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
I come to education. [More…]
Perhaps the honourable gentleman will explain, when we facilitate his speech, why pre-school education is not as readily available in the Northern Territory as in the Australian Capital Territory, although we would all acknowledge that pre-school education is more required in areas where there is a large Aboriginal population in order that our fellow citizens can have an equal opportunity in life. [More…]
Perhaps also the honourable gentleman can explain why it is that the provision of tertiary and technical education in the Northern Territory lags so far behind that in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
They said that I should deal with a national matter such as education. [More…]
The time is appropriate for a comprehensive inquiry not only into the DFRB but into the whole range of conditions of service which are under lire at the moment - into pay, moves and re-posting, re-settlement and re-establishment in civilian life, family separation and disruption, housing, education, in short into the whole social environment of the serviceman and his family. [More…]
I believe it is reasonable to assume that the services will be much more representative of the Department as a whole in its origins and education. [More…]
Therefore, at this stage I foreshadow an amendment which 1 will move on behalf of the Opposition to give effect to some of the matters that I have just put before the House in relation to the conditions of servicemen, namely education for the children of servicemen and pay and allowances. [More…]
We should discuss part (iv) of the motion relating to educational facilities for the children of servicemen. [More…]
Education at the high school stage for these children has become a major cause of resignations. [More…]
lt is true that in terms of the motion one could not deal with pay and allowances, housing, retraining and children’s education. [More…]
But a committee which both sides of both Houses thought was competent to deal with DFRB would presumably be just the sort of committee that both sides of both Houses would deem to be competent to deal with pay and allowances, housing, re-training and children’s education. [More…]
In addition to those conferences there are conferences of Commonwealth and State Attorneys-General, Agricultural Ministers, Health Ministers and Education Ministers. [More…]
The honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) who was very vocal in opposition to this item has a motion before the House seeking standing committees on foreign affairs and defence, finance and trade, health and welfare, primary industry and national development, transport and communications, education, science and the arts, legal, home and internal territory affairs. [More…]
The report also recommends under the heading ‘Education and Culture’ that urgent needs include: [More…]
The Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts; and [More…]
So the following divisions are suggested: A standing committee on foreign affairs and defence, a standing committee on finance and trade, a standing committee on health and welfare, a standing committee on primary industry and national development, a standing committee on transport and communications, a standing committee on education, science and the arts, and a standing committee on legal, home and internal territory affairs. [More…]
Legislation on the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund is one example, the Repatriation Act is another and great areas in education are others, in my time here some of the most fruitful examination of legislation has been as a result of the tabling of legislation some months before it is finally considered. [More…]
As he would be aware, I am only assisting the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) and therefore I have no personal knowledge of this matter. [More…]
That refers to the Act as it stands - of the Book Bounty Act include textbooks and technical reports for the Papua and New Guinea Administration; text books for the Department of Education, Victoria; literary books for the Australian War Memorial Trustees; technical books for the State Electricity Board, Queensland; technical books for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]
I believe that we should ensure that text books purchased by State governments for use in their educational systems and text books prescribed or recommended by State Education Departments should be printed in Australia. [More…]
1 refer to such things as the increasing influence of the mass media on the minds of young children and in their education. [More…]
Thus expenditure on education is kept down because, being government expenditure, it is regarded only as a cost; the loss, the permanent loss in talent and skills and opportunities, the loss that will occur in productivity over the whole period of a generation’s working life, is disregarded. [More…]
Education [More…]
The Treasurer was nowhere more irrelevant or inconsequential than in his references to education. [More…]
His only novel proposals were for an additional 1,250 Commonwealth scholarships at the tertiary level and a grant of $250,000 for educational research. [More…]
In 1969 1 university student in every 4 was a Commonwealth scholar and 1 in every 5 of the applicants for university scholarships was successful; at colleges of advanced education 1 student in every 20 was a Commonwealth scholar and 1 applicant in every 25 was successful; at secondary schools 1 eligible student in every 17 was a Commonwealth scholar and 1 in every 8 of the applicants was successful; among applicants for Commonwealth technical scholarships 1 in every 10 was successful. [More…]
At a time when dramatic increases in demand are occurring in every area of education for which Commonwealth scholarships are awarded, the Treasurer has put forward proposals which will allow even the existing inadequate ratio of scholarships to places to be maintained only in the case of university education. [More…]
He has done nothing to arrest the steady decline in that ratio for every other area of education. [More…]
The percentage of successful applicants for Advanced Education Scholarships fell between 1966, when they were introduced, and 1969 from 3.5% to 3.0%. [More…]
In March last year the State Education Ministers decided to undertake a nationwide survey of education needs and, when the State surveys were completed, to formulate a nation-wide plan. [More…]
The former Commonwealth Minister for Education promptly told one of his supporters that, if some financial matters arose as a result of this survey sometime in the future, the matter could perhaps be discussed by the Premiers and the Prime Minister, but that was looking a good way ahead. [More…]
Australians must now appreciate that while in matters such as health and rural industries it would be possible to achieve much better results for the community and for individuals without increase in our present financial outlay, the provision of proper opportunities in education for all Australians is an undertaking which will cost very much more than any government has so far been willing to find. [More…]
Hitherto the strength of the combined force of those who are so concerned, so justifiably concerned - teachers and parents, educationists - has been dissipated by futile and sterile arguments about the twin shibboleths of Stare aid and State rights. [More…]
Having reached that stage the children who live in those expanding towns must go south to further their education. [More…]
Yet almost next door in Darwin there are plans to build a college of advanced education at a cost of millions of dollars. [More…]
The States are responsible for many of the activities which most affect the people - education, hospitals, town planning, housing and redevelopment, and conservation. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition seems to suffer from the delusion that centralised bueaucratic control of such matters as health and education would result in economy. [More…]
Mr Speaker, the third area to which I would like to draw your attention is that of education expenses. [More…]
Our ability to do all the things we wish to do - to maintain our security, to improve our housing, health and education, to eliminate poverty, to improve the quality of life - ultimately depends on a steadily increasing national income. [More…]
I conclude on this note: Australia may now look to the Australian Labor Party for urgent attention to pensions, health, housing, education and the reconstruction of primary industries, all of which are more depressed than ever after 20 years of government by the Liberal Party encouraged and maintained by the continuous support of the Country Party minority. [More…]
I wish to ask a question of the Prime Minister, in view of lnc fact that 80% of the pupils who enter private, non-Catholic, secondary schools continue through to complete their full period of secondary education but, in rather alarming contrast, 80% of the pupils who enrol at State secondary schools drop out before completing their full period of secondary education - that is, 4 out of 5 students who enrol in State secondary schools fail to complete their secondary education - what steps does the Government have in mind to overcome this rather grave loss of young people from the benefits of a full secondary education? [More…]
I just express that doubt because it did not seem to me to have been the situation when I was Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Of course, what this Government has done in order to assist pupils to complete their secondary education is to bring in what I think people would call a highly successful secondary scholarship scheme, which is available by competition to pupils at all schools - not merely at private schools - and which enables the last 2 years of secondary schooling to be completed with the aid of that scholarship. [More…]
In regard to the last part of the question asked by the honourable member, this Government and the State governments provide infinitely more than $50 a year towards the education of pupils in State schools. [More…]
Specially oriented educational training for young people according to their needs should be provided at those schools. [More…]
Many of these people come from areas of social and economic deprivation and have a need for a system of education that discriminates in their favour by providing special loadings for these children by way of specialised equipment and training. [More…]
The other point that I wish to refer to is this: At page 243 of Hansard of 13th August 1969, the then Minister for Education and Science is shown as saying in reply to a question that between 1965 and 1969 a dramatic drop occurred in the proportion of Commonwealth secondary scholarships awarded to applications received. [More…]
An area of critical need is present in our secondary school educational system. [More…]
One is that the secondary scholarship scheme has been of great assistance to a number of secondary school students, enabling them to finish their secondary school education. [More…]
It is hard to assimilate the purport of these signs as one travels round in such a cursory and superficial way, but in the end it comes down to the fact that people will be affected in hospital, that children will be distracted from their efforts to gain an education, that families will be unable to watch television without interruption, that radio reception will be interfered with, that telephone conversations will be impaired, that shiftworkers will be unable to sleep and that other factors of this type will be involved. [More…]
The Budget contains nothing to increase the deduction related to education expenses even though those expenses have increased considerably. [More…]
This Government denies the obvious needs of the less fortunate and those battling for an existence, people who seek only the right to live decently and to ensure their children good health and a decent education. [More…]
Just a short time ago the Minister for Education in Western Australia was reported as saying that his Government - also a Liberal government - could not afford to set up and staff a senior high school in the far north of the State. [More…]
Yet, this State Government is not able to afford children the opportunity of a decent education. [More…]
In addition the State Government refuses parents a reasonable tax deduction for the expenses they incur in sending their children to the metropolitan area or to some other place to receive education. [More…]
Their commitments include the education of their children, looking after the health and welfare of their families, paying off their homes and providing their families with what most Australians would consider to be the standard of living to which they are entitled. [More…]
Deductions for education favour those on high incomes. [More…]
The process worker could not possibly afford to pay $600 for the education of 2 of his children, nor could he afford to pay half that. [More…]
In other words, the public pays 55% of the education bill for the wealthy man and 1.1% for the process worker. [More…]
But let us face it: No-oneI am sure would have liked the job of the Treasurer (Mr Bury) of framing this Budget which had to restrain the inflationary pressures that were existent in the economy yet increase aid to rural industries by 55%, provide finance for the new health scheme which will bring tremendous benefits to the community throughout Australia, provide for an increase in education by 25% and yet relieve the lower and middle income groups of taxation to the extent of $280m in a full year. [More…]
We must have education. [More…]
The cost of rearing a child in this country until the child has reached working age is, according to the statistics, about $10,000 which includes the provision of food, clothing and education. [More…]
000m per year in hidden costs, as the Minister said in his announcement, because they cannot be readily dissected from total community spending on facilities such as education, social welfare, provision of water, sewerage, roads, hospitals, etc. [More…]
One could also add the morale, education and determination of the people themselves. [More…]
One need hardly add the present deficiencies that exist in the field of education, social welfare and health, coupled with the spiralling cost of land and housing - and we have just had an example of how little is being done for people such as pensioners - to know that a continually increasing population has created a gap for many millions of Australians between the myth of the affluent society and the reality of the deficiencies they are facing in almost: every facet of their day to day existence. [More…]
In a review of the fourth report of the Australian Universities Commission, 1969, the University of Queensland Staff Association submitted that the time had come for a wide ranging inquiry into tertiary education similar to that conducted by Sir Keith Murray in 1957. [More…]
It is suggested that this would need to take into account the functions and development of Colleges of Advanced Education and the financial embarrassment of the State governments under the present formula for matching grants. [More…]
The provision of a decent university education depends on decent working conditions. [More…]
Education is one area in which great strides have been made. [More…]
Many other aspects of the field of education have been assisted by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
They are firstly the skill and occupational pattern of the unemployed does nol match the skill and occupational requirements of industry; secondly, there is a relative concentration of employment opportunities in the metropolitan areas of Sydney and Melbourne; thirdly, labour, especially female labour, is not always mobile; and fourthly many of the unemployed have personal employment disabilities such as physical handicap, unsatisfactory work attitudes and records, or age coupled with limited education. [More…]
This has been necessitated, no doubt - we have to face it - by the need to find additional funds to pay increased amounts to the States as general revenue and the need for further large sums to meet the bill for education, health services and national welfare generally. [More…]
1 have heard reference in the House to-day to the pressures on the provision of services - the millions of dollars required for education, the provision of water supply facilities, the National Health Bill and the provision of power, housing and many other like facilities for the migrants as they come in. [More…]
Just how far this Government has moved away from the needs and the aspirations of the Australian people can best be seen by looking at what has been happening recently concerning the joint report by the States and the Commonwealth on the needs of Australian education. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party for more than 10 years has called for an open and independent inquiry into all aspects of Australian education. [More…]
The survey has been carried out by the Stale education departments themselves with little assistance from independent authorities outside. [More…]
lt is disgraceful that so much money is being spent on education these days without any clear understanding on the part of the Australian Government and the State governments as to exactly where that money is going and where it should go. [More…]
When one considers the amount of money that is being spent on education and when one realises just how inadequate that expenditure is, one comes to the conclusion that the Government deserves the strongest condemnation for not being prepared to reveal to the Australian people and the experts whose business is education just where we are heading in education. [More…]
What do we spend on education? [More…]
We do not know and we will never know, because no report has come from this survey of Australian education needs by the State governments and the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
What the exact arguments are and what the exact evidence is will be kept concealed from the Australian people, lt is equally deplorable that the State governments have been prepared to act in collusion with the Commonwealth Government in the suppression of this information, lt serves the State governments right, if they are at all sincere about education, that no action has been taken so far as a result of this survey. [More…]
If I were to have my say, J would strongly urge every person who is interested in education in Australia, every teacher and the State governments themselves to seek the -release of this report and lo put pressure on the Commonwealth Government to take immediate action. [More…]
The State governments have received none of the emergency grants which they expected to flow from this survey of Australian education needs. [More…]
One very fundamental question is involved, I think, in a survey of our educational needs, lt is this: Whose responsibility is education? [More…]
lt is purely and solely a matter which concerns only the department responsible for education in each State and only the government of each Stale, or is it something which concerns the interests and the welfare of the whole of the Australian people? [More…]
Until the Australian people are given full details of what is in this survey of the needs of Australian education, I will continue to protest and the Australian Labor Party will continue to protest in this House. [More…]
If the honourable member for Diamond Valley is concerned as his interjection would indicate, perhaps he will write to South Australia and perhaps he will write also to Sir Henry Bolte and Mr Thompson, the Minister for Education in Victoria. [More…]
If everybody in this House is concerned with education and where we are going pressure will be put upon the State governments. [More…]
The members of the Liberal Party and the Australian Country Party in this House could do their job by putting pressure upon the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) and the Prime Minisiter (Mr Gorton) to ensure that this information is made available and that action is taken. [More…]
Until something very serious is done in the field of education we will see continuing crises, as we have seen for the last 20 years. [More…]
As far as I can see there is no sign that any of the great problems in education can be solved. [More…]
He indicated the broad attitude of the Labor Party to education, regardless of the fact that education is basically the responsibility of the States. [More…]
The additional areas of assistance to industry and expenditure on the Territories, education, the Austraiian Broadcasting Commission, Aboriginals, research and immigration - all of which I believe are essential items of expenditure which the Government must undertake - represent 10% of the proposed total Budget expenditure. [More…]
These arc, if I might briefly mention them, aged peoples’ homes, free medical benefits, free hospital benefits, mother and guardians allowances for widows, single age or invalid pensioners with dependent children, supplementary assistance for single pensioners paying rent or board, subsidies for Meals on Wheels, a comprehensive home care programme, allowances for education for pensioners’ children up to 21 years, and telephone rental and radio and television concessions. [More…]
Among several social areas which the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) designated as low in the Liberal order of priorities because, he alleged, they are regarded only as a cost, is education. [More…]
A 25% increase in direct educational expenditure, a 29% increase in specific education payments to the States, and greatly increased general revenue to the States to service education and other matters of choice by the States are largely glossed over by our friends on the opposite side of the House. [More…]
This week the Government Members Education Committee met a delegation from the New South Wales Teachers Federation. [More…]
The importance of education was not in issue with us or with the people who met us. [More…]
It was certainly not an issue with me because I have spent the whole of my working life in education. [More…]
In asking for a number 1 priority for education, which in itself is a reasonable request, we were assured that the great majority of people were in favour of it. [More…]
This much vaunted increase of spending on education and so on in the Budget will barely cope with increases from inflation. [More…]
What people have failed to realise is just how far behind we are nationally in tha field of education. [More…]
1 hope that this much vaunted increase in expenditure on education will enable these schools, which have been waiting for so many years, to be completed. [More…]
We have entered the field of colleges of advanced education, made research grants, given assistance to independent schools, tuberculosis hospitals, blood transfusion services, housekeeper services, home care services, senior citizens centres, paramedical services, and to deserted wives and have provided for Aboriginal advancement. [More…]
One of the other things (hat is necessary, 1 believe, is the provision of better educational opportunities for people in country areas - perhaps a higher standard of schools set in the country - although, of course, I am reminded that a farmer, who is Minister for Education in Western Australia, recently tried to downgrade country high schools, and it was only because of the resistance which he met from people in rural areas that he did not take that step. [More…]
The Country Party Minister for Education in Western Australia only recently spent $15,000 on building 2 classrooms which were to last a year in an area where it was decided that those classrooms were needed 2 years ago. [More…]
The failure of this Government to appreciate the need for urgent attention to the finalisation of St Lucia University’s development and the actual commencement of a second Brisbane university at Mount Gravatt is highlighted by the unjust allocations to university education in Queensland in the 1970-1972 triennium. [More…]
A small unobtrusive reference dismissed in 4 lines at page of ot the Fourth Report of the Australian Universities Commission typifies the Government’s attitude to the needs of young Queensland school leavers who will be seeking a university education in the next few years. [More…]
This Government and its fellow LiberalCountry Party administration in Queensland have allowed the Griffith University to become the unwanted child of tertiary, education in Queensland. [More…]
It may be that for once, although I think it is basic, the Government feels that the law is for all the people of this land whether one be a plumber’s apprentice, whether one cannot read or write or whether one be a university student whose education is paid for by the public. [More…]
This is having an ominous effect on the future of tertiary education because the public is becoming increasingly hostile to students. [More…]
what sort of medical attention he shall have, what sort of education he shall have and so on are curtailed - and rightfully so - by the laws which safeguard the rights of the child. [More…]
I would prefer to see a greater deduction allowable for dependants, education expenses and many of the other items of expenditure which the breadwinner incurs. [More…]
It represents an increased amount, and I hope that many of the things that are required in the States in the fields of education and hospitals can be carried out. [More…]
In respect of education and hospitals we have to go back to the grass roots and look at the faults and the problems from the beginning. [More…]
This applies to improvements in my electorate, and in everybody else’s electorate, in the field of education. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Health been drawn to the report of the Truskott Committee, tabled in the New South Wales Parliament, recommending the establishment of colleges of advanced education for the training of nurses? [More…]
Has the Commonwealth received any approach to support the establishment of nursing-training institutions with the status of colleges of advanced education with the appropriate Government assistance? [More…]
In relation to the general question, Mr Speaker, 1 point out that this question should be more appropriately addressed to the Minister for Education and Science, for whom I am acting at the moment. [More…]
In relation to the Australian Capital Territory, a report has been made on the future of nursing education in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
One of the recommendations made in the report is that part of the training of nurses should be undertaken at a college of advanced education. [More…]
This is being actively discussed at the present moment between my Department and the College of Advanced Education in the Australian Capita! [More…]
Territory and the Department of Education and Science with a view to introducing a course in the next triennium. [More…]
I want to make a brief comment on education. [More…]
Later on I will have more to say about the Commonwealth’s entry into the field of education. [More…]
I think that the State Ministers for Education and the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), together with the heads of their departments, should set up a committee of which the Ministers themselves are members, and confer with the aim of introducing some rationalisation of examinations and the standards for the various forms and classes in each State. [More…]
I realise that there is an advantage in co-operation but I would not like to see the Commonwealth Government take much greater control of the education system throughout Australia. [More…]
The education system is an important matter and it should be under the control of State governments with regional areas within the State department concerned. [More…]
I spoke earlier about education. [More…]
Besides providing indirect assistance to the States for education Commonwealth expenditure specifically related to education is expected this year to exceed $3 12m, which would be an increase of $63m or 25 per cent. [More…]
He grizzled like anything about education and said that not enough was being provided. [More…]
The Treasurer spoke about education at some length. [More…]
The cost of education is increasing. [More…]
The resulting comparative stagnation of the public sector contributes to continuing inequality in our society, and has led to neglect of such matters as education, cultural affairs, urban planning, hospitals, and public transport systems for which the whole community suffers. [More…]
Education stands as a symbol of the marked class basis of our society. [More…]
The Budget provides for an estimated expenditure of $312,357,000, which is an increase of 25 per cent on expenditure during 1969-70, for the purpose of education. [More…]
This clearly indicates the concern of the Commonwealth to provide more funds for education which is undoubtedly one of the most important items of Government administration. [More…]
I would venture to say that every government in Australia, irrespective of its political allegiance, is allocating the greatest proportion of its budget to education. [More…]
The funds provided by the Commonwealth Government for education mark the commencement of further assistance to the States for the construction of teachers colleges. [More…]
Australian State will benefit in this facet of education. [More…]
There will be increased numbers of training teachers, a most important and desirable section of the education field. [More…]
Another very pleasing feature of the Commonwealth’s education programme is the aid to provide additional Commonwealth university scholarships. [More…]
Many other educational benefits were enumerated recently in this House by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Bowen) when he made a ministerial statement on this subject. [More…]
Grants to colleges of advanced education are expected to total almost $40m whilst those to universities will total SI 10m. [More…]
Once again, it is evident that the Government considers education as one of its most important priorities. [More…]
This must be a source of satisfaction to educationalists and to the Australian people. [More…]
We often hear it said - no doubt there is a lot of truth in the statement - that educational facilities throughout our country could be improved considerably. [More…]
There is no doubt that this Budget will assist greatly in providing better educational facilities throughout the country. [More…]
I have no doubt that the States will welcome this assistance from the Federal Government at the higher educational levels. [More…]
Increases in expenditure iti these areas result not only from increases in population, but from a wide variety of other causes - for example, increases in wages, changes in consumer preferences, increases in school leaving age, and increases in the proportion of young people undertaking secondary and tertiary education; they may also bc associated with improvements in standards (or reduction of backlogs) in provision of services to existing residents of these areas. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Another important area of need which continues to bc ignored by the Government is the need for a new deal in financial assistance to the pre-school and primary school levels of our education systems. [More…]
The Government shrugs off its responsibility at these levels and blissfully acclaims: ‘Education is a State responsibility’. [More…]
The stark truth is that while this Government continues to hold a tight control on the finances available to the States, no State government can afford to expand its education budget to the extent necessary to provide a more efficient primary school system or develop a complete system of pre-school education. [More…]
The Acting Principal of the Queensland Kindergarten Teachers College, Miss Banff, is reported to have said when speaking at the Ryan Liberal Party executive education seminar last weekend: [More…]
The Commonwealth is not recognising the value of pre-school education. [More…]
At the primary level of education the greatest current problem in Queensland is the lack of school library facilities. [More…]
The school library is an instrument of education whose effectiveness is based on the success of its functioning as part of the total school programme, lt follows from this principle that the school library is an indispensable part of the whole continuing process of education, playing its due role in sub-primary, primary and secondary schooling. [More…]
It is as necessary a part of the educational process as is primary education. [More…]
The Government will be invoking its law and order technique against those who are active in the campaign against rising prices or the farmers who march for drought relief or, indeed, those who are concerned with the war against pollution or those who might be active in the campaign for better education opportunities. [More…]
Teachers are now anxious to have their say about the manner in which education is conducted. [More…]
They are calling for the establishment in various States of education commissions upon which there is teacher representation. [More…]
I intend to use the short time remaining for some comments on education. [More…]
This may explain the reason for the continued indifference of the Government about the inadequate educational opportunities for the children of this country. [More…]
I believe that when the House studies the report of the Australian Education Council, which has been prepared for the State governments, we will have before this Parliament the strongest indictment of any matter that we have had for many years. [More…]
Recurrent expenditure on primary and secondary education is increasing at the rate of more than 50 per cent every 5 years. [More…]
Regardless of scholastic ability only 2 per cent of children of unskilled workers get a university education. [More…]
We know the other inequalities in education. [More…]
We know that 40,000 potential students are denied university education because they are females. [More…]
Only one-third of those of school age are receiving an education. [More…]
My point is that thousands of talented young Australians are being denied the opportunity to advance themselves through higher education because of economic barriers. [More…]
Recently, in answer to a question I asked, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) gave me a schedule showing the increase in university fees for 1970. [More…]
At the University of Sydney the costs of courses this year were raised by the following amounts: Education, engineering, social studies and 6 other courses by $280; architecture and dentistry by $350; arts honours by $484; medicine by $466; and veterinary science by $450. [More…]
This, of course, is widening the economic gulf that separates many workers’ children from educational opportunities. [More…]
Every university in Australia is affected by the new and frightening philosophy of education only for the privileged. [More…]
Because of these matters and because of social service, repatriation and education deficiencies the Government stands indicted and. [More…]
What are the other alternative demands on the Commonwealth in this period in respect of education? [More…]
Did the Minister not read in this morning’s Press a release by the New South Wales Minister for Education stating that Australia will require Si, 443m in extra funds over the next 5 years if the proper needs of education are to be met? [More…]
I want to refer particularly to some taxation matters that affect education. [More…]
There was a plea for personal educational expenses to be allowed as an income tax deduction for people who educate themselves. [More…]
We are always asking people to better themselves, by engaging in further education. [More…]
But I wonder how many people realise that not lc of any educational expenses an individual incurs is deductible. [More…]
There was a plea for the removal of the present age limit in respect of the educational expenses and maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Under the taxation provisions deduction of educational expenses incurred on behalf of a dependent can be made only up to the age of 21 years. [More…]
Once the student attains that age no claim can be made despite the fact that the costs of his education might at that stage be greater than they ever were. [More…]
Let us remind ourselves that there is a much greater number of youngsters going on to tertiary education today. [More…]
In order to receive tertiary education they usually have to complete 6 years of secondary schooling. [More…]
This means that most youngsters at the beginning of their tertiary education are aged about 18 or 19 years. [More…]
The maximum amount that can be claimed is $300 per annum, and in some cases that would not pay more than about a quarter of the cost of maintaining a 20 or 21 yearold student at a university, college of advanced education or any other institution. [More…]
Education is in a mighty mess and this description applies particularly to pre-school, primary, technical and teacher education and education for the handicapped. [More…]
Even more to the point, they are indicating their utter determination to force governments to take notice of their wishes for a decent education for their children. [More…]
I support aid for the education of all children but I can understand the many parents with children in State schools watching the deteriorating conditions in their schools and feeling that they have been deprived simply because the Government is giving aid to non-State schools. [More…]
Inequality of educational opportunity is probably the most fundamental and pervasive source of inequality in most other aspects of life. [More…]
Put more positively, in countries all over the world education is increasingly becoming the major key or passport to life’s satisfaction. [More…]
What is the Government going to do about the report of the Australian Education Council which was publicised in summary only this morning - the report that tells us that there is a need for an extra $ 1,443m over the next 5 years in order to bring education up to some reasonable standard in this country. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) to make available to every member of this Parliament and to the community generally the full report on the needs of our educational system. [More…]
The most alarming aspect - I will be continuing my remarks on this matter in later debates - of the educational problem is in respect of teachers. [More…]
It is all very well for the Minister to say that he is going to make provision for so many more places in teachers colleges or colleges of advanced education but the undeniable fact is that many teachers are leaving the teaching service. [More…]
Commonwealth expenditure on education has increased dramatically. [More…]
The Opposition in this debate put forward a number of suggestions for the expenditure of additional moneys on education. [More…]
One may question the realism of proposals for a further substantial expansion of Commonwealth expenditure on education beyond the 25 per cent already proposed for this year, given the constraints on expansion of Commonwealth expenditure arising from other commitments and the state of the economy, which were explained by the Treasurer when he presented the Budget. [More…]
Moreover, as I have mentioned, the Opposition takes little account of the increased capacity which the State governments will have for expanding their expenditure on education and other matters. [More…]
It is the instrument for carrying out the Government’s policies in the fields of social welfare, health and education, defence, the development of the nation’s resources and other essential areas. [More…]
Possibly the matter most vital to the Australian people is the cost of education, which has reached the stage where it is almost beyond the capacity of the States adequately to provide the necessary finance. [More…]
Education is the corner-stone on which a country develops. [More…]
This Government has callously disregarded the needs of education and has failed to acknowledge in the Budget the undertaking given by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) in his election policy that this Government would give consideration to the survey of the needs of state education over the next 5 years which was made by the Australian Education Council. [More…]
The provision of adequate education services is directly related to the supply of Commonwealth funds to the States. [More…]
The supply of Commonwealth funds to the States for education is totally inadequate. [More…]
The needs of education must be given their just priority, otherwise the progress of education will be halted. [More…]
Education is a matter of national importance because it concerns the development of an Australia of the future. [More…]
It has to be looked at on a wide scale, as the quality of education in our schools ultimately will decide whether Australia as a nation has the ability to develop its resources. [More…]
The education problem is not confined only to State schools. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party believes in a diversified system of education and grants to all schools on the basis of need. [More…]
Education is a Commonwealth responsibility and the Commonwealth should shoulder its fair share of the burden. [More…]
As usual, the Opposition could well be asked how it would finance its vast but indefinite expenditure on defence, social welfare, local government, education and overseas aid, without increasing taxation. [More…]
Then my friend the honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds) outlined this afternoon, as did my friend the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Kennedy), the position of education in this country. [More…]
Later in this session we will debate the Migration Education Bill. [More…]
When he became dissatisfied with the coaching college he made inquiries through his brother as to whether he could enrol at another school and he was told by the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science that he would be able to do so and that perhaps the best solution would be to try the Catholic education authorities, which he did. [More…]
That official did not appear to have much consideration for the case because the conversation was abruptly terminated with his saying that he did not think the particular school the boy was now accepted for might be up to standard; bear in mind that it was also registered with the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]
Here is a set of circumstances in which a young ran of 19 years has been encouraged to come to Australia to further his education. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
a joint Commonwealth State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy al present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
a joint Commonwealth State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunities for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents .suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Is he further aware that certain scientists who visited the Territory and travelled widely in it were sufficiently impressed with the rate of achievement there to urge upon me the view that this Government should resist current pressures to accelerate greatly the programme of education for self government? [More…]
I am not sure that one could agree entirely with the way in which they are phrased which is that one should not seek to accelerate education towards self government. [More…]
Education: Pensioners in Victoria having the care of high school children may apply to the school principal for financial assistance. [More…]
is our investment in education. [More…]
I am not suggesting of course, that education should be looked at from the economic standpoint entirely. [More…]
In fact, it is nol the most important reason for investing in education. [More…]
What the Government should get into its mind is that money spent on education is not money down the drain. [More…]
But I still believe that we can control inflation by proper integration of our policies’ on tariffs, subsidies, immigration, investment, education and profit and price control. [More…]
They include security for its people to enjoy a high standard of living with truly satisfying lives in the widest sense and to contribute significantly to the world’s less developed nations in every way - by general aid, education, food and contributing to international law and order, by resisting aggression, and influencing to the extent we are able truly peaceful co-operation between nations, based on justice, truth and mercy among men. [More…]
There has been a major expansion of educational facilities for Aboriginal children. [More…]
Post-primary education was commenced in 1965. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
A joint Commonwealth State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
A joint Commonwealth State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate and the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Your Committee believes, therefore, that these unresolved questions should be examined promptly by all of the parties concerned, including tertiary education institutions. [More…]
Of course, we know why the Government does not want to speak about the real issues such as the poverty in the community, the slums that exist in our system of State education, the imminent collapse of many sectors of our public hospital services, the complete failure of the Budget to give any guidelines for the future growth of this country and the overall failure of the Government. [More…]
The Ministerfor Education and Science has supplied the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
With respect to colleges of advanced education, information collected indicates that in 1969 fees totalled about Sim. [More…]
After allowing for rising fees and student increases, and for reductions in taxation claims and the abolition of reimbursements to government employees, it is estimated that the cost to the Commonwealth of paying the fees of students attending colleges of advanced education in 1970, whose fees are not already paid by Commonwealth and State departments and instrumentalities, would be almost $3m. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
In the Northern Territory the administration of education by the Commonwealth is shared by the Departments of Education and Science and the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration. [More…]
Community schools under the control of the Department of Education and Science [More…]
All teachers at Community Schools are employed by the South Australian Education Department, who have made available all of the statistics in this section. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present ag limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
Pre-school and after-school education facilities are in urgent need within the Australian community. [More…]
In advanced countries pre-school and afterschool education are recognised as essential aspects of education for all children. [More…]
Provide the necessary finance to enable state education Departments and local Government authorities to establish: [More…]
The Minister for Supply (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) will represent the Acting Minister for Works, and the Ministers for Labour and National Service, Education and Science, External Territories and the Attorney-General. [More…]
We note that progress has been made and is still being made in the relevant areas of education to improve staffing. [More…]
Apart from the 3 hour period for Repatriation and Social Services the alloted times for other groupings are as follows: External Affairs, 5 hours; Customs, Primary Industry and Trade and Industry, 5 hours; Defence Services, 5 hours; and 2i hour periods for Civil Aviation, Education and Science, Health, National Development, Postmaster-General’s Department and Shipping and Transport. [More…]
It is also because migrants and citizens who have not had the advantages of a better education have more problems. [More…]
The subjects of these committees will be foreign affairs and defence; finance and trade; health and welfare; primary industry and national development; transport and communications; education, science and arts; and legal, home and internal territory affairs. [More…]
Health is not adequately and properly taken care of and education is in a shocking condition. [More…]
I entirely agree with what teacher organisations throughout Australia have said when they have referred to a crisis in education. [More…]
We have had and no doubt will continue to have for some time partypolitical criticism of the Budget by members of the Australian Labor Party and others on matters including education. [More…]
There has been criticism by bodies that purport to represent education in this country and by numerous other bodies demanding more and more government services in health, education, defence, roads and social services. [More…]
It is not always true in looking, for example, at education or health that twice the expenditure results in twice the benefit. [More…]
The State has to provide the necessary transport, develop ovals and playing areas for the children and meet the needs of education and the other very, great needs of an area which is developing at such an extraordinarily rapid rate. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) stated in this House that he understood the average age of all people, including grown-ups, in the area was 8 years of age. [More…]
So I ask the Treasurer once again to pick his own team and spend one day with me in those areas alone to have a personal look at the problems that exist, because I think it would change his attitude on these important issues of the reconstitution of the Grants Commission, the problem of local government interest rates, the need for grants to the States specifically earmarked for these problems of local government finance, the questions of education, health facilities and all the rest that is needed in these areas. [More…]
It means, does it not, that we are told that nothing more can be done for anybody, whether in education, health or social services, because this is the maximum amount that can be paid out. [More…]
I cannot make any more payments for education because I have really expended the whole of the moneys I have collected.’ [More…]
How ridiculous it is to have what might be termed the centralist power of money, which the Government has, and the paralysis we have and at the same time have this anaemic condition that applies on all the perimeters - that is, in the States, lt is important that the people receive proper housing, education, health and other amenities that the States provide. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science will undoubtedly have examined the situation raised in the Senate 3 months ago, in the week after this House rose for the winter recess, in which the principal of a high school which had received a large Commonwealth subsidy for its library removed books which had been put on special shelves for senior students and which included several well known books on South East Asia, including ones by Professor C. P. Fitzgerald, the first Professor of Far Eastern History at the Australian National University, and Sir Alan Watt, former Secretary of the Department of External Affairs. [More…]
financial barriers to basic education for alt children; and [More…]
That the Australian Education Council report on the needs of the State Education Services, has established the most urgent need in education. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray, that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled, take immediate steps to ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their Public Education Services. [More…]
It seems to me that here was an opportunity for the Commonwealth Government to take positive steps to assist in the education of children in the north of Western Australia. [More…]
Over a period of a quarter of a century it is quite clear that, in an advanced economy such as Australia’s where there is a fairly high rate of investment for development, much of which goes into technology and education, productivity must increase at an accelerating rate and the amount of wealth available per bead of population in real terms over any lengthy period must increase appreciably. [More…]
Economically they are held back because their limited education means limited skills, which in turn means limited value on the labour market. [More…]
According to the 1968 United Nations Year Book on National Accounts, Australia spent 10.4 per cent of its gross national product on the provision of health, education and welfare. [More…]
However it is nonsense to talk of providing equal opportunity through similar facilities for all, for example, in education. [More…]
The present system of education exemplifies how they are gravely disadvantaged by a system which ostensibly is the same for all but which in fact is heavily weighted against them. [More…]
The middle class orientation of our education system is so totally removed from the reality of the experiences of the culturally and socially deprived and so alien to their needs and understanding as to confirm their own poor estimations of themselves as failures when their efforts to cope with the system prove in vain. [More…]
The increase in pensions would have been higher had we cut down on our expenditure on defence, on national development, on education, on overseas aid, on Aboriginals, on housing or on health. [More…]
As a child gets older the cost of keeping it increases, particularly the cost of clothing, footwear and education. [More…]
The children could start wagging it from school and get into trouble with probation officers, education department people and the like and eventually become dropouts. [More…]
I believe that every supporter of the Government would be satisfied if we were able to double expenditure on pensions, but the moment that that were done it would mean that money which would nor mally be allocated to education, national development and other requirements would not be available for those purposes. [More…]
Pressure groups would form and the Opposition would scream about the money needed for education, national development and other fields. [More…]
Social services extend far beyond the ambit of the Department of Social Services and intrude into the realms of taxation, health, education, housing and transport. [More…]
Also under the heading of bilateral aid is included special aid to South Vietnam, special aid to Cambodia, the Food Aid Convention under the International Grains Arrangement, the SEATO Aid Programme, the Indus Waters Scheme, the Foreign Exchange Operations Fund for Laos, the ASPAC Registry of Scientific and Technical Services, the ASPAC Food and Fertiliser Technology Centre, the Special Commonwealth African Assistance Plan, the Commonwealth Co-operation in Education Scheme, the South Pacific Aid Programme, the Australian International Awards Scheme, disaster relief contributions, Australian-Asian University Aid and Co-operation Scheme, emergency refugee relief for Nigeria, and practical training for Papuans and New Guineans. [More…]
The proliferation of assault, rape and robbery is as much an aspect of the Liberal approach to government as the under-education of the young, the exploitation of the sick and the degradation of the old and the indigent. [More…]
Forty-five per cent of Queensland’s police, 16 per cent of the police in Tasmania and 15 per cent of those in South Australia have had no more than a primary school education. [More…]
Minimumeducationstandardis1or2 years of secondary education. [More…]
It is a fact that the report of the Australian Education Council contained figures showing what was called a ‘shortfall’ in the amounts to be provided by the States for education over a 5-year period from 1971 to 1975. [More…]
Before dealing with the later part of the honourable member’s question I think I should comment that the way in which these figures were prepared was to take the requirements of the States, estimated by them over the 5- year period, on capital account and also for recurrent expenses and then to estimate what the State education Ministers thought might be provided in State budgets, both for recurrent and capital expenses. [More…]
The provision for dependants is too meagre and I believe we can be much more expansive in matters such as the Soldiers Children Education Scheme. [More…]
In view of the fact that we have a pretty extensive scholarship scheme and free education at various levels, it would not hurt us to expand the Soldiers Children Education Scheme to include the children of those who have not got war-caused disabilities but who have spent a considerable amount of their lives in the services. [More…]
Additionally, a greater percentage of the total population of young people now attends universities or other centres of advanced education. [More…]
Even those who do not, by virtue of improved general education, can more readily empathise with students than was the case in the past. [More…]
Whilst the tournament is being organised by the Federation of All Japan Karate Do Organisations, it has the firm support of the Japanese Government in that the Japanese Ministry of Education, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Transport and the Metropolitan Government of Tokyo are assisting the Japanese body in the organisation of the world tournament. [More…]
The Budget position would then have to be adjusted by one means or another, perhaps by reducing Government expenditure on things such as pensions, education, defence, national development and health. [More…]
I should like to address myself to the appropriations for the Department of Customs and Excise and specifically to the question of drugs and especially drug education. [More…]
Recently the Commonwealth Government allocated $500,000 for drug education for the current year to be used on projects recommended by the Drug Education Committee of the National Standing Control Committee on Drugs of Dependence. [More…]
On the one hand they talk about drug education, and I should like to deal with that principally in the quarter of an hour at my disposal. [More…]
If a person in the position of the Prime Minister in 1970 does not realise that the main drug problem in this country is connected with such drugs as alcohol, the tranquillisers and sedatives and that the drug problems we normally read about and which are sensationalised in the newspapers are only a periphery problem, he certainly needs a lot of drug education. [More…]
Whilst I realise that it is difficult to say whether he is right or wrong, I hope that at some stage the people who are spending the $500,000 on behalf of the Commonwealth Government on drug education will consider his warn- [More…]
In the light of this inability to control drug usage through legal sanctions, it has become fashionable to turn to ‘education’ as the best method of persuading youth to abstain. [More…]
The American people have great faith in education. [More…]
Special committees are appointed to promote education, such as the one we set up recently. [More…]
In view of our uncertainty as to the effectiveness of drug education, it would be prudent to consider 2 disconcerting possibilities. [More…]
First, that drug education may not discourage youth from experimenting with illegal drugs. [More…]
Under certain circumstances, as indicated later, education may even encourage drug usage. [More…]
Second, that drug education programmes - [More…]
The most prevalent but least effective theme in the drug education programme is to ‘scare the hell out of them’. [More…]
This is one of the great dangers of the drug education system. [More…]
Professor Halleck goes on to say that there is a place for drug education but that it should be concentrated on the adults. [More…]
Drug, education can be thought of as a treatment that is designed to treat the symptom without doing anything about the causes of the illness. [More…]
But even more distressing, by relying upon education as a symptomatic treatment, we are lured away from the real problems which are causing the symptom. [More…]
Drug education programmes can be helpful. [More…]
I strongly recommend that before the Drug Education Committee starts spending money on the usual sort of drug education programmes it should invite before it some of the critics of the drug education programme or read contributions by these people, especially from the United States of America and the United Kingdom, study these matters and determine whether some alternative is available as a way of trying to decrease the number of people in this community who attempt and find it necessary to use drugs whether legal or illegal. [More…]
WEN - In the House on 1st September 1970 I undertook in reply to a question without notice from the Member for Kingston to find out something of the report of the Committee headed by Mr V. J. Truskett on nursing education in New South Wales. [More…]
The report covers a wide field and as has been suggested, seeks to involve nursing education with colleges of advanced education. [More…]
However, if recommendations about nursing education are formulated by the New South Wales Government involving colleges of advanced education in some way or other, these recommendations will be referred to the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education for its advice. [More…]
The Department of Adult Education of the Australian National University published in November 1967 a document entitled ‘An Independent Education Authority for the Australian Capital Territory’ this being the report of a working committee chaired by Sir George Currie which was established following a seminar conducted by the Department of Adult Education. [More…]
My Department has under continuing study the question of administration of education in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
1 am currently considering the desirability of having an inquiry made into the administration of education in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
They are nearly all young people who should be studying to fit themselves to represent this country in the way we expect them to when the Government pays so much for their education. [More…]
Department of Education and Science [More…]
That the proposed expenditure for the Department: of Education and Science be reduced by $2 as an instruction to the Government that it should: [More…]
the objectives and quality of Australian education, and [More…]
primary and secondary education, [More…]
tertiary education; such a. tertiary commission to co-ordinate all forms of tertiary education . [More…]
the co-ordination of all levels of education. [More…]
Commonwealth intervention in the field of education, while it has been tremendously welcome, has nevertheless been sporadic. [More…]
There was the establishment of the science block assistance scheme and now we have had the incursion into migrant education. [More…]
But the Commonwealth has not looked at the problems of education in the systematic way which we, for a long time, have felt to be necessary and, as a consequence, we are moving this amendment. [More…]
Honourable members will note that we are also asking for a look at the objectives and quality of Australian education. [More…]
Education might be denned as that development of the personality which takes place as a result of the individual’s learnings, and the personality might be defined as the sum total of our attitudes and aptitudes. [More…]
I suppose that technical education has especially to do with aptitudes and general education has especially to do with attitudes although scientific education can also produce attitudes and we cannot really sever the personality artificially like that. [More…]
But we are not asking, and we have not been asking in Australia for a long time, what are we trying to do wtih our educational system - what are the purposes of education? [More…]
It grew out of the English traditions in education which began, in its very inceptions I think, with the idea that a classical education was the education of a gentleman. [More…]
We have not asked ourselves whether wc are educating for national efficiency or whether we are educating for a sane and stable community - what we are trying to do with education. [More…]
We believe that it is now necessary for the best minds thinking into educational problems to take a look at the question: What are the objectives of education? [More…]
They should then start reforming the educational system accordingly. [More…]
I do not think the point about inequalities of educational opportunities needs stressing. [More…]
The poorest convent school - if we consider the private sector of education - the resources of which are actually a minus because it may be having to feed migrant children, as is done in certain of the poorer areas of Melbourne, gets the same per capita grant as Geelong Grammar School which, in point of fact, in terms of need does not need any grants at all. [More…]
The same thing is true if we look at the State sector of education. [More…]
There is absolutely no idea of eliminating inequalities in educational opportunities. [More…]
I do not think we can rush into this and carry through a Commonwealth educational scheme aimed at helping to smooth out these inequalities. [More…]
Then there is need for a tertiary commission to co-ordinate all forms of tertiary education. [More…]
1. suppose - and I am speaking now of Western Australia - that just about all of the people who have had a tertiary education and who want to be teachers are offering themselves for teaching. [More…]
I understand that 47 per cent of the people who have a tertiary education are offering themselves for teaching. [More…]
Their real objective was to use the teachers bursaries as a means io obtaining a higher education. [More…]
I think that this is a consequence of the fact that we have never really looked at the whole field of tertiary education and co-ordinated it. [More…]
We do not have any scheme for co-ordinating all levels of education. [More…]
The growing vote for the organisation which calls itself DOGS- the Defence of Government Schools Organisation - is also a sign of a growing conviction about the neglect of State schools in the poorer areas of our country and failure to establish an educational system which will eliminate inequalities in education. [More…]
I believe that this is symptomatic of the very serious concern that is developing in the community for privilege in Australian education. [More…]
This is a particular marked feature in South Australia and Victoria where educational snobbery was always more powerful than it was anywhere else. [More…]
However, I wish to turn attention back to the feature in my amendment which asks about the quality of Australian education. [More…]
I do not think that we have any longer a clear view of what we are intending to do with colleges of advanced education. [More…]
We have not clearly formulated what we intend to do with colleges of advanced education. [More…]
This is one other reason why there should be this look at the purposes of what we are doing in education, as my amendment asks. [More…]
This request is directed not so much at the rather platitudinous statement which emanated from the Commonwealth-State conferences but at what must lie behind it and what must have been perceived in the discussion about educational needs. [More…]
and the need for the Commonwealth to make emergency grants to meet the problems which the States themselves have said they are encountering in conducting their educational systems. [More…]
Australian education has advanced in certain waves. [More…]
It is time that we started looking at education and at what it should be for the rest of the century. [More…]
1) 1970-71 provides $129m for the Department of Education and Science, we have under review a total proposed government expenditure of some $3 12m on education for the 1970-71 period. [More…]
That amount does not include all the trappings of education in the broader sense. [More…]
We have, for instance, $45m earmarked for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation which, in the broadest sense of education, certainly has many implications for the development of learning in this country. [More…]
First, it is open ended, lt would not matter what was done at the Commonwealth level, what the States did or what anybody did; there would always be the capacity and in fact the need to spend more in the educational sphere. [More…]
The second reason is that there are very many viewpoints in the educational field. [More…]
1 might say as a generalisation that nearly everyone thinks that he or she knows something about primary education. [More…]
Rather fewer people, but still a great proportion of the community, think that they have something to offer or certainly have some interest in the secondary sphere of education. [More…]
Very much fewer know anything about tertiary education and that tends to be left a little more alone by the public at large. [More…]
In fact, it is good that there should be a universal or nearly universal interest in education. [More…]
I do not put those points forward as being any face saver at all for what the Commonwealth Government is doing in education. [More…]
As I have said, the Commonwealth Government has provided for education$3 12m this year, $249m last year and in 1966-67, some 4 years ago, $143m. [More…]
With the concurrence of honourable members, I incorporate in Hansard tables which appear at pages 42 and 43 of the August 1970 bulletin of the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
They indicate, for example, that direct expenditure by the Commonwealth on education has increased over the period from 1961-62 to 1970-71 by very nearly 500 per cent- 471 per cent or 472 per cent - and that expenditure on various other facets of education has increased by much the same order. [More…]
So it is a little bit rough to suggest that the Commonwealth is hardly cognisant of what is happening in this field or that it has no real intention to improve the lot of education. [More…]
He emphasised the need for quality in education. [More…]
If I may express a view which might not find total or universal acceptance, education has in many ways become a status symbol. [More…]
In the postwar period there has been, to my way of thinking, a constant watering down of educational programmes and curricula largely by the infusion of increasing amounts of social content so that all can be in a process progressively, unfortunately progressively to my way of thinking, lacking in discipline. [More…]
It is obvious that this sort of increase has put tremendous demands on the education purse. [More…]
To put it very briefly, it is inherently a view which holds that while the Commonwealth should be very considerably involved, as it is, in the educational sphere it cannot be held to be totally responsible. [More…]
Some bodies in the States would very much like the Commonwealth to give money earmarked for education but not any more specifically than that. [More…]
That would enable the Commonwealth to be taken to task when any inadequacy could be shown to exist in these educational grants but not in such detail as might become embarrassing. [More…]
In other words, if the Commonwealth were to give, as it has recently, increased moneys to the States and were to say to the States: ‘You decide how you will distribute that money; you take the responsibility as to whether it is spent on roads, bridges, education or whathaveyou’, the Commonwealth would stand much more firmly and would be much less open to ridicule and criticism in that area. [More…]
I do not have all the figures but, for example, the New South Wales Budget which was recently brought down proposes the expenditure of 43 per cent of total funds on education. [More…]
That is not a bad proportion of the total income or revenues of the State to be spent oh education. [More…]
I am quite sure that many people in New South Wales educationists and others, and the same would apply in the other States could point to many inadequacies in education in that State. [More…]
1 think other people will take up the need for an education survey, but I should like to query the honourable member for Fremantle’s apparently uncritical acceptance of that. [More…]
It is merely an observation about education that will exist from now to kingdom come. [More…]
It is up to the Victorian Government, or to some other State government, to order priorities and to use the greatly increased moneys made available by the Commonwealth for education and other specified or unspecified purposes for those priorities so that the glaring things that hit one in the eye as one tours around somewhere or other are not so glaring in a year or two. [More…]
In fact, it would be very severely resisted by the States - it always has been - if the Commonwealth were to get involved in the detail - I need not say trivia - of day to day educational needs. [More…]
In that sense I come back to agree with the honourable member for Fremantle who said that the concept of quality in education is the first thing to which we should be looking. [More…]
It cannot be divorced totally from bricks and mortar, but there are educational authorities which see education as something which relates very heavily to bricks and mortar and they often are not quite so concerned about quality which bears on teacher training, curricula and that sort of thing. [More…]
Expenditure in the field of education is not by. [More…]
I think that is probably less evident in the field of primary and secondary education. [More…]
But the fact is that efficiency is not exactly a key word in education and there could be greater examination in detail - that would mean, of course, at the State level and even at the institutional level - as to how the money which is increasingly being made available might be spent. [More…]
First and foremost I think is the question that the States have a clear responsibility to order their priorities in this matter and to put education in the context of all expenditure in that State as they see it. [More…]
In that sense they must be pushing as hard as they can conceivably push to do the best they can with the unspecific grants as distinct from these special area grants, whether they be for libraries, laboratories or what have you in this sphere of education. [More…]
The Commonwealth, while it would do well to take heed of one or two of the points made by the honourable member for Fremantle, is not in such a parlous position as far as its education policy is concerned. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) is among the worst informed and least informative members of the Ministry. [More…]
Since 14th April I have vainly sought from him information on the number and proportion of qualified students who unsuccessfully sought enrolment this year in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I still have questions on the notice paper from that date on post-graduate awards and university and advanced education scholarships. [More…]
Australian children cannot be educated economically, equitably and effectively unless and until comprehensive educational statistics are collected on a national basis. [More…]
Since 1961-62 the States have increased the proportion of their budgets devoted to education from 18 per cent to 21.8 per cent. [More…]
They acknowledge the inadequacy of that outlay to purchase ‘an education consistent with the requirements of citizenship in a modern world1 - in classes of reasonable size, taught by teachers with adequate preparation, in functional buildings, the classrooms being well equipped and the pupils provided with sufficient textbooks’. [More…]
They acknowledge that ‘if the States continue to increase their contributions to these educational services at an annual rate of 10 per cent and if the Commonwealth increases its current contribution to the States for specific purposes at the same rate . [More…]
the ‘Nationwide Survey of Educational Needs’. [More…]
They are taken, that is, from the report of the survey which both the Minister for Education and Science- and- his predecessor used for 2 years as a pretext to defer the Commonwealth assistance which Australian schools so clearly and urgently require. [More…]
Pre-school education enhances the value of all later education, in particular for those children who are economically disadvantaged or culturally deprived. [More…]
Liberal education policies deny recognised pre-school education to all but 2.9 per cent of the eligible children in New South Wales, to all but 7.3 per cent in Queensland, 9.9 per cent in Western Australia, 14.3 per cent in Tasmania, 14.5 per cent in South Australia and 27.1 per cent in Victoria. [More…]
Compare and contrast pre-school education in each and any of these States and in Canberra, where 1 year of pre-school education is available for all children. [More…]
The Liberal Ministers who initiated the ‘Nationwide Survey of Educational Needs’ did not bother even to include pre-school education in their terms of reference. [More…]
Is it any wonder that only 20.4 per cent of the students at government schools and 27.5 per cent at Catholic schools complete their secondary education whereas at other nongovernment schools 76.3 per cent do so? [More…]
However, the Minister has told me that it would cost the Commonwealth about $ 1 1.5m to abolish fees at universities and $3m at colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The Commonwealth must also involve itself as fully in teacher education as in the other forms of tertiary education. [More…]
Teacher trainees for both government and non-government schools should receive their education with allowances and without fees. [More…]
Intransigent adherence to the shibboleth of State rights allowed Sir Robert to avert for years the Commonwealth involvement in education which his successors have since accepted on a biased, partial and spasmodic basis. [More…]
Byelections last weekend mirror a great resentment among teachers at government schools that their schools are slipping by world standards and great resentment by parents that education at government schools is not free and is becoming less free. [More…]
There will never be enough teachers and adequate facilities and equipment in government or most non-government schools in this country until the Commonwealth sets out to do the same and as much for teacher education and for technical, secondary, primary and pre-school education as it does for universities. [More…]
As a supporter of the Government, may I say at the outset that 1 deprecate the very unfair and provocative comments made by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) about the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen). [More…]
The humble committee on which I serve - the Government Members Education Committee - has had from the Minister nothing but:the most generous and lav ish assistance so far as the imparting of information on education in this country is concerned. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s role in education, apart from its role in the Territories, is a comparatively new one compared with those matters given to the Commonwealth under the Constitution. [More…]
1 would have thought that in those circumstances the work of the Minister - and 1 say without any hesitation that of the 2 previous Ministers for Education and Science also - deserves the highest commendation by the Parliament. [More…]
The case put forward by the Leader of the Opposition - it was only revealed in its true simplicity at the end of his speech - was one calling for a virtual complete take over of education in this country by the Commonwealth. [More…]
We certainly believe the Commonwealth has a rale to play in education. [More…]
I for one believe that there are other areas where the Commonwealth could take a very active part in education - in particular aspects of education that hitherto have been the sole province of the States. [More…]
I would think that the importance of it and the great value of it having been so recognised by educational authorities, speaks volumes in support of the proposition that the scheme should be extended to primary schools. [More…]
There are many other areas where the Commonwealth could take a positive part in education. [More…]
Nevertheless education is primarily a matter for the States. [More…]
No matter what fulminations the Leader of the Opposition goes through in his annual budgetary rituals, the hard facts remain that, constitutionally, education is a matter for the States and not for the Commonwealth. [More…]
the objectives and quality of Australian education, and [More…]
In the first place there is the work of the State education departments and the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science. [More…]
The Government has already established a committee which is known as the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education. [More…]
The first is that the Committee shall advise on priorities in educational research. [More…]
Such proposals may include educational research projects, the dissemination of information about completed research and research in progress, and measures for the training of research personnel. [More…]
I could mention other terms of reference of the Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education. [More…]
The criticism I would make of the comments of the honourable member for Fremantle relate to the reference - this was followed up by the Leader of the Opposition - to the Commonwealth activity in education having been spasmodic. [More…]
This seems to me to be a very inaccurate and very unfair description of what the Government has done so far in the Commonwealth sphere in education. [More…]
I feel that the facts bear this interpretation out: The Government has started off with the proposition that education is primarily a matter for the States but that nevertheless there are areas in education where the Commonwealth can meet particular needs. [More…]
It has followed the method that I have outlined and has analysed the structure of education throughout Australia to see whether there are any particular pockets of need that can be met by Commonwealth activity and Commonwealth finance. [More…]
Many others are set out in the useful material that the very informed Minister for Education and Science has put before the House in these proposals. [More…]
It is well that they should be recorded because I believe that each of them is a very substantial monument to the achievements of the Commonwealth Government in education. [More…]
The most striking increase in the expenditure of the Commonwealth on education for this year is the proposed expenditure on colleges of advanced education. [More…]
1 fail to see how the finger can be pointed at the Commonwealth Government and how it can be said that the Commonwealth is failing in its activities in education, when we see expenditure of that magnitude and increases to that extent in 1 year. [More…]
The same point can be made with respect to the overall expenditure by the Commonwealth on education. [More…]
on education this year will increase by 25 per cent over last year’s. [More…]
Reasons have been advanced in support of that policy by the present Minister for Education and Science, by other representatives of the Government on numerous occasions and by the community at large. [More…]
A number of points have been made by Government members about the role of the State and the Commonwealth in education. [More…]
Invariably these references by Liberal members are concerned solely with means that can be applied to restricting the development of State education in Australia. [More…]
There is no point in talking about the rights of States in education if the States are coming begging to the Commonwealth for assistance and if the Commonwealth is prepared to recognise its obligation to provide that assistance. [More…]
It was regrettable, however, that he was concerned with only one aspect of education and was not concerned to look also at the needs of the stale education system. [More…]
My prime concern in this debate is to deal briefly with the survey of educational needs that has just been compiled by the State governments. [More…]
It is a massive indictment of the apathy and contempt with which State and Commonwealth governments have treated state education over the last 2 decades. [More…]
The survey brings home one simple and inescapable fact: The Commonwealth has so disastrously under-invested in state education that the most optimistic picture for the future of state education over the next 5 years can be only one of despair and gloom. [More…]
They will be fortunate if they can find any specific statement on what are the standards to be achieved for Australian education, what the objectives of Australian education are, what the quality of Australian education should be, how many teachers there should be, what their education should be, what the ratio of pupils to teachers should be, what the children should be taught, how many buildings there should be, what the buildings should be and what sort of equipment there should be. [More…]
This document is an insult to parents of children in slate schools, to teachers, to taxpayers in general and to all parliaments that are charged with the responsibility of looking to the needs of Australia in education. [More…]
I notice that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) smiles slightly. [More…]
It is a disgrace that the Commonwealth Government has not used its good offices to establish an open, thorough and independent inquiry into education. [More…]
It is a disgrace that it has not used its good offices to ensure that all details of the reports brought down by State governments are made available for critical examination by all Australians concerned with the future education of Australians. [More…]
Furthermore, it is a disgrace that no action has been taken so far, apart from what has been dealt with in the grants to the States, to cope with these fantastic needs of education in the future. [More…]
I would briefly mention that the tentative figure of what the States will have for education over the next 5 years is approximately $6 billion. [More…]
Equally interesting is this tact: So severe and so great has been the backlog of building requirements of State education over recent years that it was actually considered at this meeting between the Commonwealth and States that the building industry in Australia might not be capable of meeting the needs of new buildings and renovations to old buildings. [More…]
So great is the backlog, so great is the neglect and so great has been the apathy of governments, State and Commonwealth, over recent years that it was actually considered likely that the building industry of Australia would not be able to cope with the building needs of State education over the next 5 years. [More…]
Should we not be setting our priorities along the lines of education? [More…]
The proposition that the States will have $6) billion over the next 5 year period has also to take into account the fact that this calculation is based on the assumption that the State governments will increase their expenditure in the fields of education covered in the survey by 10 per cent per annum. [More…]
It also assumes that the Commonwealth will increase its grants to education for specific purposes by 10 per cent per annum. [More…]
I recall that only a few days ago the New South Wales Government increased its expenditure on education by $39.2m. [More…]
As far as I can see teachers in New South Wales are requesting an increase in salaries of 12 per cent, lt is quite likely that the majority of the amount being allotted for an increase in education expenditure will be consumed by salary increases alone. [More…]
So I say that the suggestion that the States will have 6i billion to spend on education over the next 5 years is a highly inflated and over optimistic picture. [More…]
The question is this: Is the Commonwealth Government prepared to stand by its national obligations to the education of young Australians? [More…]
Indeed, when the Minister for Education and Science replied to a question in this House last week he said once again that the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) had written or was writing to the States and that he would like to have their views on the situation. [More…]
Meanwhile we keep on building up this second rate system of education which we call State education. [More…]
It is a second rate system of education when I look at the facilities and the lack of objectives, the poor philosophy behind the system and the fact that the education system has struggled on decade after decade without any apparent guidance to where it is going. [More…]
If the honourable member wants to know the Commonwealth’s attitude on education he should have a look at a publication entitled Dept of Education and Science Reports’. [More…]
On page 5 of this report under the heading grants for educational purposes, secondary science facilities scheme’ there is a picture of a science laboratory. [More…]
That is how much the Government thinks of State education. [More…]
We hear references again and again to the high quality education. [More…]
It is passed off as an opportunity for overseas travel, something hitherto unforeseen by the administrators of education. [More…]
I call upon the Commonwealth to do what it can to give the money that is needed for investment in state education. [More…]
Once again we have been treated to the familiar cries and wails of woe from members of the Opposition, especially the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Kennedy) who says, of course, that not enough money is expended on education. [More…]
In dealing with the estimates for the Department of Education and Science I want to concentrate principally on the needs of primary and secondary schools. [More…]
1 want to give some emphasis to the fact that in this Budget there was a 25 per cent increase on last year’s allocation of resources to education. [More…]
I think that this is absolutely necessary because there is no better investment that a nation can make than in education to try to bring out the best in its young people. [More…]
In this age education certainly ranks among the highest of priorities in our expenditure. [More…]
Apart from the additional funds that have now been made available to the States under the new 5-year financial reimbursement formula for the State works programme for new school buildings and so on, direct assistance to the States for education this year amounts to $160m which is an increase of $34m on last year. [More…]
I believe that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) is a dedicated Minister and is doing his utmost to try to ensure that adequate funds and resources are extended by the Commonwealth to assist the States in their education programmes. [More…]
The fact is that the Government has recognised a need to aid the States’ education programmes to the maximum. [More…]
The independent schools have an important place in our education system, educating about 25 per cent of our children. [More…]
There are people who resent aid to the non-State schools, but let them remember that the parents sending their children to these schools are doing so at great cost to themselves and are helping to pay for the education of the children their critics are sending to the Government schools. [More…]
In New South Wales, for instance, the total amount that is allocated to education is in the vicinity of about 43 per cent of the State’s total Budget, so this demonstrates that the State governments are. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s share of total capital expenditure by governments on education in the States has risen from 12 per cent of the total in 1963-64 to 31 per cent in 1969-70. [More…]
1 want to say a word about the findings of the Australian Education Council’s recently completed survey. [More…]
I was shocked to hear the honourable member for Bendigo rubbish the report on the activities of the State Departments of Education in trying to come to grips with the problem of undertaking a survey and making certain recommendations. [More…]
The Council consists of 6 Ministers of Educa tion from the various States with the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science joining in discussions by invitation. [More…]
In May of this year the State Ministers met with the Minister for Education and Science after putting their report to their own State governments. [More…]
This is a big improvement and it will help the States in their problem of providing additional facilities for education. [More…]
Once again I want to emphasise that the administrative problem for primary and secondary education must remain the responsibility of the States. [More…]
I believe that the availability of their own revenue this year should help the States to meet a great portion of the growing needs of education. [More…]
I believe that the needs of education were taken into account when this new 5year CommonwealthStates financial agreement was determined. [More…]
However the survey does reveal an enormous financial need for education over the next 5 years for running costs, for salary costs and for capital works. [More…]
Let us not forget that tremendous efforts have been made, are being made and will be made by this Government to assist the States to meet the growing needs of primary, secondary and tertiary education in Australia. [More…]
1 rise to support the Opposition’s amendment to the proposed vote for the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
The amendment outlines many deficiencies in the Australian educational scene. [More…]
For my own purposes I think that the matter of the supply of qualified teachers and the assistance given to students would be among the most important items in our educational programme. [More…]
Many highly qualified teachers are leaving to enter industry, commerce and tertiary education. [More…]
Millions of dollars worth of laboratories, books and curricula represent a great boost to science education (despite some unanswered questions about their effectiveness). [More…]
But the foundations of these very laboratories might goon become tombstones of science education when the laboratories are bereft of science teachers. [More…]
In New South Wales, the Minister for Education admits that there are 884 teachers, with no professional training, who are employed in secondary schools in the State. [More…]
The Government was warned - by teachers, by parents’ organisations, by the Committee on the Future of Tertiary Education in Australia, commonly known as the Martin Committee, which the Government itself established in 1961, and not least by the persistent campaign of the Australian Labor Party from the 1950s onwards. [More…]
Teachers college capital grants will help as also will training assistance through some of the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The Macquarie College of Advanced Education at Bathurst will absorb the former Bathurst Teachers College. [More…]
The proposed College of Advanced Education at Wagga likewise will absorb the already existing teachers college in that city. [More…]
They obtain a degree in economics, science or commerce and, having done so, very shortly afterwards they quit the teaching service and enter into more lucrative fields in industry or higher education. [More…]
I turn now to another matter of gross inequality in the educational field. [More…]
The Budget for 1970-71 provides for an increase of 1,000 Commonwealth university scholarships - open entrance scholarships - but no increase has taken place in the 2.500 advanced education awards. [More…]
I understand that in 1969 only 6 per cent of students at colleges of advanced education held scholarships as against 34 per cent of students holding scholarships at universities. [More…]
It was a reaction to the election promise of the Australian Labor Party in 1963 to provide secondary school scholarships to every student in the last 2 years of his or her secondary education. [More…]
The latest advice from the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) is that of the students enrolled in the third last year of secondary schooling in 1969 - namely, in my State, for instance, those who are in fourth form - the percentages of those who in fact did achieve a Commonwealth secondary scholarships in 1970 were in government schools, 4.4 per cent; in Catholic schools, 6.9 per cent; and in other nongovernment schools, 15.6 per cent. [More…]
This kind of situation moved Professor M. E. Harvey of Melbourne, in May this year, to express lament that a great deal of potential talent in Australia was being wasted - this is the seriousness of it; it is not only an injustice to the students themselves but also is an injustice because of what it is doing to Australia and the development of its economy not to say its cultural and social wellbeing - because many children did not have the chance to go on to tertiary education. [More…]
Well might it be said that the other 77 per cent of Australia’s parents should be capable of supplying a much bigger share of able students who should continue on to tertiary education. [More…]
It seems that the honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds) takes an unnecessarily gloomy view of the outlook for education in Australia. [More…]
I remind him that it is only a few short years since the Commonwealth came actively into the field of education. [More…]
If we care to glance back through the records during the 5 years or so since the Department of Education and Science was established, with the present Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) as the first Minister for Education and Science, I believe that we have reason to be satisfied with the progress we have made. [More…]
As the Commonwealth is assisting more and more in the education field, I believe that greater use will be made of this talent in each year. [More…]
I should like to compliment the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) on his plans for the extension of our educational and scientific programmes and services for the current financial year. [More…]
In his Budget Speech on 18th August, the Treasurer (Mr Bury) expressed the view that the greatly improved system of general revenue grants to the States over the next 5 years should enable them to do much more for education than hitherto. [More…]
1 draw to the attention of the honourable member for Barton and to those other honourable members opposite who have been critical about education and expenditure on education, particularly in the state field, the fact that substantially larger allocations are being made for education in this current financial year. [More…]
In a direct and an indirect way the Commonwealth is assisting more and more in this very important field of education. [More…]
I think that my friend the honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr Brown), who spoke earlier, pointed out that there has been a 25 per cent increase in the allocation for education in this financial year, 1970-71, over the allocation for 1969-70. [More…]
I believe it is a healthy sign that there is a continuing demand for greater expenditure and effort in the overall field of education. [More…]
He is an educationist of note. [More…]
In a young and developing country like Australia, with a very great future before it, there will continue to be a growing demand in all fields of education. [More…]
The Budget Papers show that the main items in this category will be payments of $78m to universities; payments of $35m to colleges of advanced education; payments of $48m for special purpose unmatched grants for school facilities, technical colleges, and teacher training colleges; and per capita grants of $24m towards the running costs of independent schools. [More…]
Another very pleasing aspect of the Government’s increased education pro gramme - despite what has been said by the honourable member for Barton and one or two other honourable members opposite - is the expansion of the Commonwealth scholarship scheme. [More…]
The number of open entrance university scholarships is to be increased by 1,000 to a total of 8,500, in addition to the present 4,000 later-year university awards and 2,500 advanced education awards. [More…]
Contrary again to what one or two members opposite have said, 1 believe that the national survey on education conducted by the Commonwealth in conjunction with the States will prove to be of great benefit as time goes on. [More…]
I do not agree with the concept advanced by honourable members opposite concerning the centralised control of education in Australia. [More…]
I think perhaps that we need to be reminded - certainly honourable members opposite do–that constitutionally education is primarily the responsibility of the States. [More…]
But nevertheless the Commonwealth has, in my view, very properly provided increased financial assistance to education in a variety of ways. [More…]
There is no need for me to emphasise the ever-growing importance in education of the role of the teaching profession. [More…]
I believe that the Commonwealth’s role in the overall field of education needs to be clarified, and no doubt this will be done in the future. [More…]
As I see it the Commonwealth and the States must co-operate and work closely together in order to obtain the best possible result and this is being done through the nation-wide survey and the Australian Education Council. [More…]
In the rapidly growing field of tertiary education there is, I submit, a strong case for a review of the present formula for matching grants. [More…]
1) I put forward the view that the time has come for a wide-ranging inquiry into tertiary education similar to that conducted by Sir Keith Murray in 1957. [More…]
The demand for tertiary education has partly been met by the colleges of advanced education but as was mentioned earlier by the honourable member for Fremantle and as is pointed out at page 1 of the second report of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education these colleges are ‘an evolving concept not susceptible to close definition*. [More…]
Their development is aimed at extending the scope of tertiary education io meet our growing technological needs. [More…]
Australia’s problems in tertiary education differ in some respects from those of other countries and Australia should attempt to adapt the best in other systems to its own needs and resources and to learn from mistakes made elsewhere. [More…]
At page 78 under the heading ‘The Education Explosion’ the Committee refers to the growing numbers of secondary school leavers who want to continue with tertiary education and the importance of considering the motivation of students who undertake tertiary studies. [More…]
The whole of chapter 10 of the report - no doubt some honourable members have read it as I did with interest - under the heading Trends in Tertiary Education’ deserves the most careful study and after examining the systems followed over the years in a number of countries the chapter concludes with these words, inter alia, on ‘Forward Planning’: [More…]
Yet its achievements in education relatively are indifferent. [More…]
The central importance of adequate investment in education to economic growth has been widely and authoritatively attested. [More…]
He claims that 40 per cent of this increase was attributable to improved education. [More…]
Statistics can be produced showing that there is a clear association between the proportion of the population engaged in full-time education and the annual production per head in various countries. [More…]
The USA is the outstanding example of a country’s affluence being supported by an elaborate and expensive educational system. [More…]
Australia’s experience of high per capita living standards concurrent with a comparatively inferior investment in education does not contradict these assertions. [More…]
By sponging off the prosperity generated by a generous endowment of natural resources the adversity which would have otherwise been caused by our defective educational policies has become less obtrusive. [More…]
The system of education in Australia is symbolised by an altogether too inadequate and too inequitable distribution of resources. [More…]
O’Neil and Paterson, in The Cost of Free Education’ relevantly state: . [More…]
in our efforts to provide a higher standard of compulsory education for all children, we are actually inhibiting those who are most in need of it because of the costs which have become an inevitable part of secondary; and to some extent of primary, education. [More…]
Without this aid many young people are forced to terminate their education prematurely. [More…]
Clearly, it is in our State systems of education where the highest priority need exists. [More…]
lt is patently obvious that our State education systems are in a shambles in many areas for want of adequate finance. [More…]
For instance, a 1963 Australian College of Education report found: approximately one-fifth of Australian teachers had not reached matriculation level, and nearly one-third had not matriculated. [More…]
only one-fifth of Australian teachers possessed academic qualifications in education, and only one in fifty held post-graduate (‘higher’) qualifications, such as a Master’s Degree. [More…]
In spite of the extensive imperfections in our State education system the Federal Government doggedly refuses to provide any direct financial assistance. [More…]
The widespread defects of the State systems of education are so grave and apparent that not one Liberal Minister in 1969 allowed any of his children to attend a State secondary school. [More…]
The immorality of such a misuse of public funds is all the more pronounced and inexcusable where, as in the case of Australia, there exist extensive areas of deprivation and need, as in our State education system. [More…]
This is also true of a large area of Catholic education. [More…]
Dr Radford’s findings of several years ago, substantiated by recent smaller surveys, establishing a gross over-representation of students from upper socio-economic families and an excessively large underrepresentation of children from lower socioeconomic families at universities only adds grist to the mill of protest at the way in which want in education is institutionalised by neglect, and privilege and advantage fostered by direct government support. [More…]
It is well established that social class is a major scource of inequalities in education which do not stem from differences in endowment. [More…]
The middle class orientation of our education systems disadvantages too many children who are not familiar with the middle class environment and its values. [More…]
In these circumstances a complete refurbishing of our education systems is needed, allowing for more flexibility and experimentation on the part of teachers to assist children to reach out and fulfil their unique innate qualities and capacities as individuals in a diverse world. [More…]
However the submission by the Australian Council of Education calling for the provision of $1,443 .7m over the next 5 years to support the education systems of the States has been ignored by the Federal Government in spite of the verifiable fact that the Minister for Education and Science had that report available to him for at least 2 months before the Budget was introduced. [More…]
To date grave imbalances have been caused and priorities thrown completely out of alignment in important areas of the States’ education programmes because of the spasmodic and seemingly impulsive manner in which the Federal Government has proceeded into an involvement in education. [More…]
Instead of commencing at the base, at pre-school and primary school education, and working through to the peak of the structure so that the education system would be firmly grounded, the Commonwealth has latched upon special areas where it thought there would be electoral advantage without testing to establish that those areas were in fact ones of priority need. [More…]
A Labor government is committed to the planned provision of needed assistance to the State schools and the Catholic schools systems of education according to priority need. [More…]
Finally, education should seek to develop more than mere tools of production in training young children. [More…]
There is no doubt that arrangements for the provision and staffing of educational facilities within Australia have excited more comment and feeling within the community during the last 10 years than most other issues. [More…]
It is obviously beyond the scope of this debate fully to investigate whether the blame apportioned to this Government has been more or less than a fair share, but I would like to raise a few points which I feel should be kept in mind by those people who continuously sheet home to the Government criticism of its efforts in the field of education. [More…]
If one looks at the history of Commonwealth involvement in education one can see that expansion in this field began to a significant extent following the Second World War. [More…]
After the defeat of the Australian Labor Party in 1949, the Commonwealth first made financial grants to the States for education in 1951. [More…]
Let us add to this the part played by the Commonwealth in assisting the development of colleges of advanced education throughout Australia. [More…]
Une of the aspects of this Federal aid which pleases me personally is that during the current financial year funds will be provided for residential accommodation at colleges of advanced education in country areas. [More…]
In the current financial year funds set aside for universities and colleges of advanced education total (113m, as against $95. [More…]
I remind honourable members that as recently as 1963-64 the total of direct grants to the States for education was only $34m. [More…]
Personally, I hope that a significant proportion of this money will be devoted by the States to education. [More…]
The Commonwealth Department of Education and Science is concerned with many more activities than I have outlined - activities which, to my mind, are often forgotten by critics of the Government. [More…]
The contribution to teacher education, preschool education, the child migrant education programme, student assistance by means of the expanded Commonwealth Scholarships schemes - we have already mentioned that this afternoon - and assistance for Aboriginal students are examples of this. [More…]
If one looks at the figures one sees that total direct Commonwealth expenditure on education has risen from $54,500,000 in 1961-62 to an estimated $3 12m this year. [More…]
Under the circumstances I believe that while much still remains to be done this Government has shown a consistent interest in and concern with the problems of education and has sought, within the bounds of its responsibilities and particularly over the last few years, to alleviate the problems of those with the responsibility of providing educational facilities to a rapidly expanding number of students. [More…]
I would like now to deal briefly with the nationwide Survey of Educational Needs undertaken by the Australian Education Council whose report has led to much criticism of the Federal Government. [More…]
The initial report was first presented to the Education Council meeting in Perth during the latter part of February this year. [More…]
Because of some differences in approach by the various States in estimating costs it was amended, and the amended figures were presented to the Federal Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) in May of this year. [More…]
That is a serious allegation, I believe, because education is to me such a vitally important consideration for the community. [More…]
The allegation is untrue and must be exposed as such for the following reasons: Firstly, as the report on the survey states, the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science, while giving the survey every encouragement from the outset, also asked that private schools be included in the survey because only in this way could an accurate picture of total educational needs in the nation be obtained. [More…]
Secondly, and more importantly, the survey based its figures, when estimating the educational expenditure required by the States during the period 1971-75 together with the additional funds necessary, on the previously existing Commonwealth-State financial relationships. [More…]
That there are problems in secondary education - and major problems at that - is all too obvious. [More…]
It is all very well to talk about new classrooms, libraries, science blocks, visual aids and a host of other material things, but these are rendered largely redundant if the teachers are not present to staff the classrooms, teach the sciences or utilise the educational aids. [More…]
While individual State education departments have done much to increase their student-teacher numbers, much mon will have to be done. [More…]
Increasingly the secondary school in Australia will have to compete with tertiary institutions particularly the Colleges of Advanced Education for qualified and experienced staff. [More…]
My impression is that generally speaking honourable members opposite are not really aware of the situation in most areas of state education, and I presume that that applies equally to very large areas of nonstate education. [More…]
I would say that at the present moment nearly every child in Brunswick and Coburg is not as well served in education as were the children attending those schools in 1938. [More…]
Education is not just a constitutional concept. [More…]
In the few minutes that are available to me 1 can refer to only some of the things that I think are characteristic of Australian education and which are challenged by our amendment. [More…]
Australian education is highly centralised in every State. [More…]
New South Wales and, I understand, one or two of the other States are now breaking away from this idea, but Australian education is still highly centralised in comparison with most areas overseas. [More…]
Education in Australia is unduly conservative. [More…]
Women do not get the same go from the education system as do young men. [More…]
We on this side of the chamber believe that much of our education is becoming increasingly irrelevant to the needs of the community for which we turn out the citizens. [More…]
We believe that education has too low a priority in the considerations of this Parliament and, generally speaking, in the social and economic structure of Australia. [More…]
About 46,000 or 47,000 young women who are the equals of their brothers in social background and intellectual attainment are deprived of a university education not because of their intellectual incapacity but because they happen to be women. [More…]
With a university education women can solve many of the shortages at the intellectual and professional levels. [More…]
But, of course, we do not believe that education is turning out people to perform a certain function in society. [More…]
In education the Economic Adviser refers to significant shortfalls in indigenous secondary and technical education enrolments in 1969. [More…]
This year technical education enrolments alone were 15 per cent under target. [More…]
In the more immediately important area of tertiary education, enrolments were short of target this year by 25 per cent. [More…]
He has contrived to provide 8 paragraphs on education without a single reference to these crucial failures to reach enrolment targets. [More…]
So the importance of rural education and extension work now is paramount for the improvement of productivity and quality tomorrow. [More…]
They have also had some opportunity for education; first, at schools established by several Christian missions and, more recently, at Administration schools. [More…]
Development in other parts of the Territory and, more particularly education, has come post-war and quite recently. [More…]
Education, I believe, should have earlier concentrated on developing primary and secondary training and entrepreneural skills rather than education for tertiary services, for in highly developed economies tertiary skill can be and is afforded last and rests squarely on national production itself. [More…]
Our problems thus lie in many areas but, in broad terms, the problems are: First, economic development; secondly, political education; thirdly, development of a national outlook; fourthly, the training, at least, of top level public service administrators; and, fifthly, ensuring participation in business by indigenes. [More…]
John Kaputin, the other Mataungan leader, comes from a respected Tolai family and received bis secondary education in Australia. [More…]
Education is the key to independence. [More…]
Many of them have expressed the desire for some form of growing home rule, but they emphasise over and over again on every occasion that first of all they require education. [More…]
They need education not only in the academic field but in the manual skills. [More…]
1 have met very able educationists. [More…]
It also has a need for better education. [More…]
Much has been done in the field of education. [More…]
Many indigenous people have 2 and sometimes 3 generations of education behind them. [More…]
The honourable member for Hume (Mr Pettitt) has deep interests in New Guinea from a political education point of view. [More…]
Secondly, there has been the beginnings of a total education system. [More…]
In other words, there has been an effort in the past to establish a universal education system. [More…]
I believe that in future people will see that this was a serious error even to have considered it at all but, on the other hand, a very large number of people in Papua and New Guinea, in areas -of great geographical difficulty, have begun to receive an education system. [More…]
The first is in the area, of higher education. [More…]
We are not going to be able to produce a Papua and New Guinea with full social self-confidence and selfreliance, able to handle the problems of a modern nation, unless there is a large number of university graduates or people with some sort of higher education. [More…]
One has only to look at the population of Queensland, which is of the same order as the population of the Territory, and see how many people it takes to run its Public Service, how many graduates it takes to staff the education system and all other areas, to see how meagre has been our effort in this regard in the Territory. [More…]
Some years back in West Irian, for instance, there were many more people graduating through its higher education systems than we had, although our population was much higher. [More…]
If there is anything that will strangle the future development of Papua and New Guinea it has been our failure to develop higher education at greater speed. [More…]
I wish to make a few points about the education system. [More…]
I suppose that the best we can do is hope that we are able to give the country the greatest possible educational support. [More…]
In a way, we are developing there an education system in isolation. [More…]
Our own education system in Australia needs, J suppose, one would say, a complete revamping. [More…]
The debate on the estimates for the Department of Education and Science naturally enough was mainly concerned with the education of normal children. [More…]
It is true that with the new CommonwealthState financial arrangements some improvement will be possible in the provision of education facilities by the State governments. [More…]
I submit that no country can afford to have 20 per cent or more of its children growing up with an inadequate education. [More…]
The need for special assistance is even more apparent when one considers that these children will receive the full benefits of education if they can have that special remedial teaching as well. [More…]
Let us not deny these children the full benefits of education just for lack of some remedial teaching. [More…]
Some statistics of the United States show that a high percentage of criminals have left school before completing their secondary education and are unable to read. [More…]
In order to do this, 1 believe that the Handicapped Children’s (Assistance) Act must be amended so that assistance can be given in respect of works carried out by the State education departments. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) has already received representations for Commonwealth intervention in this field. [More…]
If the Government takes 5 years to make up its mind many more children will pass through primary school without receiving that special assistance which is all that is needed to give them a normal education and to prevent untoward behavioural problems for the remainder of their lives. [More…]
They have not been able to get the initial jump off which would allow them to continue education in any of the capacities they may have. [More…]
Other members of the Ministry who have not fulfilled this requirement are the Postmaster-General (Mr Hulme), the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), the Minister for External Territories (Mr Barnes), the Minister for Social Services, the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Holten) and the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock) - a collection of law breakers impressing law and order on the community. [More…]
They are incensed at the constant moving from one base to another and the consequent disruption to their children’s education. [More…]
Hansard will demonstrate that I have shown as consistent an interest in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund, war service homes, pay and allowances, training for ex-soldiers and educational opportunities for their children as any man who has served in this Parliament. [More…]
and (2) A number of educational institutions classified as Colleges of Advanced Education under the States Grants (Advanced Education) Acts conduct courses both at tertiary and subtertiary levels, although only courses at tertiary level are approved for direct Commonwealth assistance under ‘these Acts. [More…]
The latest available data as supplied by the various’ colleges indicates a preliminary total 44^56 students enrolled in tertiary level courses at Colleges of Advanced Education in 1970. [More…]
This figure is, in the main, consistent with that given in answer to the previous question (Hansard, 16th September 1969 page 1425) and relates in general to total enrolments in courses which attract a Commonwealth grant- under advanced education arrangements; these courses include those approved, in full or in part, as at tertiary level binder the States Grants (Advanced Education) Acts. [More…]
The Anal statistics of Colleges of Advanced Education published by the Commonwealth Statistician for 1968 relate to enrolments in those parts of advanced level courses approved under the States Grants (Advanced Education) Acts. [More…]
The total number of students holding Commonwealth Advanced Education scholarships at 30th June 1970 is 4656. [More…]
The colleges at which these courses are conducted include most of those named in die States Grants (Advanced Education) Act and also a number of other colleges. [More…]
The number of Commonwealth Advanced Education scholars at 30th June in colleges named in the Act is 3734. [More…]
However, as the enrolment figures shown above are subject to definitional problems, as described above, and include enrolments in certain courses and parts of courses not included in the scope of the Commonwealth Advanced Education Scholarship Scheme, this comparison understates the actual percentage of students holding scholarships In approved courses. [More…]
(a) The number of applications received for Commonwealth Advanced Education scholarships available in 1970 was 43,375. [More…]
number of Commonwealth Advanced Education scholarships offered in 1970 was 5,491. [More…]
The following numbers of Commonwealth Advanced Education scholars are enrolled in the first approved year of their courses in 1970. lt should be noted that certain courses to which entry may be gained one year below matriculation level are, for purposes of .the Commonwealth Advanced Education Scholarship Scheme, approved from the second year of the course. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Australian children with pre-school education of the nature and standard now provided in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
It is not realistic to attempt to estimate the cost of providing pre-school education over the whole of Australia on the basis described by the honourable member. [More…]
There are basic differences between the Australian Capita] Territory and other areas in many of the factors which affect costs in the provision of pre-school education, such as the geographic spread of the pre-school aged population, the size of the pre-school centres which would be required, costs of acquisition and development of sites for centres, building costs, attendance patterns and salary levels. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What is the per capita expenditure on preschool education in: [More…]
We have a crisis in education. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council report on needs of State Education Services has established the most urgent shortcomings in education. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to insure that emergency finance from the Comonweahh will be given to the States for their public education services. [More…]
This does not include items related to the Department of Education and Science and the Department of Health. [More…]
There is an inclination to blame migrants for the shortage of housing, the demands on education, overcrowding of the cities and a number of other problems. [More…]
Where the Labor Party differs from the Government is that we say that, having brought migrants to Australia in their thousands, we have a responsibility to provide adequate finance to the State and local government authorities for education, housing, hospitals, and development. [More…]
It may be necessary to set different targets, different types of migrants, and maybe to revise the approach to the accepted goals of the past in regard to numbers, types, educational and trade qualifications and matters of this nature. [More…]
Sure, there have been strains on housing and education, and, sure, there has been a tendency for migrants to settle in the already crowded cities of this continent. [More…]
There are many things that I could say about education - the teaching of English in the migrant hostel in my electorate. [More…]
We require training in many more skills and the pressure on our education system is attributable largely to the tremendous intake of migrants and migrant families. [More…]
Our educational programme both for adults and children has developed along satisfactory lines. [More…]
In our education programme we have provided broadcast programmes for migrants, special lessons in factories and places of work, crash courses in English for adult migrants so thai they are more quickly able to fit into the community and, perhaps most important of all, we have introduced English training programmes for migrant children in our schools so that they are not disadvantaged in their training. [More…]
They were of good education and varied political opinions. [More…]
If immigration is not intended as an alternative to adequate industrial and occupational training facilities, if it does not absolve us from our responsibility to train professional, skilled and other key workers, then the complete lack of forward long term Australian objectives in education and quality of education, which was highlighted in the recent debate on the estimates for the Department of Education and Science, should not exist. [More…]
Expenditure on migrant education services is estimated to increase by $2,667,000 following the Government’s decision to expand migrant education programmes. [More…]
In the words of one inner suburban girls’ high school principal, they will achieve higher education only if they are geniuses. [More…]
Many of them could have gone on to higher education, and the professions, had they been working in their native tongue in their homelands . [More…]
To overcome these problems it is very pleasing to see the emphasis being placed on language education and, in fact, on migrant education in general. [More…]
Honourable members will remember that on 23 rd April this year the Minister announced details of expenditure involving Si 6m over the next 4 financial years to be used in migrant education. [More…]
Only good can come from this emphasis on education as people from widely differing social, cultural, political and ethnic backgrounds face the task of assimilating the social institutions of their new. [More…]
The migration problems associated with health, housing, education and cultural and social activities were analysed. [More…]
We have been told, for example, that on a reasonable estimate the average migrant coming to this country is worth about $10,000 in social Costs introduced here - that is to say, all the education and other matters which have been put into that body before he got here. [More…]
This leaves us with a very big problem which is already being faced by the Minister and his Department, and this will be the subject of debate in this place at a later stage, A Bill has already been introduced concerning migrant education. [More…]
The particular relevance of that is that about one-quarter of the 3.1 million people gross who arrived in this country from overseas between 1945 and 1969 have been under the age of 15 years and therefore, quite obviously, in need of considerable education. [More…]
He said further that the Government has paid attention to the training of engineers, technologists and technicians through the setting up of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The Tolais will be encouraged through a process of continuing education to settle in these areas. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a 5-year study by the Goals of Engineering Education Committee of the American Society for Engineering Education, which concluded that to train properly an engineer in a greater social consciousness with depth of scientific and technical knowledge and the ability to manage men, engineering graduates needed at least 1 year of graduate study in addition to the normal 4-year course. [More…]
By that Determination, the Arbitrator provides separate commencing rates for three-year graduates and four or five-year graduates above the rate applicable to diplomates of Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]
For some time, the Public Service Board has been closely studying developments in academic courses within the Colleges of Advanced Education with a view to the adoption of appropriate arrangements, not only in relation to salary determinations, but also in matters concerning the recruitment and selection of graduates from the Colleges. [More…]
The Board has now decided that in those cases where awards of Colleges of Advanced Education are, after due process, recognised as being of comparable length and standard to University degrees, they should be accorded equality of treatment with University degrees for salary purposes. [More…]
Pending establishment of effective national accreditation procedures, the Board is consulting with the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education as to the processes which might be adopted to evaluate awards issued by Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]
In the case of pharmacy courses, the Board has sought an evaluation from the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education of the standard of courses conducted in the various States. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to give effect to the election policy of the Government to increase the amount of Commonwealth assistance given to educational research in Australia. [More…]
The Commonwealth is already assisting educational research in a number of ways. [More…]
Some examples of this are the assistance given to selected educational research projects through the Australian Research Grants Committee and the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education. [More…]
In addition there is the annual grant to the Australian Council for Educational Research and special grants to individual projects such as the Australian Science Education Project and the Tertiary Education Entrance project. [More…]
Notwithstanding that the Commonwealth has for some time been assisting educational research in this country, it has become evident that more needs to be done. [More…]
In September 1969, at a meeting in Canberra, a number of leading Australian educationists carefully considered (he needs of educational research in Australia and highlighted several areas demanding greater attention. [More…]
The meeting strongly recommended that a greater measure of assistance be given to research in education, and emphasised the importance of communication of results, identification of areas of national importance, co-ordination of research efforts and the training of research personnel. [More…]
Subsequently the Government promised, as part of its policy before the 1969 elections, to stimulate educational research still further by means of special assistance, commencing with the allocation of $250,000 in the 1970-71 Budget. [More…]
To implement this policy and to advise me on the administration of the new research programme, I have established a committee known as the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education. [More…]
The Tertiary industries - the civil service, transport industries, hospitals and education - are based principally on the earnings of the producing industries. [More…]
The Karonga school for handicapped children is built upon land belonging to the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]
But in view of these special circumstances and the fact that there is no reasonable possibility that the New South Wales Department of Education will take the land from the institution at the end of 10 years, it has been decided that the 10 yean lease will be acceptable. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Education and Science, arises out of the Minister’s 2 recent announcements that the Government has decided against holding an inquiry into education in the Australian Capital Territory at this time. [More…]
Did the decision take into account the enormous benefits that would result to Australian education generally from such an inquiry? [More…]
However, in the announcement I made last Friday about an inquiry into an education authority for the Australian Capital Territory I did point out that this was the decision at the present. [More…]
We are now supporting at the Canberra College of Advanced Education teacher training courses which will be operating from 1971. [More…]
This review was foreshadowed by my immediate predecessor, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), in his second reading speech on the Copyright Bill in 1968. [More…]
There were to be expanded services in Papua and New Guinea to improve the health, education and social status of the natives. [More…]
Commonwealth Government grants to autonomous health, education and welfare organisations in Australia for capital purposes totalled $14m in 1969-70. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Will he bring up to date the answer which his predecessor gave me on 14th August 1969 (Hansard, page 344) on tertiary and technical education in the Northern Territory. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will he given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
As a consequence, extensive training and education programmes are required. [More…]
Whilst it is the right of the Opposition and the right of any citizen to make such a request, the Government has the responsibility of deciding where the priorities will go and how much will be spent on the major heads of education, social services, defence and health. [More…]
The same thing applies with regard to education allowances and to every type of permissible deduction. [More…]
The programme would seek to develop the following minimum services: Prevention, case finding and outreach; comprehensive vocational evaluation; physical and mental restoration; personal adjustment training - prevocational; vocational training; vocationaltechnical education; undergraduate and professional education; transitional and extended sheltered employment; vocational placement and follow-up; day care for adults; personal counselling; social and recreational programmes; special housing; transportation; homebound employment; homemaking, attendant, and other services in the home; and consultation to agencies. [More…]
Government for the help given to those charity organisations and the State governments in providing assistance in the education and care of our handicapped people. [More…]
Her 19-year-old lad was about to matriculate, but abandoned his education to serve as a counter jumper in a departmental store in Adelaide in order to supplement the family income. [More…]
A second member of the family similarly cut short her education. [More…]
Bequests of works of art to public museums and public art galleries in Australia are exempt from estate duty as bequests for public education purposes. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science what action he is currently taking in regard to the requests and recommendations of the nation-wide survey of educational needs carried out by the Australian Educational Council with the encouragement and support of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Has the Government noted the frank confessions of the States that the recently increased Commonwealth grants still leave them quite incapable of meeting many of the most urgent needs in pre-school, primary, secondary and teacher education and teacher retention? [More…]
The honourable member will be aware that this survey was presented to the Australian Educational Council on 25th May. [More…]
This raised a situation in which we had a survey giving projections, or anticipations of State Ministers for Education, over 5 years. [More…]
Whereas the State Ministers for Education had worked on an annual increase of 10 per cent, budgets presented since the Premiers Conference, such as those of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, have provided increases for education ranging between 13 per cent and 15 per cent. [More…]
It therefore became necessary to see what the States actually proposed to do, as distinct from the projections to State Ministers for Education. [More…]
I think the last part of the honourable member’s question referred to a report which the State Ministers for Education issued early in September in which they mentioned that some of the needs for capital were extremely urgent, some were urgent and then there were others. [More…]
I may add that I have written to the State Ministers for Education asking them to indicate which capital works fall within these various categories. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to make certain amendments to the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that when the Canberra College of Advanced Education was established in 1967 it was not given the power to award degrees for the satisfactory completion of courses. [More…]
This arrangement was consistent with the Government’s policy at that time of not providing financial assistance for degree courses in colleges of advanced education in the Stales.In the meantime the Government sponsored an inquiry into the nature and classification of awards in colleges of advanced education by a committee under the chairmanship of Mr F. M. Wiltshire. [More…]
The recommendations of the Wiltshire Committee have been under discussion between State and Commonwealth Ministers of Education for some considerable time now. [More…]
The proposed amendment to the functions of the Canberra College of Advanced Education will enable the College to make statutes for the award of degrees in appropriate circumstances. [More…]
I propose to invite a small independent group of knowledgeable persons to make recommendations to me in respect of awards at degree level submitted by the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
The Bill has a secondary purpose connected with the Government’s decision to establish under the Fishing Industry Research Act 1969, a matching fund for research education, extension and development for the benefit of the fishing industry. [More…]
If I could leave the question of Aboriginal housing, I could say that apart from housing the main expenditure through the States are in education, health and employment. [More…]
So far as education is concerned, in addition to the amount of $912,000 spent through the States, major amounts are being spent by the Commonwealth directly. [More…]
I might mention that, in addition to the amounts spent on Aboriginal education through the States, direct Commonwealth expenditure in this field will this year reach $2.3m. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that in December 1968 the then Minister for Education and Science and I inaugurated a scheme of study grants for post-secondary and tertiary studies for Aboriginals. [More…]
The introduction of the complementary secondary grants scheme by the Minister for Education and Science and myself in January this year has had the most encouraging results. [More…]
So far about 500 Aboriginals have been assisted under the scheme, and although this is a small beginning I would expect that increasingly the scheme will help Aboriginals, particularly those emerging from the education system, to become permanently employed. [More…]
The essential requirements of those centres were that they provide in-patient and out-patient care, diagnostic and evaluative services, emergency psychiatric units, day and night care, foster home care, rehabilitation, consultative services to other community agencies, and mental health information and education. [More…]
Rice in a publication ‘Estimating the Cost of Illness’, issued by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1966, estimated that mental illness alone in the United States cost $7 billion in 1963. [More…]
We must also remember that if the States were relieved of this part of the burden they would have more money to spend on education or something else in the community. [More…]
To have national television dedicated to such an objective gives not only education; it is a step in the civilising process. [More…]
A commercial television station in Hobart, TVT Channel 6, and commercial television channel TNT9 in the north of the State have joined now with the Tasmanian Department of Education in transmitting educational programmes and teacher training telecasts. [More…]
I wish to say a few words about the recent announcement by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) that the Government will not be holding an inquiry into education in the Australian Capital Territory at this stage. [More…]
It is well known that for many years there have been persistent demands for an inquiry to be held into education in the Australian Capita] Territory. [More…]
Since then every responsible body associated with education in the Australian Capital Territory - there are many of them here, because education is a very live issue in the Territory - has demanded that an inquiry be held. [More…]
He seems to have thought that it was limited to the form, the structure and the timing of having a separate education authority set up in the Australian Capital Territory that would set us apart from the system of New South Wales with which we have been allowed to linger for so long. [More…]
The real subject crf the inquiry was hoped to be the pursuit of no less an ambitious and imaginative project than what could be an ideal system of education. [More…]
We hear a lot about a crisis in Australian education. [More…]
They say that education is essentially a State matter and not a matter for the Commonwealth. [More…]
These answers to criticisms allow the Government partially to escape its responsibility for what is happening to education in the States, but they do not allow the Government to escape from its responsibilities for education in the Territories. [More…]
Of all types of human undertaking education has been the slowest to respond to change in this century of change. [More…]
The ACT offers a unique opportunity to any Australian government to break new ground; to be a pioneer in education and research; to lead the way instead of merely drifting along and occasionally being forced to do something to meet a sudden and seemingly unforeseen contingency. [More…]
That forced the Commonwealth Government suddenly to set up a Commonwealth teaching service, but without any carefully thought out plan to further the Commonwealth educational services. [More…]
Letters to the Press and the editorials of the ‘Canberra Times’ showed that the people of the ACT knew it was there and know that they have lost an opportunity to lead the way in education for the whole of Australia, and to set a standard which the States would follow. [More…]
lt was partly because the Government knew that it would be embarrassed by the States if it did make any progress in education that it decided to do nothing. [More…]
Of course, at a lower level, and away from the search for an ideal system of education, is the factual and shocking situation in our secondary schools today. [More…]
That does not help education. [More…]
It would be a light and a beacon for the whole of Australian education. [More…]
Thirdly, the Government is so bound up with the failings in the State educational systems that it would be terribly embarrassed if it tried to improve the Commonwealth system of education because the States would cry out: “What about us?’ [More…]
In his attempt to explain the dilemma, the Minister for Education and Science tied himself in a knot. [More…]
If I can paraphrase his statement, the Minister said: ‘The ACT should not have an inquiry into how its present system of education should be changed until after the Government has changed it*. [More…]
I believe that, when the full story on education slowly comes out, the people of Australia also will be angry. [More…]
That the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system; a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; more than 500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity; Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children; only the Commonwealth has the financial resources for special programmes to remove inadequacies; and nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the chief impetus for change and the finance for improvement come from the National Government. [More…]
Your Petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives make legal provision for a joint Commonwealth-State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities; the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aboriginal, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children; and the provision of pre-school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education and Science aware of the bombshell dropped by the Tasmanian University Council last week when it announced that 32 first year medical students will not be permitted to continue their course or career in medicine because of the shortage of s:<. [More…]
Yet a further matter which is under close and active consideration is the effects of frequent reposting of servicemen in the form of family disruption and interruption to children’s education. [More…]
What we had in mind was a comprehensive inquiry into the whole social enviroment of the serviceman and his family; into pay; moves and reposting, re-settlement and reestablishment in civil life, family separation and disruption, housing and education. [More…]
This, incidentally, disrupts home life and plays havoc with young children’s education and their personality development. [More…]
It has pledged itself also to: Provide War Service home entitlements to all servicemen after 2 years regular service or 6 years of CMF service; minimise the incidence of postings so as to give more stability to home life; provision of health services from the Repatriation Department to servicemen and their dependants; scholarships to children whose education would be disrupted otherwise by shifts; availability of adequate life assurance and elimination of special loading charges which currently penalise our fighting men: injuries sustained other than on active service would be covered by the Repatriation Act and not the Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act which is less generous; and non-contributory pensions to all exservicemen to replace the present costly, unwieldly and unintelligible DFRB contributory system. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I am fully aware of the problems of transport, amenities - particularly education - involved in establishing a major base a long way from a large centre of population. [More…]
These men come from fairly affluent families; they could not bc described as under-privileged or lacking in education. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is exhibiting the same traits as when he was Minister for Education. [More…]
When you are talking about trying to fill out the number of riflemen in a battalion specifically and solely by higher pay you will still not appeal to the wealthy or privileged, to those who have a much better education than most - people who have been to universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Nothing can deny the fact that that approach to defence, as Senator Kennedy indicated in the United States Senate a short while ago, will make the privileged immune from the obligations which arise as a result of defence policy and place the full burden of defence on the under-privileged in the community - people who are working with their hands, people who have been less fortunate in relation to their education and people who are less well off. [More…]
There is not a person on this side of the House who would not prefer, if we lived in the kind of a world in which it would be practicable, to spend all our resources on national development, welfare, health and education which are matters of great concern to all honourable members in this Parliament. [More…]
The honourable members opposite who are seeking to interject served only in the education service. [More…]
He passed some reference to one honourable member on this side of the chamber having served in the Education Corps. [More…]
That the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system: a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; more than 500,000 children surfer from serious lack of equal opportunity; Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one-sixth of its school children; only the Commonwealth has the financial resources for special programmes to remove inadequacies; and nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the chief impetus for change and the finance for improvement come from the National Government. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives make legal provision for a joint Commonwealth-State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities; the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aboriginals, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children; and the provision of pre-school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that, emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
En jil re that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
The Bill before the House is designed to amend the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1969 to enable the Commonwealth Government to provide for increased grants to the States for advanced education. [More…]
The first part is concerned with increases in the grants offered to all States, in order that we might meet our share of academic salary increases in the current 1970-1972 triennium, brought about by the adoption by the States, in whole or in part, of the Sweeney inquiry into salaries in colleges of advanced education and the Eggleston report on salaries in universities. [More…]
Advanced Education recommended support for teacher education in certain colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Teacher education at these colleges would attract the normal Commonwealth grants, namely, for recurrent expenditure $1.85 State and fees to $1 Commonwealth, and on the capital side $1 for$1 between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
The second report of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education recommended that a total of$lm be made available for capital development on the Mount Nelson site at Hobart of the school of teacher education within the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]
The situation has now changed and teacher education in Hobart became the responsibility of the Council of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education from 1st January of this year. [More…]
The third part increases the Commonwealth offer made for the recurrent expenditure support of some colleges of advanced education in the 1967-1969 triennium. [More…]
Increases in a number of States have already been met by way of amendment to the 1967 Advanced Education Act. [More…]
The Government is prepared to support the establishment and maintenance of residential colleges of advanced education as it does in the universities. [More…]
The Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education is at present examining the means whereby residential accommodation in the colleges of advanced education might best be assisted and will make recommendations in its third report. [More…]
It should provide for the essential finance for education so that the needs of education in these Housing Commission areas can be met. [More…]
There is a decisive lack of the necessary educational opportunities in- those areas. [More…]
Therefore the package deal should cover not only local government finance and finance for education but also finance for improved transport services. [More…]
There is a need for package deals providing for transport, industry and employment, local government finance, finance for education and finance for transport. [More…]
This drift away from the Services can be arrested if full note is taken of the disadvantages suffered by Service personnel by the provision of such things as temporary rental allowances, educational allowances, removal allowances and due compensation for officers and their families when they have to move from place to place. [More…]
Of course, this interrupts the education of their children. [More…]
The educational allowance is another matter I wish to raise, lt appears that 28 members in Australia and 26 members out of Australia, out of an Army with a strength of 45,000, currently are receiving the education allowance. [More…]
There was no end of promises to provide improved education, employment opportunities, housing and an improved standard of living in general for the Aboriginals. [More…]
He gave a leading lecture in Adelaide on the importance of management education. [More…]
That the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system; a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; more than 500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity; Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children; only the Commonwealth has the financial resources for special programmes to remove inadequacies; and nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the chief impetus for change and the finance for improvement come from the National Government. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives make legal provision for a joint Commonwealth-State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities; the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aboriginal rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children; and the provision of pre-school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the Slates for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
The young man who has been called up cut short his education on the sudden death of his father. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The State Education Ministers released a summary of the findings of the Nation-Wide Survey of Educational Needs on 1st September. [More…]
1 wrote to all Premiers on 7th September asking for the reaction of their Governments, and for an indication of the extent to which they would wish to give priority to the proposed programmes in education, having regard to their other responsibilities. [More…]
tertiary education in Australia or elsewhere overseas, and what is the (A) nature and (B) amount of assistance to the students and the cost to the Administration in each category. [More…]
That the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system; a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; more than 500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity; Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children; only the Commonwealth has the financial resources for special programmes to remove inadequacies; and nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the chief impetus for change and the finance for improvement come from the National Government. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives make legal provision for a joint Commonwealth-State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities; the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aboriginal, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children; and the provision of pre-school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
That the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian educa tion system; a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; more than 500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity; Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children; only the Commonwealth has the financial resources for special programmes to remove inadequacies; and nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the chief impetus for change and the finance for improvement come from the National Government. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives make legal provision for a joint Commonwealth-State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities; the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants. [More…]
That the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system; a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; more than 500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity; Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children; only the Commonwealth has the financial resources for special programmes to remove inadequacies; and nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the chief impetus for change and the finance for improvement come from the National Government. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives make legal provision for a joint Commonwealth-State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities; the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aboriginal, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children; and the provision of pre-school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education and Science aware that the United Nations General Assembly, by a unanimous vote in late 1968, designated 1970 as International Education Year? [More…]
Will he tell the House what action the Government has taken to support and participate as a result of the United Nations decision and the United Nations Education, Scientific Cultural Organisation’s subsequent appeal to member states to prepare programmes for 1 EY? [More…]
In other words, will he explain clearly in what way 1970 is different - educationally speaking - from 1969 or how 1971 will be different from 1970? [More…]
Under the present Government every year is a year of intense activity in education. [More…]
It is also perfectly clear, if an honest look is taken at the statistics and the expenditure, that there has been a massive yearly increase in expenditure on education, such as applies perhaps to no other field. [More…]
Indeed, over a fairly short period of time the total expenditure on education in this country has risen from $500m to over $2,000m a year. [More…]
Having said that 1 will proceed to deal with this International Education Year. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has supported a number of international activities in education in Australia during this period. [More…]
There was also the inter-visitation programme, under which international visitors experienced in education came not only for a conference in Sydney but then broke up into groups and those groups visited various educational establishments in a number of States. [More…]
This also was in connection with International Education Year. [More…]
19, the Education Research Bill. [More…]
f refer honourable members to the Immigration (Education) Bill to which my colleague the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly) referred during the first session of the Parliament in 1970. [More…]
The purpose of the legislation, according to what the Minister-in-Charge of Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Wentworth) said in 1968, was to make available better housing, education and health facilities for Aboriginals immediately. [More…]
1 do not know whether the proposed allocations of the grants into the different fields of housing, education, etc, as set out in the table which was incorporated in Hansard by the Minister, were proposed by the Commonwealth Government or the State governments or somebody else. [More…]
Ner does it mean that they should be treated in isolation and to the exclusion of other important matters such as housing, employment and education. [More…]
I place employment one step ahead of education simply because, unless you ensure . [More…]
that sufficient avenues of employment are readily available by the time education is completed not only will the value of the education be largely lost but also - and this is very important to guard against - we will almost certainly find that the person having been educated, and who quite naturally and justifiably is expecting to be absorbed into employment, will, if employment is not available, become frustrated and bitter. [More…]
If the younger children see others leave school and still find no work or at best only the same sort of work and at the same wage as those who have no education, they will naturally see no value in education and lose interest. [More…]
The same applies with respect to education, health, social status, economic status and the abolition of discriminatory legislation. [More…]
In education, how many of them have reached university in this last year or two? [More…]
The honourable member for Brisbane referred to the need for pre-school education. [More…]
Of course, in recent years there has been a change in the whole educational concept. [More…]
In fact, pre-school education and the kind of schooling that one gets in the lower primary school are important for the whole of one’s school life. [More…]
In the past perhaps the whole community has neglected pre-school education as part of the field of education. [More…]
In very few areas of Australia is total pre-school education available. [More…]
It is not only part of education but part of social development. [More…]
But how much do we really know about the education of the Aboriginal people, whose social and economic climate is different, who live in a kind of house different from ours, and who have inherited characterisitcs about which we know so little? [More…]
A lot more special research has to be done into the education of Aboriginals. [More…]
It is almost impossible for the child who lives in bad housing to cope with secondary education. [More…]
The 3,000 or 4,000 Aboriginal children are only a handful of those children at this level of education, and there are 3 million or 4 million people in a wealthy community who support such a programme. [More…]
The housing in which they live is due to the conditions under which their parents lived and the education which their parents received. [More…]
The education which their parents received was related largely to the employment or the lack of employment that their fathers had and their need to move about the countryside. [More…]
This means all sorts of things such as education and projects, or anything at all which, according to the Bill, would be for the advancement of the Aboriginal race. [More…]
The State Ministers referred to education. [More…]
But let us all be very frank: This is insufficient and so much more needs to be done so that young boys and girls with potential who reside in areas where no job opportunities are available can be given the chance to come down to places where their secondary, technical and tertiary education needs can be accommodated. [More…]
Perhaps I should move on to the education of Aboriginal children. [More…]
But we strike another problem once these Aboriginal children reach a certain standard of education. [More…]
We are concerned about 4 matters - housing, health, education and employment. [More…]
As I say, there are 4 matters to be considered - health, education, housing and employment. [More…]
There is a finance coordinator, someone specially allotted to deal with housing, someone for education, someone for health, someone for legal aid and someone for employment. [More…]
This will then allow a matching grant to be made available by the Commonwealth for education extension and development. [More…]
I approached the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) who is in charge of tht Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]
1 take now, if I may, 2 examples of State capital expenditure - education and public health. [More…]
In 1965-66 the aggregate expenditure for capital purposes on education and public health was $222m. [More…]
The projected expenditure for 1969-70 was $2 10m on education and $85m on public health. [More…]
I ask in all seriousness, as I have asked before: What logic is it that says that it is a proper allocation of capital resources to spend S3 3 6m on the Post Office and 5210m on education or to allocate $64m to civil aviation and $85m to public health? [More…]
That the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system; a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; more than500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity; Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children; only the Commonwealth has the financial resources for special programmes to remove inadequacies; and nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the chief impetus for change and the finance for improvement come from the National Government. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives make legal provision for a joint Commonwealth-State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities; the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aboriginal, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children; and the provision of pre-school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I direct to the Treasurer a question about the cost of preschool education. [More…]
He will remember that a year ago I undertook that a Labor government would ensure that every child would have the opportunity of 1 year’s preschool education, as every child in Canberra already has, and he will also remember that his predecessor promptly produced an estimate that such facilities would entail $160m capital cost and an annual recurrent cost rising to $32m, excluding the cost of training additional pre-school teachers. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Finally, can he assure me that there will be no reduction in the standards of our pre-school education which at present enjoy international recognition? [More…]
In every instance I received negative replies from the Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz), the Minister for the Interior (Mr Nixon), the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), the Minister for Shipping and Transport (Mr Sinclair), and the Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp), who represents the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) in this House. [More…]
A proposed biological survey of Australia is reposing somewhere within the bowels of the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
Environmental problems arc complex and their solution calls for programmes of research, planning, education, legislation, the fixing of standards which require enforcement, and of course public information so that the general public will be informed. [More…]
I am reminded by my colleague, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), who was with me when we considered these Bills that the reason why no reference is made to this matter of allowances in the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation Bill (No. [More…]
Education was probably needed more in New South Wales than in any other State because it had previously rejected wool marketing schemes. [More…]
The Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system; [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; [More…]
A joint Commonwealth-State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Since the right honourable gentleman would not allow his Minister for Education and Science yesterday to answer a question without notice from my Deputy about the proposed kindergarten.cumchildminding centres, I ask him whether his proposals have not been sufficiently delineated as the Treasurer might say, to permit him to say whether these facilities would fall within the jurisdiction of the Minister for Labour and National Service, the Minister for Education and Science or the Minister for Social Services. [More…]
This, I understand, is a general condition laid down by the operators and, with the co-operation of the unions concerned, it is, I think, necessary to see that a type of education programme is introduced to ensure that there is an extension of the use of this type of equipment to which attention was drawn in the report. [More…]
1 would hate to think that some future Gorton-type Prime Minister was denied the opportunity of receiving an education at that school. [More…]
Their meeting discussed the effects of aircraft noise on education in the district, the fact that school lessons came to a complete stop, the fact that health hazards which created neuroses existed, and that adverse effects were caused to television reception, radio reception and the use of telephones. [More…]
Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) foreshadows about the power to award degrees that will be conferred upon the Canberra College of Advanced Education, and also the establishment of a national accrediting body which will certify graduation degrees from colleges of advanced education around Australia, than it is for the measures contained in the Bill to change the composition of the Council which governs the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
There will develop from it, first of all, a university of Canberra, a teachers’ college and an institute of technology, and if the Government confers upon a college of advanced education the power to award degrees then that sector of it will develop and develop until it becomes a university, f would welcome this. [More…]
1 think that a university of Canberra should be created in the very near future and 1 believe we will find that there is no abiding place in this present structure for the College of Advanced Education. [More…]
At the same time it is the desire of the Opposition to enhance the status of the College of Advanced Education and in the committee stage of the Bill 1 propose to move amendments to the clauses which refer to the Council governing the College of Advanced Education. [More…]
The Council of the Australian National University has 2 members of the Senate, elected by the Senate, within its composition and, in a proposed amendment, we will attempt to change the composition of the Council of the College of Advanced Education in the same way. [More…]
The Australian Capital Territory is very conscious of its own educational problems. [More…]
It has, I would say, an exceptionally enlightened group of people con cerned about education within i’.iL community as one might expect having regard to the nature of the community, and we believe there should be 3 representatives of the Canberra community on the governing Council of the College of Advanced Education. [More…]
These proposals will, of course, enlarge the Council of the College of Advanced Education but the Australian National University is now run by a sanhedrin of 41 as its governing Council so it does not seem to be unreasonable to assume that the Council of the College of Advanced Education should be enlarged also. [More…]
I think that if Canberra had a lord mayor and a city council they might have something to do with the selection of the members of the Council of the College of Advanced Education, but the Australian Capital Territory is accustomed to electing people to governing bodies within it. [More…]
There is no reason why a community which is as alert on the subject of education as is the Canberra community should not itself directly elect 3 members of the’ Council of the College of Advanced Education. [More…]
This means apparently that very often he must be absent from the meetings of the Council of the College of Advanced Education. [More…]
After all, there is a very good reason why this Parliament should be interested in the College of Advanced Education in Canberra. [More…]
I suspect that there will be a line of evolution to a Canberra university out of the measures that the Government is now taking or the changes that are envisaged by recognising the right of the College of Advanced Education in Canberra to award degrees. [More…]
We believe that by providing for representation from the Senate and the House of Representatives on the College of Advanced Education in Canberra, the College will be greatly benefited. [More…]
We also believe that the presence of Canberra representatives, vigilant of the needs of education in their own area, will benefit the College of Advanced Education and help the community of Canberra to take an informed and intelligent interest in the College. [More…]
The principle of parliamentary representation is, as I say, one which the Government has already accepted with regard to the Australian National University, and we hope that the Government will accept it with regard to the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
At the same time, it opens up the field, insofar as we want to do so, of this whole new area of education in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Properly enough, the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) has drawn attention to and has foreshadowed that he will move amendments on some of the provisions for the Canberra College of Advanced Education, as shown in the Bill. [More…]
Nevertheless, one could hardly regard as reprehensible the suggestion or proposition of the honourable member for Fremantle that certain additions be made to the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education, notably, of course, because that would include members of this place and of the chamber not far distant from here. [More…]
However, having had at least a short experience on the council of 1 university in this country and having been involved more thoroughly in a process similar to that in which the College of Advanced Education in Canberra is involved, or for that matter, in which similar institutions elsewhere are involved, I believe that the less government intervention there is directly in the affairs of such bodies, the better. [More…]
But I notice that already there is provision on the Council of the College of Advanced Education in Canberra for persons, not exceeding eight in number, appointed by the GovernorGeneral. [More…]
So the question then hinges on the comparability of degree giving status which has come in this case from the findings of the Wiltshire Committee and 1 understand the provision is to make the Canberra College of Advanced Education comparable in this way and in this capacity with other colleges which have developed a little later and which have already been given that provision. [More…]
This means to me that if colleges of advanced education are to grant degrees it is absolutely imperative that they be degrees certainly of directly comparable status to those granted by the universities or if not of directly comparable status they shall be seen to be something which is different and shall be said to be something which is different. [More…]
But at the same time one would imagine that all those people at present provided for will see themselves as members of the ACT community and there may be a very fine line indeed in deciding who in fact is the more representative type of person coming out of the ACT on to the governing body of the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
1 would think that if we were sitting around a table after a series of conferences ,we would probably find there was pretty much of a consensus between the thoughts of the people who make up the Australian Labor Party’s Education Committee and the thoughts expressed by the honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon). [More…]
However, in supporting the amendment we have put forward, I remind the honourable member that, by suggesting that members of Parliament ought to be put on the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education, we are not adding to the Government’s control of the situation. [More…]
We are discussing the Council of a major educational institution and one that I have no doubt will have increasing importance in the Australian education scene. [More…]
Perhaps the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) might give some thought as to a way in which this Parliament could examine this matter more thoroughly. [More…]
But if it were given the imprimatur of the Parliament by some sort of joint effort by both sides of this House I think that it would be a very valuable contribution to Australian education thought. [More…]
The characteristics of Australian education have always been unduly centralised and bureaucratic. [More…]
If it had not been centralised and to a large measure bureaucratic the people out in the bush would not have received the quality education to which they were entitled over the last century. [More…]
It is pleasing to note that at least in this case we have arrived at the conclusion that colleges of advanced education should not be treated in quite that way. [More…]
Our proposals are that 2 special groups should be represented on the council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
If we do not think that the Canberra Advanced College of Education is entitled to this kind of consideration, I think we are writing it down. [More…]
While there may be other ways of resolving this matter I believe that it would be to the advantage of this Parliament and the Canberra College of Advanced Education for Parliament to be represented on it. [More…]
Therefore, I believe there is a strong case for this Parliament being represented on the council of the Canberra College for Advanced Education. [More…]
The Canberra College of Advanced Education, of course, does not belong exclusively to the Canberra community. [More…]
The College would largely be a community education institution, rather more so - or it should be rather more so - than the Australian National University. [More…]
Again, Australia has been very inhibited in this regard throughout its educational institutions. [More…]
This is particularly so in secondary and primary education. [More…]
I think that there should be more public participation in secondary education in Australia. [More…]
I believe it would be worth while involving the community in the management of the Canberra College of Advanced Education by means of someone directly representing the community. [More…]
The Martin Committee’s report suggested that colleges of advanced education should be established with degree conferring powers. [More…]
Therefore, we are conferring a very important power upon colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Knowing many of the academic staff who had been appointed to the Monash University I could only hope to convince the people I met that they would receive the same quality of education there as they would from anywhere else in Australia. [More…]
The Wiltshire Committee which looked into the status of colleges of advanced education and the kind of awards that should be given with respect to their courses, reported to the Federal Minister for Education and Science in June 1969. [More…]
In September of last year, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) convened a meeting with the State Ministers responsible for education to consider these recommendations. [More…]
Some of the States have misgivings about what the status of the national accrediting committee will be and what sovereignty it will take away from the States in respect of their own colleges of advanced education. [More…]
So, we see by this Bill that the position has been reached where the Commonwealth has had to go it alone to introduce legislation to set up in the Australian Capital Territory a college of advanced education with the right to confer degrees in respect of some courses. [More…]
1 can only think of what must be the perplexity and concern of students in colleges of advanced education up and down this country who are wondering what kind of an award they will receive at the completion of their courses. [More…]
Naturally too in this same context I regret - and I notice a good many other critics do - that a national co-ordinating committee regarding tertiary education in general has not been established. [More…]
We remember that the Committee of Inquiry into the Future of Tertiary Education in Australia, commonly known as the Martin Committee, recommended this very thing back in 1965 when it submitted its report. [More…]
We are still not sure what is the province of a college of advanced education visavis a university today. [More…]
I only hope that the Government may still get around to establishing some kind of national tertiary commission which will try to co-ordinate the development and to clarify the status of such tertiary institutions as universities, colleges of advanced education and, where they exist as separate bodies, teachers’ colleges. [More…]
At the moment, there seems <o be a certain amount of experimentalism as far as teacher education is concerned. [More…]
In some cases teachers colleges are being absorbed into colleges of advanced education. [More…]
In other cases they are still remaining within education departments. [More…]
I notice that at a meeting at the University of New England late last year at which the National Union of Australian University Students was represented, persons spoke out about this absence of some kind of co-ordination or some kind of clarification of the province of these educational bodies. [More…]
For higher education the Conference recommended the establishment of a single Higher Education Commission to replace the two existing Commonwealth committees. [More…]
It seemed that we had this clear in our minds when a former Prime Minister rose in this place and indicated what he believed was the province on the one hand of a university and on the other hand a college of advanced education. [More…]
Certainly, Sir Robert Menzies did not envisage colleges of advanced education as being degree granting bodies - not in the immediate future, for sure. [More…]
1 would like to see some high powered national body sort out what we wish colleges of advanced education to be and what we want them to do as distinct, say, from universities or determine whether they should in fact be much more closely related than they have been to universities at this time. [More…]
As it was represented to us in their inauguration, colleges of advanced education had not an exclusive but a particular role to play in catering for the needs of commerce and industry. [More…]
But I do think that there is a place for the community to become involved in our educational institutions. [More…]
Members of our community should not be precluded because a college of advanced education happens to be a higher educational institution. [More…]
I had a good deal of difficulty, as a matter of fact, in discovering what was the background of the membership of the present Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
The members of the Council include the technical director of an important industry in this country - the one person in this group, I see, from such a background - a Senior Assistant Secretary of the Department of Education and Science in Canberra, the Deputy Vice-chancellor of the Australian National University, a former Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, an Associate Commissioner of the National Capital Development Commission, the Professor of Accounting and Public Finance at the School of General Studies, again of the Australian National University - I would focus attention on just how strongly represented on this body is the Australian National University - the Principal of the Canberra College of Education, the manager of a State electricity commission branch who also has a good deal of professional engineering experience, a Commissioner of the Department of Main Roads in New South Wales up until 1967, and a Reader in Education at the University of Melbourne. [More…]
If we wanted this College of Advanced Education to be something distinctive from a university, I cannot understand why there is on the controlling body such a heavy representation of the Australian National University and some of the other universities. [More…]
I summarise by saying that I would like to see a more deliberate attempt to clarify what we are to expect from colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I certainly would like to think that our colleges of advanced education will have a broad and, I hope, a rich source of strength from the kinds of people who serve on their controlling bodies. [More…]
The Canberra College of Advanced Education was set up at a time when the role that colleges of advanced education were to play in the community had not been really thought out in great detail or depth. [More…]
But there seemed to be a general movement toward a common ideal - a general upgrading of the colleges of advanced education - that their purposes should be more technical and more professional and that there should be a movement of the universities perhaps in the same direction, coupled of course, with a desire on the part of colleges of advanced education to attain to the ideals of independence, free inquiry and research that are so often associated with universities but which traditionally have not been found in technical colleges, at least not to the same extent. [More…]
We live in changing times, and today even in our high schools, let alone in the colleges of advanced education, one gets a planting of these ideals of inquiry, independence and thinking things out for oneself which at one time we tended to associate almost exclusively with the university ideal. [More…]
lt sets out to give a degree awarding power to the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education, to put it more on the level of universities. [More…]
We ask that the Government accept the amendment so that a similar sort of standard can be applied to the colleges of advanced education and so that they can continue to move forward. [More…]
I could go on and discuss the question: What is education? [More…]
It seems to me that it is not merely the following of formal courses, whether they be at colleges of advanced education, universities or high schools. [More…]
This indicates the degree of concern and of interest in matters of education that exists in this city. [More…]
If one goes back to the original enactment of the Canberra College of Advanced Education in 1967, one sees the way that the purposes of the College were then spell out. [More…]
Its functions were set out in this way, and they are still in this form: to conduct … an institution for the provision of education and training of such kinds, and in such departments of science, technology, arts, administration, commerce and other fields of knowledge or of the application of knowledge, as the Council with the approval of the Minister, determines or as the Minister requires, and, in particular, education and training appropriate to professional and other occupations requiring advanced education; [More…]
There is the repeated use of the word ‘education’. [More…]
As I have said, education, it seems to me. [More…]
means not only formal education but also the acquisition of experience and being exposed to experience in a setting, ideally, where there is a tradition of mutuality, independence, free inquiry and things of this sort. [More…]
The functions of the Canberra College of Advanced Education also include: to use the facilities and resources of the College to advance and develop knowledge and skills in the fields with which the College is concerned; [More…]
Other speakers have asked: What was the difference, what is the difference and what will be the difference, if any, between universities and colleges of advanced education? [More…]
The statute for the Australian National University, which was enacted in 1946, gave the university the function of providing facilities for university education. [More…]
This drives me back, I suppose, to the question: What is university education? [More…]
I think I have said enough to indicate my thoughts on that and to indicate also that in colleges of advanced education we - are getting a movement. [More…]
In this city there is great interest in representation: It seems to me that if we can put members of this House on the Council of the College of Advanced Education that Council will benefit because, as the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) said, the Council will take to it members of this House, properly elected by this House, who will bring with them a width of experience and knowledge from whatever particular field they come. [More…]
That experience will add to the weight of their arguments, whether it be in some educational committee of the Party to which they belong or whether it be in some joint parliamentary committee. [More…]
They will add to the weight of their words the experience that they have gained from sitting on the Council of the College of Advanced Education. [More…]
and indeed the Senators who sit on the Council of the Australian National University are enriched by it, so, too, will the members of the Council of the College of Advanced Education be enriched. [More…]
This is terribly important and it will hasten the uplifting and upgrading of the College of Advanced Education until eventually the time will come when it will be undertaking research just as much as the universities undertake it. [More…]
I should like to take this opportunity, when we are discussing changes in the potential control of the Canberra College of Advanced Education, to raise some points of political philosophy which seem terribly self-evident and obvious to me but which are hardly ever raised and rarely discussed either here, in the general journal and media which concentrate on the sensational aspects of our universities and on the sort of things that are happening in our universities and tertiary institutions. [More…]
He is getting very wide of the subject matter of the Bill which relates to representation on the Council of the College of Advanced Education. [More…]
If there is any sort of institution in the community in which it should be possible to have the minimum number of rules in relation to controls and quality of starters, then the universities and colleges of advanced education should be those sorts of institutions. [More…]
I hope the adding of undergraduate representation to this Council will ease any tensions that may be developing at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
I suggest that with the advice of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Colleges of Advanced Education there is a quite separate role for them. [More…]
Following that report State and Commonwealth ministers for education decided to appoint a working party to work out the machinery for the establishment of this national body. [More…]
This working party presented its report, which was available at the Australian Educational Council meeting on 25th May, but there was some disagreement as to its implementation. [More…]
I am sorry that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) has not seen fit to accept this amendment. [More…]
If there is anything that experience of tertiary education in institutions around Australia has shown it is the need for a community interest and a close community knowledge through its representatives. [More…]
That is why I feel that community representation on the governing bodies of these tertiary educational institutes is quite important. [More…]
In any event, I do not know why we have to differentiate between the Canberra College of Advanced Education and the Australian National University. [More…]
Why it is regarded as undesirable that this Government have an interest in the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
1 believe the College of Advanced Education would gain from the representation of this Parliament on it. [More…]
1 think that the attempt to compare the Canberra College of Advanced Education with the Australian National University fails as a true analogy because the Australian National University was set up as a truly national university. [More…]
On the other hand, the Canberra College of Advanced Education is a local, not a national, body. [More…]
One might as well suggest that it would be interesting and useful for honourable members to go on to the council of any one of the other colleges of advanced education around Australia. [More…]
First of all, I think that the analogy of the Canberra College of Advanced Education and the Australian National University is fair enough. [More…]
The Canberra College of Advanced Education is a part of Canberra and it is part of Australia. [More…]
The Canberra College of Advanced Education is our baby, we might say. [More…]
It is true that the Opposition did not consult the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) beforehand. [More…]
The matter before the House raises a difficult problem, as do many matters in the educational sphere. [More…]
I would not want to be misunderstood in what I have to say in this regard, because I find the interest of the honourable member for Fremantle, the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant), the honourable member for the Australian Capital Territory (Mr Enderby) and any others who share their views entirely admirable, in that they want to take a direct part and participate actively in the processes of some of our leading educational institutions. [More…]
As I understand it, universities or colleges of advanced education do not exist primarily to enrich the experience of members of Parliament. [More…]
Such members of Parliament may add as much as, and more than, some, but these governing bodies are framed on a basis of educational expertise, leavened by lay experience, good sense and other areas of experience which may be incidental to the argument, to make some kind of balanced plans for the governing of the institutions. [More…]
I am well aware that it is possible for an institution - a long standing one or a new one such as the Canberra College of Advanced Education -to create an atmosphere, if not of nepotistic flavour then certainly of some kind of incestuous relationship, in the sense that the same people with the same sort of training are teaching themselves and those under their control the same sort of things. [More…]
believe that the fundamental philosophy of the matter is that councils of governing bodies of this kind have been leavened in their educational experience, such as it is, by the introduction of lay members. [More…]
1 adhere to the point I made in my speech on the second reading of this Bill, that there is a provision for 8 people, appointed by the Governor-General, on the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
Certainly as of this moment the colleges of advanced education are slanted in the direction of teaching the gaining of knowledge, mainly of a practical kind, whereas it is well known, and often said to their detriment in fact, that universities are basically there for gaining knowledge for its own sake and not for direct application. [More…]
I am well aware that there are faculties such as engineering, medicine and so on, but - and it does not matter whether the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Kennedy) sniffs or not - the plain fact of the matter is that some of us have done a little thinking about this over the years and it is, as are so many problems on education, totally insoluble in terms of rights or wrongs. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) has said that there is not an analogy between the Canberra College of Advanced Education and the Australian National University. [More…]
The Minister said that there was no more case for having members of this Parliament on the Canberra College of Advanced Education Council than on any of the other Councils of colleges of advanced education round Australia. [More…]
The Canberra College of Advanced Education is entirely financed by the appropriations of this Parliament. [More…]
It makes grants towards colleges of advanced education elsewhere, but they are primarily financed by the States. [More…]
I feel that we do have a most direct responsibility towards the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
On the other hand the United States with its Congressional system recognises very much the importance of having elected representatives of the people on all sorts of bodies determining policy, whether it is in regard to education, defence or anything else, and I do not believe that the trend in the Westminster system of Parliament is a healthy one. [More…]
I could not imagine a better man to be put on the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education as representing the Government side of the House than the honourable member for Denison and I am sure that as his experience here develops he will be able to give to the Council a special degree of information, advice and counsel thai would be valuable to them. [More…]
The members of the Opposition’s education committee have been extremely impressed by the deputations which have come to us from Canberra citizens concerned about education. [More…]
We have seen the controversies they have conducted with the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) in letters in the ‘Canberra Times’, and if the Minister will forgive us, we have come to the conclusion that in the main they have had the better of the argument. [More…]
As a consequence, we have been impressed by the possibility of direct representation of the Canberra community on the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
We think it is a very good thing that in this capital city a body distinctively belonging to it, like the College of Advanced Education, should have a direct link with the community. [More…]
The seventh is the chairman of a college of advanced education. [More…]
J am extremely disappointed at the attitude adopted by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) so far. [More…]
Our aim broadly is to widen the representation that there is on the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
I think that one of the worst diseases that has ever afflicted Australia’s education system is that which has divided educators from the people. [More…]
In Australia the education system has grown up in a most over-centralised fashion and it has grown up in a way that has divorced it from the people. [More…]
Education in Australia is run by bureaucracies and by governments. [More…]
Contact between the people for whom education is provided and the people who provide the education has been lost. [More…]
There have been many defects in the way people in the United States have representation in their own education systems. [More…]
Quite often I think it is due to excessive conservatism but one must accept that there is one very valuable principle of service and that is that education is for the people. [More…]
Education is not simply a mystery to be understood only by those who have been initiated by bureaucratic experience. [More…]
Our suggestion that the Parliament should be represented on the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education has already been rejected. [More…]
I cannot see any reason whatsoever why education should not be opened up to the people themselves. [More…]
It is a good thing that people should be interested in education. [More…]
If the Government intends to continue to treat education as a mystery and as something only for those . [More…]
I thought I made it perfectly clear that I did not at any stage deny, and in fact I did admire the inclination and capacity of anybody from here or in this case - as we are now talking to a further amendment - members of the Canberra community to be represented on the Council and to take a direct interest in such a body as the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
But the fact of the matter is that hard headed educational thinking, insofar as it is possible in the field of education to be hard headed, will not be assisted by the honourable member for Bendigo or anybody else tossing off a string of epithets which include words like bureaucracy’, ‘democratisation’ and so on practically without qualification. [More…]
lt is very nice to think of the community at large taking unto itself the processes of higher education and having equal participation in them. [More…]
But that proposition in itself is self-defeating because it is by definition the purpose of such an organisation as the Canberra College of Advanced Education, and then on to universities and the rest, to bring people into them so that they will learn enough about particular disciplines and about the processes of life itself, as it were, to be able to exercise some reasonable control and to voice opinions, with due humility no doubt all the time, on these matters. [More…]
It is not possible, apart from a known interest which is very nice, to pull someone off the street, as it were, and say: ‘You will be able equally to pronounce your views on the council of the college of advanced education’ or whatever it might be called. [More…]
We have an Emeritus Professor but being a professor does not invalidate him in an educational institution. [More…]
One might argue that these people tend to have somewhat of an educational bias and one might then subscribe to the proposition which I raised earlier - at least an awareness which I wanted to indicate, so that I would not be misunderstood any more than necessary - that it is possible for such institutions to become inbred. [More…]
But surely if their purpose is education we should be looking for the highest possible educational expertise leavened by some good solid down to earth experience in other fields so that this thing does not run riot. [More…]
The Wark Committee recommended a more direct and intimate relationship between education and industry and other relevant organisations. [More…]
Wherever we go throughout Australia there is regret that there is not more community participation in the educational process. [More…]
He was very regretful that parent and citizens organisations took up so much time working out what would be the requirements of their next fete instead of looking at the content of education and how education could be better organised. [More…]
We live in a democracy and we pretend that we are educating people to live in that democracy, but we use anything but democratic procedures in order to arrange or run our educational processes. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science mentioned the cost of the proposal put forward by the Opposition. [More…]
We seem to have grown up in this tradition and there seems to be an unwillingness, unfortunately, in too many places to give people the opportunity to have a say in education. [More…]
Education is too precious a thing to leave to the elite. [More…]
If education means anything in a democratic society it ought to reach out and use the advice, the suggestions, the active participation and the interest of so many other people in the community. [More…]
As the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) has said, the most interested and active people which the education commit tee of the Australian Labor Party has run into have been people from the Canberra community. [More…]
After all, does the Minister not envisage that the Canberra College of Advanced Education will make its products available not only to Canberra - I refer here particularly to teachers - but to the whole of Australia? [More…]
I think the honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon) spoke with the authentic voice of the Australian philosophy of educational administration when he suggested that the community should be kept at bay. [More…]
In the United Kingdom - in England and Scotland specifically - local government has authority over education. [More…]
There are usually education boards as an associated part of education. [More…]
The locality elects representatives to govern local education. [More…]
In Australia we have a steel determination to keep this type of system at bay and education has always been centralised on the State governments except in the case of private schools. [More…]
If we went around the constituencies which have had Ministers for Education as their representatives - I specifically mention Broken Hill which I recently visited - we would see beautiful high schools and beautiful facilities that Ministers had acquired for their constituencies. [More…]
I believe that if there had been much more localised control over education with a discussion of educational issues there would not have been what is the most marked feature of Australian education. [More…]
I refer to educational slums in certain areas and very good educational facilities in others - the appalling unevenness of educational facilities. [More…]
What I do wish to argue is this: I think that it would be an extremely good thing for all the issues of education to be debated. [More…]
Insofar as I am a shadow Minister for Education and Science, let me say that if I have authority and if there were a change of Government, there would be an elected local authority here governing education here and set up as a model. [More…]
But I certainly believe that education in the Australian Capital Territory should be governed by a body elected by the people of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
But when, on the other argument, we pose the question of putting members of Parliament on the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education, it is said: ‘Well, it belongs to Canberra’. [More…]
So, when we suggest: ‘Let us put some local Canberra people on it’, we find that for some strange reason they have some disability which does not fit them to become the equivalent of, say, our colleague the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) who has been whipped from the Bar, lobbed in here and is now capable and competent to administer Australian education and science. [More…]
If we could only start, as my friend from Fremantle (Mr Beazley) suggests, and set up attitudes and systems which could flow throughout the rest of the community, we would be doing a great service to Australian education. [More…]
The Bill before the House deals with a few slight odds and ends and, as a reflection of the Government’s ability and willingness to deal with the real problems facing tertiary education today, it deserves very little consideration. [More…]
The first point I make about the Bill relating to State grants for advanced education is that the Bill is concerned with giving grants to States to compensate for the differences in salaries that have arisen due to the implementation or partial implementation of the Sweeney report and of the Eggleston report. [More…]
In the second reading speech of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) is a statement that the States have either implemented or partially implemented these reports. [More…]
Its aim was to ensure that the quality and standards of education in colleges of advanced education were equal to those in universities. [More…]
With that fundamental objective in mind it stated that the salaries of lecturers and senior lecturers in colleges of advanced education should be comparable with those in universities if the qualifications, experience and responsibilities involved were equal. [More…]
This is a very worrying situation because obviously fundamental to the future status of these fairly new colleges of advanced education ls the necessity to ensure that the salaries provided for the staff are equal with salaries provided for staff in universities. [More…]
I emphasise that from the very beginning the Commonwealth has taken a prominent part in the launching and establishment of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
We have also the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education. [More…]
These 3 reports and 1 body show just how important the role of the Commonwealth has been in establishing and founding colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The most important point that I want to stress is that the Bill does not deal with the outstanding issues facing colleges of advanced education. [More…]
My point is that the colleges of advanced education are going through a crisis and it is up to the Government to recognise this situation and provide the necessary action. [More…]
What is the situation facing colleges of advanced education? [More…]
Last year the Victorian Institute of Colleges requested a grant of $58m for capital expenditure and $74m for recurrent expenditure for the development of Victorian colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The fact that one of the most important advanced educational institutions in Victoria has been forced to go to the people to beg for money to carry out its function is a very sad reflection on the seriousness with which this Government treats advanced education.I wish now to refer to a report which appeared in the Melbourne ‘Age’ of a statement made by Mr George Brown, President of the Institute’s Council. [More…]
There is a very clear reference to the attitude of the Victorian Minister for Education. [More…]
What a reflection this is upon a government that claims to be serious about tertiary education, when one of the more advanced institutes has to go to the public and beg for money.I refer to a letter which was published in the ‘Age’ on 28th May. [More…]
The situation has become quite desperate in these institutes of technology and other colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I asked the Minister for Education and Science a question recently concerning the situation of recurrent funds in these institutions.I received a reply on 28th August. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the severe shortage of recurrent funds in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Have any (a) State Ministers for Education, [More…]
There was a recognition there that many people involved in the field of advanced education were very concerned about the financial situation in these institutions. [More…]
Why is it that the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education, the Committee established by this Government to advise on the capital and recurrent needs of institutes of technology and colleges of advanced education, has not accurately reported to the Government what the needs of these institutions are? [More…]
I recommend that the constitution of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education be very closely re-examined by the Government. [More…]
I do not think this is a satisfactory or acceptable task to give to a committee on advanced education. [More…]
I return to the reply of the Minister for Education and Science to my question in which the Minister said that no official approach had been made for an overall increase. [More…]
I believe that the o’nly way to deal with this situation is for the Commonwealth to accept full financial responsibility for tertiary education. [More…]
Nevertheless it is a suggestion that has been made by the Victorian Institute of Colleges; it has been made by staff associations; it was even made last year by the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education. [More…]
I believe that the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education should be called upon by the Government to make an urgent report on the needs of the States. [More…]
The Commonwealth should act immediately to make unmatched emergency grants to colleges of advanced education. [More…]
In New South Wales 4 colleges of advanced education are applying quotas on student intakes. [More…]
Nine colleges Of advanced education in Victoria ace applying quotas and 4 colleges in South Australia are applying quotas. [More…]
Quotas are also being applied in the Western Australian Institute of Technology and in the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]
These Colleges of advanced education will not be able to provide the variety of courses needed to meet their commitment or provide the distinctive variety of vocationally oriented courses. [More…]
One might compare the situation there with that of the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
I am very concerned also at the high cost of education at all levels of tertiary education. [More…]
1 am particularly concerned by the fact that the number of scholarships available for students attending colleges of advanced education is grossly inadequate. [More…]
This year the total number of enrolments of students at colleges of advanced education was 44.356. [More…]
We must bear in mind that students in applying for advanced education scholarships would perhaps also apply for other kinds of awards. [More…]
I am not talking about universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I do not think one could find many colleges of advanced education with an equal ratio of students in the advantageous position of receiving scholarships. [More…]
One last point that I would like to refer to is that in his second reading speech the Minister for Education and Science referred to the establishment of teacher training facilities within the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government still has not accepted full responsibility towards tertiary education as a whole. [More…]
It accepts a responsibility towards universities; it accepts a responsibility towards colleges of advanced education, but it is totally artificial to accept 2 aspects of tertiary education and to ignore the third. [More…]
They are to be treated as equal partners in tertiary education. [More…]
I make that statement on these grounds: If the salaries of staff at colleges of advanced education are raised to bring them up to university status, without the salaries of people attending teachers colleges being raised, those people in the teachers colleges will be enticed away from those institutions. [More…]
There has been a sequence of letters to the ‘Age’ over recent months in which lecturers at teachers colleges have highlighted this very point They have been stressing the inequality of a situation where people with the same qualifications, possibly the same experience and the same responsibility who are employed at colleges of advanced education are receiving higher salaries simply because they are at colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Lecturers are leaving the teachers colleges to go to the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
One letter showed that a senior lecturer at a secondary teachers’ college in Victoria was receiving an income of $2,000 lower than that of a senior lecturer at a college of advanced education. [More…]
This was that the 3 types of tertiary education have to be accepted as equal partners, and they are certainly not being treated as equal partners at the moment while the Commonwealth refuses to accept any responsibility for them. [More…]
The Commonwealth may on the other hand say that the colleges are still very much under the control of the education departments which are reluctant to give them the sort of autonomy which would justify the Commonwealth granting the sort of financial assistance that it gives to colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]
Those teachers colleges which have attached themselves to colleges of advanced education are finding, as is mentioned in the second reading speech of the Minister, that the Commonwealth largesse will fall upon them. [More…]
It is quite an artificial situation because obviously people who are lecturing at a State teachers’ college under the authority of the education department are doing exactly the same sort of work as those people, we will say, who are attached to the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education mentioned in the Minister’s speech or those people who are lecturing in the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
It is quite an anomalous situation and I do not think the problem of placing staff at teachers’ colleges will be properly dealt with until the Commonwealth is prepared to come in and accept a financial responsibility for them in the same way that it has accepted a responsibility for colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]
We well know that education institutions, whether they are new advanced colleges or older institutions at any level, can always use more money. [More…]
1 do not want to be seen to suggest thateducation is not in need of more funds. [More…]
But as the honourable member for Bendigo and others well know, the question is one which has been with us in the field of education since anybody can remember and I would have thought that certainly as far as colleges of advanced education are concerned - and they are our main concern in this Bill - the problem was not one so much of finance at this stage but of organisation and definition of what their role is and of developing them in an educative sense. [More…]
It alarms me a little to see that the honourable member for Bendigo accepts unequivocally and without qualification, and even without critical analysis, all educational demands which are made known to him or to which he is party. [More…]
1 think one can say that almost by definition - with very few exceptions - education is not the sort of field in which crises suddenly occur because of the production of a newspaper headline. [More…]
They relate particularly to the development of the colleges of advanced education and to university salaries. [More…]
What we have to look at is whether or not we can keep pace with the genuine demands of qualified people for education in advanced colleges in lieu or instead of universities or other institutions of higher learning. [More…]
As we have already identified in a previous debate, the question seems to me to be that all colleges of advanced education touch on several already established fields. [More…]
In a previous debate on this subject the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) talked of critical inquiry as regards colleges of advanced education. [More…]
To a much greater degree the colleges of advanced education are, as I understand it, advised and defined, or should be defined, to cope with problems of a more applied nature - accounting courses, business management and matters of that kind and many other fields which would come to mind if one applied oneself to the task. [More…]
As against the proposition put by the honourable member for Bendigo of vast wastelands of new colleges of advanced education and somewhat older technological institutions in Victoria we have, for example, the college of advanced education on Mount Nelson in Hobart. [More…]
Launceston was very much wanting a university college in-built for home grown tertiary education. [More…]
It was seen to be inappropriate, in the light of the size of the University of Tasmania, but it appeared that Launceston would have been an entirely appropriate city in which te build Tasmania’s first college of advanced education. [More…]
I still have a suspicion that it would have been better placed, certainly in terms of public demand - I am not quite so sure on the educational basis - in Launceston. [More…]
At this stage I will not take any further the question of the difference in the definition of colleges of advanced education and universities because that is a broad field and we are here really dealing with a fairly specific field. [More…]
I believe that the question of salaries in universities and, for that matter, in colleges of advanced education is more appropriately discussed lower down the scale. [More…]
I believe that universities - and I hope that colleges of advanced education will not follow suit - have for many years made the mistake qf arguing their salaries from the point of view of the professional level. [More…]
But in both of those categories it is absolutely essential that we should be paying as much as we can pay because we are talking here - and T make no bones about this or apologies for saying it - of the best qualified people hi the community in terms of educational qualifications; in terms of what should be paid for having a certificate or passing an examination or something ot that nature. [More…]
But here we are dealing with education per se, and it is absolutely important that universities and colleges of advanced education should be able to compete with industry, with the community at large, for the best possible skills in this area. [More…]
The honourable member for Bendigo has raised quite rightly the question of salaries in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
1 do not want to sound as though I am talking like an old university type in this matter, but it should be quite clearly seen that in their present role of fairly substantially applied educators, these colleges of advanced education should in my opinion quite definitely be paying salaries which are demonstrably lower than those paid in universities. [More…]
I think that the honourable member for the Australian Capital Territory (Mr Enderby) mentioned earlier that he could envisage the ultimate blending of colleges of advanced education with universities. [More…]
We want to see universities, which are essentially research plus teaching institutions, and colleges of advanced education fulfilling a need which was not previously fulfilled. [More…]
If we do not see it in that way, then colleges of advanced education are redundant, to some extent, because I do not think than anybody could make out an immediate case that everybody who is to be found in any of the tertiary institutions should be put in a university. [More…]
We all have our role to play, and I think it would be a pity if in fact it were assumed immediately that colleges of advanced education should become universities overnight. [More…]
It is important that the salaries of staff at colleges of advanced education should be kept at the highest possible levels. [More…]
The whole question of the development of colleges of advanced education must be integrated with the wellbeing of the staffs who man them. [More…]
The whole process of education must be seen as one continuum. [More…]
I certainly do not suggest that all is rosy in the education field. [More…]
But the situation in such a broad field as education is as variable as you would like to find it [More…]
I think that there needs to be some clear thinking about and analysis of the resources which the Australian nation should devote to education. [More…]
We also need to make a comparative analysis of our expenditure on education and that of other countries. [More…]
Over 5 or 6 years in this Parliament there have been controversies about how Australia stands as a country spending a percentage of its gross national product on education within a table of the nations. [More…]
Commonwealth intervention in education has tended to be ad hoc. [More…]
It has been very much a build-up of pieces rather than a consistent attack or philosophy of education on the part of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The States have possible bottomless pits such as education, roads and health and again there is the expenditure on hospitals. [More…]
When we are discussing what we can afford to spend on education and social services we need to ask whether we do not have a series of State governments making a series of mug’s bargains, compared with a good many other countries, about the resources that are being developed in Australia by overseas interests. [More…]
Let us face the fact that the expenditure in these Bills which applies to the salaries of university staffs and the staffs of colleges of advanced education are not actual increases in salaries. [More…]
If we have to register the process of inflation in expenditure for increased salary we should remember that there is the same factor affecting the actual purchasing power of money appropriated for university and college of advanced education buildings. [More…]
The crisis in education would be precisely what the honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon) said. [More…]
In the last decade we have experienced the phenonemon of a much higher percentage of people expecting their children to get a tertiary education. [More…]
Obviously we have as a consequence a crisis in trying to adjust our universities, colleges of advanced education, and technical schools to the new demand. [More…]
As the honourable member for Denison said in denying that there is a crisis, it is extremely difficult for universities and colleges of advanced education to get staff. [More…]
If colleges of advanced education are to award degrees, I cannot see the logic of the position of the honourable member for Denison in saying that the staffs of those colleges - at least those colleges which will conduct degree courses - should be lower than those in universities. [More…]
If a Bachelor of Science degree awarded by a college of advanced education is to be the equivalent of that of a university on the basis of our national accrediting system, obviously the people who will be lecturing and providing tuition and guidance to students must be of the same calibre as those in the universities. [More…]
At least that element in colleges of advanced education which are conducting degree courses should be equally paid. [More…]
I will not say that someone who is of high quality and who is a genius for giving forms of education immensely valuable to the community but which do not lead to degree courses must be rated as less valuable in the community than someone in a university who is a lecturer. [More…]
The whole of our education system in Australia seems to me to be riddled with certain false assumptions. [More…]
We may have someone outside our teritiary education system who is a genius- [More…]
There are many education systems in the world - in Scotland and elsewhere - which will give a man promotion in the position where he is without translating him to another position, if he has a genius for a particular job. [More…]
The point I want to make is that a large part of our educational tragedy is that we ultimately decide that we have to translate someone who is a darned good headmaster into being a very bad Director of Education which is an entirely different job - it is an administrative job. [More…]
We need to make an analysis of the values of certain jobs without declaring straight out that someone in a college of advanced education should necessarily be paid a lower salary than someone in a university. [More…]
The Canberra College of Advanced Education and some other colleges of advanced education, including the college at Hobart, are apparently developing what would normally be called teachers colleges, schools of teaching or schools of education. [More…]
I hope that the Canberra College of Advanced Education will develop a full teachers college in conjunction with a Faculty of Education at the Australian National University which ought to be developing. [More…]
The Commonwealth has to take a fresh approach to this aspect of tertiary education. [More…]
We should try to attract to training institutions within the Canberra College of Advanced Education, and I hope to a Faculty of Education at the Australian National University, candidates for teacher training who would serve in the Commonwealth Territories - to serve in Papua and New Guinea in that country’s last gallop towards independence, when education will become even more important. [More…]
1 believe the Commonwealth has developed a rather piecemeal approach in education. [More…]
We need a much more systematic approach to education. [More…]
1 believe the honourable member had a point when he said that education in Australia had developed on a more or less ad hoc basis. [More…]
Having regard to the fact that the Commonwealth has not been in the education field for many years I think we can look back with pride on a record of achievement which would, I think, be the envy of some other countries. [More…]
I would first of all like to say to the House and to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) that I for one welcome the introduction of these 2 Bills. [More…]
I regard them as an earnest of the Government’s desire to help the cause of tertiary education in general. [More…]
I wish to quote a brief paragraph from the speech made by the Minister for Education and Science when he presented to this House on 19th August of this year a ministerial statement on the Commonwealth education programme for 1970-71. [More…]
Under the heading: ‘Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education’, which are the 2 heads under which these Bills appear, the Minister said: [More…]
The proposed Commonwealth expenditure during the financial year on universities am/ colleges of advanced education reflects its support for the continued expansion of tertiary education facilities. [More…]
Grants to colleges of advanced education are expected to total almost $40m, which is more than 75 per cent above the figure for 1969-1970, while those to universities will total approximately $11 Om, as compared with just under 594m during the past financial year. [More…]
It is moving forward steadily, surely and carefully in the wide field of education. [More…]
As I said earlier, I believe that we have made good progress in the period that the Commonwealth has been assisting actively in an increasingly big way in the overall field of education. [More…]
Therefore, I do not wish to go outside that scope and to try to cover the wide field of education in the course of my remarks because I know that there are other speakers who wish to take part in this debate and that we have still a heavy legislative programme ahead of us. [More…]
There is, I believe, a strong case for a review of the grants formula in relation to grants to the States for tertiary education. [More…]
Colleges of advanced education which, as we know are still evolving, will be assisted and strengthened by the adoption of the Sweeney Report and the willingness of the Commonwealth Government to assist with the establishment and maintenance of residential colleges. [More…]
This article deals with the very matter on which I am just touching, that is, the evolving state of the various colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I am sure that we all hope very much that the Commonwealth and the States can work on the basis of a co-operative partnership in the development of these colleges as in the other fields of tertiary education. [More…]
It is now 13 years since a wide ranging inquiry was held into tertiary education in Australia. [More…]
I urge once again that in the interests of the universities, in the interests of colleges of advanced education and in the interests of tertiary education in general, early consideration be given to holding another full scale inquiry with a view to rectifying anomalies, streamlining and co-ordinating development and providing the nation with the best possible facilities in all fields of tertiary education. [More…]
I understood the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) to say by way of interjection earlier that the number of tertiary scholarships on issue at the moment is approximately 67,000. [More…]
The number of scholarships in circulation as at 30th June of this year was 61,048, of which 30,510 were for Commonwealth university scholarships and 4,656 were advanced education scholarships. [More…]
I turn to the field of Commonwealth advanced education scholarships. [More…]
As a matter of fact, I am concerned as to what is happening to these advanced education scholarships. [More…]
But I do not understand why such a low proportion of students - I think the figure given in answer to a question asked by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) was 8.4 per cent - attending colleges of advanced education is in receipt of Commonwealth scholarships. [More…]
There are still comparatively few youngsters from the low income groups getting through and doing a tertiary education course. [More…]
If we are to give only a small number of scholarships in relation to the number of applicants I would rather help the person for whom a scholarship was absolutely critical in deciding whether he could go on with his education or not. [More…]
Now that the Minister has asked this question, 1 refer also to our policy on scholarships for secondary education. [More…]
As recently as last night the Leader of the Opposition announced also that we would make all tertiary education free. [More…]
If we are looking at this business of who gets to university and who gets to colleges of advanced education we have to look at student assistance while we are on the job. [More…]
Tertiary education - colleges of advanced education and universities - is doing well from this Government compared to what happens to primary, secondary and pre-school education, education of the handicapped and technical education. [More…]
The honourable member for Bendigo recounted the even sorrier plight of the new colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I do not think the States will ever overcome their problems, and their lower levels of education will not improve while the States are required to spend $1.85 to obtain a grant of SI from the Commonwealth. [More…]
During the remarks of the last speaker, the honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds) it was obvious that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) was stung by the attacks on the preference which is given to students from private schools in receiving scholarships and subsidies for university education. [More…]
The function was organised by the Parramatta Federal Electorate Council of the Liberal Party, ft was, 1 understand, a fund-raising function at which, for $5 to help the Minister for Education and Science, T was permitted to go to the school and meet the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) and Mrs Gorton and have afternoon tea with them. [More…]
There has been a significant increase in the salaries of university lecturers and professors, and I am not criticising this, but when we talk about difficulties in education, problems in education and the crisis in education, it is interesting to note that in 1952 the salary of a subject master in the New South Wales Department of Education was approximately equal to that of a university lecturer whereas in 1970 the salary of the subject master is approximately only two-thirds of that of a university lecturer. [More…]
Firstly, they carry out the recommendations of the Sweeney Committee which recommended that where a college of advanced education employed a lecturer who had the same qualifications or was doing the same work as his opposite number in a university he should have the same salary. [More…]
This involved an increase in the salaries of these people in colleges of advanced education and this Bill provides for the Commonwealth’s share of that increase. [More…]
This flows across to the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Some observations were made about the percentage of gross national product which this country devotes to education. [More…]
I do point out that this country is very often compared with countries whose figures include such items as the following in their educational expenses: school meals, free milk, the nation’s cultural activities, scientific research, sport, youth activities, child welfare, armed services colleges, radio and television and so on. [More…]
We do not include any of these things in our educational expenses. [More…]
If we compare our figures with those of countries which load up their education expenses with these items of course we will not compare favourably. [More…]
If one travels around the world and looks at the other educational systems one sees a different picture comparatively. [More…]
Of course, whilst there are problems in this country which is advancing faster now under the present Government than it has done in its history, it is in fact giving a better education than most other countries. [More…]
We will not create one more place by abolishing university fees so whoever is getting the university education free will have to compete for the existing number of places. [More…]
We cannot abolish those fees without abolishing the fees to colleges of advanced education and if we did that the adjusted figure would be of the order of $3m a year after adjustments for income tax. [More…]
This is one of these terribly sad matters which hold out expectations to the people - ‘independence for New Guinea in 1972’, ‘free education at tertiary level’. [More…]
This measure does not actually set up the body that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) mentions in the attachment to his second reading speech. [More…]
If one goes through the Bill one finds no mention of the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education. [More…]
Behind the Minister is this advisory committee consisting of a number of distinguished academics, educationalists and administrators. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Minister pointed out that the Commonwealth is already assisting educational research through a number of bodies. [More…]
The Australian Research Grants Committee conducts research into some aspects of education. [More…]
The Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education, the Australian Council for Educational Research and the Australian science education project conduct research into education. [More…]
The tertiary education entrance project researches some aspects. [More…]
There now appears to be the addition of a sixth force in granting assistance to education. [More…]
The Minister also draws our attention to the fact that the Government made an election promise to stimulate educational research by special assistance commencing with the allocation of $250,000 in the 1970-71 Budget. [More…]
The Opposition feels that there should be a statutory body - not an advisory body - behind the Minister for Education and Science, to which body applications could be made by those who wish to do significant educational research. [More…]
What is needed in this country is virtually a royal society of education. [More…]
We believe that people would feel more free to approach an educational body in applying for assistance for significant research than they would if the fundamental approach was to the Minister and, behind the Minister, this advisory committee. [More…]
That all words after “That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: ‘the House while not refusing a second reading to the Education .Research Bill is of the opinion that the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education should be a statutory body reporting its principles, actions and recommendations annually to Parliament’. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to provide a basis for legislation in the programme of assistance to research in education which was outlined to the Parliament by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) in April of this year and introduced in accordance with the statement of policy made by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) during last year’s election campaign. [More…]
The greater purport of this Bill is in fact that it provides for research in the field of education itself. [More…]
We might well ask why it is necessary to provide $250,000 for this purpose but if we look to see what, for example, the field of education per se has received from the Australian Research Grants Committee we find that the amounts have been relatively small, varying recently between about $32,000 and $80,000. [More…]
Something of the same sort of thing came to pass in the field of education. [More…]
So, both for reasons of its own fallibility and for reasons which are more or less beyond its control the field of education has found it difficult, I believe, to commandeer the funds for research into education which some other fields, notably the scientific fields, have been able to command for their research processes. [More…]
The provision of this $250,000, in terms of what I have already said, obviously puts pressure upon the educationists who are involved in the research which may come about, and puts them on their mettle, not only to justify their projects but also to minimise their jargon and to minimise those aspects of their findings which may make them incomprehensible to the people and the public who are most interested in seeing those findings appear. [More…]
But may I just touch very briefly on several fields which may well be of interest to the educational researchers. [More…]
There is in progress under the auspices of the Department of Education and Science, and through certain State authorities working in collaboration, investigation into the tertiary entrance education project known to those in the trade as TEEP, and this is rather a gratifying development in the light of the fairly considerable criticism which has been made from time to time of the fallibility and the imperfection of testing to get people into universities. [More…]
It is also very heartening if one looks a little further afield to see that we recognise some of our imperfections and are looking constantly for better ways to identify those people who are suitable for further education beyond the secondary sphere, lt makes a very nice contrast, for example - if I may be a little irrelevant - to the resurgence of university attendance in the last few weeks or months in mainland China. [More…]
It has been assumed for a long time that a figure of 30 was an admirable optimum class size in, say, a seconday or even primary school and anything beyond that created all sorts of tensions and pressures which were inimical to the process of education. [More…]
The comprehensive basis or judgment of education suggests that there is a very considerable infusion of social awareness that academic judgment alone - I mean the testing of academic ability - is insufficient or inadequate. [More…]
It may even lend itself to educational research. [More…]
I merely say that the appearance of the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education, which the Minister has set up, is to all intents and purposes very good. [More…]
He being a person of considerable integrity personally and in the education sphere, I was only too happy to see him on the Committee. [More…]
They are subjects which perhaps we ought to debate more freely and which ought to be thrown into the educational arena more often. [More…]
He asked: Who can benefit most from education? [More…]
So far as I can tell from recent reading and recent research, it appears that no-one is quite sure who will benefit most from any form of education. [More…]
One might say that the Education Research Bill is almost a landmark in the educational attitudes of this Government. [More…]
Education is a tremendous undertaking. [More…]
I think that approximately 100,000 employees are involved in education in Australia. [More…]
That covers the teaching staffs and everybody else involved in education. [More…]
Education costs about $ 1,200m a year. [More…]
Some 10,000 buildings are occupied for educational purposes. [More…]
So the task of the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education, if it is going to gather the threads of thinking in the community and point them in the direction of effective research in education, is awe inspiring. [More…]
Are there on the Committee enough practical people from the various areas of education? [More…]
Of course, we could probably broaden such a committee in an almost limitless way, when we consider the whole breadth of education. [More…]
This has been the way in which the Commonwealth has approached education ever sinceI came to this Parliament and probably before then, too. [More…]
Of course, the important criticism of this Government’s attitude to education at the Commonwealth level is that it farms out responsibility to somebody else.It waits for somebody else to take the initiative somewhere. [More…]
our knowledge of the teaching process remains fragmentary, and asurvey of the literature on higher education in Australia reveals that teaching has been a relatively neglected area of research Perhaps the large number of variables which must be considered has discouraged such studies. [More…]
Let me refer to some comments made by Professor Sir Hugh Ennor when he was speaking at a memorial seminar on Australian education. [More…]
It is a simple enough exercise to determine the size of the education industry but it is a much more difficult task to get an accurate picture of the research effort [More…]
80-90 per cent of educational research (in Australia) is carried out by the State Departments of Education, university Departments of Education and by post-graduate students working in these latter departments. [More…]
The remainder of the research is covered mostly by the Australian Council for Educational Research and to a lesser extent by other agencies such as the small research group in my own Department in Canberra. [More…]
Of course education departments have a limited view of education in many regards. [More…]
Education departments would often be fairly narrow on this but this is no reflection upon the calibre of the people involved in the field. [More…]
What has the Australian Council for Educational Research to say on this? [More…]
that there is an acute need for research into many problems in Australian education: [More…]
We want to know a good deal about the economics of education. [More…]
We want to know whether we are getting full value for our $1 No-one wants to introduce a system of slavery into our education system, but we should know how much we are spending in the various areas of education. [More…]
When we are talking about $ 1,200m and when we think of the countless thousands of buildings that are used and all the other capital works involved it is terribly important to understand the full economics of education. [More…]
One Bill was the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill, another dealt with universities, one with research - which is the one we are now debating - and one referred to Canberra. [More…]
It is an interesting commentary on the way this Parliament and this society and the political parties look at education. [More…]
All those people who want thousands of millions of dollars poured into wool, wheat, airports and so on might have given some thought to what ought to be done for the young people of Australia and our lagging and staggering education system. [More…]
would be good enough to tell me why the Commonwealth grant to the Australian Council for Educational Research was reduced from $50,000 as it was last year to $40,000 for this year. [More…]
For those people who are interested in educational research the work of ACER is quite legendary. [More…]
They include: junior secondary science projects; tertiary education entrance project; learning and teaching in colleges of advanced education; international study of educational achievement; study skills at primary levels; Commonwealth secondary scholarship examination; writing ability of secondary school pupils; closed-circuit television - the Malvern project; and the New South Wales basic skills testing programme. [More…]
I am thinking of bodies like the Australian College of Education or the various State institutes of educational research. [More…]
They include Professor Mitchell and Mr David Verco, who unfortunately is rather ill at the moment and I hope that he will recover very shortly and take his place on the Committee, and Mr Albert Webster, Director of Planning, Department of Education in New South Wales. [More…]
We have said before that there is still scope for carrying out a research project on the educational system as a whole. [More…]
There is a place for looking at education not only at levels but in particular localities. [More…]
I am talking about education in socially, culturally, educationally and economically depressed areas. [More…]
Such a project will embrace not only material educational provisions but also other associated matters involving social workers, housing, health provisions and so on. [More…]
However, I want to ask a question of the Minister about the survey which has been conducted by the Australian Education Council. [More…]
It is entitled National Survey of Educational Needs’. [More…]
As a matter of fact, it has been said by the President of the New South Wales Parents and Citizens Federation that the committee is still in operation on this matter and that the figure of expenditure needed over the next 5 years to bring education up to scratch is not a reliable figure because the research has not been completed. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science came into this House the other night and was manful enough to correct something he said in the House. [More…]
I had divided the total by the number of New South Wales students in secondary education instead of the total in the whole of Australia. [More…]
Firstly, the Bill seems to indicate that the research projects will be authorised by the Minister for Education and. [More…]
A publication entitled ‘Education News Gazette’ states that this committee may give financial assistance to educational research submitted to it or it may initiate research in areas of importance where little is being done. [More…]
Education is the biggest business in any State. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science has a very responsible portfolio. [More…]
The real issues are: Are we getting the best from our education system? [More…]
It follows that that youngster obviously has a problem and the system itself is not really giving any education. [More…]
This problem has been mentioned in a publication called ‘Map of Educational Research’. [More…]
It has been stated that there is a wide range of difference in intelligence levels which creates educational problems. [More…]
A splendid example of the point I am making is to be found at the Chino Prison in California which has achieved an 80 per cent success rate with inmates by saturating culprits with education and classifying them as to vocational guidance. [More…]
The solution to the problem is education. [More…]
He suggested that, whereas the Australian Council for Education Research had had $50,000 in I year - according to his figures - the amount appeared to have been reduced to $40;000. [More…]
It is one of the committees - and there are a number - which will be concerned with the quality of education and with the objectives and the methods of education. [More…]
For some time now, we have been supporting the Australian science education project looking at the curriculum and the materials for science teaching. [More…]
This particular committee will be directing its attention towards high level research into education which I think has been inadequately covered in Australia. [More…]
Development in Education should be a statutory body. [More…]
Ratify or accede to, if it has not yet done so, other conventions having a bearing upon the elimination of racial discrimination, including the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Slavery Convention of 1956 on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, the UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education, the ILO Convention of 1958 concerning Discrimination in respect of Employment and Occupation, the International Covenants on Human Rights, and the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. [More…]
For example, Australia is a party to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Convention of 1956 on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery and the UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Which social work courses conducted at institutes of technology or colleges of advanced education are currently being reviewed for the purpose of professional acceptability, and when is it expected the reviews will be completed. [More…]
In the case of universitiesI have taken it to mean undergraduate courses and in the case of colleges of advanced education, diploma courses. [More…]
Colleges of Advanced Education: Diploma courses in social work are conducted at the South Australian Institute of Technology and the Western Australian Institute of Technology. [More…]
No post-graduate courses are offered by colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It would be necessary for diplomates from social work courses in colleges of advanced education to approach specific institutions providing post-graduate courses and for these institutions to decide the applicants’ eligibility. [More…]
Any social work course offered by a university or a college of advanced education which is nominated by an applicant for a Commonwealth cadetship is acceptable but these are awarded on a competitive basis and therefore not all applicants are successful. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The New South Wales Minister for Education, the Hon. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
The Government has now decided that the following changes will operate from 1st January 1971: The maximum living allowance payable to holders of Commonwealth university and advanced education scholarships will be increased from $620 to $700 a year in the case of students living at home and from $1,000 to $1,100 a year for students living away from home. [More…]
Students receiving living allowance under the Commonwealth university and advanced education scholarship schemes will be permitted to earn up to $10 per week during the academic year without affecting their entitlement to living allowance. [More…]
The new rates and conditions applying to Commonwealth university scholarships will also be applicable to the new Canberra teacher education scholarships to be tenable at the Canberra College of Advanced Education in 1971. [More…]
by leaveThe Opposition welcomes the adjustments which have been made by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), butwe have been impressed by the submissions made by the National Union of [More…]
How shabby can we as members of this national Parliament be in our approach to hospitalisation, education, homes for the aged and satisfying the needs of aged people when we continue to pour vast defence expenditure down the drain? [More…]
He went on and completed his education at the age of, say, 27 years. [More…]
He was then liable to be called up for national service, after having completed his education at the age of 27 years, but the person who has done absolutely nothing about registration, who had evaded all his obligations, who had concealed himself, was free of all obligations if he concealed himself successfully until the age of 26 years. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Can he say how many (a) full-time and (b) part-time technical teachers are employed by education departments in each State and in each Commonwealth Territory. [More…]
Information on numbers of technical teachers employed by education departments in the States is available, I believe, in published reports of State education and technical education departments, to which the honourable member may wish to refer. [More…]
The 28 part-time teachers in the Northern Territory are those in the Adult Education Centre who teach technical subjects. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The requirements for library resources in primary schools is one of the matters taken into account in the Survey of Needs which was undertaken recently on the initiative of the Australian Education Council. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What, (a) number and (b) percentage nf (i) 15, (ii) 16, (iii) 17 and (iv) 18 year olds were in full-time education of any sort in the latest year for which he can obtain this information. [More…]
(a), (b) (0, (ii), (iii), (iv) and (2) The Commonwealth Statistician has provided the following statistics of the numbers and percentages of 15, 16, 17 and 18 year olds in full-time education of any sort in 19S4 (as shown in the Murray Report, 1961, 1966 and 1968. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What efforts or representations have been made between Prime Minister Menzies’ answer to me on 1st May 1962 (Hansard, page .1 199) and his own answer on 22nd September 1970 (Hansard, page 1494) lo secure statistics for the current academic year in time for the debate on the estimates for the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
My Department has regular contact with officers of the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics and has made various representations with a view to bringing forward the collection and publication of education statistics. [More…]
What (a) interest, (b) redemptions, (c) revenue, (d) grants, (e) gifts and loan moneys has the Commonwealth (including its banks) in the last financial year (i) paid to and (ii) received from (A) State, local or semi-government authorities, (B) autonomous health, education and welfare organisations and overseas aid recipients and (C) private interests, including interest paid to overseas lenders less Australian tax thereon. [More…]
Repayments received from autonomous health, education and welfare organisations, and overseas aid recipients were negligible. [More…]
Grants to autonomous health, education and welfare organisations and overseas aid recipients totalled $169m in 1968-69, while transfer payments in the form of cash benefits to persons, subsidies to enterprises and other overseas contributions were $1,664 million. [More…]
Advances to autonomous health, education and welfare organisations and overseas aid recipients were negligible in 1968-69. [More…]
What was the amount collected separately from education departments in each of the States for the same period. [More…]
ls payroll tax levied on teachers’ salaries where teachers are employed by State education departments but not on teachers’ salaries where they are employed in non-government schools. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersigned citizens of Australia respectfully sheweth: (a) That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth wilt be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Pursuant to Sections 5 and 9 of the States Grants (Teachers Colleges) Act 1967, I present a statement setting out the payments that have been authorised by the Minister for Education and Science under this Act during the financial year 1969-70 and specifying the projects in relation to which the payments have been so authorised. [More…]
The Commission’s activities iri ‘ music, concerts, drama, features, education, -Papua and New Guinea and over Radio Australia cater for both majority and minority audiences. [More…]
The Departments of Foreign Affairs, External Territories and Education and Science should be compelled to contribute towards the cost of these service programmes. [More…]
The Opposition regrets that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) has not seen fit to accept the recommendation of the Council of the Australian National University that student representation on the Council be increased. [More…]
However, because of their struggles to get a university education their results, which in certain cases can be amongst the very best in the university, generally are not up to the average. [More…]
Should my fears prove soundly based I hope I will have the aid of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Bowen) in my efforts to have further amendments ratified. [More…]
I gather that the honourable member for Warringah (Mr MacKellar) is displeased with the approach of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Bowen) to this matter and, if that is the case, I support him. [More…]
Admittedly there are highly specialised people who are supposed to train people in various ways in the technical faculties - tradesmen in medicine, dentistry, architecture and so on - but in the real fields of education, in the humanities, a different kind of thinking altogether must be produced. [More…]
Probably in this area of education, as much as any other - perhaps more than in some others - the student body is a very important part of society. [More…]
In that country a select committee made up of a standing convocation of people concerned, with education has been set up to examine the way in which students must be fitted more effectively into university bodies. [More…]
The legislation now before us is a pretty fair demonstration of the continuing conservatism of Australian education and particularly of the way it is administered from this place. [More…]
Of course, nothing demonstrates the conservative nature of Australian education and university management better than a glance at the representation of students on the governing bodies of Australian universities. [More…]
It will he worth while the Minister explaining why he or perhaps his advisers in the Department of Education and Science - I am not too sure whether he is the creature of his advisers or whether they are the implementers of his policy - have followed this course. [More…]
The House of Commons Select Committee on Education and Science examined this question and came down heavily in favour of increased student representation. [More…]
Our institutions of higher education must recognize that changed circumstances brought about by their own expansion, changes in society itself and the need to question long-standing assumptions, should compel a ready and sympathetic response to proposals for reappraisal and reform. [More…]
The question of principle on which 1 would join some slight issue, I think, with the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), as have the honourable members who have spoken before me, is that of declining to accept the proper judgment of the now Council of the University. [More…]
But I would maintain the conservative view that essentially the same outlook applies to people in training as that which applies to those at much lower levels of education - about which we could argue at some length - involving essentially the comprehensive and even sub-comprehensive views of education and the suggestion that people who know not very much may. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view lo inserting the following words in place thereof: whilst not refusing to give the Bill a second reading this House condemns the Government for the delay in providing a comprehensive programme of migration education, adequate finance facilities and capital equipment, including buildings. [More…]
Broadly speaking, however, they provide for an expansion of the migrant education programme for adults and children before and after arrival in Australia, in co-operation with the State education authorities. [More…]
The Commonwealth is to provide the cost of teachers, certain capital equipment, text books, supervisory assistance, and allowances for migrants studying certain courses, and will give incentives to industry to assist in the educational programme. [More…]
The importance of education in the English language to the migrant - adult and child - has been stressed by responsible authorities and migrant organisations ever since the commencement of the scheme, and particularly in more recent years. [More…]
Firstly, having in mind the Government’s sustained drive for migrants, has this aspect of migration been neglected, or at least, has the Department not been insistent enough in the priority that should be given to migrant education? [More…]
For instance, on the question of adult, education under these proposals, the casual migrant, as I shall call him, must be prepared to spend 5 hours a day for 6 weeks in the partly accelerated course at his own expense or 2 hours a week for a period of 18 months a,t a night school course if he desires to learn the language. [More…]
When all is said and done, no matter what a person’s educational capacity may be, it is essential that he learn the language of his adopted country. [More…]
Many thousands of migrants have neglected to do this for many and varied reasons, lt has yet to be proved whether the incentive and the expansion of the educational programme as outlined will encourage them to do so. [More…]
Today, for a number of reasons, migrants discontinue their classes and their education in the English language. [More…]
Comparatively recently two excellent surveys were conducted, one by the Department of Immigration in Canberra and the other by the New South Wales Department of Education, on the question of migrant education and the education of migrant children. [More…]
For instance, the report of the survey conducted by the New South Wales Department of Education in 1968-69 stated: [More…]
The report of the survey conducted by the New South Wales Department of Education in 1968-69 on the question of education of migrant children also stated: [More…]
One could quote at great length, from the report of the survey, which was an excellent one, because there are pages which deal with the problems facing these children and the problems which the Department of Education in New South Wales faces in providing education for these children. [More…]
It has certainly taken the Government a long time to realise how unfair it is to teachers, children and State authorities to bring non-English speaking migrants into the country in thousands and leave the full responsibility for their education at every level to State governments and independent schools. [More…]
The need has been there for a long time and, very belatedly, the Government has evidently realised its responsibility but still baulks at the capital expenditure and at making more extensive grants to the authorities for educational purposes. [More…]
increased education costs to the States because of the influx of migrant children has given rise in many quarters to the question whether our migration programme should be curtailed. [More…]
These remarks, critical though they may be, are offered constructively in the hope that the Opposition’s views will result in improving the approach of the Government, both financially and practically, in the important field of migrant education. [More…]
So important is language that 1 submit to the Government that migrant education should be encouraged by a wider range of activities in language and citizenship instruction, as appears to have been clone in Canada. [More…]
For instance, in Canada classes for language instruction and courses in civic affairs have mushroomed and are conducted under various auspices, such as provincial departments of education, local school boards, service clubs, churches, welfare agencies, universities and ethnic groups. [More…]
Some offer education by trained teaching personnel. [More…]
A national campaign seeking the co-operation of voluntary organisations, industries, clubs, progress associations, churches and other sections of the community would be a forward step in the education of migrants. [More…]
This is quite different from the days when practically all migrants travelled by ship and an education officer gave them instruction in the English language. [More…]
This is undoubtedly one of the major weaknesses of the scheme, lt is in line with Government thinking on education generally, in that it fails to take into consideration the overcrowding and in many cases the non-existence of classrooms. [More…]
Every education authority in the nation is clamouring for money for capital expenditure on buildings. [More…]
Where are the educational classes proposed in this Bill to be assembled? [More…]
Only a small percentage will be spent on the education of migrants, yet this is generally accepted as the most important factor in their assimilation. [More…]
As I have already indicated, I believe it is correct to say that while the legislation proposes an expansion of the present limited programme in the field of migrant education there are many gaps still to be plugged, as suggested by the amendment that 1 have moved. [More…]
I have referred somewhat briefly to 2 major considerations in the migrant education problem. [More…]
It gives the child the opportunity in the right atmosphere to learn the means of communication and fulfil his educational desires according to his capacity as times goes on. [More…]
It is appropriate to refer to the excellent report concerning the survey undertaken by the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]
Those with limited educational ability lack an incentive and they are incapable of finding time to attend classes. [More…]
Whilst not criticising the objectives and the principles prompting the legislation on the education of migrants, I believe that there are still gaps through which countless thousands of migrants will escape the opportunity to learn English and participate in our community, economic and social life. [More…]
It is an endeavour to offer a constructive approach to improving the education of adult and child migrants and to relieving the States of some of the responsibility for a national programme of immigration. [More…]
We should accept our financial responsibility for education, housing and other matters. [More…]
I offer this amendment as a constructive approach to improve the child and adult education of migrants brought to Australia in a scheme commenced 25 years ago which has always had the sympathy and support of honourable members on all sides of this Parliament. [More…]
I hope the Minister will see fit to accept the amendment because I believe it will make a major contribution towards overcoming the difficulties in the education of migrants that I have mentioned during the course of my speech tonight. [More…]
The first of those conferences dealt substantially with the problems of migrants as seen by various workers in the field of immigrant education and interest in the community. [More…]
I find it a little interesting that the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly) in the new atmosphere produced by the second conference and just before and after it by newspaper and other comment relating thereto, has now discovered that the Government, if I read him aright, has done too little too late in the field of migrant education. [More…]
It is a very considerable operation to find out how, why and where we can best conduct the education of people not specifically brought up in the same means of communication as ourselves. [More…]
As the Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch) mentioned in his second reading speech there are 2 or 3 major aspects of this educational programme. [More…]
There are the question of educating migrant children, the question of the extension and improvement of adult education in one or more parts of the world, and the question of an intensive language course for migrants better versed in some skill or other who possibly are already acquainted with the rudiments of the English language and are better able to comprehend an intensive course than are others. [More…]
So there would appear to be immediately a prima facie case for very considerable child education in the English language for migrant children. [More…]
To overcome this problem the Government has identified several specific activities which it intends to implement through the Department and education departments in the States to improve the situation. [More…]
The joint Commonwealth-New South Wales Education Department survey which was conducted a short while ago showed that of the 7,700 migrant children surveyed English was spoken at home ali or most of the time in only 15 per cent of the households. [More…]
It seems to me that the greater problem is the one which concerns adult education. [More…]
Although approximately one-third of foreign born migrants cannot in any effective way speak English when they get here, the intake in recent years in adult evening education classes conducted, to take one or two examples, has been quite considerably less than the number of current arrivals. [More…]
The review and extension of adult education which is envisaged takes place in several areas - at source, in Europe or elsewhere, and on shipboard, if it is shipboard, and in Australia. [More…]
I have taken the trouble to talk to a small number of people who have been involved in the adult education programme. [More…]
It is hard to go along with the honourable member for Grayndler who wants to provide holus bolus, as it were, classrooms, because surely this will detract from trie education need which he has identified already. [More…]
We need to bear in mind that one of the biggest problems of capitalisation in the education field is that classrooms, whether they be university, technical college, secondary school or primary school classrooms, are not on the whole very greatly utilised. [More…]
It seems to me that when we are talking about school classrooms being used for adult migrant education, whether or not we involve also the question of special equipment for laboratory type situations and so on, it should be possible to use existing facilities at different hours than generally those facilities get their normal use without however detracting from expenditure in other normal areas of education, or, alternatively, incurring a larger additional capital expenditure for this purpose. [More…]
For instance - and I hope that my figures are up lo date - a class maximum in the adult migrant education programme is regarded as 24. [More…]
I wonder whether the figure for adult education in this respect might not stand a reduction given special consideration of the very considerable difficulties under which some of the people in these classes are working. [More…]
It is a difficult question and I think that it may be answerable only by those people who are engaged in the field of migrant education. [More…]
They are therefore likely to very much repay the money spent on this avenue of migrant education. [More…]
I feel, without I hope undue sanguineness of mind at this stage, that the programme involving this $16m or so to be spent in 4 years in several avenues of migrant education in language is well devised, even if not as comprehensive as some people would want, to improve the situation as we currently find it. [More…]
The honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly) indicated that the migrant education programme commenced in 1947 after about 1,000 migrants had come here. [More…]
Nevertheless, I believe it is safe to say that in the field of formal education the Commonwealth has been recreant to its responsibility to ensure that adequate facilities are available. [More…]
Without the fulfilment of these obligations by the Commonwealth Government, the States will always suffer from an inadequacy of funds necessary to meet both the general needs of education and the particular finesse and expertise and special resources required for the education of migrant children. [More…]
Some went because of inadequate housing, deficiencies in the health scheme and all kinds of things, but many must have gone because of the deficiencies of the education system and our failure to convey an understanding of the English language to them. [More…]
I was also interested in the remarks of Olive Nichols, District Inspector of Schools in the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]
Se pointed out that mildly intellectually handicapped children number some 30,000 but the next category of special needs in this country so far as education is concerned involves the 16,452 migrant children in New South Wales and a similar proportion of the school population in other States who have language problems. [More…]
need a comprehensive programme of migrant education. [More…]
There is already some speculation around the lobbies that the subject matter of this Bill, the migrant education programme, might become one of the first casualties of the Government’s antiinflationary measures. [More…]
In the United States there are 5.201 radio stations and many of them devote their programmes to education purposes and to migrant education purposes. [More…]
This is the only real obstacle to migrant education that we have in this country. [More…]
What is there against making available special radio facilities to assist with the education of migrant children and adult migrants? [More…]
If the migrants are to be located in our great cities such as Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong, in view of the shortage of teachers and the inability of this Government to provide the buildings and capital equipment which are so essential in migrant education, there is no reason at all why further radio stations and television channels should not be made available for this programme. [More…]
Our rich intake of quality justifies strong support for the migrant education programme. [More…]
Although I am impressed with the fact that after this long period which has elapsed since the introduction of the migrant education programme and the fact that it has languished for such a long time we are now starting to do something about it but I believe that what is proposed is insufficient. [More…]
I particularly commend the proposition that we should invoke new techniques and use the mass media by way of radio and television facilities to give the migrants the educational opportunities which they so desperately deserve. [More…]
belief, tribal association or trade union affiliation; and to education and training. [More…]
The Government is also establishing a Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education which will examine the steps to be taken to achieve balanced growth of enrolments in tertiary and vocational training institutions in keeping wilh the availability of school leavers and the projected demands for trained manpower. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
About 12 months ago the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Snedden), who was acting for the Minister for Immigration, tabled in this House a piece of legislation to cover migrant education. [More…]
Clause 3 of the Bill indicates that capital equipment of an educational nature will be (Education) Bill 171 [More…]
In the first place I understand from the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby) that he is querying the general procedure whereby grants are allocated against the various educational systems in Australia. [More…]
If that be the precise meaning of the query which he has raised I respond by saying this: My Department receives submissions from State Ministers for Education in regard to matters concerning State educational systems. [More…]
The development of the child migration education programme in particular was a new Commonwealth interest involving considerable expenditure of Commonwealth funds and therefore was most properly a matter which ought to be in the form of a Bill to come before the Parliament. [More…]
It is for this reason that the migrant education programme is welcomed as it will enable schools with large migrant intakes better to provide intensive instruction in English by teachers with special skills. [More…]
1 carried out a survey of a number of government and independent schools in my electorate and all welcomed these new proposals in the Immigration (Education) Bill 1970. [More…]
This may be because the migrant who is dissatisfied with life in his own country and has the initiative to travel halfway round the world to a new country has the drive and intelligence to appreciate the need for higher education. [More…]
1 am sure that the proposition which I should like to put forward is not novel, but basically there are 4 causes of difficulty for migrant children: Firstly, the question of education in a foreign language; secondly, the question of education in an alien culture; thirdly, the low income of the parents in many cases; and, fourthly, the concentration of migrants in relatively depressed urban areas with their depressed schools. [More…]
In passing I should like to make the point to the Minister that when we speak about migrant education we are trying to deal with the special problems arising out of migrant education and we must not forget that about half of the migrant children are, in fact, English-speaking children, but they still put a terrific amount of pressure on our Stale education systems and on our private education systems. [More…]
Even though they are English-speaking, nonetheless they make up large numbers, and from that point of view I should hope that now that the Minister has shown that money can be given by the Commonwealth Government to the education systems for specific purposes he will continue to do so and supply extra money. [More…]
We have to assist them to gain an education and to understand though not necessarily believe Australian values and customs. [More…]
This requires an understanding by us and by the education departments of their traditions, beliefs, values, attitudes and expectations. [More…]
The short title - Immigration (Education) Act 1970 - indicates that the source of power for the Bill derives from the immigration provision in the Constitution. [More…]
The fact that we have increased our population bv immigration by a huge number of people has put terrific pressure on other areas of government and not just on education. [More…]
of clause 4 reference is made to citizenship education. [More…]
Earlier in this session the question of so-called citizenship education was raised by one of my colleagues - I cannot recall who it was - with reference to the Army. [More…]
I hope we do not finish up with the type of citizenship education whereby only one point of view is put to people. [More…]
I am not suggesting that this will happen because 1 assume thai the people who will be in charge of this education will be people who are normally attached to our education departments rather than Army officers who are selected to put forward the point of view of this Government rather than the point of view of many of its critics. [More…]
When we are talking about citizenship education in the context of migrant education one of the points that should be considered at least is the question of instructing Australian children in the same schools and certainly in schools in areas where a large proportion of the migrant children come from one country, be it Italy, Greece or Turkey. [More…]
What should happen is not that an ordinary teacher in an education department should be classed as a special teacher for this purpose but that an extra teacher should be provided for these migrants. [More…]
It is wrong to sort the migrant child into some stream which will determine his or her later educational expectation on the basis of some test which is given soon after the arrival of that child in this country.IQ tests, aptitude tests and so on will give completely wrong readings in the case of the child who has arrived in Australia only recently. [More…]
I hope that the Department of Immigration will strive to discourage State education departments from screening children with a migrant background too soon after their arrival in Australia. [More…]
this House condemns the Government for the delay in providing a comprehensive programme of migration education, adequate finance facilities and capital equipment, including buildings. [More…]
I think that it is reasonable to defend the Government and to say that, after all, this whole question of education is and has been traditionally and constitutionally a State responsibility as is the sponsorship of migrants. [More…]
It is interesting to note that 30 points are alloted to a migrant who has an education and that another 10 are allotted to someone who is fluent in French and English. [More…]
It refers to the report of the Vernon Committee of Economic Inquiry in 1965 and draws attention to the matter of education. [More…]
This whole question of the education of the children of migrants is a very important one and it is very interesting to note the number of honourable members who have offered to speak on the subject because it takes their attention. [More…]
Having spoken to the principals and teachers of schools in my electorate my experience is that the percentage of native born children in Australia who are receiving a very good education in the English language is not very high. [More…]
It provides for an adult programme, a child education programme and an intensive course programme. [More…]
The assistance to be given in both teacher training and capital equipment such as language laboratories should help greatly in the education and assimilation of migrant children. [More…]
I am pleased, however, to !earn that migrant education and welfare will not be restricted for financial reasons. [More…]
We have the secondary school child who has even more difficulties because he comes into a higher category of education, where there is far more competition, with a basic defect of not being able to understand the English language. [More…]
He might have had a tertiary education in his home land; he might be a tradesman or professional type. [More…]
Or he might be a person who might not have had the great benefit of a higher education in his home land but nevertheless needs the essential opportunity of learning to speak English here. [More…]
They are splendid types of citizens who have not had a higher or secondary school education in the country from which they have come. [More…]
So let us have a look at the whole problem and place emphasis on migrant education. [More…]
We understand the education system and our children at least will have the same opportunity as any other child and nol be put in a secondary position where there is no opportunity. [More…]
That whilst not refusing to give the Bill a second reading this House condemns the Government for the delay in providing a comprehensive programme of migrant education, adequate finance, facilities and capital equipment including buildings. [More…]
There is no doubt of that, for in his pamphlet, Education for Adult Migrants’, Professor W. F. Connel says that it appears that the language programme is steadily slipping backwards. [More…]
For example, the Federal Department of Education and Science, which is administering Commonwealth grants for the Department of Immigration, is insisting that teaching follow the situational method which is taught to adult migrants in its classes for children. [More…]
While it may not be disturbing that the situation method should be used to instruct adults who are already well educated before coming here, that the Department should think highly enough of this method to thrust it on migrants of little education is frightening. [More…]
These 2 groups have 1 thing in common - a lack of education. [More…]
Some people might say that they have 2 things in common - a lack of education and a lack of opportunity. [More…]
In lacking education they suffer a lack of knowledge and understanding of their own cultural heritage and in the long run this particular lack is more unfortunate for them than their inability to speak our tongue, for implicit in a lack of understanding of their own culture is a lack of facility in their own tongue, and this is disastrous, because, as everybody knows, language is more than words. [More…]
Does the bird, or the person of limited education who is taught words by the situation method, grasp the differences of meaning that depend upon particular contexts? [More…]
Somewhere in his writings Galbraith tells us that despite the vanity of educators it is not they but industry that shapes the lines of development of an education system. [More…]
I he present adult migrant education programme concentrates on language teaching. [More…]
The cost of 100 contact social workers if employed by the Department of Education and Science would be approximately $500,000 annually. [More…]
If an expanded programme for English instruction for larger numbers of migrants is to be put into operation, a large increase in expenditure will be necessary, An appropriation of $990,000 was made for the education of migrants in the 1969-70 financial year. [More…]
This figure has proved totally inadequate, and an additional expenditure above this figure of $1m would need to be considered for an effective education programme. [More…]
Australia should not be party to discriminatory treatment in favour of those who have already received a better education in their home country. [More…]
This was to be the total grant spread over 3 years and took no account of the educational assistance required by adult migrants. [More…]
Any worthwhile programme qf migrant education would cost in the vicinity of $4m annually. [More…]
The Bill provides for expenditure on migrant education in both State and private schools. [More…]
Also, it provides for adult education. [More…]
The State education departments have been directed already to cut down their programmes for the next financial year. [More…]
in 4 years, an education department cannot construct even one permanent technical school building in an area of great need. [More…]
The success or Otherwise of this Bill will depend on the level to which State education departments are prepared and are able to co-operate. [More…]
Rightly or wrongly the State governments feel that a far greater expenditure should have been forthcoming from the Commonwealth Government over an extended period on education, housing and other social activites connected with the establishment of migrants here. [More…]
Now, the migrant child of school age quite obviously is at a very distinct disadvantage on arrival in Australia and any new facilities that will give that child a better chance to proceed at a normal rate in the early periods of its education after arrival here will be welcome. [More…]
The migrant child of secondary school age has an almost impossible task because that child lacks the cultural and historical background to cope with our education system. [More…]
J wish to deal now with another area covered in the Bill, adult migrant education. [More…]
The Bill provides also - apparently separately - for adult education. [More…]
With respect to laboratory type equipment especially, I believe that this equipment should be supplied to independent or state schools on the basis that it will be made available for use in adult education courses outside normal school hours. [More…]
I would think that in most of the larger towns outside the metropolitan area high schools or primary schools - in the case of adults most likely it would be high schools - would be as central and as useful as anywhere else in a community as places at which to provide adult education courses. [More…]
In the inner metropolitan areas where high rise flats and such like are developing, I hope that the educational standard of migrant children will be raised to a level where opportunities to obtain Commonwealth scholarships, etc., later in their education will be available. [More…]
These are matters on which I think migrants should receive some pre-education or preinstruction. [More…]
I believe that the tone of our amendment is correct in that it deplores the fact that it has taken all these years for the Government to do something about migration education. [More…]
It is the responsibility of nobody else, lt is not good enough for the Minister to pour literally tens of thousands of migrants into Victoria, let them try to survive under the tender mercies of the Bolte Government and then say that it is a State matter to supply education and hospitals and to build the roads. [More…]
The Commonwealth ought to have long since accepted a more direct responsibility, particularly as far as education is concerned. [More…]
There are a few other similar suburbs in Melbourne of which perhaps Prahran, Richmond and Northcote may well be some, but Brunswick is the one that is the most hard pressed as far as education is concerned. [More…]
1 walked in one morning as school was starting and said to the Headmaster: ‘Well, they have got a migrant education Bill on the stocks at our place. [More…]
When the teacher faces the class he might even have been taught French at some time - irrelevant as it might be in the Australian education system - but how does he handle the Turks, the Greeks and the Albanians? [More…]
When [ raised this matter last week with all the appropriate Ministers, both State and Federal, the Victorian Minister for Education, Mr Thompson, let me have some figures which show that Brunswick primary school will have 2, Brunswick East1, Brunswick North 3, Brunswick South 2, Brunswick South West 1, and Brunswick West 1. [More…]
Apart from any other consideration it is a very deprived area educationally, anyhow. [More…]
I believe that these are special cases and that the Commonwealth must step into the area of migrant education in this way. [More…]
Mr Speaker, earlierI was discussing the Immigration (Education) Bill and the Opposition’s proposal that the Government should have made provision for capital works. [More…]
I approached the Minister of Education in Victoria about this matter to find out what had happened. [More…]
A handful of teachers has already started in the schools but according to the Minister of Education in Victoria as far as that State is concerned the Department has purchased equipment costing about $53,000 to be used exclusively for the teaching of English and that no further finance is at present available but a request has been made to the Commonwealth for a supplementary grant for further purchases. [More…]
I want to say at the outset that the new provisions for migrant education are long overdue and most welcome. [More…]
At the same time other factors in the education of children should be taken into account. [More…]
It is impossible in our country in the 1970s to achieve the degree of education which is necessary for progress in our society unless there is the stimulus to learn at home. [More…]
We have to do more than just look at the children’s education in the schools. [More…]
The problems of the children of migrants and the education of migrants are bound up with the demographic distribution of population in our community It is quite incredible that the demographic centre of Australia has not changed since the census of 1911. [More…]
This legislation is in fact proposed because of the basic importance of education to successful migrant integration. [More…]
It relates to new initiatives in the area of adult migrant education, to the greater provision of fulltime intensive courses of instruction, and to the area of child migrant education. [More…]
The Opposition has charged that there has been an inordinate delay by the Government in introducing a comprehensive programme of migrant education. [More…]
The amendment ignores the substantial measures taken since the early days of post war immigration by this Government and by the government before it to develop a comprehensive programme of migrant education. [More…]
It was in 1947 when at the initiative of the then Minister for Immigration, the now Right Honourable Arthur Calwell, agreement was reached between the Commonwealth Government and the Preparatory Commission of the International Refugee Organisation on a scheme for the admission of refugees and displaced persons from Europe that the first action was taken to formulate a migration education programme which involved at that time both the teaching of English and an appreciation of Australian life. [More…]
It was in 1947 that the first migrant education officers were appointed in overseas countries, a shipboard education programme was introduced and the groundwork was laid for what has since become an extensive programme of continuation classes, radio and correspondence courses to reach the adult migrant community in Australia. [More…]
The Department of Immigration again took the initiative in 1962 in conducting a survey of ‘Abandonment from Migrant Education Classes in Victoria’. [More…]
In late 1967 and early 1968 the Department initiated the planning of a major survey of the educational needs of both adult and child migrants, and this led to the report on the situation of migrant children in schools in New South Wales which has provided such an important basis for the new initiatives for child migrant education. [More…]
Inevitably, however, the Government has been obliged to concentrate its efforts on the adult migrant education programme, it being generally accepted that the responsibility for migrant children in schools was that of the State Education Departments. [More…]
What I am therefore saying to the House is that migrant education in Australia has just not commenced with the inception of the Bill before the House; that there is a long history of development; and that this Bill is in fact the culmination of many efforts which have been made in past years. [More…]
Expenditure this year on migrant education represents an increase of 166 per cent over the funds available last financial year and that, I am sure, will be seen on either side of the House as a measure of very considerable progress indeed. [More…]
To this stage the Government has not been able to accept the proposition that buildings and classrooms in particular should be a charge on the migrant education vote, and there are reasons for this which I shall deal with shortly. [More…]
The Government maintains that funds for classrooms are not a proper charge to the migrant education vote for a number of reasons. [More…]
Finally, I might mention that the migrant education programme provides financial assistance in establishing central language laboratories to which children are brought from surrounding schools, thus avoiding the additional classroom demands created by what is called the withdrawal class system. [More…]
Having said this, I can nevertheless appreciate what has been brought forward by those honourable members who have raised this point in a specific sense, and I can assure the House that the Government will continue to look closely at any and every aspect of the migrant education programme, particularly those aspects of the programme which may appear to be inhibiting its development, and certainly in any future review of policy the possibility of providing financial assistance in other areas will be kept under close consideration. [More…]
The rate at which the child migrant education programme has developed since it was announced in April of last year has in fact exceeded expectations. [More…]
At the end of the 1970 school year a total of 310 teachers were already employed by State Education Departments and by independent schools. [More…]
One of the conditions under which the child migrant education programme operates is that preferably the special teachers should be additional to the normal teaching establishments so that the drain on normal teaching establishments will be avoided and, in the main, this has certainly been the pattern of developments to date. [More…]
The honourable member for Grayndler also queried the extent to which there had been a response from industry in supporting the concept of the migrant education programme. [More…]
Classes at the work site have been part of the normal continuation programme for migrant education in the Australian community. [More…]
I believe that the education of migrant workers in both language and citizenship should be a normal part of the personnelmanagement practice of all major employers of migrant labour and I would certainly hope, andI indicate to the House my own expectation, that it will not be long before this can be referred to as a reality. [More…]
The honourable member for Batman (Mr Garrick) referred particularly to the needs of adolescent migrants and the older migrants confined to their homes - both groups lacking formal education - and he indicated that he believed that the situational method of teaching English was ill-suited to the needs of these particular groups. [More…]
This question has been referred to my colleague the Minister for Education and Science for reply on activities in the civilian sector. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Does his announcement that the Commonwealth intends to set up a teaching service for the Northern Territory mean that there will also be an Education Department along the lines of a State Education Department for the Northern Territory. [More…]
(2)If so, will this be a branch of the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
Did his predecessor state that a separate education authority for the Australian Capital Territory is inevitable; if so, is it intended that his Department will also administer this authority. [More…]
While it is true that the decision to create a Commonwealth Teaching Service arose from the South Australian decision to withdraw its teachers over a period of five years from community schools in the Northern Territory, its creation of itself does not have any effect on the administrative responsibilities in respect of education in the Northern Territory or in other Commonwealth Territories. [More…]
I am not in a position to say whether the administration will be conducted by a Government department or by a statutory education authority. [More…]
What was the (a) number and (b) aggregate value in each group of Canberra Scholarships for undergraduate education awarded each year since 1958-59 to (i) male and (ii) female pupils in (A) government and (B) non-government schools in the Australian Capital Territory and (C) government and (D) non-government schools outside the Territory. [More…]
ls it a fact that while parents can claim tax deductions for the education expenses of full-time students under 21 years of age, no claim at all can be made by a student who must pay his own way through university, even if he is under 21 and studies full-time. [More…]
Accordingly, as the law now stands, the question whether education expenses incurred by a taxpayer on his own education are allowable tax deductions has to be determined on the particular facts of each case. [More…]
The question of amending the law to allow all taxpayers a deduction for their own education expenses regardless of the purpose for which they are incurred will be kept under review. [More…]
The question of increasing the maximum deduction for education expenses was considered when the 1970-71 Budget was in preparation but in the light of the budgetary position the Government did not feel able to propose the increase. [More…]
and (2) Within the grants to the States for education projects, a sum of $17,000 was allocated in the 1969-70 financial year for school libraries at the following centres in Queensland: [More…]
How many applications were rejected (a) on the grounds of education and (b) for medical reasons. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of education allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Fees for university and other forms of tertiary education have again risen with Commonwealth connivance. [More…]
The total expenditure in Victoria in the same 5 years in education at all levels - public, private, primary, secondary and tertiary - was less than that sum. [More…]
We have to strike a balance between the money going into education and the money going into private endeavour. [More…]
The costs of providing education, health services and public utilities are increased. [More…]
It is not too much for education. [More…]
There must be no cut in education, but there has been a cut in education because it has not kept up with the rate of inflation. [More…]
In no other way can the crisis in education be solved. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party is a Party which has a habit - perhaps a policy - of promising everything to everyone; more for education; more for local government; more for conservation; more for urban renewal; more for the pensioners and at the same time it would double the number of pensioners by the abolition of the means test. [More…]
He will cause kids to go back to school with less finance to provide for their further education, if they are fortunate enough to be able to avail themselves of it, or to walk the streets or go onto meagre unemployment benefit from the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
We need new and urgent attention given to higher business management education and we need the encouragement of competition, internal and external. [More…]
Children are being dented the opportunities of a decent education. [More…]
Poverty is increasing to the degree that many dairy farmers are being forced to work their families under conditions of slave labour and children are being denied the opportunities of decent education. [More…]
Clearly, the needs of the cities, education, health and welfare will suffer through these programmes. [More…]
Education as a whole is in low gear. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education service which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education service which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education and Science aware of a report that Sydney’s 3 universities have refused admission to more than 5,000 qualified applicants? [More…]
He may, of course, apply to the Australian National University or be attracted to one of the excellent tertiary courses at the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
-I remind the honourable gentleman that this aspect of education is almost entirely under the control of the State education departments; so these matters have not been brought to my attention. [More…]
Perhaps he could take the matter up with State education authorities, lt is not a matter that we have under our consideration. [More…]
The -proposed work is the provision of living accommodation, teaching Facilities, recreation facilities and associated amenities and’ services to accommodate 300 male and female students preparing for a secondary education or undertaking postprimary courses. [More…]
The pleasing part of this proposal, or the principles underlying it, is that Aboriginal students will be given the opportunity to do post-primary and secondary education in various disciplines. [More…]
On one occasion when the Public Works Committee was meeting in Alice Springs to look at the secondary education needs of that area a witness was asked what area the proposed Alice Springs high school covered. [More…]
One can imagine in that region the number of Aboriginal people who are denied any education at all due to the inadequacy of facilities. [More…]
Anyone who goes to Darwin must be overwhelmingly impressed with the standard of educational facilities in that rapidly expanding’ city. [More…]
However, from my observations the most distressingly inadequate educational facility in Darwin is the Kormilda College for Aboriginal students. [More…]
Most of us in this Parliament are aware of the inadequate educational opportunities for Aboriginals in Australia. [More…]
When we think of the low number of Aboriginal people who qualify at the tertiary level of education we can appreciate the enormous need to assail this problem in a dramatic way and in this way we will need to have, apart from the building of the college at Alice Springs, better facilities and resources to enable the Aboriginal people to keep in touch with their own communities. [More…]
It is a matter of assisting them to unburden themselves of their ignorance through formal education; it is also a matter of encouraging them to consolidate the pride which they have in their racial origins. [More…]
I hope it will not be very long before the proposed educational facility for Aboriginal students at Alice Springs will become a reality. [More…]
One example is water conservation and another is education. [More…]
To my mind, this sort of thing is rather serious particularly when we find the Government today apparently regarding it as quite a bright move in the current circumstances for what are called economic reasons not to employ 2,500 skilled people representing the cream of the people coming out of our institutions at which higher levels of education are provided. [More…]
Did the Austraiian Broadcasting Commission’s correspondent in Saigon report late last week that all military civic action projects in Phuoc Tuy province were to be completed as soon as possible and all work in the fields of medicine, education and social services were to be stopped because the Vietnamese people are now capable of helping themselves; but that special large scale projects under the Australian Government’s direct programme of economic aid would not be affected? [More…]
The report did suggest that all the health, education and welfare activities were to be phased out as soon as possible. [More…]
I can envisage that the statement by itself will incite young Australian children to have a go at marihuana at a time when the Government is spending $500,000 on a national education campaign to try to dissuade young children from taking marihuana. [More…]
A kind of jury, albeit with better than average education, seems best fitted to make a continuing assessment of what is generally in the public interest. [More…]
In summary it appears that all groups of sexual deviates, no matter what their ages, education or occupations, share one common charasteric: They had little exposure to erotica when they were adolescents. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of Stale education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the Slates for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the Slates for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
In formulating these texts, the Department of Immigration had the advice of the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Attorney-General’s, Treasury, Labour and National Service, Social Services, Health, Education and Science and Civil Aviation. [More…]
The Commonwealth has the luxury .of being able to choose freely what it can and cannot do in respect of ‘ what are essential projects, looked at on a national scale, but the States find increasingly that their revenues, both ordinary and loan funds, are taken up more and more in providing essential services like education, health, upkeep of roads, public transport, social welfare and so forth. [More…]
The Productivity Promotion Council has branch committees in 4 States and standing advisory panels on education, on manpower and on management. [More…]
The Council has already embarked on an extensive programme of education. [More…]
The technical educationalists could be mentioned together with the universities and the Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]
1 would like to deal first with those items in the statement under the heading ‘Commonwealth Scholarships Schemes of the Department of Education and Science’. [More…]
I have written to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) asking for specific details of the number of Commonwealth secondary school scholarships granted to students in the western areas of the metropolitan district of Sydney, as well as the number of Commonwealth university scholarships issued. [More…]
It will be very interesting to see the statistics that finally come to me from the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Department of Education and Science Commonwealth Scholarships Schemes’. [More…]
They have been expended on Commonwealth scholarships for both secondary and tertiary education. [More…]
I am pleased to note that the Commonwealth is not dealing with the expenditure in the same manner as the New South Wales Education Department did, when it apparently allocated funds for the recent State election campaign for political broadcasts on television. [More…]
I would like to refer to page 9 relating to the Department of Education and Science and to the allocation of an amount of Si 4,339 for pre-school education and training. [More…]
I must compliment the Government upon the standards of pre-school education which obtain in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I ask the Treasurer whether it also involves any necessary research or inquiry into extending the system of pre-school education which obtains in the Australian Capital Territory to the rest of Australia. [More…]
I should like to ask this question of the Treasurer: Are these funds being used solely for the pre-school education system in the Australian Capital Territory or do they include some provision for research, inquiry and organisation whereby this magnificent system can be expanded throughout Australia so that other people, such as those who reside in my electorate, can also enjoy it? [More…]
She has a junior girl at work who cut short her education, because of the tragic death of her father. [More…]
But the fact is that he cut his education short because of what had occurred. [More…]
The other matter 1 wish to deal with concerns a letter which I directed to the Minister for Social Services pointing out that the Act made no provision, as to sickness and unemployment benefits, for a fellow who was unfortunate enough to suffer an accident in his home - a private accident if I may use that term - and who had a child over 16 receiving education. [More…]
What I want to do in the remainder of the time allotted to me is to condemn the Government for being so lacking in proper understanding and for not recognising that there is no provision for children over 16 receiving education. [More…]
In a case in which a person is rendered unfit for work for a considerable time, embracing the greater part of a school year, the education of the child goes to the wall. [More…]
Was he not prepared to look at my letter in the light of the effect this would have on such a child’s life when his parents, through no fault of his, were unable to continue with his education? [More…]
As far as I oan see there will be no discussion this session on education or on the subject of road safety, which is very dear to my heart. [More…]
Surely a national education campaign against the evils of taking marihuana and other narcotic drugs must be the logical conclusion. [More…]
As a result of my concern about that, I, in company with my colleague the Minister for Health (Dr Forbes), have appointed a very distinguished Australian Sir William Kilpatrick toact as chairman of the national education sub-committee on drugs. [More…]
Requests the administering Power to intensify and accelerate the education and technical and administrative training of the indigenous peoples of the Territories and the localisation of the public service; [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
It was also said that all work in the fields of medicine, education and social services is to be stopped. [More…]
Such work includes water supplies for villages; construction of classrooms; electrification of hamlets; construction and improvement of hospitals; the building of 500 houses for regional force soldiers and their dependants; miles of road construction; medical assistance; and education, agricultural and social welfare work in many different areas of the province. [More…]
but with the extension of the school leaving age it is not impossible for two or more children over 16 years of age in one family to be receiving full-time education, yet if sickness overtakes that family such students are not taken into account in determining the amount of benefit the family should receive. [More…]
I commend the Government’s action in extending long term sickness benefits as in the case of the invalid pension, but I emphasise that children over 16 years of age who are receiving a full-time education are not recognised as dependants by the Department of Social Services. [More…]
These are held in Sydney by the New South Wales Education Department which is unable to devote the resources needed to obtain the information. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
So far as the Australian end of the operation is concerned, again a number of special measures have been undertaken which include special language training facilities to assist Turkish migrants to understand and acquire a knowledge of the language, citizenship education courses and an increased number of Turkish speaking welfare officers. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education and Science aware that in 1969 Dr Price, the then new Chairman of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, said that the Organisation would broaden its work in preventing pollution from damaging the quality of life? [More…]
It is passible to value the loss of fixed assets in homes and furniture, but not the intangibles such as the inconvenience caused, the loss of man hours in so many directions and the effect on education when children are not able to attend school. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
1 am in continual consultation with the Australian Universities Commission on matters related to university education. [More…]
What has been the outcome of the consultations between his Department and the Department of Education and Science on Professor W. F. Connell’s proposals in his paper ‘Education for Adult Migrants’ (Hansard 5th May 1970, page 1646). [More…]
The consultations to which 1 referred in my reply to the earlier question by the Honourable Member (Hansard 5th May 1970, page 1646) related to 2 matters - first, vocational education and second, the question of allowances being paid to migrant students attending part-time accelerated courses (or, as Professor Connell referred to them, semi-intensive courses). [More…]
Already part-time accelerated courses have been established in the Westbridge, East Hills and Cabramatta hostels, in the State Migrant Education Centres in Melbourne and Sydney, and at Wollongong and Geelong, catering in all for some 1,200 migrant students. [More…]
These involve however areas of policy in addition to migrant education (for example, the results of the Tregillis Mission on overseas training and the work of the Committee on Overseas Professional Qualifications) and the studies involved must the refine be seen as essentially a long term project [More…]
For example, the National Library, Archives, Commonwealth Literary Fund, the Art Advisory Board, National Gallery, the Council of Performing Arts and the National Radiation Advisory Committee could go to the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the Stales for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the. [More…]
needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education’. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the Slates for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
-In March 1969 the 6 State Ministers for Education and the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) agreed to conduct a nationwide survey of educational needs. [More…]
It was 7th November when Mr Askin finally wrote to the Catholic Education Office, the Association of Headmistresses of Independent Schools and the Headmasters’ Conference of Independent Schools. [More…]
On 25th May 1970 the Ministers for Education received the report on the needs of government schools and on 1st December they released a censored, bowdlerised version of that report. [More…]
When the survey is completed the States and ourselves will discuss the assistance we should each provide to promote the further development of education in all schools. [More…]
You will appreciate that before the Commonwealth’s position on the survey can be determined we will have to take into account the reaction of those State Premiers who have not yet replied to Mr Gorton’s letter as well as further details of needs which are being sought from State Ministers for Education and independent schools by the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
At no level of the education system are students properly housed or taught by properly qualified staff. [More…]
Not even Liberals now dispute that there are gross discrepancies in the quality of education, not so much between the public and private sectors as within each sector. [More…]
There is not one aspect of Australian education which would be regarded as satisfactory in any of the countries with which we compare ourselves. [More…]
Virtually all our educational arrangements would be thought deficient in Europe. [More…]
Liberals have had 21 years in which to shape Australian education. [More…]
Pre-school education enhances the value of all later education. [More…]
Liberals make pre-school education available on the basis not of needs or even of means but of geography. [More…]
The chances of any Australian child receiving a pre-school education are determined above all by the State in which he happens to live. [More…]
A recognised pre-school education is denied to all but 2.9 per cent of the eligible children in New South Wales, to all but 7.3 per cent in Queensland, 9.9 per cent in Western Australia, 14.3 per cent in Tasmania, 14.5 per cent in South Australia and 27.1 per cent in Victoria. [More…]
Compare and contrast pre-school education in each and any of those States and in Canberra, where 1 year of pre-school education is available to all children. [More…]
Liberals are so little aware of the importance of pre-school education that they omitted it altogether from the terms of reference for their nation-wide survey of educational needs. [More…]
The Prime Minister and the 4 Liberal Party and 1 Country Party Premiers all have suppressed information on the state of schools gained through the nationwide survey of educational needs. [More…]
Results of the South Australian survey were published on 1st December in the South Australian ‘Education Gazette’. [More…]
They indicate that the State is faced with increases in its annual outlay for education between 1971 and 1975 amounting in the case of teaching staff to $28m, in the case of ancilliary staff to $16.6m, in the case of buildings to $27.8m, in the case of preservice training to $3.6m and for text books to S1.4m. [More…]
Let me further remind the House that the survey made provision neither for pre-school education nor technical education. [More…]
The Victorian Department of Education spends on library books an average of only 40c per child per year - less than 5 per cent of the amount required to maintain proper book stocks. [More…]
Libraries are the key to contemporary education. [More…]
How can we expect schools to provide such education with libraries which are inadequate to the point of irrelevance. [More…]
In the last 10 years the number of pupils in the last 2 years of secondary education has trebled. [More…]
Higher secondary education has been no more a traditional or prominent State activity or preoccupation than preschool or university education has been. [More…]
The rise in expenditure on such levels of education is certain to outpace any growth tax which the Commonwealth might forgo in favour of the States. [More…]
The nationwide survey of educational needs was devised by Liberals to postpone acceptance by the Commonwealth of a continuing commitment to schools. [More…]
It was restricted as an act of Liberal policy to independent self-examinations conducted by the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science, 6 State Departments of Education and 28 non-government school authorities. [More…]
While not detracting from the value of such self-examination, Labor believes that it is no substitute for the establishment of an Australian schools commission, which would conduct a continuing inquiry into all aspects of education, including the goals of pre-school, primary, secondary, technical and special schools. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), in the field of education, can read the statistics which have been handed to him; but when he comes to describe the state of education in Australia as it actually is he indulges in the grossest exaggeration. [More…]
Sometimes we find writers on education who should know better, such as professors of education who have perhaps very little physical experience in the field of primary and secondary education throughout Australia but who make statements based perhaps on the physical state of one or a few schools. [More…]
However, if one extrapolates that across the whole field of education in Australia one is making a very serious mistake. [More…]
It would be equally silly to pick the best classroom or a school that has a surplus of teachers and to say that this is the state of education in Australia. [More…]
Leaving this on one side - it is apparent that what has come from the other side of the House so far has been based on a lack of understanding - and treating the survey as a statement of needs over the years 1971 to 1975, it is a statement of needs primarily in primary and secondary schools in the State education systems. [More…]
Canberra the whole administration, They would like to say what the needs are of a school at Broken Hill, Wilcannia or Rockhampton and not allow the State education department to control this matter. [More…]
They want a commission that would go round dealing with matters currently carried out by the State education departments and centralise these functions with some officials in Canberra. [More…]
What has happened is that the Australian Education Commission commissioned this survey to be undertaken in March 1969. [More…]
It also asked that at the same time, because the education system in Australia is made up of independent and State schools which are educating Australians, that their needs should be looked at. [More…]
The survey was produced on 25th May 1970 and presented to the Ministers for Education. [More…]
The survey disclosed that an amount of about $8,000m was required for primary and secondary education over the 5-year period. [More…]
By a statistical projection the State Ministers for Education calculated that if they received a 10 per cent increase each year on the amount from their colleagues in their own State governments they still would not have enough to completely raise the $8,000m and that there would be a shortfall of approximately $ 1, 400m to which they would look to the Commonwealth for support. [More…]
Instead of a 10 per cent increase which the Ministers for Education had used, the States were, on the renegotiated formula, going to get a 15 per cent increase this year. [More…]
What happened following the Premiers Conference was that the Stales began to bring in their budgets, and certainly New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia allotted to education an increase of more than 10 per cent - more than had been set out in the statistical projection. [More…]
We were not a member of the Australian Education Council which produced the report. [More…]
In the policy speech for the 1969 election a promise was made to co-operate with the States and when that survey is completed - these are the actual words - the States and ourselves will discuss the assistance we should each provide to promote the further development of education in all schools’. [More…]
This is a matter of the State Governments making a decision on the 5- year plan for education and the expenditure of this enormous amount of money. [More…]
The Minister for Health (Dr Forbes) who was Acting Minister for Education and Science on 11th September 1970 wrote to each of the Ministers for Education asking for details of these categories. [More…]
The States together, due to the complexity of planning, of getting their Departments of Public Works on to this, and of getting the labour and materials - matters on which the Ministers for Education in statistical projections cannot be experts - now advise us that they will be able to spend a total in all States of only $4im. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) has, I am sure, shown quite clearly to every parent, to every teacher and to every educator in this country just how out of touch he is with his portfolio. [More…]
That amount of money is required to cover the very urgent needs, the urgent needs and other needs of education at the primary, secondary and teacher education levels. [More…]
As the Leader of the Opposition said, it does not take into account the needs of pre-school education, of the special needs of handicapped children, of technical education or education at any other level. [More…]
That money is required now and it is required for those 3 segments of education I have just mentioned. [More…]
The Minister will know from reading the report, insufficient as it is, that it refers to a backlog of educational deficiencies at every level of education in this country. [More…]
It refers to all those schools, primary and secondary alike, which need assembly halls, libraries and all the other types of equipment which modern education requires. [More…]
Something has to be done to arrest the wastage of teachers from our educational service. [More…]
Then the Prime Minister stalled in 2 ways - by referring it back to the States and by saying: ‘We still have to await a reply from the private sector of education’. [More…]
This dillydallying, shilly-shallying is going on while some other sector of education receives consideration. [More…]
This report was not compiled by some outside body, lt was compiled by the Education Ministers from each of the States and the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science, supported of course by their departmental officers. [More…]
I remind the Minister that the report mentions such terms as ‘very urgent, urgent and other” needs of primary and secondary teacher education. [More…]
As I have said, the report takes no account of preschool education, important as it is. [More…]
It is no wonder that education in Australia probably has never been in such a demoralised state, which is quite different from the impression which the Minister has endeavoured to give to this House. [More…]
Let me quote, in the few minutes remaining to me, what a very celebrated educationist in Australia had to say on this question. [More…]
If God had wanted to create a poverty-stricken shambles with the greatest education inequalities possible in an affluent society, lie would have invented Australia. [More…]
I could refer to other equally eminent educationists in this country who bear testimony to the deficiencies in education. [More…]
The dissatisfaction with education is so widespread that 1 have never seen so many strikes among professional teachers as I have seen in the last year or two. [More…]
This ought to be started well and truly in the early part of a child’s education in primary school. [More…]
Secondly, it refers to revealed deficiencies and, thirdly, it refers to the survey of educational needs. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) already has referred to the survey, but I should like to make one point which many honourable members opposite fail to realise or fail to give due credence to. [More…]
The report on the survey states that the survey was initiated by the State Ministers but it was given full encouragement by the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science who asked that private schools and schools in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory be included. [More…]
The statement in the report of this nationwide survey on educational needs to which I have referred gives the lie to that view. [More…]
The Minister who was acting for the Minister for Education and and Science in September of last year wrote to the State Education Ministers seeking their detailed replies in relation to the projects of an extremely urgent nature. [More…]
At this stage i am not going to talk about the other advances that the Commonwealth has made in education in general throughout Australia. [More…]
The extremely large increase in Commonwealth expenditure on education in the last Budget has already been noted. [More…]
We are prepared to be logical and responsible beyond the fine print and the matters laid down in the Nationwide Survey of Educational Needs referred to in the matter before the House. [More…]
We look at the actualities to which it refers and the actual conditions of the schools and of education in this country. [More…]
It is not good enough to say, as the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) said: ‘We believe in a Federal and State partnership where the States have got to play their full part. [More…]
Other items referred to are ancillary staff, buildings, land, equipment, pre-service education of teachers, in-service education, scholarships, provision of textbooks and transport. [More…]
But nowhere is there a basic reappraisal of education needs, methods and philosophy. [More…]
Perhaps it is not the function of this kind of a survey to do this but nevertheless it is the function of the Department of Education and Science to look at such a survey in the light of devising more efficient methods and to act on it in that light. [More…]
It should not have been so excluded and this Government should see that it goes into other points that were not covered in the survey; for example, the amount of expenditure on education per head and the proportion of public spending on education in different countries. [More…]
Although the United States is having trouble with a major war, the most costly war it has ever fought, it was able to channel 19 per cent of public spending into education in 1965, which was the last year for which figures were given to me by the ex-Prime Minister. [More…]
As far back as 1961 Sweden was spending SUS90 a head, or 13i per cent of its public spending, on education. [More…]
In Czechoslovakia expenditure on education increased from $US76 a head in 1962 to SUS91 in 1965. [More…]
I know that Czechoslovakia is the most advanced of the Communist countries in its education policies and programmes and in the proportion of educated people that it has. [More…]
In 1962 Japan was spend- ing as rauch per head on education as we were - $33 - but that represented more than twice our percentage of national expenditure. [More…]
This is the sort of inquiry that ought to have been included by the Government in the nationwide survey of educational needs and in the terms of reference of the committee. [More…]
A major disappointment in the Budget was the lack of realisation by the Government of the deterioration of the State education systems. [More…]
As the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) has already pointed out this proposal for a discussion of a matter of urgency has been based on wrong premises altogether. [More…]
The Opposition has accused the Government of failing to act on the deficiencies shown in this nationwide survey on education, but the survey is something which so far Opposition speakers have not dealt with in any detail. [More…]
This survey was set up by the States, in conjunction with the Commonwealth, when they realised the need for some assessment of the varied needs of education throughout the Commonwealth. [More…]
The survey was undertaken to give a complete picture of the needs of education in many fields over a 5 year period. [More…]
Although it was initiated by the States the Federal Government has played a very active part in conducting the survey, which has come up with the answer that the States expect their expenditure on education to rise at around 10 per cent a year, lt is estimated that an amount of 3 1,400m will be needed to close the gap and the States, as usual, expect to get that amount from the Commonwealth. [More…]
I think we must remember that education is a State responsibility. [More…]
They are very jealous of their responsibility for education. [More…]
There is no question that the Commonwealth Government is carrying out the promises made by the former Prime Minister in his policy speech that everything possible would be done in the field of education. [More…]
Obviously these must be pinpointed before we can proceed to spend the vast sums of money that are obviously required in education. [More…]
Honourable members know of the proposals for free education, free hospitals and free everything else, but members of the Opposition can never answer the question: Who pays? [More…]
There is a very real problem in education and we know that the States are not able to raise the money that they would like to spend on education but we also know that there is today a tremendous shortage of material and labour, and as the honourable member for Warringah (Mr Mackellar) has pointed out - I think the Minister also referred to it - for this very reason the States have been unable to spend a lot of the money that has been made available to them. [More…]
To provide adequate training and to provide buildings and equipment poses a tremendous problem when we realise that so many more children than formerly are going on to higher education. [More…]
I think, however, that there has been a levelling out recently following a sharp increase in the number of children going on to secondary and tertiary education. [More…]
The Federal Government has entered into the field of education in a very real way. [More…]
It is the first government to institute or promote research into the needs of education in all fields. [More…]
It has provided a tremendous amount of money for the training of many adult people who have found that because of technological advances in industry they have now become superfluous and who are looking for training in other jobs, lt is providing many millions of dollars for technical skills and technical education. [More…]
Of course we know that it is providing an increasing amount of money for State controlled teachers colleges, education research and vocational schemes, to which I have already referred. [More…]
It is providing money even for such things as education in marine science because this has a very important place in employment and is a field in which additional education is required. [More…]
A new field that has developed only in the last few years is pre-school education. [More…]
The State Departments of Education said that they would prefer the money to be spent in the secondary field. [More…]
I know from speaking to many of the principals of primary schools in my electorate that they feel that maybe this was not quite the right decision, but that was the recommendation of the State Departments of Education. [More…]
This is extremely important from an economic point of view apart from anything else because, without the Commonwealth’s very great contribution of buildings, equipment and staff, the problems of public education would be very much greater indeed. [More…]
These are just a few of the areas in which the Federal Government has shown an ever increasing interest and a completely new approach to education. [More…]
Colleges of advanced education, grants to universities, Commonwealth scholarships and many other fields which were never thought to be the responsibility of the Commonwealth have now become the subject of consideration by the Federal Government. [More…]
We have to keep in mind that education covers a wider field than mere tertiary education. [More…]
Education means fitting a man to play his part in his chosen life work, whatever that may be, or training him in skills for any other occupation. [More…]
Education aims to help a person develop his particular talent so that he may enjoy that to which he is entitled - a worthwhile life of service, a life that gives him satisfaction, a happy and complete life. [More…]
Unless education provides for fulfilment of personal achievement and the enjoyment of a full life, it has fallen down. [More…]
I am sure that the Government aims or hopes to ensure that all young people receive the best possible education so that they can lead a full and productive life. [More…]
The honourable member for Hume mentioned also that education is basically a State responsibility, not a Commonwealth responsibility. [More…]
When parents question their local State members about why the schools in their States are not good enough the answer is: ‘We would like to do all the glorious things that everybody promises in relation to education but we do not have the money. [More…]
All they are interested in is an adequate education for their children. [More…]
Either there is a fantastic revolution on the horizon for education, something that no other industrial state has contemplated before, or else, if that statement is true, wc must be a long way behind right now. [More…]
If all these things do not mean that there is a crisis in education right now I do not know what they mean. [More…]
The surveys will have regard to standards of provision required for high quality education suited to modern education systems. [More…]
We have, as other honourable members have outlined, and I will not retrace their steps, some 11 categories of educational provisions, including administrative structure, teaching staff, text books, transport and so on, the purported needs of which provide the total figures that have already been mentioned. [More…]
It is mentioned in the report that the State ministers and the Australian Education Council have been thinking about these matters since at least the early 1960s. [More…]
would have thought something of the order of a 100-page report would be needed, because it is totally impossible to argue a cogent case for educational priorities in a few pages of summary of what the Australian Educational Council was thinking of and looking for. [More…]
As I understand it, and as I think he has said, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) has very little information additional to that shown in this inadequate report. [More…]
It is on this basis that we are asked as a government to proceed holus bolus along the path of expenditure over a 5-year period of an extra S 1,400m on education, I do not for one moment gainsay the fact, as was argued by the honourable member for Maribyrnong (Dr Cass) and others, that a lot of money must be spent on education. [More…]
But let me stress this point: Education is an open-ended field. [More…]
It has suggested that the States are not meeting their responsibilities and that the Commonwealth should take over and meet the States’ responsibilities in the field of education. [More…]
I note that the shadow minister for education is also not in the House, and this is perhaps some reflection on the urgency with which the Opposition views this question. [More…]
That is not to say I am saying there is no need to spend money on education. [More…]
Parents’ are being taxed in some way or other and take an interest to a greater or lesser degree in education. [More…]
They tend to provide less for children in poor areas than in other areas where the parents are better off and better versed in the ways of education. [More…]
Our philosophy embraces the best we can do for education in terms of the finance available. [More…]
Education is an important and crucial field. [More…]
But not even that is necessarily true because it is within the capacities of the States, as honourable members well know, to use either earmarked or unearmarked grants and moneys towards the cause of education as a priority ahead of other fields of expenditure. [More…]
It has been quoted already that the Government of New South Wales in its current Budget is spending about 43 per cent of the total Budget on education. [More…]
The plain fact is that the Commonwealth does not have very much more money to unload on education or anything else at this time, so we begin to ask what it is that the Opposition thinks can be achieved in terms of what it has proposed. [More…]
If the Opposition is as serious minded about this matter as it says it is, what would it say to a percentage tax earmarked for improvements in education? [More…]
Are they prepared to impose an additional percentage tax to overcome the so-called crisis in education? [More…]
The Government is in the position where it cannot do more at the moment in this vast field of education. [More…]
In the last 9 years the Commonwealth Government has upgraded by 471 per cent its direct expenditure on education, not necessarily in the fields that everybody wants it. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What was the (a) number and (b) percentage of students in secondary schools in each State and Territory of the Commonwealth during 1970 in (i) government, (ii) Catholic and (iii) other private schools who (A) were enrolled for the third last year of secondary education, (B) sat for Commonwealth secondary scholarship examinations and (C) were awarded scholarships. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
F. Connell, Professor of Education at the University of Sydney. [More…]
As well as the six State Education Departments, the Social Science Research Council, the Australian Teachers Federation, the Australian Council for Educational Research, and the National Council of Independent Schools were consulted in the formation of the Committee, which has a total membership of thirteen. [More…]
Education in Queensland (Question No. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to an article in the ‘Courier-Mail’ of 17 October 1970 by Professor Indorf, an eminent United States educationist, criticising the stagnation in Queensland’s education system and pointing out lack of progress since his previous criticism in that newspaper in 1963. [More…]
The matters dealt with in it - matters such as the allocation of State Government expenditure, teachers’ salaries, the staffing of schools, the organisation of the Queensland Education Department, and conditions of employment of staff - are essentially matters for the Queensland Government. [More…]
The former AttorneyGeneral, the present Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), made a ministerial statement concerning the court on 1 8th May 1967. [More…]
This Bill carries out the programme which the former Attorney-General, the present Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), outlined in a ministerial statement on 29th May 1969. [More…]
Forty-five per cent of Queensland’s police, 16 per cent of the police in Tasmania and 15 per cent of those in South Australia have had no more than a primary school education. [More…]
ls it for education? [More…]
There is one education officer for about 1,400 inmates of the State penitentiary in my electorate. [More…]
Psychiatrists, psychologists and educationists study the prisoners and consider their defects. [More…]
It is discovered that in 99 cases out of 100 a significant factor is lack of educational opportunities. [More…]
They are saturated with education and the result is 80 per cent success as against 80 per cent failure in New South Wales. [More…]
What we really need is to have a great deal more money poured into an educational programme so that these men will be able more successfully to do their jobs. [More…]
1 quote these to indicate that we have to get away from the old fashioned concept of a policeman as a flatfoot 6 feet tall walking the beat, with brawny muscles and a limited education. [More…]
Perhaps we need different structures within the police force - the general policeman who requires only a moderate form of education and fulfils the more stringent physical requirements generally applied to police today, and a specialised policeman much like they have in the French Surete who will be an investigator with higher qualifications. [More…]
Some of the finest men I know in various walks of life are those who have had little if any formal education. [More…]
The public is less likely to complain if tax revenue is spent on better roads, water and sewerage and better education. [More…]
I want into the police force with a very moderate standard of education, but having since matriculated and gained a degree in economics, I know how study opens one’s mind. [More…]
Believe me there is a need for much more investment in education for these people. [More…]
This is not to say that because a man has had only this standard of education we should automatically exclude him as one who has not the necessary qualities to be a flexible, tolerant, understanding and perceptive policeman. [More…]
Some $500,000, funded by the Department of Customs and Excise, has been provided for the promotion of drug education. [More…]
[ should imagine that the work of the Council would be much more important than drug education, important as that is, because the drug problem will be only a small part of the overall problem that this organisation will have to face. [More…]
The Commonwealth grant to the National Health and Medical Research Council totals $l.8m, and the sum of $250,000 has been allocated for advanced education research for the 1967-69 triennium. [More…]
In addition, S250.000 has been provided for research and development in education, and SI 2.5m has been allocated to the Australian Research Grants Committee for the 1970- 72 triennium. [More…]
Is is non-violent to deny a human being the right to vote, the right to free choice of employment or the rights to equal wages, equal justice, education, health and social welfare, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, equal participation in cultural activities, freedom to choose his own spouse, the right to strike, freedom of movement, of religion, of political views, and the hundred other rights enshrined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights? [More…]
This is a system which builds inequalitiy into education. [More…]
Today I received from the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen a reply to a question I asked about the allocation of Commonwealth scholarships in 1970 to be available this year. [More…]
As 1 said, the whole Commonwealth scholarship system builds inequality into education. [More…]
basis of the reply given to me by the Minister for Education and Science these are the results: Only 3.35 per cent of all students enrolled in Government schools last year in intermediate received Commonwealth secondary scholarships, while in Catholic schools 7.89 per cent of those enrolled in intermediate last year were awarded scholarships. [More…]
Fifty students last year were getting special financial assistance from the Victorian Education Department, on the basis of a means test on a weekly income of $38.55 for a family with 2 children. [More…]
If the actual minimum wage had been the means test, the school would probably have had an additional 50 children receiving special assistance from the Victorian Education Department. [More…]
My belief is that everyone should be getting an allowance which would be sufficient to enable every child to continue its education to the best of its ability in the education system. [More…]
How many schools in each State in Australia have introduced the driver education or road safety education programmes in the curricula as recommended by the Senate Select Committee on Road Safely. [More…]
Hie introduction of road safety education programmes into the school curricula is of course a matter for the State education authorities. [More…]
The Commonwealth has contributed a total of $3,350,000 during the past 10 years, made up of Grants to State Governments for expenditure on road safety public education and Commonwealth Appropriations for the promotion of road safety practices. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from universities, colleges of advanced education and other tertiary institutions, and their parents suffer penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
Will the Minister for Primary Industry confer with his colleague, the Minister for Education and Science, with the object of having the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research [More…]
Has the Minister for Education and Science seen claims made in the ‘Education Newsletter of the Australian Union of Students’ that Aboriginals suffered from glaring educational inequalities and, in particular, that whereas one person in every 150 non-Aboriginals attended university, only one person in every 14,000 Aboriginals did so? [More…]
What steps is the Government taking to encourage higher education for Aboriginals and to provide educational opportunities for them? [More…]
The Government is taking a number of initiatives to assist in providing education and employment opportunities for Aboriginals. [More…]
In the education field I would mention two in particular, both of them designed to help Aboriginals with further and higher education. [More…]
The second initiative is the Aboriginal study grants scheme which was instituted in 1969, a little earlier than the secondary grants scheme and which originally was designed to assist Aboriginals who wished to go to university, to colleges of advanced education or to other tertiary institutions. [More…]
I am merely indicating the kinds of opportunities that are available in education for Aboriginals. [More…]
He is a man of high intellect and good education, a man dedicated to the proposition of representing the people. [More…]
The Opposition forced the Government to pay attention to the crises in education and the wool industry. [More…]
The traditional system where even a small secondary school could sustain a modest cadet unit seems to have disappeared, perhaps because of basic changes in the education structure of the States in recent years. [More…]
I hope that the Minister looks at this side of the shift of responsibility and writes into the regulations a significant and clearly defined role for the Navy League which has made a remarkable contribution to naval and maritime education in this country. [More…]
UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education, the 1LO Convention of 1958 concerning Discrimination in respect of Employment and Occupation, the International Covenants on Human Rights, and the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; [More…]
There appeared to be little hope of these people obtaining in the near future a house of a standard acceptable in the white community, even though their families were being sent to schools and were receiving the same education as the white population. [More…]
Minister for Education and Science, the Honourable David Fairbairn, D.F.C. [More…]
He will also answer questions on matters for which the Department of the Vice-President of the Executive Council is responsible The other representational arrangements in that chamber will be: Senator Wright, the portfolios of Foreign Affairs, Education and Science, Labour and National Service, Housing and External Territories; Senator Cotton, the portfolios of Trade and Industry, National Development, Shipping and Transport, Customs and Excise, and Interior; ‘Senator DrakeBrockman, the portfolios of Primary Industry, Army, Repatriation and Navy; Senator Greenwood, the portfolios of Attorney-General, Postmaster-General, Immigration, and Social Services, including Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Will he bring up to dale the information on tertiary and technical education in the Northern Territory given on 13th October 1970 (Hansard, page 2073). [More…]
Existing tertiary and technical education facilities in the Northern Territory are as set out in my predecessor’s answer to Question No. [More…]
Enrolments in both sectors of education have increased. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What was the average age of entry to colleges of advanced education in (a) 1966 and (b) 1970. [More…]
Can he give an estimated breakdown of incidental education expenses, such as those for text-books, stationery, instruments, protective clothing, excursions and field trips, incurred by an average student studying (a) dentistry, (b) medicine, (c) arts and (d) law. [More…]
This information is not available as details of ages of new students are not currently collected from colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Education: Secondary Schools Libraries (Question No. [More…]
2890) Mr Reynolds asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
The Committee was to make a comprehensive review of the current situation regarding the teaching of Asian languages and other aspects of Asian life and cultures in Australian schools and other educational institutions. [More…]
The Committee was to report back to the Commonwealth and State Ministers for Education. [More…]
The Advisory Committee submitted its report to my predecessor on 28th September 1970, and he sent copies to all the State Ministers for Education early in October. [More…]
This action is being taken after further discussion and with concurrence of the State Education Ministers. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) was gracious enough to send a copy to us early this morning, and some study of its contents has been possible. [More…]
So it is in fact a form of adult education. [More…]
It is vital for the whole of our secondary level of education. [More…]
It could provide a service for all the State Education Departments and all sorts of private educational institutions. [More…]
In his statement the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) said: [More…]
It is the same in the education field. [More…]
The Department of Education and Science and its relations with the Department of Works and the Department of the Interior are such that one cannot get to the bottom of things. [More…]
Once again, as with answers an education. [More…]
Firstly I refer lo the Department of Education and Science which, as honourable members know, controls the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]
Interestingly enough, the 10 per cent retention ratio would cover the cost of an accident prevention education programme. [More…]
The nation wide survey on education needs was carried out by the Australian Education Council. [More…]
Undoubtedly this money will assist the States in carrying out the additional education expenditure which was shown to be necessary under this nation wide survey. [More…]
The situation at the present moment is that the Commonwealth has written to the State Ministers for Education asking them to make available further details. [More…]
In addition the Commonwealth Government also pointed out that in order to have a complete survey of the nationwide needs in education it would be necessary to take into account the private nongovernmental schools, and the Commonwealth is undertaking this and is still awaiting certain information. [More…]
No father and no mother does this except for the reason that present day costs of living, of housing, and of health and education render it impossible for the average family to live on the wage which the average worker receives. [More…]
Many of Australia’s most urgent needs are in the fields of education, health and public welfare, urban development, and financial assistance to underdeveloped countries. [More…]
The level of productivity thus affects what we obtain for expenditure on education, health, social services, defence and so on. [More…]
Secondly, continuing improvement in productivity demands greater skills at all levels of the work force, and thus further education. [More…]
Expenditure on education is an important method of increasing productivity and this is especially so at the levels where the skills which are necessary to maintain an industrial base are acquired. [More…]
Tomorrow it will be putting forward amendments in relation to a subject such as national development, the following day to education, and the following day it will seek more pay for our armed forces. [More…]
What he cares about and what we should care about is whether he can buy enough food, enough shelter, enough clothing, enough enjoyment of life and, in the case of invalid, widow and deserted wives’ pensions and unemployment benefits, whether it is possible for the children of the family to expect a decent education. [More…]
It is almost incredible that his vocabulary is as large and varied as it is as he has had practically no education. [More…]
Natural resources are unevenly spread and in many cases barely developed, inferior education, inadequate housing and incomplete health services range in stark contrast alongside the fruits of privileged private schemes. [More…]
It has not breathed a word about reconstruction, retraining and re-education. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Has there been established an interdepartmental committee representing the Department of Health, the Department of Social Services and the Department of Education and Science which are all vitally concerned with this matter? [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education and Science in his capacity as Minister in charge of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]
It is unrealistic to expect that decentralisation of functions such as education, social welfare, urban planning, resource development and law enforcement can be achieved without a regionalisation of local and semi-government authorities and a rationalisation of finances. [More…]
The greatest field of additional public expenditure in Australia will be education. [More…]
Until recently the States were not much involved in higher secondary education and they are still not significantly involved in pre-school education. [More…]
Without Commonwealth participation Australians cannot overcome the situation where places in recognised pre-school centres are available to only 2.9 per cent of the eligible children in New South Wales, 7.3 per cent in Queensland, 9.9 per cent in Western Australia, 14.3 per cent in Tasmania, 14.4 per cent in South Australia and 27.1 per cent in Victoria, whereas a year’s pre-school education is provided in Canberra for every eligible child. [More…]
The 4 Liberal and Country Party State governments have still not released the full texts of their sections of the nation-wide survey of educational needs which they received last May. [More…]
The increased expenditure which must take place if Australians are to receive proper opportunities of pre-school education and higher secondary education is certain to outpace any growth tax which the Commonwealth might forgo in favour of the States. [More…]
Under the Holt, Gorton and McMahon governments the Australian public has not been told how serious the position has become in education. [More…]
1 think most honourable members were given a copy of the report of the Committee of Inquiry into .Education in South Australia. [More…]
Australia as a whole devoted 4.2 per cent of gross national product to education in 1969-70. [More…]
The above argument suggests that this figure would have lo rise to about 6.7 per cent by 1981, if a programme of educational expansion similar to that suggested by the Committee was adopted throughout Australia. [More…]
In case honourable members are not quite aware of what a rise in expenditure on education from 4.2 per cent to 6.7 per cent by 1981 would mean, I point out that given constant prices the annual expenditure on education would have to increase by about S750m within the next 10-year period, ls that the sort of vision that was revealed yesterday at the meeting of the Premiers? [More…]
Then the Leader of the Opposition went on to talk of the problems of local government, education and national development He even advocated the creation of an Australian hospitals commission. [More…]
There are the Australian Forestry Council, the Australian Minerals Council, the Australian Water Resources Council, the Australian Fisheries Council, the Australian Agricultural Council, the Australian Council for Aboriginal Affairs, the Australian Transport Advisory Council, child and social welfare committees, the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General and the Australian Education Council. [More…]
Certainly there is a case for this, but surely these areas, which are some of the poorer areas of Australia, are entitled to retain some of the royalties for the basic development of roads, power, education and health. [More…]
Some of the important matters which the States administer include housing, decentralisation, urban development, education, health, social welfare and transport. [More…]
We need new and urgent attention given to higher business management education and we need the encouragement of competition, internal and external. [More…]
Standards of living, standards of education, standards of health and standards of leisure which would have seemed Utopian a few generations ago are now within our reach, but these goals will not be reached by a mere redistribution of a static national wealth. [More…]
Firstly, nearly half goes to the Commonwealth Treasury for use on all the many purposes of government, including such things as social services and education. [More…]
We have no chance of achieving the huge sums we require for all the needs of our community from a near static gross national product - the funds we need for health, for education or for pollution control or for any of our other goals. [More…]
Quite apart from the wages and earnings argument, it determines what the community can afford by way of urban amenities, our education facilities, the amount of leisure we have, the extent to which we conserve and protect our environment, and other critical aspects of our standard of living. [More…]
Australia’s expenditure on education and training has been increasing at a very rapid rate. [More…]
The conference will be attended by a very wide cross-section of industry and commerce and, I am pleased to say, has the full support of my colleagues the State Ministers for Labour and the State Ministers for Education. [More…]
Equally it points up the importance of management education. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council Report on the needs of State education services has established the most urgent needs in education. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assetnbled will take immediate steps to ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australian children. [More…]
The evidence relating to the fire at the Lyneham Primary School shows a strong need for the problem of classification of all schools in the Australian Capital Territory as special purpose buildings to be resolved, without delay, by the Department of the Interior in consultation with the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
We also believe that, as a matter of urgency, the Department of Education and Science must continue to pursue its investigations into burglar alarm systems for all Government owned schools in the Territory. [More…]
People get involved in protests and demonstrations for many reasons, but it is undeniable that there is a very small group of people who use protests and demonstrations not to protest about conscription or Vietnam or education but to build up the revolutionary movement. [More…]
We must understand that there are all sorts of ways of growing up and we must recognise this fact in our education policies. [More…]
It seems that it must be repeated again and again that education and qualifications are made for man and not man for education and qualifications. [More…]
Our governments have achieved a great deal in the field of education but there is a danger of education becoming a duty almost like the draft. [More…]
I have already received general proposals from the State Ministers for Education for the use of S3 6m which the Bill proposes should be available over the next 3 financial years. [More…]
In putting forward their programmes several States have indicated that these are part of co-ordinated programmes which embrace not only technical education facilities but also other educational institutions like Colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The proposed increased level of Commonwealth assistance for technical training reflects the Government’s continuing interest in an area not covered by the recent Australia-wide survey of needs in the fields of primary, secondary and teacher education. [More…]
Publicity Advisory Committee on Education in Road Safety [More…]
Function: To advise on publicity and education in road safety, (vii) Study Team on Transport Costs [More…]
Applicants educated at state schools totalled 101 and those educated at private schools totalled 96 including 6 who attended Evening Colleges or Coaching Colleges during final Secondary education. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system. [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted _ to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it: and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
In the matter of driver education, we know that approximately 11 per cent of driving licence holders are under 20 years of age and they represent 21 per cent of the people involved in accidents. [More…]
The question of education must be re-examined to see whether what we are doing is correct. [More…]
As I have said in answer to a question from the honourable member for Robertson, the grants to the States are expended by the respective States under prescribed conditions restricting the expenditure generally to road safety education, and the Commonwealth appropriation is expended mainly in support of national public education campaigns in co-operation with State road safety councils and for the provision of road safety education material. [More…]
Firstly, it would plan a national programme, in conjunction with the States and local government, that would cover all other aspects’ of road safety, including periodic motor vehicle inspection and registration, motor cycle safety, driver education, uniform licensing and traffic code and legislation and records, traffic courts, pedestrian safety, emergency medical services, and alcohol which is the factor found in over SO per cent of fatal accidents. [More…]
The Commonwealth provides substantial financial support to the Road Safety Council for publicity and driver education. [More…]
I do not know how we cure this, short of an education campaign and improved public awareness of what plain bad manners contribute to road fatalities. [More…]
I mention also the international governmental organisations to which Australia belongs and which frequently hold meetings in Australia - in recent months, for example, the Commonwealth Education Conference, a technical conference under the International Atomic Energy Agency, and meetings of ECAFE and ANZUS. [More…]
of the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1969-1970, I present a statement of approvals given during 1970 and 1971 in respect of Commonwealth unmatched grant for acquisition of library materials in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Surgeon General Jesse L. Steinfeld disclosed all of the actions at a hearing of a Senate Commerce Sub-committee following their approval by the Secretaries of Health, Education and Welfare, Agriculture and Interior. [More…]
A circular on 2,4,5-T was published by the United States Department of Agriculture, Department of the Interior, and Department of Health, Education and Welfare on 15 April 1970. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system. [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should lake, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
Everyone knows how important the School of the Air is in education in these outback areas. [More…]
I desire to speak this morning on a subject about which I asked a question on 6th April of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) in his capacity as Minister in charge of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]
I want special attention to be paid to what I am submitting today by the Minister for Education and Science, who is in charge of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, and also by the Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz) who is Chairman of the River Murray Commission, because water plays a big part in this matter. [More…]
As I pointed out recently, can anybody in Australia at the moment seriously say that in the name of inflation, or in the name of damping down inflation, we should restrict expenditure on education and public health? [More…]
The other tragic levels at which public expenditure could be considerably increased, not decreased, concern education at all levels - pre-school, primary and the various branches of secondary education and what is called tertiary education. [More…]
Some time ago, as one exercise here I compared the expenditure at the Commonwealth level on civil aviation and the Post Office with expenditure at the State level on education and health, and it was surprising to find that on the capital side as much was spent on the Post Office plus civil aviation, both in the hand of the Commonwealth, as was spent by the States at the 2 levels of education and health. [More…]
I suggested that if the States had had the same sort of financial initiative as has the Commonwealth I would have been very surprised indeed if there had not been more expenditure on education and health and less on civil aviation and the Post Office. [More…]
Many of these countries face tremendous problems - problems of hunger, illiteracy, over-population and active Communist parties, not to mention health, housing, education, transport and many other domestic problems. [More…]
Unquestionably there is an urgency, for those who want to see Australians take a stand against apartheid, to embark on a massive education programme. [More…]
It determines whether he can vote, join a trade union, use a trowel, compete for an award for playing Beethoven, belong to a political party nominating candidates for parliament; whom he can marry; whose hospitality he can accept; what education he can get, what wage he can be paid, what work he can do; where he can live, get medical treatment, buy a stamp, get his drycleaning done, be buried. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory- will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales enducation system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout .Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State government departments: [More…]
Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it. [More…]
the Libraries Programme has been widely accepted as a valuable contribution to Australian education at the secondary level. [More…]
The decision to continue these educational programmes is a clear indication of the Government’s concern that Australian education should continueto develop to meet the growing needs and. [More…]
As honourable members are aware, the Government is at present discussing with the States and with non-government schools the information obtained from the recent nation wide survey of needs in primary and secondary schools and in teacher education. [More…]
Papua and New Guinea: Education (Question No. [More…]
fs the (a) nature and Cb) cost of the assisance for education in Australia in 1971 the same as in 1970 (Hansard, 21 October 1970, page 2617). [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australiais educationally and administratively desirable, andis now being studied by several State government departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a committee of enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlay it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
That finance should be made available by thi’ Government to cover the cost of the secondary and tertiary education of children from rural areas affected by the current economic situation. [More…]
I think that those points are worthy of very careful consideration, particularly the one that refers to the education of children in rural areas. [More…]
Action should be taken on this because the children concerned will be forced to stay on the farms or become rural workers and labourers because they have not been able to obtain the education which they require. [More…]
When I put a question to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) in his capacity as Minister in charge of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, it was pointed out that there is a tremendous number of grasshoppers in certain areas and that no matter what number of ibises were put into these areas they could not eat all the grasshoppers. [More…]
There are no adequate playing fields, swimming pools, community centres or the necessary transport and education services. [More…]
Consultations between my Department, the Department of Education and Science, the Department of Immigration and other Commonwealth Departments involved in the training of overseas students are conducted each year through the Conference of Training Authorities. [More…]
The February 1969 report of the National Council of the National Union of Australian University Students (now the Australian Union of Students) recognised that where restrictions on enrolments were necessary, Australian universities had a duty to the community to give priority to the education of Australian citizens, but it believed that the presence of substantial numbers of overseas students, particularly students from Asia, had in the past afforded opportunities for broadening of knowledge, interest and tolerance which it regarded as a necessary aspect of tertiary education and suggested that where there was the demand for it, 10 per cent of the total enrolment quota in each faculty in each university would be a minimum acceptable enrolment of overseas students. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science a question arising from his revelation of the appallingly high drop out rate in State and Catholic secondary schools. [More…]
He will recall figures last week which showed that of all secondary students who commenced secondary education 5 or 6 years ago only 24.9 per cent of all State secondary students throughout Australia last year enrolled for their final year while the figure for Catholic schools was 31.8 per cent and for other private schools 79.1 per cent. [More…]
Does the Minister know how far this discrepancy is produced by financial obstacles which prevent State and Catholic school students from completing their education? [More…]
: Mr FAIRBAIRN - It is true that the number of people who commence secondary education in either government or Catholic schools and do not reach the matriculation standard appears to be extremely high. [More…]
Naturally the Government is extremely interested in every avenue by which it can help to improve the standard of education. [More…]
The honourable member will know that the Commonwealth Government is interested in many fields of education. [More…]
The Commonwealth has seen that additional funds are available to the States because, after all, basically it is the States which are responsible constitutionally for education. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science whether he is aware that despite means-tested Commonwealth scholarships, students from rural areas attending universities are at a financial dis advantage compared with their urban counterparts. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government is aware of the extreme problems facing people from rural areas who have to go away from home in order to complete their tertiary education. [More…]
Does he find this situation and its origins compatible with the consistent complaint of honourable members opposite that our industrial firms make excessive profits and that the Government spends too little on various community services such as education? [More…]
The more privileged people, privileged perhaps in the sphere of education and in many other ways, can adapt themselves, can adopt new jobs and can move easily between places of employment on opposite sides of Australia. [More…]
I think that everybody should have his re-education or adult education completely covered by the Government if he is going to be employed in a different sphere. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Finally, is it a fact that the present system of tax deductions for education expenses has not kept pace with the changing pattern and costs of education? [More…]
Health and education are 2 areas where Commonwealth expenditures over recent years have literally leapt forward and now constitute a very significant portion of Commonwealth budgetary expenditures. [More…]
Certainly the Government has no objection to national co-ordination in terms of commissions because it has already set up the National Universities Commission to co-ordinate tertiary education in Australia. [More…]
But firstly I should like to comment on what has been said by speakers on the Government side and to point out that it is envisaged that the proposed select committee should co-operate with the States in a way similar to the way in which the Australian Universities Commission co-operates with the States in the field of higher education and in other fields of education. [More…]
Above all, I make the point that the purpose of this committee should be to coordinate with the States and to act with the States in a manner similar to the way in which these objectives have been achieved in the education and other fields. [More…]
Thus in earlier days the Department of External Affairs and, in more recent times, the Department of Education and Science have been separated from the Prime Minister’s Department. [More…]
The Committee felt that it was necessary that there be a guaranteed standard of education in the House. [More…]
1 only want to make this passing remark: The Commonwealth and the States have never been seized with the importance of pre-school education, excepting where there is an articulate population and, in the Commonwealth case, excepting in its own Territories. [More…]
We also have in the Australian Capital Territory a structure of preschool education which by Australian standards is quite outstanding but the States have never been able to imitate it. [More…]
It is the belief of the Opposition that the Commonwealth has to come in to reinforce the States to establish a pre-school system of education. [More…]
This has been a Cinderella of Australian education. [More…]
We hope that this type of legislation will be a precursor of Commonwealth intervention in this field and the platform of the Australian Labor Party provides for the setting up of a pre-school education commission to be radar, as it were, to guide Commonwealth action in the development of preschool facilities. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) foresees that the legislation will assist the States to meet: [More…]
I am afraid Australia needs a much greater expenditure and effort directed to technical education to give the Australian labor force the skill and flexibility it requires. [More…]
We have in this country very much followed the English tradition of education and not the Scottish tradition, and this has been our disaster. [More…]
I am afraid Cromwell, with his ideas on education and his structure of universities which anticipated what [More…]
Britain did not do till the 1950s, gave the Anglican establishment such a fright that they decided education was a matter for elites whereas Scotland, where the Puritans triumphed, had massive compulsory education about 250 years before England did. [More…]
We have tended to follow the clerk’s education. [More…]
The great desideratum in our high schools was the Eton-Harrow sort of education of England rather than that of Scotland so it became customary on English ships if one wanted to speak to the ship’s engineer - or to any engineer - merely to bellow ‘Mac’ down the ship’s hold and one knew one had the engineer because technical education was very much a Scottish monopoly. [More…]
Starting with compulsory education early the Scots broadened it. [More…]
The original Puritans wanted everybody to have an education so they could all read the Bible. [More…]
I think that the lack of technical education in the United Kingdom, or its late development, steadily dragged Britain back after 1851. [More…]
After that one could say Germany and everybody else eclipsed England in technical education. [More…]
There has not been, I might say, the respect for technical education in the [More…]
English system of education and that carried out to Australia that there was in the Scottish system, and I think that it has seriously affected everything. [More…]
They believe in the technical education of their managerial groups and they believe also in very advanced business education, which is just beginning to dawn on us. [More…]
The important point in the Minister’s speech is this question of using technical education as a device for increasing the mobility of the work force - the transferability of the work force from one occupation to another. [More…]
The fact that one of the States is to receive a grant of $500,000 with which to provide such a facility is a very important step in the upgrading of technical education. [More…]
Then the question of technical education will be even more important. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s action in technical education and in inspiring the States to be more dynamic in technical education should be more extensive than it is, and I hope that in this field we will move increasingly away from the idea of matching grants and have a strong Commonwealth initiative, fostering technical education where the Commonwealth can see needs, even if the States cannot see them. [More…]
The first of these 2 propositions is the great importance of pre-school education today and, following from that, the great importance, as the Commonwealth has already recognised, of providing adequate facilities for the training of pre-school teachers. [More…]
I think that the importance of pre-school education if of comparatively recent recognition insofar as it does condition a child’s future attitudes and those foundations that he acquires in his early years, particularly between the ages of 3 years and 5 years, which are so important [More…]
It is significant, therefore, that at this time there should be this piece of legislation and the earlier Act which was passed in 1968 relating to a singularly important part of pre-school education. [More…]
It is also significant that the Commonwealth itself should realise, as 1 believe it does, the overwhelming importance of preschool education in a civilised society such as Australia’s. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s role in this part of education and in other aspects of education is one which has developed very much over recent years and is not a role which the Commonwealth has exercised for a very long period of time. [More…]
Whereas there are certain specific matters which are the responsibility of the Commonwealth Government, education by and large is still the constitutional responsibility of the State governments. [More…]
But, nevertheless, the Commonwealth has had a role to play and has been taking very valuable steps in education over the years. [More…]
It indicates the Commonwealth’s attitude to education at that time. [More…]
The then Prime Minister’s adviser was suggesting to Mr Chifley that the Commonwealth should go into a wider area of education, and he advanced this argument with some force. [More…]
No’, said Chifley, ‘I’d like to keep out of education - it has special difficulties for us: it’s mixed up with religion, aid to denominational schools and all that. [More…]
Besides, the Constitution leaves education as a State function. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s attitude over recent years has been to look at the broad structure of education across the whole nation and to seek to identify those areas in which the Commonwealth can be of assistance, bearing in mind that the primary obligation for education is with the States and bearing in mind also that the Commonwealth’s role should be to assist the States in their particular role. [More…]
As I say, the Commonwealth has made a substantial contribution in many fields of education, and the particular one with which we are concerned now, pre-school teachers training colleges, is one of the areas in which the Commonwealth has been assisting the States. [More…]
The second of these basic principles that really should be understood is the role that is being played by voluntary organisations in pre-school education across Australia. [More…]
The State Governments and local authorities, of course, make a very substantial contribution to pre-school education in Australia, but I suggest that it is above all the voluntary organisations which are the backbone in this area of educational activity. [More…]
Indeed, it is fair to say that the situation of pre-school education in Australia could not be as strong as it is without the very valuable work that is done by the many public spirited people who have taken part in the work of those voluntary organisations. [More…]
Again it is significant to note that the Commonwealth has recognised and appreciated the valuable work done by such voluntary organisations in the field of pre-school education. [More…]
When a former Minister for Education and Science introduced the principal Bill, the States Grants (Pre-School Teachers Colleges) Bill 1968, he had this to say: [More…]
Finally, I should like to express the Government’s respect and admiration of the work of the voluntary organisations in the pre-school field, There is a tradition throughout Australia of community involvement in this area of education, not only of parents interested in having a kindergarten available for their own children but also of many men and women giving freely time and money so that kindergartens are available in areas where need is great. [More…]
From the former arises a most useful awareness in the minds of parents of many aspects of their children’s education, an awareness which may be maintained throughout the years of schooling. [More…]
That is what the Minister said on that occasion and it indicates that the Commonwealth has very commendably recognised the work done by voluntary organisations in the pre-school education field and is further assisting them. [More…]
One of these organisations which has taken a very important pan in pre-school education in Australia is the Australian Pre-school Association. [More…]
For instance, the grant made to the Association in 1969-70 was $14,800 and as additional provision has been made by the Commonwealth to enable the Association to carry, out particular research projects in the field of preschool education. [More…]
It appointed a subcommittee to carry out a survey of the whole cross-section of pre-school education in Victoria, to look at the present situation, the needs and the best way in which those needs could be met. [More…]
This sub-committee published its report in June 1970 and without going into ri in great detail I suggest that it is a very valuable exercise for honourable members to look at the report, the Association’s assessment of pre-school education and the particular needs that the Association has identified. [More…]
The first of the significant matters that has come out of that report is again this recognition of the importance of pre-school education. [More…]
Today it is being said that the crucial educational years are the first 5 years of life and that if certain learning does not take place during this period, the child may never fully make up the loss. [More…]
It is vital that recognition and due attention be given to the important part which pre-school education plays in the total field of education. [More…]
Without labouring the point, it is important to remember that pre-school education is, above all, laying these firm foundations for the child’s subsequent educational experience. [More…]
It carried out a survey and ascertained that there were some 70,000 pupils in Victoria who started primary education in the year in which the survey was conducted. [More…]
It found that some 50 per cent of those children had received at least 1 year of pre-school education. [More…]
If pre-school education is recognised as being as important as it is then every effort should be made to provide adequate facilities so that every child has at least the opportunity, which its parents may or may not take up, to have that important educational experience. [More…]
A very interesting document that has been published recently is the report of Professor Karmel’s committee on education in South Australia. [More…]
In the chapter relating to pre-school education that report reveals a situation which is not very satisfactory in South Australia and the situation I would suggest, is not completely satisfactory in any of the other States. [More…]
It is important to remember that this is a particular need that was identified by the Commonwealth’s not just making its own decision about the matter but rather by consulting the State Governments, the local authorities, the colleges and all bodies and groups concerned with pre-school education. [More…]
It is significant that a body such as this, with wide and long experience in preschool education and in dealing with State governments and the authorities concerned with pre-school education, knowing the sources of finance available and where they have come from, should have recommended specifically that some considerations should be given to making recurrent grants available to the college by the Commonwealth. [More…]
I trust that that is something which the Commonwealth will take into account and keep under consideration as it continues to look at the role of the Commonwealth in education in the years to come. [More…]
It was felt by the Committee that, at least as far as the Melbourne Kindergarten Teachers’ College was concerned, more teacher bursaries should be made available and that they should be more valuable and brought up to par with the studentships made available by the Department of Education and Science for those persons who intend to undergo primary school teacher training. [More…]
I hope that honourable members will look at the report that the Committee made as a result of its inquiries and look at the needs of pre-school education that still exist. [More…]
1 emphasise, as educational authorities have been emphasising for some time, that this is a very important field of education. [More…]
It goes into the subject of pre-school education in Victoria in great depth. [More…]
It identifies particular needs in pre-school education in Victoria. [More…]
This scheme of legislation shows that the Commonwealth recognises the importance of pre-school education in Australia. [More…]
It is important for the long term education of all children in Australia. [More…]
One should not talk in retrospect on occasions like this, but I would remind the honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr Brown) that it was the Chifley government that was responsible for the introduction of the post-war reconstruction training scheme and which laid the plans for the extension of the university scholarships scheme to secondary education. [More…]
I would remind the honourable gentleman also that for years after I came to this Parliament in 1955 I heard the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, ridi culing the idea that the Commonwealth had any obligation in educational matters at all. [More…]
Invariably he invoked the Constitution as an impregnable barrier which would prevent the Commonwealth from playing any part in pre-school, primary, secondary or technical education. [More…]
For that matter, if it had not been for the fact that he went to London and had a scotch on the rocks in the Savoy Hotel with Sir Keith Murray, I doubt whether we would ever have had an inquiry into secondary education in Australia. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) said that the Bill is aimed at doubling the capacity for the training of pre-school teachers in Australia. [More…]
The shortage of teachers in pre-school education will be even greater than it was before. [More…]
This Government, which has the taxing power, up to this point of time has shown no inclination to accept the responsibility to underwrite the States’ pre-school education programmes. [More…]
There are 17,000 of these attending pre-school education facilities; that is, some 7 per cent of all those eligible are having the benefits of pre-school education. [More…]
It is remarkable that in the United Kingdom, which is hard pressed and which is said to be in a bad way, on its knees, the Plowden report is to be implemented, and the Government is working steadfastly towards the end of achieving an enrolment of 90 per cent of the eligible children for pre-school education. [More…]
In South Australia only 14 per cent, and in New South Wales only 7 per cent of the quarter of a million children eligible for pre-school education are enrolled. [More…]
When one looks at the extent to which pre-school education is subsidised per head of population one will again see in a vivid way the disparities that operate throughout this country - a state of affairs for which this Government clearly must accept responsibility. [More…]
In the Australian Capital Territory we subsidise pre-school education to the extent of $1.82 per head of population. [More…]
Many of these kindergartens are little more than child minding centres with hardly any educational content. [More…]
According to the Bureau of Census and Statistics, over 100,000 Australian women are willing to go to work and want to go for economic reasons, but many are prevented from doing so through the cost or unavailability of pre-school education facilities. [More…]
How can a woman with, say, 2 children find the incentive to go to work if she has to pay $20 a week for the care of her children at a pre-school education centre? [More…]
Will they be child minding centres or centres properly oriented to education? [More…]
Pre-school education, as the honourable member for Fremantle said, is the Cinderella of the education system. [More…]
Predominantly it is the children of middle class families who have the benefit of pre-school education. [More…]
There is very little public financial support for these centres and so the families have to make very substantial sacrifices if they want their children to get the benefit of pre-school education. [More…]
I would like to know what is this Government’s philosophy about this total question of pre-school education. [More…]
Does it think that pre-school education is good or does it think that it is bad? [More…]
Is it regarded as a necessary and essential prelude to primary education? [More…]
What is the Government’s view about whether or not pre-school education ought to be in the public system? [More…]
Should expansion of pre-school education be undertaken under the umbrella of the public education system, or should it be left to private enterprise? [More…]
Does it want to thwart and stop this exploitation of the educational needs of children, or does it want to make it a part of the education system? [More…]
Should this educational opportunity be available to families with or without direct charge, or should it be a charge on the public purse and based on the principle of capacity to pay through the utilisation of the uniform taxation system, which meets so many other educational requirements? [More…]
In the preschool education system what is to be the role of the community, industry, local government authorities and State and Federal governments? [More…]
Some States have no legislation covering pre-school education centres. [More…]
That legislation also provides for a full year compensatory education programme plus an 8 weeks sum up programme for children prior to entering full time education. [More…]
I conclude by saying that the Opposition stands for this: For Government responsibility for education, including the obligation to ensure that pre-school education is available for every child; The Commonwealth to establish an Australian preschool commission to define and examine regularly the aims of pre-school education and to recommend grants which the Commonwealth should make to the States to ensure that pre-school centres are located, staffed and equipped on the basis of needs and priorities. [More…]
I want to speak mainly on the Bill concerning technical education. [More…]
However, under this Bill we are talking about 400,000 students who are involved in technical education in Australia. [More…]
I think it is fair to say, as was very thoroughly explored, if not said in the same words by the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), that technical education in the history of Australian education has been a very decided poor relation. [More…]
That fact has been recognised in recent years to the extent that we have now a continuing programme of assistance to the field of technical education. [More…]
This is the sort of thing which has not been very much in the ethos of Australian education - certainly not at. [More…]
Mention was made by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) in his second reading speech of the Tregillis Mission which went to Europe to look into the field of technical education. [More…]
I look forward with some hope to at least the transfer of the knowledge which that report contains and to the possible adaptation of some of the things which it suggests; they hold considerable promise for the further development of technical education here. [More…]
While in some areas of education we can report difficulties of implementing plans to spend the money available, this is not so of those colleges in Tasmania. [More…]
I understand that this is at some variance with the general implementation of technical education grants which the Government has made available over the past 7 or so years. [More…]
1 shall say no more at this stage about the field of technical education other than that it is clearly a deserving field. [More…]
Pre-school education opens up a considerable field for social commentary. [More…]
I have no intention of taking him up on his comments point by point, nor do I propose exploring the field of pre-school education from start to finish. [More…]
Basic interest in this field arises from a growing body of evidence, of not very distant origin, which is showing with little doubt that children of the ages from 3 to 5 years have a far greater capacity to learn than was ever thought possible, in general terms at any rate, by the general public or, for that matter, by educationists. [More…]
That, I think, is implied or should be implied in the whole concept of providing some degree of formal education at the pre-school level, but I wonder whether the honourable member for Hughes and others of his colleagues have taken their thinking any further on that particular front because, as I understand it, their counterparts in Britain, if not in the Australian Labor Party in Australia, have joined the ranks in championing the concept of comprehensive education. [More…]
If comprehensive education stands for anything, in my view it stands for a considerable involvement in social training as well as, and sometimes in substitution for, intellectual training. [More…]
I suggest that members opposite might take their thinking into the next level of education. [More…]
If it is generally agreed that intellectual training is desirable at the 3. to 5-year-old level, I should think it very hard to make a case for any diminution in intellectual training at some higher level of education. [More…]
The honourable member for Hughes questioned whether the Government thought that the whole area of pre-school education was good or bad. [More…]
I do not know how rhetorical his question was meant to be but I should have thought that the very fact of the Government making available funds for this particular area of education, which has only recently been recognised as deserving of considerable government involvement, would have answered that question. [More…]
Perhaps if we opened up the whole field of pre-school education that would be fair comment. [More…]
I should have thought that in the general context of shortages, real and imagined, in the whole process of education questions about teachers would not require much answering in practical terms. [More…]
I think the same is true of any field of education at any time. [More…]
It would be unfair to suggest that preschool education is other than a beginning field - a field which is just being developed for the reasons that I mentioned earlier. [More…]
It is also well established - and probably increasingly so as time passes and educational psychology develops - that the mother is the central figure in a young child’s life and if she has the capacity to transmit not only love and affection but also something of a basically intellectual kind, so much the better. [More…]
But the plain fact remains that not all mothers are, at least in any formal sense, capable of transmitting, much less trained to transmit, in any sort of defined area in any meaningful, efficient or educational sense, a body of information equivalent to the capacity of her child, or for that matter somebody else’s child, to absorb. [More…]
Hence a case can be made, irrespective of one’s social attitudes in this matter, for some body of formalised pre-school education. [More…]
I reiterate the quotation from the speech of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) by the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley). [More…]
While it may be held that the latter quotation applies particularly to high school more than to technical training, I would direct the attention of the House to the evidence of increased participation and retention of students in technical schools mentioned in the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Education in South Australia 1969-70. [More…]
It is a great pity that the recent Australiawide survey on needs in the fields of primary, secondary and teacher education did not include technical training or that an inquiry that dealt exclusively with this area was not held. [More…]
We are living in a technical era and assistance in this field of education is essential in the development of both secondary and primary industries. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) has made it clear in his second reading speech that the Commonwealth regards these grants to the States as being supplementary to the State’s own efforts in providing adequate technical training facilities. [More…]
With the technical era, with the tremendous advances in the various industries and in the fields that 1 have mentioned, it is very important that young Australians receive the best technical education that can possibly be given to them. [More…]
They do not have to matched $1 for $1 by the States and this will be of great benefit to the educational facilities in the States in the funds they have available for the technical education field. [More…]
What I would like to discuss is the importance that the Australian Labor Party gives to the right of all children to a pre-school education. [More…]
We believe that all children should have a pre-school education because of the considerable educational benefits that it can provide. [More…]
Inequalities abound at every level of education in Australia. [More…]
For particular groups within the community, such as Aboriginals, migrants and handicapped children, the education system is a one-way street to frustration. [More…]
For other large sections of the community progress through the education system is determined less by ability and the desire to learn than by parental wealth and social status. [More…]
These inequalities can be abolished only by a deliberate policy of social and economic change and by an educational policy aimed not merely at giving equal opportunities to all but at giving greater opportunities to those whose needs are the greatest. [More…]
It will aim to provide a pre-school education for every child and to give early treatment to culturally disadvantaged children. [More…]
A pre-school education must be regarded as a right of every Australian child. [More…]
The growth of self reliance and social co-operation gives this educational environment in the preschool a value that scarcely needs emphasising. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s expenditure on pre-school education is less than microscopic, and represents an insignificant fraction of its total expenditure on education. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s educational blinkers limit its vision to the end products of the educational process. [More…]
Substantial sums are spent on the minority who are fortunate enough to get to the tertiary level of education, but the Commonwealth makes no direct grants to the primary schools and only nugatory grants to the pre-schools where the formal educational process begins. [More…]
By comparison the Commonwealth recognises the right of all children in the Australian Capital Territory to 1 year of pre-school education. [More…]
Thus the chances of a child’s educational opportunities are determined not in accordance with the principle of equality and the needs of the child but with the fortuitous circumstance of where he. [More…]
At the same time, the use by State governments of a subsidy system to assist parents and voluntary organisations to provide pre-school facilities results in the discrimination which characterises the later stages of education. [More…]
The subsidy system means that a child’s educational opportunities are determined not by his needs and not by the Government’s sense of responsibility, but by the accident of where he happens to live. [More…]
She said that only 1 child in 7 in the working class suburb of Brunswick and only 1 in 5 in South Melbourne were receiving a pre-school education. [More…]
At the same time, the fees charged for pre-school education impose a special burden on families of low income. [More…]
The simple fact is that preschool education should be recognised as a right of all children and, accordingly, should be free. [More…]
But for many parents, the fees are prohibitive, and many children who could benefit most from a pre-school education are being denied the opportunity. [More…]
While it guarantees to all children in the Australian Capital Territory the right to 1 year of preschool education, the assistance which the Commonwealth gives to the States in the form of capital grants for pre-school teacher colleges if of only marginal assistance and reflects a sense of concern for the welfare of Australian children which is only slightly greater than English governments in the eighteenth century showed towards Dame Schools. [More…]
However, the Labor Party’s Pre-School Commission will aim not only to ensure equal access for all children to a preschool education but also to discriminate in favour of those who are disadvantaged by the limitations of home environment. [More…]
The physically, mentally or socially handicapped child faces specific disadvantages which will severely retard his educational growth unless identified and treated early. [More…]
The child from a family of low income, low education and low occupational status by comparison with the middle class Australian child will not have reached the same level of development of his basic skills of language and reasoning. [More…]
The first few years of education are critical to the attitude which a child develops towards the school and to the abilities he acquires and develops. [More…]
The traditional rofe of the pre-schools, according to Dr M. M. de Lemos, writing in the ‘Quarterly Review of Australian Education’ of June 1968, has been seen as ‘providing mainly for the social and emotional development of the child’. [More…]
These abilities are fundamental to success at every stage of later education. [More…]
This is not to say that such specific and directed learning should be the sole or whole content of his preschool education, nor is there any one definition as to exactly what the teaching methods to be employed should be. [More…]
Pre-school education must be a national concern. [More…]
Acting as an agency of continuing audit for the Commonwealth and State governments, the Commission will also assess the needs of pre-school education as a whole and will make recommendations to the Commonwealth Government as to the priorities which must be met. [More…]
A great variety of deficiencies retard the growth of pre-school education. [More…]
Of equal importance, it will examine continually the philosophy of pre-school education and act as a stimulus to improvement and change by encouraging research and experimentation. [More…]
I believe that pre-school education is a vital stage of a child’s growth. [More…]
It is for that reason that I am very concerned that both the Commonwealth and State governments have shown such little concern for preschool education. [More…]
Then the Department of Education will build a school, probably 2 or 3 miles away, requiring buses to transport the children or, if their parents are a little more affluent, they may be driven by their parents in cars. [More…]
Earlier today we were reminded of the reluctance of the Commonwealth Government to accept early claims upon it for support for education. [More…]
At first in the 1950s Prime Minister Menzies insisted that since education was not the direct constitutional responsibility of the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth should not enter into the field of education finance. [More…]
As a result the position has now been reached after several intermediate stages where, inadequate as it still is, Commonwealth financial assistance to education runs into hundreds of millions of dollars. [More…]
The truth is that just as the States could not continue and could not possibly cope alone with the needs of education, so are they unable to meet their responsibilities in housing. [More…]
lm net in 55 countries, for agriculture, education, transportation, electric power, water supply, telecommunications, industry, and project preparation and technical assistance. [More…]
1 hope at least that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) will convey the feelings of honourable members on this side of the House to his colleagues. [More…]
But I ask the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) to listen to this question and please forward it to the appropriate Minister: Will the Government ensure that in future all copies of these memoranda are made available to members of this House or at least made available to them on request? [More…]
Each year at this time the ‘OECD Observer’, which I am glad to say we have in the Parliament, produces the latest statistics showing the economic pattern of OECD countries, incentives to invest in developing countries, the need for intergovernmental co-operation on the environment and policy implications of increased growth in higher education. [More…]
So I ask the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn), who is seated at the table, to convey to the Treasurer these questions: Why are we not members of the OECD? [More…]
I also direct attention in particular to the article in this journal on the policy implications of the growth in higher education. [More…]
It will be noted in the report that Japan, which has a low gross national product per capita, is third on the list of enrolment rates in higher education. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the [More…]
Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
This country is still languishing to a degree because there has been excessive private investment in some directions - I do not say in all - and there certainly has not been sufficient public investment in other directions, and in particular in the fields of education and health. [More…]
I believe that one of the greatest contributors to increased productivity is, in the long run, the educational levels of the community from which the work force is drawn. [More…]
If there is to be an improvement in the overall level educationally of the work force, that points to the fundamental importance of increased expenditure on education, particularly at the higher secondary and tertiary levels. [More…]
We are sick and tired of hearing Treasurers and Prime Ministers say in this Parliament that the high interest rates are necessary in spite of their effect on housing in this country and the effect they are having on State budgets, resulting in inadequate hospitals and inadequate education appropriations around the country. [More…]
While this is only a machinery Bill it does demonstrate a complete change in the way in which the Commonwealth has looked at the question of education over the 15 years in which I have been in this Parliament. [More…]
Fifteen years ago, when any questions of education were raised in this Parliament it was pointed out to us absolutely from those on the opposite side that it had nothing to do with us, that it was totally a matter for the States; that education was the prerogative of the States and their constitutional right. [More…]
I believe that this is a desirable change in the Commonwealth’s responsibilities but it is one which ought to be extended to larger areas in the Aus tralian educational system. [More…]
For a long while it has been a puzzle to those of us who are concerned with education that only at the university level is the Commonwealth prepared to be totally associated with the development of the structure of our universities. [More…]
As has been pointed out this Bill is purely a machinery one but the constitutional issue of the Commonwealth’s responsibility for education and for universities is the important issue. [More…]
Insofar as the Commonwealth acknowledges its responsibility in this area the Bill is to be commended, but I hope that the day is not far distant when the Commonwealth will accept a greater responsibility for pre-school, primary and secondary education. [More…]
Until that aim is achieved the revolution In education will proceed very slowly. [More…]
One implication of the arrangement is that the State governments have to channel many of their sorely needed educational funds away from other levels of education. [More…]
I think we have all been made well aware in the last week or two of the extreme deficiencies of pre-school, primary and secondary education, as well as technical and teacher education. [More…]
One of the main reasons for the deficiencies is that the great development achieved in universities has taken place at the cost of other levels of education. [More…]
Unfortunately, it is still a fact in many universities education becomes a matter of mass instruction rather than education. [More…]
Perhaps some of them could have been accommodated in colleges of advanced education or in institutes of technology but as a former lecturer in a teachers college I fear that many of the students who are unable to gain access to a university will enter a teachers college in order to try to get a tertiary education. [More…]
There they will probably take a Science degree, an Economics degree or an Arts degree, and having obtained a Diploma of Education they will probably serve a year or two and then quit the teaching field. [More…]
Unfortunately this is at the expense of education generally. [More…]
Whilst we applaud the action of the Government in making available these grants which will enable salaries of academic staff to be increased, I cannot help regretting that in some ways the very act of providing these increases will take away from other levels of State responsibility in education and cause problems which will be reflected in later years when the students try to go to university. [More…]
There are still many people who would go on to universities if they had a better secondary education, but to the extent that this will be limited by the distraction of funds from the universities, if I may put it in that way, it will cut down on the opportunities for many others to gain a tertiary education. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn), who is now at the table, to take note of what I have said and decide whether in his judgment this situation is more desirable so that, our universities will have the capacity to teach the promising section of our community and those with the most potential and so that we may have a vast and important resource for Australia. [More…]
I know the honourable member for Kingston (Dr Gun) does not fight education on political grounds. [More…]
But the point is, if I might just take one more sentence to deal with it, that there are people in this House whom I have heard mention in the past the fact that members of their Party go over to South Australia to help in political campaigns to do with education and I do know of one or two cases relating to universities such as the Flinders University where this cannot be said to be true because I have also been invited to the same meeting. [More…]
It may also be due to the fact that there is in general a greater degree of acceptability of some sort of training and education in the community at large. [More…]
In this second reading speech the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) said that the Commonwealth will contribute: the following levels and proportionately for the junior academic staff. [More…]
Perhaps it is also incumbent upon the Commonwealth, through the Department of Education and Science, to see whether we can get some rationalisation of that situation as soon as possible so that the danger is smaller in relation to these people who are not yet in permanent employment, who are budding professors and who have every suggestion of making good by doing the best they can. [More…]
While a case may be made for some other areas of education which may be more deserving than the universities, I draw the attention of the Minister for Education and Science to that fact and to the recent pronouncements oi the Vice-Chancellor. [More…]
We urgently draw the attention of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) to the problems in this regard, particularly in the case of the University of Queensland. [More…]
I believe the external studies system is an important contribution to education and it should not be neglected. [More…]
I appeal to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) to examine the question of external studies. [More…]
In fact, the actual mingling of people at universities is part of the contribution to the development of a person’s personality and education. [More…]
My first step in my not very distinguished academic career was achieved as a result of the benefits of army education while I was still soldiering on, defending Australia against the surging hordes from the north. [More…]
Again, this is a feature of most Australian universities and senior educational institutions. [More…]
As the Minister is no doubt aware a large number of people in this House have been intimately involved with education over many years. [More…]
It may be a helpful operation to the ultimate education of the community and, not least of all, if the people involved are teachers. [More…]
The situation is not quite as simple as it looks, however desirable it may be to give every member of the community a chance and, if necessary, a second chance, at the possibility of university education. [More…]
The opportunity still remains for other forms of tertiary education if the people concerned do not happen to prove themselves entirely adaptable to the particular demands of university classes and courses. [More…]
I do not think the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) would deny that fact. [More…]
Recently the former Minister for Education and Science supplied me with an answer to a question which 1 asked about these and other things. [More…]
It is about time that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) and his Department joined with the Department of Labour and National Service and the AttorneyGeneral’s Department to give this boy at least an opportunity if the Commonwealth Government intends to keep him in gaol. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot affordto hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
Your petitioners request that your honourable House make legal provisions for - 1: The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Also there are fundamental areas of social policy, such as education and science. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) is a farmer and grazier. [More…]
I would need 21/2 hours to point out to honouraoble members opposite how dismally they have failed in regard to social welfare, education and defence, you name it. [More…]
It was pathetic in education. [More…]
Social services of various kinds and health and education programmes also are operating over the whole of the Territory. [More…]
In my field of professional interest - education - 1 think it is fairly obvious that Mr To Liman has become a Minister in the sense in which we use the term. [More…]
I think we have to pay some credit to the director of the education system in as much as it is obvious that that is the way he thinks it should be. [More…]
We should guarantee the future of the education system. [More…]
Formal education is still confined to a relatively small proportion of the population. [More…]
I have heard people express the opinion - again both New Guineans and expatriates - that one can give people training and education but one cannot give them experience and background over night. [More…]
I said: Do you believe Papua New Guinea should now be controlling its own education?’ [More…]
In regard to handling the problems of their country the intermediate certificate of education does not give anybody an expertise in the House of Assembly higher than that of a wise local leader who might be totally illiterate. [More…]
The Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
The Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State eduction services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
It is true that the reduced immigration programme for this year will provide an opportunity, as I said in my statement on the size of the programme, to extend and develop our welfare and education activities amongst migrants. [More…]
To set against the many benefits of immigration there are costs in education, housing and transport which are real factors for State governments even though the cost of immigration itself is a minor element in total Commonwealth expenditure. [More…]
That all words after That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: the Bill bc withdrawn in order that the Agreement between the Commonwealth and the States be amended to make provision for more detailed criteria on eligibility and to ensure that every bona fide producer, within an acceptable means test, is eligible to receive assistance which will enable persons (a) to remain in primary production where it is considered, on technical and economic evidence available, that financial viability can be achieved within a reasonable time, (b) to move out of primary production where it is considered, on technical and economic evidence available, that financial viability cannot be achieved within a reasonable time and (c) to participate, with their family, in a fully co-ordinated rehabilitation programme including technical college education or at least its equivalent’. [More…]
Children will have their education curtailed and their future careers put in jeopardy. [More…]
Why is $500,000 being spent for drug education on drugs of dependence without including education to discourage the use of alcohol or tobacco (Hansard, 31 March 1971, page 1283). [More…]
In 1970 a meeting of Commonwealth and State Ministers concerned with combating drug abuse agreed to a recommendation of the National Standing Control Committee on Drugs of Dependence (NSCC) that it establish an Education SubCommittee to integrate, co-ordinate, encourage and advise on education activities in drug abuse. [More…]
Subsequently the Government allocated $500,000 to be spent during 1970-71 on drug education in a manner recommended by the Sub-Committee and approved by the NSCC. [More…]
Accordingly, it would not be appropriate for the committee to include education to discourage the use of alcohol and tobacco in its education programme. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
3296) Mr Whitlam asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Most of us need to have consultations with education authorities in our own States. [More…]
We find that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) and honourable members opposite, because of tiredness and fatigue, are unable to debate effectively the matters before this Parliament. [More…]
Yet the Minister has introduced a measure of vital concern to people all over this nation which affects education. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State eduction services has established serious deficiencies in eduction. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State eduction services has established serious deficiencies in eduction. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
The college to which the Minister has referred is to cost 2,900,000, and indeed it will be very tangible evidence of the country’s concern for Aboriginal education. [More…]
I think that everyone will be pleased that some special effort is being made with regard to the education of Aboriginal people. [More…]
One of the things that surprised me during the Public Works Committte hearing was the revelation that compulsory education does not operate in the Northern Territory in respect of Aboriginal people. [More…]
I make the point that, in terms of principle, it is alarming that there is no compulsory education operating in the Northern Territory in respect of Aboriginal people. [More…]
There is a surprisingly high proportion of people of eligible age undergoing education. [More…]
All of us were pleased to learn that pre-school education is getting priority in the Territory. [More…]
I regard that as being of great significance because, when a child gets the advantage of education in the pre-school period, it is a thing that compounds as he goes through his education, and the longer he goes to school the greater the value he derives. [More…]
When we think of the Kormilda College and of the Yirara College at Alice Springs, which is the subject of the present motion, we ought to have regard to the fact that, in contrast to the conditions that prevail in the rest of Australia, the preponderance of young Aboriginal people will be taken away from their family if they desire to undergo higher education, that is, education beyond the age of 12 years. [More…]
Can honourable members imagine what would happen to a child of 12 years who went away from home for 5 years in order to receive the benefit of an education and then returned to a situation which had not evolved in a compatible way? [More…]
Although I agree that there is a necessity for colleges like the Yirara College and the Kormilda College, in which a very good job is done by devoted and capable people, I still believe that we should not be adopting this attitude in such a switch-throwing way - taking these children away from their mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters and their tribal background and sending them to Alice Springs and Darwin for education. [More…]
One of the things that I have found most interesting in the Northern Territory on the occasions I have been there and have talked to the Aboriginal people has been the interest which Aboriginal people living in isolated places show in allowing their children to take advantage of the education which they are now receiving. [More…]
As one who has been associated closely with safety first committees set up to do away with unsafe practices and potential hazards and to promote education to make employees in industry more aware of potential dangers, I am fully aware that safety first discipline is essential if industrial accidents are to be kept down. [More…]
I am not knocking the scheme in itself, but of course it has caused great needs in the fields of education, housing, health and hospitals, urban renewal and a lot of other areas which are being poorly treated in this country at the present time and which are causing great hardship particularly for the lower income groups of our country. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) has not justified the Schedule to this Bill. [More…]
No matter where one turns, the accusation is being made against the Government that what it is doing in education favours the affluent. [More…]
It should be a matter for pained reflection that in the affluent Western democracies the costs of two of the most elementary necessities, medical care and higher education, are beyond the private means of the vast majority of citizens, whereas in some less affluent countries under dictatorial rule, these things are, with some pertinent reservations, free. [More…]
In the field of tertiary education government programmes of aid have their merits but they fall far short of the ideal. [More…]
According to the AUS submission, only 2 per cent of children in the lower socio-economic classes get tertiary education’. [More…]
I need not refer to what she is discussing; it is an aspect of education - . [More…]
will maintain and strengthen the Commonwealth Government’s conception of education as a sectional private advantage dependent upon parental income. [More…]
Mr Fairbairn’s statement on dropout rates confirms that we have another Liberal Minister for Education and Science who complacently contemplates a disgracefully immoral inequality of educational opportunity among children, and completely ignores the social and economic disasters these same children will have to bear in their lifetime as a result of his Party’s policies. [More…]
But there is a luminous couple of paragraphs in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) in which he tells us that he believes that the Government is coming towards the end of this aid. [More…]
Although the whole country is roaring with the most tremendous estimates of educational needs and of the billions of dollars that may need to be spent over, a decade to update Australian education, he regards this as finite. [More…]
If you are referring to the Catholic schools, yes, but I cannot believe, in the face of the educational collapse which is one of the leading features of Victoria, that the positions of the Geelong Grammars and so on under this sort of legislation are a consideration of need. [More…]
When it come to tax concessions, of course, if you allow a deduction of $300 for education and a man is a 50c in the $1 taxpayer, he is given an educational endowment of $150 for his child. [More…]
The poorer person does not get any such educational endowment. [More…]
It is a field of education. [More…]
A considerable grant is made to the State schools for technical education.’ [More…]
Those who want a technical education go to them irrespective of the background from which they have come. [More…]
Apart from that it is extremely doubtful whether technical education institutions will receive $26m, which is what the State schools should be getting to get the same per capital grant from the Commonwealth now as the private schools will get under this legislation. [More…]
While in the past this disparity has been explained in terms of technical education, it is extremely doubtful whether any grant of $26m is being made for technical education even if you can make an analogy between technical education and science block grants, which I deny. [More…]
But I think that the Government has not a democratic conception of education at all. [More…]
The Minister has shown really no emotion at all about the drop out rate in the non-affluent sectors of education, which rate clearly establishes that education is beyond the means of a very large number of people in the country. [More…]
That would justify not adopting a regressive way of financing or making tax concessions for education. [More…]
I think we must use our commonsense and recognise that there is a real loss because of the inability of parents to afford the education which they would desire for their children. [More…]
It is not the desire of the Opposition to take down anybody’s education. [More…]
It never has recovered in the field of education and chronic unrest is now being produced in the teaching profession in that State. [More…]
It might be instructive for honourable members to be reminded of what the Liberal Party and the Government used, to say on this question of education. [More…]
The urgent need for the Commonwealth to take action to ensure that sufficient funds are available to each State of the Commonwealth to provide adequate public education facilities for its people. [More…]
The fact is that education, except in Commonwealth Territories, remains a function of the States. [More…]
We believe - I think this has been demonstrated over the years - that this has no satisfactory relation to the needs of Australian education. [More…]
It is instructive on occasions such as this - I do not intend to speak for the full length of time available to me - to consider where the needs in Australian education are, in what way this Government is approaching them and in what way this legislation assists in meeting them. [More…]
First of all, it is obvious that Australia needs, for the senior areas of secondary education, some student support system. [More…]
I was interested, in glancing back at my speech on the matter of public importance that I raised in the House in May 1958, to note that on that occasion I referred to the failure of the Commonwealth to assist in migrant education. [More…]
Now, after 12 or 13 years, very little indeed has been done in tackling the question of migrant education. [More…]
The great flood of migrants into many parts of the industrial areas of Australia, and in particular into electorates such as mine, has almost destroyed the local education system. [More…]
The Government has approached the question of libraries, again in the same haphazard fashion in which this legislation endows the education system of Australia. [More…]
The Australian education services need all sorts of extra teaching facilities. [More…]
In all areas we probably should do a great deal of educational television. [More…]
We should do a great deal of educational research. [More…]
So, this system again is endowing the rich and neglecting the great areas of need in Australian education. [More…]
It would be educational for certain honourable members opposite to take a drive through some of the suburban areas of Australia, particularly industrial areas. [More…]
Instead, we are here again this evening discussing policies which have been plucked out of the air and which have very little relation to the needs of the Australian education system. [More…]
As we have pointed out from this side of the House on numerous occasions, the adventure into non-state education and its support have been undertaken on a totally haphazard system based upon political and electoral expediency that has no relation to the needs pf the community. [More…]
I believe that this could be disastrous to the State education systems and, on the whole, bad for all the others. [More…]
Despite a perhaps somewhat ungracious reference by the honourable member for Fremantle to the time allotted to me in a recent debate, I think I have been in the habit of following him on educational matters and, in the main, giving him reasonable credit for the usually soundly based arguments which he puts forward. [More…]
The burden of the complaint of the 2 honourable members opposite who have spoken so far has been based on the question of state aid and on a fairly widely placed argument in relation to inequalities in education. [More…]
I am not interested at this stage in ranging widely over the whole argument of state aid, but as far as this Bill is concerned honourable members opposite might at least have drawn attention to a table in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) wherein on can see that far more than half the total nongovernmental grants are in the direction of Catholic schools. [More…]
Without taking the matter in more detail - perhaps I run slightly foul of my own criticism - I think it is generally known by those interested in education that the Catholic schools in the large are a great deal more deficient in their funding than are some of the better off middle-income areas. [More…]
I am also surprised to find that the Government members committee on education which has been receiving people and deputations week after week for some time past, has not been hearing the same story as we hear on a number of occasions. [More…]
I think honourable members will find that there has been a considerable lessening of emphasis over the last 2, 3 or 4 years on the science area of education, even at the secondary level. [More…]
Certainly that has been so in recent years in the teritary education sphere to the extent that there is now a fairly well known over-supply of chemists at the level of academic education. [More…]
I think it is probably conceivable that in the not too distant future we may weir consider in education, if not in some other forms of social services, the question of flat rates of taxation relief possibly on assessed income or on the final tax payable in’ respect of expenditures by people in those areas. [More…]
I believe that the resolution is at least fair and that, generally speaking, in the school community this operation has been seen to have very considerable and specific advantages in the education of our children in secondary schools. [More…]
I believe that this is not the most appropriate time to bring to account the whole question of inequalities in education, although of course the argument for per capita grants in any shape or form - including per capita per pupil, as is implied in the amendment - in itself is a good, uniform, fair sounding and fair acting proposition which one could not deny. [More…]
One does not expect them to speak on education. [More…]
It is an indication to the Parliament and the nation of just how little consideration these people have for education. [More…]
I daresay that the only thing the honourable member for Mallee has ever done for education has been to present Commonwealth flags. [More…]
There is a guise of benevolent concern for education behind this Bill, but it is part of the whole Liberal policy towards education. [More…]
The educational aspects of it are important, but also are its social aspects. [More…]
Surely it has, because the philosophy behind this Bill is to relegate the government education system to being a secondary consideration in the mind of the Government. [More…]
Looking at the dropout rates we find, for example, that in Victoria last year 24.8 per cent of the students who started off their secondary education were enrolled for the last year; 31.3 per cent of the Catholic school students were enrolled for the sixth year and 93.8 per cent of the private school students were enrolled for the last year. [More…]
In other words, the State school student has only one-quarter of the chances of the private non-Catholic school student of completing his secondary education and the Catholic school student has only one-third of the chances of the private non-Catholic school student of completing his secondary education. [More…]
Some comments on this subject have been made by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn). [More…]
But it is this continuing neglect by the Commonwealth Government of the State education system and its continuing concentration on private education - and within that section its discrimination in favour of the non-Catholic private sector - that are causing this continuing inequality in government schools. [More…]
On 28th April I asked the Minister for Education and [More…]
It has reached the stage where there should be a national investigation into why so many qualified science teachers are leaving and why so few of them are joining the education system. [More…]
At the present moment, at the lower level of secondary education, up to the fourth form in Victoria, there is a severe shortage of qualified science teachers, and even in the senior years there is a shortage. [More…]
Even moi: recently the Director-General of Education in Victoria, Mr Brooks, commented that the lack of science teachers and mathematics teachers was likely to continue for at least 3 to 4 years. [More…]
I just point out that what the Commonwealth is doing is looking at one side of education alone. [More…]
10m yearly by way of technical education grants. [More…]
I am not fully familiar with what obtains in every other State, but I know that in my own State of New South Wales technical education is handled by a com pletely separate department; it has nothing whatsoever to do with the secondary education programme. [More…]
I am grateful to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) for allowing those tables to be incorporated in Hansard. [More…]
Commonwealth library grants are about equal on a per capita basis for students in all systems of education in all States of Australia. [More…]
If the Government puts such priority on science education, it should go the whole hog and make sure that there are sufficient teachers to use the facilities. [More…]
It has been put to me, and I am sure it has been put to the Minister and to the Government members’ Education Committee, that at least in the State school systems it would have been better had they been given grants for education and allowed to make their individual judgments on priorities. [More…]
As a result of identifying one particular segment of the educational programme there is a lopsided and distorted programme. [More…]
I do not know how anyone can possibly forecast that we are nearing the end of a science building programme or any other kind of educational programme. [More…]
After all, a recent survey of educational needs indicates that over the next 5 years, beginning this year, which is almost half gone, the State systems alone will need $ 1,443m extra for education. [More…]
I do not know how anyone can forecast that we can tail off grants for any particular segment of education. [More…]
Whilst it is true, as my colleagues have said, that there are unfortunately too few students, particularly in government schools and in Catholic schools, who are going right through their secondary educational programme, on the other hand every year there is an increase in the number of students who are staying on to complete a secondary education. [More…]
As everyone knows - this is a point that has been forgotten by the Opposition - the constitutional authority for education rests with the States. [More…]
During the course of this debate we have had a wide ranging discussion of everything that is meant to be wrong with education in the States. [More…]
Honourable members opposite seem quite incapable of comprehending the fact that the States do have the authority in the education field and that what we seek to do is to assist them. [More…]
In fact they use a very large percentage of them in education. [More…]
I do not want to go on, - I am sure you would rule me out of order if I did, Mr Speaker - to reply to some of the remarks that have been made about drop-out rates and various other matters which are important from an educational point of view but are not covered by this Bill. [More…]
Let me just point out once again that the constitutional authority for education rests with the States. [More…]
We seek, through science laboratories programmes such as this, through the libraries programme, through teacher training and through assistance in so many different ways, to assist the States, whilst leaving the States responsible for the quality of their education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What (a) Commonwealth and (b) State subsidies are paid in respect of the education of students in special schools for the physically or mentally handicapped. [More…]
The subject of Commonwealth and State assistance for the education of students in special schools for the physically or mentally handicapped is an extremely complex one. [More…]
A brief summary of the facilities made available by the Commonwealth and State Governments and independent organisations for the education and training of mentally and physically handicapped children in Australia is contained in a bulletin prepared and issued by my Department entitled: ‘The Education of Handicapped Children’. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
I suggest that it would be more appropriate for the honourable member to take the matter up with State Ministers for Education as far as teachers’ .colleges are concerned and with the appropriate organisations in the States responsible for pre-school teachers’ colleges. [More…]
Information in the detail requested is not available but the annual reports of the State Ministers for Education do contain some information on the qualifications of teachers and I would also refer the honourable member to a report of a survey undertaken by the Australian College of Education in 1963. [More…]
The report entitled Teachers in Australian Schools’ was published by The Australian College of Education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The latest available information on the numbers and percentages of teachers who have resigned from Education Departments in each State is currently being collated and I shall provide this information to the honourable member in the near future. [More…]
The number of full-time teachers employed by Education Departments in Government schools in each State are shown below: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
How many (a) undergraduate enrolments and (b) Commonwealth scholars in training were there in (i) Australian universities and (ii) colleges of advanced education in each of the years 1969, 1970 and 1971. [More…]
The number of students enrolled (including part-time students) in advanced level courses at Colleges of Advanced Education, as published by the Commonwealth Statistician in the Quarterly Summary - of Australian Statistics. [More…]
The enrolments in advanced level courses relate to enrolments in courses and parts of courses approved under the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act as well as to courses at the Canberra College of Advancel Education. [More…]
In addition there are a number of students who are enrolled in those parts of courses at Colleges of Advanced Education which are not approved under the above Acts (mainly first year diploma enrolments in Victoria). [More…]
The number of scholars in training under the Commonwealth Advanced Education Scholarship Scheme (at 30th June each year) at institutions classified as Colleges of Advanced Education was 2,446 in 1969 and 3,734 in 1970. [More…]
These figures relate in the main to students enrolled in courses or parts of courses approved under the States Grants (Advanced Education) [More…]
State, (B) private non-Catholic and (C) Catholic schools who enrolled the following year at (I) universities (II) colleges of advanced education, (III) teachers colleges and (IV) technical, colleges on (A) a full-time, (B) a part-time and (C) an external student basis. [More…]
This - kind of information would have to be obtained : either1 from ‘ the records ‘ of the universities, col- -‘ leges ‘df advanced education, etc. [More…]
Statistics in this form have ‘ ; not been collected from these education institu-: lions ‘(apart ‘‘from some small research studies for 1 particular institutions). [More…]
A survey of school leavers :was carried ‘ out by Dr W. C. Radford of the Austraiian Council’ for Educational Research in 1939-60 which obtained some of the information requested by the honourable member. [More…]
The survey results were published in a report entitled ‘School Leavers in Australia, 1959-60’ by W. C. Radford, published by the Australian Council for Educational Research. [More…]
asked- .the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
to (3) The Departments represented on the Inter-departmental Committee are: ‘ Prime Ministers, Treasury, Social Services, Education and Science, Health, Immigration, Interior and Labour and National Service. [More…]
What is the cost to the Commonwealth of the $300 education concessional deduction offered under section 82 J (4.) [More…]
What would be the estimated cost to the Commonwealth if a concessional deduction up to (a) $300 and (b) $600 was granted to taxpayers who pay the education expenses for full-time students (i) under 26 years of age and (ii) under 30 years of age. [More…]
What would be the estimated cost to the Commonwealth if a concessional deduction up to (a) $300 and (b) $600 wds granted to full-time students (0 under 26 years of age and (ii) under 30 years of age who pay their own personal education expenses. [More…]
What is the cost to the Commonwealth for the allowance of deductions for education expenses under section 51 (1.) [More…]
What would be the estimated cost to the Commonwealth if a concessional deduction up to (a) $300 and (b) $600’ was granted to taxpayers who pay education expenses in respect of parttime students (i) under 21 years of age, (ii) under 26 years of age and (iii) under 30 years of age. [More…]
The cost to income tax revenue of concessional deductions for education expenses allowed under section 82j of the Income Tax Assessment Act is estimated at $75m per annum. [More…]
and (4) No statistics are available that would permit reliable estimates to be made of the cost to revenue of extending the deductions allowed for education expenses to each of the classes of education expenses referred to, but it has been estimated that the annual cost to income tax revenue of extending the deduction to cover education expenses up to a maximum of $600 per student incurred in respect of full-time students aged 21 years and over would be about $2m. [More…]
No statistics are available of deductions la respect of education expenses allowed under see* tion 51 of the Income Tax Assessment Act [More…]
No statistics are available that would permit reliable estimates to be made of the cost of extending the deductions allowed to taxpayers for education expenses to cover expenses in respect of students in each of these age groups, but it has been estimated that the cost to revenue of allowing concessional deductions for education expenses, to a maximum of $600 per student, in respect of all part-time students would not exceed $5m per annum. [More…]
What percentage of the gross national product was spent on health, education and welfare and what percentage was spent by (a) all public authorities and (b) all private sources, during each of the past S years. [More…]
Can he state for the latest years available those countries in which the total expenditure on health, education and welfare expressed as a percentage of their gross national product exceeds that of Australia. [More…]
The Statistician also prepares estimates of public authority and private expenditure on education for the Australian National Accounts (see again tables 49, 64. and 74 of the 1968-69 issue). [More…]
These latter estimates are made available each year, together with supplementary figures and explanatory notes, in a statement entitled ‘Expenditure oa Education*. [More…]
The estimates of expenditure on education and public health in the accompanying table may of course be compared with similar figures for other countries, and the honourable member is referred to the United Nations Yearbook of National Accounts Statistics’, which shows for many countries, current expenditure oa education and health, and public authority current expenditure on welfare. [More…]
He is reminded, however, of the difficulties involved in making such comparisons, and in that connection I should like to draw his attention to the views expressed in a statement issued by the Department of Education and Science as a supplement to the Department’s Education News’ of April 1969, and entitled ‘Education and the Gross National Product’. [More…]
As explained in the answer to the previous question asked by the Honourable Member, the admin istration of education by the Commonwealth in the Northern Territory is shared by the Department of Education and Science and the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration. [More…]
Community Schools under the Control of the Department of Education and Science [More…]
At the end of 1970 all teachers at Community Schools were employed by the South Australian Education Department and the statistics in the sections which follow have been compiled with the co-operation of that Department. [More…]
Education and Science upon notice: [More…]
Which States have taken up Commonwealth matching grants for (a) university and (b) college of advanced education salary increases arising from the 6 per cent national wage judgement, and from what date are the increases being paid in each case. [More…]
The -Minister for Defence will continue to be represented in , the Senate by Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs by Senator Wright who will also continue to represent the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
The right honourable member for Higgins - the right honourable John Grey Gorton, Companion of Honour, Privy Councillor, former Minister for the Navy, former Minister for Education and Science, former Prime Minister, former Minister for Defence, former Leader of the Liberal Party, former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party - should have seen the portent and should have recognised the ominous sign. [More…]
The portfolios of AttorneyGeneral, Health and Education and Science have each had three Ministers in 5 months. [More…]
Work is proceeding on the other terms of reference, including the principles and levels which should apply to officers pay, and the demands and exigencies of Service life, together with some special references on certain allowances, such as education allowance and temporary rental allowance. [More…]
- A Co-operative Education project to assist in the development of co-operative education, including instruction at the Co-operative Educational Centre, and advice on courses and equipment. [More…]
(This project is closely related to the UNICEF UNESCO/TA Science Education Project and the UNESCO UNDP/TA Science Teaching and Curriculum Development Project.) [More…]
(This project is closely related to the UNICEF UNESCO/TA Science Education Project and the UNESCO UNDP/SF Goroka Teacher’s College Project.) [More…]
UNICEF UNESCO/TA Science Education project of 3 years duration from February 1968, to improve the standards, quality and effectiveness of primary science education. [More…]
(This project is closely related to the UNDP/UNESCO Science Education and Curriculum Development Project and the UNDP/UNESCO Goroka Teacher’s College Project). [More…]
WHO Regional Malaria Adviser visited the malaria eradication services at Rabaul; and WHO Regional Adviser on Health Education visited TPNG in connection with the development of health education in TPNG during 1965. [More…]
WHO Regional Adviser on Nutrition visited TPNG to explore Administration’s interest in participating in Applied Nutrition Education and Training project. [More…]
For example, Territory representatives have attended the 49th, 50th, 52nd, 53rd and 54th Sessions of the International Labour Conference; a Territory representative attended an FAO/ILO/UNESCO World Conference on Agricultural Education and Training during 1970; Territory personnel attended the WHO Inter-Regional Conference on Medical Education in developing countries and the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th WHO Regional Committee Meetings. [More…]
community health education, [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
the Department of Education and Science and’ assistance provided by Department of the Interior. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Pre-school Education (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Dean of the School of Education at La Trobe University, on 7th April 1971 about pre-school education? [More…]
If so, does Professor Goldman estimate that pre-school education on the scale applying in Canberra could be provided throughout Australia for little more than $40m a year and could be provided in the inner-city areas of the State capitals for little more than $20m? [More…]
As my predecessor stated in answer to a previous question by the honourable member (Hansard 25th September 1970, page 1756), it is not realistic to attempt to estimate the cost of providing pre-school education over the whole of Australia on the basis described by the honourable member. [More…]
There are basic differences between the Australian Capital Territory and other areas in many of the factors which affect costs in the provision of pre-school education, such as the geographic spread of the pre-school aged population, the size of the pre-school centres which would be required, cost of acquisition and development of sites for centres, building costs, attendance patterns and salary levels. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report onthe needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the Slates for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray. [More…]
I listened to our colleague the Minister for Education and Science and Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), our multi-hatted Minister, spending his time by consoling himself with a reiteration of the cynical mythology of the Liberal Party over the last 6 or 7 years - a litany to the God of War - as to exactly how one solves the problems of South East Asia by military action. [More…]
Civil aid has been given mainly in the fields of education, agriculture, health and public works. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What were the numbers and percentages of (a) Aboriginal and (b) other Australian children living in the Jervis Bay and Wreck Bay area of the Australian Capital Territory who (i) were enrolled for the first year of secondary education in 1966 and (ii) were still attending secondary school in (A) 1969 and (B) 1971? [More…]
Encouragement to undertake courses at Universities or Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted, to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the tack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allow- ‘ able for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present to Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Inquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra Community, be instituted to inquire into the form that an Australian Capita) Territory Education Authority should lake, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
Another alternative would be suitable work within the Commonwealth and State public services or Territory administrations relevant to the aptitude, skill and education of men who want to opt for this type of alternative. [More…]
When I was there I asked the Chinese people why they were arming themselves when they should give higher priority, I thought, to health and education. [More…]
The main purpose of the Bill before the House is to appropriate additional grants in order that the Commonwealth might meet its share of the cost of the new levels of academic salaries in colleges of advanced education under the accepted matching formula. [More…]
For 3 colleges of advanced education in New South Wales the Bill also provides for matching recurrent grants to the States for approved academic salary increases other than those flowing from the national wage case. [More…]
One State, Tasmania, has advised that no additional grant will be required to finance the cost of increases in academic salaries in its college of advanced education as this may be met by savings effected elsewhere within the current triennial programme. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that in the Budget Speech the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) mentioned the willingness of the Government to join with the States in providing further supplementary grants to colleges of advanced education in recognition of exceptional increases which have occurred in non-academic salaries. [More…]
What is the Government prepared to do about education? [More…]
But I want to deal with education. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science, of course, has held this portfolio before. [More…]
The new Minister for Education and Science is the one and only honourable member for Wannon. [More…]
I only hope that the previous Minister, the honourable member for Farrer (Mr Fairbairn), will adequately and properly convey to the new Minister for Education and Science the vast area of need for South Australia. [More…]
1 hope he will remind the new Minister of the fact that thousands of people gathered at a meeting in the Norwood Town Hall which was organised by the South Australian Institute of Teachers and parents and teachers organisations and that this meeting spelt out quite clearly the responsibility of a Federal Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
He will say that the Commonwealth gives the States a growth tax and therefore they can look after education. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in (he Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralization of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralization of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
The Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allow able for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Is he able to give the expenditure on this form of ‘education by (a) the Commonwealth, (b) the Stales, (c) local authorities and (d) other bodies, during the same years? [More…]
What was the expenditure on this form of education (a) as a percentage of education expenditure and. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Can he say how many Aborigines (a) commenced tertiary education and (b) graduated from tertiary institutions in (i) each State and Territory and (ii) the Commonwealth in each of the last ten years? [More…]
At what type of tertiary institutions was the education undertaken in each case and what types of courses were undertaken, e.g., B.A., B.Sc., LL.B., etc. [More…]
Can he say what proportion of the nonAboriginal population were the non-Aboriginal entrants and graduates of tertiary education institutions corresponding to the figures sought in part (1)? [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
(he Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy al present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I inform the House that the Honourable Malcolm Fraser has been appointed Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science a question. [More…]
The honourable gentleman will recall stating in his last ministerial statement in his portfolio 2 years ago that on completion of the nationwide survey of educational needs the Commonwealth and State Education Ministers would consider proposals for joint action to promote the further development of education in schools. [More…]
Since the South Australian and Western Australian Ministers for Education have tabled the sections of the nationwide survey relating to their States, I also ask him whether the other [More…]
They have pressed for the largest bulk sums which might be made available by the Commonwealth in support of their own projects but they have supported the right to make an allocation, once the bulk sum has been decided upon, between educational and other priority State needs. [More…]
In looking at the question of this educational survey it is necessary to have very much in mind the changes in Commonwealth-State financial relationships that have been inaugurated by the Prime Minister and the access to a significant growth tax by State governments which will enable the States to make decisions on their own account. [More…]
It is not therefore reasonable to look at the particular problems of education in isolation from other State needs and in isolation from the overall financial arrangements which the Commonwealth has made with the States. [More…]
I would imagine that matters affecting areas in the States would be the concern of State Education Ministers and not the Commonwealth; but I would like to take notice of the question as it relates to our own Territories and reply as soon as possible. [More…]
Does the Minister for Defence agree with a former Minister for Defence - that is, the Minister twice removed, who is now the Minister for Education and Science - that an Army task force is necessary in Western Australia to provide a better defence on the west side of the Australian continent? [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Inquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to inquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Inquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to inquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present a statement of statistics on education in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory as at the beginning of August 1970. [More…]
I also present for the information of honourable members the report of the Department of Education and Science for the year ended December 1970. [More…]
The consumer price index does not take into account such important consumer expenditures as education, life insurance, the cost of land, wines and spirits, most fresh fruit and vegetables, pet food and interest charges. [More…]
The most blatant betrayal of the Government’s promises has been in education. [More…]
Two years ago the then Minister for Education and Science informed the House that on completion of the nationwide survey of educational needs the Commonwealth and State Education Ministers would consider proposals for joint action to promote the further development of education in schools. [More…]
Yesterday the Minister for Education and Science, on resuming office after 2 intervening incumbents, sought to escape from the undertaking by saying that the State governments had since been given access to a significant growth tax. [More…]
The Education Ministers received the nationwide survey in May last year. [More…]
The increased number of tertiary scholarships in this Budget will continue a situation in which only 1 scholar in 3 at universities and 1 in 10 at colleges of advanced education receives assistance from the Commonwealth, in which only 1 applicant in 5 at universities and 1 in 20 at colleges can hope to obtain a Commonwealth scholarship. [More…]
The other education concession the Budget gives is precisely the one least needed and most unequal - an increase of $100 in deductions from taxable income. [More…]
A Labor government will establish an Australian Schools Commission to conduct a continuing inquiry into all aspects of education, including the goals of pre-schools, primary, secondary, technical and special schools. [More…]
Under a Labor government the Commonwealth Grants Commission, and the Universities Commission which exist already, the InterState Commission which is at present dormant and the commissions for education, hospitals, conservation and construction and fuel and energy, which we shall establish, will all make periodic reports to every Parliament. [More…]
Education, health and so on suffered but there was no shortage of building construction on every corner of every city square. [More…]
It is the question of education. [More…]
He referred to the nationwide survey in a totally uncritical manner in the same way as has now been repeated and regurgitated for about a year by various organisations interested, as we all are in this chamber, in the process of education. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition dealt with the survey in wilful ignorance of the fact that in the distribution of Federal finance to the State Governments one year ago particular reference was made to the fact that the considerable increase of the order of 10 per cent to IS per cent was made on the basis that education was among those major fields that needed more finance. [More…]
I was tremendously disappointed to hear him refer to the additional $100 income tax deduction for education expenses in the terms: ‘It is a concession to the very wealthy; those at the top of our three nation structure’. [More…]
I do not have time in this debate to range over the whole field of educational inequalities. [More…]
So the strategy is to dampen down Australia’s economic growth - already one of the lowest among the advanced nations of the Western world - ignore the needs for upgrading education, health and welfare services and to take no effective remedial action to end the rural slump. [More…]
The Government’s attitude in completely ignoring this area in the Budget is similar to the contempt shown to the education crisis which exists in Australia and which has brought condemnation from private and government school bodies. [More…]
It is not enough for the Government to say that it cannot keep up with the demands on it for universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The suspicion exists that the Government believes that by curtailing the facilities for education at the lower level it is reducing the demand on universities and colleges. [More…]
A country is judged internationally by its standard of education and technology. [More…]
Education is one area which must not be allowed to degenerate as it has in the past until it has become a political instrument for buying votes. [More…]
In the fields of social services and education the average man is prepared happily to make some sacrifices. [More…]
lt has been the policy of the National Library to lend films directly to agencies of the Commonwealth, to organisations in Commonwealth Territories, to universities, to other tertiary educational institutions, and, in order to supplement their own film resources, to State film centres and to State education departments. [More…]
National Library films are available to State government schools through the State Education Departments. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educator?, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
The Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system. [More…]
A major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from universities, colleges of advanced education and other tertiary institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
I was also very pleased to see the helpful increase in the concessional deduction in education expenses for income tax purposes. [More…]
But I think that the Government must realise that the cost of education as far as the Commonwealth is concerned will be much greater than the allocation for independent schools in the Budget if many of them close their doors in the coming year. [More…]
House by the then Minister for Education and Science on 13th August 1969 when introducing the States Grants (Independent Schools) Act. [More…]
It is our policy - that is the Government’s policy - to seek to work out ways of assisting independent schools so that, relying on their own efforts and supported by governments, they will be able in the future to provide places for that proportion of the school population which in the past has sought education in independent schools, lt is also important that the independent school system be able to develop in the future, not only in quantity but also in quality, more or less in line with the development of government schools. [More…]
The Minister further stated that the proportion of the school population which in the past has sought education in these independent schools amounted to nearly one quarter of the school population. [More…]
He also said at that time that there were ominous signs of an impending contraction in the independent school system and that the Government favoured the continuation of both government and non-government independent schools on both educational and economic grounds. [More…]
I have already quoted the remarks of the then Minister for Education and Science when introducing this legislation in 1969. [More…]
The Commonwealth continues to make a significant contribution to the expansion and improvement of Australia’s education services. [More…]
And what did the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) say in 1971 concerning education? [More…]
The word education’ was not even mentioned. [More…]
Education, possibly the most important item of expenditure in Australia, did not rate one mention in the Treasurer’s Budget Speech of 1971. [More…]
This gives us a total of 717 schools where 189,242 pupils were being taught by 6,298 teachers, a not inconsiderable education effort. [More…]
It is an educational venture, I suggest, which cannot be said by anybody to be a splinter group activity for a divisive minority. [More…]
I repeat that the Catholic education involvement in New South Wales is a very substantial one. [More…]
The proportions of children in New South Wales in 1969 who were being catered for by the various education channels are as follows: Government schools, 77.13 per cent; other non-government schools, 3.24 per cent; and Catholic schools 19.63 per cent. [More…]
The cost of the education system therefore would have increased by this additional factor. [More…]
It is educationally sound that the Government should support variety and flexibility in schools, especially as that would allow the citizens the democratic right to choose the type of education they want their children to receive. [More…]
All they are asking for is sufficient of the public moneys of which they make a significant contribution to keep alive and improve a vital educational undertaking which provides a very fine service to a large section of the State’s population. [More…]
It admits that there is no completely scientific and objective means of making such an analysis, but that these difficulties must not prevent us from reaching decisions about the benefits of cleaner air and water, less noise and a pleasant countryside, compared with the benefits which might result in meeting claims on resources in such fields as houses, health and education. [More…]
I refer to the treatment that education received in the Budget. [More…]
The plight of the States’ primary and secondary education systems is widely known. [More…]
It is obvious that the grass roots area of our State education system is the area that is most neglected in the considerations given to education, that is, in the primary and secondary level. [More…]
Whilst the Government found it convenient to promise that something would be done on the national survey on educational needs prior to the last election, it appears that it has allowed this to fall into the background. [More…]
The future needs in education for Australia’s children are surely of sufficient priority to make the Government realise its obligations in this field so that the full potential of this nation can be realised. [More…]
As clearly pointed out by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), the increase in taxation concessions for educational expenses from $300 to $400 will certainly give some relief - to the more privileged sections of the community. [More…]
It is also noted that in the Budget there is an increase in the amount allocated for Aboriginal advancement to $ 14.35m, mainly for special grants for education, health and housing, but when one can see how much really needs to be done in this field one is convinced that not enough is being done. [More…]
Whilst I fully agree with the principle of the expenditure on study and grants for the secondary education of Aboriginal children, I also feel that insufficient is being done for the education of Aboriginal children at the primary and pre-school level. [More…]
As I stated, there is nothing wrong with the secondary education grants system in principle but far too many Aboriginal children do not have the opportunity, for various reasons, to avail themselves of these grants. [More…]
There is a great need for trained people to be available solely for the purpose of health education. [More…]
However, I commend the Government on some other aspects of the Budget and should like quickly to mention the increase in the maximum deduction allowable for education purposes. [More…]
They include the increased expenditure in social welfare, education and, of course, the increase in assistance to primary industry. [More…]
We were hoping, for example, that there would be some assistance for Aboriginal pre-school education, some programme to assist, by way of capital grants, the establishment of kindergartens and pre-schools and the sub siding of the salaries of the teachers as well as the other services which would be provided, such as meals. [More…]
Assuming that the economy settles down and gets on a fairly even keel again so that financial landmarks are not continually eroded by the process of increased prices, one of the things that impress me is this: If in the future governments are to play a larger part in the economic life of the country by undertaking some of the new things that have been proposed in the fields of education, health and the environment- [More…]
1 wish to comment on health and education. [More…]
I now deal with education. [More…]
Compared with other so called advanced countries, we spend about half as much as we should on education. [More…]
see that the Federal Government is in fact reducing its commitment to education. [More…]
Again I am aware that the primary responsibility for education rests really with the States, but to use this as an excuse for limiting Federal assistance is humbug. [More…]
Probably one of the largest items in any State Budget is education. [More…]
In other words, the only relief available is direct Commonwealth grants for specific educational purposes. [More…]
Unless we face up to this fact, our children will be inadequately educated and so placed at a distinct disadvantage in the future world where increasing technology will demand higher levels of education for a large proportion of the population. [More…]
One concerns education and the other involves one of my constituents. [More…]
On 16th June of this year I had the pleasure of being present at an education rally called by the South Australian Institute of Teachers and the Parents and Friends Association to listen to and receive reports on the needs of schools in South Australia. [More…]
The Institute had invited the then Minister for Education and Science, Mr Fairbairn, and the State Minister of Education, Mr Hugh Hudson, to give a report on the current education position. [More…]
More and more we are being asked to see that the young people of rais nation receive a fair education to fit them for their vocations in life, but more and more we are hearing that the State education departments are not able to meet this demand because of the shortage of money. [More…]
1 ask the present Government: Is sufficient being done to assist the nation generally in the field of education? [More…]
All these schools in my district are vitally interested in the chaotic education position. [More…]
More libraries, books and teaching aids are needed urgently to enable us to keep abreast of movements in education. [More…]
To enable the States to increase or even maintain our present standard of living and not become a backward nation, I implore the Commonwealth Government to give this question serious thought and to increase Commonwealth assistance to the States for the education of young Australians. [More…]
Priorities have been carefully examined and essential expenditure on education, defence, social services and payments to the States has been considerably increased over expenditure in the previous financial year. [More…]
The Government’s decision in relation to tax deductions and education expenses will do practically nothing to help those who really need relief. [More…]
The evidence for this is clearly revealed in this Government’s education policy. [More…]
There is no doubt that the members opposite are responsible in large measure for the inequalities and injustices which are now features of the general educational situation in Australia. [More…]
There is no doubt that much of the money spent on education would be better spent laying good foundations for future scholastic success in the primary schools. [More…]
However, Sir Arthur Rylah’s question might be rephrased: ‘How far should working class taxpayers be expected to deny their own children primary education in order to subsidise the secondary and tertiary education of those who can afford to pay fees of $400 a year or more?’ [More…]
Many people think that Canberra is pampered with respect to education because it appears to have nice new buildings. [More…]
I refer again to education. [More…]
But the educational system limps along with stop gap measures of this sort. [More…]
Other measures are being taken to tell boys and girls in the secondary educational system hypocritically that it is better for them to teach themselves. [More…]
In the meantime my Department has separately discussed the possible use of the Lindgren system with the Department of Education and Science, who are our technical advisers on language matters. [More…]
Only one of these was prepared to support a reform in spelling of the dimensions advocated by Lindgren, He is a senior officer of the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]
Whilst this specifically is not within my area of responsibility, nevertheless it is a matter in which I will continue to take an interest in view of its relationship to the migrant education programme generally. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Education and Science been drawn to a statement by the Catholic Archbishop of Hobart that some church schools will be closed due to insufficient government support? [More…]
If so, will the Government investigate the position in conjunction with the States with the object of averting what could develop into a serious education problem for Australia? [More…]
I agree with the honourable member that if a significant number of independent schools were to close this would immediately constitute a very serious education problem for Australia. [More…]
It would have one immediate consequence of putting greater stress and strain on the State systems, but quite apart from that practical reason, the Commonwealth has for a long time believed in and actively supported the dual system of education, believing that a system which provides a choice, as the system in Australia does, has particular advantages. [More…]
For this reason the Commonwealth has in the past introduced policies designed quite specifically to support independent education outside the State systems. [More…]
At an early date I will be seeking to make contact with the independent education authority and also, of course, with my colleagues, the State Ministers for Education. [More…]
I know that there has been continuing discussion between the Commonwealth and other education authorities under the auspices of my predecessor. [More…]
Commonwealth that independent authorities ought to look for assistance for independent education. [More…]
The State governments all have policies of supporting independent education, as does the Commonwealth. [More…]
But it should also be worth noting that the one State that does least for independent education is the State of South Australia, and I would hope that that State might be able to lift its support of independent education in a manner commensurate with other States. [More…]
The cost to revenue of providing Income tax concessional deductions for children, including deductions in respect of education, exceeds some $250m a year. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present, in Australian education is the lack of equal education, opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
-The South Australian Minister of Education sent me a copy of a long Press statement which he made, the only purpose of which was to attack the education allowances provided by the Commonwealth in the recent Budget. [More…]
The other point, and a much more important one perhaps, of which the South Australian Minister took no note that I can recall, is that those allowances are of specific advantage to people in remote country areas whose only prospect of giving their children the kind of education they would like to give them is to send them to boarding schools. [More…]
I am glad to see that since last week the South Australian Government has provided an additional amount - $150,000 only, but at least it was an addition - to support for independent education in the primary area. [More…]
South Australia comes about average amongst the States in support of education in the primary area. [More…]
But when we look at the secondary area of education, which of course is a very expensive one, the South Australian Government provides much less than any other State or Territory. [More…]
That part of the question which affects me affects that aspect of drug education which the Minister for Health and myself administer jointly on behalf of the Government and for which the Government has hypothecated $500,000 this year for a national education campaign. [More…]
Expenditure of the $500,000 which has been given for education relates mainly to those drugs which are denned by the Single Convention of the United Nations as narcotics and other dangerous drugs and is, as I said before, administered by my colleague the Minister for Health and myself. [More…]
in a national education programme; it lies in the consciousness of parents of the need to educate their children on the dangers of smoking and of taking other dangerous drugs. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Is there any reason why the nongovernment schools component of the nation wide survey of educational needs has not been made public? [More…]
Have the Premiers of New South Wales and Victoria replied to the request from the former Prime Minister for additional details regarding their priorities in respect of educational needs referred to in the nation wide survey? [More…]
We should question whether it is in the interest of Australia to continue our assisted immigration programme in view of the pressure of immigration on the States, on education, on health and our hospitals, on local government, on spiralling land and housing costs; in fact on all aspects of government. [More…]
I come now to the burden of education. [More…]
The Australian Education Council estimated in a nation-wide survey of education needs that the States will be $ 1,443m short of required finance for the years 1971 to 1975. [More…]
Let us concentrate on our education system so that within a generation we can create a generation of Australians with values which are compatible with concepts of a global home which is very limited in its capacity to withstand abuse, and away from concepts based on the unlimited frontier. [More…]
Of course, the minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) came out of his seat like an angry hornet today at a question which was directed to him by a South Australian member concerning the tax rebate of $400 for the education expenses of one child. [More…]
The Budget in fact provides for substantial increases in social welfare, defence, education and the arts, assistance to rural industries, and other areas of essential activity. [More…]
We are also making substantial contributions to Aboriginal welfare, to education and the arts, and we have established a department whose functions include examination of environmental problems. [More…]
He will ignore the real issues affecting Australia and endeavour to run an election on false and despicable issues ignorning the mess in foreign affairs, education, health services, social welfare, etc. [More…]
This will take the people’s minds from the rural problems, education deficiencies, costly and inadequate health schemes, etc. [More…]
Let us set up a standing committee on education and stop the claptrap of Dorothy Dix questions which are directed to this wealthy aristocrat the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
Let me now turn to the very contentious area of education. [More…]
What ramifications does this Budget have for the education scene in Tasmania? [More…]
One might well ask what has happened to the nationwide survey on education. [More…]
It is to be hoped that this mysterious and reluctant document will be resurrected and presented to this Parliament with the same degree of alacrity with which the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was restored to the family of Cabinet. [More…]
For goodness sake let us have an end to Liberal humbug and evasiveness in the priority sphere of education. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has on many occasions spelt out the Opposition’s policy on education. [More…]
But I suppose it is reasonable to ask whether the Government has a policy at all on education. [More…]
The owners of school buses operating on similar routes for the Department of Education have rise and fall clauses in their contracts. [More…]
With an unparalleled school crisis - and many members of this side oi’ the House and even on the Government side have referred to the crisis in education that exists right across the nation - we have seen 3 Ministers for Education and Science in half a school year. [More…]
I mentioned overseas capital, questions relating to national development, education, the crisis in the primary industries, the need for a real policy of decentralisation of population, the need to deal with urban problems, the need to deal with immigration and the need to achieve a national identity which involves the quality of life and films which we make ourselves. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Territory and Northern Territory: Education Statistics 1970’ published in August 1971 shows the costs in the Commonwealth Territories to be as follows: [More…]
Aboriginals: Pre-school Education (Question No. [More…]
How .many Aboriginal and Island children in the (a) States, (b) Northern Territory, and (c) Australian Capital Territory received a pre-school education during the year 1969. [More…]
In 1969, 540 Aboriginal children were attending Administration (Welfare Branch) pre-schools in the Northern Territory; 150 were attending mission pre-schools and 79 were attending community pre-schools operated by the Department of Education and Science - a total of 769 children. [More…]
Approximately 20 scholarships are awarded each year by the Department of Education and Science for the training of pre-school teachers for the Northern Territory, but none of these is offered specifically for service in Aboriginal communities. [More…]
If so, (a) was the meeting attended by the Federal and State Ministers for Education, the State DirectorsGeneral of Education and representatives of the various government authorities concerned with educational television and (b) which were the various authorities so represented. [More…]
The Department of Education and Science, the PostmasterGeneral’s Department, the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the Australian Broadcasting Control Board. [More…]
The Departments of Education of New South Wales, Tasmania and Victoria, the Department of Education and Science, the Postmaster General’s Department, the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the Australian Broadcasting Control Board. [More…]
Will the Government take steps to (a) prevent, control or restrict radio and television advertising of liquor and tobacco beyond the existing restrictions and (b) require equal facilities to be made available at the advertisers’ expense for education concerning the effects of liquor and tobacco, as has been done overseas. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several Stale Government Departments: [More…]
You Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practicing educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy, that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Austalian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from universities, colleges of advanced education and other tertiary institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses us a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
While commending the Government for its proposed expenditure, under the various heads in the estimates for the Department of Civil Aviation, on airport extensions at Alice Springs, Darwin and Gove and also for its proposed expenditure on health projects and education and science projects, I deplore the decision to increase by 2c a gallon the price of motor spirit and, more particularly, the price of automotive distillate and aviation gasoline. [More…]
These families are desperately in need of health and hygiene education and education on family planning, ft has been reported that 50 per cent of Aboriginal children are under the age of 15 years. [More…]
Only from a sound and expanded industrial base can come the improvements to society that we all want to see - improvements in education, health, social services, local government and, in fact, in all of the areas of government activity. [More…]
I cannot help but agree with what the then Minister for Education and Science said when he opened the Science and Industry Forum of the Australian Academy of Science in 1969. [More…]
We believe that much more needs to be spent on social welfare, Aboriginal welfare, education and other important fields. [More…]
Unless we can throw off the crushing burden of rural industry, led to bankruptcy and bewilderment by this Government, we can never really afford the urgent measures so desperately needed in the fields of social welfare, Aboriginal welfare, education and all the rest. [More…]
One such policy promise was that the Government would accept some responsibility for this crisis in pre-school education. [More…]
Although it was always difficult to be sure exactly what was meant by the then Prime Minister when he used that term there is no doubt that the reference he made during the Senate election campaign late last year to the establishment of child care cum kindergarten centres did indicate his Government’s intention to make some financial grants to this level of the State’s education system. [More…]
Generally I am sure the pattern in pre school education varies little from State to State. [More…]
In recent weeks I have received numerous letters from people and organisations within my electorate requesting my support to get the Federal Government to accept some measure of responsibility for the provision of pre-school education for all who wish their children to participate in this essential level of a complete education programme. [More…]
fortunate enough to receive pre-school education at a kindergarten affiliated, as is the usual practice in Queensland, with the Creche and Kindergarten Association of Queensland the cost of this pre-schooling is becoming a heavy burden for them to bear and is increasing year by year. [More…]
The letters go on to point out the obvious fact that by the Federal and State governments accepting additional responsibility for preschool education all children will be able to benefit and, furthermore, the current heavy burden on parents will be greatly relieved. [More…]
I am certain that his children will not be denied the benefits of pre-school education and I am equally certain, that by his decision many thousands of Australian children who should in all fairness be entitled to the same opportunity at this level of education will be denied a pre-school education. [More…]
There are not many points on which the honourable member for Bowman (Mr Keogh) and I would agree politically but I certainly will agree with the point he made about pre-school education. [More…]
The Government has reversed the election promise to reduce taxation; it has ignored the pledge to pay special attention to the chronically ill; it has sabotaged the undertaking to establish a national system of kindergarten child minding” centres; it has failed in its social welfare programme to make adequate provision for those most in need; it has forgotten its indication to act on the report of the nation-wide survey on education. [More…]
We find complacency on things like education, national development and social services. [More…]
When we established this Parliament in 1900 it had nothing to do with education. [More…]
The government adjusted things here and there; it raised a bit of revenue out of customs or something such as that for the public account; it organised some defence services and it did something about the Post Office; but it cared nothing about education. [More…]
Education was not its responsibility. [More…]
Education, in a large measure was not even recognised as a general community responsibility. [More…]
What do we intend to do about education? [More…]
I taught in the Victorian education service for some 20 years. [More…]
Education must be one of the few areas of public or private endeavour in which the community is basically worse off in 1970 and 1971 than it was in 1939 and 1940. [More…]
Thai there is a likelihood that education in the Austraiian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system. [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra communty, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
A joint Commonwealth State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities. [More…]
We have to have an appreciation that it is not only a matter of serving the people with field social workers but other factors are included such as housing and more importantly education and the environment. [More…]
Perhaps we ought to start at education because to me this is strong and compelling evidence of the need for an expression, as a result of a thorough inquiry, of a dovetailed programme to combat poverty in the community which will mobilise various sectors which are providing public services at the present time. [More…]
Education is a clear example of how cultural deprivation operates. [More…]
For instance, if we go through a break-up of various facets of education to the extent that we are able to use these facets to interpret relative performances we will be able to see how the disproportions occur. [More…]
We need more than our current system of education. [More…]
What we need is a highly enriched system of education for our children who live in this poverty area but we cannot restrict ourselves there. [More…]
As honourable members well know there are fairly generous concessional deductions allowable for a family such as medical, hospital and education expenses as well as life assurance payments but what the taxpayers do not generally realise is the way that these falls result in a massive transfer from low and moderate income earners to high income earners. [More…]
In the financial year 1968-69 $805m was allowed as deductible claims for family purposes involving medical, hospital and educational expenses. [More…]
With the concurrence of honourable members 1 incorporate in Hansard a table showing the estimated cost to revenue of allowing deductions in respect of the 1967- 68 income year - the last year for which these figures are available - on account of spouses and equivalents, children under 16 years of age, student children, net medical expenses, life insurance and superannuation payments, education expenses and gifts. [More…]
It shows, for example, that the cost to revenue in the year in question was, in round figures, $126m for allowances for spouses and equivalents; $164m for children’s allowances; $ 106m for medical expenses allowances; $191m for life insurance and superannuation pay ments allowances; $70m for education expenses allowances; and $12m for gifts allowances. [More…]
As will be seen from the totals column in this table, over 60 per cent of taxpayers who qualify for education deductions earn less than $2,800 per year. [More…]
To illustrate this latter point, again with the concurrence of honourable members, I incorporate in Hansard page 107 of the latest Taxation Statistics, that is, those for 1969-70, showing taxable income and deductions on account of education expenses. [More…]
However, if we are going to be realistic - and I mean realistic in the political sense - we will not be able to do any of that without a massive public education programme, and that in turn requires that we must be able to say in advance what the aim is, what the overall plan is. [More…]
It is most important to bring deserted wives back into the general community and to retrain them for jobs so that they can earn and provide their children with better education. [More…]
I believe - and I genuinely say this - that this Government has, after careful investigation and consideration, granted increases to pensioners after having listed government priorities in order of national importance, having had due regard to other important items of government such as education, defence, health, housing and matters concerning the development of Australia. [More…]
The cost of revenue to the Government through providing concessional deductions for children in respect of education exceeds $250m a year. [More…]
It is clear that parents with large families are not being assisted to the extent that they should be and that in turn the whole family is suffering in the areas of health and education. [More…]
There is at the moment no way in which a pensioner’s children can adequately be provided with a norma) education. [More…]
In any education system they are second class citizens. [More…]
1 believe that if a person qualifies for a pension, especially an invalid pension, and has young children, some scheme should be evolved whereby his children can be provided with the wherewithal to obtain the education to which they are entitled and which is within their capacity to receive. [More…]
1 wonder what a pensioner’s child thinks when the rest of the school, especially if it is a high school, is coming to Canberra to have a look at Parliament House, which I would hope would be a part of their education, but because of the costs involved the child cannot have that part of his education. [More…]
There is no chance of its coming on during this session, by the looks of things, and to add insult to injury he will now remove from the notice paper what I consider one of the vital subjects of Australian education. [More…]
Greatly increased sums have been provided for education and federal spending, as announced in the Budget, will this year rise by 14 per cent to $346m. [More…]
Expanded measures assist Aboriginals with housing, education and health, and encourage viable Aboriginal businesses. [More…]
Social welfare, as I mentioned a moment ago, will this year absorb $2,095m, and education $346m. [More…]
These 4 items alone - payments to the States, social welfare, education and defence - account for $6,983m out of a total anticipated expenditure of $8,833m. [More…]
In order that the States may receive the financial benefits available from the Federal Government, their highway safety programmes must bs approved by the Secretary of the Department of Shipping and Transport and must be in accordance with uniform standards in the following areas: Periodic motor vehicle inspection; motor vehicle registration; motor cycle safety; driver education; driver licensing uniform traffic codes and laws traffic courts; alcohol; identification and surveillance of accident locations: uniform traffic records; emergency medical services highway design, construction and maintenance; traffic control devices; pedestrian safety; police traffic services; and debris hazard control and cleanup. [More…]
In respect of only five of the recommendations - those referring to road safety education, vehicle design, and safety equipment, accident reporting and statistics, traffic management and the Australian Road Safety Council, and these only in part - has the Commonwealth played any significant role, and then it has been hardly anything to write home about. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science lays before the Parliament each year a statement on the Libraries Programme which lists the names of government schools which are receiving facilities under the Programme and the names of non-government schools, together with the amount of each grant that has been approved by the Commonwealth Minister. [More…]
The form of the statement reflects the fact that the allocation of funds under the Programme to individual government schools is the responsibility of the State Minister of Education. [More…]
If more detailed information is required on grants to individual government schools the honourable member should approach the State Minister for Education concerned. [More…]
Information on specific allocations to government secondary schools should appropriately be sought from the State Minister for Education. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralization of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
Is the Commonwealth so far advanced in its education system in the Northern Territory that no need exits to construct much needed schools urgently? [More…]
Because the provision of schools in the Northern Territory for improved education purposes is urgent, I say that the need to construct these schools is urgent. [More…]
This has not always been the case but certainly it has not been done this way for a long, long while, particularly with regard to the education programme. [More…]
Completion is desired by the Department of Education and Science before the commencement of the 1974 school year. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to inquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
Will the Minister inform Mr Johnson that he is not expressing the policy of this Government and draw his attention to the fact that, amongst others, the Minister for Education and Science, the Minister for Defence, the Minister for the Army, the present Prime Minister and the previous Prime Minister are all prominent members of the Melbourne Club which also practises racial discrimination? [More…]
By one proposal the upper limit of the amount that may be allowed as a deduction to a taxpayer for expenditure incurred by trim in the education of a fulltime student will be increased from $300 to $400 a year. [More…]
The deduct:on for expenses paid in respect of the education of a full-time student will also be available where the stu dent is less than 25 years of age instead of 21 as at present. [More…]
If I had had time in this debate I would have quoted from the current affairs bulletin put out by the Adult Education Department of the University of Sydney in which it is argued clearly by economists - not on emotional grounds at all - that it is wrong that where so much of the capital of the Post Office has been provided out of taxation revenue in earlier years, that capital is still bearing interest charges. [More…]
I believe that if a gallup poll were conducted on this matter the majority of Australians would subscribe to the reduction of television and radio time for religious organisations and an increase in the allocation of time for road safety education programmes. [More…]
Greater use should be made of television for school education programmes. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie lt, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
As with other rural areas, a need exists for policies to assist with education for country children, employment for country people, for rural reconstruction and for retraining schemes for people forced to leave farms or affected in other ways by redundancy. [More…]
Because State governments already face crises in health, education and other fields, contributed to in no small part by the indifference of Liberal-Country Party Federal governments, an urgent need exists for the closest liaison between State and Federal governments to meet the problems that currently exist and that are developing. [More…]
I would now like to turn to one other important matter that was not mentioned in the Budget - that is the nationwide survey into education needs in Australia. [More…]
This survey, honourable members might remember, was to cover the needs of both government and non-government schools in primary, secondary and teacher education for the 5-year period from 1971 to 1975. [More…]
As I have said, we have to remember that this estimate referred only to primary, secondary and teacher education. [More…]
It said nothing about pre-school education, education of the handicapped or technical education. [More…]
The sum of $l,443m refers only to the government sector of state education in Australia. [More…]
If so, the Commonwealth was being asked to provide $228m extra for state education in each of the 5 years. [More…]
If this is to be the pattern of assistance to state education it will be in dire trouble from about 1973 onwards. [More…]
It must be remembered also that in all the calculations it has been assumed that the States will maintain the high priority that they have given in their budgets to education over recent years. [More…]
There can be no guarantee of that because the States have been saying that they have been driven to make a high proportion of their funds available for education to the neglect of so many other sectors of their economies. [More…]
As I said, this calculation takes no account of the non-government schools; it does not take any account of those other sectors of education which I mentioned. [More…]
As a matter of fact, the strong indicators are that the State governments are not in a much better position to meet these extra requirements of education. [More…]
All of these things indicate that the States are probably in little better condition now to meet these massive needs of education than they were before the recent financial agreements. [More…]
Another issue which must be tackled by this Government is the provision of tax deductions in respect of education expenses for students in employment. [More…]
At present, an employed student cannot obtain any taxation relief in respect of all the fees and books he or she has to provide to further his or her education. [More…]
This places an undue economic strain upon a person who, because of that person’s economic circumstances, has to improve his or her educational standard on a part-time basis. [More…]
The refusal to grant such individuals taxation concessions discourages them from undertaking tertiary education, whereas we should be giving them every possible encouragement as they are educating themselves under very difficult circumstances. [More…]
I think the time has come when, in the interests of humanity and in the interests of those young children who have to be brought up with the attendant requirements of education and the rest, the pension for a civilian widow with a family should be immediately reviewed by the Government. [More…]
I do not know anyone who would not like more money spent on the underprivileged or on education. [More…]
Supporters of State aid say that they pay through taxes for a system of education which they do not patronise. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, it makes no sense at all to court fiscal disaster by engaging in financial brinkmanship with the hard pressed Catholic education system. [More…]
I turn now to the subject of education. [More…]
I appreciate that both sections of our dual education system are in urgent need of funds, classrooms, schools, teachers and teaching equipment. [More…]
Several of my colleagues already have mentioned the needs of the Slate education systems throughout Australia and I am in full support of the arguments that they have advanced and of the efforts that they are making to get an emergency grant made by the Commonwealth to the State education systems. [More…]
More than 100 migrant children are attending special classes in education and to provide for these children there are 1 1 lay teachers as well as religious teachers. [More…]
In August 1969 the then Minister for Education and Science sa’d: lt is our policy to seek to work out ways of assisting independent schools so that, relying on their own efforts and supported by governments, they will be able in the future to provide places for that proportion of the school population which in the past has sought education in independent schools. [More…]
I ask: What would happen to the education system in Australia if only a quarter of these 1,781 schools were to be closed at the beginning of the 1972 school year? [More…]
The education system must collapse if a proportion of the Catholic schools in Australia closed their doors after giving due notice to the States that such would be the case. [More…]
The well known spiralling costs of education are due largely to increases in teachers’ salaries which have come into operation in the past 12 months. [More…]
However, it surely is valid economics to provide increased subsidies in relation to increased costs in favour of those citizens whose voluntary contribution to the nation’s welfare provides education for 22 per cent of Australian youth. [More…]
I would cull out but one argument which the honourable gentleman advanced in the matter of education to say something about, and that is the matter of State assistance - describe it how you will. [More…]
An education system was well on the way. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
I refer to the increase from $300 to $400 in the maximum allowable deduction for education expenses. [More…]
Is it a fact that only a small fraction of parents can afford to spend over $300 per annum on the education of their children and thereby benefit from the increase? [More…]
-The honourable member ignores something which 1 mentioned the other day and that is that many of the people who will be applying for deductions for education expenses under this provision will be paying taxation at a very much higher rate than that which prevails for many others. [More…]
If honourable members look at the table contained in a 3-page statement in which the South Australian Minister of Education tried to attack what the Commonwealth was doing, they will see that it showed the gross amounts of income up to, I think, the level of $20,000. [More…]
Basically, behind the approach of the honourable member for Kingston to this matter is an underlying objection to the survival of the independent system of education. [More…]
In spite of the policies and changes of policy which have come about over the last 4 or 5 years, the underlying belief of many members of the Opposition and the motivation for the question asked by the honourable member for Kingston are, I believe, that they would prefer to see one education system and that would be a State education system with no independent schools at all. [More…]
Has the Treasurer received numerous requests from people living in isolated areas asking for an increase in the taxation deduction for education expenses so that that deserving section of the community may be allowed to recover financial stability after years of drought and when, because of favourable seasonal conditions, they might again be in the position of paying tax even though their income- [More…]
People always say that it is hard where there is so little education to maintain national unity. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Treasurer announced that part of the Budget proposals consists of a decision by the Government to increase from $300 to $400 per annum the maximum deduction allowable to a taxpayer for the education expenses of a dependent full time student child. [More…]
It is interesting by way of background to recall the history of concessional deductions for education expenses. [More…]
The idea originated in the Budget of 19S2 when, for the first time, a concessional deduction was allowed for education expenses of dependent children. [More…]
In the main the question of principle falls to be considered with reference to concessional deductions for education expenses and concessional deductions for medical expenses. [More…]
As I said a moment ago, I think it is time that we turned our minds to this quite important question of principle - that is, whether concessional deductions for education expenses and medical expenses serve to create a situation of equity as between all taxpayers. [More…]
The trouble that I experience in my mind about the system of concessional deductions, especially in relation to education expenses, is that that form of deduction does introduce into what should be as far as possible a progressive system of taxation a regressive element for the reason that the advantage of the concessional deduction is far greater for the man on a high income than it is for a man on a low income. [More…]
There is an essential inequity in the present system and what I would propose is not the total abolition of the concessional deduction for education expenses; rather would I propose that there be introduced into the law a provision whereby the taxpayer is given the option of claiming a rebate of tax in respect of education expenses incurred by him up to a certain amount of money so that with 2 options open to taxpayers the man on the high income can opt to take the concessional deduction and so save himself tax. [More…]
A man on a low income should be allowed to claim, say, a rebate of tax in respect of education expenses to a sum of S200 or S250. [More…]
If we believe, as honourable members on this side of the House certainly believe, in the virtues of a free enterprise society - perhaps those virtues are not practised now as much as they ought to be - and if we believe that a healthy diversity comes from the institution which is known as a pluralist society, the Government should be encouraging individuals in the community to be self-reliant wherever possible in relation to such activities as the education of their children. [More…]
There is no harm, as 1 see it, and there is great good, as I see it, in encouraging the maintenance and the promotion of a viable independent school system - not fostering it or encouraging it to the detriment of the public sector of education. [More…]
Therefore it seems to me it should be a prime task of government in the field of education to encourage parents to invest in the education of their children in the independent school system if that be their will. [More…]
It seems to me therefore that if we were to implement the broad idea I have tried to put to the House of giving an option in respect of education expenses to the taxpayer on a lower income we would be doing something to foster the best elements in the independent school system. [More…]
We would be encouraging parents not to rely on the State at all times, which they are entitled to do if they wish in relation to the education of their children. [More…]
It will not of course be used solely in aid of the independent school system because it must be borne in mind that parents of children at government schools are entitled to claim a concessional deduction in respect of incidental expenses arising from the education of their children at those schools. [More…]
We on this side of the House must remember that in 1969 a great initiative was taken with the avowed aim of enabling the independent schools to continue in the future to provide the services that they ought to be able to provide to maintain a healthy national condition in the education of the children of this country. [More…]
However, it is perfectly plain that by reason of greatly increased financial assistance given to the States this Government has taken the view that the States from now on can undertake more of the responsibility of making per capita grants to parents of children in independent schools in aid of the education of those children. [More…]
If I wished I could go on for hours talking about education. [More…]
Australia has to get teachers from somewhere because of the crisis in education. [More…]
The type of assistance that is available is the opportunity to undertake full-time or part-time training by entering formal courses in technical education, or through training by job experience in subsidised employment by approved employers. [More…]
On the basis of this anticipated revenue, South Australia has made considerable improvements in public expenditure, particularly in the field of education. [More…]
This money will be used to meet needs in education, needs in hospitals and needs in so many other fields. [More…]
We have done that but even these measures have not been sufficient for the State governments to be able to cope with the tremendously increased demands on their services - services which I think should have the highest priority, those that happen to fall within the responsibility of the State governments, namely health, many aspects of social welfare, and, most particularly, education. [More…]
We have payroll tax, which has recently been handed over to the States, and we have various specific purpose grants, such as grants for independent schools, Commonwealth secondary education and a whole host of other things, but we do not really know whether we will get the best value for our money. [More…]
At the present time we do not know how far we are advancing in the various programmes which the State governments are trying to formulate in health and education. [More…]
For example, State governments are responsible for education. [More…]
1 suggest that it is because education is a State responsibility that the Commonwealth tends to think that education is less important than civil aviation, the Postmaster-General’s Department, or defence. [More…]
I suggest that if, by some constitutional change, education became a Commonwealth responsibility, we would regard education as having the same priority as other matters with which the Commonwealth is concerned. [More…]
For example, the South Australian Government has increased enormously its expenditure on education this year. [More…]
The increase in the concessional allowance for education expenses from $300 to $400 is a concession to the wealthy. [More…]
The share of gross national expenditure going through Government hands is still far too low in order to provide adequately for the community’s needs in such areas as education, health and welfare. [More…]
But we should be thoroughly ashamed of ourselves as a country of affluence - this lucky country - to be prepared to put up with these inadequacies inflicted on our education system and with the poverty suffered by so many of our people, particularly the pensioners and large families of our nation. [More…]
It gives the very minimum in the way of benefits in respect of child endowment, pensions and assistance to rural industry and education. [More…]
Since March we have had 3 Ministers for Foreign Affairs, 3 Ministers for Defence, 3 Ministers for Health, 3 Ministers for Education and Science, 3 AttorneysGeneral, 2 Treasurers, 2 Ministers for Labour and National Service, 2 Ministers for Immigration, 2 Ministers for the Navy, 2 Ministers for Housing, 2 Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs and 2 Ministers for Supply. [More…]
The right honourable member for Higgins then went on to deal with the present Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), that distinguished tall figure. [More…]
Malcolm Fraser, the new Minister for Education, and former Defence Minister is a wealthy grazier from Victoria’s western district. [More…]
If Australia has an education crisis I believe that it is a crisis created by prosperity and not by migrants. [More…]
There is a demand for higher educational standards and it is a fact that children today stay at school much longer than did children of earlier generations. [More…]
Value in terms of potentially improved welfare services, improved education and improved environmental conditions will be lost and will never be achieved again no matter how much the performance of the economy is improved in subsequent years. [More…]
It is from primary industry that money flows and makes possible education, hospitalisation and so many other things of importance in this country. [More…]
The Budget fails to meet the critical situation existing in our education system in public and private schools. [More…]
Evidence given to a 5-man Senate committee of inquiry on education reveals, amongst other things, that 9,000 to 12,000 new teachers are available each year but that the resignation rate from within the ranks of practising teachers alone is between 14,000 and 19,000 annually. [More…]
To me it is somewhat ridiculous that the Government should subsidise the training of teachers and that after 2 years or 3 years teaching their teaching talents are lost to the education system when they marry. [More…]
If time were available to do so, I would have liked to relate to the Parliament the criticism by certain Roman Catholic educationists in relation to persevering with the Roman Catholic education system. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralization of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied .by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are representatedrepresentated the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
The honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Jess) who is keen to interject will remember only too well that I raised this matter in the terms of a motion before the Parliament to appoint a joint select committee of the Parliament to look into the pay and allowances of serving members of the Forces and other matters related to their conditions including housing for serving members of the forces, education and scholarships for the children of- those who are serving in the forces and the rehabilitation of ex-servicemen. [More…]
It is no good having the most gold plated social services policy, health policy, education policy or any other domestic policies if in our anxiety to improve these fields we neglect the very foundation of the country’s security. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What were the (a) numbers and (b) percentages of students who were (i) enrolled for the third i last year of secondary education, (ii) candidates for the Commonwealth secondary scholarships examination and (iii) awarded scholarships in each of the (A) Government, (B) Catholic and (C) other private schools in the electoral division of Robertson in each year since the Commonwealth Secondary Scholarship Scheme was introduced. [More…]
The matter referred to is one which falls within the authority of the Ministerial Member for Education in the House of Assembly, for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Administrator on the advice of the Ministerial Member for Education has provided the following information: [More…]
The matter referred to is one which falls within the authority of the Ministerial Member for Education in the House of Assembly for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Administrator on the advice of the Ministerial Member for Education has provided the following information: (a) An estimated 359,800 children in Papua New Guinea are in the 7-12 age bracket. [More…]
223,091 children - are in primary schools that are members of the Papua New Guinea education system. [More…]
Current policy recognises these existing inequalities in educational provision and looks to holding current percentages by minimal enrolment increases in districts where there are currently over 50 per cent of the school-age population, with emphasis upon increasing enrolments as rapidly as possible in the districts where this figure has not as yet been, achieved. [More…]
Pursuant to such policy, those districts with the lowest percentage enrolments have been allocated the majority of additional teachers becoming available, (b) Approximately 60 per cent of students completing a primary education are unable to obtain a place in secondary schools. [More…]
am asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Are statistics available from the 1971 Census on the number and percentage of 15, 16, “17 and 18 year-olds in full-time education. [More…]
3656) Mr Whitlam asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Have he and the State Education Ministers met to discuss the report of the Advisory Committee on the Teaching of Asian Languages and Cultures which his predecessor sent them in October 1970 and which he tabled on 31st March 1971. [More…]
and (2) My predecessor had some brief discussion of the Report with State Ministers at the meeting of the Australian Education Council held in Brisbane on 27th and 28th May. [More…]
It was agreed that the Directors-General of Education would meet with the Secretary of my Department to discuss the Report and to prepare proposals for consideration by the Governments. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
On what joint Commonwealth-State committees, such as the Australian Science Education Project’s Committee of Management (Hansard 16th September 1970, page 1250), and the National Committee on Social Science Teaching (Hansard, 16th March 1971, page 696), do officers of his Department serve. [More…]
Officers of my Department serve on the Committee of Management of the Australian Science Education Project and the National Committee on Social Science Teaching which are the only joint Commonwealth-State committees concerned with curriculum development. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The honourable member has for some years asked a series of questions of considerable complexity on universities, colleges of advanced education and scholarships. [More…]
As the then Minister for Education and Science pointed out in answer to Question No. [More…]
1419 (Hansard 22nd September 1970, page 1494) the timing of such answers is dependent on when the information can become available, whether it ‘ be from universities, colleges of advanced education or on the question of scholarships. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What percentage of new enrolments at (a) universities (b) colleges of advanced education and (c) teachers’ colleges was drawn from (i) government schools (ii) Catholic schools and (iii) other non-government schools in the most recent year for which information is available. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the forseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practicing educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) when he was Minister for Defence, said: [More…]
Education is another classic example of this attitude. [More…]
Let me remind the Minister for Labour and National Service that his colleague, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), quite recently during a very short but unforgettable career as Minister for Defence, twice removed, himself admitted that, if we doubled the number of conscripts, reduced the period from 2 years to 12 months and spread the responsibility, it would be a much more equitable burden on the people of this country. [More…]
Those who had a very poor education proved to be the best soldiers in World War II. [More…]
The honourable member for Sydney (Mr Cope) said that in the Second World War the men with the least education and the men who could hardly pass the aptitude test were often the best soldiers. [More…]
I know that you cannot split the Australian Imperial Forces according to educational standards. [More…]
It is no use the honourable member for Sydney trying to make out that a certain section was better than another based on educational qualifications were concerned. [More…]
1 think that this is the basic question to which we must address ourselves and when we arc addressing ourselves to it let us look at some contemporary and relevant facts, one of which is that in this country - thank goodness - we are passing through a salutary social revolution in the field of education. [More…]
More and more young people are advancing not only to higher secondary education but also to tertiary education. [More…]
The percentage of young people going into tertiary education is increasing year by year and nobody in this House would do other than applaud this situation. [More…]
One of the consequences is that in the nature of things, a career as a private or as a non commissioned officer in the Army is not a way of life that appeals to people who have gone through to tertiary education or perhaps even to higher secondary education. [More…]
As we go on increasing the pool of our educational resources amongst the. [More…]
The honourable member for Mallee (Mr Turnbull) suggests that often men of lower education make the best soldiers. [More…]
Retraining of those persons who are deficient in education at the time when they seek to enlist in the Army could provide the Army with a substantial proportion of its required manpower on a longer term basis than would be provided by the continuation of this Act. [More…]
Health education programmes under which trained health educators inform villagers and school children about basic health and hygiene including nutritional matters. [More…]
Community education courses are conducted by the Department of Social Development and Home Affairs in many parts of Papua New Guinea with participation by health workers. [More…]
The syllabuses for primary and secondary schools throughout Papua New Guinea include nutrition education. [More…]
Through its Technical Assistance Service it continued to provide experts and commodities to the public services in public health, technical and agricultural education, industry and handicrafts, and to many national medical and educational institutions. [More…]
The matter referred to is one which falls within the authority of the Ministerial Member for Education in the House of Assembly for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Administrator on the advice of the Ministerial Member for Education has provided the following information: [More…]
It will be necessary if teachers are to be obtained in the numbers needed for the planned expansion of education in future, to increase the recruitment of teachers from overseas and to encourage more young people to enter the teaching profession. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice:’ [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
How many students from each secondary school in the Electoral Division of Wills have been awarded Commonwealth (a) university and (b) advanced education scholarships during each of the years 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1971. [More…]
My Department does not maintain statistical information on the numbers of students attending individual schools or groups of schools who are awarded Commonwealth University or Advanced Education scholarships. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system. [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
Does, the Minister for Defence propose to make a defence statement before the debate on the defence estimates or at all - a. statement as informative as the excellent and illuminating one made by his predecessor, the present Minister for Education and. [More…]
If so, has his attention been drawn to a statement which his predecessor once removed, the present Minister for Education and Science, made on 7th July 1970 in which he rejected the concept that only volunteers for overseas service should be sent to Vietnam, saying that it was not practical and that it would establish a 2-Army concept? [More…]
Canberra College of Advanced Education [More…]
In addition to the amounts which it is intended to apply to housing, health, education, employment and vocational training and similar purposes through the States grants, it is proposed to apply $3,850,000 to the continuation by the Department of Education and Science of the study and secondary grants schemes and $173,000 to smaller projects, particularly in health and education, through Commonwealth departments. [More…]
Thus of the total budgetary provision in the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account for 1971-72 of $14.35m, no less than $13,223,000 will be devoted primarily to efforts in the fields of housing, health, education, and employment and vocational training. [More…]
The development of programmes of health education and preventive medicine by professional and sub-professional people should reduce progressively the pressure on the curative services provided in hospitals in the major centres. [More…]
Funds provided for education through the Trust Account are ensuring to Aboriginal Australians more and better educational facilities by way of buildings, equipment, libraries and so on, and are helping the States to ensure that children at school below the statutory school leaving age will receive necessary assistance with clothing, textbooks, travel, tutorial assistance and homework supervision. [More…]
This will be used for grants to non-governmental organisations for a wide range of purposes - for welfare work, adult education, the provision and running of hostels, support of the arts, crafts and cultural activities, support of youth and sporting activities, Aboriginal housing societies and for pre-schooling provided by private organisations. [More…]
I think it is interesting to recall that when the bounty was first introduced the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who was at that time the honourable member for Wannon, said that he looked forward to the building up of our sheep numbers from 160 million to 250 million by using more superphosphate. [More…]
That the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system; a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; more than 500,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity: Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children; only the Commonwealth has the financial resources for special programmes to remove inadequacies; and nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the chief impetus for change and the finance for improvement come from the National Government. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives make legal provision for a joint Commonwealth-State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities; the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aboriginal, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children; and the provision of pre-school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a committee of enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
That the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system; a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; more than 300,000 children suffer from serious lack of equal opportunity; Australia cannot afford to waste the talents of one sixth of its school children; only the Commonwealth has the financial resources for special programmes to remove inadequacies; and nations such as the United Kingdom and the United States have shown that the chief impetus for change and the finance for improvement come from the National Government. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives make legal provision for a joint Commonwealth-State inquiry into inequalities in Australian education to obtain evidence on which to base long term national programmes for the elimination of inequalities; the immediate financing of special programmes for low income earners, migrants, Aboriginal, rural and inner suburban dwellers and handicapped children; and the provision of pre school opportunities for all children from culturally different or socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. [More…]
by leave - I should like to commence my remarks about the Commonwealth’s education programme for 1971-72 by emphasising the close concern which the Commonwealth has, and will continue to have, with educational matters. [More…]
The Government fully recognises the national importance of education and of the development of educational services, and its objective is to do what it appropriately can, in co-operation with the State governments, to improve the quantity and quality of education in Australia. [More…]
Against this background I wish’ to give the House further details of the Government’s education programme for this financial year, to which the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) referred in the Budget Speech. [More…]
Commonwealth direct expenditure on education in this financial year is estimated at $345,534,000. [More…]
The fact that expenditure has increased by 100 per cent since 1967-68 gives an indication of the extent to which education has been treated as a major growth area by the Commonwealth. [More…]
This expenditure by the Commonwealth on education is in addition to the substantial amounts which the States themselves are spending - now about $1,1 00m a year. [More…]
The largest increases in single items will be in payments to the States for universities, colleges of advanced education and teachers colleges. [More…]
Details of Commonwealth expenditure on education from 1967-68 to the present year are set out in a table which, with the concurrence of the House I incorporate in Hansard. [More…]
The Commonwealth continues to support, through the existing matching grant arrangements, the development of universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The Government is willing to join with the States in providing funds for universities and colleges of advanced education during the period to December 1972 to assist them in meeting increases in costs arising from substantial salary and wage increases for non-academic staff which have flowed from a number of awards. [More…]
I should emphasise that while making this offer of supplementary recurrent grants the Government continues to endorse the triennial principle for grants to universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Grants to the States for their colleges of advanced education are expected to total $38m, an increase of 23 per cent over last year’s expenditure of $31m. [More…]
Expenditure on the Canberra College of Advanced Education will increase from $5m to $5.7m. [More…]
The Government is again applying the same principle to the Canberra College of Advanced Education and to the Australian National University. [More…]
I remind the House that the substantial growth in the area of colleges of advanced education is due directly to Commonwealth initiatives in firstly establishing the Committee of Inquiry into Tertiary Education and in providing, with the States, substantial funds to carry out the Committee’s major recommendations. [More…]
This very considerable shortfall in expenditure is a matter of some concern to the Commonwealth, lt has been the subject of letters which the Secretary of my Department has written to certain State Directors-General of Education. [More…]
In addition to this programme the Commonwealth is contributing very substantially to the capital and recurrent costs of teacher education courses in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
There are over 1,000 teacher trainees at colleges of advanced education and over 15,000 teacher trainees attending university. [More…]
Commonwealth programmes in support of teacher education total $40m in teachers colleges and colleges of advanced education in the current triennium. [More…]
The Commonwealth has its own interest in, and sole responsibility for, the provision of educational facilities in its own Territories. [More…]
In this connection the Government has been able to encourage developments in teacher education which it regards as desirable, such as the provision of teacher training courses within multipurpose institutions - a development which is also taking place in New South Wales, Queensland and Tasmania. [More…]
The Commonwealth is taking this initiative at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
His professional training as a teacher is given concurrently with his further education in the discipline he will subsequently teach. [More…]
In encouraging these developments at the Canberra College of Advanced Education, the Government has not envisaged that College as training teachers to meet only the needs of Commonwealth Territories; it believes that there should be an alternative to the common situation where teachers are trained in a particular school system and subsequently teach in that same system, lt is intended that the Canberra College will accept students for teacher training without regard to the school system in which they eventually will teach. [More…]
As a result of the action being taken by the States and the Commonwealth in teacher education the major objectives of the Martin Committee are being achieved. [More…]
The minimum length of course has been increased to 3 years and co-ordinating machinery is being introduced in most States to improve the academic standing of teacher education institutions. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s interest in teacher training is naturally becoming even more direct with its agreement to establish the Commonwealth Teaching Service, separate from the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
Training may be undertaken at the Canberra College of Advanced Education or at an approved institution in one or other of the States and in courses specifically directed to teaching. [More…]
For this reason, the losses which do occur are serious, and the Commonwealth welcomes the consideration which is being given to these problems by the State education authorities and others. [More…]
Honourable members will know that the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts is examining this matter at the moment. [More…]
The Government has now decided to increase the number of scholarships available under the Commonwealth advanced education scholarship scheme from 2,500 this year to 4,000 in 1972. [More…]
The colleges of advanced education are expanding rapidly and it was decided that the limited additional funds available for student assistance should be used to increase the number of scholarships in this area. [More…]
They both have done much to improve the quality of education in both government and independent secondary schools. [More…]
The information contained in these documents was collected by my Department over the whole of Australia during a survey of educational needs. [More…]
Since I was involved in the early discussion with the State Ministers for Education on this survey I propose to refer briefly to these; to trace the subsequent events and to indicate the Commonwealth’s positive response to that survey through the 1970 and 1971 Premiers Conferences and Australian Loan Council meetings. [More…]
At a meeting in Adelaide in March 1969 the State Ministers for Education indicated to me their intention to conduct a survey of each State’s educational needs over the ensuing 5 years. [More…]
The States’ survey of educational needs for the 5 years 1971- 1975 was made available to the Commonwealth early in 1970 and published in summary form in September 1970. [More…]
In September 1970, the Commonwealth sought further information from State education departments on their capital needs. [More…]
In recent years governments have been spending an increasing proportion of their revenue on education, and the current financial arrangements between the Commonwealth and the States will enable expenditure to be maintained at a high level. [More…]
When they prepared their survey figures they worked on the assumption that their recurrent resources for education would increase by 10 per cent per annum, but in fact their recurrent expenditure on schools and teacher training increased at the rate of 15.5 per cent per annum in 1969-70, before the new financial arrangements applied; and with the total general revenue assistance to the States in 1971-72, including the transfer of payroll tax collections at the old rate, expected to be 17 per cent greater than in 1970-71, they should be able at the very least to maintain the existing rate of growth. [More…]
I might add that about 80 per cent of State recurrent expenditure on primary and secondary education goes to pay teachers’ salaries. [More…]
The Victorian budget, for example, includes an increase in total expenditure on education of $58.5m, and the increase in expenditure on the levels of education dealt with in the survey is of the order of $43m - a 20 per cent increase. [More…]
In the recent South Australian budget recurrent expenditure on primary education has increased by nearly 30 per cent, as has expenditure on secondary education and on teacher training. [More…]
The Queensland and Western Australian budgets provide for increases in total expenditure on education of 21 per cent and 18 per cent respectively while the Tasmanian budget provides for an increase of 25 per cent in total expenditure on education. [More…]
In New South Wales the budget provides for an increase of $77m, or more than 16 per cent in total expenditure on education, and an increase in per capita grants to independent schools from $36 to $50 per annum at the primary level and from $42 to $59 at secondary level. [More…]
The Commonwealth’s capital expenditure on education has been increasing in recent years. [More…]
It now represents 35 per cent of all capital expenditure by governments on education whereas 10 years ago it represented only 18 per cent. [More…]
What is more, an increasing proportion of Commonwealth capital expenditure on education is being directed at the educational levels dealt with in the survey of needs; this proportion has averaged 40 per cent over the last 4 years, whereas over the previous 4 years it had averaged only 29 per cent. [More…]
There is a similar pattern of increase in the total amounts the Commonwealth is making available to the States specifically for education through special purpose grants. [More…]
These payments to the States for education have increased by an average of 23 per cent over the last 5 years, and have increased from 22 per cent of all specific purpose payments in 1966-67 to 32 per cent in 1971-72. [More…]
Notwithstanding the claims the States have made for capital funds for education, it is nonetheless the case that where the States have had under their control Commonwealth capital aid funds for education they have not always been able to spend these funds in the period for which they were allocated. [More…]
I mention these findings as a reminder that there are questions other than those of class size affecting the quality of education and that the benefits to be gained from tackling questions of educational content and method may be greater than those to be gained from reducing student-teacher ratios to near-university level. [More…]
We have established the Partridge Committee to advise on research grants in education and to take the initiative in sponsoring research. [More…]
I have not the slightest doubt that we seriously need more well directed educational research. [More…]
The observations which I have made about the survey of needs for the government schools demonstrate that the figures presented by the State Ministers for Education are open to serious questioning. [More…]
It can be seen that the Commonwealth is already doing a great deal to support education. [More…]
It has concentrated its recent efforts on improving the States’ general financial position, and the States have in fact been enabled to finance a level of educational provision better than has applied in the past. [More…]
I know that the solution of these problems is important in achieving equality of educational opportunity. [More…]
The Government’s view is that the independent schools must continue to play a significant role in Australian education. [More…]
Were they not to do so, there would be less diversity in our educational systems; there would be less opportunity for different approaches to education; and the economic strains on government school systems would be increased. [More…]
Last year the then Minister for Education and Science mentioned the proposal to provide a community college at Darwin. [More…]
In looking at the various current statements of needs and claims for assistance, it is important not to lose sight of the fact that our overall standards of education have in fact been rising consistently. [More…]
The total expenditure on education in these budgets represents, for the 6 States combined, an increase of 17 per cent over the previous year. [More…]
The quantity and quality of education - costing presently over $ 1,500m a year - is a significant charge upon this nation, but few other expenses represent such worthwhile investment for the future. [More…]
Investment in education is investment in adaptability and capacity to survive. [More…]
Through education we can do much to reduce inequality. [More…]
Equality of opportunity means more than anything else, I believe, equality of educational opportunity. [More…]
Many strands will contribute to this objective, but a broad, liberal and fair minded education, with equality of opportunity firmly established, must surely influence our future course. [More…]
We must constantly re-define our education goals to ensure that they are effectively oriented towards these objectives^ - towards the maximum development of the individual’s talents, his aspirations, his personality and his voluntary selfdiscipline. [More…]
As in the past several years, my Department will keep in close touch with State and independent education authorities to maintain the firm basis of consultation and co-operation which is necessary in seeking to attain these objectives. [More…]
In the circumstances the Commonwealth believes that the State Governments are now better placed to meet their responsibilities including recurrent expenditure on education. [More…]
The speech of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) represents the abandonment of another undertaking made by the former Prime Minister at the last elections for the House of Representatives. [More…]
Referring to the nationwide survey of educational needs the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) stated: [More…]
When the survey is completed the States and ourselves will discuss the assistance we should each provide to promote the futher development of education in all schools. [More…]
For the last2 years honourable members and members of the public have been given the pat reply to all inquiries about the Commonwealth’s involvement in any form of education at the school level that we must await the Government’s decision [More…]
on the nationwide survey of educational needs. [More…]
In March 1969 the State Education Ministers met and announced: [More…]
When the State surveys are completed they will be collated and considered by the Australian Education Council. [More…]
The whole (survey) will eventually be presented to the Australian Education Council to consider the findings with a view to formulating a nationwide plan for the fulfilment of educational needs in accordance with the priorities determined by the States. [More…]
As the financial resources at present available to the States are not sufficient to meet the needs that would be revealed by the survey, a joint approach would be made to the Commonwealth for additional financial assistance to education in these areas.’ [More…]
On 13th August 1969 the present Minister for Education and Science made a statement to the House in which he stated: [More…]
On completion of the surveys the Common- wealth Minister for Education <ind Science and the Australian Education Council, which is composed of the Ministers for Education in all the Stales, will consider proposals for joint action to promote the further development of education in schools.’ [More…]
Firstly I draw attention to the Minister’s statement on the increased offer to the States for university and colleges of advanced education expenditure during the period to December next year. [More…]
The New South Wales Minister for Education has forecast that an increase of 16 per cent in fees will be required by that State’s universities and colleges, lt would be helpful if the House was given a statement of the prospects of the matching grants in each State. [More…]
I was impressed with the argument and at this stage I am convinced by the argument that the difficulty which New South Wales has had in spending the amount available to it is that in respect of the teachers college capital grants, as with all other Commonwealth initiatives in education, no notice was given to the States and no consultation was held with the States. [More…]
I hold no brief for the State Government of New South Wales but I have been impressed with repeated statements by its Ministers that the prudent course for that State Government was to carry out proper research into the nature of contemporary teacher education facilities before undertaking the expenditure which had become available to it by way of a windfall. [More…]
I have not the transcript of evidence but I have a newspaper report of the evidence given to the Senate Committee to which the Minister referred by Mr P. W. Hughes, head of the School of Teacher Education at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
I rely on an answer which the honourable member for Parramatta, the present Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen) gave me a year ago when he was Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
It took from 11th September last year to March this year for the State Ministers to answer a letter from the immediate past Minister for Education and Science and at this stage [More…]
Last April the Government members committee on education and science expressed the following view: [More…]
For instance, the proposals which he has outlined for teacher education in regard to Commonwealth Territories are ones which we would hope the States themselves would follow. [More…]
It is only in the Territories that the Commonwealth is now carrying out the recommendations of the Martin Committee which were presented to Senator Gorton, as he then was, when he was Minister for Education and [More…]
The Government still takes the attitude that it should distinguish between teacher education and all other tertiary education, lt is only in respect of teacher education that the Commonwealth has not made provisions generally for salaries and scholarships or recurrent expenditure generally. [More…]
Yes, but the Martin Committee recommended that there should be the same provision for teacher education in general, including education in teachers colleges per se. [More…]
This is largely responsible for the lack of morale among people undergoing teacher education or engaged in the teaching profession compared with people undergoing other forms of tertiary education or pursuing the careers which that education opens to them. [More…]
The Federal Government would now never tolerate and the States would not now welcome the situation where they were without the benefit of the periodic public advice given on universities and colleges of advanced education by various Commonwealth bodies such as the Universities Commission and the committees on research grants, advanced education, standards for science facilities in independent secondary schools, teaching of Asian languages and cultures and now, under Professor Partridge, research grants in education. [More…]
We do not act in this way and we do not take this attitude concerning tertiary education, except as regards teachers colleges in the narrow sense. [More…]
The Minister very properly stated that equality of opportunity means, more than anything else, equality of educational opportunity. [More…]
I could not agree more but, in fact, nothing in his statement brings educational opportunity any closer in any of the States. [More…]
It is only in the Territories that every child has at least one year of preschool education. [More…]
It is only in the Territories that a man or a woman can receive teacher education in the same way as he or she can have any other form of tertiary education. [More…]
If a person goes, as most people do, to a teachers college which is run by a State education department, he does not get the same opportunities. [More…]
I note and I applaud the fact that there are more places now available for prospective teachers in universities and in the colleges of advanced education, but the great majority of prospective teachers still attend teachers colleges conducted by their prospective employer. [More…]
It is only in the Territories that people will be able to get the full scope of tertiary education as teachers and the full scope of pre-school education. [More…]
I can conclude my remarks by emphasising how deficient we are at the very outset, on the threshold of education. [More…]
I quote the percentages of children who can have pre-school education. [More…]
In the Territories, everybody gets pre-school education. [More…]
In New South Wales, 2.9 per cent of the population enjoys this education; in Victoria, the figure is 27.1 per cent; in Queensland, 7.3 per cent; in South Australia 14.5 per cent; in Western Australia, 9.9 per cent; and, in Tasmania, it is 14.3 per cent. [More…]
I would hope that we will not again have a ministerial statement on education without mentioning the opportunity for pre-school education which, in the interest of future equality, every child in the States should have. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Inquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institu tions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an. [More…]
Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlay it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
I do not accept that there are rising economic barriers against young people studying at universities or at colleges of advanced education. [More…]
If a situation exists in which the costs of running universities and other institutions and the provisions made by the States are to increase considerably on an annual basis because of very substantial increases in wage levels it is unreasonable to expect the cost of providing those services to the community - in this case the cost of providing higher education - to remain as it was in earlier times when wages and other matters were at very much lower levels. [More…]
In 1901 we had no Department of Civil Aviation, no Navy that was established in 1911 by a Labor Government no Royal Australian Air Force, no Repatriation Department, no Department of Social Services, no organised Commonwealth marketing schemes in primary industry, no medical and hospital benefits legislation, no Commonwealth education and science legislation, no uniform taxation, no restrictive trade practices legislation, no uniform marriage or divorce laws, no Commonwealth Department of Housing no external territories responsibilities, no industrial legislation, no national service, no national development responsibilities, no departments covering Aboriginal affairs, the environment and the arts, no tourist activity responsibilities, no shipping and transport responsibilities including Commonwealth ships, and no organisation relating to trade and industry. [More…]
In our respective constituencies we are being assailed by the public and representative education organisations, parents and citizens associations, pensioners, people who are interested in hospitalisation and people who bitterly resent the swingeing increases in taxation which are being imposed on them by the State governments. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Government has refused consistently over the years to make its own national inquiry into the needs of primary, secondary, technical and teacher education in Australia? [More…]
Did it instead ultimately agree to co-operate with State Education Ministers and private education authorities in making what was stated to be a coordinated nationwide survey according to agreed upon criteria? [More…]
Did not the then Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science participate in reviews of the report before it was presented? [More…]
Was it not at Commonwealth direction that the survey of private school education was repeated to conform with Commonwealth requirements? [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has 2 ways of supporting education in the States: First, by having its own specific programmes, such as for science laboratories or for libraries, and programmes to support teacher education; secondly, by supporting the State recurring funds and the State loan programmes. [More…]
I pointed out that when the estimates of needs for recurrent resources was brought forward the States based their estimates of the shortfall on the fact that with their additional funds available for education recurrent funds would increase by 10 per cent a year. [More…]
In the last year, from the State budgets just brought down, funds for education have increased by 17 per cent, much more than the 10 per cent that the State authorities estimated would in fact be available. [More…]
The Commonwealth, in sum, has responded positively to education needs. [More…]
There has been a very positive response to this survey, as was clearly evidenced by the States’ much greater domestic allocations for education, greater than anyone thought possible when the survey of needs was first envisaged and first launched. [More…]
People who, by themselves or through their parents, have paid money for a good education so as to acquire an ability to earn a high rate of income have, in a very real sense, their productive resources taxed. [More…]
What is probably the most current and authoritative body of information is the report of the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare issued on 3 1st January 1971. [More…]
I think it is an incredible thing and I think it is rather typical of the situation we have in this country and in other Western countries today that there are those people, perhaps people of great and high education, who, if not endeavouring to have marihuana and the soft drugs legalised, are, it could be interpreted by some people, not doing much to stop young folk of this country starting to take it, taste it or to get involved with it. [More…]
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I will use this opportunity tonight to attack the Government for its action in perpetuating and, indeed, worsening the inequality of opportunity in education in this country. [More…]
The Department of Education and Science, in conjunction with the Department of Labour and National Service, should investigate the need for graduates from different faculties in greater detail. [More…]
13m for the Australian National University, $6m for the Commonwealth postgraduate awards and $25.8m for Commonwealth university scholarships, a total of over $60m out of a total of approximately $102m for all education. [More…]
The total expenditure on all educational services in the Commonwealth Territories - that is the Australian Capita] Territory and the Northern Territory - is less than $18m compared with $29. [More…]
The report of the Committee on the Future of Tertiary Education in Australia, commonly known as the Martin report, published figures relating to the socio-economic class origin of university students. [More…]
W. C. Radford, in an Australian Council of Educational Research publication, commented: it is highly improbable that less than 2 per cent of sons and less than 1 per sent of daughters of unskilled and semi-skilled fathers have the ability to do university work, as against 36 per cent of the sons of university professional fathers and 24 per cent of the daughters of university professional fathers, or 30 per asnt of sons and 14 per cent of daughters of thos* engaged in higher administration. [More…]
If we break down these figures to the different kinds of tertiary education we find even further discrimination. [More…]
In the estimates for the Australian Capital Territory it is revealed that payments to the New South Wales Department of Education for both primary and secondary educational services will rise during the current year by 8.53 per cent while assistance for the so-called independent schools will rise by 22.7 per cent. [More…]
The estimates for the Northern Territory show that the expenditure this financial year will rise by 42.7 per cent for independent schools while the total increase in the cost of all educational services, including independent schools, will increase by only 8.5 per cent. [More…]
This means that the increase in expenditure on education for the nonindependent schools will rise by much less than 8.5 per cent and that there will be 5 times as great an increase for the independent schools as for the state educational systems. [More…]
I am quoting these figures from ‘Education Newsletter, No. [More…]
a great deal of doubt should be cast on the representativeness of Government members when educational matters are being debated.It becomes far more understandable that over the past decade they have denied the existence of a crisis in State education. [More…]
Hardly any have any experience of the State system either through their own education or that of their children. [More…]
We witnessed a rather pathetic attempt by this anachronism of the 1970s, the present Minister for Education and Science, to justify this concession on the basis of helping the allegedly poor graziers to send their children to Geelong Grammar School. [More…]
I conclude on what to my mind is an important point, namely, that there are those in the community - they are usually the people on the Government side - who say: ‘Keep politics out of education’. [More…]
My answer is that education and equal opportunity are what politics in this country are all about. [More…]
As long as the conservatives are kept in power the average Australian will have little opportunity for his children to get a decent education. [More…]
As long as politics are kept out of education those who want to give the taxpayers’ money to Geelong Grammar, Kings School and the graziers will be helped. [More…]
In speaking to the estimates for the Department of Education and Science I should like, firstly, to compliment the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and his Department on the excellent presentation of those estimates. [More…]
Secondly, I congratulate the Minister on his recent statement setting out the Commonwealth Government’s education programme for 1971-72. [More…]
In the course of that statement the Minister indicated that the Commonwealth’s direct expenditure on education this financial year is estimated at $345,534,000 or 14 per cent more than was spent in 1970- 71 and twice as much as the direct Commonwealth expenditure of 5 years ago. [More…]
It is then a matter for each of the State governments to set its own priorities with regard to education, health and all the other fields of government for which they are responsible within their own borders. [More…]
The Minister has indicated that the States at present are spending in this financial year an estimated $1,1 00m on education, so to ascertain the total amount currently being spent in approximate terms on education in Australia this financial year one adds those 2 sums together and the total is approximately $l,445m. [More…]
I believe that all governments in Australia should be willing to cooperate in the increasingly important task of improving and developing education and education services and improving what the Minister referred to recently as the ‘quantity and quality of education’ in Australia. [More…]
The Commonwealth role in education no doubt will become more clearly defined as time passes. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has indicated that it will continue to provide matching grants to the States both for universities and for colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I know that this problem has been of growing concern to the authorities in the field of tertiary education for quite some time. [More…]
It should not be overlooked that the Commonwealth is making a major contribution towards the cost of teacher education courses in the tertiary field. [More…]
Information supplied to the House recently by the Minister shows that there are more than 1,000 teacher trainees at colleges of advanced education and over 15,000 teacher trainees are attending universities. [More…]
Commonwealth capital grants for pre-school teachers colleges are estimated to amount to more than Sim in the financial year to 30th June 1972 and $40m is being provided by the Commonwealth Government in the current triennium towards teacher education in teachers colleges and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The States and the Commonwealth acting in conjunction have clearly made good progress in the field of teacher education. [More…]
The Treasurer (Mr Snedden) stated in his Budget Speech that the number of advanced education scholarships would be increased from 2,500 to 4,000 awards from the beginning of 1972 and that there would also be 200 new awards for students in teacher education who contemplate joining the Commonwealth Teaching Service. [More…]
The colleges of advanced education which in some respects are still evolving are growing year by year and the Commonwealth Government is to be congratulated on deciding to grant 1,500 additional scholarships worth $430,000 during the current financial year. [More…]
The nationwide survey of educational needs during the period 1971-1975, which was tabled by the Minister a few days ago, will, I believe, help greatly in assessing educational needs in primary and secondary education in nongovernment schools, and taken in conjunction with the survey of government schools published in 1970 by the Australian Education Council represents an important step forward. [More…]
The Australian Education Council, as I understand it, consists of the State Ministers for Education. [More…]
In the interests of Commonwealth and State co-operation in the overall field of education, it would seem desirable that the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science should also be a member of the Council. [More…]
After all, the Commonwealth does have a direct responsibility in the field of education in relation to the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]
Some people have a tendency to look unduly to the Commonwealth with respect to education. [More…]
The Minister has made it clear that the Commonwealth fully recognises the national importance of education and that the Government wants to do whatever it can do appropriately in co-operation with the State governments. [More…]
Figures furnished by the Minister with regard to Budget percentage allocations for education State by State show that some States place a higher priority on education than do others. [More…]
I hope that the State Ministers for Education will consult fully with the Commonwealth Ministers for Education and Science so that we may attain in Australia the maximum possible results from the national surveys that have been completed. [More…]
that the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
“She Commonwealth Minister has not .hitherto been a member of the Australian Education Council. [More…]
The Commonwealth has interests in education, equivalent to the interests of the States, in the Northern Territory and in the Australian Capital Territory, in addition to its Commonwealth role. [More…]
As has been widely reported, the Leader of the Opposition is understood to have indicated that political strikes were not effective if they dealt with matters which could be determined or resolved only by governments and he pointed to matters such as social services or education as areas in which action could not be productive. [More…]
But while once again, as I think I did last year, acknowledging the imperfections of our system, I think I should for a moment draw attention to one or two figures which the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) put before us in his recent statement. [More…]
The Commonwealth now expends something like 35 per cent of all capital educational expenditure, in comparison with 18 per cent 10 years ago. [More…]
There have been from the other side of the House numerous uses of the word ‘crisis’ in relation to education in the 2 years that I have been here. [More…]
It appears from anything I can deduce, observe or analyse in this matter, and I have not heard any other suggestions - let us hope there are some - that the best solution to this problem is per capita grants for running costs, and that is not a new idea; and secondly the possible usefulness of some system whereby we might build into the cost structure of the education system a particular figure whereby increases could be guaranteed. [More…]
It is the basis for religious education - whether it is conscience with a religious involvement or whether it is just sheer personal conscience. [More…]
But we talk in terms of the ability or the freedom of people to follow their own dictates of conscience or inclination in the matter of education. [More…]
But I am saying it because there may be the suggestion that we are paying for second-rate education. [More…]
If it is so, those standards should be applied rigorously enough to make sure the public is not paying for second-rate education in any system. [More…]
But if we give fairly free rein to conscience in other respects, not least in the c?se of dissenters from national service and others, whether or not we prefer a secular basis for education, the freedom to choose the educational institution to which we might send our children seems to me to be a pretty fundamental one. [More…]
One can well put the positive argument that whatever governments do or do not do for independent schools, their existence does not necessarily imply more or less expenditure on education in the state sector and it certainly does imply more expenditure on education overall by the community at large. [More…]
The very existence of a second or third level stratum or alternative means of education certainly ensures that people will be putting more money in than is sometimes suggested. [More…]
For an outlay of $1,000 that person would still be paying $760 of it into an education system. [More…]
So I think it goes without further proof that in fact there is a lot of money going into education through the existence of this system. [More…]
When the survey is completed the States and ourselves will discuss the assistance we should each provide to promote the further development of education in all schools. [More…]
His Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who knows better but has learnt to bend, was sent into this House a week ago with a statement on the survey which amounted not to an affirmation of Commonwealth support but to an abdication of [More…]
Scholarships do have a bearing on education such as it is; they have no bearing on standards of education as it should be. [More…]
The Prime Minister now proscribes not only proposals put forward by his predecessor in the nation’s highest office but measures initiated by him as Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
The real casualties of the Liberal power struggle are not the Ministers who have lost their jobs but the children who have lost their chance of a better education. [More…]
These sums were not required to create the equality of opportunity to which the Minister has suddenly discovered a commitment but merely to ensure that the present gross inadequacies of primary and secondary education are not further exacerbated. [More…]
The proportion of our gross national product spent on education rose between 1956-66 and 1969-70 by only 0.2 per cent. [More…]
Thus the inequities of Australian education will persist and fester. [More…]
Less than 15 per cent of Australian children are eligible by age for pre-school education are able to find places in pre-school centres on which we spend annually per capita in New South Wales 4.7c, Queensland 14.8c, Western Australia 34.3c, South Australia 59c, Tasmania 59.4c and Victoria 92.1c. [More…]
A recognised pre-school education is denied to all but 2.9 per cent of the eligible children in New South Wales, 7.3 per cent in Queensland, 9.9 per cent in Western Australia, 14.3 per cent in Tasmania, 14.5 per cent in South Australia and 27.1 per cent in Victoria. [More…]
Compare pre-school education in each and any of the States and in Canberra, where one year of pre-school education is available to all children and all pre-school teachers are fully qualified. [More…]
Professor Goldman has estimated that preschool education on the scale applying in Canberra could be provided throughout Australia for little more than $40m a year and could be provided in the inner-city areas of the State capitals for little more than $20m. [More…]
The inadequacy of pre-school education particularly penalises migrant children whose families speak at home languages other than English and the 400,000 children whose families earn incomes below the poverty line or just above it. [More…]
Seventy per cent of the children from suburbs where migrant and low-income families congregate score below average in the communication skills which are fostered by a pre-school education whereas in more privileged suburbs the incidence of below average scores is only 30 per cent, less than half as great. [More…]
The indifference of the States to pre-school education is revealed by their failure to include it in the terms of reference for the nation-wide survey. [More…]
The indifference of the Commonwealth is exemplified by the exclusion of the Department of Education and Science from the original inter-departmental committee on the childmindingcentrescumkindergartenschildmindingcentrescumkindergartens which the former Prime Minister promised to establish in his 1970 Senate Opening Speech and which the present Prime Minister has now shelved. [More…]
A complete secondary education is received by 79 out of every 100 students at non-government schools other than Catholic schools but by only 23 at government schools and 30 at Catholic schools. [More…]
Many students cannot afford even the free education which in government schools now costs from $50 in grade 6 to at least $200 in the matriculation year. [More…]
The Minister marked his return to the Education and Science portfolio by rubbishing the nation-wide survey which throughout his previous term of office he had promoted as the hope for all Australian schools. [More…]
In now arguing against the national approach to education he has highlighted the gross discrepancies between States which more than ever justify a national approach. [More…]
Once again this year, as the honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon) has said, both the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) and the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) have outlined to the House and to the nation the marked increase that has taken place in the allocation of funds which will be devoted by this Government to education. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science has said: [More…]
The Government fully recognises the national importance of education and of the development of educational services. [More…]
Its objective is to do what it appropriately can in co-operation with the State governments to improve the quantity and quality of education. [More…]
I fully support this attitude as I regard education and the provision of educational facilities as being of extreme importance to the future of this country. [More…]
But, as we all know, the Commonwealth has progressively become more involved in education since the Second World War. [More…]
Since that time the Commonwealth progressively not only has increased its contributioncontribution in absolute terms but also has built up the range of educational activities it supports. [More…]
As the Minister said in his statement to the House, expenditure on education has doubled over the last 5 years. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition made great play on the lack of emphasis placed on pre-school education. [More…]
Estimates of Commonwealth expenditure on education indicate that this year $1,165,000 is being set aside for the erection of pre-school teachers colleges. [More…]
Commonwealth expenditure on the child migrant education programme has increased from $109,000 in 1969-70 to $2,610,000 this year. [More…]
These are just some of the additional educational activities in which the Commonwealth has become involved in the last few years. [More…]
Surely this is a very clear demonstration of the Government’s real interest and performance with respect to support for education. [More…]
I really wonder whether any of us are conscious enough of the very real pitfalls which surround us when we blithely talk about increased Commonwealth assistance being necessary before we can hope to develop adequate educational systems and facilities. [More…]
We all should realise that whether we like it or not, the Constitution stipulates that the responsibility for the provision of primary and secondary State education shall remain with the States. [More…]
The Commonwealth progressively has contributed more and more moneys towards the maintenance and expansion of State educational systems and also towards the nongovernment system; but because of constitutional requirements it has been forced to do this mainly through grants under section 96, with the money earmarked for specific purposes. [More…]
This, to my mind, has created a situation in which the general public has become unclear as to where the primary responsibility for the provision of educational services lies. [More…]
While there can be little argument as to the worth of the increased expenditure on education, a situation may arise where schools have little real choice as to how they will spend any money for which they are eligible. [More…]
It seems to me that the nature of the Federal contribution towards financing education should not be on a piecemeal basis. [More…]
The expenditure so far has not resulted in the most efficient use of such moneys as are available, nor - and this is particularly important, to my mind - has it adequately encouraged enough direct personal contributions towards educational expenses. [More…]
It is mischievous, misleading and untrue to suggest that any education can be free, and should any government or political party seek to promote this false concept, not only should the duplicity of the claim be exposed but also the cost in terms of increased personal taxation burdens should be brought home to every taxpayer. [More…]
It is becoming clearer and clearer that the costs involved in providing adequate primary and secondary education in developed countries will prove to be beyond the resources of governments if they seek to meet them entirely from taxation. [More…]
It is tremendously important then for this Government to sit down with the States and clearly demarcate the respective areas of responsibility regarding the provision and funding of educational facilities. [More…]
The Government should also be seeking means to simplify the methods by which it makes its contributions towards education, and it should also be extremely conscious of the very real educational and financial advantage to be gained from a maintenance and expansion of the non-government school system. [More…]
We all should be working towards encouraging a marked increase in the provision of public and private expenditure on education. [More…]
It is no use suggesting that we can run educational institutions all over Australia from Canberra. [More…]
This is why I believe we should be seeking a simpler method of providing funds for both the public and private sectors of education. [More…]
This private investment in education is, I believe, extremely important and should be encouraged as it not only preserves the freedom of choice for the individual but also encourages educational experimentation and the provision of increased total resources for education. [More…]
The Committee is considering Commonwealth spending on education, estimated at $345.5m in 1971-72, according to the statement made last week by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
This assistance ranges over a wide area, from the provision and maintenance of schools and tertiary education institutions in the Territories through grants to the States for a number of educational functions to Commonwealth scholarship schemes and special assistance to Aboriginals and soldiers’ children. [More…]
This range of assistance looks daunting on paper, but in no sense of the term can it be labelled a national plan for education. [More…]
A broad range of educational services and assistance has been created by a process of accretion; odd components have been added over the years either in response to electoral needs or to supplement existing Commonwealth projects. [More…]
He made great play of the discrepancies in the assessment of educational needs by the various States. [More…]
This is a remarkable statement to come from the Minister for Education and Science in a Government which has always ducked the questions of a national plan for education and a survey of needs conducted by the Commonwealth. [More…]
Despite years of evidence of deterioration in Australian schooling at all levels, his Government will not accept that the Commonwealth has any overriding responsibility for education. [More…]
This has shown up in every debate on education in this Parliament; in particular it has been revealed in repeated attempts by the Opposition to get the adoption of a national plan for education at all levels with the Commonwealth providing direction and channelling funds into education in a more rational and constructive way. [More…]
The Minister put considerable emphasis on the enhanced ability of the State to meet its education needs. [More…]
According to the Minister this put the States in a much better position to improve education by increased spending. [More…]
He went on to list increases in spending on education announced in the various State Budgets. [More…]
On a close examination the alleged improvement in the ability of the States to devote more to education because of Commonwealth munificence is revealed as a myth. [More…]
Undoubtedly the States are devoting more of their spending to education. [More…]
According to these figures recurrent spending on education has increased quite significantly while resources devoted to health and law and order have declined. [More…]
For example recurrent spending on education increased from 37.3 per cent of total State and local government spending in 1959-60 to 43 per cent in 1969-70. [More…]
This shows quite clearly that resources have been slowly diverted from other key areas of public spending to education. [More…]
Quite clearly resources which should be applied by the States to a broader range of essential activities are being plundered because of the enormous pressures on education. [More…]
Education is the only item which increased significantly in the 10 years from 1959-60 to 1969-70. [More…]
Again resources have been diverted from important areas of spending to education. [More…]
Both recurrent and capital spending have been caught in a vice by the overwhelming demands of education. [More…]
Department of Education and Science and the Australian Pre-school Association on the number of children eligible for preschool education who attend in each State. [More…]
New South Wales was at the bottom of the scale with only 3 per cent of eligible children getting a preschool education. [More…]
They reveal that in the most populous State with the biggest city in Australia, with a heavy concentration of migrants and lower income earners, facilities for pre-school education are negligible. [More…]
The pattern of educational inequality emerges between the Commonwealthadministered Territories and the States, between the individual States, between country and urban schools, between independent and State schools. [More…]
Education is the dominant item in the Budget of each of the States. [More…]
The States have been burdened to the limit of their resources by the demands of education. [More…]
In summary, the future of education at all levels cannot be approached with any optimism. [More…]
The Government has no conception of the inequalities which are mounting in our education. [More…]
Because it claims to have made more revenue available to the States it believes that the States can surmount the crisis in education without further assistance. [More…]
One of the most important aspects of national life today is generally considered to be education. [More…]
While I commend the Commonwealth Government on the attitude it has taken in regard to education I feel that there is no room for complacency. [More…]
I believe that if we are to provide the essential educational facilities for the young people of Australia the Commonwealth Government will have to become more active in education than it has been in the past. [More…]
Education and Science. [More…]
While this might be regarded as a matter coming within the scope of State responsibility in regard to educational facilities it is something which is necessary and which will have to be considered in the overall aspect of education. [More…]
The basic requirement for all formal education is reading skill and ability, coupled with a love of reading and willingness to approach books for research purposes. [More…]
This Government has established very strongly its belief in a dual system of education. [More…]
If this dual system of education is to succeed it will be maintained in a much better way by this Government than it would be by the alternative government. [More…]
If the dual system of education is to continue at its present level the independent schools will have to have greater government assistance. [More…]
for these schools involve a large number of teachers who have dedicated their lives under this dual system of education to the teaching of children. [More…]
These people probably will not be available to teach if the dual system of education falls apart. [More…]
These schools are essential in our education system and without this further assistance I fail to see how they will be able to meet rising costs. [More…]
This Government must step in and prevent their disappearance from the Australian educational scene. [More…]
But in the field of education I see no advantage in restricting finance, because this expenditure would not increase inflation in any way. [More…]
I believe that further assistance would be of tremendous advantage in the overall aspect of education. [More…]
The dual system of education provides friendly and healthy rivalry amongst schools in general. [More…]
Surely this Government should increase its aid very considerably in the interests of education to enable the continuation of a dual system of education which has served this country so well and which I believe is very necessary for the future if we are to keep our standard of education at its present level. [More…]
On an international comparison our standard of education is certainly no higher than it has to be in these days of great competition in every field in which we are engaged. [More…]
Further financial assistance is necessary for educational facilities so that Australia may keep her place among the top nations of the world. [More…]
I had a few notes on what I intended to say in this debate on the Estimates for the Department of Education and Science but I am prompted firstly to reply to some of the points raised by the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) who, it seemed to me, spoke about somehow or other acquiring an educational system on the cheap. [More…]
If the Government had not wasted all the money it has wasted on the Vietnam war it could have afforded a lot more money for education. [More…]
I represent the Australian Capital Territory and I have heard it said by honourable members on both sides of the House that in some way which is difficult to understand the Australian Capital Territory is favoured in education. [More…]
But there cannot be any other part of Australia in which we hear and read more responsible protests, more complaints, more letters to the newspapers - here it is the ‘Canberra Times’ - and more petitions demanding that something be done about education. [More…]
This is linked with the problem or the crisis in education throughout the country. [More…]
This springs from the bureaucratic dependency on the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]
These people did not get these qualifications by coming up through the Australian Capital Territory educational system. [More…]
In other words, these people do not set their standards low in an area such as that of education which is so important. [More…]
The estimated number of parents who attended on each occasion to protest about education in the Australian Capital Territory was something like 1,000. [More…]
There is a complete misallocation of resources not only from the point of view of the lack of money, and there is a real failure to grasp the problem facing education and determine how it must be geared to the modern world. [More…]
If we were to draw up a list of our priorities in view of the socalled danger to this country from invasion by foreign forces and bearing in mind the undoubted crisis in education, then if we must have a national service scheme, why not give exemption to teachers and trainee teachers? [More…]
I finish with these thoughts: Education is not simply a matter of acquiring a skill or trade in order to earn money. [More…]
Most people fulfil this objective because in order to get into their occupation they have to have an education. [More…]
Society produces its education system and the educational system in turn in some way tends to produce the society. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) is just as much a product of the Australian society and Australian education system as we are, and we all remember the answer he gave to a question asked by the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) relating to population and the environment. [More…]
I finish on this note: The real crisis in education is that it can produce this kind of insular remark. [More…]
I was greatly heartened by the objectives which the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), expressed when he outlined to the House recently the Commonwealth Government’s education programme for 1971-72. [More…]
He seemed to me to have an excellent philosophy of education and not through just talking in terms of facts and figures. [More…]
A fresh approach, a sense of objectives and a strong philosophy of education have never been more necessary. [More…]
As in so many areas it is simply not enough to call for more for education and more and more money for more and more education. [More…]
Our generation has been getting more and more education and it has been exploding in our hands. [More…]
Our generation has been encouraging educational expectations with only the haziest idea about the end of those expectations. [More…]
What shall it profit a man, one might ask, that he gain a long education through a prolonged adolescence and lose his adaptability, his usefulness, his idealism and his happiness? [More…]
Our generation has been confused about its own values and priorities and, not knowing what values should be passed on to the coming generation, has tended to strip education of moral and personal values. [More…]
Clearly we need to know the facts about the education system and the Minister’s record of research is splendid. [More…]
I believe we should ultimately aim at a multi-system of education in which schools are created and controlled as far as possible by the local community rather than created and remote controlled in capital cities. [More…]
We should stop talking about a dual education system and stress the advantages of the multi-education system which is with us and which should be developed. [More…]
We should be aiming at an end to prejudice and an encouragement to the community to create the diversity in education which it requires. [More…]
Ten thousand secondary scholarships are awarded annually without means test for the final 2 years of secondary education and comprise $200 for maintenance, $50 for books and up to $150 for school and examination fees. [More…]
The Government should consider establishing a working series of relatively high level liaison committees between the Department of Education and Science and the universities to consider the circumstances of particular students. [More…]
This evening we heard the honourable member for Chisholm (Mr Staley) demonstrate his almost total commitment to the policy of the Government in regard to the Department for Education and Science, whose estimates we are considering. [More…]
But before his 10 minutes were concluded he had very adequately shown that even for one who was totally committed he was dissatisfied with many aspects of the administration of the Education and Science portfolio by the current Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
As he has been Minister for longer than any of his colleagues, one would expect that he would be fully conversant with the problems confronting the education system of this country. [More…]
With such a history of instability in ministerial administration it is understandable that only last Tuesday the present Minister should speak of the Government’s education programme for 1971-72 with indifference and Irresponsibility. [More…]
He told honourable members that the Government fully recognised the national importance of education and of the development of educational services. [More…]
He then proceeded to downgrade the importance of the education requirements of the States as disclosed in the nationwide survey of educational needs for the years 1971 to 1975. [More…]
It was obvious from the Minister’s statement that under this Government the vital responsibility for financing education in Australia will continue to be regarded in terms of how many votes it may be worth rather than how many children may be handicapped educationally by the current inequalities of the various systems throughout this nation. [More…]
For some time it has been obvious that it is becoming impossible to accommodate young Queenslanders who seek tertiary education at that university. [More…]
This decision has been forced on the Queensland University by the decision of the Queensland Cabinet and, indirectly, by the Commonwealth Government failing to take adequate responsibility for education problems at this particular level. [More…]
The President of the Queensland Teachers Union, Mr Gavin Semple, summed up the effects of the Senate’s decision very clearly when he said that the recommendation to raise the matriculation level was deplorable and educationally unacceptable. [More…]
In 1969, in referring to the financial needs of tertiary education in the 1970-72 triennium, the Queensland Treasurer said: [More…]
I am sure that the Minister for Education and Science knows of this situation because he held tha education portfolio at that time. [More…]
Secondary student graduates are being denied tertiary education in increasing numbers each year at our universities. [More…]
The next government - a Labor Government - will not be content until it ensures that the next generation of this nation has tertiary education available to every individual. [More…]
Sir JOHN CRAMER (Bennelong) (8.38) - ‘Education is a State function but it is a national responsibility. [More…]
Since then, year by year there has been a constant increase in Commonwealth expenditure on education. [More…]
Left to the States the inspiration for a higher education could never have reached the present standard. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has given a national impetus to education, not only in the national capital itself and in the Commonwealth Territories but also in State universities, colleges of advanced education and affiliated colleges. [More…]
No matter what may be said, the Commonwealth Government is now deeply involved in education. [More…]
There are, as we know, great differences in the approach of the various States to education. [More…]
This is something in relation to which I applaud the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) because he understands the position and has the right approach to education. [More…]
Apart from the stimulation of higher and advanced education, one of the greatest things done by the Commonwealth Government has been the encouragement of the national acceptance of the dual system of education in the State schools and in the independent schools. [More…]
Indeed, had it not been for this Government and its action in education over the years, many, many hundreds of independent schools in Australia would have folded up. [More…]
These schools have been part of our accepted system of education for over a century. [More…]
We never stop to think that the nuns and brothers in the Catholic school education system have given their services free of charge over the long years. [More…]
So on the pure issue of justice in a country where education is compulsory no-one can deny the right of a parent to send his child to the school of his choice provided that the standard of education is met. [More…]
One of the great things in this country, I believe, is freedom of religion and a parent therefore has the right to give his child a basic moral and religious education if he so chooses. [More…]
They have the right therefore to assistance in meeting the cost of at least the secular part of the education in independent schools. [More…]
1 know that the States were given more money and are increasing their per capita payments, and I know that the increased amount that may be deducted for taxation purposes in regard to education expenses will be a help. [More…]
Direct expenditure on education by the Commonwealth today amounts to an average of $125 for each child in Australia. [More…]
It is not only a question of justice; it is a question of pure economics and the advancement of education in this country. [More…]
I believe that a system could be worked out whereby a contribution for education could be made to every child in Australia as a right, with the States making up the balance in the State education systems and the parents and friends making up the difference for the independent schools’ requirements. [More…]
But in my opinion all children are entitled equally to a share of assistance in education. [More…]
Children have a right to be given the kind of education that their parents desire for them. [More…]
I raised this matter in the Parliament last Wednesday by way of a question to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) believing that the University of Sydney incident would act as a catalyst for an Australiawide increase in university fees and, indeed, an increase in fees in the whole area of colleges of advanced education and institutes of technology. [More…]
Surprisingly, the Minister declined to concede that there was any rising economic barrier to higher education. [More…]
The Commonwealth to ensure the provision of tertiary education without fees and regularly to review and extend the payment of living allowances. [More…]
If the Commonwealth was properly concerned about economic barriers to higher education, the plight of many students and families and the crisis in universities finance, it would do precisely the opposite - it would subsidise universities that kept fees down. [More…]
In 1971 48,873 applied for Commonwealth advanced education scholarships and 2,831 were accepted. [More…]
In 1970 only 10 per cent of all the students undertaking advanced education courses had scholarships. [More…]
Let me have a look at the secondary education situation. [More…]
Why, if ever there was a rat race it is the one in which unfortunate kids who have been swotting competitively for Commonwealth scholarships in the secondary education Reid find themselves. [More…]
My time is almost exhausted and all I can say is this: It is time to eliminate the barriers to higher education. [More…]
But there are ways that can be contrived, as a previous speaker from the Government side has said, to ensure that people from low income families receive the opportunity to go on to higher education. [More…]
I want to deal with the crisis in education, which is approaching a catastrophy. [More…]
Again, there should be a stepping up of provisions for colleges of advanced education so that young people can concentrate on courses leading to gainful employment, eschewing university status - not as something inferior but as something different. [More…]
We should expect young people to work to further their education by part time attendance at institutions. [More…]
For people coming from impoverished countries in Europe nothing was too difficult and no sacrifice was too great on the part of their parents to enable their children to acquire education. [More…]
The advantages of this pluralistic over the monopolistic system of education to which we are moving and which is favoured by the honourable gentleman opposite would be this: First of all, we would channel more money and greater resources into education than we can possibly get from taxation. [More…]
Standards of accommodation and so forth could be laid down and standards established regarding curricula and public examination to ensure that children receive a proper education. [More…]
By these means we could overcome the rigidity, inflexibility, centralisation, bureaucratisation and the deadly uniformity that we shall have if we opt for the monopolistic style of education which is the inevitable end of the road that is indicated by the honourable gentleman opposite. [More…]
Sir, I stand for this because I believe that it is better for parents, for children and for the community and would produce a far better system of education than that to which we are rapidly moving. [More…]
These 2 amounts do not seem to bear any relationship to their logical successors, the Commonwealth university scholarships and the Commonwealth advanced education scholarships, each of which has been increased considerably this year - and this seems to have been the practice over past years, as far as I can see. [More…]
Perhaps the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has a logical explanation for the anomaly that seems to exist. [More…]
As I have said, there is a less affluence in parts of my electorate than in other areas of the metropolis and because of the inequitous practice of the Victorian Liberal Party Government in opting out of one of the major cost factors of education, that is, the provision of facilities in schools, and thrusting this cost upon parents, school committees and school councils, inequity has become rife. [More…]
A crisis exists in education, and that crisis can best be solved with money. [More…]
This Government was prepared to pay $150 towards fees if the lad attended a private school, but it refused to pay $78 when circumstances beyond the control of the father or the son caused the parent to consider that it was in the best interest of his son’s education to enrol him temporarily with a correspondence school. [More…]
I wish to direct my remarks to the secular Acts under which education is administered in the States. [More…]
Prior to the introduction of the Education Act of 1872 in Victoria, under which education became free, compulsory and secular, the churches ran most, if not all, of the schools, and much the same happened in the other States. [More…]
Of course, it precludes any of the education grant being used to teach religion in schools. [More…]
I do not quite see the logic of spending some SI, 500m, as the States and the Commonwealth are spending on education this year, giving our children every opportunity of developing mentally, physically and emotionally if they miss out on their spiritual growth. [More…]
Of course, this was one of the reasons why the Council for Christian Education in Schools was formed in Victoria in 1950. [More…]
A few years later the Education Act was amended to enable chaplains to be appointed to secondary schools. [More…]
As I have mentioned, under the secular Act none of the education grant can be used, lt means that this money has to be raised on a voluntary basis. [More…]
The Victorian Government recognised the important work carried out by the Council for Christian Education in Schools and provide a grant of $40,000 per annum to assist with the appointment of chaplains. [More…]
Religion in schools is primarily an educational subject and I see no reason why it should not become an integral part of any school curriculum in much the same way as other subjects are taught. [More…]
Local churches must also realise that they have a vital part to play in education, and one way of assisting is with the appointment of chaplains to secondary schools. [More…]
I know that the Council for Christian Education in Schools in Victoria and its counterparts in the other States are anxious to carry out research in education with a view to expanding chaplaincy work. [More…]
For this reason I would like to see the Commonwealth Government support the Council by providing a grant ot $250,000 for the purposes I have just expounded, as I really do believe that a return to religion in our State education system could well mean that our schools could turn out better balanced students, better able to adjust and meet the challenge of modern day living. [More…]
In March 1969 a nationwide survey of educational needs was established at the behest mainly of the State Ministers for Education forming the Australian Educational Council. [More…]
This lifted the hopes of people in State education and in private education. [More…]
Notwithstanding these virtually admitted evasions by the Commonwealth, it still claims that the States have been put in such an improved financial position that they should be able to meet most of the needs outlined by the survey for both the public and private sectors of education. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) says that the average State education budget now shows an annual increase of 17 per cent. [More…]
He compares this with the 10 per cent assumed annual growth in State education expenditures which was the basis of the survey’s calculation of needs. [More…]
It is no wonder that it was reported that the State and Federal governments’ spending on buildings for education in New South Wales dropped - not increased - by about 15 per cent in the 6 months to the end of May this year. [More…]
None of these education authorities would imagine for one second that the position of the schools would be substantially or dramatically improved by the per capita increases that have been provided by the recent State budgets. [More…]
Let it be stressed that the survey dealt only with primary, secondary and teacher education. [More…]
It had nothing to do with preschool education, the education of the handicapped or with the vast field of technical education at the pre-tertiary lc /el. [More…]
Somehow the States’ alleged ‘greatly improved’ financial position has also to try to meet all these educational needs along with their heavy commitments to universities and the quickly growing sector of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I am sure that not even the Minister for Education and Science or the Government sincerely and honestly believes that the States are now in a satisfactory financial position to meet this kind of challenge for the 5 years ahead. [More…]
May I make the positive suggestion that whilever the system of specific Commonwealth grants to the States for educational purposes endures, it be on a 5-year basis rather than 3 as at present. [More…]
1 am becoming increasingly more convinced of the need for clearer and more definite political responsibility for education. [More…]
For education I think there is a good case for clearly dividing responsibility so that the States retain pre-school, primary and secondary education and the Commonwealth accepts responsibility for all post-secondary and tertiary education. [More…]
Technical education, so closely allied to the economy and to employment policies, seems admirably suited to Commonwealth responsibility. [More…]
Now that teachers colleges are being absorbed into colleges of advanced education and universities and, thankfully, becoming less tied to education departments, they also would readily fit into a national pattern of tertiary education. [More…]
These bodies - teachers colleges, colleges of advanced education and universities - have or are receiving a substantial amount of autonomy. [More…]
Whilst 1 regret what has happened in regard to the survey on educational needs I would stress that the Commonwealth should not opt out but it ought to accept the proposal of the Australian Labor Party to set up an Australian schools commission which would not only carry out a thorough investigation into all these levels of education but would do so on a continuing basis. [More…]
May I initially, because I feel that the time allowed to honourable members to speak to the Estimates has been limited to too great a degree, touch very briefly on a side of the estimates for the Department of Education and Science which I have not heard anyone refer to until now. [More…]
I refer to that part of the portfolio of the Minister for Education and Science which relates to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research [More…]
I must leave this matter there because there are other subjects I wish to refer to relating to education. [More…]
I would say that probably for the first time in the history of this country we now have federally a much more balanced approach to the whole problem of education. [More…]
I refer primarily to the importance, in my view, of the Australian Council for Educational Research. [More…]
I would say that more and more meetings of this Council will become - if they have not already done so - the common meeting place at which discussions will be had on State and Federal responsibilities in the vast field of education. [More…]
I believe that it is of profound importance to this country for not only State and Federal Ministers for Education but also the officers in their departments to meet, discuss and negotiate on areas of need. [More…]
I am not so sure myself, nor have I ever been, that retired or senior school masters are the right people to administer State departments of education. [More…]
One of the problems for us as a national government, having taken over quite quite recently some of the more important responsibilities for education throughout the nation, hinges around this same observation. [More…]
I would do nothing but laud Sir Hugh Ennor and many of the people who work in the Department of Education and Science here. [More…]
People such as the honourable member for Barton can say that we should be finding many millions more for education but they do not tell us where we should get this money. [More…]
The equivalent of costbenefit analyses in terms of the new structure that I mentioned at the start of my speech tonight are of grave importance to teacher education in this nation. [More…]
The real question is not whether the Commonwealth should provide more funds for education; of course it should. [More…]
This country spends 4.3 per cent of its gross national product on education while many western countries are spending 6 per cent to 8 per cent of their gross national product on education. [More…]
This means that 18 per cent of Australian primary school pupils are receiving their education in conditions as bad as or even worse than those suffered by State primary school pupils. [More…]
The Labor Party proposes that an inquiry be held to determine the state of education at all levels. [More…]
Then obviously something must be done about it since it is politically irresponsible to permit the children in those schools to suffer educational deprivation compared to their counterparts in government schools. [More…]
None of this discussion has dealt with the real problems of education in the country. [More…]
The question is: How do we increase the involvement of parents, remove authority from centralised bureaucracy; and, what is the real nature of education in a modern society? [More…]
An educationalist, John McLaren, has claimed that the prob lem of over centralised bureaucracy can be solved by changing the State education system: . [More…]
He claims that the answer is that the Commonwealth should decide how much money should go to education and then finance individual schools directly. [More…]
In essence, all schools would become part of the public system, but not run by State education departments. [More…]
It would eliminate the narrowness based on social status or religious denomination of the present private schools, allow greater autonomy of the schools with their staff and the interested parents associated with those schools, and seems to me to offer the best way out of the present sterile impasse our education appears to have reached. [More…]
The faults of narrowness and lack of imagination are not confined to the government school sector for the private schools are just discovering that co-education may be a good thing. [More…]
With all the evidence I can find, both in my own reading and in my own personal experience with the problems of my own children at school, it seems to me that this is the only constructive future for education. [More…]
It is time we stopped arguing the question of education around the political football of State aid. [More…]
It is time we started to act as if we mean some of the things we have been saying in theoretical discussions for years; namely, that education is not just to teach techniques but to teach one to live and think, lt is time we acted as if we believed these things. [More…]
is time we allowed education to produce free, honest thinking young minds instead of trained acceptors of authority. [More…]
In the short time that I am permitted to speak on the estimates relating to the Department of Education and Science there are 2 matters I must mention which I consider of extreme importance, especially to the people of northern Queensland. [More…]
But the personnel with the requisite knowledge are available in the Department of Education and Science and their knowledge should, in my opinion, be utilised without any further loss of time. [More…]
I wholeheartedly support the submission made to CSIRO by the North Queensland Local Government Association and hope that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) will give this matter his immediate consideration. “ [More…]
Another matters that bugs me quite a bit is the question of the pre-school education of Australian children. [More…]
I am interested in pre-school education because I firmly believe that a sound education for our children and .young people is a necessary requirement for Australia’s future security. [More…]
Some years ago, Mr Corbett, you will remember that the attainment of a junior standard of education was sufficient foundation for a career for a young person. [More…]
The emphasis on education has placed a greater responsibility on the pupil or student. [More…]
In the technical age in which we live far more has to be learned and absorbed in a shorter time, consequently in my view pre-school education does much to assist the child. [More…]
Aspects of pre-school education which concern me greatly are that not every child has the opportunity of receiving such education, mainly because there are far too few preschool centres; there is great difficulty in obtaining the requisite staff to increase the number of centres; attendance frequently is on a roster basis and the cost of maintaining a child at a centre in some circumstances [More…]
stances precludes the parent from permitting a child to take advantage of such education. [More…]
During the 1969 Federal elections one of the platforms of the Government’s policy was to assist the States with their programmes of pre-school education. [More…]
As I said earlier, the education of our young people is becoming increasingly important and every effort should be made to prevent any delay in implementing a scheme which would assist pre-school education. [More…]
Complete co-operation would have to be maintained between the education departments and the local parents associations. [More…]
The education departments, through their various governmental agencies, should provide and maintain the pre-school centre buildings and playgrounds and should staff the centres. [More…]
The organisation of the educational programme should be the responsibility of preschool teachers under the general supervision of regional directors. [More…]
1 want to speak primarily about education and the estimates we are now discussing. [More…]
lt has been said that education is the key to an egalitarian society. [More…]
Our community believes that by the provision of free primary and secondary education sufficient has been done and that those who fail to make it through the system fail through their own fault and their inability to cope adequately with the education system. [More…]
If one believes the UNESCO studies and any accepted demographic studies, there must be some great deficiency in our education system if it continues to perpetuate privilege in this way. [More…]
It is also extremely difficult to give a child motivation, but it can be done through the education system. [More…]
The only way to break this cycle is through the immediate introduction of pre-school education which the honourable member for Herbert (Mr Bonnett) mentioned. [More…]
Those who are now deprived of pre-school education are those who are most in need of it. [More…]
I want briefly to quote from the platform of the 1971 Launceston conference of the Australian Labor Party the objective in education. [More…]
Education should promote love of freedom and justice and should develop critical perception, ability to choose intelligently, capacity for selfgovernment and a sense of social responsibility, lt should instil belief in the equal rights of all people and respect for their essential humanity, irrespective of nationality, colour or creed. [More…]
It is the obligation of the State to provide a universal, free, compulsory, secular system of education open to all citizens. [More…]
In the time left to me, however, I wish to refer to the education system as it is working in Robertson, the electorate that I represent. [More…]
Without being qualified to comment on the quality of education, I could readily ascertain some very serious physical deficiencies. [More…]
1 want to quote one small section from the nation-wide survey of educational needs. [More…]
St Joseph’s Girls High School is located on less than an acre yet the survey of education needs suggests 15 to 20 acres. [More…]
The Catholic education on the central coast of New South Wales is approaching a crisis situation and will need very heavy support from both the State and Commonwealth Governments if it is to survive. [More…]
I note that he was lauding education on the north shore of Sydney Harbour. [More…]
But to discuss the estimates, I see that according to the Budget document entitled ‘Civil Works Programme 1971-72’, the Government will spend $6.22m this year in the Northern Territory on education and science projects. [More…]
The works programme on behalf of the Department of Education and Science is as follows: Works in progress, $8. [More…]
As I said before, $6.2m will be spent on the works programme for the Department of Education and Science this year compared with last year, when $5.1m was appropriated but only about $4m was used. [More…]
So I put it to the Parliament that the Government is planning for the education of the young in the Northern Territory and is really looking ahead to the very fast growing population and the quick growing numbers of children in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Under Division 232, subdivision 2, item 07 I notice the provision of an amount of $3.1m on payments to South Australian Education Department and teacher movement expenses. [More…]
Mr Deputy Chairman, this Government has a policy of utter discrimination so far as education is concerned. [More…]
During the course of the debate this evening, one has sat here and listened somewhat patiently to members on the other side frequently say that because expenditure has increased one year in comparison with that in the previous year, they - with their thumbs in the lapel attitude - have done all they could possibly do for education. [More…]
Mr Deputy Chairman, I want first of all to complain very bitterly about the fact that we get only 10 lousy minutes in this debate in which to discuss the Department of Education and Science and the explanations of the estimates for 1970-71 which number 130-odd pages. [More…]
Coupled with that is the ministerial statement which takes in a study and survey of education in the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory generally. [More…]
I believe that the number of minutes that are provided for us by the Leader of the House (Mr Swartz) for this debate is totally inadequate and matches, admirably or otherwise, the Government’s effort towards meeting the educational requirements of the young people of this nation. [More…]
I went to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who is at the table tonight, and endeavoured to get his consent to the incorporation of some of the submissions of those schools in Hansard. [More…]
But the Minister wiped me off as he has been wiping off the problems of education for some time. [More…]
What was said by the Minister was indicative of what has been said here today - the Government does not want to pursue the question of education. [More…]
So I ask the Minister for Education and Science now whether he is prepared to visit South Australia as his predecessor was not. [More…]
The fact is this: The former Minister for Education and Science went to South Australia, but he dodged the issue by not inspecting actual school conditions. [More…]
He attended a meeting, somewhat reluctantly, but he backed off completely from a request by the State Minister for Education, Hugh Hudson, to familiarise himself with the schools and the conditions of schools in South Australia, conditions which have been brought about by the attitude of this Federal Government down through a great number of years. [More…]
This money is considered necessary for education over the next 5 years? [More…]
Certainly, whilst the Government has increased expenditure in some fields of education it still is not making any real provision for many of the schools in most of the States of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Where is the massive grant that ought to be given to the whole range of education in Australia, about which we have heard talk? [More…]
People probably think that these estimates set out expenditure on education for students and children and the provision of facilities. [More…]
The Estimates that are under discussion at the moment should spell out correctly and properly in the figures presented where we are heading so far as the betterment of education for the student children of this country is concerned. [More…]
Can any sane person or any reasonable thinking person accept the attitude of Government members who have risen one after the other and said that, because Commonwealth expenditure on education has been greater in a certain year, the Commonwealth must be doing something for education? [More…]
What is the good of Government members continually rising and saying that as far as education and a whole host of other matters, including hospitalisation, health and what-have-you - if I may transgress for a short moment, Mr Deputy Chairman - are concerned, the problem is one for the States? [More…]
Most of taxation money collected comes into the Commonwealth which should accept its proper responsibility over a whole range of fields none of which is more important than education. [More…]
Nothing is more important than education. [More…]
I suppose he is a continuing example of the need for the Commonwealth Government, State governments, local governments or someone or other to spend more money on adult education. [More…]
The 2 basic arguments or contentions are these: First, that it is a matter for the Commonwealth Government and the Commonwealth should be setting out to provide millions of dollars immediately for education; and secondly, that the Government is lining the pockets of the rich who send their children to Geelong Grammar, to St Peters School and to all the other leading independent schools in Australia. [More…]
What the honourable member for Sturt simply does not understand and what many of his colleagues do not understand is that at the moment education constitutionally is the province of the State governments. [More…]
Arguments can be advanced - I have done so myself on occasions^ - that a case exists for saying that the Commonwealth should increase its activity and its involvement in education. [More…]
Bearing in mind that it is the basic responsibility of the States to provide the basic education structure throughout the Commonwealth, this Government has endeavoured to locate specific areas of need where intervention of the national Parliament and the national Government on a national scale can be advantageous to the education system of the country. [More…]
That is what has been done, bearing in mind all the time that education is basically the province of State governments. [More…]
Now, until that situation is changed, that is the constitutional structure within which any responsible government of this country must administer the education system and must plan its educational appropriations. [More…]
When one looks at the very basic facts - and the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) referred to some of them in his statement - it can be seen quite clearly that this is not so. [More…]
That school is not a luxurious school; it is not a school where there is a guarantee that students will receive education in the type of circumstances which any educational authority would think was desirable. [More…]
Of course, the Commonwealth has given some assistance in this field under its teacher training programme whereby 10 per cent of the places at the colleges are reserved for students not bonded to State education departments. [More…]
I wish to speak briefly on the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and then to touch very briefly on an education question. [More…]
But I do not believe that the CSIRO and government activity in science should any longer be attached to the portfolio of Education and Science. [More…]
I do not believe that we should have a portfolio of Education and Science. [More…]
1 believe that we ought to have separate portfolios for education on the one hand and science and technology on the other. [More…]
It is very clear that the education portfolio is becoming increasingly onerous as Commonwealth activities in education increase. [More…]
It would be valid to have a Minister for Education to handle the university activities of the Commonwealth Government alone. [More…]
This is apart from the increasing Commonwealth intervention into the field of secondary education, both public and church. [More…]
It was attached to the Prime Minister’s Department and is now attached to the portfolio of education. [More…]
The honourable member for Holt (Mr Reid) in the course of his address referred to religious instruction in State schools as it existed in Victoria, paradoxically as a result of the intervention of Archbishop Mannix who at one stage said that Catholics should not be called on to pay taxes for Protestant education and got scriptural education knocked out of Victorian State schools and then, rather illogically, turned round and asked for assistance for Catholic schools. [More…]
He provoked the logical retort that if Catholics should not pay taxes for Protestant education Protestants should not pay taxes for Catholic education. [More…]
But the banning of scriptural education in Victorian schools does not have a parallel in every State. [More…]
In my teaching days I used to have to teach a course that was called scripture, with frightful warnings that I must not enter the field of dogmatic and polemical theology, according to the Education Act of Western Australia. [More…]
It seems to me that realistically, if the increasing burden of education is to be carried by such private bodies they will have to come to accept what was once offered, I understand, by a former director of education in Western Australia. [More…]
Those people who want their children to have a religious education may send their children to this school.’ [More…]
It seems to me that if the church has difficulty - and I am quite concerned that people should have freedom to give their children the education which they want to give them - one of the solutions may well be that those Catholics who are part of the State school teaching staff should be free to teach in church schools. [More…]
If it set up as it should in the Australian Capital Territory an independent education authority, it could make such an arrangement in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Other schools - I do not say this as a criticism but as a statement of fact - from other churches in the main have not attempted to reach every child with their form of religious education. [More…]
This matter of education provides well-nigh intractable problems. [More…]
The plain fact of the matter is !hat the Commonwealth has gone into the broader field of education in very recent times, la doing so it has brought considerable assistance to particular areas and in some general areas of education down to the school level. [More…]
But largely this assistance lias been in the area of tertiary education. [More…]
However, it should be restated that the Commonwealth is taking a major and significant share in the total burden of education at the moment. [More…]
In saying that I mean that practically the whole of tertiary education is now paid for by the Commonwealth in fairly direct measure. [More…]
In the primary and secondary areas of education, Commonwealth assistance, so far as it can be enumerated, comes largely in the area of specific grants involving this $345m about which the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has spoken. [More…]
If we look at particular areas of education we cannot talk about a diminishing involvement when we say that colleges of advanced education on which less than $12m was spent 4 years ago will have $37m-odd provided for them in the Estimates for this year. [More…]
The plain fact of the matter is that on every hand, in every field of education that we turn to, significant - not paltry - increases are being made by the Commonwealth in its specific grants. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science pointed out in his statement on education a week or so ago, as did his predecessor, that when the States were given the increase of 15 per cent or so in grants, which the honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Turner) referred to as ‘in globo grants’, against an expected 10 per cent increase some 2 years ago, of course this had implications for the $ 1443m worth of educational need, assessed in that survey. [More…]
Sooner or later members of the Opposition will have to recognise that the States must rearrange or give greater emphasis to their priorities in respect of education if that position is to be improved. [More…]
The inner city schools, almost by definition, by lack of education basically in that particular community, by lack of income, and as a result of that by the environmental deficiencies that have accrued, have provided less for themselves than some other schools but to me it is negative thinking to say that those people who will or can help themselves should not be helped any further because there are others who are less capable of helping themselves. [More…]
But the plain fact is that it will not be sufficient now or, I believe, at any other time for this or any other government to say that it is entirely your fault, the States are playing a great game, your Hugh Hudsons and others are doing their jobs and we exonerate them from all responsibility in making good the State deficiencies in education. [More…]
As my colleague the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) said, the portfolio of Education and Science is certainly becoming increasingly complex and vast and he may well have a good point in suggesting a division of responsibilities. [More…]
However, I do not think that we on this side of the House, who may well claim to have initiated or at least captured at the parliamentary level the idea that the Commonwealth ought to participate more fully in education, meant that the Commonwealth would take over anything in the sense of taking over the total operation. [More…]
We have discussed here and in the public forum at great length the inequalities of education. [More…]
In other words, in the remotest area of Queensland a person should receive what might be called equal effort in his education. [More…]
Many things are wrong with Australian education. [More…]
I suppose it is heartening that there is increasing research in the field of education. [More…]
We want equal effort put into everybody’s education. [More…]
As to the question of priorities in the field of education, it is true that many State governments have odd priorities for assistance. [More…]
I do not agree with what the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) had to say the other night. [More…]
By some miracle there is a change in some parts of the Australian education system. [More…]
The classroom now is not where one would see the old method of teaching by rote which occurred through most of the education system, particularly in primary schools. [More…]
I hope that honourable members who are concerned with education will take a closer look at what is going on inside the classroom and what it is all about. [More…]
Listening to this debate and debates of this kind in recent times one would have thought that all that education in Australia was about was state aid. [More…]
But the issue as far as education is concerned is what will happen in the classroom, what kind of teacher will the pupils have, and what kind of relationship will the teacher and pupils have? [More…]
Instead of just teaching, we are searching for something which we might call education. [More…]
I will take a lot of convincing, as will most people associated with education, that the teacher-pupil ratio is not an important factor in the education system. [More…]
1 would say that almost all children in Brunswick is now less well served in education than they were in 1938. [More…]
Probably the only enterprise in this country which has large areas that are in fact worse off than they were 30 or 40 years ago is education. [More…]
But in large areas of education in Australia children are now less well served than they were 30 or 40 years ago. [More…]
I should point out that what I said on pupil-teacher ratios in a ministerial statement on education was not a view which was born or dreamed of by myself but one which was given credence, support and weight by the report of the Scott Committee, which was an independent committee set up to examine the problems of class sizes in New South Wales. [More…]
The honourable members for Diamond Valley (Mr Brown) and Denison (Dr Solomon) amongs others made suggestions about the manner in which support for independent education might be extended. [More…]
I am also well aware that a potential decision by Victoria would prevent any further expansion of the Catholic secondary education system and that that decision has been forced upon it by financial stringency. [More…]
That obviously will have implications on not only the Catholic secondary education system but also the State schools as well. [More…]
The Premier has already announced that the Minister for Education in Victoria is examining the implications of this particular report. [More…]
That does not seem to me to make a great deal of sense as one of the 4 or 5 principles which were enunciated in the document published by the South Australian Minister for Education, or Department of Education, when distributing the initial $250,000 on this basis. [More…]
The Catholic Education Offices in each State certainly are involved in it and they have made a statement to this effect. [More…]
Therefore why be opposed io means tests in a great variety of areas in its social and education philosophies and then want to establish a means test in relation to support for independent schools? [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle added one further education promise to the Labor Party’s programme - a promise to establish, as I took it, an open university. [More…]
When the Martin Committee brought down its report on the future of tertiary education in Australia it recommended that scholars basically should be able to complete their university education in a minimum time or in a minimum time plus one year. [More…]
There are failure rates in our universities for a whole variety of reasons and these rates are significantly higher than in many other countries, and much higher than in the United Kingdom where the opportunity for a university education is very much less than it is in Australia. [More…]
My only remaining point is in relation to the final comment of the honourable member for Wills who suggested that in many areas education now is much behind that which he had known as a boy 30 or 40 years ago. [More…]
The Bureau of Census and Statistics collects information on tertiary enrolments only in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Information supplied to the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education by colleges and college authorities gives a provisional total of 45,400 tertiary enrolments in advanced level courses at colleges of advanced education in 1971. [More…]
(a) The total number of students holding Commonwealth Advanced Education scholarships at 30th June 1971 is 5,866. [More…]
The colleges at which these courses are conducted include most of those named in the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act and also a number of other Colleges. [More…]
The number of Commonwealth Advanced Education scholars at 30th June in colleges named in the Act is 4,852. [More…]
(a) The number of applications received for Commonwealth Advanced Education scholarships available in 1971 was 48,873. [More…]
The number of Commonwealth Advanced Education scholarships offered in 1971 was 8,870. [More…]
The following numbers of Commonwealth Advanced Education scholars are enrolled in the first approved year of their courses in 1971.- It should be noted that certain courses to which entry may be gained one year below matriculation level are, for purposes of the Commonwealth Advanced Education Scholarship Scheme, approved from the second year of the course. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eightper cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several Stale Government Departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practicing educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
Secondly, we have one other pretty important problem, that is, the provision of, I think, about 15 rural nurses to fill the complement of the hospital to provide hygiene, nutritional and other kinds of education for the mothers who might accompany the children and also to educate the children themselves. [More…]
As to the last part of the honourable gentleman’s question, I would like to remind him that we will have entering the work force over the Christmas period this year about 180,000 people including school leavers and also those from tertiary education institutions. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education and Science aware that his colleague, the Minister for Education in South Australia, has said that additional money for education can come from only one source, the Commonwealth? [More…]
I have been aware of some of the efforts of the South Australian Minister for Education to persuade people that the Commonwealth is the only source of funds for overcoming the education problems that the States have. [More…]
I think it is worth noting, as I have pointed out before, that there are 2 ways in which the Commonwealth can assist and is assisting the States in education. [More…]
This year State education budgets have increased by 17 per cent over the whole of Australia. [More…]
It is essential that the greatest possible flexibility be left to a State to determine the real priorities within education and to allocate funds accordingly in line with the needs to meet its own particular problems. [More…]
the necessity for far more flexibility in dealing with funds for education. [More…]
If we are going to improve the lot of the community through the Government, which handles the taxpayers’ money, and improve the lot of the doctor so that there might be some easing off in prescribing habits we will have to provide money for regular in-service training for doctors, particularly education in pharmacology. [More…]
Regionalisation of medical care and continuing education can perhaps be accomplished by definition of primary, secondary and tertiary levels of medical care. [More…]
The first is the poor doctor and patient education on the use of drugs. [More…]
As a result, we know very little about the following: Firstly, the distribution and accessibility of general practitioners in poorer areas; secondly, the extent to which the poor are forced to use outpatients departments of public hospitals which are not designed to meet such needs; thirdly, the efficiency and economy of the use of outpatients departments by the poor; fourthly, the incidence of illness among the poor and the nature of this illness, especially chronic illness; fifthly, the connection between the ill health of the poor and the general pattern of their life style such as diet, hygiene, social and psychiatric problems and their promptness in seeking medical care; and, sixthly, the need to link health, education and social welfare services. [More…]
In particular they have recommended the establishment of special community health centres in poor areas containing not only general practitioners but also social workers, psychiatric social workers, home nurses, health educationists, community liaison officers and so on to provide not only care but also prevention and education. [More…]
The whole conservation area seems to be the responsibility of the Department of Education and Science and not this Department. [More…]
There is, admittedly, no completely scientific and objective means of making such an analysis, but these difficulties must not prevent us from reaching decisions about the benefits of cleaner air and water, less noise and a pleasant countryside, compared with the benefits which might result in meeting claims on resources in such fields as housing, health and education. [More…]
It is not good enough to allow States to put the needs of Aboriginal people, these deprived people, under the various headings of housing, health, education and so on, right at the end of the queue. [More…]
We all know what happened in regard to the provision of war service homes, rehabilitation schemes, education schemes and matters of that kind. [More…]
offences such as drunkenness affecting Aborigines; attitudes of individual police were significant, affecting for example the decision whether to prosecute where Aboriginal people were involved; white people found under the influence were less likely to be arrested than were Aborigines; Aborigines were less likely to be granted bail than whites; poverty was often’ the reason an Aborigine was not released on bail; poverty and lack of education resulted in many Aborigines not obtaining legal representation. [More…]
Government employees include persons employed, within Australia, by government bodies on services such as railways, road transport, banks, post office, air transport, education (including universities), broadcasting, television, police, public works, factories and munitions establishments, departmental hospitals and institutions, migrant hostels, etc., as well as administrative employees. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralization of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to inquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
My question to the Minister for Education and. [More…]
Science refers to his expressed intention of encouraging research in education matters. [More…]
The Committee has made several recommendations concerning the free distribution of parliamentary publications to educational institutions, such as universities, colleges, of advanced education, institutes of technology, teachers colleges and secondary schools and believes that one of the most important functions of the Parliament is to inform the rising generation of Australians about its operations. [More…]
This is extraordinary because only yesterday the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) introduced a new needs policy relating to schools. [More…]
Also there should be some connection between action taken by the Department of Primary Industry and action taken by other Government departments, such as the PostmasterGeneral’s Department, the Department of Social Services and the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
Of course, one of the big problems in the area at the present time is the education of children in isolated districts. [More…]
I had occasion to bring a delegation from the Bourke area to meet the then Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
I ask the present Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to take a good look at the case presented by this delegation. [More…]
Like other honourable members, I was fascinated to hear the list of troubles besetting the people of the Darling electorate, particularly those relating to education and the type of radio they have. [More…]
On the other hand, when recently I went to the Western District of Victoria, to the electorate of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), I was told that even with this assistance payment many of the smaller people there still would not survive. [More…]
Where is the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) at the moment? [More…]
Perhaps, as it is an educational problem, the Minister might like to confer with his colleague, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), to see whether a recommendation could be made to the Government to help the South Australian Government to purchase this asset for the people of Australia. [More…]
Its soldier children education scheme uses the State education systems to carry out the responsibility that it has. [More…]
The Government has supplied the Islanders with a better than average school and with perhaps better than average equipment, but I am confident that the intellectual endeavour and drive that ought to be behind, the education of people such as these is missing because the teachers have not received adequate training. [More…]
The papers have to be sent from the office of the Australian Council for Educational Research to the various State Departments of Education. [More…]
I support the question which was asked by the honourable member for Chisholm (Mr Staley) of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) this morning. [More…]
In Victoria the non-Roman Catholic private school student has 4 times the chance of a Government school student of going on to the final year of secondary education. [More…]
Will the Minister supplement the antismoking campaign with public education in the degrees of over-use of alcohol and its effects. [More…]
Public education in regard to smoking hazards and abuse of alcohol in areas other than the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory is the responsibility of State Governments. [More…]
In the Territories under its control, the Commonwealth has instituted health education programmes in schools using methods aimed at developing an awareness of the public health aspects of cigarette smoking and the use of alcohol. [More…]
These health education programmes have recently been intensified in the Australian Capital Territory to promote co-operation and education of parents and school teachers. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for 78 per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
The humble petition of the undersighed citizens of Australia respectfully showeth: (a) That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
On the question of education of the Aboriginals it is interesting to note that at present there is one Aboriginal university graduate. [More…]
They receive an education without having any future. [More…]
What possible hope is there for those Aboriginal children to get keen on education or to see anything worth while in education? [More…]
The whole education system is aimed at the children. [More…]
There is no political education and no attempt is made to encourage Aborigines to look after themselves. [More…]
But there is an obvious need for a health education programme - different from the health education given by these officers - under officers who can move through these areas and spend more time helping the Aborigines to overcome the hygiene and health problems that do occur. [More…]
The present health officers can only go from place to place and give advice on drainage and matters like that, whereas a health education officer can teach the people the way in which they can protect themselves. [More…]
We are all aware that even in an area like Port Augusta where there are quite a number of educated and sophisticated Aborigines, most Aboriginal children because of their background and their parents lack of education start off at school behind white children. [More…]
By the time the children got to school age they would have a chance of absorbing an education. [More…]
Its functions are broadly conceived so that it will become also a centre of creative activity for the exhibition of collections from abroad and of the work of contemporary; artists, and a focus of education and research exercising, in collaboration with sister galleries in the States, a profound and pervasive influence on the life of Australians. [More…]
Because of their background, the peculiar deficiencies of our education system and especially in socio-economically deprived areas, there are people who generationally suffer deprivation and who will not be able to enjoy the benefits of this sort of activity in the community about which the Prime Minister was talking. [More…]
It must be a relatively free system of education with the minimum amount of discipline involved - a system where children are encouraged to be creative, to express themselves freely and as much as possible to develop their own forms of music, drama and literary expression and gradually to be brought into association with the works of people whose contribution is regarded as worthwhile in these fields. [More…]
We must develop systems which do not destroy the creative capacity of our youngsters whose creativity is snuffed out all too often by the deadly repression of the education system somewhere along the line as they proceed through the system. [More…]
I advocate a reform of education which puts art where it should always have been - right in the heart of things. [More…]
If we can reform our methods of teach ing and our attitude towardstheobjectives of education so that some native aesthetic sensibility is preserved in children, and children are no longer brutalised and anaesthetised by the bludgeoning -process of ‘learning’ - that is to say, hammering conceptual knowledge into their innocent minds - then there would be some human material to work with. [More…]
In paragraph 11.8 the Council said that: ‘The school should be established as an independent College of Advanced Education immediately adjacent to an existing educational institution’. [More…]
Past experience in establishing other colleges of advanced education indicates that some 60 acres may well be required. [More…]
In education a significant and important policy shift has been glossed over. [More…]
The 1968 programme set a target for primary education enrolments of 249,000 by 1973. [More…]
It is unlikely that the resources available for primary education will permit any . [More…]
In plain words, further expansion of primary education where there are still substantial numbers of children unable to attend primary school has been cut off. [More…]
I welcome the appointment of a committee of inquiry into higher education which is re-examining priorities and 1 trust that it will not be too leisurely. [More…]
The basic education facilities in Papua New Guinea are insufficient in quantity or quality to cater for all of the population. [More…]
There is a crisis in education there which is even worse than that which exists in Australia. [More…]
I admit that the Government has established higher educational institutions, but it is a matter of too little too late. [More…]
Here I might add that the expatriate population must suffer, although those attending the higher educational institutions would have access to modern material. [More…]
In fact, I wonder how many of the indigenous population receive sufficient education to appreciate and use the library system in a country in which there is little else to offer to those seeking extended learning or self-education, or insufficient income to finance the library system. [More…]
He said that children perhaps could receive some Western education but to really make them live with security and confidence ;n their own society they should have their own tradition and culture. [More…]
The Ministerial members and the Assistant Ministerial Members make the final decisions in many areas such as education, public health, tourism, co-operative societies, business administration, posts and telegraphs, Territory revenue, taxation, shipping, civil defence, and corrective institutions, which is a tremendous responsibility that they carry out very well indeed. [More…]
On the question of education, I believe there has been a complete misuse of resources. [More…]
There is a dearth of students with secondary education to fill th positions required by the necessary step-up in localisation in commerce, industry, the public service and the teaching profession, not to mention the need for undergraduates at both the University of Papua New Guinea and the Technological Institute at Lae. [More…]
Therefore, the localisation campaign is being seriously impaired by this shortage of persons with secondary education. [More…]
On the other hand, with regard to primary education, the great mass of the students who leave primary school - say, after completing second to sixth class primary education - have no job to go to. [More…]
But the other side of the ledger shows that the process of bringing forward to European standards of education, or the beginnings thereof, produces considerable conflict and gives rise to a considerable social problem as between the offspring of a particular family and their tribal parents. [More…]
Two worlds become apparent in the educational sphere. [More…]
There is a tendency to say that the lack of education threatens national unity. [More…]
during the course of his speech tonight mentioned that he believed that the lack of educational opportunities in the Territory of Papua New Guinea was not important. [More…]
T intend to make a study of the educational background in the Territory. [More…]
Recently in Auckland the Anglican Bishop of New Guinea, the Rt Reverend David Hand, said that the church was in the box seat because of its past efforts in education. [More…]
In recent years the Government has made a marked contribution in the field of State aid to assist the churches in their educational work. [More…]
But when we hear the concept of State aid being defended, arguments such as the right of choice of education and the benefits of a dual system of education are discussed. [More…]
Briefly I shall mention what comprises the dual system of education as it exists in the Territory. [More…]
The T schools follow a Territorial syllabus and provide the indigenous population with primary, high, technical and vocational school education and the A schools follow the New .South Wales syllabus and provide a primarily academic education for the children of expatriates as well as for indigenous and mixed race pupils with early facility in the English language. [More…]
That is different to what we in Australia understand as a dual educational system. [More…]
Unfortunately the extent and depth of educational services in Papua New Guinea are as yet insufficient to meet the potential demand. [More…]
External Territories (Mr Barnes) provided information in relation to the number of children in the Territory who were unable to obtain primary and secondary education. [More…]
It is estimated that approximately 60 per cent of students completing a primary education are unable to obtain a place in secondary schools. [More…]
Prior to the Second World War the great bulk of educational opportunity in Papua New Guinea was provided by voluntary mission schools and was essentially limited to primary schooling. [More…]
After the war an increased awareness of the needs of and responsibility for territorial advancement brought a much greater official Australian involvement in education as well as in other fields. [More…]
Despite this growth and its anticipated acceleration the missions will continue to be the major educational force in the Territory. [More…]
This can be seen most clearly in the present policy of locating new Administration schools in new areas so as to spread educational resources as widely as possible and to prevent competition between the 2 systems. [More…]
In effect an educational monopoly is held by either the Administration or one of the voluntary missions in each area or village. [More…]
Alan Randall’s ‘Reorganisation of Education in Papua New Guinea’ covers this quite clearly. [More…]
In particular, political education has suffered. [More…]
I say to the Minister for External Territories (Mr Barnes) that we have nurtured a system of education in the Territory which I believe is making one of the greatest long term contributions to the lack of unity in that country. [More…]
Either one goes along and becomes indoctrinated or trained in some particular religion or one does not get an education at all. [More…]
I believe that the people of Australia must play a much greater part in the Territory by making more money available for 2 aspects of education. [More…]
The first is to ensure that a greater percentage of the people does receive an education. [More…]
At present we are giving them a second rate choice in education. [More…]
One of the great problems of education in Papua New Guinea is simply to get education to the people. [More…]
But what we are pointing out is that we have not extended education opportunities throughout the whole of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Surely it is possible inside an education system to preserve these values which the honourable member for Griffith apparently treasures so much as, I suppose, we all do. [More…]
But the important thing about education in Papua New Guinea is that there are so many people who still are getting none at all. [More…]
This applies particularly to all those thousands whose education and so on has committed them to the same life style as ours. [More…]
The taxpayers of Australia alone have contributed something in the vicinity of $20,000 to my higher education. [More…]
Education: Nation-wide Survey of Needs (Question No. [More…]
Did his predecessor write to all the Premiers on 7th September 1970 asking for the reaction of their Governments to the Nation-Wide Survey of Educational Needs and for an indication of the extent to which, having regard to their other responsibilities, they would wish to give priority to the proposed programmes in education (Hansard 21st October 1970, page 2616). [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
As this question involves the Victorian Government I have referred the Honourable Member’s question to the Victorian Minister of Education. [More…]
The level of tuition fees to be charged by colleges of advanced education in Victoria is a matter for the State to decide. [More…]
As announced by the Treasurer in his Budget Speech the Commonwealth will increase the number of advanced education scholarships each year from 2,500 to 4,000 new awards from the begining of 1972. [More…]
The Commonwealth looks to its Advisory Committee on Advanced Education for advice on the Appropriate level of Commonwealth grants for colleges of advanced education in Australia. [More…]
From the Commonwealth grants of nearly SI 00m to assist the States with the development of their colleges of advanced education in the current 1970-72 triennium, the grants to Victoria will total $35.54m. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system. [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should undeline it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education and Science seen 2 publications, one named ‘Family Issue of Tharunka’, the journal of the University of New South Wales Students Union, with a printed copy of an alleged letter of congratulations from Professor Myers, the Vice-Chancellor and Principal, and the other a booklet ‘Sex’ with the imprint U.N.S.W. [More…]
Will the Minister discuss this matter with the State Ministers for Education to see that appropriate action is taken against those responsible and that the discipline of the universities is strengthened to prevent a repetition of such deplorable conduct? [More…]
Can he obtain from the Ministerial Member for Education in the House of Assembly the number of children in Papua New Guinea in: [More…]
The matter referred to is one which falls within the authority of the Ministerial Member for Education in the House of Assembly for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Administrator on the advice of the Ministerial Member for Education has provided the following information: [More…]
In the Australian Capital Territory schools are operated under the New South Wales Department of Education curriculum, and are staffed by New South Wales teachers. [More…]
The topics mentioned in your question are included in the health education section of the curriculum. [More…]
My Department provides educational material for use in schools on smoking and alcohol in the form of pamphlets, books and films. [More…]
In the Northern Territory, a health education specialist has recently taken up duty with my Department. [More…]
Under his guidance, a complete and expanded programme of health education is currently being developed. [More…]
That the Australian Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I refer the Minister for Education and Science to the proposed establishment of an institute of marine science in north Queensland and ask: Is the project progressing as originally planned and can he inform me of the current situation regarding the project? [More…]
In the course of my recent statement on the Commonwealth’s proposals in respect of education, I mentioned the Commonwealth’s decision to join with the States in providing additional recurrent grants for universities in the current triennium, 1970- 72, to assist them to meet the costs arising from exceptional increases in non-academic salaries and wages. [More…]
The capacity to provide employment, housing, education and social services - that is vital under a Liberal Government - [More…]
With the success of the programme have come the problems of education, housing, employment, social welfare and a myriad of other problems. [More…]
Some critics are inclined to blame migrants for all the shortages in housing, services, education and other facilities. [More…]
Education is a matter of major concern. [More…]
It is estimated that the present needs of education in Australia require the expenditure of $180m a year. [More…]
Education authorities clamour for financial support yet we continue to bring in thousands of migrants, adding to the congestion and the difficulties of the system. [More…]
As honourable members know, the situation is that about 80 per cent of the migrants which come from non-English speaking countries desire some form of assistance in relation to education and language. [More…]
The expenditure on migrant education is exceedingly small. [More…]
It is unfair to load on to State Governments the full responsibility for a migrant programme in education, housing and municipal facilities and refuse to make available the money which is so necessary in order that the State Governments may carry on. [More…]
These are just a few of the problems which make some of the people think it is time for a ‘migrant holiday’ because the continued inflow of migrants is preventing us from overtaking the needs of education, housing, transport and capital works. [More…]
The real question to be investigated is why the Commonwealth in continuing the immigration programme has thrust its responsibilities in housing, education and health services on to the States and has not provided adequate financial resources resulting in shortages and deficit budgets. [More…]
Thirdly, the Minister for Education in New South Wales, a member of the Country Party, has said that the Commonwealth Government has cut down migrant education facilities. [More…]
It has cut down the vote for migrant education in such a way as to impose hardships on migrants and children. [More…]
The major proposed increases of expenditure on immigration in this Bill relate to migrant education services. [More…]
The largest increase is in relation to child migrant education programmes. [More…]
Until last year the Commonwealth’s role in migrant education had been concerned mainly with adults. [More…]
A ministerial statement of 23rd April 1970 set out details of improved and expanded measures for the education of child and adult migrants following a survey of schools and discussions with State education authorities. [More…]
Paragraph 67 on page 14 of the Minister’s report on the migration education programme for the financial year 1970-71 reads as follows: [More…]
In conjunction with the Department of Education and Science, the Department is directly responsible for arranging training courses for special teachers and for the production and distribution of necessary teaching and learning materials. [More…]
This substantial stepping up of child migrant education will, I am sure, pay handsome dividends for Australia in the years to come. [More…]
The honourable member for Ryan (Mr Drury) mentioned migrant education. [More…]
Let me inform the honourable member that this area is in dire need of a crash programme and that the $16m which was allocated during the course of last year has not as yet shown any real benefit in the education of migrant children. [More…]
Government members will recall that I have risen to my feet on a number of occasions in this chamber and pointed out what type of inquiry ought to be carried out by a responsible government in regard to education, migrant housing, the portability of pensions and pre-school education where a language difficulty arises with migrant children who, mark you, after they enter the junior grades at primary school, are at a disadvantage for the whole of their life. [More…]
Our policy provides that Australia should have the capacity to provide such things as housing, employment, education and social welfare. [More…]
The same thing applies with regard to moneys for housing and the fall-off in building; it applies again in relation to lack of education facilities and hospitals; and it applies in some instances with respect to insufficient social service payments, all of which are affecting not only newcomers but also original Australians and those who have been here for several years. [More…]
After some 18 years of operation we may find that the scheme would be more beneficial in its purpose if we established colleges or other educational facilities together with staff to provide advanced education opportunities in the country we are assisting rather than bring students to this country who, after 3 or 4 years of Australian life are told to return. [More…]
Some time ago legislation was introduced in this Parliament relating to education in English of migrants. [More…]
I think it is very important for migrants - especially to the younger ones coming to this country - to obtain as quickly as possible and under the best possible conditions a knowledge of English which will enable them to proceed with their education and employment with as short an interruption as is possible. [More…]
I do not think that what we have done so far in the field of migrant education is anywhere near enough or has had real impact on the situation. [More…]
I say that as one who is concerned with education, who is associated with the local schools in my electorate and who knows something of the subject, because each recess of Parliament - whether it is for a week . [More…]
Their English, their religion, their political views, their political background, their education and their skills are as like ours as they can be. [More…]
The humble petition of citizens of (he Commonwealth respectfully sheweth: Whereas - - (a) the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from universities, colleges of advanced education and other tertiary institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
The statistics show, I think, that only something like one-third of all allowable concessions are allowed in respect of direct dependants - wives and children - and that the other amounts are a miscellany of items such as medical expenses, education expenses, life assurance and so on. [More…]
I want to use one example to illustrate this sort of thing by pointing to a particular item that has been amended in this Schedule, education expenses. [More…]
One deals with education expenses claimed by grade of actual income and the other deals with the number of children for whom deductions for education expenses were allowed by grade of taxable income. [More…]
In the actual range of income from $2,000 to $4,000 the education expenses claimed had a face value of $95m. [More…]
For those taxpayers whose income exceeded $4,000 the nominal value of education expenses claimed was $132m and the number of children covered was 1,265,000. [More…]
We simply ask at this point: Who is it that benefits when this Government increases, as it does ‘.n this Bill, the concessional claim from $300 to $400 for each child for education expenses, which broadly cover fees, fares, books, uniforms, when by far the greatest number of claims now made for children barely average more than $100 a child? [More…]
lt is estimated that the loss to revenue by allowing the education expenses is somewhere of the order of S80m and that this will now be increased by a further $6m, but this concession will be regressive as far as the real benefit is concerned. [More…]
Take the new education concession, which in this Budget has gone from $300 to $400 per child: For a man on a taxable income of $20,000 this is worth to him $266 in rough terms. [More…]
It does nothing for incentive or equity and very little for education. [More…]
There are other ways of the state’s granting direct to the individuals concerned some allowance for education without it going through the machine.ery. [More…]
It would provide help for education by paying direct to the parents through tax concessions instead of through the Commonwealth to the States and then to the parents and handing out in small driblets to different schools and developing a good many arguments in the process. [More…]
The first, of course, is the concession for the deduction for the education of children. [More…]
Under the Income Tax Assessment Act as it operates at the present time the maximum deduction allowed to a taxpayer in relation to education expenses is $300 for each dependent full time student under 21 years of age. [More…]
Neither amendment will be the means of offering any real assistance in meeting the actual high cost of education, and even where there may be some simple or slight benefit it will be directed towards the more wealthy taxpayers while the very people who do require some significant assistance towards the education of their children will gain very little if any help or relief. [More…]
The amount of $300 as a maximum deduction from actual income was set down in 1963 and, as everyone knows - and many of them to their sorrow and to the depletion of their savings - during the years since 1963 there have been very substantial increases in the cost of education itself and also in the cost of transport and accommodation, etc., for those children who are obliged to travel to and remain in either capital cities or large country towns to obtain an education. [More…]
Those latter costs are very substantial indeed, and it is quite unjust and shows a complete lack of sympathy and understanding, or perhaps lack of concern by the Government, that a taxpayer in the far north, for instance, is allowed no more for education expenses as a taxation deduction that is a taxpayer living in a capital city who is not subject in any way to costs of fares and whose children are able to live at home during the whole time they are gaining their education. [More…]
The fact is that while education expenses under the Act include those for uniforms, fares, fees, books, etc., the fares alone with regard to children travelling long distances and who go home during the year - surely they are entitled to do that - would be very close to the allowable maximum deduction. [More…]
For those reasons I am not at all happy with the present method of offering family assistance or concession and am of the opinion that a straight forward allowance of direct taxation deduction irrespective of income would be a much more equitable and acceptable system, but even this would not help those people who, because of their circumstances, pay next to nothing in tax in any case and yet who at the same time are the very people who require assistance for the education of their children or to ensure their good health. [More…]
But if the Government intends to retain this present system, and there is no indication that it does not, surely with regard to education expenses alone it would be a much fairer and proper method to have at least 2 areas of allowance or even perhaps 3 areas to meet the different items of costs involved. [More…]
Admittedly the proposed increase of $100 for education expenses can mean a slight reduction in tax for some parents in distant places who can afford to send their children south or elsewhere to school and who will be able to claim that $100 against air fares, but it will not be such as to mean the difference between a parent being able to afford to send his children away for that better education. [More…]
This brings me to the point that if the system is to be retained and if $400 is now considered to be a fair and appropriate figure to meet education costs in areas where the bulk of taxpayers reside - I refer of course to the capital cities - certainly an amount much higher than $400 should be allowed to taxpayers who live in remote and distant areas and who can do nothing other than pay very large amounts for both fares and accommodation costs if they wish to give their children the opportunity of gaining a good schooling. [More…]
It is for that reason that I suggest the necessity of a second area or section of education expenses being struck. [More…]
The situation is similar to that which applies with regard to education expenses. [More…]
The fact that deductions apply to actual incomes and not to the tax itself means, for instance, that this proposed SI CO addition to the education allowance will give to a taxpayer with one child attending school and on an otherwise taxable income of $1,500 - that is, of course, if he can afford to spend $400 on the education of his child - an actual tax reduction of approximately $16 while another taxpayer with a taxable income of $15,000 and with one child at school could gain a tax saving of approximately $58 - $16 in one case and $58 in the other. [More…]
This could be a fact even though both taxpayers live in the same street and meet exactly the same education expenses for children attending the same school. [More…]
This is a completely ridiculous situation, particularly when it is quite obvious that the taxpayer with the taxable income of 31,500 is finding the education expenses are a much greater burden than does the taxpayer on the income of $15,000. [More…]
As a matter of fact it is obvious from taxation statistics that the great bulk of the taxpayers obtain very little real help from the existing allowance of $300, and those same taxpayers will receive no benefit at all from any increase whether it be $100 or $1,000, for the very simple reason that the low income earner cannot afford to pay out $6 or $8 a week for the education of a child, or twice or three times that amount if he has 2 or 3 children. [More…]
This is a very big problem in distant areas, this cost of giving the children a good education. [More…]
Certainly the very small amount of tax relief which comes from the existing system of education allowance will do exactly nothing to overcome the problem, and this proposal of an additional $100 will make very little difference even to those taxpayers on incomes of $6,000. [More…]
million to 4i million taxpayers with incomes of less than that amount, while taxpayers with incomes above $6,000 total only approximately 660,000, which proves, as I said earlier, that the great bulk of the taxpayers will gain very little from the additional $100 and that where any benefit is gained it will go largely to those who actually do not require it and in fact are well situated to meet the cost of their children’s education. [More…]
Actually it does not matter whether the taxpayer be a low income earner or a high income earner, because the effect of the Government’s somersault decision to increase income tax this year by 2i per cent will very largely deplete any benefit or tax relief which may have otherwise flowed from the $100 added to the existing amount of allowable deduction for education expenses. [More…]
This will mean, of course, that those taxpayers with school age children and who cannot afford to pay even $300 - the existing allowable deduction for education expenses - will be even worse off this year than they were last year because of the additional direct tax they will be obliged to pay. [More…]
Taxation statistics show some rather interesting figures in relation to the average amounts which taxpayers with different incomes claim as education expenses. [More…]
As I pointed out earlier, by the time you reach the group whose incomes become as high as $6,000 something like 80 per cent of the total number of taxpayers have been included and only a small percentage of that number would reach the existing maximum claim for $300 for education expenses. [More…]
There are something like 320,000 taxpayers in the income group up to $6,000 who have 3 or more children and it is quite obvious that those taxpayers, except in a few instances, would find it very difficult and in fact impossible to pay out more than perhaps $50 or $60 towards each of their children’s education. [More…]
Therefore the children’s education suffers and the best this Government can do is to increase the concessional deduction which does absolutely nothing for these taxpayers. [More…]
Huge sums have been expended in the field of education and there is a desire for even greater expenditure but here again, the Government should look closely at the manner in which the taxpayers’ money is being spent. [More…]
If the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is interested, I could show him correspondence I have received from parents who felt that their children should not have received scholarships but that, in fact, the scholarships should have been awarded to the less privileged people in our society. [More…]
It concerns the treating of education expenses incurred by employed students as taxation deductions. [More…]
People who are receiving tertiary education, particularly on a part time basis, should be given these taxation concessions. [More…]
A person obtaining tertiary education in this manner is doing so under very difficult conditions, and any student who has any experience of these conditions knows it is one thing to receive full time tertiary education and a very different thing to take a degree course part time. [More…]
For some reason or other, whilst it is recognised that I can receive the benefit of taxation deductions for educational expenses incurred through my child being at university, the student who is bearing his own costs of education cannot receive that necessary taxation deduction. [More…]
The present system is certainly not an encouragement to students or young people to undertake part time tertiary education. [More…]
Why is it that deductions for dependants, the education of children, insurance, superannuation, medical expenses and so on are of far greater benefit to the person on a high income than they are to a person on a low income? [More…]
There should be a fixed amount of deduction for a wife and a family, for education, for medical expenses and the like, because it is not fair that the person on a low income should not receive the same benefit as a person on a higher income. [More…]
In Australia and overseas some recent comment has been made on the possible oversupply of the products of tertiary education. [More…]
This assistance goes as far as the testing of a disabled person’s working capacity with a view to assessing bis capacity for education, vocational training and retraining and the purchase of tools, machines and other aids for vocational re-establishment. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science and is supplementary to a question that was asked by the honourable member for Denison last week. [More…]
The actual numbers of Papuans and New Guineans to undertake further education and training at ASOPA next year will depend on a number of factors, including especially the finding of suitable accommodation for them. [More…]
Arrangements are now in hand for new teacher trainees for Papua New Guinea to commence their training at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
Dr S. S. Richardson, C.B.E., Principal of the Canberra College of Advanced Education, and Mr A. Tololo, Papua New Guinea Teaching Service Commissioner, have agreed to be appointed to the reconstituted Council. [More…]
In the development of the programme I have just announced, I have had the advice of Mr W. J. Weeden, O.B.E., formerly Senior Assistant Secretary of the Department of Education and Science, who was for many years a member of the ASOPA Council. [More…]
The presence of several hundred Papuans and New Guineans in Sydney for training at ASOPA together with increasing numbers coming to Australia for other education and training purposes will bring Australians into much closer contact with Papuans and New Guineans. [More…]
Of course, this figure does not include division 925, subdivision 4, item 01 of the civil works programme on account of the Department of Education and Science for an amount of $6. [More…]
The reason he gave for its becoming a Country Party State was that there was an absence of industrial unionism, an absence of affluence and an absence of education. [More…]
An amount of $.92m has been allocated for the first phase of stage 4 of the education programme for special schools conducted by my Department. [More…]
In particlar, I want to call upon the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to intervene and rectify the imbalance which has occurred in the way in which Commonwealth money is being distributed to the teachers colleges in Victoria, In a nutshell my case is that almost $15m in Commonwealth money will be allocated in Victoria between 1967 and 1973. [More…]
I have taken those figures from the pages 4 and 5 of the Senate Hansard of 6th September of the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, which is now investigating teacher education. [More…]
This year it has 430 students, next year it is likely to have about 540 students, and according to a report in the local Bendigo ‘Advertiser’ the Victorian Minister for Education indicated recently that ultimately the objective is a population of 1,600 or more students. [More…]
What we have is a situation where the teachers colleges are expected in the eyes of the community and the Education Department to be more and more tertiary institutions, yet their facilities do not meet the requirements of those institutions. [More…]
What this will mean in the long run will be even more serious because when the teachers colleges in Victoria finally break away from the Education Department and are given some measure of autonomy, which is inevitable ultimately, they will be in the position where they are not only competing, one with the other, but also with colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]
Obviously people who have the qualifications to lecture at tertiary institutions, whether they are colleges of advanced education, teachers colleges or universities, will be attracted to those institutions where they have the best facilities for professional satisfaction. [More…]
Those conditions will not br provided in country teachers colleges unless the Commonwealth Government intervenes and sends the Victorian Minister for Education or the Victorian Premier back to the planning room and back to the drawing board with a direction to produce a blueprint for teachers college education in Victoria which will eliminate this blatant discrimination against country areas. [More…]
There is more to it than the educational effect this situation has on students in provincial areas. [More…]
The greater proportion of this money has been allocated for approved drug education activities being undertaken by the States. [More…]
The fund is being used to finance such drug education activities as seminars, conferences and training and in the purchase of equipment such as projectors, recorders and materials for use in connection with these activities. [More…]
Oil) To ensure that the funds are being used in the best possible way, an education committee has been established to integrate, co-ordinate, encourage and advise on education activities on drug abuse. [More…]
This committee is made up of experts in drug education and other fields who can advise on activities of this kind. [More…]
I am advised by the Public Service Board that courses at the Canberra College of Advanced Education relevant to these requirements, from which students will graduate in 1971, have been recognised for those purposes; courses from which students will not be graduating before the end of 1972 or later, have not been recognised at this stage by the Board. [More…]
The humble petition of Members of the Council for Adult Education Book Discussion Group, Rosebud, respectfully sheweth: [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian education system; [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all; [More…]
200,000 students from universities, colleges of advanced education and other tertiary institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968; [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science whether he could examine the possibility of commissioning an autopsy on the white elephant of the Ord. [More…]
Pursuant to section 9 of the States Grants (Teachers Colleges) Act 1970, I present a statement setting out the payments that have been authorised by the Minister for Education and Science under this Act during the financial year 1970-71 and specifying the projects in relation to which the payments have been so authorised. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that the Commonwealth has made financial assistance available to the States since 1966, under the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act, for the development of a new arm of tertiary education in Australia in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It has also established the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
To advise it in such matters, the Government set up in 1965 the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education which reports to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
The present situation is that the Commonwealth is dealing with 5 State authorities - the New South Wales Advanced Education Board, the Victoria Institute of Colleges, the Board of Advanced Education in Queensland, the Western Australian Tertiary Education Commission, the Council of Advanced Education in Tasmania. [More…]
In South Australia the Government has announced its intention of establishing an advanced education authority in 1972. [More…]
The colleges of advanced education in Australia now number 48. [More…]
During the 6 years of existence the Advisory Committee has been serviced by the Department of Education and Science, and the Government believes that the time has now come to establish its advisory authority on advanced education as a statutory advisory body with powers and status more appropriate to the task which it is called upon to perform. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill before the House is to give effect to this decision by establishing a new statutory advisory body to be named the Australian Commission of Advanced Education. [More…]
At the present time the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education consists of a full-time Chairman, Mr T. B. Swanson, and 9 part-time members. [More…]
Members will recall that the Commonwealth movement into the field of advanced education followed the acceptance by the Government of recommendations of the Martin Committee which advocated the establishment of this new type of institution in the field of tertiary education. [More…]
In recent years the colleges of advanced education have come to be accepted as fully tertiary institutions providing an alternative form of education to that of the universities. [More…]
Just as the Australian Universities Commission advises me upon the balanced development of the universities, so the Commission on Advanced Education will advise me on the balanced development of advanced education in Australia. [More…]
Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
There will then be two parallel Commissions working together to promote the balanced development of tertiary education in Autralia. [More…]
This legislation will provide a chatter within which the Australian Commission on Advanced Education will work. [More…]
Becasue of the wide and varied range of institutions being developed as colleges of advanced education, it has been necessary to spell out the definition of ‘college of advanced education’ at some length. [More…]
The actual institutions and courses within institution to be offered financial support from the Commonwealth within its programme of grants to colleges of advanced education will be determined from time to time in the development of the triennial programmes. [More…]
The present development of colleges of advanced education owes its impetus to Commonwealth support and it is Commonwealth policy that the college system should continue to develop to diversify opportunities for tertiary education. [More…]
The establishment of the State authorities in advanced education, to which I referred earlier, indicates the importance attached by State Governments to the future development of advanced education as an ongoing system. [More…]
The new Commission will be required to have frequent consultations with these State authorities, as well as with senior State officials and, on occasions, with State Ministers for Education. [More…]
It is for these reasons that the Australian Commission on Advanced Education is to be set up. [More…]
In 1961 Sir Ian became a member of the Executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and upon his retirement in 1965 accepted the invitation to become Chairman of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education. [More…]
In this position he brought to bear upon the problems of advanced education the same high intellectual ability for which he had always been noted, coupled with an enthusiasm and drive which has resulted, in the comparatively short space of 6 years, ii the colleges of advanced education becoming firmly established in the Australian community as an integral part of the fabric of tertiary education. [More…]
The Bill also provides, in consequence of the Bill to establish the Australian Commission on Advanced Education, that in the performance of its functions the Australian Universities Commission shall consult with the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
A similar provision is contained in the Australian Commission on Advanced Education Bill 1971. [More…]
We have established commissions to look at advanced education and a commission to look at the infestations of the Barrier Reef. [More…]
Consultations leading to the States Grants (Teachers Colleges) Act 1970, began with a meeting of theAustralian Education Council in November 1968. [More…]
Following this meeting, the acting Secretary of my Department wrote in January 1969, to all Directors-General of Education reminding them that it had been arranged at the November meeting of the Australian Education Council that all State Ministers of Education would write to the Commonwealth Minister and submit broad proposals in respect of possible Commonwealth support for teacher training beyond June 1970. [More…]
Replies from State Ministers of Education were received over the period January to May 1969. [More…]
At the same time as I made the announcement in the House, the Prime Minister wrote to all State Premiers informing them of the Government’s proposals and I wrote to all State Ministers for Education in’ similar terms. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
It is not by chance that most governments in Australia, the National Council of Independent Schools which has incorporated on it, I think, nearly all the independent schools of Australia including the Catholic Education Office of each State, the New South Wales Catholic Schools Committee, the Federal Catholic Schools Committee- [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Mr Speaker, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
He questioned also the use the defence forces are making of normal civilian establishments such as universities, technical colleges and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It should be cut down to spend on education or other needs’. [More…]
If such a poo] is used for training handicapped children in physical education and teaching them to swim it is presumably eligible for subsidy. [More…]
A handicapped child already suffers in its education and training because of the time taken in treatment. [More…]
So the handicapped child becomes further handicapped because of longer time gaps in his or her education because of the preposterous legislation. [More…]
In the area of rehabilitation of the handicapped it is commonly agreed that there are 4 areas - medical, social, educational and vocational. [More…]
The drug education campaign is to receive additional assistance. [More…]
It is vital that the young people of today should receive education to warn them against, and to help them combat, the trend which seems to be overtaking the world - that is, to get the young hooked on some sort of drug as soon as possible. [More…]
Even by itself it is an immense amount But if one also takes into account the commitments which are being made by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) for housing, invalid pensions, education and one thing and another one will see that the Opposition would impose on the Australian taxpayer a burden which he could not possibly be expected to bear. [More…]
If one takes into consideration the education proposals, the housing proposals and all the other things which are being scattered abroad from the Australian Labor Party’s cornucopia one will come to the conclusion that its members are not really practical people but that they just say what they think will be popular. [More…]
This part of the question asked for updating of the information which was shown in reply to a previous question (Hansard, 20th-21st May 1970, page 2486) on the number and percentage of male and female primary teachers who resigned from the Education Department in each State. [More…]
The following is the latest available information on teacher resignations published by the various State Education Departments and authorities. [More…]
Percentage resignation rates are only shown for New South Wales and have been taken from the recent report of the Committee of Inquiry into Teacher Education in that State. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in ‘ education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy,-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
There seems to be an extraordinary sensitivity on the part of the Leader of the Opposition on some aspects of education and he seems to go to quite extraordinary lengths to prevent questions being asked about them. [More…]
The only significant publicity that has appeared in recent times in relation to educational programmes is the publicity that the Leader of the Opposition sought on behalf of his Party in relation to his Party’s educational programmes. [More…]
This other part of the proposal that was related to the Australian schools commission, which is indeed a revolutionary proposal for education and not necessarily an advantageous one, was that $180m would be provided until the schools commission could get into operation. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for Education and Science who is in charge of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]
There is also a high level of educational activity in Whyalla. [More…]
This would be of concern to the post office staff in furthering their children’s education. [More…]
It is possible to receive tertiary education at the Institute of Technology in Whyalla and I am sure that this is an advantage of which many of the children of the post office staff would avail themselves if they were still to be stationed at Whyalla. [More…]
These will include standards on driver education, traffic codes and laws, the collection of data, traffic control devices, driver licensing and vehicles in use. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the Stales for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
In addition to that commitment, the Commonwealth provides capital and recurrent funds to colleges of advanced education for a variety of purposes, including teacher training, and 6 colleges in Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory are now providing teacher training. [More…]
I believe that he made this claim, if my recollection is correct, when I was previously Minister for Education and Science, and he made it again in the official handout which was distributed at his Press conference on education earlier this week. [More…]
He said: ‘At present it is the only form of tertiary education to which the Commonwealth makes no permanent commitment’. [More…]
The community as a whole has been widely informed, through education programmes on the perils of smoking. [More…]
I think that education on the perils of smoking is valuable, but on its own it is far from sufficient to combat this serious health hazard. [More…]
We have had a lot of publicity all over Australia about the Labor Party’s policy on health as we have had about its policy on education and other things. [More…]
This is why the Australian Labor Party’s proposals for dental health are based on preventive dental health and dental education particularly for school children. [More…]
Their function would be to carry out the control of dental disease by treatment and secondly, but more importantly, they would be directed towards prevention by education and motivation of children to patterns of behaviour that are favourable to good dental health. [More…]
Then, of course, education in good diet and hygiene is of first importance in the work of these dental therapists. [More…]
To interpose, we have just heard the Leader of the Opposition speak about the free Labor galaxy in relation to education. [More…]
The child who is physically, mentally or socially handicapped shall be given the special treatment, education and care required by his particular condition. [More…]
It always seems to me that there is something wrong with any society which treats as lavishly as we treat - though insufficiently in my view - the educational needs of ordinary, healthy, wholesome Australian children and then puts right at the end of the queue the child who has a need for special care, the mentally and physically handicapped child. [More…]
That is to say, we relegate to charity, to a very considerable degree, the care of the physically and mentally handicapped people in this country: We have a long way to go to measure up to the criteria expressed in, for example, the Australian Public Instruction Act, the effect of which is to make the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) responsible for the provision of education services for all children on a free and compulsory basis. [More…]
These children are not eligible to participate in our free and compulsory education system. [More…]
The nucleus and basis of any education system is its teachers. [More…]
Teacher education must become a fully recognised branch of tertiary education. [More…]
At present it is the only form of education to which the Commonwealth makes no permanent commitment. [More…]
But then under decisions made in more recent times the Commonwealth has a permanent commitment to the training of teachers in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The commitment for colleges of advanced education totals about $16m in the current triennium. [More…]
There are already 6 of these colleges in 3 States and in the Australian Capital Territory providing teacher education, and I would expect the number to continue to increase. [More…]
The Commonwealth has a permanent commitment for the training of teachers in both universities and colleges of advanced education and in addition has made very substantial unmatched contributions to the extension of State teachers colleges. [More…]
He repeated the claim that teacher education is the only form of tertiary education towards which the Commonwealth makes no permanent commitment. [More…]
It is true that the Commonwealth’s commitment is a capital commitment to teachers colleges, and there is a permanent, continuing commitment to colleges of advanced education and to universities in which large numbers of teachers are trained. [More…]
But the Leader of the Opposition shifted his ground quite skilfully in the statement tonight, in the one part saying that the Commonwealth makes no permanent commitment to teacher education and in the other part saying that the Commonwealth makes no permanent commitment to teachers colleges. [More…]
The ground is shifted, but the fact remains that the Commonwealth has a permanent commitment to the training of teachers in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
But what I said and what I have said for years, ever since Sir Robert Menzies and Senator Gorton, as he then was, rejected the Martin committee’s recommendations about teachers colleges in 1965, is that the Commonwealth treats teachers colleges differently from all other forms of tertiary education. [More…]
Mr MALCOLM FRASER (WannonMinister for Education and Science) - Mr Chairman- [More…]
Teacher education must become a fully recognised branch of tertiary education. [More…]
At present it is the only form of tertiary education to which the Commonwealth makes no permanent commitment. [More…]
That statement is false, because teacher education is undertaken in colleges of advanced education and in universities and the Commonwealth Government has a permanent commitment to those institutions in addition to providing unmatched capital grants to teachers colleges of tens of millions of dollars. [More…]
In the Estimates for this year we see, under division 925.4.01, that it is proposed that the Department of Works in the Northern Territory shall control expenditure of $6,220,000 on behalf of the Department of Education and Science: under division 925.4.02 an amount of $7,610,000 on behalf of the Department of Health; and under division 925.4.03, $27,250,000 on behalf of the Department of the Interior. [More…]
Moreover the Commonwealth has made available to date a total of Sim for drug education. [More…]
No matter how active the Government is, how efficient our law enforcement agencies, how effective our education programmes, the answer to the problems of drug abuse lies with the community itself. [More…]
I propose to refer briefly to the teaching cf physical education in Victoria, in particular to the status of the Department of Physical Education at the University of Melbourne. [More…]
I shall refer briefly to the importance of physical education and mention how it is provided in Victoria at present. [More…]
Physical education is not merely the training of students for sport and, in particular, competitive sport, about which I have many reservations; it is not merely the provision of physical training. [More…]
I believe that physical education is most important for young Australians. [More…]
It is clear that within the schools physical education is not regarded as being an essential part of education. [More…]
I propose to refer to a report of the Committee of Inquiry into Education in South Australia in 1969-70 entitled ‘Education in South Australia’. [More…]
At pages 234 and 235 the Committee, when referring to physical education in South Australia, said: [More…]
The purpose ot physical education in the schools is seen as extending beyond the development and maintenance of physical fitness in pupils to building attitudes and providing experience in a range of activities which will have continuing relevance throughout life and which are especially important in industrial societies. [More…]
In general, physical education in primary schools is taken by class teachers, and its frequency and quality depend on their resourcefulness, knowledge and enthusiasm. [More…]
We endorse the acceptance of physical education as an essential part of the curriculum with a status in no way different from that of the academic subjects … [More…]
If physical education is a subject of equal status with other subjects, the provision of interior gymnasia and of the necessary equipment will have to be given higher priority. [More…]
The Committee was saying that physical education should be regarded as being i subject of high status and that appropriate facilities should be provided for it and, in particular, that sufficient staff should be provided. [More…]
I understand that in Victoria the State secondary school system alone could absorb 800 physical education teachers tomorrow, if we were able to train them overnight. [More…]
We would be able to use as many as that, so great is the shortage of physical education teachers in the State secondary education system alone. [More…]
That figure does not take into account the primary schools where the shortage of physical education teachers is even greater. [More…]
At the present moment, Melbourne University is in reality the only institution providing for the training of physical education teachers. [More…]
The Physical Education Department of Melbourne University has a total enrolment this year of 160 to 170 teachers. [More…]
A large number of people who are trying to get into a physical education course are being rejected. [More…]
Indeed, no institution in Victoria can compete with the facilities that the Physical Education Department at Melbourne University has. [More…]
However, the cost of training between 160 and 170 physical education trainees at Melbourne University is only approximately $100,000. [More…]
The problem facing the Physical Education Department is the general shortage of tertiary funds which . [More…]
is affecting the whole field of tertiary education in Victoria. [More…]
The recommendations of the Commission in 1966 have placed a continuing threat over the Physical Education Department for, in that year, the Commission recommended that sub-degree courses in universities throughout Australia should be transferred to other institutions. [More…]
Accordingly, a great deal of debate has taken place in Melbourne University and a number of people - I suppose that we could call them traditional academics - have argued that there is no place in the Melbourne University for the Physical Education Department and that its continued existence is a drain on the financial resources of that university. [More…]
However, moves to abolish the Diploma of Physical Education course at Melbourne University have been frustrated for the time being. [More…]
People were then led to believe that if the diploma course were abolished a physical education degree course would be instituted. [More…]
It is clear now that 1972 will be the last year of the 2 year Diploma of Education course. [More…]
This might mean not only the elimination of the diploma course in Physical Education at this Department but also the elimination of any physical education training whatever at this institution. [More…]
It is for these reasons that the Aus tralian Universities Commission should make a clear statement to Melbourne University indicating that it recognises the need for physical education, that it recognises that Melbourne University already has substantial physical education facilities that would be costly to duplicate elsewhere, that it recognises that even if this course were transferred to a college of advanced education the same source - that is the Commonwealth and State governments - would be financing it, and that it recognises that there is a shortage of teachers and that there is a demand for teachers. [More…]
It should accordingly make a clear statement that it appreciates the value of the course being provided and that if a degree course in physical education were provided at Melbourne University the Australian Universities Commission would be prepared to make finance available for that course. [More…]
I suggest that, in the interests of physical education in Victoria, the Australian Universities Commission clarify the situation. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by TCN consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by HSV consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by ATN consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by Station GTV consist of drama, light entertainment, sport, news, children’s, family activities, current affairs, religious matter and education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station QTQ consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station BTQ consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station NWS consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by Station ADS consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family, Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Austraiian programmes at present televised by station ATV consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
ment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station TVT consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station STW consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Australian programmes at present televised by station TVW consist of Drama, Light Entertainment, Sport, News, Children’s, Family Activities, Current Affairs, Religious Matter and Education. [More…]
Does the report conclude that (a) economic but not moral resources are adequate to eliminate tragic, and intolerably costly, rural poverty in a prosperous country, (b) relief plans must be a joint local, State and Federal government responsibility, (c) public enterprise must be used where necessary to give equal employment opportunities and check the drift to cities, (d) the poor must be actively involved in regional economic planning encompassing rural and urban area’s using Federal grants, loans and development subsidies and State and local tax reform, (e) the impact on individuals of schemes for rural amalgamation, submarginal land retirement and moratoriums on new farm land development until demand warrants increased production, must be investigated, (f) food supplements should be available to the hungry, (g) community health centres should be provided to overcome the shortage of rural medical care and (h) pre-school, school, drop-out adult and teacher education facilities should be of the best national standards. [More…]
Education: Servicemen’s Children at Secondary Schools (Question No. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will inthe foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralization of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralization of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and adminstration [More…]
We were talking at the time, I think, about the total expenditure by governments on education and I was pointing out that one of the factors that underwrote the Australian figures was that a little over 20 per cent of Australian children are educated in independent schools, and that the total expenditures by private people on independent education was a matter about which Government statistics were not as complete as might be desirable. [More…]
I said that if we had full knowledge of the cost of education in the independent area this cost would increase the percentage of the gross national product spent throughout Australia on education. [More…]
But the element of doubt that I was referring to in the figures available to the Government is in the total expenditure by private sources on independent education. [More…]
Education is another reason why things will change. [More…]
I am sure the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who is a great Red baiter and who is relying heavily on Democratic Labor Party votes at the next election, will flog this issue when he rises to speak tonight. [More…]
That created numerous stresses in many areas - housing, education and so on. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: (!) [More…]
This may sound far fetched, but this is precisely what the States are now being told in relation to education. [More…]
We cannot hope to eliminate poverty, or to derive full benefit from improved health and education services without making proper provision for housing. [More…]
These included hospitals, housing, roads, water supplies, schools, and education materials. [More…]
In the article by Peter Samuel in the Sydney ‘Bulletin’ which touched off the crisis in the Government, and which was held by Peter Samuel to have been inspired by the former Minister for Defence, now the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), it was said that Cabinet was indifferent to the fate of the Army in Vietnam. [More…]
On the rehabilitation aspect, re-establishment, education and vocational training are available for a national serviceman either on a full time or on a part time basis regardless of whether he served in Australia only or outside Australia. [More…]
He bad received a second loan or second assistance because - I speak from memory - his house was to be resumed by the Education Department of New South Wales provided the Commonwealth would make second assistance available to him. [More…]
From an analysis of other policy measures of the Opposition we can see that an extra $780m a year would be involved in expenditure on health and education proposals. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: ‘the Bill be withdrawn and redrafted to provide for assumption by the Commonwealth of responsibility for financing university education’. [More…]
In case the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm. [More…]
It relates mainly to the changes of some of the technical staffs of the universities, but we need to look at the Government’s formula in university education. [More…]
We believe that the time has come, if university education is to advance, for the Commonwealth to assume the financial responsibility for all tertiary education. [More…]
It is the view of the Australian Labor Party that the Commonwealth should be exclusively responsible for financing universities, colleges of advanced education, teachers colleges and tertiary technical education. [More…]
We would wish that this additional assistance to the States would lead to the States spending in other areas of education the money that they so saved. [More…]
This would be the most simple way of making additional Commonwealth assistance to education because I do not believe that any State would regret the departure from its expenditure obligations of the whole structure of tertiary education. [More…]
They would be glad to be relieved of the burden of university education and I know that they would be glad to be relieved of the extremely unfair formula of $1 of Commonwealth expenditure for Si .85 of State expenditure. [More…]
If we suggest that in the first year of a Labor government we would make an emergency grant of $180m full stop to the States and in the next year we would assume the obligation for tertiary education without repeating the $l80m emergency grant, we are confronted with a process whereby the Minister adds the $180m in one year onto $230m the next and says: ‘Your promises will cost $410m’, whereas the situation is that $180m would be spent in one year and $230m in the next. [More…]
On some aspects of the Labor Party’s education policy we do not know what the costs would be because we do not know what an education commission or a schools commission would recommend and we do now know which recommendations we would be accepting. [More…]
That is a different matter altogether but it is quite amazing how the Government, which can impose taxes which take from the Australian community a surplus of $630m and immobilise it, cannot face the possibility that some of that $630m might be used to transform the capital equipment of education in some of the states. [More…]
But imagine how the welkin would have rung if we had promised to spend $630m on education, equal to the $630m surplus which the Goverment is taking and immobilising at the present time. [More…]
But if we suggest in a country of gross inequalities in education, where a large part of our skilled young people are not getting to either higher levels of technical education or scientific or academic education, that there is a need for expenditure which may mobilise the skills of our people, Government supporters follows us with an adding machine and say that this will cost so-and-so. [More…]
We have had lectures on education over the years from the former Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, showing that there was no Commonwealth constitutional obligation for education. [More…]
Then suddenly the Commonwealth Government found, with no change in the Constitution, that it could begin to assume quite large obligations in education. [More…]
We believe that the Commonwealth must take an interest in tertiary education with some different form of approach than this Si for $1.85 and that the field of tertiary education is the field in which the new Commonwealth intervention should take place. [More…]
This will transform the other levels of education because of the removal from the States of the burden of tertiary education. [More…]
If the Government lasts for another 4 or 5 years the successor to the Minister for Education and Science or the same Minister, if he is still there, will be bringing in a measure along these lines. [More…]
We appeal to the Government to begin to adopt without this unnecessary delay a policy that will lead to the transformation of education. [More…]
I do not expect that the Government will accept our amendment that this Bill be withdrawn and redrafted to provide for the Commonwealth to assume exclusively the responsibility for financing university education. [More…]
We have no objection to the Bill as such but we are moving this amendment because we believe that the way forward in tertiary education is for the Commonwealth government to be fully responsible for it and not to have it as part of the annual conflict between the Commonwealth and the States or resting on a formula of $1’ Commonwealth for $1.85 State which works out appallingly unfairly on the States while to the Commonwealth it represents increases in salaries upon which revenue is paid back to the Commonwealth in the form of income tax. [More…]
The Government which rides inflation like a cork might be the one that is best fitted to carry the full responsibility for expenditure on the higher levels of education, and for that reason we have moved this amendment. [More…]
But nevertheless I do not accuse him of utter irrelevance because when he talks about the question of $1 from the Commonwealth for $1.85 from the States in the matter of universities finance he is, of course, talking of actualities, lt may well be that the total acceptance of tertiary education by the Commonwealth to the exclusion of other bodies may in fact be a sensible proposition. [More…]
Nevertheless that is not really the issue at stake at the moment, although I suppose that it can be projected from this Bill that the whole question of Commonwealth educational responsibility might be brought into issue. [More…]
The result has been that after submissions to the Australian Universities Commission and after strong persuasion by that body, as I think the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) mentioned in his second reading speech, the Commonwealth has provided supplementary finance for the purpose of nonacademic salaries. [More…]
So I think that because of the great demands that are being made increasingly on the Commonwealth in the whole field of education, some of them justifiable, some of them less so, it will be incumbent upon the universities - I think they have recognised this already - to tighten up to the best of their ability, subject only the difficulties of the human condition and the manner in which we operate our democratic processes through committees and the like, the manner in which they spend their money, both salaries and other forms of expenditure, so that it is expended in the best and least wasteful possible ways. [More…]
They have less opportunity of obtaining a university education. [More…]
Not long ago the Minister for Education and Science spoke about trying to extend equality of educational opportunities throughout the community. [More…]
Tremendous obligations are imposed on them in trying to give their children tertiary education. [More…]
This is one way by which students have been able to ease the burden of their sorely tried parents in trying to meet the financial costs of a university education. [More…]
The States are being forced to divert scarce educational funds to universities at the expense of other levels of education. [More…]
Is it any wonder that the States are not able to meet the requirements of the nation-wide survey of educational needs? [More…]
The Committee believed that they were geared to the capacity of the State governments to meet their shares and were influenced by the increasing grant for colleges of advanced education. [More…]
That the Bill be withdrawn and redrafted to provide for assumption by the Commonwealth of responsibility for financing university education. [More…]
I have much pleasure in supporting the Bill and 1 regard it as a major step forward in the field of tertiary education in Australia. [More…]
In fact, the university system is such that it takes from the top of the school system in Australia - I do not like the term ‘cream’ but certainly some special section of people who are able to handle the situation, lt is still a very narrow group in the community, and it may well be that with our form of university education it will always be so. [More…]
I hope my friend, the honourable member for Ryan, will not discourage it although it is discouraging to him when he finds that nearly everyone who gets a liberal education under his belt and starts to gather the greater wisdom that comes from continued study in life, deserts the Liberal Party. [More…]
The reason why the Opposition has moved the amendment this evening is not as our friend, the honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon), might have put it - so that we can have a pleasant ramble around the areas of education - but so that we can exploit the opportunities that this Parliament offers, rarely enough, to debate some of the major issues in this particular field. [More…]
A few months ago the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) produced a very lengthy statement in this House. [More…]
1 suppose it was a valuable contribution to conservative educational administrative thought. [More…]
It did not do so and we have to pick it up moment by moment and say something on the question of university education We have been involved in debates here almost since the inception of university education as a Commonwealth responsibility. [More…]
Up to 10 or 12 years ago the Parliament took little note of education. [More…]
Our former Prime Minister, the great national leader for reactionary thought, the right honourable Sir Robert Menzies, used to pooh-pooh the idea that the Commonwealth Government ought to attend to the matters of education. [More…]
The first point that ought to be made and which ought lo be clearly understood is that the States now are so restricted that only the Commonwealth has the expanding resources at its disposal to take up the challenges of the Commonwealth education system. [More…]
But there are some other things inherent in our education system that can only be challenged by Commonwealth action. [More…]
With 15 or 16 universities and with tertiary education expanding both vertically and horizontally, as one may put it, the facts are that only by some concerted national action are we going to overcome some of the major difficulties. [More…]
One of these difficulties flows from the elitist concept of university education. [More…]
This, of course, changed the whole social attitude to university education and families such as mine could see that not only people such as the odd one who managed to make the distance for some reason or other - the person who became a teacher and then for professional reasons managed to get into university - received a university education but that a university education became a natural social objective for the whole family. [More…]
Secondary education was minimal as far as most of them were concerned. [More…]
So the change in social attitude means there are so many demands upon university education that the States have no possibility of handling them. [More…]
There are past inequalities of education and these are across the board. [More…]
Women have had less of a fair go than have young men: people in industrial areas have had fewer opportunities than those in nonindustrial areas; people in country districts have had much less access to higher education than those in a city; people in Victoria had much less access to higher education than people in New South Wales; and Aboriginal people have still not achieved the same equality or anywhere near it. [More…]
I do not see a university education as a piece of social class elevation. [More…]
One of the facts of life is that we will have less use for people as functioning units in society and people will demand more of themselves, developed from their cultural background, the wisdom or whatever it is one gets from higher education. [More…]
So we have to look at education more from the point of view of oneself and one’s personality rather than one’s function in society. [More…]
The facts are that we have to develop an education system to which people have access whether they have the academic qualifications in the first place or not. [More…]
It is my belief that the university system has to become more accessible to the community and that there are large areas of higher education which could be developed by such adventurous and imaginative techniques. [More…]
There are countless thousands of people throughout Australia who could benefit from university education and from consistent study in some area or discipline. [More…]
Progress in these areas - external studies, expansion of the university system, accommodation, student support, removal of the disadvantages and the inequalities in education - can only be achieved by the Commonwealth. [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle indicated that he believed that the States would be glad to be relieved of the burdens and problems of tertiary education and that this area should be taken over by the Commonwealth. [More…]
The inevitable result of the Commonwealth assuming total financial responsibility for tertiary education would be that the Commonwealth would make total decisions. [More…]
This certainly would not be in the interests of education of any kind. [More…]
I would have thought that one of the things the honourable member for Wills and other honourable members concerned with education wanted to support was the decentralisation of authority so far as education is concerned. [More…]
The first one relates mainly to academic salaries, to appropriate additional grants in order that the Commonwealth might meet its share of the cost of the new levels of academic salaries in colleges of advanced education under the accepted matching formula. [More…]
The third of these Bills, the Australian Universities Commission Bill, provides for an additional full time member of the Australian Universities Commission and also provides for some co-ordination of action between the new Australian Commission on Advanced Education and the Universities Commission. [More…]
Very clearly, of these 3 measures the most important is the one that sets up the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in the previous debate accused the Opposition of having ideas that would lead to centralisation. [More…]
I am perfectly certain that if last year we had suggested the establishment of an Australian Commission on Advanced Education we would have been told that we were centralising. [More…]
Here again the Commonwealth is setting up a powerful advisory body, to advise on the financial needs of all these colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I would like to take a quotation from an essay titled ‘Colleges and the Community’ by S. Murray-Smith in which he had this to say about our colleges of advanced education: [More…]
One could take this further and say that Australia supports colleges of advanced education because some means had to be found of satisfying the insensate demands of the electors for ‘qualifications’ for their children, and universities had proved to be too expensive, too radical and too unresponsive. [More…]
The Martin Committee showed us the way forward: To retread the old Australian technical education system, which had been running on the bare canvas for the past 50 years. [More…]
I do not think that is a fair comment, but it is a view that is held, in certain circles, of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I hope that the setting up of this commission will make quite sure that what we are doing in advanced technical education is not a retread of the tyres that have been worn down to the canvas in the last 50 years. [More…]
We need to face the fact that there was a bad turn in tertiary technical education. [More…]
In fact, there were 2 leaders in technical education in the late 19th century. [More…]
There was a quite remarkable advanced technical education institutions. [More…]
The Canberra College of Advanced Education seems to me to restore some of the breadth that Selfe and Campbell had in their bold invitation that they would organise technical education for any number of people between 6 and 12 who indicated what they wanted to be taught. [More…]
As I say, the result was a fruitful period in technical and advanced education. [More…]
The Opposition welcomes the formation of a commission for the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Just as the Commonwealth has proved that the establishment of a universities commission has advanced universities, just as it will prove that colleges of advanced education will be developed by this commission, so we say that it is imperative for the advance of Australian education there should be a schools commission and a pre-schools commission to advise the Commonwealth on the needs of those forms of education. [More…]
One of them is quite major - the setting up of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education - and the others, which the Minister has introduced for cognate debate, are incidental. [More…]
After all, we have in operation already - in fact, over some years now - the Advisory Committee on Advanced Education. [More…]
I suppose there is some aura of added authority in the title of Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
I think it is fair to say, with due deference to the foresight or the accession to demands as they then stood of the Commonwealth to enter this field and to regularise this field of alternative tertiary education to that provided by the universities, that the Commonwealth was not entirely clear at the time of the setting up of these colleges as to just what their function was to be, and in fact - I may do somebody an injustice - I am not quite sure that we are entirely clear what their function is even now. [More…]
I see as the point to be made most here in relation to this Bill that the Commonwealth, or rather now the Commission, should see it as a prime duty, and no doubt it will, to regularise and to rationalise as much as is possible the role of these advanced colleges which it is to administer, because we have sufficient difficulty in providing the unending infinite demands for expenditure on education without having any unnecessary overlap as between universities and the advanced colleges. [More…]
In that sense I am pleased to see that the Minister for Education and Science mentioned in his second reading speech and, in fact, in his second reading speech on the Australian Universities Commission Bill, that both these bodies, the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education, are obliged to consult one with the other, presumably concerning their modus operandi, the matters of education which they wish to control and the direction in which they would like to see the institutions for which they are responsible going. [More…]
There are nearly SO institutions to be administered by the new Commission and clearly this is a most significant area of Australian education which is blossoming. [More…]
I do not want to take up the time of the House to launch into a long speech in the direction of educational philosophy, which might be appropriate to this occasion, because really I think this is adding another name, and perhaps a little more force, to the title of a pre-existing body. [More…]
Provided that it does the sorts of things which I am sure the members of that Commission are aiming to do, of the kind I have just mentioned, this will be an important step in the right direction for Australian education. [More…]
I recognise also that we aTe in fact trying to speak to the lengthy statement on education and science made by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) only a couple of weeks ago. [More…]
First of all, I want to address my remarks to the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill and I would like to move an amendment to the motion ‘That the Bill be now read a second time.’ [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: whilst not refusing to give the Bill a second reading this House believes that the policy of matching grants should be examined to ascertain whether it permits of an adequate system of advanced education and sufficient funds should be made available to the States in the form of recurrent grants to permit the abolition of fees in Colleges of Advanced Education’. [More…]
In this case it is to make provision for increased academic salaries for the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Just as there have been steep increases in university fees in recent times, and more are projected for the next 2 years, so have there been increases in the fees paid by students at colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The increased fees are all the more important because so many students who go to colleges of advanced education are unable to obtain a relatively scarce Commonwealth advanced education scholarship. [More…]
This means once again that there is gross inequality of opportunity in determining who will attend colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon) that we are still trying to clarify in our minds the function of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The universities and the colleges of advanced education are still trying to work out their relationship to each other. [More…]
Colleges of advanced education are now in the business of handing out degrees in respect of a number of courses, but they also have courses leading to subprofessional awards. [More…]
I agree with those people who think it is healthy to have diversity in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I know that Sir Ian Wark thoroughly discourages the idea of monodiscipline for colleges of advanced education. [More…]
At present many teachers colleges are aspiring to become colleges of advanced education, possibly not only on educational grounds but more on political and economic grounds. [More…]
So there is an argument as to whether you can have a teachers college as being, solely on its own merit, a college of advanced education. [More…]
I rather incline to the view that we should have multi-discipline colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I only hope, though, that people will recognise that students do not go to colleges of advanced education or any tertiary institution, for that matter, just for vocational reasons. [More…]
I think there is a lot to be said for people getting a general education, an advanced education. [More…]
I would like to see many people have the opportunity of going to a college of advanced education without necessarily having any vocational objective in mind. [More…]
1 would like to see colleges of advanced education cater for that sort of thing. [More…]
I apologise in advance for quoting a few statistics, but what is the status of colleges of advanced education at the moment? [More…]
In 1970 - and I will give these statistics in round figures - ‘there were 37,000 students in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I hope that there will be much more opportunity in the future for females to enter colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Of the number of students in colleges of advanced education in 1970, 19,000 were in Victoria. [More…]
The higgest enrolments for courses at colleges of advanced education are in this order: business studies, engineering and technology, building, surveying and architecture, art and design. [More…]
In more recent times education has come into the picture. [More…]
When I first wrote down my few comments in regard to this matter I was advocating a national authority to help plan the distribution of tertiary institutions or colleges of advanced education. [More…]
We are dealing with 2 other Bills in company with the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill. [More…]
One of them provides for an Australian Commission on Advanced Education and the other provides for a second full time member of the Australian Universities Commission. [More…]
1 thought that in the second reading speech of the Minister a rather pious hope was expressed that these 2 commissions would consult and bring about some rational development of universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I do not think it is unfair to say that there has been a good deal of tension in the relationship between the universities and the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I feel that the universities have some suspicion that they will be outdone by the colleges of advanced education and that the development of the colleges will take place somewhat at the expense of the universities. [More…]
I was rather hoping that we would follow the recommendation in the Martin Committee report and the example of the New South Wales Government in providing for a third body on which the colleges of advanced education and the universities were represented. [More…]
The Martin Committee envisaged an Australian tertiary education commission or something of that kind. [More…]
It was stated in the Minister’s second reading speech that the Australian Commission on Advanced Education, the new body, was to be established on parallel lines to the Australian Universities Commission. [More…]
I would like to hear from the Minister, when he is replying a little later, why it is that there is only one full time member on the Australian Commission on Advanced Education but 2 full time members serving on the Australian Universities Commission. [More…]
I would have thought that with not only the speedy development that has occurred in colleges of advanced education but also the projected development ahead of them it would have been a fair idea to have at least 2 full time members on the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
I finalise my remarks by referring once again to the difficulty many people experience in entering these colleges of advanced education. [More…]
But in the last year for which I have figures only 10.2 per cent of those who had gained entrance to colleges of advanced education were, in fact, receiving scholarships. [More…]
This of course would happen if the Government accepted the amendment which I have moved to provide for increased funds that would allow the States to make provision for the abolition of fees in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I will be very anxious to hear the Minister explain why there was this restriction to just one full time member of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
First of all, referring to the amendment that has been moved, I think everyone would be very pleased if fees in colleges of advanced education could be abolished without having to place undue strain on the economics of education generally. [More…]
This is the problem with which we are faced in trying to provide funds in the many avenues of education into which the Commonwealth is now being drawn. [More…]
The Commonwealth has been particularly active in the field of tertiary education, which is the field with which the Bills we are discussing tonight are concerned. [More…]
I draw attention to the second reading speech of the former Minister for Education and Science on the State Grants (Advanced Education) Bill in which he said: [More…]
The main purpose of the Bill before the House is to appropriate additional grants in order that the Commonwealth might meet its share of the cost of the new levels of academic salaries in colleges of advanced education under the accepted matching formula. [More…]
However I accept the fact that the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill simply allows the Commonwealth to carry on as it has been. [More…]
The problem, as I mentioned before, is that in addition to meeting these costs we have to remember that the Commonwealth will be asked to support the States in other fields of education. [More…]
As a result of these difficulties they have got together and formed an association which is called the Isolated Children Parents Association with the subject of getting assistance from both the States and the Commonwealth to provide some sort of education for their children. [More…]
I agree with those honourable members who have spoken already that the Australian Commission on Advanced Education Bill is probably the most important of the Bills we are considering in this cognate debate. [More…]
I pay a tribute to the work that is being done by colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It is meeting the needs for tertiary education. [More…]
In the early stages of its operations the fees were reasonable and enabled many students to take advantage of tertiary education which they would not have been able to avail themselves of had it not been for this Institute of Technology. [More…]
Undoubtedly these remarks would apply equally to other institutes of technology and to colleges of advanced education in other areas. [More…]
Mention has been made of the cost of education. [More…]
It is easy for people to ask continuously for the expenditure of money on education. [More…]
I am not suggesting for one moment that education is not one of the most important avenues for government expenditure. [More…]
We must keep pace with the educational needs of our nation. [More…]
We must keep pace with the educational progress that we see evidenced throughout the world and it is essential that large sums be made available in all fields of education, not only for tertiary education. [More…]
In my opinion education ranks high among our requirements. [More…]
The purpose of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education Bill rs to give effect to a decision to establish a new statutory body to be called the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
I do not want to repeat what has been said already, because the hour is late, but it is gratifying to see a continuing and increasing interest by the Commonwealth Government in the fields of education because without such interest Australia would not be able to progress. [More…]
I hope that the community at large gives credit to the Government for the steps it has taken to increase educational standards in the community. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government moved ato the field of advanced education as a result of its acceptance of the recommendations of the Martin Committee which advocated the establishment of this new type of institution in the field of tertiary education. [More…]
I believe that the establishment of colleges of advanced education has been a wonderful success particularly in those areas where it has not been possible to establish universities. [More…]
I am pleased to note that the Australian Universities Commision and the proposed Australian Commission on Advanced Education will be working in co-operation, I believe to -the benefit of tertiary education generally. [More…]
In that spirit, although I feel that there is a lot more to be said about this legislation, I will confine my remarks to what I have already said and just give my support, which I am sure all people who are concerned about the progress of education in Australia also would do, to the legislation before the House. [More…]
I am particularly concerned about the way in which the colleges of advanced education in Australia are being financed, especially the ones in Victoria. [More…]
The method of financing them is retarding the growth of colleges of advanced education and also limiting the opportunities of young people to obtain a course of advanced education. [More…]
I want to refer briefly to the Commonwealth and State grants which are to be made in the present triennium and look ahead to what may happen in the next triennium when, I believe, there will be very savage cuts in the estimates of the Victorian colleges, which will have a very serious effect on advanced education in that State. [More…]
I believe that advanced education is being very seriously retarded in Victoria in particular. [More…]
The colleges of advanced education in Victoria themselves set a figure of $132m, which consisted of capital requirements of $5 8m and recurrent requirements of $74m. [More…]
But in doing so one is, of course, ignoring the moral responsibility that the Commonwealth Government has towards advanced education, as has been expressed, for example, by the fact that it established the Martin Committee on tertiary education and the Advisory Committee on Advanced Education and sought the Wiltshire report on academic awards and the Sweeney report on lecturers’ salaries. [More…]
Guidelines have been laid down for the colleges of advanced education in Victoria to show in which way they should progress, but, unfortunately, the archaic sharing of financial responsibility between the Commonwealth Government and the State Government is not enabling those guidelines to be pursued effectively by the colleges in Victoria. [More…]
Of course, in saying that, he was ignoring the fact that the demand for advanced education in Victoria was growing very rapidly and that there was a need in Victoria for students with advanced education qualifications. [More…]
One of the most worrying things about the cuts is that they have resulted in a limitation being placed on the number of students being admitted to colleges of advanced education. [More…]
For some years now we have acclimatised ourselves to this epidemic of rationing of education in universities. [More…]
It has started in the colleges of advanced education for one principal reason - the limitation of funds in the present 3- year period. [More…]
The rationing of tertiary education in the advanced education field is developing at a disturbing pace. [More…]
I am not saying that these can be eliminated overnight by any means, but the point is that the development is not proceeding rapidly enough, in particular if we are genuine in our desire to see colleges provide education that is ‘different from but equal to’ that provided by universities. [More…]
This development will mean more spending and more investment in advanced education than we have been prepared to provide so far. [More…]
As regards capital development - and I pointed this out 2 years ago when we were discussing another advanced education Bill - we see in many cases in colleges of advanced education that libraries, including buildings, equipment and books stocks, and also the number of qualified librarians provided, are not comparable with those provided in universities. [More…]
Now, in 1971, it is reported that in New South Wales fees in universities and colleges of advanced education could rise next year by up to 16 per cent. [More…]
One thing I want to refer to again in particular is the fact that in Victoria, for a number of years, having departed from free tertiary technical education, the Government kept to a static fee of $80 a year for tuition. [More…]
That is a milestone on the path towards making advanced education as exclusive and as prohibitive as university education already is for many children of lower income families and particularly students in country areas. [More…]
Because of the fee increases parents and students are being forced to make up the necessary finance for advanced education in those areas where the Commonwealth Government and the State Government are refusing to meet their responsibilities. [More…]
Everybody, myself included, is particularly enthusiastic to see this college increase in its standing in the community and increase in its standing among people involved in tertiary education and among those who would employ its diplomates and future graduates. [More…]
I want to reiterate that the problems facing colleges in the next triennium, from 1973 to 1975, will be faced effectively only if there is full Commonwealth responsibility for advanced education. [More…]
Earlier the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) spoke about the financing of university education. [More…]
1 do not go along with the abhorrence of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) of centralism in this field. [More…]
What is happening at the moment is that, in effect, there is centralism, a uniformity, about advanced education throughout Australia. [More…]
I do not believe it is any answer to raise the bogy of centralism when there is an objective to be met by this Commonwealth Government, that is, to provide effectively for at least one level of education in this country. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government must accept full responsibility for all levels of tertiary education, particularly advanced education. [More…]
At present quotas affect 8 colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that the Advisory Committee on Advanced Education stressed that in colleges of advanced education there must be a very great emphasis upon the teaching side of learning. [More…]
I believe there will be a continuing escalation of fees, as the Victorian Minister for Education has pointed out, until these reach the levels applying in some universities and until such times as they, coupled with quotas, make the colleges of advanced education no longer the institutions for working class children, which I do not believe they should be merely, anyway. [More…]
Specifically, I was asked why there are 2 permanent members of the Australian Universities Commission and only one on the Commission of Advanced Education. [More…]
In terms of total finance and the number of students, a judgment was made that the workload of the Commission, even though its number of institutions is smaller, at the moment is still greater than that of the Commission of Advanced Education. [More…]
The changes that are incorporated in one of these Bills now before the House turn a committee which, while reporting directly to the Minister for Education and Science, was still part of the Department of Education and Science, into an independent statutory commission. [More…]
Although this is proper in terms of status and prestige and from the point of view of its relationship to the Universities Commission, honour able members need to have it explained to them, as the honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon) has pointed out, that the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education has for a large number of years operated with a good deal of independence and in precisely the same manner as it would have operated if it had had the independent statutory powers of a commission. [More…]
As the work of the Commission of Advanced Education further develops, as I have not the slightest doubt it will, the student numbers in colleges will grow dramatically. [More…]
I cannot foretell what the progress might be in future years, but clearly it is an area of growing involvement and maybe at some future time the membership of the Commission of Advanced Education will need to be examined to determine whether a second permanent member needs to be added to it. [More…]
I believe that even the honourable member for Bendigo should recognise the progress that has been made in colleges of advanced education over the last 3 to 6 years. [More…]
One of the pleasing things which 1 have no doubt the honourable member is glad to see and which I, coming not from a capital city area, am also pleased to see is that the colleges of advanced education are opening up and making it easier for many students in country areas to obtain opportunities for tertiary qualifications. [More…]
In 1971, notices were sent out about 2 months later than previously so that the young men concerned would not be asked to obtain the necessary information from education institutions while they were partly closed during the long vacation. [More…]
Is it possible that clinical education will be permanently retarded and graduation delayed for students who will be dependent in some cases on the Commonwealth until graduation and whose skills are scarce in Australia if the present situation continues; if so, will the Government take steps to end the impasse. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science has advised me that he has recently asked the Australian Universities Commission to examine again the ‘question of payments to Honorary clinical teachers for their teaching services. [More…]
(7)It is a fact that medical students require adequate clinical education to become qualified to practice medicine. [More…]
As indicated above, the Minister for Education and Science has asked the Australian UniversitiesCommission to re-examine the question of payments to honoraries for their teaching services. [More…]
Parents have the right to choose their children’s education and as taxpayers they are entitled to ask that public funds to which their taxes have contributed should be shared justly and equitably for the education of all children. [More…]
The reduction of the number of independent schools in Australia will effectively deprive many taxpaying parents of their right to choose an alternative type of education for their children. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
I thought that was plain even to those who have had no formal education whatever. [More…]
AmI to understand that people who had the benefit of higher education, such as the honourable member for Lang and the honourable member for Hughes, do not understand plain English. [More…]
But I do want to use this amendment as a vehicle to protest against the Government’s policy of skim and dabble in education. [More…]
It skims over the surface of the deep needs of education below the tertiary level and it dabbles here and there. [More…]
But the needs in primary and secondary education are immense. [More…]
Anybody who looks at television programmes - just to discuss as an aside the private sector of education - will have heard the Catholic Archbishop of Hobart, Guilford Young, say that 20 of his schools are bankrupt and they will have to be closed, producing a crisis in primary and secondary education in the State of Tasmania. [More…]
We have had a statement from the Victorian State school teachers organisation saying that as a minimum $130m is needed in capital construction for the education of children in the City of Melbourne alone. [More…]
There is a very deep-seated crisis in education. [More…]
We will have to move to the idea which appears to be developing in the more, advanced States educationally in the United States of teaching teams, where, there are teachers .with specialist skills who can assist teachers without themselves being fully qualified to teach across the whole range. [More…]
The Opposition is dissatisfied with the way the Commonwealth moves into the ordinary fields of education. [More…]
The Commonwealth has found that if it is to do anything intelligent for the universities, if it is to do anything intelligent for the colleges of advanced education, it must have a special organ of sight to see the needs. [More…]
So it has set up the Australian Universities Commission and the Commission for Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]
There is no sector of education which will advance in the absence of Commonwealth financial grants. [More…]
You may just as well comment upon the English structure of education where education is under the administration of local government authorities but wholly dependent upon the grants of the national Government. [More…]
1 am not saying that the Commonwealth should take over the administration of education. [More…]
It has not taken over the administration of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
In setting up a schools commission to advise the Commonwealth what it might do to assist both the Government and the non-Government sector of education it would not take over the administration of either of those sectors. [More…]
In that first fine careless rapture the Prime Minister of the day said persistently that the Commonwealth had no responsibility for education, until he was inched into Universities Commission, until he was inched into science blocks, until he was inched into school libraries, until he was inched into all sorts of things and what the Government denied it subsequently affirmed. [More…]
I would prefer the days since the first fine careless rapture as far as education is concerned because the days of first fine careless rapture were rather arid in the field of education. [More…]
I am bound to say that the successors of those first Ministers have done more for education, very much more for education, than their predecessors of earlier times. [More…]
Then, another generation of schoolchildren goes through crippled education and, finally, the Commonwealth gets around to a new adjustment 7 or 8 years after- it denied that it needed to do it. [More…]
One of the interesting provisions mentioned in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is the objective of the Government in this measure. [More…]
I cannot understand why it has not been consistent in the application of its principle but, be that as it may, apparently the Government does accept in this Bill the principle that has been behind the Labor Party’s proposals for education, namely, giving aid in accordance with need. [More…]
One of the great regrets of many people in educational circles to whom I have talked abeu this type of legislation is that it does not apply to primary schools. [More…]
Primary schools are beginning to feel that they are the poor relation in respect of any provision that the Commonwealth makes for education. [More…]
As far as I know, the Commonwealth makes no direct provision for any aspect of primary education and I have found that this has given rise to quite a strong resentment in those circles. [More…]
Of course, as one would recognise, this leads to considerable inequality of educational opportunity. [More…]
The knowledge explosion is so great that it is impossible for any level of education today to be able to keep up with this development. [More…]
The study habit is so important in modern education. [More…]
Referring to testimony given to the recent Senate inquiry on teacher education by the Director of Teacher Education in Western Australia, Mr N. G. Traylen, it states: [More…]
They tend to distort the whole provision for education. [More…]
We want to see established some kind of inquiry which will advise both the Commonwealth and State governments on the overall needs of primary, secondary, and I would go on to add technical education, and also the education of the handicapped. [More…]
The present provisions, though helpful, are, as I have said, fragmentary and often distort the overall educational programme. [More…]
So we still have a gross over-reliance on private provision for education. [More…]
I think that the most sorry spectacle of this is in respect of the education of handicapped children in Australia, and I will say a little more about that matter shortly. [More…]
So we need a national schools commission which will not only be concerned with providing for the external things in education, such as school buildings, adequate playgrounds, various kinds of assistance in the way of staff, all sorts of library equipment and so on, but also look at the internal things in education - the content of education, what we should be teaching in this modern age and how’ we should be teaching it Maybe we should introduce team teaching, to which the honourable member for Fremantle alluded. [More…]
Should they be separate according to sex or should there be more co-education, and when should co-education be introduced? [More…]
Why should every State duplicate these functions when in fact they could be carried out by a high-powered national’ research organisation which would make its findings available to both State and private education authorities? [More…]
Every visitor who comes to Australia remarks on the dearth of research into the content and structure of our education programme. [More…]
Those are all matters which a national education commission, in co-operation with State. [More…]
education authorities and the private sector of education, should be considering. [More…]
It is just not good enough to pick out one aspect of education and try to do something about it. [More…]
I am very disturbed indeed to notice what the New South Wales Institute for Educational Research had to say about the Commonwealth’s lack of support for educational research and I would like the Minister to note it. [More…]
This is research carried out by the Australian Council for Educational Research, a body which is well known to all teachers and many parents for the tremendous amount of good it has done for education. [More…]
In other words, the Commonwealth vetoed what all 6 States were prepared to do and as a result this important educational research body, the Australian Council for Educational Research, will not be able to carry out anything like the amount of research that is so sorely needed in Australia. [More…]
I would have liked to have had the time to talk about what the Commonwealth and the States do not do for the education of our handicapped children. [More…]
Today we are making grants to universities and colleges of advanced education and doing everything possible for them but we cut assistance to the handicapped at the chronological age of 16 years, despite the fact that they might only have a mental age of 10 or 11 years. [More…]
He is hoping that the Australian people will fall for the suggestion put forward by the Australian Labor Party that if the Commonwealth takes over education it will be the end of all the problems. [More…]
The suggestion has been made tonight that what the Labor Party would have in store if it ever came to government would put an end to the problems of education; this is so much rubbish. [More…]
On the day he spoke about education in Adelaide, when he told the Australian people it would not cost anything, he committed the expenditure of some S900m in one go. [More…]
So what the honourable member is suggesting is that the Commonwealth should stop giving money to the States and should take over education. [More…]
I am totally opposed to a concept of centralisation when it comes to primary and secondary education, and I say that without qualification. [More…]
So many young people today go to a teachers training college only because they are able to get a teachers scholarship which gives them an opportunity to further their education. [More…]
I do not believe that this is really in the best interests of education. [More…]
He is in agreement with his colleague, the honourable member for Fremantle, but this concept of science blocks and libraries has made a tremendous contribution towards the education of young Australians. [More…]
It has been stated on many occasions that in this day and age when more knowledge and research are going into education the provision of these library facilities has enabled those children whom we might describe as exceptional students to take advantage of the facilities and on an equal basis with other children who also have these opportunities, to further their education. [More…]
When these children eventually reach university or other high planes of education, they are more prepared to shoulder the responsibility that face them. [More…]
It gives me great pleasure to support the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in this Bill. [More…]
If we are to obtain full benefit of the great expenditure, which has been made available for building libraries - at the end of- the next triennium this amount will have reached some $57m - I think that we should be giving some thought to the lower levels of education so that these students are prepared for and are given an opportunity to understand the use of a library. [More…]
I am quite sure, that the people of Australia will recognise that the amendment moved tonight represents a political ploy and a cheap political trick by the Australian Labor Party to try to help the Leader of the Opposition out of his troubles in relation to- education. [More…]
I remind members of the Opposition that in recent weeks we have seen constant battles between the Leader of the Opposition and the Minister for Education and Science, over .this most vital question. [More…]
I can hardly recall a time when the Leader of the Opposition has been as touchy on any question as he has been on the question of education. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science wasted no time in realising the errors that the Leader of the Opposition had made and quickly followed up the subject. [More…]
But what I do know - and I know it positively - is that the Austraiian people will not fall for cheap and unworthy promises from the Opposition but will support this Government in its plans to enable education to continue to progress in the best way that it can and to make available facilities of the type proposed in this legislation to the children of Australia in the years to come. [More…]
Cameron) seems to be one of the most spectacular failures of the Queensland education system. [More…]
The Labor Party wants a national acceptance of responsibility for -education. [More…]
I do not think the honourable member for Griffith has paid any attention to Australia’s education needs at all. [More…]
It has a Standing Committee to look into the matter of education. [More…]
Earlier in this session, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) introduced a quite lengthy statement on Commonwealth aims . [More…]
and objectives in education. [More…]
I raise this point: Is this concept of the secondary school population which is in this Bill a fair criterion for the development of a library system inside Australian education, particularly inside our schools? [More…]
It is a case of picking up little bits of education here and there and trying to do something about it - or attempting to do something for political purposes. [More…]
The problem in this Parliament, particularly on the other side of the House, on the subject of education is that one would be led to believe that the threequarters of the children of Australia who are in the three-quarters of Australian schools, those conducted, by State governments, did not exist. [More…]
The Opposition has moved its amendment because it believes, as the Labor.- Party has been saying for some 12 years or 15 years now, that it is only by an acceptance of national responsibility that we will get anywhere in the field of education. [More…]
What I wish to ask tonight, with as much brevity as is desirable in such a situation, is this: What is to be done about education? [More…]
I believe that education is under greater challenge now than it has been at any previous time. [More…]
I suppose that the introduction of printing produced a change in the form of education. [More…]
Education became participatory and personal in a sort of way that it could not be before the introduction of printing. [More…]
But the principles inside the school room and some of the principles which flow through the education system remain much the same. [More…]
But generally speaking our approach to education is to turn a person out as a function of society. [More…]
I believe, as one has said here before on a number of occasions, that there is a fundamental change required in our outlook in education because of the effects of social change. [More…]
Today is in so many ways a different era even from the one in which I was born which is a little over half a century ago but in terms of education and social change that is not a very long time. [More…]
We must develop education to fit them for this role. [More…]
able gentleman that this is not a general debate on education. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, an amendment has been moved on behalf of the Opposition and it covers the area of education and the needs of Australian society and Australian education. [More…]
For Heavens sake, surely education has to do with society if it has to do with anything. [More…]
There is no examination in depth of one of the most fundamental social questions of the time - and that is the education system. [More…]
Surely one can talk for a little while on some aspects of education. [More…]
No longer can they conic through the school patterned and moulded from desk to desk, from form to form, progressing through the levels of education and being turned out at the end into a society such as the one into which we entered and in which there was a pretty set pattern for our behaviour. [More…]
Briefly I would like to refer to the student we are trying to turn out, why libraries are important and why I believe the Government’s approach to this aspect of education is not totally adequate. [More…]
The people who are going to face this situation will be turned out through the schools by a more effective education system. [More…]
I do not believe that we are approaching education in the right way. [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Education and Science I think approaches this matter as well as one could expect from a person with his background and his colleagues who are not terribly perceptive and very largely insensitive to the needs of education. [More…]
Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron) in assessing the fantastic cost of the educational programme which was outlined by the Opposition. [More…]
As far as I am concerned and as far as the Government is concerned, we want adequate defence for this country and we want adequate education facilities, too. [More…]
The honourable member for Wills also stressed the need for an educational survey in depth. [More…]
I wonder whether he has ever heard of the nationwide survey on educational needs which has taken place and a report on which was presented to the Parliament in summary form I think in September 1970. [More…]
Listening to the speech he has made one would think that the Commonwealth had the sole responsibility for providing funds for education whereas in fact it is largely the responsibility of the State governments. [More…]
The Commonwealth, realising the problem and realising the necessity of giving support to the State governments’ educational programme, has given them financial assistance to an ever increasing degree, and I am sure it will continue to do that. [More…]
I agree with quite a number of speakers that libraries are a fundamental factor in education generally. [More…]
A better educational system is provided in our schools if the libraries are up to the high standard that the Commonwealth Government desires them to be and for which it has provided these funds. [More…]
Libraries also provide possibly the best avenue for self help in the educational field that we can provide, so it has been of great benefit to secondary schools to have these libraries brought up to the standard that they have been brought up to in those schools that have had the benefit of this assistance. [More…]
libraries to secondary schools, both government and independent, the Commonwealth has done a job that has hit on a section of education which needed special attention, and that is pretty largely what the Commonwealth has aspired to do. [More…]
It has looked at the educational field. [More…]
It has endeavoured then to give assistance where it felt is was most needed, and very largely, of course, in the earlier stages this assistance was given to tertiary education. [More…]
We do have the advantage of a college of advanced education at Toowoomba which serves a big area. [More…]
But there aire secondary schools scattered round the countryside, and the children attending those schools are deserving of assistance to enable them to reach a standard of education which will in turn allow them to take advantage of the assistance given at the tertiary level of education. [More…]
1 think that the Commonwealth is to be commended on the effort that it has made to provide those educational facilities for which it felt there was probably the most need from a national point of view. [More…]
Expenditure on education generally has increased tremendously over recent years, and the assistance that the Commonwealth. [More…]
Government has given in the field of education has enabled this programme to be continued and developed. [More…]
I believe there is a need for libraries in primary schools, and these libraries will continue the line which will enable students generally to take advantage of the special provisions that are being made under this Bill and indeed under the Government’s educational programme generally. [More…]
I am quite confident that the Commonwealth Government will have to take a continuing and increasing part in providing finance for our education generally. [More…]
Again 1 stress the point that unless assistance is given and students in these areas can be given the opportunity to get a grounding in education they will not be able to take the advantage that they should be able to take of the educational facilities that are provided by the State governments, which are supported by the Federal Government in the amount of money that has been made available to them. [More…]
I mentioned an increasing expenditure on education generally. [More…]
In my own State of Queensland there has been an increase in total expenditure on education of 21 per cent, and there has been quite an increase in the education allocations of all the States. [More…]
I believe the per capita grants are of valuable assistance to education generally. [More…]
Unless we do give assistance to the- independent schools we will have them all under a State system of education. [More…]
There is a great deal one could say on the subject of education. [More…]
I certainly feel there is a tremendous need for a continuing expansion of Commonwealth participation in education. [More…]
In line with that I trust that the State governments also will continue to expand their expenditure on education to enable the students of this country to have the standard of education that we all so earnestly desire them to have. [More…]
I believe that there is a real necessity to examine the needs of education in our community, and in a way which will indicate where the greatest needs lie and what actions are necessary in order to meet those needs. [More…]
The community is suffering from an unplanned approach to educational needs. [More…]
The Commonwealth has entered into 2 fields of education, both at the secondary level - science blocks and secondary school libraries. [More…]
If they do not get a head start in an educational programme their chances of receiving a Commonwealth scholarship, under a system which is geared to the culturally and economically privileged as opposed to the culturally and economically underprivileged, are nil. [More…]
In country areas the operation of library bookmobiles would most likely be of great advantage to the education system and to the community, without incurring the great deal of extra money that is being expended at the moment to duplicate facilities. [More…]
They are not made on the basis of the educational opportunity needs of any- given community. [More…]
This to me is not the way we should be running our education system. [More…]
Rather it has been the availability of funds within a particular education system financed by Commonwealth grants. [More…]
Once that child reaches secondary school he will have lost th s educational opportunity, so I support the amendment because I am sure any inquiry would bring out the absolute need for children to receive assistance - especially assistance in learning - and to be exposed to good literature long before they go to secondary school. [More…]
I trust that honourable members opposite - after hearing his speech, I am sure the honourable member for Maranoa would support the amendment - will support the amendment because I think it provides machinery whereby we can at least find out where the real needs of the community are and I hope that at some time some effort will be made to provide children in underprivileged areas - underprivileged culturally not economically - with an educational opportunity which will enable a greater percentage of them to obtain the level of education which is available almost as a right to other sections of the community. [More…]
The proposal which was moved by the Opposition is a fundamental one which strikes right to the heart of the Commonwealth’s philosophy and approach in support of education in the Slates and tries to replace that with a proposal of an entirely different kind. [More…]
Of course the Opposition’s approach to and its advocacy of an Australian schools commission is not only designed to establish something which they believe might appear to be attractive to the Australian public but also is designed to bypass the decisions of State education departments. [More…]
That is something which I believe that we on this side of the House, with the philosophy of government that we have, ought not to entertain because this would involve a centralisation of educational authority, as I have said before, at the very time when many of those with a concern for education want decentralisation of educational authority. [More…]
To establish a situation in which every school had to make out a case to a Commonwealth Government commission to see whether it ought, to get funds or not is one that runs counter to modern educational theory and also, 1 believe, to common sense, lt would make the State departments of education administrative organs and nothing else, depriving them of the responsibility and judgment which they must exercise concerning decisions in their own particular areas. [More…]
In addition to this, if we look at the manner in which the Opposition would run an Australian schools commission we find an approach and a view which would do much to jeopardise education in Australia and certainly set a ceiling on educational quality in both government and independent schools. [More…]
Why place a means test on education? [More…]
The Opposition spokesman on education has had his say on this matter. [More…]
He also indicated that in a subsequent year this might be subsumed in proposals to relieve the States of the costs of education in the tertiary area. [More…]
But’ the figures I had earlier given in regard to the cost of :he Opposition’s educational proposals wore valid and accurate. [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle may well have forgotten that his Party and he himself made proposals concerning pre-schools, pre-school teacher training, educational television, reduction in class size, a schools . [More…]
commission which would have some recurrent expenses concerned with it, secondary and technical scholarships, financing of tertiary education, non-government teacher training, the abolition of university and college fees, an extension of living allowances and also a matter concerning the open university. [More…]
That amount is additional to the funds that the Commonwealth already provides for education, and that is a very significant sum indeed. [More…]
When members of the Opposition make promises or imply promises in relation to education or any other area they have an obligation to say whether they are serious on these particular matters and if so how these matters would be costed and how they should be funded. [More…]
The Opposition has totally failed to indicate how its educational programmes might be funded if it were ever given the opportunity to put them into effect. [More…]
This is an objective which is being pursued under the science laboratories programme and under the libraries programme to the great advancement of education in Australia. [More…]
quality of education in all Australian schools. [More…]
Or, the Government could get back to the old device of expanding public works particularly in the fields of education and health. [More…]
It is difficult to estimate with any precision how many young people will be seeking to enter the work force during the next 3 months or so, or, indeed, how many will be completing their secondary education. [More…]
For example, depending on results of examinations and opportunities available to them, they may decide to return to school for a further year or go on to higher education. [More…]
They were industrial affairs - 1 am sure the Labor Party has not forgotten about that one; defence; immigration - the honourable member lor Grayndler (Mr Daly) would not have forgotten that one; cities and decentralisation; education; and health. [More…]
There is nothing more humiliating and degrading to a young nation like Australia than to find that when a boy or girl leaves school after receiving a formal education, say, to matriculation standard, that boy or girl cannot get a job. [More…]
Even though seasonal unemployment might be a little above the 15-year average, the problem that we face today is that over the Christmas-New Year period we will have of the order of 190,000 school leavers together with people from tertiary education institutions coming into the work force for the fust time. [More…]
Thirdly, we took action to ensure that we would reduce the immigration inflow in order to minimise the impact upon employment figures because over the Christmas period approximately 190,000 people will come into the work force from secondary schools and from tertiary education levels. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for Slate school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system. [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several Stale Government Departments. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Inquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
That the Education Ordinance 1971, No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The document which I tabled on 5th October 1971 contained sections relating to the Survey conducted by the Department of Education and Science of theEducational Needs of both the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]
That tertiary fees and concomitant living costs are a formidable barrier preventing significant numbers of students entering tertiary education who nevertheless have the ability to do so. [More…]
Thai the increase in tertiary fees for 1972 is immoral, in that Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education are being further restricted to that minimal section of the Australian population who can afford to send their sons and daughters onto higher education. [More…]
That all education should be free including tertiary education. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary education fees for “1972 will cause increased hardship for a signifi”cant proportion of tertiary students. [More…]
That tertiary fees and concomitant living costs “are a formidable barrier preventing significant numbers of students entering tertiary education who nevertheless have the ability to do so. [More…]
1972 is immoral, in that Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education are being further restricted to (hat minimal section of the Australian population who can afford to send their sons and daughters onto higher education. [More…]
That all education should be free including tertiary education. [More…]
The humble petition of citizens of the community of the University of Western Australia respectfully sheweth: that the increase in tertiary education fees for 1972 will cause increased hardship for a significant proportion of tertiary students. [More…]
That tertiary fees and concomitant living costs are a formidable barrier preventing significant numbers of students entering tertiary education who nevertheless have the ability to doso. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary fees for 1972 is immoral, in that Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education are being further restricted to that minimal section of the Australian population who can afford to send their sons and daughters onto higher education. [More…]
That all education should be free including tertian education. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary education fees for 1972 will cause increased hardship for a significant proportion of tertiary students. [More…]
That tertiary fees and concomitant living costs are a formidable barrier preventing significant numbers of students entering tertiary education who nevertheless have the ability to do so. [More…]
ThatThe increase in tertiary fees for 1972 is immoral, in that Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education are being . [More…]
further restricted to that minimal section, of the Australian population who can afford to send their sons and daughters onto higher education. [More…]
That all education should be. [More…]
free including tertiary education. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Arc parent organisations associated with the public education system denied inclusion in the category A classification for concessional postage? [More…]
I would point out to him that the full authority for primary and secondary education in Papua New Guinea resides with the House of Assembly and the Administrator’s Executive Council. [More…]
I will direct the honourable member’s question to the Ministerial Member for Education in the Territory and provide the honourable member with the answers. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science - [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) similarly misrepresented my Party in an answer he gave to a question. [More…]
(Wannon - Minister for Education and Science) - Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation. [More…]
In making a personal explanation the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made no reference to any statement in which 1 had misrepresented him at all. [More…]
But if there is to be conduct such as the Minister for Education and Science wantonly displayed just now, it will be inevitable that members of this House will be explaining things said about them in the Senate and senators will be explaining things said about them here. [More…]
(WannonMinister for Education and Science) - Very briefly- [More…]
This businessman is denied family assistance in his business, the child is denied a happier future in Western Australia, and the slow learning children’s group in Western Australia, which has made excellent steps forward in educating these people, misses the opportunity of giving this child an education which would be perhaps better than it could receive in the country where it is now. [More…]
I have compiled a table from information obtained from the New South Wales Minister for Education and Science on the one hand in respect of State bursaries, which are subject to a means test, and from the former Commonwealth Minis er for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen) in respect of Commonwealth secondary school scholarships. [More…]
accordingly, those with the greatest capacity are able to demand transfers nearer to home because of a threat or inference that they may leave the Department of Education if they do not obtain those transfers. [More…]
The Commonwealth examination is of such a nature that it is biased towards those students whose parents have the time to sit around the dinner table at night discussing current affairs issues or where the mother does not work and accordingly can talk to her sons or daughters about such subjects or, again, w,here there is tertiary education in the household. [More…]
This is really the only way to give what could be soundly and sincerely called equality of opportunity in education to all children. [More…]
The honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) has suggested equality of opportunity for all in education. [More…]
He suggested that I should join him in a deputation to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on behalf of those people. [More…]
At the moment 1 am preparing a submission to the Minister for Education and Science and I understand that other submissions will be made. [More…]
I wish at times that the standards of debate in this House would be lifted a little so that the educational value to those people who listen to parliamentary broadcasts would be improved. [More…]
As I said, not only is there the entertainment value of television but also the educational value. [More…]
1 have pointed out on other occasions, and I want to stress this again, that we should try to do all that we can to help these children who are so much in need of education if we are genuine and sincere in our endeavours to provide equal opportunities for all children. [More…]
The time that is lost in the early stages of a child’s education cannot be picked up later on when the child is in need of education, but television is one way of assisting in this direction. [More…]
We must continue to try to provide children with a foundation in education which will enable them to take full advantage of the money which is being expended on education by both State governments and the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
It is becoming more and more important to lift the standard of education of all Australians. [More…]
This Government talks about education. [More…]
The provision of pre-school facilities for all is a prerequisite lo the development of education in Australia and the need to use manpower to its greatest efficiency. [More…]
I want to discuss education not only because it is a matter that is primarily the concern of the States under our Constitution but also because the Commonwealth Government has claimed on a number of occasions that it is as a result of these new financial arrangements between the Commonwealth and the States that the State governments are now able to meet their commitments in education. [More…]
I enter this debate to protest at the failure of the Commonwealth Government to make a specific commitment to education, apart from the circumscribed causes, such as libraries and science blocks, to which it gives money. [More…]
It is now clear that the Commonwealth has shelved the findings of the national survey of educational needs. [More…]
I would have thought that if the Commonwealth Government was sufficiently interested to find out by means of a survey what really are the educational needs of the States it would be concerned to see that the findings of the survey would be acted upon. [More…]
This $ 1,443m would have had to be found for the 5-year period 1971-75 to finance the reasonably anticipated educational needs of the States. [More…]
There is to be no specific allocation of funds for those educational needs. [More…]
When he was Minister for Education and Science, the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) spoke at a well attended and publicised meeting in Adelaide on 16th June 1971 and said that all the Commonwealth Government was waiting on was further information on priorities from a couple of State governments. [More…]
Let us contrast that with what the present Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said in this House on 5th October 1971. [More…]
In September 1970, the Commonwealth sought further information from State education departments on their capital needs. [More…]
I think it is worth noting, as I have pointed out before, that there are two ways in which the Commonwealth can assist and is assisting the States in education. [More…]
But the present Minister for Defence, when he was Minister for Education and Science, made no mention of the new financial arrangement. [More…]
Let us not forget that the goals of the educational survey were not grandiose. [More…]
Remember also, for that matter, that the national survey did not include the needs of pre-schools or tertiary education. [More…]
I believe that the pronouncements of Commonwealth Ministers for Education over recent months have vindicated the policy of the Australian Labor Party in advocating the establishment of an Australian schools commission. [More…]
Time and time again Commonwealth Ministers have said that we have not enough information on which to base decisions on the survey, that the criteria are not adequate and that the States criteria for education are different. [More…]
We believe (hat there should be a commission established whereby we could ascertain by means of a continuous, informed and ongoing survey the needs of all of the State governments in regard to education. [More…]
The Labor Party would want only to lay down broad priorities in regard to national education policies. [More…]
For instance, it would want to see the inequalities of education wiped out. [More…]
If the assistance is being provided by a State educational authority the Commonwealth does not provide specific assistance. [More…]
These are the sorts of national goals that the Labor Party would look towards in implementing its education policy. [More…]
I point out to the people of Australia that only a Labor government will give education its correct priority. [More…]
Look at the example of the Labor Government in South Australia which, as I have said, has already increased its expenditure on education to a greater extent than any other State of Australia. [More…]
Finally, as evidence of the seriousness of the Liberal Government towards education, I would like to refer to a delegation which South Australian members of the Federal Parliament received from the South Australian Association of State School Organisations some weeks ago. [More…]
1 think that perhaps she has not woken up to the fact that her Party is not fundamentally interested in education. [More…]
I thought the attendance that day was symptomatic of the attitude of this Government on education. [More…]
One of these is the great problem of education. [More…]
In saying this 1 do not criticise the efforts of State Government employees who look after the health, education and social welfare of the islanders. [More…]
These are problems similar in many ways to those encountered by Aboriginal people in other parts of Australia - problems of housing, social welfare, education and employment. [More…]
Allocations to the States are made under 6 headings: Housing, education, health, employment, special works projects and regional projects. [More…]
Assistance given for education is just as disappointing. [More…]
In particular there is no provision for assistance to provide pre-school facilities in the grant of $7,000 for education. [More…]
I have referred to a number of them - the question of education on the island and the question of health services. [More…]
Some improvement has been effected, but in relation to housing, education and health services, to which I have referred. [More…]
In this regard I feel that an important part of the Bill is the allocation to the States under the 6 headings of housing, education, health, employment, special work projects and regional projects. [More…]
It is allocated to a student regardless of whether he is trying to advance with his education or whether he is just filling in time at school. [More…]
We have heard a fair amount of talk in this House at various times about the problems of the Aborigines, but I think we have to agree that there is a great need to concen-tra te a little more on the education of Aborigines. [More…]
As a matter of fact, I think that except for the racists and the so-called snobs in the Australian community the average Australian accepts the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation statement on race which points out that according to present knowledge there is no proof that groups of mankind differ in their innate mental characteristics or in respect of their intelligence or temperament. [More…]
Aboriginal students are often considered drop-outs, but I believe they could be more realistically termed kick-outs because of the fact that they are unable to adjust to the conformist, egocentric type of education that we have in this country. [More…]
The other 3 are education, health and employment. [More…]
The South Australian Education Department has established schools in the North West Aboriginal Reserve but in some instances those schools are unsatisfactory. [More…]
It was suggested that this would help their education. [More…]
The South Australian Education Department provides buses, but only to take children to and from school. [More…]
The suggestion was made that the Commonwealth Government might provide buses to be used for educational tours. [More…]
However, when we were debating other legislation earlier today, one of my South Australian colleagues said that the South Australian Government this year had increased its expenditure on education by 30 per cent, and that was a handsome amount. [More…]
The teaching staffs in the schools are better than they were because they are officers of the Queensland Department of Education. [More…]
However, there is still an almost complete lack of proper pre-school education. [More…]
We have to use the State instrumentalities wherever appropriate as we do, for instance, in the soldiers’ children education scheme. [More…]
There are some aspects which no education authority in Australia has attempted to handle. [More…]
I would now like to deal with education. [More…]
The honourable member feels that they are doing it in tertiary education institutions. [More…]
It was quite inevitable, for instance, that the first place that would get education, the English language and advantages for the people was the Milne Bay aTea because in the days before air traffic all sea traffic went round the eastern end of the island of New Guinea. [More…]
It was inevitable that the Tolai people of the Gazelle Peninsula would get education earlier and faster than others. [More…]
They are resistant to change in that respect, but the speed with which they have abandoned head hunting and cannibalism and the speed with which they have accepted education and outside ideas is quite remarkable. [More…]
They are people who are deeply conscious of their need for more education, more health, the influx of more ideas from outside. [More…]
A number of children who have finished their primary education cannot be accommodated in secondary schools and they tend to get into trouble. [More…]
When I was returning from New Guinea I travelled with an American educational officer who had spent some time examining these vocational centres. [More…]
I was speaking in relation to education - . [More…]
Then I referred to the fact that Alan Randall’s ‘Reorganisation of Education in Papua New Guinea’ covered this matter quite clearly. [More…]
In particular, political education has suffered. [More…]
I agree with the system of giving people a choice of the types of education available for their children. [More…]
But the advantages of the dual education system are such that they more than submerge the disadvantages. [More…]
There is a difference between our dual education system in Australia and that of the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
All the areas of concern, such as primary and secondary education, health, local government and the land situation, are there for the decision of the elected members of the House of Assembly. [More…]
Income tax deductions under the heading of educational expenses are allowed in respect of expenditure incurred by a taxpayer for or in connection with the full-time education of his child at school, college or university or from a tutor. [More…]
The question whether an asphasic child is receiving fulltime education at school would depend upon the facts of the particular case, but where this condition is satisfied, a parent would be entitled to a deduction for the cost of special equipment provided by the parent for the purpose of his child’* education at the school. [More…]
As announced in the recent Budget, it is proposed to increase the maximum permissible deduction for education expenses for each child from $300 per annum to 8400 per annum. [More…]
Expenditure in this category comprises life ‘assurance and superannuation fund contributions; medical, funeral and education expenses; and contributions to medical and hospital benefits funds. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary education fees for 1972 will cause increased hardship for a significant proportion of tertiary students. [More…]
That tertiary fees and concomitant living costs are a formidable barrier preventing significant numbers of students entering tertiary education who nevertheless have the ability to do so. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary fees for 1972 is immoral, in that Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education are being further restricted to that minimal section of the Australian population who can afford to send their sons and daughters on to higher education. [More…]
That al) education should be free including tertiary education. [More…]
That, the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiences in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will lake immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Commitee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science: Is it a fact that many graduates will have great difficulty in finding suitable employment in the months ahead? [More…]
It is worth noting that at the Canberra College of Advanced Education at the moment there are quite a large number of people who have undertaken arts degrees at the Australian National University and who have had to go to the Canberra College of Advanced Education for specific training before they could get the kind of job they wanted or with which they would be satisfied. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education and Science aware of the development of a chemical sex attractant or pheromone which will materially assist measures to control oriental fruit moth in peach orchards, and that a similar pheromone is being tested for codlin moth control? [More…]
I do know that a delegation of people concerned with this particular matter saw Mr Cutler, the Minister for Education and Science in New South Wales, at an earlier point. [More…]
But perhaps more important than that is the development of colleges of advanced education at a number of decentralised areas throughout Australia. [More…]
There are now over 40 colleges of advanced education. [More…]
1 know that these are not all decentralised but they do provide in rural areas tertiary education opportunities which would not otherwise have been available, so this again is a partial answer. [More…]
Not all States have such programmes but this is a part of education that the States have looked after up to the present time in respect to secondary schooling. [More…]
Sim over the last year and this year for a national drug education campaign to point up the dangers of smoking and using marihuana and other drugs. [More…]
We should have massive education facilities and corrective institutions of a type that has not yet been seen. [More…]
We do not allow pacifists to opt out of paying any taxation that goes towards defence; or allow single people and childless couples to opt out of paying taxation used to finance child endowment and education; or permit a man who is healthy to opt out of paying taxation to meet the cost of the health scheme. [More…]
But this is a proposal that is equivalent to allowing all who benefit from defence, child endowment, education and health to opt out of meeting their share of the cost of these benefits simply by expressing their disapproval of paying compulsory taxation. [More…]
lt would result in improvement in skill and capacity as a result of retraining and education. [More…]
Will he make a statement to the House on the report by the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare and the recommendations touching on the care and education of handicapped children; if so, when. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
(2)Is it the intention of the Government to enter the field of primary education under this power. [More…]
(The Education Act 1945-66, under which the Commonwealth Scholarships and Awards Regulations have been drawn up is also in accordance with the powers vested in the Commonwealth under section 51, plactium xxiii A.) [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Does the Department (a) appoint experts from Australia or overseas for limited periods of time, (b) use experts as consultants on particular matters, (c) use advisory committees, (d) use committees of inquiry and (e) conduct research evaluation of Commonwealth projects in education and on other educational matters. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary education fees for 1972 will cause increased hardship for a significant proportion of tertiary students. [More…]
That tertiary fees and concomitant living costs are a formidable barrier preventing significant numbers of students entering tertiary education who nevertheless have the ability to do so. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary fees for 1972 is immoral, in that Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education are being further restricted to that minimal section of the Australian population who can alford to send their sons and daughters onto higher education. [More…]
That all education should be free including tertiary education. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary education fees for 1972 will cause increased hardship for a significant proportion of tertiary students. [More…]
That tertiary fees and concomitant living costs are a formidable barrier preventing significant numbers of students entering tertiary education who nevertheless have the ability to do so. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary fees for 1972 is immoral, in that Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education are being further restricted to that minimal section of the Australian population who can alford to send their sons and daughters onto higher education. [More…]
That all education should be free including tertiary education. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal educa.ion opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Austalia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present agc limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
the Commonwealth Parliament has acted to remove some inadequacies in the Australian Education system. [More…]
a major inadequacy at present in Australian education is the lack of equal education opportunity for all. [More…]
200,000 students from Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other Tertiary Institutions, and their parents suffer severe penalty from inadequacies in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1968. [More…]
Australia cannot afford to hinder the education of these 200,000 Australians. [More…]
The allowance of personal education expenses as a deduction from income for tax purposes. [More…]
Removal of the present age limit in respect of the deduction for education expenses and the maintenance allowance for students. [More…]
Increase in the amount of deduction allowable for tertiary education expenses. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future bc made independent of the New South Wales education system; [More…]
That the decentralization of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments; [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institu- tions of tertiary education, practicing educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will bc given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will takeimmediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]
That the Australia Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]
Extensive training and education programmes are required. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
On the other hand the main and primary basis of granting scholarships has been academic ability and I think there would be very real difficulty in a departure from that principle in awarding financial support for those who are seeking entrance to universities or colleges of advanced education. [More…]
People who have some doubts about whether or not there is a difficulty in this area, need to recall the prime basis of entry into a university and into a college of advanced education must be academic ability. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science a question. [More…]
It is 12 weeks since he gave me a written answer stating that consultations would soon be concluded on a national graduate school of business management and that the Commonwealth would then be in a position to make an announcement about it, and it is 9 weeks since he assured me that the remaining State governments intended to table their sectors of the nation-wide survey on educational needs prepared in May last year. [More…]
We have been advised, particularly by the young, that education about drugs will be ineffective unless moralising and patronising attitudes are changed. [More…]
What he has set about doing is to undertake an education programme. [More…]
But I wonder how successful relatively education programmes are. [More…]
In this comparative situation of education versus research, I give higher priority to the latter. [More…]
In this comparative situation we find that $500,000 was set aside for education about drugs in 1970-71, the results of which may be dubious, given the outcome of the campaigns against cigarette smoking. [More…]
This is ideal, but I think there is a definite and comparative need for education and detection as well as research. [More…]
If I remember rightly, the honourable member for Oxley placed research first in order of priority, but I claim there is a comparative need for detection and education as well. [More…]
New and devious techniques arc being devised for distributing the stuff, and consequently this problem will develop further, lt is OK to have the accent on research - I am all for it - but as I say, there is a comparative need for detection and education to offset the development of this problem. [More…]
Parties are held by the Department of Customs and Excise, at which plenty of alcohol is served, to launch drug education programmes. [More…]
What proportion of the $500,000 budget for drug education programmes is devoted to discourage the use of fa) alcohol, (b) tobacco (c) opium derivatives (d) cannabis, (e) sedative drugs and (f) stimulant drugs. [More…]
The $300,000 allocated by the Government for drug education is being used for programmes approved by the National Standing Control Committee on Drugs of Dependence. [More…]
These programmes do not relate to any particular drug or drugs and are, where possible, integrated within existing health education activities in the various States. [More…]
What does the Minister say in reply to my question on drug education. [More…]
The way to fight its use, to my mind, is surely through argument and education. [More…]
The American Health, Education and Welfare Committee, which published its report early this year, reached the same sort of conclusions. [More…]
Education and Welfare issued on January 31 1971, titled ‘Marihuana and Health’. [More…]
They are: firstly, law enforcement; secondly, treatment; thirdly, education; fourthly, the environment itself. [More…]
But the longer term avenues for attacking the problem are, of course, education at all levels of society and the environment. [More…]
I was a little surprised to hear some comments concerning education. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education service* has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of governnent education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray ;hai the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the. [More…]
However one describes it, Mr Drummond showed as Minister for Education in New South Wales in the 1930s that there are fields where governments can accelerate the development of some areas. [More…]
Education and science is clearly a field where great initiatives can be taken, particularly in the tertiary field - in which, of course, the Australian Labor Party includes, even if the Liberal Party does not, the question of teacher education - and where the Commonwealth can contribute to the accelerated development of centres now. [More…]
education, medical and other facilities in decentralized areas; and [More…]
Nor is the Department of Education and Science represented on the Committee, as I have already mentioned. [More…]
Where would Townsville be now but for the Com- monwealth contributions in the field of education and science? [More…]
But it is proper that this investment in the education and training of people, and the expertise of people there, should not be lost tothose areas. [More…]
These are the definitive priorities that I. have suggested, but as soon as I have done so, someone has called out: What about education, social services, hospitalisation and all these benefits?’ [More…]
He also said that everybody is so frightened about whether their sons or daughters are going to find employment in December and January that many of them are foregoing the final important part of their secondary education and leaving school in mid-term so that they can get in on the ground floor of the job market before the new year starts. [More…]
The current expenditure on primary and secondary education in State schools has benefited significantly from these arrangements and the Government is convinced that additional assistance iri that area would not be justified. [More…]
My Government will continue to cooperate with the States in measures both direct and indirect to expand and improve education services in government schools. [More…]
Our policy for the independent schools is that, relying on their own efforts and with assistance from governments, they should be able to continue to provide places at a reasonable standard for that proportion of the school population which in- the past has Sought education in non-government schools. [More…]
The Opposition welcomes an increase of expenditure on education of $29.7m. [More…]
We are, unfortunately, not in a position to assess exactly how this will meet the needs in certain key States because the Nationwide Survey of Educational Needs of May 1970 has not yet been conveyed to us in the sense that the 2 biggest States, New South Wales and Victoria, have not tabled their findings. [More…]
Surely it is not beyond the wit of man to devise in each State a Catholic education authority and an education authority for the other independent schools, to make a grant to them which may be calculated on a per capita basis and for them to be given the right to spend the money according to need. [More…]
The Government may lay down guidelines of need, but a Catholic education authority in- Western Australia, shall we say, would get approximately $4.37m - I think that is what the grant will be - and that Catholic education authority could spend the $4. [More…]
We should remember that expenditure on education is economically valid expenditure. [More…]
The making of a straightout grant of an adequate amount to a Catholic education authority in Tasmania which had a discretionary power to assign this sum of money according to need and which was able to make a greater grant to the most necessitous schools, seems to us to be a better system. [More…]
But having said that, we consider that the position of education is so parlous that we are not prepared to cavil at additional expenditure of $20m in the State school sector or $9. [More…]
7m in the private school sector, although we do protest about the failure of the 2 great States to publicise what are their educational needs. [More…]
Having said that, I stress again that we welcome any such increase in expenditure on education. [More…]
I know of no other instance, in the establishment of a university, a college of advanced education, an institute of marine biology, or anything of that kind, when recurrent expenditure for 5 years has been added into the ostensible capital cost of establishing such an institution. [More…]
According to this earlier report, the proposal for a film school arose from a national conference organised by the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organisation. [More…]
Should it, as another alternative,and perhaps the best of the lot, should it be a part of some entirely new - not college of education, not university - some entirely new centre where not only the national film and television school sets up for its purposes, but where the National Institute of Dramatic Art might perhaps set up for its purposes instead of in the University of New South Wales, where possibly the School of Opera or Ballet might also set up for its purposes, and where all these art forms which have so much in common could perhaps cross-fertilise each other . [More…]
That the School be established as a College of Advanced Education with its own Governing Council . [More…]
From this it will be seen that the national film and television school should have the status of a college of advanced education. [More…]
In paragraph 12.3, the report goes on to say: ‘Past experience in establishing other Colleges of Advanced Education indicates that some 60 acres may well be required.’ [More…]
Because of the difficulties involved in the Council itself making a thorough analysis of the industrial opportunities, as distinct from those in education, P.A. [More…]
This is where a bit of inspiration comes into it - of a Film and Television School in education. [More…]
Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education, Teachers Colleges’ and Technical Colleges . [More…]
There were no estimates made as to the demands in these fields - in the universities, colleges of advanced education, . [More…]
Tt is of course unlikely that the supply of experts in educational film and television will ever satisfy the demand. [More…]
I appreciate very much, and I am sure that those people who have been advocating this have appreciated the fact that these stations are to be provided in those areas where television is very sorely needed, and where this benefit will be of much more importance than it is in areas which are provided with a number of channels and which have alternative means of entertainment and education. [More…]
I have mentioned the different way of life of people living in remote areas and people living in the metropolitan areas, in regard to the amenities that are available and particularly education. [More…]
The meeting referred to by the honourable member is one held annually by the DirectorsGeneral of Education, part of which is attended by the Secretary of my Department. [More…]
Education: Servicemen’s Children in Townsville Area (Question No. [More…]
Information for 1971 Commonwealth Advanced Education scholarships is available for 3 Stales, New South Wales (including the Australian Capital Territory), Victoria and South Australia. [More…]
Will the Government ensure that all estimated revenue proceeds of liquor sales to native peoples, or at least equivalent amounts, are devoted to (a) education of native peoples in the dangers and values of alcohol as a food, drug and poison and (b) medical and social help and rehabilitation for the victims of alcoholism and their dependants. [More…]
The Board of the Methodist Mission has been informed that the Government is prepared to subsidise the salary of a social worker whose duties would include education programmes on drinking and family counselling in particular cases. [More…]
controls over the possession, use, storage and labelling of drugs and poisons; industrial hygiene and occupational health; maternal and child health; dental health; environmental factors which may affect health; prevention and control of mental illness, and the care and rehabilitation of patients with menial illness; traffic injuries; health education; recruitment and training of nurses, and the practice of nursing; matters relating to ionising radiation; the promotion and preservation of health in the tropics; and medical statistics on human morbidity and mortality. [More…]
If the Government is not prepared to ban radio and television advertising, will it consider the imposition of a special tax on all radio and television advertising of cigarettes and tobacco aimed at raising in total an amount equal to that expended on this form of advertising by cigarette and tobacco companies with (he proceeds from this tax to be allocated to an education programme through radio and television which will point out the dangers to health directly related to cigarette smoking; if not, why not. [More…]
Arising out of this review, it was decided that lo reinforce health education programmes on the hazards of smoking, the voluntary code governing the advertising of cigarettes should be revised. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a claim in the recent Annual Report of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria that control of lung cancer now requires Government intervention to remove cigarette smoking on the one hand and to increase smoking education programmes on the other. [More…]
The mailer has been considered several times by the National Health and Medical Research Council, and the implementation of some of the recommendations made by that body is a matter for Slate Government* s far as the Federal Government is concerned, the Cabinet has carefully considered the submissions made to it, and has firmly decided that the situation is best handled by tin education cam> i”n regarding the hazards of smoking, and by a voluntary agreement regarding some forms nf advertising. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the statement by the New South Wales Minister for Education indicating that 400 schools are not in receipt of free milk for those reasons. [More…]
In reply to a question in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in May this year the New South Wales Minister for Education and Science stated that 125 schools in New South Wales do not receive free milk under the free milk scheme. [More…]
UNESCO Education Conference (Question No. [More…]
Will the UNESCO Education Congress be held in Australia in May 1973. [More…]
Whilst the Government supported the Committee’s views that instructional television programmes ought to be developed as an integral part of the Australian education system, and agreed that education was primarily a matter for State Authorities the Government did not accept the proposal of the advisory Committee that’ a separate network of educational television stations was necessary. [More…]
It considered that the facilities of the Australian Broadcasting Commission and those of commercial stations, if required, were adequate for the forseeable future to provide satisfactory educational television services. [More…]
lt was considered by the Government, that, as education was a sovereign responsibility of the States, an essential first step in assessing the requirements for educational television was to first obtain from State Governments details of their needs and priorities, and the extent to which they would be prepared to incur expenditure on educational television services. [More…]
For this purpose, the Government initiated discussions between Commonwealth and State Ministers at a conference held in 1966 and the State Governments have since been examining their individual positions in this matter, bearing in mind’ their heavy commitments in the field of education generally. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
When and where have representatives of State Education Departments and his own Department consulted since 8th October, 1970 on his predecessor’s letter to the State Education Ministers on 11th September 1970 requesting them to indicate the relative urgency of the capital works mentioned in the summary of the findings of the Nation-wide Survey of Educational Needs which they released on 1st September 1970 (Hansard, J 5th October 1970. page 2198; 29tb October 1970, page 2090; 7th April 1971, page 1638). [More…]
There has been no formal meeting between representatives of State Education Departments and my own Department since 8th October 1970. [More…]
My predecessor, however, attended a meeting of the Australian Education Council in Brisbane at the end of May 1971 when one of the topics for discussion was the Nation-wide. [More…]
Survey of Educational Needs, and there has of course been contact at Departmental level. [More…]
On 16th December 1970 my Department wrote to Catholic Education Authorities in each State and to all other non-government schools requesting details of their educational requirements. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The Australian Education Council met in February 1966 and was attended for the first time, at the invitation of the Council, by the Minister in Charge of Commonwealth Activities in Education and Research. [More…]
Following an examination of this information, the Minister for Education and Science had discussions with each State Minister during late January and early February, 1967. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon Notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education for financial assistance to conduct a research project into the use of per capita grants by registered schools in Victoria. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) Applications received by the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education for financial assistance to conduct research projects are considered on merit. [More…]
Whithin the limit of funds available the committee recommends to the Minister for Education and Science, which project should be supported. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Education: Boarding Schools in Territories (Question No. [More…]
4257) Mr Whitlam asked the Minister for Education and Science upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Was it stated in the 1969 Budget Speech that it was the Government’s policy to assist independent schools so that they would be able to provide places for that proportion of the school population which in the past had sought education at independent schools and to develop in the future in quantity and quality more or less in line with the development of government schools. [More…]
Was it also stated in the 1970 Budget Speech that the Commonwealth continues to make a significant contribution to the expansion and improvement of Australia’s education services. [More…]
If so, why has the Government not fulfilled these obligations to independent schools and what action does it intend to take to (a) increase per capita payments, (b) provide capital funds for new school buildings and (c) provide funds for teacher education. [More…]
The Government has not failed to fulfil its obligations to Australian education. [More…]
I refer the honourable member to my statement to the House of 5th October 1971 about the Commonwealth’s education programme and also to the Prime Minister’s statement to the House today about additional capital grants for government schools and additional per capita grants towards the running costs of independent schools to operate from the beginning of 1972. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science upon notice: [More…]
What was the level of these fees and charges, and what was the total amount raised by schools in (a) each level and (b) all three levels of education in the same year. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon no’ ice: [More…]
What will be the additional amount available for education in each case if the Slates allocate for education the same proportion of their new revenue as of their previous revenue. ‘ [More…]
However, I can inform the honourablemember that, on the basis of figures published inthe December 1970 Supplement tothe Treasury Information Bulletin on National Accounting Estimates of Public Authority Receipts and Expenditures, it has been calculated that recurrent expenditures by the State Governments in 1969-70 on education (comprising net current expenditure on goods and services and transfer payments) represented about 36 per cent of total State budgetary expenditures of a current nature in that year. [More…]
I add that on 5th October last, in the course of a statement on the Commonwealth Education Programme for 1971- 72, the Minister for Education and Science expressed strong reservations about accepting the figures presented by State Ministers on the needs of government schools. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Was it claimed at the time of introduction of ‘the Commonwealth Secondary Scholarship Scheme that its purpose was the advancement of students of ability who might have been prevented on financial grounds from going further in their education’ if they did not receive a Commonwealth scholarship. [More…]
If so, (a) is this objective claimed for the scheme today and (b) what research has been undertaken by (i) his Department or (ii) ‘any State Government Department of Education on the effectiveness of the scheme. [More…]
(a) In accordance with the criterion of merit, scholarships have been awarded on the basis of individual merit as measured by the results obtained in the Commonwealth Secondary Scholarship Examination- and in more recent years weight has also been given to school assessments., lt is considered that the scheme has been a factor in assisting a number of students to remain at school for the final two years of secondary education who might otherwise not have continued. [More…]
(i) Research has been undertaken into the scheme by the Austraiian Council for Educational Research which also prepares the examination used as part of the selection process for Secondary scholarship winners. [More…]
The Council has published a Report on the effect which winning a scholarship had on the subsequent education and occupational plans of a selected sample of successful applicants. [More…]
of Education has published the findings of studies it has made into: [More…]
Because they possess a standard of general education which satisfies’ the minimum requirements lor employment in the Third Division of the Service, Library Officers are also eligible to seek promotion to positions in the clerical administrative work area including position* of Clerk Class 4 and higher. [More…]
a degree of a University or a diploma of a College of Advanced Education and to have successfully completed the Registration Examination of the Library Association of Australia or equivalent. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious defic iencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a. result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary education fees for 1972 will cause increased hardship for a significant proportion of tertiary students. [More…]
That tertiary fees and concomitant living costs’ are a formidable barrier preventing significant numbers of students entering tertiary education who nevertheless have the ability to do so. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary fees for 1972 is immoral, in that Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education are being further restricted to that minimal section of the Australian population who can afford to send their sons and daughters onto higher education. [More…]
That all education should be free including tertiary education. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to ensure that emergency finance from the Com monwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
I will have pleasure in talking to the Minister for Education and Science about this matter. [More…]
I challenge the Minister for Labour and National Service and the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) to demonstrate how any employee who receives $70 a week can budget for food, clothing, rent, education, fares, entertainment and everything else that goes with maintaining a wife and family. [More…]
After paying rent - very few people would be able to obtain accommodation for anything under $1.5 a week - a man would have about $1 a week on which to live and to pay for education, transport, chasing jobs and meeting mortgages which people inevitably have in the modern society in which we live. [More…]
There is a lack of confidence, an undermining of confidence in business circles and the demoralising effects on all those who undertook long term study and who at the end of 5 or 6 years of tertia’ry education find that they cannot get the kind of jobs they had planned for when they began studying that long time ago. [More…]
Many students who are not on scholarships depend upon earning money during the 3 months vacation to pay their way through university, a college of advanced education or some other institute during the rest of the year. [More…]
They were confronted with the question: Do you intend to return to education of some kind or another next year? [More…]
If subsequently they did not go back to some kind of education, the Department promised it would consider retrospectively paying them unemployment benefits. [More…]
There is no provision in the social service structure for people to be assisted with their education where that education totally depends on a pension. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
3835 (Hansard, 3rd November 1971, page 2998) which are now being offered by the Canberra College of Advanced Education, and which are now being examined, and which may or may not be accepted by the appropriate employing departments. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: 1 have been advised by the Public Service Board thai the courses, offered tat the Canberra College of Advanced Education, to which he refers arc as follows: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
On what date was the Tasmanian Survey of Educational Needs made available to the public on request from the Tasmanian Education Department. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary education fees for 1972 will cause increased hardship for a significant proportion of tertiary students. [More…]
That tertiary fees and concomitant living costs are a formidable barrier preventing significant numbers of students entering tertiary education who nevertheless have the ability to do so. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary fees for 1972 is immoral, in that Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education are being further restricted to that minima] section of the Australian population who can afford to send their sons and daughters on to higher education. [More…]
That all education should be free including tertiary education. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science whether, while in Perth recently, he gained the impression that the Western Australian Government would continue to support independent schools by flat per capita payments, as did the previous Western Australian Government and as does the Commonwealth. [More…]
I tried to get a commitment out of Mr Evans, the State Minister for Education, on whether his Government’s policy would continue despite a conflict of view and objective with the present Federal Labor Opposition, or whether it would change to the Whitlam-South Australian Government means tested formula. [More…]
The other point on which I was trying to get some clarification was the attitude of the present Western Australian Government which has responsibility for its own schools and for its own well-organised Education Department to an Australian schools commission which would establish a new Commonwealth bureaucracy and place the fortunes of each school in the hands of a new bureaucracy in Canberra. [More…]
On the reserves they are learning useful skills in a training scheme which pays them a training allowance and they are benefiting from a better diet, health services and education for their children. [More…]
There are now 68 per cent of the estimated number of 3 and 4 year old Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory who receive pre-school education. [More…]
If there is one identifiable section of the population which needs pre-school education in order to give it a proper start in life, it is the Aboriginal children. [More…]
I believe that the Commonwealth should directly make provision for pre-school education in areas where there are a significant number of Aboriginal children. [More…]
An example of this is the achievements which have been made in the field of education. [More…]
1 want to see more research conducted on the hard problems of education. [More…]
The Northern Territory Administration is concentrating its efforts on developing an education system more closely related to the special needs of Aborigines because of their different background and, where possible, Aborigines are being used as assistants in the teaching profession. [More…]
But what about the special social problems which higher education brings? [More…]
I would recommend to honourable members an article written by myself some years ago in a journal on religious education. [More…]
It is all there in the newspaper cuttings - education, health, welfare and social advancement. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) spoke about the need for pre-school education for Aboriginal children other than those in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The provision of education and health facilities, housing and employment must be reviewed and considered. [More…]
The Aborigines and Islanders should have the choice of coming into our society or remaining in their own communities with all the opportunities that our education gives them and with all the background that their own culture may give them as well. [More…]
When there are areas of need - be they unemployment or deficiencies in education, health or anything else - it is the function of the Opposition to make these needs political issues because that is the way in which needs are met and injustices rectified. [More…]
The Minister made and emphasised the point -I praise him for doing so - that the Government has done much in the field of education. [More…]
In other words, what we are saying is that we propose to do in land tenure what he says his Government is doing in education. [More…]
I do not deny the achievements of his Government in education but if he is saying that a white backlash will develop because of special programmes in land rights, then will it not at the same time develop a white backlash if there are special programmes in education? [More…]
Just for the record, I point out that last year almost Sim was spent in the States on pre-school education for Aboriginal children, and that over the last 4 years the Commonwealth has allocated $25m to the States for this purpose. [More…]
As far as independent schools were concerned, the Commonwealth had decided to increase the rates of per capita grants from the commencement of the 1972 school year from $35 to $50 per annum for each pupil receiving primary education and from $50 to $68 per annum for each pupil receiving secondary education. [More…]
Our policy objective for the independent schools is that relying on their own efforts and with assistance from governments they should be able to continue to provide an adequate standard of education for that proportion of the school population which has in the past attended independent schools. [More…]
The Government sees the maintenance of a viable alternative system of schools with assurances of continuing financial support as essential to the health and vigour of Australian education generally. [More…]
The Government will continue to keep these questions under close review as part of its policy of improving education in all schools. [More…]
The establishment of the Commonwealth Teaching Service has become necessary because of the growth of education in the Commonwealth mainland Territories and hence the need for the Commonwealth Government to take a direct responsibility for the staffing of schools. [More…]
At present, despite its wide involvement in education, the Commonwealth employs relatively few teachers. [More…]
Indeed, at the suggestion of the New South Wales Minister for Education, discussions have already commenced between our 2 Departments on the implications of the existence of a Commonwealth Teaching Service on the staffing of Australian Capital Territory schools. [More…]
Unlike other government teaching services in Australia the Commonwealth Teaching Service will extend over more than one school system or education authority. [More…]
Such movement helps to stimulate fresh educational thinking. [More…]
It is the Government’s belief that educational decisions should be made as far as possible in the school system serving a particular community and that the school system should reflect any special elements df the community it serves. [More…]
It seemed to us that mobility in the field of education rather than between Commonwealth career fields was a key consideration. [More…]
We believe that the Commonwealth Teaching Service can make a valuable contribution to education in Papua and New Guinea, both in the immediate future and beyond the time when Papua New Guinea is self governing and independent. [More…]
It is clear that Papua New Guinea will want to draw on Australia for some time in order to maintain the pace of educational development and meet the needs for highly experienced and specialised staff. [More…]
The Commonwealth Teaching Service will also provide teachers for the smaller external territories as existing commitments to teachers or arrangements with State Education Departments are concluded. [More…]
The Commissioner will be appointed by the Governor-General and will be responsible directly to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
This division of function will require close consultation and joint planning between the Commissioner and the various education authorities and such consultation is provided for under clause 16(5). [More…]
Clause 16(7) enables the education authority to transfer teachers within its school system under its normal procedures but the promotion of any teacher in the Commonwealth [More…]
Clause 16 (2) sets out the Commissioner’s responsibility with respect to schools in the Northern Territory; Clause 16(3) enables the Commissioner to make teachers available to education authorities outside the Northern Territory both in other Commonwealth Territories and outside Australia. [More…]
The Government would expect that, in many instances, the Commissioner would consult with representatives of both teachers and education authorities before framing such determinations. [More…]
At the same time, the Commissioner’s determinations must influence how education authorities organise their schools. [More…]
To this end it made an agreement recently with the Australian Council for Educational Research under which Dr Radford, Director of the Council, and Professor Neal, Vice-President of the University of Alberta, will conduct an investigation into practices in school and staff organisation in Australia and in certain overseas countries. [More…]
We recognise the circumstances which have led State Education Departments to establish teachers’ colleges; at the time this was the most effective way in which facilities to train teachers in the numbers required could be provided. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware of the development of teacher education institutions as a result of the States Grants (Teachers’ Colleges) Act of 1967 and 1970. [More…]
They will also be aware of the establishment of schools of teachers education in colleges of advanced education, including the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
We would expect that, at least initially, he would take over the scheme of unbonded scholarships for teacher education introduced by the Commonwealth from the beginning of this year. [More…]
The demand for these teachers will emanate from education authorities, who will specify the kinds and levels of teachers required for their schools. [More…]
In effect, therefore, the education authorities will determine, in the wider sense, the composition of the Teaching Service. [More…]
Teaching Service will be separate from the education authority administering any one school system. [More…]
It would be more appropriate for an education authority running a particular school system. [More…]
Indeed I would hope that Commonwealth education authorities will make - increasing use of. [More…]
While the Government would have no objection to such a committee playing a role in the nomination of an officer for promotion, it would regard the establishment of such a committee as occurring more appropriately in the education authority which, in the large majority of cases, would be responsible for nominating an officer for promotion. [More…]
As this is a matter for the education authority it is outside the scope of this Bill. [More…]
I feel sure honourable members will agree that this Bill is an important milestone in the development of the Commonwealth’s responsibilities in education. [More…]
It has condemned them to a ghetto existence of slum housing, job shortages, poor education and social discrimination. [More…]
It means a just allocation of community services, such as housing and education. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to an article by Lieutenant-Commander Dvorak, formerly Director of Research, University of Washington, in National Business Education Quarterly. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system; That the decentralization of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments; [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary education fees for 1972 will cause increased hardship for a significant proportion of tertiary students. [More…]
That tertiary fees and concomitant living costs are a formidable barrier preventing significant numbers of students entering tertiary education who nevertheless have the ability to do so. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary fees for 1972 is immoral, in that Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education are being further restricted to that minimal section of the Australian population who can afford to send their sons and daughters on to higher education. [More…]
That all education should be free including tertiary education. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science and is prompted by the recent discussion on the methods of the distribution of state aid for independent schools. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Education and Science is aware of this. [More…]
I am pleased to note that the New South Wales Minister for Education had this to say in the New South Wales Parliament in answer to a question. [More…]
Indeed, the Minister for Education in New South Wales made that point. [More…]
I think he is meeting here with the Federal Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) on 13th March. [More…]
I trust that this meeting is held with the Ministers of Education from the various States. [More…]
They are making that sacrifice so that their children will have the opportunity that every Australian child should have, that is, a reasonable education. [More…]
Despite what the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) may say from time to time, the fact is that there are some industries in Australia in which mechanisation and indeed almost automation has reached a level where the position has to be looked at quite closely not only from the point of view of a reduction in the working week but also from the point of view of whether there ought not to be a complete re-training programme, lt could be that during the working lives of those who are leaving school during the course of the next few years they may have to go through re-training and re-education at least 3 times. [More…]
I think I have had a fair education of hard knocks and boots in my day. [More…]
They have had a reasonable education, have knocked around and have had jobs. [More…]
I speak of the effect on their children, their inability to pay for the education of their children and all the many associated heartbreaking problems. [More…]
In my statement to the House of 5th October 1971 on the Commonwealth Education Programme for 1971-72 I explained the Commonwealth’s reactions to the Nation-wide Survey of Educational Needs. [More…]
It will continue to co-operate with the States and with the independent schools in measures to improve education in all schools. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is specifically responsible. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary education fees for 1972 will cause increased hardship for a significant proportion of tertiary students. [More…]
That tertiary fees and concomitant living costs are a formidable barrier preventing significant numbers of students entering tertiary education who nevertheless have the ability to do so. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary fees for 1972 is immoral, in that Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education are being further restricted to that minimal section of the Australian population who can afford to send their sons and daughters onto higher education. [More…]
That all education should be free including tertiary education. [More…]
F. CAIRNS (Lalor) (5.17)- The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) knows as well as we all know that a long, protracted strike harms only the Australian Labor Party politically and it benefits the party to which he belongs. [More…]
The remarks made by the Minister for Education and Science, who is just leaving the chamber as most Ministers do after they have made speeches here, have been of no advantage to us. [More…]
Another point made by the Minister for Education and Science which does not bear examination was his reference to a 35-hour working week. [More…]
When I prepared my notes for this speech I did not intend to talk about industrial relations because it did not occur to me that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who preceded me in the debate, would refer to the subject. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science complained about employers who give way to wage demands and said that their giving way causes wages to go up. [More…]
Now 1 want to refer to a statement made by the Minister for Education and Science about the difference between pegging prices, fixing the maximum price of things that people have to sell, and having the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission fixing only minimum prices for labour. [More…]
Let me tell the Minister for Education and Science that it was that very thing which the Australian Labor Party set out to deal with when it put for ward as its policy the concept of industrial agreements. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science talked about public interest and said that the Government would intervene and oppose the 9 per cent flow on to the Third Division of the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
One of the incredible things that has happened in the last several months, at a time when this Government in conjunction with the States has been devoting more money than ever - it must devote even more yet - to higher education through universities, technical institutions and colleges of advanced education, has been a lesser demand for apprentices than previously. [More…]
Finally, it was recognised that if better training facilities were to be provided in technical colleges in the way of staffing, buildings, equipment and hostels, it would be necessary for increased finance to be made available to Departments of Education for that purpose. [More…]
The fourth point - and this is a tragedy at a time when we are devoting additional resources to education - reads: [More…]
The Commonwealth has been forced, protesting and reluctant, to take an increasing role in the planning of rail and road networks, health and the whole field of education. [More…]
That the Education Ordinance 1971 (No. [More…]
The amendment to the Education Ordinance can for practical purposes be disregarded because its purpose is mainly to make the increase in fares brought about by the amendment to regulation 6 of the Commonwealth Motor Omnibus Fares Regulations consistent with other sections of the Education Ordinance. [More…]
In June last year the Department of Education and Science indicated by circular that it wds currently reviewing the provision of school bus services in the Australian Capital Territory, lt gave its reasons and they were the increased amounts being paid for the bus services. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has shown by his recent intervention in a particular case that I am sure he will recall - the case of the Tharwa primary school children - that basically he is sympathetic to this problem because in that case he did intervene and, as I understand it, overrule a departmental decision which would have taken away some transport subsidies and he restored the subsidies to the parents of those school children because of their geographical isolation. [More…]
The increase in bus fares for school children travelling to and from school on special buses and on regular buses in the Australian Capital Territory was approved by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in September 1971. [More…]
The fares were increased from 2c to 5c a trip and consequential amendments were made to the Education Ordinance 1937-1966 to give effect to this decision. [More…]
The decision to increase school bus fares was taken after careful consideration by the Department of Education and Science of the cost to that Department for the provision of special school buses, and of subsidising reduced fares for school children who travel to and from school on regular buses. [More…]
In that time the cost to the Department of Education and Science of subsidising the cost of bus transport for school children rose approximately 150 per cent. [More…]
The proposals to amend the Commonwealth Motor Omnibus Fares Regulations and the Education Ordinance of the Australian Capital Territory were discussed at a meeting of the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council on 20th September 1971. [More…]
But the Council did suggest that the Department of Education and Science should consider the granting of school bus fare concessions to families suffering hardship. [More…]
It is a question of free education; it is a question of whether the Minister for the Interior (Mr Hunt) is prepared to support for the people of Canberra the system that is applicable to his own children, wherever he comes from, up beyond the black stump. [More…]
Free education is the matter before the House, lt is nonsense for the Minister to say that it is essential in this circumstance to increase from 2c to 5c the fare in Canberra for school children in order to raise another $70,000 or $80,000 to balance the Australian Budget. [More…]
The Minister is the rubber stamp apparently of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) whose children, if they went to a State school in the area where he lives, would also have the benefit of free transport to that school. [More…]
But the irony of the situation is that if my friend the Minister for Education and Science - and I am a broadminded Socialist and am still prepared to call him a friend despite his heretical politics - cared to send his children every day by some bus service from near Hamilton a distance of 10, 15 or 20 miles to the most expensive school in Australia, he would get the transport free. [More…]
I do not believe that this is a question of bus transport; it is a question of free education. [More…]
It charges the Department of Education and Science for the service; the amount I think, is 72c a mile. [More…]
So the system here is loaded with some mythical figure dredged out of the depths of the Treasury somewhere, passed on to the Minister for Education and Science and then adopted by the Minister for the Interior. [More…]
It is part of the established Australian system that free education includes transport of childTen to school. [More…]
Our colleague, the Minister for Education and Science, has told us that a grant of $34.3m will be made to independent schools this year. [More…]
I believe that the transport of children to school is part of the education system. [More…]
I would point out that 1 have been actively involved in the Mechanical Engineering industry for over 20 years, starting as an apprentice filter, machinist and toolmaker; 1 have had formal education in my field in that I completed the first 3 years of study in a 5 year Diploma course in Mechanical Engineering with the then University of Technology (now University of N.S.W.) [More…]
We are spending money on education, and it is suggested that we should spend more money on education. [More…]
But what is being done on television is acting against what education is supposed to be doing. [More…]
Last Thursday an article by the Reverend Grierson, Associate Director of the Methodist Department of Christian Education in Victoria and Tasmania appeared in the ‘Age’. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system; [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and it now being studed by several State Government Departments; [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education and Science had a number of representations made to him concerning the problems of isolated children? [More…]
I think that the people who live in the outback represent much of the best of Australia and at the moment they are in a very difficult position in relation to the education of their families, and I am very much aware of that. [More…]
A Bill to authorise the increased payments to independent schools has already been introduced into the House by my colleague, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
The Government believes that the grants authorised by this Bill represent a significant contribution by the Commonwealth in the field of education. [More…]
The Minister for Shipping and Transport (Mr Nixon) continues to speak of public education on road safety and the part vehicle manufacturers must play, then goes on to ignore totally the Government’s responsibility in this matter. [More…]
On occasions, sections are closed or detours made but it is wholly irresponsible for any organisation or person to allow any impression to be gained by the motoring public that cautions and precautions should not be taken, lt is even more irresponsible for this Government, which pays lip service to road safety, vehicle safety and driver education, to continue to ignore its responsibility to the nation in this matter. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), so capable and able to wield a knife and place it in the back of his colleagues, could have wrung the neck of any North Vietnamese soldier. [More…]
The people outside, the workers whom they claim to represent, the people who vote for us year in and year out, are the ones who supply the money to open the university so that the young people of today can have a better opportunity for education and then plough back into our society some of the knowledge they have gained. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the need’s of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is specifically responsible. [More…]
Secondly, do not the figures suggest that substantial structural changes are taking place in the Australian economy which call for greater co-operation between employee and employer interests and the Government as to the future needs of industry, public and private, and that these changes have implications for education, particularly at higher levels and including training schemes? [More…]
What I was saying, commenting on retention rates, was that because of the additional costs involved - 1 say this in amplification to try to penetrate the understanding of the honourable member for Kennedy - those who seek to send their children to one of the areas of independent education obviously have, because of the educational costs involved, a concern. [More…]
Again I was seeking to make the point that no matter what governments might do to upgrade the quality of capital facilities in schools the active encouragement of parents is essential if we are to achieve full educational equality, and it is an unfortunate fact that while an enormous number of people who send their children to government schools have a great concern for education, and evidence this daily by the interest they show in parents and citizens groups and by the other active measures they take to support their schools and to bring pressure to bear on governments and Ministers, there are still some parents who do not give their children the support they should to encourage them to stay at school as long as possible. [More…]
To ignore that fact would be to hide one’s head in the sand as to one of the factors which mitigate against full equality of educational opportunity. [More…]
The Government is concerned for the education of all schoolchildren in all schools and it has demonstrated this by a great variety and diversity of programmes. [More…]
It will continue to show that concern and if there are certain matters mitigating against full equality of educational opportunity I will regard it as my obligation to draw attention to these facts. [More…]
If the general material purporting to demonstrate Commonwealth activity in the non-metropolitan sector is to be included in Attachment ‘B’, then the New South Wales section should be expanded to include appropriate references to matters such as rural electrification, the proportionately greater per capita provision of public housing, roads, colleges of advanced education and technical colleges in country areas. [More…]
Thesecould include such things as government departments, universities, teachers colleges, colleges of advanced education, research centres and many other similar activities. [More…]
The Commonwealth has spent millions of dollars on water conservation throughout Australia, and has decentralised education. [More…]
In introducing this Bill the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) differentiated between capital funds made available to the private sector of education and grants for recurrent expenditure. [More…]
Let me say that the Conservative Government of Britain when Sir Edward Boyle was Minister for Education totally rejected the conception that is set out by the Minister in rejecting the idea that there also can be standards or norms by which you determine whether there should be differences in the grants to schools according to their need when the subject of recurrent grants is being considered. [More…]
The report of the Central Advisory Council for Education in England entitled ‘Children and their Primary Schools’ submitted to Sir Edward Boyle, the Minister for Education at the time, says that there are very great differences in educational opportunities for children and the whole purpose of the report is to try to even these. [More…]
If we take a look at the independent sector of education, at the position of the greater public schools and at the position of the Catholic schools we can see a very clear difference of need. [More…]
Were Catholic parents to have chosen fee-paying education for their children in the same proportion as is chosen in the rest of the community . [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) promised that an additional $20m would be made available before June 1973 for capital grants to the public sector in education. [More…]
Because of the way the States set out their financial business, it is very difficult to find out what amount of money from Commonwealth grants goes into State school education. [More…]
As far as I can ascertain, the States will have an expenditure of a capital nature in this financial year of about $220m on the public sector of education. [More…]
It is not easy to find out because we do not entirely know how much of the $209m which is mentioned in this Bill, which is increased by $6.6m this year, the States are spending on the public sector of education. [More…]
So from the Commonwealth grants, about $165m is going to expenditure of a capital nature in the public sector of education. [More…]
We would have to deduct from that $165m the expenditure on capital costs for university education to find out what is being spent at the primary and secondary level. [More…]
I believe that the figure for university education is about $40m, so we might say that$125m is going in the capital construction costs of secondary and primary education, and to that will be added $6.6m this financial year and$20m for a full year. [More…]
There is a refusal to face this fact, and this refusal is well set out in ‘Critical Writings on Australian Education’, which is a recently published edited book containing educational writings of a good many educational thinkers in Australia. [More…]
Earlier the Minister for Education and Science was quite opposed to a survey of educational needs. [More…]
For years the Government put up a steady resistance to the idea of a survey of educational needs. [More…]
Finally the Government got around to a survey of educational needs. [More…]
Now, with great haste, the Minister is saying that with the passage of time that survey of educational needs is no longer valid. [More…]
A survey of educational needs was made in 1969 but by 1972 that survey is no longer valid. [More…]
This is precisely why the Labor Party wants an Australian schools commission charged with the duty of continually examining educational needs and making representations on that subject to the Commonwealth Government the whole time. [More…]
I have been 27 years in this Parliament and I saw the prolonged resistance of Sir Robert Menzies for 15 solid years - from 1949 until about the elections of 1963 - to Commonwealth intervention in education except at the university level. [More…]
A member would ask a question on the subject of education and the ball would come straight back along the pitch to the bowler: ‘It is a State matter’. [More…]
Then, when he was hard pressed in a certain election and the Democratic Labor Party indicated where preferences would go if there were science blocks, or something like that, there began a steady Commonwealth movement into the field of education. [More…]
Instead of this, we have had Commonwealth intervention in education which has been like Topsy - it just growed. [More…]
1 repeat, for his benefit, that when he said that the survey of educational needs now had limited validity the Labor Party agreed with him and this is why we believe there should be a body, such as an Australian schools commission, making a continuous survey of needs. [More…]
We do not always know the degree to which the Commonwealth is assisting the public sector of education because in making these grants to the States the Commonwealth does not specify how the States will spend them. [More…]
Tn the private sector of education the Minister always professes to see that there are scintilating experiments in education done in schools which are not under State auspices. [More…]
Very few educationalists can see that. [More…]
I am prepared to concede that an experiment like Timber Top is a tremendously valuable experiment in Australian education but the truth about the private sector of education in the main is that educationally it has been fairly conservative. [More…]
There has not been a bold variation in any Australian education. [More…]
Probably there will begin to be variation in Australian education as we begin to abandon dependence on public examinations and come more and more to aggregate which enables schools to have approved courses. [More…]
This may lead to educational experiementation but in the Catholic sector of education, in the greater public schools and, for that matter in the State, schools of Australia 1 have not seen very much indication that they have gone in for bold experimentation. [More…]
In point of fact we are beginning to get schools of a private nature, which are not greater public schools, that are actually educationally experimental. [More…]
But they attract the interest of only a few parents and they are parents who very often are educationists who are interested in educational experimentation. [More…]
However, their pupil enrolments are in the vicinity of SO to 80 and they are not significant in numbers even if they are in educationally pioneering in Australian education today. [More…]
The purpose of the amendment which the Opposition has moved and the purpose of the argument which 1 advance on behalf of the Labor Party is to obtain an efficient deployment of our resources for education. [More…]
We want the underprivileged child, whether in the private sector or in the public sector of education, to have a greater equality of educational opportunity with those from more favoured sections of society. [More…]
He tended to create the impression first of all that the Australian Labor Party was concerned with the rights and needs of all forms of education but fell into the trap once again of using the wealth of particular schools as a weapon to push his Party’s own sense of a needs policy. [More…]
I would look, as the honourable member for Fremantle did in the latter part of his speech, at the very philosophy that would pervade an education system administered by the Opposition. [More…]
It comes rather strange from the honourable member for Fremantle that he should be concerned wilh education. [More…]
It has cried about education. [More…]
Some of this was to be delimited for education. [More…]
But the 2 Sta es which have either not allocated any funds for education or have made the smallest allocation of any State in Australia have been the 2 Labor States. [More…]
Of the funds made available at that Conference, New South Wales has authorised 20 per cent of its allocation for education; Victoria has authorised 30 per cent; Queensland, has hot yet decided; South Australia has allocated 10 per cent; Western Australia is still making up its mind; and Tasmania has allocated 30 to 35 per cent. [More…]
My Government will continue to co-operate with the States in measures both direct and indirect to expand and improve education services in government schools. [More…]
Our policy for the independent schools is that, relying on their own efforts and with assistance from governments, they should be able to continue to provide places at a reasonable standard for that proportion of the school population which in the past has sought education in non-government schools. [More…]
He made it perfectly clear that he was concerned with material investment in education and that he was also concerned with the appropriate structure of education in a pluralist society. [More…]
What he acknowledged was simply this: A child goes to a school which is recognised as being part of the legitimate education system of Australia. [More…]
That child has the right to assistance in education from public sources. [More…]
When one looks at the principles involved in education it is always wise and appropriate to look a little into history to see the wriggling of the Opposition over its understanding and comments on the rights of all children to educational grants. [More…]
I do not think anything is more reprehensible than tha principles of the administration of education of the Leader of the [More…]
From now on the debate about education in Australia must be about the needs of pupils, not the creeds of their parents. [More…]
That statement needs close analysis because involved in it is an attempt to create a 3-way division in Australian education. [More…]
It needs to be said that for every child who is disadvantaged in the government or non-government system of education the total system is disadvantaged. [More…]
At another level he has been overcome it seems, by the charisma of Mr Dunstan because he said that in his own administration of education - this is important to bear in mind - ‘South Australia has provided on the State level a model of how the needs policy could work on the federal level. [More…]
In March this year a committee reported to the Minister for Education on the distribution of $250,000 in additional aid for primary schools’. [More…]
But the Leader of the Opposition would have that as his model for the administration of education in Australia. [More…]
My aim tonight has been to study the working out of the philosophy of the administration of education as proposed by the Opposition. [More…]
The rate of increase of total expenditure on education in Australia has been quite high. [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle towards the end of his speech delved into the philosophy of education. [More…]
He was concerned that there ought to be an appropriate philosophy of education. [More…]
He referred to family homes from which education derived. [More…]
We know that to say that education is growth, as Kuznets would say, is too simple a statement. [More…]
The challenges that I make to the Opposition, and which I invite the Opposition to answer, are these: Will it affirm that all children should have rights in education - even the children of the honourable member for Hindmarsh? [More…]
Why, in respect of education, does the Opposition adopt divisive principles which, under a smokescreen, it is attempting to repudiate at all other levels of social service matters? [More…]
I invite the Opposition to dissent from the proposition to use South Australia as the exemplar for the administration of its education responsibility. [More…]
Unless these challenges are accepted, one can only come to the clear conclusion that the amendment moved by the Opposition is merely a strat agem designed to cut down one sector of education and so disadvantage the lot. [More…]
and it is this: He is arguing for no improvement in any education system at all. [More…]
South Australia was spending only 10 per cent of its total education expenditure on private schools. [More…]
All honourable members will note one thing: What that gentleman there and the fellow grinning on his right hand side is talking about is not the education of Australians; it is the education of minority groups. [More…]
What humbug to talk about divisive educational, social and economic policies in the way in which the Minister for Housing talks about them. [More…]
Who put the triple system of education into this country? [More…]
I want to refer to a few simple facts which will put the mentality of the Minister for Housing and the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) into perspective. [More…]
That means that 75 per cent of the students had been squeezed out of the education system; 75 per cent of the students had been denied the opportunity to gain the sort of intellectual and personal fulfilment that education can give. [More…]
Who is the Minister for Housing really talking about when he talks about diversity in education? [More…]
It is the diversity of the poverty and squalor of the Catholic and government education systems on the one hand, and on the other hand the affluence and prosperity of the non-Catholic sector for which both of those gentlemen speak. [More…]
One’s ability to gain access to the riches of this Government’s education system is dependent entirely upon one’s income and one’s social and economic status, and there is nothing that this Government does to change that. [More…]
We have the situation in which 70 to 75 per cent of students are forced out of the education system before their final year, and there is not a thing that the Government will do to change it. [More…]
He said that today the Minister for Education and Science had referred to the fact that government school students had parents who had not evinced a concern. [More…]
Might I add here: That is about the most insulting statement that that gentleman there, who speaks for one section of the education system, and one system alone, has ever made. [More…]
If the parents of certain students in Australia do not evince a concern, are you worried about that, and is there any single programme that you have introduced or that you have encouraged any State Minister to introduce to compensate for what apparently you regard as being a major factor in education inequality? [More…]
In fact, who is the gentleman who is the Minister for Education and Science? [More…]
If only I could do something a little bit stronger to get some sort of retribution for the children whom I represent and to whom that man is giving a second rate education. [More…]
All that the Minister has produced tonight is not a programme of education. [More…]
The point is that there is only one way by which the Government’s actions can be judged in this case and that is by asking what it has given specifically for education. [More…]
He could not say how much that would enable them to spend on education or what percentage that would enable them to meet of their Si. [More…]
Last year I asked the former Minister for Education and Science, Mr Fairbairn, pointblank: ‘What have you done to survey how this money is being spent? [More…]
Nobody is deceived by the Minister’s newfound concern about inequality of educational opportunity. [More…]
Those are the institutions and people for whom the Minister for Education and Science and the Government speak. [More…]
So, here there is this magnificent inequality about which the Government, in the person of the Minister for Education and Science, is suddenly so concerned. [More…]
The Government’s present policy in this area is mainly directed towards the education of young persons in the health dangers of smoking, rather than towards the prohibition of cigarette advertising on television. [More…]
If so, can the Minister say whether the inquiry was prompted by the failure of the Branch to obtain relief from discussions with Health Ministers concerning problems of nursing in such matters as staffing, standards, experience and education. [More…]
Did it find that more investigation is needed to define nursing roles, to explore the expansion of training into Colleges of Advanced Education and to upgrade living and working conditions of nurses by comparison with more fortunate professional trainees. [More…]
Did it recommend a permanent central planning body to consider hospital staff establishments, future education trends and regional administration. [More…]
As pointed out in the answer to the previous question, there are other avenues of Commonwealth support for the Arts and Letters, e.g., by way of taxation concessions and through the Australian Broadcasting Commission, colleges of advanced education, and universities. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
For government schools, details of recurrent expenditure by State governments on primary and secondary education are published by the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics in Public Authority Finance State Governments: Social Services’, but these details also include State government assistance to non-government schools. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science will be aware of pressures to increase educational expenditure, as from advocates of the Nationwide Survey of Educational Needs. [More…]
Since the latest opportunity for that increase has been provided by the disbursement of funds at the February Premiers Conference, is he in a position to indicate what benefits have accrued to education? [More…]
Whether it is because those particular funds were made available specifically for education I do not know, but I have found on a distribution of the funds provided to the States for works and housing programmes at the recent Premiers Conference, New South Wales, for example, has provided in addition $2m, or about 20 per cent of the total available to it, for education purposes. [More…]
Victoria has provided about $2im, or 30 per cent, for education purposes. [More…]
On the subject of tertiary vocational education Mr Tregillis compared the small amount now spent in this area with the much larger sums being spent by the Commonwealth and State governments on general tertiary education. [More…]
The Government should instead provide allowances and scholarships to all student children of farmers who need them to enable them to complete their education to their limits. [More…]
In my opinion, it is not good enough in a wealthy country such as ours to have a gold-plated standard of services, whether they be in health, education, welfare or any other field - urban environment is probably the outstanding example - in a national capital such as Canberra and then to find in the capital cities far greater aggregations of the nation’s population living in slums or resorting to slum standards of facilities such as our public health services. [More…]
He disliked the lean and hungry look as exemplified by the Prime Minister, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn), the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen), the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Bury) and the honourable member for Berowra (Mr Hughes). [More…]
His part, with Sir Frank Packer - the faceless man, I presume - the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and Mr Eric Robinson in lh.it usurpation earned him the title of ‘Tiberius with a Telephone’. [More…]
The former Prime Minister said that the Government was engaged in a co-operative study with the States into the needs of education. [More…]
The present Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has scrapped the report without any resultant co-operative action. [More…]
is about to start a University Course and will receive a small living allowance from the Education Department. [More…]
The statement to which the Honourable Member refers was made by my predecessor on the basis of observations by the present Minister for Foreign Affairs, when, as Minister for Education and Science, he and officers of the Department of Education and Science, toured overseas towards the end of 1970. [More…]
The results of the Nation-wide Survey of Educational Needs did indicate that further improvements could be made in the quality of education being provided in the Australian primary and secondary school systems. [More…]
However in comparison with the quality of education provided in many advanced overseas countries, Australia fares favourably. [More…]
For example, although the latest available published statistics show that the proportion of the population completing a full secondary course, receiving tertiary education, and graduating from tertiary institutions in Australia is above that in United Kingdom, France and West Germany the standards attained by the products of our system are widely recognised. [More…]
It is obvious that this must be so, given the present structure of our educational system and the general socio-economic disadvantage in our community. [More…]
People who go through the State education system, especially in the lower income areas, just do not have the opportunity to become acquainted with the broader aspects of society as expressed through various artistic and cultural forms. [More…]
We must be prepared to do something about this - not patch it up, but ask profound questions such as: What is education about? [More…]
in his work ‘Education Through Art’: Why is it that almost exclusively children display an amazing and exciting creative activity in a whole range of creative activities when they are in their primary years at school, but by the time we get them through to the secondary years we are so determined and so dedicated that we churn these people out into increasingly colder, responding inputs for industry instead of vital, dynamic, creative individuals who are each different and have something valuable to offer through this difference to our society? [More…]
I think the Treasurer should be congratulated because he did not behave like the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who when Minister for Defence, resigned in similar circumstances when the Prime Minister criticised him just because he was a member of the Cabinet. [More…]
Its members guard the coast in the most effective possible way, that is, by common sense methods of prevention, education and example. [More…]
But as was revealed yesterday by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in respect of the education grants given to the States, the Labor Party where it has control of government has spent the least on education of any of the States. [More…]
Increasingly one gets the impression that the policies which are operated in this country by this conservative Government - and only this morning I was talking about a case relevant to what I am about to say, that is the arts policy, and one can see this in education - provide the greatest advantage to the middle class or petty middle class area, the people in the middle income groups. [More…]
One might claim in this some small kudos for the Government Members Education and Science Committee - to mention the backbenchers for once - which made a special plea that these grants be made so that the situation of both the state and independent schools might be improved. [More…]
The States’ expenditure on education has increased from about $430m in 1962-63 to about $ 1,284m in 197 J -72, an increase of almost 200 per cent. [More…]
That should set the scene for the sorts of things that the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) and the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Kennedy) were talking about the other night in suggesting that the Government was not quite aware of the needs of education and in trying to suggest further that it was responsible for certain divisive elements on the educational scene. [More…]
As was pointed out by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) only yesterday, in answer to a question from me, in some cases the moneys have been distributed quite significantly towards the cost of education. [More…]
For instance, in New South Wales $2ra of $10m or so has already been earmarked for education. [More…]
In my State of Tasmania some $830,000 out of the $2.23m granted al the Premiers Conference, or 37 per cent, which is a slightly higher figure than that previously calculated in this debate, has gone in the direction of education. [More…]
He said that it is notable that in South Australia, which has long been held up in the House as a fine example a very small quantity of the money distributed at the Premiers Conference has been allocated for education. [More…]
That makes for us, at the present time at least, a very nice distinction between the Australian Labor Party governments and the Liberal Party governments in the various States in the amount of those moneys which they are distributing to education. [More…]
One might ask the further question: What is the cause for moving from governments of one sort or another as the distributional agencies and the decision making agencies as far as the field of education is concerned? [More…]
After all, they are elected to take responsible decisions about various things, and not the least of those is education. [More…]
In March this year a committee reported to the Minister for Education on the distribution of $250,000 in additional aid for primary schools. [More…]
This was such a telling phrase that it has already been taken up by the Minister for Education and Science but 1 make no apology for underlining it again. [More…]
A week later on 9th December, the last day that the House sat last year, we find the honourable member tor Fremantle, the Opposition’s spokesman on education matters, saying this: [More…]
Surely it is not beyond the wit of man to devise in each Slate a Catholic education authority and an education authority for the. [More…]
But Opposition speakers so far have focused their attention on asserting that the Government is providing a divisive element in education despite the fact that all parties represented in this Parliament have very much taken on board the proposition that State aid - that is to say aid to independent schools - is a proper proposition and is to be carried out indefinitely in the Australian educational scene. [More…]
The diversion of funds which organisations like the Council for the Defence of Government Schools require from those schools for whatever reasons, and the reasons vary, would eliminate private investment in education through the ultimate closure of those schools and thereby increase the tax burden on those who, according to the anti-aid protagonists, can least afford to have such an increase in the tax burden. [More…]
Tt seems to me that aid to independent schools is something which has to be supported for philosophic or practical reasons, or both, and that if we deny that proposition, as some honourable members opposite are attempting to do, then we will find ourselves on very difficult financial grounds educationally, if nothing else. [More…]
examines the dissent and division in the ALP in its education policy one might ask where do they stand on one particular matter? [More…]
We have only recently had handed down a report by the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]
The report relates to the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education. [More…]
The rationale of ‘State Aid’ to Catholic schools is that they are a traditional part of our total educational system to which parents who wish their children to obtain a distinctively Catholic education are entitled to send them, that their continued existence relieves the burden of government schools, and that such aid does not amount to subsidising a religion but to furthering the educational aspects of schools where religion is also incidentally inculcated. [More…]
By that I mean this: They were talking at length - in particular the honourable member for Bendigo - about the divisive impetus this Government is introducing to education. [More…]
Normally so few members on the Government side speak on education Bills in this Parliament that Australian Labor Party speakers often have to speak in succession. [More…]
It is trying to resurrect the old sectarian bitternesses in this Parliament on the matter of State aid for education. [More…]
This has not been an education debate; this has been just a dirty little political scavenging hunt in the hope that something can be brought up and quoted later on in the election campaign. [More…]
This is just another one of the ad hoc, piecemeal arrangements that characterise the Government’s socalled education policy. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) felt self-conscious about it because be said in part during his second reading speech: [More…]
This is characteristic of all that the Commonwealth has done not only in the field of private education but also in the field of State education. [More…]
My reading of both the speech of the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) in December and the speech made by the Minister for Education and Science when presenting this Bill indicates that they were the proportions - $9.7m for non-state school students as against $13. [More…]
Under the legislation we are discussing a wealthy private school which has 600 students receiving secondary education will get $40,800. [More…]
As I have said, there should be a scheme that discriminates positively in favour of those who have little and those who need most by way of assistance in their educational programmes. [More…]
The State Ministers for Education furnished this Parliament with a nationwide survey of educational needs, but what did the Government do about it? [More…]
The nationwide survey of educational needs indicted that over the 5-year period to 1975 an amount of $72 Im would be needed for the capital needs of government schools. [More…]
There are literally hundreds of high schools that should be pushed over so that new ones can be built in the modern style to cater for new techniques in education. [More…]
Of course, finally we have to weigh up this whole business of priorities and the kind of grants provided in these Bills, including the grants to the very wealthy schools, against what the Commonwealth is not doing, for instance, in the field of preschool education. [More…]
What are we doing about education for the mentally and physically handicapped? [More…]
What are we doing in the field of compensatory education to help the schools in most need? [More…]
I very strongly support the Government’s policy of a dual education system. [More…]
This is the type of interpretation that has been placed constantly on the policy whereas in fact it is very strongly behind the effective promotion of a dual education system. [More…]
Does it not want the people to hear what it has to say about the tremendously important subject of education? [More…]
He did not have anyone here when he started his speech and not many came in after, not even the shadow Minister for Education. [More…]
I now want to refer to one or two statements which were made by the honourable member for Barton when referring to what has been done in the field of education. [More…]
When one looks at the cost to the Government of providing education for primary and secondary school students - the cost is approximately $300 for primary school students and up to $600 for secondary school students - and at what the schools are saving by the Government running the schools, surely it is scarcely reasonable to say that the schools should not get some assistance. [More…]
Maybe the Government will consider giving greater assistance to independent schools as time goes on to enable them to continue to provide the magnificent services they have given to education over the years and to continue to save the taxpayer in this country very considerable amounts of money. [More…]
We stand very definitely for the dual system of education and if there is one section of education that is battling harder than another, despite what the honourable member for Barton said, it is that section comprising a number of independent schools, some of which have been forced to close and others threatened with closure. [More…]
My colleague the honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon), and another honourable member, said that the Labor Party speaks on education with three tongues. [More…]
I am glad that the honourable member for Hindmarsh is now in the chamber because I can remind him that on education the Labor Party has 3 policies. [More…]
I pay a tribute to the honourable member for bis persuasive ability, but as he is sitting on the front bench of the Opposition one is entitled to wonder where the policy on education of the Labor Party will finish; whether there would be aid for independent schools if Labor got into office, having regard to the influence of which we know the honourable member for Hindmarsh is capable. [More…]
A survey has been made which foreshadows a big rise in school fees and T think it is necessary to have the appropriate figures set out if we are to get the position into perspective, ff anybody listening to me believes that I am concentrating only on the independent schools, I point out that I want continually to stress the fact that we want to keep both sections of our education system. [More…]
A greater percentage of pupils are now attending State schools than ever before and unless we continue to give increasing aid to independent schools we will find that attendance at them, to the great disadvantage of our education system and of the taxpayers, will continue to decrease. [More…]
The Director of Catholic Education in South Australia has very effectively drawn attention to the situation. [More…]
The Director of Catholic Education in South Australia also said that the immediate urgent need for 1972 is an extra $78 per capita at secondary level for recurrent expenditure. [More…]
We want to maintain the dual system of education. [More…]
I could quote examples of people who are not necessarily very partial to independent schools as such who have constantly claimed that the additional funds provided to the independent school system have been of great advantage to education generally in this country. [More…]
Additional funds have been provided for education which would not have been available but for our dual system of education. [More…]
There is a group of teachers in independent schools who might not be available for education purposes but for the existence of those independent schools in which they teach. [More…]
The point is that additional funds are made available for education which would not be provided but for the independent schools system. [More…]
I hope that the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), who had the great privilege of visiting my electorate recently to gain some education for himself, will comment on this aspect. [More…]
To safeguard the rights and promote the interests of parents and children in the field of education in Australia, and in particular the rights and interests of parents availing or wishing to avail themselves of the services of non-government schools for their children. [More…]
Federation of Western Australia, approximately 120 schools affiliated; the Parents and Friends Federation of South Australia, approximately 120 schools affiliated; the Victorian Federation of Catholic Mothers’ Clubs, 190 schools affiliated; the Parents and Friends Federation of Victoria, approximately 125 schools affiliated: the Federation of Parents and Friends of the Catholic Schools of Tasmania, 48 schools affiliated: and the Association for Educational Freedom which is well known from the Goulburn schools closure days, operating mainly in the country areas of New South Wales but now mainly a research body. [More…]
The whole posit on has boiled down to whether we need to promote the progress and development of a dual system of education. [More…]
Although the honourable member for Barton claims that the Government has put on this debate as a political exercise, 1 believe that the policy of the Australian Labor Party in regard to a dual system of education has become simply a political feature of it. [More…]
The position is that we have a dual system of education. [More…]
1 heard one honourable member, 1 think from the Opposition side, say that he did not have the benefit of education, lt Ls becoming more and more apparent that we require higher standards of education. [More…]
There is no doubt at all that not only in education but in practically every other field the incentive of competition is a valuable and integral part of the progress and development of many other aspects of community life, lt is certainly of value in the field of education. [More…]
But even that is small praise when one listened to his contribution to this debate on education - honourable members may not have gathered from what he said that this was what the debate was about. [More…]
The honourable member talked about the dual system of education. [More…]
It is utter rubbish to talk in Australia about a dual system of education. [More…]
I suppose it is reasonable to say that because the honourable member comes from the Country Party he has stressed the money side of education. [More…]
I had an idea that his own background in education and his attitude to non-state education were that it would probably produce spiritual values that were missing in us pagans who were turned out by the State school system. [More…]
The honourable member for Maranoa thinks that it is a good thing to sponsor non-state education principally, as far as 1 can tell, because it saves taxpayers’ money. [More…]
I do not believe that is one of the principles on which an education system ought to be based. [More…]
There are some 28 State educational institutions in my electorate. [More…]
This is a fairly large educational system. [More…]
If that does not make them suddenly realise that we are setting out upon a dangerous and difficult path in education, nothing will. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) does his best. [More…]
They are state schools which do not accept the responsibility of the state education system. [More…]
Even our colleague the honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon) ought to be concerned more with education than with the political points he was using this afternoon. [More…]
I believe this is what bedevils debates on education in this place. [More…]
We are not even sure of the direction that education in Australia should take. [More…]
I would be the first to admit that the Minister for Education and Science is attempting to find a solution to the Canberra situation. [More…]
I do not know whether there has ben a satisfactory solution to this problem anywhere in the world, because if there is too close an identification of parents on the education side, professional dissatisfaction probably is produced. [More…]
Are they independent of university directed education? [More…]
In some ways, they are independent of some of the bureaucratic inhibitions that State education in Australia has produced and so, to this extent, I think that they do make a contribution which, unfortunately, is isolated inside their walls. [More…]
It has much less authority than it should have, and one of the points that I think honourable members should consider is how public control and public participation can be injected into education. [More…]
I would not be surprised if, despite the rather meagre facilities that it has and the rather austere environment in which it operates, it is not producing a more adventurous spirit inside the school about the educational principle than is produced almost anywhere else. [More…]
I am not one of those competitive people who believe that the examination results are the test of education but 70 per cent of them passed their matriculation. [More…]
I do not believe that the present non-State schools of Australia are supplying diversity, except as an alternative place in which education can be obtained. [More…]
Some of them offer a wider area of elective subjects but this situation is increasing over large areas of the State education system too. [More…]
After all, each child can have only one set of education at a time. [More…]
When we talk about education we should turn our minds to those things which are the deficiencies of the Australian education system and upon which we should be launching the assault. [More…]
Neither the States Grants (Capital Assistance) Bill, which will provide chicken feed to the State schools or the States Grants (Independent Schools) Bill from which large sums eventually will flow to the non-State schools make an attack upon what I think are the most serious deficiencies in the Australian education system. [More…]
My friend, the honourable member for Barton, mentioned pre-school education. [More…]
A few weeks ago, the Minister for Education and Science visited several schools in Brunswick. [More…]
it now looks like a bomb site and yet some 1,000 young Australians from this district must receive the benefit of an education. [More…]
I believe this Bill makes no attack upon the major problem of inequality or any of the other problems inside the Australian educational system. [More…]
I just inject this thought at the moment: They presented a minority report in which they stated that they could not see that there was any necessity for a separate Catholic teaching education system. [More…]
I do not believe that it is an advantage to the educational system of Australia to have tertiary education at this level isolated inside either a religious or any other kind of definition. [More…]
Just to wind up this point and to remind honourable members opposite of what we are debating, I take some pride in the fact that honourable members opposite are prepared to speak so eloquently and so often in education debates. [More…]
If we have got honourable members opposite interested in education, even in a dilatory way, it is pleasing to note. [More…]
I do not think that is public education, I do not think that is state aid, and I do not think that it has anything to do with education. [More…]
I support the amendment moved by the Australian Labor Party’s spokesman on education, the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley). [More…]
As the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) acknowledged last Sunday, there is probably little to choose in quality between our top schools, government, Catholic and other non-government. [More…]
The tragedy of Australian education is that extreme inequality exists not so much between the government and nongovernment school systems but between schools within each system. [More…]
In denying last Sunday that the quality of education in government and Catholic schools was poor, the Minister illustrated and emphasised his utter indifference to tha overwhelming majority of Australian schools which are so much less adequately staffed, housed and equipped than those to which he and his colleagues send their children. [More…]
He has designed his Bill not to combat inequality but to perpetuate educational privilege for the small and lucky minority of which he was born a member. [More…]
The quality of the education a child receives is determined not by his own capacity to learn by by his family’s capacity to earn. [More…]
Only 32 per cent of the students at Catholic schools reach the final year of secondary education whereas at other nongovernment schools 82 per cent do so. [More…]
I remind the Minister that in the 2 years of secondary education for which awards are made available only 12 per cent of the students at Catholic schools qualified for Commonwealth secondary scholarships whereas at other nongovernment schools 17 per cent did so. [More…]
Successive Ministers for Education and Science have been too cautious or too uncaring to bring up to date these figures. [More…]
What percentage of new enrolments at (a) universities, (b) colleges of advanced education and (c) teachers’ colleges was drawn from ti) government schools, (ii) Catholic schools and (iii) other non-government schools in the most recent year for which information is available. [More…]
each stage of their education they are handicapped by less adequate equipment and accommodation and, above all, by insufficient and under-qualified staff. [More…]
Inquiries conducted recently in Melbourne by the Australian Council for Educational Research have revealed that in that city only 6 out of every 10 of the students at Catholic schools had enjoyed the advantage of a pre-school education whereas among students at other non-government schools 9 out of every 10 had done so. [More…]
We shall achieve equality of access to pre-school education in this country only when a Labor government establishes its pre-school commission and provides for ail children pre-school centres as good and pre-school teachers as well qualified as those the Minister and his colleagues provide for Canberra’s children alone. [More…]
According to him, it would cost no more than $20m to provide pre-school education in the inner suburban areas where the need for it is greatest. [More…]
On Sth October last, in making his ministerial statement on the Commonwealth education programme for this year, the Minister presented a document setting out information furnished by non-government schools in the course of the Nationwide Survey of Educational Needs. [More…]
In March 1969 the 6 State Ministers for Education and the present Commonwealth Minister agreed to conduct a nationwide survey of educational needs. [More…]
In subsequent months the Minister asserted repeatedly that it was appropriate in a federal system that inquiries into education should be conducted independently by the respective state and non-government school authorities. [More…]
When the survey is completed the States and ourselves will discuss the assistance we should each provide to promote the further development of education in all schools.’ [More…]
Since his return to the Education and Science portfolio the Minister has insisted on rubbishing the survey at every opportunity. [More…]
The Commonwealth is now doing the same for colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It would recommend priority in Commonwealth grants for those schools and those areas which are still denied enough qualified staff, enough equipment and enough accommodation for a proper education. [More…]
Two days ago the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) was allowed to incorporate the Inner London Education Authority documents which explain and specify the criteria which that authority drew up in 1967 and revised last year for the allocation of assistance to schools on a needs basis. [More…]
He accused he Slates last Monday of trying to improve their schools faster than the available resources would permit but he had no difficulty in the Budget last August in funding an increase in he amount of expenditure on education deductible for income tax purposes from $300 to $400. [More…]
The troublethatI experience in my mind about the system of concessional deductions, especially in relation to education expenses, is that that form of deduction does introduce into what should be as far as possible a progressive system of taxation a regressive element for the reason that the advantage of the concessional deduction is far greater for the man on a high income than it is for a man on a low income.. . [More…]
The raising of the ceiling on tax deductions for education expenses was made under pressure from the Government [More…]
Members Education and Science Committee. [More…]
It is to develop a voucher system under which the parents can opt to receive from governments the amount which is spent in educating a child in a government school and to spend that amount on the education of their own child where and how they themselves wish. [More…]
I quote the cynical view of the Government Members Education and Science Committee: [More…]
Particular attention was given to the means by which the Commonwealth might attract recognition commensurate with the degree of its’ assistance in the whole field of education. [More…]
It would not make an adequate education equally available and accessible to children of deprived parents and in developing regions. [More…]
Before the suspension of the sitting the House was discussing, and will continue to discuss, 2 emergent Bills dealing with education. [More…]
He was trying to create - as he tries to create throughout Australia in almost every speech he makes on education - a division between government schools, Catholic schools and other independent schools. [More…]
He is very caustic about and most critical of the quality of education, particularly in Catholic primary schools. [More…]
He wants education to be centralised under a huge commission which would deal with the 10,000 schools throughout Australia. [More…]
This is a dangerous thing for the people of Australia to come up against because the Labor Party is not applying itself in the same way as I believe the Government wishes to apply itself to education. [More…]
There is a great divergence of opinion on the approach to education between the Government and the Labor Party. [More…]
It believes that education is far more than academic perfection. [More…]
The Government believes that education should aim to make good citizens, loyal citizens and able citizens - to make men and women who appreciate the need in our society of high moral values, respect for each other, respect for the rights of others and for the dignity of the individual. [More…]
This cannot be achieved under a Socialist system in which a huge commission would control education in Australia. [More…]
The Government stands for more local and decentralised control of education but the Opposition - the Labor Party - has always stood for centralised control, not only in education but in everything it does. [More…]
That means government schools first, lt wa< so stated by me some 3 or 4 years ago when the policy was first adopted by the Australian Labor Party and it was confirmed in this Chamber by the mcn shadow Minister for Education, the late Senator Cohen. [More…]
Then on 9th December the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), the Opposition’s shadow Minister for Education, made an extraordinary statement which shows the division that exists in the Labor Party. [More…]
Surely it is not beyond the wit of man to devise in each State a Catholic education authority and an education authority for the other independent schools, to make a grant to them which may be calculated on a per capita basis and for them to be given the right to spend the money according to need. [More…]
The Government may, lay down guidelines of need, but a Catholic education authority in Western Australia, shall we say, would get approximately $4.37m - I think that is what the grant will be - and that Catholic education authority could spend the $4.3 7m according to need. [More…]
There is no doubt that the Opposition’s approach to education seeks the centralisation of education and non-assistance to independent schools wherever it can be done. [More…]
Last year under the Appropriation Bill there was an enormous increase in the amount made available to the States for expenditure on education. [More…]
This is indicative of the approach that the Labor Party has to education. [More…]
With costs continually rising and the salaries of teachers increasing, a crisis has developed in independent schools in many of our states and Ml credit is owing to the Minister for Education and Science, who is now at the table, and particularly the Prime Minister for the emergency action that they took so that the schools would know what they were able to do in the new term which was to open early in the new year. [More…]
I know that the question of State aid has been debated over the years but it is safe to say that the people of Australia on a national basis have accepted the dual system of education. [More…]
It is well-established, and everybody accedes to it, that parents have a right to decide the kind of education they want for their child. [More…]
Certain standards of education are laid down and maintained by the Government, and rightly so. [More…]
Every parent - every citizen - contributes through taxation to the cost of the state education systems. [More…]
Surely it is fair and just that a child sent to an independent school should share on an equal basis with a child sent to a State school money allocated by the Government to help meet the cost of education. [More…]
The children themselves have a right to a proper education, as their parents require in this country. [More…]
The churches pioneered education and most governments were happy to subsidise the churches for accepting this responsibility. [More…]
In government schools very large sums of Commonwealth and State moneys have been spent on education, and rightly so. [More…]
Prior to the introduction of the Education Act of 1872 in Victoria, under which education became free, compulsory and secular, the churches ran most of the schools. [More…]
This Act has been operating in Victoria for 100 years and, as previously mentioned, it precludes any of the education grant being used to teach religion in schools. [More…]
As I have said before, I do not quite see the logic of spending some $ 1,600m, as the States and the Commonwealth are spending on education this financial year, to provide our children with an opportunity of developing mentally, physically and emotionally, if they miss out on spiritual development. [More…]
There are few words in the dictionary which have such an impact on our society as the word ‘education’, as we are all affected in some way. [More…]
One might go so far as to say that everything near and dear to us is an integral part of education, as it all begins with the education of the young child in the home. [More…]
We can go much further iri trying to define the term education’ by including such definitions as love, courage, faith in God, the acceptance of responsibility, our sense of art and beauty, our pleasures of the past and our hopes of the future, our respect for each other. [More…]
Even such matters as birth control and racial discrimination must surely be tied up in any education system. [More…]
For people to say religion is not an integral part of education indicates how little they understand its true meaning, and this surely strengthens the case for the removal of our secular education act. [More…]
Such a minister could liaise closely with government departments, particularly the Department of Education, the Department of Health and the Department of Social Services. [More…]
I am also of the opinion that such a committee could investigate ways in which such a ministry could liaise closely with the Health, Social Services and Education Departments, and the Armed Forces. [More…]
I feel it is up to the Government to provide leadership in these fields as we cannot continue to sit back and leave religious education entirely to the churches any more than we can leave education to the States. [More…]
Most of the parents make great sacrifices to keep their children at independent schools, and their main reason for doing so is that they want them to receive a well-balanced education. [More…]
I reacted strongly to this as the State member and arranged for the State Minister of Education to visit the school and see what action could be taken. [More…]
However, as one listened to the speech of the honourable member for Bennelong it became even more apparent that what the Government is seeking to do is to divide not only the schools and the parents but the education systems as well. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is on record as supporting equality of education. [More…]
During the Estimates debate on education in this House last year, he pledged his support for the reduction of inequality by education. [More…]
He extended this splendid concept further by equating equality of education with equality of opportunity. [More…]
It is unfortunate that this admirable theorist should have to preside over an educational structure which is riddled with injustices and inequalities. [More…]
There is an immense volume of literature and research on inequalities in Australian education. [More…]
It has been one of the popular topics of educational theory and literature in the 1960s and early 1970s. [More…]
There has been no lack of detailed listings of defects in the education system and the relative advantages and disadvantages it disposes. [More…]
The House has before it tonight two Bills relevant to inequalities in Australian education. [More…]
The first is designed to increase per capita grants for pupils attending independent schools from $35 to $50 a year for each primary school pupil, and from $50 to $68 for each pupil getting secondary education. [More…]
We recognise that we have to deal with reality and the present reality is that 2 massive systems of education exist in this country. [More…]
The whole area of educational research is an area of flux and change at the moment. [More…]
If the concept of ‘de-schooling’ which has attracted considerable attention in the United States and Europe, gains favour, conventional systems of education as we know them may have vanished completely by the end of the century. [More…]
Both have to be supported if any sort of coherent educational structure is to be maintained in Australia. [More…]
Here the per capita grants do contribute to better standards of education. [More…]
The Minister’s other objection to a schools commission is that it would centralise education under the control of a Commonwealth bureaucracy. [More…]
He has been quoted as saying that what is needed in education is a greater decentralisation of education authority, so that communities and teachers in particular areas can be more closely concerned with the fortunes and development in the schools in those areas. [More…]
It is not clear how far the Minister would carry this process of taking education back to the grass roots. [More…]
Presumably the ultimate result would be control of education by local government units. [More…]
At least it shows that the Minister has some refreshing ideas about education which he should develop in greater detail to show the House how he plans to move control of education outwards and closer to the local communities. [More…]
If, as the honourable member for Holt believes, these circumstances exist in so many instances throughout Australia in relation to small parochial schools, can it be justifiably argued that there ought not to be a competent authority which could assess and determine where the priorities in education should be directed? [More…]
I thought that the honourable member for Holt made a very sound case, when dealing with this aspect of education in Victoria, in support of the Australian Labor Party’s policy to establish an Australian schools commission. [More…]
These are some of the ways in which a schools commission could be used to tackle the manifold inequalities in the education system. [More…]
Surely not even the Minister himself would deny that these inequalities in education exist in Australia in both the government and nongovernment schools. [More…]
No honourable member on the Government side has stood up to defend the Australian education system as a whole. [More…]
No honourable member on the Government side has denied the existence of the inequalities to which reference has been made over the years in this Parliament, principally by honourable members on this side of the House, but I suppose more significantly and importantly by educationists and parents and citizens organisations outside this Parliament, who for years now have drawn the attention of this Government to the inadequacies and the inequalities in our education system. [More…]
So while Government supporters may use whatever methods or tactics are available to them in this debate to endeavour to drive a wedge between the parents of children who attend government and non-government schools in Australia, the fact remains that no-one on the Government side who has spoken in this debate has denied that there is a crisis in education, that these inequalities do exist. [More…]
It is difficult to escape the conclusion that this is how the Minister sees the inequalities of education in rural Australia: in terms of the difficulties fluctuations in rural incomes impose on boarding schools. [More…]
With respect to the Minister, it seems that he conceives the education of country children in terms of getting them to boarding school. [More…]
Regrettably this has not sharpened his insights into education inequalities that develop in small rural communities. [More…]
The Government has done nothing to meet the special problems of country children in maximising their education opportunities. [More…]
This is one of the saddest areas of inequality in Australian education and it is one which should cause the Minister special pangs. [More…]
He claimed that parents who sent their children to private schools had a greater concern for education and therefore encouraged their children to stay at school longer. [More…]
For example, the Minister’s point might have some substance if living allowances were paid, special scholarships granted for secondary education, and text books provided free. [More…]
In the absence of such assistance it is most unfair to imply that parents supporting independent schools were more concerned with their children’s education than were parents of children in government schools. [More…]
Even the most passionate involvement with a child’s education matters little if the cash is not there to provide further education. [More…]
I have dealt with only a few of the inequalities that exist in the education system. [More…]
But it is time that the process of providing a more equal and equitable system of education was begun. [More…]
The Opposition does not oppose the passage of this legislation because it does get much needed funds to the impoverished sectors of independent education. [More…]
It was made perfectly clear during the campaign for the 1969 elections, when this Government was returned with a greatly reduced majority, that the Australian people favoured the appointment of an Australian schools commission which, under a Labor government, would be responsible not only for dealing with the inequalities in education to which I have referred tonight- [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, a great deal of the speech that we have just heard from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) was concerned with an Australian schools commission which, according to him, has been proposed by the Opposition and is its solution to most of the education problems facing Australia. [More…]
One can see a number of curious inconsistencies in statements from the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Murphy) and the honourable member in this House who has just been referred to as the Opposition’s spokesman on education - the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley). [More…]
The following day the Leader of the Opposition in this House took the Minister for Education and Science (Mr MalcolmFraser) to task for alleging that this schools commission would, as the Minister said, give assistance to government schools before it gave any to nongovernment schools. [More…]
That is indeed a most curious collection of statements from the Opposition’s spokesmen with, on the one hand, the Leader of the Opposition saying ‘This is the proposal of the Opposition’ and, on the other, his own spokesman on education saying ‘It is not, and rather there should be separate authorities established in each State of the Commonwealth.’ [More…]
That, as I said, gives me very much doubt indeed as to whether the schools commission is the proposal of the Opposition on education in Australia. [More…]
It is a report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]
That body looked at the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education. [More…]
Successive Commonwealth Governments have accepted the principle of ‘State Aid’ to Catholic schools and, whatever may be the philosophical merits of this principle, it is not in question in considering the subject which the Committee is charged by the Senate to consider, namely what should be the role of the Commonwealth In regard to teacher education throughout Australia. [More…]
Here above all in one of the most pressing areas of concern in education - teacher training - when there is such a desperate need for teachers and for better trained teachers, particularly in independent schools and particularly in the Catholic schools, we have 2 Opposition senators saying: ‘It is Catholic indoctrination and nothing else, and we will not have anything to do with the Commonwealth giving any aid at all to encourage and train teachers who are going to teach in these particular schools’. [More…]
It was made quite clear, among other things, that this money should be devoted to building and housing, particularly in the field of education. [More…]
It is interesting to see which of the State Governments have devoted part of that money to education, how much of it ‘has been devoted to education and which of the governments have not devoted any or perhaps only small amounts for education. [More…]
In New South Wales about 20 per cent of this money has gone into education. [More…]
In Victoria about 29 per cent has gone into education. [More…]
Tasmania has put 35 per cent of the money into education. [More…]
South Australia used 9 per cent for education. [More…]
And the grand result of all is in Western Australia where not one cent has been devoted to education. [More…]
I think that these facts should cast doubts in some minds as to how serious the Opposition is about the implementation of these proposals in the field of education because here is proof of the pudding. [More…]
It is an important challenge because I would suggest that Opposition members who are taking part in this debate should make up their minds as to whether they accept the principle that every child in Australia has a right to be assisted by the Government in his education. [More…]
I think this is a further recognition by the Government of the very important role played in education by independent school authorities. [More…]
I suggest it is a proper recognition of the role played by independent schools in the community and a proper recognition of the contribution that independent schools make and have made for many years to education in this country. [More…]
We are speaking about whether those young people will grow up never having had the opportunity to enjoy all the benefits of education or whether they will be brought to a stage of understanding in social development where they will be able to enjoy the fruits of those things which are about them. [More…]
The solution of the education problem is a political solution because it will be achieved by Government decision. [More…]
If my memory serves me correctly he said something about New South Wales spending about 32 per cent of money made available to it by the Commonwealth at the last Premiers Conference on education. [More…]
He mentioned that Victoria, that marvellous southern State, spent 35 per cent on education. [More…]
I am neither a South Australian nor a Western Australian and I do not intend to move very far into that area, but I will with the indulgence of the House read a telegram which records some remarks that were made by the Director-General of Education in Western Australia. [More…]
State Government giving its education policy priority over almost everything in its thinking. [More…]
Education had been put in a privileged position. [More…]
I trust that the young Turk from Diamond Valley is listening carefully - for primary school children were big steps forward in education. [More…]
The concessions given to education will allow a lot to be done to improve the State education system. [More…]
The fact that the Government was straining its resources to make the concessions indicated its feelings about education. [More…]
The Education Department had 2 main aims, lt was striving to overcome the backlog- [More…]
There is the crunch - in education and to replace outmoded buildings. [More…]
But the way the Government treated education in the last Budget made this task much easier. [More…]
All of those remarks were made by the Western Australian Director-General of Education on Saturday, 2nd October 1971. [More…]
As such he obviously has had a university education. [More…]
I should think that most of the cost of that education was met by the taxpayers of Australia. [More…]
Tonight we are discussing the education of the young people of Australia. [More…]
The honourable member for Holt (Mr Reid) gave a fine dissertation on the history of education. [More…]
It seems to me that there was never a choice for people in the early times as to what sort of education they would receive because then only those who were in a privileged position were able to enjoy education. [More…]
Until we reached the stage of having a state education system there was a large section of the community whose needs in this respect were ignored. [More…]
The question of privilege can be supported only if it is backed up with an education so if there are people who, without the benefits of an education, remain ignorant there is a division in the community with one section of the community standing in a position of privilege because it has enjoyed the benefits of an education. [More…]
With the advent or this terrible socialist practice of asking all people to contribute to provide an education system so that all people can be educated by it, we found that there were among those people who in normal circumstances would have remained ignorant some receiving some sort of education. [More…]
They were raising themselves to a position where they were liable to challenge the privileged position of those who traditionally had enjoyed education. [More…]
They made the State education system so bad that now it is churning out almost ignorant people with a smattering of education. [More…]
What do we mean by education? [More…]
Education goes far deeper than that. [More…]
I believe that in the years ahead our society will be confronted with a situation which will be resolved only by the proper education of the people. [More…]
for the benefit of the House, that when these 2 Bills were introduced, it took the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) about 14 minutes to introduce his Bill and the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was so enraptured with his contribution that it took him 6 minutes to introduce his Bill. [More…]
The Government believes that the grants authorised by this Bill represents a significant contribution by the Commonwealth in the field of education. [More…]
In other words, he wants to socialise the cost of education. [More…]
As I understand the situation in South Australia and Western Australia, contrary to the impression that the honourable member for Diamond Valley would have liked to have given, education is being developed at a far greater rate than it is in those States that have not yet been sufficiently enlightened to elect a Labor government. [More…]
Whilst large sums of money are spoken about - mention was made of $38,000 being provided for one private secondary school - there has been no discussion of a most significant facet of education, namely, preschool education. [More…]
The Government seems able to make large sums available to private schools but it is not prepared to spend similar sums to ensure that the younger children, particularly the children of the underprivileged section of the community, are given any education until they are old enough to attend the generally accepted State schools. [More…]
One after another, we have stood up precisely to defend the system as a whole, the system about which we are united, because we believe in the Australian education system that we have. [More…]
We are united in our approach to the Australian education system; the Opposition is disunited and so can only hurl abuse across the chamber. [More…]
The Government is conscious of deficiencies in the Australian education system and not for a moment have honourable members on this side denied that there are deficiencies. [More…]
Indeed, one Bill before us tonight is a living testament to our concern with a new development in the Australian education system, and I will come back to that later. [More…]
This issue illustrates the basic belief of the Liberal Party in the sort of education which Australians want and which it believes Australians ought to get. [More…]
We are looking for a moment at the Australian Labor Party’s approach to education. [More…]
Filled with principles of centralist uniformity it has begrudged positive policies designed to create diversity and freedom in education. [More…]
As recently as the other day the 2 Labor senators on the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts in the report on the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education made comments which illustrate their concern about the freedom of Australians to get the education they want. [More…]
Can honourable members conceive of a more loaded term to describe what any honourable member would ‘ have called religious education - which is undoubtedly prized by Catholics and which is their main justification for the perpetuation of their separate school system, is a matter to be entrusted to their own religious orders, and should not, in fact probably cannot under the Constitution, be a matter with which the Commonwealth Government can concern itself. [More…]
So we have the official Labor Party policy along these lines: lt accepts State aid to schools but is not prepared to accept State aid to tertiary Catholic educational institutions. [More…]
It draws all sorts of constitutional red herrings across the path to make it look as though there is good constitutional doctrine in favour of their stand which can only drive a wedge into the Australian community, a community which believes in freedom and diversity in education. [More…]
This is the heart of the whole approach of the Government to education in Australia, lt is an approach which has tolerance and a positive belief in diversity, so that Australians can stand on their own feet and have the education they want. [More…]
I suggest that we have come to a new phase in the assessment of national priorities in education, and I think this is a very important phase. [More…]
In this phase we recognise that at certain times State governments may be unable to cope with all the difficulties of State education. [More…]
My view is quite plain - there is a good deal of machinery already there for the decentralisation of authority within the educational system, and to create this large shadowy centralised body on all that we know of it could do little to solve the problems with which we are faced. [More…]
We believe in a system of education whereby parents and the community have a very great involvement and whereby a school grows out of the involvement of the parents. [More…]
My personal view is that in the long run we would want to strive for an education system - a multi system - in which this sort of involvement would be the most natural thing. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has deliberately tried to mislead the House over the relative performances of the State governments in capital expenditure on education. [More…]
I say tried to mislead the House’ because honourable members already know that the record of the South Australian Labor Government on education is the best in Australia. [More…]
If honourable members really want to know how well Liberal governments and Labor governments have helped education ask those who have to run the system. [More…]
How can anyone deny that South Australia, under a Labor government, is the leader in Australian education? [More…]
They know very well that Liberal State governments such as this Liberal Government have a belief in an elitist education system where there is great public patronage of wealthy private schools to prepare the children of the rich to become rulers in their turn. [More…]
Seeing that the matter of education policies of the State governments has been raised, let me dwell on it further, lt is important because the South Australian Labor Party, which has performed so admirably in the field of education, is guided by the same humanitarian principle which will guide the next Federal Labor Government. [More…]
These principles are: Firstly, a greatly increased expenditure on education; secondly, expenditure on education to be allocated on a basis of need so that education will overcome the disadvantages of those children from families with limited incomes - in other words, to provide equality of opportunity; and thirdly, decentralisation of decision making and devolution of power so that maximum autonomy is given to teachers and students. [More…]
It was nol for education but was specifically to provide employment. [More…]
The Minister has stated that only 10 per cent of this amount going on education in South Australia is a poor performance. [More…]
It is because if he relies on the facts he will have to admit that the performance of the South Australian Government in education is the best in Australia. [More…]
The facts come out by examining the total expenditure on education, whether from Commonwealth or State sources. [More…]
In 1969-70, the last year of the South Australian Liberal Government, capital expenditure on education was SI 3.8m. [More…]
In other words, in 2 years the Labor Government has increased capital expenditure on education by 50 per cent. [More…]
Capital expenditure on education at government schools per child population in South Australia is in fact the highest in Australia. [More…]
But no wonder the Minister is frightened of the truth; for the truth is that it is against the class interests of those people whom the Minister represents to have full education for everybody. [More…]
In the last year of the South Australian Liberal Government, recurrent expenditure in education was $65m odd. [More…]
In the first year of the Labor Government in Western Australia, the total capital allocation for education has been increased by 27 per cent. [More…]
This incidentally was made clear to the Minister for Education and Science when he visited Western Australia. [More…]
And a final question on this matter: Does the Minister deny that when he visited Western Australia he stated in the presence of the Western Australian Minister of Education that Western Australia’s school building programme appeared to him to be well-advanced and that Western Australia appeared to be doing better than other States? [More…]
They have shown that Labor is fair dinkum on increasing educational expenditure. [More…]
Labor is also fair dinkum about providing equal opportunities, through education. [More…]
How many parents of State school children can afford to take advantage of that by spending more than $300 on a child’s education. [More…]
The fact that this was no accident was eloquently shown by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) tonight when he revealed a statement from the Government Members Education Committee to the effect that the Committee was in favour of removing the limit altogether on the taxation deduction but it said that it would be impolitic to do so at present. [More…]
This scheme supposedly was devised to help those children to complete their secondary education who would otherwise, through lack of money, have had to leave school. [More…]
In passing, let me mention another move by the South Australian Government to overcome inequality in education. [More…]
Labor has shown both by its Federal policy and by its performances in government that it is committed to abolishing inequality in education. [More…]
The present Minister for Education and Science and his predecessor have both made it clear that inequality is the normal order of things - the natural order - and that we should not interfere. [More…]
The present Minister told the House this week that if some parents are less concerned than others about their children’s education, the States should not do anything about it. [More…]
What this means of course is that these children, without special assistance, will grow up, like their parents, without a special concern for education and this attitude will be passed on to their children. [More…]
Without government assistance, there will be a selfperpetuating paucity of education from one generation to the next. [More…]
Apparently, according to the Minister for Education and Science, that is how it is supposed to be. [More…]
For example, apprentices and others continue their education at technical colleges as well as people entering a range of commercial occupations. [More…]
If the Government gave everybody a complete education, it would have nobody to do the dirty jobs, because what matriculant or graduate would want to do the tedious, repetitive soul-destroying work which many wage-earners now have to do? [More…]
Does the Minister for Education and Science claim to have been misrepresented? [More…]
Honourable members will know that on ‘Monday Conference’, which has been misinterpreted and misquoted by the honourable member for Kingston (Dr Gun) and by one other honourable member, my purpose was to demonstrate that the concern of parents is important in establishing educational opportunity and no matter what governments might do, those children who have parents who are concerned about education will be advantaged compared with those who have not. [More…]
Another point on which I was misrepresented was when he quoted an alleged conversation that I had with the Western Australian Minister for Education. [More…]
The advances that had been made in Western Australia had been made by the previous government and I was emphasising that the present State Government must show a significant and continuing concern for education by allocating some of the funds from the Premiers Conference to building schools. [More…]
The point I made, I believe, was that in a case where one child’s parents may be less concerned than another’s about their children’s education, the Minister has clearly stated he believes that the Government should not intervene. [More…]
It spent only $400,000 on education, and the Labor Government in Western Australia out of its grant of $2. [More…]
99m spent nil on education. [More…]
If that is the sort of policy on education that the honourable member for Kingston wants adopted in the national sphere - this petty, penny-pinching policy that is adopted in the 2 States controlled by Labor governments - then I do not want to see a Labor government in the Federal sphere, and neither would most of the Australian people, and that will be proven when we go to the election at the end of the year. [More…]
It has long been accepted in Australia that education should be free, although one could well ask why education should be singled out to be free and not medical help, dentistry and other essentials. [More…]
A more correct version would be to say that education is paid for by the taxpayers, irrespective of whether they have children or not. [More…]
But if education is to be free, it should be free to all Australian children as a right, irrespective of the school of their choice, provided that the school maintains required standards and the exercising of that choice does not cost the taxpayer more than if the child were educated at a government school. [More…]
So much money would need to be channelled to education that social services, defence and other facets of government would go by the board. [More…]
The Victorian Minister for Education stated in the Victorian Parliament that it costs the State $333 a year to educate a pupil at primary level and $607 to educate a pupil at secondary level. [More…]
Provided that children go to a school of a required standard they should be entitled to equal assistance from the Government for the cost of their education. [More…]
It would treat every child equally, it would retain our dual system of education and it would give parents the choice of where their children were educated. [More…]
At the larger church schools the fees for one child alone, would amount to something like $1,100 a year, yet by sending a child to such a school that parent, who is also a taxpayer, is saving the Government - on the figures of Mr Lindsay Thompson, the Victorian Minister for Education- $607. [More…]
Surely the position we should be working towards - one realises that it cannot happen overnight - is the situation where each child is entitled to and allotted the $607 towards his education. [More…]
But it is very difficult to find out exactly what the Labor Party’s policy is in regard to education. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition in the Senate says one thing; the Leader of the Opposition in this House (Mr Whitlam) then disowns Senator Murphy’s interpretation; and the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), the Labor Party’s shadow Minister for Education, goes off on another tangent and calls for a dozen or more committees to be set up in the various States. [More…]
What can we say is Labor’s policy in regard to education and independent schools? [More…]
But one thing is certain: If Labor ever becomes the Government of this country - heaven help Australia if this ever occurs - the death knell will have been sounded for our dual system of education. [More…]
The Federation is therefore launching a campaign for a new Education Act. [More…]
This should be based on the fundamental right of parents to choose the kind of education their children should receive. [More…]
I believe that the Parents and Friends Federation of Victoria has set out sound proposals in this letter and after listening to the various Opposition speakers today neither I nor the electors are quite sure what Labor’s policy on education really is. [More…]
They are all entitled, as of right, to the same opportunities and the same assistance from the Government towards their education. [More…]
Contrary to what Liberal supporters say when they refer to their welfare programmes, notably in education, it was the right honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Calwell) who, as the Leader of the Federal Labor Party in 1966, proposed that per capita grants to independent schools be made on the basis of $30 per annum for primary school students and $40 per annum for secondary school students. [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle also spoke about the Inner London Educational Authority in Great Britain, which is an organisation similar to the Australian schools commission proposed by the Labor Party. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science in his second reading speech said: [More…]
Our policy objective for the independent schools is that relying on their own efforts and with assistance from governments they should be ablie to continue to provide an adequate standard of education for that proportion of the school population which has in the past attended independent schools. [More…]
As a member of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party Education Committee I was lobbied here by a group of people who are part of the Catholic education committee in New South Wales. [More…]
I have a document here beaded ‘Government Members’ Education and Science Committee’. [More…]
Particular attention was given to the means by which the Commonwealth might attract recognition commensurate with the degree of its assistance in the whole field of education. [More…]
It is not interested to see whether children get a fair go but merely to ensure that it can push its own barrow on the question of education, particularly in respect of non-denomination schools. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard the Minutes of the meeting of the Government Members’ Education and Science Committee of 27th April 1971 from which I have just read. [More…]
Most of the parents in these areas have formed themselves into an association known as the Isolated Children Parents Association which represents the most educationally isolated districts in the Commonwealth. [More…]
The purpose of the Association is to bring to the attention of the public and the Government the isolated rural child’s lack of educational opportunities and how children beyond daily reach of school are grossly neglected educationally. [More…]
Their education must be gained by either living away in order to attend school or correspondence lessons in the home. [More…]
However, their taxation allowance for education is the same as that of parents whose children do not incur any accommodation fee. [More…]
The letter deals wilh an answer which the writers received from the State Minister for Education and says in part: [More…]
Looks as if there will be thousands of country children sadly lacking in education if we do not receive help soon and I mean very soon as believe me the people in the country areas are very worried indeed, as we just cannot see how we can educate our children. [More…]
Correspondence schooling with today’s complexity of education makes an unfair and an often impossible demand on the mother’s time and a further drain on near non-existent income if a governess is employed. [More…]
To prevent these children joining the ranks of unemployed and those nearly unemployable because of their low educational standard, immediate assurance of aid must be given to parents, to schools and to hostels to ensure that these children can complete their education. [More…]
It is not right that children of parents who are financially destitute should be condemned to face fife educationally destitute. [More…]
This position will not ease until financial responsibility for education is taken by governments and until they acknowledge their educational obligations and provide for education for all school children. [More…]
That the objectives of the Association be applied to all children irrespective of where they get their education and there be no discrimination where children are schooled across State borders. [More…]
On the subject of education I wish to draw the attention of the House to the Income Tax Assessment Act (No. [More…]
I am aware of some of the problems being faced by parents of children in remote areas in providing proper education for their children and my attention has been drawn to specific difficulties of parents in certain areas of New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. [More…]
The Commonwealth assists the States in meeting their responsibilities in education, including special forms of assistance for parents of children in remote areas, through general financial assistance grants. [More…]
Whilst the Commonwealth periodically reviews the amount of financial support given to the States by way of general purpose funds and also through programmes of direct assistance, it should be remembered that the States have a significant responsibility in education. [More…]
Proposals put to me by organisations representing parents of children in remote areas have bugetary implications and must be considered within the general context of Commonwealth assistance to students and in the light of priorities relating to the distribution of funds allocated for education purposes. [More…]
However, I am not unsympathetic to special claims of these children for assistance and I shall keep under examination ways in which the Commonwealth may assist in raising the level of educational facilities and opportunities available to them. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is specifically responsible. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal fianance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is specifically responsible. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficienciesin education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary education fees for 1972 will cause increased hardship for a significant proportion of tertiary students. [More…]
That tertiary fees and concomitant living costs are a formidable barrier preventing significant numbers of students entering tertiary education who nevertheless have the ability to do so. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary fees for 1972 is immoral, in that Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education are being further restricted to that minimal section of the Australian population who can afford to send their sons and daughters onto higher education. [More…]
That all education should be free including tertiary education. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several Stale Government Departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
No, I cannot give the honourable member that assurance because a short while ago I received a letter from the present Western Australian Minister for Education indicating that the Western Australian Government was considering deferring plans for the veterinary school at Murdoch University. [More…]
Are they concerned that the policies that they pursue will be revealed to the public eye so that it will be seen that one of their objectives is that less aid will be provided for education, following a policy which already is operating in one of the States in which there is a Labor Government? [More…]
I can assure you that any member on this side of the House would be prepared to debate the question of education with any member of the Opposition. [More…]
These Billsthe States Grants (Independent Schools) Bill 1972 and the States Grants (Capital Assistance) Bill 1972 - which we are debating concurrently are a welcome step forward in the task of improving and strengthening our education system in Australia. [More…]
They are an earnest of the Commonwealth’s desire to assist government schools and also the independent schools which play a vitally important role in the fields of primary and secondary education, and many of which find themselves in an increasingly difficult financial situation. [More…]
Of the total revenue of approximately $9,000m estimated to be received by the Commonwealth Government in the financial year 1971-72, almost one third is being paid to the States for various purposes, including education. [More…]
Each State government has the right to determine its own priorities and it is clear from the records that most State governments give education a high priority. [More…]
Whether this would continue under a centralised system of education such as that advocated by the Australian Labor Party amendment in terms of setting up an Australian Schools Commission is, I believe, extremely doubtful. [More…]
I think the odds are that under a centralised system such as that advocated by honourable members opposite the States would tend to give education a lower priority and this would indeed be most unfortunate for education in Australia. [More…]
Government schools and independent schools are complementary and unless the independent schools remain viable an impossibly heavy burden would fall on the government schools and, indeed, the whole present system of primary and secondary education would break down. [More…]
Each year the Commonwealth is making substantially increased amounts available for education in the States, both directly by way of scholarships, science blocks, libraries, teachers colleges and technical colleges, for research grants to universities and so on and also indirectly by way of increasing payments to the State governments. [More…]
The States Grants (Independent Schools) Bill 1972 amends the principal Act of 1969 and increases the rates of per capita grants from $35 to $50 per annum for each pupil receiving primary education and from $50 to $68 per annum for each pupil receiving a secondary education. [More…]
It has been pointed out by the Prime Minister and also by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) that increases in teachers’ salaries in independent schools have risen more steeply in recent times by reason of various awards which have aimed at placing teachers in independent schools on comparable rates with teachers in government schools. [More…]
Somewhere in between we have statements that were made by the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), the Labor Party’s shadow minister for education and science. [More…]
Surely it is not beyond the wit of man to devise in each State a Catholic education authority and an education authority for the other independent schools, to make a grant to them which may be calculated on a per capita basis and for them to be given the right to spend the money according to need. [More…]
We have here an obvious conflict in relation to the interpretation by leading Labor Party spokesmen on Labor’s policy on education and on how an Australian schools commission would operate. [More…]
I am sure that these measures we are now debating and which give effect to the Prime Minister’s promise of 9th December will be widely welcomed as a positive step not only towards maintaining the viability of independent schools as an integral part of our primary and secondary education system but also towards improving the quality of education in all States and also in the Australian Capital Territory and in the Northern Territory. [More…]
My Government will continue to co-operate with the States in measures both direct and indirect to expand and improve education services in government schools. [More…]
Our policy for the independent schools is that, relying on their own efforts and with assistance from governments, they should be able to continue to provide places at a reasonable standard for that proportion of the school population which in the past has sought education in non-government schools. [More…]
I believe the amendment sets out appropriately what should be done by the Commonwealth in the field of education. [More…]
It is time that we had some consideration of what is needed in our education system and some guidelines laid down by which we can examine the worth of moneys expended on education. [More…]
Every now and again the Commonwealth decides, sometimes for educational reasons, sometimes for political reasons, that certain sums of money should be expended on education. [More…]
The basic Commonwealth involvement in education started with the secondary school libraries scheme, which resulted from a completely political decision which had no relevance to the educational value of this scheme. [More…]
1 think it is utterly ridiculous to offer children maximum availability to good class literature at a secondary school if those children have not had the same opportunities in primary school and in their pre-school education, which in most cases does not even exist. [More…]
It is all right for those children who are fortunate enough to go to schools, both state and non-state, which have adequate facilities in this area, but unfortunately the schools which are most likely not to have adequate facilities are those schools attended by children whose parents are most likely not to have had an adequate basis of literary knowledge and an adequate supply of the educational literature which it is desirable that young people have available in their homes, with the end result that those children who start off culturally under-privileged arrive at secondary school, in many cases, without having had the opportunity to make any great progress in their cultural development. [More…]
1 believe that it is placing the cart before the horse to provide secondary school libraries without giving serious consideration to the position of primary schools and, even more importantly in areas in which the basic educational standards of parents is low - these areas are fairly well known to all of us - without taking the necessary action to provide a satisfactory level of pre-school education, which can be vital to a young child starting out. [More…]
These children for that reason were serving their time out in school rather than obtaining an education. [More…]
Some children were obviously aware of the benefits of education and were seeking to gain the maximum possible benefit out of a poor situation, but they were hampered by the general attitude which was adopted to school work. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), by allocating equal amounts of money to all schools, is saying that all schools have equal needs. [More…]
There are areas in which schools require far greater sums of money than do other schools, if they are to reach a decent level of educational achievement. [More…]
The children at that school spent the first 4 years of their secondary education in portable classrooms, with not one permanent building in the place, with no sewerage and with nothing except mud on the ground in the winter. [More…]
Is anyone naive enough to suggest that an adequate education can be provided by teachers, no matter how dedicated or how capable, under those circumstances? [More…]
To suggest that a technical education can be obtained under those circumstances is the height of stupidity. [More…]
Poverty begets poverty because in many cases such children cannot continue their education for economic reasons. [More…]
They have far greater difficulties in obtaining an adequate level of education than do normal children. [More…]
No area of assistance is available to their parents or themselves to provide them with the wherewithal to complete their education, and the older they get the greater the problem becomes because it is rare for parents - especially invalid pensioners and this type of parent - to increase their incomes as they get older. [More…]
So we have a situation where a child of 16, 17 or 18 years who is starting to become a very expensive luxury for any family is trying to cope with an adolescent life with the normal costs of living at that age and obtaining an education on a basic income available to his family of something less than $40 a week and, quite often, something substantially less than $30 a week. [More…]
lt should look into the problems which are faced by people who receive social service benefits from the Commonwealth, because their children are just as entitled to the so-called free education which is supposedly available as is any other group of children in the community, but the Government chooses to pass sentence on them. [More…]
The facts of the matter are that many of the schools in the capital cities are completely unsuited for modern education and need replacing, but while the present system remains and while priorities and expenditures are for new buildings the backlog which obviously exists will continue and these schools will still be used and their educational facilities will remain substandard because of continued use. [More…]
It is difficult to understand the Government’s reluctance to have a public examination of the needs of these schools because there is no such reluctance in respect of the field of university education. [More…]
The institutes of technology and the colleges of advanced education have been easily absorbed into the Commonwealth scheme of things but the Commonwealth apparently feels that there is some tremendous sin involved in taking the same sort of initiatives with regard to secondary schools. [More…]
I find it hard to understand the difference, but 1 think it might be of value to the House to note what one Liberal Party member thinks about how education could be improved in Australia. [More…]
At a recent meeting in Geelong a Liberal member of Parliament was called upon to put his Party’s policy on education. [More…]
He started off by saying that in view of the fact that his Party had no firm policies on education he felt free to say what he liked. [More…]
He indicated to the parents that the only way in which adequate educational facilities could be provided for their children would be for the Government to stop contributing towards their education and for the parents themselves to meet the cost. [More…]
He contended it would involve the parents more and make them more receptive to the educational needs of their children. [More…]
With the money saved the parents could pay for the education of their children instead of the Government doing it for them. [More…]
This was the argument put forward seriously by a member of Parliament - not of this Parliament, incidentally - as a policy to improve educational standards. [More…]
Having listened to this debate and having heard Government supporter after Government supporter putting forward their policies in respect of the government school system, which has to accept children whether it likes it or not and has to provide an education for children whether it likes it or not, I think that the philosophy of not assisting government education is rife among the Government Parties at the moment. [More…]
It is obvious that they have no interest whatsoever in providing an adequate education for those children whose parents cannot afford to meet the cost, for those children who are unfortunate enough to be born underprivileged. [More…]
I believe the amendment proposed by the Opposition should be supported for the very good reason that it is well past the time that a serious study should have been undertaken on the educational needs of children, and an attempt made to meet those needs. [More…]
1 do not think it is in the best interests of education as such to have this device which purports to produce priorities of expenditure within the schooling systems in Australia, centralised in Canberra. [More…]
I am personally entirely in favour of the Karmel Committee report produced for the South Australian Government, authorised by Mrs Steele, then Minister of Education in the Hall Government of South Australia. [More…]
If he will bold his tongue I will be able to say that I am completely convinced that the procedure suggested in the amendment is exactly opposite to the correct way of looking at the future pattern in which education should proceed in this country. [More…]
The Opposition has been in complete disarray throughout this debate mainly because members of the Labor Party do not know what they think themselves on the subjejct of education. [More…]
Senator Murphy takes the view that an Australian Schools Commission would be a means whereby all moneys for education would flow to the State sector. [More…]
He takes the view that it would be a way of starving out of existence the private sector invest ment in education. [More…]
We should have 24 different councils or commissions studying the proper priority of education in all States’. [More…]
The important thing that this Government has to do for education, and it will do it, is to continue to proceed along its present line, knowing that nearly one in four of Australian students at some time attends a private school. [More…]
I am saying that it happens, and anyone who ignores the enormous importance of the private sector investment in education in this country obviously does not know what is going on. [More…]
Let us look, for instance, at the work carried out by the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
Some time ago it produced this publication titled ‘Education and the Gross National Product’. [More…]
Honourable members might well recall that Australia was fairly well down the ladder in terms of public sector expenditure on education. [More…]
That was so for several reasons, the first of them being that we had a bigger private sector investment in education in this country than had any other country in the list compiled for comparison. [More…]
The second reason was the age-old matter of the commodities and types of action that are included under the heading of educational expenditure. [More…]
This excellent publication referred, for example, to the following items: School meals; free milk; health services; national cultural activities - in this country they are subject to another department; scientific research and development - again financed separately through the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and other such bodies; sport; leisure activities; civil education; youth activities; child welfare; public libraries: in-service industrial training; basic nursing training; armed Services colleges; rehabilitation and repatriation training; sponsored foreign students - for instance, the entire implications of the Colombo Plan - radio and television, and interest payments on loans used for school buildings. [More…]
Not one item on that huge list is included under the heading of expenditure on education in this country, yet two, three and even four of them are included under the heading of education by some countries. [More…]
The same principle can be applied to education. [More…]
These items need to be considered when considering the educational performances of different countries. [More…]
One other example from this pamphlet is a country quoted as spending 5.9 per cent of its national income on education. [More…]
But in that country, which is a developing one, there is no free education. [More…]
Yet on the basis of a percentage comparison this country would be assumed to have an education system superior to Australia’s. [More…]
So clearly, unless one has details of the form of economy of a country, its level of development and its education system, comparison on this criterion can be virtually meaningless. [More…]
What should this Parliament and its members be doing to try to improve education in this country? [More…]
The first thing is to look at the expenditure which this country can afford on education. [More…]
Any person who has taken a careful look recently at the quality of education knows the portions of it for which expenditure is most rapidly rising. [More…]
What do we want out of education? [More…]
On the other hand, should reports such as the Karmel committee report be acted upon more promptly and, if they are not, should departments within the States which are responsible for the administration of education be run more as businesses without the undue loss that occurs from time to time? [More…]
In other words, is a superannuated school teacher any better as head of the Department of Education than he is as a member of Parliament? [More…]
I go a stage further and say that I believe it is probably unnecessary to use education as a political stick. [More…]
So I just toss that back perhaps to level up in some way with those on the other side of the House who had the insolence to tackle only one side of the education problem and to insist on ignoring the enormous investment by people from the private sec tor interested in education. [More…]
One of the comments appears in the dissentient report of 2 members of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]
If the honourable member for Kingston wants it to be made quite public in his electorate that he accuses certain churches of religious indoctrination under the guise of education, that is his business. [More…]
We are proud of it and we do not play party politics with education. [More…]
People all over Australia today are ringing through to people like me in a way they have never done before because they have realised at long last that the proposal by the Labor Party for an education commission is designed only to hoodwink the left wing of the Labor Party and that the Labor Party will do nothing about it at all. [More…]
This issue illustrates the basic belief of the Liberal Party in the sort of education which Australians want … [More…]
Many have put the proposition that the Liberal-Country Party Government supports the Catholic education system for political purposes - to get the preferences of the Australian Democratic Labor Party, to get the votes of Catholics and so on. [More…]
To my mind, the Minister for Education and Science has been fairly incompetent in this portfolio. [More…]
Suggestions have been made that the honourable member for Evans (Dr Mackay), the present Minister for the Navy, will become Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Let us examine the attitude and the statements of the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
He spent a fair proportion of his speech on the second reading of this Bill, and he spends a large proportion of question time every day, attacking the South Australian Government and the South Australian Government’s expenditure on education. [More…]
On 5th October 1971 in this House Mr Fraser praised the Government’s attitude in relation to the extra handout to the States, and pointed out how much extra money was being spent on education in the States. [More…]
He made the point that South Australia had increased its budget allocation on primary and secondary education and teacher training by 30 per cent, and that it was the highest in Australia. [More…]
In the same speech, the Minister spoke about the report on the educational needs in the different States. [More…]
What a preposterous proposition to come from this Minister; a Minister who tells us that the main point about private and independent education is that it enables different kinds of methods, class sizes and teacher-student ratios to be tried; who tells us that we do not know how teacher-student ratios and class sizes affect education, but that we must experiment and should not be uniform; who attacks the Labor Party for centralisation and uniformity but does not worry in the least about the much wider gap between teacher-student ratios in State and Catholic schools compared with the sorts of independent schools that he normally suports. [More…]
Recently, the Minister for Education and Science, who suffers from foot in mouth disease, appeared on ‘Monday Conference’ at Macquarie University. [More…]
Now whether you like it or not it’s a fact of life that all the parents who send - or mostly all, anyway - who send their kids to private schools have got a concern for education . [More…]
they’ve got a concern for education and they will therefore encourage their children to stay nl school as long as possible. [More…]
Recently, the Australian Council for Educational Research brought out a paper entitled ‘Some effects of winning a Commonwealth Secondary Scholarship Award’. [More…]
There is an acknowledgment to his Department that this study was made possible by special grant from the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science for research into aspects of the Commonwealth secondary scholarships examination. [More…]
While 17 per cent of parents of CSS award winners in the Brisbane sample, 13 per cent in the Sydney sample, and 14 per cent in the Melbourne sample reported that the award was a big help’ financially, it appears that the award itself was crucial in keeping only (at the most) 1 per cent of the Brisbane sample, 7 per cent .of the Sydney sample, and 4 per cent of the Melbourne sample at school for the purpose of completing secondary education. [More…]
This is exactly the proposition that the Labor Party is and has been putting up right throughout in its policy on education. [More…]
It is a policy that is so terribly obvious that I can well understand that the staff of his Department is looking forward to November 1972 when there will be a new Minister for Education and Science and a government which will have some sensitivity about and some understanding of the real needs of the Australian population in an Australian education system. [More…]
We hear the Minister and honourable members on the other side repeatedly claiming that there is no method of identifying deprived schools or schools which need money, but what do we find in’ the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts? [More…]
At page 57 of the report on the Commonwealth’s Role in Teacher Education the Committee defines a deprived school as being a school in the inner urban or rural areas providing primary education, in which a high proportion of the school population is disadvantaged through background and/or environment. [More…]
But the Minister for Education and Science, who was brought up at Melbourne Grammar or Geelong Grammar, has never talked for any length of time to anybody who did not go to such a school. [More…]
The following day the Leader of the Opposition in this House (Mr Whitlam) attacked the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) for alleging that this schools commission would give assistance to government schools before it gave any to non-government schools. [More…]
It really is an extradordinary situation when the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate makes a statement on Labor’s education policy and is immediately contradicted by the Leader of the Opposition in this House, who is in turn contradicted by his own spokesman on education. [More…]
This seems to stem partly from a dislike of schools run by religious organisations, and partly from a dislike of allowing people to spend their own resources on the education of their children. [More…]
There is everything to be said for diversity in education and indeed I should like to see the independent schools more experimental than they are. [More…]
Similarly I should like to see the State education schemes more decentralised - the direct opposite to the policy of the Labor Party, which would like to see everything concentrated in a bureaucracy in Canberra. [More…]
The Labor policy is a very old-fashioned approach, which is contrary to all the trends of modern education. [More…]
In fact, many such parents are not rich and make great sacrifices in order to provide their children with the education they think best. [More…]
And if the Labor Party succeeded in its unadmitted aim of dismantling the independent school system it would find that the cost of education to the public purse would rise sharply, at the expense of all taxpayers, rich and poor alike. [More…]
Some Opposition speakers have been trying to give the impression that a Labo Government would spend more on education. [More…]
This can only mean that fewer national resources would be available for education under a Labor Government than under the present Government. [More…]
Expenditure on education in Australia has risen from a little below 3 per cent of the gross national product in 1963-64 to probably over 44 per cent this year. [More…]
I hope it will continue to rise, for education is vital to the future of our society. [More…]
But no matter what the organisation or the expenditure, no education system will ever be perfect. [More…]
Turning to tertiary education, a good comparison is the number of tertiary graduates per year per 100,000 inhabitants. [More…]
As I said, our education system is not perfect, but we must not fall into the old Australian trap of excessive knocking. [More…]
Although I believe the continued viability of the independent schools is important, on social, economic and educational grounds, we must never lose sight of the fact that the State school systems are the core of our education system, for they educate three-quarters of our students. [More…]
Labor caucus could be relaxed so that those Opposition members who are genuinely interested in the improvement of educational standards - and there are quite a number - could cross the floor and vote with the Government against this very ill-conceived amendment. [More…]
How many applications were rejected (a) on the grounds of education and (b) for medical reasons. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is specifically responsible. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is specifically responsible. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary education fees for 1972 will cause increased hardship for a significant proportion of tertiary students. [More…]
That tertiary fees and concomitant living costs are a formidable barrier preventing significant numbers of students entering tertiary education who nevertheless have the ability to do so. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary fees for 1972 is immoral, in that Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education are being further restricted to that minimal section of the Australian population who can afford to send their sons and daughters on to higher education. [More…]
That all education should be free including tertiary education. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system; [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government departments; [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a committee of enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
These teachers are, of course, under the control of the Education Departments of the States. [More…]
In relation to the particular matter that he has raised, there have been discussions between officers of my Department and officers of the Victorian Department of Education. [More…]
We are concerned with the quality of education in all schools and we are concerned, so far as it is possible to achieve it, to establish equality of opportunity for all Australian school children, and there is evidence to support that view. [More…]
The great growth in education in the secondary area has been the growth in government secondary education. [More…]
Over the last 10 years the number of 15 to 18 year olds in full time education has risen from 25 per cent to 42 per cent, and by far the greater part of that increase has been in government institutions and government secondary schools. [More…]
They are prepared to reduce their general standard of life in other ways in order to provide that kind of education for one of a great number of reasons which they believe to be good. [More…]
To establish an Australian schools commission, whose purpose would be to determine the fate of the 10,000 government and independent schools around Australia, would be to turn the State education departments into mere post boxes with no real authority of any kind. [More…]
I will make it quite plain that it is the Australian Labor Party’s interpretation expressed through its spokesmen on education in this debate. [More…]
The proposed Australian schools commission, as has been revealed in this debate not by the Labor Party’s spokesman on education but by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, would quite plainly determine the total future of government and independent schools throughout Australia. [More…]
That would have the effect of turning the State education departments into post boxes. [More…]
The proposed schools commission would apparently have authority to establish the circumstances in which teachers could be moved from one school to another, not on the judgment of the education authority particularly concerned - the State department, the Catholic Education Office or the independent schools - but again on the judgment of a centralised Australian schools commission. [More…]
This is what is advocated at a time when what is needed is a much greater decentralisation of educational authority and the giving of greater initiative and authority to parents and teachers in their own particular school areas. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition tried to make some point of the fact that the estimates of educational expenditure which had been promised by the Opposition had varied from about $300m in 1969 to $546m at the present time. [More…]
I think he said that the education policy was identical; that it had not altered. [More…]
There’ have also been very substantial rises in the cost of tertiary education, particularly teacher education, under the impact of the minimum requirement of 3 years’ training in a teachers’ college and costs generally in schools have risen by 30 per cent to 40 per cent since 1969. [More…]
The differences between the statement by Senator Murphy and the sorts of statements that often come from Labor Party spokesmen on education are certainly very marked indeed. [More…]
There was an aberration from the honourable member for Fremantle when speaking in an education debate late last year on the Prime Minister’s announcement of $20m being made available in capital funds and of increased funds being made available to independent schools. [More…]
That is a third and different twist to the Australian Labor Party’s platform and policy on education. [More…]
It can leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that it would represent a complete Commonwealth takeover insofar as education is concerned. [More…]
While Tasmania provided, I think, 37 per cent of its additional funds for education, Victoria provided a little over 30 per cent and New South Wales provided about 20 per cent, South Australia provided only $400,000 or a bit less than 10 per cent of its additional funds and Western Australia, despite a denial by the Premier of that State, has not yet as I understand it announced any figure out of the additional funds made available to that State, which I think totalled $2.99m, as going to education. [More…]
That shows quite plainly that education promise and performance are 2 different things to a Labor Party in Opposition and a Labor Party in government. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingston said that capital expenditure on education per child in government schools in South Australia is in fact the highest in Australia. [More…]
Again, if one looks at the total per capita recurrent expenditure made available by the different States for education it will be found that South Australia comes third on the list and not first, contrary to the impression that the honourable member for Kingston tried to provide. [More…]
The funds made available by the 2 Bills which we are debating will enable the quality of education to be improved in the government sector and it will enable the independent sector to overcome some of the extremely serious difficulties with which it is faced as a result of rises in recurrent costs. [More…]
Nobody would pretend that these are the last measures that the Government has in mind in relation to education or in relation to these sorts of facilities, but they are measures provided to cover a difficult period and provide additional finance both to the government sector and to the independent sector where it is very much needed. [More…]
The report of the Fifth Commonwealth Education Conference states in paragraph 33: [More…]
Among other measures, they need to provide appropriate physical conditions; to provide appropriate conditions of employment; to accept the obligation to provide adequate initial training; to establish minimum qualifications for the employment of teachers; to accept the obligation to provide opportunity for upgrading of teachers through in-service education and to be responsible for the removal of petty restrictions; to provide opportunities for regular consultation between teachers, administrators and planners. [More…]
This we feel would certainly be achieved by the Commonwealth if it were to establish a free teaching service because if you have a body of trained teachers available for educational authorities to draw upon, seeking to attract them in competition, it is very likely that they will comply with those conditions set out in paragraph 34 about the status and the conditions of teachers. [More…]
I do not imagine that the honourable gen tlemen opposite, however much they may agree with everything that the Minister says about the private sector of education, can be happy about the not very subtle downgrading of the status of State schools in every utterance that the Minister makes, as happened today. [More…]
I am perfectly sure that if the Commonwealth Government made more funds available the South Australian State Government would spend them very heartily in any sector of education. [More…]
But after 34 years of Playford and a form of education very similar to that in Victoria where private education as elitist education for long was far superior to that of the State, there was a need for upgrading the status of State schools. [More…]
There is no central Labor authority directing each State government, whether it is of a Labor character or not, what it shall do in education, saying to the South Australian Government, for example ‘You shall do the same as Western Australia’ or to Western Australia ‘You shall do the same as South Australia’. [More…]
If, for instance, we took over the financing of tertiary education entirely and made the same grant to the States and said ‘The additional money that you will have because you are no longer burdened with tertiary education you are to spend as you see fit’ each of the State governments would be answerable for the way in which they spent the money. [More…]
When the Minister is speaking, as he often is, about the further decentralisation of education, bringing into the educational process the interests of local communities, he advances the argument that the minds of qualified people in the community brought to bear on educational problems are a valuable addition to the government of education. [More…]
We accept that argument and we will be interested to watch how the Minister will vote on our amendment providing for the representation of the community generally and specialised educational research bodies in the advisory council, not a governing council, to assist what we hope will be 3 commissioners responsible to the Minister, not one commissioner responsible to the Public Service Board. [More…]
That may not be the only explanation for his acerbity in this particular matter because I detect from what he had to say a somewhat excessive inclination to believe the worst of this Bill, of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and of those who advised him, although, of course, they were not mentoned in the process. [More…]
It might well have been that this service was made a direct arm of the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science. [More…]
There is an assumption that we are envisaging an education system and that there are very considerable things of an educative kind which are contemplated. [More…]
He seems to imply - I may do him an injustice - that we are talking about something that for the moment is a direct parallel with the State education systems. [More…]
It happens to be a part of the New South Wales Teachers Federation and when giving evidence before the Rydge Committee which was considering a- short time ago a possible education commission in New South Wales, the Federation said: [More…]
The restoration to democratic parliamentary control through a responsible Minister of many matters now only decided by reference to the (Public Service) Board, will be among the important results of setting up the proposed education commission. [More…]
The second is: for the heightening of professional standards of teachers in the Commonwealth Teaching Service by empowering the Commission to negotiate for the establishment of faculties of education in universities where necessary, including the Australian National University. [More…]
As I said earlier, we have a proposal for a Commonwealth teaching service - not a Commonwealth education service nor at this stage a Commonwealth teacher training service - for the administration, enlistment, provision of qualifications, salaries and other such matters in relation to the people who are to teach. [More…]
I am not quite sure why the service should have the power to negotiate for establishing faculties of education anywhere at this stage. [More…]
Having had something to do with faculties of education in a reasonably direct way and certainly in a constant indirect way in universities, I think that those institutions or their equivalent will be able to cater for that proposition as well as anybody and better than most. [More…]
I do not see it as the function of the Commonwealth teaching service to push for educational faculties here, there or anywhere else. [More…]
I say so as a trained teacher who for a short period of time operated under the limitations and restrictions of the New South Wales Department of Education, such as it was then, a department which was probably excessively bureaucratic, although understandably bureaucratic up to a point, given its size. [More…]
It may be that advice has come from heavily authoritarian members of the Department of Education and Science and from a heavily authoritarian Minister who are hell bent upon setting up a structure which will absolutely incarcerate those people who come into the service. [More…]
The honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon), who has just spoken in this debate, made some remarkable statements about education. [More…]
They are all the more remarkable when one has vividly in mind what the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) had to say this afternoon when dealing with another education Bill. [More…]
At the time the Minister was chiding the Labor Party about its proposal for an Australian educational commission. [More…]
He said that it would be a great bureaucratic structure which would try to dictate education through the length and breadth of the land. [More…]
Yet the honourable member for Denison has just said that he saw no great merit in having participation in the policy making and administration of education by the community at large. [More…]
Department of Education to cease making teachers available for service in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
It is not a particularly inspiring or new approach to education in the Bill. [More…]
This is a feature of Australian education that is notoriously absent Almost every educationist who visits Australia is amazed at the rather bureaucratic and dictatorial control of our educational set up. [More…]
We talk so glibly about education for a democracy, but the model we offer to students in the classrooms is in so many respects still a very dictatorial or bureaucratic control. [More…]
Yet honourable members opposite will still talk glibly about education for a democracy. [More…]
There is certainly no democratic participation in our educational scheme. [More…]
As I said previously, it is belittling the professional status of teachers and it is disregarding the genuine rights of parents, citizens and all those in the community who not only pay the piper but also have a definite interest in the educational process. [More…]
Not only will we deny teachers, parents and other specially interested groups a say in the running of the educational process; but in this Bill we even deny them any participation by way of their serving on an advisory council. [More…]
Even in our State systems of education there are advisory bodies. [More…]
In the Department of Technical Education there are advisory bodies on courses, on curricula and on college administration, and all these bodies have advisory committees. [More…]
responsibilities bring the right kind of judgment to bear on the running of an educational body? [More…]
An educational body, by its very nature, requires its own authority. [More…]
As I have said, in many States strong pressure has been exerted to remove, education authorities from the supervision of the Public Service Board. [More…]
We suggest that before that teacher can be sent to teach in the Northern Territory or in Papua New Guinea or Norfolk Island his or her consent should be obtained to transfer him or her from the authority which controls education in Canberra. [More…]
It refers to all sorts of educational implications about pupil-teacher ratios, class loads, teaching loads and so on. [More…]
If that is true it will be bureaucracy gone mad, especially in such a diverse educational scene as the one to which I am referring. [More…]
In this respect the Australian Labor Party’s amendment has proposed that the Commissioner negotiate with the universities to establish faculties of education wherever they are needed, particularly at the Australian National University, to uplift the professional standards of teachers. [More…]
Firstly, it is designed to democratise the policy making and administrative procedures of the service and to gain a genuine community involvement in the educational process. [More…]
Thirdly, it aims to divorce education from the rigidities of Public Service Board control. [More…]
The Bill should be designed to establish a model teaching service not only containing all that is best in the current State systems of education but also seizing the opportunity to innovate and create new standards. [More…]
However, it does little or nothing in this direction, preferring rather to establish an educational system modelled on the Commonwealth Public Service and reflecting Public Service attitudes. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science, in presenting the Bill, specifically rejects many of the submissions of the Australian Teachers’ Federation, and, in so doing, ignored the status of teaching as a profession and its consequential duty to run its own affairs. [More…]
Those views are essentially conservative in matters of education and procedures and are opposed to employee representation in decision-making. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science has recognised the difficulty in defining efficiency but the Bill’s very use of the term and its definition within the Bill as an alliance of qualifications, aptitude, merit, diligence and good conduct raises the whole question of what education’ is as a professional activity. [More…]
The point is that in a modern approach to the educational process in which the teacher is seen as a ‘resource’ it is excessively difficult to measure his teaching against another’s. [More…]
Therefore, in rejecting the submission of the Teachers Federation that more weight should be given to seniority, the Government is not merely asserting a belief in promotion by merit, but making assumptions about the educational process that educationists would regard as totally unacceptable. [More…]
The whole Bill is characterised by an approach which, despite the statement of the Minister for Education and Science that the Commonwealth Teaching Service should be outside the Public Service, is nevertheless heavily permeated with Public Service approaches to employment. [More…]
Such an inhibition of professional freedom to engage in public educational debate is contrary to the spirit of any profession and an obvious example of the Public Service approach to the establishment of a Commonwealth Teaching Service. [More…]
Once again, such provisions of the Bill are examples of a conservative rather than an enlightened spirit or approach and also of a bureaucratic approach to education questions. [More…]
In all such matters the Minister for Education and Science says that the Government would expect consultation with teachers, yet the Bill does not statutorily provide for any such consultation. [More…]
But this shows a false analysis of the nature of educational administration, again revealing a Public Service attitude to the whole problem. [More…]
The point is that, whether at the level of the Commissioner or at the advisory council level, it is essential not to divorce administration from the educational process. [More…]
Effective education depends on an administrative, structure in which education as such is the predominant interest. [More…]
An example of this is the staffing of Education Departments in the States with ex-teachers. [More…]
Otherwise, the competition will be unfair and one more consequence of the shortfall of $ 1,433m between the real needs of education in the States and the amount the States in fact can provide. [More…]
Again in relation to the submissions of the Australian Teachers Federation, the Minister for Education and Science claims that it is not possible to specify whom the Commissioner should regard as qualified for employment. [More…]
But of course, in the Government’s mind education is simply another branch of the Public Service. [More…]
It is against all professional and current educational concepts and directions. [More…]
This is one occasion on which one, in a very qualified, modified, quiet and modest way can issue some congratulations to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
However, on our side of the House, there is an education committee which started to examine this legislation the night it was introduced and as time went on it became more apparent that there were problems in it which we found difficult to resolve without further consultation. [More…]
The history of the Commonwealth’s activities in education shows some characteristics which I feel are implicit in this Bill. [More…]
First of all, the Commonwealth has come late, reluctantly and diffidently to the business of education. [More…]
Fifteen years ago, when one spoke about education in this place, he would be told it was a State matter and that it was no concern of this Government. [More…]
The Commonwealth provides grants to the States for education in a hit and miss way. [More…]
The granting of State aid seems to have been designed to influence the ballot box rather than being concerned about education itself. [More…]
I ask the honourable member for the Australian Capital Territory (Mr Enderby), my technical adviser on education in this area, whether I am right in that [More…]
I have always said, and I say it still, that this is a very good opportunity for an experiment in Australian education administration. [More…]
We ought to be attempting to solve some of those problems which are part of the critical basis of education in Australia particularly the teaching services. [More…]
In raising the salary of a qualified person with an Arts degree and a Diploma in Education or some other postgraduate qualification in another service it would involve 10, 20 or 100 persons but when dealing with teaching services it may mean dealing with thousands. [More…]
Therefore, there has been a tendency inside the Australian education system to keep the pay for qualified teachers lower than people with equal qualifications in other areas. [More…]
If one looks at the second reading speech of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) one finds almost nothing at all said about that. [More…]
The Government was faced suddenly as if it had fallen out of bed on the wrong side with the prospect that the New South Wales Government would sooner or later do the same thing, certainly with the approach of the oft talked about crisis in education. [More…]
But what if this Minister, giving him credit, is no longer the Minister for Education and Science tomorrow? [More…]
Suppose he is replaced by somebody else who has a different style, a different method and different approach to education. [More…]
It might not be a waste of time if I mention the history of the campaign, if I may call it that, for better education in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The Australian Capital Territory is an unusual part of the Commonwealth in one sense, not because the people here regard themselves as entitled to any better treatment by way of education than the rest of their fellow citizens throughout the Commonwealth although they are very concerned about education. [More…]
The Australian Capital Territory has 5 times the national average of people possessing tertiary education or higher school certificates or the equivalent. [More…]
If one looks at the correspondence pages of the ‘Canberra Times’ one sees that there are periods when they literally erupt with letters on the question of education. [More…]
Honourable members would know that I present a petition on education here in one form or another almost every day asking for one of 2 things - an inquiry into education in the Australian Capital Territory to precede the setting up of an independent authority here, and the setting up of an independent authority. [More…]
of clause 16 provision is made for the authority in the Northern Territory to be the Department of Education and Science which now is the authority. [More…]
The honourable member said also that there would be no flexibility in the setup as it relates to the Commissioner but I remind him that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said in his second reading speech: [More…]
In the Northern Territory schools will be under the existing authority, that is, the Director of Education. [More…]
I look forward to its being a tremendous step forward in the education of students in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Part (b) of the amendment reads: for the heightening of professional standards of teachers in the Commonwealth Teaching Service by empowering the Commission to negotiate for the establishment of Faculties of Education in universities where necessary, including the Australian National University. [More…]
the Commissioner would have power to do that if he believed it to be in the interests of the Commonwealth Teaching Service and of the education authorities or departments to which he has a responsibility to supply teachers. [More…]
I must admit that there are some differing views about the way in which that committee believes the Commonwealth Teaching Service might affect some future Australian Capital Territory education authority. [More…]
I have tried to suggest to them that TI will not and, in fact, will open up options for future education in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Concerning the structure of the school establishment, this is more appropriate to be dealt with by an education authoritymy Department for the Northern Territory, or the Department of the Interior for schools in the Australian Capital Territory - than by the Commonwealth Teaching Service. [More…]
The Commissioner will not be concerned with the education policies of the school systems to which Commonwealth teachers are made available. [More…]
The number of classifications and types of schools, the operations of those schools, the planning, design, construction and maintenance of school buildings and other educational facilities of the particular systems would all be matters within the responsibility of the education authority which is at the moment either my Department or the Department of the Interior. [More…]
One of the questions that has been raised by teachers in the Australian Capital Territory and by other people is the respective responsibilities of the education authority and the Commonwealth Teaching Service. [More…]
I think that a good part of the misconceptions and misunderstandings have occurred because people felt that the Commonwealth Teaching Service would be doing some or many of the things for which an education authority would be responsible. [More…]
It is necessary to reiterate that there will be a division of responsibility between the Commissioner ind an education authority. [More…]
The education authority will be responsible for the opera:on of a school system. [More…]
It is necessary to emphasise that an education authority will have the responsibility for obtaining, through the normal means, Appropriation Acts, the funds necessary to employ members of the Commonwealth Teaching Service. [More…]
The Commissioner will meet the demands of education authorities for teachers, but those demands will of course have to have regard to the way in which the authority intends using the funds made available to it. [More…]
It was this thought which led to the statement in my second reading speech that the education authorities will determine in the wider sense the composition of the Teaching Service. [More…]
The question of what effect the determinations by education authorities will have on the establishment, that is on the number of teachers to be employed to meet the requirements set down by the education authorities, will be a matter which will be determined having regard to the duties and responsibilities set down by the Commissioner in respect of each classification of teaching. [More…]
I regard this as a power that, in large measure, is likely to be delegated to the education authority. [More…]
They have suggested that such an arrangement does not provide for any real appeal from the original provisional promotion, lt is envisaged that the Commissioner will delegate to education authorities the responsibility for making provisional promotions in respect of promotion positions in their schools. [More…]
If there are no appeals the Commissioner would merely confirm the promotions made by the education authority. [More…]
In nominating the member of a promotions appeal board the Commissioner would have regard to the need to place on that board a person who would have direct knowledge of the education system and of the duties of the particular position under consideration. [More…]
Therefore his nominee would be very likely a member of the education authority. [More…]
I think the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) would be aware that the Bill provides for a complete departure from what we have known in the past in regard to teaching services, particularly in the North ern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, where the services have been under the wing of 2 different States. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science can laugh with his colleague at the table but he should be listening to what is being said on this side of the House. [More…]
If the Minister for Education and Science would listen to what I am saying, the amendment has for its purpose - this is most important - the avoidance of industrial disputes, because it would provide representation at the top level. [More…]
The Commonwealth cannot mandatorily make people availableto the State education departments unless the State departments want Commonwealth teachers to be employed in the State departments. [More…]
After we had had serious fights with the Victorian Department of Education about the requirements of that Department in that teachers had to come to Australia for an interview - one of them was teaching in Ethiopia - the Victorian Teachers Union doubted the applicants’ qualifications; then we had our final tussle with that remarkable revolutionary, the then Minister for Immigration. [More…]
One of the things that is happening in Victoria, and perhaps in other States too, is that local schools are taking the initiative in advertising for staff and therefore we do not really need to wait for the initiative of the education departments. [More…]
I am sure that he could have no objection to this amendment, which asks that a teacher, before being posted to a particular education authority, should have the opportunity of consenting or otherwise to such an appointment. [More…]
I do not think the system will be as difficult to operate as the honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon) and the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) anticipate. [More…]
It believes that this reserve power will be essential, not necessarily between educational areas - the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory - but perhaps within an area. [More…]
I point out to the Committee that the Commonwealth in the Commonwealth Teaching Service is taking a more advanced view of some of the matters relating to the appointment of teachers and their postings than do the States because we have specifically made our moves for establishing our own teaching service and, of course, developing our own education systems without the bonding of teachers which is characteristic of all of the States. [More…]
It is important not only in terms of goodwill between countries but it is also a good thing for the cross fertilisation of ideas in education and inter-cultural relationships. [More…]
It would be a good thing for education to have a great deal more interchange of teachers and their ideas of running educational systems. [More…]
As far as I have been able to ascertain, I think that the Commissioner will have the power inside Australia to do all sorts of things regarding the education system and the people who will teach in it. [More…]
We are expected to sit here in the middle of the night with an incompetent Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and an incompetent Government trying to ram the Bill down our necks without proper discussion. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]
My authority is a volume publised by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare which I obtained from the Parliamentary Library. [More…]
Why has he attacked this large body of responsible people in our community - people with public school backgrounds, people with tertiary education, people who have often held commissioned rank in the armed services when they so willingly served this nation? [More…]
During the last week of sittings the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made some quite false and misleading statements about what was being done in the education field in Western Australia. [More…]
Mr Tonkin, yesterday rejected a claim by the Federal Minister for Education and Science, Mr Fraser, that the Western Australian Government had failed to put its claims on education into effect. [More…]
Honourable members will realise that these words, having been spoken by Mr Dettinan, Director-General of Education, before the recent incident occurred, are a reliable reflection of the true position in the State of Western Australia: [More…]
State Government giving its education policy priority over almost everything in its thinking. [More…]
Education had been put in a privileged position. [More…]
The 883m allocated in the last State Budget the increase of St .2m in loan funds and the proposed free text book scheme for primary school children were big steps forward in education. [More…]
The concessions given to education with allow a lot to be done to improve the State education system. [More…]
The fact that the Government was straining its resources to make the concessions indicated its feelings about education. [More…]
The Education Department had 2 main aims. [More…]
It was striving to overcome the backlog in education and to replace outmoded buildings. [More…]
But the way the Government treated education in the last Budget made this task much easier. [More…]
But the Minister for Education and Science has perpetrated the same sort of thing again. [More…]
The Minister tried to imply that the Western Australian Education Department is somehow discriminating against rural industries and that the Western Australian Government is discriminating against rural areas. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science is trying to abuse question time to make cheap political points which are quite baseless, misleading and mischievous. [More…]
To give a further indication that this is so, I would like to read from the ‘Countryman’ of 9th March a report headed Rural Education to be Improved’. [More…]
Improvements will be made to the education system in rural areas the Minister for Education, Mr T. D. Evans, said this week. [More…]
The action follows a special departmental committee’s study on rural education. [More…]
The committee, under the chairmanship of the Director-General of Education, Mr H. W. Denman, had paid special attention to facilities available to children in rural and remoter areas. [More…]
- The principal targets for action were the junior high schools and correspondence education. [More…]
It is in marked contrast - and I underline that - to the situation that existed under the previous government when under a Country Party Minister for Education there were moves to downgrade country education that would have been carried into effect if there had not been an outcry in all country areas. [More…]
So the situation is quite the opposite to that which is stated by the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
But perhaps the greatest concern of all is the lack of education opportunities for the children who live in isolated areas. [More…]
At Bourke the people were concerned mainly about” the education of children from the isolated areas. [More…]
People came as far as 60 miles to attend this meeting or to ask me what I had been doing to get education facilities for the children who live in this isolated area. [More…]
The Open University in Britain is a most interesting experiment in providing university type education for people who, for various reasons, have been unable to study at the more traditional institutions. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system: [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments: [More…]
Your petitioners therfore humbly pray that a Committee of Enquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to enquire into the form that an Australian Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underly it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
On the last sitting day the Minister for Education and Science, in moving the second reading of the Australian Institute of Marine Science Bill, voiced concern at the possible pollution of the marine environment by a proposed nickel smelter atTownsville. [More…]
This is a matter that the Leader of the Opposition raised at the end of the last sessional period, and it has been referred to, in a different way, by the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education and Science seen a statement in today’s Press attributed to a Labor member of Parliament that Government grants to private schools are corrupt? [More…]
-The Minister for Education and Science. “ [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made certain allegations about me. [More…]
In commenting on why I made those statements let me say that the reasons that he gave today as to why the facilities for education in the Australian Capital Territory are so outstanding amount, in my opinion, to a philosophy of portability of privilege for public servants. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Which departments of colleges of advanced education were unable to meet enrolment demands at the commencement of the 1972 academic year and what are the details in each case. [More…]
I am advised that details of enrolments and exclusions in colleges of advanced education for 1972 will not be available for some time. [More…]
This household sample survey, conducted quarterly by the Bureau of Census and Statistics, supplies regular information about the labour force and from time to time includes supplementary surveys on topics such as child care; education; chronic illnesses; injuries and impairments; journey to work; multiple jobholding; and superannuation. [More…]
Collections of duty on petrol form part of the Commonwealth’s general revenues from which its commitments are financed, including expenditure on defence, education, social welfare and assistance to rural industry. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What percentage of students at (a) universities and (b) colleges of advanced education in the States are training to be teachers. [More…]
What percentages of teacher trainees is attending (a) universities and (b) colleges of advanced education in the States and hold (i) university and (ii) advanced education scholarships. [More…]
In 1971, 15.7 per cent of students enrolled in undergraduate courses at universities and 5 per cent of students enrolled at colleges of advanced education, were training to become teachers. [More…]
Private students (students other than those studying under a State education department scholarship or fellowship) enrolled for teacher education courses at universities and colleges of advanced education are included only if they are also enrolled at a teachers college. [More…]
The number of students holding Commonwealth University and Advanced Education scholarships who propose to enter the teaching profession is not known. [More…]
In 1971 there were 627 students holding Commonwealth University scholarships enrolled in degree and diploma courses in education at universities. [More…]
A further 577 students holding Commonwealth Advanced Education scholarships were enrolled in courses of teacher education and at government and non-government teachers’ colleges, including kindergarten training colleges. [More…]
Students holding State Government teacher training awards are subject to the conditions of bonds and because of this are not eligible to hold Commonwealth University or Advanced Education scholarships. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of government education services has established serious deficiencies in education, the most important areas being a severe shortage of teachers, inadequate accommodation, and, as a result, oversized classes. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the House of Representatives in Parliament assembled will take immediate steps to make emergency Federal finance available to the States for State school education, and divert the large sums of public money being spent on private schools, to the government school system for which the government is truly responsible. [More…]
That there is a likelihood that education in the Australian Capital Territory will in the foreseeable future be made independent of the New South Wales education system. [More…]
That the decentralisation of education systems throughout Australia is educationally and administratively desirable, and is now being studied by several State Government Departments. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that a Committee of Inquiry, on which are represented the Department of Education and Science, institutions of tertiary education, practising educators, and the Canberra community, be instituted to inquire into the form that an Australia Capital Territory Education Authority should take, the educational principles and philosophy that should underlie it, and its mode of operation and administration. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the House of the degree of increase of expenditure by governments on state primary and secondary education since the Commonwealth per capita grants were begun? [More…]
Since 1968- 69, which was the year before Commonwealth per capita payments were introduced, government expenditure on primary schools has increased by S3 per cent or roughly from $200 to a little over $300 a pupil, and in secondary education it has gone up from $350 to $527 a pupil. [More…]
I am certain that the Minister for Education and Science will also be able to answer a question without notice from me about the cost of educational programmes. [More…]
My question concerns the cost of providing all eligible children with pre-school education of the nature and standard now provided in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I ask for leave to make a short statement to correct a factually incorrect statement made by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) at question time yesterday regarding the way in which the Senate Labor Opposition voted last week on the State Grants (Independent Schools) Bill. [More…]
However probably more relevant to the point is that the Public Service Board is responsible for employment in such a diverse and extensive service that one can hardly expect it to have expertise in a particular field such as education. [More…]
It is true that the trend all over Australia has been to try to divest public service boards of control over education. [More…]
I know that in recent times in New South Wales there has been an insistence that at least one member of the board be somebody who is quite knowledgeable in the matter of education. [More…]
However there has been a public campaign to establish an educational commission. [More…]
The Liberal and Country Parties in New South Wales back in about 1965, before they formed a government, promised to bring in such a commission, the whole idea being that it would bring more understanding into the administration of education if it had its own control. [More…]
It was suggested, of course, that the education commission would be representative of teachers themselves, the practitioners in the field; that it would have represented on it also parent organisations and various other interested community organisations. [More…]
Unfortunately, when the Liberal Party and the Country Party did come into power in New South Wales they had second thoughts on the matter for some sort of domestic political reasons and they did not go ahead with the idea of an education commission of the type that they had promised in 1965. [More…]
Education should have its own administration and should not be subject to any kind of veto or sanction from a very busy body such as the Public Service Board which is responsible for nearly a quarter of a million employees, which is responsible for all the Commonwealth departments and can exercise some sanction over various statutory bodies that come under the Commonwealth’s control. [More…]
For example, if he could only adopt Dedman principles in relation to banking, social organisation and the development of education generally, there would be a big improvement. [More…]
I indicated that for the Northern Territory the authority is the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
Unless this Bill comes to apply in the Australian Capital Territory, unless the Commonwealth either through the Department of Education and Science or through a separate statutory body comes to have specific control over all education in the Australian Capital Territory - that would involve the replacement of the agreement with New South Wales - the Bill does not apply. [More…]
In the Northern Territory the word ‘authority’ means the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
If the Government saw fit to adopt the ATF recommendation of 3 commissioners, the Public Service Board could be bypassed and allowance, made for a free interchange of ideas between the commissioners, one of whom could be appointed by the Minister, one by the education authority perhaps, and one by the teachers association. [More…]
The issue we are discussing is a fundamental one - Public Service Board control over education. [More…]
I think the honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi) put his finger right on the matter when he said that in this Bill the Government has failed to provide the kind of control that ought to be provided, namely, that there should be 3 commissioners one of whom would represent the teaching service thus giving teachers a professional dignity and democratic participation in the service in which they work, one representating other interested sections of the community, and a third representative appointed by the Minister for Education and Science or the Government. [More…]
With due respect, we are talking about the control of education. [More…]
Once the Commissioner, or any authority, is given power to determine salaries and promotional opportunities in the Service he is going to have a lot to do with the quality of education that we get in our community. [More…]
I wish to deal with a couple of points which have arisen from the remarks of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science was correct when he said there are statutory bodies outside of the Commonwealth Public Service in which the Public Service Board has an obligation to maintain certain levels of relativity. [More…]
A man may be an excellent headmaster and a poor school inspector but if the headmastership is to be awarded because the man chosen is one who may be promoted to a more senior counselling position in the education department, then those who apply for the position are being subjected to adverse considerations which they cannot reasonably anticipate. [More…]
Clearly the education authority - at the moment it is my Department in the Northern Territory and, if there is to be an independent authority in the Australian Capital Territory, it would be that authority in the Australian Capital Territory - would have the closest knowledge of the aptitudes and efficiencies of the teachers because it is the authority running the schools. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) will recall that on 22nd March, as reported at page 1019 of Hansard, during the second reading debate on this Bill I incorporated 2 tables, one showing the new promotions scheme for South Australian teachers and the other showing the assessment of eligibility for promotion to deputy headmaster. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) will give his personal attention, in the few months which he has left to him in his high office, to the general question of how one decides efficiency and who is to decide it. [More…]
One of the great difficulties from which the Australian education system has suffered over so many years has been the very authoritarian way in which the inspectorate has been able to come along and make some kind of measurement of people. [More…]
I place on record the wish that the Minister for Education and Science will pay close attention to this matter. [More…]
I agree with that argument, as does the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
I am pleased that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has accepted the amendments. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has been singularly co-operative here through the day, and that is appreciated- [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to inform me what this means. [More…]
by leave - I have 2 or 3 questions to put to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
I do not know whether the Minister for Education and Science can or should define in the Committee stage of a debate the disgraceful or improper conduct referred to in clause 35 (10.) [More…]
Any Minister for Education and Science would want a person with those characteristics. [More…]
With the greatest of respect to magistrates and retired magistrates, one would hope that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is thinking of someone with more proximity to teaching experience to appoint as Commonwealth Teaching Service Commissioner than a retired magistrate. [More…]
I direct the attention of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to clause 35 (10.) [More…]
We would expect that, at least initially, he would take over the scheme of unbonded scholarships for teacher education introduced by the Commonwealth from the beginning of this year. [More…]
I think we have taken a progressive step in the Commonwealth sphere by making scholarships to the College of Advanced Education in Canberra available on an unbonded basis. [More…]
Assuming that person fronts a civil court and is acquitted, would the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm [More…]
I regret that round Australia there seem to have been departures from these standards, more at the tertiary level of education, and some have argued that a lecturer or a professor at a university was entitled to be personally involved with his students. [More…]
The organisation seeks to have the publication recategorised into category A because under the present conditions the organisation, which is doing a great deal to further the cause of education in South Australia, is suffering a financial penalty. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary education fees for 1972 will cause increased hardship for a significant proportion of tertiary students. [More…]
That tertiary fees and concomitant living costs are a formidable barrier preventing significant numbers of students entering tertiary education who nevertheless have the ability to do so. [More…]
That the increase in tertiary fees for 1972 is immoral, in that Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education are being further restricted to that minimal section of the Australian population who can afford to send their sons and daughters onto higher education. [More…]
That all education should be free including tertiary education. [More…]
Will the honourable gentleman inform me whether, before this action, he consulted the Minister for Education and Science or any of the State Ministers for Education? [More…]
We had no regulation upon which to declare the book a prohibited import either with respect to the section on education or the section on drugs. [More…]
The chapter on education contains good advice and bad advice. [More…]
The paper before the House shows a marked advance on the last full-scale defence statement made in March 1970 by the then Minister for Defence, who is now the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Will be bring up to date the information which former Ministers have given on pre-school education on 25 February 1969 (Hansard, page 120) and 21 August 1970 (page 424). [More…]
In respect of pre-school education in the Northern Territory, I draw the Honourable Member’s attention to my predecessor’s answer to Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice - [More…]
They do not include Commonwealth direct recurrent funds provided under the Child Migrant Education Programme which commenced in April 1970; funds provided for government schools to 30 June 1970 totalled $109,000. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Has the reduction in expenditure by the Commonwealth on migrant education resulted in the closing of more than 100 evening continuation classes in New South Wales. [More…]
The closing of classes was not the result of any reduction in expenditure by the Commonwealth on migrant education. [More…]
Prior to the Government’s announcement of new initiatives in migrant education in April 1970, expenditure had been to the order of $1 million annually. [More…]
The need for the review was referred to in the Government’s announcement of new initiatives in migrant education in April 1970 which foreshadowed also a transfer in emphasis to more accelerated and specialised forms of instruction which would be better suited to the needs of individual groups of migrants. [More…]
The experimental television education project being conducted in conjunction with WIN Channel 4, Wollongong, is expected to provide the basis in due course for an Australia-wide programme. [More…]
That the Australian Education Council’s report on the needs of State education services has established serious deficiencies in education. [More…]
Ensure that emergency finance from the Commonwealth will be given to the States for their public education services which provide schooling for seventy-eight per cent of Australia’s children. [More…]
A fortnight ago I asked the Minister for Education and Science whether he himself had succeeded in estimating the cost or whether he had commissioned the Policy and Development Division of his Department to estimate the cost of providing all eligible children in Australia with pre-school education of the nature and standard now provided in the Australian Capital Territory and he replied that information available to him indicated that the capital cost alone would be SI 60m if not more. [More…]
This is, I think, a normal service that the Department supplies and if there ever is - and I do not think there will be for some time - an Opposition Minister for Education and Science I have no doubt that the Department will supply this information in precisely the same way. [More…]
When one comes to look at the great fields that the States are still called upon to fulfil - education being a principal one, health to a degree, public order, public transport, irrigation, public utilities like electricity and so on - and particularly when one looks at what might be called ‘capital expenditure’ as well as expenditure of an annual kind, the States plus the local authorities become more significant spenders than does the Commonwealth itself. [More…]
We have further demands, as will occur with any developing community, for further educational train ing of people in institutions that are not the normal education institutions. [More…]
This has been highlighted in recent years, in my State at any rate, with the development of universities and institutes for tertiary education. [More…]
Insufficient provision is made for scholars in tertiary education. [More…]
Indeed I think we should consider the nurses who require the nursing educational units and the increased hours of training as tertiary students. [More…]
Is it suggested, for instance, that adequate finance has been provided lor such vital State services as education and health and other vital projects? [More…]
It will be called upon to provide more funds to assist the States in education. [More…]
Although the Commonwealth has been accepting a greater responsibility in this field and the expenditure of the States has been increasing, the standard of education that has been provided has improved but not beyond what it ought to be because on an international comparison we still have to lift our standards. [More…]
The States have their education authorities and, naturally, I believe they will have to do the administration work but it is only reasonable that the Commonwealth should contribute to this field. [More…]
It believes that after 200 years during which we have discriminated against Aborigines it is necessary in the years immediately ahead for us to discriminate in favour of Aborigines in certain ways in order that we may redress the wrongs we have done to them in the past, and to overcome problems such as malnutrition, poor housing, cultural deprivation, lack of education and the like. [More…]
We bring them to this country and we recognise that they need special programmes of education. [More…]
Health measures undertaken by the States partly with funds provided by the Commonwealth in the 1970-71 and 1971-72 financial years include the improvement of rural health services and facilities, the training and employment of Aboriginal health workers, health education programmes and research studies and surveys. [More…]
Some current programmes which have important although indirect effects on Aboriginal health include increased expenditure on housing and education, both of which were considered by the Workshop to be necessary pre-requisites for change in the present health situation. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Organisation; S2.4m for Commonwealth scholarships to cover a greater number of awards and an increase in university fees; $1.2m for education services in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, mainly for increases in teachers salaries; $0.6m is sought for payment to the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account for the acquisition of land off reserves - further funds pursuant to the Prime Minister’s policy statement of 26th January last will be provided in the Budgets for 1972-73 and subsequent years: $1.5m aid for Pakistan refugees before the establishment of the independent state of Bangladesh; $l.Sm rehabilitation, and relief aid for Bangladesh; Si. [More…]
6m for migrant education to cover increased salaries and an expanded programme of activity; $0.7m for various services in the Northern Territory; $1.7m for broadcasting and television services, mainly to meet salary increases; $0.9m for repatriation pharmaceutical services; $8m for ship construction; and $1.8m to meet a rise in the number of grants under the Aged Persons Homes Act. [More…]
Some tremendous injustices have arisen in the implementation of this scheme - injustices which the present Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) refuses to rectify. [More…]
I refer particularly to the defence by the Minister for Education and Science in newspapers yesterday morning of a grant of $63,000 to one private school. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science has defended the grant to Clyde, which totals $63,000 when architects fees and costs of equipment are added, by saying that the grants are made on the recommendation of a priorities committee and a standards committee. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science has omitted some very significant facts in his defence of the Commonwealth grant to Clyde. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science has guaranteed nothing but the best for the total of 17 Leaving science students at Clyde whilst forcing Bendigo High School’s 90 Leaving science pupils to work in 2 ancient science rooms that were built in 1871. [More…]
I point out that, although money has also been spent on 2 other rooms which are being renovated for science purposes, one of these cannot be used because it is hopelessly small for average classes of 30 to 40 pupils, which is the average size class in schools conducted by the Education Department, and another room on which Commonwealth money has been spent is too small for practical classes of the same size. [More…]
I point out also that, according to the Press report of the figures mentioned by the Minister for Education and Science, at Leaving standard there were at Clyde 17 students taking biology, 9 taking physics and 5 taking chemistry for examinations. [More…]
Of course, at the end of this progress of education these children at Bendigo High School, other State schools and many Catholic schools, will have to compete against what I call the Fraser school pupils, those who attended the privileged minority of non-Catholic private schools which have been chosen for special rewards by this Government. [More…]
This is the policy of the Minister for Education and Science in providing for government schools - 4 walls and a bunsen burner is good enough, he believes. [More…]
On the other hand, when one questions the Commonwealth Government and specifically the Minister for Education and Science one asks: How do you justify this position in government schools and so many Catholic schools, but particularly in the government schools in the case of science grants? [More…]
The needs of the government schools in Victoria and in other States are something colossal and the Department of Education in Victoria is very disturbed about this money, which is already less than is needed, being cut off in 1975. [More…]
For the interest of honourable members I shall quote from a statement which has been sent around to government schools in Victoria by Mr T. J. Ford, Assistant Director of Secondary Education in Victoria. [More…]
Admittedly, there is an implication in this legislation relating to overall reimbursements in their application to the state school systems, and no doubt this is the point on which the honourable member would stake the claim that his form of logic in touching on education this afternoon is sustained. [More…]
I also, in passing, and perhaps stirred by the honourable member for Bendigo, will touch on some of the implications for education in these Bills. [More…]
What I wish to touch on is a matter that came out of the great education. [More…]
I think the thing that probably impressed itself most on most honourable members and on most members of the Australian community was the statement made on more than one occasion that, although it was apparent that more and more capital funds would be required for education in this country, there was a limit on the amount of money which the taxpayers of this country could find to put into the confined and specialised area of education. [More…]
Arising from the statements in the great debate on education was the worry in the minds of education experts as to whether we were getting proper results for the huge amounts of money that this Government finds annually from various forms of taxation imposed on the community for education. [More…]
T would not go so far as seriously to propound to this House measures which I have seen adopted in Malaysia and elsewhere, where frequently education at schools is divided into 3 shifts. [More…]
Such a system would bring about total involvement in the educational structure in isolated schools and schools in small country towns. [More…]
I do not pose as a great expert in the detail of education, but I guess that the use to which a library can be put probably depends on whether it is a closed library - in other words, a library built within the structure of the school itself - or whether it is an open library as are the new libraries which are built under the Commonwealth special grant for libraries. [More…]
The problem of education in such areas needs to be looked at. [More…]
It should assist particularly in the field of education in the areas of greatest need in this country, which are the new, fast developing areas on the perimeters of the great cities. [More…]
I believe that these funds should be provided to assist in the areas of need - for education, including pre-school education, for sewerage and water, for local government finance and for transport, particularly as a transport problem is being created because the funds are not provided for water and sewerage. [More…]
I must admit that far too much of our funds going into education are going into the bigger Great Public Schools instead of going into smaller schools, whether they be state or non-state schools, which are catering for the people who need assistance and catering for areas of need. [More…]
Even those who live in what could be said to be reasonably large country centres are still a considerable distance from the metropolitan area and from any large towns in which such services as advanced education facilities, for example, are available. [More…]
Those people who live on stations or pastoral properties - indeed, on farming properties in some of the larger agricultural areas - are in many cases unable to obtain close to home even a primary education for their children. [More…]
As a result of all this, people in the small country centres and on outlying properties are faced with very substantial costs for education which are far in excess of the costs to parents in the cities, particularly within the metropolitan areas. [More…]
Quite a lot of those parents in far flung areas - the owners, managers, employees or whatever their situation in life may be - are not in a financial situation to meet the ever-increasing cost of education which, as far as they are concerned, includes transport and board and lodging. [More…]
In 1969 I wrote to the Liberal Minister for Education in Western Australia in an attempt to have the allowance increased, and I received a reply in January. [More…]
There seems no doubt that while the present Federal Government remains in office it is most unlikely that any additional finance of any consequence will be made available to the States for education purposes. [More…]
Let me quote the relevant part of a letter 1 received from the Prime Minister (Mr. McMahon) on 12th July last year in reply to representations I had made on behalf of the Kalgoorlie School of the Air Parents and Citizens Association concerning assistance for the education of children in remote areas. [More…]
The States, under the Constitution, have the primary responsibility for education, including the education of children living in the sparsely settled areas. [More…]
to meet their financial responsibilities including those for education. [More…]
The present Prime Minister said that, as far as the Government was concerned, the States had adequate finance to do all the things that were necessary in relation to education. [More…]
A great deal more could be said with regard to education and the needs of people in areas outside the cities. [More…]
However, I want to deal with a couple of other matters and, therefore, I content myself with saying that, in regard to education, there is an urgent need for the Government to make much more in the way of funds available to States such as Western Australia, Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales for use in country areas. [More…]
In the past here we have seen Ministers at the table - the latest was the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) - accept certain amendments moved by the Opposition. [More…]
It ignores the mounting inequality in education and the needs of the sick, the old and the handicapped. [More…]
This is a worthwhile change but it is useless unless the Parliament is later informed what action has been taken on the petition, in many cases petitioners have worked hard on questions of great public concern such as health, education, defence, social services and many more. [More…]
I remember organising some dozens of my colleagues and requesting some honourable members from the other side of the House to present petitions on education but the subject matter was ignored until finally I said to my friend and colleague Senator Murphy in another place ‘Would you like to present one of these in the Senate? [More…]
After he presented the petition, which called for an inquiry into all kinds of important educational matters on which we had been pressing the Government for answers, he moved that the petition be referred to a standing com- mittee of the Senate. [More…]
Tn 1947 when this Parliament did not deal with Aborigines in the way it does now, or with education in the way it does now, and when its involvement in so many areas of foreign policy was less acute and many other areas of public policy were not before it, the House met on 92 days. [More…]
In the autumn sittings petitions were presented dealing mainly with kangaroos, education, pensions, censorship, aid to India, contraceptives and Lake Pedder. [More…]
There was none whatever on education. [More…]
Will he provide details of the education qualifications of those accepted for training showing what numbers and percentages of these had had (a) primary education only, (b) secondary education to (i) second, (ti) third, (Ki) fourth, (iv) fifth and (v) sixth year and (c) tertiary education Of (i) one year, (ii) 2, (iii) 3, (iv) 4 and (v) 5 years or more. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What was the (a) number and (b) percentage of students enrolled in (i) Government, (ii) Roman Catholic and (iii) other private schools in (A) each State and Territory and (B) the Commonwealth who (1) commenced the first year of secondary education in 1966 or 1967 and, (II) enrolled in 1971 for their final year of secondary education. [More…]
Such differences include the number ofyears of secondary schooling in each State and the extent of post-secondary education at technical or agricultural schools and colleges. [More…]
The final secondary year enrolments exclude students who remained in full-time education but who were studying postsecondary courses at technical or agricultural schools or colleges. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
1 ask the Minister for Education and Science a question concerning drop-out rates in secondary schools throughout Australia. [More…]
The background to the figures that the honourable gentleman has mentioned to the House - insofar as he quoted figures which I gave in answer to a question, I believe they are correct - is one of the reasons underlying the Commonwealth’s increasing and growing support for education in all areas. [More…]
It needs to be noted that the greatest growth in education in recent years has been in the government sector, where over the last 8 or 10 years - I think it is 10 years - enrolments in government secondary schools have increased by about 85 per cent and the improvement in retention rates has been largest in the government sector, as one would expect, because the greatest backlog was in that area. [More…]
I think the honourable member for Bendigo would know that it is the Government’s objective to achieve a situation in which there is full and complete equality of education for all students in Australia, and that is one of the basic reasons why over a long period the Government has been pursuing policies to up-grade the quality of education in all schools. [More…]
Honourable members will, of course, realise that war widows with children of school age receive considerable repatriation assistance for the education of their children, right through to completion of tertiary studies. [More…]
A war widow with two children will now receive $40.25 a week from Repatriation plus education allowances and fringe benefits; and if she happens to qualify for age or invalid pension, a further $27.12 a week could be payable. [More…]
Additionally, of course, as I said earlier, education assistance, medical treatment and other fringe benefits are provided. [More…]
In fact there has been more time devoted to this debate on the Standing Orders, Including whether the House should sit until 10.30 p.m. or 10 p.m., than has been spent debating education, defence, industrial relations, foreign affairs and other earth shattering matters to the nation. [More…]
It will be discussed at the next meeting of the Australian Education Council. [More…]
The report has also been referred to other bodies which are interested in some of its recommendations, notably the Australian Universities Commission, the Australian Commission on Advanced Education and the Partridge Committee on Research and Development in Education. [More…]
The options probably would come down to continued support of unmatched capital grants for teacher training colleges, which I think at (his stage is the sort of support that some States would prefer, or, alternatively, giving independent teachers colleges the sort of capital and recurrent support that is given to universities and colleges of advanced education, which I think is the sort of support that some other States would prefer. [More…]
However, this is one of the matters which I will be examining with the States to see what should be the direction of Commonwealth policy and what recommendations should be put to the Commonwealth Government in this most important area of support for education. [More…]
It appears to me that the honourable member for Mitchell asked a question of the Minister for Education and Science <his morning to give the Minister an opportunity to make policy pronounce ments. [More…]
As to the racism that is suggested, let me say that in February last year, as Minister for Education and Science, I was host and chairman of the Commonwealth Education Conference in Canberra. [More…]
There may be important issues such as education, hospitals and social services, but the most basic important issue which every man, woman and child who has any concern for Australia has to consider is where do we go in the future? [More…]
I desire tonight to deal briefly with the position of science in Australia and also to rebut the statement that was issued a few days ago by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science said that there was no muzzling of CSIRO. [More…]
In summation, I suggest to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson), who is at the table, that he convey this submission to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) so that he may review the constraints that I have, mentioned and so that he may look at the research project within the CSIRO which has been held up in order to evaluate what is being done and to indicate needs in a forward way. [More…]
I have spoken to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in relation to this matter and he quite arrogantly said to me: This is a State matter.’ [More…]
But the schools had not anticipated at the time when they were required to place their orders for textbooks for the ensuing educational year - this would be approximately September or October last year - that these students would be returning to school. [More…]
I am not much concerned about its attitude in relation to that book, but I am concerned that at this point of time classes have completed almost the first quarter of the school year without the textbooks which are necessary for the education of the students. [More…]
It is all very well for the Minister to stand up in this place wishfully hoping that somebody on this side of the House during the course of debates on education may say something that the Minister can latch onto about State aid. [More…]
Apparently that is the only interest he has in education. [More…]
The Minister frequently goes into a number of the States, particularly South Australia and Western Australia, does some type of tour, meets the State Education Ministers, meets the departmental heads, inspects 1 or 2 schools, says that everything is nice and lovely, but as he is jumping on an aircraft to fly out of the State he leaves behind a vicious Press statement. [More…]
The Minister could not care less about the educational matters which are raised time after time in this House. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science, Mr Malcolm Fraser. [More…]
I do not know whether it will do a great deal of good to raise this matter in this debate on the motion to adjourn the House, but I will certainly make it well known throughout the length and breadth of my electorate that I did raise this matter tonight on behalf of students who do matter to me, who do matter to their parents, who ase attending school at this time under sufferance as a result of the shortsighted policy of this Government, and who are being sold short as far as their education is concerned because of a lack of responsibility, a lack of human understanding and a lack of effort by a [More…]
Since its Inception in April 1970, the Child Migrant Education Programme has included provision for short training courses in the method of teaching English as a second language for special teachers for whose salaries my Department is responsible. [More…]
At Monash and La Trobe Universities and the Canberra College of Advanced Education, the Diploma of Education courses include TESL as a method option in the final year. [More…]
The Commonwealth requires that special teachers whose salaries are reimbursed by my Department under the child migrant education programme should be employed exclusively in the teaching of English to migrant children and be additional to the normal staff of schools. [More…]
However, among the special teachers currently employed in Victoria under the Commonwealth programme, there are in fact three teachers who have taken the TESL option of La Trobe University as part of their Diploma of Education. [More…]
Can the Minister for Education and Science state how much of the unmatched special grants for teachers colleges has not been taken up by the various States? [More…]
The Government must consider the question of the education standards of the officers and men in service training using Commonwealth facilities, and not rely on the personal sacrifice of the individual. [More…]
Sometimes I think that in some respects the States, with a certain amount of justification, complain a lot about the constitutional responsibilities which they are still asked to bear, and this is true in such significant fields as education, health, public transport, irrigation, electricity generation and so on. [More…]
It was intended that the meeting would discuss the question: Do we need a health, education and welfare authority in the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]
After the discussion was over, the point was made that a number of the participants in the audience were public servants and the fact that they were public servants had hindered and made it difficult for them to participate in discussion on the subject of health, education and welfare. [More…]
I desire to ask the Minister for Education and Science a question. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science a question. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science a question on the publication of statistics in the field of education. [More…]
It is just on 2 years since the Nationwide Survey of Educational Needs was completed by the State governments, but the New South Wales and Victorian governments have not yet published the portions of the survey which relate to those States. [More…]
In the Budget session last year he did not answer my questions on the various categories of Commonwealth scholarships until 4 to 10 weeks later than he answered my questions in 1969 when he was previously the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
-The first part of the honourable gentleman’s question concerning the New South Wales and Victorian governments ought to be directed to those governments because he well knows that the survey was compiled, collated and collected by State Departments of Education under the authority of their own State Ministers and State governments. [More…]
I mention first education and health. [More…]
Another aspect which is contributing to the drift to the cities is education. [More…]
The cost today of education for people in rural areas, particularly in the outlying areas, is getting well beyond them. [More…]
J hope that this matter also will be given serious consideration by the Government and that the Government will help to provide these people with the assistance which will enable them to have what should be the birthright of every Australian child, namely, a reasonable education. [More…]
This service would allow our people to play their rightful part in the fields of health and education. [More…]
The Governmentcontinuestoendorse the triennial principle forgrants to universities and colleges of advancededucation, but accepts that during the current1970-72 trienniumthere have been, exceptional increases in non-academic salaries and wages. [More…]
The main purpose of the Bill now before the House is to make the corresponding supplementary grants for colleges of advanced education in the States in respect of costs arising from exceptional increases in nonacademic salaries and wages. [More…]
A new institution - the South Australian Board of Advanced Education - has been established in 1972. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that the current Act already provides specifically for support of boards of advanced education in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, and similar provision is now being made for South Australia. [More…]
As a result of the revised schedule of recurrent grants, supplementary Commonwealth grants totalling approximately $787,000 and representing a combined additional Commonwealth/ State allocation of $2,242,000 will be made available for colleges of advanced education in the States. [More…]
In accordance with established precedent the Bill provides separately also for Commonwealth support of McGregor College, a residential college affiliated with the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education. [More…]
For example, we are providing funds towards a new college of advanced education in South Australia - the Torrens College which comes into operation in the 1973-75 triennium. [More…]
In the case of the Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education in Victoria an urgent requirement for student accommodation has become apparent since the capital programme for 1970-72 was drawn up in 1969. [More…]
I commend to honourable members this Bill which provides for additional Commonwealth grants to the States for advanced education. [More…]
Let us move on to education, referred to at page 12 of the report, the report states: [More…]
would assess relative needs in education by comparing the percentage of the eligible population of the total State population of the claimant State with the corresponding percentage of the standard States. [More…]
Applying this comparison to Queensland would show a ‘positive’ need (i.e., a need for a higher level of expenditure per head of population than in the standard States), in contrast to the negative’ need shown by the Commission’s method of comparing education expenditures on the basis of actual school enrolments. [More…]
Queensland should be spending considerably more on education than it is spending. [More…]
We find that Queensland - it has had this unenviable reputation for many, many years - makes the lowest expenditure per head of population on education of any State in the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Queensland State Government is not concerned about the education and the rights of young people and just how valuable education is, not in the mean and narrow context all too often applied to churning out inputs for industry but in terms of stimulating and fostering the development of creative minds. [More…]
That Government is uninterested in this paramount objective and spends only $43.40 per head of population on education. [More…]
If Queensland made an expenditure allocation per capita on the same basis as South Australia does, and if it built into that amount an allowance, as it should, for the fact that it has a higher proportion of its population of school age, that is between 5 and 18 years, than does South Australia, Queensland should be spending at least $18m a year more than it spent on education in 1970. [More…]
When we finally get down to measuring this, in some sort of crude financial terms it means that the State Government of Queensland is short financing education in that State by $18m a year. [More…]
Of course we have a notorious situation in Queensland where, for instance, 7 out of every 8 children of pre-school age do not attend and cannot attend a pre-school centre because of this under financing of education. [More…]
There is no room for pride on the part of the Queensland Government in this deplorable standard in education. [More…]
They mean another $22m for the free hospitals of Queensland, and another $22m for the free hospitals of Queensland would mean the release of money which could go towards education. [More…]
I have indicated that Queensland is under-financing education by about $18m as compared with the effort being made in South Australia. [More…]
It seems determined to have slums in education and slums in hospital services in the longer term sense. [More…]
They pay for it in the smaller amount of money that is available for education and in other fields. [More…]
After World War II, it was recognised internationally that major investment in science, in education and in science-based activities would be a prominent feature of the future. [More…]
After examination by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) of experience and developments overseas, the following discussions with leading industrialists, with the Australian Academy of Science and with senior Government scientists, the Government has decided to establish an Advisory Committee on Science and Technology. [More…]
The primary function of the Committee to which I have referred and which will report to me through the Minister for Education and Science will be to make recommendations to the Government on Australian efforts in civil science and technology. [More…]
Minister has said it would appear that following an overseas visit by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) Cabinet has caught up with ideas that it should have been aware of 7, 8 or even 10 years ago with the advice available to it. [More…]
While we are talking about education I would like to raise one or two matters. [More…]
Students who leave that school each year are unfortunate to be turned out into society or into fields of higher education without having had the benefits of the use of one of these very modern and efficient Commonwealth libraries. [More…]
He belongs to a party which has condemned the efforts of the Queensland Government in the field of education. [More…]
Government has educational intentions of this kind in mind. [More…]
At that time the great Opposition, the Party which cares so much for education and students, was in office in Queensland. [More…]
I think the honourable member for Brisbane mentioned education. [More…]
Education was in a frightful mess in Queensland when the present State Government took office. [More…]
Courses have been undertaken at the University of Vienna, Berlitz Schools in Vienna, Rome, The Hague and Cologne, the Language Institute in Beirut, the Institute of Education in The Hague, Alliance Francaise in Paris, the Institute of Foreign Languages in Belgrade, and the United States Foreign Service Institute in Ankara, and under private tutors. [More…]
One of these great areas of need is education, particularly educational research. [More…]
4) the contribution for research into pre-school education has more than doubled. [More…]
Absence of preschool education leads to educational deprivation in later years. [More…]
Yet there has been little research into the need for the provision of pre-school centres and to ‘ ascertain whether these provisions are more desirable than allowing such education in the home. [More…]
It is a tragedy that the percentage of 1971 prep-graders in Victorian metropolitan schools who have had such pre-school education should vary from 2 per cent in some schools to 80 per cent in others. [More…]
This Appropriation Bill further increases the appropriation for migrant education on the basis that the increased appropriation will allow some expansion of the migrant education programme. [More…]
It has been pointed out in the accompanying documents that there has been some saving in the migrant education service due to less expenditure on p re-embarkation and shipboard . [More…]
An Australian Council for Educational Research study showed that only 26 per cent of non-English speaking 3 and 4 year olds attended pre-school centres compared with 49 per cent of other migrants and 70 per cent of Australians. [More…]
So in what area is it more important that there should be an increased appropriation for migrant education? [More…]
Further on this matter of migrant education in English,’ it must be becoming more and more evident that crash courses- in English are not enough. [More…]
It is obvious also that certain areas carry a heavier load of migrants and have a higher need for migrant education. [More…]
In this respect I quote from a paper delivered by Mr Tom Roper of the Centre of Urban Education, School of Education, La Trobe University, at a seminar in Melbourne last Sunday. [More…]
This was more than confirmed by a 1970 Victorian Education Department survey of migrants here less than 6 years. [More…]
This is an indictment of the programme of migrant education that we have. [More…]
The Preston East High School which serves an area which has a substantial migrant population not only has vacancies for a mathematics and a commercial teacher but also shortly will have positions of deputy principal, a physical education teacher, a fifth year physics and mathematics teacher and a science teacher falling vacant. [More…]
Is it any wonder then that I am not opposed to any increase in appropriation for migrant education? [More…]
Crash courses for adults are ineffective and, unless such special training for non-English speaking migrants is started at pre-school level and carried right through the educational process, the efforts are ineffective. [More…]
Any debate in Australia on any of the migrant programmes of its political parties is an academic exercise unless one is aware of this prime ingredient of educational training for satisfactory assimilation. [More…]
This once more highlights the inadequacy of this system to equitably make higher education possible for capable young people. [More…]
These children in many cases are the tip of the iceberg from areas which are deprived of educational advantage. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Does this mean that in the view of his Department it is no concern of the Commonwealth to help children in the States to secure a pre-school education as every child in tha Australian Capital Territory and most children in the Northern Territory already enjoy? [More…]
the Opposition spokesman on education referred to its policies and promises in relation to education in this way - I think these were his precise words: ‘I do not know what my promises are at the moment that I am supposed to live up to’. [More…]
That was in answer to a question, I think from memory, on the costs of the Opposition’s education programme. [More…]
Has your research into the cost estimates of Australian education shown that you can afford to live up to your promises? [More…]
Obviously he referred to 2 things - the cost estimates of Australian education, whatever he meant by that, and my promises not satisfied. [More…]
We have had a survey of education in Australia, and I understand that the cost that has been adduced for changes necessary in education exceeds $ 1,000m. [More…]
Well, very clearly you can’t do that in one budget, and I believe, of course, that the appropriation under a Labor government to carry out some of the projects we have in mind for education will involve increased costs in education. [More…]
I interpreted his question in juxtaposition to the survey as to what the costs would be on top of the$1, 483m as necessary extra expenditure on education. [More…]
Her great hope is to see Alan get the education he deserves. [More…]
To overcome some of the problems which have arisen in this area, it is proposed to modify the definition regarding professional qualification and allow the Board to accept either suitable qualifications granted by an institution of tertiary or technical education or alternatively, appropriate membership of a professional institute recognised by the Board. [More…]
Firstly, it will conduct through the Commonwealth Department of Health, in association with the States, an education programme aimed at informing the public of the dangers to health of cigarette smoking. [More…]
Small unions have not the financial resources for research, education, organisation and administration that is needed for the 1970s. [More…]
It is not in any sense a shocking statement and if the honourable member for Sturt were vaguely in touch with his Party’s representations in the field of education he would know that my statement was totally founded on what his Party has to say about inequalities in education. [More…]
There is, in my opinion, no area of public interest and education as politically sensitive as current affairs. [More…]
Did he receive a submission on 12th October 1971 from the Parent-Teacher Council of South Australia dealing with the financing of education in Australia. [More…]
and (2) I did receive a submission from the Parent-Teacher Council of South Australia dealing with the financing of education in Australia and I have replied to the Council. [More…]
-I ask a question of the Minister for Education and Science relating to the Auchmuty report of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on the Teaching of Asian Languages and Cultures in Australia in secondary and tertiary education which I think was presented to the Government when he was originally Minister in charge of this portfolio. [More…]
Since then there have been detailed discussions between State and Commonwealth education officials to consider what plan of action ought to be drawn up in relation to the teaching of Asian languages. [More…]
This matter will be discussed at the Australian Education Council meeting to be held later this month. [More…]
Obviously, 2 such matters are the burden of national service and the cost of higher education. [More…]
Let me indicate to honourable members the extent of the increasing interest in education. [More…]
In 19S4 only 6.2 per cent of men and women who were 18 years of age were in full-time education; in the 1961 census there were 13.2 per cent; in the 1966 census there were 27.2 per cent; and in a statistician’s survey of a one per cent sample of households throughout Australia in 1968 there were 35.7 per cent. [More…]
I assume that last year’s census will reveal that maybe 45 per cent of males and females aged 18 years are in full-time education. [More…]
Undoubtedly in this community and in the more modern Western communities tremendous pressure is being imposed on young people by the systems of education, by our desire to make them better citizens and to make them add more to the community in one way or another. [More…]
The same applies to the education system of this Territory. [More…]
Our decision has been taken against the background of the direct and indirect contribution which the Commonwealth is already making to education in schools. [More…]
Our policy is that, relying on their own efforts and with assistance from governments, the independent schools should be able to continue to provide places at a reasonable standard for that proportion of school population which in the past has sought education in non-government schools. [More…]
For the independent schools, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) will approve the individual projects and authorise the amount of assistance to each of them. [More…]
I can recall one man who had very little formal education but who could quote Shakespeare literally by the page. [More…]
Despite this man’s ordinary formal education - or perhaps I: should say schooling - in the appeal to the High Court of Australia his decision was confirmed. [More…]
Of course, for some time now I have been hearing people described as persons of poor education because they have made a slip in their vocabulary. [More…]
I prefer to refer to some of the persons I know as people with a poor schooling but with a very high standard of education. [More…]
Formal schooling finishes, in the main, when a person is between 15 and 17 years of age, and his education then starts. [More…]
I know that if I were in an aeroplane that was forced down in the Simpson Desert and, on the one hand, an illiterate Aborigine said to me, ‘There is a water hole over here’ and, on the other hand, the greatest navigator in the world pulled out his instruments and said, ‘No there is a water hole over there; come with me’, I know which one I would follow - the man with the education and not the man with the schooling. [More…]
In the past 10 years we have had perhaps 3 times the number of university graduates that we had previously, not to mention colleges of advanced education, technical colleges, institutes and all the rest. [More…]
This is when they are dealing with sanctions, but when it comes to the wherewithal to live that determines the standard of living in a worker’s home and the type of education his children will receive, they do not give a damn about equality. [More…]
-The criticism from some quarters following the announcement by the Prime Minister of weighted Government support for education in favour of independent schools is not justified or accurate. [More…]
I would find it hard to see how a policy under which 40 per cent of the cost of education in government schools is paid in respect of children in independent schools could be regarded as weighting payments in favour of independent schools. [More…]
It could come only from those who would seek to establish one education system throughout Australia. [More…]
The South Australian Minister for Education has objected to these capital proposals beginning to operate from July 1973 and in doing that, of course, he has ignored entirely the present capital funds which go only to government schools, which he will have for spending up until June 1973. [More…]
It would have been within their own prerogative to do so if the State Education Ministers had been able to persuade their own governments that the matters were of sufficient priority. [More…]
I call to the attention of the Minister for Education and Science the fact that the grants being paid to private schools include per capita grants by State governments also, according to his scheme. [More…]
On that basis what the Prime Minister has proposed would make available to independent schools 40 per cent of the cost of education in a government primary school or 40 per cent of the cost of education in a government secondary school. [More…]
I can believe that people would have objection to it only if they felt that governments have not an obligation to all school children - those who have an education in government schools and also those who are educated in independent schools. [More…]
Competitive ability obviously is different at different levels and whether members opposite want that to be so or not with all their talk of equality in such areas as education the situation will not change for their saying so. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
I desire to ask a question of the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Has the honourable gentleman analysed or caused to be analysed the contentions of Professor Goldman that new expenditure on education under the Government’s plans will be $33m-odd a year for State schools and $41m a year for private schools? [More…]
In addition to that we have suggested to the States that they join with us in providing independent schools with one-half of 40 per cent of the cost of education in government primary schools and secondary schools so that they will have a firm basis for forward planning. [More…]
State recurrent expenditure on education over the last 2 years has been growing at about 16 per cent a year, and there is no suggestion that these funds will not continue to grow in the years ahead. [More…]
They gave, or attempted to give, a completely distorted picture of the most forward looking programme in educational advance that the Commonwealth has seen in many years. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts whether he has seen a report of comments made by Professor Ali Mazru of Uganda recommending a policy which encourages Aboriginal children to be educated with ot without the consent of their parents and suggesting that some degree of coercion is needed if Aboriginal children are to be separated from parental influence and absorbed, through education processes, into the mainstream of change? [More…]
This is an interesting question relating to the problem of trying to maintain the family environment in the Aboriginal community and at the same time increasing education standards. [More…]
In the past year the amount allocated to these schemes was more than $3,500,000 which has been used to encourage over 3,500 students to gain education along the lines advocated by the honourable member. [More…]
For instance, in education the honourable member for Bendigo will be saying one thing while other members of his Party are terrified about where he is carrying them. [More…]
We provide bilateral aid to the South Pacific countries under the South Pacific Aid Programme administered by my Department and under the scheme for Commonwealth Co-operation in Education administered by my colleague the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
There will also be smaller increases in our expenditure on the Commonwealth Co-operation in Education scheme and in our contribution to the South Pacific Commission. [More…]
New Zealand has also granted assistance in education, defence, civil aviation, meteorology and health to Fiji. [More…]
Such a television channel could be made available for education of children and adults in remote locations. [More…]
This use of the possibilities supplied by the possession of such a satellite could be of inestimable benefit to people in the remote areas of Australia, as all schools could receive live broadcasts of current affairs or particular educational programmes prepared and performed by specialists in their field. [More…]
The case I wish to put is that until the Australian Labor Party’s policy of granting a scholarship to any pupil who has the capacity to go on to 5th and 6th year of his or her schooling is introduced it is essential that a means test be placed upon Commonwealth secondary school scholarships to ensure that there is equality of education for all children. [More…]
a scholarship is granted for only one purpose - to give financial incentive and assistance to a person in order to enable that person to continue his or her education. [More…]
Scholarships should not be given to people who can afford to pay for their education. [More…]
This afternoon I asked the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) a question about research in the sheep industry in Australia, and I want to develop that theme now. [More…]
I should now like to deal with another matter, education, only a small matter in relation to the Bill before us today but quite a large matter in the community. [More…]
The Bill refers to the expenditure of $5,200,000 on education. [More…]
Recently the Government has made large sums of money available for the advancement of education, and this action is to be applauded. [More…]
Many children must travel great distances to receive an education. [More…]
The policy of education authorities to locate schools in large country centres and in various parts of metropolitan areas requires many children to travel great distances, sometimes hundreds of miles, to receive their schooling. [More…]
1 believe that these children should have the same opportunity of travelling to school for their education as other children have. [More…]
I believe the Government should pick up this problem and do something about it and in this way help the children concerned to receive the same type of education as is enjoyed by their brothers and sisters in other areas of Australia. [More…]
Added to that, their demands for increases in social services, education and urban development, just to name some that quickly come to mind, grow into an enormous and irresponsible expenditure. [More…]
At the beginning of the statement that the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) made on education the other evening he referred to the fact that the Government - I am not sure whether he said ‘at long last’ - certainly realised that we should not expect to have all our financial measures neatly encompassed within the scope of one Budget and that there was need to revise and anticipate. [More…]
That is what he was endeavouring to do when making his announcements on education. [More…]
One should also take into account the estimate made by Professor Karmel in a report on education that he prepared for the State Government of South Australia. [More…]
He said that, whereas then - 12 months or so ago - we were spending 4.2 per cent of the gross national product on education, he envisaged that by the latter half of the 1970s - that is the period from about 1976 onward - we should be spending 6.7 per cent of the gross national product on education. [More…]
That would mean that, in terms of the gross national product, we would have to raise the total expenditure on education at constant prices by something of the magnitude of $750m. [More…]
This certainly would require a change to less private expenditure and more public expenditure, particularly in the capital field, because the limiting factor in any of these matters is not the desire to spend more money on education but the reality that that expenditure can be sensible or meaningful only if it is in terms of properly trained teachers, properly equipped schools ad enough school buildings to hold teachers, the equipment and the pupils. [More…]
After all, that in the long run is what education is about. [More…]
Am I to understand that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) proposes to have the remainder of the Bill dealt with tonight, after it has been on the notice paper for approximately 2 months? [More…]
I would like an explanation from the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) why such a powerful recommendation, that there should be reports to the Minister on all matters relating to marine science and in particular the establishment of additional institutes, has been ignored. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is directly responsible for the administration of a large number of matters. [More…]
No university council, no college of advanced education and no research institute of this kind attempts to do that in a governing body. [More…]
We are not providing at this stage for representatives from hither and thither to represent the government here, another institution there and an education department somewhere else, as is the usual procedure with respect to a fairly highly developed institute with numerous avenues of academic interest with respect to which some attempt is made to make the size of the governing body comparable with that of the institute. [More…]
It is the fulfil ment of a matter which Senator Dittmer first raised in this Parliament in 1963 with Senator Gorton, who was the Minister assisting the Prime Minister in matters of education and science at that time, 9 years ago. [More…]
Honourable members will remember that when the Minister for Education and Science introduced this Bill on 23rd March he referred to this factor. [More…]
As the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) stated in a speech to the Academy of Science in 1960 in which he made a philosophy of this purposelessness: [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has accepted that marine science has been rather neglected in the past in the sense that the efforts of isolated groups, through praiseworthy in themselves, have scarcely been commensurate with the magnitude of the problems which await investigation’. [More…]
While the collation of information no doubt will be undertaken at the one centre when the Institute is established, I think that recognition should be made of the valuable work on marine science performed in the past by isolated groups, as was mentioned by the honourable member for Fremantle and, earlier, in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
As has been stated by the honourable member for Fremantle and by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), this Institute has been needed for a long time; it is required for Australia’s future development. [More…]
Recently I wrote a letter to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) regarding a young fellow who had been refused a university scholarship. [More…]
The Opposition would also undertake an extensive, and, I would hope, a sensible education programme concurrently with the prohibition of advertising of this broad nature I have mentioned. [More…]
Here again rises the profound importance of public education in cancer. [More…]
The sort of thing that the Labor Party would do in an educational programme includes the provision of suitably good quality production material aimed at late primary, first, second and third-year secondary school levels, involving subjects such as biology, science, history, economics, statistics and so forth. [More…]
These children must be reached first because the smoking problem in 25 years time is the problem which will confront these young people, so they must have adequate education. [More…]
The key to this problem is undoubtedly education. [More…]
The Government has promised $500,000 a year for education on the perils of cigarette smoking, and I am sure that this is the key to success. [More…]
But if education programmes, which I have said are the key to success, are to be successful we must create an environment in which they can be effective. [More…]
to conduct through the Commonwealth Department of Health in association with the States an education programme aimed at informing the public of the dangers to health of cigarette smoking. [More…]
If we are to have an education programme we could include in it not only the danger of cigarette smoking but also other health hazards. [More…]
My speech tonight has been based mainly on education. [More…]
Tis education forms the common mind. [More…]
I agree with honourable members on both sides of the chamber who have said that a policy of directing education about cigarette smoking towards the young is important if we are going to reduce the consumption of cigarettes. [More…]
1 turn now to some remarks passed by the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) and in the limited time at my disposal I shall comment on what is termed the Government’s drug education programme. [More…]
This explains, in my view, why the Government’s 2-year old national drug education programme has been a failure. [More…]
The Government’s expenditure of $500,000 a year on drug education has failed to contain the abuse of LSD, marihuana, hashish, cocain and heroin because of the counter-influence of the increasing consumption of the social drugs - alcohol and tobacco - and the medical drugs, such as anti-depressants. [More…]
Have we any assurance that the Government’s proposal for anti-tobacco education will be handled more effectively, more honestly, more generously and more efficiently? [More…]
The whole object of this statement is to convey a warning which will be educational. [More…]
In his speech, the Postmaster-General (Sir Alan Hulme) said that the main aim of the Government is the education of the young people of this country. [More…]
Three seconds is an absurd space of time in which to get this sort of education across to the people. [More…]
Even when the sentiments in the second reading speech of the Postmaster-General (Sir Alan Hulme) are conceded - mainly that education is the first priority - we must realise that that is a puny effort, too, because $500,000 is to be spent annually for 3 years by a government which is raking in $240m a year from the tobacco industry. [More…]
Almost all of these girls have had tertiary education. [More…]
They came here with a picture in their minds of a wealthy country, a wealthy people and boundless opportunities for work commensurate with their education. [More…]
In relation to people who have had a tertiary education and people who are professionally qualified, the standard procedure in the Department is to ask the individual before he makes the decision to come to Australia to fill out one of the professional employment forms that are supplied by the Department of Labour and National Service, so that this form can be sent back to Australia and so that the Department of Labour and National Service can give him an up to date, individual assessment of his employment prospects in relation to his qualifications. [More…]
The first of these is the necessity for government - I do not care whether it is Federal or State - to make a decision as to whether or not there is to be a university or a college of advanced education in the western suburbs of Sydney. [More…]
I think the most important thing here is to look at what has been going on out in the western suburbs in relation to the need for tertiary education in those areas. [More…]
Therefore, the demand for tertiary education facilities will be greater than in any other part of the State in the future. [More…]
If one goes to the Federal Ministry of Education and Science one finds that it says it is an issue for the State. [More…]
The latest approach made to me was from the Parramatta District Council of Parents and Citizens Associations, urging that consideration should be given on an urgent basis to the establishment of a university or college of advanced education in the western suburbs of Sydney. [More…]
This educational facility must be placed in an area that is close to the railway. [More…]
I suggest that it should be sited either in the Parramatta area or at Werrington near Penrith where I understand land has been set aside for either a teachers college or a college of advanced education. [More…]
I would like the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to look at this matter urgently. [More…]
Therefore I ask the Minister for Education and Science to have a very good look at this issue. [More…]
I ask him to initiate the necessary discussions with the New South Wales Government to ensure that a university or college of advanced education for the western suburbs will be placed somewhere near a rail centre so that students who cannot afford high transport costs can use that mode of transport. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Education and Science been drawn to an article by Mr Henry Schoenheimer in the Press entitled ‘The Swim- ming Pool State Aid Built’? [More…]
The only thing that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) talked about was a misinterpretation or misunderstanding of the policies of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
1 think that 1 can discharge most of the remarks of the honourable member for Wannon and Minister of State for Education and Science from much further discussion. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon and Minister for Education and Science referred to a few items of Labor Party policy. [More…]
The Industrial Research Bureau of the Department of Secondary Industry would be staffed by people not of a narrow econometric range of training but of a comprehensive range of education that would allow the protection commission or industrial development commission, whatever it may be called subsequently, and the Government to be given facts and advice that would allow industry to be treated as a valuable social process and not just a place for making money. [More…]
It simply gives effect to the consequences of a change in an award for a section of the staff of colleges of advanced education, permits States to reshuffle some funds between institutions and follows a change in nomenclature in some instances in colleges and governing bodies. [More…]
However, we could wish that some of these changes were of greater significance and that they followed upon research and development to clarify what we are aiming at in colleges of advanced education because we have not yet fully clarified what our aim is. [More…]
The colleges of advanced education would be ideal centres for this sort of research and study. [More…]
Necessary also is research into the subject of external studies for colleges of advanced education- external studies being, according to the Murray report, a distinctive feature of the Australian scene. [More…]
There is a need for the development in colleges of advanced education of centres for parttime studies and centres for external studies to make both part-time education and external education more efficient and more just to the students concerned. [More…]
These centres are needed in almost all tertiary institutes of education; they certainly are needed in universities. [More…]
The colleges of advanced education must not be allowed to develop the shortcomings of universities which themselves now need to be remedied. [More…]
Colleges of advanced education must have a staffing capable of teaching and taking a personal interest in their students. [More…]
As the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) pointed out in his second reading speech, the main purpose of this Bill is to make corresponding supplementary grants Jot colleges of advanced education in the States in respects of costs arising from exceptional increases in non-academic salaries and wages. [More…]
The problem is one of university or, as in this case, colleges of advanced education boards or councils providing in advance for wage increases which, in the past at least, they have not been able to foresee with as much success as they have been able to foretell the likely moves in academic salaries and salaries which are closely tied to academic salaries. [More…]
He further said that colleges of advanced education should not be allowed to develop the universities’ shortcomings. [More…]
He talked about relationships within universities being impersonal and suggested that this should be avoided in the case of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
What I do want to say is that we are still unclear as to the true function of colleges of advanced education as distinct from the function of universities in particular and any other tertiary institutions that happen to be around in small numbers. [More…]
Even though there was a reasonable amount of soul searching some years ago when the proposal to establish colleges of advanced education first came forward, we have not yet developed a philosophy on the matters involved to the degree which they deserve. [More…]
We have now a body for the administration of the whole area of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I would like to put it on record, even if it has been done before - I think it has - that there is a fundamental problem of discretion, discrimination and philosophy of education concerning these 2 groups of tertiary institutions - the colleges of advanced education and the universities. [More…]
The problem fundamentally is that we have to define the proper function of colleges of advanced education, albeit in relation to the existing universities. [More…]
It is not good enough to say, as has been said before and questioned afterwards, that colleges of advanced education stand for applied courses and applied fields of interest, and that universities stand for the theoretical and even abstract pursuits and that in the main they are not there for the purpose of application of knowledge gained and methods devised. [More…]
So if the faculty of medicine has been in the universities from the word go, why are we talking about universities being essentially theoretical institutions dealing with concepts, abstract matters and research, whereas we want colleges of advanced education to be dealing with hard and fast, down to earth applied knowledge? [More…]
But our problem here is that we want to pretend that colleges of advanced education are, in effect, universities under another name. [More…]
I know that there are other and probably better ways of expressing that, but, because of the social content of this question, we are not really prepared to face up to the fact that the cause of education in Australia is not, 1 think, properly served or best served by trying to duplicate universities in the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
At the same time I recognise that there is quite a range of differential among the individual representatives under that fairly broad title now of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
But there are some things which, as far as I know, are not being done in colleges of advanced education which I think could be done. [More…]
There may be individual instances, of which I do not know, which would prove me wrong, but certainly some of the colleges of advanced education are not, for example, making the same sort of provision for what is usually known as provisional matriculation, as has long been done at some of the universities, if not at all of them. [More…]
I might say parenthetically that 1 am not in any sense advocating any lowering of standards; I am trying to catch the people who get outside the higher educational net and who may, if persevered with a little longer, be brought back into the net for their own and the community’s good. [More…]
But generally speaking, colleges of advanced education are not allowing provisional matriculation for people, for example, who have just failed matriculation or the equivalent examination. [More…]
But there is certainly evidence to show that some of these people who have just missed out at that formal level of testing would, if persevered with and given a little chance to mature - and this is true of the universities, and it should be true of the colleges of advanced education - prove their worth and develop their particular attributes and abilities, as I said earlier, to the betterment of themselves and the community. [More…]
To illustrate the point, since 1967, which was the time of the effective advent of colleges of advanced education, the proportion of the 17 to 22 year old age group in those institutions has risen from 2.2 per cent in 1967 to 3.4 per cent in 1971. [More…]
So it is pretty clear that in those 4 short years from 1967 to 1971, colleges of advanced education have taken in a proportion of the relevant population which already reaches one-third or thereabouts of the university intake. [More…]
So we are not either in that sense or in the sense of expenditure, as is well known to honourable members, talking unrealistically; we are dealing with a considerable area of higher education, and I should like to see us make the best possible use of that particular field. [More…]
As we know, this is an area of some commentary .in relation to our colleges of advanced education which have widely adopted degreegiving practices - giving degrees as degrees, not just an award of some other nomenclature. [More…]
On the other hand, the amount of money involved in the total development of colleges of advanced education is quite considerable; it is in excess of $100m at the present time. [More…]
As the honourable member for Fremantle said, we are dealing with a very considerable field of major educational interest. [More…]
I suggested previously that if moredetailed information is required on grants to individual government schools, an approach should be made to the State Minister for Education concerned. [More…]
Will he provide details of the education qualifications of those accepted for training showing what numbers and percentages of these had had (a) primary education only, (b) secondary education to the (i) second, (ii) third, (iii) fourth, (iv) fifth and (v) sixth year, and (c) tertiary education of (i) one year, (ii) two, (iii) three, (iv) four and (v) five years or more. [More…]
Australian Commission on Advanced Education (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
On what dates and matters has the Australian Commission on Advanced Education consulted with the Australian Universities Commission under section 14 (2.) [More…]
of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education Act 1971. [More…]
Since the establishment of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education on 9th December 1971 there has been frequent consultation between the Chairmen and officers of the 2 Commissions on virtually a daily basis. [More…]
These consultations have largely concerned the development of proposals for the forthcoming 1973-75 triennium in the respective areas of tertiary education, and the development of policies in that field. [More…]
Education: Living-away-from-homc Allowance (Question No. [More…]
What has been the living-away-from-home allowance for tertiary education for (a) a single person, and (b) a married man with a wife and one child, under the Soldiers’ Children Education Scheme, in each of the last 10 years. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education and Science seen certain rather savage comments published today on Government aid to particular independent schools? [More…]
Can the Minister inform the House whether the article concerned really presents a true and balanced picture of the assistance which the Government is giving to education? [More…]
I do not think the reports in this morning’s Press give an accurate picture of what the Government is doing to support education. [More…]
If the same sort of calculations were provided for support of the government sector of education one would have to say that over the next 5 years commitments of the State and the Commonwealth governments to government schools would total over $5,200m, of which the Commonwealth’s share would be $2, 600m. [More…]
This puts the extent of government support to government education well into context. [More…]
I refer to the answer which the Minister for Education and Science gave to the honourable member for Deakin. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government and the State governments have been working over a period of years towards a situation in which there is greater justice than that in education. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Is the honourable gentleman aware that the Australian Education Council has been discussing the Senate Committee report on teacher education? [More…]
The 2 senators concerned, Senator James McClelland and Senator Milliner, in dealing with some aspects of teacher education referred to it as religious indoctrination, and as being unjustifiable and probably unconstitutional as well. [More…]
Some years ago the Government advertised for young men who had a certain education standard to make a career for themselves in New Guinea as patrol officers. [More…]
It is not something simple such as trade, defence or education. [More…]
It is not something which is as readily definable as ‘education’, ‘defence’ or trade’. [More…]
Already we would have considerable consensus on what we want in terms of air and water quality and freedom from pollution, of housing, of access to recreation and work, of working hours and conditions, of education and health services, of access to and use of material resources, of cultural facilities, of wages and salaries as a proportion of the total wealth and so on. [More…]
Initially Mrs Wright was employed and until 4th October 1967 an amount of $600 had been recovered leaving a balance of $1,059.85 whilst $12 of an education allowance she had also been overpaid was recovered, leaving a balance of $44.58. [More…]
When this item was reached the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), my Party’s spokesman on education, moved that it be discharged. [More…]
We should compare those increases with, for example, recommendations made by the Government involving the salaries of certain people such as the chairman of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
Expenditure which was normally a charge against the Department of Native Welfare in respect to medical and education for Aborigines is now carried by the relevant Departments and not included in the above figures since 1962-63. [More…]
Have the Premiers of New South Wales and Victoria replied to the letter which his predecessor wrote to all the Premiers on 7th September 1970, asking for the reaction of their Governments to the Nation-wide Survey of Educational Needs and for an indication of the extent to which, having regard to their other responsibilities, they would wish to give priority to the proposed programmes in education; if so, when. [More…]
The letter of 1st October 1971 stated the Commonwealth’s position on the Nation-wide Survey of Educational Needs - a subject also dealt with on 5th October 1971 in a statement to the House by the Minister for Education and Science- and did not call for any reply. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
As each period of the Science Facilities Programme has approached its end, my Department has obtained from the State education departments and from individual non-government schools by means of questionnaires, considerable information about the effectiveness of the Programme and the extent to which its aims are being achieved. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
-The Minister for Education in Western Australia has told me that after originally contemplating deferral of the proposal, the Western Australian Government is prepared to proceed with the proposal as an integral part of the establishment of Murdoch University, but not on the basis as originally proposed by the previous Government and for which the previous Government had been prepared to make substantial sums of money available, in co-operation with the Commonwealth. [More…]
1 wish to direct a question to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
-The Government has a number of programmes designed to support education in State government primary and secondary schools. [More…]
We have enabled teacher training to be introduced into the colleges of advanced education, and we have reached the stage where there are now about 43,000 teachers in training at any one time in Australia. [More…]
I have visited with State Education Ministers inner city schools where there is certainly a great inadequacy of facilities. [More…]
For some time the Council has been concerned that within industry, commerce, government and universities and colleges of advanced education there is insufficient understanding of the factors which govern the effective use of graduates. [More…]
The Council fears that the recent emergence of difficulties of various kinds in the placement of graduates creates an undesirable uncertainty in the minds of students and recent graduates as to the value of tertiary education and its relevance to satisfactory employment. [More…]
After all, men who are committed to the education of their children, to the upbringing of their families, suddenly find themselves out of work. [More…]
I agree that that may be so but, as I think has been said on other occasions, it is likely to be a good deal less so than it was in the past, given the development of our university education programmes. [More…]
The salary of the Chairman of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education goes from $18,973 to $22,012, the Deputy Chairman of the Australian Universities Commission goes from $16,528 to $19,148, the Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board goes from $17,947 to $20,810, the full time Member (other than the Chairman) of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board goes from $15,370 to $17,792, the Commissioner for Employees’ Compensation goes from $14,727 to $17,043, the Chairman of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission goes from about $17,000 to $19,000, the Senior Commissioners go from about $12,000 to $17,000- all backdated to 4th November. [More…]
In this country the Government is denying people the right to earn a fair and satisfactory living and an opportunity to educate their children or to allow that education to be continued. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science is not representing anybody- [More…]
I suggest that the honourable member address his question to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Under the proposals which for its part the Commonwealth has adopted and in which the Prime Minister has suggested the Premiers should join - one State has indicated its firm intention to agree to this proposal and at least two others have shown a keen interest - the Commonwealth has proposed that 40 per cent of the cost of education in a government primary school or secondary school should be made available to all independent schools. [More…]
They will be based on a percentage of cost of education in government primary or secondary schools. [More…]
If the criticism which has been made about the 8 schools which certain people attended is to be taken as meaning that other independent schools with equivalent fee levels would receive no support from the Government, under the policy of the Opposition 32 per cent of all pupils attending secondary schools which provide education to a full matriculation standard would be excluded from any government support. [More…]
In the period 1st January 1965 to 30th June 1971, 64,454 men were rejected on medical grounds and 6,456 on education or psychological grounds. [More…]
If so, will the Minister take steps to set up a semi-governmental authority for this purpose, including representatives of Departments concerned with education, social welfare and vocational matters, and voluntary organisations. [More…]
For part of the year a second Promotions Appeal Committee was established on a part-time basis to deal with a backlog of appeals and Mr F. E. Daveson, a senior officer of the Department of Education, was appointed Chairman pro tern of that committee. [More…]
Six Education Officers [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the report in ‘Asian Outlook’, published in Taipeh in September 1971 and distributed by the Embassy of the Republic of China in Canberra, that Mr McGrath was sent by the Australian Ministry of Education and Science. [More…]
I repeat that Mr McGrath was not commissioned by the Department of Education and [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
In which (a) colleges of advanced education and (b) universities have correspondence courses been provided since 1960. [More…]
Colleges of advanced education [More…]
The Statistician collects statistics of advanced level courses in which students were enrolled in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Data for individual colleges of advanced education are not available. [More…]
For the purposes of these statistics, colleges of advanced education are institutions listed in the appropriate States Grants (Advanced Education) Act as colleges of advanced education, together with the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
There were no correspondence enrolments in either year in colleges of advanced education in New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory, nor in Queensland in 1969. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What qualifies a person as a taxpayer to the Council as regards age, nationality, domicile, occupation, property, income, dependents, education or other criteria. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
At this early stage of Australian membership of the Organisation, Australian education authorities are engaged in the process of gaining familiarity with the Organisation’s varied activities in education and in determining the areas in which Australian participation would be most valuable. [More…]
Until such over-all assessments are made and priorities established, and any new forms of review established as a result of the current discussions within the Organisation are known, it would be premature for a decision to be made on the question of Australian participation in the programme of country educational policy reviews. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
I have been advised that some Physical Education Branches of State Education Departments do produce, for use in schools, similar booklets for some sports. [More…]
The provision of school text-books is, of course, a matter for the individual State Education Departments. [More…]
However, 1 have arranged for my Department to advise the State Education Departments of these booklets which, I understand, are available on sale from the Australian Government Publishing Service Book Centres. [More…]
Education and Science, up on notice: [More…]
On 25th November 1971 I wrote to Mr Fletcher, the Chairman of the Australian Education Council, about the need for research into the relationship between class size and pupil perform ance and suggested that this matter could be considered at the next meeting of the Australian Education Council. [More…]
It is noted, however, that a report on ‘Post graduate Education for Medical Personnel in the USSR’, published by the World Health Organisation in 1970, indicated that over 30,000 doctors, stomatologists and pharmacists graduate each year in the USSR. [More…]
What proportions of the total related to education at (a) State schools and (b) independent schools. [More…]
Deductions allowed for education expenses in the assessments of taxable individuals included in the statistics tabulated for the 1968-69 income year (the latest year for which statistics of these deductions are at present available) amounted to approximately $235m. [More…]
and (3) Statistics of deductions allowed for education expenses are not classified by type of school or other educational institutions attended by the child or dependent in respect of whom the expenses were incurred. [More…]
The Commonwealth Statistician publishes statistics which classify into a number of categories the numbers of persons attending various educational institutions. [More…]
Also, numbers of children for whom education expenses were allowed in respect of the 1968-69 income year are shown in ‘Taxation Statistics 1969-70’, the Supplement to the 49th Report of the Commissioner of Taxation. [More…]
These statistics may provide a basis from which a broad indication of the numbers of taxpayers claiming deductions for education expenses incurred in respect of children attending [More…]
However, because of the various factors that influence the cost of allowing deductions to taxpayers who have children attending State schools or independent schools (or both types of schools) and other educational institutions, the statistics would not provide a firm basis for establishing the proportions of the total deductions for education expenses that related to education at (a) State schools and (b) independent schools. [More…]
Health education campaigns have produced a tolerably wellinformed community among school children, but smoking among school children is still alarmingly high. [More…]
Pre-school Education (Question No. [More…]
The Commonwealth Statistician has provided figures of expenditure on pre-school education by State authorities for 1970-71 in the following table. [More…]
On 29th July my colleagues, the Minister for Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) and the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Affairs (Dr Coombs) and officers of my Department met with Aboriginal leaders in Canberra. [More…]
We have gone out of our way to improve the education of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The measure dealing with what have become known as self-education expenses is an important one. [More…]
Many people spend money on educational courses with a view to obtaining qualifications to .aid them in earning income. [More…]
The Government has decided, however, that a concession should be available for people who set themselves the task of gaining educational qualifications connected with their careers. [More…]
We therefore propose a special concessional deduction for expenditure incurred by a taxpayer on fees, books and equipment associated with a course of education he undertakes for the purpose of acquiring qualifications related to his employment or career. [More…]
It will be available whether a course of education is attended on a full-time or part-time basis or is carried on by correspondence. [More…]
As is the case with the concession now provided to a parent for the education of children, the maximum deduction under the new concession in any income year will be S400. [More…]
The new concession will complement the present allowance for education expenses and will be limited to the difference between the amount of $400 and any amount allowable to a parent or other person for the education expenses of the taxpayer. [More…]
It is proposed that both the deduction for self-education expenses and the increased dependants allowances will be allowable in assessments based on income derived in the 1972-73 income year and subsequent years. [More…]
For some time the Council has been concerned that within industry, commerce, Government, the universities and colleges of advanced education there is insufficient understanding of the factors which govern the effective use of graduates. [More…]
It finishes up questioning the value of tertiary education and its relevance to satisfactory employment. [More…]
This heavy capital commitment by Australia surely reflects the sincere wish of this Liberal Government to assume all its responsibilities in the South East Asian area, whether they be matters of security, education, commerce or finance. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Where and when have there been meetings of (a) the Education Council since 28th May 1971 and (b) the Directors-General of Education since 8th October 1970. [More…]
(a) The Australian Education Council met for 2 days in Sydney on 25th and 26th May 1972. [More…]
The Directors-General of Education have met in their capacity as the Standing Committee to the Australian Education Council on 26th May 1971 at Brisbane and on 23rd and 24th May 1972 at Sydney. [More…]
In my answer to a previous question from the honourable member (Hansard, 7th October 1971, page 2124) I indicated that proceedings of the Australian Education Council are confidential but that on occasions the Ministers have agreed to make a public statement on particular matters. [More…]
Following the May 1972 meeting the Chairman of the Council issued a statement which contained references to the Nation-wide Survey of Educational Needs, the Commonwealth action taken to assist the States to increase capital and recurrent expenditure in those areas of education covered by the Survey, and a recognition that the Commonwealth’s recent grants for school buildings represent a breakthrough in achieving direct support for education in government schools. [More…]
Recommendations decided upon at meetings of the Directors-General in their’ capacity as Standing Committee of the Australian Education Council are reported to the Council and considered by it. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Was the promise he made on11th May 1972 of a grant of $167m to State governments for 1973-77 intended as a net increase in total education funds to State governments or as a net increase in capital funds only. [More…]
Is the (a) nature and (b) cost of the assistance for education in Australia in 1972 the same as in 1971 (Hansard, 23rd April 1971, page 2007). [More…]
The matters referred to fall within the authority of the Minister for Education in the House of Assembly for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following information: 1 (a) (i) [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The Department of Education and Science does not provide pre-schools on a population ratio basis. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
How many students at each college hold Commonwealth advanced education scholarships (Hansard, 28 March 1972, page 1297). [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Will the Minister for Education and Science tell the Parliament why a directive has been issued within the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation requesting that all contacts by senior officers with Federal or State members of Parliament be reported to the Chairman so that the Minister can be advised? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science whether he has seen the critical comments of a professor of education on the Australian education system or systems. [More…]
During the hearings of the Senate committee of inquiry into the future of the Commonwealth Government’s role in support of teacher education a senator asked Mr Barry Sheehan, who comes from the same university and is the Chairman of the Centre for Comparative and International Studies in Education at the La Trobe University, whether there were any objective criteria which would enable him to say that the products of Australian schools were in any way inferior to those of other countries. [More…]
I would like to suggest that the extreme sensitivity of the Opposition on this particular matter probably arises from a report in the Press in which the professor is alleged to have said: ‘In the United States the Catholic parish education system’ - [More…]
I think it is a good sign for the Government’s chances at the next election when a Federal member of the Opposition sets out to try to confuse those more important issues which relate to Federal Government, which are more vital to people - foreign affairs, defence and questions on education - and which the Labor Party tries to hide from, by talking about the Brisbane City Council. [More…]
The details given in this table show substantial increases in expenditure on a number of items, but by far the major increase is in Commonwealth payments to the States for education, which in total have increased from $206m last year to $250m this year - an increase of 21 per cent. [More…]
These payments to the States are for universities, colleges of advanced education, teachers colleges, technical colleges and schools. [More…]
In the case of universities and colleges of advanced education, the present financial year will see the commencement of new triennial programmes of expenditure for the calendar years 1973 to 1975.I shall be making a statement to the House very soon on the recommendations which the Government has received on these triennial programmes and the decisions which it has made. [More…]
For the present financial year, grants to the States for their universities, their colleges of advanced education and individual research projects supported by the Australian Research Grants Committee will total $144m, an increase of $ 15m over last year. [More…]
If this is an example of the honourable member’s interest and concern in education, I hope he will always sit on the side of the House he is on now. [More…]
In considering the increase in Commonwealth direct payments to the States’ for educational purposes, it is important not to overlook the improvements which have also taken place recently in the States’ general financial situation and hence in their capacity to devote more funds of their own to education. [More…]
On this basis the Commonwealth can fairly claim to be providing more than a half of the total recurrent expenditure by governments on education in Australia. [More…]
As evidence of the extent to which the development of States’ general resources does help them to spend more on education, we need only look at their budgets in 1971-72 which provided for an increase in educational expenditure of 17 per cent or nearly S200m over the previous year. [More…]
The Commonwealth has recognised the special claims for assistance for those fields of endeavour which do not produce revenue and, as part of the works and housing programme, has provided interest free grants which may be used in such fields, of which education is a notable one, instead of loan funds. [More…]
Research in Education [More…]
But the pursuit of quality in education involves much more than finance. [More…]
valuable contribution that well-directed research can make to educational progress. [More…]
The Australian Advisory Committee one Research and Development in Education, -which the Government- established in . [More…]
One of the ways in which the Commonwealth supports education in Australia is through the grants-in-aid which .it gives to educational organisations or . [More…]
Grants of this kind are given to the Australian Association for Adult Education, the Current Affairs Bulletin, the Australian Pre-School Association, the Australian Council for Educational Research and the Lady Gowrie Child Centres. [More…]
Education of Migrants and Aborigines [More…]
The Government has taken special steps to help particular groups in the community where it is clear that these groups are faced with special difficulties in their education. [More…]
Nearly $5m is provided for special education for migrant children in 1972-73, as compared with an expenditure of just over $3m in the last financial year. [More…]
For the special education of adult migrants within Australia $4.2m is included for 1972-73 compared with $3m in the 1971-72 financial year. [More…]
An important aspect of Australia’s international relations in education is the aid provided for the improvement of education systems in less developed countries. [More…]
The Government has decided to increase expenditure under the scheme of Commonwealth co-operation in education to over Sim in 1972- 73. [More…]
It will provide additional training awards for teachers from the region to undertake training in Australia and will increase the supply of Australian educational personnel to these countries. [More…]
The Government has agreed to provide $125,000 additional to its earlier commitment of $750,000 for the Australian Science Education Project - ASEP - subject to the States agreeing to provide their share of the additional funds required to complete the production of new science teaching materials to cover the first 4 years of secondary education. [More…]
Up to this point, I have been dealing with the continuation and expansion of existing Commonwealth programmes in education. [More…]
I am glad to say that, arising from the Auchmuty Committee’s report, the May 1972 meeting of the Australian Education Council agreed to sponsor joint Commonwealth-State co-operation in the development of a range of proposals designed to stimulate the teaching of Asian languages and cultures in Australian schools. [More…]
The details are to be worked out co-operatively by the Commonealth and State education authorities. [More…]
Education in Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory [More…]
There have been significant developments in education in Commonwealth mainland Territories. [More…]
Honourable members will know that since 1913 the New South Wales Education Department has staffed government schools in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Following discussions initiated by the New South Wales Minister for Education, the Commonwealth Government has decided to assume responsibility for staffing these schools. [More…]
I come now to a section of the Commonwealth’s education programme where the coming year will see particularly substantial changes. [More…]
At present, under 5 major scholarship schemes, the Government provides assistance to students undertaking a wide variety of courses at universities, colleges of advanced education, technical colleges and secondary schools. [More…]
Students may proceed from the final years of secondary education to the completion of postgraduate degrees with Commonwealth scholarship assistance. [More…]
The new scheme will thus provide an incentive to able students and at the same time make available special assistance to those students whose families may find difficulty in maintaining them at school for a full secondary education. [More…]
The Government proposes to increase the number of scholarships available under both the Commonwealth university and the Commonwealth advanced education scholarships schemes for 1973. [More…]
In line with its policy of promoting the balanced development of both universities and colleges of advanced education, the Government will make a further substantial increase in the number of advanced education scholarships. [More…]
I turn now to deal with substantial changes which are to be made in living allowances and the means test for university and advanced education scholarships. [More…]
Such an arrangement would be consistent with the approach adopted under the university and advanced education schemes. [More…]
Such a scheme was included in the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, in its recent report on teacher education. [More…]
It is my belief that the new measures which the Government has introduced in its student assistance programme will have far reaching effects and will do much to ensure that financial considerations do not prevent a student from reaching a level of education consistent with his or her abilities. [More…]
Teacher Education [More…]
I mentioned earlier that in the course of this statement 1 would be referring to a significant development in Commonwealth support for teacher education. [More…]
I would like to preface this by reminding honourable members that the Commonwealth already makes a substantial direct contribution to the education of teachers, through its contribution to the capital and recurrent costs of universities and colleges of advanced education and its unmatched capital grants direct to teachers colleges and pre-school teachers colleges. [More…]
Commonwealth support for teacher education has significantly helped the States in recent years in their achievements in increasing the numbers of teachers in training and teachers in employment. [More…]
There have also been important developments in the organisation of teacher education, starting a few years ago with the move to a basic 3-year training course. [More…]
Coordinating machinery is being introduced at State level to improve the standing of teacher education institutions, and all State governments have now indicated their intention to provide teacher education courses in institutions free from direct education department control. [More…]
Progress towards incorporation of State teachers colleges in colleges of advanced education, or their reconstitution as self governing tertiary institutions, is well advanced in several States. [More…]
There has also been movement towards teacher education in multi-purpose institutions, a development which the Commonwealth favours. [More…]
Recently, there has been increasing support from a number of directions for the principle that State teachers colleges should receive Commonwealth funds, both capital and recurrent, under the arrangements for matching grants for colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, which in February this year reported on the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education, recommended that teachers colleges be granted financial assistance for recurrent and capital expenditure under terms and conditions similar to colleges of advanced education. [More…]
At a meeting of the Australian Education Council in May 1972 State Ministers of Education requested Commonwealth matching assistance for State teachers colleges and gave support, in principle, to bringing pre-school teachers colleges within the advanced education arrangements. [More…]
Firstly, it has decided to extend present matching arrangements applying to universities and colleges of advanced education to include State teachers colleges which are being developed as self governing tertiary institutions under the supervision of appropriate coordinating bodies in the States. [More…]
This support will be available from July 1973 as an addition to the programme of Commonwealth support for colleges of advanced education, immediately following expiry of the present unmatched capital grants programme. [More…]
Secondly, the Commonwealth will offer to share with the States the capital and recurrent costs of pre-school teachers colleges, under advanced education arrangements, from July 1973. [More…]
While the Government has not been prepared to extend this support to non-government teachers colleges, as was recommended by the Senate Committee, I would point out that teachers, whether preparing for work in independent schools or in government schools, will be equally acceptable for places in the self-governing State teachers colleges, just as is the case with teachers training at universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
These students would be eligible for Commonwealth advanced education scholarships. [More…]
Under these new programmes the teacher education institutions concerned are expected to attract substantial additional Commonwealth support. [More…]
Further consultation with State education authorities will be necessary in working out details of the mode of operation of the new support for their teachers colleges. [More…]
In order to implement these programmes from 1st July 1973 the Australian Commission on Advanced Education will discuss specific proposals with State education authorities and present a supplementary programme to the Government by 31st March 1973. [More…]
The Commission will have access to appropriate additional sources of advice in its examination of teacher education proposals. [More…]
This will bring the programme for the teachers colleges into line with the general university and colleges of advanced education programmes. [More…]
While it is willing to support single-purpose teacher education institutions within the advanced education programme, the Commonwealth, as I have mentioned before, continues to favour the provision of teacher education in multipurpose institutions wherever possible, a view which was supported by the Senate Committee. [More…]
In these circumstances the Government wishes to ensure that self-governing teacher education institutions have the means to provide a high standard of teacher education. [More…]
The proposed Commonwealth support will promote balanced development between the different sectors of teacher education. [More…]
The additional resources which the Commonwealth has decided to provide for teacher education should enable greater provision to be made for special areas of need. [More…]
While substantial progress has been made in many areas of education in recent years, I am concerned that further development should occur in meeting the needs of those children who are handicapped or who have special learning difficulties. [More…]
The training of greater numbers of specialist teachers is the factor which will make the greatest impact in these areas and the Government sees its new programme of assistance to teacher education as providing opportunities for the introduction of additional special courses as well as assisting development of teacher education in general. [More…]
The decisions I have announced on teacher education policy cover some of the major recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts in its report on the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education. [More…]
I have also referred elsewhere in this statement to an examination of the possibility of developing a national system of tertiary scholarships and of a supplementary system of student loans, as well as to the activities of the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education - the Partridge Committee - in stimulating research into educational areas to the extent that resources are available. [More…]
I know that the Senate Committee’s report has provided a valuable stimulus to thinking about teacher education. [More…]
The Australian Universities Commission, the Australian Commission -on Advanced Education and the Partridge Committee have all examined particular proposals and have taken account of them in their own deliberations. [More…]
Allied to the question of registration is the accreditation of the academic standing of courses and I have been pleased to note that the Australian Council on Awards in Advanced Education is in a position to consider for national registration courses in teacher education submitted to it by the appropriate accrediting agency in a State or Territory; I hope that this development will take place, and that we will have full national accreditation of teacher education awards. [More…]
Against the background of the recommendations of the Senate Committee and of the decisions taken by the Commonwealth and the States, Commonwealth agencies will co-operate with State bodies in proposals for the further development of teacher education in a range of institutions throughout Australia. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, any statement on the Commonwealth’s education programme for a financial year, must, by its very nature, dwell largely on details of Commonwealth expenditure under various headings. [More…]
But I would not wish to conclude this statement without stressing the co-operative nature of the Commonwealth’s activities in education. [More…]
Most of the programmes I have described are programmes which are carried out in close co-operation with the States and with other education authorities. [More…]
In the course of the financial year just concluded a particularly significant development occurred when the Commonwealth was accepted for the first time into full membership of the Australian Education Council - the forum in which Ministers for Education from all States, and now the Commonwealth, discuss their problems and their plans for the future. [More…]
We have been able to agree on cooperation in exploring possible developments in a wide range of areas such as class size, school building design, the needs of technical education, the problems of isolated children, teaching of. [More…]
The Government’s broad objectives in education are: Equality of opportunity; a healthy degree of independence for, and variety in, tertiary education institutions; assistance for deprived groups; freedom of schools from excessively centralised control; development of parental and local community interest in schools; freedom of choice for ‘consumers’ of education; and a continuing improvement in the facilities available to teachers and students at all levels, in the content of courses and in the teaching methods applied in those courses. [More…]
These objectives are ones which the Government believes can be shared by all who are concerned with the quality of education in Australia. [More…]
In recent years there has been a striking increase in the extent to which educational policies have become the subject of informed public debate, and this is a process from which only good can come. [More…]
Commonwealth Education Programme for 1972- 73 - Ministerial Statement, 17th August 197Z [More…]
The ministerial statement insofar as it refers to Commonwealth scholarships foreshadows extending the system of scholarships to more children and introducing a means test It also shows how stubbornly the Commonwealth adheres to a restricted and confined view of education. [More…]
The Commonwealth is interested in the education of sections of the population far more than it is interested in producing a skilled and educated population. [More…]
Wherever one turns one sees the same attitude, whether in its utter indifference to the needs of underprivileged areas for pre-school centres, its indifference to the leakage of students from secondary education in the first 3 years of secondary school or its refusal to come to grips with the problems of education for poor children and isolated children or the problem of dropping out for economic reasons. [More…]
Accurately it is now calling the scholarships ‘senior’ secondary scholarships; continuing to ignore the first 3 years of secondary education. [More…]
The form of examination for the scholarships devised by the Australian Council of Educational Research was independent of the syllabuses of State or private schools and its papers in the humanities, written expression, quantitative and or mathematical thinking, and scientific thinking were designed to eliminate cramming and determine the scholarships on the basis of capacity to think and not upon learning. [More…]
Schoenheimer’s article calls this particular form of intervention with education ‘dollarships’. [More…]
The Australian Council of Educational Research, which devised the examination, has studied the question of the relationship, if any, between capacity to stay at school as a result of the award of a Commonwealth secondary scholarship. [More…]
Dealing with the effect of the award on educational plans, the summary of findings of ACER research series No. [More…]
Parents of 97 out of 100 Commonwealth secondary scholarships award winners in the Brisbane sample, 90 (out of 100) in the Sydney sample and 93 (out of 100) in the Melbourne sample reported that the student would have stayed on to complete secondary education had he not won a Commonwealth secondary scholarship award. [More…]
And in an additional S cases (out of 300) parents reported that the student probably would have stayed on to complete secondary education badhe not won a Commonwealth secondary scholarship award. [More…]
In only 2 cases (out of 300) did parents report that the student would not have stayed on at school to complete secondary education had he failed to win a Commonwealth secondary scholarship award, although in an additional 10 cases they reported that the student probably would not have stayed on. [More…]
The value of these scholarships is half of 1 per cent of all educational expenditure in the nation but they have become prestige symbols. [More…]
Catholic schools improve their percentage gradually as they are forced to eliminate the poor from their schools, for all the evidence is that the system is orientated to favouring higher socio-economic groups and it is cer tainly a fact that the hard pressed Catholic system is increasingly eliminating the poor as it is forced by the rising cost of education to increase fees. [More…]
centof the Sydney sample, and 4 per cent of the Melbourne sample at school for the purpose of completing secondary education. [More…]
One very powerful factor in the lack of linguistic ability, as I propose to comment later, is a lack of a preschool education. [More…]
This scheme is based on a narrow concept of education, if this is to remain the Commonwealth’s great effort at the secondary level, even when there is added to it the system of technical scholarships. [More…]
There is a need for Commonwealth backing for a broadening of education for national efficiency and creativeness. [More…]
Despite its high percentages of tertiary education and despite Australia’s higher percentages than Britain and Sweden, the United States is showing us that it is leaving a yawning gap in the education of poorer people. [More…]
The Commonwealth must back the diversification of education. [More…]
Mr Philip 0’Carroll research assistant in the Department of Philosophy at the Australian National University, recently spoke at an education seminar. [More…]
My comment on the field of education which we have just been discussing is that the whole of the scholarship system, which is a powerful determinant of economic assistance - unfortunately to those who need it least - is geared to the intellectual and verbal skills, and a child who does not possess verbal skills will appear to be unintelligent when intrinsically he is not unin telligent. [More…]
Do not let us forget that teachers’ salaries constitute 85 per cent of the recurring costs of education. [More…]
The Minister, in referring to the increase in the number of open entrance scholarships at universities by 1,000 from 8,500 to 9,500 and the increase in scholarships to colleges of advanced education from 4,000 to 6,000, does not mention how, with increasing enrolments, the percentage of scholarship holders has been falling. [More…]
There is no real grip on the problem of the education of migrant children, though the increase is welcome. [More…]
The Commonwealth is totally responsible for bringing migrant children to Australia and should tackle the problem of assisting their education with the same resoluteness and responsibility as, say, it tackled the Commonwealth reconstruction training scheme, which it acknowledged was fully its responsibility. [More…]
The continuing neglect of pre-school education is utterly disastrous. [More…]
It pointed out that pre-school education in the Australian Capital Territory is available to all children 3 years of age and over and the aim is to give each child at least 1 year pre-school experience. [More…]
The Federation mentioned a pre-school mobile travelling unit and pre-school education for physically handicapped children in the [More…]
The general ignorance of the significance of pre-school education means that the Commonwealth can continue a policy of ruthless neglect without much electoral damage. [More…]
This therefore makes pre-school education a litmus test of its concern for Australian children. [More…]
If, therefore, it does not show this concern it shows what its basic motivation is because this education is vital. [More…]
In New South Wales where government interest in pre-school education is all but non-existent, the cost to parents of pre-schooling is between $12 and $16 per week per child, rising to $30 per week in well-to-do suburbs. [More…]
A preschool education for a year costs more than a university education. [More…]
The absence from the wonderfully stimulating environment of pre-school education of so many children is a tragedy. [More…]
Abroad they have carried out schemes whereby they have used preschool education successfully to eliminate this disadvantage from the child, [More…]
Denis Lawton in his study, ‘Social Class, Language and Education’, wrote: [More…]
There is little doubt that there exists a social educational problem; a great deal of potential talent is wasted, or looking at the problem from a different point of view, the education of large numbers of working class children is below satisfactory standard. [More…]
If some Catholic boarding schools, for instance, want to cater especially for isolated children from the back blocks, I believe that Commonwealth assistance to construct the facilities to help those disadvantaged children whose parents chose that form of education should be given to them. [More…]
1 believe also that the Department of Education and Science should be required to investigate methods for improving radio and television schooling, directed at the needs of isolated children. [More…]
In certain other fields of education, for instance, the Labor Party wishes to see adopted in both government and non government schools in this country a system which exists in the Inner London Education Authority whereby special assistance can be given to poor children. [More…]
The Commonwealth has a direct educational power in benefits to students. [More…]
When grants are made to Aborigines to assist them with their education, this is done under the Commonwealth power of benefits to students but, after all, what is the reason for this special assistance to an Aborigine to receive an education? [More…]
This matter was touched on in the statement on education that was made by myself following the statement on education of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), which omitted entirely reference to pre-school education, except in a very minor way. [More…]
Therefore I am emboldened to quote to the Minister what Dr Radford had to say recently about a major purpose in education. [More…]
One of the most conspicious inequalities in Australian education is in the field of preschool education. [More…]
It is quite astonishing that the Liberal Government is so disinterested in pre-school education when it is the middle classes, in the main, from whom the Liberals are drawn and who value preschool education more than any other group. [More…]
In this city of Canberra where the Government’s advisers - the civil servants - live a greater percentage of children are enrolled for pre-school education than anywhere else. [More…]
This was the last effort by- the Commonwealth to assist underprivileged children in preschool education. [More…]
None of the educational experts such as Radford, whose work the Government circulates to every member of Parliament in spheres which suit the Government, would justify a position such as that in New South Wales where in 1970 only 3.1 per cent of eligible children were receiving pre-school education. [More…]
It has been the subject of a study by Professor Karmel who was chairman of the Committee of Inquiry into Education in South Australia. [More…]
It seems to me that the great defect in Commonwealth intervention in education is that it intervenes always in the direction of what is called ability. [More…]
1 believe that the States will not start to incur a new expenditure of a significant kind in this field of pre-school education except possibly Victoria, which has already gone a long way along the road. [More…]
If the Government asked this question of any educationist, it would be advised to assist in the establishment of this system. [More…]
Yet, we have debates in this House in which the Opposition is begging all the time for a pre-school commission to be the Commonwealth Government’s organ of intelligence to examine and establish needs in this field and again and again the Minister for Education and Science derides it. [More…]
Knowing the significance of preschool education, the Government has developed in Canberra the finest pre-school education system in Australia and one of the finest in the world. [More…]
It really is only repeating the parent Bill of last year and extending the period during which money appropriated under the parent Bill can be spent, but as it relates to pre-school education one cannot neglect the opportunity to raise again the need for Commonwealth responsibility in the curative work and the creative work for young children in these pre-school centres. [More…]
educational development of the individual. [More…]
There are no arguments against establishing a pre-school education system. [More…]
When it wished to assist education in the private schools, it could bring down a stream of States grants Bills to assist the private schools. [More…]
When it wanted to enter into the field of university education - we were begging Sir Robert Menzies to do- so for some years before he did do so - it could conjure up the Australian Universities Commission and set forth with a stream of States grants universities Bills. [More…]
A similar position applies in relation to colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Therefore, it becomes a litmus test as to whether the Commonwealth Government cares tuppence about children or cares only about those educational issues in which there are votes. [More…]
But if it has a pastoral care for the children in this country, regardless of whether the electorate understands the significance of these schools, regardless of whether the underprivileged areas which would benefit most from their establishment understand them, it will, for the sake of the nation and because of the significant foundation that these places can provide for the education of children, set to work to develop a pre-school commission as its guide to establishing a preschool educational system. [More…]
I care, and I am staggered that nobody has been inspired by the speech df the honourable member tonight or, indeed, the speech he made this afternoon when he gave a package deal account of the Australian Labor Party’s objectives in regard to education and placed considerable emphasis on the pre-school. [More…]
But only about 3 per cent of unskilled workers have a chance to send their children off to the educational opportunities in the pre-school area. [More…]
One of the essential tangibles in the whole objectivity about which we have been talking is people who can run the pre-school education system. [More…]
In terms of the Budget, it is not a large sum of money but it is the thing that symbolises this Parliament’s concern about pre-school education. [More…]
Thousands of children are going to be denied pre-school education opportunities as a result of this delay. [More…]
That is to say that each year the delay is costing pre-school education 358 teachers. [More…]
That does not sound a lot in the spectrum of anything but if each of those 358 teachers were to teach just 20 children some 7,160 additional children could enjoy the privileges and the benefits of pre-school education. [More…]
I am referring to this whole area of teaching training for pre-school education. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (“Mr Malcolm Fraser) has failed to achieve the results demanded to meet the desperate shortage of pre-school teachers. [More…]
What is the crisis in pre-school education? [More…]
If pre-school education is needed for children in the Australian Capital Territory and in the Northern Territory, it is needed for children throughout the length and breadth of this land. [More…]
The inequitable disparity in levels of expenditure on pre-school education between the States and the Australian Capital Territory reflects on the capacity and the willingness of successive governments to face up to this great and pressing social issue. [More…]
The Australian Capital Territory expends $4.30 per head on pre-school education, and I ask honourable members to remember that figure. [More…]
Government, and indeed recent governments in that State, have set out to incorporate pre-school training into the State education system. [More…]
The work of Fitzgerald and Crosher entitled Pre-School Education of Australia’, published by the Australian Council for Education Research, claims that in a recent survey there were 63,000 women not of the work force with one or more children under 6 years of age who stated that they would go into the work force if suitable child care facilities were available. [More…]
These are the realities of life as the effects of higher education come to bear. [More…]
Ministers for Health, Ministers for Education and Science and Ministers for Labour and National Service have been involved in these matters. [More…]
It should be saying: ‘We are going to extend the state education system to accommodate the pre-school needs of Australia.’ [More…]
The honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) implied that the only people who are unaware of the apparent value of education for children under the age of 5 years are the people on this side of the House and that those clairvoyants opposite have long been in possession of the educational information which has recently come to hand. [More…]
But surely that proves the point which the honourable member for Hughes was trying to disprove, that is, that in the Australian Capital Territory, which is the immediate concern of the Commonwealth Government, the level of pre-school education is notably, even remarkably, higher than that in most other areas of the country. [More…]
Surely it also proves that it was within the province of the State governments, if they knew about the educational need, to introduce equally high levels of pre-school education if that was their order of priorities. [More…]
I would regard the comments of both the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) and the honourable member for Hughes about its not being adequate to leave the initiative to the States and so on as a very nice expression of what might be, but the States are in fact predominantly responsible for the education of children at that age. [More…]
It is well known to honourable members opposite and to the public that the Commonwealth entered the field of education as a whole - it is, as you know, Mr Speaker, a vast field - substantially at the higher levels of education, notably at the tertiary level, where the educating was essentially carried out by autonomous or semi-autonomous institutions from univer sities down and where it was much easier to involve the Commonwealth in considerable capital expenditure without transgressing the rights of the States and their education departments. [More…]
Clearly in that sense education of children at the ages below 6 - mostly 3 to 5 years of age - is at the lowest level, in terms of age and chronology, of the education process. [More…]
But in the order of things as they have been carried out, with the intrusion of the Commonwealth into the field of education, it is understandable that this has been a somewhat languishing field. [More…]
When we coupled that with the real knowledge of the importance or apparent importance of this level of educational possibility and capacity in children, I do not really believe that the argument, that only the Commonwealth is responsible here, put by the honourable member for Hughes in considerably emotional terms at the outset of his speech, holds a great deal of water. [More…]
Undertakings made in respect of child minding centres as an adjunct to or even as a consequence of or a response to an increasing proportion of females in the work force are not the same as the establishment of or the responsibility to establish pre-school education on the part of the Commonwealth. [More…]
I am no expert on children’s education at this stage but an analysis of part of the position will reveal a great deal of the curricula, if that is the right word, engaged in pursuits which could largely be carried out in other circumstances were the parents sufficiently interested; that is to say, scissors and paste operations and activities relating to art in one form or another - highly expressive functions that bring out a great deal in the educational and social consciousness of the children. [More…]
Nevertheless we should recognise the possibilities - or even the fact - that some people higher up the educational scale prefer to teach their children and have them close to them as much as possible at that early age rather than send them to pre-school. [More…]
We are talking about pre-school education. [More…]
I do not think anybody is likely to be highly critical of the job that organisations like the Gowrie centres have done in the past but it is worth noting that the Tasmanian Government in this field of operation has long since integrated its pre-school teaching with its educational system at large. [More…]
In addition the Minister announced today in his considerable speech on education that not only capital grants but recurring costs of preschool teachers colleges will be met by the Commonwealth as from July 1973. [More…]
The Launceston Teachers College which operates the system for the State Education Department of Tasmania does not have figures available for the first year, because of the integration of the system, but is moving to 70 now. [More…]
As honourable members opposite, particularly the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), have pointed out, the ball is at the Parliament’s foot, and we must move to a position where a much greater proportion of children, particularly those outside of the Australian Capital Territory, in the age groups of 3 to 5 nota bly, are able to participate, if their parents wish it, in pre-school education in a thorough-going, organised fashion. [More…]
It is, however, necessary to identify educational priorities. [More…]
The Commonwealth educational priorities have not long been in the field of pre-school education. [More…]
It is, of course, within the limits of their general expenditure, educational or otherwise, open to them to do so, if that is the way they see it. [More…]
Whatever is the Commonwealth responsibility in this field, I do not think it is fair to divorce the States and their education departments from acknowledging their priorities and facing the task which is closest to hand as far as they are concerned and not leaving the whole matter to the Commonwealth to carry out more effectively than hitherto. [More…]
What I want to deal with concerns a deliberate attempt by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), whom I informed that I intended to speak tonight, to preserve secrecy within his Department. [More…]
1 was informed on each occasion that the reply had been received by the Minister for Education and Science, sent over to the Department of Education and Science, come back and was again in the pipeline. [More…]
I woud like to add, to strengthen the charge made this morning by the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby) who claimed that the Minister for Education and Science was deliberately gagging scientists in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation, that the Minister has deliberately withheld information from me for no reason whatsoever. [More…]
I discussed the incorporation of these documents with the Minister for Education and Science who is at the table and he is agreeable to this course. [More…]
Any person anywhere in Australia, no matter who he or she is, can ring up the Department of Education and Science and ask how much a certain school is entitled to. [More…]
However, my action put the official of the Department of Education and Science, a very co-operative person, in a most embarrassing position. [More…]
The other thing, of course, is this: The Minister not only sent my letter backwards and forwards to the Department of Education and Science 3 times and said: ‘We are not going to give that information to the honourable member for Bendigo; I am too embarrassed by it. [More…]
I will state their entitlements and honourable members will see why he has withheld this information: Melbourne Grammar, his old school, $142,000; Geelong Grammar, which is the old school of the former Prime Minister and the former Minister for Education and Science, Mr Gorton and Mr Fairbairn, Si 59,020; Wesley College, the former school of Mr Nixon, $34,242. [More…]
The 2 people most concerned in asking questions relating to education are the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) and the honourable member for Bendigo. [More…]
What (a) numbers and (b) percentages of students in (i) each and (ii) all of the following schools (A) sat for or applied tor and (B) were awarded (I) Commonwealth secondary scholarships, (II) Commonwealth university scholarships and (III) Commonwealth advanced education scholarships in (A) each and (B) all of the years since each scholarship scheme was introduced? [More…]
Before 1968 all the records in these matters and scholarship matters were held by State departments of education. [More…]
Mr MALCOLM FRASER (Wannon Minister for Education and Science) - Mr Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation. [More…]
The honourable member for Bendigo said: ‘I do not care what the leaders of the Catholic church or Protestant churches say what they want their education system to be as far as Commonwealth grants are concerned.’ [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Also I refer to my Department’s recent publication: ‘Special Education in Australia’ which gives a great deal of detail on special education facilities in the States and Commonwealth Territories. [More…]
I am not in a position to comment on the statement by the then Deputy Prime Minister, which was to the effect that it was the intention of the Country Party to work for a Government allowance to students who must live away from home to receive their education and also for a provision to cover their cost of travel. [More…]
The Australian Education Council has expressed its concern for the educational problems of isolated children in particular and a meeting of Commonwealth and Stale officials has recently been held to examine their needs more closely. [More…]
Results obtained in an appropriation examination taken upon the completion of junior secondary education, and [More…]
(a) In view of the diverse academic back ground of candidates for Commonwealth technical scholarships and the differences between education systems throughout Australia it is not possible to give meaningful statistics of enrolments. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Will the Minister inform the House the variation of expenditure between education in Australia and defence? [More…]
-The honourable member must have in mind that, whilst the defence vote is purely a Commonwealth type vote, the education budget of Australia is a shared one between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
This year the defence budget, as I understand it, is a little over $l,300m and the Commonwealth’s education budget is up by over $70m. [More…]
It is likely that the Commonwealth and State education budgets will be increased by not less than $200m - perhaps $300m - but we will not know that until we have had the results of the States’ budgets. [More…]
Last financial year the States increased their education budgets by $200m over the year before. [More…]
I would expect them to make a further increase of about the same order, which would give a total education vote, additional to last year, approaching $300m, which is much greater than the actual increase in the’ defence vote. [More…]
I understand that the honourable member’s concern might have occurred because Mr Hawke indicated that the total defence vote was more, or increasing at a greater rate, than the education vote. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Is he aware of the visit to Canberra today of a comparatively large number of parents and citizens from Victoria to express their interest in and concern about the standard and quality of education in Victorian government schools in particular? [More…]
If so, during the course of his meeting with this deputation was he able to throw any light on what the Commonwealth in fact has achieved and has been doing in the field of education? [More…]
In particular, in view of the fact that such citizens look primarily to the Commonwealth Government to remedy some of the defects in education, was the Minister able to hold out any hope of further Commonwealth assistance in this field? [More…]
The numbers who have come to Canberra, I think, evidence the very real concern that a great number of parents and citizens groups have about the quality of education in government schools. [More…]
I tried to indicate that the new policies the Commonwealth has announced over the last 10 or 12 months - in particular concerning capital funds for school construction and the teacher training policy which I announced on behalf of the Government last Thursday and which includes policies for the training of pre-school teachers - would do much to improve the quality of education in all schools, but especially in government schools, because the 2 areas of concern are the adequacy of the number of teachers and greater equality in capital facilities. [More…]
I think I mentioned this morning also - if I did not, it remains a fact - that the revised programme of assistance for scholarships will do a very great deal to help an additional number of families to have their children pursue their education further. [More…]
I hope that as these policies come to bite and have an impact their worth for Australian education in government schools will be felt. [More…]
by leave - The reports of the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education represent valuable documents for those who wish to obtain a full understanding of the developments that are planned in education in universities and colleges of advanced education during the next 3 years. [More…]
The reports summarise the developments and progress which have taken place in the period 1970-72 and make recommendations for, financial assistance for universities and colleges of advanced education for the coming triennium 1973-75. [More…]
I am pleased to be able to say that the Government has found it possible to accept all the financial recommendations of the Australian Universities Commission and virtually all of those of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
The estimated cost of the’ combined programmes approved for universities and colleges of advanced education for the 1973- 75 triennium is $ 1,467m which represents an increase of 45 per cent over the actual programmes in the 1970-72 triennium. [More…]
The programme for colleges of advanced education of $450m represents an increase of 78 per cent compared with an increase of 117 per cent for the previous triennium. [More…]
When presenting the reports in respect of universities and colleges 3 years ago, I expressed the belief that the courses offered by the colleges being more directly related to the immediate needs of industry and commerce would appeal to many able students as a meaningful alternative to university education. [More…]
In 1969, 65.5 per cent of all tertiary students were undertaking university courses, 21.5 per cent courses in colleges of advanced education and 13 per cent were in teachers colleges. [More…]
This year only 58.6 per cent’ of the total tertiary enrolment is in universities while the proportion in colleges of advanced education has risen to 27.5 per cent. [More…]
total expected enrolment of approximately 245,000 in tertiary institutions by 1975, excluding students, in universities proceeding to higher degrees, about 132,000 will: be undergraduate students at universities, 81,000 students at i Colleges of advanced education and 32,000 teachers college students. [More…]
The growth in numbers in colleges of advanced education will be the most significant and will represent an increase of 50.4 per cent on’ the numbers enrolled this year compared with an increase of 15 per cent in universities. [More…]
The programmes of financial assistance proposed “ for x universities and colleges of advanced education will provide greater educational opportunities at the tertiary level and by 1975 the proportion of the 17-22 years age group studying at these institutions is expected to rise to 15 per cent compared with 12.5 per cent in 1972. [More…]
In presenting these reports I would like to emphasise that the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education have prepared their recommendations and reports in close consultation with each other and that each commission has had detailed consultations with the relevant authorities and institutions in all States. [More…]
In deciding to support the programmes for the 1973-75 triennium, the Commonwealth Government concluded that they represent both a reasonable expansion of tertiary education facilities and an acceptable demand on our overall resources, bearing in mind our other considerable commitments to education at other levels. [More…]
The Government also believes that the allocation of resources as between universities and colleges of advanced education is appropriate for the balanced development of the 2 streams of tertiary education. [More…]
I am glad that honourable members opposite are recognising the generosity of the Government’s proposals for higher education. [More…]
The Commission has looked very closely at the situation in New South Wales where the proportion of places in colleges of advanced education is low in relation to the population. [More…]
The New South Wales authorities have proposed that the assistance of the New South Wales Department of Technical Education be utilised to provide tertiary courses in existing technical colleges. [More…]
The Commission has recommended the endorsement of this approach as an interim measure which will provide addi tional tertiary education facilities. [More…]
Canberra College of Advanced Education During the 1970-72 triennium the Canberra College of Advanced Education has developed rapidly. [More…]
The marathon speech which has just been made by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) sets out future developments in tertiary education, matching the Government’s view of future developments in primary and secondary education presented last week. [More…]
We have received 3 magnificent reports, one each from the Australian Research Grants Committee, the Australian Commission on Advanced Education and the Australian Universities Commission, all of which require close study in conjunction with the 32-page statement of the Minister. [More…]
The Minister has foreshadowed immense expenditure on tertiary education. [More…]
The real division of educational privilege in Australia is not so much between those students who get a private school education and those students who get a government school education as it is between young people who get a tertiary education and young people who do not. [More…]
Students receiving a tertiary education have immense sums expended on them by the Australian taxpayers. [More…]
A child receiving 3years of secon dary education has expended on him about $525 a year, or $1,575 over the 3 years of his secondary education. [More…]
I have made that comparison particularly in view of the fact that university students have a great deal to say about educational privilege. [More…]
It was my good fortune to attend the University of Western Australia when education there was free. ‘ [More…]
It is still the view of the Labor Party that free education should be available at university level, I do not, however, believe that this in itself means equality of educational opportunity. [More…]
Many other things are- needed to ensure equality of educational opportunity. [More…]
We need to look at the economic conditions of many families who cannot put their children through a secondary education. [More…]
Those children do noteven reach the level at which they might have access to tertiary education. [More…]
However, we believe that there are possibilities of tertiary education within the existing system which can be increased if certain steps are taken. [More…]
Firstly, many students of ability could receive a tertiary education, either at universities or at colleges of advanced education, if the facilities for part time study were improved. [More…]
It is our belief that these techniques of radio, television, seminars and centres and tutorial papers should be applied not only to university studies but also to further education and to adult education. [More…]
In other words, we believe that there are many valuable people in this community who did not get educational opportunities in the past and who could get them through these means. [More…]
We believe that open universities, apart from being a valuable additional form of education in Australia, would make good the years that the locust has eaten for many people who have missed their educational opportunities. [More…]
Apparently what the Minister for Education and Science is foreshadowing is a Commonwealth acceptance qf the recommendation of the Australian Universities Commission that universities should provide flats for the accommodation of students. [More…]
We in Opposition in this House are pleading for a pre-school education in the most under-privileged areas of Australia where no pre-school education exists. [More…]
The educational structure of this country is becoming increasingly privileged and increasingly top heavy. [More…]
The Commonwealth scholarships system - the Australian Council of Educational Research itself has demonstrated this - is directing the money towards the more well-to-do sector of the community. [More…]
But the colleges- the places of residence - seem to me to be the places where the most effective association of students in education can take place. [More…]
It has been found in the past that this association in colleges has been one of the valuable aspects of education. [More…]
It is true that our halls of residence are not the adequate educational concept. [More…]
I believe that the long experience of university education of the past in this respect is something upon which we should be building. [More…]
The : Labor Party believes that the Commonwealth should progressively take over the , financing of tertiary education, beginning . [More…]
condition that the .States spend the money so .saved in some other, area of education. [More…]
By doing this the Commonwealth would advance university education and education at other levels. [More…]
The Minister has spoken about teacher education. [More…]
Perhaps we are attracting into teaching about 50 per cent of those people who go through tertiary education. [More…]
Headmasters will have to stop being secretaries if they are required to plan education. [More…]
I do not dispute the present location of universities in the capital cities, but it is about time to plan the decentralisation of university education. [More…]
A great deal more has been said in this statement about the quantity and the quality of education which we on this side warmly welcome, but there is not breathing through these papers a philosophy of the equality of educational opportunity. [More…]
The Commission has no national philosophy on education. [More…]
It is apparently quite unconcerned as to which type of person university education is reaching. [More…]
I think we are reaching a point in our educational expenditure when such opportunities should be made available. [More…]
If expenditure on education is to increase by 15 per cent or 20 per cent a year something will have to be done about educational opportunities for those who are not getting them at present, otherwise we will reproduce the American inverted triangle - the situation of super-education for the minority and the ghetto education for too many people who, because they have not got the certificates, will be treated as nothing and earn nothing much for the rest of their days. [More…]
Goodness knows when we will get around to a full debate on the marathon discussions or the omnibus statements that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has been making. [More…]
I suppose this matter is the, ‘Blue Hills’ of the .Department of Education and Science. [More…]
It is dilatory in action and perfunctory in its acceptance of responsibility and I believe that this legislation shows the total inadequacy of its concept of education. [More…]
It is an effort to launch pre-school education on a new wave length for the 1970s. [More…]
It would be quite instructive for people to read what has happened in the field of pre-school education. [More…]
There can be no adequacy in the Commonwealth’s approach unless it accepts the responsibility to give every Australian equal access to whatever kind of education is going, whether it is tertiary, technical or pre-school education. [More…]
Although I am critical of this Government on this issue because it has had the facts of life before it for many years and the resources of the Commonwealth at its disposal for many years, it is true also that educationists in Australia have not accepted the responsibility or taken an appropriate attitude towards pre-school education. [More…]
It is over 200 years since Johann Oberlin in Germany launched into pre-school education and nursery centres for the children of his village and surrounding districts. [More…]
Robert Owen, one of the socialists of the last century, did the same thing in Scotland and Montesori in Italy established a new approach to education at this level. [More…]
It is increasingly obvious that pre-school education is a fundamental part of the cultural and intel lectual capacity of the nation and we have to accept responsibility for it. [More…]
What are some of the problems associated with pre-school education? [More…]
Pre-school education has no official status whatever apparently. [More…]
College staff, according to the evidence given before the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts when it inquired into pre-school education, have totally inadequate salaries ranging from $3,600 to $7,200. [More…]
Members should look closely at the salaries set out at page 402 of the Hansard report containing evidence given before the Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]
There is no need for me to demonstrate that teachers entering the system of pre-school education sacrifice thousands of dollars a year from the day they start. [More…]
There is a strong need for a total approach to pre-school education. [More…]
In this instance we are taking a handful of institutions - 6 or 7 of them - which are all privately run except for the Launceston Teachers College because Tasmania has accepted the view that pre-school education is part of the education system and simply expanding these existing institutions. [More…]
They have no relationship to the rest of the education system. [More…]
The Minister has said that the Labor Party’s policy of universal preschool education is a dream, that it is something at the end of the rainbow and asks: How on earth could we afford it? [More…]
So I believe that there is a need for an educational programme for parents. [More…]
In the outer suburbs of Melbourne, pre-schools have waiting lists of literally hundreds of names of people desiring to get their children in to pre-schools, while in the areas in which the children perhaps most need pre-school education the parents are not aware of the necessity to make the greatest possible use of pre-schools. [More…]
One has only to read the evidence given before the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts to see that this is not even a stopgap measure. [More…]
I recommend that honourable members obtain the official Hansard report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts for Monday, 25th October and read the statistics, comments and pleas from the people who are associated with the kindergarten and pre-school system.. [More…]
I hope that the idea of pre-school education will become as important in this1 House as has university education. [More…]
I can think of no reason whatsoever why this Parliament should not direct all its energies and resources towards equalising Australian educational opportunity and ‘giving education a new sense of direction. [More…]
Part of that new sense of direction means the development of pre-school education. [More…]
It is interesting that it is in this area that the first ideas of the free flow of the child’s thought and activity inside the school takes place, but that increasingly, as he passes through the education system, he becomes more restricted and inhibited. [More…]
members were produced by the most restrictive education system possible. [More…]
I recognise that, as is now widely recognised, pre-school education has become a very important part of the total education system. [More…]
Despite what has been said, I believe it would be fair enough if we were to accept the fact that the advantages of pre-school education were not as fully recognised as they might have been until comparatively recent times. [More…]
There has not been the acceptance of the fact that pre-school training could play the important part in the total education of a child which is now quite clearly demonstrated that it does. [More…]
It is particularly important that teachers receive specialist training in this field if the full advantage of this type of education is to be provided for our children attending pre-schools. [More…]
I was pleased to note that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in his speech last Thursday night said: [More…]
I desire to pay a warm tribute to those people who have dedicated themselves to providing pre-school education for children in many areas of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Of course, I am more conversant with those people in my own State, where quite small towns have been provided with pre-school education. [More…]
Like the honourable member for Wills who preceded me, 1 certainly would have liked to have had more time to develop my argument on this aspect of education. [More…]
1 trust that the needs of these children will bc provided for as yet another of the expanding activities of the Commonwealth Government in the field of education. [More…]
I commend the Minister and the Government on the great progress that is being made, but I hope that very close consultation between the State Ministers for Education and the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science will be maintained to ensure that the combined efforts of the Commonwealth Government and the State governments will be directed most effec tively towards achieving the common goal of providing the best possible standard of education for every Australian child. [More…]
It seems to me that the only attitude the Opposition is able to take on educational matters is to have a commission appointed, and to me this highlights the inadequacy of the Opposition as an acceptable alternative government for the people of Australia. [More…]
In order to conform to the undertaking that I gave and in order to keep within those limits, I will now conclude by commending this Bill to the House and expressing the hope that the Government will continue to take the keen and active interest in pre-school education which it has evidenced in the past and which this Bill will promote in the future. [More…]
There are 2 factors, I think, which have brought this matter of pre-school education very much to the fore at the present time. [More…]
This is the area in which pre-school education has been recognised to play a tremendously important part. [More…]
The second factor that makes pre-school education so important, of course, is the greater tendency on the part of women to go into the work force. [More…]
This accounts for the greater demand for pre-school education. [More…]
We heard the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) doing that very thing this afternoon. [More…]
These days there are lots of statistics in relation to the need for pre-school education. [More…]
The State worst off in terms of preschool education is, unfortunately, New South Wales, where the need is greatest in terms of sheer numbers. [More…]
Australia, the affluent country that it is, should be able to relieve many mothers of the necessity to go to work and enable them to stay at home to care for their children* They should not be debarred the opportunity, if they desire it, of subsequently sending their children for pre school education, for the reasons which I outlined at the beginning of my speech. [More…]
Of course, I have talked in coarse figures and generalised figures about the need for preschool education in Australia. [More…]
But they are being made in those communities which, even if it is difficult, can afford to provide this kind of facility for pre-school education. [More…]
If it is necessary for the ordinary, normal child to have pre-school education opportunities I say categorically that it is even more urgent and demanding that intellectually and physically handicapped children should have that opportunity, not only for the sake of the children but also for the mental health of their unfortunate parents. [More…]
The point made in this statement is that while it is very desirable for our normal Australian children to have pre-school education it is all the more desirable so for children of families where English is not normally spoken. [More…]
If they do not get this opportunity when they come into our community, they will be further behind in their rise up the educational ladder. [More…]
This is a comprehensive, early childhood education programme for disadvantaged pre-school children and their families. [More…]
It includes not only the provision of educational facilities but also other such important services as health, nutrition and parent involvement, as well as the educational component that I referred to a while ago. [More…]
Since 1964 in the United States, more than 3.5 million preschool children have had the opportunity of education simply because of that ‘head start’ programme. [More…]
It never ceases to amaze me why we in Australia have gone for so long without government accepting the responsibility of pre-school education and education for our handicapped children. [More…]
It is always a matter of great concern to me to see on the streets of a Saturday morning, parents running chocolate wheels, selling lucky numbers or using some other device to raise tremendous amounts of money to provide for the education of their pre-school children or handicapped children. [More…]
The Opposition has criticised this Bill and the contribution of the Commonwealth Government to pre-school education. [More…]
’,, Information provided by the Minister for ;Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) indicates, that this aim will be well and truly fulfilled. [More…]
In considering ^Commonwealth participation in pre-school education one really should not be thinking so much about this Bill, which is an extension, but should be considering more the important new initiatives in the proposals announced by the Minister for Education and Science in this House last Thursday.’ [More…]
I congratulate the Minister and the Government on these important new initiatives: Because I think that much of the Press has not recorded the pre-school section of the Minister’s statement on education, I wish to quote the appropriate passage. [More…]
Recently, there has been increasing support from a number of directions for the principle that State teachers colleges should receive Commonwealth funds, both capital and recurrent, under the arrangements for matching grants for colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and’ the Arts, which in February this year reported .on .the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education, ‘ recommended that teachers colleges be granted’ financial assistance for recurrent and capital expenditure under terms and conditions similar to colleges of advanced education. [More…]
At a meeting of the Australian Education Council in ‘May 1972 State Ministers of Education requested Commonwealth matching assistance for State ‘teachers colleges and gave support, in principle, to bringing preschool teachers colleges within’ the “advanced education arrangements. [More…]
Secondly, the Commonwealth will offer to share with the States the capital and recurrent costs of pre-school teachers colleges, under advanced education arrangements, from July 1973. [More…]
The Commonwealth has now set a firm and generous base for the expansion of pre-school education in Australia. [More…]
The speed and direction of future development of pre-school kindergartens rests more with the States now than with the Commonwealth because it is the States’ basic responsibility to conduct pre-school education. [More…]
Now that teacher training college recurring costs will be shared by the Commonwealth it is to be hoped that the present fee of $380 a year charged to students attending the kindergarten training college can be abolished, that preschool teacher training can be placed on the same basis as other teacher training in Victoria and that the required number of students can be obtained for the expansion of this level of education. [More…]
I hope that the findings of the consultative council that has been set up for this inquiry will provide a matching base at State level for a firm and clear development of pre-school education in Victoria in the future in the same way as the new initiatives announced in this place last week by the Minister will provide a Commonwealth base for that development. [More…]
I add my congratulations to the many people around Australia who are giving their time and money to assist and ensure that pre-school education is functioning in their own community. [More…]
In the discussion of this Bill mention has been made of groups of children who will benefit especially from pre-school education. [More…]
I support the Bill and I congratulate the Government on the role it is playing in pre-school education, and particularly on the new initiatives announced last week. [More…]
In the second reading speech of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) there are one or two matters which I think deserve attention. [More…]
In some States pre-school education is not even recognised as education. [More…]
It is associated with the Department of Health rather than with the Department of Education and is financed almost totally, on a capital level anyhow, by local government and voluntary contributions. [More…]
It seems to anyone who has read the second reading speech and who knows something about the problems of running and operating kindergartens, that this area of education should be given far more serious consideration than it has been given up to date. [More…]
The statistics for tertiary education show fairly clearly that these children have very little educational opportunity. [More…]
One of the means by which the educational opportunity for these children can be advanced is by giving them adequate pre-school education. [More…]
Pre-school education is a municipal, private education system which has to be financed on balance by the funds available to local councils - these are not unlimited because of the competing interests for their funds - and by local contributions. [More…]
It is unlikely that those contributions will be large enough and sufficient to provide educational opportunities in those areas where, in the main, the parents are in the low income groups. [More…]
In those areas where the children are most in need of this form of education, the likelihood that they will obtain it is lowest. [More…]
that area to , obtain pre-school education.. My electorate, represents one-thirtieth of the State of Victoria. [More…]
In Victoria 27 to 28 per cent qf children obtain a pre-school education.. [More…]
in need of that form of education the percentage is less than half that. [More…]
I think we also have to recognise the necessity for this form of education - and it is a form of education. [More…]
If we recognise the right of the children in need of this form of education to have this form of education, we must also recognise that, just as in other forms of education, the Commonwealth has to accept some degree of financial responsibility. [More…]
It is very difficult to get statistics to tell us what the demand is for pre-school teachers because, according to statistical analyses which are put forward, pre-school education is not part of the education system. [More…]
I think there is a real need for far greater co-operation between the Commonwealth, the States and local government bodies in this area of education. [More…]
It seems that there is something fundamentally wrong with a situation in which one level of education is financially and administratively ignored by educational authorities - as happens in Victoria; as, I have no doubt, happens in other States; and admittedly as is happening totally in New South Wales - whilst all other forms of education are consuming nearly half the State budgets.. [More…]
I think that some fairly serious discussions on this matter should take place between the Commonwealth and the States, and that the Commonwealth should accept the position that pre-school education’ : is vitally necessary for children who I Would describe as culturally under-privileged. [More…]
The Chairman of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education has been charged with the task of examining the situation in the States and of reporting back to the Commonwealth before the end of March 1973. [More…]
In terms of the quality of teacher training and the quality of education, I think that the decisions the Commonwealth made are some of the most far reaching and significant, especially so far as government schools are concerned. [More…]
For example, Queensland has quite recently accepted a full obligation to provide pre-school education for one year for all school children. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: the House condemns the Budget because it fails to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides no programme for restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs and prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for our capital cities and regional centres’. [More…]
Because of its refusal a whole generation of Australian children is growing up without the enormous benefits that pre-school education brings. [More…]
It is one of the great instruments for educational, social and cultural equality. [More…]
A nation’s education system is a failure if students do not leave it with equality of opportunity in life. [More…]
In future Labor Budgets the education sector will be the area of greatest growth. [More…]
This was the time to move away from providing scholarships for a minority and to move towards making education, including tertiary education, genuinely free. [More…]
On education, he seems to. [More…]
have failed completely to notice that there was an increase qf $72m in spending on education. [More…]
They include economic growth, population growth including immigration, defence, development of industry, Aboriginal advancement, development of education, improvement of health facilities and equity in the tax system including estate duty and personal income tax. [More…]
At the very time when there are widespread demands and needs for resources to meet Australia’s problems in education, health, social services and national development, the Labor Party supports a policy of working fewer hours. [More…]
Labor is in favour of control of planning education from Canberra, although its members disagree on the extent; it believes in institutional medicine rather than private practice; and it promises expenditure on a lavish scale to all who request it. [More…]
In preparing this approximation it was not of course possible to take proper account of the factors mentioned in the answer given on this matter by the then Minister for Education and Science on 25th September 1970. [More…]
Estimates of pre-school education costs, including the costs of training the additional number of teachers needed, were included in my statements of 10th November 1971 and 9th March 1972. [More…]
Pre-school Education: Expenditure (Question No. [More…]
But when we find increases in Commonwealth expenditure of the order of about $72m, that is to say 20 per cent, in the field of education; when we look at a tapering off of the means test and its eventual abolition which increases the allowable earnings, free of means test, of a single pensioner from SIO to $20 and those of a pensioner couple from $17 to $34.50 we find what J think is truly a constructive policy in the social area. [More…]
It may be a persuasive thing to do in certain fields such as education allowances and I might suggest that this be looked at in the future. [More…]
This is a time when the Government is denying elementary justice to pensioners and to children in the form of child endowment, when it is denying responsibility for the system of education other than paltry, arbitrary subsidies given to the wealthy private schools and a time when it is denying proper responsibility for hospitalisation. [More…]
I have not had a chance to talk about the advantages of the announcement to the effect that there will be a reduction in the levy of personal income tax, about the allowance for self-education, estate duty, gift duty or the dependants allowance. [More…]
The expenditure on education is to be increased to something like $426m. [More…]
For example, there has been the fear of inadequate security for retirement, illness, the education of a family and the provision of a home. [More…]
The same is true for other spheres such as in education and in health. [More…]
We are told that it will wipe out all taxation deductions other than for family allowances - that is, all education allowances, insurance allowances, medical allowances and expenses in earning income. [More…]
Add to it the true view, not the knocker’s view, of our aid for education. [More…]
We are moving ahead at an unprecedented rate in the whole field of education. [More…]
People in country areas, including children - or, perhaps in relation to education, particularly children have the same right to a television service as people in the cities. [More…]
away from full-time education for less than 12 months, have been registered for employment with the Commonwealth Employment Service and had been unemployed for a total of at least 16 weeks, or one unbroken period of 10 weeks. [More…]
The community is investing very heavily in educating the young and in expanding elementary education, vocational schools, training colleges and secondary education. [More…]
This, along with the gearing up of the whole of higher education, will give rise each year to changes in the supply of labour. [More…]
The people in this age group have a much higher average education level than those belonging to the generation before them. [More…]
There is now a generation gap in the labour market, with better education giving to those of the younger generation a decided advantage over their elders. [More…]
Many of them, particularly the older workers, have a poorer education. [More…]
The migrants have not the education they need to compete in the mad rat race which modern technology represents. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) produced 2 very lengthy documents. [More…]
I support the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) which reads in part: the House condemns the Budget because it fails to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides no programme for restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs and prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for our capital cities and regional centres’. [More…]
In other words they would wipe out deductions for education, life assurance, medical allowances and expenses incurred in earning income. [More…]
Another pleasing provision of the Budget is the decision to allow a deduction for income tax purposes of up to $400 in respect of expenditure by a taxpayer on his own education where the expenditure is related to his career. [More…]
Increased financial assistance for education will he’p schools, technical colleges, teachers colleges, universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I have seen some pitiful cases of civilian widows who have taken a job to try to earn something more to give their children a better education. [More…]
I will have no time to say anything about the education or the repatriation proposals, the child care proposals or the housing proposals. [More…]
In some sectors, notably in tertiary education and a few other spheres, we do have our 3-year plans, short enough as they are. [More…]
Most children in the Australian Capital Territory can obtain pre-school education, whilst those in the various States cannot, except in a few centres run by voluntary organisations which are operating at present. [More…]
Pre-school education - a great necessity to fit a child psychologically for the adventure of primary school - is not available to the vast majority of children in my electorate. [More…]
The comments appearing with the table show that payments to the States for education purposes are expected to increase by $25,996,000. [More…]
If Mr Whitlam is elected to office and keeps all his promises, he will have to find finance for boosting pensions to 25 per cent of average earnings; ending the means test; handing out an immediate $100 million to pensioners and unemployed; reducing sales tax; raising unemployment benefits;- extra spending on schools and hospitals; pre-school education; free university education; a national insurance scheme; and regenerating urban public transport. [More…]
That does not include the amounts appropriated for expenditure in the Northern Territory through the Department of Education and Science, the Department of Health and the Department of Civil Aviation. [More…]
The Government is facing up to the problem of providing housing, health services, education and other facilities. [More…]
Then there is assistance in regard to the education of his children. [More…]
The burden of providing an adequate education for their children is a greater burden to those taxpayers in the far flung and remote areas of the Commonwealth than for families resident in the city. [More…]
However, even with regard to taxation allowances for education costs, the taxpayer in the remote and distant places is allowed no more than the taxpayer in the metropolitan area. [More…]
The Commonwealth should be making specific grants to the States for the specific purpose of assisting the parents in distant places who have children who are obliged to obtain an education away from home or if the parent decides to provide the education by way of a governess. [More…]
I support the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition which states: the House condemns the Budget because it falls to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides no programme fox restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs and prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for our capital cities and regional centres’. [More…]
I wish to call the attention of the Parliament to what I regard as a deliberate attempt by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to impose a blanket of secrecy over the information of the Department of Education and Science and deliberately to deny to members of this Parliament, myself in particular, information that otherwise would be available to almost any person in the entire community. [More…]
Following a debate in the Parliament last week, the Minister for Education and Science now has thrown a blanket of secrecy over the operations of the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
He has issued a directive to the officers of this Department that when I telephone and ask for information on education matters they are not to provide it to me; they are to instruct me to direct my question to the Minister for Education and Science himself. [More…]
Last week the Minister for Education and Science replied to only a section of that question. [More…]
He has spoken to senior officers of my Department, and he knows quite well that the general rules which apply in the Department of Education and Science have applied under 4 Ministers for Education and Science and, in addition, under one Prime Minister when the office was part of the Prime Minister’s Department. [More…]
The senior officer who spoke to the honourable member for Bendigo told him that this general rule had applied through 4 Ministers for Education and Science and through a Prime Minister when education services were looked after by the Commonwealth Office of Education under the Prime Minister’s Department. [More…]
It sought the numbers and the percentages of students in each and all of the schools mentioned who had sat for or applied for and who were awarded Commonwealth secondary scholarships, Commonwealth university scholarships and Commonwealth advanced education scholarships in each and all of the years since each scholarship scheme was introduced - going back to about 1951 when the university scholarships began. [More…]
I do not care what the leaders of the Catholic Church or the Protestant Churches say about what they want their education system to be as far as Commonwealth grants are concerned. [More…]
After his education, which he completed in the United States of America, he served as a diplomat from 1965 to 1970. [More…]
That the objectives of the Federal platform on education include that Government secular schools be brought as quickly as possible to the desirable standard whereby quality, accommodation and facilities are freely available to all students- [More…]
I call the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
The recommendation of the education committee was: Discharged, covered by existing policy, section 6, sub-section 4, headed ‘The Australian Schools Commission’. [More…]
Australian Labor Party - Education and Science Committee - Report presented by Mr K. E. Beazley, M.P., to the 29th Federal Conference, June 1971. [More…]
I believe that the brief way to correct the misrepresentation by the Minster for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is to quote what I said on 25th May 1972 and what the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) said on 30th May 1972. [More…]
1 said: the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) obtruded a reference to me into the first sentence of a wide-ranging answer which dealt among other things with my Party’s last Federal Conference, at which I was a delegate. [More…]
When this item was reached, the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), my Party’s spokesman on education, moved that it be discharged. [More…]
Like the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) I did not have the material with me at the time. [More…]
On Friday last, in my absence, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made a statement concerning the official documents of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
He said that they showed that the education committee of the Australian Labor Party at the Launceston Conference had discharged a motion from Queensland relating to the phasing out of State aid on the ground that it was already covered by the existing policy of the Labor Party for an Australian schools commission. [More…]
Therefore, I reiterate what I said on the previous occasion, that there is no Labor Party policy concerning a schools commission which uses the expression ‘the phasing out of educational expenditure for private schools’. [More…]
What it says is ‘educational expenditure according to need’. [More…]
A paper from the education committee of the Party does not constitute the minutes, nor does the name ‘Queensland’ on top of it mean, as the Minister suggested, that the resolution was endorsed by the Queensland Branch of the Labor Party. [More…]
The terminology used by the education committee, as I pointed out at the Conference, allowed the ambiguity of interpretation which the Minister has picked up. [More…]
The proposed Tiwi and Wanguri schools in the Darwin area of the Northern Territory represent a new concept in education. [More…]
In other debates we have been saying what a wonderful thing it would be in other parts of Australia if the public education system were expanded to incorporate pre-school education. [More…]
Obviously the best site for preschool education is in conjunction with the primary and infant school. [More…]
The Commonwealth substantially has the responsibility for underwriting the States in regard to education, and if this concept is desirable for Commonwealth territories we ought to be making more money available so that pre-school opportunities are available at school sites. [More…]
The functions of this authority are to provide foreign language films; to supply film material to private producers; and to supply films, commercially and other wise, to State film centres, overseas missions and State education departments. [More…]
The Government’s initiatives in education repesent a balanced programme of assistance to both government and independent schools, tackling special programmes and problems, such as state government school building requirements and providing independent schools with equivalent capital aid and a solid basis of support for running costs which will allow them to plan ahead with a large degree of certainty. [More…]
It is larger than the amount being spent by the Commonwealth and States on education. [More…]
Should we reduce grants to the States for education, health, housing and other services, or should we raise taxes? [More…]
The amendment seeks to insert the following words: the House condemns the Budget because it fails to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides no programme for restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs and prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for our capital cities and regional centres. [More…]
Labor refers to matters as though, if it were in office, it would be in complete command and have complete authority over the whole of Australia, its way of life, its economy, education, transport and so on. [More…]
I rise to support strongly the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) which states: the House condemns the Budget because it fails to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides no programme for restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs and prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for out capital cities and regional centres. [More…]
Money, which could and should stay with the taxpayers or go to the poor, the pensioners, the sick and the education of our children, is being wastefully sucked into the bottomless pit of the Public Service. [More…]
This is the philosophy which runs through the whole of the budgetary proposals in regard to education. [More…]
The notion is that the people should have the education which they will create and that it is not something which can be rained down on them from the skies but something which they create and as far as possible they control. [More…]
So, the cost of the schemes that the Labor Party wanted to introduce in 1969 - its national health scheme, its welfare proposals, its education policies and its national development policies - can be met because the money is available. [More…]
The Budget provides a significant increase of $72m in the allocation for education. [More…]
The honourable member for Parramatta could have helped when he was Minister for Education and Science, but he refused point blank. [More…]
It must talk about how we will in fact develop an enriching process through the education system; how we will adjust and create a pre-school educational pattern which will reach out in this area; and what sort of resources we shall mobilise in the deprived suburbs not only for the very young children but for the older children who need this sort of enrichment. [More…]
It is time that the people realised that, under this Government, Commonwealth expenditure on education has increased by nearly 2,300 per cent over the amount provided by Labor in its last Budget. [More…]
With the lesser amount of money to be distributed between so many, what chance is there for the children of either family to go on to higher education and to enjoy future prosperity. [More…]
In the education field, there will. [More…]
be more secondary, university and advanced education scholarships. [More…]
People could have examined them and those who are interested could have said: ‘We would have liked to have seen something better done in relation to hospitals, Aborigines or in this defence area or in that education area’. [More…]
On the other hand, it is the done thing now to quote, for instance, that the education vote is now umpteen million dollars higher than it was in 1786 or some such magical period when nothing was happening. [More…]
There is also the opportunity, which unfortunately is not being taken advantage of, of making the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education one of the State’s finest education centres, which would be the case if it were not starved of funds. [More…]
The future education of children - which touches me more than anything - is in jeopardy. [More…]
In addition to this, deductions for dependents are increased, and expenses for self -education are deductible for the first time. [More…]
What we must get over to members of the community, as, I think, many of them already realise, is the fact that increased productivity is the key to all the things the community is striving for - improved education, better social services, a more pleasant environment and so on. [More…]
The honourable member for Bendigo who is always to be heard in this chamber talking on a certain aspect of education, and the needs of education, denies the truth of this matter. [More…]
The Budget contains other very advantageous increments to the provisions for housing, health, education, child care and, not the least important, death duty which will benefit the interests of family people both in the primary industry sector and otherwise to a very remarkable extent. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has said on several occasions that, when elected, the Labor Party will spend enormous amounts of money on schools, preschool education and free universities. [More…]
His promise in regard to urban transport would cost at least as much as his education promise. [More…]
The Budget will provide for taxation reductions, pension increases, social services, the lifting of the means test, housing, health, education, child welfare, estate duty, Aborigines, defence, shipping, airlines, gift duty, nursing homes, special grants and fares for the unemployed. [More…]
That is the part to which I would like to draw attention - and in particular because it provides no programme for restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs and prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for our capital cities and regional centres’. [More…]
The provision of a library service is regarded in this day and age as an integral feature of the education of the community; yet the ratepayer again bears the biggest share of the financial burden. [More…]
Municipal libraries should be financed by the Commonwealth as part of the general education programme, as should preschool centres and child minding centres. [More…]
In the sphere of education additional responsibility has been accepted by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
Looking through the Budget a bit further we come to social welfare, and the first item dealt with specifically is education. [More…]
But let us be generous and say that the Government will increase its spending on education by about $200m in the coming year. [More…]
Some years ago, in about 1969 or 1970, the State Ministers for Education submitted a report in which they estimated that there would be a shortfall of funds amounting to about $ 1,440m in the 5 years from 1970. [More…]
This year we are promising for the first time something approaching $200m, but this is still $100m short of the need indicated by those Ministers for Education. [More…]
In real terms and in comparison with countries of standing similar to our own we should be spending about 1 per cent more of our gross national product on education - that is, a bit over $300m a year - and it should come from the Federal Government. [More…]
I refer to a crisis in education itself. [More…]
What is education? [More…]
In one of today’s newspapers our education system is described as obsolete and there is a discussion about the futility of many of the schools today, the point being made that the way in which most schools are organised prevents effective learning. [More…]
What is education about? [More…]
We remain preoccupied with the need to provide technological skills, to train people to be doctors like myself so that they know how to cut a belly open, but our education system still leaves us as ignoramuses in terms of the real meaning of the word ‘education’. [More…]
Education is something far more than providing what we teach in our schools today. [More…]
They need an education in the broader sense to enable them better to cope with the stresses which will inevitably confront them. [More…]
In any case we need to start asking ourselves: Development, education, greater skills - what for? [More…]
Leaving education we come next in the Budget Speech to health. [More…]
We could improve also the education of medical practitioners who have already graduated and we could improve the training of medical students. [More…]
There is a supplement of the Medical Journal of Australia which discusses education of medical students and which comes to the same sort of conclusions and recommendations in relation to the place of these health centres in educating medical students to understand the problems of general practice. [More…]
However, it is easy when we think of the 10 per cent tax cuts, the increase in pensions, the widening of the means test and help for housing and education benefits, all of which mean so much to so many people, perhaps to forget the wider aspects. [More…]
The rate at which Australia has absorbed new settlers has undoubtedly placed considerable strain on our economy in the field of housing, education, hospitals and all the other various facilities which a rapidly growing community requires. [More…]
In the field of education this Government has again shown its particular concern for the education of all Australian children. [More…]
The demand on taxpayers’ funds for education has become exceedingly great. [More…]
Direct expenditure by the Commonwealth, including payments to the States for education, will rise by $72m this year to a total of $426m. [More…]
There is a vast difference in the approach of the Government and that of the Opposition to education. [More…]
Under the Constitution education is laid down for administration by the States. [More…]
It would be the act of a centralist party and would lead virtually to the nationalisation of all education under the one central government authority centered here in Canberra. [More…]
It would virtually nationalise education. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable member for Deakin who has just resumed his seat is one of those people who has displayed his lack of confidence in the state education system by sending his children to the schools he is so busily financing here today. [More…]
However he does not give any indication of priorities except to agree with the Government that the means test should be abolished over three years and ‘in future Labor Budgets the education sector will be the area of greatest growth*. [More…]
If Mr Whitlam is elected to office and keeps all his promises, he will have to find finance for boosting pensions to 25 per cent of average earnings; ending the means test; handing out an immediate $100 million to pensioners and unemployed; reducing sales tax; raising unemployment benefits; extra spending on schools and hospitals; pre-school education; free university education; a national insurance schema; and regenerating urban public transport The inescapable conclusion is that Mr Whitlam will not be cutting income tax; he will be raising it, by 10 per cent or even more. [More…]
-The Leader of the Opposition would know that the Government has decided to share with the States, on the same basis that we support universities and colleges of advanced education, the development of State teacher colleges, which are moving to a position of autonomy - that is, looking after their own affairs. [More…]
All States have decided to give independence to the colleges which previously were run by the respective departments of education. [More…]
The Chairman of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education already has been charged with the task of holding discussions with the various authorities in the States, and, if necessary, with the bodies concerned, and of reporting to the Commonwealth not later than the end of March 1973 on the further development of teacher training in these 2 areas. [More…]
This would then bring the general programme for teacher colleges and pre-school teacher colleges, kindergarten teacher colleges, into line with the general triennial university and college of advanced education programmes. [More…]
In Victoria and Western Australia, a commission or a committee or a person has been charged with the responsibility of surveying the requirement for pre-school education within those 2 States. [More…]
But if one looks at the percentage of 3 to 5 year-olds in full time education - at pre-schools or primary schools - the New South Wales figures compare quite favourably with a number of other States. [More…]
This matter is often lost sight of when general comparisons are made about the level of pre-school education in all States. [More…]
That all words after ‘That* be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: “The House condemns the Budget because it fails to define adequate economic and social goals for Australia; and in particular because it provides no programme for restoring full employment, no means of checking the costs and prices of goods and land, no framework for improving the standards of education, health, welfare and public transport and no national plan for our capital cities and regional centres’. [More…]
It is necessary for the Australian Government to decide its own policy for the mineral resources based on the long-term benefits for Australia, and for this special attention should be paid to changes in the international relation of supply and demand for mineral resources, to future changes in the competitive power of Australian mineral resources, to relations between other countries, to changes in the relative position and standing of Australia in the world, to changes in the industrial structure within Australia, to the development of technological reform, to changes in the degree of national interest in the development of technological reform, and to the promotion of living and education standards. [More…]
If that does not have an effect on unemployment I do not know anything the right to a good education on a national about the subject. [More…]
In regard to education, the Leader of the Opposition would set up a huge commission in Canberra to control all education in Australia, taking away all State rights - that is what it would mean with control in Canberra - and indeed the inalienable right of parents to send their children to whichever school they choose. [More…]
1 have no doubt that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) will deal with that matter later. [More…]
He said that there is no framework for improving the standards of education, health and welfare’. [More…]
Commonwealth expenditure in the field of education for the coming year will amount to $426m and for social welfare about $2,529m. [More…]
We have better government, social, welfare and education services through the whole Australian community. [More…]
It also provides for improvements in student assistance and allowance of taxation deductions for a taxpayer’s own education. [More…]
The education proposals, which I have mentioned on earlier occasions in this [More…]
Does that mean that all medical tax deductions will be disallowed, that all life insurance tax deductions will be disallowed and that all education tax deductions will be eliminated? [More…]
It is time to pay: For the national superannuation scheme which the Labor Party promised - nearly $2 a week; for education, an Australian schools commission and a new Canberra bureaucracy more than $2 a week extra; for a national health insurance plan - more money for less - more than $2 a week extra; and for housing, helping with interest subsidies, Commonwealth bank financing, $2 extra a week. [More…]
What the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) has said about the speech of the Minister for Education and [More…]
Instead of being the Minister for Education and Science he should be the Minister for unscientific thinking and miseducation. [More…]
We have had the best example of that that I have heard of for some time from the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
The Budget provides an extra $145m for pensions, an extra $17m for health benefits for the aged and an extra $72m for education. [More…]
I have mentioned that the’ Budget provides more help for education. [More…]
Noticeable amongst these was the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who I thought at one stage in his excitement about the costs of the Labor Party’s policies was about to have a stroke or burst a blood vessel. [More…]
It provides for greatly increased spending on education - another area where Labor would impose class distinctions by downgrading the place and rights of independent schools in the education system. [More…]
And it provides larger grants to the States to enable them to increase their own expenditure on education, health and all those services within their authority. [More…]
As far back as May members of the Labor Party and political commentators were predicting that there would be across the board increases in social services and repatriation benefits, that there would be reductions in taxation, that the education commitment of the Commonwealth would be increased, that there would be improvements in the national health scheme, that there would be an increase in home savings grants, that there would be a few incentives to primary and secondary industries and a sop or 2 to the Aborigines. [More…]
But for the last 6 years representatives of the Labor Party have been attempting wherever possible to put forward new ideas on health, decentralisation, urban development, the need for a national fuel and energy policy, education, the need for industrial research and development and the need for a science policy. [More…]
How can a government improve education unless it spends more money? [More…]
One aspect of this legislation that I wish to mention - perhaps others who follow may mention it also - concerns the allowance in respect of the expenses of self education of a taxpayer. [More…]
that a concession should be available for people who set themselves the task of gaining educational qualifications connected with their careers. [More…]
We therefore propose a special concessional deduction for expenditure incurred by a taxpayer on fees, books and equipment associated with a course of education he undertakes for the purpose of acquiring qualifications related to his employment or career. [More…]
It will be available whether a course of education is attended on a full-time or part-time basis or is carried on by correspondence. [More…]
The Labor Party has indicated that it will spend a fantastic amount on education, including extra expenditure on schools and pre-school education as well as the provision of free university education. [More…]
But he must admit that his statement would creats doubts in the minds of all taxpayers about whether such things as insurance, education expenses and hospital and medical expensewill be allowed as taxation deductions. [More…]
The same situation applies to educational expenses. [More…]
The figures in relation to educational expenses are rather interesting because we find that there is a plateau as we go up the income range. [More…]
I suspect the reason for that is that as people get out of the $5,000 a year bracket they tend more and more to send their children to fee paying schools and they spend more and more money on education. [More…]
He has always taught under-privileged boys and girls whose parents cannot afford education fees. [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What was the estimated annual loss to Commonwealth revenue of deductions from taxable income for education expenses for the latest year for which figures are available. [More…]
Based on income tax statistics of taxable individuals relating to the 1970-71 income year, it has been estimated that the loss to Commonwealth revenue due to concessional deductions allowed in respect of the 1970-71 income year for education expenses was approximately $83m. [More…]
For taxable individuals with annual incomes equivalent to the national minimum wage or less in 1970-71 the average concessional deduction allowed for education expenses, in respect of taxpayers who were allowed such deductions, was $115 per taxpayer. [More…]
The loss to revenue that would have resulted from allowing taxpayers a standard reduction in tax payable, equal to $22.89 per dependant for whom concessional deductions of any amount for education expenses were allowed, is estimated at S60m for the 1970-71 income year. [More…]
I do not think we should be stampeding the young people, who have enough pressures including education pressures on them at this time, into a situation in which they are forced to vote. [More…]
4) concerns selfeducation expenses. [More…]
I do not want to go over the ground covered by my colleagues the honourable member for Melbourne Ports and the honourable member for Kingston (Dr Gun) but I want to draw attention to the difference between ‘education expenses’ as they apply to the deduction allowed for educating oneself and as they apply elsewhere in the Act. [More…]
If I have read it correctly, the definition in the Bill we are now debating relates to those expenses necessarily incurred by the taxpayer for fees, books and equipment as they relate to a prescribed course of education. [More…]
The other definition in the Act relates to those expenses necessarily incurred by the taxpayer for or in connection with full time education at a school, college or university or from a tutor. [More…]
He knows that fares to and from school are allowed as an education expense under the other definition of ‘education expenses’ in the Act. [More…]
Am I right in thinking that fares to and from the place of education will not be allowed in relation to self-education expenses as the definition provides in this [More…]
A special concessional deduction for self education will apply in respect of fees, books and equipment associated with a course of education a taxpayer undertakes for the purpose of acquiring qualifications for his employment or career. [More…]
This new concession will not be subject to any age qualification and will be available whether a course of education is attended on a full time or part time basis or is carried out by correspondence. [More…]
The honourable member referred in particular to the new concession to provide a deduction for education expenses incurred by a person on his own behalf, as referred to in the Budget Speech delivered by the Treasurer. [More…]
The honourable member tried to make a comparison between the existing concessional deductions for education of dependants and self education expenses. [More…]
Self education expenses are expected to be claimed for the most part by working adults and the inclusion of those types of expenses recognises the different class of student involved. [More…]
It must be remembered that the proposed deduction for self education expenses is more liberal in several respects than the present deduction for education expenses. [More…]
For example, there is no age limit and part time studies are included for self education purposes whereas the present deduction for education expenses for dependants carries an age limit of 25 years and is available for full time education only. [More…]
The proposals announced in the Budget Speech to provide for the allowance of deductions for self-education expenses, the increase in the minimum taxable income and in dependants allowances, and the reduction in the rates of personal income tax, which will average 10 per cent per annum, will provide substantial reductions in the total income tax payable by all persons, but especially those with families. [More…]
In the national context, a shorter working week must be set against the wishes of most people for improvements in social services, housing, education, health, and other services of a practical kind affecting the individual and the community. [More…]
They owe a lot to the quality of education in the long run. [More…]
As a nation we have far to go and we have much to do in areas such as education, health, welfare and the development of human and natural resources. [More…]
The debate on education has for too long centred on the State aid issue, which has been almost wholly irrelevant to the problem of the quality of education and where education is really going. [More…]
Yet there is a growing discontent in the community about the whole question of education, and neither side is really discussing that issue. [More…]
At about 12 o’clock the Education Committee of the Australian Labor Party met to consider certain problems. [More…]
He has pointed out that the physical fitness and wellbeing of a nation lis important to the health and ultimate happiness of its people, its level of affluence, education and cultural attainments and its technical and scientific achievements. [More…]
Let us presume we have a standing committee on education, science and the arts, which is one of the committees I project, and let us presume it is examining the relevance of adolescent education in a modern school. [More…]
Is that not a committee whose meetings ought to be attended not only by the Minister for Education and Science but any other Minister? [More…]
Since that time, the possible establishment of a centralised building research group to facilitate the exchange of building design information has been discussed by the State Ministers for Education and myself, and also by the State Directors-General of Education and the head of my Department. [More…]
Arrangements are already in effect whereby the Educational Facilities Research Laboratory within the Victorian Education Department is acting as a clearing house for relevant materials, and officers have been appointed by each State and the Commonwealth for the receipt and despatch of this material. [More…]
I expect that these arrangements will be reviewed at the conference of Directors-General of Education this month. [More…]
UNESCO Education Congress (Question No. [More…]
The following reply has been prepared in consultation with the Minister for Education and Science: [More…]
The proposal for a Unesco Education Congress to be held m Australia originated with the Australian Unesco Committee for Education. [More…]
In reaching its decision on the Congress proposal, the Government took into account the need to provide balanced support for significant Australian Unesco activities in science and culture in addition to education. [More…]
In conjunction with its proposals for a Congress, the Planning Committee also put forward a related proposal for an expert Conference on Evaluation in Education. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science has indicated that he is prepared to consider financial support for the expert Conference which is expected to be held under the auspices of the Australian Unesco Committee for Education in 1973. [More…]
and (2) During April 1972 the Department of Shipping and Transport convened a series of separate meetings with shipowners, unions and educationalists on the general question of training and education of all classes of seamen. [More…]
For the latest information on grants in South Australia, I refer the honourable member to the report of the committee appointed to make recommendations to the Minister of Education in South Australia on the distribution of additional grants of $400,000 in 1972 to independent schools with primary grades and to the further report of that committee on the distribution of an additional grant of $300,000 in 1972 to those independent schools with secondary grades. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
The Government has endeavoured to provide the States with general purpose funds from which they may improve both the quantity and quality of education. [More…]
In addition, we have developed a range of programmes of direct financial assistance to particular areas in education. [More…]
Our attitude in this matter is based on more than a belief that every child has a right to a basic level of support from governments in education. [More…]
I should add that it is very difficult for the parent of a child at a nongovernment school to accept the argument that everyone has the right to a complete Government-provided education in a government school, but that they lose any right the moment they decide to send their children to a non-government school whether it be for religious, geographic or any other reason. [More…]
When the Prime Minister announced the new policies which are to be brought into operation by this Bill he said that they would represent a milestone in improving the education of all Australian children. [More…]
I am sure that the House will endorse that view and that in the not too distant future Australians will look back on the enactment of this legislation as an historic event in Australian education. [More…]
Mr Justice Campbell’s inquiry will not be examining salaries at colleges of advanced education because the Commonwealth is adhering to the principles of the Sweeney report that salaries of lecturers and senior lecturers in colleges of advanced education should be broadly the same as those in universities. [More…]
When the recommendations of the inquiry into university salaries are known, the Commonwealth and State governments will give further consideration to the question of academic salaries for colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Consequent upon the national wage case decision of May 1972, salaries for academic staff in colleges of advanced education have increased. [More…]
As a result of the revised schedule of grants for recurrent expenditure for 1972, supplementary Commonwealth grants totalling approximately $70,500 and representing a combined additional Commonwealth-State allocation of nearly $201,000 will be made available for colleges of advanced education in the States. [More…]
The Australian people should be proud of achievements in the higher education field for the Aboriginal people through Kormilda College. [More…]
The proposal involves the construction of new buildings at Kormilda College to provide residential and educational facilities. [More…]
As the Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp) has just said, these facilities are for 310 male and female Aboriginal students preparing for secondary education or undertaking 3-year post-primary courses. [More…]
He suggested that resort be had to different educational practices. [More…]
Miss Sommerlad believed, as did all witnesses before the Committee, that the uplifting of Kormilda College would be beneficial to the education of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The main conflict before the Committee concerned the educational training methods for Aborigines. [More…]
He said that they should be used at all levels in the educational programme and, in that event, he wanted to know where the appropriate accommodation had been planned in the new buildings. [More…]
Mr Wesley Smith also referred to the work of Japanese Professor Mazrui, a world authority on education who teaches children of 4 years of age to play the violin. [More…]
Of the students who did not drop out, 83 per cent had no further education when they returned to their home communities. [More…]
Mr McKenzie of the YMCA questioned the Kormilda College concept and he said that there was insufficient emphasis on physical education, sex education, recreation and counselling. [More…]
I believe that the time has come for something more expert than the Public Works Committee to conduct an objective inquiry into the form of Aboriginal education to be under taken in the Northern Territory. [More…]
It obviously should be the prerogative of skilled educationalists. [More…]
The Committee did request evidence to be given on behalf of some of the churches in particular so that we would have as good a picture as possible of the type of building and the type of education which would be in the best interests of the Aborigines. [More…]
One of the great difficulties that faces Australia today is to provide the best type of education possible for our Aboriginal students. [More…]
I talked to members of those groups and discovered that they had received a reasonable standard of education. [More…]
Their education was improving. [More…]
It was obvious that as a result of the Government’s approach to this matter we are providing the younger Aboriginals with a better standard of education and this is gaining a more ready acceptance of Aboriginal parents. [More…]
The need to promote the best type and standard of education for our Aboriginal children should give us great concern. [More…]
Although this is somewhat outside the Committee’s reference, I believe there will be a need to see that those students who are educated at the College are provided with the best type of employment commensurate with their education. [More…]
I believe that the education methods being adopted at the college are as good as the Government has been able to devise. [More…]
The College will play an increasingly important part in educating Aborigines who, in turn, will be able to influence their families and other Aboriginals in the community to recognise the advantage of a better educational standard. [More…]
I have seen the great need for this type of education. [More…]
As the honourable member for Hunter (Mr James) pointed out, there are differences of opinion as to how best education can be provided. [More…]
1 am confident that Kormilda College will play a tremendously important role in the education of Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I believe that it is necessary to expand the College as much as possible because it is through Aborigines that we will be able to reach those other Aborigines who are not yet convinced of the need for and the benefits of a higher standard of education. [More…]
I should make it clear, though, that the late arrival of the Government in showing interest in Aboriginal education was dictated more by the activities of the Labor Party in this Parliament than by any other factor. [More…]
The whole problem of education of the Aboriginal people is still a closed book so far as we are concerned. [More…]
How do we make education for the Aborigines relevant? [More…]
We have not found the answers yet for adolescent education in Australia and therefore we need not be totally disheartened because we have not found it for the Aboriginal people. [More…]
I appeal to the House and to the Government to make some general appeal to the international bodies concerned with questions of education and the training of across cultures rather than cross cultures. [More…]
On page 2 of the report of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Public Works it states that the Government’s policy is for assimilation of Aborigines, a parallel education system and so on. [More…]
I did not intend to speak in this debate but, as a member of the Public Works Committee, I should say that it was not the Committee’s duty to investigate educational facilities. [More…]
The educational facilities are a matter for the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
But it was not the duty of the Public Works Committee to examine the educational facilities at the college. [More…]
Throughout our investigations a lot of questions were asked about educational standards and how they would be achieved. [More…]
But at the same time in my opinion it was not the duty of the Public Works Committee to investigate the educational standards or the methods of teaching. [More…]
We cannot expect to bring these Aboriginal children into our’ society and up to our standards of education without looking at their side too. [More…]
We frighten many of these children off with our education because they do not understand what we are trying to do for them. [More…]
The Committee has done everything it can to encourage educational facilities, but I feel sometimes that we are trying to force the Aboriginal people into doing something they do not want to do. [More…]
if we can involve some of our educated Aborigines in the education of their people we could do a lot more for them than we are doing at present. [More…]
Of the total proposed Commonwealth provision of $55.3m for 1972-73 it is intended that, in addition to the $22.545m available in the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account under my control, of which the $14.5m for the States forms part, $24.5m be provided in the votes of the Department of the Interior for expenditure on Aboriginal advancement in the Northern Territory, $305,000 in the votes of the Department of Labour and National Service, S3.73m and $75,000 in the votes of the Department of Education and Science for secondary and study grants and for the continuation of special projects in the Northern Territory, and $150,000 in the votes of the Department of Health for similar special projects in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In previous years these amounts for education and science and health were, included in the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account, and it would therefore be appropriate to compare last year’s provision in the Trust Account of $14.83m with the total provision this year of $26.5m for the same purposes; but it has been thought more appropriate that provision should be made from now on in the votes of the functional departments. [More…]
I envisage allocating the $ 14.5m as between the various purposes for which the grants are made to the States on the basis of S8.25m for housing, $1,748,000 for health, $2,377,000 for education, $500,000 for employment and vocational training, $875,000 for special work projects and $750,000 for regional projects. [More…]
Programmes of health education and preventive medicine being developed by professional people should progressively relieve the burden on the curative services provided in hospitals in the major centres. [More…]
Funds have been provided to the States - and in some cases by direct grants also - to meet a variety of educational needs ranging from the construction of, and the provision of equipment for, preschools, primary and secondary schools, to the establishment of residential hostels in the cities and major towns so that students from rural areas may be able to continue their education beyond the primary level. [More…]
In discussions with the States it was decided that one of the main targets to be aimed at in the educational sphere during this year would be the further development of pre-schools and pre-schooling facilities so that Aboriginal children would be suitably prepared for entrance into the school system. [More…]
In addition to its assistance to the States, the Commonwealth, through the Department of Education and Science administers the secondary and study grants schemes, inaugurated respectively in the 1969 and 1970 academic years. [More…]
But we can be seen to be making progress, and Aboriginal children will soon be emerging from secondary schooling with educational prerequisites for higher levels of employment. [More…]
Of these 29 were studying at universities and 9 undertaking other tertiary education - a small number, it is true, but a distinct improvement in the sit uation at the time of introduction of the scheme when there were only 4 Aboriginal graduates and a further 11 studying at universities. [More…]
The housing programmes aim primarily to assist families, whose children will benefit thereby; a great deal of health activity is devoted to improving the health situation of Aboriginal infants and children; the bulk of expenditure in education is, of course, for younger Aborigines; while the employment training scheme and other activities of the Department of Labour and National Service seek in particular to assist schoolleavers. [More…]
This will involve assisting them with accommodation, providing the means for them to overcome the health handicaps from which many of them suffer, giving assistance with education and employment, and providing legal assistance. [More…]
If one looks at our major city, Sydney, one can see examples in all these fields: Either with the State or unilaterally we have provided hostels and houses, supported the Aboriginal health service in south Sydney, provided funds for schooling, pre-schooling and adult education facilities, assisted Aborigines to find and hold employment, and supported the Aboriginal Legal Service. [More…]
I hope that we can through the provision of relevant education ensure that members of the remote communities become less and less dependent, while at the same time relating that education more directly to the sorts of employment we will be encouraging the Aborigines there to undertake. [More…]
No consideration is given to the costs incurred by parents in making such journeys, say, once a week, or in taking their children to school, bringing them home at the end of the week, or the costs involved in education generally. [More…]
And when one takes into account the fact that the States are still charged with the responsibility for such significant fields as education, health, road making, public transport, irrigation and power development and contrasts with that the limited scope of such functions that the Commonwealth has to perform, one can see that in some respects the great dependence that the States have on central finance perhaps does not make for the best pattern for reconciling the requirements of finance with the actual responsibilities of function. [More…]
However, in 2 highly important fields which fall within the responsibility of the States, namely education and health, the expenditures will be S275m and S99m respectively. [More…]
The aggregate expenditure for education and health is S364m. [More…]
For instance, State governments could claim that service is actually being denied in such important fields as adult education, the provision of libraries and so on for lack of sums as low as Sim. [More…]
We have witnessed a reduction in the per capita debt of the Commonwealth whilst the per capita debt of the States, because of insufficient funds with which to discharge their responsibilities in so many fields such as housing and education, has been increasing. [More…]
If education and hospitals were Commonwealth responsibilities and Civil Aviation and post offices were Slates’ responsibilities I wonder would we have the same distribution of resources amongst these functions as we do now. [More…]
I point out that it is only in the field of education in the last 23 years of non-Labor government that we have had any new initiative in the sphere of getting together between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
Last Wednesday the results of a survey carried out by Dr A. W. Willee, the Director, Department of Physical Education, University of Melbourne, for the Commonwealth Council of National Fitness were released. [More…]
… A recent survey of secondary schools throughout Australia revealed that over three quarters of all Government High Schools are without covered areas in which physical education activities could be conducted. [More…]
… No child can take full advantage of whatever education is offered unless that child is healthy. [More…]
The physical fitness and well-being of a nation is as important to the health and ultimate happiness of its people as its level of affluence, education and cultural attainment and its technical and scientific achievements. [More…]
As a result of the report I received a quite delightful letter of support from Professor John Bloomfield, Head of the Department of Physical Education, University of Western Australia. [More…]
Each average-sized community needs centralised indoor and outdoor facilities, staffed by, Physical Education specialists. [More…]
I also suggest that we should build a national sports institute for the training and educating of coaches and instructors and the awarding of diplomas and degrees in physical education, associated sciences and sports education. [More…]
It is interesting to look at the $20m that has been promised - of which a part has been paid - to State schools in 1972-73 and to observe that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who announced this measure in the House, actually claimed that this grant was being made in the light of the survey of needs carried out by the 6 State governments. [More…]
In fact, the survey as it was published was almost immediately rubbished by the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
In my opinion this is an indication that there is a substantial sector in the private school education system that is extremely affluent and has no need for any further grant from the Commonwealth Government whatsoever. [More…]
They were quite unprepared to provide the Minister for Education and Science with a statement of their needs. [More…]
It is interesting to notice just how helpful the Commonwealth Government is in its education grants to the schools for the handicapped. [More…]
For example, the 2 private preparatory schools which feed pupils into Melbourne Grammar, the Minister for Education and Science’s old school - namely Wadhurst Preparatory and Grimway House - between them get more in per capita grants than all that is given to handicapped children in the entire State of Victoria. [More…]
I put a question on notice to the Minister for Education and Science and asked whether he would mind informing the public of Australia as to the schools which did not supply him with information. [More…]
It is apparently a private and confidential arrangement between the Minister for Education and Science and these schools. [More…]
It is a commentary on the secrecy that has developed in this Government and its irresponsibility when handling large sums of public money that the Minister for Education and Science can actually make the statement that there is a handful of schools which say that staffing difficulties prevented them from telling the Commonwealth Government how much they needed. [More…]
Frankly, any school in my electorate, be it a high school or a Catholics school, that was asked a simple question of how much money they needed would have an answer ready and back to the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science by airmail within 7 days. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science always refers to affluent schools as ‘so-called affluent schools’. [More…]
An examination of the statistics supplied by these private schools in 1970-71 to the Minister for Education and Science in his survey of needs of private schools will confirm very clearly that there is a very substantial sector in the non-Roman Catholic schools that actually have surplus funds that they simply do not know what to do with. [More…]
We all accept the fact that it is now impossible for any new university or any new college of advanced education in Australia to be established or for there to be any significant increase in any existing university or college without the Commonwealth’s participation. [More…]
Yet we find that in the State capitals, in the ones which are most dispersed, there is precious little tertiary education in the outer suburbs. [More…]
We do it in respect of universities and colleges of advanced education if we are so minded. [More…]
It is quite clear that we- in Australia need a Commonwealth hospitals commission, just as we have a Commonwealth Universities Commission or a Commonwealth Commission on Advanced Education, to ensure that public funds are adequately provided and to see that people who need hospital treatment can get it within a reasonable time space. [More…]
The Commonwealth can establish tertiary education facilities in such a centre. [More…]
Despite the unprecedented growth and support for education, the officers of the Technical Teachers Association have plainly made up their minds about the advice they might want to provide. [More…]
However, on any forum at any time I am prepared to debate education with the Leader of the Opposition or the shadow Minister for Education, the honourable member for Fremantle, subject to mutual agreement about the chairman and conduct of the meeting. [More…]
I would even be prepared to extend that challenge to the honourable member for Bendigo if the Leader of the Opposition is prepared to state, as some newspapers have, that the honourable member for Bendigo and not the honourable member for Fremantle is the shadow Minister for Education. [More…]
I also understand that the Leader of the Opposition will be discussing education in his electorate on Sth October and I challenge him to a debate on that date. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence whether he is aware that a very large proportion of applicants for service in the armed forces are rejected because of failure to meet the educational standard required. [More…]
Will the Minister consider lowering the standard of the education test? [More…]
I am informed of one case in which a chap volunteered, failed the education test, then joined the Country Party and later became a member of Parliament. [More…]
The Services do not desire to lower the educational standard for recruitment because they have found that when they have accepted people below a certain educational standard it has been much more difficult to train them. [More…]
Once people get into the Services they are given a considerable amount of additional education and this helps to bring them up to the required standard. [More…]
I am sure that the Services would be completely opposed to any further reduction in the standard of education. [More…]
In addition we have accepted other reports which have considerably improved temporary rental allowance, temporary allowance for accommodation, education allowance and disturbance and removal allowance. [More…]
We are going to have chauvinist problems with the States, but we can by education and discussion bring the matter to a higher level. [More…]
As the honourable member for Reid applies the description ‘a bribe’ to the scheme, I ask him whether he considers the payment of social services, child endowment, age and repatriation pensions and payments for education or other fields in which the Government is involved as simply bribes. [More…]
His remarks are interesting because in the whole field of social policy proposed by the Australian Labor Party almost the only area in which it would impose limits in respect of welfare and needs is in some aspects of education - not even in housing. [More…]
I put it to the Committee that a Bill of Rights not only would enlarge greatly the area of civil liberties in Australia, give protection and open up an imaginative new area for the development of Australian constitutional jurisprudence but also would be an important re-assertion of our belief in certain basic values that would have a great effect on the education of all Australians. [More…]
The positive co-operation and planning between Commonwealth and State authorities should also ensure that the contribution of secondary and tertiary educational facilities to decentralisation will be maximised. [More…]
This is of particular relevance in terms of location of institutes of technology, colleges of advanced education, universities and the like, where these institutions play a considerable role in relation to industry. [More…]
Both the State reports highlighted the importance of tertiary education not only in generating jobs but also in reassuring new settlers that their children can secure professional qualifications without leaving home. [More…]
It is the more remarkable, therefore, that the Department of Education and Science should not have been represented on either the working party or the Officials Committee. [More…]
The Victorian report emphasises the importance of providing a college of advanced education in the vicinity of Wodonga. [More…]
A Labor federal government will itself propose universities and colleges of advanced education in chosen designated growth areas. [More…]
In view of this low figure, and following much discussion both nationally and internationally by those people responsible for detection, these people say that they must encourage much more education amongst the young people in the schools and colleges in an all-out endeavour to cut down on the demand. [More…]
This Committee, consisting of senior Department of Health and law enforcement officials from the Commonwealth and all States, was set up to co-ordinate activities in drug education and law enforcement. [More…]
Since the Committee’s inception the Commonwealth has made grants of $l.5m for drug education purposes. [More…]
The National Standing Committee could be the co-ordinating body when this action is initiated and it could seek to broaden its scope by volunteering manpower and funds for the effort as well as contacting and organising community leaders in law, medicine, religion, education and social work to form a community drug education committee. [More…]
It could seek out and employ the best in local manpower and resources to mount the most effective possible campaign on drug abuse education and prevention. [More…]
Perhaps we should look also to the area of education and ask: Are some of our children cramming too much? [More…]
It emphasises wealth, relaxation in the sun, education and opportunity. [More…]
I emphasise ‘plenty of housing’ - and the education system is just fine. [More…]
Potential migrants are told that there is plenty of housing and that the education system is just fine. [More…]
In addition it is stated in the newspaper article that the education system is just fine. [More…]
Lottie Stewart, Weemala, Bodington Red Cross, Queen Victoria Homes (Wentworth Falls), St Joseph’s Convalescent Home (Hexham), Mount St Joseph’s Home (Young), Frank Whidden Masonic Homes, Hammondville Convalescent Home, Church of England Retirement Villages, Warrina (Wyuna Wing); (ii) Beverley Park, Drummond Far West Home, Inala (Rudolph Steiner) School of Curative Education, Lorna Hodgkinson Sunshine Home, McLeod House Convalescent Home, Whitehall Private Kent Home; (iii) Lady Gowrie Red Cross Nursing Home. [More…]
assist in a policy of restoration and expansion of the technical education of their country. [More…]
We have had more than enough evidence produced in this place and in other places to show the socioeconomic discrimination which works so oppressively and so terribly against people from low and moderate income earning families that they literally cannot break through the barriers of social and economic discrimination into higher education. [More…]
In our society we tend to relate higher education qualifications with better job opportunities, better incomes and more satisfaction in life. [More…]
Under any means test, whether it be a social services means test or an education means test, there are so many anomalies that much injustice is done. [More…]
We will cut out all forms of means tests and rely upon income tax, which to me is the fairest and best way to test anything, whether it is in respect of education, social services or anything else in this community. [More…]
Under the Repatriation Bill, as previously explained, in the case of certain children receiving full time education, amendments are being made in respect of the continuation of their pensions until the age of 21 years is reached. [More…]
I refer in particular to the extension of education benefits. [More…]
It is true that the soldiers’ children’s education scheme is one of the most effective and continuous forms of social service operating in this country, but the fact is that the deprivation of the family because of the loss of a serviceman, or the total or partial incapacity of a serviceman, is totally immeasurable. [More…]
However, I believe there are many areas of the system which ought to be expanded - for instance, the education scheme for the children of soldiers. [More…]
Of course, if they have dependent children as well, benefits by way of pension and education assistance are available in various forms and at various rates until the completion of tertiary education. [More…]
If they have children undergoing education they receive the full benefits of the soldiers’ children’s education scheme which covers them till the completion of their tertiary education. [More…]
Apart from those benefits, war widows are entitled to repatriation medical facilities throughout life and their children are entitled to free medical treatment up to the age of 21 years if they are undergoing full time education. [More…]
Firstly, the living allowances payable to children eligible for benefits under the soldiers’ children’s education scheme will be increased. [More…]
Secondly, and this is a major improvement which will be available to all children whose parents receive war pensions but do not receive substantial Commonwealth assistance specifically related to the maintenance of a child doing full-time education, the Repatriation Act will be amended to allow the war pensions of those children undergoing full time education to continue until the children reach ?.l years of age. [More…]
In these days of technological change there is an increasing need for children to undertake higher education to fit them for their future roles as citizens and anything that can be done to assist them to that end should be done. [More…]
Such assistance is already being given by way of Commonwealth scholarships but since not every child receives such a scholarship, the proposal to continue the payment of war pensions to children undergoing full-time education but not receiving other substantial Commonwealth assistance towards riving costs until they reach 21 years of age is a very commendable step forward. [More…]
When the children’s pensions and education allowances are added, the family income will be $102.28 a week. [More…]
IS) What sum has been spent on education in respect of venereal disease amongst Aborigines during each of the last 5 years. [More…]
making insufficient provision for education ranging from pre-school to technical training, adult education and education at university level; [More…]
The needs can be seen most vividly in respect of education. [More…]
Statistics from the Bureau of Census and Statistics show that at the 1966 census there was an astonishing difference between the rate at which Aboriginal people gained access to education and the rate at which the nonAboriginal component of the population gained access to education. [More…]
Of persons 50 per cent or more Aboriginal, 0.36 per cent of males and 0.34 per cent of females were undergoing education of matriculation or higher standard. [More…]
There were 1.42 per cent of Aboriginal males and 1.47 per cent of Aboriginal females receiving education at intermediate level as against 16.36 per cent for non-Aboriginal males and 17.61 per cent for non-Aboriginal females. [More…]
There were 39.97 per cent of Aboriginal males and 39.23 per cent of Aboriginal females receiving no education at all in contrast to 10.97 per cent of non-Aboriginal males and 10.6 per cent of non-Aboriginal females. [More…]
These education statistics show the astounding disparity that exists between the Aboriginal population and the nonAboriginal population in Australia. [More…]
By way of further comparison, on the basis of the 1966 figures 3.6 per cent of Aboriginal people 45 years and over had no education compared with only 1.1 per cent of nonAboriginal people. [More…]
The answer that Senator Douglas McClelland received this year to a question showed that statistics were not kept in such a way that those who were Aboriginal were normally enumerated in statistical collections, but the number of persons who took up Aboriginal study grants for the first time in 1969-70 and 1970-71 were listed by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in answer to that question. [More…]
However, 8 of the 26 listed as having received Aboriginal study grants were attending Education Department teachers colleges or kindergarten teachers’ colleges. [More…]
We can be satisfied from the figures we have that so far there has been no upward trend in the statistics in respect to education and that the magnitude of this education problem remains. [More…]
If one refers to the available information in relation to health, as in education, the striking thing that hits the observer is the shockingly high adverse statistics on Aboriginal health that are available. [More…]
We talk about education for the Aboriginal people. [More…]
What I think is probably needed here is a good deal more education of Australian white people about the culture of the Aboriginal people so that they can appreciate it and appreciate its extraordinary significance and so that they can acquire more respect for the Aboriginal people derived from the knowledge of this culture which, in many ways, is superior to our own. [More…]
But the important thing is that we need some kind of education of white people in this country so that we will begin to appreciate the Aboriginal people for being themselves, for knowing what they themselves are. [More…]
Those who had ceased to live in the tribal state and had become fringe dwellers asked about conditions of employment, about the education of their children and about housing. [More…]
Will we acknowledge the right of the Aborigines to an education in their tongue. [More…]
They are, firstly, the right of an indigenous people to the ownership of land and, secondly, the right of an indigenous people to an education in their own tongue. [More…]
For a long time, for instance, at Hermannsburg Mission the Aboriginal children obtained a primary education in the Arunta tongue, and they learnt English as a second language later on. [More…]
Albert Namatjira went through such an education. [More…]
But for a long while there was no Commonwealth assistance because this was contrary to assimilation and education had to be in English. [More…]
The mission took the point of view that a mother tongue is the language of the heart; it is the best way to speak to a young child, and I believe that in many more areas we ought to be encouraging the survival of Aboriginal languages by giving a primary education to Aboriginal children in their own tongue. [More…]
It will have to SOlve the problems of housing, medical care, adult education, hygiene and all sorts of things, but it nails its flag to the mast. [More…]
There is no excuse for the inadequacy of education and health services anywhere in Australia. [More…]
Their education is poor and their general social stability has always been bad. [More…]
My colleagues have raised the question of education. [More…]
We have a pretty bad situation when we link the problem of unemployment with poor educational opportunities that existed in the past, bad health conditions and so on. [More…]
I realise that the South Australian Government, with possibly some assistance from the Commonwealth, has provided improved educational facilities for Aborigines. [More…]
But I am afraid that once Aboriginal children receive an education they do not have the opportunity to get the jobs that they want. [More…]
What we have is a person with a reasonable amount of education but who is unemployed. [More…]
If honourable members opposite say that education, health, employment and housing services should all be on those lines, surely they are advocating that in the long run we shall be moving towards one community, preserving distinctive cultures of Aborigines but certainly moving in the more material things of life to one common community. [More…]
The more, people who come out of the education system and the more people who ask for the sort of employment that has been mentioned this afternoon, the more changes there are in the fundamental desires of Aborigines. [More…]
First of all, in the field of education it was suggested that we should do more towards helping to educate Aborigines in their own tongue. [More…]
In the general fields of housing, education, health and employment the informa tion I presented in my second reading speech has shown that considerable advance was made over the last year. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has shifted his position. [More…]
We had the pleasure to have visiting this country the English Conservative Minister for Education, the Right Honourable Margaret Thatcher. [More…]
While it has been established beyond doubt that almost all scholarship moneys under this Government - 95 per cent of them - go to people who would send their children through a secondary education without those grants, in the United Kingdom all grants to enable children to get through a secondary education go to children in need. [More…]
But the fact is we are facing a spiralling cost of education. [More…]
Educational expenditure is increasing at perhaps the rate of 15 per cent a year. [More…]
What is more, in 80 per cent or 85 per cent of the cases they go through university or other forms of tertiary education. [More…]
When they get to the tertiary forms of education what happens? [More…]
We run on the formulation of the Australian Council for Educational Research an examination which picks up those children who are most advantaged in the cognitive use of languages, which means, of course, the children from the sort of family background of the professional groups in the community. [More…]
In examining its own work, the ACER has found that about 95 per cent of the scholarships go to children who would have had a secondary education without them. [More…]
The whole structure of our education system, as it is being built up under the present Government’s policy, is a structure of privilege. [More…]
The normal procedure of the Commonwealth Government in relation to education is to deal in triennia, not quinquennia. [More…]
For some of the more privileged greater public schools to paint through their classrooms, it might be an adequate sum, but for an organisation like the Catholic schools which are trying to provide aa education for the poorest parish child, $700,000 a year is simply pathetic. [More…]
We have had a very considerable period of Commonwealth capital grants for education - for science laboratories and libraries in particular. [More…]
I make no comment on the libraries except to say that at the primary school level where literacy is established, libraries are also extremely important, and the appropriation for libraries so far has been at the secondary level of education. [More…]
It finds its education’s rational consummation in a university or other tertiary level of scientific laboratory work. [More…]
Surely, however, the large numbers of children who leave after 3 years of high school are also still Australian citizens, but 1 do not think they come within the range of the sympathy or the interest of the last 4 Commonwealth Ministers for Education, including the present Minister. [More…]
It is time the Commonwealth Government considered in both the private and the public sector a diversification of education for the nonacademic child. [More…]
In the Catholic sector of education in my own State there are no longer any technical schools. [More…]
Church wishes to reach the working class child who cannot pay high fees and also wishes to diversify its education to meet his needs. [More…]
But too often it is not doing so, and the structure of its education tends to be oriented towards those who will go through to a full professional education at the university, whereas the great majority of its pupils will not complete a secondary education. [More…]
We ought to be much more sympathetic than we are to the forms of education which meet their needs. [More…]
Education is that development of the personality which takes place as a result of an individual’s learning. [More…]
We need in education development of the attitudes, part of which is character, part of which is appreciation, part of which is constructiveness of approach and part of which is scientific and analytical method. [More…]
There will be presented to this Parliament in precisely the same way as the Australian Universities Commission presents to this Parliament or the Colleges of Advanced Education Commission presents to this Parliament a statement on the whole field of need in education with recommendations on what Commonwealth parliamentary action should be taken and that, we believe, is the model. [More…]
I am surprised and disappointed that he should take on the role of the great antagonist of present Government proposals in education. [More…]
I can only suppose that it has finally come home to him that he is in grave danger of being replaced as shadow Minister for Education by the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Kennedy). [More…]
About $l,000m of that total figure was spent on the government sector of education; about $70m, the remainder, was spent on the independent sector, which covers 22 per cent of the total school population. [More…]
More broadly, government spending on all education increased from $45 6m in 1961-62 to about $l,600m in 1971-72, or from $43 to $126 per capita of the population over that 10-year period. [More…]
The direct and indirect Commonwealth share of the $ 1,600m total government expenditure on education is about $900m. [More…]
In other words, the Commonwealth sector increase has been more rapid than the increase in all government expenditure on education. [More…]
The rate of increase has been most notable in the Government’s direct expenditure on education, which has risen from $193m in 1968-69 to an estimated $426m in 1972- 73 - in other words, a 23 per cent increase over last year and a multiple of several over the preceding few years. [More…]
That, of course, is not the whole of the story because large sums of money do not in themselves tell the whole story and do not necessarily prove the value, the quality or anything else in relation to education. [More…]
But we should bear in mind, even though it is not very directly specified in this Bill, the Commonwealth’s recent emphasis on teacher education. [More…]
I believe that nobody is more concerned than this Government and the members of its education committee about values in education. [More…]
I know of no better way of inculcating the right values or of improving values in education than by emphasising teacher education, which this Government is doing quite substantially at all levels. [More…]
Through teacher education, combined with education in the home, we may reach a point which is perhaps what the honourable member for Fremantle was talking about. [More…]
If he was not, I hope that he has it in mind that the achievement of the sorts of things that these days are symbols of independence, such as motor cars, may not necessarily be the best way to achieve independence and status and that more constructive things may be representative of what people may learn through education of one kind or another. [More…]
The burden of the amendment proposed by the honourable member for Fremantle is the appointment of an Australian schools commission, primarily for the purpose of assessing needs in education. [More…]
It has been a very fundamental plank in recent Labor Party education policy. [More…]
All that we really know is that it is proposed to centralise the administration - or at least the guideline formation for education - of the 10,000 Australian schools in one presumably Canberra based Australian schools commission. [More…]
Few countries in the world comparable with our own in a reasonable sense accept that unvarnished principle, however nice it might have sounded, however honourable it may be, or any other adjectival description it might enjoy at this time in the history of educational development. [More…]
Keeping in mind the practicalities, the salient feature in the existence of independent schools is not that some people can afford to send their children to them and some cannot; it is not that the Government may subsidise in some small measure the private expenditure on education which otherwise would not exist; it is, in fact, that there is private expenditure on education. [More…]
There is a relatively small amount of private or parental expenditure on education in government schools. [More…]
A few months ago I asked a question on notice about tax deductions in respect of education for different categories of parents because I suspect that quite a significant part - not a major part - of income tax deductions for education is made by parents of children who attend State schools, Unfortunately such figures are not available in any recognisable form from Treasury sources. [More…]
They do so for a variety of reasons, as the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and honourable members on this side of the House have pointed out. [More…]
The fact that the honourable member for Fremantle and his colleagues would deny them that incentive, initiative and freedom of action does not at all impress us on this side of the House, although I would agree that there remains a part of the argument which deserves attention; that is to say that other people should not be disadvantaged, should not be unable to have access to education of some reasonable kind through lack of income. [More…]
A great many of the Government’s recent proposals in education have been directed towards that end although, as we know, there is a long way to go. [More…]
In fact, it may be well nigh impossible to achieve equality of output from an educational situation. [More…]
Increasingly research in the United States and elsewhere is showing that schemes of compensatory education have to go a good deal further than they have gone so far towards meeting real or imagined needs. [More…]
The fact that the Commonwealth has seen fit to identify certain nation-wide specific areas such as library and laboratory needs surely does not mean that it is necessary or incumbent upon us to identify every possible specific, minor or other need among the educational demands that this vast field can place upon us. [More…]
Surely the States in their already centralised education systems can be left something to do, to make some choices and to allocate some priorities of their own. [More…]
None of those is asking for an Australian schools commission, so I suggest, with due deference, that honourable members opposite - we are not in the vote winning business, we are only talking about education - if they ever think of getting into the vote winning business, should take account of who is interested in their proposals. [More…]
I do not think they will find that many people engaged in education are interested in them. [More…]
Whether it is the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Kennedy), whether it is Mr Hartley of some political fame and who happens to chair the Australian Labor Party’s Federal Executive Education Committee and who is totally - as might be expected - opposed to State aid in any form, or whether it is various others who at various times have disagreed with them in the past, such as the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Murphy) and even the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives (Mr Whitlam), none is quite sure that he agrees with the others. [More…]
I wonder why in the last few years the Government has turned education debates into debates about the extraordinary value of the so-called independent schools and the rather offbeat, unnecessary nature of the government schools. [More…]
Of course, they have not been debates about education at all. [More…]
The Government has established the Commission on Advanced Education and the Australian Universities [More…]
As I have said before, this aspect of education is increasingly becoming a public scandal. [More…]
It has nothing to do with the general direction of education in Australia. [More…]
One of the intriguing things about this debate today and the earlier one that took place is the way in which there has been an injection in the last 12 or 15 years into debate here of the subject of education and Aborigines - 2 areas in which 12 or 13 years ago honourable members opposite and in particular their leadership said: ‘We have no responsibility’. [More…]
What should the Commonwealth be doing about education? [More…]
But what is the Commonwealth doing to challenge the things that are basic to the needs of Australian education? [More…]
The education systems of the world, and in this country as much as in any other, face a totally different world from the one in which we were educated and through which people of my generation passed on the way to employment and other things. [More…]
It was relatively simply 20 or 30 years ago to say: ‘This is the objective of education. [More…]
lt is true that throughout the world, even in Australia’s conservative education systems, thinking was going on but there was not any great ferment inside the education systems. [More…]
We have to think of new directions for education. [More…]
We are not to subsidise the continual conservatism of the Australian education system. [More…]
As I have said before - I suppose if one says it long enough it may well be taken up by honourable members opposite - schools in Canberra, for instance, are part of the educational laboratory available to the Commonwealth authorities. [More…]
Over the last 10 or 12 years in which the Government has been pouring vast sums of money into education, what has it done? [More…]
There were weaknesses and characteristics of the Australian education system. [More…]
There were great inequalities in education based upon the economic situation of a particular society. [More…]
A child from a basic wage home had a much less chance of getting a good education than a child from a home with greater means. [More…]
Are we doing anything to ensure that more women obtain the great advantages of education rather than having the great drop-out rates when they are in their teens? [More…]
What are we doing about Aboriginal education? [More…]
Australian education, as with all education, has been continuously conservative. [More…]
The education system is underserviced. [More…]
The Commonwealth has tackled some of the problems of teacher education, but not all that many. [More…]
Then there are special areas of education which the honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon) mentioned. [More…]
What are we doing about handicapped people, slow learners, isolated children and the other special areas of education which form an almost endless list? [More…]
In the other areas of tertiary education, 4,500 students live in Kooyong while 1,200 live in Wills. [More…]
There are 54,000 primary education students in Wills and 27,000 in Kooyong. [More…]
What about migrant education? [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is now making great speeches about it, but let us consider what these schools are like. [More…]
One of the more interesting things which again is a challenge to the sponsors of the independent schools, so-called, is that at least 2 schools, Newlands and Moreland, have taken up the challenge of the new generation of school children and the new look of education. [More…]
The fourth form at Moreland High School is undergoing a totally different education year. [More…]
Commission, one would see that in Victoria, of the expenditure on state school education, some S8m or S9m goes in the transport of school children and $23m or thereabouts goes to the training of teachers. [More…]
It is a shame that the honourable members opposite who have spoken in this debate appear not to have noticed the vast reforms which have been made by the present Government in this vital area of education and in particular tonight that they appear to have ignored the particular features of the Bill which is before us. [More…]
They are having ten bob each way and are illustrating that they have no policy and only a worn out philosophy in this extremely important area of the Australian system of education. [More…]
It is talk which is designed largely as a cloak over the policy of the Australian Labor Party which they know can ultimately only destroy their system of education. [More…]
If ever this were true, it certainly is not true now, for this Government’s approach to education has been to move into many areas to break down problems of inequality and, indeed, positively to discriminate in favour of certain under privileged or less privileged groups in the Australia community. [More…]
The Government migrant education programme is such a programme. [More…]
At this very moment old schools in the poorer or industrial areas are being demolished and are being replaced by new schools in pursuance of this Government’s policy, this Government being dedicated to the eradication of inequality of opportunity in the Australian education system. [More…]
It remains as insubstantial as fairy floss because it is a device to hide the deep differences in the Australian Labor Party over education. [More…]
I think this is important because certain fundamental principles are involved in this Bill and in recent Government announcements on education policy. [More…]
They concern what I describe as the Australian way of life and they concern the contemporary philosophy of education. [More…]
One of the basic freedoms which we in the Liberal and Country Parties have always believed in is the freedom of people to have the education of their choice. [More…]
This freedom is at stake when one considers the approach of the Australian Labor Party to education. [More…]
We believe that when we turn to the philosophy of education as it is debated around Australia at present, certain absolutely cardinal tenets of contemporary educational philosophy are put in jeopardy by the Labor Party’s approach to education. [More…]
I instance in particular the notion that authority in education ought to be decentralised. [More…]
I also instance the notion of community involvement in education and I instance the importance of quality and not just quantity in education. [More…]
I suggest that in all these areas concerned with the freedom of individuals to choose in the basic traditions of the Australian way of life and in a contemporary philosophy of education, the Australian Labor Party is sadly old fashioned and out of phase with today’s thinking. [More…]
Whereas the Government, on the one, hand, is sensitively and strongly reaching for and finding answers to the very complex problems of education in this country, the ALP on the other hand is confused, irrelevant and old fashioned. [More…]
The ALP’s other spokesmen on education range all over the place. [More…]
They range from what used to be, at least until tonight, the approach of the honourable member for Fremantle which we have all admired, which was a deep concern with and belief in freedom in education, to the approach of those honourable members opposite who would nationalise, centralise and secularise all Australian education if the Australian people would only let them do it. [More…]
Perhaps the true colours of the ALP are shown in the fact that the Chairman of the Australian Labor Party’s Federal Executive Committee on Education is Mr Bill Hartley, a rather well known Victorian member of the Labor socialist Left and a member of course of the Federal Executive of the ALP. [More…]
As I have said, the Committee on Education is chaired by a member of the socialist Left and, one might say - I think that the honourable member for Diamond Valley would agree - a notorious member of the socialist Left. [More…]
It is time that the people of Australia knew that, for instance, the Australian Union of Students has condemned the ALP - not the Government - for being more interested in quantity than quality in Australian education. [More…]
The Australian Union of Students has clearly recognised that the Government has made deep and expensive reforms across the whole of Australian education. [More…]
It might once have been sensible simply to set up centralised state education structures, to provide basic education free, secular and for all. [More…]
We in the Liberal Party say that the crying need in Australian education today is for things like parental involvement, community involvement in the setting up and running of schools and teacher involvement with parents and the local community. [More…]
Today surely we must say that education is too important a subject to be left to governments, just as war is too important to be left to admirals and generals. [More…]
Therefore the ALP argument can act only as a dreadful discouragement to the communities which wish to build up good schools, schools, which look to the future, schools which improve their standards and schools which are interested in the quality of the education which they offer. [More…]
Build up to the point where you have to charge more than $300 for the provision of a first class education and cut yourself out of assistance.’ [More…]
We say: Let the tax system look after the wealthy parents and do whatever equalisation is necessary at that level, but let us not equalise down Australian education. [More…]
Let us make education of their choice available and free to all Australians. [More…]
Mir REYNOLDS (Barton) (10.52) - It would take all of my speech if I were to check on ali of the erroneous statements made by the honourable member for Chisholm (Mr Staley) about Australian Labor Party policy and what the attitude of the various sectional groups in the community is towards the Government’s performance in education. [More…]
I should imagine that over the next few weeks until the election is held the honourable member along with other Government supporters will run into a lot of hostile meetings about the Government’s performance in education. [More…]
What the Australian Union of Students has to say about the Government’s deficiencies in respect of tertiary education would fill a book by itself. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in his second reading speech mentioned that the Government would grant finance on the basis of need. [More…]
Measure that against the recommendation of the nationwide survey of education needs, which asked not for $167m but for SI, 443m for State schools alone and another $240m, if I remember correctly, for non-State schools. [More…]
The Labor Party is concerned with both the qualitative and the quantitative aspects of education. [More…]
We feel that the amount being now spent on education in Australia is inadequate by international standards. [More…]
Australia spends about 4.5 per cent of its gross national product on education as against 6 per cent or 7 per cent spent by the more advanced countries. [More…]
There is no evidence that this Government is considering the quality of education so far as aims, content, organisation or administration are concerned. [More…]
Because we say that the Australian education budget is inadequate, inequitable and inefficiently spent, we believe that there should be a national commitment to education in this country. [More…]
There has been some reference in the Budget to a sum of $5m to be spent throughout Australia this year for preschool education. [More…]
The inequality starts in pre-school education. [More…]
We find that the greatest neglect in pre-school education in Australia is in the communities where there is the greatest need. [More…]
Even allowing for all that, in New South Wales about 3 per cent of all children get pre-school education and those children mainly are in the more affluent areas. [More…]
There is no reference in this Bill to technical education. [More…]
There is no reference in the subsequent Bills to come before this Parliament to the great need for the development of technical education in- this country. [More…]
10 youngsters go on to complete secondary education. [More…]
In stressing the establishment of an Australian schools commission, the Labor Party wants to set up a body that has continuity and a comprehensive regard for education. [More…]
Australian education in years gone by has been cursed by the insufficiency of research and by the fragmentary type of research that is carried out. [More…]
Periodically we have an investigation into some segment of education. [More…]
Recently in New South Wales an examination was made of secondary education. [More…]
However, there is no overall view of the whole range of education, the integration of each section with the others and the continuity and development of education. [More…]
Its job as a continuing research body will be to make recommendations for the material requirements of all schools but also, and very importantly, to carry out high powered research into the aims, the content, the organisation and the administration of education in Australia. [More…]
Because of the Australian schools commission’s commitment to continuing research and because of its commitment to making generous funds available to State and nonState educational bodies, it will be possible to give encouragement to research by schools - individual schools, schools combined in regions, as well as schools that might be linked more intimately to a State system. [More…]
But the whole idea is to have parental involvement, community involvement and decentralisation of educational decision making in Australia. [More…]
So, it is far from the situation to say that the Australian schools commission will be looking to impose some bureaucratic uniformity on Australian education. [More…]
How can the Government call that equality of educational opportunity or equality of treatment. [More…]
In fact, it gives much more to the children in the most affluent schools than it does to those in the less affluent schools, simply because not only are they given an equal per capita grant but also very generous taxation rebates are given to parents who are able to spend $400 a year on the education of their children. [More…]
Supposing that a parent in receipt of a taxable income of $4,000 a year was able to spend $400 a year on the education of his or her child at one of these least affluent schools, he would receive $107.20 by way of taxation rebate. [More…]
I repeat that: A person with a taxable income of $4,000, under the current taxation schedule, would receive a taxation rebate of $107.20; but a person with a taxable income of $9,000 who is able to spend $400 a year on the education of his or her child will receive a taxation rebate of not $107 but $171, which is 61 per cent more. [More…]
So the position we finish up with is that the higher the income bracket of the parents the greater the percentage of help they receive in the education of their children. [More…]
If a person with a taxable income of $4,000 spends $150 - which is the more likely amount that he will be able to spend - that is, $50 a term for the education of his child, he will receive a tax rebate of $40 and also have the benefit of the $224 which the Government is promising him under the per capita subsidy. [More…]
We believe that the establishment of an Australian schools commission will do a great deal not only in meeting the material requirements of government and nongovernment schools in an equitable way but also in having the continuing systematic and comprehensive survey of educational needs in Australia that we believe to be most essential. [More…]
We cannot for the life of us see why the Government resists having it at the preschool, primary, secondary and technical levels of education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science a question. [More…]
In view of his public invitation on Friday last to the Leader of the Opposition can the Minister advise whether there has been any response from the honourable gentleman to the Minister’s invitation to debate the national issues of education at a public meeting to be held in my electorate of Cook on 13th October? [More…]
I can say only that I regret that the earlier opportunity to debate national issues with him fell by the board when it was made quite plain that the debate to be held in the electorate of Werriwa was to be restricted to education issues affecting Werriwa alone. [More…]
I can understand the honourable gentleman’s unwillingness to participate in a debate on the broad national issues of education at this particular time because I understand the members of his own Executive have been asked to stand up and be counted on some of these issues. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) misrepresented me. [More…]
I had accepted the invitation more than a month before the Minister for Education and Science made his challenge. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science was found to be willing. [More…]
He said that the committee of the Fairfield-Liverpool branch of the New South Wales Teachers Federation had decided to restrict the debate, listed for 5th October, to education in the electorate of Werriwa alone. [More…]
I come to the Minister’s renewed challenge that I should appear to debate the national issues of education in the electorate of Cook on 13th October. [More…]
Department of Education and Science [More…]
On 17th August 1972, the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) read a statement to this House which was reported to be the Commonwealth’s education programme for 1972-73. [More…]
During the last few days honourable members have been furnished with a document entitled Commonwealth Programme in Education and Science’, which, according to the first page, contains material produced for the information of members of the Australian Parliament in their consideration of the Estimates for 1972-73. [More…]
The education of those children must continue to suffer unless and until a Commonwealth Government is prepared to provide a substantial amount of financial assistance for the specific purpose of ensuring full and proper opportunities to those children to obtain an adequate education at all levels. [More…]
Surely the education of Australia’s children is a matter of national necessity and importance, and surely it must then naturally follow that the major responsibility rests not with the individual State governments but fairly and squarely upon the Commonwealth Government to ensure that every child, irrespective of whether he lives in the city or in the far north, has the opportunity of gaining an education not limited by the financial circumstances of the parents, not limited by the financial resources of the State in which he lives, but limited only by his own ability to learn. [More…]
But the Government obviously does not accept that view because in all States of Australia today there are hundreds of children whose chances of gaining a good education are very remote. [More…]
Between 2,000 and 3,000 New South Wales children are ‘isolated’ from their schools, the New South Wales Education Minister, Mr Cutler, said yesterday. [More…]
This is an urgent problem, where either those children are not getting an adequate education or in many cases the cost of sending them to school is breaking their families, he said. [More…]
Because the Commonwealth refuses to grant that finance we have the situation right now where the education of many children is almost completely limited by the financial circumstances of the parents. [More…]
The third and certainly the best choice as far as the child’s education is concerned is to send the child to the metropolitan area or elsewhere where good schooling facilities and accommodation are available. [More…]
One frequently hears complaints from city dwellers in relation to the cost of education, and I think they are genuine in their complaints, but how much greater must be the complaint and how much more is it justified from people in the country and outback areas as compared with the city people, and how much greater is the worry of the parents in remote areas as to the adequacy of their child’s education? [More…]
But it would be neither a difficult nor an expensive exercise to carry out a proper inquiry and investigation into the whole field of education requirements in remote and distant areas. [More…]
In conclusion 1 say that children of the outback have equal rights with children living in the elite areas of the capital cities to a good education. [More…]
Assistance towards scholarships, science blocks and libraries is necessary and very acceptable in most areas, but it is of very little use or advantage to children who have no chance of qualifying for a scholarship or of attending a school of advanced education for the simple reason that their parents cannot face up to the costs. [More…]
How little apparently would the cost be to an institution such as the Commonwealth Government when we look at the figure given by the Minister for Education in New South [More…]
In the 10 minutes available to me in this debate I will confine myself to one or two of the smaller areas of Government expenditure on education, although they are by no means insignificant areas. [More…]
In so doing an undertaking is given that the Sweeney report will be heeded in relation to colleges of advanced education; that is to say, whatever salaries are accepted as a result of the current review to take effect from the beginning of next year will in approximate measure operate for staffs of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It is usually thought to be politically unattractive to talk about differential deserts in relation to salaries and mcn matters but I would like to make a point that I have long since made as a member of a university; that is, that if as is being implied at present in one or two newspaper reports, this review is to lead to any differentials as between holders of similar rank or status in university occupations - or if not, for that matter - a hard look should be taken at the requisite qualifications for appointment to particular positions both inside universities and as between universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It is perfectly obvious to anybody who cares to look that the field is not as competitive for appointment to colleges of advanced education as it is to universities. [More…]
In the market sense, there is no case for an automatic equality or near equality of salaries between universities and colleges of advanced education, irrespective of the level of appointment. [More…]
Ir: that case there may be somewhat undesirable competitive ability arising throughout the Australian university system which, despite its recent growth, still has only a couple of handfuls or so - 3 to be precise - of universities and of course a rapidly growing number of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
1 think it has long since escaped the attention of people who administer bodies such as the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education that it became the practice in universities some years ago to tie all sorts of people other than academics to academic salaries. [More…]
I make one point in relation to universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I have recently been the subject, as it were publicly, of a leading letter in the Hobart newspaper from an unnamed lecturer at the College of Advanced Education alleging a great lack of government involvement in education expenditure, not only in colleges of advanced education but also right across the board. [More…]
The fact is that irrespective of that situation it should be made clear that the Government has accepted recently the recommendations in toto from both the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education in respect of every individual institution administered under those systems. [More…]
I will touch now on 2 or 3 other minor but important aspects of our educational programme. [More…]
Members of the Opposition said as recently as yesterday that the Government shows little interest in matters such as Aboriginal welfare and education. [More…]
I believe it is not only idle but in fact vexatious to say that the Government has not taken in the last few years at least reasonable account of Aboriginal educational advancement in Australia. [More…]
89m for their particular concerns in education, which is an increase from S3. [More…]
1 believe the matters 1 have mentioned in the minor areas of educational expenditure are very important. [More…]
The Government’s identification of $1.5m for a period of 5 years for the study of Asian languages and culture and the development of programmes of teaching in this field is, I believe, of more than marginal importance to our educational system. [More…]
I close by noting that one specific area in which the Commonwealth Government has involved itself and which is of considerable advantage to the average student and, in fact, to most students now passing through our education system is in the area of scholarships. [More…]
As the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) pointed out, expenditure on scholarships this year has risen to a massive $56m compared with S45m or $46m last year. [More…]
To me, this is a move in the right direction, and it leaves most students in the position of being able to continue their education without severe financial difficulties. [More…]
I should like to read from a speech made in this House on 7th March 1972 by the spokesman for the Australian Labor Party on education, the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley). [More…]
The policy of the Labor Party towards education is quite clear, lt is set out not only in the decisions which were taken at the Launceston conference of the Australian Labor Party in 1971 but also in a publication which will be available shortly for all to read. [More…]
It is headed ‘Education - It’s Time’. [More…]
It certainly is time; it is time for a new deal in education for all, on the basis of need. [More…]
1 once heard the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) say - 1 think I am not quoting him out of context - that St Peter’s, Adelaide, is open to all. [More…]
There is no justice in the application of this Government’s education policy but there will be justice when the Australian Labor Party is elected to office come 25th November or whichever date the Government chooses. [More…]
The association applied to the New South Wales Minister for Education for permission to use the money to connect electricity to some of the schoolrooms which did not have electricity. [More…]
I want to make it quite clear that the Government’s attitude to education is broadly to achieve greater educational opportunities for all school children and to improve the overall quality of education. [More…]
This is something which is often forgotten by those people who talk only about money figures in relation to education. [More…]
We think that a tremendous amount of emphasis should be placed on the quality of education provided and we seek to provide this quality of education for all children in all schools. [More…]
To achieve this aim, it is an absolute requirement that the dual system of education be continued. [More…]
In the time available we cannot debate at length the manner in which the education proposals of the Opposition would detract from this aim. [More…]
I spoke about educational opportunities. [More…]
The children falling into that category need more emphasis placed on their welfare by education authorities. [More…]
I am speaking particularly about children in isolated homesteads in the backblocks areas of Australia, about children in schools in (he smaller communities in Australia, about the problems of schooling children in new settlements which may occur as a result of some mineral discovery or ore processing moves - in other words the problems of children in areas in which educational facilities cannot be brought quickly and readily to bear. [More…]
I believe this would provide a great educational stimulus throughout the country and particularly for those people living in isolated areas and new communities. [More…]
I commend this suggestion to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
I believe that the Department of Education and Science should look very closely at contributing to the overall cost of the procurement and setting up of the necessary facilities to enable Australia not only to own but also to utilise effectively such a miracle of modern technology in a way which, I believe, would advantage a tremendous number of Australians. [More…]
I invite the honourable member to read the reports of the debates of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference in Paris in 1971 when a resolution concerned with the use of communications satellites for an exchange of educational and other material between countries was debated. [More…]
The scope of the estimates clearly indicates the changing role of the Commonwealth in education. [More…]
The question we must ask ourselves is whether the Commonwealth, or this Government, is playing an effective role in education in these changing circumstances. [More…]
lt is very hard to draw firm conclusions from the propositions which have been put forward by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) because they are put forward on a 5-year basis. [More…]
I want to pass some comments on pre-school education. [More…]
Probably the most favoured area in pre-school education in Australia today is the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government makes some contribution to research into pre-school education but I wonder whether the scope of this research will provide enough information on the provision of pre-school education in the States, including whether such pre-school education is the proper responsibility of education authorities or health authorities. [More…]
It must be admitted that there is some debate throughout the world on whether pre-school education is really necessary, but the evidence would strongly come down on the side of the theory that in these years, the most formative years, of the individual pre-school education is essential for their future progress and education. [More…]
Yet in Victoria at least 10,000 children are denied a pre-school education, and that is a conservative estimate. [More…]
For some children in Victoria to receive preschool education they must attend private institutions to which they pay about $50 a term. [More…]
The tragedy is that in relation to the distribution of the provision of pre-school education it is the already economically deprived areas, such as the northern and western suburbs of Melbourne, which are tragically short of such facilities and so the children in those areas are further disadvantaged in their future education. [More…]
The Commonwealth should interest itself more in this area and provide direct grants for capital and recurrent expenditure in preschool education. [More…]
An old colleague of mine, the honourable member for Deer Park in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, asked the following question on 19th September 1972 of the Minister for Education in that State: [More…]
Mr THOMPSON (Minister of Education); The answer is [More…]
One wonders whether it is not time to assess the whole problem of whether many of those who fail in their courses at university would not have obtained meaningful qualifications for use in the community if a different attitude had been taken to their future education. [More…]
Even more trenchant is the criticism of colleges of advanced education by Dr Phillip Law. [More…]
I regret that the Government has not taken any notice of the needs survey undertaken in 1970 and that, far from living up to its promises in respect of education, it has been derelict in its duty to many young people in the community. [More…]
I would like firstly to express appreciation as I am sure we are all appreciative, to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and his Department for the trouble they have taken in preparing for our use explanations of the estimates for that Department for 1972-73 in which they have dealt item by item with the whole of the estimates. [More…]
The estimates for 1972-73 show progress in all aspects of the Commonwealth’s role in education. [More…]
The departmental report for 1971, which was recently tabled, demonstrated clearly the increasing participation of the Commonwealth in the field of education and science. [More…]
The increased expenditure proposed for the current financial year will enable continuous improvement in the quality and availability of education throughout Australia. [More…]
Direct expenditure by the Commonwealth on education this financial year will go up by $72m to a total of $426m. [More…]
In addition to general financial assistance, specific payments to the States for education are estimated to increase this year by $44m to a total of $250m. [More…]
A sum of $1 38m has been allocated to universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Colleges of advanced education, provided with funds under a system similar to that of the universities, are playing an increasingly important role and, indeed, they are playing a more clearly defined role than hitherto in the field of tertiary education. [More…]
I do not think that too much emphasis can ‘be placed on the importance of research in relation to education. [More…]
The major extension of Commonwealth scholarships at both secondary and tertiary levels will help many families and bring the opportunity for wider and higher education within the reach of many more thousands of students. [More…]
I have very much pleasure indeed in supporting the proposed estimates for the Department of Education and Science for the financial year 1972- 73. [More…]
Looking at the number of students who entered their first year of secondary education in Victoria in 1965 and the number pf students still enrolled in their last year of secondary education in 1970, one finds that in the metropolitan area 34 per cent of the students who started off in their first year of secondary education were still enrolled at the matriculation level. [More…]
In other words, a child who is born and lives in the city areas has about a 50 per cent greater chance of completing his secondary education than the child who lives in one of the country areas. [More…]
For example, looking at the figures for my own electorate of Bendigo in Victoria, approximately 21.5 per cent of the pupils who started their secondary education in 1965 were still enrolled in 1970 for their final or matriculation year of secondary education. [More…]
If we look at the central suburbs of Melbourne, we find that 50 per cent of the children who began their first year of secondary education were still enrolled in 1970 for their final year of secondary education. [More…]
So it can be seen that children who happen to be born in the Bendigo, Maldon and Castlemaine regions of Victoria have less than half the chance of continuing on to their final secondary year of education that the children born and educated in the central suburbs of Melbourne have. [More…]
These are the children who should be getting the maximum assistance from the Commonwealth Government so that they can complete their final year of secondary education and go on to tertiary education as far as their abilities will take them. [More…]
One of the major factors militating against them is the tremendous cost of education and the flagrant discriminatory policies that this Government still pursues in relation to its Commonwealth secondary scholarship scheme. [More…]
I agree, with the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Kennedy) that there are certain inadequacies in rural education. [More…]
However, I suggest that the raw statistics on the percentage of those children who begin secondary education and continue right through to completing that education are coloured somewhat by the number of country children who for no other reason, because it is the only way they can complete their secondary education, have to leave the State system in country areas and finish their education in the non-government section of education. [More…]
As well as highlighting the inadequacy of rural education, this highlights one other point and that is that the. [More…]
proposal to work out a reasonable and sensible means test for education as is suggested by the Opposition is a hopeless objective. [More…]
But if their children are to receive a secondary education they have no alternative to sending them to a private school. [More…]
I welcome the Commonwealth Government’s initiative that has been taken in several special fields of primary and secondary education. [More…]
I support the other forms of special assistance for education, such as migrant education, Aborigines and handicapped children. [More…]
It is very hard for them to obtain adequate secondary education because, the school facilities are just not there. [More…]
The alternatives for these children is to have a long school bus ride, sometimes involving several hours a day in travel; to be boarded privately or in a hostel in the nearest town which is of any consequence and which has some form of adequate secondary education or to be sent away to private boarding schools. [More…]
Because of the lack of employment opportunities both on the farm and off the farm in rural areas there is an increased need for a more diverse form of education to be available to these people so that they can be better trained to enable them to obtain employment should they have to move to some other district. [More…]
I have some concern for the education of country children. [More…]
I nsk the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to consider taking a new Commonwealth initiative to provide a flat rate living away from home allowance for those children who have to leave their home, whether it is in a small country town or on a farm, in order to complete or obtain adequate secondary education. [More…]
Some months ago I had some correspondence with the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fraser) concerning a new technique in animal breeding called ova transplant. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) may know the answer to this question and will be good enough to indicate why this money is unspent. [More…]
Students and lecturers are forced to conduct lectures in physical education store rooms with poor ventilation and seating facilities. [More…]
Grave deficiencies exist at this level of tertiary education, yet $2m of the appropriation is unspent by the States. [More…]
I hope that the Commonwealth will take up the strong recommendation of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts following its inquiry into the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education, namely, to provide direct grants for the building of technical teachers colleges. [More…]
When I talk about technical education I am also very conscious of the fact that much of technical education is still in a pretty poor state. [More…]
The simple fact is that technical education, which should be at the forefront of technological advancement, often has to use equipment that is completely obsolete; instead of training people for advanced facilities and techniques, often colleges are way behind in their development. [More…]
The Labor Party has given a solemn undertaking that because of technical education’s close connection with the economy of the country, to say nothing of social, educational and cultural aspects, a Commonwealth Labor government would take over responsibility for this level of tertiary education, as with other levels of tertiary education, thus relieving the States of their commitment and enabling them in turn to use the resources thus released from tertiary education for pre-school, primary, secondary and special education. [More…]
I know that there is to be a provision for the treating of them as colleges of advanced education with both capital and recurrent facilities. [More…]
In rising to support the estimates for the Department of Education and Science 1 want to say that I strongly support the Government’s policy on education generally. [More…]
In particular, I hope that it will continue to provide assistance to enable the dual system of education to continue to function. [More…]
I am very much afraid that if this Government were to be voted out of office we would see the end of the dual system of education. [More…]
The point at issue is whether the dual system of education will be maintained. [More…]
Another scheme on which I want to commend the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Government is the new one which will be introduced at the beginning of 1973 to replace the Commonwealth secondary scholarships scheme. [More…]
A further S250 a year will be payable subject to a means test similar to that applying to Commonwealth university and advanced education scholarships. [More…]
I believe it must be conceded that the lifting of our standard of education is very desirable. [More…]
I believe that the real way to tackle the problem of the Aboriginal people of this country is through the education of the Aboriginal people themselves. [More…]
I was very impressed by the students who were receiving education at that College. [More…]
1 believe that the making of grants for Aboriginal children at secondary schools is a very good step in the right direction and indicates the Government’s very keen interest in the need to improve the educational standards of our Aboriginal children. [More…]
One thing that caused me a bit of disappointment was that the Budget did not approve funds to assist the Isolated Childrens Parents Association, but as the Minister pointed out, by the Commonwealth Government’s action in providing financial assistance for the States to undertake educational work, which has been their special responsibility down through the years, the States should be able to assist people in remote areas. [More…]
The Commonwealth entered the field of education when it commenced giving financial assistance in the field of tertiary education. [More…]
I am hoping that as a result of the Commonwealth assistance to the States the States will be in a position to assist the Isolated Children’s Parents Association so that parents in isolated areas will be able to provide for their children what is the birthright of every child, a reasonable standard of education. [More…]
The estimates of the Department of Education and Science have covered a very broad field. [More…]
I would have thought that the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett), as a. distinguished member of the Country Party, might have spent some time on one of the major problems of Australian education affecting the people he particularly represents - the farmers. [More…]
They are looking for a form of education, and the assistance to get a form of education, which will enable them to transfer to other occupations. [More…]
The honourable member for Maranoa, who was just speaking on the subject of education, could not decide in the course of his speech whether the application of means tests was a good thing or a bad thing, so he ended up with the rather simplistic approach that whatever means test the Commonwealth Government has decided upon, however belatedly, was a good thing, and that anything it had not decided on was a bad thing. [More…]
When one considers that the greater public schools of Australia have been going since the 1870s and the 1880s, to say that they are dependent on a comparatively recent system of grants and that if these grants were not made they could not exist seems to be rather a falsification of the educational history of Australia. [More…]
The question is: With our rising allocation of resources to education what amounts should go to the different parts of the national education system? [More…]
However, 1 want to speak about a part of education which is very important and which seems to encounter a great deal of resistance from a mumpsimus-minded conservatism, and that is pre-school education. [More…]
1 have received letters suggesting that anybody who favours pre-school education favours latch-key parents and latch-key children and that it is only a question of parents wanting to evade their obligations. [More…]
Pre-school education can be very vital in establishing a child’s mental, nervous and moral stability. [More…]
It can also be compensatory education for under-privileged children, as anybody who has travelled through the Northern Territory and seen Aboriginal children in the pre-schools of the Northern Territory will testify. [More…]
What is more, preschool education may be educationally very significant in that disabilities from which children suffer may be detected early. [More…]
They can evade by their intellectual skills the correct diagnosis that they have an educational problem. [More…]
The existence of the pre-school system of education enables quite a lot of the disabilities of children to be detected. [More…]
But that does not make him more intelligent, nor does it meant that he is the one who is most worthy to have a secondary education or to go on to tertiary education. [More…]
The Australian Council for Educational Research which devised the test, I would remind the honourable member, has recently made a study of the subject. [More…]
I again stress that Sir Robert Menzies in introducing the system said in effect that the Government desired this scholarship system to give a secondary education to those who otherwise would not have got it. [More…]
Research has established that the system gives a secondary education in about 95 per cent of instances to those who would otherwise not have got it. [More…]
In this respect it contrasts violently with the system of scholarships in the United Kingdom which really does give a secondary education to those who otherwise would not have got it. [More…]
None of us in any of these educational questions can regard himself as having arrived at a final solution. [More…]
One State Minister of Education - if my memory is correct he is from the west - indicated that this field ought to become more completely a Commonwealth responsibility. [More…]
I have in mind the new programmes, new developments in education and the expansion of old programmes which have taken place over the last 12 months or so. [More…]
This programme is now superseded by reports which this Parliament will receive before the end of March next year when the Australian Commission on Advanced Education will make its report to pick up the remaining aspects of teacher training on a triennial basis and to phase in additional recommendations in that area with the current triennium for colleges of advanced education. [More…]
A special sub-committee of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education has been appointed, dragging into the Committee additional expertise and knowledge in the field of teacher training. [More…]
The subcommittee and the Commission itself will be examining the requirements of individual colleges and the views of State governments or education authorities. [More…]
We believe that the teaching profession demands the status and dignity of other areas of tertiary education and that the teachers colleges must be moving to a position of autonomy. [More…]
A significant point which needs to be noted is that the Commission on Advanced Education has been asked to look specifically and directly in the course of its examination of teacher training facilities at the facilities available for remedial teachers - teachers of the handicapped and of children with special learning difficulties - which are required for particular purposes where there are certain difficulties that need to be overcome. [More…]
But this is only one of the areas of education. [More…]
A number of areas arc involved and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education will be examining in a fairly short time scale a number of very wide issues concerning teacher training and will be reporting to the Commonwealth before 30th March 1973. [More…]
One of these areas is that of Aboriginal education where the study grants scheme for post school training offers a variety of courses in a number of institutions. [More…]
Another area is the child migrant education programme. [More…]
What about on-going education with the Royal College of General Practitioners asking that there should be on-going education of doctors and a system of assessing the quality of care given should be carried out? [More…]
They are financed at the expense of education and other areas. [More…]
I know that both the Commonwealth Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for Immigration (Dr Forbes) have received a number of deputations on these matters, because the situation in capital cities in particular is so critical. [More…]
One does not need to think too deeply to realise the deep social and psychological upsets that would occur in children who are in a completely different and foreign environment with social conditions different from those that they have been used to and with an educational system that does not use their native tongue. [More…]
Migration has helped to service the key industries which provide electricity power works and transmission lines, water and sewerage supplies, air transport and concrete and cement products, lt has reinforced our education facilities, particularly at the tertiary levels. [More…]
An examination of the percentage of migrants employed in hospitals and education authorities, particularly at the tertiary level, will reveal that they represent a much greater percentage of the population than their percentage of the total population. [More…]
In addition, greater emphasis will be placed on English language training and both the migrant education and the migrant welfare services in Australia will be expanded. [More…]
Secondly, the provision of education for migrant children is still far from satisfactory. [More…]
The purpose of the hostels is, rightly, to provide services to assist new arrivals to settle into the community with the minimum of heartbreak and in the quickest possible time, to provide welfare officers to assist them with their problems of education and social services, to provide housing advisory officers and employment services. [More…]
The Government has not engaged in any planning for educational needs as far as building is concerned. [More…]
Despite an initial expenditure of $ 15m on immigrant education the scheme is a shambles and a damn shame. [More…]
He said - I will take the extreme example - that a person who had a taxable income of $20,000 a year would receive a taxation deduction of $241 on education expenses of $400. [More…]
Many responsible people are concerned about education. [More…]
After all the education of their children is a very important subject to them. [More…]
I feel I just don’t want them taught purely secular subjects, because I feel that a religious background is vital to their whole wellbeing, their whole education, and for this reason I want them in this atmosphere. [More…]
The important thing is that at least we have an opportunity of choice of education for our children. [More…]
In education we would have a similar situation under Labor. [More…]
We do not want standardisation of education. [More…]
The legislation before the House is a milestone in this Government’s attempt to entrench its elitist system of education. [More…]
I can imagine the thoughts that are already trotting through the minds of the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns) and the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
It will be a publicly financed privately owned private education system that is now being erected. [More…]
Furthermore, the most disturbing feature of the scheme is that it is based upon the assumption that there will be continuing chaos and inequality in the State education system. [More…]
I do not know whether the Minister for Education and Science fully understands. [More…]
On a number of recent occasions after I have spoken on education I have been amazed by the number of people who have come to me and have said how disturbed they are at the state of education in government schools. [More…]
The honourable member for Mcpherson (Mr Barnes) has just completed a prehistoric speech on what education is all about. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science spends his week opening science blocks and libraries in private schools. [More…]
I am sure that he has not the slightest understanding of how many people feel disturbed about the education system in the State schools that he is ignoring in this Bill. [More…]
The Minister has said that the Victorian Department of Education is to get $46m for new buildings over the next 5 years. [More…]
This is clear when a calculation is made of what it will cost in increased recurrent payments by the State Department of Education to the private schools in Victoria. [More…]
I said that the honourable member for McPherson made a prehistoric speech on education. [More…]
5m for the schools which did not take part in the survey it is obvious that a very substantial sector of the private non-Catholic education system had a surplus over a 5-year period of about $20m, at the very least. [More…]
Does it bother the Minister for Education and Science? [More…]
These figures have been published in the newspaper and the Minister for Education and Science has not been game to challenge them. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science, if he is lucky enough to return as Minister after the election, will accept full responsibility for bringing every private school in Australia up to the finest possible standard. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science has virtually put himself into that position in public by saying that people who send their children to public schools do not care. [More…]
There is a compelling case for assistance to government schools but that assistance is not being given and in my opinion it is disgraceful that the Government is prepared to allow the development and the entrenchment of this 2-class system of education. [More…]
Having listened for some minutes to the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Kennedy) I merely want to say that he has expressed in a rather more sophisticated form, as did the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), the opposition of the Australian Labor Party to all forms of assistance at all levels of education which that Party has consistently adopted since the middle 1950s. [More…]
So we come to the more sophisticated form of opposition which has been enshrined in this false, divisive, cruel needs policy which the Opposition wants to impose on a particular sector of education. [More…]
This is with respect to non-government education. [More…]
The only area left in which the Opposition wants to continue to impose a divisive needs policy is with respect to this level of education. [More…]
It would be well for members of this House to ask why the Opposition should want to do that, especially in respect of this type of education. [More…]
It so happens that on this occasion the attitude of the Opposition concerning aid to all schools is similar to the resolution carried by the Communist Party’s Education Policy Committee meeting at the national training centre at Minto on 22nd May 1971. [More…]
poorer schools and staffing for pupils of poorer parents and consequent loss of opportunity for higher education for children of working Catholics, compared with wealthy Catholics. [More…]
The fact is that the Bill which has been presented by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is designed to assist all forms of education and it does so in various ways. [More…]
The words of the honourable member for Bendigo, who is competing for the shadow ministry of education, are not good social or economic sense. [More…]
A superabundant efficiency or a relative lack of efficiency, a rich type of education or a poor type of education are not the measures. [More…]
But above all it denies the means whereby increasing levels of education can be attained at all schools for all students in Australia. [More…]
Mr Dunstan is concerned for education. [More…]
Its provisions will assist education at all levels within Australia. [More…]
It is part of a list of amendments moved over many years, all designed to split education into camps and to be divisive socially, politically and in any other manner. [More…]
Perhaps it could have done more for the education of i h poor but it became obvious that it was frightened to do more for them because their Liberal opponents might well have beaten them at the elections. [More…]
The Liberal Party was roundly defeated because it did not offer anything at that stage for education. [More…]
Honourable members opposite are hypocritical when they dare to suggest that the Government has done something for the education of the underprivileged. [More…]
This is the point that we are making on Australia’s attitude to education. [More…]
Let us look now at the stupidity of the statements made by the Minister for Education and Science in his second reading speech. [More…]
The real issues come around to the problems in education as we see them. [More…]
We know that needs surveys have been conducted in respect of both government and non-government sections of education. [More…]
Those retention rates indicate the proportion of students who go on to tertiary education. [More…]
9m was allowable to taxpayers as deductions for education expenses. [More…]
Of the 1.9 million taxpayers in that field, 1.8 million received $4 8m of the tax deductions allowed for education expenses. [More…]
The top echelon of the high powered income earners - only 190,000 people - were able to claim $36m in education expenses. [More…]
For example, last year Sir Robert Askin had to allocate funds for primary education amounting to SI 36m but he was able to give only $6m to the non-State schools. [More…]
That is the attitude adopted by the State Government in New South Wales - a Liberal-Country Party dominated Government - towards education. [More…]
It has no interest in education. [More…]
This is the tragedy in the field of education today. [More…]
The purpose of the new capital funds is to achieve a greater rate of school construction in the government and the independent areas and to achieve greater equality in school construction and education facilities. [More…]
Earlier the Opposition’s leader in education matters, the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) - I think he is - indicated that a very high proportion of those who go to independent schools gained entrance into universities. [More…]
I do not know on what basis he used that figure but he was trying to argue, I think, that because they went to university the community paid much more for their education than it did for people who came from government schools. [More…]
Of 170 schools which did not answer the questionnaire 83 were special schools for the handicapped, often providing educational opportunities for children for whom the States do not provide opportunities and 60 per cent of the remainder of the ordinary secondary schools that had not replied had fees below the total cost of education in government schools. [More…]
I do not care what the leaders of the Catholic church or the Protestant churches say about what they want their education system to be so far as the Commonwealth grants are concerned. [More…]
In the United States Catholic parish education is withering away and long may it wither. [More…]
We are seeking to implement our proposals and support for education while leaving maximum possible control in the State departments for their own education systems, and also with the independent school authorities for their own schools. [More…]
One needs only to look at the remarks of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) as reported in Hansard of 9th March of this year, those of the honourable member for Fremantle as reported in the South Australian Teachers Journal on 24th May of this year or those of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) in one of the pamphlets on education which he has issued in an election year, to see that this is so. [More…]
Fees of $300 a year are about half of the cost of providing full education, taking into account some element for capital, in Government secondary schools. [More…]
Under what strange arithmetic does the Leader of the Oppositoin come to the view that an education costing $300 a year in an independent school is adequate while an education in a Government school requires $600 a year? [More…]
He then said that the Labor Party had never voted against any Bill proposing Commonwealth aid for education - I think that is slightly questionable, but I will let it go - and that is would support any forms of benefit already existing. [More…]
I think that this Bill will do a great deal for education in Australia. [More…]
It will improve the standard of education both in government and independent schools. [More…]
I want to ask a question of the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in regard to the Bill. [More…]
This is what I refer to as being so discriminatory about what the Minister does in education. [More…]
He is pretending that education is conducted in a vacuum. [More…]
Education in Australia takes place in a very competitive context, and every dollar of assistance that is provided to one school as opposed to another gives a very distinct advantage to the child who goes to that school over the other. [More…]
Let us just think about how well accommodated, well staffed, well equipped and well endowed schools such as Sydney Grammar School, Melbourne Grammar School, Geelong Grammar School, Xavier College and some of the other wealthier schools are already and how well placed their children are to get the maximum benefit out of the nation’s education resources. [More…]
I claim to have been misrepresented by the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) both in a statement he made in Parliament last night and also in a letter, of which I have just received a copy, which he sent to the Warrnambool ‘Standard’ and which was published in the Warrnambool Standard’ on Thursday, 14th September. [More…]
The letter was in reply to a challenge by his ALP opponent to debate education with me, which he refused. [More…]
I have debated with Mr Kennedy in Parliament and on the radio and his attitude towards independent schools must give anyone with an interest in the independent sector of education real cause for concern. [More…]
I don’t care what the leaders of the Catholic Church Protestant Churches say about what they want their education system to be as far as Commonwealth grants are concerned. [More…]
They were the Department of Air, the Attorney-General’s Department, the Department of Education and Science, the Department of External Territories, the Department of Supply and the Department of Trade and Industry. [More…]
One of the great things that has been done by the Government is the development of tertiary education facilities in the more remote and outback areas. [More…]
One of the great problems not so long ago was that if a person wanted a tertiary education he, and his family also, would have to go to Melbourne, Sydney or one of the other capital cities. [More…]
Now tertiary education is coming to the outback areas. [More…]
-I direct my question to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
However, frequency modulation broadcasting represents a significant advance in broadcasting techniques and, when it is developed, as it will be, in the UHF Band where sufficient space is available for many stations it will offer a broadcasting service which the Government is confident will serve this country’s needs for- entertainment, information, and education for very many years. [More…]
The competing demands of social welfare, health, education, housing come readily to mind. [More…]
I have said previously in debates in this House that housing, education, health and employment are the 4 main areas which require full and urgent attention in the interests of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The Vienna Conference concluded that environmental education at all levels is essential to the wellbeing of the planet in which we live and for man’s place in the planet. [More…]
It recommended that all governments support an education and information programme both in regard to policy and money and that every parliament establish a special committee which is competent to deal with environmental problems. [More…]
Thus, under the scheme opportunities will exist for children aged between 3 and 5 years in child care centres to receive pre-school education. [More…]
Centres will need to provide programmes of pre-school education for children as appropriate; [More…]
I draw the attention of honourable members to the recurrent grants that encourage - indeed, demand - the employment of qualified staff in centres including staff capable of providing preschool education. [More…]
We have helped Singapore in the fields of medicine, science, industry and education as well as having its students here. [More…]
Some assessments and re-assessments now being made and published may throw certain doubts on my belief in the matter, but I think that the education of people to help themselves is perhaps the best single way, short of attending to various crises as they arise, of giving aid to people who need it more than we do ourselves. [More…]
So that is a real problem which we have had to face both in the ambit of the Department of Foreign Affairs and in relation to our education policy for many years now. [More…]
The Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts in its report on the Commonwealth’s Role in Teacher Education made many, recommendations directed to various authorities including Commonwealth and State Governments, and statutory bodies concerned with tertiary education. [More…]
However, teacher trainees, whether they are preparing to work in independent schools or in government schools, will be equally acceptable for places in the self-governing teachers colleges just as is the case with teachers training at universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The students would be eligible for Advanced Education Scholarships. [More…]
In announcing the new policy on teacher education, I re-affirmed the Government’s view that teacher education should be provided in multipurpose institutions wherever possible. [More…]
There will be a greater number of Commonwealth Advanced Education scholarships available for tenure at preschool teachers colleges as a result of the 50 per cent increase in the overall number of these scholarships in 1973. [More…]
The Committee’s recommendations in this area were directed to the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
Both Commissions have informed me that they will encourage the development of courses in Special Education in the areas of tertiary education for which they have responsibilities. [More…]
I have asked the Commission on Advanced Education to look in particular at special areas of need, such as the training of teachers of the handicapped and special remedial teachers, when it is considering the teachers college programme for the period July 1973 to December 1975. [More…]
The Senate Committee gave considerable emphasis in its report to the area of educational research (Recommendations 3, 17, 24-26). [More…]
As I announced in my speech of 17th August, the amount allocated for 1972-73 for projects recommended by the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education is $300,000. [More…]
The Senate Committee consideredthat the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education should inquire into the aims of pre-school education. [More…]
The Senate Committee’s recommendations on collection of statistics relating to teacher education needs (Recommendation 8) and on the need for improved liaison with industry in the development of programmes in vocational education (Recommendation 21) are other matters which are under consideration by Commonwealth Departments. [More…]
However, in the area of administration of teacher education, most States have either established, or are moving to establish, statutory, boards of teacher education and/or advanced education as advocated by the Committee. [More…]
At the Australian Education Council meeting in May of this year, State Ministers agreed that State teachers colleges be supported on the same basis as universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
In all States, provision has or is being made to enable teachers colleges to become self-governing institutions and a number of teachers colleges are already free of direct Education Department control. [More…]
On 10th March 1972, I wrote to the following authorities drawing their attention to the Senate Committee’s recommendations: State Ministers ot Education, the Australian Universities Commission, the Australian Commission on Advanced Education, the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education, and the Australian Council on Awards in Advanced Education. [More…]
The method of distributing these funds was explained in the Second Reading Speech to the States Grants (Science Laboratories) Bill, 1971, made in the House by the Honourable David Fairbairn, Minister for Education and Science at the time. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Statement by Minister:nCharge, Commonwealth Activities in Education and Research. [More…]
Statement by MinisterinCharge, Commonwealth Activities in Education and Research. [More…]
Statement by MinisterinCharge, Commonwealth Activities in Education and Research. [More…]
Statement attached to Second Reading Speech of Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Statement by Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Statement by Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
Statement by Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
State Education Departments determine priorities in the government sector and grants to non-government schools reflect individual assessments of need and the advice of the appropriate advisory committee on priorities. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
These estimates are based on the experience of my Department in administering the Commonwealth University and Advanced Education Scholarship Schemes, both of which involve a comparable means test. [More…]
Not included in this $112m is the amount provided for the education and science programme in the Northern Territory. [More…]
One further matter that I would like to raise is in relation to education in the Territory. [More…]
At the moment education facilities in the Territory are divided. [More…]
Education on the settlements and missions is in ‘.he hands of a section of the Department of the Interior. [More…]
Education of the children in the main centres is the responsibility of the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
I believe that most responsible people interested in education in the Territory recognise that today it would be far better organised if it were to be placed in the hands of the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
Also important is the ability of the children of country people to obtain a good secondary education because people will need to have a basic education to be able to take advantage of the opportunity to obtain other forms of employment. [More…]
This education will allow them to undertake such employment. [More…]
The Government should look at the situation because there is considerable disruption to the education of men being called up for national service. [More…]
I have made representations in Canberra, as the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) knows, to the Academy of Science for biology books for use in the 3 principal high schools in my electorate. [More…]
You do not realise what you inflict on a wage earner when you push him into unemployment and deprive his children of the proper facilities for education, particularly beyond the primary school age. [More…]
If the Australian taxpayers and electors are without things which they desperately need, whether it is pensions, education or health, they can say that to some extent that problem is persisting because of the incompetence that is being displayed in matters such as these relatively unprincipled propositions which are coming before the Parliament in the form of developmental proposals. [More…]
It is interesting that this concept of education is being provided under the auspices of the Commonwealth Government in Northern Territory towns. [More…]
If growers need more education to accept the necessity for a compulsory wool acquisition scheme, then, I hope the Government will ensure that they get the information to convince them. [More…]
The means test, as has been shown by the age pensions and the special emergency grant to wool growers and as would be shown if it were applied also in respect of education, causes more anomalies and more injustices than it solves. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education and Science whether he has had a request from the New South Wales Teachers Federation for permission to make a political film in one or more Canberra schools. [More…]
I am surprised also that the New South Wales Teachers Federation decided that neither the shadow Minister for Education nor the Leader of the Opposition was the appropriate person to walk through the classrooms at the time the filming was taking place but instead wanted Mr Hawke, who really has no direct responsibility in education matters. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
If he has noticed’ this latest evidence to come to hand on this problem, can he indicate to the House that he will take some concrete interest in this with a view to remedying this minor deficiency in the highly successful education programme initiated by this Government. [More…]
-The Government has always recognised the importance of the library in a primary school and I am delighted to know that a number of State Departments of Education are now building in their primary schools firstclass libraries appropriate to the circumstances of a primary school. [More…]
Therefore we wanted a flexible programme of support for government school construction that would enable the State Departments of Education and State Ministers to maintain their proper responsibility in establishing their own priorities and highest areas of need. [More…]
Therefore the funds we are providing for government schools - $187m in all over the period of the programme - will be available to State Ministers and State Departments of Education as a net addition to that which they would otherwise spend, and we expect them to determine their own priorities within the primary and secondary school areas. [More…]
The statement by the Minister for Education and Science is devious and dishonest, and what makes it worse is that he knows it. [More…]
I was misrepresented by the Minister for Education and Science according to a news report on radio station 3BO yesterday following a speech made by the Minister at an election meeting last Saturday night at the Bendigo Town Hall. [More…]
Mr MALCOLM FRASER (Wannon- - Minister for Education and Science) - I wish to make a personal explanation. [More…]
Once again the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has persevered in his deliberate misrepresentations. [More…]
I believe’ I can help the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Frazer) to make his apology without any further delay. [More…]
On 31st August the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Kennedy) received from the Minister for Education and Science a reply to a question on notice. [More…]
Mr MALCOLM FRASER (WannonMinister for Education and Science) - I seek leave to say something about the same subject. [More…]
The honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Kennedy) and all others who have spoken on the nationwide survey of educational needs have been referring all along to the results of the survey and the incomplete features. [More…]
As the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) stated, the special schools were not included in the information which he later gave. [More…]
Mr MALCOLM FRASER (Wannon - Minister for Education and Science) - I wish to make a personal explanation. [More…]
Because of this fact there is a widely held belief that the most effective way to reduce road accidents is to modify human behaviour by more driver education and training and by intensive road safely publicity. [More…]
Increasing the technical and other support in the areas of vehicle safety standards, traffic codes, education and publicity; [More…]
These will include standards on driver education, traffic codes and laws, the collection of data, traffic control devices, driver licensing and vehicles in use. [More…]
Fifthly, the definition of ‘fees’ has been altered to exclude from the recurrent grant formula the fees payable for adult education, extension work, professional refresher courses and other short courses. [More…]
This will encourage the universities to develop their activities in continuing education work in proportion to the demonstrated demand for them and the universities’ own enterprise. [More…]
I compared 2 Commonwealth levels of capital expenditure, namely, the Post Office and civil aviation, with 2 State levels of capital expenditure, namely, education and health. [More…]
This year, the total capital expenditure on the Post Office and civil aviation - that includes those magnificent places, such as Tullamarine, which most people never see - will be 50 per cent higher than the capital expenditure on education and health or school and hospitals. [More…]
If any honourable member in this House were making an allocation of capital on the basis of function rather than the priority of finance - and the Commonwealth has priority of finance - would he arrive at the end result that he would spend li times as much capital on the Post Office and civil aviation as he would on education and health? [More…]
If Education and Hospitals were Commonwealth responsibilities and Civil Aviation and Post Offices were States responsibilities, I wonder would we have the same distribution of resources amongst these functions as we do now. [More…]
The Australian Science Education Project was begun in 1969 as a joint CommonwealthStates project to produce science teaching materials for the first 4 years of secondary school. [More…]
The Commonwealth and State Ministers for Education agreed earlier this year to provide an additional $200,000 for the Project to meet increased costs, and to extend the termination date from December 1973 to March 1974. [More…]
The interest generated by the Committee has resulted in a number of the State Advisory Committees on Social Science Teaching stepping up their own activities, and all are now active in promoting development in social science education in their States. [More…]
On the advice of the State Directors-General of Education detailed consideration of this proposal has been postponed pending the outcome of experimental programmes in senior science now being carried out by the New South Wales Education Department. [More…]
4592 (Hansard of December 1971, page 4523) were considered by the State and Commonwealth Ministers for Education earlier this year, when it was agreed to undertake a joint Commonwealth-States programme to stimulate the teaching of Asian languages and cultures in our schools. [More…]
Commonwealth funds will be made available to assist in: The development of teaching materials for both Asian languages and Asian culture courses at primary and secondary school levels; the further development of facilities for Study of Asian languages and Asian civilisations at the tertiary level, particularly for teacher education purposes, in collaboration with school authorities in the States; the further development of in-service education of teachers of Asian languages and Asian culture courses; the provision of travel grants to enable teachers of Asian languages and of courses about Asia to travel and study in the countries of Asia. [More…]
It is expected that the States will participate in this new programme, the details of which are to be worked out co-operatively by the Commonwealth and State Education Departments. [More…]
A small co-ordinating committee representative of the several Ministers for Education will be set up to undertake the development of a detailed programme. [More…]
Consideration of these proposals has not proceeded because, on examination, they were found to lack the necessary support of State Education Departments. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill now before the House is to give effect to the Government’s decision to provide funds for the development of colleges of advanced education in the triennium 1973-75. [More…]
the third report of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education on 22nd August 1972 I said that the Commonwealth would support a programme totalling approximately $450m in the triennium. [More…]
Included in this sum is provision for the Canberra College of Advanced Education which is financed entirely from Commonwealth funds and for which accordingly no provision is made in this Bill. [More…]
These figures demonstrate the strong measure of community support which the colleges are receiving, especially among school leavers seeking a tertiary education orientated to the needs of industry and commerce. [More…]
They also reflect this Government’s determination to encourage the development of this significant new stream in tertiary education in Australia. [More…]
Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1969 but incorporates some changes consequent upon the creation of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education and upon the construction of affiliated residential colleges in the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The largest component of recurrent expenditure is, as might be expected, the salaries of the teaching staff and in this connection it should be noted that during the present triennium, 1970-72, the student enrolment in colleges of advanced education has risen from approximately 38,000 in 1970 to about 54,000 in 1972 and it is expected to reach approximately 81,000 in 1975. [More…]
Significant new developments for which the Bill provides include the establishment of new colleges in South Australia and New South Wales, the continuation of major projects in all States, special assistance for the construction of student residences particularly in country areas, assistance for running costs of student residences, and the provision of special assistance to libraries in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
In the colleges of advanced education also, affiliated colleges exist and there may develop during the triennium other student residences of a collegiate type. [More…]
This Bill makes provision for unmatched grants to be made to such institutions on the recommendation of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education and a sum of $500,000 has been set aside for this purpose. [More…]
The Commission on Advanced Education has drawn attention to the particular needs of libraries in colleges of advanced education and this Bill provides for additional assistance for these libraries. [More…]
Under the present Act the Minister must approve particulars of building projects and must approve courses in colleges of advanced education for Commonwealth funding purposes. [More…]
Now that the Australian Commission on Advanced Education has been set up as a statutory authority the Government has decided that some of the functions at present resting with the Minister should be transferred to the Commission and this BDI provides that approval of courses and particulars of projects listed in the schedules to this Bill may be approved by the Commission. [More…]
In previous triennia the Government has provided a sum of $250,000 for research and investigation into matters of particular importance in advanced education. [More…]
In conclusion 1 might remind members that this Government has maintained a live interest in teacher education and it might be noted that the Bill before the House provides funds for teacher education in 7 colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Moreover, as members will recall, I have asked the Commission on Advanced Education to present a report no later than March 1973 on the needs of teachers colleges which the Government has decided should be funded in the same way as colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]
I have already mentioned the possibilities of such a satellite being used for nation-wide education programmes at both primary and secondary stages, and also for an open university television channel. [More…]
This aspect particularly applies to the existing Federal Government which makes grandiose statements when allocating funds to other fields, such as education, only if the States provide funds on a dollar for dollar basis. [More…]
The situation is that this young fellow, who has been educated on a Commonwealth scholarship - the Commonwealth has contributed thousands of dollars towards his education while he has been at secondary school and at the university - for the next couple of months will face the problem that he cannot even apply for a position in his profession. [More…]
General, the Department of Supply, tha Department of Civil Aviation, the then Prime Minister, the then Minister for Supply, and an acting Minister for Supply, now the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
I read about a bill of $ 1,400m which the Labor Party intends to pick up for education. [More…]
This sort of education of the community I believe to be essential and every opportunity is now being taken by my Department to develop this theme. [More…]
This is the sort of education of the community we desire to achieve. [More…]
The Australian Education Council estimates in the nation-wide survey on education needs that the States are $ 1,443m short of the required finance for the years 1971 to 1975. [More…]
Invariable they are compelled to go by economic necessity or in search of employment, for education or for health reasons, because the cities have greater facilities and specialisation in medicine. [More…]
We are being asked to believe that the Country Party is not just a mouthpiece of the big grazing and farming interests but has always been concerned with the health, education, housing and social welfare of Australians and is dedicated to solving the growing problems of the environment, namely urban congestion pollution, conservation and decentralisation. [More…]
One hundred and twenty-four were addressed to the Minister for Primary Industry, 55 to the Minister for Trade and Industry, 44 to the Prime Minister - 20 of which were rural questions, none on the environment - 39 to tha Minister for National Development, 32 to the Minister for Shipping and Transport, 27 to the Minister for the Interior, 23 to the PostmasterGeneral, 20 to the Treasurer - 12 of which were rural questions relating to tax concessions and rural relief - 14 to the Minister for Education and Science - 7 of which concerned the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation on cattle - 13 to the Minister for Labour and National Service, 9 to the Minister for the Army, 8 to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and, 7 to the Minister for Immigration. [More…]
On the one hand we have, the Opposition which would set up commissions and centralised organisations right, left and centre in social services, education and all sorts of fields. [More…]
One of the important ways in which decentralisation can be fostered both from an economic point of view and as a means of increasing the educational and cultural opportunities in a city is through the deliberate decentralisation of tertiary education institutions. [More…]
A university would fill out the range of tertiary education opportunities for their children. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) has promised to spend $ 1,400m on education. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: ‘the House, while not refusing a second reading lo the Bill, is of the opinion: (a) that the Commonwealth Government should take the initiative to establish Child Care Centres to meet the needs of working mothers, and should do this on a basis of priorities, to give maximum advantage to a maximum number of families, rather than leave the provision of this service to the chance interest of employers and local authorities, and (b) that Child Care Centres should be within the province of the Department of Education and Science, and should be part of a pre-school system developed progressively throughout the nation’. [More…]
In some ways, it reminds one of the beginnings of education in Britain. [More…]
Nobody would have opposed Shaftesbury’s Ragged Schools, but they were hardly a substitute for a national education Act which came later. [More…]
The Minister shall appoint persons with qualifications in pre-school education, pediatricians, psychologists, educationalists and child psychiatrists. [More…]
In our view, a child care centre is not an industrial convenience; it is part of a national education system. [More…]
This is why we want the jurisdiction of the Department of Education and Science, not the jurisdiction of the Department of Labour and National Service, to be over these centres. [More…]
This legislation represents a Commonwealth incursion into what we regard as a field of education as well as child care. [More…]
The Commonwealth, of course, has a power to grant educational benefits, and that is why we believe this power should be firmly founded by taking action under the Commonwealth Department of Education and Science. [More…]
The Minister shall appoint persons with qualifications in pre-school education, pediatricians, psychologists, educationalists and child psychiatrists. [More…]
), omit ‘Secretary to the Department of Labour and National Service’, insert ‘Secretary to the Department of Education and Science’. [More…]
The Opposition believes that this power of delegation should be exercised in favour of the Secretary not of the Department of Labour and National Service but of the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
The Minister shall appoint persons with qualifications in pre-school education, pediatricians, psychologists, educationalists and child psychiatrists. [More…]
What the Government is doing under this clause - we would like to have it remedied - is to abdicate proper responsibility for a very important educational purpose in the community. [More…]
The Government would, I presume, never think in this day of relying completely and solely on voluntary initiative and voluntary effort in secondary or primary schooling or for secondary education or for any other segment of education; but for some reason the Commonwealth has abdicated responsibility in regard to pre-school education and what is more, it finds no place for State governments in the provisions under this Bill. [More…]
Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science only earlier this year said that it would cost SI 60m to provide pre-school educational facilities all over Australia in line with what obtains here in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
There is no indication of what part parents themselves might play in regard to pre-school education by going along to a community centre and helping those who are already professionally trained for this purpose. [More…]
The simple fact is, of course, that some of the people who will be most needful of pre-school education and care will be mentally and physically handicapped children. [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle and the honourable member for Barton propose that it should be under the Department of Education and Science but I would have thought that from a constitutional point of view this would have been a far more dubious ground on which to rest. [More…]
I am rather appalled by the idea that some universal department of education should be established forever after to have vague control over every child of 3, or whatever the minimum age should be, and be their mentors rather than the control being exercised by the Department of Labour and National Service which has practical experience of the dreadful problems faced by mothers. [More…]
The point is that we desire the standards of the child care committee which is to determine how these places are nin to be set by experts in the education of young children - psychiatrists and paediatricians, who I understand have medical qualifications. [More…]
1 would imagine that any responsible Minister not only would be looking at suggestions such as those contained in the amendments but also would be looking at other fields germane to this area of education. [More…]
In many instances the centres will be operated by local organisations which in no way can be compared to university councils or the councils of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
‘Dependant’ will mean a child who is dependent on the mother for its education or who is not self-supporting. [More…]
So, if a child were going to university, its university education would not have to be interrupted just because its father was killed in an accident at work. [More…]
of this section, as is reasonably necessary to ensure the proper maintenance and education of the child or children is payable to the Commissioner for the benefit of the child or children. [More…]
the Commissioner considers that circumstances have arisen that affect the proper maintenance and education of the child or children; [More…]
the Commissioner may, in respect of a child of a deceased employee who is nol self-supporting, authorize the continuation of weekly payments until the education of the child is completed; [More…]
I am sorry that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is not here. [More…]
There is what appears to be a disparity between the recommendations of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education and the second reading speech of the Minister on the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
In the recommendations of the Commission on Advanced Education at page 65 in paragraph 5.38 this statement is made: [More…]
Because the colleges would be unable to cope with a grant of this magnitude in the way of supplying supporting services, the Commission recommends: That the Commonwealth Government provide a sum of $5m to be made available to the States on the basis of need and on the advice of the Commission, for the development of library materials in colleges of advanced education (Recommendation No. [More…]
The Commission on Advanced Education has drawn attention to the particular needs of libraries in colleges of advanced education and this Bill provides for additional assistance for these libraries. [More…]
It appears to me that this is not much more than a quarter of what appears the optimum sum, and it appears to be only half what the recommendations of the Commission on Advanced Education say in effect is what the libraries could actually spend because the Commission believes that the colleges would be unable to cope with a grant of the magnitude of $9.25m in the way of supplying supporting services. [More…]
I think this has been a major problem of all libraries dealing with the high class of publication which universities and colleges of advanced education have. [More…]
I would like to know from the Minister why the recommendation on page 65 of the report of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education has been ignored. [More…]
Elewhere in its report dealing, for instance, with teaching students the Commission on Advanced Education suggests that teacher training should take place either in universities or in colleges of advanced education because the association of the teacher trainees with people in other disciplines helps to broaden the teacher trainees and makes them more effective as teachers in later life if they have mixed with other professions. [More…]
I would say that in the same way residents in a college where any student is expected to have to consider other people, is expected to have certain standards of self discipline, and associates with other students, is a more desirable form of residence for a university education than is the kind of flat accommodation which is recommended by the Universities Commission. [More…]
I have no doubt that there is an increasing reluctance on the part of some university authorities to stand for any discipline in the face of some student demands, but I would be sorry if this means that we are to opt out of establishing residential colleges, because 1 personally believe that the establishment of residential colleges, especially if they are associated, as they are not usually in Australia, with tutorial facilities, with resident tutors who can assist students - traditional form of university education - is the line of development we should be taking. [More…]
I think that our halls of residence in universities have some value, but if they also have people who can really care about the students in the sense that some members of the staff will be prepared to be tutors and to take a personal interest in them, a great deal more can be obtained from a university education. [More…]
It seems to me that the Universities Commission does not pay enough regard to the educational value of the residents in a college or hall of residence at a university. [More…]
The contrasting point of view is put on page 108 of the report of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education where it refers to teacher education. [More…]
We support the general opinion that teacher education is a tertiary form of education but it is also our opinion that the teacher will have benefited from the experience of talcing his tertiary education in something other than a singlediscipline institution. [More…]
By this we mean that to incorporate teacher education either into the education school of a university or the education school of a college of advanced education should result in turning out teachers with a better understanding of their profession and its role. [More…]
I am sorry that the Minister for Education and Science was somewhat late in coming into the chamber. [More…]
At the outset of my speech I asked why the recommendation on libraries in paragraph 5.38 in the report of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education did not appear to be implemented in the Minister’s speech. [More…]
The Commission pointed out that some of the teachers colleges have had close associations with universities and, while no concrete proposal has yet to come before the Commission, it is prepared to say that it would offer no objection to amalgamation of teachers colleges with uni versities provided that the students at the teachers colleges could qualify for admission to the university in the ordinary way, that the academic staff of the teachers colleges were acceptable as full members of the academic staff of the university and that the courses offered in education were in weight and length equivalent to those degree courses normally offered at the university in other faculties. [More…]
There is a complete lack of passion on the part of the Government to get the underprivileged child anywhere through a secondary education or to get him an opportunity at the university level and in this respect we contrast with the position in the United Kingdom. [More…]
But many cannot get through secondary education in Australia because our scholarship system operates to give scholarships to those who in the main would get through secondary education if they did not have a scholarship. [More…]
The opportunities of getting a tertiary education in Australia could be improved at the secondary level. [More…]
It deals, and so do the colleges of advanced education, only with people who finally get over the hurdles and on to universities. [More…]
I think it would be good if the Government were to take a note of the tenor of the report advanced by the Australian Universities Commission and the report of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education on these matters. [More…]
We welcome the fact that generally speaking the Government is implementing the recommendations in the reports of the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
This will continue under the system of grants foreshadowed for universities and colleges of advanced education - there will be a grant of over $l,346m in the coming triennium for the 2 sets from the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
Those who receive this education are highly privileged. [More…]
I would like to refer very briefly to the position of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I believe that in this sector of our tertiary education system once again we are seeing the incompetence of the Federal Government in its refusal to accept a full national responsibility for tertiary education, and advanced education in particular, and also its refusal to do effectively that part which it does accept responsibility for. [More…]
The colleges of advanced education are faced with yet another 3 years of financial stringency. [More…]
This situation is leading to a decline in staff morale in institutes of technology and colleges of advanced education in Victoria. [More…]
So we have this situation in the colleges of advanced education and institutes of technology in Victoria. [More…]
Here is a situation where the Commonwealth Government has the advisory bodies and the intelligence of the most skilled kind which can give it all the first rate recommendations it requires on how to run tertiary education in this nation. [More…]
In other words, there is a clear argument here that the Commonwealth Government not only has the financial resources at its disposal but also the advisory resources at its disposal to do a first class job on tertiary education, but instead we are finding that the Commonwealth Government is forcing State governments with their stringent treasuries to bear an undue proportion of the costs of running tertiary education. [More…]
Quite often this results in funds being diverted by State governments from areas of great priority into tertiary education where at least the finances they make available will be matched by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
It is time that the Commonwealth Government accepted at least as a start a SO per cent financial responsibility in tertiary education. [More…]
It is most desirable that the Commonwealth Government should accept full responsibility for tertiary education. [More…]
We have just seen the end of one triennium of Commonwealth and State government incompetence in the administration of tertiary education, in particular in colleges of advanced education in Victoria. [More…]
Just looking at the 3-year period, 1970-72, the Victorian Institute of Colleges, which is responsible for Victorian institutes and colleges, sought something like $132m from the Commonwealth and State governments for 3 years administration of advanced education. [More…]
And, of course, as the honourable member interjected, we have already seen a process in Victoria whereby free tertiary technical education has been effectively undermined by the State Government. [More…]
In the report of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education in 1969 very serious concern was expressed as to the quality of library facilities in the institutes of technology. [More…]
It is so serious that the librarians of the colleges of advanced education examined the position and came forward with an estimate of how much would be needed over the 1973-75 period. [More…]
However, the Australian Commission on Advanced Education in its new report looked at the situation and expressed concern - rightly so, particularly in the case of country colleges where there is no alternative library facility available. [More…]
Because- and here is a very significant thing - the colleges would be unable to cope with grants porting services, the Commission recommends that the Commonwealth Government provide a sum of $5m to be made available to the States on a basis of need and on the advice of the Commission for the development of library materials in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Let us see what the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has done. [More…]
Dear Mr Kennedy, 1 refer to your telegram of 14th June concerning library facilities in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The Government recognises the need for some special assistance for libraries in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
In each of the last two triennia the Commonwealth has provided an unmatched grant of $500,000 for libraries, and on 22nd August in my speech to Parliament on the programme for universities and colleges of advanced education for the 1973-75 triennium, 1 announced that the Commonwealth would make a similar contribution in the 1.973-75 triennium. [More…]
Yet the universities are increasing their book stocks at 6 times the rate that colleges of advanced education libraries are doing so. [More…]
In short this is an unfair deal to colleges of advanced education. [More…]
All in all the situation at Bendigo summarises the overall situation of libraries throughout colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I am sure that the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Malcolm Fraser) should be able to do better than provide merely Sim. [More…]
It is quite unfair that this discriminatory treatment should be meted out to colleges of advanced education because for many students, especially those in country areas, these colleges are the only avenue of tertiary education, other than teachers colleges, available to them. [More…]
Both he and the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Kennedy) have asked questions about the recommendation of the Commission on Advanced Education for additional funds for libraries in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
In looking at this recommendation the Government came to the view that the size of the recommendation would quite significantly puncture the agreed formulas for financing colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]
I believe that the Government’s decision will result in an extra $2.5m being spent on libraries in colleges of advanced education and I hope - I have nothing at this stage to indicate to the contrary - that the States will accept the principle that they should provide some additional funds in this area. [More…]
That amount is provided on top of the funds being made available to colleges of advanced education and I for one would be disappointed if that did not enable the colleges to make some advances with their libraries. [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for Fremantle that discussions with the States did take some time but these matters were resolved at the last meeting of the Education Council and the Commonwealth’s support for greater studying of these matters in Australia schools, and I would certainly hope in Australian universities, is a matter that is now moving forward. [More…]
When talking of education there are some advantages when the higher one goes up the education ladder additional support is provided on the basis of merit, but what we are concerned with here is that students who have ability ought to be able to stay at school, to complete their education and to have a proper opportunity tor tertiary education. [More…]
A comparison between the numbers of 16-year-olds m full time education shows that Australia performs a good deal better than the United Kingdom. [More…]
The honourable member for Bendigo has referred to the alleged cuts made by the Commonwealth in the funds for colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It needs to be said and repeated that the recommendations for individual colleges of advanced education made by the Australian Commission of Advanced Education were accepted by the Commonwealth in full, as was the case with universities. [More…]
I have visited a number of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
-The honourable gentleman is obviously seeking to demonstrate what I think the Opposition has sought to demonstrate - and I believe completely falsely - for some time, namely, a bias in the Commonwealth’s education policies in favour of one particular group of schools. [More…]
Of course, the facts are that the Commonwealth is doing a great deal to improve the quality of education right across Australia and we have quite specific programmes designed to discriminate positively in favour of disadvantaged groups. [More…]
If we take the cost of education in that school as about $530 a year and add the very modest tax deduction allowance which all parents claim - as I am talking about a low income family let us say the amount is $40 - and if we add the full value of the Commonwealth secondary scholarship of $400, we get to a figure of $970 for that student from a low income family who is attending a government school. [More…]
That is a very substantial contribution to the education of such groups of people. [More…]
What possible effect can a statement have towards curing the ills of Service life today in such matters as housing and education? [More…]
One only has to see the correspondence column in the ‘Canberra Times’ and hear the comments and discussions of the Advisory Council and of other bodies and one only has to see the size of public meetings on subjects as diverse as education and the ordinance relating to dogs or whatever it happens to be, to get a feeling of how much the people of the city of Canberra feel deprived of any say in their affairs. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Other major programmes which have been approved and promulgated include land surveys and titles; transport and storage; electricity supply and distribution; and education, primary and secondary. [More…]
During the year the Committee has been most diligent in its endeavours to ensure that parliamentary publications are made available freely to the educational institutions. [More…]
I was especially pleased to note that the institutes of technology and the colleges of advanced education were to receive treatment by way of supply of literature similar to the treatment universities enjoy. [More…]
Secondly, the Committee has had referred to it for inquiry the matter of a statutory authority to administer education in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
People say: ‘What about education and other amenities?’ [More…]
Education is made possible by money that a nation can make from its exports and other avenues. [More…]
If we have the money we can make possible the provision of education and all those things which build nations. [More…]
Since the corresponding occasion 3 years ago there have been 2 changes in the positions of Treasurer, Attorney-General and Ministers of Health, Labour and National Service, Immigration, Navy and Army and 3 changes in the portfolios of Foreign Affairs, Defence and Education and Science. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What are the names and what is the number of (a) Roman Catholic, (b) other private and (c) government schools to whose official functions to open (i) science facilities, (ii) library facilities, (iii) both facilities, financed wholly or partly through the Government’s science facilities programme and libraries programme, he has either (A) officially taken part in or (B) attended in each year since he became Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
This training programme provides financial support to State’ education departments and library authorities, for the organisation of a variety of courses, for. [More…]
They were not as much a liaison exercise between the Department of Education and Science and principals of schools, on the Commonwealth Libraries Programme as a series of discussions on ways in which the library could be made more effective in the educational programme. [More…]
I hope the Minister for Education in Victoria has been misreported. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Do the total capital and recurrent funds approved before the end of June 1972 by the State and Commonwealth Governments for Victoria’s 5 country Colleges of Advanced Education for the 1973-73 triennium represent a cut of 50 per cent on the total funds requested on their behalf by the Victoria Institute of Colleges. [More…]
and (2) The Commonwealth Government approved in full the recommendations of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education in respect of involved colleges in all States for the 1973-75 triennium. [More…]
Before framing its recommendation to the Commonwealth and State Governments the Commission had thorough discussions with college authorities, the State co-ordinating bodies (including the Victoria Institute of Colleges) and State Ministers for Education and State Treasury officers. [More…]
In accordance with its aim to promote a balanced development between the colleges of advanced education in Australia, the Commission has presented what it believes to be a fair and equitable distribution of available resources among the colleges. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
This occurs because the provision of pre-school education is a joint venture between the Commonwealth which provides the buildings and the salaries for staff and parents associations which meet the other operating costs of the pre schools. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
How many Roman Catholic (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools in (i) each State and Territory and (ii) the Commonwealth on whose behalf Catholic education authorities submitted statements of their final needs for 1971- 75 to his Department, showed that their (a) recurrent funds and Cb) capital funds available for 1971-75 would exceed desirable expenditure. [More…]
The Catholic Offices of Education in each State and Territory provided one return each in which details for all schools in that State or Territory were summarised. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Several State education departments also carry out assessments of teaching qualifications of persons seeking employment. [More…]
5789) Mr Whitlam asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What was the (a) number and (b) percentage of (i) male and (ii) female students in final year of secondary education in each State and Territory in 1971. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What is the number of new tertiary enrolments and the total number of tertiary enrolments in 1972 at colleges of advanced education named in the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act. [More…]
What is the (a) number and (b) percentage of students holding Commonwealth advanced education scholarships in 1972 at colleges named in the Act. [More…]
How many Commonwealth advanced education scholars were enrolled in the first year of their courses at each college and approved institution in 1972. [More…]
What was the actual expenditure in 1971-72 and what is the estimated expenditure in 1972-73 under the Advanced Education Scholarship Scheme on (a) fees, (b) living allowances and (c) fares. [More…]
What decisions have been made on the proposals to involve nursing education (Hansard, 9th September 1971, page 1098) and school, preschool and technical teacher education (Report on the Commonwealth’s Role in Teacher Education tabled by the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts on 22nd February 1972) with colleges of advanced education. [More…]
A number of educational institutions classified as colleges of advanced education under the States Grants (Advanced Education) Acts conduct courses both at tertiary level and sub-tertiary level, although only courses at tertiary level are approved for direct Commonwealth assistance under these Acts. [More…]
The latest available data as supplied by the various colleges indicates the following enrolments in courses which attract a Commonwealth Grant under advanced education arrangements: [More…]
Education: Tertiary Entrance Examination Project (Question No. [More…]
6111) Mr Whitlam asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
An account of the origin and development of the Tertiary Education Entrance Project is contained in ‘Education News’, June 1972, published by my Department. [More…]
As many leading Australian physicians and surgeons visit Asian universities each year to examine, lecture and demonstrate to undergraduates, and many of these universities, in .particular the University, of Singapore, now have medical standards almost comparable with those of Australian universities, why does the Goverment allow the westernised sons of wealthy westernised Asians to come to Australia to secure an education which they can obtain at home while Australianborn students of both European and Asian origins are being denied admission to universities in Sydney and Melbourne because of the practice referred to. [More…]
Will the Government prohibit the influx of any more Asian students, other than Colombo Plan students, who desire medical education in Australia because their education may only be at the expense of the Australian-born boys and girls referred to previously. [More…]
What was the nature and extent of assistance for Papua New Guinea under the Commonwealth Co-operation in Education Scheme and other Commonwealth programmes in 1971. [More…]
Education and training. [More…]
Health education. [More…]
Nursing education. [More…]
UNESCO-UNICEF-UNDP assistance on Science Teaching and Science Education. [More…]
The Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts has been requested by the Senate to inquire into all aspects of television and broadcasting. [More…]
The campaign and the Subsidised Health Benefits Plan in general, were featured by WIN4 in 3 successive Saturday morning migrant education programmes, and were also discussed in an interview in a women’s programme on that channel. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
What sum per student was spent for students at (a) universities and (b) colleges of advanced education in (i) each State Territory and (ii) the Commonwealth In 1970-71. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education and Science, upon notice: [More…]
Did Commonwealth aid for technical education amount to $llm in 1971-72 compared with $160m for universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
If so, does he regard this allocation of funds as equitable and satisfactory in view of the fact that there are 400,000 students in technical colleges compared with 170,000 in universities and colleges of advanced education; if not, what forward proposals have been formulated to bring a better balance to the allocations. [More…]
Second, the clear failure of existing social and economic structures to meet the needs of modern society, particularly in relation to education, social security, health, industrial relations and urban and regional development. [More…]
My Government will accordingly give preeminent importance to the reform of Australian education and the care of Australian children. [More…]
Discussions will be held with the States to enable the Australian Government to assume responsibility for fully financing tertiary education, including post-graduate study and research. [More…]
The great objective which my Government has set for itself is to ensure genuine equality of opportunity for all children now embarking upon their education. [More…]
My advisers attach great importance to education measures as part of their endeavour to reduce further and future growth of inequality in the Australian community. [More…]
Health and of Education will be working in close and continuing co-operation to develop national programs to preserve and promote Australian recreation resources, Australians’ access to them, and Australians’ ability to use and enjoy them. [More…]
He really thought that a form of education should be given to these children which would make them effective citizens. [More…]
Above that is a discretionary allowance which is actually taken from a similar allowance constructed in relation to allowances for the education of Aborigines under certain circumstances - that is, $150 for clothing, $50 for books and between $26 and $104 for pocket money according to the age of the child concerned. [More…]
My question is to the Minister for Education. [More…]
Finally, was the New South Wales Minister for Education, Mr Willis, correct in publicly stating that the Commonwealth apparently was unprepared to make any further funds for educational purposes available to the States during the remainder of this year? [More…]
In those circumstances, to have granted the requests of New South Wales would have opened up the whole question of funding education for the States and for that reason the request that came from Mr Willis was referred to the Interim Schools Committee whose function it is to examine, among other things, the funding of education to the States. [More…]
They go on to tertiary and technical education in much greater numbers. [More…]
The Government’s policy on war pensions for student children, which is reflected in the Bil], is that they should be continued until completion of full-time education in respect of dependent children who are not receiving a maintenance or living allowance or salary from Commonwealth sources that equals or exceeds the allowances payable under the Repatriation Soldiers’ Children Education Scheme. [More…]
In relation to children of service pensioners, the Bill also reflects the Government’s policy that a child should continue to be recognised for service pension purposes irrespective of age, for as long as the child continues to undertake full-time education. [More…]
As has been slated in connection with the Repatriation Bill, the Government’s policy on student children of war pensioners which is given effect to in this Bill, in conjunction with the Repatriation Bill, is that benefits should not terminate at age 21 but be continued until completion of the student’s full-time education. [More…]
This applies only in respect of dependent children who are not receiving a maintenance or living allowance or salary from Commonwealth sources that equals or exceeds the allowances payable under a repatriation children education scheme. [More…]
Proper education and retraining programmes provide a flexibility of labour and ideas which are basic to a creative productivity in our community. [More…]
Too often education becomes lopsided because the community attaches status to certain qualifications such as university degrees, and underrates others such as trade qualifications. [More…]
A continuing educational programme, such as has been outlined by the honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews) in moving this motion, will tend to remove these artificial distinctions. [More…]
If our educational system is to give maximum opportunity to our people and provide the proper basis for our productivity it must be flexible. [More…]
It must allow people to move in and out throughout their lifetime and contribute to the community by re-education. [More…]
There will be a basic reform of the Australian Education system, the development of a schools commission and a pre-schools commission, the abolition of university fees, the overhaul of our social welfare system, the introduction of a universal health insurance system, the establishment of a school dental service, the establishment of Aboriginal land rights and the setting up of a cities commission. [More…]
I also compliment the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) on the very progressive move he has made to alleviate the burdens and hardships carried by many students by making special grants to the various States. [More…]
For example, I mention inequality of opportunity in education. [More…]
If there is need in.. education this is where it exists. [More…]
In other words, if the needs concept in education is to apply, it should apply in the outer western suburbs of Sydney. [More…]
The Government intends to decentralise tertiary education facilities. [More…]
A good case can be made out for more spending in such fields as pensions, education, hospitals, dental services and housing. [More…]
With all the major questions facing this nation - fiscal matters, international matters and matters of great concern on the domestic front such as housing, education and social welfare - the Parliament has wasted more than an hour this afternoon discussing this question. [More…]
Although denied the opportunity to complete even a formal primary school education, by study, dedication and ability he made a contribution to the Parliament and to the Government of this nation which has been equalled by very few men in this nation’s short history. [More…]
At the present time the electorate of Bendigo is noted for its primary industry, its retail centres, its education centres and its tourist attractions. [More…]
It had no concern for the homes or for the children who suffered and whose future perhaps was impaired because they failed to get an education. [More…]
The answer to that is improved education and understanding. [More…]
We need to have a new look at education. [More…]
For too long our education has concentrated upon technical training and not upon education for living. [More…]
It will not only be concerned with such matters as school buildings, the teacher-pupil ratio and textbooks but also I hope it will look into the philosophy of education. [More…]
It will seek to understand how we might change the emphasis in education in order to overcome the problems that many of us are seeking more than ever at the present time. [More…]
All our education system is doing at the moment is increasing the bewilderment of many who find that once they are educated there is no place for them in society. [More…]
Education is more than technical training. [More…]
As a result of further correspondence from the Vice-Chancellor I had discussions with Professor Williams, the chairman of ViceChancellors Committee, and then with the Australian Universities Commission and the Colleges of Advanced Education Commission. [More…]
Submissions were then made to Cabinet which were approved and which will become the subject of amending legislation providing $3m for tertiary students, the amount to be divided between universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
From the indications I have received the sum will be sufficient this year to meet the cases known to university officials or colleges of advanced education officials of students who are in need. [More…]
A schools and a pre-schools commission will soon be evaluating the needs of education in both the private and public sector so that genuine equality of opportunity is available to every Australian child, irrespective of colour, nationality, heritage or religion. [More…]
This House can make a significant contribution to rights for women by, among other things, passing legislation to provide much better adult education facilities, to establish equal pay for work of equal value, to provide for family planning clinics, to build child care centres and to reform those laws which discriminate against women both socially and financially. [More…]
I am very pleased to see the emphasis which is given to education in the GovernorGeneral’s Speech. [More…]
I am quite sure that we shall see from this Government a new deal for children at all stages of their education and especially fop those children in our community who suffer mental, social, or physical handicaps. [More…]
I believe that we need to start thinking of education not only as a service for the young but as a service to the whole community, to be used as and when necessary - like health services. [More…]
This will need a completely new emphasis on the role of adult education and retraining programmes. [More…]
In McMillan university and tertiary education facilities are becoming a pressing need. [More…]
With no university facilities in the eastern half of Victoria - this is pretty hard to imagine, but it is a fact - the establishment of the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education forms a sound basis for future expansion into university faculties. [More…]
With this in mind, I comment upon that section of the GovernorGeneral’s Speech which concerned itself with education and allied matters. [More…]
With a background of a quarter of a century spent in teaching from grade 1 in primary school to form 6 in secondary schools and in lecturing and tutoring at tertiary institutions, and with experience of work at a supervisory and administrative level, it may not be surprising that on this occasion I should choose to major on the subject of education. [More…]
We must move, I submit, towards a better system and a more imaginative educational philosophy. [More…]
The teacher must be seen, in any progressive education program, not as a fact distributor but as a guide, an encourager and an organiser of situations in which the child can learn most effectively for himself. [More…]
The teacher who is forced to prepare for examinations has sadly, but often compulsorily, succeeded only in denigrating living education. [More…]
Formal education is not an end in itself; it is only the starting point of an on-going process. [More…]
One of the principal aims in education is to guard the way and keep it open. [More…]
Despite the utterances of a Minister for Education in the previous government, I must emphatically take an opposite view. [More…]
If the honourable member believed firmly in the too-long held but entirely fallacious philosophy of examination-oriented education upon which my earlier remarks gave ventilation, then his contention is consistent with his error of judgment - an error, I may add, which he and his Party have persisted in both before and since, with tragic consequences. [More…]
Moving now from the area of method and concept in education, 1 would wish to comment on the issue of right and privilege. [More…]
It is my conviction, and that of my Party, that the birthright of every child in a prosperous and affluent Australia is to receive an education of quality - and, in time, of equality as well. [More…]
Firstly, in the matter of the award of Commonwealth scholarships I refer to the scholarship award at Form 4 level for the final 2 years of secondary school education. [More…]
We of the Government side contend that every student who has successfully completed all but the last 2 years of his schooling should receive financial assistance to enable and encourage him to proceed with his education. [More…]
Specialist services have long since been recognised as essential in the total area of educational needs. [More…]
I would see the extension of the counselling service as underlining the concept of education in relation to the child’s total experience both inside the school and out of it. [More…]
When every child is able to take advantage of his full time at secondary school; when all underprivileged children are cared for; when physical education facilities are available to all students; when the dyslectic and autistic child has the specialist treatment he needs; when counsellors are trained, available and appointed to our schools; when remedial treatment of children with learning difficulties is adequate; when all migrant children, with their particular language difficulties, are catered for; then, if we have an excess of financial resources, and only then, will I be happy for thousands of dollars to be poured into wealthy, elitist schools and institutions. [More…]
If the greater part of my time has been spent in spelling out the areas of need in education, would not wish to convey the notion that I see those needs as an isolated or restricted area of concern. [More…]
The accelerating rate of change is placing great demands on education already suffering from the impact of specialisation. [More…]
Whatever the profession, the level of education reached or the social role expected, everyone must be able to live in harmony with each other and the environment. [More…]
Our present education concentrates too much on preparing a person for a job-slot or earning an income rather than fostering a community spirit of freedom and justice, tolerance and social responsibility. [More…]
The main argument against educational programming of the individual is the same argument that I use against censorship, the banning of social drugs and enforcing conscription. [More…]
The government education system has not been encouraged to gear itself to change. [More…]
The previous Minister for Education and Science, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), said that the virtue of the independent school system was in the diversity of education it offered and this was the rationale for increasing Government aid to independent schools. [More…]
Among other directives, the proposed Schools Commission will be charged with the responsibility of assessing and achieving an increase in the quality of education as much as of the quantity available. [More…]
As more than 75 per cent of children attend government schools, it would seem right that more emphasis be given to encouraging diversity in this sector of Australian education. [More…]
Perhaps then we will see more comprehensive schools, more co-educational schools and a breaking down of the zoning system that is worked for the benefit of the bureaucracy rather than to increase the choice available to those who use the government education system. [More…]
This new Parliament, the old and new members, have the huge burden in all issues of national responsibility from defence, social welfare to education in plotting the course for the future. [More…]
Education, and its true role in linking it to the life of the community, has to become more available to all our children, encouraging them to make the most of their potential. [More…]
Greater help is needed for the under-privileged and handicapped; as are greater opportunities for pre-school and technical education, practical and sympathetic continuance of plans to give our Aboriginal people their rightful place in the nation, and increased assistance to our under-developed neighbours. [More…]
There are 8 commissions in all to cover education, preschools, health, cities, transport and urban and regional development. [More…]
But be that as it may, the performance of the Government in delivering the goods, as it were, on its promises in the fields of domestic policy, particularly those related to urban development and urban growth, housing, transport and education will determine whether it survives for another term. [More…]
I should like to refer to the question of education and the proposals which were made in the Governor-General’s speech. [More…]
It appears to me that the Government has its priorities the wrong way round in regard to education. [More…]
As I said, the Government’s priorities in regard to education appear to be wrong. [More…]
If the Government wants to give equal opportunity in schooling to every child in Australia, it should concentrate on the primary field because it is there that the child takes his first steps up the education ladder. [More…]
So, if these children are diagnosed early enough in primary school, they can be brought into the mainstream of education. [More…]
If they are not diagnosed, it will be found that children will drop out of the educational stream because they just cannot cope with the information that is being thrust at them. [More…]
We will have the drop-outs from high school who do not take advantage of the education system. [More…]
So, I suggest that the Government has its priorities in the field of education the wrong way round. [More…]
I will work in this Parliament and in my electorate as a member of a government which is pledged to work for equal opportunity in education for Australian children; greater employment opportunities; a better deal for pensioners; a real attack on poverty; a proud and progressive Australia a vote for the 18-year-olds in the community and recognition of the status and rights of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
We have had suggestions of grants to ease the States transport problems, providing the Commonwealth has representation, a situation repeated in the realms of education and health. [More…]
The education of the children of mine workers has been upset by the changes in the coal rnining industry in the Hunter Valley region. [More…]
When he is determining the weekly amount payable for the benefit of a dependant, the Commissioner is to have regard to the need to secure the proper maintenance of the dependant and, where appropriate, the proper education of that dependant. [More…]
The same situation applies in education. [More…]
Only a handful of the Aboriginal people are receiving tertiary education. [More…]
We have not resolved the question of how to make sure that they are able to proceed through our education system or even how to make the education system adequate for them, but the Government proposes to launch an all out attack upon this problem. [More…]
For instance, the Queensland Government has neglected education for many years. [More…]
It seems to me that it has neglected education more deliberately amongst Aboriginal communities than amongst communities elsewhere. [More…]
When it comes to housing, they should be consulted about the form their housing will take; when it comes to education, they must be consulted about the way in which it should be directed. [More…]
This is the area which requires dramatic improvements in the standard of education facilities to bring them into line with even moderately acceptable levels. [More…]
The opportunity and indeed the challenge will then be faced of tackling questions of greater complexity, such as how to integrate cash benefits with community welfare services and health services, housing policies and education programs, to mention just a few. [More…]
Free medicine like free travel, free education or pensions free of means test mean ‘free’ only in the sense of free to the recipient. [More…]
For example, the welfare and education of our children and the needs of young families must be of primary importance in establishing pur priorities. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr [More…]
I was interested to hear the views of the Minister for Education on Indonesia under Sukarno, or even the value of the Polaris missile as a weapon of defence, and would be quite happy to debate those subjects with the Minister at some appropriate time. [More…]
It is now quite clear from what the Minister for Defence has said that the present Government no longer holds that view, but rather holds the view which the previous Government held about the North West Cape installation, that it should be maintained, subject only to one qualification, that is, Article 3, the only relevant matter on which the Minister for Education dwelt. [More…]
This is a minor matter, but great play was made by the Minister for Education about Sir Garfield Barwick agreeing that the word ‘consult’ in Article 3 meant consult. [More…]
For all the noise that was made by the Minister for Education, it is not that type of base, lt is clear that the past complaints of the Australian Labor Party were lacking in any foundation apart from some kind of militant antiAmericanism which motivated them. [More…]
I have not been in this Parliament as long as has the honourable member for Fremantle and Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
One was made by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), who said that the North West Cape station and the Alice Springs, Woomera and Amberley stations would be critically important in a nuclear war. [More…]
I have seen the report to which the honourable member refers and which states that the State Director took the view that until general teaching facilities had reached a standard he wished them to reach no action would be taken in relation to migrant education. [More…]
I have been advised also that in one case there has been such concern about migrant education that a teacher has given his services without pay for some time in order to help the children. [More…]
This is an unreasonable attitude and I hope that it is not the official view of the Victorian Department of Education. [More…]
That situation could be considered if the States said: ‘We are not interested in migrant education. [More…]
I share the honourable member’s concern and I will see whether today I can obtain the urgent report I called for and initiate action to resolve the problem of migrant education in schools in Melbourne. [More…]
The Bill also extends the rights in relation to student children engaged in full time education. [More…]
The Opposition supports the policy of war pensions for student children as provided in the Bill and agrees that they should be continued until completion of the full time education of dependent children who are not receiving a maintenance, living allowance or salary from Commonwealth sources that equals or exceeds the allowance payable under the Repatriation Soldiers’ Children Education Scheme. [More…]
The Bill also provides that a child of a service pensioner be recognised for service pension purposes, irrespective of age, for as long as the child continues to undertake full time education. [More…]
But, if personal consumption is not to be reduced - and this the Government has said it will not do - the only way we can afford increased expenditure on education, social services, health, care of the aged, housing and urban renewal, improved transport and environmental control is through increased productivity. [More…]
There are other subjects that will come up for discussion later, subjects such as local government and rural assistance, housing, education and a host of other matters, and I will be speaking on these when the time comes. [More…]
The provision of pre-school education and facilities has been sorely neglected. [More…]
Increasingly, a citizen’s real standard of living, his health and that of his family, his children’s opportunities for education and self-improvement, his access to employment opportunities, his ability to enjoy the nation’s resources for recreation and culture and his ability to participate in the decisions and actions of the community are determined not by his income or by the hours he works but by where he lives. [More…]
The Governor-General continued: the dear failure of existing social and economic structures to meet the needs of modern society, particularly in relation to education, social security, health, industrial relations and urban and regional development. [More…]
In this electorate 2,000 young people leave school every year and seek job opportunities or go on to higher education. [More…]
The core paragraph of the GovernorGeneral’s Speech to which I address myself is where he so rightly points to the clear failure of existing social and economic structures to meet the needs of modern society, particularly in relation to education, social security, health, industrial relations and urban and regional development. [More…]
In social terms the need for retraining and education in the rural sector is just as essential as in secondary industry. [More…]
And we should add to all this the immense step which this Government has taken towards centralisation in the spheres of housing, health, education and urban development, to name only a few, and we have a very unhappy picture indeed. [More…]
The initiatives already taken in the fields of education, housing and social security alone are the beginning, to use the GovernorGeneral’s own words, of a program designed to achieve basic changes in the administration and structure of Australian society. [More…]
Extra finance has been provided to universities and colleges of advanced education so that needy students can continue their courses pending the abolition of tertiary education fees next year. [More…]
Concession to education by way of grants for science laboratories and libraries, increases in pension rates, the allocation of finance for home savings grants and many other pre-election moves, whilst good in themselves, were not designed to overcome a particular deficiency, to correct a specific wrong or to make any radical change in existing policies. [More…]
In the field of education the schools commission and the pre-schools commission, the announced aid for technical education, all highlight the thrust and purpose of this new Government. [More…]
In 1970 the Australian Education Council, which then consisted of the State Ministers for Education, estimated that in the 5 years 1971 to 1975 inclusive it would be necessary to spend $7,960m on education. [More…]
It estimated that the amount available would be $6,5 17m, a shortfall of $ 1,443m; but on present indications, because qf the increase in expenditure in education which has taken place, the amount spent in the 5 years would be not $6,5 17m but $7 ,827m. [More…]
There were weaknesses, of course, in the needs survey in that : it did not take into account technical education, which is surprising, and pre-school education, which is not so surprising considering that, in the past, the States have not necessarily taken responsibility for pre-schools. [More…]
By establishing in the near future the technical education commission and having already, established at least an interim pre-schools committee, we will be ensuring that recommendations of Commonwealth grants to the States and general expenditure will be made in fields that the needs survey did not even consider. [More…]
In this respect also the Government has started to move into areas of education that the needs survey did not consider. [More…]
A week after I was sworn as Prime Minister, while I was still Minister for Education, I appointed an Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission to recommend the needs and priorities upon which the Australian Government could assist government and nongovernment schools in Australia to provide equal opportunities for all Australians of school age. [More…]
I have kept regularly in touch with my colleague the Minister for Education in regard to the deliberations of the interim committee. [More…]
Of this sum, $7,500,000 will be made available to the States to supplement funds already provided by the Commonwealth to cover expenditures in such fields as housing, education and health. [More…]
They go on to tertiary and technical education in much greater numbers. [More…]
We accept the Prime Minister’s gracious tribute to the superior education facilities which former Liberal-Country Party governments made available to the young people of this country. [More…]
But with better education, which does not come entirely from the school but through the media, these people are better equipped to have a vote at that age. [More…]
In spite of a very intensive education and publicity campaign encouraging young people to enrol, I understand that approximately 16,000. out of the 68,000 who were eligible actually enrolled. [More…]
Not only do they stay at school longer and go on to tertiary and technical education in greater numbers but the basis of the educational process, placing as it does much emphasis on probing and questioning and analysing accepted concepts, brings about a greater degree of analysis and, flowing from that, a broader understanding of life and society. [More…]
These are the parties involved, and I suggest that as the 18-year-old vote is now imminent the Australian Education Council, that is to say the body of Federal and State Ministers for Education, should give earnest consideration to it, that the leaders of the political parties should be involved in this, and the authorities that conduct the schools, whether they be State education authorities or authorities governing private schools; and, of course, the teachers themselves are concerned with the integration into their courses on government of politicians with due balance being preserved. [More…]
I am glad to see that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is in the House at this time, as indeed I would expect him to be because I know his tremendous interest in all matters that affect directly or indirectly his portfolio. [More…]
I throw back in the face of the honourable member for Bowman his charge of hypocrisy and I believe that as a consequence of this development the Ministers for Education should get together along the lines that I have suggested. [More…]
Despite the education system evolved by the backward Liberal Party, the reactionary Country Party and the nonentity called the Democratic Labor Party, people today are far more advanced in their thinking than the previous Government ever was. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is not in the chamber but I know that he was displaying an interest in these matters and will hear of my remarks, as also will the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Bryant). [More…]
The rapidity with which our education system has grown to bring a vastly expanded educative level to young Australians has made it possible for us to entrust the vote to 18- year-olds. [More…]
It does have extremely important implications for education. [More…]
For this reason there is a growing tendency in education for the development of secondary colleges which takes the classes of the last 2 years of high school out of the traditional high school and into separate institutions - secondary colleges - and gives them a broad range of curricula studies which approximate to studies in universities or colleges of advanced education or institutes of technology. [More…]
I believe that this is an absolutely necessary educational development. [More…]
It is one of the taboos in education that you must not speak about dogmatic and polemical theology. [More…]
This is the traditional secularisation of education. [More…]
The Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) spoke about the need for political education in schools and somebody satirised him by saying that in the near future we will be hearing children chanting: ‘Subsidies for dairy farmers, subsidies for dairy farmers’. [More…]
This politi cal chicanery is becoming increasingly incredible to young people and the political parties which maintain that structure of local government are also becoming increasingly incredible to young people.- I agree strongly with the Leader of the Country Party about the need for political education if this is what he means. [More…]
It would not necessarily be partisan education. [More…]
When the franchise was greatly extended in Britain, the Education Act was extended to give an education to the people being enfranchised. [More…]
We need to give a greater political education to those who are being newly enfranchised, which I take to be the contention of the Leader of the Country Party. [More…]
Of course, many of them are receiving this education in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I hope that more and more political education will be extended to secondary colleges. [More…]
That is not necessarily connected directly with the intelligence of those people as it is understood by a measurement of intelligence quotients, or their education, which has improved a great deal in more recent years. [More…]
Education is in some ways a circumstance which locks these people away from public affairs and the practical day to day living which can influence their capacity for making good judgments. [More…]
1 make that distinction between intelligence, education and judgment. [More…]
We believe that Government policy in this area should be designed to encourage and strengthen the capacity of Aborigines to manage their own affairs; to increase their economic independence; to reduce their handicaps in health, housing, education, training and employment; and to promote their enjoyment of civil liberties. [More…]
In addition, the Opposition parties believe that greater emphasis needs to be placed on Aboriginal culture and history in Australia’s educational institutions. [More…]
There is no doubt that education can play a significant part in contributing towards a better understanding of the problems facing Aborigines in our society and effectively assisting in the changing of attitudes which are discriminatory on racial grounds. [More…]
I am not sure whether the Thomas Report should be handed over to the Interim Schools Committee but I would draw the attention of the honourable member to the fact that the Mr Thomas in question who is an expert on education of the handicapped is a member of the Interim Schools Committee and, presumably, would be aware of everything that went into the Thomas Report, considering that he chaired the committee of inquiry into the education of the handicapped in New South Wales. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition misrepresented me by implying that my question to the Minister for Education was dictated by the Minister. [More…]
They include problems of employment, homesickness, accommodation, language, education, cultural difficulties and, of course, the question of loneliness for those newly arrived in this country. [More…]
We paid particular attention to the problems associated with migrant education and we intend as Opposition parties to place a continuing emphasis on the necessity for further developments in this critical area. [More…]
The Government recently announced its decision to provide an unmatched grant of $3m this year to help students who are experiencing hardship in commencing or continuing their tertiary studies at universities or colleges of advanced education because of financial circumstances. [More…]
The Australian National University will receive $69,000 and the balance of the total of $3m will be made available to colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Provision for grants to the States in respect of colleges of advanced education will be the subject of another Bill. [More…]
Whereas only 7 per cent of married women with 13 or more years of formal education have never practised family planning, 11 per cent of those with 10 to 12 years of education, 13 per cent of those with 7 to 9 years of education, 19 per cent of those with 1 to 6 years of education and 22 per cent of those who are devoid of formal education - they are a significant group within our community - have never done so. [More…]
The program of which today’s legislation is a part should be seen as seeking through education and pricing policies a reduction in the incidence of abortion which laws have not achieved and can never achieve. [More…]
Our former Government increased enormously the likelihood of unwanted pregnancies, abortions and unloved children by refusing to promote sex education in schools or to assist the States, local government bodies and voluntary agencies such as churches in the establishment of family planning clinics through which information on birth control techniques, Including for those who prefer it the ovulation method, could be disseminated effectively. [More…]
I refer to families which, in many instances, are increasing the number of children within them - families which are aware of the difficulties that they will encounter in giving to their children the care, education and opportunities for the future which they would wish to give. [More…]
Unwanted pregnancies result in criminal abortions, battered babies, emotionally deprived children who become juvenile delinquents, deserted and neglected children whom the State must support, and children with inadequate education. [More…]
In Australia birth control is not so much a question of community affluence, as it is in underdeveloped countries, but is consequent upon a pressing need to space children in a society that demands higher education standards and other non-material benefits. [More…]
We are committed to setting up family planning clinics which could provide facilities in the 3 areas in which we need to improve our family planning services, namely, advice, education and free supplies of contraceptives for those who need them. [More…]
Undoubtedly prevention is better than cure and education is the best contraceptive of all. [More…]
There is a need for education in this field - and I accept this point - and for family planning clinics. [More…]
It is not completely a matter of sex education. [More…]
I compliment the honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd) for raising the point about education. [More…]
Sex education is one of the important factors to be considered. [More…]
It seems quite ridiculous that we expect people in our society to act with a proper respect towards one another when we do not give them the education that is necessary. [More…]
Moral education does not just mean preventing people from stealing, cheating and murdering; it means educating the whole personality. [More…]
How can we educate the whole personality, how can we make sure that our people are properly educated if we do not consider something so important and so basic as sex education? [More…]
It does not need to be ancillary to the rest of our education. [More…]
What we should be thinking about is giving children a fully rounded education. [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for Wilmot that this education should be given in the home first. [More…]
In this respect it is most important that parents be given the right sort of education and encouragement so that they can pass their knowledge on to their children. [More…]
I think most honourable members will agree with me that it is not easy for parents to give their own children a fully rounded sex education. [More…]
One of the things we must consider and one of the things that this Government can do through its education policy is to use the Commonwealth Department of Education to give a lead to the States, to provide the finance and the facilities to give children and parents a fully rounded sex education. [More…]
In mentioning matters of sex education, 1 did not mention what I believe to be a very important factor, and that is the regard which we should have for one another as individuals. [More…]
Of course, population control is not only a matter of providing good sex education and of making contraceptives available at a reasonable price to men and women who wish to use them; it is a matter of quality of life as much as a matter of birth control. [More…]
The classic argument was that education was a State responsibility. [More…]
Despite the serious situation which now confronts the Labor Party as a government, I believe that resolute steps should be taken to see that migrant children receive education which is equal to the best, not the worst. [More…]
The matter is a complex one which I do not wish to go into in detail at this time, but 1 believe that the measure to remove the sales tax on contraceptives, as proposed in the Bill, is only one of a wide variety of family support, counselling, education and other social welfare programs which this Parliament should consider and support. [More…]
I refer to the recommendations that contraceptives be supplied on the free pharmaceutical benefits list, that the advertising of contraceptives should be legal and that there should be a vigorous Government sponsored education campaign aimed at explaining the population crisis I would say that there is no population crisis in this country; quite the opposite and the means of solving it. [More…]
1 refer to the educational opportunities which are being denied to them because of the attitude of the present Federal Government. [More…]
I am sorry to have to say that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) who has built up a reputation in this House for fairness and for speaking his mind has, however unwittingly, misled the Parliament in my view in some way. [More…]
The Minister for Education chose not to be straightforward in his response. [More…]
Let us look at the facts behind this statement and the answer given by the Minister for Education. [More…]
Firstly, on 27th December 1972 there was a public statement by the Minister for Education in New South Wales in which he said that he had written to Mr Beazley seeking a meeting at the earliest possible time to talk over with the new Minister for Education at Commonwealth level some of the problems facing the Education Department of New South Wales. [More…]
The conference which be sought was granted to him on 4th January and following that conference a Press statement was issued by the Minister for Education in New South Wales in which he said, amongst other things, that discussions ranged over all the aspects of education, from pre-school to tertiary school in all its forms. [More…]
Following that a letter was sent by the Minister for Education in New South Wales to the Commonwealth Minister for Education at about the end of January and he released a Press statement about the contents of that letter. [More…]
I emphasise that phrase - of teachers in a manner that will increase significantly the quality of education, while avoiding any further expenditure on capital cost items which would delay employment opportunities. [More…]
On 1 6th February 1973 the Minister for Education in New South Wales released another statement in which he elaborated on the 1,100 teachers who were seeking employment in New South Wales and for which funds to employ them were not available. [More…]
priority will be given to special education involving remedial groups, improved use of library facilities through the appointment of additional teacher librarians and provision for continuity of instruction through ready availability of relief staff. [More…]
Obviously here was a Minister for Education seeking to do the best not only for his teaching staff by endeavouring to employ these additional teachers but also, and much more importantly in my view, to bring about extra quality of teaching for the children of New South Wales. [More…]
On 22nd February this year the New South Wales Minister for Education issued another news release which stated: [More…]
The Minister for Education expressed his extreme disappointment at the Prime Minister’s rejection of a request by the New South Wales Government for funds to employ immediately an additional 1,100 teachers in departmental schools. [More…]
That was on 22nd February, yet on 28th February the Federal Minister for Education can say that he has had no specific request dealing with employment. [More…]
The educational opportunities for literally thousands of New South Wales children are being shoved aside by this Minister - this socalled bastion of the people who alleges to bring educational opportunities to children throughout Australia. [More…]
It is simply not good enough that people, particularly this Minister for Education, can fob off what is obviously a genuine request for additional funds to employ 1,100 additional teachers in New South Wales to do highly necessary jobs. [More…]
When the New South Wales Minister for Education came to see me and there was a wide ranging discussion he made no request whatever for money for unemployed teachers. [More…]
I am not prepared to vouch that it has not spent any of its unemployment grants from the Commonwealth on unemployed teachers but I understand that of the $13m that was given to Victoria for unemployment an amount of $5m was spent in one way or another on education. [More…]
It seems to me to be clear that other States have used unemployment grants from the Commonwealth in relation to education. [More…]
Whatever claims there are on the fund, I think it might be possible for New South Wales to use unemployment grants in the field of education. [More…]
The Commonwealth cannot be held responsible for the recruitment policies of the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]
But 1 remind the honourable gentleman that the Ministers in New South Wales hailed the late Government’s Budget appropriations for education for them and hailed the fact that their deficit of SI 5m was being met by the Commonwealth. [More…]
I sent to the Minister for Education in New South Wales $3,900,000 which he did not expect to receive. [More…]
That was for technical education. [More…]
It is a mystery to me how the honourable gentleman, who voted for the last Budget and hailed it, can now regard that same Budget for education, with very many additional sums added to it, as very inadequate. [More…]
The New South Wales Premier has in fact written to the Prime Minister, but instead of seeking assistance with a problem of unemployed teachers he has merely expressed general support for the earlier approach to me by Mr Willis, the New South Wales Minister for Education. [More…]
Mr BEAZLEY (Fremantle - Minister for Education) - I would like to make a personal explanation. [More…]
What we think about is the low quality of education. [More…]
A great deal of Health activity is devoted to improving the health situation of Aboriginal infants and children; the bulk of expenditure in education is, of course, for younger Aborigines; while the employment training scheme and other activities of the Department of Labour and National Service seek in particular to assist school leavers. [More…]
That means assistance with accommodation, health programs, education and employment. [More…]
The extra $7m has been allocated as follows: Housing $2,484,000; health S 1,440,000; education $510,000; special work projects $2,555,000; and regional projects $511,000. [More…]
The children have a far better chance of completing their high school education than wouk have been the case, say, 10 years ago. [More…]
I am quite sure that that statement reflects an example of the type of education that members of Parliament receive when they are able to travel to different areas as members of standing, joint or select parliamentary committees. [More…]
Is he aware that the Assistant Director of Education in charge of staffing Victorian secondary schools has issued a circular advising school principals that there is to be no increment over 1972 levels in the migrant English teacher staff of any particular school? [More…]
Is the Minister able to reconcile these instructions with claims by the Victorian Minister for Education that he realises English teaching to migrants is of great importance to certain schools, particularly those in inner suburbs? [More…]
Minister for Education to determine just what can be done. [More…]
On 15th March I tabled in the House a document recommending bilingual education in certain Northern Territory schools. [More…]
The Federal Government will launch a campaign to have Aboriginal children living in distinctive Aboriginal communities given their primary education in Aboriginal languages. [More…]
The Government will also supplement education for Aboriginal children with the teaching of traditional Aboriginal arts, crafts and skills mostly by Aborigines themselves. [More…]
The group chosen comprised Dr Betty H. Watts, Reader in Education at the University of Queensland, Mr W. J. McGrath, Inspector of Schools, Darwin, and Mr J. L. Tandy, a senior Education Officer of the Department of Education in Canberra. [More…]
This is the very essence of the matter and I have had no hesitation in accepting recommendations which will have the effect of implementing this quality in education in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities. [More…]
I also intend to bring this document to the attention of State Ministers for Education, and particularly to those of Western Australia. [More…]
I am glad to have an opportunity to commend to the House the statement by the Minister for Education ,’Mr Beazley). [More…]
I agree that as a matter of practical education a good deal of the confusion which is felt by Aboriginal students at later ages may well be due to the fact that we have not made sufficient use of Aboriginal languages in training in schools, particularly in the primary and sub-primary schools. [More…]
Experience indicates that the incorporation of English in the education of an individual who speaks another language should be carried out by somebody who is fluent in both languages. [More…]
I agree that eventually there must be this transition to English because English gives opportunity for education and for advancement in the various transactions of life. [More…]
I rise briefly to commend the sincere efforts of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in presenting the paper and the recommendation to the House. [More…]
I commend the Minister for Education on the thought he has put into the paper and I commend the work that has been done by Dr Watts, Mr McGrath and Mr Tandy. [More…]
I would like to commend the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) for what he has said and for the acceptance of the report. [More…]
I recognise that it is proper that the Department of Education should have total responsibility for education in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I think it might be useful for this House if the Minister asks his officers to document what has been attempted, the successes that were achieved and the failures that resulted from some of the efforts in that area, not restricting the examination of the paper to what has occurred at Katherine but including other examples where special efforts have been made to solve some of the problems of education and of Aborigines in the wider community. [More…]
If this document were available it would show that there have been many dedicated people in education departments and other Government departments, social workers and health officials who have been concerned with these matters. [More…]
The Appropriation Bill once again shows substantial expenditures proposed by the Department of Education. [More…]
One must even give some credit to the previous administration in that in the last few years the Australian Parliament has played an increasing role in education. [More…]
I think some side effects must be considered by the Government when dealing with education. [More…]
A great deal of public investment has gone into education and we should be examining the return to the public from that investment. [More…]
In late January of this year a conference nf the Australian and Ne,v Zealand Student Health Association and the Australian Association of University Counsellors was told that hoth student counsellors and physicians should check students who sought to drop “tit from tertiary education. [More…]
Not only dropouts but also failures should be checked because the education nf those students, particularly those who have reached the later years of their courses, represents an enormous public investment. [More…]
I trust that in the future we will see in the appropriations for the Department of Education a sum set aside for this purpose. [More…]
The Bill provides an appropriation of $10,850,000 to be allocated to the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account to improve the health, education and housing of Aborigines and to make legal representation available to those Aborigines who appear as defendants in courts. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education any recent information available on the number of dropouts and failures in each year of each school or faculty of each Australian university or other tertiary institutions? [More…]
The purpose of the Bill now before the House is to give effect to a number of Government decisions to provide additional funds for the development of advanced education in Australia during the current triennium. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that the Australian Commission on Advanced Education recommended, in its third report, that the Commonwealth should provide an unmatched grant of $5m for libraries in colleges of advanced education during the 1973-75 triennium. [More…]
The present Government accepts the view of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education that present library resources are inadequate in colleges of advanced education, and it is therefore prepared to make available for college libraries the sum of $5m during the current triennium. [More…]
Education is a field where social workers are needed. [More…]
To help overcome this shortage the Government is providing an unmatched grant of $40,000 in 1973 to enable the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education to establish a postgraduate course in social work to commence in 1974. [More…]
The Government has approved an allocation of $3m to universities and colleges of advanced education to enable them to provide financial assistance to needy students. [More…]
Of the $3m, $806,000 is for students attending colleges of advanced education in the States. [More…]
The amount of $29,000 has been allocated for the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
The assistance scheme is to be administered by the respective colleges of advanced education and assistance will be given in the form of grants or loans, depending on individual circumstances, and will be available to pay fees, living allowances and other approved educational expenses. [More…]
It will be a matter for each college of advanced education to determine who shall receive assistance, but I would expect that the grants would be made available to students who are in extremely difficult financial circumstances following misfortune outside their control, such as death, injury, serious illness or desertion by bread-winners of families on ordinary incomes; the annihilation of family income in flood, drought or bushfire; seasonal or chronic unemployment of the bread-winner; loss of earning power by the bread-winner or any other reason; unreasonable refusal of financial support by parents; and to the children of age, invalid or widow pensioners. [More…]
The present Bill, together with other Bills on education listed for introduction during this autumn session of Parliament, underlines the importance which the Government and, I believe, the Parliament attach to the whole field of education, a view which Parliament knows is shared by the nation. [More…]
What was the (a) nature and (b) extent of assistance for Papua New Guinea under the Commonwealth Co-operation in Education Scheme and other Commonwealth programs in 1971 (Hansard, 6th May 1971, page 2842). [More…]
The nation-wide Survey of Educational Needs undertaken by the Australian Education Council has provided clear evidence that government education in the various States is failing children on a massive scale. [More…]
The following conditions at the Gladesville Infants school give further evidence of the needs in the State education system: Indoor toilet facilities for children and teachers. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore respectfully pray that your Honourable House will (i) make immediately a substantial Federal emergency grant to all State Governments for public education services and (ii) carry out a public national survey to determine needs of the States after 1975. [More…]
I think that shows very clearly, if the former Minister for Foreign Affairs needs some education on foreign affairs, how much more important it is to educate the other members of his Party who will be joining this committee. [More…]
It could be described as nothing better than a study group of about the same quality as the workers education classes that are conducted throughout our community. [More…]
The current employees have had the benefit of a substantially higher basic school education. [More…]
That so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the Minister for Education speaking for a period not exceeding 30 minutes. [More…]
In replying to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) I would like to comment on two of his remarks. [More…]
Colleges for Advanced Education with the power to make grants or loans to destitute students, so also should money be made available to Councils, to enable Councils to aid, or loan money to destitute people. [More…]
The Minister for Services and Property and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), who thundered about this so vigorously on a recent evening, were both in that Parliament. [More…]
He thunders, as did the Minister for Education the other evening, that this is in effect Labor policy T would hale to have him on my side in an argument if he says that this is Labor policy. [More…]
But I have heard no complaint from the Minister nor have I heard any suggestion from the Minister for Education that they are determined to bring the principle of one vote one value ink Western Australia. [More…]
The Minister for Education interjects. [More…]
The former Minister for Education and Science, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has said: ‘Let us have a dissolution’. [More…]
Other forms of assistance are provided through the Department of Education, details of which could be obtained from the Minister for Education. [More…]
The overall assessment of the need for special educational facilities is more a matter for the Department of Education and relevant information could no doubt be obtained from the Minister of Education. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Education regarding an affliction called dyslexia. [More…]
Will the Minister for Education advise me what action is being taken, or can be taken, to increase the training of these children within the education system? [More…]
During the period of the late Government our predecessors conducted a Senate inquiry into the education of handicapped children, and my predecessor also appointed the Cowen Committee to inquire into the training of teachers. [More…]
All of this material will be available to the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission which will make recommendations to the Commonwealth Government in this field of accelerating the development of facilities for the education of the handicapped, as it will in all other fields. [More…]
I hope that the Committee’s recommendations will include the funding of the States for the education of the handicapped in grants under section 96 of the Constitution, and I hope that the offer of the Commonwealth foi- these and other grants will not be met with the strange reception that our intention to make very substantial grants under section 96 as an offer to the Premiers received last week. [More…]
It will be recalled that the Mission observed that Australian governments were not providing sufficient funds for industrial training and that the amounts devoted to technical education were small compared to the expenditure on general and tertiary education. [More…]
The Government intends, that this situation will be remedied, and we are determined that technical and further education should receive the same consideration as will be given to the other areas of education. [More…]
The Government has therefore decided to establish a commission which will examine the needs of technical and further education and make recommendations to the Government on financial assistance that should be provided to the States in these areas. [More…]
I am confident that this measure will place technical education in Australia on a more satisfactory basis than has to date been the case. [More…]
The commission will be established as soon as possible, and assistance for technical and further education after 30th June 1974 will be on the basis of the recommendations of the commission. [More…]
The Government’s decision to introduce this legislation is in accord with a request from State Ministers of Education that additional funds be provided for urgent building projects that could be undertaken during the current triennium. [More…]
The existing arrangements for the scheme will continue until 30th June 1974, with the exception that the Bill provides that grants may now be used for the purchase of land which is to be used for technical education facilities. [More…]
Although grants under this program have not in the past been able to be used for this purpose, this provision exists in similar States grants legislation in the fields of university and advanced education, and the Government has accepted the view of the State Ministers of Education that this program should include the purchase of land in appropriate circumstances. [More…]
One consequence of the relative neglect of technical education in the past has been that the sites of the older technical colleges located in city areas are generally overcrowded and restricted. [More…]
In order to remedy this situation, funds will now be available under the program, where necessary, to assist the States to acquire sites for technical education institutions. [More…]
The proposed supplementary grants reflect the Government’s interest in an area of education that I believe is of vital national concern. [More…]
I am confident that the supplementary grants will provide the States with sufficient additional capacity to carry out urgent building projects until the nature and extent of the needs in this area of education can be assessed in a systematic way by the commission. [More…]
In the few minutes available to me - unlike the unlimited time available to the Minister for Services and Property - I want to take up some of the comments that were made by the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, when the debate on this Bill was resumed on 29th March. [More…]
The Minister for Education made some comments about the attitude of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) to the voting qualifications in [More…]
The Minister for Education drew a distinction between the malapportionment of electorates and gerrymandering. [More…]
Let me quote what the Minister for Education had to say. [More…]
The Minister for Education went on and made an extraordinary statement. [More…]
The Minister for Education went on to say: the Country Party in Western Australia maintains the situation in which Lyla Elliott represents 80,000 people on the roll in the Upper House. [More…]
Surely it is a bit wild of the Minister for Education to try to show that this is unrepresentative and could go to the streets. [More…]
In the short time that I have been here I have made 32 representations to the Postmaster-General’s Department, 19 to the Department of Repatriation, 44 to the Department of Social Security, 35 to the Department of Education and 14 to the Department of Health, as well as many other representations for individual cases that [More…]
Other matters provided for in the Bill are minor amendments to: Re-draft the definition of ‘child’ in section 83 to clarify the intention that a child who has attained the age of 16 years must be undertaking full-time education and be wholly or substantially dependent upon the pensioner parent before being recognised for Service pension purposes; authorise the extension of benefits under the repatriation regulations to student children over the age of 21 years - Parliament has given its approval in the Repatriation Act 1973 to the recognition of these children in the Repatriation Act itself and this amendment will enable the relevant provisions of the repatriation regulations to be extended to them; and apply to the principal Act new drafting principles which are being introduced by the Parliamentary Counsel. [More…]
The child migrant education program was mounted in April 1970 with the intention of providing special English instruction to enable migrant children with English language difficulties to achieve a sufficient command of English for them to join fully in normal classroom activities. [More…]
The Child Migrant Education Program, as I have said, provides teachers, equipment and materials. [More…]
The provisions of the Child Migrant Education Program must be reviewed including the earlier decision to make the provision of classroom accommodation for migrant children the sole financial responsibility of State and independent authorities. [More…]
Child migrant education must always remain a co-operative venture between the Australian Government and state and independent education authorities However, I believe that the Australian Government can and must assume a greater financial role in this venture especially in providing assistance to state and private authorities to overcome accommodation problems. [More…]
To achieve this and to prevent many migrant children from growing up to become secondclass citizens, I propose to consult my colleague, the Minister for Immigration, on ways and means of reviewing the Child Migrant Education Program in conjunction with State and independent school authorities, so that it will fully meet the needs of migrant children. [More…]
Survey of Child Migrant Education - Ministerial Statement, 5th April 1973. [More…]
I welcome the statement that has been made by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
He will know and the House will know that the survey of child migrant education was initiated by the previous Minister for Immigration and myself because we were concerned about many of the problems that had been revealed in the report. [More…]
Throughout the election campaign, I made no apologies to the electors of Eden-Monaro for the fact that my children enjoyed the facilities of pre-school education in the A.C.T. [More…]
1 do not want to canvass all these, but I hope that some of the matters that will be brought before the Committee will be such matters as education facilities in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I myself have taken a great interest in the Northern Territory, particularly when I was Minister for National Development and in charge of northern development, although I visited it on many occasions when 1 was Minister for Air, Minister for Education and Science and Minister for Defence. [More…]
However, the most important matters which the Committee will be discussing will involve many social problems in the Northern Territory, problems such as education and Aborigines and problems intrinsic to the Northern Territory such as land tenure, mining leases and other related matters. [More…]
Is his Department responsible for minerals and energy, forestry, beef, education, health, environment, conservation, beef roads and development? [More…]
The Committee will have before it important issues affecting the Territory and its members will become informed so that when debates take place in this House we will have more information and education on the subjects under discussion. [More…]
The Government also looked at the 6 official members of the Legislative Council and, against the backdrop that it thought the Northern Territory should have a much greater degree of attention than it has been given before, the Government decided that rather than have the 6 official members from the Department of the Northern Territory, and as the new approach is specialisation with special attention being given to health, education and Aboriginal welfare, that each of those specialised departments should be represented on the Legislative Council. [More…]
They spoke of fragmentation in the context of the area known as the Northern Territory now being the subject of these specialised departments - Education, Health, Aboriginal Affairs, Minerals and Energy - with the extremely important co-ordinating role with the Department of the Capital Territory with its other areas of concern as well. [More…]
Did the program ‘A Current Affair’, which is televised on Channel 9 in Brisbane on each week night from 7 p.m. to 7.30 p.m., contain segments on the following topics on the dates mentioned: 17th May 1972- “The Little Red School-book’- obscene words used 4th July 1972 and 19th July 1972- Explicit discussion of homosexuality 3rd August 1972 - A talk on live sex education for kindergartens and objectionable close-ups of breast feeding 17th August 1972 and 18th August 1972- Abortion 18th January 1973 - Explicit sex scenes. [More…]
We will fight to ensure that the vital facilities of housing and education are provided for public servants stationed in country areas and that high priority is given to the provision of finance in country areas to meet housing and education needs. [More…]
I rise tonight to say that that man did the cause of the Aborigines and the Europeans in that area and of the people who are trying to bring these 2 groups together - the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Bryant), the Minister for Education (Mr Beasley) and all of us - a great disservice. [More…]
Additional appropriations amounting to $4 1.4m required for departmental other services include $0.7m for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs; $8.6m for the Department of Education of which $5m has been provided for Commonwealth scholarship schemes to cover increases in university fees and the extension of the Aboriginal secondary grants scheme to all children of Aboriginal descent attending secondary schools and classes from the beginning of 1973; $2.5m for education services in the Australian Capital Territory and $0.7m for educational services in the Northern Territory; $3m for the Department of External Territories to cover special assistance to facilitate the transfer of functions to the Papua New Guinea Administration, emergency assistance to alleviate food shortages in the Papua New Guinea highlands and salary increases for overseas officers of the Papua New Guinea Public Service; $5.9m for Colombo Plan and other aid; $2.8m for broadcasting and television services; $1.2m for the final payment of compensation to sulphuric acid and pyrites producers following the termination of bounty payments; $11. [More…]
I quote from an article headed ‘Benefits Paid Abroad Under OASDHI’ which is a publication of the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare. [More…]
If money is used excessively and unjustifiably in one area, we deprive other areas of need - education, other areas of health, welfare services, community services, environmental factors and so forth. [More…]
It will examine the needs of .trade union and employer organisations in Australia, the need for amalgamations, for trade union education and for closer consultation between unions, employers and government. [More…]
Most of the people who came to the Island as adults had little formal education but have acquired useful skills as a result of their employment in the phosphate industry. [More…]
Those who came as children or were born there have had the benefit of primary and secondary education. [More…]
The curriculum is based on the Singapore curriculum with .some modifications and senior students sit for the University of London General Certificate of Education. [More…]
Various improvements to the educational system recommended by an educational adviser in 1970 are being made as rapidly as possible. [More…]
Every effort will be made to equip the people for resettlement through education and training on the Island, scholarships, resettlement grants and appropriate reception arrangements. [More…]
Fourth, we are increasing the technical and other resources devoted to vehicle safety, traffic codes, education and publicity and road safety research. [More…]
When I was Minister for Education and Science I took up this whole question with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]
It is a very restrictive provision and I am setting out to urge that that restriction be repealed in the interests of education and the enlightenment of the Australian community generally. [More…]
In these new areas today we must provide baby health centres, pre-school education facilities, kindergarten centres, parks and recreation areas at the same time as the project is being undertaken. [More…]
He was fortunate enough to live in a Housing Commission home, not in an affluent area but in an area surrounded by people who were bringing up young families and who were prepared to give everything they could to the education of those families and to give them an opportunity in life. [More…]
The School will be established upon a 5 acre site which is on the campus of Macquarie University and is to be leased from that institution, but will have the status of a College of Advanced Education and will be independent of the University. [More…]
It is likely also to run extension courses to meet the needs of the film and television industry and education. [More…]
Book to contain script and interview for education purposes. [More…]
286) Mr Scholes asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 cannot say exactly what the needs of Brisbane are for pre-school education. [More…]
The Government has established the Australian Pre-Schools Committee for the purpose of examining needs and making recommendations to the Government on pre-school education. [More…]
As the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) said, there are 3 Bills before the House - the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill, the States Grants (Universities) Bill and the States Grants (Universities) Bill (No. [More…]
These Bills represent good moves and, we believe, a continuation and a natural extension of previous Liberal-Country Party governments’ concern for universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I congratulate the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) for bringing them in so swiftly. [More…]
This is to be done by making grants of $240,000 to the University of Melbourne, $75,000 to the University of Sydney and $40,000 to the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]
This is timely because social work training has been somewhat frozen in recent years, largely because social work is a relative newcomer to university and college of advanced education courses and was a course not much in demand until the last 10 years. [More…]
We also support the implementation of the recommendation of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education that the Government should provide an unmatched grant of $5m for libraries in colleges of advanced education during the 1973-75 triennium. [More…]
If the colleges of advanced education are to fulfil the absolutely crucial role in society which we desire them to have, their library facilities must be adequate to keep them in touch with all the important and relevant areas of scholarship and research. [More…]
I come now to the grants for needy students in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
In short, I hope that the universities and the Department of Education will be able to work more closely together. [More…]
We do need to know a lot more about student need and its relationship to performance in universities and in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
One of the features of the administration of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is, I understand, that he has asked his Department to look into these matters. [More…]
There have of course been in all universities - 1 am not so familiar with colleges of advanced education - some schemes in addition to the Commonwealth scholarship and living allowance schemes to aid needy students. [More…]
The whole question of student loans as a form of assistance to needy students has been investigated very closely indeed by the previous Minister for Education and Science, I believe that a Minister for Education and Science some years ago, Mr Fairbairn, also looked at this matter. [More…]
There are m;my who believe that, inasmuch as resources are now very hard to come by in the field of education, particularly higher education, it is quite legitimate to ask those who are receiving such significant benefits from society to have a hand themselves in, as it were, helping themselves. [More…]
in the Committee stage, the Opposition will he hoping to amend the Bill so that it will call for an accountability from the universities to the Australian Commission on Advanced Education and the Australian Universities Commission and so enable this highly important matter to be closely investigated by this House, as well as by the Minister for Education, before any unfortunate steps might be taken with respect to the long haul in this crucial problem. [More…]
The previous Government had started looking at some of these matters and the Minister for Education has taken useful and early action. [More…]
As the honourable member for Chisholm (Mr Staley) remarked, the 3 main issues covered in these Bills deal with aid to needy students at universities and colleges of advanced education, increased finance for the training of social workers over the next 3 years at the universities of Sydney and Melbourne and the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, and provisions for libraries in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It should be obvious that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) should be congratulated for what has been a very rapid response to an urgent situation. [More…]
It seems to me that the proper place for that to start is with the student right at the beginning of his course at the university or college of advanced education. [More…]
I should like to deal with the matter of the grants for training of social workers at the 2 universities and at the college of advanced education. [More…]
The exceptions are: the development and implementation of policies for the advancement and welfare including education of the Aboriginal people in the Territory; land surveys; acquisition, leasing and management of land and property on behalf of the Australian Government and administrative servicing of the Northern Territory Police Force. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
What (a) number and (b) percentage of students (i) offered and (ii) accepting Commonwealth University Scholarships in the most recent year for which information is available spent their final year of secondary education in (A) government, (B) Catholic and (C) other non-government schools. [More…]
For instance, the former Government did not accept the report on libraries of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education but we are now accepting it. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report on the location, nature and development of institutions of tertiary education in Sydney, Melbourne and the Albury-Wodonga region. [More…]
This report was prepared by the Australian Universities Com mission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
The second matter that I would like to bring before the House relates to education and concerns my own State of Victoria. [More…]
In this regard I would point out that it is rather hollow to promise that $62m is to be spent on education when one queries whether the efficiency of the Victorian Government will allow that amount of money to be spent. [More…]
The then Minister for Education and Science informed the House on a number of occasions that the reason for this variance was that the responsibility rested on the State government to meet part of the cost of providing these libraries. [More…]
If we accept that, I suggest that it is a cynical exercise for the Victorian Government now to suggest that it will catch up on the backlog in the provision of libraries in state secondary schools out of additional money to be made available for educational purposes by the Commonwealth in the next financial year. [More…]
An education teacher housing program, for instance, was part of the Labor Party’s policy in 1967 and was adopted by the Liberals in 1971. [More…]
Papua New Guinea Ministers are finally responsible for such matters as education, health, works, finance, labour, agriculture, stock and fisheries, district administration, local government, information, social development and transport and thus now have effective control over virtually all aspects of the internal government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
in reply - As I missed an opportunity to have the wide and extensive education of the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth), the last part of his speech is pretty well lost on me. [More…]
Indeed the universities and the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education have already, in most cases, made grants or loans to students. [More…]
What we seek to achieve with this amendment is information that will be in the hands of those in the college of advanced education and in the universities who advise the Government. [More…]
Firstly, we believe - and this has been stressed by the honourable member for Chisholm - that it would assist in future planning, not necessarily at universities or colleges of advanced education, but at other educational institutions in Australia if this information was made available to the Australian Universities Commission as well as to members of this Parliament and the people of Australia. [More…]
One is the Australian National University and the other is the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
I think most of the information which is sought in the amendment will be found out by the Australian Universities Commission or the Colleges of Advanced Education Commission in their conversations and dealings with the institutions with which they are associated in the course of their action as commissions. [More…]
For this academic year the scholarship system in the universities and the colleges of advanced education applies to more than 50,000 students, and 70 per cent of the students now attending Australian universities are having their fees paid. [More…]
7m commitment an additional payment for tertiary costs of about $56.5m will be made, which will be the cost of abolishing academic fees and extending a means tested living allowance to all students who secure admission to universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
There will be $10m for technical education fees and about $500,000 for private teachers colleges. [More…]
So we do not feel that this is a pilot project for a future tertiary education scheme. [More…]
I think the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has indulged in semantics. [More…]
He said that the answers will come to the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education in any case. [More…]
Of course, reports will have to go to the Universities Commission or the Commission on Advanced Education so that this Parliament will be able to judge that moneys are spent as the Parliament has ordered that they be spent. [More…]
The continued opposition to this amendment of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and the reasons that he gives for that opposition become more far fetched the more he tries to justify the position that he takes. [More…]
One hopes in view of the rapid response that the Minister for Education has made in supplying finance for the training of social workers that the money will be used to produce social workers capable of dealing with this type of situation. [More…]
In this respect I trust that assistance, which on this occasion goes to the University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne and to the Tasmanian Advanced College of Education, will in the near future be extended to other institutions which can serve a useful purpose in training social workers. [More…]
We support these 3 Bills - the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill, the States Grants (Universities) Bill and the States Grants (Universities) Bill (No. [More…]
We support also the decision to allocate increased moneys for libraries to be developed at colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Dealing very briefly with the proposal to increase the allocation of funds for libraries at colleges of advanced education, I am one of those who believe very deeply that library facilities, not only in educational institutions but also right throughout the community, should be built up in the most rapid manner possible. [More…]
I commend to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley)in fact 1 have written to him about this matter - that not only should he support the concept of an increased allocation of funds for libraries at educational institutions but also he should not forget about municipal libraries. [More…]
At every university and at every college of advanced education there are and there will be from time to time students who experience difficulties in completing their courses mainly because of the financial difficulties in which they find themselves. [More…]
I was very interested in the amount of $3m selected by the Minister to be divided up between the universities and the college of advanced education to assist needy students. [More…]
I think that the fact that this is a comparatively small amount is, in its way, a tribute to the support that the previous Government gave to tertiary institutions, and particularly to its increased support for universities and of course its development of the concept of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It is rather interesting to note that one of the chief growth areas in education in Australia is in the number of students attending tertiary education institutions. [More…]
Approximately 200,000 students throughout Australia are attending tertiary education institutions this year. [More…]
The previous Government in an accelerating fashion over the last 10 years recognised the growth of tertiary education institutions and significantly increased the number of scholarships of various types to students attending those institutions. [More…]
Of course, there has been a tremendous increase in the direct allocation of Commonwealth expenditure on education as such. [More…]
In a number of instances it has been shown that a substantial proportion of students who fail more than half of their course subjects in any one year do so primarily because of financial difficulties which they have encountered during their period at a tertiary education institution. [More…]
Those who received the maximum living allowance find it still increasingly difficult to cope with the charges and the costs which they face as students both at universities and at colleges of advanced education. [More…]
1 am very pleased that the legislation introduced by the Minister gives universities and colleges of advanced education the responsibility of allocating the funds they receive and the right to decide whether this allocation wi.l be in the form of a grant or a loan. [More…]
This task should be performed by the people at the institutions who are concerned with a student’s well-being and education. [More…]
I am very conscious that because of rising costs, tertiary education universities and colleges of advanced education face the prospect of losing their autonomy as more and more of their funds are provided from public moneys. [More…]
The cost of keeping students at tertiary education institutions is rising all the time. [More…]
I am a strong believer in the fact that entrance to universities and educational institutions such as colleges of advanced education should be on the basis of academic excellence. [More…]
It is not pertinent at this point to argue about pre-university educational experiences in terms of education opportunities. [More…]
This is why I support the legislation introduced by the Minister for Education. [More…]
I want to refer mainly to one of the 3 Bills that we are considering together, namely, the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill 1973. [More…]
He referred to the development of the concept of colleges of advanced education by the previous Government. [More…]
I think that if the previous Government had taken more time to think about what it intended colleges of advanced education to be we would not have the present generally unsatisfactory situation. [More…]
The honourable member for Warringah referred also to fees being only a small part of the costs of a university student or a college of advanced education student. [More…]
The States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill has 3 main purposes, namely, to provide money for libraries, for needy students and for a social work course in Hobart. [More…]
Firstly, it provides $5m for libraries in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Colleges of advanced education have a great lack of library material - much more so than universities, and I do not think that we can say that universities have no need in this area. [More…]
The third report of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education last year recommended that this sum be made available for this purpose. [More…]
The report then refers to a lot of other matters connected with CAE libraries such as microfilm, audio-visual and other non-book materials of special need to colleges of advanced education which have a high proportion of part time students and thus also have a greater need for multiple copies of much used reference books. [More…]
That the Commonwealth Government provide a sum of $5m to be made available to the States on the basis of need and on the advice of the Commission, for the development of library materials In colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The Bill provides a total of $806,000 as aid for students in need at colleges of advanced education. [More…]
We will not be able to implement our policy on abolition of tertiary education fees until 1974. [More…]
The third purpose of this Bill is to provide the finance to cover a special need in Tasmania at the Hobart College of Advanced Education. [More…]
Education for social work is conducted mainly by the universities, 4 universities providing under-graduate degree courses while 2 universities provide post grad uate diploma courses. [More…]
One university and 2 colleges of advanced education provide sub-graduate diploma courses. [More…]
However Tasmania, which has had no facilities for educating social workers, is now to have a post graduate course at the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education because of the proposal in this Bill. [More…]
I am not saying that all diversity is necessarily a bad thing or that diversity in education in general is necessarily a bad thing. [More…]
But this lack of uniformity is a reflection of the unclear attitude of educational institutions, employers of social workers, the community in general and probably social workers themselves about what sort of people social workers are, what their job is to be and the kinds of qualifications they should- have. [More…]
I am certainly not one to say that a person trained in a university is better than one trained in a college of advanced education or that a person with a degree is better than one with a diploma. [More…]
In a letter to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), the Tasmanian Minister for Education, who was kind enough to send me a copy of the letter, said: 1 am writing to you to express thanks for the very beneficial action you have taken in respect of three of the requests which have come recently from Tasmania. [More…]
I endorse those remarks about this action and support the Bills, particularly the provisions in them for social workers, the money made available for libraries in colleges of advanced education and the assistance for tertiary students in need. [More…]
The adequate provision of satisfactory library resources is a vital factor in promoting the development of our colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The $5m provided as an unmatched grant in the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill 1973 will be used in the current triennium to assist in the upgrading of many libraries to a satisfactory level. [More…]
Further grants for libraries must be extended not only for advanced education facilities but also for many inadequate libraries at the secondary level. [More…]
The glaring library needs at al) levels of education must therefore be corrected and given a high priority. [More…]
2) will also help to mitigate the extreme shortage of social workers particularly for work in the field of education. [More…]
While realising that the demand and necessity for social workers is in the cities, the destitute and distressed exist in all of our communities and at all levels of our educational system in rural Australia, necessitating the provision of an adequate supply of professionally qualified social workers. [More…]
I believe that the Federal Government assistance to all levels of our education system is desirable and has to be expanded. [More…]
From the amount of $3m being made available the Australian National University will receive $69,000 and the balance will be made available to other State universities and some colleges of advanced education, lt is to be administered by respective universities and assistance will be given in the forms of grants or loans, depending on individual circumstances. [More…]
These will help to pay fees, other allowances and approved educational expenses. [More…]
The financing of education will place huge stresses upon available funds in the years ahead and it will be vital that the best value be obtained for every dollar made available by the Federal Parliament. [More…]
Whilst it is not appropriate now to discuss the overall financing of education, the importance of this Bill in relation to other aspects prompts me to mention some of those issues now. [More…]
A vital question relates to the level of government support that this nation should and can devote to education, and what relationship it should have to private support and income obtained from student charges. [More…]
There are probably 2 ways to look at higher or tertiary education. [More…]
The second is that tertiary education is a personal investment, an individual desire for more lucrative employment opportunities or a desire simply to broaden intellectual and academic capabilities. [More…]
Having briefly mentioned those thoughts, in an attempt to highlight the alternatives for the future financing of education, I return to the Bill and to government assistance. [More…]
Secondary students apply in August for entry to universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
From an administrative point of view, I think it would be preferable to involve high school principals in the decision of need because, firstly, they have generally known students and their families for up to 6 years in an educational relationship. [More…]
The provision of more tertiary opportunities in country areas, the provision of hostels for students travelling excessive distances and a scheme of guidance into educational and vocational opportunities, which are of so much more value to a country child than to a city child who has a variety of facilities close at hand, will all help to alleviate these difficulties. [More…]
I realise that this Bill is only a stop gap measure, but I believe that it is a worthwhile contribution to the advancement of educational equality. [More…]
Such measures always display to me the need for a reorganisation of our assistance program so that all needy students have not only availability of finance but also are able to undertake courses of their choice at any institution of tertiary education. [More…]
This Bill specifically refers to students desiring or entering tertiary education. [More…]
In view of the tendencies towards a rush of students into these educational areas, due consideration must urgently be given to assistance to all young people wishing to enter all forms of education. [More…]
But it must not be forgotten in future planning for education in Australia that opportunity and equality go together. [More…]
The opportunity for education is a little like the right to vote - it may not always be exercised but it must always be available. [More…]
I and the Australian Country Party support the Bills being discussed together today and I wish to congratulate the Minister for Education for introducing these vital Bills so promptly. [More…]
The 3 major areas in the Bill - financial assistance to needy and destitute tertiary students, increased grants for libraries in colleges of advanced education and provision for increasing training facilities of social workers - have already been referred to in the debate. [More…]
Each of these initiatives is significant in its own right and I believe the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is to be congratulated for the speed with which he has acted to meet the emergency situation in each of these areas. [More…]
The underlying principle of all 3 points is to ensure that an education of quality is available to all students at the tertiary level, irrespective of financial circumstances. [More…]
We on the Government side are committed to the principle that no student should be deprived of his educational opportunity because of hardship. [More…]
As outlined by the Minister in his second reading speech, $3m is to be made available to assist needy tertiary students and, of this amount, $806,000 is for students attending colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Within the provisions of the Bill it is the Vice-Chancellors or the heads of colleges of advanced education who have been entrusted with the task of deciding to whom assistance should be given. [More…]
However, I would remind honourable members that at present the Commonwealth Department of Education, in conjunction with the Australian Union of Students, is carrying out a survey in Victoria and South Australia to determine the reasons for rejection by students of university places. [More…]
I should like to speak briefly on the provision contained in the Bills to provide an unmatched grant of $Sm for libraries in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
1 would remind honourable members that recommendation 21 of the third report, that for 1973-75, of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education states: [More…]
That the Commonwealth Government provide a sum of $5m to be made available to the States on the basis of need and on the advice of the Commission, for the development of library materials in Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]
The former Government must have realised - its members are realising it now - the tremendous need that existed in the colleges of advanced education for greatly improved library facilities. [More…]
The provision of an unmatched grant of $5m will greatly assist colleges of advanced education to have library resources in keeping with the status of the studies undertaken in these institutions. [More…]
The Government’s progressive policy will be retarded unless immediate attention is given to social worker training in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I think this is highlighted in the report issued by the Minister for Education in 1971-72. [More…]
In the case of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, an unmatched grant of $40,000 is provided to enable the establishment of a postgraduate course in social work to commence in 1974. [More…]
Conversely, a program of financial assistance in the field of education to provide training facilities is a waste if social welfare lacks vision and planning. [More…]
The ministries of Education, Health and Social Security are working in the closest co-operation, with Education providing the tools. [More…]
The honourable member for Holt (Mr Oldmeadow) spent some time condemning the previous Government for not allocating enough funds generally for education but particularly towards developing a task force to alleviate particular social problems in the community. [More…]
I point out to him that, over the course of the last considerable period of years, there has been a constant escalation in the amount of money available in the whole field of education. [More…]
It is desirable that there be an increasing allocation of money for education but it is not desirable that funds be spent without regard to the end result. [More…]
So it is ridiculous to condemn anything in the area of education allocations by the past Government. [More…]
I believe that over the course of the years the significant improvement which has occurred in tertiary educational facilities in particular, is a tremendous tribute to the wise allocation of money by previous Ministers for Education and Science and by the Commonwealth in the educational spectrum. [More…]
I rise principally to talk on the measures contained in the States Grants (Universities) Bill which arise out of some discussions that were initiated by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England, Professor Alec Lazenby, with the present Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
I commend the Minister for Education for the expedition and the manner of his acceptance of the recommendations of Professor Lazenby. [More…]
It was from that particular fund and that concept that he came to make his representations to the present Minister for Education. [More…]
It is very much to the credit of the present Minister for Education that he accepted those recommendations. [More…]
It is necessary that there is a recognition of the expenses other than fees for education when one takes into account the cost of tertiary education to an individual. [More…]
Those remarks pertain equally to colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The next point I want to make relates to the problem that I see emanating from the general trends in education in Australia today. [More…]
We should be conscious of the need in the community as well as of the standard and* character of education. [More…]
There is a real need for study to be undertaken - be it by the universities or within the Department of Education - to determine the extent to which present degree courses and diploma courses will give to the student the sort of qualifications the community needs. [More…]
I have spoken about social workers and the problems of ensuring that a social worker’s education enables him to go out into the community and meet the community’s need. [More…]
I would hope that the Minister in his search for and examination of ways in which funds can be allocated for tertiary education might take account of the necessity relativity between training and employment opportunities. [More…]
I believe that the product of this loan idea will be to the distinct advantage of the present generation of students both in universities and in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I do not propose to delay the House for very long, but today is about the 15th anniversary of the day when I raised in this House a matter of public importance calling for the Commonwealth to start to take a real interest in education. [More…]
So on this occasion I want to congratulate my colleague, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), for the measures that he has introduced. [More…]
We are simply salvaging some of the situations that were created by the previous Government’s parsimony to colleges of advanced education in relation to libraries and facilities such as that. [More…]
There will be a radical change in the way in which the Commonwealth faces its responsibility in education within the next 12 months. [More…]
Tertiary education should be the logical prolongation of one’s education. [More…]
Therefore I am pleased on this occasion to be speaking fromthe Government side on the acceptance by the Commonwealth of a real responsibility in education. [More…]
One concerned with Victorian technical education could say that the great feature in that State is the very early streaming of students in Victoria into the technical stream as compared with the commercial and professional streams. [More…]
It is a most unsatisfactory position and one hopes that Victoria which in the past, through its Liberal Government, has shown a great lack of ability to spend the funds that are available to it in education will see that these funds are used to correct some of these situations. [More…]
Despite this previous inability to spend moneys available to it for education, the Victorian Government is offering, in its current election program, new expenditure of $72m for education. [More…]
From this Bill it receives a substantial sum that can be used for furthering technical education. [More…]
However I would remind honourable members that the Bill provides that if the Federal Minister finds that the finance will not be used in any State for the purposes of furthering technical education he can direct that that finance be used elsewhere. [More…]
In the education field in Victoria there has been a great reluctance to acquire land for the future needs of technical training - in areas where technical training will be needed. [More…]
However none of these institutions seem to be short of canteens which are used as commercial fund raising enterprises to excuse the State Education Departments from supplying essential equipment and to force voluntary bodies - the parents, the school councils and others - to work and even to employ staff to raise money in a commercial way to support a sagging training system. [More…]
For too long technical training has been the Cinderella of education. [More…]
For too long it was held that university education was the be all, the end all, the aspiration of practically every Australian parent. [More…]
I foresee technical colleges being called upon to play an increasingly important part in education, employment and development. [More…]
I welcome the Government’s decision to set up a commission to examine the needs of technical education and to make recommendations for financial assistance that should be provided to the States for technical education. [More…]
We now have a number of commissions established by the Government to examine the needs of the various levels of education. [More…]
It is to be hoped that in examining the recommendations from these various commissions the Government will consider the whole broad range of education requirements and will secure a balance in the distribution of financial assistance to the areas of need. [More…]
There is a great need for a rationalisation of the use of resources for education - for example, in the rationalisation of education opportunities between the States. [More…]
At present there is a wide divergence in the approaches to education as between the States and whilst diversity in opportunity is essential in this age and flexibility is a must there is, nonetheless, a great need for a co-ordinated approach in the use of finance and manpower to ensure that our resources are being spent to the best advantage to meet the changing needs of our time. [More…]
We wish to see the provision of special preemployment classes for auto-mechanics, carpentry and joinery, having in mind that boys who do obtain a suitable education level will attend at the college for a period of 6 months duringwhich time they will be trained up to a 2-year apprenticeship level. [More…]
It is an essential incentive to attract more young people who have neither the ability nor the desire to undertake a university education, attend a college of advanced education or undertake teacher training. [More…]
We are now living in a fast changing society where better formal education facilities are available at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. [More…]
However, due to inadequate incentives in technical education there is a considerable wastage of talents and resources in some school leavers who could be attracted into this area. [More…]
Young people who cannot enter university or a college of advanced education, young people who drift, often aimlessly, into unrewarding activities often’ become frustrated because of a lack of job satisfaction. [More…]
Of course, there are always minority groups coming from low income families and families that perhaps do not place sufficient emphasis on education. [More…]
I hope that the Government, and especially the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), will see fit to give this matter very serious consideration. [More…]
In fact I think the Minister has it in mind that the proposed commission study this area of need in the technical education system. [More…]
The Government is determined that technical and further education should receive the same consideration as is given to other areas of education. [More…]
It has decided therefore to establish a commission which will examine the needs of technical and further education, and make recommendations to the Government for financial assistance. [More…]
This commission will be established as soon as possible and the assistance for technical and further education will be granted after 30th June 1974. [More…]
When the Australian Education Council was requested to forward details of the requirements of technical training in Australia it suggested that an amount of $14m was needed. [More…]
The community must be persuaded of the national importance of giving vigorous support to the provision of substantially increased facilities for technical education and training. [More…]
The Government has also established a technical education committee which will be functioning by 1974. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), who is at the table, must be proud of this measure. [More…]
On 29th April 1971 in a debate on similar legislation, in his then role of shadow Minister for Education, he said: [More…]
I am afraid that Australia needs much greater expenditure and effort directed to technical education to give to the Australian labour force the skill and flexibility it requires. [More…]
The importance of technical training as part of our educational system must be fully appreciated if we are to avoid having too many of our students being forced, because of lack of adequate technical facilities, into a university when their qualifications and inclinations are for an alternative career. [More…]
The comparative neglect of technical education stems partly from the higher prestige accorded to academic studies and partly from a persistent belief that utilitarian schools cannot be intellectually respectable. [More…]
Or as Sir Mark Oliphant said: There is a growing snobbery developing about education in Australia’. [More…]
I realise that a significant increase has occurred every year in the realisation of the importance of technical education. [More…]
However, it is still a poor relation in the education system. [More…]
The pressures on the universities today have become especially intense, pardy because of the natural desire of young people to proceed to higher levels of education in the interests of their own development and partly from a valid conviction that a university degree is a passport to a highly paid occupation and first rate career prospects in the longer term. [More…]
I believe that recently there has “been a turnabout and today technical education is in real demand. [More…]
However, technical education extension has not kept pace with the demand or with the changes that are taking place in industry, and in particular with, the urgent need for more and better trained technicians. [More…]
Australia’s future economic, political and cultural development will depend very heavily on its capacity to provide adequate technical education. [More…]
Oyer recent years emphasis appears to have been placed on tertiary education to the exclusion of many areas of technical training. [More…]
This emphasis has been given in a situation where the total funds spent on education and training has been inadequate and inappropriate for future needs. [More…]
It is not my claim that any funds spent on other spheres of education should have been diverted into the area of technical education but it is an inescapable fact that too little attention has been given to the whole question of education. [More…]
Regrettably, the neglect of education during one period cannot be corrected or the results of it rectified in a later one. [More…]
Opportunities for education and training which are ignored are lost and never present themselves again. [More…]
The demand for technical education has been increasing at a rapid rate over a number of years. [More…]
The report of the survey of needs for technical education in New South Wales between the years 1971 and 1975 which was published in August 1971 showed the growth in demand of technical education in that State. [More…]
The time has passed forever when Australia could afford the wasteful practice of having each State act in a disjointed way in the field of technical education. [More…]
There is now an urgent need for co-ordinated planning of technical education facilities on a nationwide basis. [More…]
Not every child wishes to attend university or a college of advanced education. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is to be congratulated upon his efforts and concern for technical training. [More…]
I congratulate the Minister for Education on taking this step. [More…]
in reply- First, I should like to welcome to debates on education the new voices of the honourable members for Phillip (Mr Riordan), Evans (Mr Mulder) and Mallee (Mr Fisher). [More…]
I should like to assure the honourable member for Mallee of the interest of students in technical education. [More…]
That number is approaching double those engaged in tertiary education. [More…]
After 1974 the funding of technical education will be the function of the Australian Committee - it will become the Commission - for Technical and Further Education. [More…]
Within the scope of this legislation and also within the scope of that Commission will be, for example, agricultural education in its subtertiary aspects. [More…]
The terms of reference given to the Commission are very wide - they relate to ‘further education’ - because we believe it could evolve a great many new forms of education. [More…]
For instance, it could evolve forms of education mentioned by the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) when he spoke about the interest of certain groups with whom he has been dealing. [More…]
That form of education quite certainly comes within the scope of technical and further education as envisaged by the Government in setting up this committee. [More…]
Then there is Mr G. F. W. Brown, Chairman of Commissioners of the Victorian Railways, which is a body tremendously involved in technical education and in apprenticeship training; Mr C. O. Dolan, General Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union of Australia, Federal Council; Mr P. W. I. Fleming, Chief Staff Development Officer, Department of the Public Service Board, South Australia; Mr N. M. Gow, Chairman and Managing Director of R. M. Gow and Co. Ltd, Brisbane; Miss K. E. Holmes, Federal Secretary of the Institute of Personnel Management, Sydney; Dr W. J. Howse, Director of Technical Education in Tasmania; Mr H. King, Assistant to the Director of Technical Education in New South Wales; Mr G. Lees, President of the Technical Teachers Association of Victoria; Mr W. J. Paterson, Director of Technical Education in Western Australia; and Associate Professor E. Richardson from the School of Education at Macquarie University who played a very large part in the development of technical education in the Philippines. [More…]
As some of these people are the top men in State technical education we believe that we are appointing men capable of assessing the needs of the States. [More…]
After all we are discussing grants to the States for their technical education. [More…]
We believe that the committee is a very balanced one which will expand Commonwealth assistance and action in every form of technical education. [More…]
The committee will furnish information and advice to the Minister on matters relating to the development of technical and further education in Australia, including financial assistance to the States in relation to institutions in the States. [More…]
The committee has a wide range in the terms of reference it has been given which will enable its members to use all their skills and intelligence to broaden technical education in Australia and to respond to the requests of State governments and of persons who give expert attention to the whole field of technical education. [More…]
As from 1st January 1974 we will also be including in our scheme the paying of fees for technical education - some $10m in the first calendar year. [More…]
It has been generally recognised by teachers, psychologists and neurologists that the best way of dealing with specific reading difficulties is to have special remedial education. [More…]
Therefore the aim of Speld is to advance the education and general welfare of children and others who are handicapped by specific learning difficulties. [More…]
This term refers to a lack of a particular skill which seriously retards a child’s educational progress. [More…]
The local branch of Speld has been active over the last few years in providing books for special education centres, Speld books for municipal libraries and other equipment necessary for the training of these students. [More…]
There are no authoritative figures available at the present but it is known that Queensland has only 30 remedial teachers in the Queensland Department of Education, there is a need for 300. [More…]
Ai brief resume of our work so far: Projects in 1972, completed or started in Toowoomba: $150 for books for Guidance and Special Education Centre, November 1971. [More…]
$150 for 2 Peabody Kits for Guidance and Special Education Centre, May 1972. [More…]
$100 for text books and articles for distribution to professionals involved in field of education and interested people, begun June 1972. [More…]
Petition to Parliament for a grant of money to establish a lectureship in remedial education at D.D.I.A.E., in Department of Teacher Education for 160 students. [More…]
Remedial Equipment for Guidance and Special Education Centre. [More…]
A permanent lecturer in remedial education in Department of Teacher Education at D.D.I. [More…]
I have noted in the education Bill the Minister introduced into the House on 28th March 1973 that the Federal Government is providing an unmatched grant of $40,000 in 1973 to enable the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education to establish a post graduate courses to commence in 1974. [More…]
On behalf of the residents of Darling Downs I ask: Will the Minister give a grant to the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education for the same purpose. [More…]
The distinct needs in this regard are to provide courses in diploma and degree programs for suitable persons to take out majors in remedial and special education; the need for teacher preparation programs to provide a bridging course whereby general teachers, perhaps by independent study, may develop their background knowledge in this area and then take out a diploma or degree in special education after full time attendance at a tertier, institution; and, the need for all general teachers to have some course work in this area and to provide a wide range of in-service courses for practising teachers to enrol in. [More…]
I appeal to the Minister for Education to have a good look at the position and determine whether the Commonwealth Government can help the local service clubs of Apex in their efforts to raise from the public the sum of $10,000 to establish this chair of learning - a chair which will be vital to our area, a chair which will enable people to be trained as teachers who will go forth over the whole length and breadth of Queensland, teachers who will be affecting eternity because there is no knowing where their influence for good will be felt and their ability to help these people will be realised. [More…]
Within 3 weeks of assuming the portfolio of Education I called on Mr Thompson, the Victorian Minister of Education, at his home on Saturday, 6th January. [More…]
The purpose of my visit was to offer them full cooperation in any joint action the Commonwealth and the State of Victoria might take in the field of education. [More…]
Mr Scanlan took exception to the terms of reference of the Interim Schools Committee relating to the education of the handicapped. [More…]
He pointed out to me that the Victorian Government had set up what he regarded as the finest committee of inquiry in the world into the field of education of the handicapped. [More…]
With the Victorian election campaign on he wrote me a letter setting out the plans over a number of years of the Victorian Government in connection with education of the handicapped which presumably were adopted before the finest committee in the world could report on them. [More…]
In the brief period that I was the Minister for Education and Science I asked the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education to make recommendations on the siting of further universities in and near Sydney and Melbourne and Albury-Wodonga. [More…]
The report was compiled very promptly and was tabled by my colleague the Minister for Education last week. [More…]
Secondly, Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo each already has a teacher’s college and a college of advanced education. [More…]
It is the desire of the Government to ensure that there is the best facilitated - if I may put it that way - movement between Japan and Australia and, indeed all the countries in the Australasian region, for the purposes of trade, culture, education and friendship. [More…]
My predecessor, the honourable member for Wannon, arranged a meeting of the Universities Commission and the Victorian education authorities on 13th October last year. [More…]
On that date the Universities Commission asked the Victorian Gov.vernment for these points: It said that it would be unable to advise the Commonwealth until it knew the location of the proposed buildings; that it would need to know the number of students contemplated initially and the growth envisaged in the first 5 years; that it would need to know the details of the proposed relationship between the university and local teachers colleges and colleges of advanced education; and that it would need to know the foundation departments and the academic pattern. [More…]
As the Minister for Labour stated in his second reading speech, the Bill examines the need of trade unions and employer organisations for amalgamation, trade union education and closer consultation between unions, employers and the Government. [More…]
On 20th February he issued yet another Press release in which he sought free publicity for his opening of a new migrant education centre in Perth. [More…]
One other side of the triangle is that we ought to have much better sex education by properly qualified people and we should have adequate education in the use of contraceptives. [More…]
In fact there is much more correlation between education in the use of contraceptive measures in a community than there is between permissive or restrictive laws. [More…]
Educational sex programs involving contraceptive techniques are greatly lacking in school curricula. [More…]
Full government responsibility suggests that special abortion clinics in teaching hospitals are needed to provide education of doctors and students in how best to counsel women concerning unwanted pregnancies, to set standards for the Australian Capital Territory and to carry out research, particularly in the follow up of patients. [More…]
We need realistic assistance for unmarried mothers - not merely the assistance of social security payments but advice about their children, advice about employment, advice about child care centres, advice about the education of their children. [More…]
Nevertheless, I do not think we should look upon abortion as a substitute for lack of responsibility at an earlier stage, or as a substitute for knowledge of and education in contraception and, also, an understanding of the principles on which our society is founded. [More…]
If we declare that abortion must not be seen simply as an alternative to responsibility or to education in contraception, should we not be making sure that such education is freely available? [More…]
Should we not be doing all we can to ensure that adequate sex education is given to our young people? [More…]
Whether this Bill is passed or not, might it not be worth while to consider the establishment, perhaps in the Australian Capital Territory for a start, of special clinics to deal not only with family planning, .education and similar matters but also with abortion legally performed under the existing law? [More…]
(5)In what ways can the incidence of abortion be reduced by improving services and facilities such as sex education in schools, family planning clinics, supply of contraceptives, pregnancy support agencies, adoption agencies and social security payments. [More…]
I had not thought to hear a man of the admired integrity of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) suggest that a proposal in which he saw considerable merit should be rejected because of what other people might think about it. [More…]
Variations between countries in the incidence of abortion - and they have been clearly documented - demonstrate conclusively that the ratio of abortions to live births depends not upon the flexibility or rigidity of the laws by which abortion is governed, but upon the initiative which governments show in providing proper sex education and family planning services and the support that is given by public opinion to governments in the provision of these services and their use by the community. [More…]
What better occasion and what better way would there be of bringing home to the population of this country the inaccuracy of the assumption that being aborted is no more difficult than having a tooth out; the need for proper contraceptive procedures; or the need for us to get behind sex education programs in the schools. [More…]
Are honourable members generally aware that only in the last week or so the Australian Science Education program, to which attention was directed in this place by the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) some 12 months ago, has been adopted in the States with the omission of those sections on contraception which were originally written into it? [More…]
We will not begin to reduce the frequency with which women are aborted until we establish clearly in the public mind that there is a connection between abortion and the inadequacy of arrangements under which sex education is provided in our schools; between abortion and our shortage of family planning clinics, pregnancy support agencies and adoption agencies; and between abortion and our tradition of treating as outcasts from society the unmarried mother and her child. [More…]
Does it mean, as the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley ) has suggested that the community becomes so callous that it becomes like the German doctors who operated upon living adult people? [More…]
“Fifthly, in what ways can the incidence of abortion be reduced by improving services and facilities, such as sex education in schools, family planning clinics, supply of contraceptives, pregnancy support agencies, adoption agencies and social security payments? [More…]
Most of these were mentioned by the Minister for Education and have been mentioned by other members in the House. [More…]
There is only one way in which there can be proper public education so that everybody, including members of this Parliament, knows what the Bill is all about, apart from those matters of fundamental belief which no royal commission or anybody else can influence. [More…]
This is the only way in which that process of education can be carried out in this country, as it was done in England by another means. [More…]
My attitude is consistent when carried through to capital punishment, sex education, access to professional social welfare workers, child care centres, community assistance programs and so on. [More…]
Some idea of the magnitude of this growth can be stressed by looking at the demand for just one item - education. [More…]
The change in pattern in pre-school education in Queensland will mean a changing role for the Creche and Kindergarten Association. [More…]
With the promise of pre-school education for every child aged over 4 years, one of the Association’s long sought after goals has been achieved. [More…]
As there is a changing emphasis, however, to the 3 and 4-year-olds its aim will continue to be to ensure that pre-school education to higher standards is available to all children in the wider age group of 3 to 5 years and, in addition, to be a leader in the field in Queensland in the area of full-day child care. [More…]
When a kindergarten is to be built the building plan must first be approved by the State Department of Education, the Creche and Kindergarten Association and the local authority. [More…]
Once this is done, the Queensland Education Department will match grants of up to $2,000 by the local council. [More…]
If this grant is made for equipment, that equipment must be approved by the Creche and Kindergarten Association for the Department of Education. [More…]
In a country area, application for the grant must be made to the local council and to the Education Department. [More…]
This would have the effect of relieving the community of the teacher proportion of fees, thus helping to bring to all sections of the community free pre-school education, so that it would be available not only for the rich or the lucky but also for the children of the basic wage earner. [More…]
Pre-school education is an important level of education. [More…]
This level of education has not received and is not receiving a sufficient share of the national and State revenue. [More…]
However, the Association will not consider the use of the term free’ pre-school education as it believes that some parent commitment encourages enthusiastic involvement. [More…]
At the present time subsidies are received from the State Government through the Department of Education. [More…]
At the beginning of the current year the Association lodged a submission with the Commonwealth Committee on Teacher Education regarding finance for the college, both for operations and for capital. [More…]
We place great emphasis on primary, secondary and tertiary education. [More…]
In the past the matter of pre-school education has not received the support from governments and from the community that it deserves. [More…]
Secondly, will he accept my assurance - I am sure that I speak for all honourable members who, out of a strong conviction on the basic principles involved, voted against the Bill and the amendment - that the House will co-operate to the fullest possible extent in helping the Government expedite the development of measures such as family planning clinics, child care centres and education programs which will make an important and constructive contribution to the solving of the serious personal problems which abortion raises for many people? [More…]
Education facilities, whilst not adequate for an increased population, are in existence at pre-school, primary, secondary and tertiary levels. [More…]
It always amuses me how some of the self-styled radical academics talk big about ‘relevant’ education. [More…]
I think that what we were referring to, and what people certainly understood us to be referring to, was the need to spend large sums of money on transport, sewerage, drainage, health services, education facilities and so on. [More…]
The Cities Commission will see that the sites selected for these cities are the best available and that they are equipped at the outset with the diversity of employment, accommodation, recreation and education which they will need to attract families from the present State capitals. [More…]
Inadequate education, health care, social welfare and law enforcement as well as a deteriorating physical environment are the price of our having chosen to move so far so fast within such narrow confines. [More…]
It includes research, training, and management education and extends of course into many related fields. [More…]
Often Commonwealth contributors living, say, in country towns are placed in the position where to get better education for their children, possibly to provide better employment opportunities for their children or perhaps for a healthy reason, they are required to resign from a Commonwealth job and move to the city. [More…]
In the short time remaining to me in this debate I would suggest very firmly that the Government look very carefully at the interests of so many people in the community today who see themselves as future superannuitants with a view to helping and possible educating them, other than through the adult education scheme, so that they may define the sort of area and type of retirement that they, and many of us who have spent a lifetime in servie to the nation, would wish properly to have. [More…]
and (2) The petition to the United Nations, in addition to allegations of genocide, contained a number of criticisms of the Government policies and programs referring to the high infant mortality rate among Aboriginals particularly in Central Australia; housing conditions for Aboriginals throughout Australia; the policies affecting Aboriginal education at that time; and the need for anti-discrimination legislation in Australia. [More…]
The Government has pledged itself to substantially reduce the infant mortality rate among Aboriginals as a matter of highest priority; it is reviewing housing assistance schemes implemented by the previous Government, with a view to increasing the effectiveness of Aboriginal housing programs; the Government has already decided to use Aboriginal languages as a medium of education in schools, wherever this is practicable, and a program of public information, with special emphasis on the provision of suitable materials for schools, is being developed. [More…]
The States are responsible for the administration of funds made available to them under the Science and Library Facilities Programs as far as their own schools are concerned, within broad general programs of proposed expenditure submitted for my approval by State Ministers for Education. [More…]
The fourth university committee presented its final report to the State Minister of Education in January 1972. [More…]
The Australian Universities Commission received a broad outline of possible ways in which the fourth university might be developed in discussion with tha State Minister of Education on 13th October 1972. [More…]
Some further information was provided by the State Minister of Education in a letter to the Australian Universities Commission in February 1973 but the detailed information sought by the Commission had not been provided prior to the tabling on 3rd May 1973 of the ‘Report on the location, nature and development of institutions of tertiary education in the Sydney, Melbourne and Albury/Wodonga Region’. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education whether he is aware of reports that the Victorian Minister for Education has informed municipal representatives of Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo that the Commonwealth has refused to consider a Victorian proposal for a fourth university in those centres. [More…]
A Royal Commission would point out ins social and personal needs for women in the community - marriage counselling, family planning and sex education. [More…]
The remaining proposals in the Bill are a result of the introduction by the Commonwealth of schemes to assist with the education of children living in isolated areas and for the payment of a domiciliary nursing care benefit to persons taking care of invalid aged relations in their homes. [More…]
The amendments proposed in relation to the isolated children’s education scheme will ensure that allowances paid under the scheme will receive the same exemption from income tax as payments under the Commonwealth secondary and technical scholarship schemes. [More…]
Like the scholarship schemes, however, amounts payable for the maintenance or accommodation of isolated children are to be taken into account for the purposes of the concessional deductions for maintenance of dependants, while allowances paid in respect of education costs are to be taken into account in calculating the concessional deduction for a child’s education expenses. [More…]
That gives me the thought that the Tribunal may have the benefit, by way of community education, of demonstrating to the supporters of the Government that business is not the bottomless goldmine - the veritable magic puddin - that so many of them so fondly believe it is. [More…]
I want this evening to raise a matter which I brought to the attention of the House during question time on 3rd May when I asked the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) a question in the following terms: [More…]
Well, one would expect a government to adopt that attitude and a Minister such as the Minister for Education to give it the authority that he referred to. [More…]
The point that I wanted to emphasise in asking the question was the importance of the additional education facilities being available for the nation’s children at the earliest opportunity. [More…]
I appreciate that State governments as well as the Federal Government education programs set up and established in previous years by previous governments will in themselves play an important part in fulfilling and continuing to improve educational facilities available in the country. [More…]
I must confess that I felt that the question I had asked was side-stepped to a degree in that the point that I wanted to bring out by asking the question was whether or not, having identified the need, the expenditure could be approved in such a manner that the educational resource* would be available, if not for the 1973 year or the remainder of it, at least for early in 1974. [More…]
It may be that in some of the areas the State authorities will themselves be prepared to commit their own money to ensure that the planning takes place so that ‘the money available for 1974 can quicklly be converted into facilities available for the education of the children. [More…]
But there are many areas in which, if money were immediately available, additional educational facilities could be provided for children in schools where there is now a considerable need for improvement of facilities. [More…]
In March this year, due to the enterprise and dedication of many teachers and educationists in the electorate of McMillan, a teachers centre was set in motion. [More…]
Having been granted an honorary membership of that centre I propose tonight, with the case history of this new concept, to prove to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) the necessity for him to provide Commonwealth financial support. [More…]
This teaching centre, without doubt, is a place where there is an opportunity to coordinate all Commonwealth education grants and ensure a greater utilisation of Commonwealth grants and a more equitable use of equipment and teachers, ft will promote community involvement in education. [More…]
1 have reason to believe that this type of centre which has been initiated, organised and financed by practising teachers is an important project and already it has received the support of both State and Catholic education authorities. [More…]
The centre has been offered assistance by the Monash University education faculty in the town of staff as occasional lecturers. [More…]
It is no overstatement to claim that the concept of the teachers centre is one of the most significant and positive ideas to have touched the professional lives of teachers during more than a century of state education. [More…]
I point out that the finances are derived from membership subscriptions of teachers and other people interested in education. [More…]
The Government’s stated policy of identifying and eradicating inequalities in education will be implemented in the centre’s programs. [More…]
The centre will promote an active decentralisation of educational services and activities. [More…]
Other lecture programs will bring well known educationists from the metropolitan area to speak to teachers and nonteachers. [More…]
One teacher recently completed a Bachelor of Education degree at a metropolitan university. [More…]
The centre will promote community involvement in education and, if adequately funded, might later be available for adult retraining programs - for example, refreSher courses for married women interested in returning to teaching and preliminary courses for persons wishing to become teachers. [More…]
I am pleased that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is present in the chamber. [More…]
The honourable member will recall that I tabled the Cohen Report on teacher education in this House recently. [More…]
I gathered that the purport of his remarks was that the Schools Commission will be reporting at the end of this month but that there are immediate problems in education. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) has announced to the States that the Government will be fully prepared to finance tertiary education next year and will release funds through the Schools Commission equivalent to what the States will be saving in not having to spend on tertiary education. [More…]
In other words they know that for other areas of education they will, from 1st January next, have on offer - this is the Commonwealth offer - at least $250m. [More…]
Australia is a federation and the states have the responsibility for most of the activities which are closest to the lives of people - Education, Health, Housing, Conservation and a wide range of others. [More…]
It is misrepresentative in the sense that while it admits that the States have a responsibility in those activities which are closest to the lives of the people - it names education, health, housing and conservation - it does not mention that these are fields in which the Victorian Parliament would have one of the worst records in Australia. [More…]
Towards the middle of 1972 the Victorian Minister for Education had some discussions with the Commonwealth Universities Commission at which he raised the matter of establishing a multi-campus university or a university in a country area. [More…]
In October 1972 formal discussions took place between the Universities Commission, the Victorian Minister for Education and the then Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
At that stage, 9 months after the report of the expert committee had been brought forward, the Victorian Minister for Education had no proposals whatsoever to put before the committee. [More…]
In February this year the Universities Commission wrote to the Victorian Minister of Education asking for the details to be provided. [More…]
But what concerns me is that it is now the end of May and not even the site of the administrative centre is known to anyone except possibly the Victorian Minister for Education, who is not announcing it because he may well offend the 2 other cities named. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government and the then Minister for Education referred the matter of a university in or near Melbourne, in or near Sydney and at Albury-Wodonga, to the Australian Universities Commission in December, 2 months before the Victorian Government’s announcement was made. [More…]
The Victorian Minister for Education was asked - this was subsequent to 5th February - to provide details of the proposed university. [More…]
I am concerned that on Monday of this week the Victorian Minister for Education summoned municipal leaders from Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo to Melbourne on what was reported as a deputation, to tell them that they should demand of their Federal members of Parliament - I am sure all members concerned have had a telegram on this subject - that the Commonwealth should support the Victorian proposals. [More…]
Very serious educational matters have to be considered, such as the relationship of the university with the tertiary institutions already existing in the centres named, the duplication of courses, and the great deal of planning to be done. [More…]
What is required and what is absolutely essential is that when the university is established in these areas - J fully support the proposition and know that it will be established; I do not quarrel with that - that university should be based on the best interests of academic tertiary education for the people in those areas. [More…]
It came to power after promising extensive and expensive programs in almost every aspect of our affairs - health, education, social security, housing, urban development and protection of the environment. [More…]
Few persons associated with tertiary education dispute the fact that libraries are essential for satisfactory teaching and learning to proceed at tertiary institutions. [More…]
In its first report 6 years ago the Wark Committee stressed the need for first rate facilities in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Undoubtedly the Committee realised the importance of libraries in tertiary education institutions and spoke of them as vitally imp’ortant services. [More…]
Colleges of advanced education libraries are sometimes regarded by governments as less important than libraries in universities. [More…]
The library will be a major means in providing the liberal education which is to supplement the vocational courses in the colleges. [More…]
Technical journals are required, as are course books and material for a general education. [More…]
There is seating for only one-sixth of the students in colleges of advanced education libraries but seating for one-quarter in universities. [More…]
Instead, these figures indicate that there is a double standard in tertiary education, that college libraries are grossly inadequate and that their rate of improvement is far too slow. [More…]
A survey of country college reference collections, undertaken by the Association of Librarians in colleges of advanced education during the early part of 1972, indicated that most of the libraries did not hold reference works which are absolutely vital for an in-depth study of many subjects. [More…]
Country colleges of advanced education libraries well recognise the need which they should fulfil in servicing local industry and commerce by providing technical and scientific information. [More…]
The Australian Commission on Advanced Education has stressed this point in each of its reports. [More…]
At the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education in Toowoomba in 1973 there are 1,213 attending students and 606 external students. [More…]
According to the standards outlined at page 61 of the second report of the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education the library falls within category 3 and should have a book stock of 80,000 volumes with 700 to 1,000 periodical subscriptions. [More…]
At the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education it will be impossible for the library to come anywhere near the standards set by the Commission in its second report. [More…]
I submit that there is a clear case for the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education at Toowoomba- [More…]
I suspected that my honourable friend opposite might not have known where Toowoomba was and I sought to improve his education. [More…]
There is a clear case for the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education to receive special consideration in the allocation of funds as the development of the library which is possible using existing funds is such that it will not be possible for it to meet fully the needs of student and staff at any stage in the foreseeable future. [More…]
In conclusion I make a strong plea for colleges of advanced education in rural areas to be given special consideration on this important question of libraries. [More…]
As I said initially, it is not possible for country students to do as constituents of the honourable members for Bowman (Mr Keogh) and Lilley (Mr Doyle) can do, namely, to borrow books from the university or another college of advanced education in the next street. [More…]
These students have no tertiary education institutions available to them within a distance of 100 miles. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) invited a Victorian Government committee to give information to the Interim Schools Committee so that the Commonwealth could assist in the education of handicapped children in Victoria. [More…]
But what of the education or lack of it over these years while the money was being salted away? [More…]
With such disregard exhibited by the State Libera] Government towards education, the morale of the teaching staff is low and I receive countless letters from parents complaining of the interruptions to their children’s education. [More…]
They are anxious about the future of their children and the lack of education that they receive, despite the determined and dedicated teaching staff. [More…]
This questionnaire was a needs survey that sought details which I could incorporate into a submission to the Schools Commission in order to improve the state of education in this area. [More…]
The role of the Commonwealth in financing education in Australia is becoming more important every day. [More…]
This Parliament and this Government are becoming more involved in providing education for young children at a standard higher than ever before. [More…]
It is an example of an attempt to frustrate the co-operative spirit that must exist between the 3 levels of government - tocal, State and Federal - if the problems of education and other community services are to be overcome. [More…]
They must co-operate, especially in those areas where the people have given such an overwhelming mandate to the Federal Government as was given to this Government in the field of education. [More…]
In purely economic terms the community as a whole loses its investment in education and training, and individuals lose their own inputs in time and effort if they are prevented from accepting occupations or employment commensurate with their qualifications and experience because of discriminatory practices. [More…]
The second requirement, requirement (b), is to enact such legislation and to promote such educational programs as may be calculated to secure the acceptance and observance of the policy. [More…]
In its workers education manual, Fighting Discrimination in Employment and Occupation’, the International Labour Office has pointed out that legislating against discrimination does not necessarily remove discrimination. [More…]
What we really need is education - to educate the public to resent and to turn their backs on discrimination and to reject discrimination not because they fear penalties for discrimination but because of a deep sense of the injustice which is entailed in discrimination. [More…]
It is for these reasons that emphasis is being placed on promotion of a climate of opinion favourable to the policy of equality of opportunity by education programs and by seeking to resolve discriminatory situations by conciliation rather than by legislative and court action. [More…]
Other functions will be to co-ordinate the national education campaign to which I have already made reference, which is designed to promote equality of opportunity in employment, and to undertake studies, possibly involving the panel of expert consultants, on various topics in this field. [More…]
No modern education system can operate without the services of persons with teacher training and with teaching background and experience who have special competence in a variety of fields. [More…]
There will always be responsibilities in head offices of education authorities which call for qualities most likely to be possessed by members of the Commonwealth Teaching Service. [More…]
educational research, curriculum development, the preparation of text materials and teaching aids, to say nothing of guidance and counselling services, including psychological and educational clinics. [More…]
Other support services attached to education authorities include master teachers who can be used to visit schools and by example, guidance and encouragement raise the quality of teaching. [More…]
The Commonwealth Teaching Service carries responsibility for the education of a significant proportion of the Aboriginal child population of Australia, some of these children being taught in their own languages. [More…]
Part of the Teaching Service may in future form the expatriate teaching service in Papua New Guinea, carrying responsibility for secondary and technical education there. [More…]
It is also the teaching force for the Australian Capital Territory, which ought to be a laboratory for new and valid educational ideas. [More…]
These colleges will constitute a form of broad and high calibre secondary education, recognising in its scope and structure the adult status of fifth and sixth formers. [More…]
If the Minister for Education wants to come into the debate, I would welcome his intrusion rather than his sitting on the sideline making observations which are desperately academic and highly irrelevant and for the most part grossly inaccurate. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
What was the (a) number, and (b) percentage of students enrolled in fi) government, (ii) Catholic, and (iii) other non-government schools in (A) each State and Territory, and (B) the Commonwealth who (I) commenced the first year of secondary education in 1967 or 1968, and (II) enrolled in 1972 for their final year of secondary education (Hansard, 18 April 1972, page 1765). [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
In what ways can the incidence of abortion be reduced by improving services and facilities such as sex education in schools, family planning clinics, supply of contraceptives, pregnancy support agencies, adoption agencies and social security payments. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education aware that the Government’s decision to spend $188m for teacher education in the next 2i years has aroused the wrath of the Victorian Teachers Union? [More…]
So the amount of money that Victoria will spend on student allowances is not allowed for in the statement of the amount of money that will become available for Victorian teacher education. [More…]
Secondly, I would say that the Cohen report is the most systematic study of teacher education in Australia since the Martin report. [More…]
It is also quite a misrepresentation to suggest that the needs survey - and this is a persistent habit of some of these unions - stated that all the money to be found for education in Australia in 5 years was to come from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
We are not taking over the administration of education in Victoria. [More…]
It failed in so many other areas as well - social services, repatriation, health, education, arbitration, housing and others too numerous to mention. [More…]
Let me refer for a moment to the problems and anxiety besetting so many parents in the far flung and isolated areas in regard to education. [More…]
Many parents on rural or pastoral properties are faced with the high cost of transport, boarding fees and so on in providing their children with a proper education. [More…]
When introducing a Bill to amend the Australian National University Act on 27 October 1970, the then Minister for Education and Science, the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr N. H. Bowen), spoke of the introduction at a later stage of further amendments to the Australian National University Act to give the University power to control traffic within the University. [More…]
A similar provision already exists in the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act. [More…]
We believe that this change is in accordance with modern trends and the greater degree of education which young people have in our present modern community. [More…]
Good parents do not cease to be such when the sun rises on a 21st birthday; indeed their continuing care and concern is confidently gambled upon by the government when it requires a financial contribution to a child’s further and further education even up to the age of 25. [More…]
The way to amend this is not by taking away from the States responsibility for tertiary education, by administering their primary and secondary schools through a centralised schools commission, by administering their hospitals by a centralised hospitals commission, by taking over their railways or by taking over control of the territorial sea from the low water mark at the top or by taking away responsibility for local government from them at the bottom, because there will be nothing left in the States but a shell if this is done. [More…]
functions such as education, roads and transportation, and health and social security, but hitherto there has been no overall policy attempt that seeks to co-ordinate the work of [More…]
We were pleased to be informed in the Treasury minute that the former Departments of the Interior, now Services and Property, and Education and Science, now Education, and the Department of the Treasury had agreed firstly, that all school buildings in the Australian Capital Territory should be regarded as special purpose buildings, and secondly, that the responsibility for maintaining assets registers for those buildings should rest with the Department of Education and Science. [More…]
In addition, we are able to report that a feasibility study has commenced to determine the most efficient and economical burglar alarm system for use in existing and proposed education buildings. [More…]
It is suggested that women work from the time they complete their formal education until the commencement of the family formation period. [More…]
As more and more women work and have higher and better standards of education they wish in many instances to continue te be involved in the community outside the home. [More…]
Measuring the criteria of particular municipalities against that bench mark will establish how much those municipalities have available for services and facilities such as libraries, road construction, pre-school education and infant welfare, and what advantage those municipalities are taking of the revenue sources available to them. [More…]
We cannot hope to eliminate poverty, or to derive full benefit from improved health and education services, without making proper provision for housing. [More…]
In response to my question this morning the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) said: [More…]
Tonight I spoke with Mrs Margaret Lacy who is an acquaintance, I believe, of the Minister for Education. [More…]
Some months ago she came to see the Minister for Education who was then the shadow Minister for Education and after an hour and a half spent in an interview she said, as is reported in the ‘West Australian’ of 26 April 1972: [More…]
The ALP sees education as a total concept with equal opportunity for all children. [More…]
For example, Tasmania has adopted an education system in which it really has altered the nature of high schools and established certain very definite matriculation high schools. [More…]
I became Minister for Education on 18 December. [More…]
Some of the other features of the new scheme are: Commutation of retirement pay will be a right for members who retired after 1 October 1972, subject only to applications for commutation being made within one year of retirement or such longer period as may be necessary in special circumstances; management of the scheme is to be vested in a statutory authority on which all the Services will be represented; reversionary benefits will be extended to de facto widows and the member’s illegitimate children, in certain circumstances, and dependent widowers of female members; the rates of pension payable in respect of children and orphans will be increased and, provided they are receiving full time education at a school, college or university, will continue in payment until age 25 years; invalidity pay will no longer be subject to suspension solely on account of earnings from civil employment; a contributing or recipient member may, if he is dissatisfied with a decision of the authority in relation to invalidity classification or any other matter of general administration of the Act, have his case referred to an invalidity review tribunal or any administrative appeal tribunal, as appropriate, for hearing and decision. [More…]
In all other legislation this Government has brought in in the fields of health, education, new cities, urban development, local government grants, gas and oil distribution, mining exploration and off-shore rights, the central control has been vested in Canberra. [More…]
One wing of the building is to be removed to Duntroon for use by the Association for Modern Education. [More…]
Sex education and guidance, including assistance to parents who find that they cannot adequately provide such training to their children. [More…]
I ask a question of the Minister for Education. [More…]
I will have this investigated and ask the officers of my Department to discuss it with the Queensland Education Department. [More…]
As I have said, I will as& officers of my Department to discuss the matter with officers of the Queensland Education Department and see whether something better can be arranged. [More…]
We cannot afford to ignore in the context of that responsibility the way in which the health of Aboriginal children in East Gippsland is undermined and their education is disrupted by an outbreak of scabies which threatens to reach epidemic proportions. [More…]
The welfare officer last term was cleaning up the sores of up to 14 pre-school children in a day so that they could go on receiving the benefit of a pre-school education. [More…]
Probably the reason that I am so aware of this problem is that 1 spent a great number, of years in the Victorian State Education Department. [More…]
The questions df education, health and other welfare problems were clearly defined in the. [More…]
The Government must recognise that a shorter working week coupled with increasing costs of materials and labour and recurrent strikes will cripple us and remove our capacity to improve health, education and social welfare standards in Australia. [More…]
Several questions which I have placed on notice to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) have, to this stage of the parliamentary session, been totally ignored. [More…]
Throughout society today there is certainly a conflict between the traditional role of women and the opportunities now available to women as a consequence of education, smaller families and the greater range of suitable work provided by modern technology. [More…]
I mean no disrespect to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) who is at the table. [More…]
Mr BEAZLEY (Fremantle- Minister for Education) - 1 wish to make a personal explanation. [More…]
It is true that there is a problem about migrant education, particularly at the workshop level. [More…]
We have been so concerned that today in Canberra a meeting is being held of the adult migrant education officers of the States and the officers charged with educational responsibilities in the various State branches of the Department of Immigration. [More…]
The quality of education leaves much to be desired. [More…]
In addition to the recommendations amounting to $660m referred to above, there will be in 1974 to 1975 substantial expenditures arising from existing legislation: $4.5m for nongovernment school buildings; $11.5m for secondary school libraries; $16.5m for science laboratories in both government and nongovernment schools; and considerable outlays on expanded programs for the education of Aboriginal children and children of nonEnglishspeaking families. [More…]
Most notably, of course, the Commonwealth has a commitment to expend $l88m on teacher education in the21/2 years beginning 1 July 1973. [More…]
Special education for physically and mentally handicapped children - $43 . [More…]
3m in grants for replacement of teachers in training; $ 10.2m in grants for recurrent expenses in special education; $4m in grants to States to assume responsibility for schools conducted by voluntary bodies; and $20m in grants for education departments for new and replacement facilities for handicapped children. [More…]
6m for education centres. [More…]
Main beneficiaries of the recommendations to the non-government sector of education are the Catholic parochial schools,whose resource level is estimated at 80 per cent of that of the average state school. [More…]
The pursuit of equality in the sense of making, through schooling, the overall circumstances of children’s education as nearly equal as possible; [More…]
The notion of education as a life-long experience of which attendance at primary and secondary schools is one phase; [More…]
In summary, this Committee has presented recommendations designed to provide a general upgrading of facilities, special consideration for the needs of disadvantaged children and improvements in the quality of education. [More…]
It has recommended a decentralised system of education, public accountability by nongovernment schools receiving assistance, and provision for evaluation of the assistance programs. [More…]
It is quite true that the document recommends some notable advances in terms of Commonwealth involvement in education, but it has not been possible in the hour in which the report has been available to look to see the mechanisms which are proposed. [More…]
In the last few words of his speech the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) said that the Committee has recommended a decentralised system of education. [More…]
It is worth noting that in Victoria the State Education Department is being decentralised into regions. [More…]
The need for decentralisation is understood increasingly by Stats departments of education and State Ministers for Education and it ought not to be something imposed by the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Minister for Education has informed the Committee that all grants being made to schools under Commonwealth legislation which was operative when the present Australian Government came to office would be continued during 1973. [More…]
It was not covered under the terms of reference* This House ought to have a copy of the letters that have come, as I understand it, not only from the Minister for Education but also from the Prime Minister to Professor Karmel, directing the manner in which certain recommendations of this Committee- [More…]
The whole tenor of what I have to say is that the Interim Committee was given an indication, a suggestion, a directive by letter, in writing or by word from the Minister for Education or from the Prime Minister that per capita grants as they had existed, as had been the policy of the Federal Catholic Schools Committee, the Australian Parents Council and the National Council of Independent Schools were to be phased out. [More…]
Secondly, it ought to be noted that I pressed the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) to make arrangements that would enable this long and detailed report to be fully examined. [More…]
I hope that its educational qualities and merits will be debated without passion from either side of the House. [More…]
Mr BEAZLEY (Fremantle - Minister for Education) - I expressed an opinion that if the Committee should come to the view that grants should be phased out, nobody should be jolted out from having a level of grant to nothing. [More…]
It would seem to be contrary to the view which the Minister for Education expressed. [More…]
The Medical, Dental, Education and Psychology Corps would lose 200 National Service. [More…]
On occasions when a serviceman is sent overseas his children have to be sent back to Australia or perhaps sometimes to England to get the education that they need. [More…]
In this age of technological sophistication and of tremendous improvements in personal standards of living, schemes such as this must be completed with all haste to provide for people who are prepared to suffer no small amount of personal hardship, particularly in relation to education, cost of services and means of communication. [More…]
I rise to speak to this Bill because I had the pleasure of completing my formal education on King Island at the age of 14 and spent 2 years over there to receive some of the best practical experience in a very warm and friendly community. [More…]
I have not had time to examine it in detail, but from what I have seen of it already I know that it is a magnificent blueprint for education for the 1970s. [More…]
It has all the details we need for a dynamic program for education in the 1970s. [More…]
The report sets out how we should collect the data for an ongoing appraisal of the needs of education. [More…]
He made a personal, despicable and shameful attack on the Chairman of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission, Professor Peter Karmel, under the veil of making an attack on the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
It was thinly disguised as an attack on the Minister for Education. [More…]
For the first time that I know of an Australian education committee has made recommendations on the subject of the handicapped, setting out with the deliberate object of trying to bring the handicapped to a position of equality with the rest of the community as far as is humanly possible. [More…]
The honourable gentleman will recall that Mr Scanlan of Victoria, who I am thankful to see no longer has anything to do with education, sent me a letter asking for assistance for the handicapped and setting out a Victorian scheme. [More…]
But what is clear is that we are recommending grants to the States and to private education authorities to be used for these purposes. [More…]
able members, I present the report of the assessment panel on the Australian Capital Territory Education Authority on a design for the governance and organisation of education in the Australia Capital Territory. [More…]
The document which I have tabled today relates to an inquiry conducted in 1971-72 into the management and financial administration of the then Department of Education and Science. [More…]
In pursuing this inquiry and preparing its report, the Committee has been conscious of the considerable interest shown by members in all matters relating to education - especially the Commonwealth’s role and responsibilities in this field. [More…]
Although there have been considerable changes in the structure of the Department of Education and Science since the Committee conducted its inquiry, the information contained in the 144th report provides a useful background for further study of current educational trends and policies. [More…]
I suggest to all honourable members that they study the report, particularly where it outlines problems encountered by the Department of Education and Science in building up a satisfactory structure to carry out its various tasks. [More…]
The purpose of mis Bill is to establish the Film and Television School as a statutory body with the status of a college of advanced education. [More…]
It carried out wide-ranging investigations and produced 3 reports which documented firm support for the School from commercial film producers, the Federation of Commercial Television Stations, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, the Commonwealth Film Unit, guilds and unions, and education institutions. [More…]
It will conduct full time courses in film and television production, and it is hoped that it will become a centre for open school activities, which will include refresher courses, seminars and workshops for people involved in the film and television industry, in education, and for aD film-makers and video specialists in the developing areas of audiovisual communications. [More…]
I mention only universities, colleges of advanced education, teachers and technical colleges as institutions which are increasingly seeking people qualified in areas of film and television production and education. [More…]
The school will co-ordinate the granting of financial assistance to organisations and institutions concerned with film and television training and education in Australia. [More…]
One will enable full concessional deductions for expenses incurred in connection with the education in spite of the new benefit for isolated children. [More…]
I congratulate the Government on the action it has taken under this legislation and particularly for the grants under the isolated children’s education scheme. [More…]
The intention to make such appointments was first discussed however at a meeting with State education authorities on 12 January 1970, and there is reference to my Department’s intention to assess the need to extend its normal integration services, through the provision of interpreters and welfare officers to meet the requirements of the child migrant education program, in the Ministerial Statement made to Parliament on 23 April 1970 by the then Minister for Immigration. [More…]
The network of planned new migrant education centres in all States to which I referred in my statement to the press when opening the first of the new centres in Perth on 21 February 1973 does not differ from the proposal on the same subject to which the previous Minister referred in his statement to Parliament on 31 August 1972. [More…]
The concept of migrant education centres in the States is not however new. [More…]
A centre has been in existence in Melbourne since 1952, when my Department obtained accommodation for the adult migrant education section of the Victorian Department of Education. [More…]
New and larger premises are planned for Melbourne to accommodate the increased faculties which we are now providing under both the child and adult migrant education programs. [More…]
Statistics of education expenditure are published by the Commonwealth Statistician in the publication Expenditure on Education: 1971-72’, Reference No. [More…]
Tables 1 and 2 of the publication show details of Australian Government outlays on education. [More…]
Currently the publication has only limited details concerning expenditures by level of education. [More…]
However, the Commonwealth Statistician is working towards the elaboration of a finer functional classification of education ependitures, more or less along the lines of the classification used in Table 7. [More…]
Development of more detailed statistics of private sector expenditure on education is also in progress, but it is still at a preliminary stage. [More…]
These developments, which are being made within the Australian national accounting framework, will provide increased details concerning the source and disbursement of funds for education and in particular for primary and secondary education. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education any recent information available on the number of dropouts and failures in each year of each school or faculty of each Australian university or other tertiary institutions? [More…]
I have asked my Department to discuss with the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education, the possibility of having further studies undertaken on a regular basis. [More…]
Will he bring up to date and express on a per capita basis the information provided by his predecessors on expenditure incurred by each State and Territory on pre-school education (Hansard, 24 September 1969, page 1922; 12 June 1970, page 3682; 20 August 1971, page 490; 10 May 1972, page 2284 and 11 May 1972, page 3444). [More…]
The Commonwealth Statistician has provided information of expenditure by State Governments from their own resources on pre-school education during the years 1970-71 and 1971-72, which is set out in Table 1 below. [More…]
In addition to the amounts spent by State Governments from their own resources on pre-school education, State Governments spend grants made available by the Australian Government under the States Grants (Pre-school Teachers Colleges) Act 1968. [More…]
He was also Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
The purport of the amendments is similar to the amendments to the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill, and the point of similarity is amendment No. [More…]
Their origin is the same as that of the amendments moved by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in relation to colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It is designed both to clear the decks for progress in the years ahead and to ensure that in major areas of concern- social welfare, education, the quality of urban life- real forward moves are made immediately. [More…]
Married men and their wives and children face disadvantages with respect to housing, education and shifting of postings. [More…]
I am of the opinion that greater consideration should be given to serving professional officers in specific disciplines, such as engineers, so that they may have easier access to educational institutions for their further education whilst serving. [More…]
As as result of the initial experience with the Act, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has indicated clearly that there are some areas which need amendment. [More…]
These provisions in the Bill are matters of machinery which, although practical and essential, would be hardly likely to raise issues of policy or to excite debate on future educational development or philosophy. [More…]
In the debate on the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill on 3 May I cited in detail examples from my own experience as a secondary school teacher in Victoria. [More…]
It was particularly encouraging to hear the Minister speak in his second reading speech of the teaching force of the Commonwealth Teaching Service becoming hopefully a laboratory for new and valid educational ideas. [More…]
The Commonwealth Teaching Service is, I believe, destined to play a significant pace-setting role in what may become a series of controlled experiments in functional education. [More…]
Although the Service reveals itself as an efficient and in some respects a unique organisation in the Australian Capital Territory, it would be unfortunate if Australia failed to recognise the responsibility of the service in what has been in the past an educationally complex condition in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Commonwealth Teaching Service is responsible for the education of large numbers of Aboriginal children. [More…]
Neither can we ignore the claims which seem likely to be made upon us in the not too distant future regarding secondary and technical education in Papua [More…]
Their governing boards or councils will include representatives of the community, of parents and of teachers, and perhaps also nominees of the Education Authority itself. [More…]
In other words, the development of a participating community together with an adequately trained and skilled group of educationally professional specialists will become the norm for every school, both within the purview of the Commonwealth Teaching Service and beyond it to the State schools and associated specialist services. [More…]
Whilst traditionally, and in prospect, the responsibility for education lies with the States, the enlargement of research and experimental facilities within the Commonwealth Teaching Service offers unprecedented opportunities to initiate and implement change towards a contemporary educational achievement. [More…]
I support the concepts outlined by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in his second reading speech. [More…]
I think that it is a very wise step to ensure that superannuation payments can be transferred and that people are not disadvantaged by transferring from either the New South Wales Department of Education or the South Australian Department of Education to the Commonwealth Teaching Service. [More…]
I would hope that this legislation could be used as a model by the States and could be extended to the States so that teachers from the various State education departments might have the same opportunities as those teachers covered by the provisions of this Bill. [More…]
I should like to see a situation in which, perhaps, an interchange of teachers could occurthat is, that teachers from the various State education departments could be transferred or seconded to the States or to the Commonwealth Teaching Service so that any tendency towards in-breeding within any one educational system could be lessened or eliminated. [More…]
I think it would be a very good thing if maximum interchange between the teaching systems within the total educational environment of Australia were to be encouraged. [More…]
I was also pleased to see the reference in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education to the role that the Commonwealth Teaching Service may play in Papua New Guinea in the future. [More…]
I am one of those who believe that education in particular will offer a tremendous opportunity to the people of Papua New Guinea to be able not only to develop their own culture but also to develop their own nation. [More…]
-I am sure that the State and other educational services will agree with that interjection, but 1 hope that the Minister in his wisdom will do all he can to support the State and other education authorities in the development of their own systems as a laboratory for new and valid educational ideas. [More…]
That has given rise to a great deal of disquiet among various educational authorities and those who are interested in the provision of education in both the State and the non-State educational systems. [More…]
I point out that in my view it would be wrong if the Commonwealth Teaching Service were to be considered to be the only teaching service which could supply a laboratory for new and valid educational ideas. [More…]
Many schools in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory are the object of envy of many other educational systems. [More…]
I hope, as the Minister has signified, that he will not confine his interests just to the Territories but that he will be doing all he can to support the influx and the testing of new and valid educational ideas in other systems. [More…]
The members of the Australian Pre-Schools Committee and the Child Care Standards Committee were selected on the basis of the contribution they could make to the work of the respective Committees in the fields of pre-school education and child care. [More…]
The Australian Pre-Schools Committee has two qualified pre-school teachers, two educationists with experience in administering pre-school education systems (one of whom was formerly a senior lecturer at a Kindergarten teachers college), an authority in child development and special education, an eminent paediatrician, and an educationist who has specialised in teacher education, particularly in the preparation of programs in early child development. [More…]
The Child Care Standards Committee has five educationists qualified as pre-school teachers, an authority on child psychology who was a principal of a Kindergarten Teachers Training College, one eminent psychiatrist, one social worker with special experience in child care and a senior administrator in a State welfare depanment. [More…]
The Chairman is a former Assistant Director-General of the New South Wales Department of Education with wide experience in educational administration. [More…]
Two members of the Australian Pre-Schools Committee and six members of the Child Care Standards Committee include amongst their qualifications a Diploma of a Kindergarten Teachers’ College or an equivalent qualification in preschool education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Does the work of the Centre coincide with the Government’s stated policy or philosophy of identifying and eradicating inequalities in education. [More…]
The Government has set up a range of advisory commissions in education for the specific purpose of ensuring a reasoned and systematic rather than an ad hoc, approach to these matters. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education: [More…]
The Government’s election policy includes an undertaking to establish large multi-purpose centres at school, which during the day can be used for school purposes and in afterschoolhours for adult education or for useful cultural or artistic activities, art, dancing, sport, photography and so on by all members of the community. [More…]
The Minister for Education will be aware that the Karmel Committee has indicated that it will consider categorisation appeals by schools on technical and restructuring grounds. [More…]
Increased expenditures in the area will be directed through other departments, including the Department of Housing through the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement, the Department of Education, the Department of Social Security and the Department of Health. [More…]
I address my question, which concerns Commonwealth expenditure on preschools, to the Minister for Education. [More…]
When applications come from private pre-school authorities, I imagine the decision will be made by the Pre-Schools Commission but the grants probably will be made to the States for passing on to the private authorities; or it may be more convenient to use the Commonwealth Department of Education branches in the States. [More…]
The State departments channel a substantial proportion of these funds through other State departments in areas such as health, education and housing. [More…]
The Australian Government does not seek the transfer from the States of particular responsibilities in the fields of health, housing, education and other functional areas, which in its view should preferably be carried out by the appropriate Australian or State departments having responsibility in these areas, partly on the basis of the continued provision of funds by the Australian Government. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has no wish to assume total and direct control of all programs and believes that in fields such as health and education the State authorities should continue to provide services for Aborines as for other citizens, with such special assistance as may be necessary being supported with Commonwealth Government grants as at present. [More…]
In the brief time I spoke on this matter last night I did commend the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) for continuing the work of the previous Government and the previous Minister for Education in setting up the Commonwealth Teaching Service. [More…]
The introduction of a superannuation scheme whereby teachers from New South Wales and South Australia may be influenced to change their mode of life and to start a career in the Northern Territory will assist in the development of the education of Territorians, both black and white. [More…]
The Teaching Service will considerably assist education in the north. [More…]
We talk about development on the economic side, military assistance and so on but I think that we should still be looking into the field of education. [More…]
One thing that is happening as a result of the program of education in the vernacular for Aboriginal children is a new identity of parents with the schools, and the coming into being of Aboriginal parents councils in association with schools. [More…]
We arranged for his work to be shown at a conference in Darwin where these problems of education in the vernacular were being discussed. [More…]
Some df these matters are the most hopeful things I have seen in Aboriginal education. [More…]
If the honourable member wishes to read the Budget he will find that a great deal of money has been made available in various fields in the northern part of Australia - in the fields of health, education, Aboriginal development, public works, water conservation– [More…]
Again I should point out that a government has a responsibility to determine what amount of gross national product or gross domestic product should be spent on defence, but it has to make that decision together with other decisions that the Government finds necessary, particularly in relation to our existing program to improve education facilities in this country and to provide greater security opportunities for the citizens of Australia, and indeed in all of the domestic programs. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report entitled Expansion of Medical Education’. [More…]
I would like him to make sure that a proper education program is instituted, with all the relevant facts being put together in a committee room so that all new members will have the same opportunity to discover the facts as we had on previous occasions. [More…]
It parallels the entry of the Australian Government into education in the early 1960s. [More…]
That was a big change in the way the Commonwealth sought to assist education. [More…]
I turn now to discuss in more detail the major areas comprising the Government’s program in education. [More…]
Tertiary Education [More…]
The Government has already announced major initiatives which will greatly improve accessibility of entry to this level of education. [More…]
Improvement of the quality of education at other levels will also result from these initiatives because of the expansion and improvement of teacher education along with other areas of tertiary education. [More…]
Agreement was reached with the State Premiers in June that the Australian Government would from 1 January 1974 take over the financial commitment of the States to approved programs for the remainder of the triennium 1973-75 in respect of universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The Australian Government will also finance teachers colleges and pre-school teachers colleges to the levels recommended by the Cohen Committee on teacher education. [More…]
The Government will provide a further $33m in this financial year as its share in the program for teacher education recommended by the Cohen Committee. [More…]
The high quality and professionalism of the teacher must surely be the most vital input into the education process. [More…]
The Government has decided, as announced earlier this year, to abolish tuition and related fees in universities, colleges of advanced education, teachers colleges and technical colleges. [More…]
Some innovation is to be introduced into the method of financing tertiary education to make specific allowance for cost rise. [More…]
Since grants to universities and colleges of advanced education are determined from 1 to 4 years ahead of actual expenditure, these institutions find their financial resources, strained in periods when costs rise more rapidly than might reasonably have been anticipated. [More…]
The Government has accepted the salary increases for academic staff at universities and colleges of advanced education recommended by Mr Justice Campbell in a report tabled in May 1973. [More…]
When the Government assumes full responsibility for the funding of tertiary education from 1 January 1974 the cost to the Government in the first full year is expected to be $48m. [More…]
Management Education [More…]
Following a long period of indecision by the previous Government, we have decided to put into effect the recommendations of a committee of overseas experts for the establishment of a national postgraduate school of management education at the University of New South Wales. [More…]
We consider it essential that postgraduate management education facilities of the highest quality should be offered in Australia and will provide the sum of $2,330,000 during the 1973-75 triennium. [More…]
Associated with upgrading the quality of management education in Australia is the need to increase the supply of quality teachers, both foi the national school and for other schools of management education. [More…]
Technical and Further Education [More…]
The Government has established the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education, which will be concerned with the complex and diverse field of post-school education, other than tertiary education. [More…]
As an interim measure supplementary grants totalling $10m will be made available to the States for technical education during the 1973-74 financial year. [More…]
The total of $25.6m for 1973-74 will enable the States to provide urgent capital works for technical education during the interim period before assistance is based on the recommendations of the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
Primary and Secondary Education [More…]
The Government’s acceptance of the major recommendations of the Committee will mean new programs from 1974 aimed at improving the quality of education and promoting accessibility to education. [More…]
Special programs will promote rapid development in areas of particular need such as school libraries, teacher development, education of the handicapped and education in socially disadvantaged localities. [More…]
Educational strategies and techniques must, of course, change to meet changing needs, and the Government will support programs recommended by the Committee to foster innovation and development in primary and secondary education. [More…]
The special programs for socially disadvantaged schools represent an important departure from Australian traditions in public education. [More…]
Supplementary funds will be made available to schools identified as being disadvantaged on the basis of certain characteristics of their catchment areas so that they can respond to the particular educational difficulties faced by groups of relatively poor children. [More…]
The Government’s needs policy requires that special attention and resources be devoted to the education of those groups of children who in the past have had least public money spent on their education because they leave school earlier and gain no benefit from expensive tertiary education facilities. [More…]
If the revolution in accessibility to education is to be achieved we must discriminate in favour of those children in greatest need. [More…]
The appropriations for the child care program do not appear in the Budget Speech under ‘Education’ but under the functional classification of Social Security and Welfare’. [More…]
We have increased support to the national secretariat of the Australian Pre-Schools Association ($35,400 in 1973-74) which plays an important co-ordinating role in the voluntary pre-school education movement in Australia. [More…]
The Government’s decision to establish a Pre-Schools Commission will necessarily lead to a review of its relationship with the Association but I have no doubt that the Association will continue to make significant contribution in the vital first stage of education. [More…]
If we are serious in our desire to provide equal opportunities for all students, so that they may progress to the level of education consistent with their abilities and aspirations, then we must reduce the emphasis on competitive schemes with limited numbers of scholarships and think rather in terms of grants whereby able students are assisted in accordance with their needs. [More…]
The Government’s program in the field of student assistance has placed great stress upon the removal of the financial barriers to a student’s educational fulfilment. [More…]
I have already spoken about the Government decisions in relation to the abolition of fees at universities, colleges of advanced education and technical colleges. [More…]
This is only the first step in making tertiary and postsecondary education more readily accessible to able students. [More…]
Under this scheme any full-time Australian student enrolled in an approved course at either a university, college of advanced education, teachers college, technical college or agricultural college will be able to apply for a living allowance subject to a means test on family income. [More…]
The new allowances will replace the Commonwealth University, Commonwealth Advanced Education, and Commonwealth Technical Scholarship Schemes and no new awards will be offered under these schemes in 1974. [More…]
Eligible students attending universities will receive an incidentals allowance of Si 00 per annum, those at colleges of advanced education $70 per annum, and technical college students $30 per annum. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has made a lengthy and detailed statement on the Government’s education program. [More…]
I think that all parties in this Parliament would have a very considerable degree of unanimity in the objectives that they would want to achieve in many of the areas of education. [More…]
I am glad, in particular, that the Government has expanded the migrant education program and that it has acted as a result of a survey that was established by the previous Government of 60 or so inner city schools in Victoria, largely in the inner city area of Melbourne. [More…]
That survey was established by the former Minister for Immigration and the former Minister for Education because of the real problems of which people were aware in migrant education. [More…]
A link between the home and the school will have to be established by specialist personnel, social workers and psychologists, in a way which really has not been undertaken to a great extent but which was begun by the previous Government in relation to the migrant education program. [More…]
There is one point that needs to be clarified because this House and the people of Australia have been led to believe that the Government is spending on education an additional $404m or 92 per cent more than was spent last financial year. [More…]
That amount is not the net additional expenditure on education under this Budget. [More…]
Of the $404m an amount of $ 144.6m is a straight transfer payment from the States to the Commonwealth, representing expenditure in the last 6 months of this financial year when the Commonwealth Government will take over all tertiary education. [More…]
It may have been additional expenditure if the States still had available to them that amount of $144m for expenditure on education of which they have been relieved. [More…]
No doubt next year, when the Commonwealth will be financing tertiary education for a full year for the first time, the States will have a further amount taken from their recurrent grants. [More…]
It now means that, while universities, colleges of advanced education and teachers colleges are established by State law and are largely responsible to the States, the financing of them will be- solely a matter for another government which does not establish them. [More…]
There already has been evidence that the present Commonwealth Government will pay no heed to the States concerned in regard to where they want a new university to be located or what kind of a new college of advanced education a State wants to establish. [More…]
An amount of $90m in that $404m additional expenditure stems from the reports of the Australian Universities Commission, the Australian Commission on Advanced Education and the Cohen report on teacher training. [More…]
But there is a transfer payment in that, as I thought I had explained earlier, because the money that the Commonwealth is providing to finance tertiary education fully is being subtracted from the general grants made available to the States via Premiers Conferences. [More…]
So, it does not represent a net addition to expenditure on education. [More…]
I believe also that that amount of $90m which is additional expenditure as a result of the reports of the 2 tertiary education commissions and of the Cohen Committee in this financial year is expenditure that in fact was committed by the previous Government. [More…]
To continue analysing this $404m, an amount of SI 2m is for additional expenditure on Aboriginal study grants and education and also migrant education. [More…]
I have already said that the Opposition applauds the expansion of the child migrant education program flowing from a survey which was commissioned last year. [More…]
The education scheme for Aborigines has been extended by the present Government into the full area of secondary education. [More…]
I believe that there would have been too great a discrimination in favour of one area if the Aboriginal study grant scheme had been extended to cover the full area of secondary education and special provision for isolated children had not been made at the same time. [More…]
An additional amount of $26m is to be spent on technical education. [More…]
That would mean a total additional expenditure of S467m on education over a 2-year period. [More…]
I think some reports have suggested that additional funds amounting to $693m are available for education, but this is not so because that amount includes many on-going programs which were commenced by the previous Government. [More…]
But I have already indicated that there are many similarities between the policies of this Government and the policies of the former Government concerning tertiary education, the Australian Universities Commission, colleges of advanced education and the adoption of the Cohen Committee recommendations which will add an amount of $90m this year. [More…]
There are also similarities in regard to the study grants scheme for Aborigines and the migrant education program. [More…]
The proposals for isolated children, foi technical education, for pre-schools, and as incorporated in part of the Karmel report, the primary school libraries, were proposals of all political parties before the last election, as also were proposals for specific disadvantage schools, whether those schools be government or non-government schools. [More…]
There is another point which I think might have been overlooked in the changes that have been made, although I have not had time to look at the detailed provisions of the changed arrangements that the Minister has tabled, and that involves the possible effect on residential colleges in universities or colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Therefore, if they are to attend university or a tertiary education institution they either have to board outside the university or live in a residential college. [More…]
Indeed the new arrangements might well operate to the significant disadvantage of people who did not live close to a university or college of advanced education. [More…]
The Minister emphasised the need for more educational research. [More…]
The previous Government some years ago established the Australian Committee on Research and Development in Education. [More…]
We would not have wanted to remove from the States responsibility for their universities and colleges of advanced education and therefore any direct capacity to influence where new institutions might be established - to influence what might happen within their own boundaries. [More…]
That would not be to the advantage of education in Australia. [More…]
The Opposition has the same view as does the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) who is obviously a minority in his Cabinet and in his Ministry. [More…]
When he said that, the Minister for Education specifically mentioned a school which I am sometimes falsely accused of having attended - Geelong Grammar School. [More…]
We want to remove the inequalities ‘ in Australian education and these are greatest in the nongovernment sector. [More…]
We will not repeal or reduce any educational benefit which is already being paid. [More…]
The ALP has never voted against any bill proposing Commonwealth aid for education and it will support any forms of benefit already existing. [More…]
The present Minister for Education made a commitment by proxy on, I think, 20 November last year. [More…]
The Minister answered the question with the one simple word ‘yes’- 1 think it is significant that commitments given 3 times by the Prime Minister and probably more than once by the present Minister for Education - against his own inclinations as he very honestly and courageously said in this Parliament on an earlier occasion - have, in fact, been broken. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to authorise revisions to the financial assistance grants arrangements agreed between the Australian and State Governments at the Premiers’ Conference held on 28 and 29 June 1973, namely: The reductions to the financial assistance grants which it was agreed would accompany the transfer to the Australian Government of financial responsibility for tertiary education as from January 1974; the payment in 1973- 74 of special additional revenue assistance of $25m to the States to be distributed between them in proportion to the formula grants; and the payment of grants to Western Australia in 1973-74 and 1974-75 additional to those authorised by present legislation. [More…]
At the Premiers Conference in June the States accepted the Australian Government’s offer to assume full financial responsibility for financing tertiary education from 1 January 1974, and it was agreed that estimated amounts of recurrent expenditure of which the States would thereby be relieved should be deducted from the financial assistance grants otherwise payable. [More…]
Legislation to authorise the necessary additional grants to the States for tertiary education will be introduced by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in the present sittings of Parliament. [More…]
of clause 6 provides for the reductions to the 1974-75 grants on account of the Australian Government’s assumption of full responsibility for financing tertiary education. [More…]
Comparison of the amounts of such assistance estimated to be paid in this year with the amounts paid in 1972-73 are affected by the reductions to be made to the 1973-74 grants on account of tertiary education. [More…]
Secondly, at the same meeting, the States accepted the Australian Government’s offer to assume full responsibility for financing tertiary education from January 1974 and agreed that their Loan Council programs should be reduced by estimates of the capital expenditures of which they would thereby be relieved. [More…]
Nonetheless, I concur with the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) that it is appropriate that we recognise the significance of an occasion when we transfer our allegiance from a monarch who is essentially British by name and nature to one who is Australian by identity and by approval of this Parliament. [More…]
Instead of our recognition of a British monarch with the one anomaly to which the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) referred, that is her title as Elizabeth II, we are for the first time accrediting the Queen of Australia with recognition of her as such and not because of our inheritance of the monarchy because the Queen is also Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. [More…]
A matter that was mentioned both by the honourable member for Morten (Mr Killen) and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) was the factor of the European Economic Community and the effect that the move by the United Kingdom into that organisation would have on the United Kingdom, the monarchy and United Kingdom sovereignty. [More…]
We know that the Government is spending 92 per cent more revenue on education. [More…]
and (2) Appointments to boards, commissions, advisory bodies and the like have been drawn from many areas, including the judiciary, commerce, industry, primary industry, education, science and the arts a.> well as from trade unions and employers’ organisations, on the basis of the experience and expertise of the persons concerned. [More…]
The major provisions of the legislation are concerned with matters including trade descriptions, false or misleading advertising, marketing practice, price control, consumer credit, consumer education and safety. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Minister’s migrant task forces in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland have been unanimous in criticising migrant education? [More…]
I should say, too, that one of the encouraging features of education in this country is the way in which, for the first time, the visual media are being taken with a seriousness approaching that which schools have always brought to the printed word. [More…]
All Australians concerned with the arts, with the quality of the media of information in this country and with the relevance of education in this country will salute the step which has been taken by the Government in bringing forward this Bill and establishing this school. [More…]
All Australians concerned with the relevance of the media of information and with the relevance of education in this country will salute what has been done. [More…]
As the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) said in his second reading speech, the genesis of this Bill was a Bill introduced in 1970 by the then Minister for Education and Science, the Hon. [More…]
The Council of the Australian National University has been concerned for a great period of time about this problem of parking and traffic movement throughout the university campus and, following the speech in 1970 of the then Minister for Education and Science, in 1972 at the meeting of the Council of the Australian National University it was resolved on the recommendation of the Buildings and Grounds Committee of the University to authorise the Vice Chancellor of the University to establish a continuing committee on parking problems. [More…]
As the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has said, when Mr Nigel Bowen was Minister for Education and Science in October 1970, while speaking on a “Bill to amend the Australian National University Act he forecast that he would subsequently introduce an amendment to the Act to enable the control of traffic within the Australian National University. [More…]
This, of course, is consistent with the provisions which are already in force under the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act. [More…]
Thus in 1971 a backbencher was able to claim that during his 2 years in Parliament there had been no full scale debate on urban development, pollution, conservation, education, road safety, transport, social services, the rural crisis, tariffs or immigration. [More…]
The truth is that we cannot have real advances in the public sector - education, cities, pensions or health - without real advances in the private sector where the wealth is built. [More…]
What about education? [More…]
Has the report of the Karmel Committee - an independent committee with representation from all sides of education - no merit? [More…]
In fact, I seem to remember their being a little inconsistent over the last few weeks on the subject of education. [More…]
I believe it was the presentMinister for Education (Mr Beazley) who expressed an opinion that the parents of many university students are well able to pay for their education. [More…]
There is no doubt that he has won the admiration and gratitude of those who have an interest in education and those in receipt of pensions. [More…]
The 1973 Budget makes provision for the greatest financial assistance in the history of this nation in the extremely important field of education. [More…]
The 2 Liberal Party speakers who preceded the Labor speakers in this debate did not say a word about education. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition, in attacking Labor’s Budget, indicated opposition to the provision of additional finance for education. [More…]
Education has been given top priority by the Government and $843m is to be provided in 1973-74, representing an increase of $404m or 92 per cent on last year. [More…]
This allocation of funds to education makes me particularly happy because it kills the claim made by Labor’s opponents prior to the 1972 Federal election that Labor Government would eliminate aid to private schools and that our education promises prior to the election would be broken. [More…]
Just before the 1972 election, in my electorate of Lilley a vicious campaign was waged by the National Civic Council, the Democratic Labor Party, the Liberals and pseudoLiberals - cum-DLP-supporters who stooped to every undesirable tactic to instil fear into the minds of people about the future education of their children. [More…]
This must be of great benefit to students, to parents, to the schools and to the whole education structure. [More…]
I am very pleased to be a member of a government that will enable boys and girls not only in my electorate but also throughout the length and breadth of this land attending universities, colleges of advanced education, State teachers colleges and other approved teachers colleges and technical colleges, to benefit because of the Federal Government’s action in assuming financial responsibility for education and also in the abolition of fees. [More…]
If we have to choose whether we pay a few cents extra on a pack of cigarettes or a gallon of petrol, against an improvement in the education of the children of this country, the lifting of the standard of living of our pensioners and making a better country for everybody, I will choose the course that has been taken by this Government. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
What education facilities are available to Aboriginal students. [More…]
The same educational facilities are available to these Australian students as are available to all other Australian students. [More…]
There are no restrictions imposed because of Aboriginality; on the contrary, special efforts are made to adapt the curriculum of schools and pre-schools in distinctive Aboriginal communities to the needs and the background of the children living in these communities and special efforts are made to encourage Aboriginal children throughout Australia to continue through secondary school and to go on to tertiary education. [More…]
An example of adaptation of the curriculum is the bilingual education program introduced this year in certain schools in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Since the 1967 Referendum that Department has made grants to the States for special Aboriginal education projects ranging from pre-schooling to adult education totalling $6,798,000. [More…]
Students are encouraged and assisted to persevere in their education by the Aboriginal Secondary Grants Scheme and the Aboriginal Study Grants Scheme, administered by my Department, which offer financial assistance on a non-competitive basis to all students of Aboriginal descent in secondary and tertiary courses. [More…]
In all States, education is compulsory for children between certain ages whether they are Aboriginal or not, and the conditions for exemptions granted on such grounds as remoteness or physical or mental disability also apply to all children. [More…]
The specific information on this matter, as provided by State education authorities, is as follows: [More…]
Queensland: The provisions of the Education Act in Queensland apply to all Aboriginal children as well as white children. [More…]
Such requirements are subject only to Education Department Regulations regarding distance of child’s home from school. [More…]
Education is compulsory for all children from 6 to 16 with provision for exemption at an age earlier than 16 in certain circumstances common to all students. [More…]
My Department is reviewing the existing legislation governing the education of children in the Northern Territory [More…]
It is probable that with the introduction of the recommendations of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission, relating to the education and training of handicapped children, there will be a reduction in the assistance sought by voluntary and religious organisations under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act. [More…]
It effects a substantial transfer of payments from the productive sector of the economy to welfare, social services, health and education. [More…]
This Budget gives great emphasis to the areas of education, health, social security and welfare, housing and community amenities, culture and recreation, Aboriginal advancement, sport, tourism, aid for States, transport and communications. [More…]
Insufficient publicity has been given to some of the Labor Government’s policies particularly in the area of education. [More…]
The Government has endeavoured to give every Australian the right to a full education, irrespective of social position or family income. [More…]
Education is one area which the former Government tried to use to great political advantage by giving particular advantage to some sections of the community. [More…]
This Government has increased education expenditure in this its first year by $404m, which represents an increase of 92 per cent in expenditure on education. [More…]
The great bulk of this Government’s spending in this Budget in relation to the public sector is related to education, social security and housing. [More…]
As I indicated previously, this Government intends to spend $404m more on education this year. [More…]
About 3 months ago one particular Minister thought of $17m that he wanted for the education of the handicapped. [More…]
He did not even take the trouble when writing to the Minister for Education - those honourable members opposite who have been in government know that that is not the way in which requests for funds from the Commonwealth are made - to indicate how he would spend the money. [More…]
The major increases in expenditure have been in the field of education and in the field of Aboriginal welfare. [More…]
Unfortunately there is a minimum of co-operation in some States in respect of attempts to improve our educational facilities. [More…]
Less than a fortnight ago the Victorian Minister for Education issued a public statement in which he said that he had at least been able to force the Commonwealth Government to examine the Victorian Government’s proposal for a multiple campus university. [More…]
The Victorian Minister went politicking around Victoria claiming support from local government bodies - not educational bodies because he knew that they would see through the hollow facade he was putting up. [More…]
The Victorian Minister for Education is grandstanding and I suspect he is doing so for one good reason. [More…]
I have on the notice paper a question to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) asking him to table all the documents in regard to this matter. [More…]
I wonder whether he has the courage to allow his documents to be tabled so that people who know something about education can examine them. [More…]
Whether one examines the fields of health, housing, education, social welfare, conservation, urban development or repatriation, one will have little trouble detecting evidence of our ambition and aim to improve the lot of our people not just in material terms but in every way. [More…]
Just as in the field of recreation and sport, in physical fitness and physical education, we want to help Australians to enrich their lives. [More…]
I make it quite clear that the Opposition welcomes the emphasis placed on education, social welfare and Aboriginal advancement but it is unfortunate that these concessions are acknowledged in the context of the erosion in the purchasing power of disadvantaged groups. [More…]
This approach is also evident in the section of the Budget which claims an increase of 92 per cent in educational expenditure. [More…]
A &um of $145m equal to 32 per cent is to be expended on tertiary education which would have been provided by the States under the old scheme. [More…]
The Commonwealth announced this year that it would take over financial responsibility for tertiary education. [More…]
On the other hand it took away from the States the $145m that they would have allocated to tertiary education. [More…]
Thus the increase for tertiary education directly resulting from this manoeuvre is nil. [More…]
It is quite improper to take $145m of tertiary education money from the States and then claim this as a figure for Commonwealth expenditure, as if by some magical formula the expenditure by the Commonwealth has suddenly increased. [More…]
To claim, as this Government has done, an increase of 92 per cent without developing the reasons why that increase has taken place is, I believe, a dishonest approach to the needs and responsibilities of education in this area. [More…]
I congratulate the Treasurer (Mr Crean) for an excellent document and an excellent program of social reform in a wide sphere of activity including health, education, urban transport, other urban problems, social welfare and many other fields. [More…]
There must be better provision for the health care of the community and better incentives for its young people over the school leaving age to persist with their’ education. [More…]
The phoney accounting continues, as other speakers have pointed out, in education because the true increase is not $404m but $260m. [More…]
If the LiberalCountry Party Government had remained in office I believe that much the same lift in education would have taken place. [More…]
I hope that in the case of education it will be different. [More…]
One of the greatest dangers facing democracy in this country is a centralised and monopolistic education system. [More…]
Previous speakers have said that the statement made by the Treasurer in the Budget to the effect that there has been a 92 per cent increase in the allowance for education is not true. [More…]
Almost double the money made available previously is to be spent in very vital areas of education. [More…]
Any casual student of the 1969 and 1972 elections would know that the community is very disturbed about the way in which the education systems in this country have been allowed to run down. [More…]
It is as important as education. [More…]
Perhaps the greatest inadequacy of the speeches not only of the Leader of the Opposition but of nearly all the honourable members that I have heard on the other side of the House has been the lack of recognition of the divided nature of the country the Government of which they so reluctantly handed over on 2 December 1972; the divisions in the community, the divisions among citizens, the education gap which exists - not the generation gap but the education gap. [More…]
The area is within a stone’s throw of where they live, but because of the colonial boundaries drawn in the last century by clerks in another country who were not too well up on what they were doing, these girls are precluded from going to their natural centres for tertiary education. [More…]
However, the print was hardly dry and the air lines had hardly cooled before the Treasurer announced, through the Press of course, that it would not be long before the Government would be considering possible amendments to taxation allowances and that education and insurance claims could be deleted. [More…]
Education follows with an increased expenditure of $404m, nearly double the amount’ spent on it in the previous year. [More…]
Factories before education; commercial profits before housing, investors before pensioners. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, you can understand why education never rated high whilst the Country Party was able to mould the allocation of resources. [More…]
Some of its increased expenditure I heartily applaud, in particular that on pensions, on education, on the cities, and on Aborigines. [More…]
Another is found in education. [More…]
A study undertaken recently by a task force in the United States of America for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare has found that coronary disease is directly attributable to the work style and mode of living. [More…]
In February this year in a short Press statement the Victorian Government indicated that it would establish a university based on Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo which would be located on grounds jointly occupied by a section of the university in each town, by the already existing teachers college in each town, which would be shifted to those grounds, and the college of advanced education existing in each of those towns. [More…]
The Commission, as we all know, was engaged in an examination with the Australian Commission on Advanced Education of proposals relating to the future needs for a university in or near Melbourne and in the Albury-Wodonga area. [More…]
On the morning on which the report was tabled in this House the Premier of Victoria indicated by telegram to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) that he was forwarding additional information relating to the Victorian Government’s proposals. [More…]
At this time the Victorian Minister for Education, Mr Thompson, was demanding that the Commonwealth indicate that it was prepared to support the Victorian Government’s proposals. [More…]
However, in what I would say was a fairly shrewd political move, by announcing the sites and thereby lifting the expectations of the areas concerned, the Victorian Minister for Education was able to cloud the fact that no submissions or preparatory work had been done by the Victorian Government. [More…]
What worries me most is that the people who know most about the educational needs of the 3 cities are not fully involved, and have not been fully involved, in the planning for this fourth university. [More…]
What should be done - even at this late stage it may be possible - is that the teachers colleges, the colleges of advanced education and the additional area which was proposed for a university- [More…]
As recently as this morning the Minister for Education in the New South Wales Government, representing the Minister for Labour and Industry in the New South Wales Government, was heard to complain that my action in freezing petrol prices was some kind of discrimination and that if something was not done about it he would have to take appropriate action. [More…]
I want to spend a few moments trying to probe the reasons behind the Government’s betrayal of promises given before the last election to a number of people about education and assistance to schools. [More…]
In a debate in another place the other day it was pointed out that, while additional funds for education were welcome, the way in which some of those funds were being spent was discriminatory and that the index relating to the division of funds between schools was secret. [More…]
It also revealed that both the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), when he was Leader of the Opposition, and the present Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) gave firm, categoric and absolute assurances, not once but several times, concerning the financing of schools. [More…]
I have no reason to believe that the Prime Minister corresponded with Professor Karmel other than at the time when the Prime Minister was Minister for Education in the period of the first Whitlam Government. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is an honourable man and he would not therefore want to leave the House with a false impression of what I was saying or what he was saying. [More…]
Mr BEAZLEY (Fremantle- Minister for Education) - I wish to make a personal explanation. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has introduced the word ‘deceit’. [More…]
The deceit is thrown back in his face because it was the Minister for Education and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) who previously gave undertakings that certain programs would be continued and not phased out. [More…]
Whilst the report is a result of probably the most far reaching survey yet conducted into the needs of education, it nevertheless strikes a mortal blow at approximately 10S top rating independent schools. [More…]
Before condemning the Government’s decision I want to make it perfectly clear that I in no way condemn the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
He has endeavoured to hold a line in justice to and in the interests of the education of children attending these schools. [More…]
Of course on 30 May 1973 he made the statement that ‘every school in Australia, including Geelong Grammar School, should receive a basic grant from the Commonwealth and that the Commonwealth should have an identity with the education of every child’. [More…]
This is a shoddy aspect of what is a comprehensive report - a report that talks about equality of education and equality of opportunity for children. [More…]
Where will be the incentive for those category B, C, D, E, F, G, or H schools to improve their standards of education? [More…]
I know that enough of them will be bringing their children home from boarding schools halfway through their education. [More…]
We see the illogical aspect of this decision when it is contrasted with the decision that university education will be free. [More…]
I rise to speak in this Grievance Day debate to applaud the Government for its massive expenditure on education and to refute the arguments advanced by the vocal few - I stress the point that it is the vocal few in the community - who have criticised the Government on this point. [More…]
Either such a person is not capable of looking at all the values on which that report is based and of looking at the full statement that is made in relation to the whole field of education, or such a person is incapable of reading the report. [More…]
The Karmel report, a most significant document, is the basis on which Government policy with respect to education is being developed. [More…]
That report in education circles and in education journals is described as the most significant document on education ever to be tabled in the Australian Parliament. [More…]
It is the document which provides the blueprint for Government policy on primary and secondary education. [More…]
I believe that most Australians are pleased that expenditure on education is the fastest growing component in the Budget, and that $843m which represents a rise of 92 per cent on the expenditure approved last year by the former Government, one of whose members has just spoken, is provided for expenditure in this field. [More…]
The provision will give education the shot in the arm that it so desperately needs. [More…]
As has been explained by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), these schools have the right of appeal to the Australian Schools Commission for a reassessment of their position if they can demonstrate a substantial change in circumstances since 1972, if mistakes have been made by schools in rilling in the form that they have sent in or if they believe that there is some injustice. [More…]
This thread has run right through our whole philosophy on education. [More…]
A further pertinent point is that some Press reports prior to the Budget predicted that the maximum tax deductions for a child’s education expenses was to be severely cut. [More…]
Also there are those State-righters who claim that the Australian Government wants to take over decision making in the field of education. [More…]
Regrettably, the Victorian Minister for Education is in this group. [More…]
He continually complains that he wants money from the Australian Government for education, but without any strings attached. [More…]
Education is a State matter. [More…]
I am concerned about whether the Victorian Government will be able to spend the increased money that will be at its disposal - about $134m - in the field of education. [More…]
For example, one can only be concerned that the Karmel report, of which 2,200 copies were received in the Victorian Education Department on 24 July, arrived in schools on only 24 August, a month later and the last day of the term. [More…]
This raises the whole question of decision making in the educational process. [More…]
The total thrust of the Karmel report and the Government’s policy is towards devolution of responsibility to the local level;- to the people who are involved in the educational process - principals, staff, parents, senior pupils and the community. [More…]
My experience in the Victorian Education Department attests to this being the state of affairs. [More…]
A great breakthrough has been achieved in the field of education. [More…]
Although the Government has shown itself to be concerned with quantity, by far the overwhelming preoccupation is with quality and equality in education. [More…]
This, I submit, represents an exciting shift in the role of the Australian Government in the field of education, [More…]
Firstly, he and a number of his colleagues have sought to make great capital out of the fact that education is the fastest growing sector in the Budget. [More…]
But I point out to the honourable member that for the past few years education has been the fastest growing sector in the Commonwealth Budget. [More…]
The honourable member, along with other members of his Party, mentioned the increase in expenditure in the field of education of $404m. [More…]
The latter is expenditure under the Australian Universities Commission, on colleges of advanced education and on the implementation of the recommendations of the Cohen Committee. [More…]
So, let us look more closely at the increase in educational expenditure. [More…]
I am concerned about the education of all children and the educational rights of all children. [More…]
I do not propose to discuss in detail the educational philosophy contained in the Karmel report. [More…]
I am concerned, as are other members of the Opposition and many other people outside this Parliament, about the credibility of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [More…]
I do not wish to canvass that because we all know the Prime Minister’s reputation for slipperiest when faced with obvious discrepancies in his utterances, but the Minister for Education [More…]
Those statements were made by the present Minister for Education before he achieved that office. [More…]
We have in the same Budget provision for free tertiary education for all people. [More…]
There is provision for free tertiary education at those well endowed tertiary education institutions regardless of the financial capabilities of the students or the parents of the students attending those institutions. [More…]
Let me for the information of the honourable member for Warringah (Mr MacKellar) bring this debate back into focus by putting the subject where it belongs - with the children who for so long have put up with a ramshackle, hopeless situation of education not only in government schools but in parochial schools conducted by the Catholic Church and for that matter in non-systemic, non government schools. [More…]
Let us remember that while the best of schools in this country are nonsystemic, non-Catholic schools so also is the worst off school in this country, one which has an input of 40 units of educational resources as opposed to 270 for the most privileged schools. [More…]
Raffles organised by teachers supplemented the standard $3.60 per pupil allowance for equipment from the Education Department. [More…]
Real estate is not education. [More…]
The broad acres and handsome buildings of Xavier College are no measure of the proportion of recurrent resources devoted by that school to the education of the students who attend it. [More…]
It is not a question of what the assets or the debts of <a particular school may be, the question is what are the resources devoted to the education of the students who attend that school. [More…]
Within the general area of education, for which the Opposition has appointed itself spokesman - the non-Catholic, non-systemic schools - the input of recurrent resources goes as low as 40. [More…]
Regularly, the spokesman on education for the Labor Party pleaded with the government of the day to recognise the needs of disadvantaged children in Australia. [More…]
Education of children in the English language was a matter for which the former Government accepted nominal responsibility. [More…]
It was prepared to let them go on indefinitely in their state of underprivilege and it was prepared to maintain indefinitely the gap between privileged, high quality education in Australia and the sort of education with which most people have to put up. [More…]
The delay occurred simply because the Victorian Director of Education, Dr Shears, saw fit to hold back from the schools of Victoria the copies of the report until he could prepare a commentary to be sent with it. [More…]
-This is a grievance debate and the topic that has been selected by many of us on this side of the House is not the question of so-called wealthy schools but is a question relating to schools in general, and the impact of a Labor Party decision, with regard to the Karmel Committee, upon education in general. [More…]
If it is necessary for members of the Opposition to point to the effects of this decision upon a selected group of schools, it is because of our concern about education in general and the impact Df the Labor Party’s decision. [More…]
However, because of the Labor Party’s callous breach of election promises made by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and the Prime- Minister (Mr Whitlam)- [More…]
One would hope that the Minister for Education could be persuasive enough of his own colleagues to induce them to honour a commitment that he made on their behalf while he was shadow Minister for Education to continue proportionate aid at the rate of 20 per cent of the cost of educating children in the state system. [More…]
Insofar as they will be deprived of the opportunity of exercising that free choice of sending their children to an independent school and decide as a result of the economic pressure imposed upon them by this Labor Government to send their children to a state school, they are slowing down the increase in educational output from the state system. [More…]
As a result, the Labor Party is prejudicing the rate at which the quality of education can be improved in the state system. [More…]
They are schools whose educational resource comes about very often by the supreme sacrifice of parents in the belief that they should give their children an opportunity that they want them to have. [More…]
It is to be hoped that when the Minister for Education takes this matter to the Caucus he will be able to persuade the Caucus to honour his election promise so that every child can receive the grants which they were assured by the Minister and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), in the month leading up to the last Federal election, would be available to them. [More…]
Mr BEAZLEY (Fremantle- Minister for Education) - Mr Deputy Speaker, I wish to make a personal explanation. [More…]
It is interesting to note that every speaker from the other side of the House who has spoken today in this debate which has centred on education has confined himself almost entirely to a discussion of the category A schools referred to in the Karmel report - a very small part of the total report. [More…]
In a little more than 5 months the Committee produced a report outlining a blueprint not only for progress in education but also for equality. [More…]
For far too long Australian children have received an education which in many cases and in many areas was inferior to that provided in countries with a similar standard of living. [More…]
Australia was once one of the leaders in world education. [More…]
Because of school holidays thousands of teachers and students who would otherwise have been unable to listen to this debate are in a position to hear the Opposition defending the status quo in education - the old schools, the poorly equipped schools, the lack of autonomy and decentralisation in education, the poor staff facilities and the lack of teacher controlled professional training. [More…]
How fortunate it is for the children of parents and teachers in the Australian community that education will not be forced to undergo yet another period of stagnation. [More…]
We said quite clearly, and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has just explained, that we would not be able to do everything at once, that we would fix aid according to priorities. [More…]
Provision has been made for the Australian Government to assume full financial responsibility for tertiary education, and a sum of $2 12m has been appropriated for this purpose. [More…]
Assistance to technical and further education will amount to S25.6m. [More…]
In primary and secondary education programs of assistance to Australian schools in accordance with the recommendations of the Karmel Report will total $97m. [More…]
8m has been provided for assistance in the education of isolated children. [More…]
Although a report has not yet been brought down on preschool education an initial amount of SI Om has been set aside. [More…]
I come now to education for special groups. [More…]
A sum of $350,000 wm be allocated to research and development in education, an area of education long neglected. [More…]
The total outlay by the Australian Government on education in 1973-74 will be $843m, which represents an increase of 92 per cent over 1972-73. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition said that the Government is not spending an additional 92 per cent but only 60 per cent, on the ground that the States were spending $145m on tertiary education. [More…]
The Australian Government’s allocation is on condition that that $145m so saved will be spent on other areas of education. [More…]
In that report it was estimated that 64 per cent of all parents claim $100 or less as a taxation deduction for education expenses. [More…]
Those children were not receiving the sort of education to which every Australian child is entitled. [More…]
We are not satisfied with the present situation in education. [More…]
I challenge any honourable member on the other side of the House to talk about quality in education, community involvement in education and diversity in education. [More…]
Community involvement is something that we will have to ensure in Australian education. [More…]
We want to see teachers brought into the education system more than they are now. [More…]
We want to see parents involved in the education system. [More…]
We will do this and it will go down in the history of education in this country that this Australian Labor Party Government has changed the whole face of education in Australia for the benefit of the children, the parents and the community. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable members on this side who have spoken on this very important issue of education have disposed of the arguments adequately and there is no need for me to add anything. [More…]
Thus, housing and education policies, policies concerning minimum acceptable income and taxation systems all have social welfare implications. [More…]
The Australian Government has committed itself to the concept of forward planning - planning of our cities, our health policies, our education policies and our welfare policies. [More…]
Another area I am glad that the Commission is looking into is education. [More…]
Does anybody in this Parliament ever consider the effect on individuals of what our education system in almost all the States of the Commonwealth does to a young Australian at the age of 16 years or 17 years? [More…]
You will be stuck in your room studying subjects from this ridiculous syllabus that is set by most State education departments for teenagers today’. [More…]
Why in the name of fortune it is necessary for education departments, for example, with respect to the English literature course to set a teenage child 14 books to read, to absorb and to understand, and another 10 books dealing with English expression passes beyond my comprehension. [More…]
The Minister, to his credit, also recognised the not-so-obvious ones which cause equal damage and equal social cost, such as broken homes, the defects in the education system to which I have very quickly referred, mental breakdowns, the feeling of persecution of minority groups and the generation gap - a term which I hate but which I use because my time has almost expired. [More…]
It is based on the philosophy that for most of the things we do in life we are educated to a high pitch, particularly in this age of specialisation; but for the thing which is probably the most important thing with which a human being is entrusted, namely raising children, there is virtually no training and no education except that which may or may not be passed on by parents. [More…]
My other suggestion is that the Commission might give some consideration to adult education. [More…]
I know that the Government of which I was a member gave funds to it and I know that this Government has; but are people using adult education enough? [More…]
Is it enough simply for a government to say: ‘Yes, we are for adult education. [More…]
I believe it is a fact that most teenagers in Australia today have a better education than their parents. [More…]
It does not mean they are smarter; but I believe that the system of education has improved, affluence has increased and kids today are better educated than their parents. [More…]
I believe that adult education would be one means of partially overcoming that problem. [More…]
Should it be in the area of education, health, urban affairs or primary industry? [More…]
It is rather significant that members of the Opposition give no credit at all to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) with respect to the polices he has advanced for children in rural areas which will provide $304 un-means tested for each child 10 miles away from an appropriate school, the same amount if living more than 4 miles away from transport to a school and up to $1,000 a year for isolated children. [More…]
No-one questions the good intentions of the Treasurer in rapidly expanding Government spending on welfare services, education, health care and similar matters. [More…]
Various statements were made by the Prime Minister about education grants for students attending independent schools. [More…]
The Minister for Education said that no school would receive less than it was receiving before the election, but all honourable members are aware that these grants have been chopped off to many schools. [More…]
Despite the election undertaking of Mr Beazley that all children whether at state or private schools would be equally the concern of the Labor Government, Labor, without a whimper from the Minister for Education, has blindly followed the Karmel recommendation of discrimination against the independent schools in certain classifications. [More…]
Speaking to the Budget itself, one of the main planks in the Australian Labor Party’s platform was education. [More…]
Following the winning the election on 2 December the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) set up the Interim Schools Commission under Professor Karmel, a well respected and renowned South Australian educationist, and of course he has brought down his report. [More…]
Education, which I think for quite some time has been something of a poor relation, has had its allocation increased by 92 per cent to a grant total of $843m. [More…]
Probably the most progessive education Minister in Australia is Mr Hugh Hudson, from South Australia. [More…]
He has drawn up plans to improve the standard of buildings and the general standard of education in that area. [More…]
But steps are now being taken and I hope that with the extra allocation in the Budget that the State Education Department will start to replace some of the old schools. [More…]
With the extra finance we certainly hope that the Department will be able to carry on and provide a decent education, decent buildings and so forth for the children in the more remote areas. [More…]
I would hope that with the extra allocation in the Budget by which the Commonwealth takes over full responsibility for all tertiary education, it will accept responsibility not only for universities but also colleges of advanced education, teachers colleges, technical colleges and so forth. [More…]
By doing so this area which could be designed a growth centre, will be able to provide services for the tertiary education of many people on the Eyre Peninsula who now, if they want that education, have to move to Adelaide. [More…]
We also notice that the amount allocated for technical training - a very important aspect of education - has increased by $10m to a total of $25.6m. [More…]
This will certainly give an opportunity to many children who now do not have an opportunity because of the poor economic background of their parents, to take up adecent education and have the advantage of what is available to them. [More…]
I hope that the Country Party, particularly the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) who has mentioned this matter on many occasions, will give the Government credit for the provision it has made to assist in the education of isolated children. [More…]
Not long after taking office, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) allocated Commonwealth money to provide for the first time for assistance in the education of isolated children. [More…]
Not many compliments have come from the Country Party with respect to the actions of the Labor Government and I hope that the honourable member for Maranoa will acknowledge this action which has been taken by the Minister for Education. [More…]
Certainly this is money which can be well spent because Aboriginal people in many areas have a need for advancement with respect to welfare, health and education. [More…]
I am prepared to concede, as he asked me, that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) provided funds for this purpose. [More…]
We introduced a deputation to the then Minister for Education, Mr Malcolm Fraser, and to the shadow Minister for Education, Mr Beazley. [More…]
In education we have increased the provision from $439m last year to a staggering $843m, an increase of 92 per cent. [More…]
We have doubled the allocation for education within 12 months. [More…]
So, through responsibly looking at the needs of the economy and the terrible neglect in the areas of social welfare and education by successive Liberal Party governments, wehave been able to provide for the Australian people and at the same time introduce a Budget that will allow the business of Australia to move along, that will allow our factories to run at peak production, with people at a peak level of employment, with the number of unfilled jobs as high as they ever have been and, at the same time, we have tried to do something creditable about the appalling 13 per cent level of inflation created by the former Government 12 months ago. [More…]
I should like now to deal with one of the items to which I have referred, namely, education. [More…]
As I said earlier, the allocation for education has increased from last year’s figure of $439m to $843m this year. [More…]
Education in Australia has been a very impoverished item and it has been entitled to a priority which previous governments have failed to recognise. [More…]
It wants to keep the economy going and it wants to fix priorities, which it is doing for schools, health, education and other matters. [More…]
From what I have said about education it can be seen that Australian children will get a better deal this year and so will the Australian people in general. [More…]
Secondly, education is equally as important. [More…]
Education should be available to all children at minimum or no cost. [More…]
As honourable members on the Government side who have spoken previously have pointed out, Labor is to provide over $843m for education during 1973-74. [More…]
The honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) pointed out that this represents a 92 per cent increase on the previous years allocation for education. [More…]
In my view this would be the largest amount appropriated for education in any Budget since Federation. [More…]
Government, as it promised in its policy speech, will from 1 January 1974 assume full financial responsibility for tertiary education at universities, colleges of advanced education, State teachers colleges and other approved teachers colleges, including the abolition of fees at all those institutions and technical colleges. [More…]
Our education policies, in my view, are a blueprint for the Australian community and are so long overdue through inadequate legislative measures by previous tory governments which gave inadequate financial aid to the children of the low income groups. [More…]
A university education was regarded as too good for the children of the workers or of low income groups. [More…]
Australia, about which we heard something only a week ago in the report of the Australian Universities Commission on medical education. [More…]
Soldiers’ children education scheme allowances for other than tertiary students will be increased by various amounts ranging from 65c to $3.35 and the new weekly rates will range from $3.25 to $16.65. [More…]
The allowances for tertiary students are adjusted in line with movements in the rates of living allowances paid under the university or advanced educa tion scholarship schemes administered by my colleague, the Minister for Education. [More…]
The first is the education program. [More…]
This was introduced with a great fanfare by the Treasurer who told us that it represented a 92 per cent increase on the education budget last year. [More…]
Most of the educational expenditure is for programs to which the former Liberal Government had been committed before the election period. [More…]
So the increase in educational expenditure would be a natural follow-on from that. [More…]
It takes no regard of the facilities of a school or what is required to give children at that school a decent education. [More…]
It has allocated $10m towards pre-school education with the object within 6 years of giving every child who requires pre-school education one year’s preschool education. [More…]
I point to the question of education where there has been an increase of 92 per cent in the total funds made available. [More…]
One was the Department of Education and Science which grew from the Office of Education. [More…]
I acknowledged earlier the advances proposed in education. [More…]
This nation seethes today about the injustice of some of the new provisions contained in legislation emanating from the Department of Education. [More…]
I will refer firstly to the education of the young and the care of the aged and then pass on to economics, particularly the economics of our great export and primary industries and the hate which is seen to develop against anybody involved in those pursuits. [More…]
There is a means test on education. [More…]
There is a means test on the secondary allowances scheme in the field of education. [More…]
One of the things that basically they suffer from is lack of opportunity in education. [More…]
We see in the Budget a doubling of Federal money spent on education. [More…]
It may be said that the abolition of fees for attending universities has not affected this group so much, but we should look at the way this money for educational assistance will be expended. [More…]
There are many other aspects of the educational part of the Budget which I trust one will have the opportunity to discuss later. [More…]
In education, Labor has dishonoured preelection and election promises. [More…]
Its attempt to claim an increase of more than 90 per cent in education expenditure is phoney. [More…]
Whilst taking over responsibility for tertiary education, tax reimbursements to the States were adjusted to allow for this - close on $200m. [More…]
The credibility of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has been severely damaged by the unjust treatment handed out to independent schools. [More…]
Before the suspension of the sitting I had given the House some detail of Labor’s duplicity in key policy areas particularly in housing, education and health, and its irresponsibility in increasing Government expenditure this year by 19 per cent and thereby unleashing the forces of inflation, disadvantaging many sections of the community and attacking private enterprise, particularly the primary producer and the mining industry. [More…]
This is because there have been heavy commitments to the easing of the means test, to education and to Aborigines. [More…]
We believe that country people should not be discriminated against any more than their city cousins, whether they be isolated children seeking an education, country women who have to travel long distances to seek medical help, farmers seeking to improve their productivity and thus contributing to national growth, or rural city and town businessmen and wage earners providing necessary goods and services and some offset against the -growth of the major metropolises of Australia. [More…]
It will rob the school children of the nation of the real improvement in education that all would like to see and and that many have come to expect will be achieved by this Budget. [More…]
Much more care needs to be taken in the study than appears to have been taken by the Coombs task force in its rather superficial examination of such questions as the degree to which social security payments by way of child endowment and existing concessional deductions such as those for dependants, education expenses and others, achieve their social objective. [More…]
All are uncertain as to whether they will be further burdened by the withdrawal of concessions now available for education expenses and for the cost of insurance which enables them to protect their families. [More…]
Now, Mr Speaker, I will take the opportunity to speak during this Budget debate on 2 matters that are of important interest to me and which affect all Australians generally, namely the fiasco of the present health discussions and the criticisms by a minority of the people of the Labor Government’s policy on education. [More…]
Now I come to the question of education, and on this issue I am proud to be a member of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
For the last 23 years children have been neglected in obtaining a reasonable education standard, other than students whose parents were in a financial position to pay, or whose parents were prepared to go without the luxuries of life. [More…]
In the forefront of Labor’s election campaign last December, a better deal in education was a major plank of our election platform, and I am certain that this issue was a major factor in the Australian people electing the Whitlam Labor Government. [More…]
On that occasion among the promises on education made to the elector, we stated we would establish an Australian Schools Commission to determine the needs of students in government and non-government primary, secondary and technical schools. [More…]
From the 1974 academic year, fees will be abolished at Universities, colleges of advanced education and technical colleges. [More…]
Within weeks of his appointment to the portfolio of Australian Minister for Education, Mr Kim Beazley had established the machinery for setting up an Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission, from which this Parliament has already received a report. [More…]
Now 8 months after the election, the Labor Government in its first Budget to this Parliament, has earmarked a total of $843m to be spent on education during the 1973-74 year, or almost double the amount provided in the previous Liberal-Country Party coalition [More…]
In effect, education spending in Australia will get a $404m boost. [More…]
From 1 January 1974, the Australian Government will assume full financial responsibility for tertiary education at universities, colleges of advanced education, State teachers’ colleges and other approved teachers’ colleges, including the abolition of fees at all these institutions and at technical colleges. [More…]
But it is in the field of primary and secondary education, I believe, that the greatest need of assistance is required. [More…]
Previous Liberal-Country Party governments have deliberately used this important section of our youths’ education for political advantage, and I refer to the various legislative Acts of science laboratories, school libraries, and sectional handouts, all announced just prior to election days for the past 23 years. [More…]
So it is like a breath of cool wind on a very hot day to hear the Minister for Education stating that legislation will be introduced during this session of Parliament to establish the Australian Schools Commission. [More…]
Mr Beazley has also announced to this House that the major recommendations of the Interim Committee of the Schools Commission has been accepted by the Australian Government and will mean new programs from 1974, aimed at improving the quality of education, and promoting the accessibility to education. [More…]
The Minister for Education stated that special programs will promote rapid development in areas of particular need, such as school libraries, teacher development and education of the handicapped, and education in socially disadvantaged localities. [More…]
Educational strategies and techniques must of course change to meet changing needs and the Government will support programs recommended by the Committee to foster innovation and development in primary and secondary education. [More…]
He further states that the special programs for socially disadvantaged schools represents an important departure from Australian traditions in public education. [More…]
Supplementary funds will be made available to schools identified as being disadvantaged on the basis of certain characteristics of their cachment areas, so that they can respond to the particular educational difficulties faced by a group of relatively poor children. [More…]
The Government’s needs policy requires that special attention and resources be devoted to the education of those groups of children who, in the past, have had least public money spent on their education, because they leave school earlier and gain no benefit from expensive tertiary education facilities. [More…]
If the revolution in accessibility to education is to be achieved, we must discriminate in favour of those children in greatest need. [More…]
Provided that they have the talent, the fullest opportunity will be available to each of them to obtain the education to which they are entitled and which they will be able to receive under this Government. [More…]
Say, for the sake of argument, the Government had allocated in the Budget additional money for pensions, health, housing, education, social security, conservation and urban and regional development - you name it - amounting to many more hundreds of millions of dollars than has been allocated under this Budget and it had balanced its budget by dipping still further into the private sector. [More…]
I have no doubt that the previous Government would have liked to introduce such a grandiose budget - a budget to advance the welfare, standard of living, education and quality of life of the average Australian. [More…]
This is consistent with the large percentage increases that have taken place throughout the whole of Australia, whether it be on education, housing, social services, Aborigines, money spent on the cities through the Department of Urban and Regional Development or public transport. [More…]
These new projects include S9.2m worth of education facilities, among which will be Canberra’s first transitional colleges for fifth and sixth form pupils. [More…]
Record expenditures are contained in this .Budget in the fields of education and health services and substantial increases have been provided for community facilities in the north. [More…]
Even on the major items of expenditure some people would like to ignore the fact that this Budget almost doubles the spending on education. [More…]
A couple of examples in the field of education are the $304 per annum means tested educational allowances to assist the children of low income families to complete the final 2 years of secondary school, and the grants to provide additional places for much needed trainee social workers. [More…]
There is an overall doubling of expenditure on Aboriginal advancement in the areas of housing, health, education and employment. [More…]
I have raised the general question of environmental education with my colleagues the Minister for Education, the Minister for the Media and the Minister for Science and have been assured of their interest and support. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Education has obtained the Government’s approval for a curriculum development centre to be developed and operated in co-operation with the States. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Science, has suggested that Australian Government Departments might examine in detail the question of environmental education when the initial program of the curriculum development centre has been proposed. [More…]
The understandings with the States on the matter of assistance for the education of isolated children have actually been the work of officers of the Commonwealth Department of Education and the State education departments. [More…]
We did not ask any State to vacate the field if it was taking action to assist the education of isolated children. [More…]
This calls for the development of an integrated program of welfare services, complementary to income support programs and the welfarerelated aspects of health, education, housing, employment, migration and other social policies. [More…]
I refer to legislation with respect to education, for example. [More…]
We should remember that this Budget almost doubles the amount of money provided for education. [More…]
Does the right honourable gentleman suggest that country people will not share in the benefits of the increased expenditure on education? [More…]
We accept that education is a State matter. [More…]
We do not want to take it over, but the Government has decided in its wisdom to make a financial contribution to education to provide every child with an opportunity for learning to a proper and acceptable standard. [More…]
To achieve this end assistance to education must be given on the basis of needs and this is our approach. [More…]
Of course, a balance is always needed and advances must continue to be made in fields of social welfare and education but if the source of these advances, the growth and wealth producing areas of our economy, are restricted or hamstrung and if the scourge of inflation is allowed to race on unimpeded, the Government will end up robbing the very people it makes a sham and a pretence of representing. [More…]
Education and social welfare have been given top priority in the Budget, as they should be in any Budget, and while this is not the place to debate fully these 2 vital areas of government responsibility, I commend the government for many of the measures undertaken. [More…]
The increased spending on education of some 15 per cent over the previous Liberal-Country Party Government allocation must boost particularly those new areas of learning that changing times, circumstances and public awareness are demanding. [More…]
But I ask the Government: Why in its assesment of educational deficiency has it turned a full circle and imposed a system of discrimination? [More…]
The Government is carrying through aid programs for education and applying this principle to schools which cater for many of our disadvantaged and handicapped children. [More…]
The interest and participation of parents is a significant factor in a successful education system. [More…]
Spending on education is up 92 per cent on last year and continues to be the fastest growing component of the Budget. [More…]
Would it like to downgrade education? [More…]
Do members of the Opposition not realise that they partly lost the last election because they failed to spend extra money on education on a needs basis to close the gap between the poor and the rich schools? [More…]
He referred to a 92 per cent increase in education expenditure but he omitted to draw attention to the takeover of tertiary education by the Commonwealth, which provides a significant component of that increase. [More…]
I have no hesitation in conceding that the Budget contains a wide range of appealing social measures such as increased spending on education, the beginning of the school dental scheme, increased pensions - but not sufficient to keep up with the rising cost of living - and welcome initiatives in the field of urban and regional development. [More…]
The first of the 2 broad objectives is rapidly to expand the public sector by direct spending on goods and services, education, hospitals - or at least one hospital, in Parramatta - health services and the cities, but not defence. [More…]
Will they express their opposition to the massive increase in funds to be made available for the education of Australian youth? [More…]
The service wai offer free dental care and treatment to each child at least once a year and dental health education would be provided to ail school children. [More…]
The Labor Government has vastly increased expenditure on education, including the introduction of free tertiary education. [More…]
In this country for ages we have been paying lip service to the maxim that Australia stands or falls by its education system, that only a high level of brain power will enable us to match the rest of the world in science, technology, and pure research. [More…]
It would be well for the education of some of the honourable members opposite if they had stopped talking for a while and had listened when the Treasurer was explaining the policy of the Government in this regard. [More…]
It has chosen to ignore the massive increase in funds made available for education. [More…]
This Government has provided an extra $404m this year for education, which represents an increase of 92 per cent oyer the amount spent on education last year. [More…]
Our philosophy is that money spent on education has a twofold benefit. [More…]
The fact that education and training have been neglected for so long is the cause of some of the problems inherited by this Government from its predecessors. [More…]
Recently the Liberal Party Minister for Education in New South Wales accused building construction employers of contributing to the shortage of skilled tradesmen by their reluctance to employ sufficient apprentices in the industry. [More…]
The extent and effectiveness of existing sex education programs in providing a sound basis in the fundamentals of sexuality and as a prerequisite for the understanding of reproductive potential and voluntary fertility control; [More…]
We should be no less appalled by the social, economic, medical and social wefare problems which make of pregnancy not a human joy but an economic disaster for many families, mothers and mother-to-be and by the shortcomings in sex education and family planning services of which abortion is but one sympton. [More…]
We should acknowledge that by failing as a society to make proper arrangements for matters such as sex education and family planning, we have allowed ignorance and irresponsibility to make rich men of many abortionists, parents of many couples who have neither the inclination nor the temperament for parenthood and battered babies of many children of whom it can be said quite literally that they would have been better off if they had never been born. [More…]
We do not have to settle for arrangements under which the responsibility for sex education, which parents increasingly fail to discharge on an adequate basis, is left instead to secondary school biology teachers who treat it in so perfunctory a fashion that the average mark out of 7 for the human reproduction question on last year’s Victorian Higher School Certificate biology paper was 2.3. [More…]
Nor should we suppose that the need for sex education would be met even by teaching excellently the anatomy and physiology of reproduction as they are set out in the average biology course. [More…]
Earlier this year, the Director-General of Education in New South Wales, Mr Buggie, was quoted as saying: [More…]
There is a need to remove sex education from the secretive, distorted and often bewildered processes of the peer group, from the unhealthy distortions of commercialised sex and from the over-simplified approach which can dangerously isolate sex education from the full development of personality and responsibility. [More…]
The whole Swedish sex education program is based on the respect and respectability of one human being for another, and I would like to see our sex education develop that attitude. [More…]
Despite these enlightened statements on the part of senior spokesmen for State education systems, Australia remains in matters of sex education among the most backward nations in the developed world. [More…]
The Australian Science Education Project has never recovered from the insistence of the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), when he was the Minister for Education and Science, that as far as sex is concerned the role of schools is . [More…]
The Australian Science Education Project was associated in its first and second trials with a special teacher education course, but that course has now been dropped. [More…]
Recently in Sweden, where sex education has been taught for 20 years and taught throughout the school system as an obligatory subject for 10 years, I talked to a distinguished family psychologist and sociologist, Mrs Birgitta Linner. [More…]
I was warned by Mrs Linner that if we did not prepare our teachers for sex education their inhibitions might make their guidance worse than no guidance at all. [More…]
Another function of the inquiry in respect of this reference would be to foster a nationwide concensus on the need for sex education of the kind which can respond with sensitivity to what has been described by one sociologist as: [More…]
request to participate in a family planning education project - 1972; and [More…]
An amendment which is too coy to mention sex education and too timid to evoke any aspect of abortion other than its causes is relevant neither to our needs nor to our times. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: in the opinion of this House Commissioners should be appointed to inquire into the family, social, education, legal and sexual aspects of male female relationships with particular emphasis on the concept of responsible parenthood, such enquiry to investigate and evaluate the following matters in Australia and overseas and make recommendations for areas within the jurisdiction of the laws of the Australian Parliament and further to indicate whether such recom mendations should be implemented through existing bodies or through government instrumentalities to be created: [More…]
The extent and effectiveness of existing education programs in providing a sound basis in the fundamentals of inter-personal relationships in the Australian social environment: [More…]
I think one aspect that he mentioned - which was false - shows his attitude to this question, because when I, amongst a very large number of other people, questioned the sex education program of the Australian Science Education Project it was because the original documents were suggesting that sex should be taught as an entirely biological animal function quite unrelated to and divorced from the social and human factors of personal relationships which are so very important. [More…]
It said that at present there are great pressures on the young from the mass media to experiment and emulate adult behaviour and that it saw a need for education into a greater sense of responsibility in human relationships and caring concern in emotional situations. [More…]
It said that much evidence emphasised that the prevention of pregnancy in the unmarried teen-age girl is a much more complex problem than can be solved by a simple provision of contraception and that sex education should be provided not as a subject in isolation, but as part of health educational programs, and of education for responsible human relationships and family life. [More…]
the extent and effectiveness of existing sex education programs . [More…]
the extent and effectiveness of existing education programs in providing a sound basis in the fundamentals of inter-personal relationships in the Australian social environment. [More…]
If this amendment is adopted the commission would have to inquire into the extent and effectiveness of existing education programs to provide a sound basis for inter-personal relationships in the Australian social environment. [More…]
Under the terms of the amendment, an inquiry would utilise medical, social worker, religious, legal, educational, economic and - if you like - female representation, which would make available the expertise which is so vitally necessary. [More…]
Education is fundamental, legal implications inevitably are to be considered, religious and moral persuasions cannot be absolutely ignored and social and economic implications are not only relevant but also deeply fundamental. [More…]
But it does make me concerned with the inadequacies of existing education and counselling programs. [More…]
I do not accept the criticism that because the amendment leaves out sex education and puts the emphasis on education in its totality, there is something remiss in it. [More…]
I believe that it widens the scope and, after all, we ought to be concerned with total education in this particular field. [More…]
Abortion and its causes are not simply because of lack of sex education. [More…]
Indeed in many cases it is because of the lack of a total and proper well-balanced education. [More…]
I will certainly be voting against this amendment on the ground that if it is carried it will put off a proper investigation and, in the words in which it is put forward, even prevent the teaching of sex education in schools because that phrase has been removed from the original motion. [More…]
provision of information and education to facilitate sound choice and the proper exercise of consumers’ rights; [More…]
To explore the needs for consumer education and take appropriate action, such as developing school curricula in consumer education; [More…]
Would they have cut down the provisions for education? [More…]
Incomes prices policies aim to alter these money income claims through education, the stimulation of community responsibility and more importantly by modifying expectations as to future inflation and movements of other groups’ incomes. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]
It is possible that among the 19 per cent who are getting the maximum allowance, and the 9 per cent between the minimum and the maximum, there are students who could possibly have not continued a secondary education without the scholarships. [More…]
Before these adjustments were made a survey by the Australian Council of Educational Research in 3 cities suggested that that figure was only about 3 per cent so it is probable that with the increased number of scholarships and the new system of means test introduced by the Labor Government, more students who need assistance will receive it. [More…]
Next year they will receive an allowance of $304 to assist them to continue their education. [More…]
We believe that greater assistance to those who have a battle to get through secondary education is needed. [More…]
In developing new goals, implementing long term planning and setting priorities in the welfare field, the Commission is charged with the task of taking an overall view of social policy, which encompasses such areas as education, housing, health services, emplovment policies and other matters, as well as the more specific issues of income-security payments and personal welfare services. [More…]
The aim of the Australian Assistance Plan is to assist in the development at a regional level, within a nationally co-ordinated framework, of integrated patterns of welfare services, complementary to income support programs and the welfare related aspects of health, education, housing, employment, migration and other social policies. [More…]
The Australian Government to provide funds where necessary to obviate the disparity between urban and rural areas in the cost of education, medical services, communications and other public utilities. [More…]
I instance education too. [More…]
The Departments of: Labour (Chairman), Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General’s Education, Environment and Conservation, Health, Housing, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Science, Social Security. [More…]
At its initial meeting the Committee decided to set up a smaller Working Group which comprises representatives from the Departments of Labour, Education, Environment and Conservation, Health Housing, Social Security, Treasury, Urban and Regional Development and the Bureau of Census and Statistics to draw up a program for formulating a system of social indicators in Australia. [More…]
But one can hope that the education and other policies that are being developed, some of which of course flow from the past, will over come the problem in which girls in tribal situations find themselves. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education whether he is aware that the Victorian State Government has decided to set up a multi-campus institution to be known as the State College of Victoria to incorporate the existing teacher training institutions previously under the control of the Victorian Department of Education. [More…]
The Victorian Government passed the legislation setting up this system before I became Minister for Education so there were no negotiations between me and the Government of Victoria. [More…]
Under the system an interim senate has been established to govern all the teachers colleges in Victoria independently of the Department of Education and an academic board has been established to make recommendations on standards of education, examinations and the awarding of degrees. [More…]
When the Cohen Committee was set up by the McMahon Government to look at the whole question of teacher education it accepted this situation. [More…]
The Commonwealth is to spend in 2i years $188m on teacher education. [More…]
We will be financing the recurring costs and the capital costs of teacher education. [More…]
I believe that discussions have taken place over a period of time between the Victorian Government and the committee set up by the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
In a situation where there is a multi-campus institution there can easily bi wasteful duplication but we are not assuming control of Victorian teacher education - merely financial responsibility for capital and recurring costs. [More…]
take place in universities and colleges of advanced education in order that trainee teachers may have association with people training for other professions. [More…]
I believe that teacher education in Australia has to evolve over the coming years into something which is more effective than we have known in the past. [More…]
I would have thought that a man with his knowledge, background and education would have recognised the importance of this Bill and the substance of my suggestion that he should debate the important parts and not make broad speeches. [More…]
First, we would support in general terms the Minister’s proposals for trade union education. [More…]
Such education should, however, be free from any political indoctrination, and I would take that to be the Minister’s objective. [More…]
Firstly I would like to say to the honourable member that the isolated children’s scheme is undergoing assessment at the present time by officers of the Australian Government’s Department of Education and the various State governments. [More…]
The Australian Government’s Department of Education has sent circulars to about 2,800 families indicating that possibly they are entitled to the further additional assistance of $304 for secondary students or $200 for primary students beyond the $700. [More…]
As far as children doing correspondence work are concerned in my statement on the Government’s initiativies in education I drew attention to the fact that under an international agreement there is to be a change of transceiver. [More…]
I think it is of interest to know that Tasmania has more claimants than has South Australia, for instance, and Tasmania, possibly because of the relatively depressed condition of the fruit industry, is receiving a somewhat higher proportion of the additional grants to assist the children in that State to go and board in order to get an education. [More…]
Great changes have been made in the society by the impact of Europeans, monetary economy, Western education and Christian religion. [More…]
I was impressed when we visited Mount Panguna, site of the copper mine on Bougainville, to see the effort that had been put into establishing technical education. [More…]
Papua New Guinea needs every bawbee’, every dollar, it has for spending on roads, schools, hospitals and education. [More…]
Of our prisoners, 80 per cent are people without skills and with little education. [More…]
Up to the present precious little has been done to provide them with any skills and with any education. [More…]
The Minister has said that the State departments responsible for Aboriginal affairs have received an increasingly large part of their funds from Commonwealth grants and that they have channelled a substantial proportion of these funds through other departments in areas such as health, education and housing. [More…]
But I ask the Minister in this respect: Does he intend his Department to take over the State departments in areas of health, education and housing, eventually or does he expect the States to continue administering these responsibilities as far as our coloured people are concerned? [More…]
During the period between 1968 and 1973 the Commonwealth Government has recognised that persons of Aboriginal descent experience a number of disabilities in comparison with the rest of the community and that special measures are needed to overcome their disabilities, lt has been said that programs have been evolved which are designed to encourage and strengthen the capacity of persons of Aboriginal descent to manage their own affairs as individuals, groups and local communities to increase their economic independence and to reduce social and other handicaps facing them in health, housing and education. [More…]
With this kind of money being made available both by the Commonwealth and the States one would have thought that considerable improvement would have been evident in the Aboriginal way of life and that the aims and objects of previous governments with regard to health, education and housing would have resulted in greatly improved conditions over the last 5 years. [More…]
He found the same thing applied to education in that only a handful of the Aborigines he reported on had reached the top classes in secondary schools. [More…]
I refer now to pre-school education. [More…]
I could mention another dozen or two organisations which are involved in pre-school education in different ways and which are not doing the child a bit of good. [More…]
Possibly pre-school education in general should be taken over by the Education Department. [More…]
There is better liaison, very often, between State departments when the matter being dealt with concerns the health, education or housing of Aborigines. [More…]
Education is one of the paramount problems of the Aboriginal people today. [More…]
Many of the Aboriginal people - in fact the great majority of them - who live on the outskirts of our towns, especially in New South Wales, have not had the opportunity of a full and proper education. [More…]
In many instances Aboriginal children who attend school where there is a predominance of white children have never obtained the right education opportunities, frequently finishing up in opportunity classes and never able to progress. [More…]
So there is a great need for these children, who may come from an illiterate family, whose mother and father have had no formal education, who possibly live in a humpy with earth floors and no water or electricity laid on to it, who are without the advantage of a television set, a radio or even a clock in the house, as is frequently the case, and who cannot take school books home because there is nowhere to put them where the smaller children will not get at them and destroy them, to be brought into a pre-school situation, as has been mentioned by the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Ashley Brown). [More…]
So there is a great need, firstly, to house the people so that the children, when they come home from school, can have the advantage that other children have and, secondly, to provide pre-schools to give them the opportunity to reach the standard that is necessary for them to start on their endeavours in education. [More…]
There is a need for an education program as well as a need to try to improve their general standard of living so that they can appreciate the need for the proper types of food for their children. [More…]
The expenditure for this year for Aboriginal advancement is: Education, $4,600,000; health $9,il 34,000; social security and welfare, $3,230,000; housing and amenities, $14,786,000 - a total of $31,750,000. [More…]
The Queensland Department of Education makes available places in its technical colleges. [More…]
Anyone who suggests that we are in the business of excluding the States is being quite unreal, when so many basic services such as health, education, housing and the like in our community are financed through State Governments. [More…]
to conduct road safety education and publicity campaigns and to co-ordinate State and Territory efforts in this field; [More…]
The secretary of the Australian Association of Gerontology, Mrs Ruth Inall, claims that the aged often have problems adjusting from work occupation to full-time leisure activity; most people reach retirement without being sufficiently equipped to cope with free time; and attention could be given to promoting education for a time. [More…]
These include the employment of more than 120 bi-lingual or multi-lingual officers; the recent appointment of 48 specially qualified multi- ‘ lingual welfare officers, including 16 to work in the education field, and the provision of a telephone interpreter service in no fewer than 42 languages in Sydney and Melbourne and soon to be extended to other States. [More…]
There has been close collaboration with the Australian Council of Social Service and a number of colleges of advanced education, technical colleges and private institutions which have shown an interest in providing courses for interpreters. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) can have meaningful consultations with the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in order to encourage the universities to increase their intake of people interested in pursuing the course for prospective social workers. [More…]
We hope that the Commission on Advanced Education also will make the necessary arrangements for the colleges of advanced education to have similar facilities instead of facilities which will allow a person to graduate with subprofessional qualifications. [More…]
Colleges of advanced education can play a significant part in the training and education of social workers. [More…]
We therefore request the Minister to have consultations with the colleges of advanced education to make sure that there are plenty of welfare officers available not only for attachment to senior citizens clubs but also to move out into the general public. [More…]
The same situation arose in regard to the Karmel Committee report which has turned our whole education system upside down. [More…]
We had a ministerial statement from the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and a statement in reply from this side. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly), has been here 30 years and the honourable member for Fremantle, the Minister for Education <Mr Beazley), has been here 29 years. [More…]
The Commission would establish a research centre in the Latrobe Valley, attached to the BIAE (Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education). [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to amend the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1969-1972 which provides for the 1970-72 triennium. [More…]
Two of these proposals were approved by the previous Minister for Education and Science and one by myself. [More…]
The new projects, which will be funded by the transfer of grants previously allocated, are specified in clause 3, paragraphs (a), (e) and (f), for the New South Wales Advanced Education Board, Prahran College of Technology and the Emily Mcpherson College respectively. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to amend the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1972-1973 - which deals with the 1973-75 triennium - so as to extend its terms to the provision of financial assistance for all State teachers colleges, and for pre-school teachers colleges, as from 1 July 1973. [More…]
The Bill also makes provision for special grants in respect of the acquisition of library material, the employment of library staff, the conduct of special education courses, and the allocation of a further special grant of $425,000 to fund in 1973-75 the increased enrolments of pre-school teacher trainees. [More…]
I recently stated in this House that, in the view of the Government, the high quality and professional skill of the teacher were crucial to the process of education. [More…]
The Bill now before the House demonstrates, in a practical manner, the Australian Government’s concern for enhancing the quality of teacher education for teachers in all Australian schools. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that the Bill has its origin in the recommendations of the Report on Teacher Education prepared by the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
The Government accepted the Commission’s recommendations in entirety including the recommendations for special grants for the particularly worthy purposes of accelerating the development of teachers college libraries, of fostering research into aspects of teacher education, of increasing the numbers of students undertaking courses to prepare teachers for handicapped children, and of extending teacher education facilities in existing colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The report called for a program of $2 10m for the development of teacher education in the former State teachers colleges, the pre-school teachers colleges and in existing colleges of advanced education during the period July 1973 to December 1975. [More…]
However, following the offer by the Australian Government to the States to finance tertiary education completely from January 1974, our contribution will become one of $188m. [More…]
Further, by applying to teachers colleges the same arrangements as will apply to universities and colleges of advanced education, the teachers colleges will be brought fully within the community of tertiary institutions. [More…]
The Bill before the House, in providing for the Government’s decisions, integrates the teachers colleges completely within the framework of the advanced education legislation. [More…]
Subsequent to the teacher education report I have, at the request of State authorities, agreed to certain revisions to the building and other projects to be supported at Goulburn Teachers College in New South Wales and and Secondary Teachers College in Western Australia and the changes are incorporated in the Bill. [More…]
The revised Schedules in the Bill incorporate certain variations to the program for the previously listed colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The colleges concerned in the first Schedule are Caulfield, Footscray, Gordon, Preston and Royal Melbourne Institutes of Technology; Gippsland and Warrnambool Institutes of Advanced Education; and, Victorian College of Pharmacy. [More…]
In the second Schedule they are Mitchell College of Advanced Education, the New South Wales College of Paramedical Studies, Footscray and Gordon Institutes of Technology, Gippsland and Warrnambool Institutes of Advanced Education, Victorian College of Pharmacy and Torrens College of Advanced Education. [More…]
In commending this Bill to honourable members I would advise them of two other developments in teacher education likely to lead to other measures that will be presented for their consideration in due course. [More…]
First, consequent upon the Commission’s report on teacher education and the report of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission I have written to the Chairmen of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education and the Australian Universities Commission asking them to report to me on the grants that should be made to ensure that adequate provision is made for the training of teachers of handicapped children. [More…]
Second, honourable members are aware that the Commission’s report on teacher education was limited to a consideration of the needs of the former State teachers colleges and pre-school teachers colleges. [More…]
As teachers colleges are now becoming autonomous the desirability of a diversity of basic approach to education makes it opportune to consider the value of private teachers colleges. [More…]
The Australian Government’s policy of full financial support for tertiary education makes the support of private teachers colleges a logical step. [More…]
The Bill before the House seeks to amend the Immigration (Education) Act which was first put before the House in 1970, debated to the second reading stage in 1971, and became law in 1971. [More…]
In the debate on 16 February 1971 it was mentioned that a joint CommonwealthNew South Wales Department of Education survey showed that, of 7,700 migrant children surveyed, English was spoken at home all or most of the time in only 15 per cent of the households. [More…]
Only a small percentage will be spent on the education of migrants, yet this is generally accepted as the most important factor in their assimilation. [More…]
He was talking, of course, about education. [More…]
I was interested in the reference by the Minister for Immigration to a survey of child migrant education in schools of high migrant density in Melbourne. [More…]
The survey was undertaken by the Victorian Education Department, the Catholic [More…]
Education Office in Victoria, the Commonwealth Department of Immigration and the Commonwealth Department of Education. [More…]
As a result of this investigation, as the Minister has said, Cabinet has approved a joint submission by the Minister for Immigration and the Minister for Education to extend the child migration education program to include provision for supplementary accommodation. [More…]
I notice that 420 schools have been listed by the various education authorities as being schools where additional classrooms are required for this purpose. [More…]
I was particularly interested to read the report of the Queensland Migrant Task Force, which detailed some of the problems occurring in Queensland in relation to, in particular, pre-school education of migrant children. [More…]
Children are raised in a non-English speaking environment and on reaching primary school arc unable to participate in school activities … On 11 January 1973 the Director-General of the Queensland Department of Education approached the Department of Immigration for funds to establish pre-school facilities for migrant children in existing centres in West End and Paddington in Brisbane. [More…]
This application was not successful but it was suggested to the Director-General of Education that he approach the Australian Government Department of Education for assistance in the form of a research grant or, alternatively, contact the Australian Government Pre-Schools Committee. [More…]
Perhaps the Minister could tell us from his knowledge of Cabinet activities whether the application has been successful- the State Department of Education has indicated they would like their original submission to the Department cf Immigration reconsidered. [More…]
I am very sorry that the Minister did not grant this application earlier this year because, as I am sure he would appreciate and endorse, pre-school education is of immense importance in the total education of any child. [More…]
If, as is suggested by this report, we could reduce in particular the difficulties faced by migrant children at this early stage of their development more costly educational programs later in their educational experience might be avoided. [More…]
The present child migrant education program has been operating for approximately 2 years and the State education authorities are anxious to learn whether the agreement will be renewed at the end of the 4-year term. [More…]
I am sure that the Queensland education authority and education authorities in the other States will be anxious to learn whether the migrant education program as detailed in this legislation will be carried on and renewed for another 4-year term following its expiry. [More…]
The New South Wales Migrant Task Force Committee also investigated in some depth the problems of migrant education, particularly in relation to children. [More…]
I believe the Government should be looking more closely at young children of preschool education age. [More…]
I believe the program should be continually assessed in relation to the education of migrants in the English language before and after they arrive in Australia. [More…]
I think we could avoid many of the problems which face migrants to this country, particularly those who lack fluency in the English language if before they arrived in this country they had more adequate English language education courses. [More…]
the Immigration (Education) Bill 197i gave evidence of general agreement with 2 assumptions. [More…]
Despite agreement on these assumptions, we know that the education of migrant children in our schools is presenting problems which are not susceptible of an easy solution. [More…]
The certainty that a quantitative extension of the present elements in education will benefit teachers, builders, and the educational aids houses does not convince me that educational deprivation will end. [More…]
Once we have accepted that the problems of migrant education are pretty largely environmentally and socially caused, we will be able, if we have the courage to choose, to look more critically at our society, and to see where governmental intervention can be most usefully employed. [More…]
When we consider the problems that face us in the area of migrant education we cannot escape the conclusion that Australia’s post war immigration program has been irresponsibly administered in the area of migrant child education, in the area of migrant adult education, and in the area of migrant integration. [More…]
Under the impact of education conducted in the English language and their natural desire to join in the social life of the school by speaking English as quickly and as often as possible, their language of origin quickly deteriorates into ‘kitchen’ Italian or Greek or whatever their natural language is. [More…]
At the age of fourteen or fifteen years, when they are most in need of communicating with their families on the abstract and complex ideas of higher education and its demands, they find themselves unable to do so. [More…]
When we discussed the Migrant (Education) Bill . [More…]
In lacking education, they suffer a lack of knowledge and understanding of their own cultural heritage and in the long run this particular lack is more unfortunate for them than their inability to speak our tongue, for implicit in their lack of understanding of their own culture is a lack of facility in their own tongue, and this is disastrous, because as every one knows, language is more than words. [More…]
As all the evidence to hand at the present time supports the contention that school administrators and educational experts, armed with vast resources, are unable to overcome the disadvantages of the family background, one step towards this end would be increased government assistance to the adult migrant education program, by sponsoring on television imported Italian, Greek, Spanish or Turkish variety programs, as well as adventure programs, that have met with success in terms of popularity overseas. [More…]
Those of us who view education from the outside, neither as teachers, nor as pupils, nor as employers, cannot escape the conclusion that no matter how much money we pour into schools they are not going to succeed in developing or freeing the potential of our children or of our adult migrants. [More…]
Firstly, they are adamant that education is much more than what is provided in schools. [More…]
They say that over the last 100 years or so, we have identified education with schooling, but Goodman and Illich also say that the school is not, and cannot be the only agency of education. [More…]
Illich says that school stands in the way of education and that we must deschool’ education if it is to become a means of human liberation. [More…]
Secondly, they argue that education is a do it yourself job. [More…]
It is said that the main agent of education is the pupil himself, that the teacher is merely an auxiliary. [More…]
We know the ingredients for success in education. [More…]
For a number of years, the Victorian Education Department has made it plain that schools have complete autonomy in their program choice. [More…]
Those with this attitude, plus the tradition-oriented quality of many older teachers who are prepared and eager to introduce ways of coping with the problem, find that their worst frustrations come from the schools, not the Education Department. [More…]
But we must compensate for educationally deprived home background, and we must see the school as only one element in the education process. [More…]
This Bill is one move in the right direction and it is an indication of the Labor Government’s awareness of and its determination to eradicate educational inequality. [More…]
The Australian Country Party supports this Immigration (Education) Bill 1973. [More…]
But I must point out several urgent issues in relation to migrant education. [More…]
If we are to be successful in removing all discriminations - in general or those against, individuals or certain ethnic groups - that unfortunately do still exist in our society, the expansion of education facilities must be the first priority. [More…]
Despite these difficulties the development of the migrant children education program has been substantial in the past. [More…]
The initiatives of the previous Federal Government has resulted in advances in migrant child education by providing the funds for salaries of special teachers; the purchase of capital equipment of the language laboratory type; the provision of suitable teaching and learning materials; and funds to cover the cost of training courses for special teachers. [More…]
This Bill is a simple one but it will be another step forward in improving in particular the facilities for migrant education and will as a result advance the total role of education available in our community. [More…]
The opportunities for basic education come only once to us all, but to some areas of our community the need for complementing this basic education is urgent. [More…]
They have come expecting higher standards of living and higher educational opportunities. [More…]
For many years, previous governments treated the education of migrant children like so many other aspects of migrant welfare - it was ignored. [More…]
Another factor which in recent years contributed to the eventual awareness of the previous Government of the need for action in relation to English language training was the increasing numbers of unskilled workers with low levels of education who were arriving from non-English speaking countries. [More…]
Nowhere has this shown up better than in the recent statement from the Minister for Immigration, Dr Forbes, ‘ tossing a few random extra dollars to the Good Neighbour Councils here, pumping a little more into child migrant education there, setting up a few infactory language courses for new settlers, and grandly announcing a whole new approach to selection and counselling. [More…]
It has been only in recent years that the Commonwealth has shown some interest in assisting in the financing of education. [More…]
But for many years the responsibility for financing education and providing the resources for the provision of education of a general nature or of a particular nature, such as was required by the non-English speaking migrants, was that of the States and of course, this is where the scheme of things broke down. [More…]
This fact was recognised by the previous Government in 1971 when it introduced the Migrant Education Act. [More…]
The Bill that is now before the House provides for an emergency grant for the supplementary classrooms that are needed for the accommodation of children in our schools who require this special education. [More…]
As the Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby) said in his second reading speech on this Bill, these classrooms are required at some 420 schools that have been listed by the education authorities. [More…]
The idea that such, class rooms would be provided by this Government was indicated in March this year when that report was tabled by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
There was no provision under the Child Migrant Education Program for accommodation of classes. [More…]
The previous Government certainly recognised, reluctantly, some responsibility for the education of migrant children lacking knowledge of the English language. [More…]
This amending legislation will tidy, up the problems that have been revealed by the task forces inquiring into migrant education in the various States. [More…]
This afternoon the honourable member for Warringah also referred to the aspect of preschool education. [More…]
Time will not permit me this evening to quote from it to any great extent or even to refer to it, .but I certainly suggest to honourable members who have a copy of it to read through it because it is a typical indication of how the education of migrant children is struggling for survival in various areas of Queensland! [More…]
I rise also to support the Immigration (Education) Bill 1973. [More…]
In 1971 the previous Liberal-Country Party Government introduced the Immigration (Education) Act. [More…]
That Act recognised the need for the Australian Government to support the governments of the States in filling gaps in their education programs insofar as those programs related to the education of migrant children. [More…]
I would hope that the Minister would ask his officers, through the Education Departments of the States, to look at this question. [More…]
This or other adequate accommodation already within the school could then be made available for these migrant education classes so that laundries, cellars and the like no longer need to be used. [More…]
Another aspect I would like to draw to the attention of the Minister is the fact that this program we are now debating will not be the be all and end all of migrant children’s education. [More…]
They need to be broken up into classes of a size that enables the teacher to achieve the purpose for which this special education is provided. [More…]
As has already been pointed out in this debate, there are a number of methods used in teaching children English and integrating them into the general educational program of the schools. [More…]
Other schools - and there is one in my own electorate - have made specially trained migrant teachers responsible for the whole education program of a class of migrant children. [More…]
I hope that given adequate lapse of time an assessment will be made of the relative advancement of the withdrawal of children into a migrant English class and their grouping together in one class where the whole normal education program is supplemented by the special English training. [More…]
This is possible in many schools where there is a migrant education problem because many of the schools where the problem exists have a very high proportion of migrant children. [More…]
It was pointed out that educational deprivation often has its source in the home environment because of lack of motivation in the home environment. [More…]
I think also that it comes about not because of a lack of motivation in the home environ ment but rather because of a lack of understanding there of the objectives of the education process. [More…]
I draw to the attention of the Minister the urgent need to study this problem to ascertain the extent to which some of the difficulties confronted by migrant children in progressing through the education system derive not from the lack of motivation on the part of their parents but from the lack of understanding of the parents of what the schools are trying to achieve. [More…]
Many have had very little education. [More…]
Yet in spite of these disabilities they have an instinctive appreciation of the importance of education for their children. [More…]
Nevertheless, they very often suffer from the disability that they do not know what the education process is trying to achieve for their children. [More…]
I suggest to the Minister that in the near future he will find, if he has not already found, the need to provide schools with funds to enable them to engage liaison officers whose job would be to act as representatives, to go out into the community and into the Italian households to talk to the parents in their own language with a full knowledge of their own cultures in order to explain to the parents the objectives that the school is seeking to achieve in the education process being provided for their children. [More…]
As I mentioned a few moments ago, not merely an understanding of the Italian culture or the Greek culture but an understanding of the Calabrisi culture, the culture of the Neapolitans, of the northern Italians and of the many villages and other communities within Italy - I use Italy as an illustration - with different cultural backgrounds which result in the people having differing attitudes and differing problems with respect to their understanding of the education process. [More…]
From the other bank of the cultural gap is a need for a liaison officer to go out into the community to help the parents of migrant children in their understanding of the education process. [More…]
At this time, when so much is being done to give a degree of independence to school communities and so much is being done to involve the parents in school councils or welfare clubs, assistance needs to be given in those deprived schools where there is this cultural gap to enable the school council, welfare club or parent group to ensure that people do not stay away because of a nervousness or fear that they will expose their lack of appreciation and understanding of the education process. [More…]
He has passed through the education system and looks back on his school days with great affection. [More…]
Under this Bill it is not possible, for example, to make funds available for that purpose because ‘at present pre-school education is not recognised as an integral part of the state school system. [More…]
The Australian Department of Education at present is responsible for receiving applications from organisations in the community for financial assistance towards the cost of establishment and operation of child-care centres. [More…]
One of the criteria against which applications are assessed is the educational content of the child care to be provided. [More…]
The program extends at the moment only to formal education at primary and secondary levels. [More…]
Pre-school education is not as yet formally part of the education system in all States. [More…]
In addition, the Migrant Education Television Unit at Wollongong is already planning an educational television program directed to children of pre-school age for production in 1974-75. [More…]
The honourable member for Batman, who is the distinguished Chairman of the Victorian Task Force Committee, talked very passionately about the eradication of inequality in education. [More…]
In the 1972-73 financial year some 200 newly arrived children at the secondary level received intensive instruction in education centres in migrant hostels before passing on to the normal school system. [More…]
Additionally, there is an isolated children’s allowance, where applicable, administered by the Department of Education. [More…]
With the increasing trend for the Commonwealth to enter the education field it is pertinent to point out anomalies. [More…]
The education of these people and moves to improve their quality of life and to widen their horizons demand that these things be regarded not as luxuries tout as necessities. [More…]
I share his wish that sheltered workshops, accommodation and education facilities for handicapped children shall be available all over the Commonwealth. [More…]
So, there will be less reliance on this Act for education of the handicapped. [More…]
With less demands for education, the remainder of the funds will be spent in more pressing areas, such as residences. [More…]
The Karmel Committee recognised that the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act 1970 provides for assistance for a range of facilities wider than purely educational ones and it notes that the education of mentally and physically handicapped children is a particularly complex area both by reason of the range and the degree of the handicaps to be catered for and by the diversity of organisational arrangements that have developed over the years in the various States. [More…]
The Committee observed that about 33,000 children throughout Australia are receiving full time education in special schools and classes for handicapped children. [More…]
These bodies are composed mainly of parents who have come together by sheer necessity in order to establish a school so that their children may receive an education. [More…]
In Victoria, the Mental Health Authority is the agency responsible for subsidising most voluntary bodies to provide education and training for moderately and severely intellectually handicapped children. [More…]
The Karmel Committee believes that in the great majority of cases the diffusion of effort and resources in this way is wasteful and often deleterious to the education of the children concerned. [More…]
The delegation of responsibility for the education of intellectually handicapped children to health authorities appears to represent a carry-over from the traditional belief that such people are in need of constant medical supervision. [More…]
The Committee notes that in recent years Great Britain has transferred the educational responsibility for these children from health to education authorities. [More…]
The Committee, while conscious of States rights in this matter, feels it should register its belief that the interests of handicapped children would be best served if responsibility for their education were placed in the hands of State Education Departments. [More…]
We have much to witness and look forward to in initiatives of this Government in marrying and integrating education, under the Interim Committee, soon to be the Australian Schools Commission, with the Department of Social Security. [More…]
This was revealed in an interim report of the ministerial committee of inquiry into special education in Victoria. [More…]
The report deals particularly with the staffing crisis in the Education Department’s psychology and guidance branch and speech therapy branch. [More…]
One of the reasons why the Victorian Government has been tardy in taking initiatives in this area is that it has excluded handicapped children from their right of free education under the Victorian Education Act. [More…]
However, the Victorian Government finally has responded to the pressures of the parents, the voluntary bodies, the religious bodies and the findings of the Karmel report and has extended section 61 of the Education Act 1958 to make the Education Department, not the parent - I want honourable members to note that - responsible for the education of mentally and physically handicapped children. [More…]
It is not my claim that the Karmel report was responsible for this turnabout; this was an admission by the Assistant Minister for Education, Mr Dixon, about a fortnight ago. [More…]
He said that the interim report had been made on the implications of the Federal Government’s Karmel report on Victorian special education. [More…]
There will be grants made of $2.25m, which is $250,000 less than last year’s total but that had to cover education of the handicapped children as well. [More…]
Despite their political differences the honourable member recognised that Mr Ward’s capacity and worth warranted appointment to the committee, and his recommendation to the then Minister for Education and Science, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), was accepted. [More…]
When the Darwin Community College begins teaching in March next year it will incorporate the Darwin Adult Education Centre which has, for the past 14 years, provided Darwin’s only post-secondary educational facilities. [More…]
But the emphasis at the college will shift much more heavily to technical and advanced education. [More…]
Although the courses at these institutions are relatively short when compared with courses at normal tertiary education colleges, the degrees or diplomas achieved at the community colleges are acceptable and enable students to go on to a normal university, if they wish, or to go into a trade, business or whatever they are trained for at the college. [More…]
The proposed studies, which may not have been mentioned by the previous speaker, cover a very wide range which will help all sections of the community into the tertiary education stage. [More…]
Before I sit down I would like to place on record the great respect and thanks of the community for the tremendous job that the Darwin Adult Education Centre has done over the 14 years that it has been in existence. [More…]
The activities of the adult education centre will be taken over by the college. [More…]
We all realise what a tremendous job the adult education centre has done over the years. [More…]
However, because a lot of colleges and tertiary education centres in the south employ and pay academics as librarians, the Darwin Community College is tending to fall behind in the recruiting of librarians because such people will be recruited and paid as librarians, rather than as academic staff. [More…]
One thing that was apparent with the Darwin adult education centre was that about 200 children were being looked after at a creche or child minding centre. [More…]
With the limited numbers enrolled at the Darwin adult education centre, 200 children were required to be looked after while their parents were attending classes and, with the greater numbers enrolled at the Community College, it surely will be necessary to take some steps, even if it is not in the original plan, to acquire a house in the near neighbourhood to be used as a child minding centre so that these many students will be able to attend the college and not have to turn their backs on courses that otherwise they would have taken. [More…]
This Bill to establish the Commission is one of a number of Bills before the Parliament seeking to establish commissions in such areas as education, tariff making and aspects of trade practices. [More…]
The plan has as its stated aim ‘to assist in the development, at a regional level within a nationally co-ordinated framework, of integrated patterns of welfare services, complementary to income support programs and welfare - related aspects of health, education, housing, employment, migration and other social policies.’ [More…]
Theoretically, a council will have to work in liaison with the Australian Department of Social Security or the State offices of it and up to 13 other Australian Government departments, such as Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-Generals’, Capital Territory, Education, Environment and Conservation, Health, Housing, Immigration, Labour, Northern Territory, Repatriation, Tourism and Recreation and Urban and Regional Development; the State Government in its various departments concerned with welfare services; local governments - there are 900 of them; the Australian Council of Social Services and the State Council of Social Services; various planning boards in existence and to be set up; and local bodies and charities concerned with welfare services. [More…]
The aim of the Australian Assistance Plan is to assist in the development, at a regional level within a nationally co-ordinated framework, of integrated patterns of welfare services, complementary to income support programs and the welfare-related aspects of health, education, housing, employment, migration and other social policies, having regard to the following matters: [More…]
The amount appropriated for education has been increased this financial year to $843m from the amount appropriated last financial year of $439m. [More…]
How does he think an extra $400m for education will affect the family man and his capacity to provide a decent education for his children. [More…]
If one reaches the conclusion that this money needs to be allocated to see that education and these other areas of activity are better catered for, one must look at the ambient economic situation. [More…]
While the imposition of any excises or any indirect taxes is a distasteful action for any government to take, the fact of the matter is that additional amounts cannot be spent on education, welfare and in other areas without making an additional collection to see that there is not any more net amount of money moving into the economy to aggravate the inflationary situation and by that factor in fact very much diminishing the value of money going into the pockets of working people throughout the length and breadth of Australia. [More…]
We could not chop back expenditure on education, social welfare and all those other things. [More…]
When we look at the massive additional expenditure on health, social welfare, housing and all these other things, I think that for the man in the street the increased fuel charges, which probably could be absorbed by the petrol companies anyway, and the increase on spirits and cigarettes is only a very small price to pay for the additional services given to him through health services, to his children through better education and all the other facets of Government expenditure in the way that they affect people. [More…]
The honourable member for Blaxland mentioned also that the Government proposes to spend a considerable amount of money on education. [More…]
But of course what he failed to mention was that the Government had taken from the States certain responsibilities in relation to some areas of education, that it had deducted from payments to the States the money which would have been involved and that it had added this amount to its own Budget. [More…]
I doubt very much whether that will be done because one speech made in this House this afternoon from the Government benches indicated that the reason for these taxes was for other things such as education, health, home building, etc. [More…]
Of course, honourable members opposite always mention social services, health and education programs. [More…]
Another is to be found in education. [More…]
They have never seen kids who wanted an education but could not receive it because the former Government preferred to give the money to Timber Top, Melbourne Grammar and all the other wealthier schools instead of to the ones that really needed it. [More…]
May I suggest, Mr Deputy Chairman, with respect, that the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) got up to answer a previous speaker and he touched on practically every department, including of course his own, the Department of Education and a few more, other than the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. [More…]
How right he was, because they have to look after education and health - or should do - as well as look after the fire service, the roads, irrigation and all the other things that happen within the State boundaries, but the present Government is prepared to take over these responsibilities and negative the activities of the State governments forever. [More…]
The present Treasurer also said - this is something which I have already said - that the States are responsible in such significant fields as education, health, public transport, power, irrigation and roads. [More…]
On this point of Country Party philosophy of total abolition of death and estate duties I submit for the education of those who quite often do not wish to be educated that these taxes have completely outlived the reasons for which they were instituted. [More…]
The first is that in consultation with State governments and appropriate education authorities, suitable courses be made available covering Aboriginal history and culture. [More…]
These courses could be made available in primary, secondary and tertiary education systems. [More…]
I believe that the Government should move with a sense of real urgency to fulfil both of these resolutions and to assist in the introduction of similar studies into Australia’s secondary education institutions. [More…]
It has always been a matter of deep concern that our education system has chosen to ignore Aboriginal history and culture in favour of the more superficial aspects of Aboriginal life. [More…]
General public education programs designed to create higher levels of community objectivity and understanding towards minority groups have been implemented in many countries, including the United States. [More…]
However, it is clear that because attitudes towards these groups tend to be formed at an early age, public education programs of this nature have a very limited achievement. [More…]
It is eminently more rational to endeavour to create more objective attitudes through the medium of our education processes. [More…]
I am not of course suggesting that a conscious education program be adopted to achieve certain ‘desirable’ attitudes. [More…]
It is very fortunate that some Aborigines who are full time teachers on the staff of the Education Department of South Australia are from that area and, as such, are able to teach the children in their own language. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) On 10 August 1972, the then Minister for Education and Science, the Hon. [More…]
Malcolm Fraser, wrote to the Victorian Minister of Education, the Hon. [More…]
Subsequently, on 13 October 1972, a meeting was held between the Commission and the Victorian Minister of Education who was accompanied by representatives of the Victorian Education Department. [More…]
8 March 1973. and 7 June 1973, the Chairman of the Commission wrote to the Victorian Minister oi Education asking for detailed information on this proposal. [More…]
To make up the difference in expenditure on Aboriginal affairs to the figure of $117m which I previously mentioned there are of course amounts which have been appropriated for the Department of the Northern Territory, the Australian Capital Territory, the Departments of Education, Labour and Health and for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies under the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
I sometimes think we are virtually trying to give them a university education before they have been taught proper hygiene. [More…]
The education should be based to a great extent on films shown to Aborigines at a very early age. [More…]
Their idea of group co-operation instead of individual effort is one which should be considered most seriously when thinking in terms of education and trade training. [More…]
The field of education needs particular study. [More…]
We know that all degrees of education are available to coloured students, but we also know that not many of them - very few in fact - avail themselves of these opportunities. [More…]
It is generally recognised that the coloured people in Australia progress quite well until they reach the age of 12 or 13, and then the desire for knowledge, especially in the males, appears to wane, and they lose interest in their education. [More…]
The scheme that was introduced of allocating finance to a coloured family for every child that attended a secondary school offset this to some extent, but I know that in some instances the child only attends secondary school in order that the family gets the benefit of the finance, and not because of any desire to further his education. [More…]
And again their idea of group living does not lend itself to the child making an individual effort, and he cannot be blamed for this, but this certainly is one matter which must be looked at when thinking in terms of education for our coloured children. [More…]
I have given a great deal of thought to methods of overcoming this problem of a desire to work in groups instead of working as individuals as far as education is concerned, and I have advocated previously the establishment of trade training centres for coloured children only. [More…]
I know that of the increased grant in these estimates for the Institute, a great deal will be spent on 2 projects, firstly, on linguistic study so that the very commendable initiative of the present Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in making available teachers in Aboriginal languages for primary and infant schools can be more readily implemented. [More…]
Throwing in the expenditure on education and health, in addition to the amounts that were being disbursed by my good friend the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Bryant) when he was Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, the expenditure provided for in this Budget will be well over double whatever was spent before. [More…]
These areas are housing, employment, education and health. [More…]
The payment of funds to Aboriginal parents who send their children on to high school has done much to encourage Aboriginal children to go on to higher education levels. [More…]
But it is of no use turning out numbers of Aboriginal children at higher school certificate standard if no employment is available for them to use their educational achievements to advantage. [More…]
Given education, good housing, employment and a white man’s income, the Aboriginal will be well on the road to equality. [More…]
I would use the Education Department to create an assault against the inadequacies of opportunities existing in that area. [More…]
We need all the resources of the Department of Health and the Education Department in this area. [More…]
Therefore one does not set up housing services of his own, health services of his own and education services of his own. [More…]
As I pointed out in my explanation of the Aboriginal Trust Account the funds are going in various directions in the encouragement of community enterprises, in the development of housing, in the setting up of employment opportunities and in providing backstops to education, health and other services. [More…]
As that happened, my colleague the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) set up his interim schools commission, and the long awaited and long delayed independent education authority for the Australian Capital Territory is now virtually with us. [More…]
I also want to speak tonight on the education of children and students who come from outlying areas. [More…]
The facts are that per capita payments to all independent schools are justified by the fact that all independent schools which undertake the education of students save the taxpayers of this country the difference between the amount of the per capita payments and the actual cost to the Government of educating students in government schools. [More…]
If the Government is prepared to provide education in government schools for the children of wealthy parents without any discrimination as far as wealth is concerned then why should there be discrimination in relation to independent schools to which the Government pays only part of the costs? [More…]
Let me repeat that all of those schools providing education for those 58,000 pupils are saving the Government the difference between the per capita grant that they would have received and the cost to the Government of providing education for those children. [More…]
All Australian children are entitled to an education which will enable them to attain their full potential, intellectual, social and physical. [More…]
Every child has an equal right to participate in the distribution of education finance derived from public moneys. [More…]
Parents, not the State, have the right and duty to choose the type of education their children shall receive. [More…]
I regret that I did not give any warning to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) that I would be speaking tonight on this matter. [More…]
I believe that the matter to which I have referred is a very important aspect of the educational system. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Education has done a very good job in many fields. [More…]
The Karmel analysis was that the resources deployed behind the education of an average child in State secondary schools was $511 per student. [More…]
The Karmel exercise, which no political party had ever anticipated, stated that a dignified standard of education for every child is 40 per cent above the existing State school level, which would be $715 per pupil at 1973 values of the dollar. [More…]
There are special grants for the education of handicapped children, where there are very big gaps. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]
What is the Australian Government’s involvement in the migrant education program and the catering for latch key children in Brunswick North Primary School in Melbourne and in similar projects in other parts of Australia? [More…]
The Australian Government is involved through the Department of Immigration in the adult education program at the Brunswick North Primary School. [More…]
It has the administrative control of the Government’s education projects in relation to adult migrants. [More…]
The Department of Education is involved though in a capacity of giving advice to the Department of Immigration in preparing learning and teaching materials, and it assists with teacher training. [More…]
The projects are in line with the Government’s policy as far as adults are concerned to encourage community involvement in education, in this case the adult migrants themselves. [More…]
The question of migrant education is one of my major interests at the moment insofar as each is within my jurisdiction. [More…]
The balance is expended by the Department of Education for study grants and secondary grants, the Department of Health in the Northern Territory, the Department of Labour under its employment training scheme and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. [More…]
This Government established a special study group of Commonwealth and State health authorities which recommended a co-ordinated program covering establishment of local health committees, delivery of health care - including much wider deployment of doctors and community health nurses - administrative re-organisation, education, family planning, research and other special programs. [More…]
It is still a fact however that only a relative handful are undergoing tertiary education. [More…]
Programs to overcome this situation have been approved by me and include support of teachers colleges carrying out courses in Aboriginal education; compensatory teaching programs for children in primary school; support of a special college of Aboriginal education at Torrens in South Australia where a range of basic skills is taught, leading to further education or improved employment. [More…]
Last year we said that the legislation would involve undue centralisation, undue control in Canberra, dictation by Canberra to State Departments of Education, to State Ministers and to the independent schools. [More…]
The proposal to establish regional boards represents a deliberate attempt to by-pass State Departments of Education, independent school authorities and the priorities committees which the independent school authorities have voluntarily established. [More…]
There is no real evidence that in coming to frame this legislation the Minister had consultation with the States or with the independent school authorities in any meaningful sense, because the Bill is not a Bill that is designed to service all education; it is a Bill that is designed to service particular objectives which certain members of the Minister’s Party enunciated throughout last year. [More…]
We will move amendments that will achieve consultation, co-operation and deliberation with people involved in education in a sense which gives them a participation in the decision making of the Commission itself. [More…]
I also indicate that we are committed to greater and greater support for education, as the activities of the previous Government indicated last year and as has been reinforced by the enthusiasm with which the Minister has re-announced a number of our own decisions throughout this year. [More…]
I am glad to see that he has accepted the recommendation of the committee on teacher training and committees of that kind which we established and which will do much for the quality of education and we all recognise that this is an area that will require greater funds and greater support from governments. [More…]
As more children stay at school until they reach a higher level, more find places in technical colleges, universities, colleges of advanced education or teachers colleges. [More…]
That kind of counterfeit trick adds nothing to education. [More…]
If the transfer payments were taken out of the present Budgets we would find that the real increase in education expenditure coming from governments, both State and Commonwealth, would be nothing like as great as has been claimed. [More…]
Be that as it may, the point I seek to make here is that while we are committed to a broad based education of high quality, improving the opportunities for all children, especially those who come from disadvantaged families and disadvantaged groups and especially those who require special treatment and specially trained teachers - matters which we put in train over a year ago - and while we are committed to better conditions in schools, to which we became committed over a year ago, we are not necessarily committed to the techniques and methods which the Minister is using to achieve the result that he thinks to be necessary, because we are not committed to centralisation of education in the Commonwealth’s hands. [More…]
We do not believe, as good as they are, that all Commonwealth departmental advisers on education are the only departmental advisers who should be properly consulted in relation to these matters. [More…]
It will not ensure adequate representation of appropriate people on the schools commission itself and it will not ensure that the purposes of the Bill, as set out in clause 13, will properly meet the education needs and requirements of all Australian school children. [More…]
The Opposition proposes to add to the definitions of the Bill - if not in this House at least in another place - an additional definition of the Australian Education Council consisting of the Australian Minister and every State Minister. [More…]
The Opposition is determined to give the Australian Education Council a role in the workings of the Schools Commission which the Government apparently has been unwilling to concede. [More…]
There is no guarantee that those concerned with State departments of education or those concerned with independent schools will be given any support or representation. [More…]
For all we know, the people appointed to the Commission under this Minister could well be people who are committed o one form of education - government education - alone, whilst the Opposition is committed to a high standard of government education and, in addition, to the continued maintenance and freedom of independent schools. [More…]
So the Opposition will be moving that subclause (2) of clause 4 be omitted and that the Commission shall consist of a chairman and 2 other members to be appointed directly by the Commonwealth Minister, 7 members to be selected from a panel of ten to be nominated by the Australian Education Council - that council consists of State Ministers together with the Commonwealth Minister for Education - 4 members to be selected from a panel of seven to be nominated by the independent school authorities, and one member from a panel of three to be nominated by the Australian Committee on Research and Development in Education. [More…]
The Opposition is proposing in fact that there will be 10 people who might be regarded as coming from the government sector of education, three appointed by the Minister and seven to be selected from a panel of ten nominated by the Education Council on which, of course, the Commonwealth Minister is represented. [More…]
I was saying that 10 members basically would be coming from the government sector - three directly appointed by the Minister and seven nominated by the ‘Education Council. [More…]
There would be four from a panel of seven to be nominated by the independent school authorities and one from a panel of three to be nominated by the Australian Committee on Research and Development in Education. [More…]
The Opposition believes also that the discretion I think the Minister has given himself in the Bill concerning full time members should not be there and that at the outset there should be one full time member - as was the case with the Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education - but that the others should all be part time members appointed for terms of not more than 5 years but subject to reappointment. [More…]
The Opposition will be moving that clause 16 be deleted and replaced by another clause which would guarantee that in pursuit of its functions the Commission shall consult with the State education authorities, independent school authorities and parent and teacher organisations for both government and independent schools. [More…]
Of course, this is the axe which will be used to chop down the State departments of education - not in one blow but in several. [More…]
Clause 13 will be substantially amended because it is one which does not look adequately to the totality of education. [More…]
It looks too much to only one sector of education. [More…]
The Opposition’s amendment deletes that and requires the Commission to work in cooperation with the State departments of education and independent school authorities, and to furnish information and advice to the Minister and to State Ministers. [More…]
In the exercise of its functions the Commission shall have regard to the provision of education of high and equal quality to all children in government or independent schools. [More…]
Article 26 calls upon member governments to preserve freedom of choice in education and reads: [More…]
Everyone has the right to education. [More…]
Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. [More…]
Elementary education shall be compulsory. [More…]
Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. [More…]
Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. [More…]
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]
Furthermore, in the exercise of its functions the Commission shall have regard to the need to provide increased and equal opportunities for education in all Australian schools. [More…]
the pre-eminent position of State Departments of Education in relation to their own schools; [More…]
I ask the Minister to look at the Opposition’s amendments coolly - not the way that this debate began - and without passion and heat because it is the Opposition’s belief that its amendments will lead to a much better Schools Commission and a much better balanced Commission whose nose is pointed in the appropriate direction to advance education for all Australian schoolchildren. [More…]
Let me say at once that the Government gladly accepts the inclusion in this Bill of the extract from the Declaration of Human Rights from which the former Minister for Education and Science, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has quoted, embodying, as it does very thoroughly, the philosophy and statements of faith on which the legislation before the House rests. [More…]
The former Minister for Education and Science, upon whose shoulders rests a very formidable share of the responsibility for the present state of Australian schools, has, in the name of fighting centralisation, proposed amendments which would destroy the most hopeful initiatives in the direction of decentralisation in the administration of education which this country has yet seen. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon, in proposing to combat bureaucracy, has chosen to concentrate the overwhelming weight of School Commission representation in the hands of 2 bureaucracies, namely, that bureaucracy made up of the State Departments of Education, as expressed through their Ministers and institutionalised in the Australian Education Council, and that other bureaucracy, no less hidebound, which is institutionalised in the independent schools authorities. [More…]
The membership proposed for the Australian Schools Commission, and foreshadowed in the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission which was announced by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) on 24 September this year, reflects very closely the membership and the spread of interests represented on the original Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission, which was appointed under Professor Karmel as one of the first acts of the present Government. [More…]
The great body of teachers in Australia and that great body of parents whose efforts have done so much to keep the education system afloat in this country throughout the postwar period will view with great trepidation the amendments that have been proposed by the honourable member for Wannon and will similarly regard the philosophy of which those amendments are an expression. [More…]
There will be no doubt in the minds of those organisations that there would be no place on a Schools Commission, staffed by a government in which the honourable member for Wannon was again the Minister for Education, for persons such as Mr Ray Costello, the President of the first Teachers Federation, who has been appointed to the Interim Committee by the present Minister for Education. [More…]
Mr Costello and Mrs Kirner are people with a knowledge as deep, an experience as extensive, a commitment to education equal in every way to anyone- [More…]
It is quite clear, given the terms of the amendments moved by the honourable member for Wannon, that neither of these people, enormous though their potential contribution is to the cause of education in this country, would have any hope of finding their way on to a commission in which the honourable member for Wannon had any say. [More…]
I regard that as a very ominous warning for the prospects of any objective process of inquiry into the needs of education in this country. [More…]
Honourable members will not find it hard to recall how, prior to the 1969 election, the honourable member for Wannon promoted the idea of a nationwide survey on educational needs as a means of staving off the demands not only of teachers’ organisations and of parents’ organisations but also of State Ministers and others who make up the Australian Council for Education, for which he has suddenly developed so high an opinion, until after the Government of which he was a member could get over a critical pre-election period. [More…]
The whole philosophy of members opposite in matters of Commonwealth assistance for education has been based on a 3 -tier model of the education system. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon and those associated with him have always had a very special affinity with and concern for a very small group of schools in this community whose students are already receiving education of a very high quality. [More…]
They have had no concern whatsoever for those schools at which Australia’s least privileged children receive their education. [More…]
Although any community should acknowledge a great and overriding obligation to those 3 groups of children, it is these children who, under the government of the honourable member for Wannon and his predecessors in the Education portfolio, have missed out. [More…]
I turn to the needs of the handicapped children and particularly those who are psychologically disturbed and have specific learning difficulties or have difficulties of language expression and articulation; that is, to children who, under any proper system of priorities for educational expenditure, would receive prompt and proper care from the phychology and guidance branches of education departments, from the speech therapy branches of education departments and from remedial teaching staff of education departments. [More…]
The report went on to point out that the speech therapy branch of the Victorian Education Department had barely half the speech therapists necessary to meet its estimated workload. [More…]
I have seen children identified by officers of the Victorian Education Department as having defects of speech in their first or second year at school and denied treatment for 3 or more years because of the gross shortage of speech therapists. [More…]
I bring these very few instances to the attention of the House and to the honourable member for Wannon because I am convinced that the great contribution that the Australian Schools Commission will make to the affairs of education in this country is to bring before the attention of the public, this Parliament and the State Parliaments not only the great and glaring problems of education in which we all share most directly but also those problems of special education, special services, education for handicapped children and education for migrant children which have so long been swept under the mat and which will not receive the attention to which they are entitled until they are regularly exposed to the light of day. [More…]
This process of an objective inquiry is one which will not be well served if the people responsible for it are drawn exclusively from the bureaucracies of State education departments and from the teaching and parental hierarchies of the independent school system. [More…]
The selection of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission - that is, the committee that was headed by Professor Karmel - was a triumph to bringing into play in this field of educational investigation the best resources that our community has to offer. [More…]
I hope that they will not allow themselves to be frightened off from the new processes of objective inquiry and from the greatly increased scope of financial commitment on the part of the Australian Government to the Australian education system. [More…]
I hope that we can go forward from the recommendations which have been put forward by the Karmel Committee and adopted overwhelmingly by the Government to new uplands of education in this country. [More…]
We would all join with the honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews) in desiring new uplands for Australian education. [More…]
I think there is great agreement in this House and in the Australian community that the provision of extra funds for education which we have seen this year is a good thing. [More…]
Many of us on this side of the House have been worried by the tendency over recent years for the States to be starved of funds for the fulfilment of their essential purposes and, of course, among the most crucial purposes of the States is education. [More…]
But we fear that signs are appearing that the Government’s conception of the uplands of education should scare the living daylights out of a very large percentage of the Australian community and should scare the living daylights out of those who have regard for the higher values and for the non-material values in education. [More…]
It provides no guarantees and no formal structures of freedom in the educational processes of our community. [More…]
It seems to me to be one of the major ironies of present politics in this country that one of those rare and splendid public men who are most concerned with nonmaterial values in the Australian community - I refer to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) - should be forced to preside over some - not all - education policies which in my judgment and the judgment of my colleagues threaten crucial non-material values in our community. [More…]
A pause to discuss, to reflect and to talk together could have solved many of the problems that the Government has struck in this area of education as well as in other areas - such as arts policy notably, but across the whole range of Government policies. [More…]
Of course the Government - the Australian Labor Party - has tied the hands of the Minister for Education in ways which he could only regret. [More…]
I am convinced that personally he would have consulted and involved more people in the educational process than he has done. [More…]
Our amendments to the Bill seek to ensure and to guarantee the participation of those who are involved as parents and those who are involved in the organisations of nongovernment schools as well as government schools and to ensure and guarantee their permanent participation at the highest level of national education planning. [More…]
But our point is this: Why by-pass those who are most deeply involved in education? [More…]
We want to push power in education right out to the periphery of the system. [More…]
Clause 13 (3) (a) speaks of a primary obligation of governments in relation to education, for governments to provide and maintain government school systems that are of the highest standard and are open, without fees or religious tests, to all children. [More…]
Much that is good is encouraged, such as education for the handicapped, special education problems, migrant education problems and all these things which in later years we in the Liberal governments began to do something about and which have been carried on splendidly by this Government. [More…]
What has happened, sadly, is that now that the Labor Government’s education plans have become concrete their promises have melted away. [More…]
The other point that I want to make is this: In our attempts in the amendments to ensure freedom and effectiveness and decentralisation we are aiming at the guaranteed participation of those deeply involved in education. [More…]
We do not want to detract from anything, but we do want to see this lovely talk about the uplands of education developed in the finest way possible by this Government, as it would be by any government, so that those non-material values which can make all the difference to an individual’s education are preserved for all time in the Australian community. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), a former Minister for Education, seems to have learnt nothing. [More…]
He still goes on with the same old complaints about centralism, talking about how this new enterprise - the Commonwealth Schools Commission - is going to centralise the task of education in Australia. [More…]
He conveniently forgets that his own government or governments of his kidney in previous times set up comparable bodies at the tertiary level - such as the Universities Commission and the Commonwealth Commission on Advanced Education - on which this Schools Commission is very much modelled. [More…]
He ignores the provisions in the Bill that give the Commission, with the sanction of the Minister for Education, power to set up all kinds of consultative bodies in the community. [More…]
Why all this nonsense about centralism when it is explicitly stated in the Minister’s second reading speech that the State governments will still have control of State education and all that we will be doing will be helping them to do it a lot better. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon talked in a derogatory way about the Commonwealth taking over the financial responsibility for tertiary education. [More…]
Does he not remember the outcry from every State Minister for Education about the formula imposed upon the States by the previous Commonwealth Government in respect of financial grants to the States whereby for recurrent benefits the States had to find $1.85 for every $1 that the Commonwealth provided? [More…]
The result was to distort the educational pattern. [More…]
We had very good universities and we had very good colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Do not look for pre-school education because so little of its exists. [More…]
The former Minister for Education has the hide to say: ‘Our concern is for a high standard of education for all children and our particular concern is for those most in need’. [More…]
The least of God’s children, you might say, were deprived by this former Minister for Education who now expresses his concern for all children. [More…]
That body has done a magnificent job on behalf of Australian education. [More…]
The overriding principle guiding this Bill is that it should provide for quality of education and that it should provide for equality of educational opportunity. [More…]
I have not heard any of the State Ministers for Education decry this Bill or its provisions. [More…]
In fact in New South Wales, at a time approaching the State election, the Minister for Education is busying himself going around announcing how many teachers he is going to recruit. [More…]
One of the reasons why we do not have enough tradesmen is the ineptitude of the previous Government in not giving support to another aspect of educational enterprise, technical education. [More…]
For a fair part of my life I served in that sphere, training teachers for technical education, and I know a little about the subject. [More…]
Technical education will get a substantial increase as well. [More…]
In 1972-73 this branch of education got only $13m but under this Government it will get $32.6m in one financial year. [More…]
Educational authorities will get further help in the tertiary aspects pf education but I will not have time to talk about that today. [More…]
We are still awaiting the report of the committee set up by the Minister to inquire into Australian technical and further education. [More…]
been set up to last for one year and then be forgotten about for another 20 years, this is a guarantee for Australia’s educational future. [More…]
It is to be a permanent commission backed by the national government - the one Government in Australia that has the resources to guarantee the future of every child, and for that matter every adult, seeking an appropriate education in Australia. [More…]
Firstly, I should like to make it clear to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) that in speaking to the Schools Commission Bill, the Australian Country Party in no way condemns him, or for that matter his Government, for the genuine attempts that he has made to try to improve the standards of education in Australia. [More…]
However, the Australian Country Party supports the amendments foreshadowed by the Opposition spokesman on education, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), principally because we are anxious to ensure that the Government carries out that spirit of the Minister’s intention as stated in his second reading speech where he said that the States will retain responsibility for administering their own educational programs but will have available to them greatly increased funds for this purpose. [More…]
The States will have greatly increased funds available for the purposes of education. [More…]
But in our judgment it is very important to ensure that the States continue to maintain the direct responsibility for the administration of education. [More…]
Often in our zeal to try to do the best job possible we can overlook the desires and the aspirations of the States and those who have a primary responsibility at the grass roots level for putting into practice the function of education. [More…]
No one will argue that the Minister has failed in his task of pumping the urgently needed additional Commonwealth resources into education. [More…]
I think great credit goes to the Committee for what it did in surveying the needs of education in Australia right through the breadth of education, including the needs of disadvantaged and handicapped people in the community. [More…]
The honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews) was critical of the former Minister for Education and Science for what little the previous Government had done to try to improve migrant education and the education of handicapped children. [More…]
I remember the former Minister for Education and Science and the former Minister for Immigration, Dr Forbes, setting about the establishment of a task force to inquire into the needs of migrant education. [More…]
Also, a considerable amount of work was done by the former Minister for Education and Science to improve the general standards of education applying to handicapped children. [More…]
Thus it is rather an unfair criticism to have made of the former Minister for Education and Science, who was making great strides in the field of advancing the needs of education generally. [More…]
It would be wrong and not in the best interests of education generally if the Commonwealth Government, or the Australian Government as the Government wishes to have itself known, should assume any form of centralised control or direction. [More…]
Indeed, it is probably more important in the field of education than in any other field to have greater decentralisation and local autonomy. [More…]
Although attempts have been made recently in the States to decentralise or to regionalise administration of education I am not so sure that sufficient has been done to achieve the local autonomy that is necessary in the field of education. [More…]
There is not enough pretechnical training in the education system to equip those people who do not necessarily have the inclination or the ability to go to university. [More…]
Yet at the same time we are seeing a drift of young people after they leave school away from the town of Moree to the cities and elsewhere to find employment or to pursue further educational levels. [More…]
I think it is absolutely essential for schools within the States to have a more diverse and more flexible approach to the educational needs of our children. [More…]
I throw this into the debate here this afternoon for the reason that I believe that as education is structured in our society at the present time there is not enough decentralisation. [More…]
I would hate to see the establishment of any system that would tend to centralise and perhaps make the function of education even more rigid. [More…]
The functions of the Commission are to inquire into, in co-operation with the State Departments of Education and .the independent school authorities, and furnish information and advice to the Minister and to the State ‘Ministers with respect to, the following matters: [More…]
The Commission shall consist of a Chairman, who shall be the only full-time member, and two other members to be appointed directly by the Minister, seven members to be selected from a panel of ten to be nominated by the Australian Education Council- [More…]
Undoubtedly they would seek to nominate to the Minister the best people who they thought could serve their own interests and the interests of education generally. [More…]
The amendment goes on: and one member from a panel of three to be nominated by the Australian Committee on Research and Development in Education. [More…]
It puts the onus on the community through its various representative organisations and through the Australian Education Council, which consists of State Ministers for Education. [More…]
I do not doubt the Minister’s sincerity, but if the Government is sincere in its objective to get the co-operation of the States and is sincere in its objective to get the co-operation of the States and is sincere in the objective that was stated in the Minister’s- second reading speech that the States will retain responsibility for administering their own education programs, the Minister will see the wisdom of accepting the amendments moved by the honourable member for Wannon. [More…]
When the Minister says acceptable standards’ does he have any concern for whether they are acceptable to the State Departments of Education as well? [More…]
No doubt, if he does, he will have his chance to explain why he would be opposed to the provision in the amendment which underlined the need for complete cooperation with the State Departments of Education, which reads: [More…]
The functions of the Commission are to inquire into, in co-operation with the State Departments of Education and the independent school authorities, and furnish information and advice to the Minister and the State Ministers with respect to, the following matters: [More…]
The Bill gives the impression that only token consideration is being given to the requirements of the various State Departments of Education. [More…]
It lends weight to the body of criticism that has plagued the concept of the schools commission for the last 2 years, and that was that once it was set up we would see all power with respect to education centralised in Canberra. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) made his second reading speech on 27 September and yet, on the resumption of the debate today, we had a rather disturbing display of pique and temper because amendments proposed by the Opposition were not available in time to be circulated when the second reading debate was resumed. [More…]
The Karmel Committee said that any less substantial structure would be unlikely to provide the leadership and stimulus that are so badly needed in Australian education. [More…]
The proposition put by the Opposition is that the part-time commissioners shall operate not as individuals looking at the comprehensive field of education and able to look at all matters, whether they represent nongovernment schools or government schools or have experience with those not representing such groups, to see how the recommendations of the Commission can be used for the good of the whole educational system in Australia. [More…]
The Interim Committee of the Schools Commission saw some virtue but not total virtue in this argument for the very reasons I have mentioned, namely, that such persons would be representing a narrow group and voting on behalf of a narrow group when many of the people in those organisations have the breadth of vision which would enable them to look at the whole field of education and make recommendations that would benefit all and not just the interests they represent. [More…]
I believe that the setting up of the Schools Commission, such as is proposed by the Minister, will allow us to provide sufficient resources of both a human and material nature to give the educational experience appropriate to the society of today. [More…]
In education appropriate to today’s society Australia has lagged because past Australian governments have not been sufficiently interested to recognise the crisis and do something about it. [More…]
The final and most cutting comment of the Karmel Committee was that the quality of Australian education leaves much to be desired. [More…]
In a country where averages are taken to show the quality of our standard of living, and the quality of our way of life, what an indictment it is that a group of persons looking at our educational system is able to say that in Australia the quality of education leaves much to be desired. [More…]
In the functioning of the Schools Commission when it is set up - I have no intention of going through all the items that list its functions - lies great hope for the future in seeing that this essential quality of education is raised to an appropriate standard. [More…]
Other countries look to the Australian experience in education and are looking to the fact that no longer is Australia just talking about education as a political catchery but is doing something about it by establishing :i Schools Commission which will be able to do the job, it will determine the requirements and, as is provided in the Bill, will have consultation with the States, with the authorities in the Territories, with persons, bodies and authorities conducting non-government schools in Australia - not only government schools but the whole range of schools - and all persons with an interest in education. [More…]
The people have shown by community involvement, community interest and community activities that they demand of governments proper action in the educational field. [More…]
They will no longer be fobbed off with indecision and all sorts of alibis as to why the educational program cannot be carried out across the field. [More…]
I congratulate the Minister for Education on the nature of the Bill that he has brought forward to form the Australian Schools Commission. [More…]
When the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) introduced this Bill he said, in his second reading speech, that the establishment of the Australian Schools Commission was a logical extension of the principles adopted by former governments in regard to universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
He said in the second reading speech also that the Government attaches very high priority to education, particularly to the quality of education and to equality of opportunity in education. [More…]
If that is so the quality of education will suffer as a result of this Commission’s activities. [More…]
That is the type of quality of education that this Commission is likely to produce. [More…]
What does this Commission mean and what does the Minister mean by the quality of education? [More…]
The quality of education is one of those vague phrases which are bandied around so frequently by educationists and academics - and the Minister is no exception to either of those groups - and no one really knows what is meant by them. [More…]
I suggest that in questions of Government finance of education a vague phrase such as that is absolutely meaningless. [More…]
I think this would lead to very meaningful discussions about what advances could be made in education. [More…]
Simply to refer to the quality of education is to be as vague and meaningless as are some of the other terms which, unfortunately, have been used in the Karmel Committee report. [More…]
May I suggest to the Minister that if his Government is concerned about having equality of opportunity in education he is going about it the wrong way round. [More…]
It is ridiculous to start spending money by making universities free if equality of opportunity in education is the aim. [More…]
In the United Kingdom recently a teacher shortage has occurred in secondary schools because of an earnest desire by the Government since the Second World War to make secondary education available for every student. [More…]
Alternatives have to be made available in order to make sure that children in the last 2 years of secondary education do not waste their time sitting in school simply because they have to and to make sure that they derive something of advantage to themselves when they leave school. [More…]
Education in general is an expanding and an evolving program. [More…]
This is what has happened in the field of education. [More…]
The Australian interpretation of equal opportunity has, then, been confirmed to public schooling, and has been interpreted there as equal and, in the main, uniform provision throughout the State for which each education authority is responsible. [More…]
If parents are saving in order to pay school fees at a particular level and that school still has not the facilities necessary to give their children a decent education, surely one would say that that school is in need. [More…]
This is one of the main objections that I have to the Schools Commission: Parliament will be asked annually to appropriate bulk sums of money for expenditure on education. [More…]
Certainly there are areas in which more money needs to be spent on education. [More…]
I suggest that this Commission is nothing short of an attempt by the Government to introduce a Fabian concept of equality into education that is doomed to disaster and failure. [More…]
It is a great privilege to take part in a debate on the second reading of the Schools Commission Bill because the proposed Schools Commission is the hope of Australian education in the years ahead. [More…]
The Budget provided for an increase of over 90 per cent in Commonwealth funding for education, and of course that 90 per cent increase takes into account only 6 months of operation of the proposed Australian Schools Commission and similar programs. [More…]
In other words, there is a vastly increased Australian commitment to education now and in the future. [More…]
I do not know whether Sir Robert Menzies is listening to this debate but I think it should be pointed out to honourable members opposite that the Schools Commission will set up for schools the same type of authority that their own Government set up to serve the needs of universities and, later, colleges of advanced education. [More…]
In both of those cases the commissions set up by the former Government have served Australian education well. [More…]
The 1972 policy speech of the Labor Party on the subject of education stated: [More…]
I think it must be a matter of great satisfaction to the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazely), who is sitting at the table, to see an education policy for which they worked extremely hard not only in public in more recent times but also, in earlier days, inside the Labor Party itself. [More…]
I think we all would agree that the Committee performed a remarkable task in bringing down the recommendations given the fact that the Labor Government wished to include a massive increased commitment to education in the 1973 Budget. [More…]
While I am happy about the placing on the board at State level of the State Director of Education and the Director of Catholic Education I feel, from information available to me and to my colleagues, that there is need for a much broader representation than that. [More…]
Much of the hope in what is to be achieved, of course, is vested in the discretion of the Australian Minister for Education. [More…]
I am delighted with the effect that the report of the Karmel Committee has had on the State Education Department in Queensland. [More…]
As Chairman of the Migrant Task Force in Queensland I have in recent times had an opportunity to take evidence from officials of the State Department of Education. [More…]
I have been tremendously impressed with the quality of the people now administering education in Queensland. [More…]
I know that the proposal for the Australian Schools Commission to give increased support for State education has given great impetus to the Queensland Department of Education to rethink its priorities in the knowledge that money will be available for areas which previously were starved of support. [More…]
When one looks at clause 13 of the Bill one realises that the Schools Commission is directed to pay particular attention to the needs of disadvantaged children, children with special needs, migrant children, Aboriginal children and other areas of education such as physical education. [More…]
As I mentioned, I was associated recently with the Migrant Task Force in Queensland and I have been tremendously impressed with the way in which teachers, both in the State system and in the Catholic system of education, have been teaching migrant children, very often in what are very difficult circumstances. [More…]
The ball is now back in the court of the States to take up the challenge and to work out priorities within their own systems of education to ensure that every child within state schools receives the maximum benefit. [More…]
This amount of money which is set out in the Budget documents does not include the increased assistance for universities and colleges of advanced education, for pre-schools and the like. [More…]
But those people who argue that the report has in some way discriminated against Anglican schools, for example, fail to take into account that the Catholic education system has sought to provide education for every Catholic child in a way which no other major denomination in this country has sought. [More…]
I have had put to me a question as to whether the recurrent grants are going to be used to provide remedial teachers in the Catholic systemic system in perhaps 6 to 7 centres in Queensland because the State Department of Education which previously accepted the responsibility in this field is no longer able to accept the responsibility. [More…]
I noted a statement of the Catholic bishops in which they expressed the view, amongst other things, that there should be some Government assistance given to the education of every child. [More…]
I know, of course, that the program being put forward under the Schools Commission legislation is by no means the only program which this Government advances for the education of Australian children. [More…]
This Government inherited certain educational structures but this year, under the guidance of the present Minister for Education, we have had measures aimed at assistance in the education of isolated children, and a very high proportion of those children, by the very nature of things, attend Catholic schools. [More…]
The Labor Government is determined to make a permanent commitment to the education of every Australian child and every Australian young man and young woman. [More…]
I am sure that in the years ahead the Commission will make a major contribution to the education of all Australian children, whether they attend State schools or non-State schools. [More…]
I need only instance the migrant education program operated through the Department of Immigration and the provision of $16m for this purpose. [More…]
I want to quote briefly some aspects of basic Liberal Party philosophy in terms of education. [More…]
It is our intention to provide all our children - I repeat, all our children - with the best quality of education and the greatest quantity of educational aids which the resources of the nation will allow. [More…]
Naturally enough, the resources of the nation which can be channelled towards education now are much greater than they were in, say, 1949. [More…]
We believe it is positively good that various avenues to education should be open to Australian children and therefore, of course, we support the independent school system as well as the government school system. [More…]
We believe that one system of primary and secondary education, centralised as to administration, bound by departmental regulations, however sensible, and closely directed as to methods, however good, is monolithic and, were it the only system, could easily become moribund. [More…]
I think I have put forward very clearly the basis of the philosophy on education adhered to by the Liberal Party. [More…]
We believe, firmly in instilling in all families a concern for the needs of education and a desire to encourage their children to maximise their potential. [More…]
Unfortunately many of the parents of children in the state school system do not have sufficient concern for the needs of education for their children. [More…]
We seek to encourage local educational research programs, to identify the major educational needs and problems and to ensure that Australian solutions are developed on soundly based analytical work. [More…]
We wish to do this work in co-operation with the States and other authorities and, in particular, to encourage greater local contribution and interest in the day to day running of educational institutions and an avoidance of centralised control. [More…]
I have mentioned already in this debate the basic adherence by the Liberal Party to the concepts of freedom of choice in education. [More…]
As I have already said I believe that we should do what we can to maintain an independent school system so that this very necessary aspect of the individual rights of people in Australia - that is freedom of choice in the education of their children - should be preserved. [More…]
In relation to the functions of the Schools Commission we have mentioned specifically in our amendment Article 26 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states very specifically that parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]
But the present Minister for Education may not be the Minister for very long. [More…]
The Commission shall consist of a chairman, who shall be the only full time member, and two other members to be appointed directly by the Minister, seven members to be selected from a panel of ten to be nominated by the Australian Education Council, four members to be selected from a panel of seven to be nominated by the Independent School Authorities and one member from a panel of three members to be nominated by the Australian Committee on Research and Development in Education. [More…]
I believe that the independent schools organisations which are closely related would be quite competent to nominate 4 members from a panel of seven from which the Minister for Education would have the right to choose. [More…]
We admit that it takes away the ministerial control which this Bill directly gives to the Minister for Education. [More…]
We sincerely believe that they can do a great deal to assist the Commission to function in a way which is in accord, I believe, with the feelings of many members on both sides of the House, and that is to function not as a centralised bureaucracy but as a Commission seeking to decentralise the administration of education as far as possible. [More…]
For instance, the honourable member complained of the way in which we have constructed the Commission, but I have the wording of the former Government’s Australian Commission on Advanced Education Bill 1971, from which the wording of the present Bill was copied. [More…]
The honourable member for Warringah accused the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) of virtual incompetence and said that he would be replaced as a Minister. [More…]
There is more likelihood of there being a new member for Warringah than there is of there being a new Minister for Education. [More…]
The Minister has shown compassion and understanding and an overall review that has been necessary for any advancement in Australian education in the primary and secondary sectors. [More…]
I am not criticising those parents who make a sacrifice because for them there is not an alternative standard of equality education in the State system. [More…]
Every clause in this Bill is designed to ensure the maximisation of value from each dollar collected and spent on education. [More…]
Had such a policy statement backed by action come in the past from the Government of the day, now the Opposition, the Committee would not now be reporting serious and widespread deficiencies in the quantity and quality of human and material resources in government schools, which, I need not remind this House but it can bear repeating, carry the bulk of community responsibility for the education of disadvantaged children as well as for the great majority of all Australian children. [More…]
We believe the philosophy and recommendations of the Committee members represent the most important development in Australian education this century. [More…]
It has implications, not only for education, but for the kind of society Australia may become. [More…]
The Constitution places the responsibility of public education on the States. [More…]
We are arguing for greater diversity of education which, instead of being limited to the independent sector as it is now, should be evident in both the government and nongovernment sectors. [More…]
In fact, the Victorian Government tried to redress what it considered an imbalance in the access to equality of education by disbursing its own funds to take up the original per capita grants. [More…]
I contend that this is an absolute denial of the equality of opportunity to education. [More…]
It is equality of access to education that will produce in a particular individual an equality of expected performance within the capabilities of the individual. [More…]
The functions of the Commission will be determined not by a permanent bureaucracy or by an enlarged and inflexible bureaucracy as advocated by the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser); they will be determined by all concerned with education, diversified and expert with flexible interests. [More…]
The Commission will be not representing but representative of the interests that go to make up the community and those involved in education. [More…]
The establishment of a Schools Commission is a logical extension of the principles adopted by former governments in regard to universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The first qualification or term of reference for the Commission is to ‘have regard to the primary obligation, in relation to education, for governments to provide and maintain government school systems that are of the highest standard and are open, without fees or religious tests, to all children’. [More…]
Many parents sacrifice their own pleasures and convenience for the sake of their children getting a better education because they cannot find it at the moment in the present government systems. [More…]
I would like to take just one or two moments to praise the efforts of those who in the past, under the desultory system of the previous Government, had to sacrifice to give their children what they thought was a better education. [More…]
For instance, the Mount Evelyn School for Christian Education in my electorate has been erected, repaired and run entirely - except for the Federal grants for libraries and science blocks - out of the involvement, concern and dedication of the parents of the pupils at that school. [More…]
Now, because we see equality of education as the goal to equality of performance, enjoyment and contribution to society, we take the wider view that all Australian school children should have this right of choice. [More…]
Consequently, because of studies into the purposes of education, the effect of education and the effect of society in determining people’s attitudes to education, there is a growing realisation that educational reforms have to be co-ordinated with social and economic reforms. [More…]
One cannot establish greater equality of opportunity in the educational system without promoting it concomitantly with the social system at large. [More…]
Anyone who sees the Schools Commission as a single identity without relating it to the other magnificent work the Minister for Education has done or without seeing it in relation to the overall program for which this Government was so overwhelmingly elected, fails to see the inter-relationship between education and the community. [More…]
The core of the problem of educational opportunity is whether equality should be viewed as a starting point or as a goal. [More…]
To state it more precisely, do we want to give everybody an equal formal opportunity of access to education, or do we want everybody to perform more equally at his own standards and to his own satisfaction? [More…]
If one wants to establish formal equality on entry to the regular educational system and throughout its various stages, the major goal of educational policy should be to provide free access to a system which, at least during the compulsory school age, is structurally unified. [More…]
Differentiated treatment with the aim of providing compensatory education for the socially disadvantaged pupils will have to be considered. [More…]
The Commission will have regard to the needs of disadvantaged schools and of students at disadvantaged schools, and of other students suffering disadvantages in relation to education for social, economic, ethnic, geographic, cultural, lingual or similar reasons. [More…]
We will be following the standards and experience, so being able to avoid the pitfalls, of the achievements in education in the United Kingdom flowing from the findings and the implementation of the Plowden Report which could be summarised by saying that we have to be more than equal to the unequal to have equality. [More…]
Who can consider that in our society females have the same prospects of full education as males? [More…]
We can overcome the disadvantages of being born in the country and not having access to the same variety and diversity of education as if one were born in the metropolitan area. [More…]
Of course we must overcome the cultural factors that have such an impact on an individual’s education. [More…]
Strategies for bringing about greater equality of educational opportunity can be brought to bear at 3 levels or points. [More…]
Once again I remind the House of the Government’s integrated approach to overall education - not from pre-school to the tertiary level, but a realisation that education is a state throughout the lifetime of the individual, from birth to the grave. [More…]
During third strategy, the post-school period - the open university - there is a constant’ realisation that given a thorough preparation in the primary and secondary schools, the individual can continue his development and education until he is completely finished with it. [More…]
It is gratifying to know that in evolving a new approach to education, which is not hidebound by the fixed bureaucracies or the fixed approaches of the last centuries, we will be paying attention to the development of responsibility. [More…]
I mentioned earlier the benefits that can come from involvement as is found with the Mount Evelyn School for Christian Education - a complete involvement and understanding of why teachers are taking a certain approach, why pupils are learning in a manner different from the way we learnt a generation ago, without panicking about why we do not understand the new mathematics or why there is variance in the degree of discipline in a school. [More…]
This is the first occasion on which I have spoken in full on education in this House. [More…]
This Bill preempts a major change in the administration of education and, as such, the establishment of the Australian Schools Commission to determine the needs of students in both government and non-government schols, at both primary and secondary levels, is therefore an important piece of legislation. [More…]
Tremendous advances have been made in the provision of educational facilities throughout Australia by all State and Federal governments in recent years. [More…]
Whilst there are many areas of agreement and disagreement with the recommendations of the report handed down by the Interim Committee of the Australian Schools Commission, it is imperative that an impartial commission be set up to advise any government on the best means of meeting our future educational needs. [More…]
I must support the amendments proposed by the Opposition which aim to protect the future freedom of choice of parents and students and to ensure that our education system continues with as great a degree of diversity, with a wide base, and taking in every area of this nation’s requirements. [More…]
The Bill, as it is, will centralise our education system. [More…]
The amendments that the Opposition proposes, and which we hope the Government will agree to, are to ensure that the membership of this Australian Schools Commission will include people and educational groups who should appropriately be represented on this panel. [More…]
I appreciate the fact that it is necessary for the Minister to have considerable discretion in regard to the makeup of the Commission but we are concerned that this Bill, in its present form, will give to all these educational groups neither the opportunity nor the responsibility of guiding educational commitments. [More…]
It is a lengthy document but, even so, in many areas it is vague and makes but few comments on many vital aspects of our education system. [More…]
There are groups of children in our community who have been seriously disadvantaged by a system that unfortunately, in the past, due to the demands and the clamour for education, has been catering mainly for the majority. [More…]
I applaud also the enthusiasm of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and his endeavours towards the responsibility of his ministry but I fail to see how he can accept all the provisions of this Bill and how he can give in to the pressures within his own Party in a way that gives neither assurance nor initiative to many schools other than government schools - perhaps not even to some of these. [More…]
Whilst recognising the importance of priorities as they have been established in the past, it is now imperative that this serious problem, in this important area of education, be given special attention. [More…]
I accept the fact that the Federal Government has a vital role in education. [More…]
I believe, as does the Minister, that the formation of the Schools Commission will commence a new era in education. [More…]
I also mentioned that there appeared to be an over emphasis on education facilities expressed in the Karmel Committee report. [More…]
While I admit that these are important they must play in present day education a secondary part to curriculum structures and the provision of qualified teachers particularly for disadvantaged students. [More…]
I agree with my colleague, the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt), who rightly pointed out that we must not wittingly develop a system that forces many young people into higher academic education when their skills and inclination may be more adaptable to a technical form of instruction. [More…]
The freedom of choice of individuals and students is a basic right in our democratic society, as is the basic right of all children to equal opportunity and equality of education. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) sought to justify his cause by saying that the same wording has come out of the Act establishing the Australian Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
There is also a difference between the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education and the Schools Commission because the universities are independent bodies even though established by State statute for the most part and the schools have a relationship with their State departments and State Ministers of a different kind and of a different order. [More…]
The Australian Education Council is a responsible body. [More…]
I am only sorry to see that legislation from the Department of Education and the Minister for Education is of a kind that indicates that there will be a minimum of consultation. [More…]
That only reinforces us in our determination to press with this particular amendment which would see that the Commission shall consist of a Chairman, who shall be the only full time member, and 2 other members to be appointed directly by the Minister; 7 members to be selected by the Commonwealth Minister from a panel of ten to be nominated by the Australian Education Council of which he also is a part; 4 members to be selected from a panel of seven to be nominated by independent school authorities and one member from a panel of three to be appointed by the Australian Committee on Research and Development in Education. [More…]
Within that arrangement there is plenty of room for those representing the teaching profession, for those representing the State departments, for those who are expert in education in different fields or expert in schools of education in universities, to be represented. [More…]
I think that the amendment being proposed by the Opposition, and which I believe will be passed in the Senate, would lead to a much better Commission and would guarantee that the different people concerned with Australian education have a voice within the Commission itself. [More…]
The Commission shall consist of a Chairman, who shall be the only full-time member, and two other members to be appointed directly by the Minister, seven members to be selected from a panel of ten to be nominated by the Australian Education Council, four members to be selected from a panel of seven to be nominated by the Independent School Authorities and one member from a panel of three to be nominated by the Australian Committee on Research and Development in Education. [More…]
When the honourable member suggested that originally he said: ‘Why do you not follow the analogy of the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education which have only one full time member?’ [More…]
He will see that every State government through its director of education was consulted. [More…]
The Committee met with 5 members of the Australian Council for Rehabilitation of the Disabled - the National Committee on Education. [More…]
This group included some of the most distinguished experts in the world on the education of handicapped such as Professor Marie Neale. [More…]
There were 2 representatives of the Australian College of Education. [More…]
The witnesses who came and sometimes gave entire days of their time, included some of the most distinguished figures in education in this country. [More…]
One has only to look at the list of witnesses to know that this would be so and that every element of education was represented - .the Catholic schools, the non-government schools and the independent schools. [More…]
They represented any field of education that the honourable member for Wannon would like to name. [More…]
Surely it is obvious to the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who is the spokesman for the Opposition and a former Minister for Education, that the States will still have quite expansive expenditure in their own field. [More…]
In fact, the Commonwealth is taking over the full financial responsibility for tertiary education to make available to the States those extra funds which they will be using at their own discretion. [More…]
The second point - and the Minister has, I think, made it quite adequately - is that there are a number of provisions in this Bill for organs of co-operation and consultation, not only with the Education Ministers who are on the Australian Education Council but also for a wide variety of people in the community who might want to participate and forward advice to the Schools Commission. [More…]
What happened in respect of the universities happened also in regard to Colleges of Advanced Education and apparently the same thing would happen to the teachers’ colleges now that they have become autonomous bodies in various parts of the Commonwealth. [More…]
We are trying to get rid of the dull uniformity which has beridden the Australian educational scene and which has caught the eye of most educationists who have visited this country. [More…]
The centralism of the various State bureaucracies of education is what we are aiming to get rid of. [More…]
Over the years the Australian Education Council produced continuous reports about the needs of education. [More…]
Are they independent of the education system? [More…]
They design their education system generally speaking to fit into the same pattern as everybody else and to produce the same type of people to go to the same sort of universities. [More…]
They do not accept the same responsibility as do the State education systems. [More…]
Only a particularly biased person opposite would not admit that the Party now in Government was the one which injected education into the Australian scene as a Commonwealth matter. [More…]
But we are now launching ourselves on what might be called part of the Australian educational revolution. [More…]
I only hope that the spirit with which the honourable member for Wannon endows the State education systems and the other bodies, with the idea of using federation as a co-operative undertaking, is the case. [More…]
I represent one of the areas which needs the immediate application of all the funds that can be made available but I am not convinced that the Victorian Education Department is going to apply funds to the areas of need that are so apparent in that State because there are extraordinary constructional difficulties and so on. [More…]
He is a very distinguished former Director of Education in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Any other matter relating to primary or secondary education in Australia, or to Australian schools, that may be referred to the Commission by the Minister or which the Commission considers to be a matter that should be inquired into by the Commission.. [More…]
In the exercise of its functions, the Commission shall have regard to such matters as are relevant, including the need for improving primary and secondary educational facilities in Australia and of providing increased and equal opportunities for education in Australian schools, and, in particular, shall have regard to- [More…]
the primary obligation, in relation to education, for governments to provide and maintain government school systems that are of the highest standard and are open, without fees or religious tests, to all children; [More…]
the needs of disadvantaged schools and of students at disadvantaged schools, and of other students suffering disadvantages in relation to education for social, economic, ethnic, geographic, cultural, lingual or similar reasons; [More…]
the need to encourage diversity and innovation in education in schools and in the curricula and teaching methods of schools; [More…]
the need to stimulate and encourage public and private interest in, and support for, improvements in primary and secondary education and in schools and school systems; [More…]
the need, in relation to primary and secondary education and in schools and school systems, to promote the economic use of resources. [More…]
The functions of the Commission are to inquire into, in co-operation with the State Departments of Education and the Independent school authorities, and furnish information and advice to the Minister and to the State Ministers with respect to, the following matters: [More…]
In addition, further on in clause 13, in paragraph (d) of sub-clause (1) we want to insert a provision so that the Australian Education Council and not only the Commonwealth Minister will have the capacity to refer matters to the Commission. [More…]
It needs to be noted that the Australian Education Council does not consist of a single Minister of a State; it is a body on which the Minister himself is represented. [More…]
I think it would have been reasonable to allow that body to refer matters to the Commission for examination and not merely the Commonwealth Minister, who as the Bill stands could ignore the Education Council in its entirety. [More…]
Paragraph (a) of sub-clause (3) states: the primary obligation, in relation to education, for governments to provide and maintain government school systems that are of the highest standard and are open, without fees or religious tests, to all children; [More…]
In the exercise of its functions the Commission shall have regard to the provision of education of high and equal quality to all children in Government or independent schools. [More…]
The Minister is quite right when he points out that the part of Article 26 which we believe to be important and relevant is the third paragraph, which states that parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]
Furthermore in the exercise of its functions the Commission shall have regard to the need to provide increased and equal opportunities for education in all Australian schools. [More…]
the pre-eminent position of State Departments of Education in relation to their own schools; [More…]
I would have thought that there is nothing in any of those amendments that runs counter to any honourable policy in education. [More…]
If the Minister wants to say that those words would make it quite impossible for the Government to carry out its education policy he will have to demonstrate that with greater capacity than he has so far done. [More…]
The functions of the Commission are to inquire into the co-operation with the States Departments of Education and the Independent School Authorities, and furnish information and advice to the Minister and to the State Ministers with respect to, the following matters: - ‘. [More…]
In sub-clause (l)(d), after the word ‘Minister’, insert the words ‘or by the Australian Education Council’. [More…]
In the exercise of its functions the Commission shall have regard to the provision of education of high and equal quality to all children in Government or independent schools. [More…]
Everyone has the right to education. [More…]
Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. [More…]
Elementary education shall be compulsory. [More…]
Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. [More…]
Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. [More…]
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]
(3a) Furthermore, in the exercise of its functions the Commission shall have regard to the need to provide increased and equal opportunities for education in all Australian schools. [More…]
the pre-eminent position of State Departments of Education in relation to their own schools; [More…]
the needs of disadvantaged schools and of students at disadventaged schools, and of other students suffering disadvantages in relation to education for social, economic, ethnic, geographic, cultural, lingual or similar reasons; [More…]
the need to encourage diversity and innovation in education in schools and in the curricular and teaching methods of schools; [More…]
the need to stimulate and encourage public and private interests in, and support for improvements in primary and secondary education and in schools and school systems; [More…]
the need, in relation to primary and secondary education and in schools and school systems, to promote the economic use of resources. [More…]
In the exercise of its functions the Commission shall have regard to the provision of education of high and equal quality to all children in government or independent schools. [More…]
The functions of the Commission are to inquire into, in co-operation with the State Departments of Education and the independent school authorities, and furnish information and advice to the Minister and to the State Ministers with respect to, the following matters - [More…]
It has to inquire in co-operation with the State Departments of Education and the independent schools. [More…]
In the exercise of its functions, the Commission shall have regard to such matters as are relevant, including the need for improving primary and secondary educational facilities in Australia and of providing increased and equal opportunities for education in government and non-government schools in Australia, and, in particular, shall have regard to- [More…]
the primary obligation, in relation to education, for governments to provide and maintain government school systems that are of the highest standard and are open, without fees or religious tests, to all children. [More…]
Honourable gentlemen opposite have quoted only what it is to do about the education of the handicapped, but it is also to provide special educational opportunities for students who have demonstrated their ability in a particular field of studies, including scientific, literary, artistic or musical studies. [More…]
I have to acknowledge the obligation of State governments to provide for free education. [More…]
But the basic legislation for free education has to be acknowledged as an obligation on the States, and the Schools Commission would have to acknowledge that as an obligation when it is making grants. [More…]
This Bill has been introduced by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in performance of an undertaking given by his leader, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), in his policy speech prior to the last election. [More…]
In that policy speech the Prime Minister, then the Leader of the Opposition, said that the Australian Labor Party believes that the Commonwealth should adopt some methods to assist schools as it has adopted to assist universities and colleges of advanced education through a commission. [More…]
We in the Opposition support the need to look at the educational needs of handicapped children and handicapped young persons and to consider the needs of disadvantaged schools and of students at disadvantaged schools. [More…]
We endorse the concept of the need to encourage diversity and innovation in education in schools and in the curricula and teaching methods of schools. [More…]
We support the concept of the need to stimulate and to encourage public and private interests in and support for improvements in primary and secondary education and in the schools and school systems. [More…]
We also support the concept of the desirability of providing special educational opportunities for students who have demonstrated their ability in particular fields of study. [More…]
We look also with favour on regard being paid to the needs in relation to primary and secondary education and in school and school systems to promote the economic use of resources. [More…]
We have in recent months had quite an extensive public debate arising out of the recommendations contained in the report of the Karmel Committee insofar as that report has had a significant effect on the educational opportunities and future of a significant group within the Australian community. [More…]
That group is the group of students who receive their education in the independent system. [More…]
We seek to amend the legislation to include reference to the provisions in the United Nations Charter which deals with the right of every parent to choose the kind of education that shall be given to his children. [More…]
Everyone has a right to education. [More…]
Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. [More…]
Elementary education shall be compulsory. [More…]
Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. [More…]
Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. [More…]
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]
But the Government is stopping many of them by raising the cost of education in the independent system and by creating a situation of which government supporters themselves have been critical, that only those who have means, and substantial means, are able to exercise that right of choice. [More…]
Committee and other education experts are advocating community involvement in education and community participation in the running of schools and the direction and development of their educational outreach, that this Government, professing that it supports community involvement, should deny to communities who wish to group together, for whatever reason it may be, in supporting independent schools the right of choice by putting the price of that choice so high that the numbers able to exercise it are severely reduced. [More…]
No one would deny that governments should provide free education of the highest possible standard. [More…]
Of course you have an obligation to put a school in areas so that free education is available to every child. [More…]
But you know as well as other people know that there are supporters of the Government Party who interpret the words I referred to as justification for diverting funds solely to the state system and not providing any support for the independent school system of education. [More…]
We seek this amendment because at this time when there is this trend towards involving the community in education we believe that the community and those concerned directly with education should have an opportunity of submitting to the Minister a panel of names from which he can select the appropriate number to comprise the Commission. [More…]
There should be 2 other members appointed directly by the Minister for Education. [More…]
There should be 7 more members selected from a panel of ten nominated by the Australian Education Council, representing the State school systems through the State education Ministers. [More…]
The Council, in selecting its nominees, no doubt would take account of the recommendation of the Karmel Committee that all those involved in the various aspects of education, teachers, professionals and parents, should be involved in that panel. [More…]
Then there should be 4 members selected from a panel of seven nominated by the independent school authorities, and one member from a panel of three nominated by the Australian Committee on Research and Development in Education. [More…]
In this way the Minister will have the final say as to who shall be on the Commission but he will have an obligation to select the final group from panels selected by people close to education in the State systems, in the independent school system and in the area of education research. [More…]
In this way we of the Opposition believe that under this legislation a Commission can be established which will far more effectively carry out the philosophy enunciated by the Karmel Committee and at the same time raise the standard of education of every Australian child whilst preserving a right which Australians hold dear - the right to freedom of choice, the right to select the schools to which they send their children. [More…]
The States responsibility under the United Nations Charter is to provide free education. [More…]
This provision in the Bill is taken holus-bolus from the former Government’s own legislation for the Australian Universities Commission and the Commission of the Colleges of Advanced Education, which states this: [More…]
In that period British Liberals were trying to get amendments to education legislation in Britain that were invariably thrown out of the House of Lords because of the influence of the Anglican Church at that time. [More…]
Every one of those proposed changes in education would now be recognised as ordinary common sense, as the changes we propose would be recognised as ordinary common sense. [More…]
The chairman will be Dr Kenneth McKinnon, who for many years was the Director of Education in Papua New Guinea, who created a very large part of the secondary and teacher education aspects which have been the most marked development of education in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Other members will be Mrs J. Blackburn, now senior lecturer at the Sturt College of Advanced Education in Adelaide and who for many years was connected with teacher education; the Director-General of Education in South Australia, Mr A. W. Jones; Father Martin, director of the Catholic Education Office, Melbourne; Dr Peter Tannock, Dean of the Faculty of Education of the University of Western Australia, who also is on the Roman Catholic Archbishop’s trustee board or whatever it is called, for education in Western Australia; Mr Ray Costello, the President of the Australian Teachers Federation; Mrs J. Kirner, President of the Victorian Federation of State School Mothers Clubs; Mr A. McNamara, the President of the Sydney Federation of Catholic Parents and Friends Associations; Mr Peter Moyes, the Principal of the Christ Church Grammar School in Western Australia; and Mr A. D. J. [More…]
There will be 2 other appoint ments - one a very distinguished officer of the New South Wales Department of Education whose name I am not yet free to disclose and another, a man who was until recently a principal of one of the leading experimental schools of Australia. [More…]
I think the Interim Committee functioned very well and to the satisfaction of the Australian Education Council which has been cited here this evening by so many people. [More…]
It consists of the 7 Ministers for Education in this country. [More…]
I do not mind the incorporation of glorious statements such as the one about Article 26 of the United Nations Charter, but what on earth is the use of telling a Commission in Australia that education shall be free. [More…]
Article 26 says that technical and professional education shall be made generally available. [More…]
The Article says that higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. [More…]
But the bite came from the honourable gentleman when he said that parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]
I hope that this will always be taken to mean that Aborigines will have a right to have an education in their own language and culture, which we are attempting to give them for the first time. [More…]
When these arrangements were made the Australian Education Council was not appointing nominees to some advisory body to tell the Minister what to do. [More…]
Opposition members have spoken about spiritual aspects of education. [More…]
The problem with the Opposition’s education policy is that it has been always governed by Mark chapter 4 verse 25 and not by Matthew chapter 11 verse 5. [More…]
The distinctive feature about the Catholic sector of education is not that it is Catholic so much from the point of view of a secular government as that it reaches wage earning groups in the community. [More…]
It can be argued strenuously that Anglican education might do that in certain circumstances but undoubtedly there are orders in Queensland which argue that way which is why I think there are very few category ‘A’ schools in Queensland. [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon in seeking to belittle the changes made by the Government said that in teacher education I was merely carrying on his policy from the Cohen report. [More…]
It recommended that if the Government came into teacher education it should do so on the basis of granting $1 whereas the States would grant $1.85. [More…]
I remind the members of the late Government that they exercised grants under section 96 apparently on their own decision and certainly not on decisions of panels of independent, schools and the Australian Education Commission, or even on decisions of a representative committee such as the Interim Schools Committee. [More…]
Here the overwhelming part of the gross product is comprised of wages and salaries paid to government employees in such areas as education, health, law, welfare and so on. [More…]
These increased monthly repayments might come at a stage of their lives when their families are growing up and they are faced with extra expense in settling them in life or in making higher education available to them. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to provide a legislative basis for the senior secondary scholarships scheme, post-graduate awards scheme and the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]
The tertiary education assistance scheme, to be introduced for the first time at the beginning of 1974, is a major step taken by the Government in its program to produce a revolution of access to education. [More…]
Full-time students at postsecondary technical colleges, colleges of advanced education, and universities will be eligible for means tested living allowances. [More…]
The tertiary education assistance scheme replaces the Commonwealth university scholarships scheme, the Commonwealth advanced education scholarships scheme and the Commonwealth technical scholarships scheme. [More…]
The Bill repeals the Education Act 1945-66, thereby abolishing the Commonwealth Office of Education and the Commonwealth Scholarships Board. [More…]
The Commonwealth Scholarships Board has continued to function since it was originally established under the Education Act 1945-1966. [More…]
Parts II, III, and IV of the Bill refer to the schemes of assistance at 3 levels of education - secondary, tertiary and post-graduate. [More…]
The function of education in a world in crisis is to develop people who can fashion a new and inspiring civilisation - people who have the moral and intellectual qualities, and the sensitivity to produce a renaissance. [More…]
In pursuit of its functions the Commission shall consult with the State Education Authorities, Independent School Authorities, Parents and Teachers Organisations for both Government and independent schools.’ [More…]
Honourable members will note that the amendment we have moved states that the Commission shall consult with the State Education Authorities, Independent School Authorities, Parents and Teachers Organisations for both Government and independent schools’. [More…]
The function of the Advisory Boards in their localities is to be a local organ of intelligence and to transmit information to the Schools Commission to make sure that it knows what is being demanded by all sorts of people who are giving thought to education in the States and in areas geographically remote from Canberra. [More…]
It was not done in the legislation which established the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
The Committee suggested that the regional boards might comprise the following: A full time commissioner as Chairman - that would be one of the 3 or 4; a State Director-General of Education or his nominee; the Director of the State Catholic Education Office or his nominee; a nominee of the Association of Independent Schools; a nominee of the government school teachers’ organisation; a nominee of the government schools parents organisations; 4 members appointed by the Commonwealth Minister for Education after consultation with the State Minister for Education. [More…]
1 think it would be quite essential to have representation of the 2 large sections of education; to have on the boards a nominee of the State Director-General of Education so as to be able to consult him about someone; to have a director of the Catholic Education Office and a nominee of the Association of Independent Schools. [More…]
In the Australian Capital Territory I approved a guaranteed loan for the Association of Modern Education. [More…]
We do not think they really get into the field of education in the way we want and we have newer and more innovative ideas.’ [More…]
Then there are some States where outstanding work is being done in some schools in connection with handicapped education. [More…]
In that State where you have a first class mind dealing with handicapped education, whether in government or nongovernment schools - I am thinking now of a non-government school in Western Australia, Christ Church Grammar, which has an extremely good centre for brain damaged children - you may want such a teacher as a board member. [More…]
Achievement in various facets of Australian life - industry, health, education, leisure and so on - will depend increasingly on Australians being able to find their way to and through relevant areas of recorded knowledge. [More…]
They include the setting up of a national authority on road safety and standards, the collection of statistical information to assist in a narrowing of the major areas of the problem and the need to develop a conscious desire to achieve a high degree of road safety by education including educational programs to influence children, drivers, pedestrians, passengers, cyclists, manuf acturers and the general community. [More…]
(H) Conduct road safety education and publicity campaigns and co-ordinate State and Territory efforts in this field. [More…]
Financial Needs for training teachers for special education in tertiary institutions. [More…]
Inquiry into Technical Education in the A.C.T. [More…]
It was because of the urgent need for expansion of the school facilities and because of the persistent requests made by parents and teachers that the Australian Government vacated the property and arranged to transfer it to the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]
The Government’s decision to transfer the land was taken to provide additional educational facilities for the Ashfield Boys High School. [More…]
The decision to transfer it to the State education authorities was made by the Australian Government in good faith on the understanding that it would be used for purposes of the school. [More…]
While its basic mandate was one of international promotion, it was required to venture into a number of other areas because of the void which had existed in terms of data, product evaluation, industry education and, in many areas, leadership and coordination. [More…]
Quite properly, it devoted its earlier years to the education of the key motivators and sellers of travel in our major source markets for international visitors. [More…]
I have been most impressed by the manner in which the Commission, in developing its program for domestic international promotional policies has approached the task with enthusiasm, initiative and a determination to ensure that its policies are closely allied with our policy objectives in other fields such as education and regional development. [More…]
The Government has major responsibilities demanding its attention in the traditional areas of social welfare, education, defence, and so on. [More…]
This would be a disastrous course and the School would not long survive its adoption, for there would be no inducement for parents to send their boys to the School if the education offered were of a second-class character. [More…]
By implementing its policy in this regard the Government will turn these schools into schools purely for the affluent and for those who are least worthy to receive the kind of education that these schools provide. [More…]
Promises were given before the election by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) who is seated at the table that this would not be done, and those promises were broken. [More…]
Most debates in this chamber on education, most debates in this community, in State parliaments and everywhere revolve around questions on classrooms, equipment, teacher pupil ratio and all those material things. [More…]
Yet surely this is the objective of any education. [More…]
The real objectives of education were established in the days of the Renaissance in Italy by that greatest of all humanist educators, Vittorino da Feltre. [More…]
I welcome the opportunity to take part in this debate on the portion of the Appropriation Bill dealing with education because I feel it is essential that the people of Australia recognise the tremendous impetus that is being given to education by this Government in both government and non-government schools. [More…]
Surely we want to attempt excellence in every aspect of education and not for just the 2 per cent who seem to be the concern of the honourable member. [More…]
We needed desperately an imaginative plan and a greatly increased flow of funds into the education sector. [More…]
I believe that this is reflected in comparison with expenditure on education. [More…]
Honourable gentlemen will recall that when the late Government’s last education legislation was introduced in the House in September 1972 the then Opposition undertook to continue it in all its forms for 12 months and then to have it restructured after an investigation by a schools commission. [More…]
I am not able to add, however, to the fact that the late Government’s policy was to make, through the Department of Social Security, grants on a $2 for $1 basis for nongovernment efforts for the education of the handicapped while no grants were made to State government efforts for the education of handicapped children. [More…]
How would we be if, say, in education there was a body to which the head of the Department of Education was responsible and the chairman of that body could by-pass the Minister and go direct to the Prime Minister and say: ‘I do not agree with what the Minister is doing. [More…]
This is what I think should happen in education’? [More…]
Preventive, early treatment, education and aftercare services will be a feature of the projects to be undertaken. [More…]
In the next few years, further increasing local integration with community health, education and welfare services will remove more of the old stigma attaching to those need-, ing help which is not just physical. [More…]
When the consideration of the estimates for the Department of Education was adjourned last night I was pointing out that there has been an unprecedented increase in the flow of money into the nation’s schools, both government and non-government, and indicating that the estimated expenditure in the government school sector during the next 2 years will be $495m - a twelvefold increase. [More…]
To this can be added the sum of $188m that is to be spent on the training of teachers, which is $103m more than was recommended in the report of the Special Committee on Teacher Education - the Cohen Committee - should be spent by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
The sorts of values that come out of that report which we as a Government regard as important are as follows: Firstly, we believe that there should be an education of equality for all students. [More…]
There is to be a great increase in expenditure on the education of Aborigines, migrant children and isolated children. [More…]
In his Budget Speech the Treasurer (Mr Crean) stressed that education is a top priority. [More…]
I believe, however, that it is misleading for the Government to claim, as it has done, that it is increasing spending on education this year by $404m or 92 per cent over that of last year. [More…]
Another $90m of the total funds to be set aside for education is for the purpose of continuing the tertiary education programs adopted by the previous Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
A substantial part of the proposed increases relates to various aspects of education contained in the 1972 policy speech of the previous Prime Minister and has been adopted by the present Government. [More…]
We have no quarrel with this nor have I, at any rate, any quarrel with the total Budget allocation for education in the current financial year or with the proposed further expenditure in 1974-75 as the various programs due to commence in 1974 come fully into operation. [More…]
Education is, I agree, an area of high priority. [More…]
The Government’s expressed plan to improve the quality of education in Australia has been touched on already in this debate by the previous speaker, the honourable member for Holt (Mr Oldmeadow), and by other speakers. [More…]
The Government’s plan to improve the quality of education - something of great importance - will, I believe, be watched very closely and with very great interest. [More…]
In his statement to the House on 23 August last the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) amplified the Government’s proposals in the overall field of education at its various levels. [More…]
Schools were not visited by the Committee, and the way in which many schools were categorised caused confusion, resentment and uncertainty, and cut across the basic principle of freedom of choice in relation to the education of all children. [More…]
1) which we are debating was first introduced, the Minister for Education has informed the Parliament that quite a few appeals have been submitted ‘against the Karmel Committee’s findings and recommendations. [More…]
Recently I came across a most interesting and penetrating article written last May by Mr Ian Lister, Lecturer in Education at the University of York. [More…]
He writes, basically, of the educational position in England but much of what he says pertains to this country and, indeed, to a number of other countries. [More…]
He points to a number of key aspects in education and suggests some remedies. [More…]
Parents, in particular, should resume a greater responsibility for the education of their own children. [More…]
Recently I visited the Brisbane Independent Primary School at Kenmore in my electorate, a school which is struggling along with minimum aids to provide for 125 girls and boys a primary education which is wider and more flexible than that provided in the systemic schools. [More…]
During the debate on the estimates for the Department of Education last night I had occasion to interject somewhat heatedly during the speech of the honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Turner). [More…]
I did so because of his playing down of the present Government’s initiatives over a wide area of education and his concentration on the very narrow range of education encompassed by independent schools. [More…]
In the document entitled Payments to or for the States 1973-74* presented by the Treasurer (Mr Crean) one only has to look at the statement on education to understand my point. [More…]
In 1973 fundamental changes were announced in the arrangements for the provision of assistance for education. [More…]
First, full responsibility for financing tertiary education will be transferred to the Australian Government from the beginning of 1974. [More…]
The taking over by the Commonwealth of the cost of tertiary education will mean that there will be additional finance available to the States to provide for primary, secondary and technical education. [More…]
The Australian Government has set up the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission, the Australian Preschools Committee and the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education. [More…]
I now want to refer to the Estimates for the Department of Education. [More…]
They deal with support for training of school librarians, secondary school library program, research and investigation and research and development in education. [More…]
It reflects poor conditions brought about by 15 years of Liberal Party rule in the State of Victoria and complete neglect of the education system and the lack of backing up by the Federal Government in supplying finance for government schools. [More…]
1 do think that in the estimates for the Department of Education there lies some hope for the future of our children” in these schools by overcoming these difficulties that are forced on them of not having adequate facilities and adequate training to be brought up to the ordinary reading range that would be suggested at their levels. [More…]
Without that sort of ability how can they hope for an excellence in education? [More…]
Members of the Opposition generally appreciate the increased Government spending on education although we and the Australian public are fully aware that the increased percentage of Government expenditure is largely due to a change in bookkeeping principles as between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
Notwithstanding the increased allocation for education, we of the Australian Country Party take issue with some of the principles decided and programs adopted within the general budgetary allocation for the Department of Education. [More…]
This change of procedure follows the present Government’s policies in the education arena. [More…]
It was relatively easy and simple to administer, and took into account the right of every child to basic adequate assistance and the inalienable right of every parent to exercise his inalienable right and responsibility to decide what type of education his child would receive. [More…]
I regard it as absolutely imperative, based on moral and distributive justice, that payments should be equal for all children at similar levels of education irrespective of the school they attend and of the financial position of their parents. [More…]
We need extra books for colleges of advanced education away from the metropolitan areas. [More…]
Universities and colleges of advanced education in metropolitan areas have ready access to books from each other, but colleges and centres of learning in rural areas are not so conveniently situated as to have available the exchange of books, technical publications and textbooks. [More…]
In Toowoomba the officers of the Darling Downs College of Advanced Education have been to the forefront in moves to establish a lectureship in Asian languages by the beginning of the 1974 academic year. [More…]
The State Commission in Queensland has sent a submission to the Australian College of Advanced Education making application for 3 Chairs in Queensland, including Toowoomba and Gatton. [More…]
On their behalf I request from the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) a reply as to whether plans can be made for the lectures to commence early next year. [More…]
The final point on which I would like to comment is that in Toowoomba, through the generosity of the local people and of the Apex Club in particular, moves have been made to create a lectureship in specific learning difficulties at the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education. [More…]
This is an area of education which is of great concern to the people involved. [More…]
I have been amazed that the Opposition has found so little to criticise in our educational program. [More…]
There was never any protest in the past about the fact that most of the senior secondary scholarships - 25,000 last year, tenable this year - went to children in the higher socio-economic bracket and that as a consequence of that most of those who go on to tertiary education come from that socio-economic group. [More…]
No notice is taken of the fact that as from the beginning of next year all of these privileged people, amongst, I hope, many others, will be able to go to a university, to a college of advanced education, or to a technical college full time and have all their fees paid by the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
The Commonwealth is taking over complete financial responsibility for each of these institutions, and all full time students attending those institutions will receive their education free. [More…]
Amongst all the documents that pour onto my desk each day I noticed yet another one yesterday titled ‘Teacher Education 1973-75’. [More…]
It is the report of the Special Committee on Teacher Education. [More…]
I will be fair enough to acknowledge that in the dying days of the last Government the Australian Commission for Colleges of Advanced Education was asked to set up a special committee to inquire into teacher education. [More…]
I turn, though, to another aspect of education that hardly gets a mention in many of these debates. [More…]
I made brief reference to the state of technical education. [More…]
Of course I am glad to note that under this Government we have set up a committee of inquiry into technical education, and that committee is expected to bring down a report that will lead to implementation of recommendations as from July of next year. [More…]
Unfortunately at this stage I cannot reveal the information given to me as a member of the Public Accounts Committee about what went wrong with previous allocations for technical education by our predecessors. [More…]
But the simple fact is that we are very short of technicians and tradesmen today simply because there was inadequate support for technical education in the past. [More…]
Not only do we need to give much more encouragement to technical education to the apprenticeship system in particular, to the technician level of training and to the technologist level of training, but we also ought to be doing something about teacher education in the Department of Technical Education in New South Wales and in sections of the departments of general education in the other States of Australia. [More…]
I only need quote from the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts on the Commonwealth’s role in Teacher Education of February 1972. [More…]
The economic standard and quality of life in Australia will in future depend to an increasing degree upon the standard of education provided for the skilled work force. [More…]
If high quality education is to be provided in technical training, institutions must be both highly qualified in their specialist fields and adequately equipped for their teaching role. [More…]
I wonder how many members in this House or how many people in the community recognise that there are more students involved in technical education in this country than there are in all other levels of post-secondary education - and that takes in the universities, colleges of advanced education, teachers colleges and all the rest of them. [More…]
There are in Australia over 400,000 students involved in technical education. [More…]
From my observation, especially under the previous Government, technical education was the poor relation, the Cinderella, and that applied under State systems of education as well as under the Commonwealth. [More…]
One would have thought that a Liberal-Country Party Government so intimately interested in the material development and allegedy so interested in the economic development of the community would have seen to it that technical education got a fair go. [More…]
Unfortunately I note that even the latest report on teacher education does not seem to take up the recommendation of the report of the Senate Committee to which I referred a while ago - the recommendation that every State should have at least one technical teachers college. [More…]
I make a strong plea that if we are talking about productivity, if we are talking about uplifting the economy of this country, we ought to give greater attention to this vital sector of education - technical education. [More…]
The honourable member for Holt (Mr Oldmeadow), who spoke in this debate last night and again tonight, made much of the amount of money appropriated in the Budget for education. [More…]
There is no doubt that there has been an earnest endeavour by the Government to improve the standard of education in Australia. [More…]
One cannot quarrel with a government that is earnestly endeavouring to improve education. [More…]
What worries me is that the emphasis in education expenditure in the Budget is placed on tertiary and post-secondary education. [More…]
One cannot really argue by drawing a comparison and saying that primary and secondary education are being disadvantaged alongside tertiary education, but I believe that primary education is the most disadvantaged area within our educational system. [More…]
I believe that there is something completely wrong with the whole educational field. [More…]
It is rather an observation on the system today and I am pleased to see that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is in the chamber tonight to hear what I have to say. [More…]
The Government’s basic claim is for equality of education for all. [More…]
I suggest that for job opportunity and enjoyment of life a basic sound education should be every person’s right. [More…]
To achieve that end far more emphasis will have to be placed on primary schools than is the case today, perhaps at the expense of the tertiary level of education. [More…]
I would like to make a great number of suggestions regarding the problems of education but the most important that 1 would mention is planning. [More…]
A modern cluster unit would be ideal, but what is the Education Department building right at this moment? [More…]
I have pointed to the greatest area of need in the educational system as I see it. [More…]
I hope in 12 months time to see the greatest improvement in that area since the taxpayer is required to pay for the massive increase in educational expenditure by the Government. [More…]
At the outset I should like to congratulate the honourable member for Forrest (Mr Drummond) who has just made a most humane and sensitive speech on education - a speech of the kind we are not accustomed to hearing from the benches that his Party occupies. [More…]
It reminded me strongly of speeches that I heard from members who are now in government, over a period of years when they pleaded with the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the then Minister for Education and Science, to take account of what was happening in schools across Australia, other than those elite and fortunate schools from which he sprang and to which he, and his colleagues, customarily send their children. [More…]
There was a good deal of the resonance of that honourable gentleman’s attitude in the speech that was made a little earlier this evening by your colleague, Mr Lucock, the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh), who expressed great satisfaction with the approach to education of the previous Government when he said that every child was treated the same way and that that made the system relatively easy and simple to administer. [More…]
I thought that, too, had a strong resonance of the attitudes which we used to hear so frequently from the honourable member for Wannon, as Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
The honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Bourchier) tonight produced a remarkable explanation for the difficulties to which the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins) referred - the low rate of reading competence among children in the early years of secondary education. [More…]
The honourable member for Holt, I might say, has had a long and distinguished career in the Victorian Education Department as a secondary school teacher. [More…]
It seems to make no impact on the consciousness of honourable members opposite that a gross discrepancy exists between the resources available to the schools of which they traditionally and continually have been the champions and the schools at which the great majority of Australian children receive their education. [More…]
If the index of resources devoted to the education of a child in a government school is expressed as 100 units, children who attend Catholic parochial schools and Catholic systemic schools have devoted to their education 70 units, and the resource allocation for children at non-government, non-Catholic systemic schools ranges from 40 units to 270 units. [More…]
I recall to honourable members opposite that whereas 80 per cent of the children from those schools for whom they speak in the Parliament complete their secondary education, only 30 per cent of the children from government and Catholic schools, for which honourable members on this side of the chamber speak, are able so to complete their secondary education. [More…]
One cannot speak to the estimates for the Department of Education without one’s views on education being overshadowed by the Karmel report. [More…]
The Karmel report is to become the blueprint for the present socialist Government’s approach to education. [More…]
This year, $145m has been appropriated for education. [More…]
If the Government is prepared to spend $800 a year on the secondary education of one Australian child, every other Australian child should be entitled to the same amount of expenditure by the same Government, and he should be entitled to it as a right, irrespective of the school he attends. [More…]
What does it matter to a government what school a pupil attends, provided that school maintains the required standards as laid down by the Department of Education? [More…]
The Labor Party believes in one nationalised banking system, one nationalised airline system and the nationalisation of Australia’s resources and is working toward one nationalised education system. [More…]
Professor Karmel and his committee apparently have not been told of this rudimentary distinction; neither, apparently, has the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) or his Government. [More…]
I am disappointed with the Minister for Education because I have always thought that he would place justice highly among his principles. [More…]
A wealthy person - even a wealthy person such as the honourable member for Casey, on his salary - can send his child to a government run school, pay nothing in fees and cost the taxpayers $800 a year for the education of his child; yet he is quite capable of paying for that education, the same as anyone else. [More…]
The Minister for Education shrugs his shoulders and probably mentally says: ‘So what?’. [More…]
So, the Government is well on its way to its doctrinaire, nationalised, socialist education system. [More…]
I should like to comment on the speech of the honourable member for Forrest (Mr Drummond) who spoke a little while ago about Commonwealth expenditure on schools as distinct from Commonwealth expenditure on tertiary education. [More…]
Therefore, the educational expenditures upon which he commented were a result of the Budget passed last year. [More…]
The expenditure on tertiary education is, of course, overwhelmingly larger than that amount - and that was the policy of the late Government. [More…]
So we might look for other qualities in education rather than merely the question of religious profession. [More…]
The Commonwealth, after all, is not a party principal in education except in the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, and it will be in tertiary education. [More…]
I am surprised that none of the honourable gentlemen opposite has mentioned a word about universities, colleges of advanced education and technical schools becoming free. [More…]
If one is going to talk about who is getting the benefit in education I draw the attention of the honourable gentlemen opposite to these facts: Twenty-eight per cent of state school children complete a secondary education and can go on to a tertiary education; 35 per cent of children at Catholic schools complete a secondary education and can go on to a tertiary education; 86.5 per cent of children in non-Catholic non-government schools complete a secondary education and can go on to a tertiary education. [More…]
If a child goes on to a tertiary education he really hits the taxpayers’ jackpot. [More…]
By passing all the way through the education system an arts graduate possibly costs the taxpayer $10,000. [More…]
If a child attends the non-government non-Catholic sector of education - which normally is the high fee charging sector - and he goes on to tertiary education he will get a subvention from the taxpayer which leaves the ordinary child in the ordinary state school for dead. [More…]
I am not trying to suppress facts, ] am just asking honourable members to consider a few other things in the sociology of who gets what in education. [More…]
The honourable member for Forrest spoke about the absence of a kindergarten education program. [More…]
We have taken on the onerous obligation of attempting to spread throughout Australia in the next 6 years, or launching a program that will do it in the next 6 years, a program of kindergarten education or pre-school education equivalent to that which exists in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Before there can be developed throughout the country an adequate pre-school education we must have, first and foremost, the teachers, although I am bound to say that initially in the Australian Capital Territory a lot of this began with the self-help of parents rather than professional teachers. [More…]
The courses approved by tertiary institutions will be funded by the Australian Universities Commission or the Australian Colleges of Advanced Education Commission, based on submissions from the institutions themselves. [More…]
According to the Australian Education Council, which is comprised of all the State Ministers for Education, it is about $511. [More…]
It did not take over the funding of education from the States. [More…]
The essence of the Karmel operation is to look at the defects in state education and try to plug the holes and to look at the defects in nongovernment education and try to plug the holes. [More…]
But since 80 per cent of the recurring costs of education are teachers’ salaries, if one school of 500 children has 50 teachers it must necessarily have a high degree of affluence. [More…]
and (2) There is constant and on-going discussion between my Department and the Department of Education about ways of improving child migrant education, interspersed with major meetings on particular issues, for example emergency classroom accommodation and teacher-training. [More…]
I myself have raised particular issues with my colleague the Minister for Education for example in relation to curricula reform to provide greater emphasis on citizenship education and the greater availability of visual aids in relation to the teaching of Australian history. [More…]
87 (Hansard, 2 May, 1973, page 1626) in which he asked what action had been taken to ensure that specialist bilingual teachers would be employed in schools to improve the education opportunities of migrant children. [More…]
Because I see migrant education as one of the most vital matters affecting migrants, I asked that this area should be given first priority by the Migrant Task Forces Committees which I set up earlier in the year. [More…]
The implications of these recommendations will be considered by the Migrant Education Committee of the Immigration Advisory Council at its next meeting to be held early in October. [More…]
I have asked my Department to discuss this proposal with the Department of Education. [More…]
actually legislating to permit such things and at the same time religious education is being limited or eliminated and our children are being taught that even right and wrong are only relative. [More…]
The implementation of the policies of the Government is creating a considerable number of employment positions within the public sector, which means, of course, in the fields of education, housing and health. [More…]
I can scarcely believe that Mr Willis has been correctly reported because, in common with the rest of the members of the Australian Education Council, he joined in warmly commending the Karmel report and the extra sums of money which the State of New South Wales would be receiving. [More…]
My question, addressed to the Minister for Education, relates to money made available to the Victorian Government under the States Grants (Technical Training) Act. [More…]
Has the Victorian Government been tardy in applying for this money and would this have delayed construction of buildings in the technical education field? [More…]
The total allocation to Victoria under the technical education arrangements for the triennium that finishes on 30 June 1974 is about $12,822,000. [More…]
The extra money to go to New South Wales in this financial year, 1973-74, is $52m, which is made up of $4m extra for pre-schools, $8ni extra for technical education and $40m extra for schools. [More…]
This extra money does not take into account teachers colleges, universities, colleges of advanced education or whatever extra is required for pre-school teachers colleges. [More…]
The Country Party is famous, as the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) said on one occasion, for capitalising its profits and socialising its losses. [More…]
In his letter the Minister says that expenditure for such items as house rent, medical, hospital and dental expenses and the cost of education and holidays are provided separately. [More…]
In the field of education the Government has made a completely unrealistic and discriminatory decision. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) achieved a confrontation with State education authorities as soon as he came into office, and then by refusing the per capita grants to the children in the private schools he broke a promise made by the Prime Minister, by the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Barnard) and by himself. [More…]
But the real issues are what this Government has done on education, cities, health, consumer protection, social welfare and foreign investment, and it is this last subject which is the nub of the matter. [More…]
I suppose it means that we should reduce the money for education; that it is wrong for us to want to make a massive investment in the future so that there will be in Australia better trained people, people with better understanding, able to develop a better quality of life. [More…]
The Government has overridden the States in education. [More…]
Then, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) tabled a copy of a letter that he had written to Professor Karmel on 13 April. [More…]
The States already are tied to maintaining a specific proportion of their expenditures on education and if, at the same time, their general purpose allocations are to be reduced in this manner they will finish up in a position where they will have practically no freedom of movement at all in meeting their other expenditure responsibilities. [More…]
In the case of tertiary education this policy meant that the tax reimbursement grants to the States would be reduced from the beginning of the 1974 academic year by the amount of expenditure of which the States had been relieved. [More…]
As a result of the Government’s assumption of full responsibility for financing tertiary education from 1 January 1974, this Bill seeks to deduct from the financial assistance grants the estimated amounts of recurrent expenditure previously undertaken by the States. [More…]
‘In view of this it was a matter of deep concern to consider the dishonest presentation of the Government’s expenditure on education in the recent Federal Budget. [More…]
It is quite improper to take $145m of tertiary education money from the States and then claim it as a figure for additional Commonwealth expenditure. [More…]
This arises not only from the enunciation by the central government of programs in such areas as health and education, but also from the increasing fields of uniform Satte laws and the tendency for the areas in which uniformity is desirable to increase. [More…]
The States have retained their constitutional responsibility for important services such as education, hospitals and roads and the control of leading public utilities such as railways and electricity. [More…]
In addition the Commonwealth Government is to take over full responsibility for financing tertiary education from 1 January 1974. [More…]
Therefore, this year we have seen the Commonwealth taking over the tertiary education area, and taking the housing program outside the Loan Council area as a separate program with many strings attached. [More…]
I direct the attention of honourable members to that section of these Bills which relates to education. [More…]
The agreement between the States and the Commonwealth, as I understand it, is that the Commonwealth will take over tertiary education responsibilities from the States. [More…]
Therefore, those amounts will appear in the education program of the Commonwealth and no longer will appear in the State programs. [More…]
This aid will assist the Papua New Guinea Government to finance important development projects as well as to complement vital services such as education, public health, and law and order. [More…]
The Government regards it as its bounden duty to further to the utmost the advancement of the people and considers that that can be achieved only by providing facilities for better health, better education and for a greater participation by the people in the wealth of their country and eventually in its government. [More…]
The New Zealand Prime Minister, the Honourable Norman Kirk and the Leader of the New Zealand Opposition, the Honourable John Marshall, also were participants in this splendidly organised seminar which was sponsored jointly by the Victoria University Department of Extension and the Centre for Continuing Education at our own Australian National University in Canberra. [More…]
It is an advantage because free, open and frank dialogue at any level is the most potent and continuing force in education and communication. [More…]
I refer to the needs of such things as education, housing, the cities that the Minister for Urban and Regional Development fights so hard to improve, law reform, combatting inflation and foreign affairs where this Government’s interests are affected overseas. [More…]
While we have thought of building roads and have looked at assistance in university education, I think we should also give thought to what one might call assistance at the village level. [More…]
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In speaking to the estimates for the Department of Education I must say that it is surprising to me that the Government has departed from the practice of making per capita grants to assist independent schools in providing education for the children in that system. [More…]
There can be little doubt that wherever independent schools are providing a standard of education comparable to that of state schools there is a saving for the Australian taxpayer to the extent that those schools receive less financial assistance than the cost of educating children in state schools. [More…]
They also add a good deal to the interest in education. [More…]
By moving away from this system the Government is not giving reasonable assistance or encouragement to those schools to provide education. [More…]
In Canberra, where the Federal Government acts as a State government in education it will provide all the assistance, equivalent to the assistance provided by the States, on a per capita basis. [More…]
Secondly, as pointed out in paragraph 1.20 the recommendations are based on the assumption that State governments will continue to contribute from their own resources to raising the quality of education. [More…]
When one considers the tremendous effort that has been made by the independent schools in the fields of primary and secondary education, one would think that the Government would give every school every encouragement to carry on mis work. [More…]
They are providing hostels for children to enable them to get some education. [More…]
I am fortified in my view about the ultimate aims of this Government by a report on an education debate by the Labour Party in the United Kingdom because quite a number of old slogans and catchcries that have appeared in the report on that debate in the London Times’ recently have been repeated in this House by the honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews) and others of his ilk. [More…]
A report in the ‘London Times’ of 5 October 1973 dealing with the education debate in the British Labour Party is headed: Abolition of privilege but no pledge on “top 25” schools’. [More…]
The British Labour Party spokesman on education is quoted in that article as saying: [More…]
We will never be able to abolish the concept of elitism in education while we allow some people to pay for education, not always better education, with the intention of buying privilege in education and in life afterwards. [More…]
That is what the education spokesman for the British Labour Party said about independent schools in that country. [More…]
The same article reports another spokesman as saying that the Labour Party would never be able to abolish the concept of elitist education while they allowed some peole to pay for it. [More…]
Let me point out to unbelieving members opposite that I started my school education in a government school - a state school. [More…]
I want briefly to point out one part of the Karmel Report which appears to have been lost sight of by the Minister for Education, and that is the paragraphs dealing with community involvement in schools. [More…]
They assume that all education comes from the school and that it comes from trained professionals. [More…]
Recently the New South Wales Department of Education produced a consultative paper entitled ‘The Community and its Schools’. [More…]
We find that these lofty professionals who have nothing but the good of education in view complained bitterly about that paper because they were not going to share responsibility with parents for running schools. [More…]
-We have heard a lot of whingeing and wailing from the Opposition tonight in the debate on the estimates for the Department of Education, but it is a fact of life that this Government has done more for education than any previous Federal government. [More…]
Before I refer to the Karmel Committee and the arguments about category A schools and all the other vested interests that this team opposite are prepared to push, I should just like to instance a couple of things that this Government has done in terms of education, other than establishing the Karmel Committee. [More…]
As from this Budget, university education will be completely free. [More…]
Commonwealth advanced education and teachers’ colleges will also be completely free. [More…]
Let us look at the Budget allocation for education. [More…]
All the debate on education by members of the Liberal and Country parties has been centred upon category A schools and how the wealthy parents have been chopped out of their lollies from the Commonwealth. [More…]
That is what their contributions to the debate have been all about, not about the quality of education or the equality of opportunity for all Australian children regardless of their denomination or whether they attend a State school. [More…]
Anyone who is claiming the maximum taxation deduction for education of $600 and who is sending his child to a school where fees are around $800 or $900 a year is paying in excess of 50c in the $1 taxation - probably about 60c in the $1 - and about $400 of this $800 is returned to him as a taxation deduction; not only that but also 80 per cent of the students at those schools were receiving Commonwealth scholarships under the previous Government so that it meant the parents were again getting an increment from the Commonwealth by way of those scholarships; and not only that but also 90 per cent of the students of these schools went on to university and it was costing the Commonwealth Government of Australia about $5,000 per head per student for every year that they were at university. [More…]
They got the best that the Commonwealth was able to offer and for that they have used, cajoled and badgered and had every one in the establishment, including those bishops of the Catholic Church who were on-side, come in and back them to prop up a rotten, iniquitous per capita grants system that denied a child in an electorate such as the one I represent, at a school with a pupil-teacher ratio of about 50 to one the opportunity of obtaining a reasonable standard of education and access to tertiary education later. [More…]
The aim of the Committee in its recommendations was to raise the quality of education to a resource index level of 140 by 1979. [More…]
He is saying that the system of granting money for education in the denominational area is in jeopardy because it does not have the support of the Greater Public Schools and of the protestant schools, which are basically in the GPS area, this being what he calls the lack of bipartisan support. [More…]
Well, it is interesting that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has seen fit to remove many schools from this classification. [More…]
In speaking to the estimates for the Department of Education I certainly agree with many facets of the Karmel report and in particular with the plans to involve parents more in schooling. [More…]
The money allocated for education by this Government is, as has been noted, a magnificent sum. [More…]
In our area teachers are taking such an interest in what is going on that they are prepared to put their spare time into forming an education centre involving both parents and themselves. [More…]
This, after all, is surely what education is all about. [More…]
Only a small number is involved at the moment, as indicated by the Minister for Education. [More…]
The honourable member for Maranoa and others have complained that the present policy of this Government on education discriminates against children who attend boarding schools. [More…]
If one extends the figures on the basis of the current rate of increases in prices, or on the increases in average weekly earnings, or takes account of claims for salary and wage increases in the area of professional teachers, one can forecast the likely increase in the cost of education in State and independent systems. [More…]
If one makes this forecast and is most conservative in one’s estimates, the result suggests that there will be a 10 per cent annual increase in the cost of educating children in State schools, reflecting itself in the cost of education in the independent system. [More…]
B, C. D, E and possibly F, if the increases in the cost of education rise at the more likely rate of 15 per cent or even 20 per cent. [More…]
The decisions of the present Government will have that effect and will make it extremely difficult for many parents to finance the fees necessary to pay for the education of their children in independent schools. [More…]
Many parents of these children today are making supreme sacrifices in order to provide their children with the sort of education which they want to give them. [More…]
It strikes me as extraordinarily strange that at a time when we are talking about community involvement in education we should deny to a community of Catholics, a community of Jews, a community of Anglicans, a community of Presbyterians or a community coming together because the people have particular attitudes to a style of education, an opportunity to choose to send their children to a school because we impose upon them their obligation under the law to meet their taxes and at the same time require that they pay the total cost of their children’s education at an independent school if that school reaches a particular standard. [More…]
In this area of community participation in education, we are seeing as a result of the recommendations of the Karmel committee an expansion of the concept of community as well as parent participation in the school community. [More…]
State, will look into the question of the extent to which the nation’s education and community resources are, in some areas at least, overcapitalised. [More…]
I have talked with them about the involvement of parents and the involvement of the community in the activities of the school and the activities of the education centre for the district that that school should provide. [More…]
Where there are buildings, grounds and facilities, many of which are under-used - that is not to say that there are not some schools where the size of the community within the school is so large in itself that the physical facilities of the school are used to the optimum or in some cases are inadequate - and where the facilities are adequate and can be used for the community at large to provide library facilities, recreational facilities, school grounds and adult education facilities, I suggest that ways and means of using the community facilities in school buildings and their related grounds should be examined. [More…]
This decision of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) is one of the most far-sighted actions ever taken in this country in the field of education. [More…]
For a start, as mentioned by the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating), the Budget contains an increase in the allocation for education of 92 per cent in one year. [More…]
I am concerned whether the education departments of the State governments can fulfil completely what is required of them in the Karmel report. [More…]
I know that there are some education departments - New South Wales would be the greatest example - which are extrtmely inefficient in their administration. [More…]
The New South Wales Education Department, I regret to say, is acknowledged as the most inefficient Education Department administratively in the whole of the Commonwealth, even though New South Wales is the greatest and the largest State. [More…]
I cannot see, for example, the New South Wales Education Department spending the money allocated to it unless it employs outside consultants. [More…]
The State Education Department of New South Wales and the [More…]
The one point of agreement between honourable members from both sides of the Parliament that seems to have come out of tonight’s debate is that more funds should be found for teacher training and perhaps in-service teacher education. [More…]
It is no use holding the view that we should always judge our education record year in and year out by the effective expenditure on teacher training, the establishment of State schools, the establishment of libraries or science laboratories, when everybody knows that this Government has done more to ruin the value of the Australian dollar than has ever been done in recent history. [More…]
The criterion by which the nation will judge the education capacity of its children is the effective expenditure of funds. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), who I gather unfortunately cannot be here tonight, to look at some of these suggestions when he comes to study the speeches on the estimates of the Department of Education. [More…]
Apparently the honourable member regards this as his sole constructive suggestion for the sake of education. [More…]
No matter what term is applied to this circumstance, that is what has happened and that is why people - many of them quite poor, to quote the honourable member for Sturt again - who have worked their hands to the bone to make sure their kids take advantage of a free education system and can go to whatever school they choose, find themselves facing hardship. [More…]
The first speaker in the debate on the estimates for the Department of Education accused the Government of being barbarians destroying excellence in schools. [More…]
Let us get some perspective in respect of what has been done and is aimed to be done in the field of education through this Budget. [More…]
We believe that all children, from pre-school age through to university, should have every opportunity to equality in education. [More…]
To get some sort of balance I believe one must look at what is aimed at in the field of education this year. [More…]
In 1973-74 it is proposed to increase the allocation to universities by $123m; to colleges of advanced education and teachers colleges by $1 11.5m; to technical education by $26. [More…]
Whereas the previous Government, for all its talk, was prepared to put up in cash in its last Budget $439m for education, this Government is proposing an expenditure of $843m, which is a 90 per cent increase. [More…]
I support the honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles) in stressing the importance of teacher education. [More…]
It is for that reason that we have increased greatly the expenditure recommended by the Special Committee on Teacher Education - the Cohen Committee - in its report. [More…]
I believe that the Government has everything to be proud of in what it is doing in the field of education. [More…]
In every way it has set a target that is a worthy one and one which in the field of education as distinct from the Opposition benches - among teachers and members of university staffs - I know, has given new heart to people who were dispirited. [More…]
For the first time education has been given the priority it deserves. [More…]
I spoke earlier in this debate, but I want to use the opportunity to speak a second time on the estimates for the Department of Education to direct the Committee’s attention to the Government’s slowness in announcing its policy concerning the development of pre-school education. [More…]
At the present time they have no indication as to the manner in which pre-school education is to be provided. [More…]
The kindergartens have been an excellent illustration of community involvement in education. [More…]
Although all parties have expressed the desire to see pre-school education made available for every child, the manner in which that pre-school education will be provided is giving many people a great deal of concern. [More…]
Will it be possible for small community groups to establish kindergardens with Government aid and Government support, or is it the intention of the Government to establish a monopolistic system in the provision of State pre-school education? [More…]
The problem for the community is that there are many people who would use their initiative, through self-help, hard work and sacrifice, to provide some of the funds which would enable preschool education centres to be established, but because of the uncertainty that is being created by the lack of a pronouncement as to the way in which pre-school education is to be provided there is a great deal of hesitation. [More…]
The program of expansion by the community, through self-help, of pre-school education facilities is being retarded by the uncertain atmosphere which has been created through the lack of announcements as to the manner in which pre-school education is to be provided in the future. [More…]
Undoubtedly, when we are aiming to provide preschool education facilities for the community as a whole, it will not be possible to do everything at once. [More…]
But I do hope that there will be an involvement of the community and an opportunity for the community committee to be established and to raise funds to establish its kindergarten with Government support and that the Government will not adopt the philosophy that the only system of pre-school education that can and should be provided is that which is totally provided by the Government. [More…]
If that approach is adopted there will be, firstly, a reduction in community involvement in education and, secondly, a very much slower development of the program of pre-school education for every child. [More…]
Whilst I recognise that in the pre-school sphere undoubtedly it will be necessary for governments to concentrate more effort in some areas than in others, I do urge upon the Government and upon the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), whom I am pleased to see in the chamber at this stage, that due recognition be given to community initiative. [More…]
Now that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is with us I take the opportunity of raising the question of the Government’s policy with regard to universities. [More…]
The Government proposes to make university education free. [More…]
I imagine that the rationale behind this is to encourage a higher proportion of students from working class backgrounds to go through to university education. [More…]
Government’s proposal to make university education free? [More…]
If one makes university education free, one necessarily assumes that universities will be open to any student who has a basic educational qualification. [More…]
Perhaps the Minister might like to comment on those points in regard to university education when he speaks in this debate. [More…]
That immediately had the effect, for instance, of getting a higher proportion of teacher graduates among them science graduates and so on, in the Western Australian Department of Education. [More…]
The honourable gentleman will recall that before the war only 7 per cent of pupils completed secondary education. [More…]
Before long I hope to produce the Government’s reaction to another Karmel report, the Karmel Report on Medical Education. [More…]
We shall be trying to make more places available for medical education, but that is yet to come. [More…]
I do not know whether the fact that university education will be free will lead to a great wave of additional students being admitted. [More…]
Universities, colleges of advanced education and teachers colleges are autonomous institutions. [More…]
Other universities and colleges of advanced education may have to be provided. [More…]
Earlier this evening, because of my duties with the Committee of Privileges unfortunately I missed the debate on the estimates of the Department of Education. [More…]
I realise that it is improper in the debate on the adjournment to allude to a debate which has taken place previously today, so that of course I will not do; but I will refer to certain aspects of education, and particularly the Karmel report, the bible of the Labor Party on education. [More…]
It is appropriate at this stage that I draw to the attention of the Parliament the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Education in South Australia in 1969-70 which was chaired by Professor Karmel. [More…]
It is the attitude of the parents to education, their interest and support of the child in co-operation with the school which matters most. [More…]
Compensatory education will always be a good second to good housing, and the elimination of poverty, and (above all) to the security and affection in the home.’ [More…]
The Karmel report must be discussed at the level of principle and every time the absent Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) alludes to the right of appeal against categorisation - [More…]
The Minister for Education alludes to the right of appeal. [More…]
He fails to recognise that there is a percentage of schools in Australia which, for decades, has set a standard of education which has been a goal for attainment by other schools. [More…]
It has been stated time and time again in this Parliament that if independent schools are closed, the children from those schools will be forced to attend state schools and so state school children will be deprived of better education because of the increased number of children at the state schools. [More…]
My point is that the Australian Labor Party has done nothing to assist education in Australia. [More…]
Enlarged allocations in the 1973-74 Budget for education, community health, public housing, sewerage services, land management, urban transport and growth centres evidence our strong beginning on that task. [More…]
Far too often we concentrate on the rarefied education of the university. [More…]
This brings me to an organisation calling itself the Australian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association and 2 publications - one called the Health Economics Service Bulletin’ and the other the ‘Australian Health Education [More…]
The Health Economics Service Bulletin’ lists the address of its editor as 45 Macquarie Street, Sydney, that, by coincidence, is also the address of the so-called ‘Australian Health Education Advisory Digest’, which upon examination turns out to be published by the Health Economics Service - a division of the Australian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), in answering a question this morning, suggested that those who had said that the increase in expenditure on education by the Government was not as large as the Government had claimed - he included me amongst those persons - were putting the view that there was a complete balancing between the Government’s additional expenditure and the sums that had been taken from State financial reimbursement grants. [More…]
The Minister, by implication, suggested that we were claiming therefore, that there had been no increase in expenditure on education. [More…]
All we had claimed was that the cost of the Government assuming responsibility for all tertiary education - that cost was nearly $150m- [More…]
Mr Speaker, I was trying to say, before the Government used its usual tactics of trying to prevent the Opposition from speaking, that the Opposition had claimed that that sum which the Government had taken of the financial reimbursement grants to the States was equivalent to the additional cost incurred by the Commonwealth in financing tertiary education. [More…]
But the point made is that the Minister ought now to apologise to the House for misleading the House in claiming earlier that the Government’s education expenditure had increased by 92 per cent when this morning he admitted that it had increased by only 47 per cent. [More…]
I did not make a statement this morning that the Commonwealth Government’s expenditure on education increased by 47 per cent. [More…]
I said that if one took out the State component what remains of the Commonwealth component of tertiary education, not all education, increased by 47 per cent. [More…]
I was asked a question about the relationship of the reduction of State grants to increased Commonwealth expenditure, and I repeat the facts: In the last financial year Commonwealth expenditure on tertiary education was$1 66m. [More…]
They want to commence immediately on a program of community education designed to see that not only mental illness itself but also the physical and environmental conditions and the strains and tensions from which mental illness arises are identified at the earliest possible stage and that appropriate action is taken to remedy those conditions. [More…]
I think they are sometimes restrained by prejudices which arise from their conditioning during their years of formal tertiary education. [More…]
The Education Department in South Australia accepts responsibility for these children at school age,, but it will not accept them unless they are toilet trained. [More…]
This would not have been our preferred method of supporting students at different levels of education. [More…]
Indeed, I think that our attitude would be not dissimilar from that which was expressed by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), who unfortunately is indisposed at the moment, when he was interviewed by one or other of the universities during the course of last year. [More…]
Members of the Scholarships Board served previous governments and myself well when I was Minister for Education on earlier occasions, and I should like to pay recognition to the work done by various members of the. [More…]
As the Minister indicated, the purpose of this Bill is to provide a legislative basis for the senior secondary scholarships scheme, postgraduate awards and the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]
There are some transitional arrangements which quite obviously must prevail as the scholarships schemes proper run down and the tertiary education assistance scheme takes over. [More…]
I should like the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Bryant), who is acting for the Minister for Education during this debate, to describe if he can - I think that a statement was made earlier about this - the details of the support that will be available for students when the senior secondary scholarships scheme runs down. [More…]
This would have been for Victoria filling a gap which has been present in the Victorian university system, which 1 have publicly acknowledged on a number of occasions and which, as Minister for Education and Science, I sought to have something done about. [More…]
But this Government, which is now responsible for financing tertiary education, has been, as far as I am aware, very silent on this Victorian proposal. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is not present and I understand that he will not be back this week. [More…]
Our method for scholarship holders, as the House knows, was to pay all fees and to pay the living allowance for those who came within a family quired for education, despite what this Government would argue that its proposal provides greater support. [More…]
If that is so the abolition of fees is a reasonably expensive educational cost. [More…]
The millions required could have been spent on many other areas where funds are still required for education, despite what this Government has done. [More…]
If that is so, the $16m or $20m in payments for fees, which is the cost of fees alone without any account being taken of living allowances, is an additional educational expenditure without any consequent advantage. [More…]
Also, some academic studies on the subject indicate that the abolition of fees would not be a progressive move in education. [More…]
Rather, it would be regressive and would take funds out of the educational area which could otherwise and should otherwise have been spent for and on behalf of education in one form or another. [More…]
I think we all recognise that, in a day when an increasing number of students are seeking to stay for the full period of secondary education and when more students - not just in terms of numbers but as a proportion of the relevant age groups - are seeking opportunities for higher education in a variety of forms, additional student assistance from governments will be inevitable and necessary. [More…]
This Bill is one of a number of Bills dealing with education that have been before the House in recent times. [More…]
This piece of legislation clearly deals with 3 groups of assistance - the senior secondary scholarships, the tertiary education assistance and the postgraduate awards. [More…]
With regard to tertiary education assistance, a major change is occurring with the Commonwealth accepting responsibility for fees at tertiary institutions. [More…]
One of the other factors that was illustrated in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) was that it will not necessarily be only the formal tertiary education as we have understood it in the past that will be covered. [More…]
With these measures I doubt whether we will make any great fundamental impact upon the inequalities that are already inherent in our educational and social systems, so we should not expect too much of them. [More…]
In general it provided financial assistance for secondary education to those families least in need of such assistance. [More…]
It fail: to achieve its stated objective, which is to encourage students who may otherwise not have done so to complete their secondary education. [More…]
Being on a competitive basis, they carried with them the implication that those who did not win a scholarship had somehow failed, with the result that some were discouraged from continuing secondary education - a contradiction of the intent of the scheme. [More…]
There is also evidence that only a small proportion of winners was influenced to continue secondary education as a consequence of obtaining a scholarship. [More…]
It will assist and will give an opportunity to many students to continue their education, but I think we also have a responsibility to realise that the other steps that are being taken will make far more impact in correcting the inequalities that exist in our education system. [More…]
Happily, I believe that the Minister for Education, in the Bills that he has introduced to this Parliament and the Bills he has predicted for the future, has shown that he realises that we have the situation I have described. [More…]
So while we have at the Australian Government level this consciousness of the needs, while we are prepared to accept that this type of student assistance legislation plays a role in encouraging education, we do not see this legislation as a panacea to correct educational problems. [More…]
One can only hope that the State Ministers for Education, particularly if I may say so the Minister for Education in my own State of Victoria, will accept the assistance that is offered through this scheme and also through many of the other schemes and proposals that arise from the Karmel report. [More…]
The Opposition does not oppose this Bill and, indeed, would agree with many of the sentiments expressed by the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins) who made the point that other steps in the education area will have far more impact than much which is proposed in the Bill. [More…]
This is particularly true in the area of education. [More…]
The Bill, of course, is concerned with adults or with those almost at the end of their education. [More…]
The Opposition commends the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) because there is much that is good in the Bill. [More…]
In this Bill there is little that is inconsistent with the approach of previous Liberal governments to the financing of higher education. [More…]
This Bill, which provides for the granting of assistance to students at both secondary and tertiary levels is, as honourable members have pointed out, bound up with other Bills for the funding and encouragement of education. [More…]
Among part time students are those who, at an earlier stage of their education, have dropped out and who wish to work their way back to an education. [More…]
I think we need to use what imagination and inventiveness we can to find out how we can positively help these people back into the education which they desire and deserve but which social, financial and domestic pressures so often prevent them from getting. [More…]
This will have a nice side effect because it should enable students to avoid the bonding system which so many of us feel produces a skewed education pattern. [More…]
In many cases it produces student teachers who have no true vocation for teaching and deprives them of the sort of education from which they might derive more benefit. [More…]
The Minister rightly has talked about a revolution in access to education. [More…]
If there is only one central body reviewing decisions, clearly the backlog of work would be enormous and students facing the very difficult question as to whether they will go on to further education in March or April may find that they will not know for many months what their position is. [More…]
The previous Minister for Education, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who spoke earlier, commended the setting up of this tribunal to review decisions made by authorised persons under the Bill. [More…]
It is precisely the point which the Minister made in his second reading speech, that the aim is to provide a revolution in access to education. [More…]
If students are to be kept hanging around for 3 months from March in a particular year this is hardly revolutionary access to education. [More…]
With so much being expended today by governments on the education of students and in particular in higher education, it may well be appropriate for some form of self help to be involved. [More…]
We in this Parliament should seriously consider some form of student loan scheme, perhaps arranged with the banks, along the lines which I know had been explored by previous Ministers for Education. [More…]
I rise to support the Bill and to commend the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and the Government on the initiative demonstrated in this Bill. [More…]
The school system should be flexible enough to allow them to return to school and to continue with their education. [More…]
Furthermore, I believe that frequently the student would be much the better if he were able to see something of the world outside for 1, 2 or 3 years before embarking on his tertiary education once he has completed his secondary education. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill, as outlined by the Minister, is to provide a legislative basis for the senior secondary scholarship scheme, post graduate awards, and the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]
I propose to deal with two of these matters, namely, the senior scholarship scheme and the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]
This Bill, together with complementary legislation, which gives assistance to students, is part of a conscious and deliberate policy of this Government to produce - these are the Minister’s words - a revolution of access to education. [More…]
So I believe that this Bill is another example of the major initiatives that have been taken by this Government in the field of education. [More…]
By means of this Student Assistance Bill it is proposed to create better opportunities for students at all levels to have access to education. [More…]
It is true to say that tertiary education could be denied to a student for the sake of several marks which were not gained in the course of the student’s matriculation year. [More…]
As a government we are serious in our desire to provide equal opportunities for all students so that they may progress to the level of education consistent with their abilities and their aspirations. [More…]
We are determined to reduce the emphasis on schemes which are based on the ability of the student and his competence to handle examinations - I would say that in many cases this has very little to do with education - and to replace these schemes with schemes in which grants are made to students in accordance with their needs. [More…]
I will now deal in a little more detail with the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]
The proposals set out in this Bill replace the present Commonwealth university scholarship scheme, the advanced education scholarship scheme and the technical education scholarship scheme. [More…]
I noted that, the honourable member for Chisholm stated that it was his hope that this Bill and schemes similar to this one will lead to the abolition of the iniquitous - that is my word, but I think he would agree with it - bonding system that exists in our universities, certainly in the State that both of us come from, that is, Victoria, in relation to the Department of Education. [More…]
The assistance will be during the last 2 years of their secondary education. [More…]
I might say that even being able to cope with that particular type of test did not ensure that a person could cope with further education. [More…]
It would seem to be a logical thing that if a government is putting money into allowances for students to assist them in education, the major objective must surely be to help the students to complete the education that is consistent with their ability and their aspirations. [More…]
This is supported by the findings of a survey carried out in 3 cities by the Australian Council for Educational Research. [More…]
As stated at the beginning of my remarks, the aim of this Government is to produce a revolution of access to education. [More…]
In our student assistance programs we want to remove financial barriers to all students’ educational fulfilment. [More…]
Several speakers have dealt with aspects of the Bill with a view to drawing the attention of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) to certain grey areas in the Bill. [More…]
The honourable member for Holt (Mr Oldmeadow) claimed that the .Bill was designed to produce a revolution of access to education. [More…]
However, there are other social impediments which rob young people of equal opportunity to education; Many of these have been canvassed but I want to emphasise one aspect not often discussed, that is, the failure of the school system to provide sufficiently diverse opportunities for students not necessarily suited to receive education at a university, a college of advanced education or a teachers college. [More…]
For too long educationists have given insufficient emphasis to vocational and technical training in secondary schools. [More…]
With an overemphasis on university and academic careers, parents and students alike are hopefully looking to universities, colleges of advanced education and teachers colleges as the big career openings for young people. [More…]
There is an urgent need to re-assess the needs of our society and the education opportunities of our young people if we are to provide a fulfilling future for the ever-increasing number of school leavers. [More…]
One must assume that equal opportunity does not exist for all students if it is the prime intention of education authorities, parents and others to structure the conduct of schools and the curricula at the schools on the hope that most students strive to enter either a university or some other tertiary institution. [More…]
The abolition of fees at universities, colleges of advanced education and technical colleges will not in itself make much difference to the opportunities available to our young people if we fail to recognise the aptitude of our students, the diverse abilities of students and the changes brought by the technological age. [More…]
Extensive provision is made in Japan for close co-ordination between the programs of technical and vocational training by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Labour, and training organised within industry. [More…]
In Japan technical education and training for the purposes of developing skilled workers and technicians has been built upon two main pillars, firstly, education at technical schools being under the control of the Minister of Education and, secondly, education at vocational training centres being under the supervision of the Minister of Labour. [More…]
Increasing provision must be made for vocational training and technical education not only at the latter end of secondary education and after completion of the equivalent of the school certificate but also in the earlier years at high schools. [More…]
It is now becoming evident that many students pass through the fifth and sixth forms acquiring a reasonably good education but unfortunately they are not trained for any specific vocation. [More…]
It would also appear that there should be a greater involvement by the Department of Labour at Commonwealth and State levels - certainly at the State level - in helping to shape the pattern of education in the future. [More…]
I in no way detract from the expertise and ability of the Departments of Education which have developed a close relationship with industry over the years. [More…]
It appears that although the education system provides a good general education to fourth form, it then becomes very restrictive in its discipline for students who wish to remain in the educational environment but who are not necessarily interested in seeking a university degree, or even sixth form standard for that matter. [More…]
I turn my attention to the thousands of school leavers in country areas who will not go to universities, colleges of advanced education or, under the present set up, technical colleges. [More…]
These questions need to be taken into account especially by the State authorities and certainly by the Commonwealth as a result of its involvement in the field of education generally. [More…]
I have already advanced the idea before the inquiry into technical education and I hope that it will be given due consideration. [More…]
My concept of a transitional course is one which offers full time instruction for one or two years, which would place students in these courses on a vocational strand of education, the completion of which would provide a student with a certificate of competency in a particular vocation. [More…]
There is probably some truth in that belief, but the trend presently developing in education institutions is in the other direction. [More…]
With the exception of the University of New South Wales, tertiary institutions in New South Wales and in particular colleges of advanced education are supplying the employment market with graduates having no grass roots experience whatsoever. [More…]
One of the criticisms of technical education courses at the present moment is the lack of a well balanced curriculum. [More…]
At present, the Department of Education in New South Wales offers a number of preemployment courses for those seeking entrance to a skilled trade. [More…]
The point is, however, that the demands on such courses are not particularly apparent because the departments of technical education and the various education authorities have not given sufficient emphasis to these courses in the present high schools system. [More…]
Unfortunately, in New South Wales expenditure on technical education has declined relative to expenditure in other areas of education. [More…]
This seems to me to be one of the great paradoxes of our time in the field of education. [More…]
The whole community gets disturbed and upset about industrial chaos, strikes and lack of productivity, but what are we doing in the field of education to try to make our young people more aware of the needs of the work force and the problems of management? [More…]
I believe that a lot of our industrial problems and a lot of the division that exists within our community are derived from the failure of the education system to make our young our community are derived from the failure of industry. [More…]
While the Australian Country Party supports the abolition of fees at universities, colleges of advanced education and technical colleges, it believes that vocational training and the upgrading of technical colleges will give greater equality of opportunity to the thousands of secondary students with their diverse skills. [More…]
Let us face it: A very the capacity, the ability nor the desire to attend ing secondary school today will have neither the capacity, the ability nor the desire to attend either a university or a college of advanced education. [More…]
I have enjoyed this debate on education probably more than any other debate in which I have participated over the last 12 years. [More…]
I find myself very much in agreement with the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt), who has just spoken about technical education. [More…]
People in Australia must wake up to the fact that more students are undertaking technical education than there are in all other forms of post-secondary education put together. [More…]
I believe that two years ago, in round figures, 400,000 students were attending full time or part time technical education institutions in this country. [More…]
I drew attention to the fact that not only is this intimately related to the economic development of the country but also it could be - I was very glad to hear the former Minister say this - a very realistic form of education for these young people. [More…]
This is a form of education that will motivate people, their interests and their activity much more than the kind of academic education that they would receive in formal secondary education. [More…]
I think the honourable member for Chisholm (Mr Staley) also raised the question of part time students attending universities or colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Let us turn to the other segment of tertiary education to which reference was made. [More…]
I refer to the colleges of advanced education which are multiplying in number and absorbing very steeply increasing numbers of young people who are going to these institutions to study. [More…]
In that year, the number of part time students at colleges of advanced education was 24,995 of whom 1,236 had been awarded Commonwealth advanced edu cation scholarships. [More…]
This Bill is a most important measure for the numbers of people who will be allowed by it to go to university, or to attend colleges of advanced education or to participate in full time technical education free of any fees. [More…]
The accessibility to higher education that will be available under this Government should be recognised. [More…]
The Government faces a big commitment to build additional universities, university colleges, colleges of advanced education, technical institutes and technical colleges in Australia. [More…]
What we wish to do is to democratise opportunities for education in this country. [More…]
But the media devotes pages and pages to that aspect when important debates in this House on education receive little more than a couple of paragraphs in our newspapers. [More…]
I hope that the media will recognise the part that they should play in educating the community as to what is available to it in the form of educational opportunities and that they will educate us in this Parliament as to what the community needs to satisfy the kind of requirement to which the honourable member for Gwydir referred this evening. [More…]
The proposal that the Labor Party would, first, abolish fees on tertiary education and, secondly, provide a more generous living allowance based on a much more liberalised means test was a very important factor in the last election campaign for the House of Representatives. [More…]
The fruits of this action will be available to the whole of the community whether people are enabled to attend universities, colleges of advanced education or technical institutions, or whether people further their education at institutions such as the open universities that we will provide. [More…]
This Government has provided $3m relief for tertiary students in need simply because university fees and fees for colleges of advanced education were increased for the second year in a row by 16) per cent and a lot of students looked like having to give their studies away because they could not afford to continue. [More…]
The Karmel Committee report - brought down in some haste, some people allege, but built on a lot of other information that was available to it for years and not used - is an epoch-making development in Australian education. [More…]
The Government has set up an inquiry into technical education and further education. [More…]
He was right on the ball for my money tonight when he talked about technical education being for a long time the Cinderella of education in Australia. [More…]
I was glad to hear the honourable member say that he also wants included in that technical education for those youngsters a good element of the humanities. [More…]
I have not said anything about the expansion in education planned for in this year’s Budget before these reports come in. [More…]
That Government knows that the Commonwealth Government will take over the commitment for post-secondary education. [More…]
Various comments have been made by students about the terrible quality of lecturing staff at universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
There is a lot in this Bill, but it is only part of a much more extensive program of education that will do a tremendous amount of good for this country socially, economically and for the personal development of each person who attends those institutions. [More…]
We in the Opposition are still receiving telegrams which have no doubt been requested by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) or generated by the Department of Education or the Minister to pressure us to get Liberal and Country Party senators to support the Schools Commission Bill entirely in the Senate. [More…]
One has to evaluate whether it is more worth while to have the scholarship system or free tertiary education for the masses. [More…]
Yet if we abolish fees and give free tertiary education to all where will we get? [More…]
But why abolish fees for tertiary education and make tertiary education available free of charge to everyone regardless of whether or not his father is a millionaire? [More…]
I was in various centres of the outback during the last recess and I heard constant complaints that the standard of education is falling. [More…]
If people in those areas wish to have their children educated to the standards that they think they are entitled to demand - I refer to people in the Northern Territory, and no doubt the same would apply to people in the northern part of Western Australia and the north-west of Queensland - they have to send them somewhere for their secondary and tertiary education. [More…]
He is not the Minister responsible for education, but I know that he is sympathetic because he has been in the outback areas and he has far more experience of the problems that exist there than possibly some of the people who are interjecting have. [More…]
I would like the Government to give some real assistance to people who are forced to send their children thousands of miles to secondary schools, universities and tertiary education institutions. [More…]
We criticise the standard of education. [More…]
I do not know whether the declining standard of education is a result of the standard of pupils or the lack of desire on the part of students to attend school and concentrate on their studies or whether this situation pertains only in the outback of Australia. [More…]
I emphasise that I would like the Government to look very hard at the isolated children’s assistance to see that isolated children are given at least a fair go from the point of view of getting tertiary and senior secondary education. [More…]
One of the aims of this Bill is to provide the legislative basis for the secondary scholarships scheme, the post-graduate award scheme and the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]
Later I will again refer to this lack of understanding by the Opposition of the equality of opportunity of access to education. [More…]
The tertiary education assistance scheme will start next year and, as the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has said, it is part of the Government’s revolution of access to education. [More…]
The first is that university education should be a right and not a privilege to be paid for. [More…]
Why should university education not be as free as primary and secondary education? [More…]
The second plank to the argument is about equality of educational opportunity. [More…]
Will such a scheme achieve the objective of equal access to tertiary education for all students who desire tertiary education? [More…]
The honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) said that to abolish fees at the tertiary level would not help those who now missed out on tertiary education but would fill up the institutions with people who were not bright enough to be there and who should not be there. [More…]
The policy of provision on a roughly equal basis for all children in schools to which all had access was a considerable advance on policies operating before the introduction of public education. [More…]
A study of students entering science courses at universities and diploma courses in applied sciences at colleges of advanced education in Australia in 1969 shows a similar trend but to a slightly lesser extent. [More…]
To the extent that higher education is financed from taxes it has thus a somewhat regressive effect; poorer people contributing to the cost of education of a group in which the children of richer parents predominate and from which recipients can expect to draw higher than average incomes. [More…]
I believe that in the United States of America, for example, the Government spends 10 times more on the education of the 10 per cent of its children on the top of the socioeconomic scale than on the 10 per cent at the bottom. [More…]
The process in which the social selectivity of tertiary institutions is as an end point of education goes back into the schools and beyond them, into the families where children are conceived and raised. [More…]
Details of the survey were given in November of last year by Professor Ronald Taft of Monash University’s Education Faculty in a paper given to a conference on the sociology of education at La Trobe University. [More…]
What I am saying on the basis of these examples from both the Karmel report and from the findings of the Faculty of Education at La Trobe University is that we must lift the quality of education in all schools. [More…]
Seeing that the qualifications to go to university depend on retention at that time we must improve the equality of education in all schools at the primary and secondary level before we can spend money wisely to get equality of access to education at the tertiary level. [More…]
The secondary allowance scheme will assist families with limited financial resources to maintain their children at school for the final 2 years of secondary education. [More…]
This Bill sets out to fulfil the function of education, which is to develop people who can contribute to a changing society, and to develop the moral and intellectual qualities for a better society. [More…]
The object of education, the true aim of the school, remains what it was in my day - to keep children out of mischief, meaning for the most part, from worrying adults. [More…]
We must come a long way to realise that all parents do not wish the education of their children, nor do the children themselves wish their education, to be geared entirely to the industrial world. [More…]
We must realise that education is to prepare people for a world of rapid change and unforeseeable demands and a world in which continued education throughout a person’s adult life should be a normal expectation. [More…]
Now that education will be free and universal under this legislation from primary school - eventually it will be from preschool - through to secondary school and tertiary institutions, I believe that this legislation carries out that aim so that our people will be prepared to be independent and thinking citizens and prepared to realise that education is a lifelong process. [More…]
I hope I can do justice to my colleague the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in whose place I stand tonight. [More…]
My colleagues from both sides of the House have been able to accept this legislation with much greater alacrity than they have accepted the projection of the Commonwealth into the field of education over the last 16 or 17 years. [More…]
This Bill is a step along the road towards overcoming all of those disabilities in education which my colleagues, particularly those on this side of the House, have pointed out tonight. [More…]
It is approximately a year since the centenary of the establishment of free compulsory and secular education in Victoria in 1872. [More…]
It is a little surprising that at this time, one century after we accepted the fact that free and compulsory education at the primary school level was the right of every citizen, we still find doubts being expressed about the introduction of free education at the university level. [More…]
The Labor Party accepts the view that the total program of education of the citizen ought to be free of any test applied through wealth. [More…]
He was worried about whether the secondary education assistance scheme which is to be introduced next year will be of some disadvantage to the holders of current scholarships. [More…]
The difference between the approach to education of the honourable member for Chisholm (Mr Staley) and of honourable members on this side of the House is that we approach academic progress in a non-competitive spirit. [More…]
While I accept the point that is usually put from the other side about academic excellence and all the rest of it, education is not simply the pursuit of academic excellence. [More…]
Education is a growth of the intellect and the participation of the human being in the total affairs of society. [More…]
We approach this matter on the basis that access to the financial resources of the nation which are provided for education should be basically related to need rather than some competitive system. [More…]
The honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) raised the question of technical education, and he was supported in his remarks by the honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds). [More…]
We have established the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education. [More…]
One of the great challenges in the education system is to ensure that those things that we lay down as policy in this place are actually carried into effect by the State authorities at the ground level. [More…]
It never fails to astonish me, Mr Speaker, that the gentleman in Queensland who allows that situation can rush to a Premiers Conference and plead poverty, saying that he has insufficient money for education and social services, but will not make the same pleadings to his multi-national friends. [More…]
to strengthen their consumer policies in relation to consumer protection, education and information, where they assist competition to function more effectively; [More…]
The purpose of the Bill now before the House is to provide for a full-time Deputy Chairman of the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
This growth in the colleges of advanced education has substantially increased the demands made upon the Commission, for all institutions look to it for help and guidance with developmental problems. [More…]
Visits to institutions do much to facilitate the Commission’s work and are necessary if the Commission is to provide objective advice to this Government on the development of advanced education. [More…]
Initiatives of this Government in the fields of health, education and welfare are making heavy demands on the Commission which is actively involved both in the formulation of policy concerning the education of professionals in the areas mentioned, and in the implementation of other decisions and initiatives supported by the Government in respect of the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
As will be recalled, new arrangements will apply to the funding of advanced education from 1 January 1974, and not only will provide for the assumption by the Australian Government of the existing financial commitment of States in respect of approved programs but also will include some innovation in the method of financing which will make allowance for cost rises during a triennium. [More…]
In so doing he will enable the Chairman to devote more time to other areas of policy in the field of advanced education. [More…]
The Committee’s submission concentrated on the regionalisation of comprehensive health services and the integration of medical education with the delivery of health care to be achieved by services to be delivered to the community by an integrated health care team. [More…]
I also inform the House that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is expected to be away from the House for a further 2 weeks. [More…]
The Postmaster-General (Mr Lionel Bowen) will act as Minister for Education until Mr Beazley returns. [More…]
It has pared back to a completely intolerable level on education expenditure so that on a per capita basis Queensland has the lowest effort contributed on education of any State in the Commonwealth. [More…]
But a great deal of interest has been displayed by Japanese in coming to Australia for tourist, business and education purposes. [More…]
I think that we are getting to the stage where most children go to school until they complete tertiary or technical education. [More…]
A specialist conslutative team for the whole region is provided at a cost of $276,750 and a health education team services the whole region at a cost of $22,550. [More…]
Every scheme under government control, whether it be education, health or a host of other things, is open for improvement, and it becomes a question of examination and acceptance of a particular standard. [More…]
For example, the Department of Education requires an additional $1,834,000 to meet payments under the assistance scheme for isolated school children, and for Aboriginal secondary grants and study grants. [More…]
Thousands and thousands of migrants came to Australia because they believed that this was a free country, a country where the individual mattered, where the private life, thoughts, beliefs and relationships mattered and could matter in the most intimate and important of human relationships such as health care, education and similar matters. [More…]
Unfortunately not all homes can provide the best education for the young. [More…]
May I mention two or three of the most famous thinkers in the field of education over the centuries. [More…]
Then there was Vittorino da Feltre, the great humanist educator in Italy during the Renaissance; Arnold of Rugby in the last century in England, and Sir Richard Livingston in our own day, the writer of that classical work, ‘Education in a World Adrift*. [More…]
I merely pick at random great figures in the field of education over the centuries, and none of them has had any doubt whatsoever that one should indoctrinate children with the ideas of excellence. [More…]
The priorities which must be given to other Government programs affecting social welfare, education, and urban development, as well as the heavy demands for Post Office, services, especially in and near the metropolitan areas of the capital cities, are such that there must be a substantial redistribution of and increase in both the income and expenditure of the Post Office. [More…]
The Committee recommended the concept of a 4-year course for a diploma of medical education. [More…]
A bachelor of education degree in health services could have followed from the diploma of medical education, but for general practitioners a further 4 years of in-depth vocational training selected by the diplomate would have followed, and it would have been to world standard and science based. [More…]
There would have been a unique opportunity for the proper integration of health education with the health service needs of the community. [More…]
The probable amalgamation of the University of Wollongong and the teachers college offered an exciting possibility to involve teachers more in the health needs of the community so that effective health education and meaningful human relations leading to better mental health could have been fostered in all of the schools. [More…]
To overcome these problems we need a new approach to medical education. [More…]
This extravagant claim that is being made by Mr Morris is typical of the extravagant claims being made by other New South Wales Ministers about what they will do in the fields of health, hospitals, education and so on. [More…]
All the money that is being provided for education is being provided by the Australian Government, through the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, and not by the States. [More…]
Yet most of the parents in my electorate devote a great deal of time and energy in order that their children can have the benefit of tertiary education. [More…]
I note from the comments made by honourable members on the other side of the House exactly what the opinion of the Opposition is on this sort of education. [More…]
Their colleagues in the States felt so deeply about the problem of the education of isolated children that in response to the Australian Government’s grant they withdrew State assistance of just on $80. [More…]
I can well understand that, because some years earlier I happened to attend a Teachers Federation conference in New South Wales when Sir Charles Cutler became the new State Minister for Education. [More…]
As I said before, Sir Charles Cutler had such an unhappy record as Minister for ‘Education in New South Wales that ultimately Sir Robert Askin had to remove him from that post. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that it was the same Askin Government that promised, when it was trying to get into power in 1965, to take teaching out of the realm of Public Service Board control and to treat teachers as members of a really professional body by setting up an education commission. [More…]
Yet as late as 12 November, a couple of days ago, Mr Willis said: ‘‘Education Commission demand - out of date.’ [More…]
The local newspaper has published on its front page a photograph of Mr Willis, the current Minister for Education in New South Wales, and the Liberal candidate for that area standing on the site where the proposed new teachers’ college will be established if final feasibility studies show it to be a viable project and if the Commonwealth Government supplies the money. [More…]
The replacement of the educational dungeon, Alexander Mackie Teachers College at Paddington, which people have had to tolerate for years, by a new teachers’ college has been made possible by the Australian Government. [More…]
I am proud of my Government’s achievements in education, social services, giving local government direct access to the Loan Council and in establishing the Grants Commission which will relieve the financial burden on local government councils which have been starved of funds for far too long. [More…]
At the outset, as the House will be aware, I am representing the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) who is indisposed at the moment and not able to be here. [More…]
I should like to place on record the splendid work he has already done for education. [More…]
Honourable members will recognise that the measure now before the House involves a marked increase in the expenditure of the Australian Government on primary and secondary education. [More…]
Less immediately it is the result of the views expressed by the Australian Education Council in its Nation Wide Survey of Educational Needs (1969). [More…]
It is also an expression of the conviction of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) of the need for a transformation of education as contained in his policy speech of 1972. [More…]
Government does not have direct responsibility for primary and secondary education. [More…]
Some years ago, after a needs survey, the States sought action by the national Government to fill the gaps which perturbed State Ministers for Education. [More…]
Teacher education left much to be desired. [More…]
The education of handicapped children was characterised by omissions to meet need which bordered upon the callous. [More…]
Migrant education was profoundly unsatisfactory. [More…]
Buildings, playground space, physical education facilities and the capacity to employ teachers were generally defective. [More…]
A scheme existed through the Australian Department of Social Security to assist the education of handicapped children by private charities, but not in State schools. [More…]
The crisis in Australian education - though the expression crisis is not used by the Interim Committee - is perhaps summed up in a few words of the Interim Committee’s report in paragraph 5:1 on page 48 of Schools in Australia, where it points out that in too many schools the level of resources employed: is below that required to implement modern educational methods, and to prepare all children, irrespective of their rate and style of learning, for full participation in a complex society. [More…]
Human and physical resources do not of themselves ensure a high quality education. [More…]
The net additional cost of the Interim Committee’s recommendations is $468.5m, which honourable members will agree constitutes _a dramatic increase, the expenditure of which will be of great significance in improving the quality of education in schools. [More…]
They improve the quality of education by encouraging an individual approach to learning. [More…]
Consequently grants will be provided for the in-service education of teachers in 1974 and 1975. [More…]
These courses will be planned in each State as a joint approach by State, Catholic, and non-systemic, nongovernment school education authorities. [More…]
Assistance will also be provided for inservice education initiated by the teachers themselves rather than by their employers. [More…]
These funds will be for the establisihment and for the operation of education centres where teachers would meet their fellows. [More…]
To establish education centres about $2m is to be appropriated under the Bill and a further $600,000 will be made available for the operating expenses of the centres concerned. [More…]
Change in education is essential. [More…]
Education in a formal sense thus becomes entirely the business of the school, parents being unable to provide assistance and reinforcement, even if willing to do so. [More…]
Parents are often ignorant of the implications of educational choice and of the range of the alternatives which exist. [More…]
They are most likely to need education in arts, crafts, mechanics, technical skills, the most likely to need to be given the most intelligent, informed and precise advice on the choice of careers and courses of study leading to such careers. [More…]
The scholars and students of disadvantaged schools are the ones most likely to be in need of financial assistance for the purchase of books and educational equipment if they come from underprivileged homes. [More…]
The Government believes that this program is only the beginning of a great deal that needs to be done to create the highest quality in Australian education. [More…]
There will assuredly be no high quality in Australian education as long as there continues to be public indifference and official complacency about the fate of children in disadvantaged circumstances. [More…]
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The years 1974 and 1975 will see the beginning of an effort to solve the very formidable problems in special education for handicapped children. [More…]
We will continue with the grants under our predecessors’ Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act and also with grants for training teachers for special education under our teacher education programs in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Our Department of Education, enlightened and guided by the Pre-School Commisison and the Schools Commission - or in the event of the destruction of the Schools Commission by the Senate, the Interim Committee of the Schools Commission - should consider itself as having a special obligation to children and young people up to the age of 18 who have these special needs. [More…]
Special Education - Aims of the Government [More…]
The principal aims of the Government in the area of special education for the handicapped are as follows: First, the development of each handicapped child to the fullness of his potential as an effective integrated, selfrespecting and independent person. [More…]
Handicapped education must always aim at this independence and at this capacity for self support. [More…]
Secondly, as recommended by the Interim Committee, the State Education Departments and the Catholic systemic school authorities will have wide discretion in the use and distribution among schools of both the general recurrent grants and the additional grants for disadvantaged schools. [More…]
The Education Department in each State will determine its own projects under each program. [More…]
I am sure all honourable members will agree that this legislation marks a turning point in Australian education. [More…]
On 23 August 1973 my colleague the Honourable Kim E. Beazley made a statement to this House on Government initiatives in education. [More…]
At that time he indicated that the Australian Government would assume full financial responsibility for tertiary education from January 1974, and also tuition fees at universities, colleges of advanced education, teachers colleges and technical colleges. [More…]
The purpose of this legislation is to implement that policy with regard to university education. [More…]
As indicated by my colleague the Treasurer (Mr Crean) in the Budget Speech, the Australian Government has decided to establish a national school of management education at the University of New South Wales, and provision is made for recurrent and building grants. [More…]
In clause 6 of the Bill provision is made, amongst other things, for a capital grant of up to $1.8m to erect buildings to house a National School of Management Education. [More…]
Apart from the amounts for social work - $125,000 - and Management Education - approximately $2.3m - the additional funds available to the universities - $76m - are entirely accounted for by salary increases and do not represent an expansion in the universities’ programs of real expenditure. [More…]
We have had several Bills on education and another has been introduced relating to health insurance. [More…]
What a good education that is for the up and coming kids of this country from this once great Party whose members come from the gay, great schools. [More…]
The present Australian Government may advise students that it is their duty to go back to the country which gave them their basic education but it will not deport those students. [More…]
I am pleased to note the increased allocation of $10,420,000 for 1973-74 for the child migrant education program as compared with the actual expenditure for 1972-73 of $5,061,184. [More…]
Likewise, the 1973-74 allocation for the adult migrant education program including part-time instruction is $3,600,000 this year as compared with an actual expenditure in 1972-73 of $1,917,740. [More…]
The conditions under which the injuries occurred could be related to poor safety education and poor safety protection on the job. [More…]
The greatest increase occurs in the area of child migrant education, and I for one am acutely aware of the need for this increased expenditure in this area. [More…]
What of the hundreds of those who have been “unable to make the grade due to the gaps in our migrant education policies? [More…]
Expenditure on child migrant education is expected to reach SIO. [More…]
The number of children receiving this kind of education and assistance will rise from 40,000 to 60,000. [More…]
The Minister’s proposals for a diploma course in migrant education, the reform of school curicula, emergency classrooms and location of special services in socially deprived areas will all add to the effectiveness of the migrant education program. [More…]
While on the subject of education, it must be remembered that not only children but also adults are in great need. [More…]
Chartered ships, even temporarily modified and oriented towards pre-arrival education, would provide the initial encouragement for continued education after arrival in Australia and through the variety of schemes envisaged in the Minister’s proposal. [More…]
As previous speakers have mentioned, there have been increases in the adult migrant education and the child migrant education programs. [More…]
The child migrant education program this year provides for an expenditure of $10,420,000 as against $5,061,184 expended last year. [More…]
But there is also an increased expenditure on migrant education, a considerably increased expenditure on welfare services and in addition to that we have appointed 48 multilingual welfare officers as another part of the new effort to ensure happier and more successful settlement. [More…]
In those countries governments have come to the correct conclusion that they are responsible not just for the formal scholastic education of their population but also for their physical and mental health. [More…]
Comparable ratios for the administrative section of other departments having a similar co-ordinating function or profession base are: Prime Minister’s 1:7, Special Minister of State 1:9; Attorney-Generals 1:10, Foreign Affairs 1:20, Treasury 1:19, Education 1:49. [More…]
The Australian Labor Government, under the leadership of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), has been responsible for a large number of new initiatives of reform such as the very great economic reforms introduced by this Government in the fight against inflation, in the areas of education and health, in the new area of foreign affairs, to the Constitution, and so I could go on. [More…]
It has needs for assistance to provide access roads, for transport to remove the chaos from the roads, for improvements in education and health facilities, for recreation centres and for child care centres. [More…]
I ask the Acting Minister for Education: How many capital projects in Victoria have been approved in principle by the Minister under the provisions of the Child Care Act? [More…]
The main purpose of the Bill before the House is to amend the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1972-73 to enable the Australian Government to assume full financial responsibility for advanced education from 1 January 1974. [More…]
This is part of the Government’s intention to assume financial responsibility for all tertiary education. [More…]
3) 1973 was introduced into the House recently to implement this policy with regard to university education. [More…]
The assumption of full financial responsibility for tertiary education includes the abolition of tuition fees at all tertiary institutions including colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Already this year, grants have been made for financial assistance to students in need at colleges of advanced education and universities, and this legislation will enable the Government to step closer to its goal of promoting equality of educational opportunity for students intending to undergo tertiary education. [More…]
The Bill enables payment of grants in respect of fulltime university students who are resident in a hall of residence at a college of advanced education. [More…]
In accordance with the Government’s plans the Bill provides for grants for special courses in dental therapy, social work and physical education at various colleges of advanced education. [More…]
This amendment provides for the allowance to be paid in respect of university students living in college of advanced education residences; an amendment has been included in the recently introduced States Grants (Universities) Bill to provide for advanced education students in university residences. [More…]
With the acceptance by the Australian Government of the full responsibility for funding tertiary education from 1 January 1974 the entire cost of construction of a student residence in a country area may be borne by this Government, and in the case of affiliated colleges this Government will now meet 75 per cent of the cost of construction leaving as before only 25 per cent to be found by the college authority. [More…]
The Government has also agreed to provide $800,000 for courses in social work and physical education at the institute of technology at Preston and Footscray in Victoria. [More…]
Apart from providing for Government initiatives in the fields of social work, physical education and dental therapy the basic programs recommended by the Australian Commission of Advanced Education in its third report and the teacher education report remain unchanged. [More…]
When we talk in the field of education, particularly that of tertiary education, we mention John Dedman’s involvement with the Australian National University. [More…]
I think one can see how this particular project led later on to Commonwealth university scholarships and today to free tertiary education in the community. [More…]
The States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
The States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
These provisions arise from the recommendations of the report on teacher education prepared by the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
The States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
4) amends the principal Act to enable the Commonwealth Government to assume full financial responsibility for advanced education from 1 January 1974. [More…]
The Bill enables payment of grants in respect of full time university students resident at a college of advanced education and for grants for special courses in dental therapy, social work and physical education at such colleges. [More…]
8m for the establishment of a national school of management education. [More…]
The Commission of Advanced Education Bill provides for the appointment of a full time Deputy Chairman of the Commission of Advanced Education. [More…]
As the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly) pointed out in his second reading speech, the growth in the colleges of advanced education has very substantially increased the demands made on the Commission. [More…]
As a matter of general principle the Opposition supports the increased allocation of funds for education as provided in the 5 Bills introduced by the various Ministers. [More…]
As we have emphasised consistently on so many prior occasions, the Opposition welcomes the Government’s very real emphasis on education policies. [More…]
I believe that there is a considerable degree of unanimity between all political parties towards the objectives of educational justice in this country. [More…]
On a previous occasion in this House my colleague the honourable member for Wannon dealt with the question of the location of new universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
My colleague the honourable member for Wannon, the Opposition’s spokesman on education, who is unable to be here because of a pressing commitment in one of the States, made this comment in the House on 23 August this year: [More…]
It now means that, while universities, colleges of advanced education and teachers colleges are established by State law and are largely responsible to the States, the financing of them will be solely a matter for another government which does not establish them. [More…]
There already has been evidence that the present Commonwealth Government will pay no heed to the States concerned in regard to where they want a new university to be located or what kind of a new college of advanced education a State wants to establish. [More…]
State governments are rightly concerned by the fact that the funds provided by the Commonwealth to finance tertiary education are being substracted from the general grants made available to the States and are being handed back, as recommended by the Interim Schools Committee, in the form of tagged grants. [More…]
We go on record as saying that we are very much opposed to the general squeeze which has been put on the States, particularly in the field of education, and to any acceptance in this House of the distribution of funds to the State governments on the basis of the tagged grants concept which is inherent in the various Bills before the House at the present time. [More…]
This practice means, in the first instance, that there is a transfer of payments, and secondly, that States’ priorities in general education in fact are being supplanted by the Interim Schools Committee. [More…]
I do not use this forum tonight as an opportunity to speak in any depth about the question of educational philosophy, except to say this: We, as an Opposition Party, certainly do not believe in the centralisation of power. [More…]
We recognise the importance of decentralisation and that form of devolution of power which leads to diversity and experimentation in approach and which we believe is essential for the best interests of this country as far as its education advancement is concerned. [More…]
Indeed, if one looks at the various Bills which have been brought down in this House it is quite clear that the present Government is determined effectively to erode the powers of the States in the field of education and in those other areas for which the States have responsibility. [More…]
The assumption by the Commonwealth of financial responsibility for tertiary education raises obvious and very real problems in relation to the constitutional position of the States. [More…]
We reject the approach of centralised control as the best method of education advancement in this country. [More…]
I put it to the Acting Minister for Education (Mr Lionel Bowen) who on behalf of his colleague claimed in the second reading speeches that have been delivered that the various State Premiers are in agreement with policy initiatives embodied in this legislation, then I doubt very much whether the basis which now obtains for the disbursement of funds was the basis, upon which that original agreement was made between the Commonwealth and State governments. [More…]
The Government claimed when the Budget was brought down that educational expenditure was to be increased by $404m or that it would be 92 per cent more than that of the previous financial year. [More…]
However, of that amount of $404m, $ 144.6m is a straight transfer payment as between the States and the Commonwealth, representing expenditure in the second half of this financial year with respect to tertiary education. [More…]
Therefore, in quite plain terms I say to the Acting Minister for Education that any allegation that there has been a 92 per cent increase in expenditure on education is phoney at best and dubious at worst. [More…]
Of that $404m additional expenditure, $90m arises from the reports of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education, the Australian Universities Commission and the Cohen report on teacher training. [More…]
An amount of $26m is allocated for technical education. [More…]
But in responding to the views put by members of the Opposi tion Parties in this debate I invite the Minister to comment specifically on the educational philosophy of the Government in bringing forward legislation which embodies the transfer of tertiary education from the States to the Commonwealth. [More…]
I ask him further to indicate whether he is prepared to go on record as saying that in the field of education this Government is prepared to recognise that the various State Governments have constitutional authority and that that authority must be protected. [More…]
I wish to speak briefly on the 5 Bills which are being taken in a cognate debate and all of which are associated with the tertiary level of education. [More…]
The additional expenditure which will result from the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bills will be $399m. [More…]
I was amazed to hear the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) speak of a general squeeze that is being put on the States in the field of education. [More…]
The Opposition is speaking of a squeeze when we are giving an additional $796m to the States to finance tertiary education! [More…]
I believe that the Minister for Education in Victoria is the person who has created the situation of confrontation. [More…]
I believe that if we looked into the circumstances of the establishment of Melbourne’s fourth university we would see that it was the Minister for Education in Victoria who failed to make the submission. [More…]
A considerable amount of the sum of $796m is being allocated for the purpose of the Commonwealth’s assuming full responsibility for financing tertiary education from January 1974 and also for tuition fees at universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The importance that this Government places on the teachers and their education is reflected in the financial assistance which is to be given, namely, $188m commencing in January 1974. [More…]
It is interesting to note that the report of the Cohen Committee on teacher education and the report on teacher education prepared by the Australian Commission on Advanced Education call for a program for teacher education costing $2 10m. [More…]
This would be the cost of financing all the former State teachers colleges and pre-school colleges and existing colleges of advanced education. [More…]
That, of course, encompasses our taking over of the whole of the tertiary education expenses. [More…]
It is encouraging to note that provision is made in this legislation for the integration of teachers colleges within the framework of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It is a recognition of the crucial role played by teachers in the process of education. [More…]
The first is the provision of increased grants for courses in physical education. [More…]
But I would highlight the point that there is a tragic shortage of physical education teachers in our schools. [More…]
Three years ago at the school at which I was teaching and at which I was in charge of deploying the staff available we bad one physical education teacher. [More…]
For those who are unfamiliar with the use of such terms, that means a teacher who taught physical education for only 3 days a week. [More…]
The only physical education that could be given at this school of 1,100 pupils was to the pupils of first form. [More…]
I believe it is of tremendous importance that we create extra places for physical education at both universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The University of Queensland also will have one, as will certain colleges of advanced education. [More…]
When one thinks of the Government’s aims in regard to the Australian Assistance Plan - the health centres and the various other facilities in which there is a great need for social workers to take their place in the team - one can appreciate the great demand that there is for places in both colleges of advanced education and universities for the training of social workers. [More…]
If my memory serves me correctly the promise was made in the policy speech of the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), in particular, and in the policy document of the Australian Labor Party that the Australian Labor Party would, if it came to power, take over financial responsibility for tertiary education and that that was followed by a very significant phrase, namely, that the money thus released will be available for primary and secondary education undertaken by the States. [More…]
I come back to the point that the money thus released will be available for primary and secondary education undertaken by the States and also to the point that the Premiers have agreed with the program. [More…]
If we look at what actually happened we will find that the Premiers agreed with it at the Premiers Conference in June of this year for the simple reason that the Commonwealth said it was going to take over the financial responsibility for tertiary education whether the States liked it or not. [More…]
What did happen to the moneys thus released after the Federal Government took over the financing of tertiary education? [More…]
The general reimbursement grants in fact have been reduced by the amounts that the Federal Government has put into financing tertiary education throughout Australia. [More…]
In relation to the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
2), I notice that there is reference in the second paragraph of the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) to 3 new projects being included in the Second Schedule to the Act. [More…]
Two of those proposals were approved by the previous Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
I notice that the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
3) had its origin in the recommendations of the report on teacher education prepared by the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
So again, let us acknowledge that part that the previous Government played in funding education at a much higher level than previously had been the case. [More…]
I was interested also to see in the second reading speech on the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
The Government says that this is ‘crucial to the process of education’. [More…]
I would agree absolutely and wholeheartedly with this view because I think that education is not merely a matter of money; it is much more than that. [More…]
The professional qualifications and the interest shown by the various teachers have an enormous part to play in the total education of the child. [More…]
I am sure we can all remember during our own educational period those teachers who impressed us more than others. [More…]
<I notice that the Government accepted in their entirety the recommendations of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education which was set up by the previous Government, including the recommendations for special grants for the particularly worthy purposes of accelerating the development of teachers college libraries, of fostering research into aspects of teacher education’. [More…]
I should like to emphasise the need for more research in education. [More…]
Incidentally, this is why I am such a great advocate of freedom of choice being offered to people, not only parents in the education of their children but also to adults when they have the opportunity of carrying on their education later in life. [More…]
I am glad to see that the present Government is adopting the recommendations of the Commission and has agreed to foster research into aspects of teacher education. [More…]
Again, I commend the Government for its emphasis on the education of handicapped children - an emphasis which I point out once again was contained in the recommendations of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education set up by the previous Government. [More…]
I notice also that the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
3) provides for an integration of teachers colleges completely within the framework of the advanced education legislation. [More…]
Again, I have been a consistent advocate of the idea that ^teachers colleges should be removed from the control of State education departments. [More…]
I see this as a form of decentralisation, as a breakdown in the excessive bureaucratisation of education and as placing upon the adminstrators of teachers colleges a greater responsibility because they will be independent organisations more so than at any stage in the past and therefore have not only the right but also the responsibility to live up to the independence with which they are to be provided. [More…]
I notice in the second reading speech on the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
The States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
4) in many ways is perhaps a more significant Bill than the others because in the initial stages of his second reading speech the Acting Minister for Education, the PostmasterGeneral (Mr Lionel Bowen), set out the proposition that the Australian Government will assume full financial responsibility for advanced education from 1 January 1974. [More…]
We all know that the various States have the responsibility for overseeing the various aspects of tertiary education including, of course, the technical colleges and the universities. [More…]
Again, in his second reading speech, the Acting Minister for Education made a point of saying: [More…]
The fifth Bill which the House is now considering is the Commission on Advanced Education Bill. [More…]
Again, I think that Government supporters should pay at least some tribute to the former governments not only because of their promulgation of the idea of colleges of advanced education but also because the program was put into effect with such success. [More…]
The fact that as a greater proportion of Australians has the opportunity of receiving at least some tertiary education at a high level is splendid and something that i am sure we would all applaud. [More…]
Naturally enough, the demands placed upon the body overseeing this development have become excessive as I am sure we will find that the demands placed upon a number of the commissions set up by this Government will become excessive and we will have a succession of Bills, such as this Commission on Advanced Education Bill 1973, coming before the House as the Government appoints more and more people to these commissions. [More…]
I would seek from Government supporters opposite some acknowledgement that at least many of these changes were not only envisaged but also were put into train by previous governments and I hope, as other honourable members have said, that with the passing of these Bills more and more Australians of a range of years will have the opportunity of taking advantage of superior avenues of tertiary education because in this way, when they do have this opportunity, not only will they benefit but also the whole nation will be enhanced [More…]
I do not know about his State, but I can assure him that certainly in Victoria during the last State elections the Liberal Premier and the Liberal Minister for Education accepted the guns at their heads with glee and very happily spent the extra finances that were to be made available to the Victorian Department of Education from these sources. [More…]
In fact, in being fair minded and even handed, the honourable member for Warringah might have remembered that a Bill will be before the House tomorrow which makes provision for vastly improved expenditure on primary and secondary education. [More…]
The real problem in Victoria is that the Australian Universities Commission has waited so long for a statement from the Victorian Minister for Education as to this other institution that decisions have been delayed. [More…]
This is admirable in its concept, but one of the things in his concept is that this plan should be superimposed on teachers’ colleges and completely ignores the existence of colleges of advanced education and technical institutes. [More…]
The Bills actually bring up to date the allocations for teachers colleges, colleges of advanced education and universities in the 1972-75 triennium. [More…]
The Australian Parliament in the past has concentrated far more on tertiary education than any other field of education. [More…]
I would have joined those who criticise the Australian Government concern with tertiary education as the main thrust of its education policy if it were not that this Government has instituted measures which will give a substantial injection of finance into other areas of education. [More…]
When I think of the situation of 39 per cent of fourth form students in one high school requiring remedial education, I feel that the primary and secondary sphere of education should have more money spent on it. [More…]
However, it is a historical fact that the Government has accepted tertiary education as essentially its primary concern. [More…]
Now, we are getting down to the really nitty-gritty - to primary and secondary education and to disadvantaged children. [More…]
However, I think that there is an aspect that might arise out of our assistance to colleges of advanced’ education, institutes of technology and universities. [More…]
That is the extension into external studies and open universities of opportunities for those who have not formal university or college of advanced education entrance qualifications. [More…]
These external studies courses are most helpful for persons in remote areas, just as they are for persons even in urban areas where the opportunity to attend tertiary institutions may be restricted by occupation or other reasons, although these persons wish to continue their education and to gain knowledge. [More…]
One of the other problems that is cited with regard to tertiary institutions in the question of whether institutes of technology and colleges of advanced education in awarding degrees may not by very inclination shift towards the university atmosphere and the university concept of courses. [More…]
I have a reservation about some of the colleges of advanced education and institutes of technology. [More…]
I think it would be a shame if these bodies overlooked their very real role in giving an education different from that given by the norma! [More…]
But looking at the overall situation, I think there is much benefit in these wiser and practical courses that allow persons to acquire quite a breadth of general education which may not necessarily suit them for a particular vocation or profession but which may very well suit them ideally for every day life, communication with their fellows and the conduct of whatever the activities in which they are engaged. [More…]
So I hope that colleges of advanced education and institutes of technology will use their facilities to give this variety of courses in the community for other than formal occupations. [More…]
This cognate debate covers a very wide range of matters affecting tertiary education. [More…]
He referred to what he detected to be a basic philosophical difference between the present Government and former governments in that former governments placed a greater degree of emphasis on the need for tertiary education rather than on the general needs of education. [More…]
In a general sense former governments desired to leave the primary and secondary education principally to the administration of and the funding by State governments. [More…]
But, of course, events have really overtaken that position - on the one hand, the events of 2 December last and, on the other hand, the pressing financial reasons why greater Commonwealth involvement has been necessary in order to help the States to fund this important area of education. [More…]
The State Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
Its origins lie in the recommendations of the report on teacher education initiated by the former Government in October last year. [More…]
A report on teacher education has been prepared by the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
The present Government accepted its recommendations entirely, providing special grants for teachers college libraries and research teacher education and increasing the number of teachers to teach handicapped children. [More…]
Unfortunately there appears to be no provision for funds to train teachers in the education of children with specific learning difficulties. [More…]
This Bill will make similar provisions for teachers colleges as exist for universities and colleges of advanced education, integrating teachers colleges completely within the framework of the advanced education legislation. [More…]
I welcome the provision of full financial support for tertiary education so far as private teachers colleges are concerned. [More…]
Let me now deal briefly with the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
4), which enables the Australian Government to assume full financial responsibility for advanced education from 1 January 1974. [More…]
These provisions will assist students substantially with per capita grants for living away or accommodation costs in advanced education college residencies. [More…]
The Australian Government will assume full responsibility for the funding of tertiary education from 1 January 1974, and of course for the entire cost of construction of student residencies in country areas. [More…]
With respect to the Commission on Advanced Education Bill, I think it is reasonable that there should be appointed a full time deputy chairman because of the increased work load upon the Commission itself that has become evident. [More…]
I pay tribute to the splendid work of the Commission in advising former Ministers and the present Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
The major policy decision implemented in this legislation is the assumption by the Australian Government of full financial responsibility for university education from January 1974 and the abolition of fees for university and tertiary education. [More…]
The Australian Government has shown an increasing and evolving interest and involvement in tertiary education for many years. [More…]
Through the 1965 Martin Committee report on the future of tertiary education in Australia, the Australian Government widened its sphere of influence to include other institutions in the tertiary education sector. [More…]
The Australian Commission on Advanced Education was subsequently established in 1971. [More…]
The legislation provides that these 2 commissions should consult together in order that the development of universities and colleges of advanced education should be co-ordinated. [More…]
The desirability of this was argued in principle in the Report of the Committee of Enquiry into Education in South Australia, 1969-1970, which is known as the Karmel report. [More…]
Since the expansion of tertiary, education that is being demanded by the community will involve greatly rising expenditures, the need to ensure an efficient allocation of resources becomes greater and greater. [More…]
The Armidale conference on higher education held in 1969 recommended that the Australian Universities Commission and the Advisory Committee on Advanced Education, as it was constituted prior to the establishment of the Commission, should be replaced by a single higher education authority to advise the Commonwealth Government and to consult with State governments on the short and long term needs of all institutions comprising the higher education system. [More…]
The previous Government felt that until the status of the colleges of advanced education had been improved the proposal should not be implemented. [More…]
The Labor Government has as yet shown no signs of amalgamating its education commissions. [More…]
On the contrary, since the Labor Government took office, interim committees or commissions have been established for schools, preschools and technical and further education. [More…]
Dr C. Duke, Director of the Australian National University Centre for Continuing Education, has warned that ‘the proliferation of educational commissions may artificially divide educational experience or perpetuate administrative divisions which already exist, in a way which does violence to the learning needs of persons in a rapidly changing society and economy.’ [More…]
The Australian Government’s direction of university education has in the past been exercised largely through the system of matched grants and specific purpose grants. [More…]
The increasing costs of university and other areas of education have made increased Australian Government involvement inevitable. [More…]
As I said earlier, it has been an evolving process, and this has been necessary to maintain desirable standards of education. [More…]
The Labor Party undertaking to abolish fees at tertiary level and take over the funding of tertiary education is based partly on the premise that the States could not realistically be expected to bear the increasing costs without a major adjustment in Commonwealth-State financial arrangements. [More…]
The 2 aspects - fee abolition and the general funding of tertiary education - are closely linked. [More…]
The Government has gone further than this by assuming the States’ share of the financial responsibility for tertiary education. [More…]
One of the most serious problems in the future will be to ensure that centralised financial responsibility does not lead to a centralisation of administrative and educational responsibility which stifles initiative and diversity at the local level. [More…]
I have heard it argued, firstly, that fee abolition will improve access to tertiary ‘ education for students from lower socio-economic backgrounds; secondly, that it is” a fundamental principle that all education should be free; and, thirdly, that an urgently needed revision of StateCommonwealth arrangements for funding tertiary education would become necessary. [More…]
Secondly, I have heard it argued that if all financial constraints were removed, students from lower socio-economic levels would still suffer owing to their home background, parental motivation towards higher education, poorer schooling and so on. [More…]
Thirdly, although some poorer students would be helped, this would be done by subsidising other students who are not in need and who will eventually earn more anyway as a result of their university education. [More…]
I believe that the Government has made a worthy and generous attempt to provide for all children of ability an equality of opportunity in all fields of education. [More…]
I believe that we need to start thinking of education not only as a service- for the young but as a service’ to the whole community, to be used as and when necessary - like health services. [More…]
This will need a completely new emphasis on the role of adult education and retraining programs. [More…]
These Bills go part of the way towards assisting tertiary education in various aspects, not only in relation to universities but also in relation to colleges of advanced education and preschool and ordinary teachers colleges. [More…]
I believe that the additional funding which will be made available through these Bills will be of tremendous importance and great significance for the future of education in Australia. [More…]
If I had been specially trained and if the facilities had been available to give that child a better education by providing the specialist service that was available, he and, I believe, the community would have been much better off. [More…]
One of the Bills proposes to abolish fees for tertiary education completely. [More…]
What this Government is attempting to do is to raise the level of education over all. [More…]
I agree entirely with the honourable member for Gwydir that, unless a child has sufficient motivation and has been given sufficient opportunity in his early schooling to become motivated and to be able to build upon that groundwork, he will have great difficulty in establishing himself and gaining benefit from tertiary education although it may be completely free. [More…]
The Victorian Minister for Education was then asked for a detailed submission by the Australian Universities Commission and by the then Minister for Education and Science, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
In December, on the election of the Labor Government, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) as Minister for Education in the First Whitlam Ministry set up an inquiry into university needs in Melbourne and the surrounding areas. [More…]
In July the Victorian Minister submitted proposals that were contrary to the wishes of the local education authorities. [More…]
We know that pre-school education will go through a great phase of expansion. [More…]
In Victoria, which is probably the best equipped State so far as pre-school education is concerned, there is still a great need for improvement. [More…]
In my own area in the shire of Diamond Valley, which is part of the electorate of Diamond Valley, I think that the shire council during the years has provided the best standard of pre-school education available anywhere in the Commonwealth. [More…]
But there are still children, even in that municipality, who do not receive the one year of pre-school education which most people who understand the work in this field believe is necessary. [More…]
A number of the actions which are being taken in relation to education are real landmarks in education. [More…]
When the provisions of these Bills are put into operation and the money is provided not only schoolchildren but also the whole community in Australia can look forward to a better education system. [More…]
Each of the 5 Bills now before the House deals with tertiary education. [More…]
Following a report presented by the investigating body which carried out that inquiry, this was agreed to by the Minister for Education in Victoria and was eventually brought forward as a promise by the State Government. [More…]
The newspapers in my city stated that the Commission was to support the establishment of the university there on the basis of the existing teachers’ college with university extensions and proposed to keep the college of advanced education as a separate entity which would function apart from the university. [More…]
These statements led to a great deal of heartburning in my electorate, particularly on the part of the council of the college of advanced education in Bendigo of which I am a member. [More…]
Also, it was considering the possibility of the university combining with the college of advanced education and the teachers college as well as the possibility, as mentioned in the Press, of the college of advanced education operating separately from the teachers’ college and the university. [More…]
Nevertheless I trust that following all the waffling that has occurred between the Federal Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and his Interim Commission under the control of Professor Karmel, the Commonwealth will get around to agreeing to the decision already made to site the university on the 3-campus basis as being the best way to deal with the requirement. [More…]
In the Bendigo area the College of Advanced Education is almost adjacent to the teachers’ college or the State college. [More…]
The total sum being spent by the Government on education is excellent and we heartily endorse it, but for goodness sake let the Government not try to put around the idea that it is doing marvellous things. [More…]
The House is having a cognate debate on 5 Bills dealing with education but I wish to concentrate my remarks on the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
Over past months various education Bills have been passed by the Parliament which have rightly placed considerable emphasis on expenditure to improve the amenities and the facilities of our education system. [More…]
But more important to the future success of education programs will be the effectiveness and capability of our teaching profession. [More…]
By integrating teachers’ colleges completely within the framework of advanced education we will have a situation where the same financing arrangements will apply to teachers’ colleges as to our universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Pre-school education is recognised now as a most necessary start to the education of our children. [More…]
The teaching profession is the major link between parents and our society in our education process. [More…]
Changing patterns in education must apply to a rapidly changing society and it is vital for the teaching profession to participate with in-service training in order to give teachers a more fulfilling and productive role. [More…]
The Australian Country Party is aware of the ferment and uncertainty surrounding education and of the need to adopt the organisation, control, methods and objectives of education to the requirements of the people in this changing world. [More…]
We see the likelihood of far reaching changes in education and teaching methods as part of this rapidly changing environment in which national policies must be continually determined and revised. [More…]
The only question I raise in relation to the funding of education is that the source of finance should not be used as a means of control. [More…]
Diversity and freedom of choice will be the criteria of an effective educational system and if there are any tendencies they should be towards regionalisation of administration, control and policy making. [More…]
Libraries today are an integral part of education and it is pleasing to see libraries receiving special grants in respect of the acquisition of library material and the employment of library staff as these things apply to teacher training colleges. [More…]
We support these Bills in total, recognising the right of every member of society to avail himself or herself of a period of education at public expense, an education that will be appropriate and useful to his or her needs. [More…]
I refer honourable members to the ministerial statement made in this House by my colleague, The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), on 23 August last in which he clearly set out that this Government, for the first time, really would give to education all that was needed to ensure that every child in this nation was educated to the utmost of his or her talents. [More…]
We are dealing with the fact that the Commonwealth, with the concurrence of the various Premiers, is taking over tertiary education. [More…]
That in itself gives great encouragement to the advancement of their education. [More…]
Those who needed the opportunity to complete tertiary education would not be denied it simply because of insufficient funds. [More…]
It goes without saying that this Government is really interested in guaranteeing that tertiary education will not be denied in any field. [More…]
So let us leave it at that and let us hope that politics drop out of that issue in the interests of tertiary education in Victoria. [More…]
Clause 7d of the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
In response to the matter mentioned by the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins), the Australian Universities Commission has established a committee on an open university at the request of my colleague, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
I am advised that if the honourable member looks at clause 7e of the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill (No. [More…]
I do not think I should delay the House any further, except to say that the philosophy of the Government in all aspects of education is to ensure that no child is prejudiced. [More…]
To assist in achieving national recognition of awards in the field of advanced education, the Government has continued to support the work of the Australian Council on Awards in Advanced Education which was established under the previous Government. [More…]
The Council, which is a national body jointly responsible to the six State Ministers for Education and the Commonwealth Minister, was set up to seek to promote consistency in the nomenclature used for awards in advanced education and in the relationship between levels of courses and their associated awards. [More…]
The Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education was established in April 1973 and will be reporting to the Government in the first half of 1974. [More…]
These higher rates will also apply to the Government’s new scheme of tertiary allowances for students in universities, colleges of advanced education, technical colleges and similar institutions. [More…]
I am not in a position to provide an answer on behalf of other authorities concerned, such as State Education Departments. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
How much have the running costs of education in government schools increased for 1974 when using the formula used by the Government in 1972 to work out the per capita payments for 1973. [More…]
I think that any Minister for Education would be proud to introduce a Bill of this kind. [More…]
Those 2 matters aside, the Government has introduced measures which cover a broad spectrum of education and which will advance the cause of education quite widely throughout Australia. [More…]
I think we need to emphasise that there is a large area of non-partisan approach to education. [More…]
One of these, of course, was the decision to establish the Cohen committee, as a sub-committee of the Commission on Advanced Education, to examine the needs of teacher training throughout Australia, especially the needs of teacher training as it affects handicapped children. [More…]
The recommendations of that committee, of course, have been incorporated in legislation that the Government has introduced concerning colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I regret that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is not well and is unable to be here to steer the legislation through the House. [More…]
I ask the Postmaster-General (Mr Lionel Bowen) who is the Acting Minister for Education to convey those remarks to the Minister for Education. [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle is a man who has, for many years, devoted con siderable attention to education. [More…]
Areas where I think the Opposition has a similar approach to the Government include pre-schools, attitudes to technical education, remedies for the sorts of problems that are faced by isolated children, and the special programs that are being introduced to meet the needs of handicapped children of all kinds. [More…]
The implementation of the teacher training proposals of the report of the Special Committee on Teacher Education - the Cohen Committee - are matters, as I have already mentioned, on which all members of this House will agree. [More…]
Perhaps there should be an expansion or an improvement of the central building unit which has been established in the Victorian Department of Education and which is operating as a service to all Departments of Education. [More…]
5m on a school - I have in mind, in particular, Tasmania - are necessarily providing better education than the States which are spending SI. [More…]
Also, we moved amendments which we believed would make sure - this is what I think the Minister for Education has said he wants to do, even if sometimes there is an appearance to the contrary - that due note was taken of the wishes, intentions and plans of other education authorities and which would remove the perhaps somewhat arbitrary powers that we believed the Bill in its initial form gave to the Commonwealth Minister to do precisely what he liked. [More…]
I should like to see a commitment from the Acting Minister for Education, the Postmaster-General, that the kind of structure which is envisaged in the Minister’s statement is the kind of structure that will be continued into the future in relation to the board for Catholic systemic schools. [More…]
In looking at page 3 of the Bill which relates to the definition of a handicapped child, and, I think, at page 5 relating to the definition of special education teacher training courses and the definition of special schools, I would have some doubt as to whether children experiencing special learning difficulties would be covered in the ambit of this legislation. [More…]
But I believe that that is a debatable question and I would have thought that the facilities in colleges of advanced education and in universities, which are not fully utilised, especially in the long vacation periods, could be used for a number of these special courses, whether it is for training librarians or for some other purpose. [More…]
I think it would be reasonable for this House to ask the Acting Minister for Education to examine that point to see whether he might not move an amendment to broaden the scope of the definition of independent schools that could be advantaged by the special provisions for disadvantaged schools. [More…]
The Opposition approves the provisions for special education, teacher training, replacement teachers and vacation training. [More…]
These measures ought to advance the cause of education. [More…]
The teacher education centres should assist in a move towards a greater degree of professionalism within the teaching profession. [More…]
There are projects for special education. [More…]
is of the opinion that the Government should allow an accountable flexibility between different categories of expenditure on the initiative of the States, which would be accountable to the Commonwealth for any such changes, enabling the maximum advantage to education in Australia to be achieved.’ [More…]
The other amendment that I would also hope would be acceptable - and I would ask the Minister to look at it closely - refers to sub-clauses (1), (2) and (3) of clause IS which really do give to the Minister for Education quite arbitrary powers. [More…]
On 20 November last year the present Minister for Education was asked: ls it the intention of the Federal Labor Party to continue per capita aid to independent schools for 1974 and following years? [More…]
The ALP has never voted against any Bill proposing Commonwealth aid for education and it will support any forms of benefit already existing. [More…]
After that, educationists will need to concern themselves more with the philosophy of education and the approach that ought to be adopted in schools. [More…]
There can be no certainty that some of the present or modern methods of teaching will advance the cause of education and the cause of children. [More…]
is of the opinion that the Government should allow an accountable flexibility between different categories of expenditure on the initiative of the States, who would be accountable to Australia for any such changes, enabling the maximum advantage to education in Australia to be achieved.’ [More…]
In the last few words of his speech the honourable member for Wannon demonstrated that the Opposition remains committed, as it was committed in government, to the system of per capita grants which has so long underpinned and perpetuated the inequalities of education in this country. [More…]
The present Bill breaks new grounds in Australia by recognising, as a category for educational assistance, the disadvantaged school. [More…]
In establishing disadvantaged schools in Australia as a category for assistance we are following practice well explored and well laid down by the Inner London Education Authority. [More…]
Surveys conducted by the Inner Suburban Education Committee in Melbourne have shown how a comparatively small number of schools which include Melbourne’s oldest, least well equipped and least generously staffed schools, have been obliged to bear the brunt not only of the influx of children who speak little or no English, but also of the children from low income families and broken families who are attracted to the inner suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney by the availabilaity of low cost housing commission accommodation. [More…]
Both these groups pose special problems for teachers and for the various ancillary education workers, such as psychology and guidance staff of the education departments. [More…]
It was interesting to note that the Migrant Task Force for Victoria, established by the present Minister for Immigration (Mr Grassby), gave emphasis in its report to the fact that no more than 20 per cent of nonEnglish speaking migrant children in Melbourne were receiving the special sort of language assistance that they needed if they were to take proper advantage of the educational opportunities available to them or, failing taking proper advantage of those opportunities, merely functioned on an even level with the children around them who had no language disability. [More…]
It is interesting that the Inner Suburban Education Committee identified, among the enrolments of these schools, a great proportion of large families and a great proportion of families in which only one parent or the other was present. [More…]
Both fields of endeavour have suffered very greatly in recent years from the overall shortage of funds for education. [More…]
The Psychology and Guidance Branch of the Victorian Department of Education, like psychology and guidance branches in other States, has notoriously found it impossible to compete for expert staff with the demand of industry for industrial psychologists and personnel staff and with the attraction of private practice for qualified psychologists. [More…]
The speech therapy branch of the Victorian Education Department, like speech therapy services elsewhere, has found it impossible to cope with a rising demand for die services it is meant to provide. [More…]
Fewer than 10 per cent of those that wait until the end of primary education or the beginning of secondary education to be treated are overcome. [More…]
The States Grants (Schools) Bill with which we are now dealing provides an enormous amount of money for education. [More…]
As the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said, the Opposition does not begrudge the expenditure of money on education but as he pointed out also it is time that the quality of teaching in our schools in Australia ought to be subjected to some critical analysis. [More…]
Education has become somewhat of a sacred cow in Australia these days. [More…]
If one suggests any criticism of the education system as it exists or of those involved in that process one brings down the wrath of the banshee on one’s head. [More…]
If we are to proceed to a better quality of the end product, that is the children who are graduating from our schools, it is necessary that we attack some of these sacred cows in education. [More…]
This Bill contains many programs but I am disappointed to find that there are no provisions in it for the financing of remedial teacher education. [More…]
It is essential that these children be diagnosed at a very early stage and I suggest that the first year of primary school education is the best time for them to be diagnosed and picked out of the class. [More…]
In my own electorate there are a number of remedial teachers seconded from the State Education Department who travel around from school to school. [More…]
So it is with some concern that I view this Bill, as it makes no provision for education of teachers in this remedial area. [More…]
If the Government is serious about making educational opportunities available to all, surely the place to start is at the primary level to make sure that children with specific learning difficulties, such as with reading or doing sums, have their difficulties remedied quickly so that they can take advantage of later years of education without feeling left behind. [More…]
Primary education is most important, because if one does not get the grounding in the primary school all else that one may be taught in the secondary school is meaningless. [More…]
We are building on shifting sands unless the primary education has been sound. [More…]
In the United Kingdom, for example, education is a responsibility of local government. [More…]
The local school board is responsible for the staffing and the educational program applied in the schools. [More…]
In Australia we have become accustomed to a monolithic State education department staffing and organising the curriculum of schools within a State. [More…]
Smaller regional administrative areas have been established, and I think this has worked towards the betterment of education in Queensland. [More…]
First of all, I believe that there would be greater stability of staff in the schools, because if the educational area is smaller the schools generally will be staffed by persons who live in the region and who would have a vested interest in remaining at a school in that local area. [More…]
This would be of great advantage to the pupils of the schools, because frequent turnover of staff is one of the big complaints that parents have about education today. [More…]
It is impossible for children to receive a proper education when, as has happened in schools in my electorate on occasions, a teacher change is made 3 times in the course of one term. [More…]
It is significant, I think, that some of the advanced techniques in education in the United Kingdom were tried and tested in the smaller educational authorities. [More…]
With rapid changes in the way in which educational material is presented to students it is important that teachers keep abreast of it. [More…]
Modern aids and modern techniques used in schools today are far different from those which were used when most members of this House were going through the educational process. [More…]
We cannot really understand the way in which some mathematics are taught in the schools these days or in fact the way in which reading is taught, but these techniques are necessary if we are to progress and improve the quality of education which is offered in Australian schools. [More…]
It is necessary also, I believe, that these modern techniques should be constantly evaluated and tested to make sure that they are not just following a pattern that has been set abroad - a pattern which sometimes may have been found to be wanting many years before the ideas trickled into the educational system in Australia. [More…]
If I may I will just mention the grants available for teacher education centres. [More…]
I envisage that a teacher education centre, as indicated in this Bill, would be a place where teachers in a small localised area would be able to go and see the latest books which are available on their particular subject, where they could see the latest audio-visual aids which are available and where someone from the Department of Education would be available at all times to explain to the teachers the various techniques which are available at present. [More…]
I would hope that these teacher education centres would be open also for teachers at non-government schools. [More…]
This will provide an opportunity for government and non-government teachers to get together in a somewhat less formal atmosphere where matters of mutual concern in education can be discussed, I am sure to the advantage of both. [More…]
If that is the purpose of the information then I would regard it as a legitimate purpose because, as I said when I commenced this speech, we should be concerned with the quality of education provided in schools. [More…]
We should be constantly evaluating to make sure that the money provided for education in this and other Bills is properly put to the purpose and that the quality of the product, the end result, is worth the money being spent. [More…]
I would stress that one of the basic concepts running through this Bill, and indeed all education legislation we have passed, has been the concept of need. [More…]
I think I should remind the House of the existing Commonwealth commitments to education at the school level. [More…]
I suggest to honourable members that the amount of money that was given by the previous Government to education reflects the low priority that that Government gave to education. [More…]
I have been fascinated in the last 2 debates - the debate last night on the 5 cognate Bills relating to tertiary education and the debate today - to hear honourable members on the opposite side claiming credit for the momentous legislation that is being passed by this Government in the field of education. [More…]
It is equally true to say that what is happening today in relation to the massive amounts being put into education would not have happened if a Liberal-Country Party government had been returned. [More…]
I submit that this Government has done more in a little over 11 months in the field of education than the previous Government did in 23 years. [More…]
Firstly, most schools lack sufficient resources, both human and material, to provide appropriate educational opportunities for the young in a modern industrial world, in a world of change. [More…]
Thirdly, the quality of education leaves much to be desired. [More…]
The result is that whether one looks to retention rates or to the students who are able to proceed to a tertiary education, one finds that children who come from lower socio-economic status families are in no way proportionate to their numbers in the overall population. [More…]
The States are expected to continue to spend a similar proportion of their Budgets on education. [More…]
Not only has the finance formerly used for tertiary education been directed entirely away from education, but in Victoria this financial year the State is spending a lesser percentage of its total Budget on education, even after writing off that tertiary money and looking only at the sub-tertiary level. [More…]
That is the amount by which Victoria’s education budget should have been greater had the previous rate of education spending been maintained. [More…]
Having said that there is a massive input of funds, if this was all and if there was no underpinning educational philosophy, it could be a great waste of money. [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) when he stressed the need for this underpinning or underlying philosophy of education. [More…]
I would paraphrase these as the pursuit of equality, the attainment of minimum standards of competence for life, the concept of schooling as a part of life as well as a preparation for life, the notion of education as a lifelong experience, diversity among schools, the devolution of the making of decisions of those working in or with the schools - that is, the teachers, pupils, parents and members of the local community - and the involvement of the community in school affairs. [More…]
In the brief time that is left to me in this debate I wish to touch on several of the important aspects of this Bill, not because I believe they are the most important aspects but because they are innovatory steps which are, again, evidence that this Government is breaking new ground in the field of education. [More…]
Today, with the speed of change in educational methods, this is of the utmost importance. [More…]
I want to say a few words about the education centres. [More…]
Of course, in many cases education centres already have been established. [More…]
We must have people and schools setting the pace in the field of education. [More…]
His hypothesis that the Australian Government is closer to the needs of the people living in the States is one which assumes that the State Governments are unable because of political considerations to administer education within their boundaries for the benefit of the children of needy people. [More…]
But I do understand that the States have had some difficulty in providing for the education needs within their boundaries because of the unavailability of funds that they have experienced over the years owing to the inadequacy of the revenue grants that they have been receiving from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
New South Wales, for instance, has devoted over 50 per cent of its total Budget to the needs of education. [More…]
So it is very dangerous to assume from that that a Canberra based government can minister to the needs of the people more adequately than a government based in Perth, Sydney or Melbourne or that a Canberra-based government can minister more adequately to the needs of the children of Moree than the general administrative structure in Sydney of the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]
From the outset one must acknowledge that this Bill is the product of the 1973 recommendations of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission and a nationwide survey into the needs of education in Australia that was conducted by the Australian Education Council in 1969. [More…]
I commend Professor Karmel and his Committee for the outstanding contribution made by them in the survey of education needs in Australia. [More…]
It appears to me to be part of a general socialist philosophy which must undermine any incentive amongst those associated with private schools to improve from their own resources the excellence of education in those schools. [More…]
The Government has paid and will pay the price for its deceit, its sleight of hand and its prejudice because its callous deception has marred a generally good approach to the needs of education in Australia. [More…]
Education (Mr Beazley) who sought to do the right thing but was let down by his embittered colleagues whose prejudice against nongovernment schools was deep and vicious. [More…]
Yet any one of these 33,000 children will now have the right to enter universities, colleges of advanced education and other tertiary colleges without payment of fees. [More…]
Such a policy ensures the right of each child to an equitable share of education funding. [More…]
It is clear that any Australian government has enormous responsibility to assist the States to meet the heavy costs of education. [More…]
In the interests of common sense and the education of our children the desire for centralised control of education must be cast aside. [More…]
I return now to the education of handicapped children. [More…]
16m for the recurrent expenditures in government and non-government special schools, and $8.25m for special education training courses and related teacher replacement in special schools. [More…]
Although it is not my intention to rubbish the Government for increasing the allocation of funds to assist education I wish to clarify the actual degree to which the Government is increasing expenditure in this field. [More…]
The honourable member for Holt (Mr Oldmeadow) referred to what he termed the short halting steps of the former Government in the field of education. [More…]
There has been a continuing and evolving program of assistance, particularly in the field of tertiary education. [More…]
It is true that the States complained that they were not getting sufficient revenue grants to provide sufficient funds from their own resources for the total problems of education. [More…]
It has been said that the Whitlam Government has increased expenditure on education to the extent of $404m, or 92 per cent more than last year. [More…]
Of this figure, $ 144.6m is a direct transfer payment from the States to the Commonwealth and represents expenditure for the last 6 months of this financial year when the Commonwealth will take over all tertiary education. [More…]
The Commonwealth no longer will be making this $144m available to the States by way of special grants for university education. [More…]
This is merely a transfer of funds from the States to the Commonwealth for education purposes. [More…]
A further amount of $90m in the total sum of $400m was approved in principle for teacher training by the former Minister for Education. [More…]
I suppose that a more accurate figure of additional expenditure in the field of education would be something of the order of $150m. [More…]
The great increase in the total expenditure for education in the Budget has been in the area of university and tertiary education, including, as I said earlier, what were the States’ grants for advanced colleges of education, for universities and tertiary education. [More…]
The Commonwealth has taken over responsibility for tertiary education on the understanding that the cost will be deducted from the financial assistance grants to the States. [More…]
Indeed, when one examines the overall total government and private consumption expenditures on education in 1973-74 one finds that it will be over $2,000m compared with $ 1,743m in the previous year - an increase of 14 per cent. [More…]
When one finds that 80 per cent of final consumption expenditures on education are devoted to payments for salaries and wages one recognises that substantial salary increases will account for most of the expenditure. [More…]
Not very long ago in this debate I heard the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Cooke) refer to the enormous amount of money that the Government was proposing in this Bill to spend on education. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), who is held in the highest respect in this Parliament and indeed throughout this country, and who unfortunately is ill in hospital, exhausted by his efforts to produce this Bill and this program for the years ahead, has categorically denied what the honourable member for Gwydir has just said. [More…]
The Minister - his words were repeated by the Acting Minister for Education (Mr Lionel Bowen), who read the second reading speech in the Minister’s absence - said that in 1974-75 a total of $694m will be available for all schools in the States. [More…]
They were to keep up not only the amount but also the proportion of their budgets spent on education. [More…]
Of the $694m which the Australian Government will spend in 1974-75 on primary and secondary education, not to talk about the other segments of education, $468.5m will be spent directly as a result of the Karmel Committee’s report - not $190m-odd, as the former Minister, the honourable member for Gwydir, said. [More…]
I had been led to believe by the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Opposition spokesman in this House on education, that the Opposition was in a more conciliatory mood. [More…]
It is these same children who have been winning most of the tertiary scholarships and going on to universities, colleges of advanced education and institutes of technology. [More…]
In the future the same category of children will probably go on winning a disproportionately higher number of secondary scholarships and a disproportionately higher number of tertiary scholarships that will give them free education under the Labor Party program. [More…]
Every child who gets into a tertiary institution as from 1 January next year will get a free education. [More…]
It was not made quite as hastily as it appears because the Interim Committee already had available to it as did the former Minister, the honourable member for Wannon, the findings of the Australian Education Council in its Nation Wide Survey of Educational Needs for Australian Schools. [More…]
Teacher education left much to be desired. [More…]
The education of handicapped children was characterised by omissions to meet need which bordered upon the callous. [More…]
Migrant education was profoundly unsatisfactory. [More…]
Buildings, playground space, physical education facilities and the capacity to employ teachers were generally defective. [More…]
A scheme existed through the Australian Department of Social Security to assist the education of handicapped children by private charities, but not in State schools. [More…]
This is the education legacy that we inherited when we became the Government in late 1972. [More…]
This Bill is not the culmination of an education study. [More…]
It is significant as it is the mere beginning of a new deal in education. [More…]
This Bill provides not for the end product but rather some of the means by which education can be changed markedly in quality, quantity and distribution. [More…]
Some of these implications and assumptions are: Firstly, the need for continuing research not just for today, tomorrow, this year, this period of 6 months or this period of 2 years - for the values, attitudes, abilities, appreciations and tastes that might deserve to be cultivated in our education systems. [More…]
The second assumption I would refer to is that both this research and the ongoing educational programs that flow from it should invoke the views and activities of as many interested persons as possible; hence the various advisory committees which will be established to help the Commission and the Government in its program. [More…]
Diversity of approach, experimentation and creativeness rather than uniformity and deadening conformity should, we believe, inspire our educational efforts. [More…]
I will not go through all the statistics that have been mentioned because everybody can see the way in which we are going to help the education program in Australia. [More…]
In addition to the greatly increased capital, recurrent and library grants which will apply to almost all students, there will be extra millions of dollars in each of these and other aspects of education for those in disadvantaged schools - children of lower income families, many migrants with low incomes and language and social adjustment problems, Aborigines and children living in isolated areas. [More…]
This will be reflected, not only in generally higher initial training qualifications but also in far greater access to in-service training courses provided by employing authorities in some cases, by other outside bodies in other instances such as universities, colleges of advanced education and the like and, very importantly, by the teachers’ own professional organisations in other circumstances. [More…]
I can only say that this is a monumental educational effort. [More…]
This thought was echoed by the honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews), who spoke earlier in the debate, although he seemed to have some certainty about the matter because he said that the Opposition spokesman on education in this House, the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), had led us up the garden path. [More…]
If he led us up the garden path he gave us a good time when we got to the end of it; contrary to the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) who has led us up the garden path of expectation in some areas of education, as indeed in many other areas, and has left us bereft when we reached the end of the path. [More…]
The Opposition, however, has no doubt that this Bill provides a very great deal that is good in Australian education, and it is in no way objecting to the fundamental provisions of this Bill. [More…]
It is not seeking to withdraw or withhold any of the extra funds which are being directed to Australian education through this Bill. [More…]
The invitation has gone out to those working in Australian schools to come forward with suggestions about how moneys might be allocated on a recurrent basis for the future of Australian education. [More…]
We all applaud the provision for teacher training and in-service training and the imaginative approach to teacher education centres. [More…]
There is much in this Bill which goes towards meeting the problem of education of the underprivileged. [More…]
One of the problems of migrant education which has been highlighted by some people recently is that the children of migrants, and of recently arrived migrants are involved in an environment at school which is in so many respects foreign to that which they have left behind in the old country. [More…]
It seems to me that an approach to their education which stresses the values and traditions of their own cultures would be at least as important as constantly harping on the importance of their becoming proficient in English, as most of them will do, anyway. [More…]
In this whole area of disadvantage, I make the point that disadvantage can strike in any school, and the worst disadvantage of all which a student can face is the disadvantage of having parents who do not understand or appreciate what education is all about. [More…]
The busing procedures are falling into ruin all over the United States of America as a quite inappropriate way of solving the problem regarding race and disadvantage in American education. [More…]
Indeed, as the honourable member says, it has been counterproductive because the good education which is being received by many students is being destroyed and the position of others who are receiving a poorer education is not being bettered. [More…]
Another area of this Bill provides assistance for special education for handicapped children. [More…]
at which special education is provided for handicapped children, or if education other than such special education is provided at that school, that school in so far as it provides such special education; [More…]
This is good because it enables the integration of special education within the ordinary education system. [More…]
It would hit at parents who wanted their handicapped children to receive an education with a particular religious or philosophic bent. [More…]
It would do nothing to aid the integration of children needing special education with normal children in ordinary school situations. [More…]
One could go on but I should like to finish on this note: There is in the report an admirable emphasis on the need to encourage community involvement and diversity in education. [More…]
The ALP has never voted against any Bill proposing Commonwealth aid for education and it will support any form of benefit already existing. [More…]
Clarifying this, the present Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) indicated to a delegation of the Australian Parents’ Council in Canberra on 10 January 1973 that the ‘base rate or “floor” of aid would be that applying in 1973 ($62 primary and $104 secondary) and that commencing in 1974 additional Commonwealth contributions would be made at a higher level than those applying in 1973’. [More…]
Two recent investigations of Australian schools have exposed serious deficiencies in our education system. [More…]
Some years ago, after a nationwide needs survey, the States sought action by the national Government to redress the deficiencies that produced inequitable attainment in education. [More…]
The Karmel Committee concluded that at many schools teaching resources were below standard for an adequate education; lack of facilities demonstrated an indifference towards and conditions, attitudes and organisation had equality of opportunity to access to education; undermined and constricted the potential relationships between pupils and teachers, parents and the staff, and between school and the community. [More…]
This Bill will put into effect the recommendations of the Karmel Committee so that we can start eliminating the deficiencies, equalising the equality of access to education for all children and compensating for handicaps suffered by children because of physical, social, mental, sexual or geographic factors. [More…]
Questionnaires were sent to primary, secondary, government and non-government principals seeking information on current resources enjoyed, expected increases in enrolments and government grants, and their estimated needs if they were to provide an adequate education. [More…]
They wish to ‘perpetuate inequality in education. [More…]
It has the backing of the Australian people and it will correct the deficiencies in the present education system. [More…]
The provision of library facilities is, as the Karmel report indicated, one of the most effective means of improving the quality of education by encouraging an individual approach to learning. [More…]
They explain the concept of disadvantaged schools and speciallist education. [More…]
None of the secondary schools in the La Trobe survey had class space or specialist teachers to provide special education for migrant children. [More…]
One government secondary school stated simply that all children required counselling as part of their secondary education. [More…]
There will never be equality in education as long as there is no compensatory education and counselling for children in disadvantaged circumstances. [More…]
It is comforting, therefore, to see in this Bill the injection of money into disadvantaged schools and for special education. [More…]
This Government realises, as all responsible national governments should, that it must be its primary obligation to provide and maintain a free and adequate education of the highest standards through the government school system, open to all who choose it. [More…]
This choice is that the school selected should offer adequate education for those who attend it and not be available merely to those who have their choice facilitated by a capacity to pay for that education. [More…]
The Karmel report aims to overcome inadequacies in both government and private systems by providing enough money and by developing an educational philosophy befitting our enlightened community. [More…]
The second reason is that parents have wanted to provide their children with a particular religious background in their education - mainly those going to Catholic, Jewish, Lutheran, Adventist and similar schools - or they may do so for diversity, an experimental or unique education. [More…]
Of course the adequate quality of education should also be a feature of all schools. [More…]
Parents who wish to educate their children outside the system should be free to do so, but their choice should not be subsidised beyond that needed to provide adequate education. [More…]
It encourages diversity and a broadening of education experience as well as equality of opportunity. [More…]
It recognises and discusses in depth the role in education of the teacher, the parent and the community. [More…]
Never before has a Federal government tackled the huge problem of education with such enthusiasm and with so much concern for all children as has been exhibited by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
This Bill puts into effect the Karmel Committee’s recommendations designed to provide a general upgrading of facilities, special consideration for the needs of disadvantaged children and improvements in the quality of education. [More…]
It has implemented a decentralised system of education, public accountability by non-government schools receiving assistance, and provision for evaluation of the assistance programs. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, I can go no further than to repeat what I have said and to exhort the Opposition to drop its sham amendments, to realise that per capita grants will never mean equality of access to education and that the report of the experts who formed the Interim Committee and the legislation that has been carefully and thoroughly drafted around that to put it into effect is the only way we can uplift the standard of all school children to a high level by the end of this decade. [More…]
He stated quite unequivocally that this Bill was the be all and end all of the way to ensure equal education opportunities for all. [More…]
The honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews) revealed in a Freudian slip the thinking behind the present Government’s attitude towards funding education when he said that the State governments did not look after disadvantaged schools because they were not capable of doing this as their educational expenditure was largely directed to the furthering of political ends. [More…]
I know of no evidence - if the honourable member for Casey knows of any I should like him to bring it forward - to indicate that the New South Wales Government has spent money on education for political purposes. [More…]
I, in common with other honourable members, welcome the increase in expenditure on education which is provided for in this Bill. [More…]
Some honourable members on the Government side believe, and would like the Australian population to believe, that the improvements in education are all this Government’s doing in terms of concern for education and of investigation of the needs of education. [More…]
The Acting Minister for Education (Mr Lionel Bowen), in his second reading speech, pointed to the fact that this greater concern for education commenced really when a survey was undertaken in 1969. [More…]
So, whilst I think that the present Government is to be commended for many of the aspects of this Bill, honourable members should not lose sight of the fact that the previous Government was also concerned with the needs of education. [More…]
If one examines the increasing expenditure on education undertaken by succeeding Liberal-Country Party coalition governments at the Federal level from 1962 onwards, one can see that not only the present Government but also previous governments reflected an increasing concern by the Australian people in the upgrading of education, no matter where in Australia it was taking place. [More…]
I find it very easy to imagine in the present economic circumstances in Australia, when we have difficulties in obtaining builders and building materials, just to name 2 areas, the enormous difficulties which Education Departments and school systems will have in expending the money allocated to them. [More…]
I add the warning that we cannot expect sheer money alone to overcome the problems which at present exist in the Australian educational systems and which will continue to exist as far as one can foresee the future. [More…]
The Acting Minister for Education, in his second reading speech, stated: [More…]
I should like the Acting Minister for Education to elucidate who will assess the financial circumstances of the individual non-government schools and determine what is a realistic contribution. [More…]
Certainly it is the teacher, probably more than any other factor who determines the outcome of the pupil’s work in any educational institution. [More…]
It is fairly difficult to define who are the proper kind of people, but I am sure that anyone who has been associated with the field of education knows the born teacher type. [More…]
I think most people will agree with me when I say that the independent school system provides an atmosphere and an opportunity for experimental educational innovations and the involvement in them to a much greater extent of individual parents. [More…]
I should like an assurance from the Acting Minister for Education, who is at the table, that if examples of independent disadvantaged schools are brought up their situations will be treated with the utmost sympathy. [More…]
The next section of the Bill deals with special education. [More…]
Not only have previous statements by both the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) appeared to have been dishonoured but also the figures put forward are confusing, misleading and capable of many interpretations. [More…]
The argument for supporting Catholic schools rests on the fact that Catholic parents are taxpayers and are entitled to share in the benefits of the education spending their taxes support. [More…]
If it is fair to subsidise a parent who is giving his child a private education for religious reasons it is hardly reasonable to discriminate against those doing the same thing for other reasons, which may be no less admirable. [More…]
The Government’s idea is that educationists - the Schools Commission - should nominate where money is to be spent. [More…]
It is taxpayers’ money which will be spent and the Government believes that it is the educationists - the people who will form the Commission - who should nominate where in the education system this money should go. [More…]
Before I continue, I should like to pay a tribute to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), who is now indisposed, for the amount of work he has put into bringing this Bill before the chamber. [More…]
Prior to the election, the now Minister for Education spelt out Labor’s proposal in no uncertain words. [More…]
Education (Mr Lionel Bowen) on his handling of this Bill. [More…]
This money which will be injected into education in New South Wales will increase the standard of education in that State. [More…]
Two honourable members who spoke earlier criticised the amount of money to be poured into the education system. [More…]
They said that the education system will not be able to cater for such expenditure. [More…]
Bricks and mortar can be put up quickly, but educationists cannot be made instantly and this is where the slowing up period will begin. [More…]
But the Minister for Education has stated in this House that New South Wales is capable of carrying out such a program. [More…]
They are worried about additional classrooms, teachers and facilities for education. [More…]
There has been a marked increase in expenditure by the Australian Government on primary and secondary education for which this Government accepts direct responsibility. [More…]
The Government is not only providing funds for secondary and tertiary education; it is also now directing money into primary education by the provision of libraries for primary schools. [More…]
We will give these children, whether they be our own children or migrant children who are entering these schools, a decent education. [More…]
It would mean that for another 20 years there would be no advance in the education system in this country. [More…]
Let us look at the basic variables in relation to the education of our children. [More…]
I think honourable members can run away too strongly with the idea that after all these years we should now bias funds for education towards certain areas when the gap is certainly closing now in comparison with what was happening 20 years ago or even 10 years ago. [More…]
Mr LIONEL BOWEN (KingsfordSmithPostmasterGeneral) (4.57>- in reply - I thank all honourable members who have participated in the debate, particularly those who have dealt with the problems of education on an impartial and fair basis, because problems still exist and have existed for a great many years. [More…]
It goes to those education authorities in the States no matter whether they are dealing with government or nongovernment areas, and they will allocate those resources into the classroom and amongst the children. [More…]
It was clear at that stage that the ‘Federal Government had not even had a chance to get into educational problems. [More…]
It left education to the States. [More…]
That was the philosophy of the Liberal Government; it was was not really one of taking an interest in education. [More…]
Education just could not run on the shoestring budgets that States were providing. [More…]
The State governments in turn were getting such a small amount under the reimbursement formula that they could not provide adequate resources to meet all educational needs. [More…]
So when the present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), as the Leader of the Australian Labor Party, at the last election, went to the people one of the first issues he put to them in the policy speech was education. [More…]
Education is the key to equality of opportunity. [More…]
Sure - we can have education on the cheap … but our children will be paying for it for the rest of their lives. [More…]
The most rapidly growing sector of public spending under a Labor Government will be education. [More…]
Education should be the great instrument for the promotion of equality. [More…]
The ALP has never voted against any Bill proposing Commonwealth aid for education and it will support any forms of benefit already existing. [More…]
But if we look at the Hansard report we see that my colleague, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), leading for the then Opposition, is quoted as saying in relation to that States Grants Bill: [More…]
The Karmel Committee’s report will be a milestone in Commonwealth interest in education. [More…]
We must put that into focus, because the States for many years have been saying that under the Constitution they have the sole and absolute right to control education. [More…]
It is far from true and that is the very reason why we have to try to fill up the gaps in the educational field. [More…]
We certainly mean that such a child is handicapped in the initial stages of education but by providing special resources that handicap can be erased. [More…]
To come back to what I was saying, the whole issue is on the score of what a good Bill this is; what it can do for education; what great work has been done by the Karmel Committee and what a splendid effort has been made by the Minister. [More…]
I think it is quite wrong that what has so far happened should be the subject of an arbitrary and final decision by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) as a result of the legislation before us. [More…]
As a result of information that apparently is to become public shortly, possibly today - at any rate the Acting Minister for Education (Mr Lionel Bowen) has told me that the document is public - one particular school of which I am aware has not had its appeal for reconsideration of its categorisation upheld. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Acting Minister for Education suggested that the Prime Minister was not making a commitment when on 20 June 1972 he made a speech at the Catholic Luncheon Club. [More…]
I emphasise that the Opposition has voted for the second reading and will vote for the third reading and the passage of every cent of funds allocated by this Government to further education. [More…]
The Opposition was put on notice by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) when the legislation was introduced last September. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party made it quite clear in the Parliament, in its policy speech or wherever the Labor Party has had to stand up and answer for its education policy, that it would be on the basis of need. [More…]
I would like to support what the Acting Minister for Education, the Postmaster-General (Mr Lionel Bowen), said a little while ago. [More…]
It is carrying out the policy put by the present Prime Minister and also by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) when he was the Opposition’s spokesman for education and in the time since he has been Minister for Education. [More…]
The proposal to specify particular institutions, authorities and groups of people which will have a right of nominating either persons or panels of names is not in accordance with the practice adopted by the Opposition when in government in establishing advisory bodies in education. [More…]
It needs to be remembered that the Schools Commission will have a continuing existence and that, as measures to improve the quality of education in Australian schools take effect and as new priorities emerge, circumstances could require a change in membership. [More…]
Even where it is proposed that the Minister for Education be able to choose a number of members from a panel containing a greater number of names his flexibility would be limited. [More…]
The combination of the amendments, firstly, to limit the flexibility of the Minister in the choice of people to serve on the Commission and, secondly, to obtain the exclusion of the Schools Commission advisory boards, can only be intended to frustrate the Government’s intentions to create an expert advisory body in this most important area of education just as is already being done for universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
A mandatory provision for the Australian Minister to accept a panel of names from the State Ministers of Education is a novel approach to the application of the prerogative of the Australian Parliament to make grants under section 96 of the Constitution. [More…]
The Opposition has taken the position that the structure of the schools commission as outlined by the Bill does not meet the expressed intention and a professed principle of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
The extraordinary reaction of the Acting Minister for Education, the PostmasterGeneral (Mr Lionel Bowen) and the Government which indicate that it cannot live with these amendments leads one to the conclusion that the Government does not want an independent commission representative of the State departments, the Catholic system and the teaching profession. [More…]
But unless these requirements are mandatory on future Ministers of Education, indeed on future governments, can we be sure that a schools commission will have the crosssectional community representation that is described in the Opposition’s amendments? [More…]
They will ensure that all future Ministers will be under mandatory obligation to appoint a chairman and 3 other members, one of whom will be involved in research into education. [More…]
Four members will be appointed on the recommendation of the Australian Education Council - of which the Australian Minister for Education is in fact Chairman - one of whom will be involved with the education of handicapped children or children with specific learning difficulties. [More…]
These amendments write into the legislation that requirement to ensure that those organisations and those people involved in education have a mandatory right to be represented on the Commission. [More…]
It has been said also that since the Government will not agree with these amendments it will not be able to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on education. [More…]
The Opposition sticks very rigidly to the position that it is far better, in the long term interests of education, to require that the members of the schools commission - the principle of which the Opposition accepts - be appointed as a result of mandatory guidelines written into the legislation to ensure that the Commission includes representatives of the States school systems, education research, the independent school system and the Teachers Federation - indeed all of those interested groups that are in fact involved in education. [More…]
I think it is rubbish to try to lead people to believe that the amendments would deny to education something like $400m or $500m. [More…]
For years teachers have sought representation on education bodies and commissions. [More…]
I am also of the opinion that there has been an attempt to blackmail the teaching profession and the people into believing that because the Opposition has decided to move for the structuring of the Schools Commission in this way education will fail to receive the funds that have been promised to it in the Budget. [More…]
The Opposition will pursue these 3 amendments because it believes that it is in the best long term interests of education to ensure that the Schools Commission be structured in this way. [More…]
Mr Chairman, I join with the Acting Minister for Education (Mr Lionel Bowen) in opposing the propositions put forward by the Opposition. [More…]
The Minister for Education, on behalf of the Government, will be responsible for making the appointments to the Australian Schools Commission. [More…]
They know very well that the membership of the Colleges of Advanced Education Committee was also appointed and not selected. [More…]
77 of 1969, which is entitled ‘Appendix A - Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education and its Sub-committees Terms of Reference and Membership’. [More…]
Executive and administrative support for the Committee will be provided within the Education division of the Prime Minister’s Department. [More…]
That document related to the Advisory Committee on Advanced Education and its subcommittees. [More…]
The Commonwealth Secondary Schools Libraries Committee was appointed by the Minister for Education and Science to advise him on the conditions and standards necessary for the effective development of the new program in relation to the independent schools. [More…]
Whilst it had on it representatives - in inverted commas - of national employer organisations, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Commonwealth Department of Education, the State Department of Labour and State technical education authorities, which had been invited to nominate members to the Committee, the members were appointed as individuals and not as representatives. [More…]
I remind honourable members that at least once every 3 years the Minister and the Government have to face the people of Australia and be responsible to them for all of their activities, including the selection of the people who are going to guide them in their education policy. [More…]
One of the main reasons why the Opposition is so insistent on these amendments is that the general undertaking which the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) had given to those involved in education was that people representative of Catholic education and of the teachers would have representation on the Schools Commission. [More…]
I find it very odd that the Acting Minister for Education, the Postmaster-General (Mr Lionel Bowen), says that our amendments would destroy the whole of Government thinking as to what the Commission should be when in fact one of his ministerial colleagues in this House only a few weeks ago said that the Government had quite seriously considered having a nominated Schools Commission in the way which the Liberal and Country Parties now are suggesting. [More…]
We are not perturbed by the fact that it is difficult to involve in the Schools Commission all interested communities in the education area. [More…]
It is a commission which is appointed under an Act to advise the Government on all the important matters of education which are in its charge. [More…]
The Government can pile up its experts shoulder high in its Department of Education or other relevant departments. [More…]
The point was made by the honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds) who preceded me in this debate that the majority of the Australian Educational Council was not in full agreement with what we seek to do. [More…]
However, the point remains that right across all those who are interested in education there have been calls for representation on this body and those calls have been echoed recently. [More…]
In the 21 November issue of the New South Wales Teachers Federation journal called ‘Education’ there appears an article which relates the experiences of members of the teaching profession and parents who came to Canberra to discuss this matter. [More…]
We want to see a schools commission set up in such a way that the communities involved in education have their participation guaranteed by this Bill. [More…]
We nevertheless decided that we should seek to ensure that parents as well as teachers, as well as the Catholic system, and as well as the Education Departments, should have guaranteed representation upon this body. [More…]
Honourable members opposite spent a great deal of today’s debate praising the work of the Committee to which the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) originally appointed 10 notable Australians expert in particular aspects of education and broadly representative of interest groups involved in the administration of Australian schools. [More…]
The real purpose of the amendments is to rob the Commission of its independent, expert and impartial character - those very qualities that gave the Karmel Committee the standing it has enjoyed in the community - and to reproduce within the structure of the Commission all the rivalries and hostilities which bedevil education as we know it. [More…]
We need to be cognisant of what would happen to the Australian education if the amendments currently before this House and which are to be moved shortly in another place are pressed. [More…]
Does he honestly suggest that the Education Executive of the Episcopal Conference of Australia, or the National Council of Independent Schools, or the Australian Parents Council, or the Australian Teachers Federation, or the Australian Council of State School Organisations do not have sufficient competence and do not have sufficient interest to nominate effective people to be placed upon this Schools Commission? [More…]
11 to clause 13 and the concept of article 26 of the United Nations Charter of Human Rights and in particular the prior right of parents to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]
It is rejecting the concept of an obligation for governments to provide or assist in the provision and maintenance of educational opportunities for al! [More…]
children which are of the highest standard and which recognise the prior right of parents to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children and where provided and maintained by or on behalf of a government ensure that these opportunities are open without fees or religious tests to all children. [More…]
What we are seeking to do is to protect the children of Australia and the organisations concerned with the education of children in Australia in the future. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party believes that the Commonwealth should adopt the same methods to assist schools as it has adopted to assist universities and colleges of advanced education - through a Commission. [More…]
The Australian Commission on Advanced Education does not have this inhibition. [More…]
We believe that appointments to the Commission should be left to the discretion of the Minister, who can be attacked here in the Parliament about whom he has appointed, but let it be on the basis that education is the primary consideration and educationists are the primary people. [More…]
By all means consider teachers and those who are experienced in education but do not limit membership to small pressure groups who are not interested in the policy of the Government anyway and who are virtually members of the Opposition parties masquerading under another name. [More…]
An amount of $4,600,000 is allocated for education, $708,000 for employment and $2,179,500 for community and regional projects. [More…]
South Australia receives the lion’s share in respect of education and one notices for secondary schools there is an allocation of $300,000 in respect of art, craft and home services centres. [More…]
I should like to put to the State Governments that they need to take advantage of the young Aboriginal people who now for the first time have educational qualifications and to provide employment for them as teachers, members of the police forces in the States, social workers and the like. [More…]
There is a need to utilise these young people who are now receiving a secondary school education, which was not available to their predecessors, and to place them in meaningful and rewarding employment so that they may play their proper role in advancing their own people. [More…]
But in order to coordinate housing programs, which are tied up with employment, and the particular educational programs needed for particular regions or areas - (Quorum formed.) [More…]
I am sure we would all agree that excellent work is being done by the Commonwealth Employment Service and by the Commonwealth Department of Education. [More…]
All matters with regard to health, education and housing for Aborigines remained as they were. [More…]
This amount allocated by the Commonwealth to the States over the period 1968 to 1972 was such that one would have thought that considerable improvement would have been evident in the Aboriginal way of life and that health, education and housing over this period would have been greatly improved. [More…]
Having regard to the problems confronting Aborigines - the vastness of the country, housing, health and education - we should ask ourselves whether we could have done the job any cheaper? [More…]
We feel that the NACC will play a major part in indicating what is best for the Aboriginal race and that it will keep the Minister advised in regard to health, education, housing and possible employment ventures. [More…]
Of this year’s amount, $ 1.926m has been allocated for housing, compared with $690,000 last year; on community amenities $51,000 this year, compared with $86,000 last year - a small drop in that case; on health, an increase to $920,000 from $274,000 last year; and on education $1.3 15m this year, compared with $421,000 last year. [More…]
When we talk about education in South Australia, particularly in the area I represent, we are dealing probably with some of the last people to come in contact with European society. [More…]
It is probably the most advanced in the use of the vernacular in the education field. [More…]
The South Australian Government has been able to appoint full-time Aboriginal teachers to assist in this field of education. [More…]
At Ernabella a garage workshop is to be provided for adult education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
If the estimates are not correct, will he supply the correct estimates for (a) direct grants and (b) indirect subsidies, including in respect of (b) the costs to the Australian Government, State governments and local government bodies of (i) tax deductions for education expenses, (ii) rates exemptions, (iii) tax exemptions, (iv) transport subsidies, (v) facilitation of purchasing, (vi) examination and inspectorial services and (vii) teacher and inservice training. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Has an inter-departmental committee been appointed by the Australian Government to work out the details of abolition of tertiary fees and the Commonwealth takeover of tertiary education. [More…]
A working party was set up early this year, consisting of officers of the Department of Education, Treasury, the Australian Universities Commission, and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education, to assemble and collate relevant information on enrolments, fee revenue and general funding arrangements for universities, colleges of advanced education and teachers colleges. [More…]
I think that education of Aborigines in the proper use of alcohol should be foremost in the Government’s thinking today. [More…]
It seems to me a need exists for education in the use of alcohol. [More…]
An amount of $4.6m is allocated for education to cover pre-schools, kindergartens, and both primary and secondary schools. [More…]
If that objective is to be achieved, education is obviously of supreme importance. [More…]
World authorities recognise the threat to health and education by this nuisance. [More…]
MIGRANT EDUCATION Mr BIRRELL- Can the Minister for Immigration confirm that the Melbourne education task force has advised him that only 20 per cent of Melbourne’s non-English speaking migrant children are receiving adequate educational opportunities? [More…]
Every task force that has so far reported to me on migrant matters in all the States has emphasised that the first priority is to correct some of the grave deficiencies in migrant education. [More…]
At the meeting of Immigration Ministers in Adelaide just recently, it was unanimously accepted that a new thrust and a new effort would have to be made to correct some of the serious deficiencies in migrant education. [More…]
It is just impossible for the State systems or the relevant Catholic schools to provide an adequate education unless the Australian Government provides or earmarks the resources necessary for that purpose. [More…]
I gather from statements made by political leaders outside the House yesterday that an attempt may be made to frustrate the Australian Government’s efforts to alleviate the situation and to produce a position of educational equality within Australia for all pupils, whether they attend government or non-government schools and whether they were born here or overseas, within the term of 2 parliaments, that is within 6 years. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister anticipate alarm among Catholic education authorities at the prospect that the Government will be held back from providing the assistance, and will he advise these authorities that the funds earmarked for them are likely to be paid instead to the Melbourne Grammar School and other similarly deprived schools under existing statutory obligations? [More…]
I think of, firstly, inflation, secondly, the broken promises that children should have per capita education grants; thirdly, the promises to the wine industry which, in the view of the Premier of South Australia have been broken; fourthly, the wrecking of the defence structure of Australia; fifthly, the wrecking of the mineral industry and the petroleum exploration industry. [More…]
The real issues involved in the education matter before us in the public Press today are these: All members of the House of Representatives voted in favour of the expenditure of $690m for education for 1974-75, which was the recommendation of the Karmel Committee. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) have failed to honour clear promises which they gave many times throughout 1972, both before and after the election, in the following terms: The Prime Minister in speaking of recurrent grants to schools said: “The ALP will support any forms of benefit already existing.’ [More…]
The Minister for Education said: Whispering campaigns to the contrary, no private school under Labor will in future get less than the per capita grant it gets now.’ [More…]
That clear undertaking is now the issue in this education debate. [More…]
The Opposition’s policy and the promises of the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education are in fact the same thing. [More…]
The only difference is that the Opposition has the courage and the principle to stand by its policy, and the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education deny their clear promises. [More…]
There is no valid reason why the $690m of funds for education should be held up by the Government, as it is threatening to do. [More…]
The Opposition is taking action now to preserve the money sum of the grant to those disadvantaged schools in the private sector - not the continued escalation at 20 per cent of the cost of running a government school as it was when first put, but the money sum in accordance with the promises given by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education. [More…]
Therefore there was only one course open to us and that was to refuse to allow the repeal of the old Act so that we could bring the Government to its senses, so that the Government could honour the promises made by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education and not make them untruthful. [More…]
We knew that the Government would then face the prospect of introducing an amendment itself to provide this sum of under $Sm or, if it chose to from a misplaced regard for itself, of acting childishly and making the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education look ridiculous in failing to honour their promises. [More…]
We are saying that, for the sum of less than $5m, every child in Australia shall have that basic equality of education in which every child is entitled to a grant and that on top of that extra sums should be provided on the basis of need. [More…]
We believe that that principle is right and we believe that the undertakings of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) ‘should be honoured. [More…]
That was the responsible spokesman on education. [More…]
I understand that he is only the acting spokesman on education and that the real Opposition spokesman on education is in the Senate. [More…]
In a debate in September 1972, when the then Government was introducing this legislation, my colleague the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) moved an amendment which clearly indicated to the then Government that the per capita grants would not be continued after 1973. [More…]
The Minister for Education made this clear and certainly the people were told. [More…]
Responsible Ministers for Education in the States, irrespective of their politics, will have the whole of their programs put in jeopardy. [More…]
Let it be put on record that I understand the Opposition spokesman on education and the acting spokesman on education had a little difference in the Press gallery as to who should be issuing Press releases and what they should say. [More…]
It voted an expenditure of $690m towards education in Australia for the years 1974 and 1975. [More…]
The Opposition wishes not only to ensure that this money goes to education but also to see retained the principle that every Australian child is entitled to go and his parents have a freedom of choice to send him to whatever school is selected. [More…]
The Prime Minister and the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, claimed repeatedly prior to the last election, and I quote the Prime Minister: [More…]
The ALP will support any forms of benefit already existing to education and therefore any policies would be additional to those existing in the field of education. [More…]
It was on that basis that the Karmel Committee made its recommendations for assistance to education, was forced into categorising schools from A to H and was forced to deny the per capita grants system flowing to the independent schools of this country. [More…]
This aspect of the Government’s policy has marred what has otherwise been a very sound and good approach to education generally. [More…]
There is no valid reason why the funds for education totalling $690m should be held up by the Government as the Government is now threatening to do. [More…]
The Government has instituted a program for university and tertiary education to be free of fees. [More…]
I hope that they will negotiate with common sense for the sake of justice and for what is otherwise a good education program. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party came to power on the firm pledge that it would do right by Australian education and by the school children of Australia who needed assistance. [More…]
It was only last year, or perhaps the year before, that an independent body said that the state of Australian education was so deplorable after 23 years of Liberal-Country Party neglect that $ 1,400m would not put the situation right. [More…]
The most rapidly growing sector of public spending under a Labor Government will be education. [More…]
Education should be the great instrument for the promotion of equality. [More…]
The Prime Minister, as the then Leader of the Opposition, went on to say for example that under the previous Government the pupils of state and Catholic schools had less than half as good an opportunity as the pupils of non-Catholic independent schools to gain Commonwealth secondary scholarships and very much less than half the opportunity to complete their secondary education. [More…]
Are honourable members opposite saying that the additional $700m should not be spent on education? [More…]
Are they saying that the money should be denied to education? [More…]
But the Government will continue its great increase in expenditure on education for the people who need it. [More…]
The Prime Minister has said that the most rapidly growing sector of public spending under a Labor Government will be education. [More…]
That is particularly so in the field of education. [More…]
The Government set up a committee to take the allocation of funds to education out of the hands of politicians such as honourable members opposite, who would give it to Melbourne Grammar, Sydney Grammar and the like. [More…]
Honourable members opposite have called upon their majority in the Senate, in the most undemocratic way possible, to thwart, frustrate and sabotage what the Australian people thought they were electing, that is, a political party which had a better education policy. [More…]
Honourable members opposite say that what was implicit in everything on which the Australian Labor Party campaigned and everything for which the Australian public voted, including a better deal in education, can be thrown out the window. [More…]
If we have said one thing, it is that we will increase spending on education based upon the needs of the people who most need it and not upon the needs of Sydney Grammar. [More…]
The ALP has never voted against any BUI proposing Commonwealth aid lor education and it will support any forms of benefit already existing. [More…]
What about the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley)? [More…]
The Minister for Education, in his speech on 26 September last year, said: [More…]
Despite the preelection promises made by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education a deliberate secret instruction was given to the Karmel Committee - ‘government schools will not be pre-determined’. [More…]
We believe that every child, regardless of where he comes from, whether he comes from Surrey Hills or the electorate of Casey, has a fundamental right to a basic level of support in terms of education expenditure from the Federal Government. [More…]
It is totally misleading for honourable members opposite to say that we seek to hold up or to destroy $690m additional government expenditure on education. [More…]
The situation is that the Bill which the Government put before the people is a Rolls Royce in education legislation, but the Opposition wants to take away the wheels. [More…]
One would wonder who the Opposition spokesman on education was. [More…]
I want to point out to the members of this House and to the people of Australia that under the old Act the former Government would have spent $225m on education in this coming year. [More…]
Members of the Opposition have always defended the status quo in education. [More…]
The Labor Party is determined that every child who embarks on secondary education in 1973 shall, irrespective of school or location, have as good an opportunity as any other child of completing his secondary education. [More…]
There must be the facility for top class education, for entertainment, the theatre, the arts and something we must not overlook, that is, sheer size. [More…]
Apart from the debt of gratitude that the people of Australia owe to the natives of the Territory, the Government regards it as its bounden duty to further to the utmost the advancement of the natives, and considers that that can ‘be achieved only by providing facilities for better health, better education and for a greater participation by the natives in the wealth of their country and eventually in its government . [More…]
We will have effective decentralisation, we will guarantee the opportunity of the man on the land, the proprietor of the family farm, to stay where he is only through policies of concentrated development which scatter growth centres across this country on a systematic basis so that appropriate opportunities for recreation, for employment and for education are accessible to Australians wherever it is they may live. [More…]
Whenever one writes to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) he says that this is a State matter; but it is not entirely so. [More…]
Their major objective will be to make land available for residential purposes and for other public purposes such as health, education, recreation and transport. [More…]
Tonight I speak in support of the recommendation of the Karmel Committee on Medical Education that a medical school be established in Newcastle. [More…]
A postgraduate medical education committee has been established and is developing at all postgraduate levels. [More…]
However, the New South Wales Government’s submission to the Karmel Committee proposed that foreseeable future needs for medical education could be met by extending the capacity of existing schools in Sydney. [More…]
The New South Wales Government’s submission to the Committee clearly indicated foreseeable future needs for medical education could be met by extending the capacity of existing schools. [More…]
With the dynamic new concept which this Government has implemented of making the national Government responsible for tertiary education and searching for quality of life and a bare quality of opportunity rather than economies of providing minimum of essential education, we should not delay any longer doing what is necessary to prevent further growth of Sydney’s already overgrown medical schools. [More…]
I strongly request the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), supported by the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham) to give the green light to the Australian Universities Commission to implement the recommendations of the Karmel Committee on medical education which gave Newcastle top priority for the next medical school in New South Wales. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Education will act promptly to initiate implementation of the Karmel Committee’s recommendation on the Newcastle medical school. [More…]
I suggest that when we have our recreational leadership courses in colleges of advanced education we will be able to teach all people to swim, whether they are young or old and even if they have never learnt to swim in their life, and we will be able to teach also aspects of safety. [More…]
At this stage I feel that parental training and education at school are essential in teaching people to be aware of dangers and their own safety. [More…]
We increased government spending by about 3 per cent to accommodate more people and in addition we greatly extended the social welfare programs, including pensions, education and so on. [More…]
My question, which concerns grants to the States for education, is directed to the Prime Minister. [More…]
They all seem to pursue different policies on matters of education. [More…]
The Prime Minister <Mr Whitlam) today for the umpteenth time misrepresented me about the education matter. [More…]
The only persons to speak on it were the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Acting Minister for Education (Mr Lionel Bowen) and the honourable -member for Diamond Valley (Mr McKenzie). [More…]
I have spoken on many occasions to gatherings on education over the years and I did speak in May and June last year. [More…]
But the attitude of my colleague the Minister for Education, who for reasons which are known and regretted by all honourable gentlemen is not here today, and I subscribed to the proposition which my colleague moved in the House on 26 September last and neither he, I believe, nor I then or later have departed from what was there put to the vote on his initiative in the House. [More…]
The point is that at the time the terms of reference were drawn up there was a clear understanding given by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education that the existing Commonwealth commitments would be continued. [More…]
The fact is that the States Grants (Schools) Bill 1972, to which my colleague the Minister for Education, as he now is, moved an amendment which I have quoted, was introduced on 14 September last year. [More…]
Since the Minister for Education is not here, I should repeat what he said in supporting the amendment which he moved and which I have already quoted. [More…]
The Minister representing the Minister for Education said in his second reading speech: ‘The interim committee [More…]
They talk about cutting government expenditure but they never tell us where government expenditure should be cut except that they are now giving us an example in relation to education. [More…]
I know that under other legislation, in education and science and various other fields, we make grants to individuals or to groups of individuals for specific approved purposes. [More…]
Is it also a fact that many thousands of children of wealthy parents are given free education in public high schools? [More…]
Is the Government proposing to give free education to all children attending universities irrespective of the wealth of their parents? [More…]
The present Australian Government is determined to see that pupils have an equal opportunity for a good education in Australia so that when they leave school at least they will have an equal opportunity in life. [More…]
Mr Hamilton Smith has done a fine job and at a later date, after consideration of his findings and consultation with my colleagues, the Australian Government’s program and policy on education for recreation workers will be announced. [More…]
Mr Hamilton-Smith suggests that professional education should be established at the diploma and bachelor level, in school of recreation studies at universities, colleges of advanced education and teachers colleges. [More…]
The universities, colleges of advanced education and technical colleges have sensed the need for trained leadership and I believe this document, with its many positive recommendations, is timely in that it helps to paint a clearer picture of training requirements for recreation workers. [More…]
As the report points out, the satisfactory development of recreation in Australia is in so many aspects dependent upon the education of recreation workers. [More…]
The report makes a number of very useful recommendations for the education, firstly, of professional recreation workers and, secondly, of volunteer recreation workers, and stresses the importance of interdisciplinary communication between persons in the recreation area and those in other specialised fields. [More…]
It has been increasing public expenditure on education, housing and social welfare. [More…]
The commission that we propose to set up under this Bill is consistent with commissions that have been set up both for universities and for colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Under this Bill the Minister has the opportunity to appoint those people who are best equipped to advise and serve the Minister, and it is significant that the Karmel Committee itself referred to the structure of the Schools Commission that would be most advantageous for the people involved in education. [More…]
They would not be acting in the best interests of education and it would be contrary to all precedents that have been established. [More…]
Just as the Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) showed a proper spirit of the workings of a democratic parliament by accepting about 25 amendments that had been moved by our colleagues in the Senate and by accepting the deletion of another 20 clauses from the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill, so too should the Acting Minister for Education (Mr Lionel Bowen). [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), tragically, has been unable to be present in the course of these debates. [More…]
in reply - Speaking briefly in reply to the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) may I make it clear the sort of personnel that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has in mind for the Commission. [More…]
I am glad of the tribute that has been paid to the Minister for Education for the work that he has done. [More…]
When we gave the reasons why these amend ments were rejected when they were before us earlier, it was made clear that the Australian Education Council was not consulted. [More…]
The Opposition must bear the onus for what it is doing against education in this country. [More…]
-I want to make it clear that the Minister for Education, to whom tribute has been paid right across the nation, will always act in the best interests of education. [More…]
To have it suggested here that the Minister for Education must work within the confines of an amendment which suggests that other people will nominate those who are to be on the Commission is contrary to the whole concept of a proper commission. [More…]
Evidence for the Government’s proposal is the evidence that I submitted, that of the Universities Commission, the College of Advanced Education Commission and the report of Professor Karmel himself. [More…]
Oppose this Bill that is so valuable to education.’ [More…]
I emphasise the point that this Commission is an integral part of the Government’s policy on education. [More…]
When we look at the people nominated by the Opposition we find that they are very much against the Government’s policy on education and are on record as having opposed the Government vigorously right throughout the last election campaign. [More…]
The Opposition caters for privilege and is masquerading behind the statement that it is interested in the education of all children, whereas it is not. [More…]
I place on record that the Minister, who is an honourable man and who does a splendid job in education, wants to have a splendid commission, but the Opposition is denying him that. [More…]
Communication, education, community interest and awareness are such today that arbitrarily imposed decisions particularly of a symbolic non-materialist kind are less and less acceptable. [More…]
Although I lack the honourable member’s education I know that ‘total’ means everything. [More…]
Let it be noted that this same philosophy as expressed by George Orwell in ‘Animal Farm’ is there for all to observe behind the Opposition’s machinations on education, no matter how desperately its spokesmen squeal out their chorus of ‘double-think’ in an attempt to camouflage their philosophy. [More…]
Health insurance coverage for ordinary Australians is not a matter of choice; it is an economic necessity and, as a social utility, it should be financed in just the same way as is education or defence. [More…]
We do not hear members of the Opposition claiming that people should be free to pay or not to pay that part of their taxes which supports the armed Services or education institutions although of course we know how they like to juggle the education allocations. [More…]
And on the side of the consumer, the Opposition, as in the case of education, wants to prevent the transfer of iniquitous subsidies from the well-to-do to those whose financial capacities are less and whose needs are greater. [More…]
In a positive effort to encourage decentralisation and to do something about halting the drift of rural people to the overcrowded areas of Sydney with the consequent problems of sewerage, hospitals, education, green bans and so on, the Premier of Queensland has seen fit to give freight subsidies on steel products from the seaboard to inland areas. [More…]
This meeting was attended by the Ministers for Health, Education and Primary Industry. [More…]
They do not want to cut expenditure on education. [More…]
They want to spend at least another S5m or $6m on education. [More…]
It does have one - and it is a blanket policy for health, education and everything to do with social and economic progress. [More…]
Its behaviour in the debate on this Bill, and in the debate on our education program, shows that it has no social conscience and, apart from acting out its petulance, it is concerned only with the privileges of the people to whom it has traded its political reputation in return for a facade of discredited concepts which it chooses to call a policy. [More…]
Of all the issues for which the present Government devised such policies none stood out more than our policies on the cities, education and health. [More…]
The Labor Government was elected to carry out this health program, in the same way as it was elected to provide equality of opportunity in education, to come to terms with the problems of our cities and to deal with other long neglected national problems. [More…]
Occasional or casual care centres, before and after school and holiday care centres, as well as support services for families, including financial assistance, counselling and education, might also form an integral part of such a program. [More…]
Because of the importance of the care and education of young children, both to the children themselves and to parents and community at large, the Government welcomes widespread comment within the next few months on the report and its recommendations. [More…]
There was an increasing use of health care services such as nurse counselling, psychosocial guidance, employment assistance, health education, marriage counselling, and rehabilitation, and a decreasing use of physician services for illness care. [More…]
We have the Social Welfare Commission and a number of education commissions. [More…]
In fact, it absolutely overrode them and did not even place those child minding centres within the Federal Departments of Health or Education and Science but in fact made them part of the Department of Labour and National Service, as it was then called. [More…]
So, when people talk about consulting the States and protecting State rights, I would have thought that the pre-school education and child minding area was very specifically one for the States; but in cases in which it suited the former government it had no compunction at all in excluding the States from its legislation. [More…]
In all the other services for which governments seek responsibility, such as in the fields of education or protection against fire, we have organised resources for the benefit of the community. [More…]
information and education services for the preservation of health; <ii) services for the prevention of illness; [More…]
My question is addressed to the Acting Minister for Education. [More…]
What clearer mandate could this Government have than the mandate we have for education or the mandate we have for health? [More…]
What was said there by the Liberal Party spokesman on education matters will stand for us here and the Hansard report will be available for everybody to see in the morning. [More…]
these 2 points: This Schools Commission Bill is a Bill that is designed to serve this community for a very long time into the future and if people assume that this Parliament, or this Government, is going to turn out to be the sole repository of wisdom on schools and education then they are making a very serious error. [More…]
What we wanted in the identification of the members of the Com mission was that people concerned with education should be members of that Commission, because if we get a situation in Australia where there is only one authority - only one branch - of education learning then it is not going to be to the advantage of Australia, Australians and future generations, and that was behind our amendments. [More…]
The Government has also sought to have the Schools Commission established as an independent statutory advisory body which will recommend measures for raising the standards of education in schools and for eliminating inequalities in opportunity among Australian school children. [More…]
If that principle is abandoned, it will be a sorry day for the Australian people and for the future of Australian education. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) as he now is - the Leader of the Opposition as he then was - and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), as he now is - the honourable member for Fremantle - both made promises last year that there would be no cut in any existing grant to any child. [More…]
In February of this year, a time when they were in Government, the Minister for Education, in a letter to the Secretary of the Parents and Friends Federation of Victoria, stated: [More…]
The promises made by the Prime Minister and by the Minister for Education were that there would be no deduction from any benefit that was previously being paid. [More…]
Whatever has been the outcome of the negotiations that have gone on, however the members of the Country Party vote tonight, I assert that they will stand by the principle that every child should attract to itself as a matter of right and of equity and of justice a per capita payment for education. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s telegram to the State Premiers stating that there might not be money available for education at the start of the next school year was a sheer political stunt and nothing more. [More…]
Does anybody believe that the Government would throw the education system into confusion for the Sake of the $1.5m in question? [More…]
The Australian Country Party supports the amendment to the schedule that has been presented by the Acting Minister for Education (Mr Lionel Bowen) to the States- [More…]
We support the amendment not because it represents an honouring of the firm pledges made by both the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) last year - because it does not. [More…]
Our support for this amendment is a result of our concern that the whole education program for 1974 could have foundered and that parents and students alike were being caused anxiety and concern. [More…]
This meant that the whole education program for 1974 and 1975 was in jeopardy if the Government chose to use the situation as a political weapon. [More…]
The program was in jeopardy not because of any action by the Opposition parties, but because the Government was not willing to accept proposals by the Opposition which would have meant that the undertakings by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Education would have been honoured. [More…]
But we were faced with the Government’s threat to hold up the whole education program and to blame the Opposition for it, in spite of the fact that we at no time opposed the S694m program, and in fact voted for it. [More…]
I could see little point in continuing a confrontation which contained a real possibility of jeopardising the whole education program, and the welfare of all of our school pupils. [More…]
Speaking in the House, the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) and other members on this side of the House, and the Acting Minister for Education, the PostmasterGeneral (Mr Lionel Bowen) himself, raised the possibility of negotiation. [More…]
These amendments will ensure that, firstly, the Commission consults and cooperates with State departments of education and the authorities responsible for and connected with non-government schools; secondly, the highest standards are achieved in both government and non-government schools and that the parents of all children are given the right to choose the kind of education they wish their children to receive, and, finally, that it will he mandatory for the Minister to prescribe by regulation the composition of the State advisory boards and the functions of those boards. [More…]
Mr Chairman, faced with a situation in which there was a danger that the result would be far worse, and that the entire education program stood to be held up, the Country Party felt that efforts had to be made to bring about a resolution of an impasse which was not in the interests of the education of the children of Australia. [More…]
We find that out of the New South Wales Liberal Government Budget of$1 81m for education $4m has been provided for non-government schools. [More…]
Nothing has been done for education under that Liberal philosophy, yet. [More…]
The Acting Minister for Education will recall that last week he announced that the Australian Government had decided that a new medical school would be established in Newcastle, centred on the Royal Newcastle Hospital, to receive its first students in 1977, and that special grants would be made to the University of Newcastle in 1974 and 1975 subject to the agreement of the New South Wales Government to establish the school. [More…]
I understand that Mr Willis is a bit upset because he is not happy with the way in which the Federal Parliament is running education and health affairs. [More…]
Australia has a uniform education system. [More…]
Boys and girls attend the same school and in the majority of cases rub shoulders with each other right through to the university stage although this pattern is not always maintained in the final years of their education. [More…]
These children are taught in the same forum and, in the main, through the same education system. [More…]
But apparently at some period beyond formal education the habit is to discriminate between males and females. [More…]
With that uniform education system running through almost to university level - in some cases it extends to university level - there is no reason at all why that pattern should not continue into employment in the work force. [More…]
When I speak of equality of opportunity I am not thinking simply of the removal of poverty or the redress of obvious injustices such as those in education or health. [More…]
No one disputes that what we have done for education is prodigious in scale and revolutionary in conception. [More…]
We have increased federal spending on education by well over 90 per cent in our first year. [More…]
How striking it is, how revealing, how salutary a lesson for the Australian people, that the two areas of Government policy most fundamental to the people’s needs and aspirations - education and health - are the very areas where our opponents have resisted our reforms with the greatest determination. [More…]
They include: Legislative Record of the Year; Reports Tabled in Parliament on Inquiries Instituted by the Present Government; Statements Arising from Meetings Between Australian Government and State Government Ministers; Committees; Commissions of Inquiry and Task Forces Reporting to the Government; Reports Tabled by the Present Government on Inquiries Instituted by Previous Governments and the record on Cities, Women, Social Security, Resources, Other Decisions, Migrants, Rural Industries, the Economy, Education, the Environment and a Text of Treaties and so on presented to the Parliament. [More…]
I continue: 15 March: Bilingual Education in Schools in Aboriginal Communities in the Northern Territory. [More…]
(Requested by Minister for Education on 22.1.73)- Tabled by Mr Beazley. [More…]
Education Authority - Assessment Panel on - Tabled by Mr Beazley. [More…]
5 December: Education for Recreation Workers- Tabled by Mr Stewart. [More…]
1 1 December: Care and Education of Young Children - A Report of the Australian Pre-schools Committee - Tabled by Mr Bowen. [More…]
24 October: Report of conference of Australian Education Council held on 14 and 15 June 1973- Tabled by Mr Beazley. [More…]
Mr Beazley, who has had a tremendous job to do in bringing forward a new education program, is sick at the moment. [More…]
(a) and (b) Had these evictions been enforced and the employees and their families been required to move elsewhere the education of the children, and the family life of the people involved, would obviously have been affected. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Have the States failed to spend within the allocated time all the finance provided by the Commonwealth for education. [More…]
Programs of special purpose grants to the States for education are normally for periods longer than one year and are commonly on a triennial basis. [More…]
This is explained in the annual Report of the Department of Education and Science for 1971-72 tabled on 30 August 1972. [More…]
In respect of the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1965-1972 all States have been unable to expend within the periods covered by the legislation some of the Federal funds provided by that legislation. [More…]
The evaluation of the course was carried out by the Lecturer in Efficient Reading at ANU and a research assistant on the staff of the Centre for Continuing Education, ANU. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
In relation to the working party established by the Australian Education Council on 13 June 1973 to study relationships between Commonwealth tertiary scholarships and State teaching studentships: [More…]
The working party comprises representatives of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education, the Commonwealth Teaching Service, each State Department of Education and the Australian Department of Education. [More…]
and (e) The purpose of the study is to prepare a report for the Australian Education Council. [More…]
The discussion paper to which the honourable member refers was prepared as an internal working document by the Department of Education and Science and is not the kind of document made available for release. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Has his Department found that over a quarter of those students who rejected offers of Common- wealth university or advanced education scholarships, in 1971 or 1972, gave financial reasons as the cause. [More…]
It has been the practice, when offering Commonwealth university and advanced education scholarships, to ask each student, if he decides not to accept the award, to return the offer letter indicating his reason for rejecting the award. [More…]
Information for the Commonwealth Advanced Education Scholarship Scheme, although not as complete, is consistent with that for the University Scheme. [More…]
The report to which the honourable member refers1 was prepared by the Department of Education and Science and is not the kind of document made available for release. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The payment of the living and other allowances under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme will be made direct to students by cheque. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
What was the amount per capita spent for students at (a) universities and (b) colleges of advanced education in (i) each State and Territory and (ii) the Commonwealth in 1971-72 (Hansard, 26 October 1972, page 3490). [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
I refer the right honourable gentleman to the answer the Minister for Education gave on 7 November (Hansard, page 2960) and to the Prime Minister’s answer to his Question Without Notice on 15 November 1973 (Hansard, pages 3373-4). [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
I refer the right honourable gentleman to the answer the Minister for Education gave on 7 November (Hansard, page 2960) and to the Prime Minister’s answer to his Question Without Notice on15 November 1973 (Hansard, pages 3373-4). [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
How many students in each discipline are currently employed in Australia, in areas allied to their tertiary training, (a) in industry, in administration areas, (b) in industry, in research and development areas, (c) teaching at secondary school level, (d) teaching at tertiary level and (e) undertaking further research at universities or colleges of advanced education. [More…]
On 14 March 1973, my colleague, the Minister for the Media, announced the appointment of an inter-departmental committee under the chairmanship of a senior officer of his own Department andwith members drawn from the Department of Education, Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Treasury. [More…]
In its education program my Government will continue to direct assistance to schools and students according to need. [More…]
My Government, having brought about the abolition of fees within the area of tertiary and technical education, and having introduced comprehensive forms of assistance to upgrade primary and secondary education, is now concentrating its attention on the area of child care and pre-schooling. [More…]
It will introduce legislation to establish a Technical and Further Education Commission and a Curriculum Development Centre to evaluate and develop teaching and learning materials. [More…]
Thompson, the Victorian Minister of Education and Chairman of the Executive Committee, and approved by the Executive Committee which is material. [More…]
It will also provide for Australian Government agencies advice and assistance for the efficient administration of archives, provide and maintain the public right of access in accordance with Government access policy, and promote the utilisation of archival resources for informational, research, education, cultural and other purposes. [More…]
The Bill now before the House reimburses the States for abolishing fees in government technical education. [More…]
It is the concluding part of a sequence of actions to make tertiary and post secondary education free. [More…]
Honourable members will recall legislation passed in the Budget session of 1973 which gave effect to the Government’s policy of abolishing fees in universities and colleges of advanced education from the beginning of 1974. [More…]
The Bill now before the House, the States Grants (Technical Training Fees Reimbursement) Bill 1974, rounds off this policy by abolishing fees also in technical education. [More…]
The Government has a clear commitment to do this, based upon its belief that a student’s merit rather than a parent’s wealth should decide who should benefit from the community’s vast financial commitment to tertiary education. [More…]
The total program of assistance to the States from 1 July 1974 onwards for technical education is to be reviewed following consideration by the Government of the recommendations of the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education. [More…]
It is to be noted that the list includes some colleges of advanced education which, in addition to tertiary courses, provide courses at technician level. [More…]
Consistent with the arrangements adopted at the tertiary level, adult education courses have not been included, as they are mainly of a hobby or general interest nature. [More…]
This legislation demonstrates once more the determination of the Australian Government to open up opportunities to post-secondary education as a complement to its efforts for primary and secondary education. [More…]
Technical education is an investment in national efficiency. [More…]
In the field of education, whether one looks at primary, secondary, tertiary or technical education, one can see a conscious approach and policy designed to ensure that the facilities provided by this great nation will be available to all. [More…]
As a former teacher I am most interested in what has been done in education. [More…]
Nowhere is the new spirit which is so evident more strongly epitomised than in what we have done in education. [More…]
We have increased the amount of funds for education in the last Budget by 92 per cent. [More…]
We have helped special areas in education. [More…]
In just one area, we have spent eight times as much money on primary schools in the State education system as was spent by our predecessors - eight times. [More…]
The Government has taken over financial responsibility for all universities and tertiary institutions, and we are looking at technical education at the moment through a committee which has been established. [More…]
Where is the party which advocated the right of every Australian child to receive a proportion of government funds for education? [More…]
The ideal of equal opportunity our Government strives for in many fields like education, health, social services and race relations is already inherent in sport. [More…]
Plans are also being prepared for a detailed study of the possibility of creating Australia’s first national sports university, with the multiple aim of education, research and training. [More…]
It took too long for governments of the past to get started and when they did start they adopted a system of skimming the cream off the milk, of moving the best of the Aborigines into the towns and giving them an education and of trying to hide the rest of them away from public view. [More…]
Government supporters boast proudly of the tremendous increase in funds allocated for education. [More…]
It is true that large sums of money have been allocated and cheques have been signed for a huge increase in the money spent in education. [More…]
In view of his answer to the honourable member for Chisholm, how does the Prime Minister explain the fact that, where the Commonwealth stands in the shoes of a State government as for the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory, it grants state aid in addition to the Karmel funds on a per capita across the board basis of 20 per cent of the cost of education in government schools? [More…]
My question also is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]
In debates in this House we have heard examples cited of other countries in relation to their health system, their education system and other things. [More…]
The Agency to be established under the legislation will complete this process of unification by absorbing aid functions carried out by other departments including the Department of Education and the Treasury. [More…]
We contribute to financial institutions like the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, and to a variety of international and regional programs like the United Nations Development program, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the South East Asian Ministers of Education Organisation and the World Food Program. [More…]
The Department of Education administered the Commonwealth Cooperation in Education scheme, and played a substantial role as a training authority for government-sponsored trainees under all aid schemes. [More…]
In the case of the Department of Education, teachers in Australian Capital Territory schools have been employed by it since 1 January 1974 whereas they were formerly employed, on a reimbursement basis, by the New South Wales Department of Education. [More…]
The debate, however, was conducted with tolerant understanding by the several proponents of differing forms of democracy, each recognising that the form taken in the separate countries of the Commonwealth must depend to a great degree on national life in these countries and the stan dard of education and culture and on their state of economic development. [More…]
In the field of education the results will be obvious much sooner. [More…]
The Karmel Committee recommendations are being implemented at a rapid pace and within 2 years should have transformed the face of education on the Central Coast. [More…]
It is more difficult to pinpoint the benefits in the state school field as the moneys directed to education by the last Budget are allocated by the State Department of Education. [More…]
I do not envy the job of the local Liberal Party trying to convince the electors of Robertson that the face of education has not changed since Labor came to power. [More…]
Having provided for a totally new look primary and secondary education, the Government has turned its attention to tertiary education. [More…]
Late last year the Australian Government approved the finance for the development of a college of advanced education at Ourimbah in the heart of the Central Coast. [More…]
Honourable members recall the abuse hurled at the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and me by the New South Wales Minister for Education, Mr Willis, who claimed that we were trying to seek the glory’ for the project. [More…]
So much for education. [More…]
Now let us look at what is proposed for the people of Robertson in the health field - an area even more neglected by our predecessors than education. [More…]
In education - and no mention was made of this in the speech of the honourable member for Gippsland - we have seen dramatic increases in the Australian Government education policies. [More…]
The Karmel Committee and the setting up of the Schools Commission have revolutionised education in Australia, with massive injections of funds to the tune of $700m being allocated. [More…]
The Government’s commitment to abolish tertiary fees as of this year and similar proposals for technical education reveal the Government’s determination to bring a new deal in education. [More…]
I think it would be unfair if I did not refer to the work of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in piloting through this hostile [More…]
Parliament the legislation that was so desperately needed in the field of education. [More…]
I turn to the field of primary and secondary education. [More…]
For tertiary education, payments to the State Government again will grow very rapidly, partly because of the assumption of full financial responsibility in this area by the Australian Government as of January of this year. [More…]
Grants for tertiary education in Tasmania are estimated to .total $12.5m in 1973- 74 - again an increase of 112 per cent over the corresponding period 1972-73. [More…]
The Labor Government talks about an assessed, seasonal or adjusted family income, which allows for a deduction of $300 for every child undergoing full time primary or secondary education. [More…]
These bursaries will be used exclusively in order to provide a full secondary education for students who would otherwise have been obliged to leave school. [More…]
The honourable member revealed by his stand on that occasion not only the depths of his own conservatism which are well-known in this House but also the fact that the conditions under which students at government and Catholic schools receive their education remains as much a mystery to him in Opposition as they were when he held the Education portfolio. [More…]
Now, as then, the honourable member and those who sit behind him show a complete disinterest in the reports on conditions in government and Catholic schools which have been prepared by bodies such as the Inner Suburban Education Committee, the Senate Standing Committee on Health and Welfare, various organisations of teachers and parents, the migrant education task force and the Interim Schools Commission itself. [More…]
I was interested in the remarks of the honourable member for Casey on education. [More…]
I thought it was very brave of him to bring up education today because if ever the Labor Party were caught with principles down, rather than its pants down, it was caught with its principles down at question time today when we had no less a person than the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) say that he agreed that grants to non-government schools should be only on the principle of need. [More…]
This Government has made advances in many areas, apart from the obvious ones of education and pensions. [More…]
A matter frequently drawn to my attention in recent days is the proposed acquisition of the animal sanctuary, which I am told is used by local schools over a large region and is generally used for education purposes. [More…]
67m is available for expenditure in New South Wales between now and 30 June to establish and maintain education and care services for preschool children. [More…]
A developing world, in short, in which death and disease are rampant, education and employment scarce, squalor and stagnation common, and opportunity and the realisation of personal potential drastically limited. [More…]
I should like to devote my time chiefly to just 2 areas in the whole area of government, .and they are the initiatives that we have taken in the fields of education and health. [More…]
The record of the Government in the field of education is magnificent. [More…]
Now we have blueprints and plans for future development in all the fields of education. [More…]
Documents of the greatest educational significance, such as the Karmel report, have been presented to this Parliament. [More…]
The education program of the Government has rested squarely on the principle of direct assistance to schools and students according to their needs. [More…]
So one had every reason to expect that 1974 would mark a new era in education. [More…]
I for one am bitterly disappointed at this inexcusable negligence in planning for a year in which a new face was to be put on education. [More…]
Only today, according to a newspaper report in Victoria, the State Minister for Education proudly announced that he was spending $2.7 5m on portable classrooms. [More…]
So on that score there is really no excuse for the education bungle in Victoria at the start of the school year. [More…]
One of the reasons the Bureau issues figures such as these is to enable education authorities to plan far ahead in their school building programs. [More…]
As usual the Victorian Education Department was years behind in its planning and, of course, those who suffer for this inefficiency are the school children. [More…]
One could continue to speak on the achievements of the Government in the field of education. [More…]
One could speak about teacher training, the removal of fees at the tertiary level, greatly increased student assistance, increased assistance in the education of the disadvantaged and the handicapped, and the encouragement being given to those engaged in innovatory projects. [More…]
So much for education. [More…]
Those who were fortunate enough to live on a living allowance are not seeing those allowances increased to enable them to live on a day to day basis, hand to mouth, and to maintain themselves in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Would they have us reduce spending on social security or education? [More…]
I personally, have spent hundreds and hundreds of hours of my spare time in promoting the Workers Educational Authority of South Australia, which has done much pioneering work in trade union education. [More…]
Labor Party in Federal and State spheres has made giant strides in the last few years in appropriating funds to improve trade union education facilities so that the working man may be helped, not hindered, and industrial peace may be facilitated. [More…]
I will discuss the matter with my colleague the Minister for Education to see whether we can make the buses available free. [More…]
I know that education in Papua New Guinea has advanced significantly in recent years. [More…]
However, I am concerned and have been concerned that in Papua New Guinea, as in many other lesser developed countries, there has been a tendency to encourage education at a university level and a failure to build up the understanding that people with technical skills, with the semiskilled and skilled role that they can play in the infrastructure of the community will probably be more significant than those who have graduate or postgraduate degrees. [More…]
I hope that these deficiences will be recognised by the Government of Papua New Guinea and that there will be an insurance that, in the development of educational facilities in this about to be independent country, there will not be the ill consequences that seem to have befallen so many other countries moving into independence. [More…]
At this stage I do not want to deal with the matters that have been raised by the Deputy Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Sinclair) relating to education, improved and continuing good relations between the Government of Papua New Guinea and the Australian Government. [More…]
I said that we were internationally responsible and answerable under the terms of the trusteeship agreement not only for education and other matters, but also for defence matters. [More…]
Earlier this morning there was a debate on education matters and the same question arose again. [More…]
We were asking the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) for a statement about education that could be properly debated in this House, and the Minister and the Leader of the House were unwilling to have such a statement made and a debate put upon it. [More…]
I should like to raise one point with the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) who is handling this matter for the Government. [More…]
I achnowledge that the Minister for Education has just entered the chamber. [More…]
As the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) quite rightly said in his second-reading speech, this is a further element in the Australian Government’s plan to make access to all post-secondary education available to people irrespective of their means. [More…]
As the public at large, particularly the students and parents of students, will be well aware at present, students are enjoying tuitionfree access to universities and to colleges of advanced education. [More…]
At present an inquiry is being conducted into technical and further education. [More…]
The correct title of that inquiry is the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education, sometimes referred to as the Kangan inquiry, named after the very important chairman of the Committee. [More…]
My hope is that the Kangan Committee report and the Government’s consideration of it will do for technical education what the celebrated [More…]
Karmel Committee report, and the Government’s acceptance of it, did for primary and secondary education in Australia. [More…]
Technical education certainly needs a new deal. [More…]
For far too long technical education has been the Cinderella of education in this country, although it is probably running neck and neck in that regard with pre-school education in some States of Australia, notably New South Wales, which is the State from which I come. [More…]
I only hope that when the Kangan Committee does report it will make some reference in its report to teacher education in the field of technical education. [More…]
A couple of years ago a Senate committee reported on teacher education. [More…]
One of the recommendations it made was that there should be at least one technical teacher educational institution in every State of Australia. [More…]
But there certainly is not one in New South Wales, which is where the more numerous numbers of teachers and students in technical education are to be found. [More…]
The training of teachers for technical education in New South Wales is carried out by lecturers from the Sydney Teachers College whose prime purpose it is to train teachers for primary and secondary schools. [More…]
Technical education has had to take a back seat in this regard. [More…]
There are probably nearly half a million students in technical education institutions throughout Australia. [More…]
I think a lot of people overlook the fact that, of all the forms of post-secondary education, technical education has by far the greatest number of enrolments. [More…]
Technical education is important not only because of the number of students involved in it but also because of the range of courses provided. [More…]
One of the things those honourable members opposite who have stood up in this House in the last week or two and talked about inflation and the causes of inflation have to remember is that technical education has not been allowed to play its part in the economy of this country. [More…]
Ignoring the fact that it also plays an important part in the personal growth of the individual, technical education has not been allowed to play its part in the providing of the skills that are now in short supply. [More…]
I think nobody needs to be reminded of the shortages at present of just about every kind of skill - of manual skills, of technical skills of various kinds, of commercial skills and so on - that is provided for in technical education. [More…]
It is all very well for us to provide for the training of professional people at universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The measure before us today, which seeks to provide SI Om for technical education, might seem to be fairly insignificant because of the amount involved; yet not so long ago - in the last few years of the term of office of the previous Government - the provision of $10m in a year to technical education was regarded as being something of an event. [More…]
The expenditure of $10m on technical education ranks pretty lowly as far as expenditure by the Government in other areas is concerned. [More…]
The Government is awaiting the bringing down of the Kangan Committee report in about a month or two before it takes any really decisive action a far as technical education is concerned. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is, of course, not solely responsible for the advances that have been made in this field. [More…]
The Minister for Education and the Minister for Labour are both dedicated to the task of trying to catch up on the woeful backlog in trained technicians and tradesmen in our society. [More…]
Technical education, properly conducted, ought to provide just as fruitful a source of personal development and humanitarian development for the individual as do other forms of education. [More…]
That is why people on both sides of this House have recognised the importance of humanitarian and liberal studies going side by side with technical education in manual skills and the other kinds of skills that are associated with the training of tradesmen and technicians. [More…]
I am sure that Mr Quinn would be one of those people who are now applauding the efforts of the Minister for Education who is sitting at the table and the Minister for Labour for recognising at last the tremendously important part that technical education plays in the supply of skilled labour in Australia. [More…]
Much of the construction of shoddy houses and home units in respect of which I hear complaints and in respect of which complaints are reported to consumer affairs bureaus in the various States derives from the fact that technical education has been so badly neglected in the past. [More…]
If one wants any indication of how technical education was neglected in the past one recalls that very belatedly, at the beginning of the 1972-73 financial year, the previous Government started to stir itself ar-d it appropriated S2,370,000 for apprenticeship training. [More…]
This Bill, along with other Bills, will abolish fees in post-secondary education. [More…]
I support the Bill, and in so doing I should like to draw attention to one of the .most significant paragraphs in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
Technical education is an investment in national efficiency. [More…]
In a number of speeches in this House over a period I have pleaded the case for the provision of additional assistance in the area of technical education and vocational education throughout Australia. [More…]
As the honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds) has said today - and I know that he has said it previously - for too long have educationalists placed insufficient emphasis on the importance of technical college education and of vocational training in secondary schools. [More…]
Unfortunately, I believe, the over-emphasis that is placed on university education develops an attitude that ignores the increasing need for technicians and other skilled tradesmen in our increasingly technological society. [More…]
There is a need to reassess the needs of our society in the education opportunities of our young people if we are to provide a fulfilling future for the ever increasing number of schoolleavers. [More…]
When talking about technical education, other parents will often say to you: ‘That is all right for your child, but I want my child to go to a university’. [More…]
I know that technical education falls within the constitutional or administrative responsibility of the States. [More…]
One must assume that equal opportunity does not exist for all students, regardless of the abolition of fees and other measures that the Government has taken, if it is the prime intention of education authorities, parents and others to structure the conduct of schools and the curricula on the hope that most students strive to enter either a university, a college of advanced education or a teachers college. [More…]
The abolition of university, college of advanced education and technical college fees which this Government has introduced, will not in itself make much difference to the opportunities available to our young if we fail to recognise the aptitude of our students, their diverse abilities and the changes ‘brought about by this technological age. [More…]
Extensive provision is made for close co-ordination between the programs of technical and vocational training organised by the Minister of Education and the Minister of Labour, and training organised in industry. [More…]
In Japan, technical education and training for the purpose of developing skilled workers and technicians has been built upon 2 main pillars. [More…]
Firstly, education at technical schools is under the control of the Minister of Education, and secondly, education at vocational training centres is under the supervision of the Minister of Labour. [More…]
Japan was really the first country in the industrial world to make a move to recognise this fact in its education system. [More…]
Increasing provision must be made for vocational training and technical education not only at the latter end of secondary education and after completion of the equivalent of the School Certificate, but also in the earlier years at secondary schools, lt is now becoming evident that many students pass through the fifth and sixth forms acquiring a reasonably good education, but unfortunately they are not trained for any specific vocation. [More…]
It appears that although the educational system provides a good general education to the fourth form, it then becomes very restrictive in its disciplines to students who wish to remain in the educational environment, but who are not necessarily interested in seeking the sixth form standard or a university degree. [More…]
Aboriginal education has revealed itself in recent times as a very great problem. [More…]
I mention this because it is apparent to me that in my electorate, where there is a great number of Aboriginal children in towns like Moree, there is not much incentive for many of the Aboriginal pupils to continue with their secondary education because the curriculum that they are following has little relevance to job opportunities in the local area. [More…]
I believe that the education system is one of the prime reasons they are in fact leaving country areas. [More…]
I hope that the inquiry into technical education in Australia, which is already under way, and to which I have made a submission on behalf of my Party, the Australian Country Party, will certainly come up with some of the answers that are necessary to ensure that tech nical education plays a more important part in the general education pattern throughout Australia. [More…]
Unfortunately, in New South Wales expenditure on technical education has declined relative to expenditure in other areas of education. [More…]
I believe that the technical education colleges of this country could play a greater part than they are at present in trying to turn out young men and women who will take their places in both management and the work force, each understanding the problems of the other, and making a worthwhile contribution to the economic development of our country. [More…]
I rise to speak to this Bill because I believe that it addresses itself to a very serious area of neglect in education in Australia. [More…]
It is here that we come to the structural problem which is associated with technical education throughout Australia. [More…]
For some young people who are leaving school the need to leave home to continue their education is something of an adventure. [More…]
Therefore it is necessary to develop a flexibility in technical education which will cope with these specialised demands. [More…]
This is a special and unique problem associated with technical education in country areas. [More…]
It is a problem which I am sure the Australian Commission for Technical and Further Education will consider. [More…]
The honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) commented on the class consciousness that exists in education in Australia. [More…]
It is overcrowded and the internal spacing problems are such that the college does not have the scope to offer proper technical education in these technical fields. [More…]
Another effect that this second class status has on the system is that people who come to technical colleges tend to come from poorer families which cannot afford the true costs of technical education. [More…]
I believe that the abolition of fees at technical colleges proposed by this legislation is a very significant first step towards upgrading technical education. [More…]
The cost of this move is relatively small when one considers the cost of the other areas of education. [More…]
We are faced with the difficulty of providing a new status for technical education. [More…]
This problem goes further than bringing to the community an awareness of the importance of technical education; it goes to the financial remuneration received by the people who are products of the system. [More…]
It is quite unsatisfactory in the long term to offer to people who graduate from technical colleges wages and salaries which are lower than the salaries and wages offered to university graduates and graduates from colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I think the time is long overdue for us to work through the ramifications of technical education and to consider its attractiveness in terms of wages paid to a person who has graduated, in terms of the status which is applied to the institution which provides the education and in terms of the type of people who are attracted to technical education. [More…]
There are many other facets of technical education which provide an adventure. [More…]
The wool classing courses conducted by the New South Wales Department of Technical Education are probably the best in Australia. [More…]
The action that the Government has taken to abolish fees and the action that the Government will take on the report of the Australian Commission for Technical and Further Education will create the basis for the change in status so greatly needed to attract into technical education the supply of tradesmen and craftsmen that we need to make sure that our lives are properly balanced and that our economy is maximised in terms of this use of resources. [More…]
There are other areas of technical education which do not bear, in the traditional way, on the economic functions of the community. [More…]
Technical education plays a role in developing artists and a sense of drama. [More…]
We see the transitional areas where these functional and basic requirements of technical education move into this field in such areas as cooking and other courses that the technical college presents. [More…]
I am very pleased to identify myself today with this Bill, which is an acknowledgment of the fundamental and important role that technical education plays in our community. [More…]
First of all I would like to remind the House that the $10,268,000 for fee abolition is not the only expenditure which is running on technical education at the present time. [More…]
Between now and 30 June we are finishing a biennium in which the Commonwealth has granted to the States and is spending through the States $46m for capital for technical education. [More…]
As I explained, I think, in my second reading speech, the reason why this Bill funds the fees for only half a year is that we expect the Australian Commission for Technical and Further Education to be making recommendations both for the capital grants and for the fees for the 18 months that begin on 1 July this year. [More…]
Added to that, this makes a biennium of expenditure on technical education. [More…]
In South Australia, of course, all such courses were put under the authority for technical education. [More…]
Yes, if these part-time night courses could all be put under the technical education authority. [More…]
There they call it - with that sweet disposition of mind that Mr Hudson has - the Department of Further Education. [More…]
It was because of that that we had to call the Kangan Committee the Australian Commission for Technical and Further Education. [More…]
We tried to deal with him last year by extending to technical education the isolated children’s grants. [More…]
We are now trying to deal with this problem by giving the full student allowances to people for technical education, which means that someone who comes in from the country may receive the living away from home allowance as well, depending on the means of his parents. [More…]
If the Department of Education in Victoria brought all those courses under the Victorian Government Technical Schools Division they would be funded. [More…]
For instance, in New South Wales under this legislation the Department of Technical Education is receiving $5,775,118. [More…]
In Victoria the Department of Education Technical Schools Division is a specified authority. [More…]
In Queensland the Department of Education Technical Branch, the Board of Advanced Education and the College of Nursing are specified authorities. [More…]
In South Australia there are the Department of Further Education, the Institute of Technology and Roseworthy Agricultural College. [More…]
In Western Australia there are the Department of Education Technical Division, the College of Nursing and the Pre-school Education Board. [More…]
In Tasmania the Department of Education is the specified authority. [More…]
It has been specified that, in addition to the government technical colleges, these other training institutions administered or maintained by government authorities, which provide technical vocational courses not funded through either of the tertiary education commissions, would be included in this fee abolition scheme. [More…]
Since adult education was specifically excluded from this fee abolition, all courses provided by eligible institutions were examined, in conjunction with State officials, in order to distinguish between adult education and technical vocational courses. [More…]
The States had shortly before provided detailed information on all courses in technical colleges to the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education. [More…]
In these submissions, they were requested to identify individual courses by type of qualification to be gained, whether diploma, certificate, trade certificate; by duration, whether full time, part time and/ or correspondence; and whether falling in the category of hobby and general interest adult education courses. [More…]
With minor modifications, the courses in the category of hobby-general interest and adult education courses were excluded from the application of fee abolition. [More…]
Included also are bridging and remedial courses given within the technical education framework. [More…]
As much as possible the procedures adopted for fee abolition in universities and colleges of advanced education have been followed in respect of technical education. [More…]
They have not had a chance to matriculate at school and because they were doing secondary courses they were not eligible for tertiary education grants. [More…]
We have decided to extend assistance under the tertiary allowances scheme to students in day matriculation courses provided that they had firstly completed or discontinued secondary education at least 2 years before commencing the courses. [More…]
These were education and urban affairs. [More…]
The Government has largely won the main education battle with the forces of conservatism. [More…]
Fortunately no power will ever be able to stop the forces that are now in train in education. [More…]
I suppose that we would have got back to a 50c a week increase in pensions, to per capita grants in education when the system was collapsing and to no increase in funds for Aboriginal affairs or in health or other areas. [More…]
A college of advanced education has yet to be approved. [More…]
Maybe the Opposition wants expenditure on education reduced. [More…]
I suppose this would be one, because this is one area where the Liberal Party was left by itself when the Country Party crossed the floor to vote with the Government on education grants legislation and the Schools Commission Bill. [More…]
I think that we can fairly say that the Liberal Party could be expected to reduce spending on education. [More…]
Massive campaigns have been waged by an ‘ organised minority of doctors, the health funds, industrial groups, education lobbies and others in such fields as tariffs, aid for wealthy schools, industrial relations and health. [More…]
I will not mention in detail the actions taken in respect of education. [More…]
There has been a huge increase in the grants for education throughout this country and this has benefited my electorate. [More…]
One of the things that have come to my attention is the grant of $40,000 to the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education to set up a social work course. [More…]
A grant also was made to the College of Advanced Education in Hobart for the purpose of producing more trained pre-school teachers. [More…]
In speaking to the Address-in-Reply to the Speech delivered by Her Majesty the Queen at the opening of the Second Session of the Twenty-eighth Parliament I would like firstly to draw the attention of the House to the section on education. [More…]
At all events the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education have decided that Melbourne’s fourth university should be a single-campus institution and that it should be located in the Dandenong area. [More…]
Fourth university plan likely to be scrapped the AUC headed by Professor Peter Karmel recently joined the Australian Commission on Advanced Education in publicly criticising the Victorian proposal. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) had made up his mind. [More…]
The Federal Education Minister, Mr Beazley, has studied the report and written to the Prime Minister outlining its recommendations and his views. [More…]
75m was approved for expenditure at the State college of education, formerly the teachers’ college, in order to build a resources building and a library. [More…]
This Government claims it is doing something for education. [More…]
But the effect of their action had it been adopted by other parties in the Senate would have been to cripple education during this coming year. [More…]
On the other hand, in Western Australia Sir Charles Court is making promises which would commit the Commonwealth Government to a greatly increased form of educational expenditure in that State. [More…]
It looked to me like an attempt to take some of the $701 m which the Commonwealth is finding for education over the next 2 years and to transfer it to some of their well-to-do friends. [More…]
I would also point out that the total program of government expenditure in the field of education [More…]
I would also point out that we have not yet got the report of the Committee for Technical and Further Education which will be recommending further action for the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
I believe that the actions that were taken last week in this field of technical education, which Opposition spokesmen said they welcomed, will involve additional Commonwealth expenditure. [More…]
Yes, by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
The Minister for Education said at question time that I and other members of the Liberal Party had voted against the allocation of $700m to implement the Karmel Committee recommendations. [More…]
Mr Speaker, the Minister for Education said that members of the Liberal Party, who include myself, had voted against the Karmel funds. [More…]
The field of education is probably the one in which the Government can take the greatest amount of credit for what it has been able to do. [More…]
The acceptance by the Commonwealth of a far greater share of the financial responsibility for education and the doubling of the amount that was previously allocated for this field certainly has given the educationalists of Australia the means by which they can bring about what they see as the essential educational qualities of the Australian people. [More…]
This is highlighted in the States Grants (Technical Training Fees Reimbursement) Bill 1974 by which Western Australia received $974,388 for training fees reimbursement - the Department of Education Technical Division receiving $951,648, the College of Nursing receiving $13,740 and the Pre-School Education Board receiving $9,000. [More…]
They now do not have to bear the burden of fees to better their education and thus serve the community with their greater skills. [More…]
The Australian Government is making greatly increased sums available to Western Australia for education, health and welfare, the cities and other areas in line with its national policies in these fields. [More…]
It has been evident in a nasty little bit of policy in the area of education where a whole lot of possibly good work flowing out of the Karmel report was destroyed by a nasty little bit of old fashioned socialist and class warfare ideology. [More…]
Now we know that the Government’s whole education case is fraudulent anyway, because the Government has tried to have the Australian people believe that all grants should be on the basis of relative need. [More…]
I give education as the first of any number of examples that are available. [More…]
‘Let us discuss education first. [More…]
In the area of education Commonwealth expenditure in the next 2 years alone will increase by a sum exceeding $ 1,000m. [More…]
But why should regional planning, transport and education - I am afraid I cannot chase that hare any further - be decided in Canberra, even to the extent that they are being centralised at present? [More…]
I cannot help but feel amazed at the contribution of the previous speaker, the honourable member for Curtin (Mr Garland), particularly when he said that he could not understand why education, transport or regional planning should not be matters of national interest. [More…]
It is also claimed that the Australian Labor Government’s plans, its intentions, much of its thinking and its history require it to redistribute resources away from areas of lesser importance towards areas of great national need - areas that include social welfare, the relief of poverty, education, health and the solution of quality of life problems in the cities - and that this will have an adverse effect on business in Australia. [More…]
I instance the field of education. [More…]
Does anyone deny that the extra $460m that will be spent on education will create a tremendous new area of growth that will be most important and something that every Australian would agree with? [More…]
This morning, following question time, we again had the spectacle of honourable members opposite endeavouring to make personal explanations on the grounds that they had been misrepresented collectively by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) who asserted that members of the Liberal Party had opposed the States Grants (Schools) Bill 1973. [More…]
Australians who have the interest of government and Catholic schools at heart are not going to forget easily or soon how the honourable member for Wannon held up the States Grants (Schools) Bill late last year in a last ditch effort to exact $114m overwhelmingly for the benefit of children who already enjoy an education of very high quality. [More…]
The -Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has appointed to his staff Mr Kirwan, whom I remember well in this place. [More…]
The Minister for Education appointed him as his private secretary on a salary of about $10,000 a year plus perks. [More…]
Knowing the reputation of the Minister for Education, I would be inclined to believe that suggestion. [More…]
I am very pleased that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is in the chamber. [More…]
The Kindergarten Union of New South Wales is laying the blame at the door of the Federal Government for not fulfilling its promise of assistance for pre-school education. [More…]
It is obvious that differences exist between the Minister for Education and the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden), and also differences between the Federal Government and the New South Wales Government on how federal funds should be spent. [More…]
I have every regard for the Minister for Education in this House and no doubt we will hear from him shortly with regard to this statement. [More…]
There was agreement on the relative benefits of full day care and pre-school education. [More…]
Kindergartens are in a dilemma and I appeal to our Federal Minister for Education to see what can be done to overcome this impasse. [More…]
New South Wales for many years has had the worst record in pre-school and kindergarten education of any State of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) wrote to all the State Premiers on 21 January, asking them for their plans in pre-school education. [More…]
I am just a little tired of these sorts of complaints from the State Government of New South Wales and I told my distinguished colleague, the Minister for Education from New South Wales, that he had a very simple formula and he lives on this very simple formula. [More…]
I was most fascinated tonight to hear the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) assert that funds provided for education on the recommendation of the Karmel Committee were in addition to funds which were already being expended on education in this country. [More…]
The point is that, prior to the 1972 election, the now Minister for Education and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) had solemnly promised to the people of Australia on platform after platform in words spoken and in words written that assistance in this area, in particular state aid, would be in addition to current commitments and expenditure which was already Commonwealth expenditure. [More…]
Tonight and, indeed, this year, we have heard the Minister for Education revert to this principle which he avowed before the election but which he deserted or was possibly forced by this Party to desert last year. [More…]
We did everything we could to hold the Government to its promise that Karmel recommended funds would be in addition to those funds which were presently being expended on education in this country. [More…]
It has become clear only in recent days that this Labor Government, where it has a primary responsibility for education, is in fact pursuing in an almost literal and perfect sense what we would regard as a proper policy for education. [More…]
It is fascinating to find the Minister for Education now going back to his principles. [More…]
It is some embarrassment, obviously, to some hoourable members opposite, that the Government is prepared to pursue sound policies, which the Liberal Party and Country Party would support completely, where it has a basic responsibility for education. [More…]
Are you suggesting that the Victorian Government does not want any Commonwealth money for education in Victoria? [More…]
It appears that both the Victorian Department of Education and the Victorian Department of Public Works have adverse things to say about one another. [More…]
Generally speaking, I think the Department of Education feels that the Department of Public Works cannot build new schools and the Department of Public Works thinks that not sufficient attention is paid to maintenance. [More…]
In the Northern Territory school facilities such as libraries, open space areas, classrooms, craft rooms and playing fields are made available to local communities for formal activities such as adult education and informal recreational and social activities. [More…]
In the Northern Territory approximately 3,000 people were enrolled in adult education classes using school faculties during 1973. [More…]
But the conviction of the Government was that what the Fry report recommended was not fast enough in view of the spread of pre-school education throughout Australia. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Education been drawn to charges made last evening on the television program “This Day Tonight’ that the New South Wales Government is hostile to distributing special Federal funds for disadvantaged schools on the basis of need as required by both the Karmel report and the Australian Government? [More…]
I think it would be fair to say that Victoria and New South Wales object to the Commonwealth earmarking educational grants for any purpose. [More…]
The ideal from their point of view is a one line budget of a grant for education and for them to decide what they will spend it on. [More…]
I have written to all State Ministers for Education asking for the criteria on which they have nominated disadvantaged schools and the expenditure programs they intend to implement. [More…]
The primary function of the Committee to which I have referred and which will report to me through the Minister for Education and Science will be to make recommendations to the Government on Australian efforts in civil science and technology. [More…]
I had been involved in this area on 2 occasions as Minister for Education and Science. [More…]
These include continuation of war pensions for children in full time education, regardless of age, the recognition of de facto wives and ex-nuptial children and continued payment of [More…]
These include the war widow’s pension and domestic allowance, the pensions for war orphans and widowed mothers and the allowances under the soldiers’ children education scheme. [More…]
The Government believes there has long been a need to restructure and improve Government machinery for assistance to the arts if they are to keep pace with the needs and aspirations of a growing population and rising levels of education. [More…]
This is an area where additional attention has been required and 1 am glad to see that what the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) did when he commissioned the special report of the Australian Universities Commission in, I think, the middle of last year was in conformity with actions that had been taken by the previous Government. [More…]
I am glad to note that the Minister has extended to the university area decisions that we had taken in the middle of 1972 concerning colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I remind the House that in that year the then Government decided that the Commonwealth should share in the financing of all government teachers colleges on the same basis as it shared in the financing of universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
When I was Minister for Education I asked the Australian Commission on Advanced Education to establish a special committee to look into the needs of the State teachers colleges. [More…]
While substantial progress has been made in many areas of education in recent years, I am concerned that further development should occur in meeting the needs of those children who are handicapped or who have special learning difficulties. [More…]
The training of greater numbers of specialist teachers is the factor which will make the greatest impact in these areas and the Government sees its new program of assistance to teacher education as providing opportunities for the introduction of additional special courses as well as assisting the development of teacher education in general. [More…]
For the Opposition, I would only say that what the Minister did last year in relation to the Australian Universities Commission was a logical extension into the university area of action that had already been taken with colleges of advanced education and State teachers col-, leges. [More…]
by leave - I certainly would like to support the statement and the report tabled by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
There has been a difficulty for some time with respect to the provision of teachers in the area of special education. [More…]
Through our related policies on roads, on making up the sewerage backlog, on urban public transport investment, on the environment, on education, on social welfare programmes and on health we are also seeking to bring an end to the isolated and incomplete development of new urban areas. [More…]
There is increasing evidence that sufficiently widespread motivation for limiting family size cannot be produced without more families becoming aware that their standard of living is rising, including benefiting from a higher level of education, especially for women. [More…]
They need more food, more jobs, better distribution of income, new labour-intensive technologies and better access to health and education facilities. [More…]
All reports which the Government has commissioned have been tabled; for example, the Coombs Task Force report; the Priorities Review Committee report; the Green and White Papers on Health Insurance; the Aboriginal Land Rights Commission - First Report; the Protection Commission Inquiry; a report from the Social Welfare Commission concerning Aged Person’s Housing; the First Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Land Tenures; the Re-organisation of the Defence Group of Departments; the Care and Education of Young Children - a report of the Australian Pre-schools Committee; report of the Advisory Committee on CES Employment Statistics, and many others. [More…]
A developing world, in short, in which death and disease are rampant, education and employment scarce, squalor and stagnation prominent, and opportunity and the realisation of personal potential drastically limited. [More…]
More than 6 per cent of the total world output is devoted to the military - 2i times what all governments spend on health, li times what is spent on education and 30 times what is spent on development aid. [More…]
The Agency should also undertake a program of public education in aid and development issues to make Australians more conscious of their obligations to other countries. [More…]
These include $2.4m for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to provide for award wage employment of Aboriginals formerly employed under the training allowance scheme in the Northern Territory; S5.285m for the Department of Education, including $l.lm for secondary grants to Aboriginals and $1.3m for assistance to isolated children; SI 1.5m for the Department of Foreign Affairs for payment under the National Wheat Agreement - Food Aid Convention; $5.1m for the Department of the Media for increased costs of the Australian Broadcasting Commission; S1.5m for the Department of Minerals and Energy for oil search subsidies; SO. [More…]
The other problem which I can see emerging from our aid programs and which I would hope that .the Agency might turn to is that over the years, because of the nature of our Commonwealth involvement originally and then because of the constitution of a system which seems to have been successful, we have pursued a very extensive Colombo Plan aid educational program which has brought a great deal of opportunity to people who might otherwise have been denied it. [More…]
It will be recalled that the Prime Minister of Singapore said that Australia was retaining persons who had come to Australia for education and that those people were not going back to Singapore to help Singapore in its developing programs. [More…]
Perhaps we ought to be assisting in specific projects of public health in those areas and also in the general field of elementary education. [More…]
I do not believe that we ought to be concerned either with secondary or with tertiary education but it is important, I believe, that we make an onslaught on the growing problem of illiteracy. [More…]
Even though the western countries have had systems of universal education, for quite a number of years the problem of illiteracy in the world taken as a whole has not improved very markedly. [More…]
If we have an elementary system of education which gives the people the basis of reading and writing we can build on it in future years. [More…]
In this regard I want to touch particularly in my remarks on the question of education aid. [More…]
When this debate was adjourned last night I was in the midst of some remarks directed in particular to Australia’s development aid overseas in the field of education. [More…]
Insofar as the Agency is to administer this fund, I hope that in the establishment of its organisation it will pay particular attention to the manner in which that portion of the aid to be provided under the heading of education is to be administered. [More…]
The university could thus become a nerve centre for Australia’s overseas aid in the education field. [More…]
While it is undoubtedly rewarding for overseas students to have tertiary education in Australia, the ultimate aim of our aid in the education field should be to expand the development in the developing countries. [More…]
Unfortunately, too many of the overseas students who come to this country, who benefit themselves, then do not return to their countries to make the sort of contribution that the dollar of aid provided in Australia would make if the education support were given by us in the developing countries. [More…]
It is my hope that when it is established the aid agency will give serious consideration to the value that we are now receiving for our contribution in the area of education aid by concentrating on bringing overseas students to Australia. [More…]
But we have tended to concentrate on that method of providing education aid at a time when circumstances have changed and the needs of the developing countries have become more for education aid in their own countries. [More…]
They need education aid in this technical area for the teaching and training of agricultural extension workers and of community nurses and doctors to go out into the villages. [More…]
So often some of the people who are trained in Australia either stay here or leave Australia and go to other developed countries or return to the urban centres of the underdeveloped world when the places to which they need to return are the rural areas of underdeveloped countries so that the standards of the poor can be raised, so that health facilities can be improved and so that the opportunities for education can be expanded. [More…]
We should concentrate more and more on providing education so that the scope and abilities of the people in the developing countries can be expanded. [More…]
A developing world, in short, in which death and disease are rampant, education and employment scarce, squalor and stagnation prominent, and opportunity and the realisation of personal potential drastically limited. [More…]
The Department of Education administered the . [More…]
Commonwealth Co-operation in Education scheme, and played a substantial role as a training authority for government-sponsored trainees under all aid schemes. [More…]
Indeed, I think someone raised in the debate on this Bill in the other place the question of the Institute’s association with the College of Advanced Education. [More…]
It is actively seeking the establishment of a tourist information and education bureau on the Island. [More…]
As for tourism, increasing technology - particularly in the aviation area - longer holidays, higher incomes, better education and the accelerating affluence of the developing countries mean that mass travel is now a fact of national and international life. [More…]
Schooling for Aboriginal children at Yirrkala, or at any of the schools formerly administered by the Welfare Branch of the Department of the Interior, was not compulsory until December 1973, when by amendment to the Northern Territory Education Ordinance, compulsory education was extended to all Northern Territory children between the ages of 6 and 15, subject to accessibility to school facilities. [More…]
the setting up of local education committees to ensure that children will be more strongly encouraged through the deeper involvement of the local Aboriginal Council. [More…]
If the rumours I heard prior to standing in my place to make this speech about supply being stopped or curbed there will be even further delays, as there will be delays in supplying this country with the necessary funds to get on with tasks in the fields of health, education and many other areas where this Government has made such a mark in such a short space of time. [More…]
We would be concerned with social welfare, health and education programs, and we are determined that there would be no better systems of social welfare, health and education in any other country. [More…]
We have published our policies on preschool education and child care. [More…]
Did the Labor Party have a mandate to break the firm commitment given by the Prime Minister and others in respect of Labor’s education program? [More…]
In the last few years under the previous Go.ernment estimates were given that the state of Australian education, that all-important matter of Australian education - our children growing up - was so sick and sorry that $ 1400m over 5 years was required to put it right. [More…]
That was the result of a survey by State Ministers for Education and their respective bodies. [More…]
In our first year we doubled the spending on education. [More…]
We spent it on education, housing and social services, the things the Opposition neglected for 23 years. [More…]
We spent $700m, in round figures, on education in our first year and the success that has attended the efforts of this first Labor Government in so long is what produces the Opposition’s hysteria and its hatred, and causes it to resort to subterfuge, dishonesty and to trying to feil all the people all the time. [More…]
Let the listeners hear what the Opposition says and then weigh those words against the facts as they now know them - full prosperity in the Australian community, something that did not exist 18 months ago; full employment, something that did not exist 18 months ago; education being put right, something that was not being done 18 months ago; housing being put right, something that was not being done 18 months ago; social services being put right, something that was not being done 18 months ago. [More…]
Responsibility for the Child Care Act was transferred to the Department of Education and it is wholly unamended. [More…]
It was attended by, among other members, the Premier of Victoria and the Minister for Education, the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in New South Wales. [More…]
I stated also that the Minister for Education, the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in New South Wales, was there - that is Mr Willis. [More…]
This is why there have been so few changes to the original recommendations that came forward even though I, for one, would have preferred to see the area of Applecross go back to Fremantle or some other area where the people are orientated in education, work, shopping and so on. [More…]
For instance, as Minister for Education in Canberra I have noted that there are 2 Catholic schools, built not so very long ago, that now have no children in them. [More…]
The honourable member for Gwyder (Mr Hunt), who acquired wide knowledge of this subject during the time in which it came under his ministerial responsibility, will no doubt be in agreement with what has been said by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
As the Minister for Education said, we did not know of the events that were to come and naturally we did not have to rush this matter. [More…]
Are they against the principles of government financed education? [More…]
It would set out to slow down education reform. [More…]
But as the people are well aware, the relic Opposition majority in the Senate has continually blocked major items of our mandate - our policies on health, education, social welfare, urban living, land acquisition- [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has granted $43.5m to the States for the education of the handicapped and $ 11.08m for the teaching of the handicapped. [More…]
That includes the provision of $1.5m under the report of the Special Committee on Teacher Education - the Cohen Committee. [More…]
The commitment of ‘the Commonwealth Government to the provision of a sum approaching $60m this year and next year for the education of the handicapped will include, of course, an attack on the illiteracy that originates in the handicapped. [More…]
As to the illiteracy of ethnic origin, the honourable member will recall that $5.25m was envisaged by the Commonwealth Government as being necessary for the capital works for migrant education so that classrooms could be built into which the children could withdraw for teaching in English. [More…]
If a child does his fundamental primary education in the language of the heart the transference to English is made easier. [More…]
We are convinced - a statement I will be making tomorrow will deal with this aspect - that there are many examples of adult illiteracy which ought to be dealt with in technical and further education and that it should be a function- [More…]
Much is being done to improve the training and the professional education of servicemen. [More…]
lt will provide, in the one establishment, education at a tertiary level for officer cadets of all 3 Services, for some cadets from overseas, and for selected serving officers. [More…]
These consist of grants to cover the cost of repair and restoration of assets of the University of Queensland and the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
On matters such as tariffs and education the Liberal Party went one way and the Country Party went the other. [More…]
Would it be education? [More…]
The education vote has been doubled and in every way, right throughout this country, tremendous prosperity has been brought to Australian people. [More…]
The implication is that unless absolutely draconian cuts were to be made at the Australian Government level, expenditure reductions to be effective would need to extend to the State local government sectors, which sectors are of course responsible for a wide variety of essential public services and facilities, ranging from education to sewerage. [More…]
Another report states that a Liberal Government would consider cutting expenditure in all fields, including education, health and transport. [More…]
I will not delay the House very long because the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has a very important matter to bring before the House. [More…]
By leave - I table the report of the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education. [More…]
The report, which I venture to predict will be known as the Kangan report, will revolutionise technical education in Australia. [More…]
The operative word is education’. [More…]
These needs include opportunities to attain the highest skills, the most modern technology and the services of a type of education offered, especially in country areas, by community colleges, which I might define as multi-level institutions combining technical and advanced education courses. [More…]
They can avoid unnecessary duplication with other types of advanced education. [More…]
The report takes a long step in the direction of ‘lifelong’ education and of opportunities for re-entry to education. [More…]
It recommends unrestricted access for adults to vocationally oriented education. [More…]
Its initial programs support existing technical colleges, improve educational quality and lay the foundations for marked improvement in the next triennium. [More…]
The report breaks the exclusive right of other forms of education to student residences- by setting aside $4m for the residences of technical college students. [More…]
Almost 70 per cent of men and over 80 per cent of women in the labour force have no formal educational qualification at the trade, technician or vocational level or a degree. [More…]
They do not have anything approaching equality of access to vocational education with those preparing for a livelihood by attendance at a university or in more recent times at a college of advanced education. [More…]
The concept central to this Report is the provision of unrestricted access to post-school education through government maintained or administered institutions not already assisted through the Australian Universities Commission or the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
be described as the removal of barriers from and the introduction of encouragement of entry into technical and further education by all adults. [More…]
These were: Firstly, opportunities for technical and further education should be available to people of all ages regardless of minimum formal educational entry requirements or of current employment status. [More…]
This principle is designed to ensure that throughout life recurrent education should give priority to the needs of the individual as a person and to his or her development as a member of society, including the development of non-vocational and social skills that affect personality. [More…]
The second guideline chosen by the Committee was that the broader the approach in technical and further education the more the likelihood of creating an environment in which self motivated individuals can reach their vocational goals and in which motivation may be regenerated in people who have lost it. [More…]
These were: That the assistance given to the States should commence on 1 July 1974; the Committee was to determine needs within priorities; it was to advise how the status of technical and further education might be raised; the development of technical and further education was to be well balanced; it was required to consider the human problems of access to education, of manpower policies, of the range of vocational education available now and needed in the future, and of the quality and volume of resources required to meet needs; its measures of assistance to the States should be additional to the States’ own efforts and not substitutes for the States’ own efforts; and, the amount, the allocation, and the conditions of financial assistance were to be recommended. [More…]
Since some States seem to have difficulty in assigning resources to technical and further education the Committee has made an important offer of immediate assistance with what I can perhaps call a bonus for efficiency. [More…]
A specific purpose recurrent expenditure grant of $lm should be made available to the States to work towards furthering the concept of recurrent education and unrestricted access to vocationally oriented education, of which a minimum of 10 per cent should be earmarked for assistance to handicapped persons and a further minimum of 10 per cent to develop facilities to alleviate barriers to access discouraging ethnic groups, including means of converting overseas qualifications to local equivalents. [More…]
The specific purpose includes the easing of entry requirements for courses, access to assessments or awards of qualification without requirement for formal class attendance, extension of preparatory, bridging, transfer and other courses for educational assistance, including meeting adult needs related to primary and secondary schooling. [More…]
The Committee was asked to take into account overall manpower policy and national and local occupational requirements; the optimum use of resources; the emerging needs of industry, commerce and governments as they adjust to technological economic and social change; and community attitudes and the needs and aspirations of individuals seeking to undertake courses in technical and further education. [More…]
The report sets out in detail the scope and powers and terms of reference of a permanent Commission on Technical and Further Education, to succeed the Committee, and if members read this section they will see that the Committee has been acutely sensitive to the needs of the States, empowering the projected Commission to take into account cost escalation factors and allowing for supplementary submissions for additional capital funds required because of unforeseen changes in contracting and similar circumstances. [More…]
The concept of technical education is not as precise as some imagine and the concept of further education is a somewhat elusive one. [More…]
The Committee suggests that at the very least the scope of technical and further education should be: [More…]
all forms of education provided in post-school or other educational institutions by means of which individuals equip themselves for the exercise of occupations in such fields as industry, agriculture, commerce, and community services, and [More…]
all adult education designed to prepare or retrain any person for employment, change in employment or promotion within employment in any branch of economic activity. [More…]
It asserts, in the Government’s view rightly, that overlapping of courses between secondary schools and technical colleges and between technical colleges and colleges of advanced education could be beneficial, because such overlapping could allow adults greater access to recurrent education. [More…]
Boldly the report accepts the proposition that some adults need some aspects of a primary education, to make good the years that the locust has eaten, to compensate for disadvantages of residence in early life in deprived localities, or for migrant, ethnic or linguistic disadvantages. [More…]
Technical and further education includes agricultural education. [More…]
The section on relevance to employment provides for educational liaison with manpower authorities in government, employer organisations, and employee organisations while never losing sight of the objective that individuals should be able to plan to develop their potentialities, regardless of any of these interest groups. [More…]
I am particularly grateful for the study of general barriers to access to technical and further education. [More…]
The Committee faces the special problems of access to technical education opportunities in the rural areas, pointing out that we too readily accept the view that there are too few people in one place to justify expensive educational resources within their immediate locality. [More…]
The Report comments: Local industry and commerce may provide only a limited range of occupation and employment opportunities, and the distance from universities and colleges of advanced education restricts attendance at courses to those able and prepared to live away from home. [More…]
The lack of an educational chance can lead to apathy and disillusion. [More…]
The Committee reacts sensitively and creatively to the disabilities experienced by girls and women, married or single, who have greater barriers to access to technical and further education than boys and men. [More…]
The reactionary notion that it is only boys and men who need career and vocational education and training is too powerful and is rejected as totally invalid. [More…]
The Committee is of the view that the proposed Commission should make special provision within its organisation for continuous consultation with State authorities to remove any access problems women have to courses within technical and further education. [More…]
The report suggests the ending of a powerful and probably unconscious discrimination against the handicapped in technical and further education. [More…]
Up to the present, technical and further education has contributed Little to the rehabilitation of handicapped adolescents and adults. [More…]
The very design of buildings limits chances of access to such education for many of the handicapped. [More…]
The Committee points out the value of further education in developing basic skills for the handicapped as an adjunct to the development of capacity in technology, or any other vocational field, including the alleviation of illiteracy. [More…]
The main features of the report are perhaps: The provision of unrestricted access for adults to vocationally oriented education - involving the removal of barriers discouraging adults; the shift of emphasis to needs of people as individuals - this implies that we abandon the concept that technical colleges exist simply to meet the manpower needs of industry; technical colleges should become a competing alternative to universities and colleges - not just through better buildings and services, but by greater attention to course content, student motivation [More…]
and community interest; greater flexibility in entry requirements and in attendance requirements; particular attention should be paid to adapting technical and further education to the needs of women, handicapped, country students and migrants; the development of further education - the concept ranging from adult literacy and primary education to advanced studies and technology as an integral part of the education structure open to all; the provision of better means of pre-service teacher education, in consultation with the Commission on Advanced Education; the report seeks to foster community colleges in country areas - multi-level institutions combining technical and advanced education courses and avoiding unnecessary duplication, the funding to be in the hands of the Commission primarily responsible for the particular courses, in consultation with the other; technical colleges should contribute to developing new approaches to apprenticeship training; initial programs are designed to upgrade existing technical colleges, improve educational quality, and lay foundations for substantial improvements in the next triennium. [More…]
Issues are raised and solutions proffered as basis for action by a permanent technical and further education commission. [More…]
the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
My Party congratulates the Minister for Education upon his meaningful contribution and thought to promoting the idea of education of the whole man and woman. [More…]
If one wanted to be critical of all the governments of all political creeds in the past one could accuse them of showing some neglect in this vital area of technical education. [More…]
It can be argued that too much emphasis has been placed on the professional type of education. [More…]
We appreciate the sentiments expressed by the Minister about women undertaking technical education. [More…]
Those of us who live in rural areas and understand the very great difficulties of country men, women and children iri obtaining access to technical education are appreciative of the new idea of the making available of money for the construction of residences for students who attend technical colleges. [More…]
When the time comes for the plan to be implemented I hope that some of these residences will be built in the rural cities and rural towns and that they will not all be built in the large areas of education. [More…]
The report of the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education - the Kangan Committee - will probably make it much easier for them to have their qualifications recognised and for them to receive a salary that is commensurate with their very great skills. [More…]
For too long the emphasis placed on the education of handicapped children has been open to criticism. [More…]
If we are to make available to the farming community all the modern discoveries and the increased technology that comes from research it is vitally important that the farmers of tomorrow have access to education which will allow them to apply the findings and discoveries of science more readily to their own calling. [More…]
I congratulate the Minister on the part of his statement which laid very strong emphasis on the right of the adult person to continue his education even though he may not have had the benefit of a formal education in his youth. [More…]
They involve departments and institutions other than my own - Education, Labour, Social Security, Environment and Conservation, Urban and Regional Development, the Council for the Arts and the like. [More…]
What progress has been made by the committee of the Australian Universities Commission appointed to advise on an open university and open tertiary education in general. [More…]
Is it anticipated that the Australian Universities Commission will recommend funds for 1974 for the development of this type of education. [More…]
The Committee has had discussions with the representatives of a number of tertiary institutions and bodies about open tertiary education. [More…]
The Australian Pre-Schools Committee in its recent report ‘Care and Education of Young Children’, tabled in Parliament on 11 December 1973 estimated the following numbers of Day Care Centres: [More…]
The reports of the Kangan Committee on Technical and Further Education and the Cochrane Committee on Adult Training and Retraining provide a valuable basis for the development of an integrated manpower strategy for Australia. [More…]
There will be a Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
This finds special expression in the national Government’s involvement in education. [More…]
A major initiative in education during this Parliament will be the development and implementation of programs for the care and education of pre-school children. [More…]
During this Parliament the Government will be considering the Universities Commission’s Report on Open Tertiary Education and the development of appropriate measures in this area. [More…]
Along with the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), I was in this place in 1946 when Nick McKenna was first elected to the Chifley Cabinet and as the Minister for Educa tion said, his was a most distinguished contribution to the work of that Cabinet. [More…]
In conclusion, I point out that the Minister for Education who spoke a little while ago mentioned the 4 surviving members of the 19 Chifley Ministers- [More…]
need - whether it be for nutrition, for Oslo lunches, or for giving grants sponsored perhaps by my colleague, the Minister for Education, to help institutions which have financial difficulties and which are bound to provide nutrition for children attending those institutions. [More…]
Do we not do this in the case of education? [More…]
We do this with education and protection against fire. [More…]
When that is done, the people and this Parliament will have to take into account the other expensive proposals of this Government - education, preschool education, hospital construction, the new compensation scheme- [More…]
More recently, increasing emphasis has been placed - especially by IDA but also by the IBRD to a limited extent - on projects with greater social implications and more direct benefits for the masses or needy people in developing countries, in such fields as education, urban renewal, population control, public health and sewerage, and improved agricultural credit and extension services for small farmers. [More…]
Thus, loans have been made to assist the development of infrastructure facilities in the electric power, transport and communications sectors as well as for agriculture, water supply and education projects. [More…]
Let me however make it quite clear that I am not talking about cities, housing, education, nor am I criticising the abolition of the means test or suggesting that there is no need for reform in the social welfare area. [More…]
The staff of the Minister for Housing and Construction told me - and I think this is not unnatural - that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) regards the building of these schools as ‘extremely urgent’. [More…]
Whether the Government or the Minister for Education thinks that a proposed work is urgent is not really what is meant by those words in the Act. [More…]
The second, and perhaps the most serious, aspect of the Minister’s statement is the pressure put on this House to accept the urgency of these proposals not only because the Minister for Education has said that they are urgent but also because it appears that the Government has made a deal with the tenderer or tenderers to eliminate the rise and fall clause provided, as I understand it, that the tenders are let by Monday next. [More…]
I am pleased that the Parliament will allow these schools to be completed in the space of time which the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) believes is necessary in the interests of the people of the Northern Territory. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has already presented the report of the Committee on Technical and Further Education in Australia which provides the basis for government thinking on the institutional base. [More…]
They must be integrated with related economic and social policies in the areas of industry development, social welfare and education. [More…]
Special attention would be given to the problems of those people who missed out in the normal process of education and training and who seek education and training opportunities at a later age. [More…]
It is a situation which the Government, through the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), ought to do something to try to overcome. [More…]
The allowances involved are child education allowances payable to servicemen posted to a new location, generally to cover extra costs associated with the continued education of a child at the former location, separation allowances, livingout allowances, living away from home allowances and retention of lodgings allowances. [More…]
I put this to honourable members opposite in a non-party way: Why do they insist that the public servants who served them well and who serve the Government well - people who are apolitical inasmuch as anybody can be apolitical, people who are dedicated through a sense of professionalism or skill .born of training, education and dedication - take a bible into their hands and swear upon it? [More…]
Is the Minister for Education aware that government primary schools at Victorian centres such as Antonio Park, Croydon North and Hallam in Victoria, which had expected to get primary school libraries with Karmel grants this year or next year, are now being told that these libraries will not be built until 1976 or later? [More…]
If the Victorian Education Department is incapable of providing plans for libraries will the Minister consider amending the States Grants (Schools) Act 1973 so that grants can be given directly to the school organisations concerned and they can get on with the job? [More…]
My question is also directed to the Minister for Education and concerns grants for 1974 and 1975. [More…]
I draw the honourable gentleman’s attention to the fact that $46m was appropriated by both sides of this Parliament for technical education. [More…]
We also had to take account of our commitments to other programs of high priority such as education, health and social welfare and above all of the general state of the economy. [More…]
Another problem is education. [More…]
If one asks the local people in the Northern Territory about education, they say: ‘Yes, we must be in control of education - of primary education at least. [More…]
Is self-government worth anything if it does not control education in the primary and secondary field? [More…]
The Governor-General put this in its right perspective when he referred to the provision as a major initiative in education. [More…]
It is not sufficient to ensure that job advertisements must not specify that the applicant must be of one particular sex, necessary though such legislation is, if there is not the same opportunity to get the same standard of education in whatever field may be desired. [More…]
of a State legislature controlling functions such as education, health and law and order. [More…]
I believe also that it is anomalous for Ministers who are responsible for over all nation-wide policy in a particular field, such as health or education, to be called upon to make decisions about domestic arrangements in their field in Canberra. [More…]
To claim that statutory authorities made up of local citizens in areas such as health and education should be responsible to the Minister is to say to our citizens that we do not trust their ability to elect representatives who can make responsible judgments about the local administration of health and education. [More…]
The Government believes there has long been a need to restructure and improve government machinery for assistance to the arts if they are to keep pace with the needs and aspirations of a growing population and rising levels of education. [More…]
It has been done in many areas such as education. [More…]
Its education program alone is going to cost many millions of dollars. [More…]
We do not know what is the state of the Army Cadet Corps because we have been told that schools will lose their per capita education grants if they have compulsory army cadet corps. [More…]
The usual prerequisite for admission is that a child is so handicapped as to need special equipment and attention beyond that provided through general education services. [More…]
The training provided is broad and includes vocational and prevocational training; remedial, educational, ambulatory and social training; and occupational and speech therapy. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]
The Australian Government appropriated $10m for pre-school education and $8. [More…]
The Sl Om for pre-school education was the subjeot of one of the Bills rejected in the [More…]
When I say ‘at least’, we are not now precisely aware of the amount because in 14 colleges of advanced education and teachers colleges, in addition to kindergarten teachers colleges, there are now courses for pre-school teachers, and we cannot dissect from the general expenditure yet what is the amount allocated in that pre-school training direction. [More…]
One does not judge the quality of education, for instance, by the fact that school teachers teach larger classes rather than smaller ones. [More…]
You would take the opposite point of view if you were an educationist. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]
I present the report by the Tertiary Education (Services’ Cadet Colleges) Committee, January 1970. [More…]
This would leave more money to the Government for education, health and matters of that nature. [More…]
It does not have to take from the taxpayers moneys which can be devoted to education and social welfare. [More…]
Department of Education I would get special dispensations for my children to leave school at the age of 14. [More…]
Consider the situation of a young person with a wife and several children, who has to pay off a house and pay for furniture, a car - an essential item for most people these days, just by the nature of labour requirements - education, health and a multitude of obligations which we all accept, and gladly accept, in our desire to give our families an opportunity. [More…]
He is also a member of the education, science and arts committee of this parliament as well as the library committee. [More…]
If this is correct, how can the Minister justify, in view of the fact that funds are not available for preschool education, the expenditure of some $1 65m to$200m of taxpayers’ money on a Cooper Basin-Sydney pipeline when a pipeline from Bass Strait to Sydney, with links to Wollongong, Newcastle and Canberra, would cost approximately $120m and give those cities a guaranteed supply from known reserves for at least 20 years? [More…]
As for the honourable member’s equating the expenditure on the pipeline with pre-school education, it is a complete fallacy both in logic and in finance. [More…]
Is the Minister for Education satisfied with the manner in which various State governments, particularly the New South Wales Government, are dispensing special grants provided by the Australian Government for disadvantaged schools? [More…]
The States Grants (Schools) Act provides that the Federal Minister for Education needs to be satisfied with the list of disadvantaged schools which is provided by a State government. [More…]
A school is disadvantaged if it needs to put on extra teachers to teach English, but otherwise it has been found that because of the amount of backing in Italian and Greek homes, for instance, that a child gets - the headmistresses and headmasters of New South Wales schools have said this to me - migrant children in very many cases are among the least disadvantaged because their motivation to education is so good, and that almost invariably the disadvantaged children are [More…]
Firstly, there is education. [More…]
Surely the responsibility for the making of decisions about primary and secondary education must be an essential function of self government. [More…]
The Department of Education was quite open about this matter when it gave evidence to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Northern Territory, lt said: ‘Self government certainly is a good thing and, generally speaking, we believe in local involvement, but policy decisions about Northern Territory education ought to be made in Canberra.’ [More…]
I said during the election campaign that I could not match the Prime Minister’s promise on preschool education. [More…]
If the Leader of the Opposition and other honourable gentlemen were to read the report of the committee of inquiry into preschool education by Miss Fry which was tabled about 8 months ago, the report by the Australian Social Welfare Commission which was tabled yesterday and the report by the Priorities Review Staff which also was tabled yesterday, they would see that this is a very complex matter; that in fact there are very great difficulties in carrying out a program of care and education of children before they go to primary school, particularly in the light of the varied circumstances in the different States. [More…]
The program for the care and education of children before they go to primary school will not be as extensive or expensive as we had thought it would be this financial year, but I can assure honourable members that we will embark on a program which will in fact cater for children with proper economic and social priorities. [More…]
The average expenditure by the LiberalCountry Party Government, which preceded the present Government and in which the right honourable gentleman was the final Treasurer, on pre-school education and child care was S5m a year. [More…]
Furthermore, under my Government the expenditures on primary education, secondary education, technical education, universities, colleges of advanced education and postgraduate education have multiplied many times. [More…]
Spending on pre-schools and other education programs will increase under us but degree of the increase must be restrained. [More…]
It has education proposals and proposals for pre-school and child care, a superannuation scheme, a compensation scheme and social welfare schemes. [More…]
It does not deal with the difficulties associated with preschool education - the social consequences of child care activities. [More…]
When the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) delivered the policy speech for his Party on 29 April of this year he gave the clearest of undertakings regarding child care services - and I use that term ‘child care services’ for the sake of convenience to cover both preschool education and child care in the sense that we understand it. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) by way of soft and, as one would expect from him, courteous interjection said that the report of the staff of the Priorities Review Committee now available this week is different from the one available last year. [More…]
When the Fry Committee report was tabled, my friend the Minister for Education was ill and the special Minister of State (Mr Lionel Bowen) acted on his behalf as the Acting Minister for Education. [More…]
I come now to the views put by my friend the Minister for Education on 2 March 1974, shortly before we went on our way, cheerfully or otherwise, to Philippi. [More…]
But the conviction of the Government was that what the Fry report recommended was not fast enough in view of the spread of pre-school education throughout Australia. [More…]
When the Special Minister of State, as the Acting Minister for Education, made his statement in this House in February he said that action in this field is required urgently. [More…]
When my friend the Minister for Education spoke on this matter in this House in March he said that the whole program of the Government was to accelerate. [More…]
Firstly, I should like to congratulate the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) on his first exercise as Opposition spokesman on education. [More…]
The problem is getting the buildings erected in competition with other forms of educational buildings. [More…]
For instance, it does not take into account the $4.6m that is being spent on the training of teachers at the present time and an unidentifiable amount of money that is being spent on training people at colleges of advanced education. [More…]
There is also the view that women have a more viable place in society and a role that will add to the work force many women who wish to work for the personal satisfaction of using their education, their skills and their creativity. [More…]
I agree with the Opposition that education and particularly child care are matters of great public importance. [More…]
But I go further and say that the Whitlam Labor Government has made the Australian Parliament aware of the important role that the Parliament can play in education whether at the tertiary, secondary, primary or pre-school level. [More…]
Prior to the election of the Labor Government, the performance of the Australian Government in the area of education had been most restricted. [More…]
The tabling of these reports reflects the high level of interest taken in child care and other education matters by this Government. [More…]
I hope that the interest will spread to the whole field of education. [More…]
In the 20 months that I have been a member of this Parliament, the performance of the Opposition in matters affecting education has been most miserable. [More…]
In the 23 years prior to the election of this Labor Government, I was able to watch through my involvement in education just what the Liberal-Country Party coalition did with respect to education. [More…]
Its record was a miserable one of limited interest in tertiary education with some action taken at the secondary level to provide libraries and science blocks and to grant Commonwealth scholarships. [More…]
Since the Labor Party has been in office, the attitude of the Liberal-Country parties in the way in which they think about and react to initiatives in education have not changed. [More…]
After a certain time has elapsed it has been given the nod, as have many other organisations, as has been indicated by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
We have brought forward positive policies in relation to immigration, education, all areas of government, exercising a degree of restraint in the national interest. [More…]
Governments have increased social welfare payments, they have become more heavily committed to education, and they have provided services in those areas where free enterprise showed no interest or have taken over those services where free enterprise was unable to make a profit. [More…]
During the 1950s interest in activity developed in public health education programs, in certain areas of cancer registration and in cancer research. [More…]
Each State has a public and professional education program, a research program and several States have a patient welfare program. [More…]
National cancer control has been seriously inhibited by lack of funds for basic research, for the application of research knowledge to the practical management of cancer, for public education and for patient welfare. [More…]
These include the training of young workers, environmental cancer, skin cancer in Australia, viruses and cancer, appli-cation of present knowledge to cancer man agement, professional education, social problems of cancer and health screening. [More…]
to (7) There are two main areas of Australian Government activity in what might broadly be termed computer education. [More…]
Firstly, on the recommendation of the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education funds have been provided to survey the existing uses of computers in education in Australia and to suggest options for possible future lines of development. [More…]
Secondly, at the request of the Commission on Advanced Education a report is being prepared under contract with terms of reference covering the future needs for professional training at the tertiary level in computer and related studies. [More…]
A final report has not yet been submitted but it is expected to be submitted to the Commission on Advanced Education by December 1974. [More…]
At thisstage of recreation development in Australia there is a great diversity of terms used to describe persons employed to plan, direct or operate recreation programs, e.g., youth worker, social worker, sports coach, drama instructor, physical education instructor, etc. [More…]
The first training courses for recreation workers in Colleges of Advanced Education have commenced this year. [More…]
However it is proposed to allocate a substantial amount for a print media advertising program having particular emphasis on education in tar and nicotine yields of cigarettes. [More…]
The Australian Society for Education through the Arts - Art for Schools (two exhibitions) [More…]
We heard the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) talk before about the Leader of the Opposition’s electorate of Bruce. [More…]
Their needs are not only in respect of health, education and housing, the whole ambit of their needs, is carted into this Parliament on the basis of what would be good legislation or legislation in their interests. [More…]
How could anyone suffering inflation trust it when it won an election just a few months ago and promised everyone faithfully that only Whitlam and his Government would be able to save their employment, cure inflation and provide $130m for preschool care and education? [More…]
One hundred and two years ago the various States embarked upon an education system to deliver to the furthest pan of Australia the same quality of education as they would deliver to anybody who lived in the city. [More…]
Our basic position- and it is the primary intention of this program- is that health care services should be provided in the same way as is assistance for education; it should be provided as a social utility available as a right to every Australian rather than as a commodity to be traded or as a privilege to be purchased. [More…]
For example, it must cut down our capacity to spend on education, conservation, defence, roads, urban improvement and pensions. [More…]
To put it in some form of perspective, if this scheme were in operation today the extra cost would mean that the entire Commonwealth spending on defence, plus the entire Commonwealth spending on education, would be totally obliterated. [More…]
The total spending on defence and education by the Commonwealth was $2,200m but the extra cost of this scheme is $3,000m. [More…]
Cut out education and defence spending entirely and we still have not got the $3,000m that would be needed, on the clear statement of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), to meet the cost of the scheme. [More…]
To put the position in perspective, we claim that to fund the scheme would take all present Commonwealth spending on defence and education. [More…]
Our medical education, medical research, administrative medicine, curative medicine and preventive medicine all exist for the patient- and one at a time, not in big groups. [More…]
There are great and growing needs of the people for better housing, health, education and for the whole quality of life in which the modern city has failed so badly. [More…]
These needs are so great and are growing at such a rate that they cannot be met from the proceeds of taxation on individuals, or from charges made in the public sector, or from charges made for health or education or housing. [More…]
Promotion of development education and public information programs, the encouragement of contact between youth organisations at the international level, and of youth participation in the service of the United Nations and United Nations programs. [More…]
He was a man who was highly cultured and yet, as the Prime Minister has mentioned, he had very little formal education, leaving school at the age of twelve, By occupation he was a train driver like the late Ben Chifley. [More…]
-The Minister for Education speaks about obstruction. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]
My question is: In view of the fact that it is within my knowledge that a decision as to whether it will be paid and when it will be paid is yet to be made by the Department of Education’s head office in Canberra, will the Minister do something to get the Department off its backside and release the decision? [More…]
This Bill provides grants for universities for a number of purposes- for universities to undertake programs high in the Government’s social and educational purposes. [More…]
Special grants are to be available to specified universities to increase teaching and research in special education of the handicapped, to establish courses or chairs of community practice associated with community health centres, and to increase the number of social workers in training. [More…]
In the legislation enacted during the 1973 Budget sittings provision was also made in Part IV of the First Schedule to the Act to establish a School of Management Education at the University of New South Wales. [More…]
When the Australian Government assumed full financial responsibility for tertiary education from January 1974 amendment was necessary for proportions of payments to be made by the State governments. [More…]
As I have already mentioned, the Australian Government assumed full responsibility for the financing of tertiary education from 1 January 1974 and since that time it has become evident that one of the exceptions contained in the existing definition of ‘fees’ in the principal Act relating to fees payable to student organisations requires clarification. [More…]
The Government’s overriding objective is to get on with our various initiatives in the fields of education, health, social welfare and urban improvement. [More…]
These include the new programs of expenditure on primary and secondary schools being administered by the Schools Commission; the Government’s undertaking of total financial reponsibility for tertiary education throughout Australia; the abolition of fees for tertiary and technical education; and the new student assistance measures. [More…]
On universities and colleges of advanced education, expenditure will rise from $524 million to $818 million, a 56 per cent increase. [More…]
This Budget provides for important new measures in education to be introduced in 1974-75. [More…]
A major new initiative will be undertaken in the field of technical and further education, based on the broad program recommended by the Kangan Committee. [More…]
Subject to the understanding that the States will not reduce the level of their own activities in technical education, we expect to spend $96.5 million in the States on this program in two years, and have provided $49.1 million for this purpose in 1974-75. [More…]
This will cover expenditure on land and buildings, including residential faculties for students, and on equipment and minor works, assistance with general recurrent expenditure, and for specific purposes such as in-service teacher education and library development. [More…]
The Minister for Education will be providing details of this program. [More…]
Previously, we had introduced procedures to supplement grants to universities and colleges of advanced education for the same purpose. [More…]
Details of other initiatives in education to be introduced in 1974-75 will be announced by the Minister for Education. [More…]
care and education of young children [More…]
The Government has decided to proceed with its full-scale program for the care and education of young children. [More…]
We propose a fully integrated approach to the needs of childhood, embracing education, health and care services. [More…]
Details of the Government’s decisions on the care and education of young children will be the subject of a statement by the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister. [More…]
The Government is not prepared to vary its previous decision and allocate more from the Budget to the Post Office because this could only be at the expense of our priority programmes in the fields of education, welfare and health. [More…]
The Minister appointed Ms Anne Gorman, a social worker and assistant lecturer at the Riverina College of Advanced Education at Wagga Wagga. [More…]
I remember the remark of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) that the policy of the Country Party is to capitalise the gains and socialise the losses. [More…]
development banks and other intermediary institutions, education and telecommunications- a very broad spectrum of activities. [More…]
Therefore education within the donor country is necessary. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Does he support the request by the Federation of Australian University Staff Associations for an inquiry into tertiary education. [More…]
What is his attitude to the Federation’s view that there should be a single national body to co-ordinate tertiary education. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Education been directed to criticism of the Australian Government in respect of nongovernment schools and charges of discrimination which should be answered? [More…]
Members will be aware, through the legislation which has been before this House, of the successive initiatives which the Government has taken in relation to universities- the abolition of fees and the assumption of full financial responsibility by the Australian Government, provision for needy students, new and expanded medical schools, and support for new programs in social work, special education and community practice. [More…]
Professor Karmel himself has been heavily engaged in a number of special inquiries, quite apart from his historic work with the Karmel Committee on Schools, and is at present bringing to a conclusion the report on open tertiary education. [More…]
The Tribunal will have the power to determine salaries for universities and colleges of advanced education established by law in the Territories and will recommend the rates of salaries which should be used as a basis for grants to the States. [More…]
Clause 7 also provides that a member of the Tribunal shall not be appointed as Chairman if he has in the past 7 years been a member of the full time staff of a university or college of advanced education. [More…]
The Tribunal will deal with academic staff in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It will also report on the rates of salaries for academic staff in other institutions of tertiary education and recommend the rates to be used for making grants to the States. [More…]
Besides considering academic salaries, the Tribunal may report on the salaries of vice chancellors, principals, other chief executive officers, and other senior officers such as registrars and bursars in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The Government is not prepared to allocate more from the Budget to the Post Office because this could only be at the expense of our priority programs in the fields of education, welfare and health. [More…]
The Kingston ruins are being restored at great expense, with great tourist potential Education and hospital needs are being reassessed. [More…]
Norfolk Island faces many of the investment problems of modern communities needing money to upgrade education, health, municipal facilities and social services. [More…]
1 ) Have courses been introduced in Australian universities, colleges of advanced education or other academic institutions to train personnel for the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
The answer to the right honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) Although some Australian Universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and other academic institutions provide courses in the social sciences which have a direct relevance to community development and social planning, no course has been introduced in these institutions to train personnel specifically for the Australian Assistance Plan. [More…]
An incredible amount of money is being spend on education in the rural sectors. [More…]
This was demonstrated for the benefit of the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony) in my own electorate in Bega recently where he had complaints that the New South Wales Department of Education was wasting the money that the Government had given it for education. [More…]
Education is certainly a matter of primary concern in rural areas and it has been given a completely new boost by this Government. [More…]
In this Budget, technical education, which is of such profound importance for the rural sector of the community, will be getting the biggest injection of funds it has ever had. [More…]
Massive sums are being spent on education, on training the work force and on preparing the work force to meet the needs of this community. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition referred to the matter of education. [More…]
He said that the increase this Government has given for education- some $ 1500m - [More…]
As my friend the honourable member for Barton says, the Government’s expenditure on education has trebled over the last 18 months. [More…]
Private investment has been falling away rapidly and in the long term, particularly now that a tax has been placed on people who have made an effort in the past to be thrifty, this will cripple our ability as a nation to meet those payments of scale to our welfare programs, our health care programs and also to education. [More…]
) I am informed that some State Offices of the Department of Education have recently exhausted their stocks of the Queen’s photograph and have consequently not been able to supply a number of schools. [More…]
Is it intended to allocate a one time grant of $80,000 to the Royal Australian Nursing Federation Research and Education Trust to set up an initial sinking fund, and to enable an interdisciplinary group, including nurses and other professionals in the health care field, to plan and recommend funding from the Trust for research and educational programs. [More…]
The Royal Australian Nursing Federation approached the Interim Committee of the Hospitals and Health Services Commission in November 1973 for finance for a Nursing Research and Education Foundation. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Education aware of the growing disquiet among parents and teachers over the spending of the Australian Schools Commission money by State governments? [More…]
-Has the attention of the Minister for Education been directed to the article ‘Racism in School Books’ in the latest edition of the ‘Australian Quarterly*? [More…]
The decisions on superphosphate, petrol tax, the Post Office, local government, education and roads are all kicking the backside of people who live outside of the capital cities. [More…]
Substantial increases in financial assistance are being made available for education, not only to cope with the effects of inflation but also to assist in upgrading existing educational services in order to provide children with a better chance of attaining the level of education from which they are capable of benefiting. [More…]
Very few people do not want to give more to the pensioners, do not want to give more to Aborigines, do not want to see a better education system and do not want to pay a cent for it. [More…]
We recognise that many of its provisions in respect of education, social welfare and urban development are considerable. [More…]
I am pleased that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and the Special Minister of State (Mr Lionel Bowen) are in the House tonight I ask them to take up at one of the future Cabinet meetings the matter of why the Commonwealth Government at this stage has not contributed, notwithstanding requests from the Queensland Government, half the $14,810 which the Commonwealth promised to pay to the Queensland Government for the eradication of the plague locusts that I referred to initially when there was only one outbreak The sum is only small but I think the principle is the thing that matters. [More…]
Before I turn to the minor area of political difficulty which I see in the Bill I would refer to the special features which the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) instanced in his second reading speech. [More…]
As my friend the Minister for Education has come in I will recapitulate my remarks on one of the provisions in the Bill. [More…]
The 2 other machinery provisions relate to the repeal of a grant which had been earmarked for Monash University and the establishment of a school of management of education within the University of New South Wales. [More…]
That is the use by the Minister in his second reading speech of this language: ‘When the Australian Government assumed full financial responsibility for tertiary education . [More…]
That statement at first blush would convey to the uninformed that the Commonwealth had taken over completely the role, the financial responsibility, exercised by the States with respect to tertiary education. [More…]
The States have accepted the Australian Government’s offer to take full financial responsibility for financing tertiary education from 1 January 1974. [More…]
In the year 1974-75 the financial assistance grants to the States are reduced because of the Commonwealth’s assumptions in this field of tertiary education. [More…]
It has been claimed that the expenditure on universities and colleges of advanced education will rise from last year in this year by $294m, yet the simple truth of the matter is that $294m on the one hand has been taken due to the fact that the grants to the States and loan funds have been reduced by $295. [More…]
Conceding that it may be used in another field, what I am putting to the honourable gentleman is that it is not a proper presentation of the case to say that the Commonwealth has taken all responsibility in the field of tertiary education ergo the Commonwealth is entitled to full credit in the field <*,i education. [More…]
Indeed, during the course of recent discussions on economic matters it has been contended with a sense of exuberance: ‘We have spent so much more upon education, so much more upon universities’. [More…]
What I am pointing out to the honourable gentleman is that in this particular field, as far as universities are concerned, the Commonwealth has been able to assume full responsibility for tertiary education in Australia because the States pro tanto have had their reimbursement funds reduced. [More…]
I congratulate the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) on standing up to very severe pressure from the Australian Union of Students last year when it tried to persuade the Government that university fees with respect to student organisations, sports unions, etc., should be among the fees paid for by this Government. [More…]
-I join my colleague, the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen), in complimenting the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) on the States Grants (Universities) Bill in its overall context, but I would like to draw attention to one or two of the Minister’s statements in his second reading speech. [More…]
I wonder whether the people of Campbelltown at present have a college of advanced education and a State College, or as it used to be called a teachers college. [More…]
In Bendigo we had a college of advanced education which was known as the Institute of Technology and also a teachers college, which is now called the State College of Victoria, Bendigo. [More…]
In 1972 a $4.25m grant was provided to this State College for capital expenditure, but because of the changing decisions made by this Australian Government and because of its decision that the college of advanced education was to amalgamate with the State College, this money was held up to this day. [More…]
I know it has forwarded a letter to the college of advanced education expressing its disgust at the manner in which this money has been held up. [More…]
I am a bit disappointed and I hope that the Minister will look at the situation in regard to the College of Advanced Education and the State College in Bendigo. [More…]
I have asked him about this matter previously and I mentioned it again in this context because the same situation could arise where, because of a proposal for a long term university, which we all agree will take years to develop, the progress of the existing tertiary education system is held up. [More…]
I think he should have a good look at the situation from the point of view of the benefit of the education system. [More…]
I also welcome the increased funds for teaching and research into the special education of the handicapped. [More…]
Identifying the problems of those requiring special education also requires clinical and diagnostic facilities. [More…]
This Government has taken many initiatives in education, health and social security which require the support of social workers. [More…]
The Senate report on the Commonwealth’s role in teacher education which came out in 1972 revealed that within our state education systems the provision for training teachers to teach mentally retarded children was virtually non-existent. [More…]
In too many cases teachers with no training or experience in special education are faced with the task of teaching remedial or special classes. [More…]
An inquiry into special education in Victoria last year showed that only 98 guidance officers, 43 of whom were still in training, were in the Psychology and Guidance Branch of the Department. [More…]
The funds that have been recommended in this Bill will enable the enrolment of an additional 20 to 25 students in special education. [More…]
The intake of students for the Bachelor of Special Education course at Monash University will double next year. [More…]
The limiting factor, as I said, in providing the opportunity for all our handicapped children to have the quality of education that they deserve is qualified teachers. [More…]
It comes to education from discussions that are now taking place in the regions of health. [More…]
It was the body which was set up under the previous Government and which reported on medical education that has asked for this form of medical education. [More…]
The honourable member who referred to the university in Victoria I think needs to be reminded that the delays of which he complained concerning the university began under my predecessor, Mr Malcolm Fraser, who, as Minister for Education and Science, was most insistent that he was not going to act to make a Commonwealth component grant, which would have been the practice under his Government, towards any university in Victoria unless it was recommended by the Universities Commission. [More…]
It is the function of the Universities Commission or the Commission on Colleges of Advanced Education to go into these questions. [More…]
So the mere fact that some claimants must wait a while for the allocation of resources- and we are allocating enormous resources to education- does not mean that there is hostility or neglect on the part of the Government. [More…]
If there is a State component in only one of 2 successive financial years- even if there is only a State component for only half a financial year as there was in the last financial year- one cannot say that Commonwealth expenditure when it increases represents increased effort put by the community into university education. [More…]
But whichever way one likes to analyse the position, the Australian expenditure on education is very greatly increased. [More…]
I do not want to make this as a statement comparing the attitudes of governments to education. [More…]
The point is that Australia is putting increased resources into education. [More…]
The State governments were quite willing to get rid of the burden or the problem of tertiary education. [More…]
This coming year will also see the beginning of the implementation of the Government’s new program for the care and education of young children. [More…]
This program recognises the need for education, health and welfare components in child care. [More…]
It will break down the traditional distinctions between occasional care and regular care, between pre-school education and child minding. [More…]
All children whether they be looked after at home or elsewhere will have access to local centres designed to take care of their educational, health and psychological development. [More…]
We have provided for further expenditure on education in primary, secondary, technical and tertiary areas. [More…]
This is one area in education which has been consistently downgraded, consistently neglected and consistently lacking in status in spite of tremendous dedication from all technical school teachers and unions. [More…]
No government can meet the great clamour from the people for better services, better education, better welfare services, better defence, better roads and all the rest of it, while it does so many things to damage the nation’s productive capacity, to discourage people from investing their earnings and their savings in producing industries, and to persuade people that they are wrong, if not stupid, to seek to advance themselves and their families through hard work and thrift. [More…]
The resulting flow of funds to the States for technical and further education, in the two years which began on 1 July this year, will enable a significant development to occur in an area of education which, important though it is, has been neglected in past years. [More…]
States are already well advanced in their planning for the expenditure of these funds and there seems little doubt that the substantial Australian Government financial assistance to be given, combined with the continued efforts of the States themselves from their own resources, will make an impact upon the quality of technical education. [More…]
Among them are general purpose recurrent funds for expenditure on technical and further education at the discretion of the States, purchase of land for future developments, the provision of buildings and purchase of equipment, in-service staff development, the improvement of library buildings, the training of library technicians, the planning of community colleges, and, for the first time for technical education, provision of residential accommodation, and research. [More…]
The Government hopes that the results of its decision will be clearly seen within the initial two years of the program not only in terms of bricks and mortar but in a new spirit of enthusiasm held by those directly concerned with this area of education. [More…]
The program is important for the decentralisation of educational facilities both in urban and country areas and is an essential part of bringing education to the people and making it a lifelong process. [More…]
The technical and further education program is thus important in the implementation of the Government’s overall strategy for manpower development and training. [More…]
It is the Government’s intention to bring down legislation to appropriate the funds needed to launch the several programs recommended by the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education and accepted by the Government. [More…]
The Government will also introduce legislation to establish a permanent commission on technical and further education. [More…]
The new commission will advise me on the future needs of technical and further education including adult education outside the universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The Kangan report states that the main purpose of education is the betterment and development of individual people and their contribution to the good of the community, and that technical and further education should have this emphasis in common with other areas of education. [More…]
The developments in technical and further education I have outlined will proceed in this spirit which accords with a defensible view of some of the objectives of an education policy. [More…]
The speech which has just been delivered by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), dealing with the all-important matter of education, underlines the thrust of this Budget. [More…]
In regard to the social welfare and the social justice aspects of this Budget I refer to the great strides that are being made to overcome very important deficiencies in the educational and social welfare needs of our community. [More…]
Education expenditure is up by 78 per cent on 1973-74. [More…]
Areas such as my own electorate will greatly benefit from the increases in health expenditure and on education because it is one of the needy areas. [More…]
I feel very keenly about the denial of freedom of choice and opportunity which is part of this Government’s education policies. [More…]
I do not think any members of the Government should imagine that it is a very limited number of people in the community who are going to be hurt and damaged by a reduction in the taxation concession for education expenses from $400 to $150. [More…]
All the decisions which have been taken by this Government have been not only significantly beneficial to the people of today but also they will be of great benefit to the people and especially to the children of the future because we believe in equality of education. [More…]
We believe that all Australian children should have an equal opportunity of education. [More…]
Mr Snedden is on record from the last election as giving an assurance that growth of spending would be maintained in key areas such as health, education, urban improvement and social welfare. [More…]
There is no way he can cut back on the growth of public spending without hacking into education, welfare payments, allocations to the States, urban and regional development. [More…]
My final observation is that when sufficient individual employers and unions give practical application to job re-design programs aimed at bringing the overall quality of working life into line with the quality of life outside the working place, and when more managements recognise that affluence and education have created expectations which cannot be satisfied by traditional systems of work, there will be a better chance of some reduction in the level of wage demand relative to productivity improvement. [More…]
Who in our society has the most to gain from the initiatives in the field of transport, education, health services, social security and other public services which this Government has taken since it came to power? [More…]
It is not possible for even moderately wealthy people to organise an education system for the education of their children. [More…]
Most people rely on education in the public sector. [More…]
As honourable members opposite have talked about economic effects let me point out that countries which have been prepared to spend a large amount of their budgets on education have had the highest economic growth. [More…]
Let us take the field of tertiary education. [More…]
For colleges of advanced education and teachers colleges there is a rise from $55m in 1971-72 to $326m. [More…]
There is an overall rise in expenditure over the whole field of education from $346m under the McMahon Government to an estimated expenditure in the coming year of $1, 534m. [More…]
For many years education had been suffering crisis after crisis. [More…]
In my own electorate of Diamond Valley, apart from education, we have needs in the field of urban transport and urban development generally. [More…]
We propose to set up a Children’s Commission to look after child care and pre-school education. [More…]
It was not until this Government came to office that a national government thought to spend any significant amount in the States on child care and pre-school education. [More…]
The amount allocated to be spent on many facets of education certainly has been increased by 78 per cent. [More…]
But the one thing in relation to education about which we are very disappointed is that the allowable deduction for education expenses for taxation purposes is to be reduced from $400 to $ 1 50. [More…]
In this Budget, the Government has refused to deny the community its right to amenities, health services, urban services such as sewerage and transport, and education. [More…]
No reference was made to the immense increase in expenditure on education or to the innumerable other benefits. [More…]
The amending Bill was introduced by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in a very short speech; his speech occupied but 5 minutes. [More…]
But, by the same token, the Opposition takes this occasion to raise with the Minister and the Government certain activities as far as tertiary education is concerned in Australia. [More…]
The Minister may, by instrument under his hand, direct that this Act shall apply in relation to an institution or proposed institution in Australia specified in the instrument, being an institution or proposed institution for the provision of higher education . [More…]
The reference in the last preceding sub-section to higher education shall be read as not including a reference to education that is advanced education for the purposes of the Australian Commission on Advanced Education Act 197 1. [More…]
I take this opportunity to say to my honourable friend that one of the concerns regarding tertiary education and activity today is the tendency by some people to regard numbers in universities as being a reflection of competence and of excellence. [More…]
For my part, I have watched with a measure of disquiet the diminution in the vocational attitude towards tertiary education. [More…]
If people come out of a university and regard what they have as a means whereby they can secure some material pleasure and nothing else out of life, it seems to me that we must rethink our attitude towards university education. [More…]
The other aspect I draw to my friend’s attention regarding tertiary activity is that, quite apart from the disposition to diminish or discount the vocational aspect of tertiary education, there is allied to that something of a temptation to break up the professional standing of people. [More…]
Far be it from me to seek to inflict reading on the Minister for Education, but I think he would be stimulated by the views offered by Sir Benjamin Rank in the most thoughtful paper which he presented by way of a memorial oration this year. [More…]
The last matter to which I would refer is expressed in the language of my friend in his second reading speech when he referred to what is the principal outstanding difference between us today; that is the assumption of full responsibility by the Commonwealth for university or tertiary education. [More…]
It was quite graphically described in the report of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education published in April of last year. [More…]
External authorities are exercising more and more authority over higher education, and institutional independence has been declining. [More…]
I also read the speech by the present Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
The work load over the years has increased and I think that areas of abolition of fees, new programs, the developments in special education, etc., and the provision of allowances for needy children emphasise the fact that this work load has increased, changes have taken place and that it is necessary to expand the membership and the work of the Commission. [More…]
The Australian Universities Commission has played an important and vital part in education in this country. [More…]
The problem is being added to because the responsibility for hostel funding has been removed from State education departments in respect of teachers’ colleges. [More…]
At the Armidale College of Advanced Education the rentals have gone up and many of the students are living in makeshift accommodation. [More…]
The social problems which arise are evident if policy provides the apparatus of education without providing the social environment conducive to academic study. [More…]
To force students into an ‘artist in a garret’ situation may be passed over as romantic remembrance by some, but for those who will be socially affected- perhaps those who fail their examinations- it is an indictment of the noncomprehensive and short-sighted nature of the tertiary education policy. [More…]
We should take into account the social consequences surrounding the universities and the colleges of advanced education which we promote. [More…]
Only then will the students of Australia be able to reap the benefits of their tertiary education effectively. [More…]
The subject of this legislation is no different from any other aspect of education. [More…]
It is worth remembering, however, that the Universities Commission was established in 1959 by the then Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, who will go down in history undoubtedly as one of Australia’s greatest minds and a man who certainly appreciated the need to establish in this country a soundly based tertiary education system. [More…]
We are told by the Minister for Education in his speech that there are now 17 universities and there should be another four by the end of next year. [More…]
It is however symptomatic of a trend which has been seen throughout the rest of the western world, in fact the entire developed world today, that university and tertiary education are no longer the right of the few but of the many. [More…]
This is the context in which we have to consider these amendments because the Australian electorate is being asked to carry more and more of the cost of university and tertiary education. [More…]
It is worth remembering that in the 1974-75 financial year the Government proposes to spend $892.4m on tertiary education, which includes expenditure for universities. [More…]
In my opinion, the objective of education is to prepare people for life and to help them through life. [More…]
It is not simply a case of making tertiary education free. [More…]
The essential point I wish to make on the whole question of our tertiary education and in particular our university education is the need for high standards. [More…]
This brings me back to the point I made earlier, namely that the Australain population is being asked to carry a greater proportion of the financial bill for tertiary education. [More…]
If we have given those people the right to vote and if we have given them the right to have the taxpayers’ money spent on their education, then let us at least be prepared to think and examine in detail their complaints on these matters. [More…]
Perhaps we need a new stratification between the secondary education level and the tertiary level. [More…]
We have seen in the last few years the advent of the institution of the college of advanced education. [More…]
If we take on the major task of re-education, which I mentioned earlier, perhaps we will need to put some people, especially graduates in the existing universities, and put in many now at the undergraduate level in another college system which can be placed in between the universities and the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
This is a matter that the Universities Commission and the Commission of Colleges of Advanced Education need to look at. [More…]
Remember that when we are talking about tertiary students we are talking about the most privileged sector of young people in Australian education. [More…]
The number of part-time students is not declining in either the universities or the colleges of advanced education, but if there is a faster growth in the number of full-time students I think it is because our student allowances are encouraging people more to be full-time students. [More…]
The whole field of tertiary education is expanding very rapidly. [More…]
If I were to say something about standards I would talk about the celebrated case of what would now be called a college of advanced education and what was once called an institute of technology going through the roof and becoming a university. [More…]
My impression is that the major colleges of advanced education are leaning over backwards to prove that their degrees are superior to university degrees in the fields in which they award them. [More…]
The interference that might be feared would be if universities and colleges of advanced education were to be denied the money that would enable them to carry on. [More…]
I should be very happy if the millionaires who used to endow American education could be found in Australian to pour vast sums of money into universities. [More…]
-With reference to clause 5 1 make it clear to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) that I support him completely regarding an attempt by a ‘university’ to seek to put pressure upon him, upon the Government or upon the Universities Commission for support when it does not meet the requirements of a university. [More…]
As far as the honourable gentleman himself is concerned, I have not the slightest anxiety, but not all of the gentlemen who will occupy the office of Minister for Education will necessarily be driven or controlled by the same instinct. [More…]
Whether the programs be in the field of housing, education, the environment, grants in relation to the national estate, roads or whatever, under the present government we have received far more per capita than ever before and than any other State. [More…]
If education expenditure is excluded from the total funds available to the States, then State funds, as a percentage of total Federal Government outlays, have fallen by over 3 per cent since 1972-73. [More…]
Last year it provided $19m for education, which represented an increase of 1 1 1 per cent on the amount provided the previous year. [More…]
For example, the grants for tertiary education have been increased, as I have already indicated to the House, from $11.4m in 1973-74 to an estimated $22.5m in 1974-75. [More…]
Unlike the year by year ad hoc-ery of Liberal-Country Party attempts, the Budget is drawn up around carefully framed programs- education programs, health programs, social welfare programs, urban improvement programs and others. [More…]
We need … to make progress with our other vitally important national objectives: The education of Australians; the care of the aged and retired; the complete elimination of poverty . [More…]
In 20 months or so we have begun to melt down the ossified structure of sport and recreation in this country, as we sincerely believe that man does not live by bread alone, that a government should be at least partly responsible for the intellectual as well as physical education and well being of its people. [More…]
What is the value of spending$100m, for example, on education if we have a 20 per cent inflation rate that actually brings the net worth of that sum down to possibly $80m over a period? [More…]
The Australian Government’s Department of Education has poured large amounts of money into the schools in this area. [More…]
The basic program for 1974-75 takes into account estimated capital expenditures of which the States would be relieved in that year as a result of the Australian Government’s assumption of full responsibility for financing tertiary education from 1 January 1974. [More…]
Its functions will include education of park rangers and the provision of assistance to other countries in nature conservation matters. [More…]
The taxpayer gains through increased social welfare benefits, education, roads, sewerage, and so on. [More…]
In such fields as health, social security and help for Aborigines and in other areas such as education, the Labor Government has tried in a way that the Liberals did not to introduce genuine social reform. [More…]
The Budget introduced by the Treasurer (Mr Crean) on 17 September was a reaffirmation of this Government’s determination to continue its program of social reform, that is, to maintain the momentum and the thrust in the fields of education and social welfare in particular. [More…]
An amount of $ 1,535m has been allocated for education. [More…]
I pose the question to the Leader of the Opposition, and those who support him: Does he propose to cut back in this vital area of education? [More…]
To my mind one of the most gratifying initiative has been the acceptance by this Government of the Kangan Committee’s recommendations on technical education. [More…]
For far too long the field of technical education has been rather the poor relation in the educational processes of this country. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) deserves the highest praise for his unstinting and compassionate understanding for this complex and very sensitive portfolio. [More…]
In specific terms as far as my own State of Tasmania is concerned Federal spending on education this year will almost double right across the broad spectrum of all education payments in that State. [More…]
The care and education of the young, and young children in particular, is recognised with the commitment of $75m- a program of the highest priority that every member in this House- even the Leader of the Opposition- will I am sure support. [More…]
Once again in this Budget, following the pattern of the previous Budget, the greatest single area of increase is for education. [More…]
In 1971-72, the last Budget of the Liberal-Country Party Government, the Commonwealth provided $5,636,000 in grants for colleges of advanced education and teachers colleges. [More…]
The grants for technical education in 1971-72 totalled $1,238,000 as compared with an amount this year of $6,8 1 5,000. [More…]
I think we would all agree, following the report of the Kangan Committee on Technical and Further Education, that one of the great contributions being made by the Australian Government towards education at the moment is the much needed expansion into the field of technical education. [More…]
When the Labor Party looked at the question of what could be done in the field of dental health some years ago it was put to us by the Australian Dental Association that the most constructive thing we could do was to ensure that every child in the course of his or her primary or secondary education was given adequate dental treatment and taught the principles of proper care of their teeth. [More…]
The grant for health education campaigns is increased from $48,000 in 1971-72 to $160,000 this current financial year. [More…]
Of course, in this particular area of health education, considerable amounts of money have been given to private organisations quite apart from the Health Education Council. [More…]
This assistance will be substantially welcomed by the people of Queensland and money so spent will contribute to the development of the economy of that State and in the provision of better services to its people by way of health, education, housing and the like. [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) questioned why he could not acknowledge in his diatribe of woe that there are things in the Budget that benefit the people whom he is supposed to represent. [More…]
Let us just take the area of education. [More…]
But let us go back to the question of education. [More…]
He completely ignored, as my colleague the Minister for Education said, the subvention that we have put into the education system through the isolated children’s scheme. [More…]
There was something archaic about his approach to education. [More…]
Why, they might mix with people like us- like my friend the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), one of the finest flowers of the Western Australian State education system, or myself, one of the fine products of the Victorian education system. [More…]
Let us consider the education program. [More…]
I suppose I can claim the credit, such as there is for it, for being one of those who converted the attitude of this Parliament on education from one of nonconstitutionality into a total acceptance of our national responsibility in education. [More…]
I can recall the distinguished predecessor of honourable members opposite, the Right Honourable Sir Robert Menzies, telling us that the Commonwealth had no constitutional authority in the field of education. [More…]
In 1971-72 honourable members opposite put forward a Budget which put $346m into the education system. [More…]
But for the first time in Australian history, I should think, the education budget of this Parliament is greater than the defence budget. [More…]
We have moved from a figure of $8m for Aboriginal education a couple of years ago to $33m in this Budget. [More…]
There has been no greater area of neglect both by the Australian Government and the State governments in the past than in the field of migrant children’s education. [More…]
But I for one, representing the people that I do, and remembering my own past and the difficulties of approaching a university, believed that the abolition of university fees was a fundamental step towards education and social equality. [More…]
These programs, together with the great support given to the State education systems, represent a social and educational revolution of the first magnitude. [More…]
In education, health and other areas, they have done everything they could do to prevent our education policies being carried into action in the school grounds. [More…]
When one examines expenditure of this nature and the matters that are dealt with, be they education, social reform- particularly the Australian assistance plan which is something I personally commend- or urban development and sewerage, one is reminded of the position of an individual. [More…]
For the first time in Australian history, the education allocation exceeded that spent on defence . [More…]
I recall the very vital role that the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant), who is now the Minister for the Capital Territory, played when in Opposition and the suggestions that he made on education and in many other fields that have now come to reality. [More…]
Under classes have developed in education. [More…]
If the demand for increased productivity is important, so is education for the technology which is so essential to it. [More…]
This Government’s initiatives in education are now showing real effect. [More…]
It is not our responsibility but I would be prepared, as an individual, to suggest and be responsible for a cut right across the board- in expenditure on health, education, welfare, culture and urban and regional development. [More…]
Education, social welfare and hospitalisation are all top priorities in any country similarly situated to Australia. [More…]
My Government regards education as a top priority. [More…]
Last year our allocation for education almost doubled because of the lag that had been created by the 23 years of Tory administration. [More…]
Expenditure on universities and colleges of advanced education will rise from $524m to $8 18m- a 56 per cent increase in this Budget. [More…]
Never before in Australia’s history has university education been free for those qualified. [More…]
I mention 3 areas to illustrate my point: Firstly, there are the adjustments for education, the Karmel Committee grants, the disadvantaged school grants and other grants which have changed altogether the way in which money is allocated between States, and which affect the determination of equality between the States for the purposes of the Commission. [More…]
In brief, some 50 items are on the first list including primary education, most agricultural products, land titles and surveying, most building materials including iron and steel, wall panels and timber, almost all sports, all meteorological reporting, the retailing of textiles, transport freight rates, and most recently road speed and distance signs, Areas of active conversion include the automative chemical, electrical and other engineering industries, building and construction, packaged goods, vegetable packing and marketing, real estate and the retailing of meat, greengroceries and smallgoods. [More…]
At the time, the matter was referred to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, which was charged with the responsibility of inquiring into all aspects of television and broadcasting. [More…]
This Bill extends the Remuneration Tribunal Act to include an Academic Salaries Tribunal which will have the responsibility of determining all academic salaries for universities and colleges of advanced education and the salaries for some other senior employees of those institutions such as vice-chancellors, registrars and bursars. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) tabled that report on 17 May 1973. [More…]
On 28 May last year the Minister for Education announced that the report had been accepted. [More…]
He further announced on 20 June that the States, which then still shared the costs of universities and colleges of advanced education, had also agreed to the increases. [More…]
I am not suggesting that in this debate we should have a work value inquiry ourselves as to what junior members or the teaching staff at universities and colleges of advanced education should be paid, but I think it would be acknowledged that, in comparison with what school teachers and graduates entering the Public Service receive on commencement, tutors and senior tutors should receive an increase. [More…]
As soon as he does, I am certain that representatives of the staff associations of universities and colleges of advanced education and their national bodies will be ready immediately to put submissions to him. [More…]
Even if it is a matter of being unpopular, if one is talking about a reduction in education programs, a reduction in social service programs and a reduction in defence programs, one has to face up to the situation because if this country’s inflation rate goes to 20 per cent and if inflation is allowed to run riot for 2 years we will find that Australia will be collapsing around our ears and we will have hordes of people unemployed simply because those who provide employment for them in free enterprise will have become bankrupt and no longer will be able to provide the employment that is the absolute lifeblood of the workers of this country. [More…]
After all, for people who were getting a small benefit from a $400 deduction for education expenses to be told that it had been reduced to $150 is tantamount to admitting again that the Labor Party is out to do all it can to destroy the independent school system in Australia. [More…]
It is in the field of education that this Government has made spectacular progress and has done a tremendous amount of good work. [More…]
Tasmania will receive $ 14m for colleges of advanced education and that amount is about 4 times the allocation of the previous 2 years. [More…]
For technical education it will receive $2m, which is almost 3 times the allocation of the previous 2 years. [More…]
Another item in the Budget which is causing much dissatisfaction throughout the community in the north is the reduction in the education allowance from $400 to $150. [More…]
I doubt it, and I doubt if much thought was given to the repercussions flowing from such an unjust reduction in the education allowance or to the people who will be adversely affected by it. [More…]
There is a huge increase in outlays on education, a large outlay on public hospitals, and more funds for welfare housing. [More…]
Is more education socialism? [More…]
Understanding, education and time must be 3 ingredients in any satisfactory plan initiated to solve these problems but, sadly, I observe that there are little, if any, of these ingredients in the present policy. [More…]
Particularly on the expenditure side we welcome the significantly increased outlays, for instance, upon education, health, welfare and urban and regional development. [More…]
For example, there was an increase of 78 per cent in expenditure on education; $7Sm was provided for pre-school and child care programs; $28m was made available to commence the construction of new hospitals in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane; provision was made for home dialysis appliances free of charge; additional funds were provided for nursing homes and for the national drug education program; a further step has been taken in the abolition of the means test for pensioners; increased rent assistance has been given to pensioners; there has been a doubling of the capital subsidy available under the Aged Persons Homes Act; a new handicapped childs allowance of $ 10 a week is to be paid to parents and guardians in respect of a child under 16 years of age who is cared for at home and who, because of the severity of the handicap, is in need of constant care and attention; a 34 per cent increase, which is $67m, is to be made available in grants to the States for welfare housing and there is the possibility of further grants should circumstances warrant. [More…]
Also, being rapidly growing residential areas, they are concerned with policies on housing, sewerage, provision of community and sporting facilities and of education. [More…]
The Budget decision to reduce the education concession for taxation purposes from $400 to $150 reacts harshly on some country people. [More…]
In the last Budget of the previous Government $259m was allocated for education. [More…]
In this Budget $1,1 72 m has been allocated for education. [More…]
Australia was once again at the bottom of the list in the field of education. [More…]
In this instance 3.8 per cent of our gross national product was spent on education. [More…]
The United States spent 6.8 per cent of its gross national product on education. [More…]
As I have pointed out, under those people in the Opposition who have no social conscience whatsoever 3.8 per cent- the lowest of the lot- was spent on education. [More…]
It is a Budget which is utterly devoid of any effective measures to control inflation and a Budget which reveals a contempt for the wageearner in 2 categories that affect him the mosthis security of employment and his capacity to borrow for his house, car and the education of his children at a reasonable rate of interest. [More…]
The Opposition opposed our measures for increased allocation of funds for education. [More…]
We have begun to put education on to the plane, the plateau, the level on which it deserves to be. [More…]
The increase in expenditure on education in this country since we came to office has been nearly 400 per cent, or nearly 5 times what the previous Government chose to spend on it, if one allows for, say, a diminution in the value of the dollar by 20 per cent in that same time of 18 months or 20 months- they are unrelated, because we know what caused inflation and the honourable member for Wakefield knows what caused the situation we inherited. [More…]
-The honourable member for Kennedy, speaking for the Country Party, speaking for the Opposition Parties, chooses to describe policies that spend more on housing, more on age pensions, more on social services and more on education as encouraging parasitism. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
There were discussions between members of the Executive of the NSW Playgroup Association and officers of the Department of Education on 2 August 1 974. [More…]
(a) The proposals put forward at that meeting sought financial assistance (i) to establish and operate a central and some regional resource centres, (ii) to cover the cost of some publications, (iii) to employ playgroup advisers, (iv) to employ playgroup leaders to start groups in needy areas, (v) to develop a parent education program, and (vi) to develop new playgroups. [More…]
As the right honourable gentleman would know, the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts has been enquiring for some time into all aspects relating to radio and television and doubtless this matter would be one of the subjects being investigated and eventually reported upon by that committee. [More…]
I also inform the House that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), who left on 9 October to lead the Australian Delegaton to the UNESCO General Conference in Paris, will return on 20 October. [More…]
In his absence the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) acts as Minister for Education. [More…]
Tax deductions for education are being substantially diminished. [More…]
This Government needs to take action to restrain its own spending, to throw out the iniquitous surcharge on so-called unearned income, to restore the deductions for taxation purposes for education expenses, to show some strength with the trade unions and to uphold the conciliation and arbitration system. [More…]
I do not know to what socialism refers, but if it refers to the injection of a substantial amount of money into the starved education system of this country, we stand guilty of being called socialists. [More…]
Yet they cry poor mouth and say they have to put up these extravagant charges while on the other hand we have offered them money for hospitals, education and for transport and they have not taken those offers up. [More…]
For instance, I could have referred to the amount of $ 1,535m that is provided for all levels of education, an all time record amount. [More…]
I am particularly glad to see that within the context of the education grant the amount for disadvantaged schools, which were so neglected by our predecessors, has increased from last year’s generous grant of $6,650,000 to $18,430,000, a threefold increase. [More…]
This is a further instalment of the education grant. [More…]
There is a whole catalogue of benefits in this Budget As far as I am concerned, what has been done for technical education is absolutely tremendous and will contribute greatly to the future productivity of this country. [More…]
What did they do about the education tax rebate of $400 and the other incentives for rural producers and those people living in the towns who rely on them? [More…]
Would it cut down on education, on social welfare, on health and on urban and regional policies? [More…]
By contrast, the Opposition would cut back sharply on health, education, social welfare and urban and regional development. [More…]
It points to the 10 per cent property income surcharge and the change in the limit of education expenses allowable as a tax deduction which affect only a few, while even a superficial examination, if honestly taken, would indicate that the vast number of people must benefit. [More…]
At the same time the whole community will benefit from increased community spending, including amounts for education, sewerage, hospitals, roads, protection of the environment and health. [More…]
The fact is that nearly all families will benefit in areas of education, health and welfare. [More…]
For instance, the Opposition talks of the Budget lowering incentive for private investment but ignores the role that education plays in production. [More…]
Education is the precursor of technological change and capital inspired increases in productivity have been estimated to provide 27 per cent of all investment inputs. [More…]
Under a Liberal Treasurer, then, we can expect cuts in defence expenditure, in education, in health, in housing, roads, sewerage programs, in law and order. [More…]
Without this we could not hope to achieve our program for housing, social welfare, education, health services and the like. [More…]
Once again in this Budget the Australian people have been asked to believe that, provided the Government spends record amounts, in the short term the quality of life must improve, that opportunities for education must be greater and that better social welfare will result, while all the time the potential recipients of this mythical Government generosity are being asked to pay a greater and greater share of their income in taxation. [More…]
The Government’s decision to reduce the income tax deduction for education expenses strikes not only at the non-government schools, which was its intention, motivated by the desire to restrict freedom of choice, but also at the young mothers and the single parent families who depend on pre-schools and kindergartens, which are often costly, while they make a living to support their families. [More…]
Who is going to give them the chance of a reasonable education in this nation? [More…]
More importantly with a conservative government in the past, spending on education, social welfare and the public infrastructure was inadequate and this was at a time when we were supposed to be able to afford to spend in such areas. [More…]
Parliament in my electorate saying that the Australian Government is giving so much money to education at present that they can happily get stuck into the chalkies because everyone has had education as an issue. [More…]
The Caucus Economic and Education Committees pulled it to pieces. [More…]
A carefully prepared Budget involving $ 1 6 billion- prepared by the Prime Minister and 26 Ministers- is pulled to pieces by the Caucus Economic and Education Committees. [More…]
Perhaps if he had invited the Labor Party’s Caucus Economic and Education Committees to join him, with the expertise on the Opposition side and the extra numbers from those Government Caucus Committees - [More…]
If with the superior performance of members from this side of the House we had a few of the numbers from the Caucus Economic and Education Committees we could even reframe the whole Budget. [More…]
-The Caucus Economic and Education Committees are obstructing the Government so do not let me hear the term obstructionism in this House. [More…]
In education there is record spending. [More…]
But what about the reduction in the tax deduction for education from $400 a year to $150 a year? [More…]
Maybe the Caucus education committee will rule supreme. [More…]
I like to see the $75m that is to be spent on the care and education of young children. [More…]
There was a lot of individualism available to the poor children in schools, for instance, in my electorate, who never had the chance of tertiary education and never had anything more than an intermediate certificate standard or school certificate standard of education. [More…]
By this Budget the Government has appropriated $ 1,600m for education and additional sums of money for handicapped children’s pensions, supporting mothers benefits, and many other benefits which the Liberals never thought about. [More…]
The latest move has been to reintroduce the $400 permissible taxation deduction for education purposes. [More…]
I mention such things as the extra funds to be paid in health benefits, to nursing homes, in social security payments and for education. [More…]
The field of education is again to be the main benefactor from this Budget. [More…]
-At least the children are getting a reasonable education. [More…]
As a matter of fact those interested in tertiary education can now get more than the Opposition gave them when it was in office. [More…]
They can get free tertiary education when they leave school. [More…]
There was also a shortfall in relation to colleges of advanced education and the technical education program. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
My question is directed to the Acting Minister for Education. [More…]
On 7 October last Mr David Hamer, the former member for Isaacs, published an article in the Melbourne ‘Age’ which claimed that the Government’s expenditure on education had resulted in a lesser increase in the proportion of the gross national product devoted to education than had been the case under the McMahon Government. [More…]
But for the information of honourable members I think that it should be said clearly that Mr Hamer has presented a false case by taking the financial year 1973-74 which includes only 6 months of this Government’s new initiatives in education. [More…]
In 1971 and 1972 the previous Liberal-Country Party Government spent about $112m on education. [More…]
This Government, the first that has shown real care for the needs of Australian education, will spend about $780m in 1974 and 1975 under the Karmel programs. [More…]
The total Australian Government spending on education in the 1974-75 financial year, including the acceptance of the major recommendations of the Kangan Committee, will amount to more than $1.5 billion. [More…]
It is hardly necessary for me to remind honourable members that the Opposition has no policies for significant increases in education spending. [More…]
In fact, during the May election campaign the Leader of the Opposition talked about reducing education expenditure by $260m. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable member for Isaacs will be fortified both by the statement made yesterday by the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, which appeared in the ‘Age’ and by the figures which I have provided for the information of honourable members today. [More…]
A Liberal-Country Parry coalition will honour all spending commitments on education next year. [More…]
Claims that we will cut education spending are totally false. [More…]
We have consistently said that education is an area of top priority and that we will increase spending in this area. [More…]
The estimated net cost to the Commonwealth for education spending in 1 974-75 will be of the order of $ 1 , 100m- this is the net cost to the Commonwealth of existing commitments. [More…]
The actual level of spending will be well above this amount because the complete transfer of responsibility for tertiary education to the Commonwealth from the States will involve less spending by the States. [More…]
Any attempt to say that a Liberal-Country Party Government will cut education spending is malicious rumourmongering. [More…]
The indecisiveness of the Government’s Budget decision to reduce the level of taxation deduction for dependent education expenses. [More…]
I have to speak about the indecisiveness of the Government’s decision with respect to the taxation deduction on education. [More…]
It is a matter of infinite pity that when the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) returned to Australia from his grand tour he seemed to have succumbed and become a victim to what can only be described as intense Bonapartism because, when it was brought to his ears that there were rumblings of discontent throughout the country regarding the Government’s decision on taxation with respect to education matters and, beyond that, when it was brought to his attention that his own Party was upset, what was his reaction? [More…]
The truth of the matter is that the Economic and Education Committees of the Caucus are infinitely closer to public reality than is the Government itself. [More…]
Many parents are making great sacrifices to send their children to the school of their choice, and in so doing are making a considerable contribution to the total cost of Australian education. [More…]
To get this matter into perspective, the education allowance that had been allowed lost to the revenue in the last financial year a sum of $130m. [More…]
In aggregate on education in Australia the Commonwealth and the States together provide a sum of something like $2,600m, and the honourable member for Moreton has gone into agonies about a variation of $30m. [More…]
The taxation system is not the best method by which to try to do some of the things that governments have sought to do in the past by way of the education allowance. [More…]
I hope again that we will get to the day when books also will be free or nearly so in our education system. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman had looked more carefully at the Budget he would have found that this year it provided for almost a doubling in the Commonwealth’s expenditure on education. [More…]
With his indulgence, I would like to incorporate in Hansard a table which shows the average reduction for education expenses per child by grade of taxpayer ‘s net income for the financial year 197 1-72. [More…]
There are many families which will not avail themselves of the education tax allowance because their incomes will be tax free. [More…]
As far as this taxation allowance is concerned, the Labor Party took the view that the best means to provide more adequately via the public purse for a total expenditure on education was not by the devious and inequitable method of taxation concessions. [More…]
I think that it is far better that a community properly provides an adequate health service, properly provides adequate retirement services or properly provides an adequate education system than allow some of the expenditure via taxation concessions which, however they are worked, can have only the inevitable result of meaning more to the person on the higher income than to the person on the lower income. [More…]
At least everybody knows that now, and I hope that those who feel aggrieved might count the total situation as far as the provision of education is concerned. [More…]
There is a higher proportion of the nation’s resources than ever before being devoted to education at all its levels. [More…]
-Mr Speaker, this motion concerns not only the figure of $30m referred to by the Treasurer (Mr Crean) but also provides an opportunity for this House to look at the quite fundamentally different approaches that the 2 sides of this House have towards the provision of education facilities in this country. [More…]
Above all, the value of the taxation deduction for education expenses, quite apart from all other revenue assistance given by the Government to education, be it in the Government sector or in the private sector, is that it gives an identifiable cash amount to the parents of children attending either a government or an independent school. [More…]
If I have criticisms, and I do have a number, of the education policies of this Government, if the Opposition has criticisms of those policies, they are that too much the Government has looked towards the specific physical resource needs of schools rather than the educational needs of the children who attend those schools and the desires and aspirations of the parents of those children. [More…]
He has paid too little regard to the fundamentally different approach that we on this side of the House have towards education support by the Government, be it in the private or in the government sector. [More…]
I say again that the Opposition is totally committed to the effective maintenance of a plural system of education in this society and we will never depart from support of that principle. [More…]
I believe that this action by the Government in respect of the education deduction is the result of what still amounts to a very uneasy coalition inside the Government ranks on the existence of independent schools. [More…]
There are many of them who believe in a Government monopoly in the field of education. [More…]
Quite obviously if the concession is available, as it should be- and I do not for a moment suggest it should not be- to parents of children in the public and in the private education systems equally, surely the amount of deductions claimed by parents of children in public schools will be inevitably considerably less than those claimed by parents of children in private schools. [More…]
This decision of the Government is illustrative of the fact that deep down it is not a government which shares a permanent commit-, ment to the maintenance of a real freedom of choice in education. [More…]
We deplore this decision not only because of the monetary deprivation of many families throughout Australia that will result from its implementation but also and above all because it represents a basic rejection of the principle of maintaining a real freedom of choice in education. [More…]
On the other hand, there is evidence of consistency in relation to justice in education and equity in taxation. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party’s platform and policy are clear on the economic and educational aspects of this matter, this has been debated publicly for the last 5 years. [More…]
We also believe that the responsibility of the Government towards education is to assist in meeting the requirements of all school-age children on the basis of needs and priorities and that our primary obligation in government is to provide and maintain a government school system of the highest standard that is open to all children. [More…]
We cannot isolate this debate on the right to a $30m taxation deduction for education expenses from the full thrust of the Australian Schools Commission. [More…]
We cannot take this aspect out of context of the total education policy. [More…]
The Australian Government’s program involves substantial increases in direct expenditures on education and there is no longer a case for providing substantial indirect assistance through the taxation system. [More…]
The outlays on education in this Budget are up by 78 per cent, an increase of $674m. [More…]
Education expenditure now stands at 9.4 per cent of the estimated Budget outlays. [More…]
We are spending 8 times as much on education as the LiberalCountry Party Government was spending a decade ago, and 7 times as much as it was spending only two or three years ago. [More…]
That action split its coalition understandingto support the funding of the Karmel grants so that the children at all schools in Australia would have money to continue with their education. [More…]
Education expenses are one of the many concessional deductions now allowed. [More…]
As I have said, from 1942 to 1950, although they did not include education then, we paid it in the form of a rebate. [More…]
Four economists from the University of Melbourne 10 years ago argued that the case for giving tax relief for education expenses in the form of concessional deductions was even weaker than the case for deductions for dependants, which we have changed. [More…]
The Opposition does not believe in equity or justice either in taxation or in the equality of opportunity in education. [More…]
The uproar and fuss that has been generated by it has been nothing more than a smokescreen to hide the benefits of the Budget in regard to education and other community areas. [More…]
This motion is proof of the hypocrisy of the Opposition on education and taxation. [More…]
There was a time when both parents could claim tax deductions for the same child as long as their child’s educational expenses exceeded twice the amount of the limit on the taxation deduction. [More…]
It is hypocritical to claim State rights and then argue against the States accepting a responsibility in this sphere of education. [More…]
This new allowance should be seen in the context of the broad program of education, training and general welfare for handicapped children being developed by the Government. [More…]
This new initiative on the part of the Australian Government will be welcomed by those interested in improving both the quality and availability of education to all Australian children irrespective of their financial circumstances, their parentage, thenreligious beliefs or where they live. [More…]
Is the ‘New Deal ‘ for education heralded by the Karmel program too much for the Liberal Party and their friends to support? [More…]
Earlier today the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden), in a personal explanation to the House, undertook to support the Labor Government’s educational expenditure. [More…]
The allowances paid under the soldiers ‘ children education scheme to students undertaking secondary education, or industrial or agricultural ‘training, will be increased by about 13 per cent. [More…]
Ogden, Victorian Education and Research Secretary, Communist Party of Australia, ‘Tribune’ 1972, CPA candidate for Melbourne 1972. [More…]
One was a personal explanation made by the right honourable gentleman after question time on the subject of education and the other was a letter which the right honourable gentleman wrote to the editor of the Melbourne ‘Herald’ and which was published this evening. [More…]
Let us look first at education. [More…]
For all its talk about cutting expenditure the Opposition has now said that it would not cut one red cent in education expenditure, a field in which there has been a very large increase in expenditure- a record increase- by this Government. [More…]
Any attempt to say that a Liberal-Country Party government would cut education spending is malicious rumourmongering. [More…]
So there would be no cuts in education expenditure by a Liberal-Country Party government. [More…]
I suppose that the deduction from taxable income for education expenses would be reinstated to $400 by the next Liberal-Country Party government. [More…]
This centre was designed by the Telopea Church of Christ and in accordance with standards supervised formerly by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
The group sought through a letter to the Minister for Education, who was formerly responsible for the administration of these programs, a grant for the establishment of personnel in the centre. [More…]
The application to the Minister for Education- I believe it was back in July- for an establishment grant has been fobbed off, by a reply which stated that there is no provision under the present Act whereby such grants could be made available. [More…]
The foreshadowed establishment of the Children’s Commission, the appointment of the interim committee for this Commission, and the initiation of the national pre-school education and child care services program is a momentous step forward in the social history of Australia. [More…]
On the pre-school education side, the position is almost as bad. [More…]
While it is most difficult to obtain precise pre-school education statistics for Australia as a whole, it seems certain that the position is still one in which there is a pre-school place available for fewer than one in every four of the children whose parents would wish to take advantage of it if it were there. [More…]
It is notorious that pre-school education has become available most readily in the areas where the need for it is least acute, that is, it is in predominantly affluent areas where the people are already sufficiently highly educated to appreciate the value of pre-school centres that those centres are being provided. [More…]
It is those areas of the inner and western suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney and certain rural areas where the overwhelming majority of our low income families or our non-English speaking migrant families are concentrated which lack proper provision for pre-school education. [More…]
If the honourable member for Darling Downs has read closely the 3 reports that the Government has commissioned on this matter- the report of the Interim Committee for the Pre-school Education Commission, the report of the Social Welfare Commission and the report of the Priorities Review Staff- he will know that the maintenance of standards has been a matter of very great concern to the Government and its advisers and that very properly provision has been made to see that standards are maintained. [More…]
Government moved in the matter of pre-school education and child care at all and that, indeed, it was only in the last year of office of the former Liberal-Country Party Administration that a child care program was launched. [More…]
I regret very much that my education as a child at a number of schools, both country and city, was sadly neglected in this area. [More…]
I wish I had had more education in this field at school and after school. [More…]
I must say in my opening remarks, however, that I feel that in some ways the Minister may be a compromised Minister in that his portfolio seems more closely related to either education or social security. [More…]
On this occasion, however, the sum of $75m has been set aside for the setting up of child care centres, with the emphasis on education, in the areas of greatest need. [More…]
There can be no doubt that in the short term a lot more Australians are going to have access to the arts, access to a good education and access to good government leadership by virtue of what has happened since December 1972. [More…]
It is not going to be solely education. [More…]
Therefore it cannot be either virtually social welfare or education. [More…]
One of the things the honourable member must recognise about the New South Wales Liberal Government, of which he is such a strong supporter, is that it did nothing for preschool education. [More…]
In Sir Robert Askin’s Budget there is a minus item when it comes to pre-school education. [More…]
We are the first Government to establish the needs in education, whether it be in tertiary, secondary, primary or pre-school education. [More…]
If we have any claim to credit it is in the fields of child care, education and local government. [More…]
The Australian Government has made certain promises with respect to health, education, employment and housing. [More…]
The provision of these funds will permit more assistance to be given to the States to provide housing, health, education, employment, welfare and community services for Aborigines. [More…]
In the field of education there are thousands more in secondary schools and they are going to be the ones who in the future will supply leadership for the Aboriginal communities. [More…]
Also, record amounts of subsidy are available through the Department of Education for schools, in accordance with need, which also takes into account schools for the handicapped. [More…]
-There should, of course, be preference for programs in the fields of health, social welfare, education and urban improvement. [More…]
But there would be a reduction of government expenditure in areas which it has been the purpose of the Government to maintain throughout because we have a responsibility to ensure that people who depend upon social services do not lose through inflation, that people who expect a better education for their children should not have that set back during an inflationary period, that people who want to see development of a better health service in this community should not have that set back because of an inflationary period. [More…]
For example, when there is an alteration in the rate of taxation deductions for education this raises the real price of goods such as fares for children, the cost of goods, the cost of apparel, clothing and uniforms. [More…]
I believe that to this extent over coming months while the cost of the reduction in the education allowance will to many families represent an extra $100 a year that increases in burden will not be measured according to the technique presently employed. [More…]
A new method of financing will increase the existing amount to at least the sums expended on education libraries. [More…]
It is not possible to prepare a comprehensive reply to this very broad question because each State Government provides for physical education and national fitness in its own way and comparable figures are not available. [More…]
1 (a) Physical Education Programs [More…]
My Department is not directly involved in providing physical education programs. [More…]
As such they are the responsibility of the Department of Education. [More…]
State Governments are responsible for physical education curricula in both primary and secondary schools through Physical Education Branches of State Education Departments. [More…]
It has not been possible to ascertain the nature and extent of physical education programs conducted by local authorities. [More…]
It has not been possible to ascertain precise, comparable figures which would show the financial support given by the Australian Government, the State Governments and Local Governments for buildings, equipment and staff for the conduct of physical education and national fitness programs. [More…]
For CES purposes, school-leavers are now defined as comprising all persons under the age of 2 1 who, at the time of registering with the CES, had ceased full-time primary or secondary education within the previous six months. [More…]
persons who had ceased full-time primary or secondary education within the previous three months. [More…]
The proposal is to provide an area school at the Aboriginal community to the standard of territorial education facilities for the education of secondary, primary, and pre-school pupils, and for adult education and community activities. [More…]
We allowed war pensions to continue until the completion of full time education for certain student children and student children were recognised for service pension purposes regardless of age. [More…]
To be fair, in the 1974-75 Budget the increase in social security and welfare payments was 38 per cent, but nevertheless it was less than the increase for education, for urban and regional development, for culture- whatever that means, and we know that there have been massive increases in expenditure in the name of culture in recent times- and indeed for recreation. [More…]
Would it take the money from the field of education? [More…]
I think that is the area from which some of the money would come because it has been made obvious by members of the Opposition that they are not happy about money being spent on education. [More…]
As the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) said in his second reading speech, the allowance should be seen in the context of our broad program of education, training and general welfare for handicapped children being developed by the Government. [More…]
The lack of effort at that stage has meant the massive increase in expenditure we see now in social services, education and health and so on. [More…]
A child could have a learning defect which, if not detected early, creates a psychological or even psychiatric or behaviour problem requiring not only remedial education, but also remedial treatment in specialist clinics. [More…]
There is a blurring between handicap for social security purposes, handicap for educational and remedial purposes, and handicap for rehabilitation purposes. [More…]
The Minister for Social Security indicated in his second reading speech that we should consider the new allowance in the context of a broad program of education, training and general welfare for handicapped children. [More…]
Government policies on telephones and taxation deductions for education, without increases in the isolated children’s allowances, are most severe in their effect on people in new land areas. [More…]
One could instance the increase in education moneys, Grants Commission payments to local government, which are spread across Australia, regionalisation policies, etc. [More…]
-Pursuant to section 30 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967-70 I present for the information of honourable members the report of the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education for the year 1 January 1 973 to 31 December 1973. [More…]
In January long-standing resentments, particularly over the undue influence of foreign capitalists and local Chinese entrepreneurs, over alleged corruption in the Army-run government, over conspicuous consumption and privilege among the affluent few, and over the lack of education and opportunity for the many, erupted in largescale riots in Djakarta. [More…]
He has been unable to obtain Caucus support for restoration of education expenses as an income tax deduction. [More…]
Almost $30m has been allocated for education to provide for free schools and primary schools at Tea Tree, Katherine and Wave Hill together with improvements to the Darwin High School, and also schools on settlements and missions, extensions to existing schools and improvements to the Alice Springs School of the Air. [More…]
They have failed completely to realise that the private business sector, particularly the manufacturing group, involves the people who produce the goods, the wealth, the employment and the revenue which pays for the non-productive spheres of our society such as education, health, social welfare, industrial amenities and funds for Government housing programs. [More…]
I do not wish to take up too much of the time of the chamber because we have to move on to the estimates for the Department of Education, but I venture this suggestion: If this Government lasts for 10 or 20 years - [More…]
I would like to ask the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) a great variety of questions, and so would my colleagues. [More…]
The one blemish that I have been able to find in the Minister for Education is the curious political association he has formed. [More…]
Now my friend, the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), comes in to answer as the acting Minister for Education. [More…]
I come back to my point: How can we possibly expect an acting Minister for Education to be able to give an intelligible account of the expenditure of this enormous sum of money. [More…]
I will come to education. [More…]
The first grievous exercise by the present Government- to call it a government is to indulge in an extreme form of words- was to cut the taxation deduction for education expenses from $400 to $150 a year. [More…]
I ask the Acting Minister for Education (Mr Barnard): What does this monstrous arrangement amount to? [More…]
-I welcome the opportunity to participate in this Estimates debate on education. [More…]
He spent 5 minutes before he got around to education. [More…]
I submit that in 22 months this Government has transformed the role played by the Australian Parliament in the field of education at all levels. [More…]
In 1971-72, the last full year of the Liberal-Country Party Government, $346m was spent on education. [More…]
Last year this Government spent $860m on education and the estimate for 1974-75 is for $ 1,535m, which is an increase of almost 500 per cent over the Liberal-Country Party Government’s spending in 1971-72. [More…]
The estimated expenditure this year on schools under the Karmel program is $780m and this year, 1974-75, is the first financial year which will show the full impact of the Government’s major initiatives in relation to schools, tertiary education, universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
In addition, of course, we are moving into new initiatives in the area of technical and further education and are providing additional expenditure for student assistance. [More…]
We have consistently worked to a needs concept; that is that there must be the greatest amount of money spent where the need is greatest or where the education disadvantage is greatest. [More…]
Linked to this needs concept we have seen our task as one to transform the quality of education and to make it accessible to all students We have dismissed the Opposition’s view of excellence through elitism. [More…]
If we look carefully at the estimates we will note that we can select a number of items which are clearly aimed at improving the quality of education. [More…]
The amount allocated, $6m, is not large in terms of the total education budget. [More…]
One can only be led to the conclusion that this must, in the long run, mean better education and more effective teaching. [More…]
A second example of ways in which the quality of education is being improved is the $ 10.3m being set aside for teacher development. [More…]
Of course out of that $ 10.3m, money is set aside for the creation of new education centres and to expand facilities already available. [More…]
Many of these education centres were set up in the first place through the initiatives of teachers, both in government and non-government schools who gathered together to organise these centres in an attempt to do a better job for the children who were around them. [More…]
The other point I made was the further conscious objective of this Government to make education accessible to all children, wherever they live, whatever the socioeconomic condition of their parents. [More…]
The accessibility of education, particularly at the more senior level is, I think, a significant encouragement to students to stay on at school, particularly those students whose parents are in difficult economic circumstances. [More…]
I am delighted to note that the Government has accepted the concept of recurrent education. [More…]
This concept is one of that moves beyond the view that education should be divided rigidly into primary, secondary and tertiary levels of education. [More…]
I have always believed that education is a life long process. [More…]
I believe that there should be sufficient flexibility within the formal system of education so that people are able to move in and out comparatively easily. [More…]
I am equally delighted to see that we are moving into the field of technical and further education and that in the next 2 years we will be making available $ 100m which will assist the objective of allowing people the opportunity to plug into education at whatever level they might find themselves. [More…]
For too long technical colleges have been the cinderellas of education and we must see that this continues no longer . [More…]
I congratulate the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), who is not here at the moment, for the outstanding job that he has done in this field. [More…]
I was interested in the remarks of the honourable member for Holt (Mr Oldmeadow) because he started out, as all Government supporters do when talking about education these days, stressing the amount that is being spent on education. [More…]
If we were honest about what the Government has done in regard to spending in education we would find in fact that it has reduced the States general purpose grants by the equivalent amount of spending that it has incurred by taking over tertiary education costs. [More…]
The other thing that worries me about this emphasis on spending is that too little emphasis is placed on the results of education and the quality of education. [More…]
I was pleased that the honourable member for Holt spoke a little about the quality of education. [More…]
He mentioned that $6m was to be spent on research in some aspects of the quality of education. [More…]
One of the real aspects of the Opposition’s education policy is that we will encourage educational research to a much greater degree than has been the case in the past. [More…]
If this Government allows the rate of inflation to skyrocket in the way it has done, and in fact encourages the rate of inflation to skyrocket in the way it has- we all know the Government has a vested interest in keeping the rate of inflation high because it collects more taxes- the amount of real spending on education is vastly lessened. [More…]
Let us have a look at the policies of the Government on education. [More…]
We had the strong people of the Caucus saying that the decision of the Cabinet to reduce the amount of taxation deduction for education from $400 to $150 per child was wrong. [More…]
The sock the rich, doctrinaire approach of this socialist Government is the reasoning behind the reduction of the deductions for education. [More…]
There are numbers of schools in Sydney and right throughout Australia where parents, not on sectarian basis, have spent a great deal of time and effort establishing experimental courses, looking at different ways of education for their children. [More…]
Not only are these people affected by the economic policies of the present Government because they are usually the ones who get sacked first- if one looks at the unemployment figures one will find that migrants are the hardest hit of any section of the community by the present unemployment wave- but also they will be doubly hit because their taxation deductions for education of their children attending independent schools that they previously claimed will now be taken away from them. [More…]
Obviously this is an area which engenders some emotion in the chamber, but I should like people to understand that this Government that holds itself out as the supporter of those people at the lower end of the economic spectrum and seeks to denigrate those people who wish to have some choice about the place of education of their children in fact is denying parents this choice. [More…]
I think it should be clearly understood by those people who previously have supported this Government that in fact the policies that the Goverment is pursuing both in the economic field and with these taxation deductions for education, will mean that these parents will not have the choice that they previously had in relation to their children’s education. [More…]
-Any pretence on the part of the honourable members opposite that they have a serious interest in education would have been totally destroyed by the first 2 contributions from that side to this debate. [More…]
The Opposition spokesman on education, the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen), and the honourable member for Warringah (Mr MacKellar) devoted themselves exclusively to the question of taxation policy, to the utter neglect of all the real issues of education in Australia. [More…]
Listening to the honourable member for Moreton or the honourable member for Warringah one would not have supposed that there are many thousands of children in Government and parish schools in Australia who have been unable to receive an adequate education because nobody bothered to teach them the language in which education is given in this country. [More…]
While the honourable member for Warringah was weeping his crocodile tears for the migrant population of Australia, did he for one minute think back on the 23 years during which honourable members opposite were responsible for the scandal of migrant education in Australia, for the lost educational opportunities of the children who were brought to this country from countries where languages other than English are spoken, and who never took up seriously the business of raising a corps of teachers qualified to meet the educational needs of these unfortunate children who year in, year out, had to sit in bafflement and frustration while instruction went on in their classrooms in a language that they did not understand? [More…]
One would not have supposed that it has been established by investigations carried out by the psychology and guidance officers of education departments that in forms 1 and 2 of the secondary system the incidence of children being unable to read, even at a grade 4 level, is 45 per cent and that the incidence of children who for all practical purposes are illiterate is of the order of 25 per cent. [More…]
The figures I quote are not drawn from the truly deprived areas of the inner and western suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney but from the fortunate eastern suburbs of those cities where, one would presume, the quality of education inside the schools and the stimulus given to students in their own homes would be much greater. [More…]
Every $1 siphoned off in this manner from the real needs of education is $ 1 less for one of the deprived schools of this country. [More…]
It would not be thought, listening to the honourable member for Warringah and the honourable member for Moreton in this debate, that there was any sense of priority whatsoever on the part of honourable members opposite because what can we think of honourable members who devote their time in an Estimates debate exclusively to a matter not coming formally within the competence of the Australian Department of Education at all but arising from reports prepared by a task force of the Treasury to the exclusion of the countless real and pressing problems of education. [More…]
Honourable members opposite will be taken seriously in their concern for education when they begin to talk about education. [More…]
The proposed estimates of $ 1,535m for the Department of Education have been increased by about 78 per cent on the appropriation figures in the 1973-74 Budget. [More…]
There are many areas of neglect in the Australian educational scene. [More…]
But we want to bring to the notice of all people the fact that the Government is not spending this increased amount on education. [More…]
Rather there has been an off-setting reduction in State financial assistance grants to match the cost savings to the States in regard to education. [More…]
This is indicative of the fact that the Queensland State Government continues to accept from its own resources the major share of financial responsibility for the provision of educational services in that State. [More…]
The Queensland figures are enlightening because 100,000 children are receiving secondary education, 217,000 are receiving primary education and 4,190 are receiving special education. [More…]
Try as I might I cannot but come to the conclusion that there is a deliberate attempt in the Government’s educational spending to do away with the dual system of education. [More…]
I can reinforce my remarks by detailing the fact that in my own electorate 2 independent schools are either closing or eliminating the final 2 years of education. [More…]
I want to touch on a few areas of educational difficulties, particularly the areas of kindergarten and pre-school education in the remote areas of Australia. [More…]
But we are concerned that all children in Australia should have access to preschool education. [More…]
We, of course, also support the extension of adult education. [More…]
I hope in the years to come that greater emphasis will be placed by all governments in this very essential field so that people who were denied secondary and tertiary education earlier in life will be able to obtain higher academic qualifications on a lifetime basis. [More…]
No encouragement, no recognition and no direction is being given at present to the education of gifted children. [More…]
No help is given to parents, be they rich or poor, to allow their children to reach a standard which will permit them to gain entry to tertiary education institutions. [More…]
The honourable members for Holt (Mr Oldmeadow) and Casey (Mr Mathews) spoke very well on matters relating to the expenditure on and quality of education. [More…]
I think honourable members opposite ought to take a look at the reasons why the overwhelming number of people involved in education supported the Australian Labor Party in the 1972 and 1974 elections and continue to support it. [More…]
They support the Labor Party because after 23 years of Liberal rule the Labor Party said that there are problems in education proper for an Australian Government to investigate. [More…]
May I remind honourable members of the identification of problems in the technical field by the Kangan Committee on Technical and Further Education. [More…]
May I remind honourable members of the identification of problems in migrant education. [More…]
Let me say to the members of the Opposition that they failed to attract attention in education because they failed to admit that there were problems. [More…]
The identification of the problems has given indications for measuring need, on which we base our educational program. [More…]
It has not only operated in the normal educational stream but has also gone into the field of special defects and special abilities such as the honourable member for Darling Downs talked about. [More…]
These are the sorts of innovations that will be of real value to education in the future. [More…]
These are the sorts of things that the present Minister for Education and the Government have encouraged. [More…]
I would like to comment also on the Minister’s wide interest in education. [More…]
He made recent public statements on his concern about the education of Aboriginal children in the Kimberleys. [More…]
I am referring to the Minister for Education. [More…]
He pointed out that studies had shown that there were problems with Aboriginal children at school because of possible irreparable brain damage before birth and that it was useless confining the action on this problem just to education authorities. [More…]
The abandoning of the free milk scheme did not affect a large number of school children nutritionally, but there were areas where to many children the free milk provided their breakfast for the day and where their educational performance was affected by the abandonment of the scheme. [More…]
It is not just an educational matter; it is a health matter. [More…]
I think that in our education programs we will have to look at some schemes that will not only identify schools as deprived schools that need educational facilities, but will also identify them as deprived schools that need help in other ways. [More…]
I think this indicates a problem that is more than an educational problem. [More…]
It is a problem which with our present mechanism we ought to be able to identify, and, with a happy marriage of the educational field and the health field, solve. [More…]
I rise to speak on the estimates for the Department of Education because of the deep concern which I and many of my constituents feel at the policies being adopted towards Australia’s independent school system. [More…]
The first is the reduction of the tax deduction for education ex:penses incurred by parents from $400 to $150. [More…]
I would like to read a few excerpts from a letter sent to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) and the Treasurer (Mr Crean) by one of my constituents. [More…]
He points out that he comes from a working class family, is not wealthy and that an independent school education for his children is resulting in considerable sacrifices for his family in other areas. [More…]
The Committee of the Parents’ and Friends’ Association of St. Leo’s College, Box Hill, wishes to register a strong protest on behalf of parents, at the decision announced in the recent Federal Budget, to reduce allowable taxation deductions for education expenses from $400 to $ 1 SO per child. [More…]
The school is not wealthy, the parents are average, not high, income earners, and the decision, therefore, imposes a severe financial burden on people who are already, in many cases, finding it difficult to finance their children ‘s education. [More…]
If they have 2 children attending such an independent school somewhere around 40 per cent of the net family income would be spent on the education of the 2 children. [More…]
Nationalisation of education will have been achieved. [More…]
If we could wipe the slate clean and start again, if we could look at our education system without emotion or without class hatred, what would be the best system? [More…]
It would enable our dual system of education to continue to function; under the system each child would be treated equally by the Government. [More…]
This might then be used for his education at the school of his choice, provided of course that that school came up to government standards. [More…]
All taxpaying parents would thus receive the same contribution towards their children’s education. [More…]
If by the mother working, or by other sacrifices, parents preferred to spend more on their children’s education than the Government voucher allowed, then it would be their prerogative to do so and naturally they would have to meet the added costs. [More…]
-In entering this debate on education I do so as a person who has seen the inside of the State education system in Victoria and who has still got close contacts with that system. [More…]
It was perhaps inevitable that much of the discussion in tonight’s debate would centre on the decision of the Government to reduce the taxation deduction for education expenses from $400 to $150. [More…]
What I object to above all about the reduction from $400 to $ 1 50 is the extent to which it has robbed the parents of children from access to a diverse system of education. [More…]
I use that example because it does illustrate the diversity of education systems available in the community. [More…]
I believe not only in a dual system of education. [More…]
In saying that I pay tribute to the many hundreds of thousands of parents who over decades have sacrified a great deal to maintain a dual system of education. [More…]
I believe not only in a dual system of education but also in a plural system of education. [More…]
That is why I, for my part, would like to see a greater emphasis on a plural system of education. [More…]
It is in the perspective of providing a plural system of education that I object most strongly to the reduction of the taxation allowance for education expenses from $400 to $150. [More…]
In this regard I pay tribute to the New South Wales Minister for Education, the honourable Eric Willis, who last year launched for public discussion a position paper on possible forms of community involvement in schools. [More…]
A greater degree of local participation in school affairs can only lead to a greater community awareness of the heeds of education and a greater sense of satisfaction and vocation amongst the teachers in our community. [More…]
I also compliment the Government on the additional support it has given to colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I have had the opportunity recently of visiting two of the best examples that I think one could find in Australia of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I refer to the Ku-ring-gai College of Advanced Education at Lindfield, New South Wales, and the College of Advanced Education at Hobart in Tasmania. [More…]
Some of the experimentation, some of the new approaches to teaching and to the development of disciplines that I saw in those 2 colleges of advanced education were extremely interesting. [More…]
In conclusion, I pay a brief tribute to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
This is the way in which the debate on the estimates of the Department of Education should have been conducted in this Parliament. [More…]
I dismiss the speech of the shadow Minister for Education, the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen). [More…]
I thought it was an extraordinarily poor performance from one who had been appointed by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) to speak on education in this Parliament. [More…]
I rise merely to express the regret that I feel, and which I am sure all honourable members on this side of the Committee feel, that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is not here tonight to be able to reply to the debate. [More…]
This Parliament has never had a Minister for Education who has been so dedicated and who has been able to achieve so much in so short a time as has Mr Kim Beazley. [More…]
Those of us who were here in those days will remember that the then Prime Minister of Australia, now Sir Robert Menzies, said often when we who were then on the Opposition side of the Parliament established for the first time an education committee- we did so because we were not satisfied with what was being done for education in this country- that education constitutionally was a State responsibility which would not be intruded upon by the Commonwealth. [More…]
That committee, which was led and given a great deal of direction in education by the present Minister for Education, through his initiative and enterprise, was able eventually to force acceptance of the principle that education was no longer the responsibility of the States and that not only should the Commonwealth accept the responsibility for tertiary education in this country but also should it accept responsibility for primary, secondary and technical education. [More…]
It was the Minister for Education, the honourble member for Fremantle. [More…]
Is it any wonder that tonight in this chamber no Opposition member could criticise the Government’s education policy or what has been achieved by it in terms of education. [More…]
No government has achieved more than this Government has achieved since 1972 in the field of education. [More…]
One cannot blame them because even before 1972 they were not thinking about education. [More…]
During the election campaign of 1972 they opposed our education program. [More…]
In 1973-74, the first financial year for which this Government accepted responsibility, educational expenditure doubled. [More…]
In 1974-75, the financial year with which we are now dealing in these Estimates, $l,535m will be spent on education. [More…]
For the first time in Australia’s history we are now spending more on education than on defence and, as Minister for Defence, I must acknowledge that the priority is right. [More…]
Let any Opposition member stand and suggest that we should not spend what we are now spending on education. [More…]
Let him say that we have no right to intrude into State education and that we should not give a better deal to primary, secondary and technical education students in Australia. [More…]
There are some of us, including myself and the honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds), who remember the Education Committee that was set up by the Labor Party and how we fought to bring about a better deal for education in Australia. [More…]
It contains pages of reports from and speeches by Opposition members, when government members, opposing our policy for a better deal for education. [More…]
It is no wonder that the honourable member for Moreton, the Opposition’s shadow Minister for Education, is no longer in the chamber. [More…]
He knew now difficult it would be for him to criticise the policies of the Government or of the Minister for Education. [More…]
If they want to participate, as I believe they do, in an equitable distribution of funds available for education they will agree that there is a responsibility to co-operate with the Australian Government. [More…]
Not one argument was raised by Opposition members which could offset the Government’s record in the field of education. [More…]
I remember, as I am sure the honourable member for Barton who has served with me on the Labor Party’s Education Committee for many years will recall, that when we suggested that tertiary education should be free in Australia- that tertiary fees should be abolished- Sir Robert Menzies could not accept this as a responsibility of any Australian government although I give him full credit for setting up the Murray Committee of inquiry many years ago. [More…]
Those of us who were here in those days will remember that the then Prime Minister of Australia, now Sir Robert Menzies, said often when we who were then on the Opposition side of the Parliament established for the first time an education committee- we did so because we were not satisfied with what was being done for education in this country- that education constitutionally was a State responsibility which would not be intruded upon by the Commonwealth. [More…]
That committee, which was led and given a great deal of direction in education by the present Minister for Education, through his initiative and enterprise, was able eventually to force acceptance of the principle that education was no longer the responsibility of the States and that not only should the Commonwealth accept the responsibility for tertiary education in this country but also should it accept responsibility for primary, secondary and technical education. [More…]
It was the Minister for Education, the honourble member for Fremantle. [More…]
Is it any wonder that tonight in this chamber no Opposition member could criticise the Government’s education policy or what has been achieved by it in terms of education. [More…]
No government has achieved more than this Government has achieved since 1972 in the field of education. [More…]
One cannot blame them because even before 1972 they were not thinking about education. [More…]
During the election campaign of 1972 they opposed our education program. [More…]
In 1973-74, the first financial year for which this Government accepted responsibility, educational expenditure doubled. [More…]
In 1974-75, the financial year with which we are now dealing in these Estimates, $ 1,535m will be spent on education. [More…]
For the first time in Australia’s history we are now spending more on education than on defence and, as Minister for Defence, I must acknowledge that the priority is right. [More…]
Let any Opposition member stand and suggest that we should not spend what we are now spending on education. [More…]
Let him say that we have no right to intrude into State education and that we should not give a better deal to primary, secondary and technical education students in Australia. [More…]
There are some of us, including myself and the honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds), who remember the Education Committee that was set up by the Labor Party and how we fought to bring about a better deal for education in Australia. [More…]
It contains pages of reports from and speeches by Opposition members, when government members, opposing our policy for a better deal for education. [More…]
It is no wonder that the honourable member for Moreton, the Opposition’s shadow Minister for Education, is no longer in the chamber. [More…]
He knew now difficult it would be for him to criticise the policies of the Government or of the Minister for Education. [More…]
If they want to participate, as I believe they do, in an equitable distribution of funds available for education they will agree that there is a responsibility to co-operate with the Australian Government. [More…]
Not one argument was raised by Opposition members which could offset the Government’s record in the field of education. [More…]
I remember, as I am sure the honourable member for Barton who has served with me on the Labor Party’s Education Committee for many years will recall, that when we suggested that tertiary education should be free in Australia- that tertiary fees should be abolished- Sir Robert Menzies could not accept this as a responsibility of any Australian government although I give him full credit for setting up the Murray Committee of inquiry many years ago. [More…]
-I direct my question to the Acting Minister for Education. [More…]
But the Deputy Leader of the Opposition then went on to say that health, education and social welfare expenditure would be excluded. [More…]
The rehabilitation training program is to be extended beyond 3 years so that handicapped people if they want to do so can take on tertiary education over a period of 3, 4 or 5 years. [More…]
I accept the proposition both in the case of education and in the case of nursing home services, etc., that the Government has a responsibility, if religious or charitable institutions are prepared to run these homes, to pay their recurrent costs. [More…]
It will be noted that on page 49 of the paper, under section 6, ‘Urban and Regional Development NEC and the Environment’, the section headed ‘Protection of the Environment’ deals with Department of Urban and Regional Development initiatives and we find that $250,000 is listed within that category for a national air monitoring program and $100,000 is listed for an education program to develop a public environmental awareness. [More…]
I suggest- I do so in a personal way- that those functions should include the environment and the national estate, urban and rural land use strategies and policies, anti-pollution, wildlife and nature conservation, responsibility for the education of the community in conservation, water and soil resources and conservation policies, and the administration of those areas. [More…]
The advertisements on the functions and operations of the Parliament are now sought as handy aids for the education of school children. [More…]
For this reason the AIS through its films and the preparation of school media material and so forth, could have a very real part to play not only as an adjunct to education but as a means of making Australians more aware of their nationality, their problems and their associations. [More…]
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has indicated in its report on consumer policy in member countries that there is now general acceptance of the need for governments to take action to reinforce the consumer’s position with these objectives in mind: To protect the consumer against hazards to safety and health; to protect the consumer against deceptive and other unfair practices; to provide the consumer with adequate rights and means of redress; to provide information and education to facilitate a sound choice by the consumer, and to facilitate the proper exercise of the consumer’s rights; and to involve consumer representatives in the formulation of regulations or other elements of economic policies which concern them. [More…]
The details relating to the Australian Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education are confined to research undertaken or commissioned by the authorities themselves. [More…]
Grants from these authorities to the States for unspecified research activities in all fields, whether educational in nature or not, have been excluded from the tables as has the Department’s annual grant in aid made to the Australian Council for Educational Research. [More…]
There was no expenditure on recognisable research projects by the Schools Commission, or the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education in the period in question. [More…]
U.N. Organisation for Industrial Development, (f) U.N. Trust Fund to help the Victims of Apartheid, (g) U.N. Education and Training Program for South Africa, (h) U.N. Fund for Namibia, (i) World Health Organisation and (j) the World Food Program during each of the last three years. [More…]
I think the commission which has been announced is indicative of the interest that we have taken in this matter because its administration in both the education and welfare fields will be undertaken by representatives of all the States. [More…]
Because the Victorian Attorney-General has claimed that the activities of the Australian Government contravened the law, will the Minister tell this House in what areas the Australian Government’s initiatives are contrary to the Constitution and whether he expects a High Court challenge by the Victorian Government to Australian Government policies relating to education, health, welfare, legal aid and/or financial assistance for municipalities? [More…]
This Government seeks to give effect to its policies of greater social justice, more expenditure of money on education and increased spending on welfare and social services, within the constitutional framework. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report on the meeting of the Australian Education Council on 4 October, 1974. [More…]
The other point I want to emphasise is that I have purposely cast the terms of reference of the proposed committee wide enough to encompass those students at school who have worked hard, attended good schools- I am not using the word ‘good’ in any sense of difference between the system of private or public schools or anything of that kind- and have had good teachers but who, when they have reached the end of their education at 16, 17 or even older, are still in need of basic remedial teaching so that they can read and write properly. [More…]
Notwithstanding that the education system is good or that the teachers are good there are still children emerging from the system with an incapacity in language, in reading or writing or expressing. [More…]
What I am really asking in this motion is how it is that our education system is able to operate and let so many people pass through its complete system without achieving the very basic skills in language. [More…]
We are allowing a significant number of children to progress right through the education system without learning to use what is a solely human perquisite- our language. [More…]
It is my very real wish that all people emerging from the education system should have an education that matches their intellectual capacity. [More…]
The present Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, provided funds for members of SPELD to attend the 1 1th International Conference on Learning Difficulties in Texas in 1974. [More…]
The result of this disorder, which is relatively widespread in the community, is a failure by a significant number of people to achieve the standard of education that their intelligence, self-determination and efforts should make possible. [More…]
Surely we should be alarmed that a survey conducted in the affluent eastern suburbs of Melbourne could come up with the revelation that 45 per cent of children in forms 1 and 2 of government secondary schools needed remedial teaching if they were to gain any benefit whatsoever from their secondary education and that 25 per cent- one in every four- of those children were functionally illiterate. [More…]
This is a development which has been taking place in the education systems of this country over a great many years. [More…]
I have in mind particularly the ludicrously staffed psychology and guidance branches associated with State departments of education; the pitifully understaffed speech therapy branches of State departments of education there are 32 speech therapists in the Victorian speech therapy branch although the committee of inquiry into special education recommended that there should have been 108- the pitiful lack of remedial teachers on the ground in classrooms; and the almost complete absence of higher medical specialties associated with this problem such as psychiatry. [More…]
Honourable members on this side of the House support the motion not least because of the job of public education which has been carried to a certain point by the SPELD organisation but which now must be taken over by the National Parliament and rivetted onto the consciousness of the people of this country. [More…]
The House should not suppose that the Government has been unconscious of this problem in the 2 years that it has had to make good the enormous deficiencies of our education system which have accumulated over so many years. [More…]
The Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission, known as the Karmel Committee, freely acknowledged that it could not do full justice to all the ramifications of the problem of special education in the 5 months it had available for the preparation of its report and recommendations for 1974-75. [More…]
The Committee recommended that $1.1 3m should be made available for the conduct of full time in-service teacher education courses mounted by the education departments in the education of handicapped children; $8.25m for the replacement of teachers in government schools engaged in training courses for teachers of the handicapped; $ 10.25m for recurrent expenditure in special schools and classes additional to that provided to the States in general recurrent expenditure for schools; $3.91m to enable State education departments to assume responsibility for the recurrent operations of those non-government schools for handicapped people which elect to become part of State systems and to make increased subsidies available to those which elect to remain outside those systems; and $20m to enable State education departments to provide additional faculties for the education of handicapped children and to replace and upgrade existing facilities. [More…]
On the side of research, to which the Leader of the Opposition referred in his motion, I could read out to the House- perhaps if I sought leave to have it incorporated in Hansard this would suit the convenience of the House better- a list of research projects specifically involving the interests of specific learning difficulty children with which the Acting Minister for Education (Mr Barnard) has provided me. [More…]
In a moment’s thought he will conjure up the many children hitherto regarded by State Departments of Education as being ineducable and therefore left to the care of minding centres which had to be organised on a voluntary basis, and very largely financed on a voluntary basis, by groups made up of the parents of the children concerned. [More…]
He will remember the migrant children from countries where a language other than English is spoken and who still overwhelmingly are deprived of the instruction in English as a second language or the opportunity to receive their education in the languages of the countries of their origin. [More…]
He will be aware too of the children from the low income groups in the community who are the victims of educational deprivation on a massive scale. [More…]
The Opposition has previously indicated its support for the principle recommendations of the Karmel Committee and the funds that it provided for education. [More…]
As long ago as 1972 the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the then Minister for Education and Science, appointed a committee part of whose terms of reference contained the specific requirement to report on teacher training for remedial work in this field. [More…]
The question of special education facilities for exceptional children, whether they be handicapped or specially gifted children, exercised the mind of the Australian Labor Party for some years before it came into office. [More…]
The Government Members Education Committee commissioned me to prepare a discussion paper for it, which I did on 9 May 1972, at a time when the Labor Party was in opposition. [More…]
I also pointed out the need for generalists in special education, the need for specialists in education for the various categories of handicapped learners and gifted children, including slow learners, disturbed, maladjusted and autistic children, physically handicapped children in various categories, gifted children and specific learning defect sufferers and the culturally deprived, including migrants and Aboriginals. [More…]
The committee of the parliamentary Labor Party in September 1972- again before the Labor Party was in government- made certain proposals on schools commissions, for which we had agitated for some years, to provide equality of opportunity, to investigate inequalities, to recommend programs, to advise the Government, to be the organ of intelligence and insight, to sponsor and conduct research into all aspects of education, and indeed into all aspects of child care and welfare, including the economic, mental and moral well being of children, to sponsor experimental schools and programs, to educate teachers, assist student teachers, foster in-service and continuing education, to consult pre-school authorities, town planners, pediatricians, child psychiatrists, to provide for child minding and pre-school centres and so on. [More…]
It is well known that the Department of Education has made a $lm grant for handicapped children’s training and other grants for teaching in this area. [More…]
They boast frequently about the huge increases in expenditure that the Government has undertaken in other fields including education, health and the arts. [More…]
-That means there will be a slashing of expenditure on education and on social welfare. [More…]
It handles migration quotas and all the major infrastructures relating to telephones, employment, health, social services and to a lesser degree perhaps, education, roads and so on. [More…]
Included in that $5m was money that would normally have been spent through the departments of Tourism and Recreation, Transport, Social Security, Education and other departments as well as through the Australian Council for the Arts. [More…]
It has been proposed, for example, that it could be sited on a less settled, less inhabited side of Tullamarine Airport, but the Committee had to consider things such as public road access, public transport and the distance from tertiary education institutions and also from the hospitals in Melbourne which use the products of the laboratory. [More…]
What effect would such cuts have on areas such as education, social services, and health, as well as the inflationary situation of the State Budgets? [More…]
If there were any reductions in the programs which this Government has initiated and with which it is pressing forward in education, health centres, transport and in general respect to urban and regional development, the people who would be hit most would be the people providing the supplies and services for those government expenditures which my Government has initiated. [More…]
Does it intend to cut the amounts we have budgeted for in education? [More…]
This amendment was introduced in 1972 and it flows from a recommendation in the second interim report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which indicated that the Board should be empowered to recommend greater renewal periods to the Minister. [More…]
I thank the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) for responding to my telephone call and being present to hear my plea. [More…]
I am not the Minister for Education and Science, which is the old terminology. [More…]
Based on the most recent relevant statistics, which relate to the 1972-73 income year, it has been estimated that if the deductions allowed in that year in respect of education of children had been replaced by flat rebates equal to certain percentages of such expenditure up to $400 the effect on income tax revenue would have been as follows: [More…]
What is the estimated cost to revenue of the proposal by the Australian Education Council, at its meeting of 1 March 1974, that school requisites, such as ans and crafts materials and stationery, should be exempt from sales tax. [More…]
If it were possible to provide for the exemption from sales tax of the primary and secondary school materials referred to by the Australian Education Council specifically where they were used in schools, there would be an estimated annual cost to revenue of about $4 million. [More…]
How many persons were admitted to Australia for education purposes during the years 1972 and 1973 and during the period 1 January to 30 June 1 974. [More…]
What was public authority expenditure as a percentage of gross national product on (a) cash benefits for persons and (b) education (i) as an average for 1968-69 to 1971-72 and (ii) in 1973-74. [More…]
Public authority spending on education represented 3.9 per cent of gross domestic product, on average, over the period 1968-69 to 197 1-72 and 4.7 per cent in 1973-74. [More…]
I have been informed that the agreements reached between Mr Clunies-Ross and myself, which covered not only the acceptance of sovereignty but also related to the codification of the criminal law, education facilities, health matters and the like, have been lost by the Department. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that earlier in the session an amending Bill to the States Grants (Universities) Act 1972-1973 was enacted which included provision for grants for teaching and research in community practice, social work and in special education at a number of universities. [More…]
Because of the Government’s assumption of full responsibility for financing tertiary education from 1 January, 1974, the States’ basic programs take into account estimated capital expenditure of which the States have been relieved. [More…]
These intended areas of involvement in Aboriginal affairs and assistance to deserted wives followed the Australian Government’s assumption of complete responsibility in the area of tertiary education. [More…]
Adjustments of this type have already occurred as a result of the Commonwealth taking over the responsibility for financing tertiary education and welfare housing and, at the recent Premiers’ Conference, the Prime Minister announced that the Financial Assistance Grants would be further reduced as a result of Commonwealth initiatives in the fields of Aboriginal Affairs and assistance to deserted wives. [More…]
Sir Charles Court’s remarks would not appear to be too unreasonable but an examination of what has happened in the area of tertiery education upon the assumption of total responsibility by the Australian Government shows that his is a fairly shallow sort of threat. [More…]
In fact, as a result of an Australian Government taking over responsibility for tertiary education, an adjustment of $2.7 million was made to the 1973-74 Loan Council programs. [More…]
This matter has to be seen in the context of the increase in total expenditure in the field of tertiary education in those 2 years. [More…]
The combined capital and recurrent expenditure on universities and colleges of advanced education increased from $ 15.7m in 1972-73 to $43.6m in 1973-74, and in 1974-75 it is intended to be $69.6m. [More…]
One only has to point to the areas of education, Aboriginal affairs and the extension of urban facilities, which are 3 areas of very gross neglect when they were the sole province of State governments and one only has to look at the massive increase which has occurred in education expenditure, the expenditure on Aboriginal affairs and expenditure such as that for the extension of sewerage into the suburbs, to realise what a backlog of neglect existed prior to the Australian Government becoming directly involved. [More…]
I think one of the reasons this is important is that in areas such as education and Aboriginal affairs it is quite crucial that the programs developed in each of the States and in the Territories bear some relation, one to the other, and that if one is going to have excessive duplication and lack of co-ordination then this is only going to add to the problems and not add to the solution of them. [More…]
It said that expenditure commitments had been relieved in the States because the Commonwealth had taken over responsibility for tertiary education. [More…]
The States have been relieved of the responsibility of financing tertiary education. [More…]
In particular I am thinking of the library grants by the Commonwealth which went through the Department of Education in Victoria as distinct from the ones which went to private schools in that State. [More…]
By comparison, in the Australian Capital Territory where this Government does have a say in the education system and school buildings, schools are of a high standard. [More…]
If the 8 per cent cut across the board about which the Opposition likes to speak so blithely is put into effect, bearing in mind that the Opposition has said it will increase defence spending and hold education spending, the States will collect a bonanza of a $50m cut in their spending. [More…]
Similarly State education authorities should be accelerating the replacement of their run-down schools, not fighting with the Federal Government. [More…]
Education, health and transport are all State responsibilities. [More…]
Jobs for the boys have been created and will be created in the Cities Commission, the Housing Corporation and the Education Commission, all duplicating the missions of well established, well regimented and highly functional State departments. [More…]
Allowing for certain arrangements for financing tertiary education and the transfer of payroll tax to the States in 1971-72, the effective increases in 1974-75, 1973-74 and 1972-73 are 28 per cent, 20 per cent and 17 per cent. [More…]
For instance, 76 per cent of the money spent on education will go to the States, 52 per cent spent in the housing field will go to the State and 65 per cent spent in the fields of urban and regional development and the environment will go to the States. [More…]
The main functions of the National Committee are to consider allegations of discrimination in employment and occupation referred to it by the six State Committees, to interpret the requirements of the national policy, to advise the Government on the action necessary to ensure full compliance with the policy, and to develop a national education and publicity program designed to promote equality of opportunity in employment and occupation. [More…]
What was the Australian Government expenditure as a percentage of the gross national product on (a) cash benefit for persons and (b) education (i) as an average during the period 1968-69 to 1971-72 and (ii) in 1973-74. [More…]
(b) Australian Government expenditure on education represented 0.9 per cent of gross domestic product, on average, over the period 1968-69 to 1971-72 and 1.7 per cent in 1973-74. [More…]
It should be noted that the bulk of Australian Government spending on education is in the form of grants to the States, which are included in the preceding figures. [More…]
In interpreting the figures, it needs to be borne in mind that a substantial part of the recent increases in Australian Government grants to the States for education has resulted from its assumption of full responsibility for financing tertiary education from the beginning of 1974. with accompanying reductions in general purpose funds provided to the States. [More…]
Thus, pan of the increase in Australian Government outlays on education reflects a transfer in financial responsibility from the States, rather than increased final expenditure on education. [More…]
Has the attention of the Prime Minister been drawn to the statement by the Liberal Party’s banking spokesman, Mr Russell Prowse, calling for cuts m government expenditure of $700m in education, $395m in urban development, and $50m in cultural and recreational programs? [More…]
To take Mr Prowse ‘s quite overt, blatant suggestions, the Australian Government will not sponsor any cuts in its education program, in its urban and regional programs or in its cultural and recreational programs. [More…]
In regard to education and, one might add, in regard to health services, Australia has some provisions of great excellence; they are of world quality. [More…]
The Australian Government is determined to reduce those inequalities by upgrading and spreading these services in education and health. [More…]
But none of them are abandoning their programs in education, health, urban and regional development, or culture and recreation. [More…]
A futher amendment in the concessional deduction area to be made by the Bill will reduce the maximum deductions for education and selfeducation expenses from $400 to $150. [More…]
1 do not have to stress the substantially increased direct expenditures that the Government is making on education. [More…]
For this reason it involves an element of public education in urban and planning issues. [More…]
It has been proposed, for example, that it could be sited on a less settled, less inhabited side of Tullamarine Airport, but the Committee had to consider things such as public road access, public transport and the distance from tertiary education institutions and also from the hospitals in Melbourne which use the products of the laboratory. [More…]
At one end of the scale, in the field of education, the Liberals are committed to a sum of up to $ 15m for higher grants to category A schools. [More…]
They are committed to $33m to bring the education tax allowance back from $150 per annum to $400. [More…]
Let the education authorities of Australia, State and Federal, ask themselves to what extent the building and recurrent expenditure programs in education could be maintained in the face of this sort of cutback. [More…]
He did say- I admit this- that there would be an across the board cut but he went on to say as well- I believe that this must be stated as a matter of accuracy and truth- that priority would be given in the fields of education, social welfare and health. [More…]
Certainly it might be education, which has received priority ever since the Liberal Party came into government in 1 949. [More…]
He was supporting what one leader writer called Labor’s ‘cherished program for lavish expenditure on education, health, transport and social welfare generally’. [More…]
The findings showed an overall desire to double education expenditure, health and foreign aid, increase social welfare outlays by one-quarter and slash- by two-thirds- defence spending and spending on economic development. [More…]
Free university education will cost an estimated $46.8m for the current year. [More…]
That obviously means that there will need to be a cutback on the present increase which this Government has budgeted for and, if necessary, of course that will mean a cutback of 8 per cent across the board, but necessarily there will be very high preference and priority given to programmes in the fields of health, education, social welfare and urban and regional development. [More…]
He said that $700m should be chopped from expenditure on education. [More…]
It is obvious that cuts would be made in culture and recreation, urban development and education. [More…]
The balance will be expanded by other departments such as the Department of Education for study grants and secondary grants and special programs in the Northern Territory, by the Department of Health in the Northern Territory, and the Department of Labor and Immigration under its employment training scheme. [More…]
In summary, the policies of the Australian Government in respect of Aboriginal people might be described as seeking: to encourage and strengthen the capacity of Aboriginals to manage their own affairs and to increase their economic independence; to enable Aboriginals to have a real freedom of choice about their life style and the extent to which, particularly in the more remote communities, they maintain their traditional customs and culture- a freedom which can be exercised to the extent that communities have local authority, in particular through land ownership; to make equality a reality for Aboriginal Australians by working to overcome those handicaps which generally face them in fields such as housing, health, education, employment and civil liberties; in doing this, to help Aboriginals themselves to provide services designed to overcome handicapsfor instance through Aboriginal housing societies, medical services and legal services; and to act in the closest consultation with Aboriginal communities and individuals at both the national and the local levels. [More…]
It has always regarded the provision of services such as health, housing, education, employment, legal aid and others to Aboriginals as being the responsibility of functional departments and authorities. [More…]
It is not the Australian Government’s intention to assume permanent responsibility for the activities of State departments in fields such as health and education in respect of Aboriginal people. [More…]
-Mr Deputy Speaker, I would not like to transgress against your gentle nature and I hope, therefore, that you would find it a tolerable irrelevance on my part if I say to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) how glad I am to see him back from his travel abroad and to see him looking fit. [More…]
I regret that the Minister was not here to present this Bill himself because if he had done so the House would have been spared what I would describe as a rather graceless speech made by the then Acting Minister for Education, the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
I regret that the Acting Minister for Education had to resort to what I describe as a rather fatuous observation in order to sustain a partisan attitude which in terms of this year, I suppose, one could describe as almost having been forgotten. [More…]
Minister for Defence, as Acting Minister for Education, should say: ‘It will be interesting to discover the attitude of the Opposition to this Bill ‘. [More…]
I suggest that it is to be found in a report delivered to the Minister for Education by the Schools Commission in August of this year and, for the sake of brevity and, I hope, convenience and clarity, I refer to some observations of the Commission with respect to recurrent programs. [More…]
The second is that the Government makes a corporate error of judgment if it takes the conglomerate of funds made available for education purposes throughout Australia and says: ‘Ergo, the problems are being solved’. [More…]
I think that the Minister for Education is one of the few among us who was here in that day. [More…]
My recollection is that he participated in the first major debate on education in this Parliament, together with the late John Dedman. [More…]
In the Karmel report reference was made to the desirability of preserving decentralised attitudes towards education throughout Australia. [More…]
Yet, I suggest to the Minister, we stand in very real danger of the Schools Commission being developed in such a way that it is no longer an advisory body to the Department of Education but could be a rivalling body to the Department of Education. [More…]
I hesitate to give the slightest sense of approval to the Schools Commission developing into another great department of State looking out upon the entire Australian scene and taking the view that all virtue of assessment of the problems of education in Australia can be made by the Schools Commission. [More…]
The second observation I should like to make about the Schools Commission is to refer to the questionnaire which has been sent out and about which I have not the slightest doubt in the world that my friend, the Minister for Education, has had some observations made to him by various educationalists throughout Australia. [More…]
I know the Minister only too well to know that he will not dismiss them lightly or in any irreverent sense, but that he will consider the implications of seeing the Schools Commission seeking to dwarf, as it were, in influence the Department of Education and also to control any temptation by the Schools Commission to take the view that it is responsible for the direction in some manner of infallibility of all education throughout Australia. [More…]
This is where I believe the Government has made a fundamental error in approach to the issue of education. [More…]
May I say for myself, as one who has had a rather curious background of education, that I would fight like the devil against seeing introduced into this country a State monopoly of education. [More…]
I see a tremendous virtue in diversity and I see tremendous virtue in encouraging those who by dint of vocation give over their lives to the purposes of education. [More…]
Schools Commission might develop in such a way as to rival the Department of Education. [More…]
I remind the honourable member for Moreton that the State governments and the systemic schools, the Cathlolic education authorities, play a very significant role in the decision making process, in deciding where the money will be spent. [More…]
The Government recognises the unexpectedly high cost increases in the provision of education facilities. [More…]
I would suggest that this Bill is further evidence of the priority that is being given by the Government to equality of education for every child in the Australian community. [More…]
One can only assume that the Victorian Minister for Education is determined that credit should not be given to the Whitlam [More…]
I could cite numerous instances where the State Minister for Education has announced some upgrading of a particular school or some capital works program but never has there been any mention of the fact that the funds that have made this possible have come from the Australian Government. [More…]
It is interesting to note the new found interest of the Opposition parties in education. [More…]
It is well known that in the last 2 years of the LiberalCountry Party rule, 1971 and 1972, the previous Government spent about $112m on education. [More…]
In 1974 and 1975 this Government will spend more than $785m on schools under the Karmel program, and that is only one aspect of the total education picture. [More…]
Out of all this one can only assume that the Opposition parties would favour cuts in expenditure in education, and one can assume also that these cuts would be fairly massive. [More…]
This assumption seems to be supported by the recent statement made by Mr Russell Prowse, who is a spokesman for the Bank of New South Wales and who appears also to be a spokesman for the Liberal Party, in which he recommended a $700m cut in education expenditure. [More…]
I would remind the House that just $785m is the total amount to be spent on education over 2 years. [More…]
If the cut in expenditure of some $700m about which Mr Prowse talks was allowed to take place, in fact this would mean the complete emasculation of the education policy. [More…]
The Whitlam Government has stated very clearly that spending in the field of education is a top priority. [More…]
The experience I gained from a long period of teaching in the Victorian Education Department made me well aware of the outmoded central administration of that Department and the way in which it deals with capital works programs in government schools. [More…]
For years I have been critical, and highly critical, of the duplication which takes place between the Public Works Department and the Building Branch of the Education Department. [More…]
I think it was the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) who made reference to this matter on the weekend when he mentioned the case of the Prince’s Hill High School which the Public Works Department calculated would take something like 5 years to build. [More…]
The Victorian Education Department simply is not geared administratively to handle programs of the magnitude that are required in 1974. [More…]
This means that only 4 per cent of the total allocation has been spent If we look at the overall picture for Australia, we see that something like 18 per cent of the money allocated has been spent The Catholic education authority in Victoria has spent well in advance of this figure. [More…]
We know that there is a danger that the money will not be spent, and the reason for this is the clogging up that takes place in the Victorian Education Department. [More…]
This new initiative on the part of the Australian Government will be welcomed by those interested in improving both the quality and the availability of education to all Australian children, irrespective of their financial circumstances, their parentage, their religious beliefs or where they live. [More…]
-We are discussing the States Grants (Schools) Bill which makes grants to the States for recurrent and capital expenditure in education. [More…]
Before getting on to the main themes of the Bill I would like to ask the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) why it is that in at least one State, the State of Victoria where the State’s priorities committee on building projects recommended to the Schools Commission as early as March this year figures which were, I understand, approved by the Schools Commission, no money has yet come through to the schools. [More…]
The socialist government made its intentions in education, in one particular area, clear with the introduction of the recurrent per capita grants system which had so many flaws in the actual formula that many Australians were led to conclude that it was indiscriminate and unjust inasmuch as the formula for grants to pupils was based on schools rather than students; it was based on the needs of schools rather than on the needs of parents. [More…]
With the rising costs of running schools, in particular where the salaries of teachers have risen properly and remarkably in recent years and where there is higher inflation in building costs, parents face the threat that they will not be able to pursue for their children the interest which they have displayed in an independent education. [More…]
I give credit to the Minister for Education for fighting in Cabinet against the phasing out of all aid to some parents. [More…]
But the fact is that most parents slave and struggle to give their children an education of their choice. [More…]
They go without themselves because they believe in education. [More…]
The latest actual blow was the drastic reduction of the maximum taxation deduction for education expenses from $400 a year for each child to $150 a year for each child. [More…]
That blow hits those parents who avail themselves of the opportunity to give their children a free education as much as it hits those parents who avail themselves of the opportunity to send their children to an independent school and therefore give them a costly education. [More…]
It is precisely the large family which is hurt most by the reduction of the education allowance from $400 a year to $150 a year. [More…]
With fees and taxes up dramatically because his income is up- I repeat again that the talk of tax deductions through the year is nonsense; more taxes are being paid because incomes have increased- and the predictions of the amount of further increases of fees are quite horrific, and with education deductions down, that taxpayer will have to find an extra $1,330 for extra taxes and extra school fees just to keep his 2 children at independent schools next year. [More…]
This, of course, places a colossal extra burden on the public sector of education, a feature which is overlooked by those supporters of the socialist Government who seek to destroy the independent schools of Australia. [More…]
We should seek imaginative and novel approaches to the funding of education, perhaps through tax credits, perhaps through voucher schemes and perhaps through other techniques to see that the freedom of choice is extended right throughout the community instead of shrunk to a smaller and smaller segment of the community. [More…]
It seems to me that the Liberal Party- I do not know about the Country Partyhas learnt very little in its 2 years in Opposition regarding the matter of education. [More…]
What I am concerned about is why it is that over the years when the Liberal-Country Party Government was in power it did not have the same obsession about the thousands of schools scattered throughout Australia that existed in absolute educational poverty, as I would call it. [More…]
I ask Opposition members to consider the kind of teachers such schools had and the lack of proper professional education provided. [More…]
We are concerned about helping both State governments and non-governmental education authorities to provide a decent education for all children and to give every child, whatever his limitations or his brilliance, an opportunity to expand that talent to its maximum level in accordance with the child ‘s own motivation. [More…]
In the Budget this year the provision for State education was increased- last year there was a big uplift- by 137 per cent, which is a pretty big amount even allowing for inflation. [More…]
As a former teacher and lecturer in a teachers college, I know that money is not education. [More…]
It is what one makes it do, the resources one can create, the experimentation and the research into content, organisation and administration of education that really matter. [More…]
Teachers are not aware of it and I do not think that some of the State education authorities are doing very much to help them become aware of it. [More…]
One of the grants that were made available recently was $60,000 for a pilot program by the Catholic Education Office in Victoria to assess the efficiency of a staffing scheme which increases pupil-teacher ratios but at the same time increases the availability of paraprofessional staff. [More…]
The Victorian Catholic Education Office receives also in this series a second grant of $38,000 for a project involving liaison between the government and Catholic education systems on implementation of programs involving both systems and joint use of facilities. [More…]
This is a genuine attempt to do something for the education of all children and for all people throughout their lives. [More…]
But this Bill and the Schools Commission naturally are concerned with primary and secondary education. [More…]
Almost every education expert who has visited this country has commented upon the dulling, deadening uniformity of our education in Australia. [More…]
They were slaves to the one education examination system. [More…]
One of the things with which I was particularly impressed in the educational budget is the provision for disadvantaged schools. [More…]
Children who attend these schools still attract certain taxation concessions, they are still in the field for scholarships, and they have free access to all tertiary education if they are able to get enrolment in tertiary institutions. [More…]
We are saying to those schools that have fairly adequate facilities: ‘Wait a while until those educationally dispossessed children have had a chance to catch up’. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has told me that he expects that about 50 per cent of these schools will ultimately take up the offer. [More…]
-In few other areas of State or Federal Government responsibility has the burden of the effects of inflation been more pronounced than in the area of education. [More…]
Overall expenditure by all governments on education has shown a dramatic increase over recent years in a genuine endeavour to meet and improve the quality of educational opportunities for all students. [More…]
There has been doubt for some time now in my mind as to whether the increases in the past 18 months have been as effective in maintaining the momentum in educational expansion as the amount of money being made available implies. [More…]
I believe it is also becoming evident that greater emphasis has to be placed not just on our expenditures but also on the effects of forms of education upon individual students because of the fact that today they are moving out into a slack labour market and still have to compete for orthodox and stereotype employment. [More…]
In August the Schools Commission presented to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) a report which showed that supplementary grants were now needed even though it is only months since allocation arrangements were made. [More…]
It is quite obvious that the diminishing purchasing power of grants has frustrated plans to expand and improve educational services. [More…]
Administrative and salary costs are also now claiming an ever-increasing percentage of the education estimates, leaving a smaller percentage of the total to be spent on improving our facilities and the quality and efficiency of our systems. [More…]
It pointed out quite correctly that, in the interests of consistency and in the absence of acceptable measures of rates of increase in primary and secondary education costs, provision must be made for inflation, but no authority could be held responsible for the drastic effect of the Government’s policies upon our economy. [More…]
If we are to obtain value for the large increases in educational spending by all our State governments and the Federal Government in the long term the diminishing power of our currency must be controlled and productivity must rise in our service industries. [More…]
I have said that I have no hesitation in acknowledging the extra financial assistance that is being made available by the Federal Government to the State education systems and directly, but I point out to him that it is the poor non-government schools that are feeling the pinch at present. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Minister for Education to a question asked by the honourable member for McMillan (Mr Hewson) of the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) when he was Acting Minister for Education during the absence of the Minister. [More…]
If the construction industries can get an injection of confidence and incentive to meet the heavy demands being made upon them in all areas of activity, and particularly in education, we will see a tremendous benefit deriving from the increases in expenditure being made by all our governments. [More…]
I think it is very proper at this stage to point out that State governments are, from their own resources, accepting a major share of the financial responsibility towards the provision of educational services. [More…]
There would be few State governments which are not spending from 40 per cent to 50 per cent of their total budgetary expenditure on education and one wonders how far a State government can go with its limited resources towards meeting the needs of our education system. [More…]
I believe that in Queensland nearly 90 per cent of total expenditure on education is met by the State Government while 7 per cent comes from the Schools Commission. [More…]
The honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) in his remarks before lunch said that he saw great virtue in diversity of education and I agree entirely with him. [More…]
This Government’s policy is aimed at breaking down the financial barriers which so often have meant that children have been denied a full and proper education. [More…]
The amount provided for special groups such as Aborigines, migrants, soldiers’ children and isolated children, will be cut by $5.46m and if the amount payable to colleges of” advanced education and teachers’ colleges were included in the 8 per cent, expenditure in these areas would be cut by $25.6m. [More…]
The Government is providing the basis for a real improvement in educational standards in this country. [More…]
The various teachers unions have taken this matter up with the State Department of Education but so far with very little success. [More…]
The Minister for Education in Victoria, Mr Thompson, is refusing to exercise his discretion. [More…]
The Association wrote to the Acting Minister for Education, Mr Dixon, putting the following matters to him: [More…]
But I invite honourable members to read the article which appears on pages 1 and 4 of that newspaper, setting out some aspects of the situation that is occurring with respect to State government expenditure on education. [More…]
We feel a responsibility to provide money for the education of children at the primary and secondary levels and also in other areas at all levels. [More…]
In no sense does this Bill in reality represent the provision of additional financial support for education. [More…]
No better basis for the argument that I have just put can be found than in the report by the Schools Commission to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), who is at the table, on supplementary funds for programs administered by that Commission. [More…]
When we consider this legislation, we ought to recognise it for what it is, that is, a piece of necessary economic support for the provision of educational facilities in Australia. [More…]
There are differences of emphasis concerning the provision of education facilities in this country, as there are differences of approach, a great many related to the attitudes of the 2 sides of this House to schools in the non-government sector. [More…]
I think that the time has long since passed when we ought to recognise that, in relation to the period spanned by compulsory secular education in Australia, it is only a very short time since any recognition was given to the principle that governments ought to help independent schools. [More…]
-On a recurring basis- yet, in the same breath, the Government is taking back an education concession which is worth at least $30m annually, also on a recurring basis. [More…]
With respect to the Minister’s interjection, we have no control over the appropriation of the tax cuts towards education expenses. [More…]
At least if the Government accepts as a priority the expenditure of a certain sum of money on education, and works towards that priority by the provision of tied funds and also the provision of specific taxation allowances, it can be sure that the funds reach the purpose for which they have been allocated. [More…]
But if those funds are just made generally available, we have no guarantee that they will wind up being used for education purposes. [More…]
So, lest any honourable member is carried away at the financial largesse proposed by this Bill, I think the House should recognise firstly that the legislation provides an adjustment in respect of inflation and that, measured against the value of allowable taxation deductions for expenditure on education, which taxation concession has been withdrawn, this legislation represents in reality a provision of an additional $30m only. [More…]
Over the hand of the secretary of the Holy Spirit Parents and Friends Association there is a very feeling criticism of the reduction of the taxation deduction for education expenses from $400 to $ 1 50. [More…]
Secondary education, with its low means test for school scholarships, will now become almost an impossibility for the average wage earner. [More…]
So there is a sense of grievance felt throughout the non-governmernt school sector towards this reduction in the taxation allowance for education expenses. [More…]
I want to put quite clearly the position of the Australian Country Party in the area of education. [More…]
We believe that every child, irrespective of his or her colour, creed or standing in life is entitled to a share of the Commonwealth taxation pool for his or her education. [More…]
We believe that the present system of education policy under the control of the Australian Labor Party wherein it wants to give finance on the basis of iron-fisted control is too high a price to pay. [More…]
Our system of education endeavours not only to mould the hearts and minds of young Australians on a basis of improving their educational and emotional development in life but also to equip them adequately to learn how to live. [More…]
That has been the core of our educational policies. [More…]
As one of the previous speakers in this debate emphasised, it is part of our philosophy that it is the inalienable right of every parent in Australia to decide what type of education his or her child shall receive. [More…]
In Queensland 93 per cent of the estimated expenditure from Consolidated Revenue on education will be financed from State Government resources and the balance of 7 per cent will be financed by the Schools Commission. [More…]
Some recent comments by people who are unfairly opposed to the magnificent work of the National-Liberal coalition Government of Queensland in education would convey the impression that the State Government has not maintained the level of its spending on educational services which existed prior to the introduction of the Schools Commission funding scheme. [More…]
One of the reasons that we find it necessary to introduce this new legislation, as was described in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), is the rapid increase in inflation. [More…]
We find now, with inflation running close to 22 per cent per annum, that it is necessary to increase the amount of money available in the area of education. [More…]
It is appropriate also to point out in this debate the magnificent improvement in the education system in Queensland following the moves taken by the Queensland Department of Education. [More…]
It is absolutely essential that these children have the opportunity of pursuing an agricultural type of education, bearing in mind that the farmer of the future will be a business man, an economist and a philosopher. [More…]
I want to emphasise once again our deep political and philosophical belief that it is the responsibility and the right of every parent to choose the type of education that his child shall receive, and it is the Government’s responsibility to give to each child in this country a per capita contribution to help him or her meet his or her educational requirements. [More…]
I have never written one letter of instruction to a non-government school in my 2 years as Minister for Education. [More…]
We make a grant to the State government which makes grants on to non-government schools with no instructions except, of course, the implicit one contained in the Act that the money has to be spent on education and not on riotous living. [More…]
It is merely applying to the Schools Commission what has always existed in relation to the Universities Commission and the Commission of Advanced Education where, under all governments, to allow for inflation the triennial grants to colleges of advanced education or universities have been adjusted. [More…]
I would concede to the honourable member for Bennelong, and I would never have dreamt of suggesting otherwise, that an attempt is being made, as it will be made by other legislation which will be introduced in regard to universities and colleges of advanced education during this week, to maintain the purchasing power of the original grants. [More…]
In general, it is the non-government education authorities which appropriate their money and spend it faster than others. [More…]
I suspect, without being able to prove it, that sometimes the problem lies not with the education departments but with the public works departments. [More…]
In any event, education departments are pretty fast at spending their recurring funds for disadvantaged schools. [More…]
I do not want to comment on them but, after all, both sides of the House had joint legislation- the triennial grant of $46m, which was originally $36m but to which we added $ 10m, for technical education over the last 3 years. [More…]
Such higher priority areas as education, social security and health would be slowed down less than others. [More…]
On 21 June the present Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) asked Mr Chifley a similar question and in each case generous support was forthcoming. [More…]
Without a strong manufacturing industry we cannot achieve our national objectives- national objectives of growth, improvement in our living standards, the provision of education and health services, the relief of poverty, aid to the poor, the provision of aid to overseas countries less well endowed with resources and people than we are. [More…]
Government expenditure cannot be cut significantly without cutting expenditure on education, health and well being. [More…]
To enable Australians to make an appropriate contribution to the sum of international achievement in those fields of culture, entertainment, education and other worthwhile endeavour communicated by film. [More…]
Children’s problems encompass health, education, social welfare, recreation and cultural development. [More…]
By contrast, the Children’s Bureau under the LiberalCountry Party Government will provide a central source of input to a committee of Ministers who will retain the responsibility for the administration of programs within their specific portfolios- e.g., health, education and social welfare. [More…]
But we still have those bastions who vigorously and maniacally oppose any forms of sex education, oppose the advertising of contraceptives and oppose any resolutions for sexual enlightenment among people. [More…]
I would like to have some material incorporated in Hansard but I will not even bring myself down to the Minister’s level to ask for leave to do so having in mind the way in which he refused leave for my Leader to incorporate the responsible document of the Liberal Party ‘s policies in the area of sex education, women’s community health centres and the like. [More…]
The increased expenditures by this Government on education give support to the disadvantaged. [More…]
The matter I chose to put forward two weeks ago was the establishment of a committee of the House on a totally non-political basis to look at the very serious problem of word blindness in children and the associated problems of dyslexia and the incapacity to absorb education even though the intellect is in advance of the level of education etc. [More…]
The major purposes of this Bill are to provide a program of financial assistance for seven nongovernment teachers colleges for 1974 and 1975, and to provide for variations in both capital and recurrent costs for all colleges of advanced education which were not allowed for when the programs for the 1973-75 triennium were adopted. [More…]
In 1973 the Government amended the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act to give effect to the decision that former State government teachers colleges as they moved towards autonomy would be funded by the Australian Government as colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Consistent with the policy that these teachers colleges should be so funded, the Commission on Advanced Education was asked to report on the assistance to be provided for approved nongovernment teachers colleges. [More…]
This undertaking of the Prime Minister has been met this year with the extension of student allowances and recurrent funds in the nongovernment teacher education area. [More…]
In accordance with the Government’s decision of 23 August 1974 the Bill also provides funds for recurrent expenditure of up to $230,000 for the establishment of recreation leadership courses at colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It is a growing concern of the Government to adapt tertiary education and technical and further education to the needs of country people and to do this the cost of residential accommodation must increasingly be met. [More…]
The indices used by the Universities Commission will also be used by the Commission on Advanced Education to calculate cost variations for the college system. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that this Government has provided assistance for courses in dental therapy at the Western Australian Institute of Technology, social work at the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, social work and physical education at the Preston Institute of Technology and physical education at the Footscray Institute of Technology in Victoria. [More…]
Grants have also been provided for courses in special education and for the preparation of preschool teachers. [More…]
In accordance with established government policy, following the national wage case decision of May 1974 adjustments have been made to salaries payable to academic staff at colleges of advanced education. [More…]
This amendment provides an additional $47m in the 1 973-75 triennium for colleges of advanced education and non-government teachers colleges. [More…]
The purpose of the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill 1974 is to provide funds for post-school technical and further education in the States in accordance with the general program of development recommended by the Committee on Technical and Further Education. [More…]
The Committee was established under the chairmanship of Mr Myer Kangan, in April 1973, to advise on the development of technical and further education and to make recommendations on the financial assistance to be provided to government institutions providing technical and further education. [More…]
He stated that ‘we are determined that technical education shall cease to be the Cinderella of Australian education’. [More…]
The Bill which I am introducing is an expression of our determination to give technical education that place. [More…]
The Government has endorsed the approach adopted in the Kangan report of a national program to upgrade technical and further education, with the Australian Government providing funds additional to a maintained effort by the States. [More…]
We do not wish to see technical and further education defined in any narrow way, related only to skills required by industry. [More…]
The definition of technical and further education in the Bill covers the broad range of post-school education, including courses which have a vocational bias in order to meet occupational requirements and also courses which are not necessarily vocational but are designed to meet community needs. [More…]
The Bill is therefore aimed at meeting national needs for an adequately educated and skilled workforce as well as providing continuing education for the adult population. [More…]
The scope and status of non-government institutions in the technical and further education field are so diverse that a good deal of consideration needs to be given to the nature of the assistance they might receive. [More…]
The needs of these institutions, of which two of the more widely known are the Workers Educational Association and the Victorian Council of Adult Education, are, with one exception, not being taken into account by the Bill. [More…]
The question of support for them will be the subject of a report by the proposed Technical and Further Education Commission and submissions from voluntary bodies not operated for profit have already been sought. [More…]
Both of these groups of courses have been receiving fees reimbursement grants and the tertiary courses are continuing to do so under arrangements for colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The report of the Committee on Technical and Further Education recommended that grants totalling nearly $ 105m be provided to the States over the 18-month period 1 July 1974 to 31 December 1975. [More…]
Together with the $3.5m to be available to the Australian Capital Territory and $250,000 provided for research, the total amount which we have set aside for technical and further education over the 2 years is $100m. [More…]
While our proposed contribution to technical and further education is considerable, I would like to acknowledge the concern which has been expressed by the States regarding the adequacy of the provision for general recurrent grants within the total sums. [More…]
The Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education has given me its advice on this matter and I expect to be able to make a statement shortly. [More…]
The States will be expected to continue their own support for technical education. [More…]
The report of the Committee proposes a precise formula to guarantee the maintenance of the previous level of State expenditure on technical education as a proportion of total expenditure. [More…]
The Bill appropriates $29.8 lm for general purpose grants, which the States may spend on technical and further education as they see fit. [More…]
The purposes to which the grants may be put, referred to in clauses 17, 19 and 21 of the Bill, are: $2.4m for in-service teaching staff development; $805,000 in total for the provision of library furnishings, the training of library technicians and the investigation of the feasibility of a bibliographic centre; $lm for furthering the concept of unrestricted access to recurrent education; $56,000 for the development of proposals for community colleges; and $200,000 for the design of model library resource centres. [More…]
Those colleges would be particularly valuable in locations removed from large metropolitan centres, opening new horizons to people cut off from the mainstreams of educational opportunities, assisting them to transfer from one type of course to another and encouraging the kind of broad based education which widens job prospects. [More…]
In its examination of the barriers preventing ready access to technical and further education, the Committee refers to the special problems faced by people in rural areas, by women and girls, and by handicapped persons and migrants. [More…]
I shall be asking the States to ensure that the needs of these groups are taken into account by the various education authorities. [More…]
The pressure of Parliamentary business during this Budget session has been very great and for this reason alone we have decided to delay the introduction of legislation to establish the Technical and Further Education Commission as a statutory body. [More…]
I would like to make it clear that the work which will be undertaken by the Commission is being effectively carried out by the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education under the chairmanship of Professor Richardson of Macquarie University. [More…]
We endorse the approach of the Kangan Committee that technical and further education should develop the general education of individuals as well as providing them with specialised training. [More…]
In this way, people will become confident of meeting change because the breadth of their education fits them for alternative employment. [More…]
The Queensland Government has the administrative machinery to expend efficiently its share of the grant for the purpose of assisting Aboriginal people in regard to housing, education and other forms of assistance in that State. [More…]
The balance is to be spent on education, health and other areas of need. [More…]
However, in most situations the greatest needs are housing, employment opportunity, education and adequate health care. [More…]
This, of course, leads to education and vocational training facilities for the young and, indeed, the adults. [More…]
It is an indictment of the administration of the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs that a secondary education for an Aborigine is a one way ticket to the world outside, and that while the junior pass was formerly the level of entry to the Queensland Public Service, to the Queensland Police Force and, in earlier days, to the Queensland teaching profession, hardly any Aborigines have gone into the Queensland Public Service, only a handful have gone into the teaching profession, and I do not know of any who have gone into the Police Force. [More…]
Their education does not compare with the education of Europeans, if one measures it by grade against age, by attendance, by the number who drop out or by any way that one wishes. [More…]
-It was because of the fact, I would suggest, that most Liberal voters have had the benefit of greater education and most likely had other benefits. [More…]
-What he said was that people without education are not entitled to vote. [More…]
That those people who tend to vote Labor are the most disadvantaged by a complicated electoral system is an accident which this Government’s education policies, I hope, will shortly overcome. [More…]
Dr Coombs was the person who originally set up the proposals which would take away, for instance, education allowances and a whole host of other things. [More…]
We know also that should such disputes have occurred in Australia under a Liberal-Country Party government there would have been cuts in education and cuts in welfare. [More…]
Does any honourable member think we would have had the development of a program in which more than double the amount in real terms has been spent on education during the last 2 years? [More…]
No matter how much one tries to get the Leader of the Opposition into a corner he cannot deny that his policy would result in cuts not only in social welfare but also in education, health and all the other essentials that make up the greater part of government expenditure in this nation. [More…]
The proposals of the Committee are, in effect, that all ‘State-type’ functions be transferred to the Territory Executive, except that major functions such as rural land, mining, education, health, companies and the supreme court be retained by the Australian Government and other major functions such as roads, ports, fisheries, national parks and the police be shared. [More…]
The reality of the situation is that the Government is expected to provide certain services for its citizens- things like education, health services, welfare, payments to the States, cash transfer payment to citizens and so on. [More…]
Education Expenses [More…]
Clauses 15 and 16 of the Bill provide for the statutory maximum deductions of $400 allowable for educational expenses to be reduced to $150. [More…]
It is contrary to the repeated public assurances given by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the present Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) during 1972. [More…]
The rationale behind the reduction is that there have been increases in direct educational spending which reduce the need to subsidise education through the taxation system. [More…]
Whilst we support the increases provided in the Budget for education, we believe that the decision to reduce the deduction does not take into account that the benefit was available in respect of expenses incurred by the family for the individual child. [More…]
It must be recognised that in many cases mandatory educational expenses clearly exceed the proposed $150. [More…]
It cited education as one example where the concessional deduction system has the merit of leaving the citizen with a free choice and of saving the authorities some of the burden of administrative control. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘whilst not declining to give the Bill a second reading, the House is of the opinion that the provisions of the Bill which reduce the limit on deductions for education expenses from $400 to $ I SO seriously restrict the freedom of choice which now exists in the Australian education system, are a contravention of the Government’s election undertakings and will impose unwarranted burdens on parents with children attending both public and private schools and, further, that the Bill specifically: [More…]
2) which provide that the maximum education deduction of $400 a year is to be reduced to $150. [More…]
Can any supporter of the Government assert with any truth at all that with the possible exception of a few of the preparatory grades, $150 will go anywhere near covering the educational expenses in a year for a child at primary or secondary school? [More…]
The Government which makes a fetish of education and which claims to spend record millions has in a penny pinching, scrooge-like, vicious and petty action penalised every parent of every school pupil in Australia. [More…]
How on earth can this Government show a scintilla of evidence of sympathy for these country people when it limits their annual tax deductibility for education to a miserable $150? [More…]
There is an education allowance, which is being drastically cut in the Budget, imposing heavy burdens on all taxpayers who have school-going children, no matter to which school they go. [More…]
In the remaining moments at my disposal I want to touch in more detail on the vicious reduction that has been made in the tax concession in respect of education expenses. [More…]
I think the parents of every school child are finding more and more that the expenses of educating their children are rising, for even though we have a socalled free education system there are still many items of expenditure which people are required to pay in respect of the education of their children. [More…]
It is no excuse to say that people are getting more spent on education in other ways. [More…]
On other platforms spokesmen for the Government will claim that they have spent so much more in money terms, not real terms, on education, but by sleight of hand, by describing amounts that were formerly paid to the States as general grants and as education grants, they boost their figures. [More…]
The reduction in the education concession is justified on the basis that more is being spent on education in other spheres. [More…]
If that is so, why does the Government not look at its education program as a whole and reduce what it claims it is spending in education by giving to the taxpayers the credit for the withdrawal of this tax concession? [More…]
The Government ‘s attitude to the tax deductibility of education expenses is clear. [More…]
Why did it not allow to every parent who has a child at school a minimum deduction of 40 per cent of the $400 or such lesser amount spent on education- that is, in respect of $400 spent on education a rebate of $160? [More…]
We need to know its philosophy in regard to the education concession and its attitude to tax concessions and rebates as a whole. [More…]
That number has not increased to the expectations of the planning bases of the 1965 study, but we have seen a change in demand for transport in the area that would be served by that spur line- I now have many constituents who need to get to Monash University to satisfy their tertiary education requirements. [More…]
The introduction in recent days of the rapid transport lane in Sydney has demonstrated quite clearly that, by and large, the public is urgently in need of some education in the basics of urban transport. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
41 (Hansard, 3 October 1974, pages 2233-2239) in which he provided details of the Australian Education Council and its Standing Committee. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to resolutions of a meeting of the Staff Association of the Queensland Institute of Technology held on 15 September 1974, which expressed grave concern as to the sincerity of the Government in its attitude towards education when not allowing college salaries to move with comparable professional salaries, and which deplored the actions of the Government in its attitude towards the fixation of academic salaries in that it failed to implement the recommendations of the Campbell Com- ‘ mittee. [More…]
It would include expenditure on education, health and social welfare. [More…]
I shall not cover them all, but some of the vital ones are education, health, transport, law, food supply and hospital administration. [More…]
We must make sure that we do not become a country of huge metropolitan areas, that we provide the necessary facilities in country areas to make life pleasant there, and that we provide the necessary health and education facilities in areas such as Geelong, Wangaratta and many other places in the various States. [More…]
As I pointed out in the Estimates debate, there are the costs now being imposed on the community of so-called education- $450,000 to tell the Australian people that another department, superimposed upon all the State instrumentalities, is in fact spending their money in a proper way, and what a great and wonderful job it is doing. [More…]
As we know, State education departments receive direct financial assistance for education including special education for handicapped through Schools Commission funds and also receive funds for community health and mental health projects through the Hospitals and Health Services Commission. [More…]
It seems to be most incongruous that States should be able to receive financial assistance for education and health programs for handicapped people but not for social welfare programs. [More…]
After many months of discussion there has still been no decision concerning the assumption of responsibility for these educational facilities by State education authorities with the aid of funds from the Schools Commission. [More…]
The 2 previously mentioned Acts recognised that to establish health and education welfare services is a major undertaking and too great for some communities to initiate at all or to initiate within a reasonable period. [More…]
Briefly, the history of this resolution is that it resulted from a concern which I personally have about a great number of children who have word blindness, and beyond that such things as an intellectual capacity which is not matched by the education they actually receive at school, and they are emerging from the school system not properly and fully educated. [More…]
It is one of the functions of the Schools Commission to make recommendations in its reports to the Government on all forms of education for the handicapped. [More…]
A number of interesting parliamentary committees have inquired into the field of education. [More…]
A Senate committee which inquired into the education of the handicapped several years ago produced an extremely valuable report which I think can still be used as a guideline. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) is in the chamber at the moment. [More…]
Will the Minister for Education arrange forthwith for the amount of $12,384,503 to be sent to Queensland in education moneys outstanding from the Commonwealth which were formally requested in a telegram sent by Sir Alan Fletcher, the Queensland Minister for Education, on 20 November. [More…]
Queensland has applied for 100 per cent of its allocation for education but the Commonwealth has not made the payment. [More…]
-In the first part of my fairly short contribution this morning I wish to refer to one matter raised by the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) who mentioned the claim made by Sir Alan Fletcher in Queensland that the amount of $12,384,503 outstanding to the Education Department of that State had been applied for by his Department on 11 October 1974. [More…]
I am informed by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) that on 11 October 1974 the Queensland Government requested advances in November 1974, January 1975 and April 1975. [More…]
Australian Minister for Education indicated that the Queensland advance would be paid in the next few days in the month of November when it was requested. [More…]
I repudiate any suggestion that the Australian Government or the Australian Minister for Education has been tardy in this matter. [More…]
Places will not be available in school for children coming on, additional burdens will be imposed on the teaching staff and additional finance will be necessary to maintain the education system. [More…]
They will be forced to return to school in many cases and this will throw additional burdens on the education system. [More…]
For instance, we hope to set up a trainee education program in the health centre. [More…]
The education of trainees- undergraduates and continuingfrom all of the health disciplines is facilitated and made more effective at the one site from which all members of the health team practice. [More…]
We are hoping to have medical students from Monash University training in our hospital and they will also have the advantage of education through the health centre that will be built. [More…]
An amount of $56m has been allocated for an animal health laboratory in Geelong; $28m is to be made available to the dairy reconstruction scheme outlined in this legislation; $40m is being spent in the first advance on wheat $28m is being spent on rural reconstruction overall; $45 m is being spent on the National Disaster Fund; $ 11.5m is being spent this year on the isolated children’s allowance throughout country districts; $21m is being allocated this year to rural universities- it was only $6m in 1972; $47m is being allocated this year to colleges of advanced education in rural areas- it was only $ 12m in 1972; and $880m or 46 per cent of our expenditure on social security payments goes to rural districts. [More…]
It is creating good housing, good schooling, education and health facilities in a rural atmosphere. [More…]
the Council for Christian Education in Schools; [More…]
the Council for Jewish Education in Schools; [More…]
a prescribed institution of advanced education where the gift is for certified purposes of the institution or for the provision of certified facilities for the institution; [More…]
The first was education, the second was social welfare and the third was health. [More…]
-As the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has observed, the House is dealing with 3 Bills. [More…]
The second Bill, the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill, similarly can be despatched within a short space of time. [More…]
Therefore, I am somewhat dismayed to observe that questions I had placed on the notice paper of 18 September 1974, relating to colleges of advanced education, have not been answered. [More…]
To that extent, I am at a minor disadvantage in dealing with this Bill because there was information I was seeking regarding the activities of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
May I say that my instinct, vulnerable as that may be to a great variety of elements and influences, leads me to the conclusion that we have embarked upon a program of cultivating a few too many colleges of advanced education. [More…]
In the aggregate I concede that the sum of money which will be available to Queensland will not change but I invite my friend, the Minister for Education, to direct his attention to the fact that in some instances one could well find that some anomalies will occur. [More…]
My observations relating to the third Bill dealing with technical education will be a little more elaborate. [More…]
One of the Bills deals with universities, the second deals with colleges of advanced education and I now turn to the third Bill, which in my respectful opinion is the most substantial of the 3 measures, namely, the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill. [More…]
believes that the system as proposed by the Bill for the development of Technical and Further Education imposes intolerable and unacceptable administrative burdens upon the States and their educational systems; [More…]
b) deplores the fact that Parliament has had no opportunity to debate the Kangan Committee’s report with regard to Technical and Further Education, and notes with concern the departure by the Government from the recommendations of the Committee; [More…]
calls upon the Government to implement a scheme of grants to the States for technical and further education that gives to the States control of expenditure of such grants and requires of them to report annually to the Minister as to the manner in which such grants have been expended’. [More…]
1 can understand honourable members on the Government benches saying: ‘What a curious response to give to the expenditure by the Commonwealth of such a vast sum of money on technical education’. [More…]
I would hope that every newspaper editor in this country and every person who has anything at all to do with technical education in this country will get hold of the Bill and will examine it by day and meditate upon it by night. [More…]
I ask my friend the Minister for Education whether he really knows what sort of burden he proposes to shoulder under legislation of this character. [More…]
The Minister for Education approves a project. [More…]
The Opposition welcomes the initiative that has been taken in seeking to stimulate interest in this country in technical education and in the creation and the achievement of technical skills. [More…]
For far too long we have put too much emphasis upon university education and I fear that we have as a consequence roused in Australia something of an intellectual snobbishness in respect of skills. [More…]
I want now to concentrate my remarks on what has been described correctly by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) as the Cinderella of education in this country; that is technical and further education. [More…]
2) and the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that already we have done this by way of legislation introduced following the recommendations of the Karmel Committee to take account of university and advanced education. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware of the second and third recommendations in the report that was tabled today prepared by the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education and I am certain that the Government will follow them up. [More…]
I suggest to the House that if there is any evidence needed that this Government gives education top priority these 2 Bills, together with the extra money provided under the States Grants (Schools) Bill that was debated some time ago, provided it. [More…]
It is not an insignificant amount that is provided under these Bills- $47m for advanced education and non-government teachers’ colleges and an extra $51m for universities, making a total of $98m. [More…]
We note that in the Bills there is an increased amount for the training of dental therapists, social workers and physical education teachers. [More…]
There are also grants for teaching and research into community practices, social work and special education. [More…]
As I indicated earlier, I want to concentrate my remarks on the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill.’ [More…]
I see it as the most important piece of legislation which is being commenced this financial year in the field of education. [More…]
There is no doubt in my mind that technical and further education has been the neglected area in the field of education. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) will recall that when he visited the Dandenong Technical College he saw the proliferation of portable classrooms- I think there were about 16 of them- in which post-secondary work was being done. [More…]
This was a landmark in the field of technical education. [More…]
The Kangan report provides what was desperately needed, that is, an over-arching report on the whole of the field of technical and further education. [More…]
In the first place, it supports my own philosophy of education. [More…]
I see education as a process commencing at birth- some would say earlier- and continuing throughout life. [More…]
I believe that too often people look at education only in terms of the formal aspects- primary, secondary and tertiary. [More…]
Too often we compartmentalise education; we place it in little boxes. [More…]
What is needed is increased flexibility in our education system. [More…]
The proviso I would make would be that they can get back into the education stream later. [More…]
Technical and further education has too often been thought of as something different from a tidy mainstream of education- primary, secondary and tertiary. [More…]
The proper perspective for the fourth quarter of the twentieth century is for technical and further education to be seen as an alternativeneither inferior nor superior- to the other stream of education, but so organised as to enable interchange without personal disadvantage. [More…]
In an earlier conclusion it stresses the importance of unrestricted access to education. [More…]
I would hope that universities and, in some cases, advanced educational institutions would also progressively ease their entry requirements. [More…]
The technical and further education program is of great importance in that through the implementation of this report it will allow people to plug into the educational stream at whatever position they happen to be in at the present time. [More…]
They will be able to learn either a particular skill or to broaden their general education. [More…]
I endorse the approach of the Kangan Committee where it states that technical and further education should develop the general education of individuals as well as providing them with specialised skills. [More…]
Remembering that we live in a world of rapid technological change, it is in this way that people will become confident to meet change because the breadth of their education will enable them to cope with this change and fit them for alternative employment. [More…]
But this, of course, is not the full amount to be spent on technological and further education by this Government. [More…]
I think I can foreshadow that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) will be moving an amendment in relation to the $ 1 8.8m that is mentioned in the report that was tabled today. [More…]
It needs again to be stressed that the action of the Australian Government, in providing these additional funds to upgrade technical and further education through this national program rests on the assumption that the States efforts in financing this area of education will be maintained. [More…]
I would remind the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) of the fact that we are not saying to the States: ‘Stop your interest in technical and further education’. [More…]
We are saying: ‘Maintain it at the level of spending and interest as before but, in addition to that, we are providing you with $1 18m over the next 2 years in respect of which you can make your recommendations through your departments to the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education at this stage- later to the Commissionand then the Minister, in some cases, will exercise his discretion’. [More…]
One of these points was made by the Minister, in his second reading speech, when he said: … we see considerable economies being effected if what are basically educational buildings are so designed that they are suitable for other uses. [More…]
Then there is the proposal in the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill to set aside $56,000- not a large amount- for distribution among those States which wish to develop proposals for community colleges. [More…]
In conclusion I say- I know that this disappointment is shared by a number of honourable members on this side of the House- that there is disappointment that we find it impossible to introduce legislation at this time to establish a technical and further education commission. [More…]
However, it should be made clear that the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education- the Richardson Committee as it is now known- will do the work which will later be undertaken by the commission. [More…]
I rise to speak to this series of 3 Bills, namely, the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill, States Grants (Universities) Bill (No. [More…]
2) and States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill. [More…]
These Bills deal with tertiary education. [More…]
I refer him to Sir Robert Menzies, to whom the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), who is at the table, referred. [More…]
When Sir Robert Menzies introduced the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill he stated: [More…]
The Commonwealth has invited the States to put forward specific proposals under which the Commonwealth and the States will share the capital and recurrent costs of advanced education. [More…]
I have searched the second reading speech of the Minister for Education on this matter in vain to find reference to co-operation with the States. [More…]
I believe that in the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill there is no reference which indicates that the States will be considered in their former role and in the guidelines which were laid down by Sir Robert Menzies. [More…]
In dealing in particular with colleges of advanced education I should like to refer to the definition that I found in the Library. [More…]
As well as colleges of advanced education providing a variety of courses, there are specialist colleges such as agricultural colleges, music and arts schools, and colleges of nursing, pharmacy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy. [More…]
I wonder at times when visiting colleges of advanced education exactly where they are heading. [More…]
I notice the Bill refers to the Nepean College of Advanced Education which is situated at present at Westmead. [More…]
I feel that this College which has been upgraded from a teachers college is typical of the way that colleges of advanced education have been formed. [More…]
If this takes place it would seem that with the fall in activity at Westmead there will be scope in that area for the demand that is so obviously there for a college of an advanced type of education. [More…]
There will be no tertiary education at that level in the area when the college moves from Westmead. [More…]
It would seem that as children who are now at primary and secondary schools move on they will be travelling many miles each day to get to centres of tertiary education, whether they be colleges of advanced education or universities. [More…]
The demands for tertiary education in this area are moving very quickly and within the next 10 years- I suggest immediately- planning should start with a view to establishing a university in this area or at least a college of advanced education to replace the one that will be moving to Kingswood. [More…]
Now as a college of advanced education and moving towards the status of a corporate body but still under some control from the New South Wales Department of Agriculture, the courses available at that college are broadening, and rightly so. [More…]
This college is in fact the one that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) completely failed to recognise when he said at Richmond that there was no tertiary education anywhere in that area. [More…]
I feel that the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill has been badly drafted. [More…]
-I want to address a few remarks to the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill because it is this Bill that is in furtherance of the Government’s ambition to see technical education raised to a level which has now been reached by primary, secondary and tertiary levels of education. [More…]
In the past, technical education has been greatly neglected by the national government, despite the fact that national governments have for some time spent millions of dollars on universities and colleges of advanced education, and this has led to a feeling of despair among those people of the States who are involved in technical education. [More…]
As one who has been deeply involved in technical education for 20 years and who now sees at last a glimmer of hope that the system may be upgraded and be allowed to do its task more efficiently I ask you to ensure that the TAFE in Australia report is tabled and accepted . [More…]
When considering these amounts of money it must be remembered that the continuing commitments under previous legislation will continue and, as well as that, the State’s commitment to technical education will be expected to be maintained. [More…]
It seems to me to be superficially curious that it should be a Labor government that accelerates spending on, and indeed discovers, technical education in Australia because it is true that one of the significant beneficiaries of technical education is industry, inasmuch as it reaps the reward of greater efficiency and greater technical skills among the workforce. [More…]
However, I hasten to add that the Government does not see technical education in this narrow sense. [More…]
I quote from the second reading speech of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) wherein he said: [More…]
We do not wish to see technical and further education denned in any narrow way, related only to skills required by industry. [More…]
The definition of technical and further education in the Bill covers the broad range of post-school education, including courses which have a vocational bias in order to meet occupational requirements and also courses which are not necessarily vocational but are designed to meet community needs. [More…]
The Bill is therefore aimed at meeting national needs for an adequately educated and skilled workforce as well as providing continuing education for the adult population. [More…]
Notwithstanding those comments, it is mainly to the needs of trades training and the needs of the skilled workforce that I want to direct my remarks, even though I am aware that the Bill takes great account of the needs of adult education, retraining in conjunction with the national employment and training scheme and also a wide variety of other community needs in terms of further education. [More…]
Specifically, I direct my remarks to the region associated with the Cockburn Sound industrial area near Kwinana, because nowhere in Western Australia have the needs of technical education been so extensively studied. [More…]
It should be remembered that in this industrial area the workforce is employed in very sophisticated industrial activities and the demand for technical education is obviously very great. [More…]
This report revealed that there were great inadequacies in technical education in the region, and as a result of this the Tonkin Labor Government set up the Paterson Committee to look into the needs of technical education in that area. [More…]
It is worth noting that Mr Paterson, who chaired that Committee and who is the Director of Technical Education in Western Australia, later became a member of the Kangan Committee on Technical and Further Education. [More…]
That is, talking about the Kwinana areait is recognised that both industry and technical education have significant roles to fulfil, particularly in the training required for semi-skilled, skilled and technician or middlelevel personnel. [More…]
It went on to draw the following conclusions: Firstly that the technical education of part-time and evening students is inadequate in the area; secondly, that too many were required to travel too far; and, thirdly, that the need for a technical school in the area was urgent in terms of the requirements of the population, the industrial development and the interests of the employees. [More…]
As on-the-job inspections and observations become a more important part of the education process, it is quite ridiculous that the site of the technical school should be so far removed physically from the site of the job. [More…]
Indeed, it blames the Australian Government for lack of funds in this area when in fact this is the first Australian Government to contribute in a massive way to the provision by the States of technical education. [More…]
2), the State Grants (Advanced Education) Bill and the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill. [More…]
Huge increases in building costs, in fact the difficulty the building industry is having in meeting the nation’s development programs, combined with escalating administration and salary costs, have drastically reduced the effectiveness of increases in education financing. [More…]
However, I wish to turn my attention to the most important of the 3 Bills, that on technical and further education. [More…]
The report if the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education was tabled in this Parliament in April. [More…]
It is a most significant report, and I believe that the Committee which submitted it made a serious and non-political attempt to isolate the problems that existed within the Cinderella of education- technical education. [More…]
Technical education is still regarded as a poor relation when compared with colleges of advanced education or universities, and if one takes into account the support given to it from either the State or Federal governments. [More…]
If I remember correctly, when this report was tabled in the Federal Parliament the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) spoke on it for some 25 minutes and the honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh) spoke on it for about 8 minutes- not a very long period of time in which to discuss a report of such importance. [More…]
It must surely be beyond the bounds of reason that a Minister or a person authorised by him in Canberra can revoke or vary any proposal relating to the purchase of any items of equipment down to this insignificant cost of $2,000 in connection with any technical or further education processes in any State. [More…]
I believe that the trends in education must be towards regionalisation and not centralisation. [More…]
As this House will have no opportunity to discuss the report of the Committee on Technical and Further Education I would like to make some brief comments on the areas of controversy and deficiency within it. [More…]
The three main exceptions to that statement are the capital expenditure grants for land, buildings and design, the disappearance of the possible matching capital expenditure grant and the reduction in the research grant to be administered by the Committee on Technical and Further Education from $550,000 to $250,000. [More…]
Thus a total of some $89m has been allocated over 2 years to technical and further education in the States compared with the sum of $ 105 m recommended by Mr Kangan over 18 months. [More…]
-I have read the comment that has been provided in the report by the Committee on Technical and Further Education in which it has recognised this drawback and has recommended to the Government that this matter be rectified. [More…]
In the light of increasing contributions to areas of post-secondary education, large scale involvement by the Australian Government in the financing of technical education must have appeared inevitable if severe imbalances were not to be induced between tertiary and subtertiary vocational training opportunities and manpower supplies. [More…]
It could be that the maintenance of a continuing balance and an efficient allocation of resources between the various sectors of higher and further education might require an umbrella co-ordinating commission with separate committees for universities, colleges of advanced education and technical colleges. [More…]
The level of funds currently recommended for technical and further education, on the report’s own admission, has been largely determined by the States’ ability to organise themselves immediately for the use of the extra money. [More…]
At present an important intricate factor in the Australian Government’s interest in technical education may be concerned with attempts to ease student entry pressures on more expensive full time universities and colleges of adult education, particularly in the re-channelling of intending tertiary students to para-professional certificate courses. [More…]
In failing to relate its own recommendations to the external studies proposal that was formulated by the recent open tertiary education inquiry, the Kangan report may of course not be promoting the efficient use of Australian Government funds in the entire higher and further education field. [More…]
Although recommendations to hold further inquiries on technical education, teacher preparation, paid study leave, apprenticeship education, trade union education and financial assistance to adult education may have emerged from a genuine lack of sufficient consideration time, it is also true that the current injection of large sums of money might be poorly spent in the long term if technical education’s scope and directions are to alter radically following completion of the special inquiries. [More…]
The May 1974 report on Australian labour market training- the Cochrane report- and developments in apprenticeship training assistance schemes could also greatly increase the pressure on technical and further education systems. [More…]
The committee appears to have placed little stress on the possible contributions by private organisations, such as employers, to technical and further education financial assistance. [More…]
The report took the view that technical education ought not to involve itself in manpower planning, but should establish systems whereby rapid educational reaction to employment needs could occur. [More…]
Migrants might well require special study on their own with individual treatment given to specific ethnic groups to facilitate their entry into the technical and further education field. [More…]
Although technical teacher organisations had requested that a national inquiry be instituted into their salaries, the report ignored this issue and its relationship to technical and further education advancement. [More…]
If technical education is to gain further parity in public esteem with higher education there would seem to be considerable merit in the general principle of salary equity with teachers in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Technical education is concerned primarily with establishing and extending vocational competence, and the importance of this aspect of individual development is obvious. [More…]
Technical education, however, has other broader objectives and effects. [More…]
It should offer opportunities to people with a wide variety of educational backgrounds and life experience. [More…]
Technical education must keep in touch with developments in industry and commerce. [More…]
It should be recognised that education, viewed as consumption in the economic sense, is expensive. [More…]
I am conscious of the fact that the House wishes to deal promptly with these Bills so I will restrict my remarks to the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill. [More…]
Those honourable members who have examined volume 2 of the Kangan report will know that in the electorate of Scullin there is probably the greatest concentration of technical institutions leading to technical and further education than in any other metropolitan electorate in Victoria. [More…]
In the last speech that he made on education he suggested that the Labor Government would destroy private education. [More…]
The States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill has the Government funding private teachers’ colleges to the extent of about $6. [More…]
Technical teachers reacted strongly against the education policy announced yesterday by the Opposition spokesman, Senator Rae. [More…]
Mr R. B. Dedman, Secretary of the Technical Teachers Association of Australia, described Senator Rae’s statement as a death blow to post-secondary technical education. [More…]
Technical education has always been the Cinderella area, Mr Dedman said, because it is the area of education used most by working class people. [More…]
More students attend these colleges than attend all the universities and colleges of advanced education in Australia combined. [More…]
The report of the Kangan Committee has been welcomed by everybody associated with post-secondary technical education because, for the first time, its importance gained recognition at the national level and the Australian Government has already committed itself to accept its findings. [More…]
The statement by Senator Rae is a bitter blow to technical education that cannot be excused under any guise, Mr Dedman said. [More…]
Some concern has been expressed that there has been no legislation for a permanent Australian Commission on Technical and Further Education. [More…]
Indeed, the Technical Teachers Association of Australia sent the following telegrams on 6 November 1974 to both the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and Mr Beazley, the Minister for Education: [More…]
TTAA concerned at delays in legislating for Australian Commission on Technical and Further Education STOP Particularly concerned at rumors that ACOTAFE will be merged with other Commissions STOP TAFE must retain its separate identity STOP TTAA urges you to ensure legislation immediately STOP Please advise [More…]
TTAV gravely concerned that TAFE’s Cinderella image will be reinforced if the Australian Commission for Technical and Further Education is not legislated STOP Please inform re your government’s intentions on this matter. [More…]
The answer indicates that at 25 September there were 1,708 apprentices who were unable to gain access to courses in schools conducted by the Education Department in that community. [More…]
I am surprised that our friends in the Country Party corner have not taken this matter up because these figures show the grave state of technical education for trade training in Victoria. [More…]
Well may those remarks apply to legislators in the field of education. [More…]
For too long has the attitude to technical and further education been patronising. [More…]
That attitude does not take account of the fact that this area trains more people to skills and gives more people opportunities than does any other area of post secondary education. [More…]
I am sorry that the honourable member for Moreton has been so ungenerous as to move the amendment he has moved, particularly in view of the statements made by his Party’s former official spokesman on education so few months ago. [More…]
I should like to raise just one final matter on which the Minister may have an opportunity to comment It is in an unrelated field of further education. [More…]
Or if they were recognised as colleges of advanced education instead of faculties of universities. [More…]
-No, we are in Committee on the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill. [More…]
It is interesting that the honourable member for Holt (Mr Oldmeadow) chose one clause of the Kangan report to summarise the recommendations made by that Committee, namely the section of the report that spoke of technical education as being something separate and equal to the other branches of tertiary education. [More…]
Most people involved in technical education to whom I have spoken feel very strongly that technical and further education should be separated from other forms of education in the State field. [More…]
In most states technical and further education is wrapped up with secondary education. [More…]
As a result the technical and further education sector of education feels- I think quite rightly- disadvantaged. [More…]
We can see the measure of their disadvantage by comparing those things which they have in common with the other branches of education, for example, by comparing the facilities that technical schools have with the facilities of secondary schools and tertiary institutions. [More…]
We feel quite strongly that there is a need for something to be done about technical education. [More…]
We believe that this sector of education ought rightly to be regarded as an arm of tertiary education, as clearly it is. [More…]
It deals with people who are the same age as those people who are receiving what is normally called tertiary education. [More…]
It is right that it should be divorced from the secondary education area. [More…]
It is for this reason that I feel very strongly it should be administered as near as is humanly possible to those who are receiving the education. [More…]
It is obviously a branch of technical education. [More…]
It is obviously a branch of tertiary education. [More…]
Coming to the specific provisions of the Bill, I wish only to reply to the honourable member for Tangney (Mr Dawkins) and point out that in comparing the moneys allocated to technical education over the years- I do not deny for a moment that there is a substantial increase- the honourable member resorted to a trick which is becoming very common from the Government side of the Committee. [More…]
the moneys will, as soon as practicable but not later than 6 months after the end of the financial year in which the payment is made, be applied by the State or by instrumentalities of the State ibr the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure in connexion with the provision of technical and further education at institutions of technical and further education in that State; [More…]
the State will cause to be furnished to the Minister within a period of 6 months after the end of the financial year in which the payment is made, such statistical and other information as the Minister requires in respect of the provision of technical and further education in that State during that financial year; and [More…]
I will tell the Committee and in particular the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) why the Opposition has moved this amendment There is a very considerable resentment held by administrators in the States regarding the duplication of information. [More…]
I am quite sure that if the Minister were to write to any of his colleagues in the States, no matter what their kidney of politics may be, and to ask for information regarding technical education, as a matter of plain courtesy the information would be given. [More…]
He gave me the rounds of the kitchen earlier for a clause of the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill which was practically lifted holus bolus from the States Grants (Schools) Bill which passed through the House before the Federal election of 1972 and received royal assent on 30 November 1972, almost a minute to midnight in the career of the late Government. [More…]
The clause which he found exceptionally objectionable in the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill he found exceptionally acceptable when the previous Government included it in the States Grants (Schools) Bill on November 1 972. [More…]
The Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education has on it 3 major figures from the State administrations- 3 State directors of technical education. [More…]
With it is $7 .2m carried over as unspent sums of money from previous technical grants to the States and $3.Sm made available through the National Capital Development Commission to the Canberra Technical College, which serves southern New South Wales and northern Victoria to a very considerable extent, as do all educational institutions of a tertiary character in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I do not want to seek to refute in particular the indulgence in hyperbole of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) but I am bound to say of the honourable gentleman that he takes a rather fanciful view of the States Grants (Schools) Act when he contends that that stands on all fours with this legislation. [More…]
-The Opposition does not oppose the amendment moved by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), but I take this opportunity to ask the Minister whether he could give the Committee any information as to what timetable the Government will seek to observe regarding recommendation No. [More…]
In company with the Commission on Advanced Education and the Schools Commission the ACOTAFE - [More…]
ACOTAFE stands for the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education. [More…]
I am sorry that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has not found it possible to indicate that the Parliament could be invited within the next 6 months or 12 months to consider the recommendations made by the Committee. [More…]
The Minister may well be able to impeach the activity of the New South Wales Government, although I am assured by my colleagues in that State that the view taken on such matters by the Minister does not necessarily coincide with the view taken by the Minister for Education in New South Wales. [More…]
However, as far as my own area of responsibility is concerned, I can say that there have been no special Australian Government capital grants in the field of education to establish such centres. [More…]
In saying that I am assuming that the term ‘multi-purpose’ refers to a centre which provides capital facilities for a range of purposes involving more than one kind of community service; institutions such as schools, universities, colleges of advanced education and teachers colleges are primarily concerned with the provision of a single community service, namely education. [More…]
I would want to stress, nevertheless, that the Australian Government, since taking office in December 1972, has been concerned in its education policy to encourage the development of opportunities for closer links between educational institutions and the community at large. [More…]
In the area of primary and secondary education under Schools Commission programs this policy has been given particular emphasis. [More…]
I have announced 28 education centres to be funded by the Schools Commission under its Teacher Development Program which will enable teachers to initiate and control in their own premises activities directed towards the improvement of professional competence. [More…]
Aside from special grants funding, the Australian Government provides substantial, direct opportunities within its own education systems in the Australian Territories for community involvement in the educational process. [More…]
He wants to reduce government expenditure by about 8 per cent across the board, which means that some areas of government expenditure must anticipate cuts of up to 25 per cent if we are to assume that health, education, urban development and other good expenditures are not to be cut by the full 8 per cent across the board target. [More…]
This is the case with the honourable member for Hotham when he is dealing with the subject of national health, the honourable member for Moreton when he is dealing with education and the Leader of the Opposition when he is dealing with the economy. [More…]
Hence the need for him to live by a set of rules that he himself has acquired more by education or by the example of his elders than by logic or morality. [More…]
The report dealt with such subjects as trends in labor force participation, employment patterns, education and training of women. [More…]
Last year Australian Government grants to Queensland for primary and secondary education were up 145 per cent on the year before; for tertiary education they were up 165 per cent on the year before; for technical education they were up 1 10 per cent on the year before; for welfare housing they were 20 per cent above the previous year and for Aboriginal advancement they were nearly 30 per cent above the previous year. [More…]
The report should provide information not only to the professional groups who are awaiting the report but also to bodies like the Hospitals and Health Services Commission, the State governments and others who have to plan education, training and manpower in the health field. [More…]
Institutions of learning such as the Canberra College of Advanced Education offer a number of courses relating to the environment, ecological studies and conservation and park management, as well as land use and resources location and urban planning. [More…]
The expenditure on education has doubled and it is now $ 13.2m. [More…]
We abolished tertiary fees in education. [More…]
We have made special provision in the Australian Capital Territory for the education of young people. [More…]
The recommendations will have the effect of: 1. reinforcing the existing voluntary deposit scheme; 2. encouraging the use of returnable, refillable containers; 3. acting as a stimulus for the development of recycling technology; 4. reducing the drain on Australia’s finite natural resources; and 5. providing finance for research programs, for solid waste disposal and for anti-litter education programs. [More…]
The Committee strongly recommends the application of the funds provided by the tax system to finance research into problems of solid waste disposal and related public education programs. [More…]
This inquiry has revealed to the Committee the need for a comprehensive education program at all age levels to make the public aware of the costs in money terms to the community and the environmental problems associated with waste disposal and particularly with litter. [More…]
The Committee expects that the funds raised through the taxation system which we recommend will provide funds for anti-litter education programs and will relieve the burden on local government and other authorities responsible for the collection and disposal of litter and solid waste generally. [More…]
It does not matter whether you want to put that discretionary dollar of yours into further education for your children, to add a room on to your house or use it for some other function ‘. [More…]
We have embarked on our plans for a massive upgrading of technical and further education and have budgeted $ 100m for this purpose over the next 2 years. [More…]
With all his erudition and education he will be faced with some of the most fundamental problems that I think any Minister has ever been asked to solve in the history of Australia. [More…]
The Minister, with all his wisdom, education and legal training has to make a judgment whether the national interest demands that an increasing proportion of our limited resources shall go into the public or private sectors. [More…]
But the easy way in which the Minister has assumed that because of his education and legal training he has the background to make this kind of judgment rather frightens me. [More…]
How many requests has he received for the restoration of the free milk scheme from (a) school and pre-school bodies and (b) State Ministers of Health, Education or Agriculture. [More…]
Between 1 1 December 1973 (the date State Education Ministers were advised of the Government’s decision that no funds would be made available for the 1974 School Year), and 31 October 1974, my Department received 243 requests for the restoration of school milk from school and pre-school bodies, one from a State Minister for Health, one from a State Minister for Education and two from State Ministers for Agriculture. [More…]
Australian Commission on Advanced Education [More…]
Canberra College of Advanced Education [More…]
What safety education programmes are being conducted or planned. [More…]
What co-ordination is there with State authorities in respect of research, education or safety legislation. [More…]
Concerning research, education and safety legislation, my Department works closely with State Government representatives. [More…]
Arising out of the Report of the National Committee of Inquiry into Compensation and Rehabilitation in Australia, issued July 1974, the Government is considering a number of recommendations relating to the research, education and safety areas. [More…]
1 ) How many people in the Geelong employment district are (a) registered as unemployed, (b) receiving unemployment benefits, (c) engaged in full-time employment under the Regional Employment Development Scheme, (d) receiving special benefits as a result of retrenchments, in industries affected by Government tariff decisions and (e) being retrained under the National Employment and Training System and receiving benefits and costs of full or pan time education. [More…]
A co-ordinating committee has been established in each State under the Regional Director of the Department of Labor and Immigration and involving representatives of the voluntary organisations concerned, the Good Neighbour Council and the adult migrant education sections of the State Department of Education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Will he provide more detailed information to me concerning the nature of the following research projects that will be undertaken in 1975 with Government grants following the recommendations of the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education: (a) to develop a screening test that will differentiate children with motor development problems that could be alleviated by a special physical education program (Miss J. Calder), (b) a program to develop the cognitive skills of visually handicapped children (Mr P. J. Doherty ), (c) development of language problems based on the developing oral language structures used by 2Vi, y/i, 4VS, 5Vi and 614 year old children (Dr N. W. M. Hart) and (d) information technology and the education system (Professor D. M. Lamberton). [More…]
Professor Lamberton will examine the economics of information, in the context of the Australian education system, in terms of the varying policy changes which may result from the introduction of new educational technologies, viz. [More…]
I assume, however, that the Honourable Member is seeking information concerning the concessional deductions allowable under the heading of education expenses where a young child attends an institution which provides a form of education appropriate to the child’s age in addition to care and supervision while the parent is at work. [More…]
and (3) The term ‘education expenses’ is defined in the income tax law as meaning expenses necessarily incurred in connection with full time education at a school. [More…]
Even though most child care institutions are not ‘schools’ as that term is ordinarily understood, the Commissioner of Taxation has been able to accept that part of the fees paid qualify as education expenses where certain conditions are satisfied. [More…]
If the relevant tests are satisfied, and provided the child has reached the age of three years, a deduction is allowed in respect of that part of the fees which could reasonably be regarded as attributable to the child’s full time education. [More…]
As the extent to which full time education is provided by an institution which also engages in the care and supervision of young children can be determined only in the light of the facts of each particular case, the Commissioner is unable to lay down arbitrary rules for general application. [More…]
What percentage of Australian parents claimed the full allowable tax deduction for education of children attending primary and secondary public schools during 1970-71, 1971-72 and 1972-73. [More…]
No statistics are available of the number of taxpayers who claimed the maximum deduction allowable for education expenses in respect of any of their children. [More…]
The only related statistics are those of the number of children in respect of whom the maximum education deductions were allowed. [More…]
This number is estimated to represent about S per cent of the total number of children in respect of whom deductions for education expenses were allowed in that year. [More…]
The Committee is to comprise senior representatives of the Departments of Labor and Immigration, Social Security, Foreign Affairs, Education, Customs and Excise, Media, Housing and Construction and Prime Minister and Cabinet and will be chaired by the Department of Labor and Immigration. [More…]
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The Prime Minister with his profound classical education would be well acquainted with the significance of the quotation: Beware the ides of March’. [More…]
The education of the children of the working people of Australia has been greatly improved by this Government. [More…]
I turn now, Mr Speaker, to some account of the restoration and problems associated with matters such as communications, accommodation, transport, health, Aboriginal welfare, port facilities, works and services, education, business, social welfare services and sports and entertainment. [More…]
In 1904 Australia had a rural economy and a comparatively small work force which, in the main, had little education and its expectations of something better were depressed by its experience of the legal and economic constraints from which it was struggling to become free. [More…]
Probably one of the clearest examples of the expression of that desire is in the field of education. [More…]
Parents, teachers and also students are concerned about the quality of education and believe that they have constructive contributions to make on improvements to our education systems. [More…]
Speaking on the subject of the extension of the field of work, I was critical of the present Opposition Parties when they were in government for their centralist policies which created departments of education, housing and tourism. [More…]
When I entered Parliament there was an Office of Education but nothing for tourism or housing. [More…]
However, many of the social responsibilities of the family remain, particularly the rearing of children, although even here educational and other state responsibilities impinge upon the role of the family. [More…]
Increased education, affluence and equality of opportunity between the sexes have led to attitudes such as those which are reflected within this Bill and those of which it is a logical extension. [More…]
Education has become one of the main aspects- and correctly so- of the civilised communities of which we are a part. [More…]
Education in itself leads to this type of freedom. [More…]
A stress is being introduced into family relationships which was not a feature of society in which education did not achieve the same position. [More…]
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The Film and Television School is not included as its expenditures are directed to education. [More…]
In this regard, apart from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, responsibilities for specific Aboriginal programs are carried by the Departments of Education, Health, Labor and Immigration and Services and Property, the Public Service Board and the Australian Council for the Arts, which provide services in consultation with the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
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1 ) Did the Minister receive advice from the former Minister for Immigration that it was proposed to establish in the City of Parramatta an office of the Depanment of Immigration to assist particularly in the fields of local migrant welfare, information, education and the issue of passports. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Copies of press releases issued by the Minister for Education are distributed by hand to the Press Gallery, and by mail from the Depanment of Education and the Schools Commission. [More…]
I challenge it to state unequivocally whether abolition of the means test is or is not one of the casualties of the rather massive public expenditure cuts which it is proposing as part of its economic administration of this country in which major welfare fields, such as education, welfare housing, urban and regional development, welfare services, hospitals and community health services will all be cut back substantially according to a secret document circulating among a small number of senior members of the Liberal Party. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]
Is it correct that a number of schools have been declared disadvantaged and are eligible for financial assistance for projects which are aimed at improving their educational opportunities and facilities? [More…]
Karmel in this biennium, 1974-75, concentrated, and invited the State governments and, in practice, the Catholic education authorities, to concentrate on the 10 per cent most disadvantaged areas and to recommend what action should be taken to turn the schools into an instrument of compensation. [More…]
The Bill recognises the importance of developing programs of education and research and other programs to combat racial discrimination and to promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among racial and ethnic groups. [More…]
Under the Bill, the Commissioner will have the function of conducting and fostering programs of education and research to combat racial discrimination, and a Community Relations Council will be established with an advisory role. [More…]
The educative role is at least as significant and the Bill recognises that there must also be effective and systematic enforcement of rights and the promotion of education and research, if the elimination of racial discrimination in this country is to be achieved in fact as well as in theory. [More…]
-If the honourable gentleman does not know what is going on in the country I really do not think his education is my responsibility. [More…]
It introduces people with other qualificationsI am sure the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) would appreciate my point- in the humanities and social sciences and welfare work to try to bring about conciliation in a less rigid, less legalistic, less frightening way than under the present system. [More…]
-Unlike the previous speaker, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), I do not believe in sin, original or otherwise, and I certainly do not think it is the function of this legislature to define and punish sinners. [More…]
As the Minister for Education and I think some of the previous speakers pointed out, if people want to bring fault into it obviously they can do so. [More…]
As the Minister for Education pointed out and as the honourable member for Riverina would undoubtedly be aware, the separation can be a separation which has nothing to do with the aims of the people concerned. [More…]
Australia has also seconded a few educational personnel to South Pacific countries under the Commonwealth Cooperation in Education Scheme (CCES). [More…]
Thus there is at present a Book-keeping Instructor, seconded from the New South Wales Department of Education, at the Honiara Technical Institute in the British Solomon Islands; a Headmaster, also from the New South Wales Department of Education, at Nasinu Teachers College, Fiji; a Head of School of Business Studies and an Electrical Instructor, from the South Australian Institute of Technology, at the Derrick Technical Institute, Fiji, and the Development Authority, GEIC, respectively; and two lecturers, one in Administration and one in Teacher Education, from the Canberra College of Advanced Education, at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. [More…]
-I think the most serious immediate effect of the proposal would be that 400 000 technical education students would be affected. [More…]
Many students are getting their opportunity for technical education through this scheme. [More…]
I could understand criticism of expenditure on tertiary education coming from those who want to spend money on people in greater need further down the line. [More…]
In addition to these courses, which are regarded as preparing professional audiologists, courses in audiology are given in other institutions at an undergraduate level and these are regarded as providing background information for professionals in other areas such as speech therapy or education of the deaf. [More…]
The institutions which offer courses of this nature are the Lincoln Institute in Melbourne in their Bachelor of Applied Science (Speech Science), the Training School for Teachers of the Deaf in Victoria and the University of Queensland in their Bachelor of Speech Therapy pass degree, the Speech Therapy School of Paramedical Studies in Sydney, the Nepean College of Advanced Education (teacher of the deaf course) and Flinders University in South Australia in the Degree of Bachelor of Applied Science in Speech and Hearing. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education seen the report on a proposal for the abolition of free tertiary education and free tertiary student allowances? [More…]
I am not satisfied that the Australian Government is distributing the education dollar right. [More…]
Mr Oldmeadow picked it up, expanded it and asked a question on it of Mr Beazley, the Minister for Education, who dealt with it on that basis. [More…]
We have concentrated our efforts on social areas such as those involving isolated children, education and improved community facilities. [More…]
This Committee was appointed by the Government in March 1973 as a Committee to advise the Universities Commission on open university type education. [More…]
The Committee found evidence that significant barriers to access to tertiary education remain within our society. [More…]
These barriers involve conditions of entry into institutions, accessibility and range of courses available, types of teaching programs, transferability between courses, information about tertiary education options and student finance. [More…]
These barriers provide special obstacles for those groups in the community who are educationally disadvantaged because of their cultural, social, geographical or economic position. [More…]
The Committee saw its task as expanding opportunities for higher education by removing barriers to access and making available tertiary courses to all Australians who have a reasonable prospect of coping with them, wherever they live and in whatever circumstances they are placed. [More…]
It also proposes the establishment of an agency, the ‘National Institute of Open Tertiary Education’, to encourage and facilitate the lowering of the barriers to access to tertiary education. [More…]
This, in tact, is a major statement on the concept of lifelong and recurrent education, and the special obligation on a system of open education to respond to the needs, interests, and experiences of students of mature age. [More…]
Expanded opportunities will involve a greater diversity in courses, modes of learning, types of institutions and their values, and alternative timetables of educational activity. [More…]
The establishment during 1975 of a National Institute of Open Tertiary Education as a statutory body with the general objective of expanding opportunities in tertiary education for all sections of the community. [More…]
The development of a network of university and college off-campus courses, study centres and libraries, by existing or new institutions willing to assume a major commitment in such work; the new university at Albury-Wodonga should, from its inception, assume a special responsibility for the provision of open education. [More…]
Investigation by the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education as to whether further assistance may be necessary for the support of educational services to part-time and external students in universities and colleges. [More…]
As regards the output of graduates generally, the Karmel Committee on Medical Education has recommended the scope and location of new medical schools and where extension of medical schools should occur. [More…]
I am not satisfied that the Australian Government is distributing the education dollar right. [More…]
On Tuesday, 18 February, the honourable member for Holt asked the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) to comment on the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ report. [More…]
We shall review existing means tested tertiary allowances to see that students can undertake tertiary education. [More…]
Revision of the grants to needy students undertaking tertiary education to ensure that they are adequate. [More…]
Revision of the effectiveness, in the light of the TAFE Committee report, and generally of current assistance to technical education students. [More…]
Only last week in an unguarded moment, Mr Snedden let slip one of Liberal’s less attractive promises- the restoration of fees for tertiary education and a cutback in student allowances. [More…]
These include a payment of $2m to the Medical Research Endowment Fund and contributions to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and to the Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine, $500,000 each; $ 1.1m for the Department of Labor and Immigration for additional staff; $ 1.35m for the Australian Film Corporation; $723,000 for the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission, $650,000 for additional staff for members and senators; $500,000 for grants to eligible organisations under the Handicapped Children (Assistance) Act; $537,000 for Expo 75 at Okinawa; $lm subsidies on ship construction and amounts of $6.2m and $5.3m for the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory Education Services respectively for additions to staff establishments and other increased costs. [More…]
Did he receive advice from the former Minister for Immigration that it was proposed to establish in the City of Parramatta an office of the Department of Immigration to assist particularly in the fields of local migrant welfare, information, education and the issue of passports [More…]
The qualifications required are in line with those existing in State and Territory provisions except that a degree or diploma from a College of Advanced Education is recognised. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The only alternative would be to savagely prune other government expenditure, for example, education, social welfare, defence or development [More…]
Therefore, even to add all education spending ($l,535m) plus all defence spending ($ 1,500m) would not pay Labor’s health services bill. [More…]
Not only are more people from a wider cross-section of the community undertaking educational courses, inevitably involving people who are not able to afford the fees of colleges and halls of residence but there has also been an increasing specialisation in education which has required that people wanting to undertake courses have had to move to institutions away from their normal place of residence. [More…]
Education is seen as a key to social mobility. [More…]
This may mean in the interests of his education and development that he moves out of the family home and finds his own accommodation. [More…]
As well as this, more people return to education later on in life and are, therefore, in need of the sort of student accommodation which previously has not had to be provided. [More…]
Increasingly, it is inappropriate for student housing to be handled by those bodies which are essentially concerned with educational funding. [More…]
As I have said, it has become much less an aspect of the educational process and much more a question of providing housing for a group of people which, from time to time, finds itself in need. [More…]
It can be shown that in these days of free- or at least fee-less- education there are many people who are prevented from undertaking education simply because of the financial problems of trying to provide housing for themselves or in some cases their families. [More…]
If that is the case, if there are still financial impositions on people entering education, then it is, indeed, a failure to meet one of the ambitions which we would all like to see achieved. [More…]
A letter from the principal of Methodist Ladies’ College to the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Monash on 10 February 1975 and also a letter to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) on the same date point out that clearly these 2 girls who scored well in the Higher School Certificate examination are being penalised and disadvantaged by a sudden change in the regulations. [More…]
My own office just recently contacted the Minister for Education by telephone concerning the matter and was told that universities were autonomous institutions and that the Australian Government cannot intervene. [More…]
Also I have received a letter from the principal of the Methodist Ladies College, Kew, advising me that 5 more Asian girls, one from Indonesia and four from Malaysia- I have their names here if either the Minister for Education or the Minister for Labor and Immigration would like to have them- were interviewed by the Australian [More…]
An approach was made by the Student Counsellor at the Methodist Ladies College to a Mr Bert Miles, who is concerned with overseas students at the Department of Education, and Mr Miles has stated that he was powerless to help in any way. [More…]
Does the Minister for Education feel it is fair- I am sure he would agree that it is not- that these 2 girls, and no doubt many others from other schools, who have been permitted to come to this country to study medicine should then suddenly be confronted with this impenetrable barrier to their studies? [More…]
As I have said, up to this moment neither the representations to the Minister for Education nor to the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine have brought any reply. [More…]
We have made universities, colleges of advanced education and technical colleges free for those students precisely in the same way as they are free for Australian students. [More…]
It is quite inaccurate to say, as did the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), that a man earning $500 a week could force his divorced wife to live on maintenance from the husband of $5 a week plus a government pension. [More…]
Working class women will receive greater protection than those with education and training as they are less able to assist themselves, because work in unskilled employment for a small remuneration may not permit them to obtain adequate paid childminding facilities. [More…]
In regard to that Institute, I particularly note the views of the Family Life Movement of Australia which wrote to me and indicated very strongly the need for pre-marital education at various levels. [More…]
In its submission to the Senate Standing Committee the Family Life Movement made detailed recommendations on the importance of pre-marital education at various levels. [More…]
It regards such education as vitally significant and undoubtly a major contribution towards ensuring as far as possible that couples contemplating marriage understand what is involved, and that the marriage relationships into which they enter are likely to be of a stable and enduring nature. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
The change from the extended biological family we had in the past to the more fragile nuclear family, the increase in the breadth of education for women in our society and the changing rate of opportunities for women have all made marriage a more stressful situation. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependant children; [More…]
It can be done only by social education. [More…]
When he was speaking I was reminded of 2 points made in the speech of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) recently. [More…]
Sub-clause (b) provides for the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children. [More…]
I should like to think that this Government, which has done so much in the field of social reform, which has provided a grant for children who are isolated in the education sense, which has provided a grant to the handicapped child who did not receive a benefit previously and which has provided a benefit to the orphan child who had become a ward of the State, will now direct its attention to building up the home by providing additional funds so that home life may be strengthened. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
There have also been many changes in the management of functions of government for the Australian Capital Territory with new departures envisaged for the management of health and education. [More…]
In regard to other important functions, the responsibility elsewhere of State government, such as health and education, we see no reason why they should not pass eventually to local control. [More…]
On the same basis that hospitals are free in Queensland or state education is free in this country, Medibank is free, and we put that point quite clearly and without any attempt to confuse or to mislead anyone. [More…]
An aim of curriculum development is to relate education to the needs of the individual. [More…]
A characteristic feature of education today is its diversity- in the range of student abilities and interests, in the degree of responsibility being accorded to individual schools, in the design of school buildings themselves. [More…]
In Australia each of the State education departments has created facilities for curriculum development. [More…]
Further, the Department of Education has, over a period, received many specific proposals for curriculum and materials’ development on a national scale, indicating that there would be ample work of a national character for a Curriculum Development Centre, now and in the future. [More…]
The proposed Centre has been discussed with the State Ministers for Education, who are my colleagues on the Australian Education Council. [More…]
The Bill provides that 3 nominees of the Education Council- that is, the State Ministers and I- be included in the membership of the Council of the Curriculum Development Centre. [More…]
I refer here particularly to the Australian Science Education Project, for which a total of $940,000 was contributed from Federal funds over the 5 year life of the project; secondly, to the program to stimulate the teaching of Asian languages and cultures in schools, for which $1.5m is being allocated, again over a 5 year period; and also to the National Committee on Social Science Teaching. [More…]
I wish to acknowledge the part played in implementing these projects by previous Ministers having responsibility for education, in particular the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
A wide range of bodies was consulted in the formulation of the Interim Council, including the State Directors-General of Education, the Schools Commission, nongovernment school authorities, parents and teachers organisations, the Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education and institutions involved in teacher education. [More…]
The largest of these, the Social Education Materials Project, is being undertaken by the Centre at the suggestion of, and jointly with, the National Committee on Social Science Teaching. [More…]
The Project will develop 8 substantial units of teaching materials over a 3 year period, and all State education departments and the Catholic and other nongovernment school authorities are participating in it. [More…]
In its administrative provisions, including such matters as grants, appointments, remuneration, accounting and auditing, the Bill follows the pattern of similar measures relating to other bodies and commissions in the education area, such as the Schools Commission. [More…]
The Centre is to have dealings, often of a business nature, including sale and purchase of teaching materials, and as it will be engaging in the production and sale of educational materials it will need to hold copyright. [More…]
Apart from its permanent staff, it is expected that the Centre will wish to draw on the knowledge and experience of other persons, such as officers of the State education departments and the staffs of universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Clause 47 requires the Centre to consult and co-operate with other bodies with an interest in its general area of work, such as the Schools Commission and the State departments of education. [More…]
Large sums are being spent annually by the State and Australian governments and by non-government education authorities on the physical and manpower resources for schools. [More…]
In establishing the Curriculum Development Centre the Government emphasises its recognition of the importance of curriculum development in improving and enriching the education of children and young people. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to provide for the establishment of a Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
Since it came to office, the Government has pursued a policy of establishing a complete range of expert, independent bodies to advise the Government on needs and priorities in the various sectors of education. [More…]
To complement the Schools Commission, the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education, we are now establishing, through this Bill, a commission which will give the long underdeveloped area of technical and further education the same assurance of skilled and impartial consideration of its needs as have the areas of primary, secondary and tertiary education. [More…]
The Technical and Further Education Commission is the last of these 4 commissions to be established; but it is by no means the least. [More…]
It will be concerned with the quality of education that is to be received by something like half a million students throughout Australia. [More…]
The new Commission will continue and build upon the valuable work of the existing Interim Committee, the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education, which as honourable members will recall was appointed in April 1 973. [More…]
Its major recommendations were accepted by the Goverment and substantial funds are now being made available under the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974. [More…]
The Commission will be concerned not only with technical education but also with adult education in technical colleges, evening classes and classes conducted by adult education organisations such as the Workers Educational Association. [More…]
4 and 6 of the Bill, the Commission will be able to concern itself with technical and further education, in the sense just mentioned, whether it is conducted in technical colleges or by government or nongovernment non-profit adult education organisations. [More…]
A most important area of concern for the Commission will be the fostering of opportunities for recurrent education. [More…]
The technical and further education sector will be responsible in large measure for the provision of facilities to meet this growing need. [More…]
As I said in April 1974 when I tabled the Interim Committee’s Report on Technical and Further Education in Australia, the report takes a long step in the direction of lifelong education and of opportunities for re-entry into education. [More…]
It recommends unrestricted access for adults to vocationally oriented education. [More…]
In establishing the Commission we are providing the permanent machinery for the development of these ideals and the creation of a flexible technical and further education system which will supply opportunities for education and training where and when these are needed, and not merely for a limited period early in the lifetime of students. [More…]
The Commission will thus be a vehicle through which, in co-operation with the States, technical and further education can be developed, with the aid of Australian Government funds, to achieve the objectives I have outlined. [More…]
The States will retain their existing responsibilities for administering programs of technical and further education. [More…]
We will be looking to the States to maintain at least their existing level of effort in providing for technical and further education, so that the maximum benefit may flow from the Australian Government’s contribution in this area. [More…]
Appointment of members of the Commission and their conditions of service will be the same as for the other education commissions. [More…]
The functions of the Commission, as set out in clause 6, are to advise the Minister on the general development of technical and further education in Australia, on needs and priorities in the provision of facilities, on desirable standards for those facilities, and on financial assistance to the States for and in respect of institutions of technical and further education. [More…]
The Commission is required to perform its functions with a view to promoting the balanced development of technical and further education in Australia. [More…]
The Commission will also promote the wide access of intending students to technical and further education facilities, on the basis of equal opportunity for all. [More…]
The establishment of the Technical and Further Education Commission is an important event in Australian education. [More…]
It represents a continuing commitment by the Government to a vital area of education. [More…]
From now on, there will be a permanent body which will concern itself solely with the national development of technical and adult education. [More…]
Working closely with the Department of Transport the Authority will seek to do this through improvement programs, formulation of national standards and traffic codes, the certification of vehicles and components, research into all relevant factors, education and publicity campaigns and a comprehensive information service. [More…]
We should investigate conditions leading to discrimination against women in education, in the work force and certainly in the credit facilities available to them. [More…]
They also comprise, unfortunately, those who suffer from inadequate health care, who may be helped now that Medibank is coming in, and those who suffer from inequality within our education system. [More…]
Any student at the tertiary level who won a scholarship tenable at universities or colleges of advanced education has all his fees paid and has a means tested living allowance. [More…]
The position today is that all students in tertiary education have their fees paid and they have a means tested living allowance. [More…]
Many members of this House would have spent their childhood in a situation which prevented them from embarking on their education until 6, 7 or even 8 years of age, solely because of geographic isolation and lack of modern transport. [More…]
The Government has given a massive boost to education. [More…]
Fifty years ago, when educational opportunities depended upon a parent’s pocket rather than upon a student’s intelligence, many of those who in today’s circumstances would have become the country’s leading lawyers, scientists, academics or professionals gravitated to leadership of the trade union movement. [More…]
We still have men and women working on the factory floor who are there for reasons only of lack of education. [More…]
I feel sure honourable members will agree that trade union training should not be excluded from the many fields of training and education which a responsible Government supports and assists financially. [More…]
I can certainly see some possibility in the long term of the proposed Trade Union Training Authority coming together with management education bodies to run joint programs. [More…]
Most industrialised countries are providing organised education and training for unionists. [More…]
It is based on the proposals of many experts in the union movement, training, education and government. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that this is what happened when the Federal Government took over tertiary education. [More…]
The valuable ethane, propane and butane- I say for the education of the very ignorant members of the Australian Country Party- will merely have to be used or burnt at the well-head- instead of being used as an essential feedstock in a petrochemical industry. [More…]
Is he considering the United States Department of Health Education and Welfare Secretary’s Advisory Committee Report on Automated Personal Records Systems as a basis for licensing data banks under Government control. [More…]
Is Medibank in fact any less free than the previous Government’s free milk scheme, the Queensland Government’s free hospital scheme or the system of free education of which the State governments are very proud? [More…]
Like the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), over the last 20 years I have listened to an infinite variety of speeches on this tragic matter, and like the honourable gentleman I speak as one whose mind from time to time has changed. [More…]
Does my friend the Minister for Education, putting to one side the didactics of his speech this afternoon, seriously contend that the people of South Vietnam are, as at this day of grace, in a position in which they are determining for themselves what will be the fate of their country? [More…]
Adult Secondary Education Assistance [More…]
The new scheme, operative from the beginning of 1975, provides means-tested living allowances and other benefits similar to those available under the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]
Child Migration Education Program [More…]
But it will enable positive action to be taken against such discriminatory activities and it will help mould community attitudes, not only because of the existence of the legislation but also because the Commissioner will have the power to promote education and research. [More…]
The objective we all desire- that of overcoming the radical prejudices and discriminations that characterise an uncultured society- must be sought as strenuously through the avenues of education and understanding on a broad general level as it is sought in post-event cases where discrimination has actually taken place and the courts have become involved. [More…]
Ideally, of course, pre-emptive educational process would eventually be developed to the point where punitive measures were no longer required. [More…]
A thorough educational program of pointing out our racial problems and difficulties in society would for the most part overcome those situations based on ignorance rather than malicious intent. [More…]
On this base the educational punitive balance must be carefully observed and protected. [More…]
Fourth, the Bill proposes that there should be fostered- and I believe that this is very important- programs of education and research and other programs to combat racial discrimination and promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among racial and ethnic groups. [More…]
In this respect education will be a reality rather than a myth. [More…]
One will have some success through education and more generally tolerant attitudes, by using the processes of negotiation and conciliation. [More…]
Since I became a member of this House and for a long time before that time I have yearned for the day when we will start a real education program in this regard. [More…]
It was expressly conceded that the best hope of advancing the field of the elimination of racial discrimination was to be found in the processes of conciliation and of education. [More…]
Above all, if this legislation is to have value the value is to be found in the consultation, the conciliation and the education provisions. [More…]
So if the Bill is amended to make the main focus of it on consultation, conciliation and education I think the prospects of it achieving the objective which it is declared it sets out to achieve are far more likely to be achieved. [More…]
Many factors contribute to this such as home background and upbringing, education and opportunity, religious belief and training, and the sort of moral code, ethics and attitude that has been inculcated in individuals during their lifetime. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
This Bill is directed towards the community in all sorts of ways- by law, by education and by influence. [More…]
They stand as a monument to the wisdom of those in power who decided that the Aboriginal, without education and without assistance to assume the degree of responsibility necessary, could handle liquor. [More…]
The most serious indictment that I make of the Queensland Department is that it has created insufficient opportunities for Aborigines who receives a secondary education to have a meaningful career on the Aboriginal reserves in Queensland and play a proper role in the management of those reserves. [More…]
Let us look at his role in education. [More…]
He always had the ones important to the National Civic Council, such as Education. [More…]
The National Civic Council said: ‘Fraser gets Education’ and he got Education. [More…]
provide a year’s free pre-school education to all children throughout Australia? [More…]
The program announced last Friday gives about $22,500,000 to New South Wales although the New South Wales Government gives practically nothing to preschool education. [More…]
I notice from its Budget, that its allocation to pre-school education- miserable as it was- has been reduced from the one previously made. [More…]
Spending on education is to be doubled during the next triennium. [More…]
But much of this increase, like that on pensions and social welfare and education- much more than half of the total- was essential if the poorer members of the community were to be kept up with inflationinflation, I remind honourable members, with which the present Government had nothing to do- and if real standards in education were to be maintained, let alone advanced. [More…]
I point out that no Labor government at any rate would be worth support if in times of inflation it allowed the real standards of pensioners, of public and basic health and of education to fall. [More…]
Through the Children’s Commission the Australian Government will provide assistance to a variety of organisations, groups and individuals for programs including full day care, family day care, pre-school education, emergency care, occasional care, before and after school and vacation care, playgroups and any other child care activities in accordance with demand. [More…]
mote and assist in the devising and development of, school curricula and school educational materials. [More…]
The standard of curriculum options available to our schools is a significant determinant of the quality of education, but it is not only the standard of curriculum; it is also its relevance which is vitally important. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), in his second reading speech, paid proper tribute to the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) for the pan he played as Minister for Education in the sequence of events which have culminated in the establishment of this Centre. [More…]
Projects supported by the previous Liberal-Country Party Government included the Australian Education Project, the program to stimulate the teaching of Asian languages and the establishment of the National Committee on Social Science Teaching. [More…]
Neither the Interim Council nor the Minister apparently contemplates the Centre as being concerned with curriculum development at these levels, as no further reference is made to these levels of education either in the discussion paper or in the Bill. [More…]
If so, will it also agree that the former task is one for the Curriculum Development Centre while the latter is one for State departments of education, the Schools Commission and schools themselves? [More…]
The work now being carried out by the State departments of education, tertiary institutions, subject teaching associations and other interested groups and individuals should not be stifled in any way. [More…]
If it seeks to encourage curriculum development by other agencies, the Council of the Centre will also look beyond the departments of education. [More…]
The establishment of the Centre should facilitate exchange within Australia and also should make it easier for education authorities to have access to overseas developments. [More…]
The information and ideas available for exchange would then be assured of including development achieved by the expert designers of educational material, by education administrators, by teachers and by combined efforts. [More…]
At the same time as we hear talk of community involvement in education and greater autonomy for the school community, we find some apprehension that as the teacher has fewer and fewer responsibilities in the curriculum process he has less and less control over the classroom program. [More…]
Is it what may be described as a practical one which sees curriculum development as being so bound up with the education system that it is a matter for education administrators? [More…]
Or is it based on a more theoretical approach and hence seen to be the exclusive preserve of academic educationists? [More…]
In a real world there must be co-operation between education administrators, specialist curriculum research and development workers and classroom teachers. [More…]
Unless the Curriculum Development Centre performs the role outlined for it by the Interim Council there is a danger that it could become the preserve of a Canberra-based education bureaucracy. [More…]
This could happen if those who see education as essentially a branch of social policy seek to over-centralise the whole of Australia’s education system. [More…]
Then it will not be long before the education administrator acts in response to political policy determination in fields previously the preserve of the educator. [More…]
We in the Opposition do not want to see a single uniform national curriculum imposed on schools by a politically directed or motivated education bureaucracy whether it is based in Canberra or in Albury-Wodonga. [More…]
The curriculum development centre should aim at achieving a system of curriculum provision of greater variety- variety within education systems and not merely between them. [More…]
It should aim to provide greater diversity and a wider variety of high-quality curriculum options so that they are available not only to education systems but also to schools, parents and students. [More…]
Without the dangers and disadvantages of a single uniform curriculum, we should aim to achieve a degree of commonality between education systems so as to minimise the difficulties created in the educational development of children in an increasingly mobile society. [More…]
Or will the charges be imposed on education authorities as inter-governmental transactions in the case of State education departments? [More…]
We would not want a situation where a mediocre curriculum was forced upon Australian schools by the Centre’s pricing policies any more than we would want the Centre to make a charge for its materials and services so that education authorities and/or parents pay more than would have been the case had the materials and services been made available through the ordinary market. [More…]
Many State education departments have their own curriculum development units. [More…]
State education departments will be the major users of any curricula developed by the centre. [More…]
If this centre is intended not to monopolise curriculum development but to establish liaison and working relations with bodies interested in curriculum development, it is in the Opposition’s view desirable that the council contain a nominee of each State Education Minister. [More…]
We seek merely to give those who must necessarily be involved in the development of curricula for schools- the State education departments and their Ministers- the opportunity to select the highly competent people that we know the Minister would want to select in filling the vacancies that it will be his responsibility to 611. [More…]
We think that the establishment of this centre has the potential to make a significant contribution to the improvement of the education offered Australian children, and we hope that the potential will be realised. [More…]
This Bill has to be seen in the context of the total education program of the Whitlam Government, which has had such spectacular success in the past 2 years. [More…]
The Government has provided initiatives throughout the whole spectrum of education; from pre-school education through to adult education. [More…]
The fundamental aim of the proposed centre was stated precisely and succinctly by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) when he said that it was to foster curriculum and material development from pre-school to post-secondary levels. [More…]
All the programs that have been initiated by this Government are symptoms of the great revolution that is taking place in educational philosophy. [More…]
In essence they are aiming at an education which promotes the total development of the individual. [More…]
Fortunately we are moving away from terms like ‘primary’, ‘secondary’ and ‘tertiary’ when we speak of education. [More…]
I have never regarded myself as one who has ever seen any particular method or body of fact as being the only approach to education. [More…]
There is no contradiction here between the concept of devolution of responsibility and the setting up of a national body which would provide the material from which people could draw wherever they may be, whether on a school council, in a group of teachers or within a State education system. [More…]
When one looks across the full educational spectrum there is evidence that this devolution of responsibility is beginning to happen. [More…]
We have heard a great deal recently of students, some of whom have completed their secondary education, who are classified as functionally illiterate. [More…]
One might ask: Why can all this not be done through existing State education systems where groups are already involved in this work? [More…]
This Centre will also be better placed to obtain and disseminate the best and latest educational research from overseas. [More…]
It will be a complementary body, and in this context it is significant to note that all State Education Ministers have given this proposal their full support. [More…]
These included the national science education project, the program to stimulate the teaching of Asian languages and cultures in our schools at a cost of $1.5m, and the national committee on social science teaching. [More…]
This applies to authorities responsible for pre-school, primary and secondary education in government and non-government schools. [More…]
I believe that the important point here is that very close co-operation will take place between this body, the various State educational authorities and also the Schools Commission. [More…]
I draw to the attention of the House a Press release by the Minister for Education in Victoria, Mr Thomson, on 8 April. [More…]
He announced then that he was preparing legislation to establish a Victorian institute of secondary education as a statutory body to carry out curriculum research and to encourage experimentation and the modernisation of secondary education. [More…]
-The Australian people for some years have been aware of the need for a higher standard of education for their children. [More…]
At the same time, however, it is important to recall that over the years the percentage of gross domestic product which has been put aside for education, for government schools in particular, has been growing quite substantially. [More…]
Expenditure is now over 5.6 per cent of gross domestic product and presumably it is only fair to say that it is going to increase even further because education is undoubtedly one of Australia ‘s greatest growth industries. [More…]
Apart from the fact that many Australians are therefore seriously concerned and are wondering whether in fact they are getting the value from education expenditure which they would expect, the Opposition sees the need to establish an environment in which Australian children receive equal opportunity in education irrespective of whether they come from the cities or remote parts of the continent and regardless of the economic or social position of their parents. [More…]
They are to devise and develop, and to promote and assist in the developing of school curricula and school educational materials; to undertake, promote and assist in research into matters related to school curricula and school education materials; and to collect, assess and disseminate information relevant within this context. [More…]
Many Australians are dissatisfied with the substance of the education being given to their children. [More…]
H undreds of teenage women fall pregnant because of the inadequacy of existing sex education. [More…]
I think we should see the Curriculum Development Centre also in terms of the recommendations of the Karmel Committee which indicated in its report some of the future directions that one would expect to anticipate in terms of education. [More…]
I think the tendency has been for far too long that the recommendations of the curricula development committees of the various States have been based on the assumption that those who go to secondary school at some stage are going to find themselves in a tertiary education environment, probably universities. [More…]
It is quite obvious that the percentage of students who ultimately go to universities does not justify this presumption and for that reason I would earnestly suggest to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) that there is a real need to try not only to relate curricula development to the vertical developmentnamely, from the time children first go to preschool right through to the time they finish school- but also to try to relate standards between States to the actual opportunities which are being offered to students and standards of educational attainment in terms of specific subjects. [More…]
There would be above all a reappraisal of the relationship of the school to the wider society with increasing inadequacy of education in formal institutions separated from both the home and the working environment. [More…]
We have States which are responsible for education. [More…]
They also have their own education development organisation. [More…]
That we have to admit in this day that 90 per cent of some children at that level have not achieved this standard is a shocking indictment of the education system that we have applied for far too long. [More…]
This type of problem is fundamental to the quality of life and to education. [More…]
The idea of it is not only to engage in research into new forms of curricula but also to commission other independent bodies- universities, colleges of advanced education, private institutions and the Australian Council for Educational Research- to do so also. [More…]
Of course, one of the things we have to get over is the legacy of the past, the external examination ridden system of education we have had in this country whereby a child in Bourke has to sit for the same terminal examination as does the child in Sydney, Goulburn, Taree or wherever it may be in New South Wales. [More…]
The most centralised form of education, as in many other spheres of our activity, is within the States. [More…]
Not even the creation of educational areas did away with centralisation. [More…]
When these sorts of things are done teaching and learningeducation will start to mean a lot more than it means today. [More…]
I hope that this Bill, along with other measures that this Government and its predecessors initiated, will go on to do those sorts of things and that young children will not feel that ‘education ‘ is a slavish activity or a distasteful activity but rather something refreshing, relevant to their needs, and something which will not only be helpful to them to earn a living or to pass an examination but will also be a rich living experience. [More…]
-The development of new curricula and teaching methods is as important as and probably more important than the provision of educational facilities. [More…]
One is the Australian Science Education Project for which previous governments gave $940,000 over 5 years. [More…]
The salaries are paid by the Education Department but it is here that assistance stops. [More…]
It has been suggested by many authors on this subject that, the greater the degree of internal structural and cultural differentiation of a society, the less likely it is that educational institutions will promote all ethnic groups’ values equivalently. [More…]
In any pluralist society’s education system, one form of dominant group can be that which plays the major role in curriculum development. [More…]
That is important because if we had not had such a spectacular rate of inflation we would have been able to do a whole lot more with the money which has been expended in such areas as education. [More…]
For instance, a great amount of the extra money being spent on education is in fact being spent on covering the increased costs which have come about simply because of the enormous rate of inflation which Australia has been experiencing since the present Government came into office. [More…]
The honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds) said that the most centralised education systems were to be found in the States. [More…]
In fact, the highly centralised, bureaucratised education system in New South Wales is the direct result of over 20 years of Labor government in that State. [More…]
I would be the first to admit that the breaking down of the centralisation of the education system in New South Wales is proving to be a very difficult process. [More…]
It is being resisted strongly by some groups which I hope will not continue their opposition to the process of breaking down the centralisation of the educational system there. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) said: [More…]
An aim of curriculum development is to relate education to the needs of the individual. [More…]
No, it does not really deal with migrant education or disadvantaged groups as a whole. [More…]
Because of the immensity of this problem and because of the range of problems which affect the teaching of migrant children, could we give some close consideration to the appointment of people who have a degree of knowledge, a degree of commitment relating to migrant education? [More…]
Of course, although this Curriculum Development Centre only applies, as I understand it, to teaching in schools- and, therefore would only apply to school children- this problem of education which faces migrants is not confined to children at all. [More…]
It extends to their parents, to training, retraining and the whole range of educational enrichment. [More…]
in reply- It is not the function of the Curriculum Development Centre to lay down education policies. [More…]
In relation to migrant education, I would draw the honourable gentleman’s attention to the fact that the Schools Commission is investigating the problems of migrant education. [More…]
The Migrant Advisory Committee is doing likewise, and we have raised expenditure on migrant education to $20m. [More…]
The crux of his proposal would be the addition to the Curriculum Development Centre Council of one member nominated by each State Minister who is a member of the Australian Education Councilclause 11(1). [More…]
I draw his attention to the nature of the Australian Education Council. [More…]
This comprises the Australian and State Ministers for Education. [More…]
The 3 members appointed by the Australian Education Council will be virtually 3 members appointed by the State Ministers. [More…]
Clause 11 ( 1 ) (c) provides for 3 nominees of the Australian Education Council. [More…]
It has approved the social education materials project. [More…]
At the instance of the Australian Council for Educational Research, it is financing the evaluation of the Australian Science Education ProjectASEPcosting $40,000 over 2 years. [More…]
An Australian Science Education Project implementation study- how actually to apply what was done previously by ASEP over the last few years- is proposed by the Education Faculty of Monash University. [More…]
A social science curriculum project proposed by Mount St Mary’s College will receive $5,025 over a year, and an environmental education survey is put forward by the Curriculum Development Centre itself. [More…]
1 member nominated by the Secretary to the Department of Education; [More…]
3 members nominated by the Australian Education Council; [More…]
1 member nominated by each State Minister who is a member of the Australian Education Council; [More…]
The Council is to include a member nominated by the Secretary of the Department of Education, 3 members nominated by the Australian Education Council, 2 members nominated by the Schools Commission and between four and nine other members. [More…]
All I can say is that the Opposition would urge the Minister to examine again the arguments which support the view that those who operate the large education departments within the States should be given an opportunity to nominate members to the Council. [More…]
Our principal point is to urge the Government again to look at this question and to see whether that wide range of Australian expertise could not be mobilised just as effectively, indeed more effectively, by allowing the Ministers of Education in the States to nominate experts whom they consider could serve well this Curriculum Development Centre. [More…]
The Opposition urges the Minister not to see those people who would be nominated by the Ministers of Education in the States as being there as representatives or delegates. [More…]
Such a method of promotion is a means of pooling the wide resources available in the community as it allows nomination by others who have a deep concern in the development of curriculum programs for use in the Australian education system. [More…]
I have pointed out that the 6 Australian State Ministers, with myself, form the Australian Education Council and that that Education Council will choose 3 members of the Curriculum Development Centre Council. [More…]
I cannot understand why, if the honourable gentleman wanted each of the 6 States to be represented, he did not eliminate the reference to the Australian Education Council. [More…]
-Yes; I would much rather have the State Ministers collectively picking the experts whom they know to be the best rather than have each State Department of Education nominating its pea. [More…]
I have had experience in State education departments and I know that the tendency would be for people who have come to the top of the machine to be nominated because it is the formal sense. [More…]
-The Bill we are discussing is designed to establish a Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) told the House that the Commission to be established by the Bill would be the fourth and last of a series of commissions to be established to advise the Government on the needs and priorities in the various sectors of education. [More…]
It should be noted that the Universities Commission has been in existence for a period considerably longer than the present Government, as has the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
The existence of these 3 Commissions has made it increasingly urgent for the Government to promote legislation to establish some form of commission to deal with and have concern for technical and further education. [More…]
To have failed to do so would have been to leave technical and further education as the Cinderella of education. [More…]
Mr M. H. Bone, Director of Further Education in South Australia, has said: [More…]
We who have been the Cinderella of education have at last been invited to the ball, and I feel assured that, even when midnight comes, we will not return to the past. [More…]
It is public awareness of the role of technical and further education that will assure it of a permanent place in the education system. [More…]
It is the establishment of this Commission which will provide a guarantee that it will remain on an equal footing with other areas of post-school education. [More…]
The Commission to be established would have among its functions the responsibility of giving the Government advice on the general development of technical and further education. [More…]
The Opposition wants to draw to the notice of the House what should be well known: That the States have a vital interest in technical and further education. [More…]
In fact, most of the technical and further education in Australia is provided by State government institutes and institutions. [More…]
If development of education in this field is to be as significant as it should be, the States must be fully involved. [More…]
Such nominee need not necessarily be an education administrator. [More…]
Preferably, the nominees will be persons who have the most to contribute to the development of technical and further education. [More…]
If it does, it will enable the States to play a real part in the development of technical and further education. [More…]
We urge it to review its approach and call upon it to acknowledge the merits of the arguments in favour of including a nominee of each of the State Ministers of Education. [More…]
The Minister will, I know, claim that he will appoint those with talent and experience to contribute most to technical and further education development. [More…]
It will be most unfortunate if a lack of flexibility and a lack of local discretion restrains the responsive growth of technical and further education opportunities that should be and are made available to the communities in each of the States. [More…]
Secondly, it should be acknowledged that one of the greatest contributions to the development of technical and further education made by the Kangan Committee was that it underlined and reinforced the changing emphasis that has been apparent in technical and further education on the inclusion and expansion of a general content in courses that formerly were purely technical in content. [More…]
It is essential that, if technical education is to make an effective contribution in the educational field, this process of expanding the content to include both a general content and a technical content be continued. [More…]
The serious disadvantages of technical education in the old sense in which training was interpreted are now increasingly understood. [More…]
If technical education is confined to training in narrowly direct skills, those who take such courses may suffer loss of opportunity of employment of a vocational skill as a result of changing circumstances in the community. [More…]
But the impact of a changing society on a tradesman with a redundant skill is far more serious if he concentrates on gaining a particular vocational skill with no general education. [More…]
There is an urgent need for a change in the content of technical education so that it includes the optimum mix of vocational and general education. [More…]
As a result of the general approach to technical and further education, the emphasis is now not merely on the attainment of skills but also on the development of the abilities of the student to his best advantage. [More…]
Mr Bone, the Director of Further Education in South Australia, has described the change that has been occurring in this way: [More…]
The new concept of technical and further education is that it should offer more options for the individual than merely job opportunities. [More…]
Nowhere in technical and further education is discrimination in access more evident than in skilled training for apprentices. [More…]
This is, of course, educationally insupportable and damns the whole clumsy system. [More…]
In the past there have been many people who missed out in the normal process of education in training in a skill. [More…]
School leavers now have a higher level of education. [More…]
The announcement related to the establishment by the Minister of a committee of post-secondary education in Tasmania. [More…]
The committee is to review post-secondary education. [More…]
-It may have been at the request of the Tasmanian Government, but it is significant that the committee has been set up and that it is to include the Chairman of the Universities Commission, Professor Karmel; the Chairman of the Commission on Advanced Education, Mr T. B. Swanson; and the Chairman of the Committee on Technical and Further Education, Associate Professor E. Richardson. [More…]
Secondly, it is to look at the principles that should govern access to post-secondary education and the transfer of students between institutions. [More…]
Thirdly, it is to look at the proper provisions of tertiary education for nonmetropolitan areas of the State. [More…]
One could well ask whether the committee, high powered as it is, is really examining a whole series of questions that effect the development of post-secondary education throughout the nation. [More…]
-One could well ask whether interested individuals on the mainland should express a view as to the development of possible changes in the present institutions, having in mind that this appears to be a general examination into the whole broad question of university education, advanced education, and technical and further education. [More…]
It is true that the Director of Education in Tasmania is on the committee, but I still raise the question whether the issues to be examined by this committee are uniquely limited to the geographical, demographic and educational requirements of Tasmania. [More…]
It was my point in raising the issue tonight to ascertain what the Minister had in mind, because if it was intended that the committee should examine the whole inter-relationship of university education, advanced education, and technical and further education, the committee should not start its activities in one State alone. [More…]
There may be very good reason why the whole question of the integration and inter-relationship of education in the post-secondary area should be thoroughly examined to see whether there is adequate opportunity for transfer between - [More…]
Whilst one can now understand, because of the interjections of the Minister, how the establishment of this committee has come about, I think it is not unreasonable to ask whether we should not seek to review possible changes in present institutions in the 3 areas of postsecondary education on the mainland as well as in Tasmania and whether we should not look at the question of the principles that govern access to post-secondary education on the mainland as well as in Tasmania. [More…]
The question I ask is: Will this committee be prepared to hear submissions from those who have a general interest in the question of changes in present institutions that provide post-secondary education and in identifying the principles that should govern access to those institutions? [More…]
hopes that through the Commission the opportunities that arise for those who would seek to further their education in the technical and further education fields will be expanded as a result of the work of the Commission. [More…]
I congratulate the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) on his appointment as the Opposition spokesman on education in this House and I wish him many long and interesting years in that capacity. [More…]
Firstly there is his amendment which shows the obsession that he has that the States should as of right have a representative on the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
If the honourable member is worried about what will happen to the State systems of education, I suggest the recommendations and reports of this Commission and the States’ attitudes to them and, I am sure, acceptance of them, will be full answer that they will be satisfied with the way that it operates. [More…]
As to the honourable member’s suspicion of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) as being the last of the Tasmanian devils. [More…]
One welcomes the fact that finally the legislation for the Technical and Further Education Commission has reached the House. [More…]
The other related commissions- the Schools Commission, the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education- are all well and truly established and functioning as permanent bodies. [More…]
Admittedly the Technical and Further Education Commission has been functioning in an interim manner. [More…]
It is to be hoped that, although this is the last of the major educational commissions to attain permanent status, this fact will not mean that the Commission will be the least or the Cinderella of the group. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that the Interim Committee on Technical and Further Education was appointed by the present Australian Minister for Education on 26 April 1973. [More…]
Underlying the submissions was a general concensus that in this field educational opportunities should be specific and meaningful. [More…]
It was of the utmost importance that these educational opportunities should be accessible at whatever time or stage of life they would be of use. [More…]
Historically those in the technical field have always been the battlers of the education system. [More…]
This institution played a magnificent role in bringing hundreds of thousands of full and part time students whom it trained into appropriate occupations and gave them further education generally. [More…]
There are 4 factors that will lead to the increased use of technical and further education. [More…]
Secondly, there is the spreading concern that educational effort should be linked with the particular goal of securing satisfying occupations. [More…]
If one examines the activities of bodies such as the Council for Adult Education in Victoria one sees that there is also a need among people for the opportunity to do some study just for study’s sake, for intellectual satisfaction. [More…]
Greater flexibility in the field of technical and further education will mean that this field will carry the brunt of demand from the factors that I have listed. [More…]
There are a- couple of features in the educational field that disturb me. [More…]
It seems to me that we are orientating the aspirations of our young people to seeing the possession of a piece of paper stating that they have a degree, diploma or certificate in some specific area as the ultimate end of the educational process. [More…]
The educational first phase should be to prepare a well adjusted individual with a developed community sense and an attainable job aspiration. [More…]
At the end of this phase there should be the opportunity to take education further in a particular area or series of areas. [More…]
Ultimately Parliament must accept responsibility for educational change. [More…]
For example, technical teachers’ organisations have expressed some disappointment about this Commission, the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
This probably arises because, as I have said before, it is the last of the educational commissions to be ratified. [More…]
I warmly support the setting up of the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
We wish the Technical and Further Education Commission well when this legislation is passed. [More…]
-The Technical and Further Education Commission was envisaged by the Kangan Committee. [More…]
It will place the recipients of technical education and further education on an equal footing or near equal footing with the other arms of tertiary education. [More…]
There are approximately 500 000 such students and in money terms they receive roughly one-fifth as much as a student at a college of advanced education. [More…]
I am not suggesting that the value of education can be measured in money terms but merely adding a little emphasis to the oft made claim that this is a Cinderella group. [More…]
The role of the Technical and Further Education Commission should be that of an advisory body and an encouraging body. [More…]
I do not see its proper role as that of dictating in detail to the hopefully various diverse institutions that will provide this educational facility. [More…]
The Commission should be an encouraging body in that it will balance the lobbies that must inevitably compete for funds, teachers and facilities generally between the various arms of tertiary education. [More…]
The States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill clearly did deal in detail. [More…]
Therefore, I have a suspicion that this Commission will inevitably deal in detail that will not benefit technical and further education in Australia. [More…]
The States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Bill provided for minor building projects. [More…]
The Technical and Further Education Commission will be dealing in this detail so long as funds are provided in this detail. [More…]
It is my firm belief that if it tries to impose that sort of detail we will get a common- not necessarily efficient- restrictive educational system. [More…]
The present situation envisages 6 different State systems, four of them under the umbrella of the State education departments and in New South Wales and South Australia systems that are not under the umbrella of the State education departments. [More…]
It states: 5.1 The constitutional responsibility for technical and further education in the States rests with the State Governments and so also does the financial commitment. [More…]
There is no end to what might be provided to improve education. [More…]
Finally, I urge those who will be dealing with technical and further education to be very careful not to do anything that might in any way damage the morale of the organisations we have now, for poor as they have been they have a morale that is not evident in all areas of education. [More…]
If one visits an institution providing technical education one will find that those teaching and those learning are very enthusiastic about what they are doing. [More…]
I do not often have the opportunity to speak on an education Bill but I have entered this debate for a number of reasons. [More…]
Firstly, there is my great pleasure that going through this Australian Parliament is another measure which shows the Labor Government’s strong commitment to technical and further education. [More…]
The third reason I am entering the debate is that I have had a number of years of involvement in adult education in South Australia on a voluntary basis working on the executive of the Workers Education Association of South Australia. [More…]
Indeed, 1 have been fortunate to attain the positions of Chairman and President of that Association and I look forward to having something to say about the adult education aspect of the Bill later on. [More…]
Remaining on this personal note, I add that time I have given voluntarily to adult education has been motivated in my case by the fact that I had received the greater part of my tertiary education as an adult part time student. [More…]
As an aside I should like to take this opportunity of saying that I have a strong conviction that as a community we may perhaps allocate too many resources in an expensive way to full time education if indeed some of those resources could be allocated to part time education. [More…]
I believe that mature students are not getting as fair a go in Australia at the moment as they should be, not because of any action of the Government but because of actions in universities in many cases, and in some of the institutions they are not being given the same opportunities to work on a part time basis to get their education. [More…]
The States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act of 1974 was passed to fund work in this sphere from last July to next December. [More…]
1 take this opportunity of congratulating the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), who is at the table, on his achievements in this sphere. [More…]
Another point worth mentioning, of course, is that the Commission to be set up by this Bill is part of the Australian Labor Government’s range of such independent expert bodies assessing matters and advising the Government on the needs and priorities in the various sectors of education. [More…]
Others in this family are the Schools Commission, mainly focusing on primary and secondary education; the Universities Commission, focusing on one section of tertiary education; and the Commission on Advanced Education, focusing on another sector of tertiary education. [More…]
It is not entirely an education commission. [More…]
It is partially an education commission and partially concerned with health and welfare and family care for children at the pre-school stage. [More…]
But I return to the family of education commissions which are purely educational. [More…]
The Technical and Further Education Commission to be set up by this Bill may be the last to be established but, as will have already been demonstrated, in my view it is far from being the least important. [More…]
It will be concerned with the quality of education that is to be received by approximately half a million students in our community. [More…]
Of course it will be concerned with that education in a long underdeveloped area of technical and further education. [More…]
I believe that it will give the same assurance of skilled and impartial consideration of the needs in this sphere as the other commissions have given to their particular spheres of education. [More…]
In referring to the technical and further education sphere as an underdeveloped field I do not have to draw attention only to the amount of public expenditure on technical and further education compared with other areas of public expenditure in the fields of education. [More…]
Let me also remind the House of what is now well known and of what the Minister for Education reminded us in his second reading speech, namely, that people who are now entering the work force may well need retraining several times during their working lives. [More…]
The Minister said that we must remove barriers discouraging adults from further education and we must have particular regard for the needs of women, of country students, of migrants and of handicapped persons. [More…]
In particular the Commission must foster opportunities for recurrent education. [More…]
Although industrial requirements should still be kept uppermost in mind, the Technical and Further Education Commission must, in my view, pay greater regard to individual needs and development. [More…]
Vocational education ought to be broadened and become more general so that people may rapidly adapt to quickening technological and social change. [More…]
Traditional teaching methods such as chalkandtalk, examination, rigid syllabi and tight classroom attendance and discipline have deterred many mature adults from undertaking technical and further education courses. [More…]
Moves towards interstate equivalence of courses and qualifications will be attempted by the Technical and Further Education Commission, I am sure. [More…]
Any tendency towards more stringent entry prerequisites must be reversed to enable easier student access to this technical and further education. [More…]
I mentioned earlier the value of mature citizens receiving such education. [More…]
Access to technical and further education by women can be enhanced by providing more in the way of appropriate physical and child care facilities, by arranging flexible timetables and by eliminating prejudice against their entry into manual trades. [More…]
To summarise, we have in this Bill the means of promoting the balanced development of technical and further education in Australia. [More…]
-On behalf of the Opposition I wish to speak briefly in support of the establishment of the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
As pointed out, this Commission is to be concerned not only with technical education but also with adult education in technical colleges. [More…]
A most important area of concern for the Commission will be the fostering of opportunities for recurrent education. [More…]
The report of the Interim Committee on technical and further education in Australia takes an important step in the direction of lifelong education and of opportunities for reentry into education. [More…]
As the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) pointed out in his second reading speech, it also recommends unrestricted access for adults to vocationally oriented education. [More…]
Today there is no valid reason why we should be denying to technical education anything less in status or in government support than that which is so apparent today in other forms of post-secondary education. [More…]
In this regard the Kangan report has drawn attention to the fact that almost 70 per cent of men and over 80 per cent of women in the Australian work force have no formal educational qualifications for the trade or occupation in which they are engaged and that these people do not have anything approaching equality of access to vocational education with those who are preparing for a livelihood by attendance at a university or, in more recent times, at a college of advanced education. [More…]
The report also notes that whilst technical and further education is an integral component of the national resources that make for technological development, for a skilled and mobile labour force or in fact for personal work satisfaction and economic growth, nevertheless it does not yet appear to rank officially as an integral part of the nation’s economic system. [More…]
The historic fact is that technical education, unlike other forms of post-secondary education, has always been separate from the mainstream of general education. [More…]
Students desiring to enter a profession generally seek tertiary qualifications as a preparation for employment whereas just the opposite seems to apply in the case of students desiring to enter a trade or other sub-professional occupation where employment becomes a prerequisite to technical education. [More…]
Beyond doubt there is a case for equality of status and financial assistance for technical education in the overall scheme of things. [More…]
Further Education Commission. [More…]
In a sense this involves a very wide ambit of a persons educational needs, related as it is to the all important factor of employment which more and more in the years to follow is likely to dictate priorities in government expenditures on education. [More…]
I believe that it is most important that as governments expand educational opportunities they should not neglect- as is perhaps being done- the development of job opportunities. [More…]
It is of little use for one to be fully qualified yet not find a job or a place of employment once one’s education has ceased. [More…]
As a country member of Parliament I believe that this is one area in our education system that should be greatly upgraded. [More…]
If we are to attract not only married teachers but also single teachers to the rural areas it is absolutely vital that accommodation be one of the areas in which the Technical and Further Education Commission and other commissions should take a very real interest. [More…]
It has been mentioned that at the present time about 500 000 young people are in institutions of education not assisted by the universities, the colleges of advanced education or the Schools Commission. [More…]
I believe that this Bill will go a long way towards assisting those half a million people to have their needs met in the same way as students involved in other forms of education throughout the country have their needs met. [More…]
Of course, the most important aspect of this Bill is that it will cater also for the needs of recurrent education. [More…]
People are now looking to their future needs, and their future needs will best be served if they can re-enter the education process and develop those skills that they had neither the opportunity to develop in the past nor the financial means of doing. [More…]
I believe that it is completely necessary that the States do not reduce their commitment to technical education because the Australian Government has a larger involvement in it. [More…]
It is vital that both the State and Federal Governments co-operate in the field of technical education as in any other form of education. [More…]
As has been stated a number of times already, this Bill is yet another important contribution by the Whitlam Government to the development of educational opportunities for a very wide variety of people in Australia. [More…]
It will create not only further opportunities but also continuing opportunities, or what is called recurrent education. [More…]
The Bill will make it possible for people who might have missed out on the opportunity previously or who might not have felt the need for training previously to come back at some later stage in their life and take up either a technical college course or a course in some institute of further education. [More…]
As a matter of fact the Australian Government, by coming in with a national effort on behalf of education, has created more opportunities for diversity, innovation and improvisation than we ever knew before. [More…]
There is more experimentation in education today than there has ever looked like being at any time in our history. [More…]
Here we have another opportunity being provided in the field of education in terms of technical education. [More…]
As one who has had some professional association with technical education I say that this Bill is well overdue. [More…]
If there is one area of the field of education in Australia that can be branded as the Cinderella of education it is in fact technical education. [More…]
Many of the buildings in which technical education takes place resemble some of the dingy factories from which the apprentices come to do their part time training. [More…]
But there are all too many technical education institutions that still have dingy, noisy, illventilated premises and obsolete machinery when in fact they should be giving the lead to industrial development in the community. [More…]
Is it any wonder that there has been the wastage that has occurred in the field of technical education. [More…]
I think that the number of students who undertake technical education courses and who do not complete them easily exceeds the proportion in any other form of education in Australia; yet, as we have been reminded by other speakers, technical education caters for more students than any other form of education in Australia. [More…]
Approximately half a million students attend technical education in one form or another. [More…]
If one adds to that the other institutions conducting further education, one starts to appreciate how important is this Bill. [More…]
I hope that the technical education teachers will not take offence when I say that they are probably less professionally prepared for their job than most other teachers. [More…]
One of the other notable features of this Bill is that it does not look at technical and further education in the narrow sense of turning out people just to serve the needs of industry. [More…]
It provides for the turning out of citizens who have had their education rounded off. [More…]
The emphasis is being given to continuing on the general educational strand as well as the technical or vocational strand of education. [More…]
I hope the House will forgive me if I concentrate my remarks mainly on technical rather than further education. [More…]
Technical education teachers are now becoming better prepared for their task. [More…]
One usually finds more generous sporting ovals, gymnasiums and so on at colleges of advanced education because by and large they happen to be new institutions. [More…]
But technical education is by its very nature, because of the fact that in many cases persons attend such institutions on a part time basis and often at night after a day’s work, denied the kind of opportunity of social contact and the kind of social development that one would wish it to have. [More…]
I hope also that the community will adopt a different and more favourable attitude to technical education. [More…]
At the end of a child’s school career, whether it be terminated at fourth form, sixth form or some earlier stage, parents seem in many cases to look at everything else before they look at technical education and, if everything else fails, to say: ‘We had better try to see whether he can do a trade or some kind of certificate course’. [More…]
Let us recognise that the economic and social fabric of this country is very dependent indeed upon technical education. [More…]
Great respect should be shown to the people who, in many cases under conditions of hardship, go through a technical education course. [More…]
The Kangan report referred to some of the other deficiencies in technical education and further education. [More…]
I am glad to see that the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron), along with the Minister for Education, is paying attention to that aspect as well. [More…]
I hope that the teachers who teach in technical education particularly will benefit by the inquiry that is coming near to finality now under the chairmanship of a very distinguished gentleman, Dr Sam Cohen, of Macquarie University who is also a member of the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
I hope that there will be benefit from the $250,000 that the Minister for Education has made available for research into all sorts of alternatives in technical and further education. [More…]
Not very much research has been done in any of our education but probably least of all in technical education. [More…]
Technical education, which should give leadership to industry, often lags behind industry, and there is less respect by the apprentices who attend it because of that state of affairs. [More…]
I hope this Bill will help rectify that state and give an impetus that technical education and further education deserve. [More…]
The Technical and Further Education Commission in this respect is not comparable to the Commission on Advanced Education or the Universities Commission but is comparable to the Schools Commission. [More…]
In the cases of universities and colleges of advanced education, we are totally financing them from the Commonwealth. [More…]
With the Schools Commission and the Technical and Further Commission, in the words of Mr Willis, the Minister for Education in New South Wales, we are only putting icing sugar on the cake. [More…]
It is true that $780m for schools is pretty thick icing sugar and $1 15m for technical colleges is reasonably thick icing sugar, but I agree with Mr Willis, the basic cake is the States’, so all this talk of the honourable member for Moore about our controlling technical education in the States is quite absurd. [More…]
They were not making recommendations about the whole structure of technical education in the States but about certain obvious needs. [More…]
The employment of staff to be responsible for matters of safety, health and welfare and to provide student counselling services at institutions of technical and further education; [More…]
The provision of in-service training to non-teaching staff at institutions of technical and further education; [More…]
The publicising of technical and further education; [More…]
Except for the certain things that were patently obvious needs, not on our assessment but on the evidence presented by the States themselves, for which money was granted- and they chose to make their technical colleges free- these alternative programs, and not their whole basic structure of technical education, are aspects that they may choose. [More…]
Our predecessors in government made a grant of $36m to technical education over a triennium. [More…]
I am not going to name the State, but its Director of Planning of Technical Education said to me: ‘Excepting where you have specified a particular course of action, we are not going to be able to spend your money because we have no plans’. [More…]
In all of our educational programs we are not spending the money. [More…]
It is granted to universities, colleges of advanced education, and Catholic education authorities. [More…]
And as for bureaucracy, a State Minister carries out his educational programs on the advice of his Director of Education, who is one of his employees. [More…]
But these Commissioners, who come from all over this beautiful Commonwealth of ours, and virtually none of whom are my employees, make recommendations about subventions out of the Commonwealth Treasury for educational purposes. [More…]
Now we are told that although the Liberal-Country Party Government was far too sensible when it was in office to appoint to the Universities Commission or the Commission of Advanced Education, which could recommend grants of money from the Commonwealth Treasury, anybody who was said to be a representative of a State governmentalthough universities and colleges of advanced education are not strictly State institutions; they are supposed to be independent and autonomous once the Crown has established them through a State- here is a proposition that a body to make grants to the States, to give access to the Commonwealth Treasury, should be studded with representatives of State Governments. [More…]
1 member from each State nominated by the Minister of the State concerned responsible for education; and [More…]
The amendment deals with the composition of the Commission and seeks to have the Commission composed of a Chairman, a Deputy Chairman, one member from each State nominated by the Minister of the State concerned responsible for education, and such other members, if any, not being more than four, as are for the time being prescribed. [More…]
I put the arguments in support of the amendment during the second reading debate and I not intend to detain the House in the Committee stage, except to reaffirm the Opposition’s view that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) always tends to misinterpret a proposal by presuming that it is the intention of the Opposition that those members appointed to a commission under an amendment such as this should necessarily be there as the delegates or representatives of those Ministers. [More…]
The proposal has in mind that Ministers of Education in the States also could make competent selections of highly skilled people who could make a real contribution to the development of technical and further education. [More…]
Just as the Minister himself seeks to find, by looking around Australia, the most able people to make a real contribution, as he did in the case of the Kangan Committee, so it is the Opposition’s views that Ministers of Education in the States would approach this matter with a degree of responsibility. [More…]
In this way, because of their deep and increasing involvement in this area of education, they would feel more involved by playing a part in the selection of members of this Commission. [More…]
Mr Chairman, I should like to draw the attention of the House to the fact that the Government is never unmindful of State expertise, and on the Interim Committee there are three State Directors of Technical Education. [More…]
Other members of the Committee are from the technical teachers’ organisation and some have an expertise in technical education in the universities. [More…]
The three State Directors of Education on the Interim Committee have expertise in the total funding of a State and can assess the gaps and weaknesses in the education system of another State. [More…]
As far as yours truly is concerned, I would have had the State Director of Technical Education from Western Australia and a number of other State people ask their State Governments to second them to investigate the problem in Tasmania, which is simply what I recounted previously. [More…]
There is a widespread resentment in the north of Tasmania because it is felt that the University of Tasmania and the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education do not meet the needs of people in the north, and perhaps there should be some form of outreaching colleges from those institutions to meet such a need. [More…]
My approach to this is that if there is a State problem we should try to get State experts to deal with it, and that is why three state Directors of Technical Education were appointed to the Interim Council. [More…]
The road safety effort has had the support of the major daily newspapers in Victoria, particularly the Melbourne ‘Sun’, which has run a continuous campaign on public awareness and education. [More…]
Working closely with the Department of Transport, the Authority will seek to do this through improvement programs, formulation of national standards and traffic codes, the certification of vehicles and components, research into all relevant factors, education and publicity campaigns and a comprehensive information service. [More…]
Who will pay for the additional education facilities? [More…]
It will stress the educational side of a Gallery with the provision of 2 theatres and 2 lecture rooms. [More…]
This will allow an ambitious program of art education with a key emphasis on our Australian art history. [More…]
We have seen a great proliferation of committees and commissions, not only in the area of the Grants Commission but also in many other areas, such as education. [More…]
He expressed concern at what he calls empire building since Labor came to office, and I think he mentioned education as an example. [More…]
It was of great necessity that a structure, not an empire, be built which gave some attention to education in Australia because it had been starved by successive Liberal governments for many years. [More…]
The Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education. [More…]
The Research and Investigation Committee of the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
The Committee makes recommendations on financial support for research and investigation projects in advanced education, for instance in the planning of courses in line with the needs -of industry. [More…]
The Branch also commissions and arranges for the funding of outside projects such as a project evaluating the Aboriginal Secondary Grants Scheme, the Tertiary Education Entrance Project, a project examining the unsettling effects of periodic movement faced by soldiers’ children. [More…]
I turn now briefly to education. [More…]
The overall attitude of the Opposition Parties- it should be the overall attitude of the Government- is to establish standards of education in the Northern Territory comparable at each level with those similarly offering anywhere else in Australia. [More…]
Taxation deductions must be given on the basis of compensating parents for the obvious financial disabilities suffered in regard to clothing, accommodation, travel and other matters involved with the education of their children. [More…]
For instance, the education tax allowance of $400 should immediately be restored. [More…]
Education spending is to be doubled during the course of the next triennium. [More…]
The cuts I have spoken of include the big spending but political sensitive areas of education, health, urban and regional development, and social security. [More…]
It is not just a question of looking after the children between one and five years of age: What about the Government’s whole education program? [More…]
The right honourable member for Bruce said that without question expenditure on education has to be cut. [More…]
Those of us who service and represent with a great deal of pride the underprivileged areas of this country say to honourable members opposite in no uncertain terms that there must be no cutback in the expenditure in the field of education. [More…]
The parents of the children at the 46 schools in my electorate, which are considerably like those in all other underprivileged electorates in this country, are, because they pay their taxes, work in industry and produce the wealth in the private sector of which honourable members opposite are so proud, entitled to see that their children are given an equal opportunity of education. [More…]
Only the present Government, by making massive infusions of money into the field of education, has been able to do anything about the matter. [More…]
Honourable members opposite have also come up with the great plea that whatever the Government has done in relation to the taxation deduction for education expenses should not have been done and that people should still be allowed to claim a $400 taxation deduction for education expenses. [More…]
Of course, it is relevant to what the Opposition is saying about Government expenditure in the fields of social welfare and education to bear in mind what the Australian Country Party, with the support of the Liberal Party of Australia, is saying about primary industry. [More…]
The supporters of the Country Party should be honest about it and say that they have seen great advances made in the country towns and in the regional centres as a result of the present Government’s programs in education, child care, nursing home subsidies and so forth. [More…]
He also said that if we became the government, we would cut down expenditure on education. [More…]
Education, in the main, is the responsibility of the Australian States under the Constitution. [More…]
What the Federal Government should be doing is channel out funds to the various States of Australia so that they can take a more major part in assisting education in various fields. [More…]
We have not been told whether members of the Opposition want expenditure reduced in payments to the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account, independent schools in the Territories- these include Archbishop Cahill’s schools which I have already mentioned- adult secondary education assistance, assisted migration, child migration education, health insurance, victims of cyclone Tracy and handicapped children. [More…]
I repeat: Which proposition would the electorate choose: Selling $4 billion of Australian assets or printing $ 1,700m in order to make sure that the economy is maintained at a reasonably productive level in order to ensure that the facilities so long denied education, child welfare- one can go on- are supplied to the community? [More…]
We would give great priority to the continued improvement of education and to the provision of facilities for the disadvantaged. [More…]
Expenditure on education is up $103m on the Budget estimate. [More…]
The whole object of the personal income tax cuts, of our support for wage indexation and the substantial improvements we have achieved in the provision of health, education, public transport and community services has been to sustain and raise the real standard of living of families beyond that provided by the pay packet alone. [More…]
If honourable members opposite had fulfilled their responsibility to education during their many years in office, the problems facing this Government when it came into office would not have been so enormous. [More…]
We make no apology for our expenditure in education, and we do not intend to cut it. [More…]
Are we to return to the dark days of despair in education when they were the Government? [More…]
After 2 lh years of a Labor Government we are now seeing some of the results of our expenditure on education. [More…]
The Opposition, when it was the Government, starved and neglected the education system over numerous years. [More…]
The neglect of education in this community stands as a singular failure of the previous Liberal-Country Party governments and the complete indifference towards the need of urban development and improvement is a clear indication of the way in which previous LiberalCountry Party governments were prepared to ignore the needs of the great numbers of people in this community. [More…]
He should not pretend, as did the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in the debate on the Technical and Further Education Commission, that money can be granted for a narrow, specific purpose without some measure of control being exercised. [More…]
Under this Government more money, in massive amounts, is being made available for technical education and industrial training. [More…]
Where are those who for 23 years neglected training in technical education in the non-metropolitan area? [More…]
Do they mean that they will cut expenditure on education or on industrial training? [More…]
In many areas, the building of pre-schools has been held up in the electorate because the New South Wales Government has procrastinated and refused to allow the Australian Government program on education to be initiated. [More…]
-Today at question time I raised with the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) a statement which had been made by the Victorian Director of Secondary Education, Mr Roy Francis, that in Victoria alone to date this year more than 2,000 students had transferred from non-government schools to state secondary schools. [More…]
I believe this mass transfer of students from non-government schools to state schools, taken together with falling enrolments and the drying up or vanishing of waiting lists in independent schools, is a very disturbing trend in our present education system. [More…]
The situation of rising fees is further exacerbated by the Australian Labor Government’s policy on per capita grants to so-called A class schools, and by the decision of this Government to reduce the allowable taxation deduction for education expenses from the long established $400 to $150. [More…]
Is it any wonder that we hear such alarming figures from the Victorian Director of Secondary Education? [More…]
However, even this school feels that the quality of education offered is suffering because the school is not able to give what it considers is a comprehensive education. [More…]
This comes about because St Leo’s aims to keep its fees low so that education at that school may remain within the reach of the average Catholic parent who wishes to choose an education other than a State school education for his children. [More…]
I now turn briefly to another aspect of the Government’s education policy so far as it affects schools. [More…]
Surely now that tertiary education is free, we should also endeavour to see that as many as possible children of parents on below average to low incomes should be assisted to remain at school in these vital years if they are to have equal opportunities with other children of proceeding to tertiary education. [More…]
Bearing in mind that this Government has reduced the amount of tax deduction allowed for education from $400 to $150 and the high rate of inflation, parents on adjusted incomes of $5,675 or higher clearly will be struggling to keep their children at school in these crucial years. [More…]
I urge the Minister for Education to give his immediate attention to re-assessing this figure and bringing it up to a more adequate level so that more needy parents will be able to benefit from this scheme. [More…]
-Honourable members will recall that last December the Bill providing grants to the States for technical education passed through this House and that this funding commenced on 1 January this year. [More…]
He is a Bachelor of Arts with Honours, a Bachelor of Economics, he has a Diploma of Education, he is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and he formerly was a senior executive in education administration. [More…]
There were 3 main advantages in changing from the present arrangements for officer education. [More…]
We would seek to have established in appropriate educational institutions programs specifically designed to meet the needs of trade unionists. [More…]
To assist in that purpose, we support the concept of a National Council of Trade Union Education whose task it would be to develop special relationships with the appropriate educational institutions to see that the content of courses specifically met the needs of trade unions. [More…]
We strongly believe that appropriate courses should be conducted as far as practicable in existing educational and training institutions. [More…]
Trade union education and training should not be shut off from other forms of education. [More…]
The public authorities, employers’ and workers’ organisations, and institutions or bodies providing education and training shall be associated, in a manner appropriate to national conditions and practice, with the formulation and application of the policy for the promotion of paid educational leave. [More…]
In addition there should be one member appointed on the nomination of the Minister for Education. [More…]
It seems strange to us, to say the least, that recognition has been given at State level to the role of educationalists in this field but as the Bill comes to us here no such recognition exists at the national level. [More…]
Courses such as I have described have been run with great success by universities and colleges of advanced education and they must not be allowed to wither away just because students attending courses run by the Authority or the State councils will be paid to do so. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Could this give the Authority power to control future or existing training programs at universities and colleges of advanced education and technical colleges, such as I referred to a moment ago, which are conducting courses, even where the Authority had made no financial contribution to them? [More…]
If this is so, it would create an intolerable situation whereby the Authority could interfere with autonomous educational institutions. [More…]
It is no longer true to say that university education benefits only the private sector. [More…]
Such a program should cater for the education and research needs of aU organisations engaged in the field of industrial relations. [More…]
Our community is somewhat obsessed with the belief that all education is good, that the more education we give our children the better citizens they will be, the longer and more intensive the courses for medical students the better doctors they will become, the more intensive and the longer the courses for lawyers the better legal practitioners they will turn out. [More…]
The honourable member for Corangamite mentioned the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and the fact that they run their own education courses. [More…]
Without getting involved in an across-the-House debate, I think it is important that there should be a variety of roles for the unions to play in the field of education and training and I think it is important to ensure that the Authority takes as neutral a role as possible in the circumstances. [More…]
If it can be argued that there is no ideological bias in the intentions of the Government or in the intentions of the proposed Authority, then presumably it can be argued that there is no reason why existing educational institutions should not be used. [More…]
I wish to say that it would be excellent- in fact I would applaud it- if it were possible to use existing educational institutions. [More…]
If educational institutions such as colleges of advanced education, universities and technical and further education colleges were concerned about this area then I would applaud it, but the lamentable fact is that they have shown an inability and a lack of action in this area. [More…]
It is true that many of the existing educational institutions are just not geared for the sorts of courses that are intended to be run by this Authority, and must be run if the Authority is to succeed. [More…]
We all know that universities and colleges of advanced education are primarily concerned with long courses, career oriented, mainly for full time young students. [More…]
They will be mainly short intensive courses for adults who may or may not have been exposed to very much formal education. [More…]
They have had very little to do with universities and colleges of advanced education, and to expect those institutions to be the focal point for this sort of education I think would be a threat to the success of the whole scheme. [More…]
The other aspect I wish to point out is that many of the staff at colleges of advanced education and universities have just not been exposed to the sorts of problems that will be the prime object of this Trade Union Training Authority. [More…]
This is not to say that there is no possibility for great and increasing co-operation between existing educational institutions and the proposed Authority. [More…]
The trade union training scheme that is already operating draws very heavily on lecturers and tutors and so on from some of these educational institutions, and that is to be applauded and encouraged. [More…]
As well, I think many of the courses that have been run have been conducted within existing facilities provided by colleges of advanced education and universities, and I hope that this will continue for as long as it is appropriate. [More…]
I do not think that it is true to say, as the honourable member for Corangamite has suggested, that this institution will be quite separate- antiseptically separated- from the existing educational institutions. [More…]
With the expanding facilities for further education one would hope that the opportunities available for co-operation would increase. [More…]
I think that there is one direct way in which the Government can contribute to the existing educational institutions and that is by the provision of more money and more encouragement not only for the development of industrial relations courses in their own right but also to upgrade and expand the industrial relations components of related courses. [More…]
There are very few if any courses in Australian universities and colleges of advanced education that lead specifically to a degree in industrial relations. [More…]
I think that aU these factors indicate that there is a greater need for union education of the ordinary rank and file members of the union. [More…]
I think one of the objectives of this Bill is to increase rank and file participation; to give the man at the grass roots level the chance to further his trade union education and to give him education in a much broader field so that he is a lot more competent to carry out the job for which his members have elected him. [More…]
Although trade union education has been an ideal for quite some time it is only lately, in the last ten or twenty years, that we have seen it carried out to any degree. [More…]
I know that in South Australia the Workers Education Association was set up. [More…]
They were carried out by competent people and were of great help to all those trade union officials who were able to take advantage of the facilities offered by the Workers Education Association. [More…]
Some unions also have been interested in trade union education. [More…]
However, despite what the AMWU is doing and what the WEA in South Australia is doing, most plans to carry out this trade union education have been restricted by lack of finance. [More…]
Although I know they will still be full participants in trade union education I do feel this Bill will allow them to get away from just one particular union group. [More…]
The education scheme will be much broader and will allow all those people who are in organisations that cannot afford to run such activities to take a much fuller part. [More…]
We of the Opposition agree with the proposition that trade union leadership in this country is in urgent need of a course in not only education but also responsibility. [More…]
Quite obviously these purveyors of hostile attitudes are in need of education, and that is why we support the Bill; but it is a false premise to advance the argument that supplying millions of dollars for a purpose will correct its basic fundamental ideas of disruption and trouble. [More…]
These are shattering figures which are cause for the deepest concern and obviously indicate that the trade union movement is in drastic need of education. [More…]
In this way they will have a sense of belonging, and that is the best form of education. [More…]
Education is the tool to achieve this. [More…]
Technoligical change, accelerated economic growth, new concepts of urbanisation and the use of leisure time, worker participation in management, recurrent education and paid study leave, and a work force which contains 40 per cent to 50 per cent women- the majority being married- will all form part of the trade union official’s world in addition to his present responsibilities. [More…]
This area of education obviously must be a participator in the general education programs and the Opposition submits that it should not be treated in isolation. [More…]
One is somewhat dismayed that there has been a lack of co-operation and consultation with the employers in this whole matter of trade union education. [More…]
The fact that the courses have continued for 8 years and have had to be restricted to only 140 students per course clearly indicates the need for this type of education. [More…]
A great deal of attention was given to the expansion of tertiary institutions, universities and colleges of advanced education, and trade union training was something that should not have been overlooked. [More…]
I can understand the difficulties of the sorts of people I have mentioned who might have left school at the age of 15, gone through an apprenticeship, had union responsibility and then at a later time, without any training, found themselves in a negotiating position with people who may have university degrees or who, at least, will have taken their education to a further point. [More…]
The Commonwealth and State governments spend large sums in suport of education and training at different levels but they have not spent anything really in suport of trade union training. [More…]
I also think there is some merit in the suggestion that one member ought to be appointed on the nomination of the Commonwealth Minister for Education. [More…]
Someone has said that perhaps we could build into trade union training the use of some of the colleges of advanced education and other tertiary institutions, that this would be the way in which trade union training ought to be done and it would not be necessary to have a separate college. [More…]
Colleges of Advanced Education are demonstrably not engaged in trade union training and have shown no willingness or ability to be so involved in spite of a number of opportunities over the years. [More…]
Could anyone imagine a college of advanced education being interested in the highly interesting industrial case which is being undertaken by the metal workers union in South Australia at the moment? [More…]
Can honourable members envisage a tertiary institution, such as a college of advanced education, saying to its students: ‘Here is something for you to understand; here is something to go into your curriculum; here is something you should have before you’? [More…]
Their requirements are quite different from those of the one to 8-week courses such as those prepared by trade unions or the Australian Council of Trade Unions education office. [More…]
The most difficult schools that the ACTU has run were those held at the Canberra College of Advanced Education in January and February of 1975. [More…]
Companies and government departments mainly in South Australia which have given time off with pay to attend trade ‘union education courses: [More…]
Torrens College of Advanced Education [More…]
There is dearly a need for something more ambitious in trade union education and that is the establishment of a national trade union college which would be both a teaching and research college offering full-time, in-depth courses to unionists and union officials. [More…]
It should be financed by the Commonwealth Government as a legitimate pan of Australian tertiary education and should, in time, be extended so that there will be several trade union colleges throughout Australia. [More…]
The present areas of advanced and tertiary education open to future administrators and business executives are, in the main, not open to trade union officials. [More…]
History of the International Labour Movement Methods of education. [More…]
That provision envisages that it is not the State Councils on which there will be representatives of education nominated by the Minister, but in fact the Australian Council, the central Council, which will consider whether trade union training will include educational courses in other fields. [More…]
That is why the Opposition suggests that on the Australian Council there should be one member of this Parliament appointed by the Prime Minister, one member of this Parliament appointed by the Leader of the Opposition and one member nominated by the Minister for Education. [More…]
He also supported the proposition that trade union training should be catered for through the normal tertiary education institutions. [More…]
The reason for that is that at the present time there is no alternative, and although they are very valuable courses and have made a very valuable contribution to the education of trade union officials at all levels, they are nonetheless not the most desirable form of trade union training. [More…]
Our policy always has been that specific and appropriate courses need to be conducted in the existing educational and training institutions to enable trade union education and training to be of the highest level possible and carried out on a parallel basis with all other aspects of education within our community. [More…]
For that reason, above all else, the Opposition favours any attempt which is made on a sensible basis to improve the standard of education of trade unionists and their training within Australia [More…]
I would like to point out to the House, however, that in other countries- particularly socialist European countries- such as Sweden and Britian as well as Canada and the United States the trend has in fact been for large trade unions to fund their own forms of education. [More…]
The largest trade union in Sweden, the TLO- namely, the Swedish Central Organisation of Salaried Employees- spends almost as much on education programs as does the Swedish Government. [More…]
In Great Britain, for example, the Trade Union Congress spends 20 per cent of its annual stg lm budget on education and is erecting its own college at a cost of another stg2m. [More…]
The General and Municipal Workers Union spends over f stg 100,000 on education and has 2 colleges of its own. [More…]
Scholarships are also made available for poorer unions to send students there, and tuition and other educational expenses at the Centre are paid for by the AFL-CIO. [More…]
For that reason it is essential, as suggested in the amendment foreshadowed by the Opposition, that we broaden the basis for the Council so that there are representatives of the Federal Parliament from both the Government and the Opposition sides, as well as a representative of the Minister for Education. [More…]
He also stated that union education without doubt had had and will continue to have a radicalising effect on the unions. [More…]
But unfortunately we have people like Mr Ogden who makes it quite clear that he regards trade union training not as a means of improving the standard of education of the members of the union, not as a means of encouraging them to participate in industrial development, but simply as a challenge to capitalism. [More…]
I would like to express concern this evening over the Victorian Minister of Education using Karmel funds to construct some sub-standard primary school libraries for Government schools in Victoria. [More…]
In the case of non-government schools, these standards are mandatory under the States Grants (Schools) Act 1973, but in the case of State Departments of Education it is left to the discretion of individual Ministers for Education to decide whether or not the standards are observed. [More…]
It will be remembered that in the course of the Federal election campaign in May last year there came to light a document which revealed that the Victorian Minister for Education, Mr Lindsay Thompson, had decided to construct an overwhelming majority of the primary school libraries in Victoria each a grade lower in size or standard than had been recommended by the Schools Commission committees. [More…]
This was recommended on advice from the Victorian Education Department itself. [More…]
I am happy to announce that the Victorian Minister for Education, Mr Thompson, has approved the largest appropriate Commonwealth plan for a library of 2714 squares for the Croydon North school. [More…]
You, Mr Speaker, would appreciate that this is a very serious departure from the whole principle of the Karmel report which was directed at ensuring that all Australian children get an equal opportunity to develop their capacities and have similar educational facilities at their disposal, irrespective of the sorts of schools they attend, the sorts of incomes their parents receive, the places they go to church, the areas in which they live or any other factor. [More…]
If this decision on the part of the Victorian Education Minister is carried through it can lead only to a situation where libraries constructed from the same source of funds, from the Australian Government Karmel funds, are of one standard in non-government schools and of an inferior standard in government schools- in size particularly but no doubt in other respects as well. [More…]
When the States Grants (Schools) Bill 1975 comes before this House, I believe it will be necessary to give serious consideration to making building standards and other standards mandatory for State departments of education as they were made mandatory in the 1973 legislation for non-government school authorities. [More…]
NEAT is not intended to provide: training which is clearly the responsibility of an employer; assistance for initial full-time education; training for skills which are not intended to be used in the workforce; and training which will not contribute to the achievement of an employment goal. [More…]
The School Dental Scheme will provide a level of dental care, prevention and dental health education in Australia which has hitherto been unavailable. [More…]
I say to pensioners very clearly and seriously: ‘Pay full attention to the remarks of the new Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) when he says that a Liberal-National Country Party Government would reduce spending in all areas, except that of education, and increase spending in the area of defence’. [More…]
One of the great frustrations of the Government has to be seen in its inability to persuade Australians that such measures as are applied in this Bill- age pensions at record levels, the abolition of the means test and unemployment benefits at unprecedented rates, not to mention the provision of better education, roads, hospitals, recreation facilities and so on- are all part of the standard of living and have to come out of our net disposable income, there being no way to provide them indefinitely in addition to former levels of net disposable income, especially where the latter term is talked of by way of reference to real purchasing power. [More…]
If the child happens to be in full-time education the benefits will continue. [More…]
During recent years much public attention has been focused on the need for more effective policies relating to the care and education of the preschool child, but those who have been most vocal have more often than not had a special interest in only a single aspect of the total problem. [More…]
For example, many have rightly wanted to see an expansion in the availability of pre-school education, whilst others have been more concerned to press for the provision of a greater number of child care centres. [More…]
The former group place emphasis on the educational needs of children, especially those in the 3 to 5 year old age group. [More…]
There has been much report writing about each of these areas of concern, but little attempt to define a comprehensive philosophy as to the care and education of children. [More…]
The Fry Committee’s report, though entitled ‘Care and Education of Young Children’, concentrated heavily on the educational role of both pre-school and day care centres and the need to use professional and sub-professional staff in each. [More…]
The Ministers for Education (Mr Beazley), Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) and Social Security (Mr Hayden) were all excluded on this ground, and responsibility was given to the Special Minister of State (Mr Lionel Bowen). [More…]
Such an approach has the unfortunate consequence apparently deplored by the Minister for Education that it assumes the eclipse of the family. [More…]
The definition of ‘services for children’ contained in the Bill besides including the education of pre-school age children includes only services to children ‘not being cared for in their own homes’ other than services to those children who are described as having special needs. [More…]
What is urgently needed is a clear definition of the philosophy behind the nation’s approach to pre-school care and education. [More…]
The tendency to distinguish between the care of the pre-school child and the education of that child has led to an unfortunate narrowing of public awareness and national concern. [More…]
Firstly, the distinction has sometimes created the impression that education and care are mutually exclusive concepts, when they are not. [More…]
Thirdly, the call for the provision of pre-school education outside the home has led to the assumption that concern for care should be limited to that provided outside the home. [More…]
Such suggestions included consideration of voluntary income splitting of the incomes of husband and wife; the restoration of concessional deductions for dependent spouses and dependent children to realistic levels; the restructuring of the tax scale on an overall basis; an increase in child endowment; and the restoration of the deduction for education expenses. [More…]
These and many other proposals, such as some form of family income maintenance or a mothers’ allowance, are deserving of detailed study and appraisal in an attempt to design a policy for the care and education of the pre-school child. [More…]
The Minister for Education at a seminar held at the Australian National University in 1974 said that he believed that adequate child care centres need to give a child responsive appreciation and predictable warmth of the type that would be available in the home. [More…]
We would have liked to find in the Bill greater emphasis both on the need for research into the care and education of pre-school children and on the importance of evaluating the effect of those programs which no doubt will be supported by the Commission. [More…]
In providing support we think that money should be made available through the States as is the case in the fields of primary and secondary education, and that the Bill should include a provision requiring the Commission to work in close consultation and cooperation with the States in the development of comprehensive child care and education programs. [More…]
Organisations which have developed a distinctive style in the provision of child care facilities or education for the pre-school child should not, through the imposition of strings, be required to conform to a standard method of providing care or pre-school education, provided of course that the services offered though diverse in character meet acceptable minimum standards. [More…]
Unfortunately, as has been pointed out by the leading speaker for the Opposition, the Bill lacks a specific statement of Government philosophy towards the education and early care of the children of Australians. [More…]
In addition to that we must take into account the fact that women have a much higher standard of education than they were given previously, which is excellent. [More…]
In my opinion, this will create a number of major problems as the Prime Minister’s Department to date has had little, if anything, to do with the areas of specific education and social welfare which are obviously the 2 major fields related to pre-school education. [More…]
The Opposition is of the view, and will certainly carry it into effect when we return to the Treasury bench, that there should be established a Children’s Bureau which will provide a central source of input to a committee of Ministers who will retain responsibility for the administration of programs within their respective portfolios such as those of health, education and social welfare. [More…]
More money has been turned towards education, social security and the promotion of healthy, whole individuals and better communities and community relations. [More…]
Apart from our education commitments we saw the need for children to be considered in other aspects as well. [More…]
By the setting up of this committee the Government recognised that no rigid distinction should be made between the education of children and the caring of them. [More…]
We need only to look at the Medibank scheme, education funding and grants to local governments generally to see this illustrated. [More…]
It is continually said that our most basic resource is people- in education, in industry and even in politics. [More…]
But I am also of course, as no doubt many other Australians are, a little mystified as to whether again the Government may overrun itself with an enthusiasm to initiate these programs, an enthusiasm which was evidenced on a previous occasion with its pre-school education program which called for the expenditure of $ 123m in a year, overlooking entirely, of course, that the facilities did not exist for the immediate implementation of that scheme. [More…]
It will have the incidental effect of taking up the great surplus which will result from the overkill in education in which modern society has engaged, and certainly will relieve a great deal of the worries and responsibilities of social graduates. [More…]
Last week the Western Australian Government pushed through the State Parliament an amendment to the Pre-School Education Act. [More…]
Whereas the superficial purpose of that amendment was ‘to expand and improve the provision of educational services to young children in Western Australia’, in order to find the real reason for that amendment one has to go back to an extravagant election promise made by the then Leader of the Opposition, Sir Charles Court, prior to the 1974 State election. [More…]
Upon becoming the Government, that promise put the new State Government in a very difficult position: Was this year to be the first year of primary school education as it is for 5-year-olds in other States, or was it to be a year- perhaps the last year- of pre-school education? [More…]
On the one hand it was not a full time course and it was not compulsory, but on the other hand the centres which were to be built to house these classes of 5- year-olds were to be physically associated with primary schools and were to be run by the Education Department. [More…]
In order to get some idea of where the State Government saw these centres fitting into the educational system, one has only to refer to an amendment to the Education Act passed in December last year by the State Government which extended the definition of a government school so that it would include any pre-primary centre. [More…]
From that we can see quite clearly that the State Government saw those preprimary centres as being part of the primary sector of education. [More…]
However, later in December last year the State Minister for Education announced that $871,000 had been made available by the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission to provide another 1 1 of these preprimary centres. [More…]
But the amendments went on to empower the Western Australia Minister for Education to direct that any facility so provided, ostensibly for children under 5, could be handed over to the Education Department. [More…]
The only reason such a facility would be handed over to the Education Department would be to provide a pre-primary centre for children of 5 years of age for the year before they attend primary school proper, that is, in the year in which they turn six. [More…]
I believe that this is a quite proper action on the part of the Minister for the following reasons: Firstly, in all other States the accommodation of 5-year olds is a matter for the primary education sector and is subject, in relation to Federal assistance, to grants from the Schools Commission. [More…]
I refer to the second reading speech of the Special Minister of State in which he indicated that some of the other services which would be provided would include full day care, family day care, pre-school education of course, emergency care, occasional care, before and after school and vacation care, play groups and other child care activities in accordance with demand. [More…]
-I address a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]
Has the Minister seen reports of the demands for a sharp reduction in Australian Government expenditure on education? [More…]
This is also the case with the triennial programs of the universities and the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
We have enacted legislation to provide funds for technical education for the 2 years 1975 and 1976. [More…]
After question time and the discussion of a matter of public importance today I will be introducing 2 Bills which are designed to maintain the purchasing power of the expenditure on colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]
During 1974 the Australian and Victorian governments agreed that a new university should be established at Geelong, to incorporate the 2 existing colleges of advanced education in that city in the manner proposed by the Universities [More…]
One must take into consideration the amount involved in lost taxation deductions for the education of children which, for many families, represents an extra cost of $2 per week. [More…]
The Children’s Commission will take its place alongside the Schools Commission, Technical and Further Education Commission, the Australian Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
What I have said does not mean that I subscribe to the view that the Children’s Commission is to be seen as a body concerned solely with education unless one takes the term ‘education’ in its broadest sense of meaning the total development of the personality of the child. [More…]
He has a great variety of adult education courses running and the school hall is frequently let. [More…]
This work ranges through full day care, family day care, pre-school education, emergency care, occasional care and before and after school care. [More…]
the education of pre-school aged children; [More…]
There are no education costs running at that level in Australia. [More…]
the education and training of persons involved, or to be involved, in the provision of services for children; [More…]
If one looks at the report of the Priorities Review Staff on early childhood services, one can see the deep involvement of the States in child care and pre-school education programs- programs which they directly run and administer and those which they support. [More…]
They would have taken account of the States’ deep involvement in child care and preschool education. [More…]
Even if we did in that pilot arrangement, limited in its scope, fund it by direct grants pursuant to section 81, we now believe that because of the experience gained in the administration of the Child Care Act, whereby the need for a more comprehensive program has been made manifest, in those circumstances the funding should be direct to the States through section 96 grants thereby involving the States and their administrations in the more comprehensive expansion of facilities available in the pre-school care and education area. [More…]
It is in the hands of kindergarten teachers colleges and it is in the hands of commissions of advanced education and other institutions which are funded through the States but with whom we have really a direct relationship. [More…]
The commissions of advanced education and other bodies, even universities commissions if we go into the question of research into the needs of children including their health needs, are financed directly from the Commonwealth. [More…]
-Briefly, in reply, I would refer the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) to the findings of the Priorities Review Staff which indicated quite forcefully that it considered it inadvisable for the Government to honour its commitment to provide $34m. [More…]
No suggestion is made in the legislation- and certainly not in the comments of the Minister when he talks about the need for cooperationthat the Commonwealth will assume a monopolistic role in the provision either of care facilities or pre-school education for children. [More…]
If the Commonwealth is not to be in such a monopolistic position and is still going to involve the States which have fulfilled a very real role in providing pre-school care and education why then does the [More…]
The State role should not be limited in the way in which the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) indicated that it has been limited in some circumstances. [More…]
The Children’s Commission will achieve success in providing an adequate and comprehensive care and preschool education program for the children of Australia only if that Commission is willing to consult with the State governments. [More…]
It would amaze me if the Minister declined to accept this amendment, which seeks to impose upon the Commission that obligation- an obligation to consult and co-operate with State governments and State government departments which already are working in the field of child care and pre-school education. [More…]
But I would like the Minister to tell me whether or not it is intended that there will be representatives or nominees of the State governments, who have this large responsibility already in matters relating to child care and pre-school education, on the State advisory boards. [More…]
That is a matter that has upset me no end in Western Australia where it was suggested- in fact the interim committee was convinced at one stage- that we would have to fund the first year of primary school education. [More…]
The main purpose of this Bill-is to provide supplementary grants for increases in costs which were not allowed for when the 1973-75 triennial capital and recurrent programs of colleges of advanced education and non-government teachers colleges were adopted. [More…]
-In addition, the Government has approved a supplementary recurrent grant of $3,716,000 for the State College of Victoria’s constituent colleges and central office and colleges of advanced education affiliated with the Victoria Institute of Colleges. [More…]
An amount of $185,000 is included for the establishment, development and conduct of an associate diploma course in welfare studies at North Brisbane College of Advanced Education, Caulfield Institute of Technology and the South Australian Institute of Technology. [More…]
Also, a grant of $140,000 for recurrent expenditure and $265,000 for capital expenditure is included to provide for the accelerated development of the Albury-Wodonga Study Centre of the Riverina College of Advanced Education in 1 975. [More…]
In summary, this Bill provides for an additional $83m to be made available in respect of the 1973-75 triennium to colleges of advanced education and approved nongovernment teachers colleges. [More…]
Grants made on the recommendations of the Interim Committee have been used to acquire land and buildings, to restore historic property and to provide programs of public education. [More…]
The Education Department has carpenters on its staff who go around fixing school desks and so forth. [More…]
I have been to 2 universities and a college of advanced education and have interviewed students in regard to whom there has been a late payment of a tertiary allowance. [More…]
It does not follow that all the 60 students at the Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education will be eligible for a payment. [More…]
Right up until I was discharged last month the Education Officers were still telling me that I would have no problems whatsoever in receiving assistance under ‘retraining’ for this work. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
As was so magnificently pointed out during the second reading debate by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), the framers of the Bill must have gone to the local vicar in respect of this clause and said: ‘Write something so that we can run it around the country to assuage the worry of all those people who think the Bill might do other things’. [More…]
It refers to ‘the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage’, ‘the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society’, the responsibility for the care and education of dependent children, ‘the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare’, and ‘the means available for assisting parties to a marriage to consider reconciliation or the improvement of their relationship to each other and to the children of the marriage ‘. [More…]
Under clause 75 (2) (h) as it now stands, the matters to be taken into account are: the extent to which the payment of maintenance to the party whose maintenance is under consideration would increase the earning capacity of that party by enabling that party to undertake a course of education or training or to establish himself or herself in a business or otherwise to obtain an adequate income; [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
If one turns to the question of priority- I am not being discourteous to my friend, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley)- I would submit to the House that a Bill relating to the Canberra College of Advanced Education should not claim priority over the conclusion of the debate on the Family Law Bill. [More…]
Section 4 of the Bill provides for a clarification of the term ‘matriculation’ occurring in the principal Act, in order to allow for the increasing opportunities for entry to university and college study which enable intending tertiary students to apply to institutions on the basis of studies or experience not directly related to traditional matriculation qualifications gained at the end of formal secondary education. [More…]
The major purpose of this Bill is to provide for the abolition of certain types of fees payable by undergraduate students at the Canberra College of Advanced Education, and it parallels amendments to be made to the Austraiian National University Act. [More…]
While it has been the responsibility of the Commission on Advanced Education to effect this policy with respect to the majority of colleges of advanced education, the Canberra College is, unlike other colleges, constituted under an Act of the Australian Parliament and a special amendment to that Act is required to abolish tuition and tuition type fees. [More…]
The University of Tasmania and the College of Advanced Education are situated in the Denison electorate and hence the electorate has a very much higher proportion of 18-year-old voters than does the electorate of Franklin. [More…]
The net population of the University of Tasmania and the College of Advanced Education is relatively static. [More…]
I instance the case of a mother with children in whose favour a decree for maintenance or property rights has been made; in other words; for example, an order for the payment of alimony or a payment in respect of the upkeep of the children and of their education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Do we hear them say that they will decrease the education vote? [More…]
But at the same time we are getting various calls not only in the matter of social welfare but also in relation to education, primary producers, secondary industry, the promoting of exports, the building of houses and in the alleviating of problems of those people who suffer from natural disasters. [More…]
It proposes to cut welfare and education expenditure; it would encourage Australia to be involved in another war in South-East Asia; and it would destroy national government by referring national responsibilities to the States. [More…]
My submission was in agreement with the views of the honourable member for Wimmera and of the Liberal Party of Australia when they, in writing to the Commissioners, listed the following as matters which should be taken into account when moving boundaries: Community of interest, commerce, education, religious affiliation, sport, kindergartens and general municipal matters. [More…]
The Report will contain financial recommendations in respect of primary and secondary education for the 1976-78 triennium. [More…]
In order to obtain additional information on the educational needs of Aborigines the Commission invited a number of Aborigines to form an Aboriginal Consultative Group to meet with and advise the Commission. [More…]
The members of the Group were nominated by the National Aboriginal Consultative Group following discussion between the Commission and the Departments of Education and Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
The Group was formed to allow Aborigines to come together to consider educational issues and to present a viewpoint to the Commission on: present policies and educational provision with respect to Aborigines; present patterns of administering funds for the education of Aborigines; specific matters the Group feel are of importance in respect to the education of Aborigines. [More…]
-In this debate the House is considering the States Grants (Universities) Bill and the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill. [More…]
The latter provides for an additional $83m to be made available in respect of the 1973-75 triennium to colleges of advanced education and approved non-government teachers colleges. [More…]
At first sight it may appear to the House that we have here a substantial subvention of additional funds in respect of the tertiary level of education, but nothing is further from the truth. [More…]
All that this legislation does- with the exception of some minor programs which, though significant in themselves, are relatively small in import when taken as a part of the whole- is simply bring up to date in dollar terms the real support that was promised to the universities and the colleges of advanced education at the commencement of this triennium. [More…]
In making those adjustments account has been taken of changing costs in operating colleges of advanced education and universities, and the amounts provided for the years 1974 and 1975 have been varied. [More…]
If we look at the figures applicable for the 1974 and 1975 years, after all adjustments had been made up to the end of 1973 when the figures were varied to take account of the Commonwealth taking over the total responsibility for tertiary education, we find that at that time the program in respect of universities for the 1974 year was forecast at $266,537,000, and for 1975 it was forecast at $291,252,000. [More…]
So often across the whole range of this Government’s support for various programs, whether they are in the field of education or in other fields, we hear spokesmen and apologists for the Labor Government claiming substantial increases in support of those programs. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), in his second reading speech, did not on this occasion seek to disguise the fact that all this Bill was doing was taking account of the inflationary pressures on the budgets of universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
No doubt the Commission on Advanced Education would have had similar views on the difficulties of the system of triennial financing in times of inflation. [More…]
But now that the Commonwealth has taken full responsibility for the financing of universities and colleges of advanced education, and by the abolition of fees has removed the mechanism that they then used in order to cope with the inflationary pressures on their cost structures, this Government has recognised the need for regular review of the amounts provided to these bodies from time to time. [More…]
So before the trienniumn is over there will be further Bills of this nature to authorise additional funds to be made available to universities and colleges of advanced education with particular reference to the 1975 year, because there will be the additional costs that those bodies so funded will have to meet as a consequence of wage and salary increases and other cost rises. [More…]
The adjustments that have been made in this Bill are as a consequence of the application of a series of indices which the Universities Commission uses and which the Commission dealing with colleges of advanced education also adopts. [More…]
As a consequence, it becomes necessary for the Government from time to time, in order to maintain the existing programs in the field of tertiary education, to seek additional money. [More…]
The public should not be misled into thinking for one moment that an additional cent in real terms is being spent on education. [More…]
So, in real terms, the funds available on a post-tax basis to those who will benefit directly or indirectly because of the ability of universities and colleges of advanced education to pay higher salaries in fact will mean that those persons will find that they are not any better off and in many instances are worse off. [More…]
There are provisions in the Bills for the further funding of the Deakin University at Geelong, for the establishment of a central office of the State College of Victoria, for the establishment of diploma courses in welfare studies at one or two colleges of advanced education and for the further expansion of the study centre of the Albury-Wodonga centre of the Riverina College of Advanced Education. [More…]
As inflation moves ahead more quickly the universities and colleges of advanced education continue to be disadvantaged to some degree because of the time lag in die approval of the additional funds. [More…]
In view of the accelerating rate of inflation and the additional amount that has to be provided by this sort of legislation which authorises payments to the universities and colleges of advanced education, one wonders how in the meantime they have financed the short fall. [More…]
As has occurred on previous occasions, have they not filled positions that are part of their establishment as recognised by the Universities Commission and the Commission on Colleges of Advanced Education? [More…]
-The Minister for Education again interjects. [More…]
This is a matter which could be of serious concern to the adequacy of the staffing of universities, whether it be in the field of academic staff or in other aspects of university or college of advanced education work. [More…]
We support the concept that the real level of university and college of advanced education provision should be maintained. [More…]
It is not a question of providing additional funds, it is a matter in this legislation, of simply giving the universities and colleges of advanced education sufficient funds with which to carry on. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) made an interesting analogy in his second reading speech in relation to the Bill dealing with State grants for Universities, when he said: the Bill constitutes the equivalent of a. [More…]
If the present inflation rate continues we could expect later this year or early next year the introduction of Bills to lift again the provision by amounts of the order of the percentages to which I referred earlier to take account simply of the increased costs without providing an additional cent in real worth for our universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
-Mr Deputy Speaker, it is now more than 10 years since the Martin Committee on the Future of Tertiary Education in Australia laid down the blueprint for tertiary education which is reflected in the Bills under discussion in the House tonight. [More…]
At the beginning of the 1960s the tertiary sector of Australian education was made up overwhelmingly of the State universities, supplemented with a few dozen tertiary technical institutions. [More…]
The Martin Committee made the great contribution of looking beyond the universities and the technical institutions, as they were then, to a more diversified arrangement in which the universities took their places beside a new form of tertiary education- the college of advanced education. [More…]
(Quorum formed) The interest taken in this Parliament in matters of tertiary education is faithfully reflected tonight by the fact that the Government benches are crowded at a time when there are 3- members of the Liberal Party and 4 members of the National Country Party of Australia in the chamber. [More…]
I was saying before I was interrupted- as indeed I have been interrupted on the last 3 occasions on which I have spoken in this House by honourable members opposite calling for a quorum- that we owe it to the Martin Committee of the early 1960s that we now have in this country so diversified a system of tertiary education. [More…]
We have the universities and the colleges of advanced education, and now the teachers colleges which for the first time are autonomous and free of the control of State departments of education, and the technical colleges which for the first time are the subject of assistance from the national government following on the recommendations in the report of the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
But in taking satisfaction in the diversity of this arrangement, I think the House can well ask itself whether it is not time for a further inquiry into the structure of Australian tertiary education. [More…]
I would very much hope that this year, or at the very latest next year, a further inquiry into tertiary education will be established. [More…]
I hope that in laying down the terms of reference for an inquiry into tertiary education we would not require the committee to look simply into the question of structures. [More…]
The time is now long overdue for us to redefine the goals which are served by tertiary education. [More…]
The honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson) in his remarks earlier this evening dwelt at some length on the very great outlay of public money which is absorbed every year by tertiary education. [More…]
Nevertheless, it can be argued that in a situation in which funds for education are necessarily short and in which priorities have to be assigned the best use is not being made of these things in this way. [More…]
It is for that reason that I urge the view tonight on the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley)- I know that he is receptive to it- that steps should be taken in the very near future to get a further inquiry into tertiary education off the ground. [More…]
We have a Universities Commission; we have an Advanced Education Commission; we have a Technical and Further Education Commission; and we have that curious hybrid body in my own State- the State College of Victoria- which exercises overall responsibility for teacher education, for the autonomous teachers colleges. [More…]
There is another matter into which I think an inquiry into tertiary education could properly address itself and that is the question as to whether our children, our young people, should be moving directly from high schools, the secondary stage of their education, to the tertiary stage. [More…]
It has been one of the more healthy developments in the education system in recent years that increasingly our young people choose to take a year off before taking up their university or college of advanced education course. [More…]
The advantage that students would take of their tertiary education would be infinitely greater if this year away from education, this year outside the formal framework of education became the rule rather than the exception as it is at present. [More…]
Many of us can think back to the experience of sevicemen who returned to tertiary education after the Second World War and can recall how infinitely greater was the advantage that those men and women took of their university places at the more mature age at which they were able to take them up. [More…]
I think it is a pity that we did not learn something from that experience that we could have expressed in our institutional arrangements for tertiary education. [More…]
One of the many undesirable effects of the quota system at the tertiary level, perhaps the most undesirable effect of all, has been the way it has militated against the mature age student wanting to come back to undertake further education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Will he provide a list of all colleges of advanced education in Australia indicating: [More…]
I am unable, at the present time, to provide estimates of future enrolments due to the developing nature of the advanced education system. [More…]
However, further information up to 1978 will be available when the Commission on Advanced Education’s Fourth Report is tabled later this year. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Education aware that concern has been expressed by technical school teachers and those interested in technical schools at the apparent failure of Australian Government funds to get through to the schools? [More…]
I can tell the honourable gentleman that I did ask the Chairman of the Interim Committee on Technical and Further Education about this matter. [More…]
The honourable gentleman, of course, will recognise that the all-over plan already has made technical and further education free. [More…]
I preface my question to the Minister for Education by saying that the Minister will understand that among some schools there is some misunderstanding as to their rights in approaching the Schools Commission. [More…]
The first are the State governments, or the State departments of education. [More…]
One of its first tasks could well be to try to develop training programs and education programs in this area. [More…]
He has received a letter from the Education Department explaining his automatic transfer from the former servicemen’s scheme to the NEAT scheme. [More…]
He was rejected because his training was ‘considered continuation of initial education’. [More…]
In some cases it has prevented them from spending money on education for their children. [More…]
It is given in recognition of long service by people who have stayed on fairly low salaries because of lack of education qualification or for reasons of this nature. [More…]
Because time is running out I ask the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) to arrange for a survey to be carried out into the impact of daylight saving on the study habits and class attitudes of school children. [More…]
Possibly this could be carried out in conjunction with the survey which I have requested from the Minister for Education. [More…]
But that fruit has now gone bad and the people of Australia at last have woken up to the fact that we cannot buy for example, better education simply by spending more money; we cannot buy all the other social welfare programs, which of course we want to have and which any government would want to give to the people, unless the people, through their taxation, are able to carry the cost and the economy is able to carry the expenses involved in such policies. [More…]
The first and foremost solution lies in education. [More…]
Gone are the days when physical education can be acceptable in the form of a physical activity class alone. [More…]
The quality of life for Australians lies with the education of our young. [More…]
Whilst there is a great need for the construction of community leisure centres, there is also a great need for public education in this new phenomenonand leisure is a phenomenon. [More…]
So the root of the problem lies with education. [More…]
However, we can make it part of every subject, with the physical education lesson acting as a collator of the information and then its application. [More…]
The committee includes Dr Mccloskey, of the Victorian Department of Health; Mr A. McVeigh, of the Victorian Department of Health; Mr E. Ryan, of the Victorian Department of Education; Mr H. McPhee, of the Victorian Department of Social Welfare; Mr D. Neville, of the Victorian Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation; Councillor Portingale, a local government representative; Mrs Mccaughey, a community representative and Mrs Witney King a community representative. [More…]
Having put that part of the record straight, let us look at this legislation in the light of the fact that it is to establish a permanent structure under which child care and pre-school education programs are to be funded. [More…]
Although one cannot but notice the Minister’s heavy concentration on child care programs- almost to the exclusion of any reference to pre-school education as has been pointed out in the debates both in this House and in the Senate- the Opposition sees the care of the pre-school child in a comprehensive way. [More…]
We are concerned for the complete well-being of the child in the family context, in the child care centre and in the general care role as well as, importantly, in the area of that child ‘s education. [More…]
We in the Opposition would, when coming to government, approach this whole problem of the provision of child care and pre-school education in a way significantly different from the way inherent in the Government’s program. [More…]
Then we had a similar piece of legislation dealing with the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The Opposition urged that, if the program was to be done in co-operation with the States, their role in the provision of child care and preschool education facilities be recognised. [More…]
Therefore, Mr Chairman, I want to make it clear to honourable members that, whilst we will not hold up this legislation, as we wish to see the Government’s program confirmed in legislation, we want to- point out that, on coming to government, we will review the whole method whereby the Australian Government delivers its child care and pre-school education program. [More…]
These educators will travel with doctors and nurses to remote areas to give talks and provide educational material, back-up advice and counselling on contraception, fertility and sexual problems. [More…]
If the scheme is found to be successful after 3 months it will be a precedent on which I hope we will be able to build and we will have as a result the placement of similar health education professionals in remote regions. [More…]
They are not allowed to leave the Islands, and children are denied secondary education and are refused permission to leave the Islands to get secondary education. [More…]
It is not sufficient to say that a child cannot get a secondary education. [More…]
Mr Dubney would be able to indicate the advantages of children getting a better education, the advantages of training the adults on the island and the advantages of the islanders being paid in Australian money. [More…]
One of those amendments provides that the 3 additional members of the Australian Council- that is, the person nominated by the Prime Minister, the person nominated by the Leader of the Opposition and the person nominated by the Minister for Education- shall hold office for 3 years. [More…]
The same would apply in the case of the person nominated by the Minister for Education. [More…]
This legislation relates to grants in respect of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
We read in the Press at the weekend of a proposed amalgamation of the Universities Commission and the Commission on Colleges of Advanced Education. [More…]
I would be interested to know from the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) whether in due course opportunity will be given to discuss this significant move. [More…]
The Minister will remember that on 1 5 April in the debate on the Bill to establish the Commission on Technical and Further Education I drew to the attention of the House a statement that he had issued in respect of the establishment of a committee to look into some special problems with regard to what was in his statement described as post-secondary education in northern Tasmania. [More…]
When I drew to the attention of the House the significance of the implications of the establishment of a committee that comprised the Chairman of the Universities Commission, the Chairman of the Commission on Advanced Education and the chairman of the interim committee dealing with technical education, the Minister endeavoured to dismiss the importance of the committee. [More…]
It may have been at the request of the Tasmanian Government, but it is significant that the committee has been set up and that it is to include the Chairman of the Universities Commission, Professor Karmel; the Chairman of the Commission on Advanced Education, Mr T. B. Swanson; and the Chairman of the Committee on Technical and Further Education, Associate Professor E. Richardson. [More…]
It is not a committee of post-secondary education. [More…]
It is a committee to examine the needs of north and north-west Tasmania for post-secondary education. [More…]
I went on to say then that the Minister was endeavouring to narrow down the responsibility of the committee because, as I pointed out then and as I point out now, the scope of the brief given to that committee could have been interpreted as far more extensive than to deal merely with the problem of post-secondary education in Tasmania. [More…]
Now, less than 6 weeks later, we have an announcement made outside the Parliament that the Universities Commission is to be amalgamated with the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
Six weeks ago the Minister put great stress on the fact that the Commission on Technical and Further Education represented the establishment of the fourth of 4 very significant commissions. [More…]
Is it now suggested that the amalgamation of the 2 commissions- the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education- was not then in contemplation? [More…]
If it has so arisen, why then was that group not given the responsibility of seeking views from education authorities around Australia as to the way in which post-secondary education should be organised? [More…]
The committee did comprise the Chairman of the Universities Commission, the Chairman of the Commission on Advanced Education - [More…]
It is a region in certain educational difficulties. [More…]
That has absolutely nothing to do with this Bill nor has it anything to do with a committee consisting of Mr Ken Jones of my Department, Professor Karmel and Mr Swanson about how to combine the Universitites Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
The legislation which the Parliament has considered has established a Universities Commission and a Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
If those commissions were to be turned into a single commission on universities and colleges of advanced education, the decision must necessarily be debated in this House. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman would contain himself in patience and would see the immensity of the recommendations that will come down in triennial funding, he would realise that there are a great many anomalies as between the 2 commissions that have come into being which would probably necessitate a higher education body with perhaps a committee of the universities and another committee examining the needs of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
That is, we are totally funding universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
We are being invited to increase our stake by the Technical and Further Education Commission in the funding of technical education. [More…]
There is no suggestion in the work of Mr Jones, Professor Karmel and Mr Swanson up to October that the Technical and Further Education Commission which is coming into being will be involved in that. [More…]
What I want to put to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in regard to the clauses is that we ought to examine the competing priorities. [More…]
-When I spoke in the recent debate on the’ States Grants (Universities) Bill I welcomed the initiatives that the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) had taken in this field, but, as is the case in most Government programs, the value of those initiatives is now being lost in a series of increasingly incoherent economic decisions. [More…]
I believe it is most disappointing for all honourable members to realise that rising costs are nullifying the tremendous advances which have been made and which could be continued in the field of education. [More…]
This Bill is evidence of the disastrous effects which the Government’s mismanagement is having upon essential Government responsibilities, of which I believe education is the most important. [More…]
I should like to ask the Minister further with regard to the point I raised a few minutes ago: Did he suggest by his reply that the basis for amalgamating or considering the amalgamation- he did not make clear whether it is a Government decision to amalgamate or whether the Government is only considering that amalgamation- of the Universities Commission and the Commission on Colleges of Advanced Education and the reason that they are funded - [More…]
I rise to speak because a vast number of elements acting against the smooth running and implementation of the Karmel report’s findings and the Federal Government’s education program have been brought to my attention. [More…]
It is only the conniving, ‘do nothing’, and ‘care less’ Liberal Ministers for Education who will deny that their departments have mishandled the entire spending programs. [More…]
Graham Williams, writing in the ‘Australian’ on 28 May, summed up the situation well when he said that the program had suffered because of the inertia, chronic lack of vision, and stiff necked attitude that bedevils several State education bureaucracies. [More…]
While we have State Education Departments foiling the program in their areas we have State Health Departments retarding the progress of the independent schools. [More…]
Showing its usual diligence and efficiency in this regard, the Catholic Education Branch swung straight into action after- it was granted $120,000 for this building by the Federal Government. [More…]
That these are matters of concern in the community and in education is reason enough to speak on them here tonight. [More…]
The Australian Labor Government was elected in 1972 and again in 1974 to carry out a program which placed great weight on education. [More…]
As we enter the pre-Budget part of the year, and people everywhere begin to talk of government spending priorities- perhaps cutbackswe will find that education is one of the areas under scrutiny. [More…]
There will be people who will say that education expenditure has not achieved the results hoped for, that only slight advances have been made and that it is not the children who have gained from Karmel but other people and groups. [More…]
1658 in which he provided a list of all Departments, other than the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, with some responsibility for Aboriginal affairs, which Departments are represented on the Bilingual Education Consultative Committee, the Aboriginal Community Committee and the Health Care for Aborigines Committee. [More…]
The Bilingual Education Consultative Committee comprises representatives of the Departments of Education and Aboriginal Affairs; the inter-departmental committee which co-ordinates activities relating to Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory comprises representatives of the Departments of Health Aboriginal Affairs, AttorneyGeneral’s, Education, Housing and Construction, Labor and Immigration, Northern Territory and Social Security; and the inter-departmental committee which co-ordinates the delivery of health care to Aboriginals in the Northern Territory is made up of representatives of the Departments of Health, Aboriginal Affairs, Education and Northern Territory. [More…]
I direct my question to the Minister for Education. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report on Educational Turbulence among Australian Servicemen’s Children by Lindsay Mackay and Brian Spicer of the Faculty of Education, Monash University. [More…]
I might say that education turbulence means the disturbance of their educational careers, not misbehaviour. [More…]
If there has been any misleading in the field of health or health schemes it has not been done by the private health funds; it has been done by the Government itself with $1.5m of taxpayers’ money that it has scandalously spent without mandate, without authority, on a public education campaign. [More…]
The Commissioner will have power to engage in programs of education and research to combat racial discrimination. [More…]
The Commissioner will, in addition, have power to promote programs of education and research. [More…]
The Opposition believes that the amendments will have the effect of replacing the blunt instrument of the Bill as originally presented with a process of conciliation and education which we believe will do a great deal more effectively to reduce the incidence of racial discrimination in Australia than would have been the case with the Bill in its original form. [More…]
As occurs in so many matters of this nature where there are genuinely held views across a spectrum, a consensus has to be achieved, and the Opposition’s view is that the correct way of approaching it is to put emphasis on conciliation and education, to decriminalise the procedures originally proposed. [More…]
The legislation in its amended form, which we welcome and which we support, now conforms to the Opposition’s view that the best way to promote harmony between the races in Australia is through the process of conciliation, education and- one hopes, in the long term- greater understanding between the races without the existence of legislative coercion of the type originally proposed. [More…]
The answer to the right honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) An exhaustive survey of all the research projects bearing on nuclear energy has not been undertaken, However, the twenty-second Annual Report of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, which was tabled in Parliament on 17 October 1974, lists at pages 105 to 110: the main research programs in progress within the Commission; research contracts awarded by the Commission during the year 1973-74; and research projects carried out within Australian tertiary education institutions with support by the Australian Government through the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering. [More…]
(4), (5) and (6) Approximately 1200 staff were employed by the Commission as at 30 June 1 974; the disposition of this staff is set out on page 93 of the report referred to above, which report also sets out at pages 107 to 1 10 details of persons involved in research projects carried out within tertiary education institutions. [More…]
Grants are authorised by my colleague the Special Minister of State in his capacity as Minister Assisting the Prime Minister and details of grants under the Interim Pre-school and Child Care Program and the Childhood Services Program have been included in statements tabled by him on 5 December 1974 (Hansard page 4699) and by the Minister for Education on 9 April 1974 (Hansard page1217) and in press statements by these Ministers, in particular those of11 April1975 by the Special Minister of State. [More…]
Music (January 1973): To develop excellence in music in Australia, including opera, by expanding professional opportunities to both creative and performing artists, by encouraging the formation of new methods in music education, by responding to community needs and promoting Australian music. [More…]
Visual Arts (March 1973): To improve the status and condition of artists, to stimulate the creation and exhibition of new works of art; to encourage a greater community involvement in and understanding of all forms of visual an, and to assist and encourage education and public involvement in the visual arts. [More…]
Included are painting, sculpture, photography, industrial design, architecture, art education and the conservation of cultural material. [More…]
What sums have been allocated to sporting teams at Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education and other tertiary institutions since 2 December 1972. [More…]
and (4) In November 1973 the printed report ‘Australian Youth Fitness Survey 1971’ became available and was distributed widely to all tertiary institutions, State Education Departments, National Fitness Councils and professional recreation organisations. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
On the advice of the State Government or Catholic Education Authority concerned812 Government and 211 Catholic Systemic Schools had been declared disadvantaged at 21 May 1975. [More…]
Each of those schools, after discussions involving staff, parents and, in some cases, students, submits proposals for projects to the ‘Task Force ‘ or other such group appointed by the Government or Catholic Education Authority. [More…]
Each Government and Catholic Education Authority has then submitted proposals to the Schools Commission. [More…]
I refer specifically to the taxation concessions for education- a vital matter for people in country areas aiming to provide adequate education for their children- and also to the petrol price equalisation scheme, which similarly was of great importance to rural industries and to people living away from the capital cities. [More…]
This figure does not include the imposition of unearned income and capital gains taxes and the reduced education allowance for taxation purposes. [More…]
My Department does not employ officers as youth workers, social workers, sport coaches, drama instructors, physical education instructors or other categories that I would describe as recreation officers or recreation workers. [More…]
The right honourable, learned and gallant gentleman affords me an opportunity to announce before the House goes into recess an important initiative in terms of political science and public morality- the establishment of such a body as he suggests on the initiative of the Australian Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education which are shortly to be amalgamated. [More…]
The Bill reflects the Government’s expectation not only that the Office will provide legal aid in significant cases affecting the rights of people in need but that it will also contribute to community awareness on matters of rights and obligations, community education and assist the process of law reform. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The Standing Interdepartmental Committee on Rehabilitation (SIDCOR) comprises representative from the Departments of the Special Minister of State (chair), Education, Health, Labor and Immigration, Repatriation and Compensation, Social Security and the Treasury, and the Hospitals and Health Services Commission and the Social Welfare Commission. [More…]
Expenditure on research and development programs in 1974-75 by way of payments to universities, colleges of advanced education and consultants, is estimated at around $500,000. [More…]
The main recommendations of the Schools Commission’s triennial report for 1976-1978 are directed at giving equality of educational opportunity and raising the quality of education in government and non-government schools. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Neither the Department of Education nor the Schools Commission has a record of any request for assistance on this matter. [More…]
Australian Government funds which are provided through programs administered by the Schools Commission could be used by the Western Australian Education Department to purchase equipment but as with previous Government schemes of assistance there is no legal basis on which the Australian Government may assume detailed administrative control of grants to the State governments. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Education: Grants to independent Schools (Question No. [More…]
: asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Education: Grants to Schools in Kalgoorlie Electorate (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Some further details of the survey and results were announced jointly by the Minister for Education and the Acting Minister for Health in a media release dated 19 May 197S. [More…]
1) to (9) The Priorities Review Staff has not had national compensation (specifically the Woodhouse Scheme), nor the Government’s role in insurance nor education policy referred to it for report. [More…]
1 ) Has the Priorities Review Staff had education referred to it for report with particular reference to the policy as a whole. [More…]
1 ) Has the Priorities Review Staff had kindergartens referred to it for report with particular reference to any conflicts between the Department of Education and the Departments of Health and Social Security. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The answer to this question involves programs and funding under the States Grants (Technical Training) Act 196S, States Grants (Technical Training) Act 1971 and in some instances funding has been continued under the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974. [More…]
In its original submission under the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974 the Victorian Government accorded developments at Moorabbin and Dandenong Technical Colleges equal top priority in its capital works program. [More…]
The Victorian Education Department advised that no funds were required in 1 974-75. [More…]
No capital funds have been advanced for this Technical College under the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974. [More…]
He served the Parliament as a member of numerous committees, including the Library Committee, the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence and, not unexpectedly, the Printing Committee- later known as the Publications Committee- of which he was Chairman. [More…]
Senator Milliner, as I think the Prime Minister has told us, also served on the Publications Committee, the Senate Standing Committee on Primary and Secondary Industry and Trade and the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts. [More…]
the extent of relevant existing eduction programs, including sex education programs, and their effectiveness in promoting responsible sexual behaviour and providing a sound basis in the fundamentals of male and female relationships in the Australian social environment; [More…]
Incomes have risen, not only in terms of real personal disposable incomes but in terms of facilities provided to the whole community in health, in education, in social welfare. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
What sums were allocated in Victoria for undergraduate education in respect of (a) social workers, ( b) occupational therapists, (c) speech therapists and (d) physiotherapists during each of the years 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 and 1976. [More…]
It is to be noted that of the categories listed under both sections (1) and (2) of the question, Victorian universities provide undergraduate education only for social workers. [More…]
1 ) General recurrent grants to universities and colleges of advanced education are not specifically allocated by the tertiary commissions to individual courses and detailed expenditures by course are not therefore available. [More…]
However to increase further facilities for the training of social workers and social work planners beyond the level already provided in the 1973/75 triennial program of universities and colleges of advanced education, special supplementary grants have been allocated to colleges of advanced education in Victoria as follows; 1973 $95,000; 1974 $160,000; 1975 $185,000. [More…]
A moderate growth is planned for these courses in Victorian colleges of advanced education during the 1976-78 triennium. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
409 concerning studies into specific learning difficulties, will he provide a list of all studies being supported by the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education which are concerned with methods of early identification of children with specific learning difficulties. [More…]
The following projects, which have received financial support through the Australian Advisory Committee on Research and Development in Education are, in varying degrees, concerned with problems of identification of specific learning difficulties. [More…]
Mr R. C. G. Lea, Education Department, Victoria- ‘Longitudinal reading study 1970-1974’. [More…]
Le Gay Brereton, Spastic Centre of N.S.W.- ‘The part played by visuo-motor skills and movement in the development of readiness for formal education’. [More…]
Mr S. W. Woods, Western Australian Education Department ‘The extent and cause of reading disability in the primary school’. [More…]
The Schools Commission makes grants to the States for recurrent expenditure on primary and secondary education and the major impact of these grants has been the employment of additional teachers and specialist staff (including psychologists and guidance officers). [More…]
The Schools Commission also makes grants to the States for special education teacher training courses. [More…]
However since recurrent expenditure and special education teacher training courses are general programs, it is not possible to attribute particular sums as being for persons employed in the identification of children with learning difficulties. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Does the Australian Department of Education or do any of the State Departments of Education belong to or attend conferences of Interskola, an international organisation studying the problems of education in sparsely populated rural areas. [More…]
According to information contained in the report on the 1974 Interskola conference, the conference series was originated by Mr I. Findlay of the Aberdeen College of Education in Scotland in 1968. [More…]
Officers of my Department have contacted State Departments of Education on this matter and have been advised that no State Department has participated in Interskola activities. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What schools will be investigated under the Joint Enquiry into Schools with High Migration Enrolment which was recently announced by the New South Wales and Victorian Ministers for Education and himself. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Of the moneys appropriated to the States by the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act, (a) what moneys have been actually paid to the States, (b) what moneys have actually been spent in technical and further education institutions, (c) in which institutions, and in what amounts, has it been spent, (d) what moneys allocated for 1974-75 remain to be paid to each State and (e) what moneys have been paid to the States but, for one reason or another, have not been spent directly in technical and further education institutions. [More…]
(a) The following amounts have been paid to the States in 1974-75 under the provisions of the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974: [More…]
and (c) The Act does not require the States to submit, in respect of recurrent grants, details of the amounts they intend to expend in each technical and further education institution; nor would it be practicable for them to do so in relation to expenditure on salaries, the largest item of expenditure of recurrent grants. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Enrolments at colleges of advanced education for [More…]
Almost $2000m will be sliced off education, welfare, housing, transport and urban and regional development programs. [More…]
Will the Treasurer indicate what the proposed new income tax arrangements in respect of education expenses incurred by parents on behalf of their student children will mean as compared with the existing provisions? [More…]
In the case of education the ceiling for the claim has been lifted from $ 1 50 to $250 for those purposes. [More…]
I continue with the list and refer to Navy, Army and Air Force technical services, all Service facilities and accommodation, resources policy, planning and programming, budgeting and financial services, defence manpower, pay, recruitment, conditions of service, the personnel policy, training and education policy, organisation and management services, defence research, development and evaluation, and the Joint Intelligence Organisation. [More…]
We reject enforced equality in the work place, in the economy, in education. [More…]
But under the previous Liberal Government almost half the number of children who went to university or colleges of advanced education came from 17 per cent of the community- the professional classes. [More…]
Let us recall what Dr McKinnon had to say some time ago in relation to equality of education. [More…]
The figures which I cited about entries into universities and colleges of advanced education will change as a result of the policies of this Government. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition promised in his speech ‘an exciting approach to choice in education’. [More…]
Report after report by professional people shows that it is absolutely essential to give the child an opportunity at school and to give them pre-school education and pre-school care for the assistance of the family and for the benefit of the child. [More…]
Things such as child care benefits, free university education for children who could not afford to go to a university, equality in taxation, redistribution of incomes and all those things he calls enforced equality will be rejected. [More…]
He said that if he becomes Prime Minister he intends to give an exciting choice in education, as if to say that people in Australia today have no choice in education. [More…]
To bring them up to a decent standard of education and a decent standard of quality is, in the terms of the Leader of the Opposition, enforced equality. [More…]
When the Leader of the Opposition talks about enforced equality in education what he means is that all the previous benefits will return to the upper crust and that tax deductions will be there for them to send their children to the greater public schools and the rest. [More…]
He says the Liberals reject enforced equality in the workplace, in the economy and in education. [More…]
He is going to rid Australia, on the one hand, of equality and on the other hand he says he rejects enforced equality in the workplace, in the economy and in education. [More…]
I point out that I have drawn to the attention of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) that I proposed to raise certain matters in this grievance debate today and he has indicated that he is proposing to have made certain notes on the questions that I raise in order that he may consider them later tonight. [More…]
I note that a report has been tabled on the tertiary education assistance scheme which I understand is to be known as the Williams report after the name of the chairman of the inquiry. [More…]
In other words, this young gentleman was subjected to something that no court of law would ever accept, and that is trial by ambush by the Department of Education. [More…]
People who are applying include those who have not had the opportunity to be trained in their youth, who have not had the opportunity to have a reasonable education, new settlers to this country, migrants from other parts of the world who have not had the opportunity to be trained in the skills required in this community. [More…]
They cover things like defence manpower, pay, recruitment, conditions of service, personnel policy, and training and education policy. [More…]
-The purpose of the Austraiian National University Bill 1975 and the Canberra College of Advanced Education Bill 1975 now before the House is to put into legislative form decisions which have been taken and put into effect in relation to universities and colleges of advanced education in the States. [More…]
With regard to the States, this could be done by policy announcement of the Government or by the funding by this Government of the State governments with the request by this Government that State governments where necessary amend the statutes governing universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
So, in the States where there were requirements upon universities in their statutes and where there were requirements in the legislation setting up colleges of advanced education that those bodies charge a fee, the States have now appropriately amended the relevant legislation. [More…]
When the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) intoduced the 2 Bills which are now the subject of this debate, he asked that the matters be speedily dealt with. [More…]
The Opposition supports the proposals because, in dealing with these 2 Bills, we are acting in relation to these 2 institutions as State governments would act in relation to their colleges of advanced education and their universities. [More…]
The principal purpose of these Bills is to authorise the Australian National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education to admit undergraduate students without charging fees. [More…]
In these days when there is an effort to broaden the opportunities of people to expand their education by entering tertiary institutions and, in particular, universities, to confine the power of the Council to regulations relating to matriculation is, if one puts a strict interpretation on that word, to limit the opportunities for tertiary education to people who have obtained traditional academic qualifications at secondary level in the form of matriculation examinations. [More…]
We have in mind that this change will clarify the position and, in so clarifying, expand the capacity of the Council to admit as students to the University people who in their later life wish to complete a university course but who find that at the time when they undertook their primary education followed by secondary education they did not qualify at the traditional matriculation examinations. [More…]
The provision of an expanded opportunity to obtain further education is deserving of further study so that more and more people who in the more mature years of their fife want to undertake further university study will be able to do so. [More…]
Both of the organisations mentioned in them- the Australian National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education- are in my electorate. [More…]
The ANU plays a very significant part in relation to the education of people within the Public Service in Canberra and has been largely responsible for the quite large percentage of graduates in the Public Service. [More…]
The Canberra College of Advanced Education is a fairly recently established institution. [More…]
The College has quite a broad national role to play in that among other things, it provides education for quite a number of overseas students and provides special courses in local government. [More…]
Many of them are people who have degees and are seeking further education. [More…]
He shared, in those days, an office with a very distinguished member of this Parliament, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) who has spent 30 years here. [More…]
If they are not to be abolished, is it intended that in future these cadet corps will be funded by other departments, such as the Department of Tourism and Recreation or the Department of Education? [More…]
I shall give some illustrations: We have on record a promise from Opposition spokesmen on the front bench that there would be a reinstatement of the $400 tax concessional deduction in regard to expenditure on education, that there would be an abolition of the 10 per cent surcharge on unearned income, the introduction of a 40 per cent investment allowance, the restoration of the homes savings grant scheme, the restoration of export development allowances and the restoration of the superphosphate bountyall totalling nearly $400m. [More…]
It is a matter of education of the public. [More…]
We are moving in many directions to do that, particularly with prescriber information and prescriber education programs, which I have described in detail at another time and which I will not go into at the moment. [More…]
We came in with our superior money power and took over the responsibility for tertiary, secondary and primary education, and we went on to assume responsibility for roads. [More…]
The new rebate of $540 for everyone is paid regardless of whether there is an actual expenditure on education, insurance or rates. [More…]
When the impact of the rebates is added to the impact of inflation on the tax burden it is clear that this Budget is one more instrument to implement the Prime Minister’s philosophy of making everyone dependent on government for basic services such as health, education and retirement. [More…]
I suppose that I should begin my address by thanking the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) for having mercy on my Department, the Department of Education. [More…]
I listened very carefully to all his statements and I did not hear that he proposed any heavy cuts in expenditure on education. [More…]
He made certain general observations about the lack of opportunities in education and he did that, of course, by ignoring reality. [More…]
If people have lost their power to choose, how does it happen that there are 608 000 people undertaking technical education now compared with 400 000 people undertaking technical education when we came into office? [More…]
Did those additional 208 000 people have a freedom of choice to undertake technical education as a result of the increased opportunities? [More…]
Although the honourable gentleman suggests that the only way to give opportunities in education is by a form of tax concession which gives greater concessions to those in receipt of greater incomes, he failed to explain why making education free would not be a way of giving many people opportunities. [More…]
When the honourable gentleman was referring to the amount of $1,350 which is the taxation exemption granted to all taxpayers and which reduces their taxation by $540, he stated that most people’s education expenditure would be within that $1,350 and therefore there was no gain to them. [More…]
The person whose education expenditure comes within the $1,350 exemption has not lost anything by the exemption of $1,350 being granted. [More…]
Then their educational expenditure would start to be taken into consideration. [More…]
The honourable gentleman failed also honestly to admit that in granting a $200 concession instead of $150 concession for every young person in every form of education from kindergarten age through to the age of 25 years, the rebate from tax was increased from $150 to $200. [More…]
There was nothing whatever about cuts in education. [More…]
He has said that a Liberal government would abolish compulsory equality in education. [More…]
What on earth is the meaning of ‘compulsory equality in education’? [More…]
At least, they attend Liberal Party conferences and make utterances on education. [More…]
But the interesting thing about their statements, like this statement about ending compulsory equality in education, is that they are purely literary statements. [More…]
Australia in State departments of education and in schools people are poring over the report, looking at every little sentence and applying it. [More…]
The Catholic education authorities who have received very substantial grants over the last couple of years- perhaps in excess of $220m- presumably run their schools on an essentially Catholic philosophy. [More…]
What we are making possible is the upgrading of defective educational facilities. [More…]
I invite honourable members of the Liberal Party who have had these geniuses at their conferences to go through these speeches and see whether they have yet discovered that technical education exists, that technical faculties in their own universities exist, and whether the child with these sorts of gifts has a right to an education. [More…]
I respect very much what these people say about scholarship, but not every child in education is going in for what one would call the kind of classical scholarship to which they are referring. [More…]
Yet all these sorts of things are being advanced in an attempt, on the fringes, to belittle the Government’s efforts in education, which are attempts to make possible the best of the thinking of the State governments and of the nongovernment sectors and also to encourage in the new Budget the educational expenditure of parents. [More…]
-The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has a reputation as a speaker and has a number of admirers, but I think really what we have discovered from listening to him tonight is that he can find very little that he is able to grapple with or indeed rebut in the speech that was made by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
I say to the Minister, since he raised the question of education, that surely the most important aspect of his present position must be that he is the first Minister for Education to have rejected these reports which have been presented to him and by him to the Parliament. [More…]
I use the word ‘rejected’ in relation to reports because if he envisages this matter goint on so far it is obvious that the present reports on education made to him have been canned by him and by the Government. [More…]
It also shows that the Government has been prepared to make some cuts in education. [More…]
When he criticises the cuts suggested by the Leader of the Opposition he is regarding education expenditure as less important than the cuts proposed and mentioned by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
Under the tax proposals which Mr Fraser condemns 100 000 single parents raising children on thenown will become entitled to a new $200 solo parent rebate, and the education tax deducation of $150 will be replaced by an education rebate of $250. [More…]
I have a pride, too, in new educational opportunities opened up for children from isolated areas, children who have physical or mental handicaps, children from homes where if English is spoken at all it is as a second language, Aboriginal children, children with socio-economic disadvantages and just ordinary children whose need for teaching staff, accommodation and equipment has simply never been met by the state or systemic education authorities which are responsible for them. [More…]
The complaint was made about the long delays of the then Minister for Education and Science and now Leader of the Opposition in answering questions. [More…]
Another applicant was rejected for assistance under the NEAT scheme but currently is pursuing a course of training with assistance under the tertiary education allowances scheme. [More…]
The third case the honourable gentleman raised involves a person in respect of a State education department bonded studentship with a small income from part-time work. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report of a survey conducted in 1973 by the Department of Education in conjunction with the Australian Union of Students, entitled: Why Students Reject Tertiary Places. [More…]
Will it enable or induce the private sector to turn its attention once again to growth, development and new horizons, with all that that means in terms of providing jobs for Australians and a higher standard of living and the very capacity the better to meet those aspirations in the education, health, welfare, defence and other fields where community demands have outrun the ability to provide? [More…]
The truth of the matter is that if the Opposition were in power the fields of education, health and social services- areas of major expenditure by this Government- would have suffered disastrous cutbacks. [More…]
Food, shelter, security for old age, health, education, mental, cultural, spiritual and emotional fulfilment are the essential building blocks of our society. [More…]
I should like to make brief mention of one area in which we seek this consolidation that was spoken of by the Treasurer: That is, the area of education. [More…]
In its first full year in office this Labor Government almost doubled expenditure on education. [More…]
The advances we have made in education since 1972-73 are a reflection of our determination to make up for the neglect of those opposite when they were in government. [More…]
I have the permission of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), who is at the table, to seek leave to have them incorporated in Hansard, and I shall take this course later. [More…]
I was more happy that the education budget exceeded $ 1,900m, because this is one of the areas in which the Labor Government has been opting for increased expenditure. [More…]
He said that the Budget reduced freedom of choice of individuals, provided an incentive to spendthrifts and penalised those who want to save and those who want to provide a different education. [More…]
Perhaps he still seems to think, as he said in a statement in my electorate, that it is only parents who send their children to a private school who are interested in education. [More…]
For example, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) will know the impact that education spending by this Government is having on a growing area such as my electorate. [More…]
Again funds from this Government, funds administered by the Minister for Education, have gone into these 2 important technical colleges. [More…]
Earlier Budgets for the first time provided that we pay all the fees of people who go to technical colleges and institutions of tertiary education. [More…]
Basically, the people who are likely to gain anything from this Budget are those who have no deduction for health care, education and life insurance. [More…]
Honourable members will see that in this Budget education gets $ 1,900m. [More…]
We see from the report that in country schools the level of schooling and participation in higher education was conspicuously lower than in the city schools. [More…]
Is it that he wants to affect education, even though he has said it another way? [More…]
With increased education, greater affluence and rising expectations, the Government does not know best how individual citizensindividual taxpayers- wish to spend their money or live their lives. [More…]
So far as can be ascertained from the elections, public opinion polls, political meetings, letters from constituents and letters to editors of newspapers, the majority of Australians want the Government to create the overall economic conditions which will enable them to use their education and talents to live their lives with as much choice as the network of rights and obligations in the community will allow. [More…]
I suppose that expenditure in some areas of education had to be reduced because it is such a large section of the Government’s budgetary proposals. [More…]
Grants for capital works on colleges of advanced education and teachers colleges in Tasmania will rise from $2,969,000 to $5,750,000. [More…]
Because of the shortage of time I will not be able to itemise the complete list, but I point out that the Australian Government assists in meeting debt charges and in the fields of State emergency services, universities, colleges of advanced education, technical and further education, schools, pre-schools, child migrant educational research, Medibank, public hospitals, running community health services, television control, school dental health, health education, home dialysis, blood transfusion services, health planning agencies, housekeeping services, home care services, senior citizen’s assistance, assistance to deserted wives, employment grants, regional employment development schemes, social planning units, Aboriginal advancement, housing, area improvement, sewerage, local government, regional organisations, leisure and recreation tourism and, in Perth, the underground railway study and matters of that nature, going right through to the natural disaster area. [More…]
I include education and sewerage and, in an uncertain changing world, adequate defence. [More…]
Government isn’t just a matter of providing roads and pensions and education. [More…]
But the difference is that the priorities of the Labor Party and the Government lie in the area of quality of life, in the area of education, in the area of welfare services and in the area of community health. [More…]
Do they not realise that most of the $2,000m allocated for education this year will go into buildings, the construction of schools and the renovating of old buildings. [More…]
So for a start if the Opposition cuts back on the spending on education, as it intends to do, it will not only deny the children in my electorate and in many other well represented electorates an education not based on the depth of their parents’ pockets; it will also stop a source of supply into the building industry through Government action. [More…]
The comment that the honourable member made on education, endeavouring to indicate that in the speech of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) there was some cutback proposed by the Opposition in education expenditure, was in my view quite malicious. [More…]
We are protecting them by means of sweeping reforms in the personal pay-as-you-earn tax system, by substantial pension increases, our free health scheme under Medibank, and improved education programs. [More…]
Despite this period of universal recession spoken about by the British Prime Minister in the magazine to which the honourable member for Parramatta referred, this Government has increased its total outlay in education by $237m. [More…]
Expenditure on education has now reached the gigantic amount of $ 1,908m. [More…]
During the first full year in which this Government was in office it doubled the expenditure on education. [More…]
Organised protest by a few young Liberal Party students Will fool no-one because members of this Government have telegrams coming into their offices from all sections of the community congratulating them on maintaining a very high level of expenditure on education. [More…]
The Government has increased expenditure on schools, teacher training colleges and the expansion of technical and further education. [More…]
We have accepted further responsibility in tertiary education. [More…]
All these things give the lie to the often repeated rumour spread by members of the Opposition that this Government could not or would not maintain its high level of spending on education. [More…]
If this was not so, why did not the Liberal-Country Party Government provide finance for the education of young Australians? [More…]
The members of the National Country Party have a lot to say about education. [More…]
It was not until this Government introduced the isolated children’s grant that some of those children were able to receive a better education. [More…]
With respect to money spent on education, some magnificent institutions, both public and private, have been built. [More…]
We have spent a large amount of money on education. [More…]
We have provided free education in tertiary institutions. [More…]
The schoolteachers have been the most active this year because there have been strong rumours that the sacred education cow is going to be made to suffer a little and this has made her low piteously. [More…]
When we are in Opposition it is very comfortable to be able at the beginning of a speech to criticise the Government for generally being profligate with their spending, and then, at the end, to criticise them for being lousy about education, or roads, or science and so on. [More…]
The Minister said in respect of a Mr Hall, I think- another applicant who was refused assistance under the NEAT scheme- that he was cur.rently pursuing a course of training under the tertiary education allowance scheme. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The advertising budget for the Department of Education for 1 975-76 is$204,000. [More…]
The benefits which the Bill confers are limited to a particular group whose position was affected by the Australian Government’s decision to accept direct responsibility for the provision of primary and secondary education in the Australian Capital Territory and in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Within the Australian Capital Territory, technical education has been provided by an arrangement between my Department and the New South Wales Department of Technical Education. [More…]
As part of the decision to establish an Australian Capital Territory Technical and Further Education Authority, the Government has decided that the teaching staff of the technical colleges in the Territory should be employed under the Teaching Service legislation. [More…]
Apart from the debt of gratitude that the people of Australia owe to the natives of the Territory, the Government regards it as its bounden duty to further to the utmost the advancement of the natives, and considers that that can be achieved only by providing facilities for better health, better education and for a greater participation by the natives in the wealth of their country and eventually in its government . [More…]
I now wish to refer to the estimates for education. [More…]
That in itself I welcome because I believe that we should expand the educational opportunities available to the members of the community. [More…]
But when this is viewed against an inflation rate which is a good deal greater than that increase in outlays it is obvious that also education will suffer under this Budget. [More…]
The most tragic part of the education section of the Budget is that assistance to isolated children has been reduced while every one of the other special group allocations has been increased. [More…]
Members of the deputation pointed out to him that the increases in allowances for the education of isolated children have not kept pace with inflation. [More…]
More and more mail services are being discontinued, shortened or reduced in frequency, thus adding to the burden of providing satisfactory education to outback children. [More…]
Surely a reasonable education is the birthright of every Australian child. [More…]
We have been able to demonstrate here that we can establish cities somewhere other than on the eastern seaboard; that we can establish pleasant urban living facilities in the country; that we can have good education, good health services, good roads and at the same time enjoy the advantages of a rural environment. [More…]
We have also continued to spend on education, which is contrary to what the pundits thought. [More…]
They thought that we would rip the education allocation to pieces. [More…]
We have continued a high level of spending on education as it is one of the Government’s priorities. [More…]
As I outlined to the House before, because of the contingencies which arose and because of the shocking neglect of 23 years of ineffectual government before we came to power, the amount of spending in the social welfare, education and urban development areas in particular had to be massive; the expenditure outlays had to be massive to overcome the anomalies that were present in the Aus.tralian community. [More…]
He says that he rejects enforced equality in education. [More…]
If he were in government there would be no government funding of poor schools in the western suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne to give the child of a poor family a go to get a decent education or to give him free university education. [More…]
He says that he rejects enforced equality, as he calls it, in education. [More…]
It is a pity that the development of such essentials as housing, education and defence will be slowed down because of these past extravagances. [More…]
Now let us look at education. [More…]
It would be fair to say that the Government’s record in education in respect of the Government school system has been a good one in the past although its policies towards independent schools and the parents of children attending independent schools has left much to be desired. [More…]
It is a pity that the Government has seen fit to delay for a year the introduction of the next triennial program for educational commissions. [More…]
The report said that Dr McKinnon also warned there could be some accommodation difficulties in Government and non-government schools for the start of the 1977 school year because of the educational provisions in the Budget. [More…]
The Victorian Minister for Education, Mr Lindsay Thompson, has also warned of the effects of a cut back in funds for school buildings. [More…]
He said the Victorian Education Department would have to find another $12m to meet the cost of contracts already let for the first half of 1976. [More…]
Education expenditure has increased only enough to remain constant in real terms. [More…]
It is apparently not enough that education and social spending has a multiplier effect on the economy. [More…]
It is not enough that education expenditure guarantees a rosy future for a vast number of industries in this economy, from the building field down. [More…]
Many people believe that this Budget should not have seen expenditure cuts almost across the board, that in fact there should have been more positive discrimination in favour of lower income groups, that huge allocations should have gone to deserted mothers and fathers, child endowment, public housing, child care and education. [More…]
Quality of life issues like urban affairs, pollution, education and future oriented political thinking characterise these people’s attitudes. [More…]
Admittedly there is a taxation rebate of $540 for every taxpayer whether or not he or she attempts to make a personal effort towards independence by life assurance, education, medical benefits and other self-help activities. [More…]
I think I should also mention that the concessional allowance for education expenses has been increased from $150 per student to $250 per student. [More…]
Our policy in this year is to consolidate the reforms which have already been introduced through the major new measures we have taken with the programs of public expenditure in health, education and urban and regional development. [More…]
There can be no deception when each claimant, whether rich or poor, gets exactly the same rebate for education expenses. [More…]
For example, let us take education. [More…]
Over the past 2 years spending on education by the Australian Government has quadrupled. [More…]
The effects of this expenditure on education are only now starting to take shape. [More…]
But thank God since Labor came to power the children who attend these schools are now receiving the same educational opportunities as everyone else. [More…]
As was announced by the Treasurer in his Budget Speech, the expenditure on education in this financial year will rise by $237m to $ 1,908m which, allowing for inflation, will maintain the pre-existing rates of expenditure. [More…]
But to my mind it is very important that the Council simply lay down some policy and not in any way try to intrude its own political views once it has reached a decision on the sort of policies that should be followed, particularly in respect of the education unit which Mr Brendan O ‘Dwyer formerly led. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]
I have been subject to quite a number of attacks by the Victorian Minister for Education and, against my wont, I have decided to retaliate, drawing attention to the various activities of the Victorian Government in challenging grants to non-government schools. [More…]
On Victoria the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education has devoted a whole section of its report to maintenance of effort. [More…]
Page 201 of the Richardson report shows that Victoria has got its capital expenditure on technical education from its own resources down to the abject level of $728,000 in a year, which is what you might expect as not a very good performance from Tasmania. [More…]
It is perfectly clear from the table on page 201, which give figures over 5 years, that the more money granted by the Commonwealth to Victoria through a policy which was begun under our predecessors for technical education capital expenditure, the less Victoria has spent out of its own resources, so that it is doubtful whether there was a net advantage out of Commonwealth activity at all. [More…]
He would like all of Victoria’s funds not to be specified for education or for any other purpose but to be in the form of general grants such as those mentioned on page 19 of the Payments to the States and Local Government Authorities, the publication circulated with the Budget. [More…]
The cut in capital expenditure is very largely due to the fact that the Government cannot accept the 4 education commissions making recommendations which compete with one another for building labour and building material. [More…]
Because the Australian Government has faced particular problems with building material and building equipment and the competing recommendations of 4 commissions which have recommended an expenditure of $6,026 billion on education we have asked the 4 commissions to look again. [More…]
It is not a sign that we want to diminish support for Victorian education. [More…]
We believe that the commissions got education out of politics. [More…]
Has the Minister for Education seen a reported statement by the Western Australian Minister for Education which claims that education funds from the Australian Government for recurrent expenditure have been cut by half? [More…]
The Minister has also said that the cut of capital, which is undoubted, from $15m to $1 lm for bis schools would mean a serious position for Western Australian education. [More…]
An additional 4 members were appointed by me on 22 December 1972, those four having special knowledge of the crafts and their place in education, their role in leisure and their uses in industry. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the panel to advise on arrangements for amalgamating the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education dated August 1975, together with a statement on that report. [More…]
No pensioner, no sick person, no parent concerned for the education of his children obtained any comfort from the silence of the Opposition on these matters. [More…]
Let us consider the position of education under the Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
In 1970 Australia spent 4.3 per cent of gross domestic product on education. [More…]
Only seven of the 25 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development spent less on education than Australia. [More…]
Mr Fraser pledges the Liberals to reject ‘enforced equality in the work place, in the economy, in education’. [More…]
And quotes about equality in education, spontaneous or enforced, will make quaint texts for lessons in social studies in the crowded classrooms of inner suburban schools, where harassed teachers struggle to communicate to migrant children who have not yet mastered the language, much less bridged the cultural gap. [More…]
It is of the utmost importance that in social services, in education, in health, in the submerged lands and sea areaand in many, but not all others- there should be an expanding, not a contracting, role for the Commonwealth. [More…]
In hospital and health care in the central coast electorate of Robertson over $6m has been spent in education it has been $3m; in welfare $1,650,000; in seen and telecommunications work almost $3m; in sport and recreation facilities $2.3m; in tourism $3.3m, with the acquisition of shares in the Old Sydney Town project; in major drainage works $1.5m; curbing, guttering and footpath paving- a lot of these projects carried out through the Regional Employment Development scheme- in excess of $lm; in water reticulation, $1,124,000; and in recreation, council parks and gardens, nearly $700,000. [More…]
We are following up every possible avenue such as in the fields of postal services and telecommunications, education, sewerage and social welfare. [More…]
Liberals reject enforced equality, in the work place, in the economy and in education. [More…]
The relatively low incidence of direct taxation in Australia was reflected in government expenditure on such items as education and welfare, or was until this Government came to office. [More…]
Recently published OECD figures showed that the percentage of GNP expended by Government on education was quite low in Australia compared with other countries. [More…]
His program, in order to have any semblance of economic responsibility, would have to tear the heart out of the Government’s education, welfare, health and urban development and recreation programs that are designed to provide equality of opportunity, income security, good health and a more pleasant environment for all. [More…]
It is one of the tragedies of our society that the people who need a comprehensive knowledge of their rights, who need a thorough understanding of the process of the law, are the very people who are denied this knowledge, that those people who are most likely to have their rights usurped and trampled upon are the very people who, because of their background, their education and their environment, are the most helpless when it comes to asserting those rights. [More…]
Much of what he- had to say is very vague, but millions of people who have been aided by Labor’s welfare and education programs would, in my view, have a lot to worry about. [More…]
Education is one of them. [More…]
An amount of $ 1,908m is being provided for education in this Budget despite the restraint that we exercise. [More…]
One point that does emerge from the Budget is that there are considerable cuts in health because, as in education where there are also considerable cuts, the Government’s program cannot be sustained. [More…]
What we should be discussing at this time is not whether governments should be providing services such as education, public transport and so on and still be providing income security but rather the nature of that commitment. [More…]
It has undertaken to train people who never had the opportunity when they were younger because we had in this country Liberal-Country Party governments who did not spend much money on education to train people. [More…]
The education allocation which has almost quadrupled in the last 2 years will be increased by $237m to a new total of $ 1,904m. [More…]
Education (Mr Beazley) has been to my electorate twice already this year and has arranged for the Schools Commission to prepare a special report on the needs of Catholic schools on the north-west and west coasts of Tasmania. [More…]
This Australian Labor Government places great emphasis on social security, education and health. [More…]
Grants to Tasmania include the provision of money for the following purposes: Community health facilities, $1.8m; tuberculosis control, $305,000; school dental schemes, which of course are an innovation under this Government, $2.1m; health education campaigns, $51,000; blood transfusion services, $85,000; recurrent expenditure by health planning agencies, $20,000; home dialysis supplies and equipment, $114,000. [More…]
He mentioned proudly in his Budget Speech that he has increased the allowance for education expenses from $150 to $250. [More…]
In other words, unless education expenses exceed approximately $1,350 people can claim a rebate of $540, which eliminates the right to claim as tax deductions such things as education expenses. [More…]
If one calculates 40 per cent of $250 one finds oneself claiming $ 100 for education expenses. [More…]
One is the field of education. [More…]
When we came to power I think the allocation for education was just over $200m a year. [More…]
Whilst the Government will not be able to give effect this year to its triennium plans, sufficient money has been allocated to ensure that the progress that has been made in education will continue. [More…]
The various education commissions have been established in the period that we have been in office and they have made recommendations. [More…]
These initiatives in the education field have enabled the provision of a greatly increased number of buildings, greater facilities, better staffing in schools and a general uplifting in the whole area of education. [More…]
Education is certainly one of the main goals of this Government. [More…]
We know that all the problems of education will not be solved this year, but we know that as a result of the policies laid down by the Government we will be moving towards those solutions. [More…]
It is a fact that capital expenditure on education will be limited in this financial year, but the recurrent expenditure will be kept at its real value so that our aims can be achieved. [More…]
One area in which there has been a big advance by this Government is in the care and education of young children in our society. [More…]
A number of the kindergartens are awaiting the outcome of this Budget to ascertain whether they would receive some assistance so that they could provide for the younger people in the society the education that has been lacking for so long. [More…]
We aim to curb it, but we do not aim to throw away the great program of reform and change that this Government introduced into our community starting in 1972- the programs we have been following through steadily since in education, in community health, in social welfare. [More…]
Education expenditure by this Government will increase substantially in the forthcoming year. [More…]
I believe it would be fair for educational lobbyists to start pressuring State governments to contribute more to education. [More…]
We had and we have no intention of taking over the entire responsibility for funding education. [More…]
States have the control of the planning and the allocation of both these specific grants for education and the budgeting for their own spending in this area. [More…]
They get more from us, so why do they not contribute more to education? [More…]
He did not mention health, social security, education or pensions. [More…]
Social security, education and health are the traditional areas where the Opposition, when it was in government, always economised. [More…]
Because they were not mentioned by the Leader of the Opposition or other honourable members opposite, do we take it that the Opposition endorses our policies on education, that the Opposition accepts the Schools Commission, our community health program, the hospital building program and Medibank? [More…]
This Budget is one more instrument to implement ‘ the Prime Minister’s philosophy of making everyone dependent on government for basic services such as health, education and retirement. [More…]
No single family unit can ever provide everything that is exactly necessary for the health and education of that family. [More…]
Previously the provision of facilities for health services and education depended only on the ability to pay. [More…]
As long as the earlier Liberal-Country Party Government was sitting on the Treasury bench the type of education a child received depended on geography. [More…]
Is the Opposition now suggesting that we cut spending so that we can go back to this type of education which depends on a person’s ability to pay? [More…]
This born to rule philosophy shows through very clearly in what Mr Malcolm Fraser had to say about people being dependent on government basic services such as health, education and retirement. [More…]
Good health surely should be the right of every person who lives within the community, but as before with education, good health for 23 years had been determined by the ability to pay. [More…]
It rejects the philosophy of people being dependent on government for basic services such as health, education and retirement. [More…]
The Liberal philosophy rejects enforced equality in the work place, in the economy and in education. [More…]
It was well known how neglected our pensioners, health services, education and the many social agencies were within Australia. [More…]
As compared with the last financial year, in this Budget the recurrent grants to New South Wales for education rise from $84m to $122m. [More…]
Repeatedly he has said that Commonwealth grants represent no more than 10 per cent of New South Wales educational expenditure, that they represent merely the icing sugar on the cake. [More…]
New South Wales has a sovereign government and can decide how it spends its reimbursement, but its ‘as of right’ reimbursement has increased from a record $737m to a record $980m and it is perfectly clear from that State’s utterances that the State Government does not intend to spend any of that extra $243m on education. [More…]
The grants from the Commonwealth for technical and further education have seen a 44 per cent increase in capital grants and a 77 per cent increase in recurrent grants. [More…]
The New South Wales Government as a sovereign government need not spend any of its extra $243m on education, but that is its decision. [More…]
In the field of advanced education, in the last 6 months of this year recurring grants to New South Wales are much less than they will be in the first 6 months of next year. [More…]
He was employed, by the Queensland Education Department and later by the Queensland Police Department. [More…]
Where new bodies have been established, such as education commissions, the Hospitals and Health Services Commission, the Children’s Commission and the Australia Council, from the very outset my Government has appointed women to them. [More…]
Department of Education. [More…]
I should like to bring to the attention of the House the amount of money that this Government is spending on education and in particular the money that has been spent in my electorate in the short time that this Government has been in office. [More…]
Education has always been a very important function of society. [More…]
Education today, as always, is a matter of acquiring skills, although there has been a shift of emphasis away from the drilling of facts into children to making them learn how to ferret things out and how to apply them. [More…]
It is becoming increasingly obvious that one of the major factors affecting the quality of the education provided is the quality of the environment in which that education is being given. [More…]
This environment is also achieved by the purchase of equipment such as projectors and duplicators and all sorts of material that can be used by teachers to capture their pupils’ interest and for greater personal involvement by the students in their own education. [More…]
The Treasurer, in the Budget Speech on 19 August, said that this Government had almost quadrupled the Australian Government’s previous expenditure on education and that the allocation of $ 1,908m in this year’s Budget now stands at 8.7 per cent of the total outlay for the 1975-76 financial year. [More…]
Under the child migrant education program the school was granted $28,000 until the end of 1972. [More…]
Despite all the assurances of the Opposition that present education spending would not be decreased, if Labor had not been in government for as long as it has present levels of expenditure would not even have been conceivable. [More…]
I am proud of what has been spent on education in my electorate, and I am told that a lot more will be spent in the electorate. [More…]
Like many other honourable members on the Government side of the House I received hundreds of letters protesting against cuts in education expenditure and the bringing back of radio and television licences. [More…]
It is a sad reflection when a government suspends introduction of a new education triennium system and fails to honour its promises on the means test, but still provides money for a pipeline, for overpaid Regional Employment Development scheme workers, for the arts and for a wide range of obviously less important things. [More…]
Incomes have risen, not only in terms of real personal disposable incomes but in terms of facilities provided to the whole community in health, in education, in social welfare. [More…]
I want to speak first of all about 3 features of the Budget, namely, social welfare, education and the taxation proposals. [More…]
Firstly, I shall deal with this Government’s record of achievement in the field of education. [More…]
What I regard as even more important in the Government’s education program is the decision - (Opposition members interjecting) [More…]
I refer to the decision on technical and further education. [More…]
Expenditure on technical and further education, which has been the Cinderella of the education field, is estimated to total $10 1.3m in 1975-76 compared with $70.6m in 1974-75. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that in May 1975 the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education submitted its second report on needs in technical and further education. [More…]
But nonetheless what has to be remembered is that for the first time- I reiterate, for the first time- a national government has recognised and responded to the needs in our contemporary society for a reassessment and an acknowledgment of” the great contribution made in the technical field of education. [More…]
This is a matter of great substance and it is a move in the education area generally of which this Government can be very proud indeed. [More…]
Would members of the Opposition cut government expenditure on education- incidentally, one of the greatest inputs of productionwhich we have increased by 1 4.2 per cent? [More…]
This is a follow-up to a quadrupling of education expenditure in only 2 years. [More…]
The average employee’s real earnings- that is, after tax- rose 7 per cent in 1974-75, or almost 10 per cent when the unrecorded benefits from education, health and social security are added. [More…]
The Budget penalises those families that save, through life or superannuation policies, for their own old age and that want to provide a different kind of education for their children. [More…]
The expenditure on education is up by almost $ 100m. [More…]
I have had many people claiming that there is not enough being spent on education. [More…]
The honourable gentleman would do well to have a close look at what is being done in the area of technical and further education so that children in rural areas and in the country towns will have the opportunity to be trained in skilled employment, thereby making it possible for employers to start industries in those regions. [More…]
A significant number of Ministers with portfolios concerning Darwin and involving not only local matters but national matters such as Aboriginal affairs, health and education also are involved. [More…]
But, when Opposition members have to debate a specific issue- whether it be medical research, defence, the welfare area, education or anything else- they say that we should have given more money. [More…]
Have they looked at what has been done in the field of tertiary education in the last 3 years? [More…]
These were the deductions for education, health and insurance. [More…]
Ever since I became a member of this Parliament, I have never heard a National Country Party member ask one question about education, one question about health or one question about poverty. [More…]
Other departments have their say- the Departments of Education, Health, Housing and Construction, Northern Territory, and Urban and Regional Development. [More…]
Hidden in many of the substantial items in the estimates are further amounts to be expended on administration- for example, in grants to the States, in respect of housing and in grants of $23m to the departments of Education and the Departments of Housing. [More…]
The honourable member for Wentworth went on to say that the Opposition wanted a similar division of allocations in other areas such as education so that the allocations did not overlap. [More…]
It should be borne in mind that the white community is responsible for the situation in which the Aborigines find themselves through lack of education as a result of a lack of attention to the demands of the 1967 referendum held under the previous Government. [More…]
During his period in Parliament, the Minister has been active in many areas of social reform including housing, health, social welfare and education. [More…]
One of the Council’s greatest problems is the diversity in background and education of the members of the Council. [More…]
One thinks also of the State departments through which programs in health, education, housing and, indeed, Aboriginal affairs themselves are financed. [More…]
But leaving aside the more spectacular areas, the mistakes which I think all of us will admit have from time to time been made, there is a basis of very solid achievement within this program, real achievement in terms of approximately 12,000 children of Aboriginal descent now at secondary schools compared with the mere hundreds attending such schools before the program of Aboriginal secondary education grants was established; the substantial number of Aboriginal people who are now living in better housing than they were before; the numbers of Aboriginal children who are now receiving a better education in pre-schools, and schools whether those schools be conducted through the State system or whether the children go away and board; and, of course, the Aborigines who are assisted through Aboriginal enterprises. [More…]
That is a tribute to the Aboriginal secondary education grants started in the days of the previous Government and expanded under our Government. [More…]
If someone suggested to me that by abolishing this system of Aboriginal secondary education grants all those children would be made equal, I would remain to be convinced. [More…]
Like education and health, it obviously is one of the priority areas of the Government. [More…]
I wish to confine my remaining remarks to housing and education for Aboriginal people. [More…]
I wish now to mention briefly education. [More…]
It has been obvious to me since I have been a member of this Parliament and a representative of a large Aboriginal community along the Murray River that a restrictive factor in the education of Aboriginal children is their inability to identify with a European education system or to adjust to the conflict between preservation and change, between autonomy and ancestry. [More…]
The husbands and wives and the families to whom I have spoken seek the same things for their family groups as any one of us would seek for our families; that is, education, decent housing and health services, to name a few. [More…]
In so doing, special emphasis must be given to health, education, job opportunities and housing. [More…]
Such an approach should not ignore the special need to improve their health, their educational facilities, their standard of housing and their ability to accept employment because they start from behind scratch. [More…]
We transported accommodation from construction sites and set it on campuses to make up for a lack of accommodation facilities at the Australian National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
The Minister for Education, the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), a West Australian, quite rightly identified the coal levy as a royalty. [More…]
Problems are not so great in secondary industry or in the fields of education or health. [More…]
It has made available nearly $12m this year for the isolated children’s allowance to help rural parents get their children to centres of higher education. [More…]
This has been of tremendous assistance to our isolated children in lifting the standard of their education and giving them the same chances as children in the cities. [More…]
Last year we gave $47m to colleges of advanced education in rural areas. [More…]
The Australian Government to provide funds where necessary to obviate the disparity between urban and rural areas in the cost of education, medical services, communications and other public utilities. [More…]
A grant for education. [More…]
All social service payments, education payments, and payments to our State governments are examples of socialised expenditure. [More…]
The present Government has initiated grants through the States under section 96 for sewerage programs, area improvement programs, land councils, growth centres, urban public transport, education and health. [More…]
-And all the education commissions. [More…]
The position is that the Technical and Further Education Commission in its report, which has not been adopted, did recommend that there should be an agreement with the States whereby the States maintained effort. [More…]
The State of Victoria at present seems to be pursuing a policy whereby it leaves the bulk of the capital expenditure on technical education to the Federal Government. [More…]
I would say that, at present, that is not contrary to any agreement, but it is clearly a weakness in the present form of Australian Government assistance to the States for technical education purposes whereby there is no agreement about the maintenance of a matching effort, the Commonwealth grants can become substitutionary rather than additional. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that I have also written to Mr Batt, the Tasmanian Minister for Education, pointing out the same criticisms. [More…]
I am worried about the possible effects of the Prime Minister’s pronunciation on schoolchildren who will become the metric generation; for this reason, I am sending a copy of this letter to our colleague, the Minister for Education. [More…]
The important task ahead of the women’s section of the Prime Minister’s Department is to work in harmony with the Schools Commission on the Schools Commission’s recommendations that in the triennium immediately ahead special attention should be given to the education of women. [More…]
The Schools Commission has recognised that the present arrangements for education in this country confine the vision that women have of the career opportunities which are open to them. [More…]
2849) Mr Snedden asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Does this project conform with the activities of the Department of Education in this area. [More…]
What sum did the Department of Education expend on these activities in 1 974-75. [More…]
The Department of Social Security discussed the application with my Department on 22 April 1975 (in accordance with a procedure which requires prior consultation with respect to any project for funding under the Australian Assistance Plan which may have an education content). [More…]
It was explained that, prior to the migrant education function being transferred to my Department, the Migrant Action Committee had sought funds for the salary of a full-time coordinator for its home-tutoring program from the Minister for Immigration and subsequently the Minister for Labor and Immigration and that the request has not been approved as such an appointment would normally be made to the State Department of Education as part of the co-ordinated home tutor scheme rather than to an organisation operating independently of it. [More…]
The Department of Education assists the Committee in its home tutoring scheme by way of providing text books, home tutor kits and instruction of its tutors at the Migrant Education Centre, Adelaide. [More…]
Expenditure by the Department of Education on the home tutor scheme in 1 974-75 was $4,284 for printing, $650 to voluntary organisations for administrative costs and some $35,000 reimbursed to the State Departments of Education for co-ordination and instructors ‘ salaries. [More…]
I would mention that in relation to the inservice education program it has not been possible for all States to provide the information about all individual courses which is stipulated in section 59( 1 )(u). [More…]
Nevertheless, this report overall is remarkably comprehensive and is a significant contribution to the provision of comprehensive information on educational programs for public use. [More…]
That is a new co-educational secondary school based largely on recent researches into community life, adolescent needs, value education and curriculum design. [More…]
The Joint Board of Christian Education received a grant of $17,775. [More…]
The National Country Party never asks questions about education, it never asks questions about child care and it never asks questions about poverty. [More…]
I am not decrying their importance but I am yet to hear any member of the National Country Party rise to his feet and take an interest in technical education, immigration or social welfare. [More…]
That number is diminishing as education becomes more of an influence. [More…]
-Under the Australian Constitution education is one matter which was not- and never has been- handed over by the States to the Commonwealth. [More…]
Yet here we are today in this Commonwealth Parliament with a Commonwealth Minister for Education debating in aU seriousness the education estimates. [More…]
Starting with the Menzies Government we have seen succeeding Federal governments, both Liberal and Labor, taking unto themselves an ever increasing domination over the States in the field of education. [More…]
If one believes that the Constitution should be changed, that for instance education should be directed by the Commonwealth, there is machinery by way of a democratic referendum of the people to change the Constitution. [More…]
When something is not done which the people believe should be done in education or in any other sphere for that matter, what happens? [More…]
But let us confine this subject of government responsibility and accountability to education. [More…]
The Government made much in the Budget Speech of there being a 14.1 per cent increase in expenditure on education in the coming year. [More…]
In addition, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has stated that new initiatives will be limited in 1975-76. [More…]
One cannot but feel that had this Labor Government controlled some of its past extravagances these cut-backs in education may not now have been necessary. [More…]
The Education Department said yesterday that it was deferring all contracts for capital works because of Federal Budget cuts. [More…]
How much more important is it to improve our education facilities than to squander $ 1 ,250,000 on Blue Poles’! [More…]
I can only quote to the Minister for Education his own words as reported in the Sydney Morning Herald of 20 August 1 975. [More…]
He was reported to have told Cabinet that if so much as ‘one cent’ was cut from his proposed program it would be seen as a break in the Government’s commitment to education. [More…]
This Government has claimed great credit in the past for increases in education spending. [More…]
I believe the Minister has fought hard in Cabinet against the reductions in education spending and I commend him for the stand he appears to have taken. [More…]
I have pleasure in speaking in this debate on the estimates for the Department of Education. [More…]
I think that one must look very carefully at what the Victorian Minister for Education has done in relation to the whole question of education. [More…]
If education is the top priority of the Victorian Government why can some of this money not be channelled into the construction of schools? [More…]
In the field of technical education the actual capital expenditure by the Victorian Government is less than half of what it was 2 years ago. [More…]
The understanding was that when the Schools Commission came into being the rate of expenditure on education in the Budget would be the same as it had been up to that time. [More…]
There is no doubt that the Australian Government places a high priority on education. [More…]
After listening tonight to the honourable member for Deakin one realises that this Government’s concept of education is completely beyond the 19th century comprehension of honourable members opposite. [More…]
Since December 1972 the Government has made it clear to all that it regards education as a lifelong process, from the cradle to the rocking chair. [More…]
The Government has enlarged educational horizons far beyond the traditional 5 to 16 years age group. [More…]
Another area about which the previous Government did absolutely nothing was technical and further education. [More…]
The interest of this Government in education is reflected in the figures. [More…]
This Government has created new commissions such as the Schools Commission and the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
It has injected funds into education. [More…]
and indeed the entire nation, should never forget that the Liberal Party opposed this Government’s education program for schools to the bitter end. [More…]
It must be assumed that if honourable members opposite ever gain power again they Will dismantle the fine educational edifice that we have painstakingly built. [More…]
What the Leader of the Opposition is implying is that our educational program is aimed at turning out students as alike as peas in a pod or on a production line. [More…]
The fundamental basis of our educational program is that all people are entitled to equality of opportunity in education, whether the student concerned is a potential genius or has some special difficulty. [More…]
We also say that every child whether he is the child of a migrant, an unskilled worker, a craftsman, a farmer or a professional person, has the right to an education of quality. [More…]
I suggest that we have no reason to believe that the Opposition has learnt anything about education in the almost 3 years in which it has been out of office. [More…]
Their approach to education remains unchanged, so that the less educated continue to be less educated and the privileged few receive all the benefits- if that is the right word for it- of an education designed specifically to produce the God-given leaders of the future. [More…]
It is the people opposite whose educational equality is an education of deprivation for the vast majority of students in this nation. [More…]
-When the honourable member for Holt (Mr Oldmeadow) speaks of the underprivileged in education he should remember who are the underprivileged in this community. [More…]
Too much of education is being judged by the sum of money that is spent upon it. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), in Budget Paper No. [More…]
%-Education 1975-76- speaks of quadrupling expenditure on education in 2 years. [More…]
In actual fact, in real terms, although expenditure on education was not quadrupled, it rose far too fast. [More…]
The fact is that there were cutbacks overall, in every area with the exception of technical and further education. [More…]
Incidentally, the expenditure of this Government should not be taken as the total expenditure upon education in Australia. [More…]
If we look at the education vote, we find for instance that the amount spent on government schools in the States has risen from a nominal $288m to $299.7m, which is an increase of 4. [More…]
We might as well in this time of galloping inflation discuss education and all other aspects in real terms; otherwise, the discussion becomes meaningless. [More…]
In doing so, it had to reduce not only the rate of increase of expenditure in the area of education but also its rate of expenditure. [More…]
There is no way that expenditure on education could continue to increase at the earlier rate, given the other options that the Government chose in its Budget strategy. [More…]
So, for one year, education planning is in limbo. [More…]
The schools and education authorities have no way of knowing how they can plan where they are going. [More…]
Surely it was not necessary in reducing the rate of expenditure on education to abandon the whole planning structure? [More…]
The function that is special to a commission is, surely, that it offers public advice not only to the Commonwealth Government but also to the community, to the other governments which still have the major role in education in Australia, to the educationists and to the children, and the parents even. [More…]
Those commissions should not be asked to put forward proposals that the public will expect will be the last word in education spending. [More…]
In fact, in no way are they competent to draw priorities between areas of education- for instance, the Schools Commission is not able to draw priorities that will bind the Government in the amount of money that will be allocated to schools as opposed to the amount available for tertiary education in universities- let alone to influence the proportion of the total Budget which goes to education in relation to the proportion of the total Budget that is available for expenditure on defence or in other areas. [More…]
It will be necessary that they introduce reports that rank priorities so that they can still order the priority of expenditure within their own fields of competence but which will not be regarded as setting a level of education expenditure that is to be binding on anyone. [More…]
The special function of the commissions is that they will have made their advice within the areas of their competence to the Government and the Government will be answerable to those people in the community who are concerned with education in relation to any altering of those priorities. [More…]
Are they to accept the fact that there has been, perhaps of necessity, a long term reduction in the rate of education expenditure? [More…]
I contend that it was not necessary to abandon triennial planning in order to reduce the level of Government expenditure on education. [More…]
-The Budget allocation for education in 1975-76 is more than 18 per cent above the expenditure in 1974-75. [More…]
The total appropriation for education in 1974-75 was $1,1 72m. [More…]
But the reduction in the value of the dollar has been of the order of only 30 per cent, and we are still left with a fourfold increase in the real value of the money allocated to education by this Government in that period. [More…]
That increase reflects our very great concern about the state education in Australia was in after 23 years of laissez-faire government. [More…]
It was very interesting to note the comments of the 2 honourable members who have so far spoken for the Opposition on these estimates for the Department of Education. [More…]
In May of this year the shadow Minister or the spokesman on eduction for the Opposition, Senator Guilfoyle, stated that education spending by the Government should be cut back as part of a reduction in overall government spending. [More…]
Such was the outcry from the community, from the teacher organisations and from parent bodies which are just beginning to feel the real improvement in educational standards and facilities which this Government has been able to bring about that she has refrained from making any such comments since that date. [More…]
This evening we have heard conflicting views from the Opposition on what should be done about education and about how much should be spent. [More…]
On the one hand, the honourable member for Deakin was decrying the fact that we had not continued to increase rapidly our allocation for education, which has been a feature of the first few years of this Government’s term in office. [More…]
On the other hand, the honourable member for Moore (Mr Hyde) put forward the proposition that the increase in expenditure on education had been far too rapid and that we should be cutting back our education expenditure. [More…]
Would it increase the expenditure on education? [More…]
I suggest that the silence of its spokesman on education indicates that it is tacitly admitting that it would cut back expenditure on education but that it does not have the audacity or the courage of its convictions to admit it, because it knows full well that if it were to admit what its real actions would be it would be shown up as being the Party of privilege which it is. [More…]
I was pointing out that the Opposition has been very silent on what it would do in regard to education expenditure if it were in government. [More…]
I think we might get some indication of what it might do if we have a look at the proposals in the field of education contained in the Budget recently brought down by the Victorian Government. [More…]
We should also ask why the money was allocated in that way to the non-government schools while, as the honourable member for Holt (Mr Oldmeadow) has already commented, the Victorian Government is reducing its expenditure in the area of technical education. [More…]
-In this debate on the estimates for the Department of Education I wish to confine my remarks purely to a discussion of the Government’s budgetary proposals as compared with the recommendations of the Schools Commission and the possible effects of the changes made. [More…]
The Schools Commission recommended an outlay of $638m for 1976 while the Budget allocated about $5 10m in 1975-76 to educational programs funded by the Schools Commission. [More…]
It is fair to mention, however, that $70m has been included in the total education program for cost escalations. [More…]
This Parliament should recognise, as should all Australians interested and concerned about the expansion and improvement of education facilities, that the inability of the Government to come to grips with inflation has directly restricted the real value of these allocations. [More…]
In education this fact was reflected during the last financial year when additional legislation and appropriations of several million dollars were necessary simply to maintain continuing programs. [More…]
The major implication of the reduction and slowing down in capital expenditure- a drop of 27 per cent as I have already mentioned- is that education planning will suffer a major setback which could take some time to recover. [More…]
The 39 per cent increase in recurrent expenditure appears to indicate that the promise of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in a statement on 20 August that existing standards and staff-student ratios would be maintained may have a reasonable chance of being implemented. [More…]
If not, a real cutback of educational recurrent resources, particularly in staffstudent ratios, may occur and the fears expressed by many State education Ministers may not just be political opportunism, as several Government members have suggested. [More…]
The other major decision made in the Budget in relation to education can only be described as alarming. [More…]
This is the rejection of the recommendations by all 4 commissions working in the field of education and the call for a total reappraisal of these commissions’ recommendations. [More…]
There is now no program for education after the end of this year and those concerned about educational opportunity and development are facing uncertainty at schools and within the system. [More…]
We should remember that education is primarily for those being educated. [More…]
The honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) and the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) earlier in the debate today made totally dishonest statements when referring to the National Country Party’s attitude and interest in education. [More…]
I believe that I have spoken on almost every education Bill that has been introduced into the Parliament since I have been a member of it and, I may say, agreed with most of the initiatives undertaken. [More…]
Nobody would ever be satisfied with the quality of education his children are to receive or do receive. [More…]
There is no doubt that this decision will have repercussions particularly in the primary education field where some very serious deficiencies are occurring. [More…]
-Despite the economic restraints, education occupies a very high and important place in this Budget. [More…]
This Australian Labor Party Government has made education a priority issue in the Australian community. [More…]
Let me say at once to the honourable member for Deakin (Mr Jarman) who is not in the chamber at the moment: It was not a Labor government in Canberra which introduced the first educational initiative, the first plan of education. [More…]
It was the government of the former Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, that introduced the Universities Commission, which I would say made a very notable contribution towards the development of education in Australia by the infusion of Commonwealth funds into that sphere. [More…]
The honourable member for Mallee (Mr Fisher) cited quite a number of figures which, quite honestly, I have not been able to follow but I would suggest to him that the real test of what has happened in the last 3 years, irrespective of inflation, is just how important a contribution has been made by the provision of additional educational resources and the availability of those resources as spread amongst the mass of the students in our community. [More…]
All of these things provide evidence of the enthusiasm of this Government and, if I may say so, of the enthusiasm of the Australian Minister for Education, Mr Kim Beazley. [More…]
The Budget not only puts an overall emphasis on education, but it provides specifically for certain areas of priority. [More…]
I think the Government has gone about the job in co-operation with the State departments and private educational bodies to arrive at a fairly reasonable level of competence in identifying what is meant by ‘disadvantaged’. [More…]
The education of migrants and Aborigines is another area that claims priority. [More…]
There is also the matter of the education of our handicapped children. [More…]
As I have said, there has been a massive injection of resources into the educational scene in Australia. [More…]
In less than 3 years, a Labor Government here in Canberra has increased the resources available through or on the recommendation of the various authorities referred to in the estimates for the Department of Education. [More…]
The paper is entitled ‘Education 1975-76’ and Table 1 is headed ‘Australian Government Outlays on Education ‘. [More…]
It is a comprehensive and detailed table comparing Australian Government expenditure on education at various levels since 1972-73 up to the estimated expenditure in 1975-76. [More…]
The table shows that whereas total expenditure on education by the Australian Government in 1972-73 was $442.6m, it is budgeted to reach $ 1,908.2m this financial year. [More…]
The sum of $70m which has been referred to before is dedicated in part to school education. [More…]
The document draws particular attention to the fact that in that short period expenditure in 3 areas, namely schools, pre-schools and child care which is one group; technical colleges which comprise a second group; and colleges of advanced education which comprise a third group, the increase has been more than five-fold. [More…]
The provision of finance is no guarantee of quality in education. [More…]
I suggest that there is an economy by the Commonwealth doing this in co-operation with the States instead of allowing the State education authorities and private education authorities to overlap one another and wastefully to duplicate their efforts. [More…]
Division 281 of the estimates for the Department of Education makes financial provision for the Curriculum Development Centre. [More…]
So we are not just concerned with bricks and mortar and with the number of teachers standing before classes; we are concerned with the quality of education. [More…]
In division 270 of the Estimates, $900,000 is made available for research and development in education. [More…]
I have just touched upon some of the things that are in these estimates and which will improve not only the quantity but the quality of education. [More…]
-In rising to speak on the Estimates for the Department of Education, I should like to draw the attention of the Committee to the information paper presented by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
In the paper the Minister talks in terms of the massive increase in the overall amount related to education. [More…]
We see that the colleges of advanced education are receiving an increase of approximately 3 per cent over last year’s allocation. [More…]
We see that the technical education area receives an increase of 41 per cent. [More…]
But then we realise that in the field of universities, the amount expended is $569m; in the area of the colleges of advanced education it is $495m; but in the technical education field it is a mere $ 101m. [More…]
These are hardly magnificent increases in the field of education when one considers inflation. [More…]
This means we will obviously have to allow for at least another $200m to $300m in education expenditure to allow for indexation. [More…]
I am not saying that the Government should not allow for these increases, but the Government must allow for the fact that all the items in the Budget are going to be subject to the same pressures and if allowance is made for indexation in terms of rising costs because of the inflationary trends there will be an increase in the projected deficit of $2,750m to something like $3,000m or $4,000m because in education alone the increased expenditure will be at least $200m to $300m. [More…]
I know that the Minister has received correspondence from the College of Advanced Education in Bendigo and also the state college in Bendigo expressing concern because the amount of money provided in these estimates for building programs is roughly the same as the amount proposed at the start of last year. [More…]
I have mentioned the increase of 41 per cent in technical education. [More…]
I look further down the table set out in the document on education attached to the Budget Papers and see that in the area of government schools, pre-schools and child care centres in the Territories the proposed expenditure has risen from $72m to $96m by roughly 3316 per cent. [More…]
The universities are getting an increase of 33 per cent but the colleges of advanced education are getting an increase of only 3 per cent. [More…]
Surely this means that in effect there has been a cut in educational expenditure. [More…]
In effect you are getting a cut in the amount of money to be provided for your sector of education’. [More…]
The Government has used this excuse of going back to re-think the situation as a basis for holding up education programs which is has so proudly presented and which it has so proudly said represents great achievements. [More…]
I do not deny that the Government has achieved a lot in education but it is starting to go downhill in this field right now. [More…]
The schools cannot budget properly for their building projects and education programs with money being appropriated for only one year. [More…]
The Minister is well aware that during the last triennium a lot of money was provided for various areas of education as is clearly set out in the Minister’s report. [More…]
That does not exonerate the States in any way, because in many cases I believe the State education authorities have used money unwisely. [More…]
The Australian Government, like some State education systems, has not used money wisely either. [More…]
I hope it comes forward with an honest policy and an honest estimate of the money that will need to be provided for expenditure on education. [More…]
-Children who are poor, children who are black, children who are female, children from families where English is spoken, if at all, as a second language, children from country areas or children who suffer from mental or physical handicaps, including specific learning difficulties, have been victims of educational deprivation on a massive scale. [More…]
If in this place debates on education tend to be expressed in terms of money it is because of the massive infusion of funds which has been necessary over the last 3 years to redress the balance to some extent. [More…]
It will be a slow and painful process, a slow and expensive process making good the years that the locusts ate up- the 23 years when educational expenditure in this country at the Federal level and at the State level was low and misdirected because overwhelmingly it was the children I have catalogued whose schools were the most crowded, the oldest, whose classes were the largest, whose equipment was the most inadequate, who overall received the worst possible deal educationally. [More…]
For those children who came from homes where education was valued, where achievement was encouraged, for those children what encouragement was available educationally was given but it would be a mistake for these Estimates debates to be concerned exclusively with expenditure. [More…]
It would be a mistake to make too much of the figures which have been set out by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in the paper attached to the Budget Papers and to which the honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Bourchier) referred because it has become very clear, I think, to people professionally involved in the field of education, and it is becoming clear to the community at large, that no amount of money can make good entirely for a lack of stimulus in the home. [More…]
No amount of expenditure on schools can wholly compensate those children who come from homes where little or no value is placed on education or where the education process is ill understood. [More…]
I want to say something tonight in the context of these estimates about the need for parental education. [More…]
It was recognised 10 years ago in the United States that children who had had the advantage of a pre-school education were able to come to grips more rapidly and more thoroughly with the formal education process when they got to primary school; that at every subsequent stage of education they were better off than children who had not been able to find places in pre-school centres. [More…]
I was saying when I was interrupted by the honourable member for Stirling (Mr Viner), who called for the quorum and who appears not to take the subject under discussion seriously, that the United States federal government initiated the head-start program so that poor children, black children and children disadvantaged in other ways would be fully equipped to take advantage of a primary school education when it became available to them. [More…]
As a result the American government now is spending more in the field of educational research on parental education than on any other area of educational activity. [More…]
Tonight I want simply to register a request with the Minister for Education that we should similarly take this business of parental education seriously. [More…]
It is extraordinary how little use we have so far made of television in this country for education in any of its forms, but most particularly for education in the forms which are important to people who cannot otherwise be reached. [More…]
I would like to see a close co-operation developed between the Children’s Commission, the Schools Commission, the Department of Education, the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations so that a concerted effort can be made to bring parents advice on the child raising process. [More…]
We should draw on that body of experience and research to devise programs which will meet the sort of problems which cripple the later education of so many of our children. [More…]
This is not a task which is beyond the resources of this country, either financially, in terms of educational expertise or in terms of the resources of the television industry. [More…]
This is an exciting field waiting to be opened educationally. [More…]
It would have been a pity if the discussion of these estimates had gone by without some reference being made to a major new field- the field of parental education. [More…]
Public education programs have been conducted to convince citizens of the need for unity. [More…]
-I address a question to the Minister for Education. [More…]
Has the Minister any plans to alter the ARGC triennium to bring it into line with the intention to start the new triennium for education in 1977 instead of 1976? [More…]
New South Wales itself does spend heavily on education. [More…]
The Government of New South Wales is by no means falling down on the job of providing for education, at least not in the area of capital grants. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has suggested that New South Wales should assess its priorities and that if it believes that the construction program has a high priority it should allocate from the untied grants the money that is involved. [More…]
That $68m has to be applied to a wide range of New South Wales Government programs, apart from this specific area of education. [More…]
I have spoken to the Minister of Education about this matter, admittedly briefly. [More…]
In fact, in its Budget introduced yesterday, the New South Wales Government did increase its expenditure on education. [More…]
People in country areas are faced with increased costs in transporting their children to secondary schools in order to get an education, and again if there is any sort of serious illness in their families. [More…]
The Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) is responsible for $633m; the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) for $l,800m; the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) for $ 1,908m; the Minister for Health (Dr Everingham) for $2,778m; and at the top of the list is the Minister for Social Security and Minister for Repatriation and Compensation (Senator Wheeldon) who is responsible for $4,772m. [More…]
Present education and training arrangements for the Australian maritime and fishing industries are quite inadequate. [More…]
The Australian Maritime College will give courses for deck, engineer and radio officers and will have many of the characteristics of a college of advanced education; but it will also be concerned with the provision and co-ordination of courses at technical college level for ratings, fishing boat crew and others. [More…]
It will be a new and unique institution in the education system of this country, and there are many details of its functions and governance which will call for careful planning. [More…]
In this planning process, it will be particularly important to involve those who know the special needs involved- the relevant unions, the ship owners, the fishing industry- as well as educationists. [More…]
My colleagues, the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) and the Minister for Agriculture (Senator Wriedt), naturally have a special concern and interest in this; and recent maritime disasters have underlined for all of us the importance of providing the best possible training and education for personnel in the maritime area. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Education, has already introduced legislation to enable establishment of the College. [More…]
As the Prime Minister announced not long ago, the College will be set up in Launceston, and will provide for the most modern professional education of the several categories of seafarer. [More…]
I hope that what he has to say is listened to by the State authorities because some State education departments have been far too slow in opening up the use of school grounds. [More…]
The Government is also assisting with technical expertise, public education programs and legal aid through the Australian Legal Aid Office. [More…]
Over the years when Australia was prosperous and economically stable I unequivocally supported our bilateral aid programs, particularly our aid to Papua New Guinea and under the Colombo Plan- which was initiated by this country some 25 years ago- our contribution to international education and training schemes, our food aid and disaster relief and other emergency relief programs and so on. [More…]
Not only would the education programs, including Karmel recommendations, of this Government be placed in jeopardy but also the community health program would be placed in jeopardy. [More…]
The school dental scheme aims basically at prevention, preventive dental care and educationeducating the children and their parents in proper dental care. [More…]
The scheme is run mainly by female graduates following a 2-year course at colleges of advanced education in the various States and services are provided free of charge, all the people in the service being salaried. [More…]
The school dental scheme really is on the same principle as the education service. [More…]
They X-ray children’s teeth and perhaps most importantly they carry out general education programs for the children in the schools, and they ask the parents to come along as well. [More…]
The only code that would be fully supported is one which rather than contributing to the promotion of increasing consumption, would involve the industry in contributing to the area of community education by promoting in a positive manner more enlightened drinking patterns. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
In June 1974 migrant education was transferred to my portfolio. [More…]
I have not held discussions on the matter referred to with the Minister for Labor and Immigration but as Minister responsible for migrant education I recognise the arguments for increasing foreign language content not only in school libraries but in public and regional libraries generally. [More…]
Library services in foreign languages are seen also as part of community education insofar as it relates to migrants, and this functionally is the responsibility of the Department of Social Security. [More…]
-Will the Minister for Education acquaint the House with the thinking of the Government in the recent decision to move the Schools Commission to Albury-Wodonga? [More…]
In the slowing of the rate of educational development associated with the Budget the Albury-Wodonga university is not proceeding immediately and this has created for a good many people a problem which I think needs re-examination. [More…]
They are an advanced form of secondary education that many of these employees desire their children to enter and there is no equivalent in Albury-Wodonga, so some of the things that were once in phase and in coordination have ceased to be so. [More…]
When members of the Opposition say they want less government so that there will be more freedom they really mean that they want to cut back on these sorts of initiatives, cut back on education and cut back on urban improvement so that there will be freedom of the wealthy- those who have had a happy and wealthy inheritance- to hang on to what they have and to mimimise their liability to support the rest of the community. [More…]
In Spring Road, Springvale, there is a perfect example of the type of building that can be turned out by the Holmesglen Construction Company, if it were working to capacity, at a much cheaper rate than educational buildings that are built by the State education department in Victoria today. [More…]
If one is building through the non-government sector one will get a school reasonably quickly and for about $90,000 less than one can get it through the State education department [More…]
One need only look at what Victoria has done in the technical education sphere to see how they can wriggle out. [More…]
The larger the tied grant that comes from the Australian Government for technical education the less that is put in by the responsible government, or what should be the responsible government. [More…]
That statement is like the claims that we have heard recently from the New South Wales Minister for Education in respect of which it has been shown that he is receiving extra per capita grants of an additional 43 per cent from which he pays teachers’ salaries. [More…]
They have families to support and to educate but no fully organised program of migrant education. [More…]
These bodies are responsible for determining the conditions of employment and should ensure that interpreting skills are adequately rewarded and positive action is taken to ensure that positions as interpreters are provided for the students now under training at universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Government for the funds that are being spent on migrant education, on language training. [More…]
In 1970-71 the government he supported, a Liberal-Country Party government, spent $3.875m on the total migrant education services. [More…]
One has to look at the estimates for the Department of Education to find the figure for adult migrant education. [More…]
Not only is there a continuing construction program but there is also a continuing program of advancement in health, education, Aboriginal affairs, social development and improvements in outback roadworks and other facilities. [More…]
The full text of the Committee’s comment is contained in its report ‘Expansion of Medical Education’, paragraphs 9.45 to 9.52. [More…]
drawing attention to the need for changes in the education of pharmacists- as was done in the Report on Australian Health Manpower, submitted in February 1975. [More…]
(a) In each of the three years of the campaign, Australian Government projects were funded in conjunction with State Government activities in anti-smoking education. [More…]
The allocation of these funds was rationalised by the Advisory Committee on Smoking Education to co-ordinate projects and avoid duplication. [More…]
1 ) Grants are available to Aboriginal communities and groups from funds voted to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs by the Parliament for a variety of purposes, including Welfare, Housing, Education, Health, Community Amenities, Aboriginal Land Fund Commission, Loans Commission and Legal Aid. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Is it a fact that the Minister for Social Security has appointed Ms Eva Learner to the Social Welfare Commission as a Welfare Education Consultant to provide advice on curriculum in the context of educational programs developed within institutes such as universities, colleges of advanced education and technical colleges, concerning training for social work. [More…]
Her appointment is for a period of two years to establish whether there is a need for a body such as a National Council for Social Welfare Education in Australia to co-ordinate welfare education. [More…]
Ms Learner has not been engaged to provide advice on the course content of education programs. [More…]
I have written to the Minister for Social Security to request that Ms Learner consult with the appropriate education authorities. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Developing special education workshops in schools and the community which would outline the dangers and problems associated with the use of alcohol in the course of discussing those social customs, interhuman relationships and other problems which determine sensible or unwise use of alcohol, as well as the related problems of use of other drugs, sexual adjustment, academic, vocational and other matters of concern to youth, in a non-judgmental, non-directive atmosphere conducive to national group consensus on responsible group behaviour, with teachers and parents invited. [More…]
Now, in mentioning school leavers and others, I refer to the problem of young people from technical colleges, colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]
I do not know whether the figures are available but many young people who finished their education at the end of 1974 were forced to go back to school in the 1975 school year. [More…]
In the last 8 years of LiberalCountry Party administration in this country the Government spent $77m on technical and further education. [More…]
If it involved further cutbacks in areas like education and social welfare, this would mean there would be more unemployment in those areas as well. [More…]
Other complaints concern advertising, floor con.verings, furniture, footwear, dry cleaning, laundering, hiring, insurance finance, education, health and fitness, packaging, dangerous and hazardous products, door sales, mail order sales, prices and professional services. [More…]
If consumer advice and education are to be of value to the consumer they must be readily available, free and relevant. [More…]
For instance, it is not understood that the schools there do not receive good television reception and the education of the children consequently suffers. [More…]
There are 127 children in the State primary school, 92 to 100 at St Joseph’s and 100 to 1 50 in the Seventh Day Adventist Primary school- a total of about 350 children in primary schools suffering in their education because they cannot get satisfactory television reception. [More…]
They want to live there because of the advantages that cities give thememployment opportunities, business opportunities, education, sport, culture, recreation, and so one could go on. [More…]
The information provided by the honourable gentleman to the newspaper and repudiated by Sir Eric Willis was the information provided to the Schools Commission about those specific schools by officers of the New South Wales Department of Education as they are required by law to do. [More…]
All I want to say is that the $784m and the $465.2m are additional to the efforts of State governments and of the non-government education authorities. [More…]
The definition of student for the purpose of the higher of the 2 rebates for children is to be extended from the present definition to include any child under 25 years of age receiving full-time education at a school, college or university. [More…]
I should, however, refer to education expenses. [More…]
The concessional allowances for both education expenses for a child and for so-called selfeducation expenses are, of course, to be absorbed into the rebate system. [More…]
But the limit on the amounts to be taken into account is to be increased from $150 to $250 and, in the case of self-education expenses, the range of expenditure is to be widened beyond the cost of fees, books and equipment, so as to include all expenses necessarily incurred in connection with a prescribed course of education. [More…]
Self-education expenses in excess of $250 will fall for consideration under the general deduction provisions of the income tax law. [More…]
Reference has been made to education, transport, health and matters in the international field. [More…]
I agree that there is an element of difficulty in regard to this matter, but I feel that advances have been made, for example in the fields of education, health and agriculture. [More…]
The philosophy running through the major programs of reform introduced by our Government in the areas of health, education social security and others is a necessity to provide services to the people of Australia on the basis of needs. [More…]
I should like to make several observations regarding the need for legal education in secondary schools. [More…]
I think the ALAO can play a role in the field of legal education in schools. [More…]
There is no doubt that a legal education program will assist teacher; to reach understanding with students about the role of law in society. [More…]
The challenge exists to find ways of providing education in legal matters to adults in our communities, particularly to the inarticulate and the migrant groups. [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister for Education. [More…]
I regret that I cannot give the honourable gentleman details of capital expenditure by all States over the last few years, but they are set out in the Technical and Further Education Committee report. [More…]
Over that same period Commonwealth grants for technical education buildings rose from $3.5m to $6.5m and they have risen further in the current Budget. [More…]
If the Victorian State Government set out deliberately to offset the value of Commonwealth grants for improving technical education in Victoria by way of constructing buildings it would do, I think, exactly what it is doing. [More…]
Similar comments can be made in respect of education spending. [More…]
The education estimates presented in the Budget statements contain an allowance for adjustment for cost escalation in education grants of $20m. [More…]
If cost increases occur at a more realistic rate there will of course be a requirement for greater funds to be spent on education. [More…]
Let us take a cut of some 12 per cent and look at education. [More…]
What would this cut mean to education? [More…]
The total outlays for the 3 commissions, universities, colleges of advanced education, schools and for the commission on technical education this year are of the order of $1,4 10m. [More…]
It would represent some 800 academic and non-academic staff members being sacked from colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It would mean that at universities some 25 000 fewer entrances would be offered or at colleges of advanced education some 10 000 fewer full-time entrances would be offered. [More…]
In the area of education alone it represents a cut of some 24 per cent. [More…]
The Interim Commission was also asked to examine general issues pertinent to consumer protection, to encourage the formation of a federation of consumer organisations, to investigate consumer education, to arrange liaison between Federal and State consumer officials and, most importantly, to make recommendations about a permanent body that should ultimately take its place. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Education: What is the position of non-government schools under the proposals of the Schools Commission for 1976? [More…]
The people want to see their urban areas develop in a balanced way with recognition that in an urban area there is need to provide not only housing but also access to employment, education and commercial, social and recreational facilities. [More…]
Each department has concerned itself with its own functions whether they be transport, education, health, trade, manufacturing or postal. [More…]
If it is there to co-ordinate and develop the expertise of the community at large we can see it having a useful role, for there are professional and technical experts in local government, in State government authorities and their instrumentalities, in universities and in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) said that in considering other amendments necessary to the legislation the Government took the opportunity of reviewing the title of the Teaching Service and indicated that the Bill would seek to amend the title from the. [More…]
We recognise that there are different systems of education in Australia, some of which have State titles attached to them. [More…]
There is nothing wrong with differing systems of education in a country with different services because this can lead to a change in methods, a change in style and a change in systems. [More…]
On 28 September the Australian Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in a Press release on the teacher exchange program said there was need to promote the exchange of experience between teachers in different States and educational systems. [More…]
I am sure that the Australian Teaching Service will add its quota to these methods and to this information, because the Australian Teaching Service reflects quite a worth while step by an Australian Government in accepting direct responsibility for the provision of primary and secondary education in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]
This Bill serves as a reminder that that has occurred, and of the quality of education that is being built up in that system. [More…]
I think it is only proper that the Australian Teaching Service should make provision for this instead of its being dependent on the New South Wales Department of Technical Education, no matter how much co-operation there has been in the past. [More…]
It is a natural adjunct to taking over primary and secondary education that provision should now be made for technical education. [More…]
I hope that now that technical education has been taken under the cover of this Service the Service will develop its own type and style of education in the technical field. [More…]
Technical education has been in too many areas the Cinderella of the educational field. [More…]
Now that we have this opportunity not to run a technical education program by arrangement between an Australian department and a State department but to provide the teachers to the Australian Capital Territory technical colleges in this way perhaps we may be able to start a program of innovation and experimentation in that field which will be of great benefit in the future. [More…]
As I say, an example of this would be in a teaching exchange program, because one finds, say, in comparing the Victorian system of education with that of New South Wales that there are vast differences. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), in his reply during the second reading debate to comments I made with regard to the Opposition proposals to amend this Bill, simply dealt with the question whether the word ‘Commonwealth’ should be retained in preference to the word ‘Australian’. [More…]
Mr Chairman, in the second reading debate you referred to the importance of having an Australian teaching service just as we have a Victorian teaching service but you failed apparently to understand that the impression would be created, both here and overseas, that the service that employed teachers under the title of the Australian Teaching Service was in fact a superior service and not a service of teachers of equal standard to those in the service of State education departments. [More…]
-The purpose of this Bill, as the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has already pointed out, is to establish an Australian Maritime College and to provide the machinery for the planning and development of such a college. [More…]
It is important, as I have often said as Minister, that nautical training courses need to be more broadly based and, at an education level, appropriate to the abilities of the present entrants. [More…]
So that not only training, in the sense of fitting the man for the job is involved in this particular philosophy but also the education in the sense of fitting the man for life is of paramount importance. [More…]
The paper goes on to point out that, in the field of general and technical education, training available for seafarers is less than that available in major maritime countries and that no courses are available for extra-master mariner. [More…]
It will be a new and unique institution in the education system of this country, and there are many details of its functions and governance which will call for careful planning. [More…]
On the contrary, the Government could well give every consideration to expanding a college of advanced education in the disciplines of agriculture, mining, metallurgy and geology. [More…]
But another further consideration must surely be the educational facilities available at the site. [More…]
Nautical education today calls upon a very diverse background of knowledge. [More…]
Advanced education in Launceston has only recently been changed from a teacher-training college and the wide spectrum of practical knowledge called for in nautical training is not available. [More…]
One of the prime reasons for changing the present training structure is to bring it within the mainstream of general education and to make available to the master mariner an academic award which is recognised by the community. [More…]
This suggests a choice of several academic awards including the certificate and associate diploma granted by technical colleges, the diploma granted by colleges of advanced education and the degree granted by universities. [More…]
It should be appreciated in Launceston ‘s education, business and communications circles, but I doubt whether many of them will appreciate it. [More…]
I pay a tribute to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) and the Minister for Agriculture (Senator Wriedt), all of whom have played a vital role in bringing this project to fruition. [More…]
Anyway, that is a bit of the history of” this industry and in order to complete the story I must say that it was in November 1974 that the Australian Government agreed to implement this recommendation for the establishment of an Australian Maritime College to be associated with, if appropriate, an existing college of advanced education. [More…]
Anyway, it has now been decided to build the Maritime College in Launceston alongside the College of Advanced Education in that city. [More…]
The Maritime College will draw on the experience of the College of Advanced Education in certain subjects. [More…]
I think it is an ideal set-up to have the Maritime College alongside the College of Advanced Education that we have in northern Tasmania. [More…]
Certain courses will fall naturally into the framework of this College, such as the advanced education level for people wishing to become deck, engineering or radio officers on the larger merchant and fishing vessels, and courses for members, of merchant and fishing fleets who wish to upgrade their qualifications or undertake refresher courses. [More…]
It is expected that there will be a need to provide further training for former marine personnel associated with the fishing and shipping industries, such as fleet managers, marine superintendents, marine surveyors, marine education officers, lecturers, fishing technologists and fisheries officers. [More…]
In order to facilitate the provision of these courses, it would be preferable for the Newnham campus of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education to offer diploma or degree-level programs in engineering, applied science and business studies which would for example include the following basic subjects: mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, mechanical and electrical engineering, economics, management and legal studies. [More…]
The idea is that the College of Advanced Education would be paid so much by the Maritime [More…]
College for education in these fields and that the Maritime College might reasonably be expected to provide the following subjects at advanced education level to complement what I have just said: Navigation, nautical astronomy, hydrography, meteorology, aspects of marine science, fishing technology, ship construction and design, marine engineering, shipping practice, marine law and insurance, and sea transport management. [More…]
The major issues to be dealt with in this report are identified as: whether all those who work on Australian commercial ships are trained to a high enough standard using the present system whether the present methods of training will be adequate for the future whether the present method of certifying crews ‘ competency is suitable now and for the future whether there is a need for more technical training and a higher level of education whether an Australian Merchant Marine College should be established to provide a complete and extended education for seafarers. [More…]
That would come right within the field of the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
As I have mentioned, the siting of this college near the campus of the Northern School of Advanced Education is close to all these features that would be required. [More…]
I say that that particular committee would be one of the most unique in the Commonwealth where there are shipowners and seamen’s union representatives sitting round the same table with the fishing industry boys to work out the problem of higher education. [More…]
The first thing I should like to deal with is the need for education for commercial fishermen. [More…]
This type of industry needs special education. [More…]
One is a rather hairy one to come to grips with in the present situation between the Federal and State governments in the coordination of education matters, but it is still worthy of note; that is, that it is to be hoped that when this College is established it will be able to co-ordinate and rationalise those courses that are conducted in other States. [More…]
It has sheltered waters, the city and dockyard facilities, but more important than anything else it has the College of Advanced Education and that College in Launceston, hopefully anyway when the Government inquiry eventually hands down its recommendations, will not only earn its own autonomy but also we will see an increase in the establishment at that College and the range of subjects that it will teach. [More…]
In fact it is noteworthy that he went further and said the central maritime college should be part of a college of advanced education and not established separately. [More…]
I think I can nail that problem here and now because in talks with the principal of the College of Advanced Education he has told me that over the years there has been absolutely no problem in encouraging staff to the College of Advanced Education in Launceston and at the present moment he has a wide range of teaching staff who come from all States and in fact from countries like England, America and Canada. [More…]
Of course the existence of the College of Advanced Education and the Technical College at Launceston means that there can be mutual benefits for those institutions and for the Maritime College and through it, the shipping industry. [More…]
In March of this year we announced that a Liberal-Country Party Government would site the national merchant marine college in Tasmania and, subject to the approval of the Tasmanian State Government, at a site associated with the northern division of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, that is, in Launceston. [More…]
Subsequently, in May 1974, the Government received a report from Commissioner Summers as part of the commission of inquiry into the maritime industry which recommended urgent action to establish a merchant marine college as part of the existing College of Advanced Education, near the sea and close to a major centre of population and fishing operation, as part of the tertiary education system in Australia, funded like any other college of advanced education. [More…]
First of all, I would like to answer the point raised by the honourable member for Bass and the right honourable member for Bruce, who both spoke of the Maritime College as being a college of advanced education. [More…]
It is not going to be a college of advanced education in the sense of one that is conducted by the State in Tasmania. [More…]
It is going to be drawing its students from all over Australia, so the decisions in education in this College will not be vested in the Tasmanian Government or in institutions of the Tasmanian Government as they are in a college of advanced education in Tasmania. [More…]
I know that the Tasmanian Government regards them as autonomous but the Tasmanian Government is primarily concerned about the recruitment of students from that State to its higher educational institutions. [More…]
The honourable member for Gippsland mentioned also the question of the limitations of the education facilities now available at Launceston. [More…]
It is not intended that all the educational requirements of the Maritime College will be met by the existing facilities. [More…]
The Maritime College can be expected to make use of those science, engineering and other units that are readily available on the Newnham campus of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education and to make its own arrangements for whatever other educational units are appropriate. [More…]
The Newnham campus of the College of Advanced Education has many courses and facilities that could be extremely useful to the Maritime College. [More…]
I would say also that the technical education facilities at Launceston, if they are to service this College, will obviously have to be upgraded. [More…]
The whole question of the available education facilities in Launceston is currently under consideration by the Karmel committee of inquiry into post-secondary education in Tasmania. [More…]
I toured the north of Tasmania and was concerned at something that I had not known previously which is the vehemence with which the north and north-west of Tasmania think that educational facilities are concentrated in the south. [More…]
It was for that reason that the committee was established to consider the distribution of tertiary and post-secondary educational facilities in Tasmania. [More…]
Many of our young people pass through our rigid education system having attained little or no development of their creative faculties and so have a great inability to occupy their spare time. [More…]
(a), (c) and (d) Financial assistance in the form of Direct Grants is available to incorporated Aboriginal groups and organisations in a variety of fields such as housing, health, education, employment, welfare, economic enterprises, town management, recreation and agricultural activities and legal aid. [More…]
The Joint Board of Christian Education undertook a study of the way in which a variety of churches in six widely scattered communities across Australia provided services to youth. [More…]
Education in the States will be short of some $360m at least. [More…]
In education this action would mean the sacking of at least 3 000 teachers, or it would mean more than 7 000 academic and non-academic staff at universities being retrenched. [More…]
I should like to return to the issue of education. [More…]
We have brought legislation into this Parliament on the basis of equality of education. [More…]
This year we are allocating $ 1,900m to education. [More…]
If that is the case, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) might argue that he should have the final say in matters of policy regarding the various educational institutions to which this Government allocates funds. [More…]
The final amendment inserts a new paragraph which gives the Commission, within its general research and advice functions, a role in the vital field of public education and is cognate to that providing for a public education role for the Office. [More…]
In education there would be substantial retrenchments. [More…]
On page 3 of today’s Australian there is an article reporting the honourable member for Warringah (Mr MacKellar), the Federal Opposition’s spokesman on immigration, as saying that a Federal Government report critical of migrant education had been virtually suppressed and quoting the migrant newspaper La Fiamma as describing the report as ‘the gravest scandal in migrant history’. [More…]
It drew attention to the fact that in the last few years increasing evidence has become available on the educational plight of immigrant children and that increasing pressure has been applied to have the situation remedied. [More…]
Yesterday the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) claimed that I had misrepresented him by saying a report on migrant education had been virtually suppressed. [More…]
We then rang the Department of Education. [More…]
In the Department of Education around 3000 teachers could be expected to be retrenched. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to set up, in place of the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education, a Teriary Education Commission assisted by 2 Councils which are to advise the Government on the development and support of higher education in Australia. [More…]
The establishment of a Tertiary Education Commission has been a possibility for a number of years, but the importance of greater co-ordination has recently become more apparent. [More…]
Since 1965, when the advisory body on advanced education was set up in parallel to the Universities Commission, a number of significant changes have taken place. [More…]
The panel, whose recommendations the Government has accepted in deciding to establish the Tertiary Commission, has pointed out these factors: There has been very considerable growth in tertiary education, particularly in the advanced education sector, which has matured and is now comparable with the universities sector in terms of the resources committed to it; teacher education has been accepted within the advanced education program; tuition fees have been abolished; and the Australian Government has taken on full financial responsibility for tertiary education. [More…]
A great deal of consultation takes place between the 2 existing commissions, but their formal responsibilities remain separate, and no amount of consultation can guarantee the degree of overall co-ordination and rationalisation in tertiary education programs which are now clearly desirable. [More…]
As the claims of universities and colleges of advanced education on resources have become enormous, the co-ordination of these claims- especially capital claims- through a tertiary education commission has become essential. [More…]
For example, whilst the schedules to the present Bill have been drawn up on the basis of the existing situation, the new Commission will be expected to give careful consideration to the lists in the schedules, and the position of some institutions may need to be re-appraised, now that there is a Technical and Further Education Commission operating. [More…]
The Government will look to the Commission and its Councils to take steps to increase the chances for higher education throughout the nation in diverse ways, including what has become known as open tertiary education. [More…]
Open tertiary education is clearly a matter worthy of such special attention. [More…]
I would like to make special mention of the extent to which the Commission will be expected to consult with all those bodies which have a concern with tertiary education and its interface with other areas. [More…]
Clause 7 (2) of the Bill provides that the Commission shall consult, as appropriate, with the Technical and Further Education Commission, with universities and colleges of advanced education and with the States, as well as with other appropriate persons and organisations. [More…]
It will be capable of making decisions concerning what is called open tertiary education, a function that was recommended for a body called the National Institute of Open Tertiary Education which the Government has not accepted. [More…]
Tertiary education capital planning calls for skilled building labour, a great flow of building material, and the prevention of wasteful competition between programs. [More…]
We have reached the stage where educational building has reached over $400m in a year. [More…]
The balance of approximately $50m is proposed to be expended on Aboriginal programs by the Department of Education for study grants, secondary grants, overseas study grants and expenditure in the Northern Territory; the Department of Health on health and medical services for Aboriginals in the Northern Territory; the Department of Labor and Immigration on the Aboriginal Employment Training Scheme; and the Departments of Housing and Construction, Northern Australia, and Urban and Regional Development on various services and facilities. [More…]
Substantial funds will also be provided for the provision of such services as health, education, employment, legal aid and other social assistance programs to Aboriginals either by funding Aboriginal communities direct or by providing payments to State instrumentalities. [More…]
In the field of education approximately $9m has been spent on costs associated with schools and equipment, staff accommodation and so on, directly associated with the bringing of education to the Aboriginal community. [More…]
Nearly 12 000 Aboriginal children have been assisted under the Secondary Grants Scheme and 1400 Aboriginal people who had previously foregone further educational opportunities have been assisted under the Aboriginal Study Grants Scheme. [More…]
These and other localised schemes supported by the Government for the improvement of educational opportunities for Aboriginals have begun to produce a flow of Aboriginals into the general workforce with better educational qualifications than would otherwise have been possible. [More…]
Health programs rank in equal importance with the Australian Government’s approach to the housing, educational, and employment needs of Aboriginals. [More…]
It has encouraged, as with education, the training of Aboriginals so that they may bring appropriate health services to their own people. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Education inform the House of the effect, if any, on funds for education purposes if the Senate continues its obstruction of the passage of the Budget? [More…]
Can he also say what the effect might be on the availability of places in tertiary education in 1976? [More…]
In respect of the other areas of health, education, development and so on I can get my colleagues to answer. [More…]
I think there is something to fear in a pernicious doctrine which has now crept into the Liberal Party’s philosophy of the voucher system which has been espoused by the Opposition’s spokesman on education in another place who talks about an education voucher policy and by the honourable member for Hotham who talks about welfare vouchers. [More…]
I would like to give honourable members an example of what would happen if we were to apply the voucher system to the field of education. [More…]
The poor people would spend their voucher money on education but the wealthy people would spend their voucher money plus other money of their own. [More…]
The result would be that the overall cost of resources in the education field would be bid up. [More…]
Because education would be left to market forces the rich people would get more and the poor people would get less. [More…]
The only way in which we can ensure an adequate distribution of resources in any basic field- and again I use education as an example- is for us to ensure that the Government provides the service and that it employs and trains people to provide and work in the service as it proposes to do in respect of education and as it is implementing in respect of the school dental scheme. [More…]
Whether a taxpayer in fact spends on superannuation, life assurance, education, health and so on to the extent of $ 1 ,350 or not each taxpayer is to get a rebate of $540. [More…]
I should mention too that the level of allowable deductions in respect of education expenses has also been altered. [More…]
Also, of course, the allowable deduction for education expenses has been increased from $150 to $250. [More…]
Members of the Opposition do not have any real interest in the Government’s economic programs at the moment which are designed to provide better educational opportunities for the ordinary children in Australia, better welfare, better urban development and a better environment. [More…]
That is a philosophy that benefits those who can afford the best education, the best health services and the best environment. [More…]
Let us look at the effect of the Senate’s tactics on education. [More…]
Altogether $342m has been allocated for educational services. [More…]
This education program will assist the agent in fulfilling his duty required under Part VI of the Bill, which mainly is to ‘exercise due care, skill or diligence in acting for a client’. [More…]
In the 1974-75 financial year, $392,000 from the ‘Machinery of Government’ vote was expended on an advertising campaign which highlighted community response to Government initiatives in the fields of community health, child care and education. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
If we take these comments in conjunction with the comments made by the Victorian Minister for Education we find that there is very skilful misrepresentation by both gentlemen of the amounts of money they receive. [More…]
Consider the field of education, one of the traditional areas in which the Australian Government makes grants to the States. [More…]
Living allowances for advanced education would be about $36m and fees would be $13m. [More…]
Living allowances for technical education would be $19m and fees would be $21m. [More…]
Toward this end this Government has provided more than $54,000 to restore the school to a proper standard to enable it to give to the children of Captains Flat education at the level that we must expect in this day and age. [More…]
How were the various objectives emphasised by the Australian Labor Party prior to the 1972 election, and shared by this side of the House, in the field of social welfare, in education, urban development and in assistance to the poor to be achieved? [More…]
It is important that they be provided with appropriate health, education and housing services in the areas in which they are living. [More…]
It is extremely clear to anyone in this Committee that there is a necessity to ensure that if an Aboriginal group of people is to conduct an activity of the kind that is spelt out in the provisions of subclause (3) of clause 1 1- including such things as community amenities, welfare, garbage collection, roads, relief work, education or training, communications, electricity supply, water supply, sewerage, health and housing- it is our responsibility, since the States are ceding it to us and since we have in any case acquired it as a result of a referendum, to provide legislation which will make certain that such an organisation operates as legal entity. [More…]
In respect of the silent ravages of child malnutrition the Committee considers that all services in the fields of community health, welfare and education should be given and should accept prime responsibility to ensure that all children under their notice are receiving suitable and sufficient food. [More…]
Because the latter type of person has a superior formal education, is connected with the Government and is able to give handouts he has some kind of authority over other Aboriginals and they resent this. [More…]
What contact and co-ordination is there between his Department and the Commissions responsible to the Minister for Education on future health manpower requirements. [More…]
) Did it become obvious that the necessary increased capacity would not be provided; if so, did he personally intervene with the Minister for Education. [More…]
The Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education and the Committee on Technical and Further Education are all represented on the Committee on Health Careers (Personnel and Training), formed by the Hospitals and Health Services Commission to advise it on health manpower matters. [More…]
Recommendations to the Australian Government on dental and medical manpower were basically made by the Universities Commission in its report of December 1974 ‘ Future Demand for Dentists in Australia- A Survey of the Supply of and Future Requirements for Dentists’ and of July 1973 ‘Expansion of Medical Education’ respectively. [More…]
The report of the Commission on Advanced Education for 1976-78; [More…]
The recommendations of the Commission on Advanced Education for 1976; [More…]
The report of the Committee on Technical Teacher Education for 1976-78; and 2 Ministerial statements relating to these reports. [More…]
The report of the Commission on Advanced Education is tabled in substitution for the draft version of this report tabled in this House on 1 9 August 1975. [More…]
Due to the limited number available reference copies of the report of the Committee on Technical Teacher Education have been placed in the Parliamentary Library. [More…]
-The purpose of this Bill is to establish a commission on tertiary education. [More…]
That commission will replace the Australian Universities Commission which was established in 1959 and the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Advanced Education which was established in 1965 and renamed the Australian Commission on Advanced Education in 1 97 1 . [More…]
These bodies were each set up only after there had been a thorough examination by a committee of inquiry into some aspect of tertiary education. [More…]
In the case of the ACAE it was after the Martin committee had reported in 1964 on the future of tertiary education in Australia. [More…]
That committee recognised that the problem of tertiary education at that time was due in a substantial way ‘to a genuine demand on the part of the Australian community for increased opportunities in higher education’. [More…]
After the Martin committee’s recommendations had been considered it was decided that assistance to institutions providing tertiary education other than universities should be promoted through a separate committee or commission rather than by an expansion of the role of the Australian Universities Commission. [More…]
These commissions have been so successful in promoting the development of universities and colleges of advanced education that today there are nearly 250 000 students attending these institutions. [More…]
What is the problem today that confronts these sectors of tertiary education which has made amalgamation of these successful commissions desirable? [More…]
Except for one flimsy argument, the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has provided no justification for the amalgamation. [More…]
Does he believe that a bigger commission with wider responsibilities will do a better job than 2 commissions with responsibility for only one sector of tertiary education? [More…]
On that date he announced that he had decided to amalgamate the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education into a single statutory advisory body to the Australian Government on universities and colleges. [More…]
In his Press statement the Prime Minister said that he had consulted the Minister for Education, but he gave no indication as to whether the Minister supported him in his decision. [More…]
After all, he is the Minister for Education. [More…]
The House will remember that some 12 weeks before this decision was announced the Minister had introduced a Bill to establish the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
When doing so he said that it was the fourth and last of a series of commissions to advise the Government on the needs and priorities in the various sectors of education. [More…]
The House will recall how worked up the Minister became when I commented upon the wide terms of reference and high powered composition of a committee formed to examine postsecondary education in northern Tasmania. [More…]
In addition to a Tasmanian it comprised the Chairman of the AUC, Professor Karmel, the Chairman of the Commission on Advanced Education, Mr T. B. Swanson, and the Chairman of the Committee on Technical and Further Education, Associate Professor Richardson. [More…]
By his response he sought to imply not only that it was not the Committee’s function to examine possible changes in the constitution of commissions in the 3 areas of postsecondary education but also that he was not contemplating any such change. [More…]
Yet a few weeks later a major change was announced- not as a decision of the Government, not by the Minister for Education, but by the Prime Minister. [More…]
Just prior to the suspension of the sitting for lunch, in this debate on the Tertiary Education Commission Bill I had drawn attention to the arbitrary way in which it was decided to amalgamate the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
But the panel found that some of the groups it consulted expressed the view that the Commissions should not be amalgamated and that in any event so significant a decision should not have been made without prior consultation with interested parties or a national inquiry into tertiary education. [More…]
The Australian Universities Commission, in its recent report on the question of the fourth university in Victoria, examined some aspects of the relationship between the various sectors of tertiary education, and stated: . [More…]
thai while there may be a case for changes in the present framework it would not be proper to bring these about without careful consideration of the consequences for tertiary education in each State and in Australia. [More…]
We in the Liberal and National Country parties recognise the need to seek greater consultation between the bodies involved in tertiary education. [More…]
contends that insufficient time has been given to the Australian community to consider the implications of the report of the Panel to advise on arrangements for amalgamating the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education; [More…]
asserts that the Bill does not acknowledge the disquiet held by members of the Australian Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education to the proposed amalgamation; [More…]
believes that a national inquiry into tertiary education should have been established before any amalgamation of the Commissions was contemplated, and [More…]
believes that the Bill considerably diminishes the role of the States in the structure of tertiary education and makes inadequate provision for the proposed Tertiary Education Commission to have proper consultation with the States and State Education Advisory bodies’. [More…]
The Australian Conference of Principals of Colleges of Advanced Education supported the view that there should be established ‘a unitary tertiary education body encompassing the university and advanced education sectors, and perhaps in time the TAFE sector as well ‘. [More…]
It is a proposal which is in accordance with a recommendation contained in the report of the Martin Committee, as means of ensuring a balanced development of all forms of tertiary education in Australia. [More…]
On the other hand, the Australian Vice Chancellors Committee supported the model described by the panel as model three which if adopted would have involved the retention of existing commissions with a small Tertiary Education Commission superimposed. [More…]
This small Commission would have had the responsibility of advising the Government on balanced development between the two sectors of tertiary education. [More…]
The Principals of Colleges of Advanced Education are also critical. [More…]
They see little point in the decision to amalgamate the two commissions, unless higher education is seen ‘as having disparate ways of achieving community and individual needs and not as a hierarchical system ‘. [More…]
Unless some consensus is first achieved as to the philosophy of higher education in Australia, change in the existing framework has the potential to bring about results which are neither desired nor anticipated. [More…]
Until such a consensus is achieved, it may be worth experiencing some difficulty in co-ordination- if difficulty exists, and there has been no proof of this- rather than so rationalise tertiary education that the essential characteristics of its different sectors are lost. [More…]
Yet it places in the hands of the government a power to create by regulation a unitary system of education. [More…]
The Bill contains no substantive definition of either a university or a college of advanced education. [More…]
If the Commission were to report to the Minister that all institutions were to be classified in the same way- either as universities or colleges of advanced educationthe Government could by regulation establish a unitary system. [More…]
Those in favour of a hierarchical system could have argued their case, as could those who see the organisation of tertiary education as a continuum and those who advocate a unitary system. [More…]
Since the establishment of colleges of advanced education there has been much controversy over their role and their position in the pattern of tertiary education. [More…]
When they were first given an enhanced status as the outcome of the Martin report the intention appears to have been to create divisions of higher education. [More…]
The AUC has said that it sees the role of the colleges as being to provide education which is both complementary and alternative to that offered by universities. [More…]
But though the AUC does not regard the Australian arrangement as instituting what could be described as a binary system of tertiary education it believes it should be viewed as ‘a continuum of educational opportunities’. [More…]
Though it is sometimes claimed that the 2 types of institution should be equal but different there are many who are involved with colleges of advanced education who would argue that they are different but unequal, and that they should be made equal by removing the differences. [More…]
The Australian Commission on Advanced Education does not regard the extent of the differences as the important point so long as college councils ensure that the introduction of facilities and educational standards within the colleges are not paralleled by an erosion of their essentially vocational and community role. [More…]
Yet colleges in their efforts to dispel the view that vocational educational is second rate compared with that which is described as academic education will continue to orient their courses towards the pure academic. [More…]
It has been suggested that the college of advanced education system is in that phase of its development where it is examining ways of obtaining academic excellence. [More…]
Will this be achieved only by a further blurring of those features which distinguish colleges of advanced education from universities? [More…]
If the overlapping of functions increases and the blurring of distinctions continues, will universities and colleges of advanced education be identical by the 1980s as was forecast by Dr Mathison? [More…]
The primary emphasis of the colleges, on the other hand, is on the provision of vocational education to meet the known needs of society. [More…]
Professor Neal, Professor of Education at Adelaide University, said: [More…]
What I have said is enough to indicate that there is a need for us in this country to develop a clear philosophy on tertiary education. [More…]
It will be most unfortunate if this Bill has the effect of imposing a philosophy without those involved having an opportunity to play a part in determining the philosophy which is to govern our approach to tertiary education. [More…]
contends that insufficient time has been given to the Australian community to consider the implications of the report of the Panel to advise on arrangements for amalgamating the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education; [More…]
asserts that the Bill does not acknowledge the disquiet held by members of the Australian Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education to the proposed amalgamation; [More…]
believes that a national enquiry into tertiary education should have been established before any amalgamation of the Commissions was contemplated, and [More…]
d ) believes that the Bill considerably diminishes the role of the States in the structure of tertiary education and makes inadequate provision for the proposed Tertiary Education Commission to have proper consultation with the States and State Education Advisory bodies’. [More…]
It is an important Bill which has the simple objective of co-ordinating the important work at present being done by the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education and thereby making their work more efficient. [More…]
He was also critical of a statement which was apparently made by the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) when he spoke in the debate on the Technical and Further Education Bill when it came before the House. [More…]
I believe that this Bill should be seen as a logical extension of this Government’s overall approach to education. [More…]
This Government’s outstanding achievements in education have met with such success simply because we have kept firmly in our minds that the best interests of the students are the primary objective. [More…]
In the field of tertiary education the deep interest that the Government has is clearly reflected in the increased expenditure. [More…]
Using the same years for comparison, the increase is from $58m to $35 lm in grants made or to be made to colleges of advanced education. [More…]
In fairness, of course, it must be said that in 1974 we accepted the full responsibility for tertiary education and that does influence the figures that I have brought before the House. [More…]
It should also be remembered that it was the Whitlam Government which abolished tuition fees at the tertiary level and an answer given in the House, I think yesterday, by the Minister for Education indicated the very substantial amount of money that we are giving either in payment of fees or in assistance to students at the tertiary level. [More…]
It deals with specific aspects of higher education which can be broadly described as advanced or tertiary. [More…]
At the moment we have 2 bodies- the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education- dealing with higher education. [More…]
This measure proposes to establish a Tertiary Education Commission to take the place of the 2 existing commissions. [More…]
It should be noted that the proposed new commission will have 2 councils to assist it to advise the Government on the development and support of higher education in Australia. [More…]
A number of factors have been taken into account in reaching the decision to establish a Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
There are good reasons for the actions we are taking, not the least of which has been the quite outstanding growth in the advanced education sector which in terms of resources committed today is becoming comparable with the university sector. [More…]
However, the most important point is that the capital claims of universities and colleges of advanced education have become enormous. [More…]
Through the Tertiary Education Commission co-ordination of these competing capital claims can take place. [More…]
It has become obvious that certain of the work was progressing along parallel lines and in spite of the high degree of consultation between the 2 commissions it has become evident that a more efficient approach to higher education can be achieved by co-ordinating the 2 bodies into one commission. [More…]
These safeguards are the 2 councils I have mentioned, the Universities Council and the Advanced Education Council. [More…]
It is possible to differentiate the basic purposes of the 2 kinds of institutions and this is done succinctly in the Report of the Panel to Advise on Arrangements for Amalgamating the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
The primary emphasis of the colleges, on the other hand, is on the provision of vocational education to meet the known needs of society. [More…]
In addition the Universities Commission deals directly with individual universities whereas the Commission on Advanced Education deals through State authorities concerned with the coordination of advanced education. [More…]
Colleges of advanced education in the States are generally established under an Act of Parliament which governs the activities of a number of colleges and their development is co-ordinated by a State authority through which formal dealings with the Commission on Advanced Education are conducted. [More…]
It can be seen at the moment that the Universities Commission recommends funds to States for institutions while the Commission on Advanced Education recommends support for courses. [More…]
These 2 councils, as their names imply, will be concerned with universities and advanced education. [More…]
They will represent the Commission in dealing with individual universities and colleges and their relationships with the proposed Tertiary Education Commission will be much the same as those which the universities and colleges have with the existing commissions. [More…]
The reputation and the expertise which the 2 commissions have built up- the Universities Commission over a period of 1 5 years and the Commission on Advanced Education over 10 years- will continue in the 2 councils. [More…]
I have said that this legislation should be seen as a logical extension of the Government’s overall approach to education. [More…]
I was delighted to hear the Minister, in his second reading speech, mention the possibility of the reappraisal of some institutions in the light of the establishment of the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
I believe that this takes into account paragraph 3.1 1 of the report of the panel which states: … the panel has also taken into account the growth of technical and further education in Australia. [More…]
Australian Government initiatives in this field will have an increasing effect over the next few years and there will need to be close consultation between the new tertiary education commission and the recently established Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
Related to this is the possible development on a greater scale than has hitherto been the case, of multi-level institutions, particularly in country areas where educational needs might most efficiently be served by a single institution providing courses at tertiary and other levels. [More…]
There is no question about the needs of technical and further education and the desirability that all post-secondary or all tertiary education should be seen as a whole. [More…]
I believe that it is unfortunate that within Australia it is customary to draw a distinction between postsecondary education and tertiary education. [More…]
It is interesting to note, in the context of the Bill under consideration, several statements contained in the second report on ‘Needs in Technical and Further Education’, because they are directly in line with the type of philosophy contained in the provisions of this measure. [More…]
I was referring to the type of philosophy contained in the second report on ‘Needs in Technical and Further Education’. [More…]
The work of the committee must not be considered in isolation from other institutions which provide post-secondary education. [More…]
In Australia, it is customary to use the term ‘tertiary education’ as comprehending universities, colleges of advanced education and teachers colleges. [More…]
Post-secondary education covers, in addition to university and advanced education, the whole range of formal education activities subsequent to secondary education including, for example, trade training, middle-level courses, general education of a non-degree/non-diploma kind and adult education. [More…]
Post education is concerned with the education of adults . [More…]
planning for post-secondary education must take cognisance of the number and diversity of places provided by universities, colleges of advanced education and the technical and further education colleges. [More…]
Each sector has its own need for appropriate resources but, in the allocation of resources, post-secondary education must be seen as a whole. [More…]
That of course is the ideal, but technical education differs in some degree from education at universities and colleges. [More…]
It is tied to the States as far as funding is concerned and until it becomes autonomous there are clear difficulties in seeing the 3 structures of education as a whole. [More…]
Under present funding arrangements the financial assistance provided by the Australian Government is supplementary to the efforts of States which continue to have the prime responsibility for technical and further education. [More…]
This Government has provided significant assistance to technical and further education. [More…]
-The Tertiary Education Commission Bill seeks to establish the Tertiary Education Commission in place of the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in his second reading speech gives some reasons for the amalgamation. [More…]
They are primarily concerned with the growth that has occurred in tertiary education, the acceptance of teacher education within the advanced education program, the abolition of tuition fees and the Australian Government’s responsibility regarding finance in relation to universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Opposition Parties are entitled to query this amalgamation particularly in view of the obvious success of these 2 commissions on education’s development and advancement over the many years. [More…]
The honourable member for Holt (Mr Oldmeadow) has assured us that this legislation before the Parliament does not remove current distinctions between universities and colleges of advanced education at either the financial or institutional level. [More…]
The new Tertiary Education Commission is to have separate statutory councils for universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It is said that the amalgamation will allow over-all closer co-ordination and planning of all tertiary education in such matters as student numbers, recurrent and capital funding principles, resource allocation to both sectors, institutional and course development, and the provision of manpower. [More…]
I believe that those criticisms are coming not just from the Opposition but also from people involved in the educational field. [More…]
There also has been further criticism that the failure to maintain the existing commissions might make it impossible to preserve the excellence, international standing and academic autonomy of the universities, to the disadvantage of the entire educational system and the national interest. [More…]
The applied education emphasis of the CAEs might also be reduced in closer co-ordinating relationships with the universities in which CAEuniversity differences at the national funding level were blurred. [More…]
Certainly the addition of university type research activities, the lengthening of courses and the development of nonvocational liberal arts studies would greatly increase the cost of CAE education and might be resisted by governments of the future on those grounds. [More…]
A criticism on this account appeared in an article in the Age of 2 1 August 1 974 in which the Deputy Vice-President of the Victorian Institute of Colleges, Mr Parry, said that a single authority for tertiary education would be more efficient than the present dual system. [More…]
One of the further criticisms that it is important to point out is that the new Commission will continue to fund ‘courses’ in the colleges of advanced education but ‘institutions’ in the university sector. [More…]
However, the inclusion of all tertiary education in one co-ordinating organisation might encourage governments eventually to extend the course funding principles to universities as well as to colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The second is that the Bill does not acknowledge the disquiet held by members of the Australian Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
We believe that a national inquiry into tertiary education should have been established before any amalgamation was contemplated. [More…]
Finally, the Bill considerably diminishes the role of the States in the structure of tertiary education and makes inadequate provision for the proposed Tertiary Education Commission to have proper consultation with the States and the State education advisory bodies. [More…]
I recognise the importance of decentralisation as far as education is concerned and believe that the decentralisation of education leads to diversity and experimentation in approach. [More…]
I believe that it is essential and in the best interests of this country as far as education advancement is concerned. [More…]
I reject the approach that centralised control is the best method of education advancement in this country. [More…]
In this instance it is education. [More…]
It provides for very adequate avenues of consultation with all interested bodies in the matter of education- in this case tertiary education. [More…]
During the first several years of my time in this place I remember the Labor Party making appeals to the then Liberal-Country Party government to have a national inquiry into primary, secondary and pre-school education, but it was singularly unsuccessful in persuading that government to accept that opinion. [More…]
Great emphasis has been placed upon the fact that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) made the announcement rather than the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley). [More…]
I think it was the same Prime Minister who also announced the establishment of the Martin Committee inquiry into other forms of tertiary education, which we have now come to recognise as colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It is interesting to examine the growth that has taken place in tertiary education over the last 4 years, taking that period as an example. [More…]
In 1971 there were 43 colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Admittedly many of the teachers colleges were included as colleges of advanced education in 1973. [More…]
In the same period the number of internal undergraduate enrolments in colleges of advanced education increased from 68 000 to nearly 1 18 000. [More…]
1 again qualify those figures by noting that between 1971 and 1975 it was accepted that teachers colleges became autonomous bodies and were designated as colleges of advanced education. [More…]
As has been said, the Bill aims to bring about a balanced development of universities and colleges of advanced education and the coordinated development of tertiary education to the greatest possible advantage of Australia. [More…]
There has been a vast growth in tertiary education since the mid- 1 960s, especially in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It has been boosted, as I have already remarked, by the recognition of teachers’ colleges as substantially autonomous bodies and they are now designated as colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I wonder whether it might be salutary for many students to think over what they or their parents might be paying for their attendance at universities, colleges of advanced education or full time courses at technical colleges if they had to meet those costs at the present time rather than its being a matter shouldered by the Australian Government. [More…]
Therefore there are certain provisions in the Bill that particularly take account of that rationalisation of capital development in tertiary education. [More…]
In August 1 964 the report of the Committee on the Future of Tertiary Education in Australia, popularly known as the Martin report after its well known chairman, Sir Leslie Martin, advocated the need for structural co-ordination through a proposed Australian tertiary education commission It made a strong recommendation in that regard but the Menzies Government of the day rejected the proposal. [More…]
This would have retained the present Australian Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education and superimposed on them a small co-ordinating tertiary commission. [More…]
Whilst the Bill substitutes a single tertiary education commission in place of the 2 existing commissions it recognises the present policy of distinguishing between universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
We are recognising the existence of the 2 distinct types of tertiary education because we see that each has a particular purpose. [More…]
The Tertiary Education Commission is to be assisted by 2 statutory councils. [More…]
There is another separate council proposed in the Bill which will advise the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
This council is called the Advanced Education Council. [More…]
This is one provision in the Bill that particularly takes care of this rationalisation of capital development of tertiary education institutions. [More…]
It was suggested by some people that each council retain a separate secretariat, but we have accepted the panel’s recommendation that there are not only economies to be made by having a unified secretariat but the existence of this unified secretariat also will facilitate the communication that is desirable between the universities and the colleges of advanced education or the people who are looking after their development. [More…]
As the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) said in his second reading speech, the composition of the 2 councils ‘must be sufficiently different at all times to maintain fully their separate identity. [More…]
The Bill provides that in the performance of its functions the Commission shall- the word ‘shall ‘ is written into the Bill- consult, as appropriate, with not only universities and colleges of advanced education but also with the States. [More…]
It is mandatory that the Commission shall consult, as appropriate, with not only universities and colleges of advanced education but also with the States and the Technical and Further Education Commission, and it may consult with such other persons, bodies or authorities as the Commission thinks necessary. [More…]
For instance, they could be very relevant in respect of clause 7(1) (b) which requires the Commission to perform its functions with a view to promoting diversified opportunities for tertiary education throughout the community. [More…]
I suggest to the honourable member for Sturt and other members of the Opposition that it might not be as practicable as they might think to make a clear, fixed definition of what is a college of advanced education on the one hand and what is a university on the other hand. [More…]
In these days there is not only a diversity within universities and between universities and colleges of advanced education; there is quite a diverse type of institution now operating as a college of advanced education. [More…]
There is a very specific requirement in the legislation for the Commission to consult closely with the Technical and Further Education Commission but, as the panel indicated on page 32, ‘beyond that, the Commission will be free to develop its own working arrangements and to vary these, including, for example, the channel of communication with individual colleges of advanced education, as circumstances dictate.’ [More…]
-The honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds) outlined his views on the value of inquiry into educational institutions. [More…]
There has been an inquiry upon an arrangement for the amalgamation of the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education but there has not been inquiry into the need to amalgamate the successful Universities Commission with the successful Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
With this reservation in mind the Liberal Party and the National Country Party have undertaken in their education policy to examine closely the Labor Government’s proposal to amalgamate these commissions. [More…]
There is very little support for the amalgamation in the second reading speech of the Minister for Education ( Mr Beazley) and at this stage very little support for it has been introduced into this debate. [More…]
The Minister made the assertion that no amount of consultation could guarantee the degree of overall co-ordination and rationalisation in tertiary education programs which now is clearly desirable. [More…]
Certainly there is a blurring of the edges of the functions of these 2 areas of education. [More…]
The Commission on Advanced Education has always dealt with States. [More…]
There is also another difference in that the Universities Commission recommends funds for institutions while the Commission on Advanced Education recommends support for courses. [More…]
It is not surprising that the commissions are different because in fact there is a quite substantial difference of function in these 2 areas of tertiary education. [More…]
The primary emphasis of colleges of advanced education is vocation; it is the application of knowledge. [More…]
We can also see from the quotations that the panel expects that the Commission, the councils and their staffs will undertake ‘more comprehensive co-ordinating and management responsibilities If they persist with management responsibilities I suggest that in the very nature of things they will start to conform to one pattern and we will start to get a blurring of the difference between universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Yet it seems to be suggested by honourable members opposite, without having a total understanding of what is involved, that it would be better if we maintained 2 commissions to involve themselves in the field of tertiary education rather than rationalising them into one. [More…]
One only has to look at the possibilities for duplication of activities within the various colleges and universities to see that there does need very urgently to be some co-ordination and some cross-examination as far as the functions and activities of these 2 areas of tertiary education are concerned. [More…]
However, I want to move on to another subject because the Bill that is now before the House brings to our attention once again the increasing role of this Parliament and the Australian Government in the total field of tertiary education. [More…]
I want to spend a little time talking about- (Quorum formed) I want to spend a little time talking about the consequences of the increasing role of the Federal Parliament, the Australian government, in tertiary education. [More…]
Prior to national involvement in the financing of university education, which occurred for the first time in the early 1950s, it was proper that the State governments, which established the universities, should be responsible for determining the method of government within those universities and for selecting those people who should sit on the governing bodies. [More…]
Even when there was a joint contribution by the State governments and the Federal governments in respect of the financing of university education there was probably still a justification for a continuing dominance by the State parliaments in this regard. [More…]
in reply- In replying to the Opposition the best thing I could do would be to take as my text one of the intelligible passages from the Opposition’s latest statement on education which says that there is inadequate coordination between the various commissions and committees which advise the Government and that at the moment 5 separate commissions advise the Government on education. [More…]
He said that there was a danger in my controlling the universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The honourable gentleman contradicted himself by drawing attention to the absence of definitions of ‘universities’ and ‘colleges of advanced education’. [More…]
The honourable member for Tangney (Mr Dawkins) emphasised that a university in a State is the creation of the Crown through the State and that a college of advanced education in a State is the creation of the Crown through the [More…]
The only ones that the Australian Government has created and which are not subject to all these mystic controls that the Opposition is always imagining are the Australian National University- which is as free and independent as any other university, except that it has considerably more money- and the Canberra College of Advanced Education, where we have direct constitutional power, none of which has been assumed to do any controlling. [More…]
There happen to be dental faculties in colleges of advanced education and engineering faculties in colleges of advanced education as well. [More…]
There are educational, faculties in universities. [More…]
The honourable member for Moore (Mr Hyde) comes from Western Australia where there is a tertiary education commission without any of the mystic results that he fears about blurring distinctions and heaven knows what. [More…]
The council of colleges will deal with the colleges of advanced education in the schedule. [More…]
Why are they colleges of advanced education? [More…]
It is not true to say that research does not go on in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It is not true that colleges of advanced education do not award degrees. [More…]
Among the colleges of advanced education there are a’ considerable number of mutual suspicions. [More…]
It is alleged that six of the great colleges of advanced education plan to follow the University of New South Wales, which was once an institute of technology and shot out through the roof and became a university. [More…]
It is not just a simple question that we have added to colleges of advanced education the teachers’ colleges. [More…]
The legislation really comes into fields where both universities and colleges of advanced education are interested. [More…]
Diplomas in education are awarded by colleges of advanced education, bachelor of arts degrees in teaching are awarded by colleges of advanced education, diplomas in education are awarded by universities, and bachelor of education degrees are awarded by universities. [More…]
I think that the Opposition is still living in the pristine innocence which existed when it was the government as far as tertiary education funding is concerned and when the Commonwealth Treasury did not really have to worry about the matter. [More…]
The 6 State Treasuries had a solid vested interest against any undue rise in tertiary education expenditure. [More…]
When I became Minister for Education the previous Government had set up a committee of inquiry into academic salaries under Mr Justice Campbell. [More…]
I will not go into what the estimate for colleges of advanced education was before but the $655m that I think was originally the triennial grant, if teachers’ colleges are added to it, rose by about the same amount as it did in the case of universities. [More…]
The $893m for colleges of advanced education became $ 1,680m. [More…]
These were enormous claims on the Commonwealth’s resources for tertiary education. [More…]
The thing that is worrying about them is the jump in the building claims of the Commission on Advanced Education from $262m in the last triennium to $593m. [More…]
With all of these tremendous developments that had been taking place- the overlapping of vocational and research in both places, the development of liberal arts in colleges of advanced education, the turning of colleges of advanced education into, among other things, teachers’ colleges- we got anomalies. [More…]
A college of advanced education in Armidale has 700 teacher trainees in it and the university at Armidale has 2100 teacher trainees in it. [More…]
Therefore there must be a high degree of coordination between these 2 tertiary Commissions if they are to recommend realistically the very great finances that are being appropriated now and will be appropriated in the future for tertiary education. [More…]
That represents a cool $ 105m to be passed on to the Commonwealth if the States can push that expenditure into the fields of advanced education or universities which otherwise they might have to meet at least jointly with the Commonwealth in the field of technical education. [More…]
The legitimate distinctions, whatever they are, between universities and colleges of advanced education will be maintained by the States. [More…]
We have a recommendation from the Commission on Advanced Education involving $26m worth of buildings for the West Australian Institute of Technology and from the Universities Commission for $13m worth of buildings for Murdoch University, and they are practically neighbours. [More…]
It is for seeing to it that there is an elimination of waste as is called for dramatically by the Liberal Party in that education statement from which I just quoted. [More…]
For the purpose of the performance of its function under this Act, the Commission shall consult, as appropriate, with the Technical and Further Education Commission, with universities and colleges of advanced education and with the States and may consult with such other persons, bodies or authorities as the Commission thinks necessary. [More…]
The honourable member for Sturt also claimed that the Bill gives the Government power to establish by regulation a unitary system of tertiary education. [More…]
We cannot recite ourselves into the possession of authority over education. [More…]
There is only one direct Commonwealth power in education and that is the power to grant benefits to students. [More…]
The notional fee payment by the Commonwealth is now $94m- $60m to universities, $ 1 3m to colleges of advanced education- part of the universities’ distinctive characterisitics have been based on being considerably dearer- and $2 1 m to technical and further education institutions, making a total of $94m. [More…]
Student allowances and living allowances for universities, amount to $5 7m- $3 7m for student allowances for colleges of advanced education and about $19m in student living allowances for technical education. [More…]
We follow a listing of colleges of advanced education given by the States. [More…]
Within their autonomy they determine their courses; they determine their capital expenditure; they determine all those actions which are their proper independent educational functions. [More…]
We are running a highly decentralised education system. [More…]
I am not Minister for Education outside the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory; I would properly be described as the Minister for educational grants. [More…]
In all their several fields what universities and colleges of advanced education do with those grants is very largely a matter of their own decision. [More…]
That is a trade union consideration; it is not an educational consideration. [More…]
We have tried to shield tertiary education institutions from the impact of inflation and I believe the proposed Tertiary Education Commission will be an instrument for maintaining their independence, for following the States’ determination of universities and colleges and for producing a better system. [More…]
The Government believes that education is a prime means for individual self development. [More…]
An education system to achieve this end must be based on equality of opportunity and the pursuit of excellence. [More…]
Legislation will be presented to Parliament early in the session to provide assistance to the States for education in 1976. [More…]
This legislation will authorise funds for the programs of the Schools Commission, Universities Commission, Commission on Advanced Education and the Technical and Further Education Commission, which are now proceeding. [More…]
Proposals are being considered for a single Tertiary Education Commission to perform the functions currently undertaken by the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
The Government is firmly committed to furthering equality of opportunity for women in education, employment, and in public life. [More…]
In 1955 he was Education Minister and there laid the basis for Malaya’s national education system. [More…]
In fact this does not come within my portfolio responsibility, but naturally enough I am particularly interested in the role of interpreters and their employment, so much so that I have taken the matter up with the Minister for Education and the Prime Minister, and I hope I will be in a position to make further announcements shortly. [More…]
Medibank, pensions, education and social welfare will all be strengthened by honest responsible government. [More…]
Mr Fraser said that education and social welfare would be strengthened. [More…]
The only promise about those matters to which I referred, including pensions and education, that has been kept was the promise with respect to the superphosphate bounty. [More…]
There would be no cutback in the essential areas of education, social welfare, health and assistance to local government, he said. [More…]
It was concerned with a number of matters dealing with the recognition of overseas professional qualifications, Technical and Further Education and the development of related facilities, safety legislation and some matters dealing with the long term development of our conciliation and arbitration system. [More…]
In talking about the National Labour Advisory Council, I mention very briefly the matter of technical and further education. [More…]
I noted in the Governor-General’s Speech reference to reports by 4 education commissions. [More…]
It stated that the Commission on Advanced Education and the Technical and Further Education Commission would be among those required to report by the end of March, giving recommendations for the triennium 1977-79. [More…]
1 wish to deal with the area of technical and further education and with adult education generally because they are matters of increasing concern to a society ‘which is seeing rapid change. [More…]
Part of the solution to the problem lies in a new attitude to further education. [More…]
Technical education can enable people to keep up with technological change. [More…]
The Kangan report with which you, Mr Speaker, will be familiar spoke of education as a lifelong affair and pointed to the fallacious attitude to education in many people’s minds. [More…]
Many people think it is something for the early stage of one’s life; then one moves into employment and forgets education. [More…]
I believe that one of the major problems which we will have to tackle in respect of technical education is the matter of mature age entry to many trades. [More…]
Another area which I believe needs attention in the area of later age education is the role being played by many of our tertiary training institutions. [More…]
I hope that in the consideration that is being given to the future funding and organisation of tertiary education we will see the need for excellent technical training institutions. [More…]
He has been devoted to them and also has contributed well to this Parliament, particularly in the field of education. [More…]
Therefore one thing that is important in the electorate of Barton is education, particularly high school and university education. [More…]
We have rapid developments in education in Australia for our young people. [More…]
I certainly support rapid developments in education and the right of every Australian to be educated to a high standard. [More…]
An advisory council on intergovernmental relations and a joint Federal and Northern Territory Legislative Assembly committee will be set up; a task force has been established to make recommendations on Australian Capital Territory reserve powers; a review has been established on the income security system as a whole; committee has been established to investigate the possibility of expanding the area of choice in services available to the disadvantaged; a Medibank review committee has been established; a tertiary education commission is proposed; a committee has been established to investigate how to run and re-establish the cadet corps on the cheap; a Defence Council has been established and an investigation has been set up to examine the completion of HMAS Stirling in Cockburn Sound. [More…]
The most important aspect of the Social Welfare Commission, which I would have thought would appeal to the present Prime Minister and the people behind him- it certainly appeals to me, although I do not share many of the Government’s views, but I hold the view, and I am glad that the Government at least expresses the view- that it is important for the welfare dollar or whatever it might be calledthis applies not only to welfare but to education and health etc.- to be spent in the most efficient and the most appropriate manner. [More…]
Previously I was principal of a college of advanced education in the country. [More…]
Whether we like it or not, there is very good evidence that in the country at least, women have attained higher levels of education than their husbands and are more receptive, more responsive and are better equipped to undergo further training than their husbands. [More…]
It has major developments in health, transport and education. [More…]
They will return because it will become obvious that their children’s education and recreation depend on federal funding, because quality of life and expensive social capital expansion can be paid for only by Federal governments. [More…]
Firstly, in the field of education, more than $1.5m was poured into local State schools, for building, for innovative programs and to help eliminate disadvantage. [More…]
It will be seen that the Government is dedicated to a belief that education is a means for individual self development and that we on this side of the House are committed to furthering equality for women in education, employment and public life. [More…]
However, I am sure that members of the Opposition will be happy to assist in our education. [More…]
Such picayune savings are meant to prepare us for the onslaught to come against basic and wide-ranging parts of Labor’s program- against Medibank, against free tertiary and technical education and expanded programs for education generally, against all Labor’s measures for the cities and growth centres, for the protection of the environment, for Aboriginal lands, for social security. [More…]
It will hand back to the States the blame for all the inadequacies in health, education, transport and other fields which the States have never been able to tackle and which this Government refuses to tackle. [More…]
For over 20 years, pensioners, health services, education and many social changes in Australia were neglected and the social problems associated with this neglect were swept under the carpet by the rule of the Menzies Government and subsequent Liberal coalition governments. [More…]
Some of the tragic cuts to take place are those affecting the ways of our nation- cuts to education and sporting bodies throughout Australia. [More…]
After questions were raised in this Parliament there was a flurry of activity and the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) came up with some cock and bull story designed to draw the wool over the eyes of the people against whom the Government has taken steps to discriminate. [More…]
The most significant limitation of freedom of choice in this society would be poverty and inadequate opportunities for reasonable education. [More…]
We poured funds into the education systems, both State and private, where investigation snowed that standards were inadequate and the children attending schools were being penalised. [More…]
It was claimed that there was lots of waste in the education area but particularly in the innovations area. [More…]
Just bricks and mortar, important as they are where there are no classrooms, are no consolation to many poor children whose parents do not understand or appreciate the value of education, and who therefore offer no encouragement and even place obstacles in the way of their own children deriving the greatest benefits from their schooling. [More…]
With flexible approach offered to teachers in the innovations program there was some hope that positive discrimination could be provided, particularly in disadvantaged schools in areas of high migrant concentrations where the children have not mastered the language adequately, where they have very few facilities at home and very little encouragement, because of the difficult situation with their parents, to make the best of their education opportunities. [More…]
I revert to my point about how some people suffer because their parents do not appreciate the value of or need for education. [More…]
That is why when we came into power we found the inadequacy of pensions, the total inadequacy of the education system and so on ad infinitum. [More…]
Our objective was that that should not occur just in one field but in all fields of life, whether it be in education, in local government or some other area which is funded by the Australian State or local governments. [More…]
People have said, as Liberal governments said between 1949 and 1972, that education is the responsibility of the States. [More…]
There were a million children at disadvantaged school and some hundreds of schools were classified as disadvantaged both in the government and in the Catholic sector of education. [More…]
Was it irresponsible for the Labor Government to set up a Schools Commission which trebled the amount of money spent on education? [More…]
Was it a terrible crime against the Australian people to see that they got a better education? [More…]
In education his Government was forced by its own failure to abandon triennial funding and disrupt important research programs. [More…]
We were acceptable as long as we instituted reforms in education, Medibank, pensions, legal aid, divorce law and a host of other areas. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) would agree, because I know he was vitally interested in this area, that until 1972 the Liberal-Country Party Government had done nothing whatsoever to give assistance to people living in isolated areas throughout Australia to ensure that their children had a decent opportunity to get a reasonable education. [More…]
One of the first acts of the then Labor Minister for Education, Mr Kim Beazley, was to introduce the isolated children’s scholarship. [More…]
There is a vital inter-relationship between economic, social, migration, environmental, education, defence and other issues. [More…]
In the field of education, the combining of the Tertiary Education Commissions was announced last year. [More…]
Now with the combination of the 2 commissions with a subordinate council for each sort of education, but with a common capital construction commissioner, there are prospects of rationalisation. [More…]
The first educational decision made by myself and taken to the then Prime Minister was that Aborigines had a right where they so chose to an education in their own language as the medium of instruction. [More…]
If you deny the right of a people to an education in their language, as the English for a long time denied the Welsh an education in their own language, you are quite patently acting on the assumption that they are a conquered people. [More…]
We supported education initiatives, advances in social welfare responsibilities, the increasing demands of our people in conservation and environmental matters. [More…]
In the last Hayden Budget we saw deferments in education, in aged persons housing, defence service housing, capital works for social security and postal and telecommunication facilities. [More…]
I would like to bring to the attention of the Parliament a couple of anomalies in the education allowances. [More…]
Because of that level of teaching, most of the non-Aboriginal children are sent off to Perth or Port Hedland or elsewhere to achieve a more satisfactory level of education. [More…]
In particular I would mention the early childhood development complexes in Victoria where both health and education services are contained. [More…]
In 1973-74 the Labor Government allocated 80 per cent of the funds then available to pre-school education. [More…]
Pre-school education is important and there is need for more to be done in this area. [More…]
There is a need to provide the children of a larger number of families with increased opportunities for and access to pre-school education. [More…]
What this Government will do will enable much more to be achieved in the provision of care and education for the pre-school age children of this nation. [More…]
When we look at the matter of child care services and pre-school education it is terribly important that as a nation and as a government we should have a philosophy relating to the position of the family in the community. [More…]
In Australia 30 per cent of taxes go to education and social welfare. [More…]
Cuts in real living standards now in order to contain inflation and promote employment can only be traded off against firm commitments to a greater future for all, young and old, in housing, education, health, job satisfaction and creative leisure. [More…]
The so-called right to property is central to the program of the Workers Party and its supporters characterise the rights of Australian citizens to education, health care and equal opportunity as privileges. [More…]
Voluntary organisationswhether they be in the field of child care, preschool education, health, the aged, the handicapped or whatever- play a vital role in the delivery of assistance to those in need. [More…]
It is this: In modern countries opportunities are for all citizens, opportunities for a complete education, opportunities for dignity in retirement, opportunities for proper medical treatment, opportunities to share in the nation’s wealth and resources, the opportunities for decent housing, the opportunities for civilized conditions in our cities and in our towns and the opportunities to preserve and promote the natural beauty of the land. [More…]
Despite a hostile Senate and a media partial to the Liberal-Country Party coalition, the Labor Government after assuming office on 2 December 1972 had a magnificent record of achievement particularly in regard to social welfare, child care, education, health, legal aid and direct monetary grants to local government. [More…]
I strongly urge the Government to maintain and even further develop the high priority given to education at the national level by the Whitlam Labor Government. [More…]
In 3 years that administration increased Commonwealth expenditure on education from about $430m in 1972-73 to more than $ 1,900m in the current Budget. [More…]
Other important factors include a new emphasis on equality of education opportunities, continuing research into the quality and direction of education and greater freedom and community involvement in the educational enterprise. [More…]
Because of this historic first national commitment to education at all levels, new hopes have been created for hundreds of thousands of children and adults. [More…]
In such an unattractive educational environment a high turnover of teachers was not surprising. [More…]
I refer to areas such as the unprecedented special education and financial assistance to the handicapped, the promotion of educational research particularly through the special projects program, and the provision of more opportunities for practising teachers and educational administrators to develop themselves professionally. [More…]
In the field of tertiary education one of the most notable specific reforms made by the Whitlam Government was the abolition of all fees. [More…]
Wider access to all forms of tertiary education, both for school leavers and for those who left school some years earlier, should be encouraged in any genuinely democratic society. [More…]
Finally on the matter of education, I trust that economic circumstances will soon permit the resumption of longer term forward planning under the system of triennial programs. [More…]
In many aspects of education, as in so many other fields of the economy, such programs do not lend themselves to efficient year to year planning and forecasting. [More…]
I can assure them that I will tackle their problems assiduously as their problems, whether they be problems of immigration, social security or education, are all national problems. [More…]
The same thing is true of education. [More…]
By greatly increasing government expenditure on education we enhanced the freedom of students to gain knowledge and understanding and the freedom to have a more equal opportunity in life than would otherwise have been the case. [More…]
A recent survey in Sweden, quoted in the United States magazine Business Week of December 22 last year, showed that many Swedes thought there should be more expenditure on health, care of the aged, education and the environment. [More…]
The coalition parties bitterly opposed that Bill which brought in substantial increases in education expenditure on the basis of need, but it was obstructed by the Liberal and National Country Parties because it gave nothing to the wealthier schools. [More…]
This was concerned largely with the effects of bauxite mining on the Aboriginal people in the area but also dealt with health and education- other matters of direct and personal concern to the community. [More…]
The report also covered matters which closely related to health, such as nutritional deficiencies and alcoholism as well as housing and education. [More…]
I refer to areas such as the arts, education, science, economics, law or politics. [More…]
Our national government moved into education because the needs of the people demanded it and the States were unwilling and unable to do so. [More…]
If the Commonwealth Government takes over tertiary education from the State governments in the name of efficiency it does not mean that the money that the States formerly spent on tertiary education will be left for them to spend on something else. [More…]
The benefits which the Bill confers are limited to a particular group whose position was affected by the Australian Government’s decision to accept direct responsibility for the provision of primary and secondary education in the Australian Capital Territory and in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Within the Australian Capital Territory, technical education has been provided by an arrangement between my Department and the New South Wales Department of Technical Education. [More…]
As part of the decision that the Commonwealth will itself provide technical and further education in the Australian Capital Territory, the Government has decided that the teaching staff of the technical colleges in the Territory should be employed under the Teaching Service legislation. [More…]
Concern is also being expressed regarding the need for tertiary education facilities. [More…]
I await the outcome of the decisions for university education for the 1977-79 triennium. [More…]
If a decision is not made to commence a university in AlburyWodonga during the next triennium the Minister for Education in my view should ask the Chairman of the Commission on Advanced Education and the Chairman of the Technical and Further Education Commission to advise on how tertiary education facilities can be best provided for Albury-Wodonga until a university is a viable proposition. [More…]
The establishment in Albury of a second campus for the Riverina College of Advanced Education is another proposal that could be investigated. [More…]
There are few jobs available for those people who take advantage of the advances in education that have occurred and who seek employment to fit the training which they have obtained. [More…]
Secondly, we must rationalise the administration of government through a program of regionalisation such as has happened most successfully in New South Wales in many areas of administration such as education. [More…]
We are faced with the problems that the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) pointed out, problems of keeping young people in country towns and cities, of providing realistic employment opportunities, of transport, of communications and of post secondary education facilities. [More…]
A great many matters are subjects that really are not appropriate for legislation but are appropriate for public education, debate and a greater public understanding. [More…]
As a member of the previous Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation I say to honourable members that sitting on the committee was an education that should not be taken lightly by honourable members. [More…]
I think the exMinister for Education has served this Parliament worthily and well and it ill becomes the honourable member to make such a remark. [More…]
I would also indicate that the people who have given evidence- the parents in the community, representatives from education departments in each of the States and representatives from the [More…]
Evidence has been given by a large number of people from all walks of lifeteachers, parents, representatives of colleges of advanced education and universities, doctors and psychologists. [More…]
It will be sought by Departments of Education, by Commonwealth departments, by people employing, by people conducting remedial courses. [More…]
However, I know that the members who served on that Committee were very anxious to come to grips with the problems of health and the problems in the education area which the Aboriginal people faced. [More…]
In addition we looked particularly at the questions of housing, education, recreation and health. [More…]
The health services are not quite as expansive and the education systems do not work quite as well. [More…]
I thought that he was formerly a principal of a college of advanced education. [More…]
I would say that it is unadvanced education to think that in 1976 we can have a paternalistic approach to this problem. [More…]
We still have some steps to take in this city towards integration so that the health services, the education services and general government run in a totally co-ordinated way. [More…]
It made recommendations on the National Capital Development Commission, the means of education in Canberra, the health system, housing and construction, and other, functions. [More…]
A person regarded as furthering his education got a basic allowance of about $33 a week subject to a means test. [More…]
They can work within the framework which has been laid down so logically and explicitly by the Minister and they will be able to continue their education and their retraining. [More…]
If we do not spend more money on technical education and less on tertiary education, and if we do not produce more tradesmen, technicians and technologists and fewer Doctors of Philosophy, historians and people of that kind, industry in this country will face a perilous future. [More…]
As a matter of fact there is a Liberal member of this Parliament whose wife right now is receiving a NEAT allowance at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
The Bill is associated with the States Grants (Universities) Amendment Bill 1976, the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill 1976, the States Grants (Advanced Education) Amendment Bill 1976 and the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Amendment Bill 1976, all of which I intend to introduce presently. [More…]
The previous Government decided that the year 1976 should be treated outside the normal triennial progression and asked the 4 education commissions to recommend separate programs of funding for 1976 within certain guidelines. [More…]
This Bill and the related ones represent the implementation of the announced decision of the Government in its caretaker capacity in November last that the programs for 1976 approved by the previous Government for universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education should proceed on the basis announced by the previous Government. [More…]
This undertaking assured the States and the educational institutions concerned of the level of financial support they could expect in 1976 even though the prorogation of the Parliament in November 1975 made it impossible until now to enact legislation appropriating funds for the 1 976 programs. [More…]
The Bills in respect of universities and colleges of advanced education provide for reimbursement of the States where they have made payments under the special interim financial arrangements. [More…]
This provision was not necessary in the case of technical and further education where existing legislation provides financial assistance to the States until 30 June 1976. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to provide for programs of financial assistance to the States for the funding of advanced education in respect of the year 1976. [More…]
In addition, the Bill provides for recurrent grants on a formula basis to assist in meeting the administrative costs of student residences and affiliated residential colleges of advanced education. [More…]
In the intervening period since the 1976 program was approved by the previous Government, a committee on post-secondary education in Western Australia, headed by Professor P. H. Partridge, has made a report to the State Government recommending that the School of Mines at Kalgoorlie should not continue at the tertiary level and that consequently the Kalgoorlie capital projects listed in Schedule 2 to this Bill under the heading of the Western Australian Institute of Technology ought not to proceed. [More…]
My remarks there on the background to the funding arrangements for tertiary and technical and further education in 1976 apply to this Bill as do my remarks there on interim financial arrangements. [More…]
This Bill amends the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1972-1975 to adjust the approved program of grants to the States for colleges of advanced education and nongovernment’ teachers colleges in the triennium 1973-75. [More…]
The additional funds provided by this Bill total $21m, bringing the funds available for colleges of advanced education for the 1973-75 triennium to $743m. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to amend the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974 so as to extend its period of operation from the present termination date of 30 June 1976 to 31 December 1976, and to provide additional funds to the States for the extended period. [More…]
The Government of the day has to recognise- I think this is the crux of the federalism policy which we will be introducing- that there are States and that those States have got massive responsibilities in the areas of health, education, Aborigines and a whole range of things, and that those States’ governments are charged with the responsibility of looking after those areas. [More…]
If we can accept that, we can disband 85 per cent of our Department of Education; we cannot have a significant Department of Tourism; we can break down Federal responsibility in the administration of Aboriginal affairs; and we can reduce Federal responsibility in so many other areas, because there is no requirement for duplication of administration. [More…]
-I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]
What arrangements are being made now for the funding of child migrant language education, particularly for South East Asian migrant refugees who recently entered Australia? [More…]
There has been quite a considerable increase in the provision of child migrant education since the scheme was first introduced in 1970. [More…]
There has been a development towards not treating child migrant education as a special matter. [More…]
Rather it is regarded as a part of a total education program. [More…]
So the honourable gentleman will see that special attention is being provided not only to child migrant education generally but also to the special needs of refugees from Indo-China. [More…]
I think it is quite clear that there is a good case for community access stations, certainly centred on tertiary colleges, colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]
If none of the desirable structural changes are made to the relativities established by the Hayden rebate system, indexation would result in the general rebate being raised from $540 to $61 1, that for a spouse being raised from $400 to $453, that for a child being raised from $200 to $226, that for rates and taxes being raised from $300 to $340 and that for education expenses being raised from $250 to $289. [More…]
It is also interesting to note the way that demonstrators behaved in Adelaide a week or so ago when the Governor-General visited the Torrens Advanced Education Centre. [More…]
In the area of Coolaroo the Housing Commission, an authority of the Victorian Government responsible for building houses, and the Education Department, an authority of the Victorian Government responsible for building schools, were working in the one area. [More…]
The Education Department felt that it did not have the funds to build the school that year. [More…]
The planning is so bad that the Commission built the houses, but the Education Department did not build the school. [More…]
It comprises, as suggested by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner), who represents the Minister for Education, a series of 5 Bills. [More…]
The legislation now submitted to the Parliament is in accordance with the previous Government’s intention that the funding, whether it be in the universities area, the colleges of advanced education area or the technical colleges area, be virtually for the calendar year 1976. [More…]
In other words the funding is in accordance with the recommendations for 1976 which were also explicitly explained to the House in a statement made by my colleague the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) who was then the Minister for Education. [More…]
The next Bill is the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill which provides for recurrent expenditure and capital expenditure. [More…]
Apparently there is not- and I emphasise the word ‘apparently’- the support that was expected for the School of Mines by way of a college of advanced education. [More…]
I would presume and expect, and at any rate suggest, that this procedure would apply in all future funding of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The States Grants (Advanced Education) Amendment Bill is an ancilliary piece of legislation to the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill and also deals with colleges of advanced education. [More…]
This Bill involves additional moneys totalling $21m and makes a total of $743m payable for the triennium in respect of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The fifth and final Bill is the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Amendment Bill which seeks to amend the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act. [More…]
The beneficiaries are detailed in the various schedules and are in accordance with the recommendations of the Technical and Further Education Commission and what was suggested by the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) when he was Minister for Education. [More…]
Very significant advances have been made in the field of technical education. [More…]
I note that in the 2-year period since 1974 an additional 114000 enrolments have taken place in technical education throughout Australia. [More…]
The national Parliament can establish the needs of citizens, particularly in the education field. [More…]
If one looks at the immense amount of money involved in education granted by the national Government one must applaud the fact that there has been this interest in education at the national level. [More…]
As a result education now is one of the most significant areas of expenditure in any Budget. [More…]
By becoming so involved as a national Parliament we have been able to achieve some uniformity of development in education throughout Australia. [More…]
One can readily appreciate how defective the educational standards would be if the national support were not there. [More…]
By giving every person the opportunity for the best education to utilise his or her talents we are guaranteeing a very effective democracy. [More…]
We are guaranteeing that people in Australia, despite variations in their pecuniary ability, have a chance to learn and develop their talents whether it be at universities, colleges of advanced education or technical colleges. [More…]
I rise to support the 5 Bills before us which provide for the payment of grants to the States for various aspects of post-secondary education. [More…]
In my remarks I will not be dealing so much with the first 2 Bills which deal with universities but rather with the 3 other Bills which relate to advanced education and technical and further education. [More…]
I regretted that in the 1975 Budget there was a break in the triennial funding program for post-secondary education. [More…]
Whilst I regretted that break in the triennial program, I believe that it does have the compensating factor of giving us an opportunity to re-examine where we stand in the development of post-secondary educational facilities in this country so that the new triennial program can be embarked upon with some sort of evaluation in mind. [More…]
I want to make some remarks which are related to the role played in this country by colleges of advanced education and to some of the factors that ought to be considered in respect of future funding programs. [More…]
In recent years there has been a remarkable spread of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Many of these colleges have provided many worthwhile initiatives in education. [More…]
They have provided an avenue for many people, who otherwise would not qualify in the normal universities to gain a post-secondary education. [More…]
The Canberra College of Advanced Education has developed some very useful courses on local government administration, which is an increasingly important area of public administration in Australia. [More…]
The courses can be used by managers in various businesses who may not have had the opportunity to become familiar with computer technology in the days when they undertook their initial education. [More…]
However, there are developments in the colleges of advanced education which I believe give cause for some concern. [More…]
It seems that many of the colleges of advanced education want to become universities. [More…]
I appreciate that the courses have a great value for many people who are coming back to education at a later stage in life- people who perhaps left school at a very early age and need to regain the habits of study. [More…]
Many of the courses that have been developed by the colleges of advanced education are designed to cater for that sort of student who needs a gradual introduction to the methods of study so that he or she can then embark on a more rigorous vocational training of some sort in a rather more well-defined discipline. [More…]
But I fear that a number of the courses are becoming courses for people who want something to do with their time, and perhaps we ought to be looking at types of facilities other than colleges of advanced education. [More…]
If a college of advanced education is offering a course which provides expertise in a particular subject, such as the local government area which is a specialty of the Canberra College of Advanced Education, then a qualification in that subject or that discipline at that particular institution will be valued and regarded very highly throughout the community. [More…]
I am not suggesting that we are going to that length in this country, but I feel that our tertiary institutions of education ought to be careful when developing their range of courses, that they do not debase the value of the qualifications they issue. [More…]
I should like to make passing reference to something the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) said in the second reading speech on the States Grants (Advanced Education) Amendment Bill 1976. [More…]
I make that only as a passing reference as to the way in which we seem to be searching for status in so much of our tertiary education. [More…]
Another factor in the development of colleges of advanced education has been a growing debate on the role of research in those institutions. [More…]
When advanced education was reported on by the Martin Committee it recommended that increased opportunities in post-secondary vocational education were important for Australia’s future needs. [More…]
The basic philosophy behind the formation of colleges of advanced education was that these institutions would provide genuine alternatives to universities for vocationally oriented students. [More…]
I gather it was not anticipated that colleges of advanced education would have a great role to play in research. [More…]
I have not made up my own mind on the role of research in colleges of advanced education, but I do believe that it is a subject that needs a great deal of consideration before we go much further in the development of this form of educational institution. [More…]
I would commend to the House an article written by Beresford Stock, a senior lecturer in the School of Pharmacy at the South Australian Institute of Technology which can be found in the Australian Journal of Advanced Education of October last year. [More…]
It is a very sober analysis of the factors for and against having research activity in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Beresford Stock comes out on the side of having research activity in colleges of advanced education on the basis that to attract the sort of staff you need you must be able to provide that community of scholars in which research can take place. [More…]
However, I just raise the question about the extent to which we ought to be encouraging research in colleges of advanced education and whether here we have another case of these institutions spreading their resources too thinly. [More…]
Of course there are some types of research which one can see are relevant and valid for a college of advanced education to undertake. [More…]
Also, in the business administration schools that we have in both universities and colleges of advanced education there is usually a requirement or a recommendation that lecturing staff in those courses should undertake some outside business consulting work so that they are kept in touch with the business world. [More…]
There may be other avenues of research that are also valid but I raise the question as to the extent to which research has a part in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I noticed recently in the newsletter of the Technical and Further Education Commission mention of the Commission’s research and investigation program which included some work that was being done on adult migrant education. [More…]
I do not know what the long term plans for migrant education are or just who will be co-ordinating migrant education in this country. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that a number of different programs of migrant education have been developed by various bodies- by the Department of Education in the Commonwealth sphere, by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and by other various State bodies- which do need some coordination. [More…]
That hostel, as do other Commonwealth hostels, has an Education Centre. [More…]
The structure of that education centre is as follows- I gather that it is not just limited to Eastbridge and that there is a similar situation existing in other centres: Firstly, the Language Training Supervisor in charge of that centre is employed by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The teachers who have to teach the various courses with her are supplied by the Migrant Education Branch of the Victorian Education Department. [More…]
The teaching equipment is supplied by the Commonwealth Department of Education. [More…]
I have pointed this out to the Minister and suggested that someone has to control because if the language training supervisor determines in her best judgment that a certain type of course ought to be designed and the Migrant Education Branch of the Victorian Education Department takes an attitude that the teachers should not be teaching that sort of course in certain hours, there is obviously a source of some conflict. [More…]
I believe it is just symptomatic of the situation of adult migrant education in this country. [More…]
On the matter of adult education in the community I want to develop the thought that perhaps a number of the general courses which are being offered by colleges of advanced education could be offered by other sorts of institutions. [More…]
It may well be that we do not need to have a college of advanced education for some of these general courses which are used by people as a way of updating their educational skills, learning the habits of study, perhaps even just doing something to involve themselves in the community such as getting out of the house and meeting other people. [More…]
I have indeed made that suggestion to a group of people in my own electorate in Croydon who are presently putting together a submission to the State Minister for Education to try to convince him to develop a new co-educational technical school in the Croydon area. [More…]
I have suggested that in planning for that school the authorities ought to take into account the lack of adult education facilities in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne. [More…]
I have a basic belief that when everybody agrees on something there is probably something wrong with that proposition; that if everybody or apparently everybody is agreeing that one must not criticise huge expenditure on tertiary education there is probably some rip-off involved; and that there are some questions which ought to be raised before everybody in this House pats the Government on the back as they patted the previous Government and will pat future governments for escalating expenditure on tertiary education. [More…]
Expenditure for colleges of advanced education for the triennium 1973-75 was $743m. [More…]
There is an assumption that we must go back to the funding of universities and colleges of advanced education on a triennial basis. [More…]
Is it not an elitist attempt to exclude spending on tertiary education from discussion and bargaining even though every other government department must submit to discussion and bargaining? [More…]
Primary and secondary education, social security, health, housing, transport and everything else must be submitted to discussion and bargaining. [More…]
For some reason or other, colleges of advanced education and universities try to get out of that bargaining by saying that they want to be funded on a triennial basis. [More…]
There is a danger that the most vocal groups in the community the groups in the community best able to express their point of view, are able to get away with what I call a rip off in education. [More…]
There have been these huge increases in expenditure on education. [More…]
He will also realise that the money committed to tertiary education takes a considerable amount away from that limited amount of money. [More…]
However, sabbaticals do apply in other areas in Australia and I am sure that if we went into the items of tertiary education expenditure we would find many other points which could be discussed in greater detail. [More…]
Education, especially tertiary education, has become a holy cow in this country. [More…]
That is bad: I am probably in a minority comprising only a few members of my own Party in expressing that point of view, but it is an issue which ought to be discussed in the community and in this Parliament when we are prepared to sit down and slash other expenditure which may well be much more justified than the expenditure on tertiary education. [More…]
Generally speaking, I do believe that we have to be prepared to look at the tertiary area as much as any other area of government expenditure to satisfy ourselves that we are getting value for money and that the people we are turning out as graduates are able to play a worthwhile and constructive role after we have spent the large amount of public money that we do spend on bringing them to the point where they can call themselves graduates of a university or college of advanced education. [More…]
The present proportion of the relevant age group going on to tertiary education is to be maintained; [More…]
Similarly, the same number of students in the relative age groups are to go on to university and tertiary education generally. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, the benefit of a university education accrues to the individual and to the society as a whole. [More…]
Where does one bring into account the costs borne by students and families, including the income forgone during a period of study to gain employment later at a higher level and, presumably, with higher remuneration, and the cost of educational subsidies both direct and indirect? [More…]
We have a situation now where tertiary education is free. [More…]
The total cost for a full-time student in the faculty of veterinary science was $4,374; in agricultural science, $3,641; in medicine $3,479; in dentistry, $3,371; in engineering, $3,302; in science, $2,177; in architecture, $1,117; in arts, $1,535; in education, $1,456; in law, $1,363; and in economics, $1,334. [More…]
These questions ultimately must relate to the cost of university education and tertiary education generally. [More…]
The former Minister for Education, the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), indicated that he accepted responsibility for the direction of the report. [More…]
I believe that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has these very much in mind, but clearly there ought to be a general recognition of the problems that we have with the tertiary allowance scheme as it was introduced by the former Government. [More…]
I submit that in the universities area and in the education area generally efforts to reduce expenditure had been made previously. [More…]
This is the reason why the area of education, particularly as evidenced by the Bills that we are now discussing, has been left largely unimpaired in terms of the approach that this Government has taken to date. [More…]
My reason for doing so is reports, which are now emanating, to the effect that financial guidelines are to be placed by Treasury upon the various education commissions and in fact that that has already been done. [More…]
The Government has given instructions- that is tantamount to what it says- that no publicity should be given to these financial guidelines because the Schools Commission has always independently- I make the point that it uses the word ‘independently’- formulated its recommendations on education expenditure. [More…]
In other words, there are two important points to be noted in this: Firstly, it is an interference with the independence of the various education commissions in making recommendations; secondly, it goes much further than that in that the Government is doing it very quietly, in a secretive manner, with very strict instructions to the various commissions that they should not give publicity to the Treasury guidelines- or government guidelines, if one wants to call them that, although they are actually guidelines recommended by Treasury- because it will show that there is governmental interference with the activities of the various commissions. [More…]
All four education commissions- I make this point because they are the subject matter of the Bills now before the House - have been, or will be, presented with financial guidelinesthe Universities Commission, the Schools Commission, the Commission for Technical and Further Education, and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
In other words, that is an end to the whole principle of the Schools Commission and the various other commissions set up by the Labor Government to bring about reform in the field of education and under which a long term program is laid down for the future of education and spending in education generally. [More…]
This has aroused antagonism in the Department of Education, as has Treasury’s tight budgetary proposals. [More…]
Despite undertakings given by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) during election campaigns and at various forums that education would continue to receive the high priority that it received under the Labor Government, it is very obvious that spending on education will get the chop in the coming Budget. [More…]
It is to the effect that the Government is instructing the various commissions- I repeat that it is not only the Schools Commission but also the Universities Commission, the Commission for Technical and Further Education, and the Commission on Advanced Educationby giving them financial guidelines. [More…]
I believe that the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt), who represents the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in this chamber, should be frank with this House. [More…]
I think it is time that we were given that information because, without a doubt, it is going to have a very big impact upon the future education policies of this country. [More…]
The great mass of the Australian people showed quite clearly that they agreed with the Labor Party’s reforms in the field of education. [More…]
There was no inference from the present Government, in the later stage of its period in Opposition- just before the last electionthat it would destroy this very important reform in the field of education. [More…]
I assure the Government that it will get a very great backlash if we find a very serious deterioration in the level of funding for education purposes, as indicated in the report I mentioned, when the next Budget is brought down, presumably in August. [More…]
The final point I wish to make relates to technical and further education. [More…]
If the job is not started now we will not have the necessary facilities to provide technical education, that is to say non-graduate training, in an area where there will be a great demand for it. [More…]
I refer, for example, to clause 21 of the States Grants (Advanced Education) Bill. [More…]
The clauses will have no effect whatever on expenditure on the approved education programs. [More…]
Of course when the State Government has made its decision, it will be considered by the Council for Advanced Education, which will in due course be making a recommendation to the Federal Government concerning the future of the Kalgoorlie School of Mines. [More…]
The honourable gentleman further referred to the need for national support by the Federal Government of the State education systems. [More…]
Of course former Liberal-Country Party Governments have a long history of national support of tertiary and other education. [More…]
The variety of points that were covered by him and what he had to say were all of a most constructive nature and are points which I am sure will be read with interest by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]
When the honourable member speaks of the need to watch that education institutions of the kind which are funded by these Bills do not debase the value of degrees granted by them, I think we would all agree with that sentiment. [More…]
The honourable gentleman referred to migrant education and gave an example of a need for co-ordination which he had experienced within his own electorate. [More…]
In answering a question the other day, I spoke on this and assured honourable members that the Government is aware of the need for fully supporting migrant education. [More…]
The honourable member for Casey has drawn the attention of the House- again I am sure it will be taken into account by the Minister- to the need for coordination if these migrant education schemes are to have their full effect and value for those who need them. [More…]
Both the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) and the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr Ruddock) drew the attention of the House to the need to look for cost savings and the need to obtain real educational value for expenditure through these educational institutions. [More…]
I think that the contribution of the honourable member for Parramatta, in referring to the average annual cost of producing a graduate, is something that needs to be borne in mind when we look at priorities in education. [More…]
May I inform the honourable gentleman that the previous Government found itself unable to accept all the recommendations of the education commissions last year when they put forward programs for the years 1976-78, worth a total of about $6,400m. [More…]
For this reason, having regard to the experience of the previous Labor Government, the present Government is considering issuing guidelines to the education commissions for the preparation of their reports in the 1977-79 triennium. [More…]
With regard to the experience of the education commissions with the last Labor Government, this Government would not want to see the commissions put in the position where they have no financial guidelines and therefore are faced with the undesirable prospects, as they were last year, of having their proposals rejected by the Government because they do not fit in with the Government’s budgetary requirements. [More…]
That is a situation which this Government seeks to avoid and one which I expect the education commissions will welcome. [More…]
I am informed that the Technical and Further Education Commission has no information that the New South Wales Government intends to obtain plans to build a technical college at Mount Druitt. [More…]
I recently foreshadowed the introduction of this Bill when introducing Bills relating to other sectors of education. [More…]
The background to this Bill and aspects of it are common to the Bills introduced earlier for universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It is our aim to ensure, by consultation and co-operation with the States and other education authorities, that Commonwealth funds are made available in such a way as to reflect local priorities. [More…]
To this end, the Schools Commission, in preparing its report to the Government for the proposed triennium 1977-79, has been consulting with the States and other authorities in order to take full account of the priorities and needs of the various education agencies. [More…]
As with the other education Bills I have already introduced, provision is made in this Bill for grants in relation to building and equipment projects to be met, if necessary, from the Loan Fund. [More…]
There are to be 6 programs in 1976- general recurrent grants, disadvantaged schools, special education, services and development, special projects and capital grants. [More…]
It is the policy of this Government to establish as much flexibility and initiative as possible for systems and schools in using education grants. [More…]
Decentralisation of decision-making is desirable to permit maximum responsiveness and local involvement in education. [More…]
There is a recognised need to inform this Parliament and the Australian people how moneys granted for education purposes are spent. [More…]
Later reference was made to: the clear failure of existing social and economic structures to meet the needs of modern society, particularly in relation to education, social security, health, industrial relations and urban and regional development. [More…]
Australia’s history is characterised not by examples of people seeking more and more dependence on government but by people with the courage, the ambition and the common sense to improve their lot, and in so doing play their role in contributing to the national resource- the fund from which general standards in health, education, welfare and other avenues can be improved. [More…]
Those two honourable members do not claim to have any degrees from universities or colleges of advanced education but they have proved by the excellence of their contribution in this debate that they both have the greatest degree of all- a degree in practical experience. [More…]
They have no health services and practically no education. [More…]
This applies both to policies involving government services to the Australian people, such as education or social welfare, and to policies in which population is treated as a resource, such as the gearing of manpower to economic development. [More…]
Far from improving our standard of living and improving the quality of life, this approach with its result of an ageing population will require the transfer of resources away from education and training and investment in productive processes to the needs of a proportionately increasing population of aged persons. [More…]
They are the victims of a technological age which requires education and work skills (or the ability to adapt to new requirements). [More…]
We must reestablish the economy of this rich and vigorous country and then carefully press forward with social welfare, health and education policies which will ensure that this country is second to none. [More…]
Hundreds of thousands of Australian see this as one of the great educational, historical and cultural ventures undertaken by the late Government, not to mention the enormous benefit it will be to tourism, both intranational and international. [More…]
When one considers the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on education, the millions of dollars poured into the arts, sport and recreation, and the funds now being spent on museums, few of which would have anything like the attendance at Old Sydney Town, is it not absurd to suggest that a few hundred thousand dollars of losses is sufficient justification to scrap the project? [More…]
There is therefore an obligation to make proper provision out of the existing cake, both at the early end for education and at the latter end for adequate retirement. [More…]
Prior to the refugees being accommodated at the hostel the Regional Director of Migration in Victoria made arrangements with the Victorian Department of Education in relation to the school-age children. [More…]
The intention of the scheme is to encourage saving over an extended period, ideally from the commencement of work after the completion of education. [More…]
As mentioned in earlier debates, this piece of legislation is supplementary to and indeed part of the 3 previous pieces of legislation which related to universities, colleges of advanced education and technical colleges. [More…]
The Bill provides for substantial sums of money to be paid to the States for primary and secondary education. [More…]
I ask whether this legislation will achieve the type of accelerated progress that the Labor Government envisaged would occur when the national government decided to play its pan in assisting in the education of all children in Australia. [More…]
That was allocated on a needs basis, which is an essential ingredient of the Labor Parry’s education platform. [More…]
The Government sought advice from experts such as Karmel as to the best way to assist education in Australia. [More…]
The present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was the spokesman for education in this House and he opposed the establishment of the Schools Commission. [More…]
He also opposed the needs concept, and perhaps he had some foresight because he said in December 1973 that it should not be assumed that the Government of the day would get the consent of the Senate for reallocation of monetary resources, particularly in education. [More…]
We saw that we do not necessarily have to adopt, for example, the United States system of spending ten times more on the education of the 10 per cent of its children on the top of the socio-economic scale than on the 10 per cent on the bottom of the scale. [More…]
The tables on pages 1 7 and 1 8 clearly show that the children of the lower paid worker or the lower income family are not completing a secondary education and are certainly not even achieving entrance qualifications to the tertiary field. [More…]
But we must say that a great problem has existed in Australia in education in schools when we look at page 46 of the Karmel report where we see the examples of what was happening and obviously still is happening because the monetary needs were so great that they could not possibly have been satisfied in the relatively short period since the Schools Commission was established. [More…]
The toilet facilities were as old as the building … A speech thereapist visited the school for half a day weekly; there was no visiting teacher to assist deaf children; visits by psychologists were rare and there was no physical education teacher for the remedial physical assistance which many pupils required. [More…]
This was the Australian education of 1973- not so long ago. [More…]
A new government primary and infant school with an enrolment of nearly 900, with extensive grounds, open space style carpeted buildings, both primary and infant departments supplied with a piano, television, public address system and tape recorder as establishment grants from the Education Department. [More…]
This was the great problem of education. [More…]
Let us face it, Mr Deputy Speaker, you and I have been in a State Government and we know that it is often readily said that the best schools are in the area represented by the Minister for Education. [More…]
We urge the National Country Party particularly to adhere to what it did- forcing education in 1 973, joining with the Labor Party in getting this Bill through. [More…]
We do not accept the Fraser concept of education as announced and expressed here in voting, even in divisions, in 1973 because if that voting had been effective, there would not have been any Schools Commission and there would not have been this sort of funding. [More…]
In calculating the deductions for the ‘deductions tax scheme’ it has been assumed that the taxpayer has claimed for his wife and children as dependants and has also claimed the maximum allowable amounts for the education of children i.e. [More…]
In the case of the ‘concessional rebates tax scheme’ it has been assumed that the taxpayer received dependants-rebate and that the only expenses claimed under general concessional rebates provisions are those for the education of the children. [More…]
It is assumed that the taxpayer claims maximum education expenses i.e. [More…]
Only in the case of the men with six children does the rebate exceed the minimum; they will receive 40 per cent of 6 x $250 (or $600) rebate for education expenses. [More…]
However, education in formal institutions, separated from both the home and the world of work, has proved to be an inadequate means of changing patterns of social stratification or of initiating all young people into society. [More…]
Unless our conception of education broadens to enable schools to forge closer links with other socialising agencies, the possibility of providing equal life chances for children from all types of social backgrounds is severely limited. [More…]
A comprehensive education program has been undertaken and Service lecture teams visited the majority of Service establishments in February and March 1976 to explain both the concept and application of the Group Rent Scheme which as I mentioned earlier will take effect on 15 April 1976. [More…]
After sub-clause (2) paragraph (a) insert the following paragraph: ‘(aa) after consultation with the Schools Commission, the Commonwealth Education Minister may permit the allocation of a specific amount from a school’s allocation to be spent at the discretion of the school board; ‘. [More…]
Wider participation in decision-making is also encouraged in recommendations about the participation of major ethnic groups in planning educational services for their children, in those recommendations related to Aboriginal education and in those concerned with operations of the Special Projects, Services and Development and Disadvantaged Schools Programs. [More…]
It is quite clear that what the Opposition is seeking here is that, again only after consultation, there be some recognition of what is needed for the stimulation of community involvement as part and parcel of an education program. [More…]
I am quite sure that movements in this direction within government and non-government systems are important to enable school communities to develop greater commitment to education through more extensive control of their own affairs. [More…]
I think the involvement of school communities in the administration and management of their education facilities is proceeding very favourably. [More…]
It is our intention to encourage as much decentralisation of decision making as possible, to permit maximum responsiveness and local involvement in education. [More…]
What is worrying the Opposition at present and what obviously will be the subject of some discussion at the Committee stage of the debate on this Bill is that the Opposition senses in the Liberal Party’s philosophy a tendency to vacate the field of education. [More…]
Unless there is some interest in this matter and unless there is a co-ordinating group, such as the Schools Commission, making an evaluation of the programs that we are financing we may well have a retardation of what has been hoped to be a great advance in education for the Australian youth. [More…]
It is important that the national Parliament should always be informed about the progress made in the field of education because it is the front line of any national development of character and of a national development of technical advance. [More…]
It guarantees that this nation can progress if we have effective educational programs. [More…]
We know that there are great needs throughout the whole spectrum of education. [More…]
The schedules refer to subjects such as capital, recurrent programs, migrant education, disadvantaged schools, handicapped children, special schools, teacher education training in courses related thereto and the development of service activities. [More…]
Virtually all these matters are of immense interest to the whole development of an effective educational program and this has not happened until recent years. [More…]
We repeat that this Bill allocates $476m in the 1976 calendar year but the 1972 education program commenced in that year to run for 5 years really involved an expenditure less than the amount allocated in this Bill for the 1976 year. [More…]
He says that $40m is needed now in this field alone, in that small segment of education in that State. [More…]
We say this should not happen at all unless the Minister for Education in the Australian Government and this Parliament act in accordance with some advice of which this Parliament would be made aware. [More…]
Accordingly we propose to move an amendment on the basis that if there is to be any reallocation of resources the Schools Commission ought to be consulted and that advice given to this Parliament so that the Parliament itself is able to continue to take part in the supervision of what are deemed to be essential activities in education. [More…]
It follows, does it not, that this involvement should continue after preschool education? [More…]
In foreshadowing those amendments the shadow Minister for Education, the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen), spoke of a stupid society. [More…]
We are no more likely to make wise decisions about education by confining those decisions to the central government than we are by making them nearer to the source of the problem, nearer to those being educated. [More…]
Through a body such as the Schools Commission, we ought to advise on educational expenditure throughout the Commonwealth with a view to not duplicating assessment and research, with a view to maintaining a measure of equality between areas and between States, but certainly not in such a way that we stifle useful and helpful diversity. [More…]
The first report of the Schools Commission for the 1976-1978 triennium was rejected, as were the reports for the same period of the Universities Commission, the Commission on Technical and Further Education and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
I do not believe that it was rejected in order to spite the education authorities. [More…]
The total education budget was $ 1,908m. [More…]
Schools Commission and the other education commissions. [More…]
I wish to consider the role of the education commissions in times when Budgets are more difficult. [More…]
In those circumstances, in what manner should commissions such as the Schools Commission, the Universities Commission, the other education commissions, and commissions and advisory bodies in other areas, make their reports to the Government? [More…]
I know that the private sector of education is genuinely fearful that if the education commissions, particularly the Schools Commission, do not retain their independence and authority they will suffer. [More…]
It may be a political decision that is taken quite properly, but it is also quite proper that the public- in this case that part of the public that is involved in education- should question the decision and ask for the reasons for which such an administrative decision was taken. [More…]
The moment they speak for States, for unions or for a section of education they will prejudice the acceptance, if not the integrity, of their advice. [More…]
So we will be making the choice between say defence and education, if the government says that so much should be spent on education. [More…]
That may be some indication in one year of the increase in expenditure that was put into education. [More…]
The Minister, however, did make a remark to the effect that the Federal Minister for Education will consult with the States as to what constitutes a disadvantaged school. [More…]
As Minister for Education in the Whitlam Government I could not have told honourable members what the disadvantaged schools of New South Wales or Victoria were. [More…]
214 of 1973, the States Grants (Schools) Act, which passed the Senate only after a homeric struggle, with the Liberal Party voting against it at all stages, provides this definition: ‘Government disadvantaged school’ means a government primary school or, a government secondary school, in a State which the State Education Minister Tor the State informs the Minister, in writing, is a disadvantaged school, and which is declared by the Minister, in writing, to be a disadvantaged school for the purpose of this Act: [More…]
In the enrichment of education which ensued from this increased expenditure acknowledgements were always made by” the Catholic education authorities, and never acknowledgements made by the State education authorities, of the advance in their education which we know took place. [More…]
Before there was any Commonwealth interest in education whatsoever, before there was even a Commonwealth brass razoo given to universities, every educationalist who visited this country said that Australian education was the most bureaucratic and the most centralised and stifling bureaucracy they had seen in any comparable country in the world. [More…]
If Father Martin, the Director of Catholic Education in Victoria, had to give an objective assessment of the needs of State schools, he did so. [More…]
The grants were made to the Catholic education authorities, to individual independent schools and to State education authorities. [More…]
Although there were some specifications about a certain expenditure on disadvantaged schools and a certain expenditure on education of the handicapped, the vast bulk involved expenditure on which the States or the Catholic education authorities were free to decide. [More…]
In Western Australia, as the honourable member who just spoke may well remember, a Country Party Minister for Education, Mr Lewis- I have always paid the highest tributes to him- with perhaps the best Director of Education that Australia has ever seen, the late Dr T. L. Robertson, objectively put educational facilities where there was a need. [More…]
But everybody who knows anything about education knows that normal State procedure is for powerful political personalities to put the best and the most expensive high schools in their electorate, irrespective of whether there is the number of children there to justify them. [More…]
In precisely the same way there was no political demand for, and no political kudos to be obtained, when we put every Aboriginal child in secondary education on a scholarship which might range from some $250 to $2,000 a year. [More…]
But when we have a body like the Schools Commission consisting of independent educationalists making assessments regardless of the political convenience of their political masterseither the Australian Minister for Education or the State Ministers- then there is an objective assessment of the needs in certain areas. [More…]
It is almost standard in Australia for a parent to regard education as a weapon of his child’s advantage- ‘I am a good parent if I fight for my child ‘s advantage over that of all other children’. [More…]
It is there that a child gets an education which gives him an advantage over everybody else. [More…]
The nation has not got an interest in the concept of advantage for some children’s education; it has got an interest in the concept that education should be an instrument of every child’s dignity and advancement. [More…]
The position in the Catholic schools, where they try to reach the poorest child, was that they had, of course, a very great burden of education, and they had not made an amendment to the Magnificat to this effect: ‘He has put down the mighty from their seat and exhalted the humble and meek; he has filled the hungry with good things and the rich have got the same amount in flat rate grants across the board’. [More…]
Yet we found that in certain church sectors when we started to carry out the Magnificat in education people did not always appreciate it. [More…]
The introduction of indexation for universities, colleges of advanced education and schools by my Ministry was not popular with the Treasury. [More…]
It made education a rather privileged sector, screened against changes in cost structures, and this was not altogether liked. [More…]
When we became the Government the Commonwealth expenditure on technical education in a triennium was $36m. [More…]
If the Leader of the Opposition saw that photograph he might have said something about it- and that was far more important than having an objective report of the colossal needs of technical education! [More…]
The Schools Commission concept, or the Technical and Further Education Commission concept for that matter, of analysing needs cuts across this view and keeps the spotlight on educational needs. [More…]
I hope that the ‘hear hear’ gentleman some day has the experience of being on the Australian Education Council where one sits with the 6 States Ministers for Education. [More…]
One finds very quickly that the Commonwealth’s position of requiring the States to maintain their efforts in education, then receiving the Commonwealth grant on top of it was, in fact, the State Education Ministers’ charter of emancipation from the Treasury. [More…]
Obviously, that is the State Education Minister’s charter of independence from the State Treasurer and all the Education Ministers liked it. [More…]
He did not want this ear-marking of money for education because if he preferred to spend it on beef roads that was what he wanted to be able to do. [More…]
He did not anticipate that he would still be the Education Minister battling against his Treasury. [More…]
He anticipated that he would be Treasurer and Premier and that he would be making the decisions, and so any commitment or earmarking for education was not quite along his lines. [More…]
So that we could make education accessible to children in remote areas we introduced the isolated children’s grants. [More…]
So that we could make education accessible to the children of widows and others who are in 5th and 6th forms we introduced a special grant for children at those levels. [More…]
At least more than 20 000 students received this grant on the basis of need to enable them to complete their secondary education. [More…]
In an attempt to try to make education accessible we extended the grants to all Aboriginal children in the secondary education areas. [More…]
The previous Government took this action to try to maintain the accessibility of education to people who were hit by economic or some other form of tragedy. [More…]
Thirdly, I hope that the Minister will maintain the idea of weighted grants to enrich education in areas where there is the greatest need; for example, the establishment of a beautiful library in a Catholic school in a slum area. [More…]
The last thing I want to say is that in the biennium before we came to office the all up expenditure by the Commonwealth on education for the handicapped was $5m. [More…]
In the biennium just completed the all up expenditure on education for the handicapped- that is for research at universities and everywhere else- was $67m. [More…]
All these things have been long overdue additions to the structure of Australian education. [More…]
I think it would be only fair to acknowledge the contribution that the honourable member made to the development of education during the time that he was Minister for Education in the previous Government. [More…]
I do not think that anybody ever doubted his concern for education. [More…]
I must confess that when I heard him say that during his term as Minister for Education, education was neither centralised nor bureaucratic I wondered whether I was hearing about some other education system that he had in mind, because it hardly seems to me to fit the picture of what we have been through. [More…]
Both amendments which have been foreshadowed by the Opposition seem to place an emphasis on Canberra in the allocation of education expenditure. [More…]
The point is that the Labor Government introduced legislation that bound the States hand and foot in the allocation of money for education purposes. [More…]
I am very pleased that in Victoria the Education Department has taken the necessary steps to decentralise the planning and other functional performances that are needed in the administration of school programs. [More…]
I remind the House that education as a Commonwealth commitment is very big business. [More…]
He proudly referred to the fact that in the first full year of office of the previous Government expenditure on education almost doubled, and in the next year it almost doubled again. [More…]
The remarkable quadrupling of the total education expenditure figures in just over 2 years has been only part of the record. [More…]
Benefits in relation to the quality of education will continue to flow on a long term basis from the machinery we have established and the programs we have fostered. [More…]
I believe that education is not solely a function of pouring unlimited amounts of money into this sector. [More…]
I cannot agree with the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) who referred to the increase in the money supply that has been made available for education as being the sole attribute of the program. [More…]
It exhibited a rather typical lack of consultation between the Government at that time and education authorities, schools, staffs, students and administrators. [More…]
It was somewhat reminiscent of the decision taken by the Prime Minister at that time who decided suddenly that the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education would be amalgamated. [More…]
One of the most surprised people at that conference, it appeared to me, was the then Minister for Education, the honourable member for Fremantle. [More…]
While I am referring to the subject of schools, I make the point that I was very pleased to see that the Schools Commission, in its triennial report for 1976-78, made considerable mention of the needs and demands of country education, particularly as they relate to the philosophy of equality of opportunity. [More…]
I believe that this has particularly severe implications for education in the country. [More…]
I also welcome the move to longer, more professional courses, particularly special teacher education courses. [More…]
However, I have some serious doubts that the quality of teaching and the quality of education in our schools have improved. [More…]
We have been inundated with a multitude of audiovisual gadgets which in some cases have contributed greatly to education and in other cases have not. [More…]
Professor Barcan from the Faculty of Education at the University of Newcastle, in a recent issue of Quadrant, expressed serious doubts that our educational standards in schools have increased. [More…]
I do not believe that the public at large has had an increasing respect for the teaching profession as a result of either the previous Government’s policies or the vast amount of money that has been poured into education, and teacher education in particular. [More…]
In fact one State Minister, a colleague of mine, tells me he regards his portfolio of education as being one of Minister for industrial relations. [More…]
The previous Government also was proud of its record in providing free tertiary education, abolishing fees and taking over the full financial responsibility for tertiary education. [More…]
The students at the Riverina College of Advanced Education are on strike at the moment over travel allowances. [More…]
I do not believe that it is healthy to engender this attitude either in school leavers or in people undertaking tertiary education when they are about to achieve a qualification which I regard as a privilege- I may be old fashioned- rather than as a sacrosanct right. [More…]
Salaries are in fact killing education at all levels. [More…]
Salaries and inflation are causing great strains on our educational system. [More…]
But in my opinion education funding is not a sacred cow. [More…]
The education honeymoon and the open chequebook situation must be looked at very carefully. [More…]
All sectors of education, whether they comprise administrators, staff, students or State governments for that matter, must act responsibly. [More…]
They must contribute to the system and they must work towards a planned and rational development of education at all levels. [More…]
in reply- I thank honourable gentlemen who have participated in this debate for their contribution on what is a very important matter, namely, Commonwealth funding of education in Australia. [More…]
We heard from a former Minister for Education, the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), one who has had a long-standing, and in many respects a passionate interest in the educational welfare of Australian children. [More…]
We all recognise his contribution to education in Australia and listen attentively to whatever he has to say. [More…]
I am quite sure that those who are aware of the Government’s commitment to education, particularly through the funding powers of the national Government, will know of the policy of the coalition parties which in quite unmistakable terms displays our commitment to education at the national level. [More…]
But at the same time we are aware of our national responsibility in this great field of education and we will not shrink from giving effect to that responsibility. [More…]
We have already given a public commitment to the continuation of the Schools Commission, for example, and that, of course, will be a vehicle through which the Federal Government may receive advice at a national level, crossing State boundaries, on educational needs throughout Australia. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingsford-Smith also spoke of a fear that was at least in his mind that the Government would reduce spending on education. [More…]
I think the Government’s commitment to education can be seen in the way the Department of Education fared in the program of economic restraint instituted by the Government in its necessary efforts to take control of the deficit facing the Government which was expected to be between $4,500m and $5,000m. [More…]
Nevertheless, whilst it can be fairly and properly said that we have a commitment to maintain a level of spending on education such as that which is to be implemented through this Bill, education must, as must all other areas of national government, participate in the exercise in national economic responsibility upon which this Government is embarked at present, because, unless we follow that through, education, no less than any other area of government spending, will suffer, because real value will not get out to the people who really count in education, and they are the children of Australia upon whom the nation will rely in the years to come. [More…]
This Government has given no hint whatsoever that it will not consult the Schools Commission in its future programming and funding in education. [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle also spoke of centralisation of education through the Commonwealth and sought to make the point that there had really been no move in that direction under the former Government and that in fact there was the necessity for the central Government here in Canberra to move into the field in order to reveal to the nation those weaknesses in State systems which the States systems had concealed. [More…]
This Government has no hesitation in saying that the last thing it wants to see in education is the centralisation of education in Australia. [More…]
We have given positive effect to that commitment to co-operative federalism in education as in other fields through this Bill and through remarks that I have already made in my second reading speech in introducing the Bill. [More…]
I shall give an example from this Bill of the spirit of co-operative federalism with which we approach education. [More…]
It is important that the State and other educational systems should be given as wide a power as possible to determine their own priorities whilst we at the national level should look at national priorities and fund them accordingly. [More…]
The honourable member for Moore (Mr Hyde), who has shown a keen interest in education ever since he became a member of this House, highlighted a fact that must be recognised by everyone in this field as in all other fields, that is, that the resources available to the Government are finite and hence priorities must be established within those finite resources with respect to education as well as in other fields. [More…]
He is showing a special interest in education. [More…]
The honourable member for Calare (Mr MacKenzie) pointed up what needs to be pointed up whenever the subject of education is debated in this House, that is, the special problems which face country areas and the difficulties which parents face in seeking the highest level of education for their children on the basis of equality with what is available and much more readily accessible to children in the metropolitan areas. [More…]
At any time, and from time to time, during the year to which this Act applies, but subject to sub-section (4), the Commonwealth Education Minister may, at the request of the State Education Minister for a State, direct that this Act has effect as if the amounts specified in columns 2 and 3 of Schedule 1 opposite to the name of the State were varied in accordance with the direction, and, where the Commonwealth Education Minister gives a direction with respect to the variation of those amounts, then, for the purposes of this Act (including this sub-section and sub-sections (2) and (4)), there shall be deemed to have been specified in that Schedule (as from the commencing day), in substitution for those amounts, the amounts as so varied. [More…]
At any time, and from time to time, during the year to which this Act applies, but subject to sub-section (4), the Commonwealth Education Minister may, at the request of the State Education Minister for a State, direct that this Act has effect as if the amounts specified in . [More…]
It is quite clear that the Commonwealth Minister for Education would have taken the advice of the Schools Commission in respect of the allocation. [More…]
I cannot understand why, as he has foreshadowed, the Government is now prepared to ignore the Commission when there is a request from a State Education Minister which may or may not be granted. [More…]
If in the formality of things there is a request for a variation and the Commonwealth Education Minister wishes to grant it surely the Parliament is entitled to know that he has acted after seeking the advice of the Schools Commission. [More…]
The Commonwealth Minister for Education may not decide to agree to a request. [More…]
How can the Commission continue to feel that it is respected if in fact a request made by a State Minister for Education is granted by the Commonwealth Minister for Education without any consultation with the Commission, particularly if it is in respect of a project that the Commission would not have approved. [More…]
They happen to be associated with education, with State areas and with the needs of children. [More…]
I hope that it will still recruit people with a real sense of mission for that purpose to go into the secondary education structure of that country. [More…]
-In supporting the Bill I would like to refer to the remarks of the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), a former Minister for Education, about the socialistic connotation of the words ‘common wealth’. [More…]
The present Prime Minister when he was Minister for Education- certainly he will correct me if I am wrong- had his Department do a lot of work in respect of the implementation of this teaching scheme in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Prior to 1972 the teaching staff at community schools in the Northern Territory was supplied by and administered by the South Australian Department of Education. [More…]
Aboriginal schools were staffed by teachers who were under the control of the Aboriginal Education Division of the Department of the Interior. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), on his way through the Territory on a recent visit, discussed the Katherine Rural College, which could be the nearest approach we have to anything that even resembles a technical college. [More…]
I hope his departmental people who were with him and who showed a great knowledge and understanding of the problems, and have done so since, will give consideration to technical education in the Northern Territory, apart from the rural college. [More…]
I was very interested, as I am sure other members were, to hear the former Minister for Education, the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley). [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle referred to the education of Aboriginals. [More…]
The Commission thus wishes the relate the financing of education directly to equality and quality. [More…]
I know from discussions I have had with the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in my capacity as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs of the great interest which the Minister for Education has in the education of Aboriginal people. [More…]
It will then be up to the States to decide what share of the State funds will go to transport and roads and what share will go to health, education, legal services and so on. [More…]
It would be absurd, for instance, to continue expanding the primary sector of education, creches and preschool centres, when the demand upon those facilities will vary greatly in the near future as a result of the ageing of the population. [More…]
Changes within the economic structure of society, particularly the access of females to higher education and to the job market, has had an impact upon fertility rates also. [More…]
When traditional British and Western European sources of immigration have declined Australia has had to recruit migrants from countries or areas within countries- for example, rural Greece and Yugoslavia- without the background, education and industrialisation necessary to produce well-trained manpower. [More…]
For example, there are difficulties at the education level. [More…]
That can be realised only if there are equal opportunities in education. [More…]
Thus, he observes, that if we were to have no real population increase we would adversely affect these aspirations because we would transfer resources away from education and investment in productive processes to services, both government and private, for an increasing population of retired persons. [More…]
In its inquiry the Committee took evidence from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Departments of Defence, Education and Manufacturing Industry. [More…]
In connection with the Department of Education, evidence was taken on a number of unsatisfactory matters relating to the tertiary allowance scheme. [More…]
Again in connection with the Department of Education, the Committee took evidence relating to errors in the compilation of salary records and the assessment of salary entitlements. [More…]
The Committee has criticised the Department for the incidence in excess of 50 per cent of error detected in the calculation of salary entitlements in the Northern Territory and for its failure to take effective action to stop duplicate payments being made to an education adviser overseas. [More…]
I refer to better education, the mobility of a motor car and a more satisfying experience in life, usually in a middle class situation. [More…]
First, the 50 per cent rule will prove very difficult in practice unless the Board can assist in formulating a public education program that encourages small investors to invest in the exploration and development projects to which the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) has referred. [More…]
The Board may well make recommendations of its own regarding its own place in the educational program which will be necessary. [More…]
I challenge him to go into them and defend the actions of his Government and the Government of New South Wales on the rotten stand that they have taken against the decent people of this country-the pensioners, the people involved in education and the people whose contracts the Australian Government broke in relation to the NEAT scheme. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Enrolments for 1975 in courses in occupational therapy (OT) physiotherapy (FT) and speech therapy (ST) in colleges of advanced education are shown in the table below. [More…]
No designation of health assistant or aide is used in relation to courses in colleges of advanced education and it is not possible to provide information in relation to these categories. [More…]
During the next year 1973-74, the proportion of the funds for the National Warning allocated to State and nonstatutory health education authorities was increased in order to foster the educational component with advantages of more personal impact, long term effect and inbuilt capacity for feedback. [More…]
With this increase in health education activities throughout Australia, and an increased awareness of the National Warning, the amount allocated to the media publicity component was reduced. [More…]
There will be no more money for education, health services, transport, roads, hospitals, child care, universities and colleges or urban and regional development. [More…]
Not until the Federal Budget in August will the States know the full extent of the cuts or restraints or ceilings on specific purpose grants for education, health, transport and urban and regional development. [More…]
We know the only way he could reduce it significantlyforget about the tinkering and window-dressing of last February- is to put the axe through all the programs in health, education, transport and urban improvement originated and expanded by my Government. [More…]
In the interests of open government, I ask: What are the details of the suggested cuts, particularly in relation to education? [More…]
-My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]
He would be aware that today is E day and that several thousand teachers and parents from many parts of Australia have travelled to Canberra to put the case of education to this Parliament. [More…]
-I thank the honourable gentleman for the question which draws attention to the number of teachers and representatives of parents who are gathering in Canberra today to speak to as many members of Parliament as they can, representing the educational interests in Australia. [More…]
The Government has been quite clear in its attitude to education and the nigh priority it gives to education. [More…]
The Minister has given to the teacher organisations throughout Australia assurances of the high priority which we give to education. [More…]
For example, prior to the period 1973-74 the British Committee brought down reports on public expenditure and economic management, the relationships of expenditure to needs, the revision of the form of Supply estimates, public money in the private sector, youth employment services, employment of women, employment services and training, diplomatic staff and overseas accommodation, various aspects of defence expenditure, the British Council and further and higher education. [More…]
Whereas the British Committee had a number of subcommittees covering trade and industry, employment and social services, defence and external affairs, education and the arts, etc. [More…]
(Quorum formed) I do not know whether the honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes), who called for the quorum, has any schools in his electorate or whether amongst the two or three thousand people interested in the subject of education there are any parents or teachers here to see him today, on E Day, but it should be pointed out - [More…]
The Parliament’s review mechanism through the committees must also take into account such recent developments as oneline appropriations for statutory authorities, triennial appropriations for departments such as Defence and Education and the likelihood of program budgeting being introduced on a more general scale. [More…]
Education is a real issue of expenditure about which this Government is concerned. [More…]
As a consequence once this committee is established it will have the opportunity to examine in total education funding. [More…]
It is regrettable that today we have to leave those teachers and others in Kings Hall and be called because members of the Opposition would stop us from presenting our education policy to those people. [More…]
The honourable member for Evans raised the matter of education. [More…]
Perhaps there is a role for this committee in the field of education, but what I am saying is that we are opposed to the setting up of this Expenditure Committee because we have an expert committee already set up to look into parliamentary committees. [More…]
Let me look at the field of education in relation to cost benefits. [More…]
I want to direct my remarks to the field of education, the money that is being spent there, how we would analyse the cost benefit of that sort of expenditure and whether in fact the influence of an expenditure committee would override the philosophy of a government, because these are the sorts of thing that we have to look at. [More…]
Let us have a look for instance at the preschool teacher education allowances. [More…]
If I were to say that the child migrant education program is going to be slashed by $983,000 before the end of the financial year, I do not think that anyone opposite would be able to prove me wrong. [More…]
Is the expenditure review committee going to tell the Prime Minister or the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) that that amount should be put back into the education appropriation? [More…]
Is it going to have sufficient courage to go outside on the steps of Parliament House and tell people such as those who are assembled there today that the Expenditure Committee is going to have that amount put back into the education appropriation? [More…]
I have made some other estimates on education expenditure. [More…]
-Of course the real test- without raising our voicesabout what happens with education will come with the Budget, and we will just sit here quietly. [More…]
We saw them break down over the funeral benefits for pensioners so we can imagine what they will do over education. [More…]
Regional planning bodies have been created for other functions of government such as education, health, electrical supply and sewerage. [More…]
The proposal mentioned in ( 1 ) (a) was considered by a working party established by the Hospitals and Health Services Commission and the resulting report ‘A Report on the Integration of Health Services and Health Education Facilities in the Illawarra Region’, was tabled in Parliament 22 April 1975. [More…]
The working party’s report recommended, inter alia, that the Australian Government should agree in principle to provide resources for the addition of facilities and services in accordance with the health care needs of the Illawarra Region, but in such a way that they could be adapted and used in a future approved educational program of the type envisaged in the Wollongong proposal. [More…]
Examinations to assess the proficiency of apprentices at various stages during their technical education studies are conducted by the appropriate State authorities. [More…]
I think a great injustice is done to young people if their education is cut short or downgraded by people staying on the farm. [More…]
Tomorrow, as we all know, thousands of people will come to Canberra concerned with social service matters, as the teachers came here last Thursday concerned with education matters. [More…]
Since World War II we have had in this country what is called a baby boom and the education system has been strained to its limits. [More…]
Last week it was pointed out very forcefully that there are still problems in connection with our youth in terms of the provisions of facilities for education. [More…]
(Quorum formed) That performance was like the performances when the delegations from the education people were here last Thursday and the Labor Party called for 11 quorums and continually disrupted the discussions that members of this House were trying to have with parents and teachers. [More…]
We must provide country residents, wherever possible, with basic services (education, welfare, health, culture and recreation). [More…]
If one takes his higher estimate the amount is $ 1,062m- over $1 billion- and that is roughly equivalent to all the money that we spend on tertiary education, including technical education. [More…]
Dixon and Butlin estimated the figure at 3 per cent of gross domestic product, which is equivalent to $ 1,770m- roughly the total expenditure on education. [More…]
The paper pointed out that growth gave us the opportunity to be better defended and the opportunity to have a better education system and a better health system. [More…]
On Thursday of last week many people travelled to Canberra because of their concern about future funding for education. [More…]
I hope honourable members opposite were honest enough to explain to these people that they would support cuts in spending on education. [More…]
It would be a tragedy if spending on education were to be decreased when there is still so much more to be done in this very important area. [More…]
One area of education which is being severely restricted now is union training. [More…]
The Council is hopeful that reason and sanity will prevail and the staff needed to operate this very important and long neglected aspect of education will be recruited and trained. [More…]
I am sure that they are aware that in the last Budget some $ 1,900m was made available for education in Australia and this quadrupled the amount that had been made available in the 3 years prior to that. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the second progress report on the bilingual education program in schools in the Northern Territory together with a statement by the Minister for Education relating to that report. [More…]
The 1973 Budget established a new environment for so many things- education, health services, Aboriginal advancement and all the rest. [More…]
One cannot necessarily tell, for instance, how many schools are built with money spent on education. [More…]
Then there are the socially oriented enterprises, such as health, education and general welfare. [More…]
The adult migrant education program was cut by $419,000; the child migrant education program was cut by nearly $lm, and the Aboriginal advancement program reduced by $3.7m. [More…]
I move on to the cuts in the Department of Education. [More…]
The largest single cut in the education budget- let me emphasise that point; the largest single cut- is in the area of the child migrant program, a cut of $983,400. [More…]
Almost $lm has been trimmed off the child migrant education program. [More…]
This cut is closely followed by that to the adult migrant education program in Australia, including part-time instruction. [More…]
It is the new Liberal-National Country Party Government that is bent on discriminating against migrant children and adult migrant workers seeking to improve their standard of education. [More…]
In the area of special investigations, an area vital for the development of multi-lingual and multi-cultural education programs, the cut has been equally vicious. [More…]
This cut will seriously jeopardise research aimed at meeting the needs of ethnic groups in education. [More…]
In the area of technical education the cutback for research and investigations has been equally vicious. [More…]
Pre-school teacher education allowances, another vital area of ethnic group concern, has suffered a cutback of $363,000. [More…]
States Parties undertake to adopt immediate and effective measures particularly in the fields of teaching, education, culture and information with a view to combating prejudices which lead to racial discrimination and to promoting understanding, tolerance and friendship among nations and racial or ethnical groups, as well as to propagating the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations [More…]
What the Government has done in its Budget cutbacks is to make it quite impossible for the office of the Commissioner for Community Relations to carry out this vital education role. [More…]
Far from carefully observing and protecting the educational and punitive balance, this Government has totally removed the education role of the office. [More…]
I have said repeatedly that essential programs in health, education, welfare and urban development will be maintained. [More…]
All the inequalities and injustices, all the competitive snobberies and wasted energies built into our education system will be perpetuated in health insurance. [More…]
I turn now to the matter of education. [More…]
There is to be a saving of $419,000 on the adult migrant education program and $983,400 on the child migrant educational program. [More…]
It is proposed to save more than $4m on these aspects of education. [More…]
The Government proudly announces these savings on education, especially as they affect Aborigines and migrants. [More…]
I ask honourable members to compare that amount with the $4,047,900 to be saved on education generally, especially migrant education and the education of Aboriginal children. [More…]
They mean reduced services to the public in health, social welfare and education, and reduced employment opportunities both in the private and public sector at a time when hundreds of thousands are out of work. [More…]
Compare what we spent on education with the paltry, piffling amount spent by the previous Liberal-Country Party government. [More…]
Article 20 requires action to be taken in relation to treatment, education and rehabilitation of persons who abuse psychotropic substances. [More…]
It will minimise Government expenditure, the money that governments can spend indirectly to assist people by raising their health standards and improving their hospital and education facilities, assisting with urban problems and social problems. [More…]
He said to the Minister representing the Minister for Education: [More…]
He would be aware that today is day and that several thousand teachers and parents from many parts of Australia have travelled to Canberra to put the case of education to this Parliament. [More…]
I uphold to the full every man’s right to free speech, to association, to walk down the streets, to say: ‘I do not agree with what Australia did in Vietnam’, to come here and lobby and say: ‘We want more money for education and the pensioners’. [More…]
Department of Education for study grants, secondary grants and special programs in the Northern Territory, and the Department of Housing and Construction in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In conjunction with my colleagues, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt), [More…]
There have been significant developments in the field of education and the attention which has been given to programs in this area is beginning to show results. [More…]
Members of the Labor Opposition are always mouthing platitudes about social priorities in welfare, education, urban renewal and so on, but from the way they talk one would think that they want to dissipate the recovery in a consumer boom. [More…]
Subsequently, Foreign Affairs staff overseas and in the States who spent more than SO per cent of their time working on aid functions, plus staff from the Departments of Education and Labor and Immigration who were similarly occupied, were progressively taken over. [More…]
We had an education day- it was quite a magnificent day- when something like 2000 people connected with education came to Canberra not only to see the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) but also to talk to every parliamentarian about what they felt was the importance of the Australian Schools Commission and why it should not be interfered with. [More…]
The problem is not only one of education but also one of fundamental attitude. [More…]
These reports were the 144th report, which related to the then Department of Education and Science, and the 146th report, which dealt with items from the Auditor-General’s report for 1971-72. [More…]
In the 144th report the Committee recommended that a review then in progress to establish the training needs and organisation requirements of the Department of Education should be concluded and acted upon as a matter of urgency. [More…]
As the Bill provides, the College will be concerned with the education and training of officers of merchant and fishing vessels and of people who are otherwise engaged in the shipping or fishing industry such as ratings and deckhands. [More…]
Thus, while the College will offer courses at the advanced education level it will also be involved with training at the technical college level. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) will appoint the members of that council after due consultation with the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) and the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon). [More…]
When the interim council has made its recommendations, as set out in section 7 of the Bill, the Minister for Education will place these before the Government so that a further Bill may be introduced describing in detail the functions, governance and powers of the College. [More…]
When people have two, three or four children and are faced with the responsibility of sending those children on to a secondary education and sustaining them as they go through tertiary education, do they not face hardship? [More…]
Spending on essential Education. [More…]
Education [More…]
As in many other areas, it is not possible to provide for the very rapid expenditure increases implicit in the forward estimates for education and, at the same time, achieve the requisite overall degree of restraint in public spending. [More…]
But in education, unlike in many other areas, we will be providing for significant real growth in spending next year. [More…]
We are also introducing new rolling program arrangements to provide for greater continuity in planning by the various education Commissions. [More…]
Liberal Party and National Country Party Governments have always given a very high priority to education. [More…]
They established the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
They also initiated substantial programs of financial support to the States for both technical education and schools. [More…]
In fact one of our first actions, as the caretaker Government last November, was to confirm that we would support the programs of assistance announced by the previous Government for the calendar year 1976 for universities, colleges of advanced education, technical and further education and schools. [More…]
Apparently the honourable gentleman is not interested in getting the details of the education program. [More…]
Now, as part of its review of prospective Budget outlays in 1 976-77, the Government has been considering the levels of financial assistance that it might provide in 1977 through the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education, the Technical and Further Education Commission and the Schools Commission. [More…]
The Government has decided on significant further growth in real levels of expenditure in 1977 at each of the 4 levels of education: [More…]
For colleges of advanced education, a 5 per cent growth in real terms over the program determined for 1976. [More…]
For technical and further education institutions, a 7.5 per cent growth in real terms over the program approved for 1976. [More…]
As a result of these decisions, the levels of expenditure on the programs of the education commissions in 1976-77, expressed at December 1 975 price levels, will be: $m [More…]
Colleges of Advanced Education . [More…]
430 Technical and Further Education . [More…]
The Government has decided to replace the existing cost supplementation provisions by less automatic arrangements which will take account of unavoidable increases in wages and other costs; our aim is thereby to encourage greater cost-consciousness and tighter control of expenditure within the education program. [More…]
This planning guidance is: for universities, colleges and schools, 2 per cent growth in real terms per annum for technical and further education institutions, 5 per cent growth in real terms per annum. [More…]
The Government has also reviewed its various measures of assistance to students, particularly those in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
We have decided also to phase out the means-test-free scheme of special pre-school teacher education awards. [More…]
Existing scholars will be able to complete their courses under the present scheme, but commencing in 1977 new entrants to pre-school teacher education courses will apply for assistance under the means tested tertiary education assistance scheme in the ordinary way. [More…]
With a view to lightening somewhat the burden which education programs are now placing upon the Budget, it has been decided to re-introduce tuition fees for students taking second and higher degrees. [More…]
The most important of these are payments for life insurance or superannuation- present limit $1200- education expenses- present limit $250 per person- and rates on private dwellingspresent limit $300. [More…]
Professor and Head of Department of Physical Education. [More…]
Lecturer in P.E.. Adelaide College of Advanced Education: President S.A. Women’s Amateur Athletic Association: research on ‘women and sport’: involved with coaching: silver medal 1958 Commonwealth Games: accomplished sportswoman in a variety of fields. [More…]
State Supervisor of Physical Education. [More…]
Tasmanian Education Department: member National Fitness Council of Tasmania: sportsman, coach and administrator in many sports, including swimming, basketball and Australian Rules: Senior league footballer 15 years: State representative in swimming, life-saving and basketball. [More…]
Department of Physical Education. [More…]
Physical Education and Recreation: recent studies psychological study of skilled behaviour and aesthetic evaluation of movement. [More…]
Inspector of Physical Education. [More…]
Physical Education and Recreation. [More…]
Also member of the Education and Coaching Committee and the Competitive Committee of the N.S.W’. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The fourth was a tutor whom we could not pay to mark essays because of cuts in Government expenditure on education. [More…]
The result, today, is that one person out of every four in Australia is employed in the public sector, in various forms, such as public service, education, railways, electricity supply, health services, airlines, banking, insurance, telecommunications, broadcasting, housing commissions, CSIRO, public works, not to mention police forces, the judiciary, courts and the armed forces. [More…]
Their specific purpose grants have been cut enormously- for sewerage, for urban public transport, for hospitals, for water treatment and for education. [More…]
My ninth point is that the lesser amounts in specific grants to the States for hospitals are well short of last year’s figure in real terms; for education, well short of recommendations by the education commissions; for railways, even the Adelaide-Crystal Brook line is questioned, as is the standard gauge program generally which seems now to be a thing of the past for this government; for the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, slashed by over $400m, and so on. [More…]
It is determined to put some limit on the blank cheque that has been signed in relation to Medibank because it knows perfectly that if the expenditure on Medibank is allowed to grow at its present rate it will grow so fast that the money needed for it can come only from future education and welfare. [More…]
On television last night he was asked about his undertaking that education, health, welfare and urban programs would be retained. [More…]
By promising that health, education, welfare and urban programs would not be curtailed in the present financial year the Government was able to disguise its intentions for subsequent years. [More…]
I refer to the areas of education and social security as examples of the Government’s understanding. [More…]
I think many people do not realise- certainly many people on the Opposition benches do not realise- that the money we provide for spending on education, health and so on has to come from somewhere and the only area from which a government gets money is from taxation- the taxation that it takes out of people’s wages and the taxation that comes from company profits. [More…]
Once this increased revenue comes about and, as I have just been reminded, a reduction in unemployment takes place there will be more money for education, health and all the other things for which a government is depended upon to help those people most in need. [More…]
We will gain additional revenue without having to overtax the people and the additional revenue that we gain will go out to the people in the form of increased social welfare payments, increased pensions, better health services and better education. [More…]
The Labor Government introduced child migrant education programs, community recreation projects and schemes designed to improve the quality of life in the disadvantaged areas of our cities- the areas of high ethnic group concentration. [More…]
I refer to the education program. [More…]
%-Education ]975-76-of the Hayden Budget there was an estimated outlay of $23.6m for migrant education needs. [More…]
According to the latest statement by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), expenditure has been cut back to a mere $9m. [More…]
We are led to believe that the child migrant education program is included in the general allocation for the Schools Commission. [More…]
The Minister for Education admits that courses in adult preembarkation and shipboard education will be limited in 1976-77 to the same number of teachers and students as in the 1975-76 period. [More…]
Despite the increased migrant intake there has been no corresponding increase in the provision for adult education in the English language to accommodate either those migrants already here or those which will arrive in the future. [More…]
Too often these kinds of criticisms are made by people who live in the best possible circumstances, having had no personal contact with those who suffer from poor education, alcholism, poverty, unemployment and so forth. [More…]
In studies sponsored by the United States Department of Health Education and Welfare, comparisons between Federal employees who are covered by Blue Cross (where doctors receive a fee for service) and those enrolled in a prepaid group health plan (where the physicians are paid the same amount whether they operate or not) showed that - [More…]
Since the introduction of the ‘surgical audit’ as a means of continuing education and quality control, some American hospitals report a reduction of over 40 per cent in the rate of some surgical operations. [More…]
This House has to encourage the implementation of Labor’s pledges and policies in relation to housing, education, city planning and health. [More…]
This coutry has been witness to, some of the most severe and, in many cases, quite unjustified expenditure cuts on very worthwhile community programs, in such areas as health, welfare, education and urban improvement. [More…]
In the area of education we could have established, at a cost of approximately $200,000 each, a high school science block, a high school library, a school extension of 6 to 8 new classrooms. [More…]
What it basically amounts to is this: If you took this to its logical conclusion you could say that in the field of education everybody in the community pays an education levy so that they can have their children educated at school, but once a certain point is reached you can contract out and not pay the education levy but instead pay to have your children educated at a private school. [More…]
I also want to compare the health care situation with that of education, because very few people in the community would now argue aggressively that public school education is second class education, that state school education is not as good as private school education. [More…]
Firstly, the honourable member for Prospect ( Dr Klugman), whom I know has a genuine interest in this matter, was trying to liken the provisions of the Medibank levy to education expenses. [More…]
We do have control over expenditure on education, of course. [More…]
If we consume too much of the social dollar on health we are left with insufficient resources for education, for helping the underprivileged in the community and for providing assistance to the needy. [More…]
In making choices we have been concerned to protect areas such as welfare payments where people are affected as individuals or areas especially important to opportunity, such as education where real growth in expenditure will be encompassed especially in areas related to the trades which have been so much neglected even under the previous Administration. [More…]
There are massive cuts to the education program. [More…]
The Labor Government used Canberra to demonstrate the advantages of physical and social planning in providing modern urban conditions in a healthy rural environment, in providing adequate housing, transport and recreation facilities as well as health and education services. [More…]
However this is not possible due to the slashing of funds for education and so many other things, as was pointed out so effectively by the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson). [More…]
There is little likelihood of these works being started due to the Fraser Government’s economic policies and its slashing of finance for education. [More…]
Money for Special Education Programs, especially in the areas of remedial mathematics and English. [More…]
Increased facilities are required in the physical education change rooms. [More…]
D. (Cornell), Research Scientist CSIRO 1967-71, Secretary to Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts 1972-74, Adviser to Minister for Manufacturing Industry and then Minister for the Media. [More…]
Secretary of Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which inquired into broadcasting and television. [More…]
They include education and rural poverty. [More…]
This phobia about Russian ships is presumably the justification for defence expenditure of $ 12,000m over the next 5 years- for a 5.5 per cent per annum increase in real terms in the defence budget at the expense of funds for health, cities, roads, the environment, child care, education. [More…]
We are also aware, of course, that a lot is spent on education. [More…]
We must have driver education programs, despite what I have suggested, and advanced driving schools. [More…]
It was also to establish a comprehensive information service and to develop a specific, scientifically evaluated, education and publicity program so that when money was allocated it would be spent and used in the best possible way. [More…]
There is also a great need for improved driver efficiency, improved road signs, improved vehicle safetyabout which the report tabled earlier today has much to say and for which I extend my congratulations to the members of the previous Committee which produced that report- better pedestrian education and something that I regard as of fundamental importance, adequate finance for road construction and maintenance. [More…]
Living at poverty levels of existence imposes permanent disabilities on dairy farmers’ wives and families who are often called upon to work on the farm to survive, and this is often done at the expense of adequate education opportunities for their children. [More…]
Many of them have gone without a holiday year after year; many of them had to deprive their children of adequate education. [More…]
The Minister for Education will appoint the members of that council after due consultation with other Ministers. [More…]
In the course of supporting that aspect of the legislation, namely education, I point out how deficient we are in the training of maritime personnel for merchant service. [More…]
I believe it will be necessary, unless the College is prepared to finance extraordinarily expensive air travel for all the cadets to many places, for it to build or acquire a training ship to take the cadets to appropriate places for their professional education. [More…]
Although the details of what courses will be conducted will be a matter for the interim council to plan and decide, the Maritime College is still seen primarily as a college of advanced education which Will give two and three year diploma courses and ultimately lead to higher courses as well. [More…]
Funding of the college will be on a triennial basis and on the basis of the recommendation of the Commission on Advanced Education with the funds being channelled to the College through the Commonwealth Department of Education. [More…]
It is likely, therefore, to be a genuine multi-level institution and the Technical and Further Education Commission will be able to advise on the funding of the technical education components. [More…]
I say all this very conscious of the fact that the Karmel Committee report on Post and Secondary Education in Tasmania recommended that the Newnham campus of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education be made an autonomous body and that it be called the Tasmanian Institute of Advanced Education. [More…]
As I have said, co-operation between the Maritime College and this new tertiary education facility, the Institute, will be important and has been included in the broad recommendations of the Tasmanian committee of inquiry. [More…]
It is important that it proceed with the recommendations to establish the autonomous Tasmanian Institute of Advanced Education in Launceston and that it does so without delay. [More…]
I cannot over-emphasise its importance to the future of the Maritime College and, indeed, the future of secondary education in Tasmania. [More…]
-On 20 May last the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) outlined to honourable members restrictions to be imposed upon the availability of free university education in Australia. [More…]
I want to raise a matter concerning an incident which occurred at the Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education in Brisbane last Friday morning. [More…]
The purpose of the demonstration, it was said, would be that the students, being white, would be indicating a protest at the way in which certain moneys were paid to Aboriginal parents of children attending school or undertaking education whereas those payments were not available to whites. [More…]
KELVIN GROVE COLLEGE OF ADVANCED EDUCATION [More…]
The men said that they would film the students setting up the tent and then film them demonstrating against the fact that aboriginal people received an unfair advantage to education for their children in that they receive a special allowance of $ 1 a day or a week for each child- (they were not sure at all). [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) How many persons are employed by the Department of Education or by agencies responsible to the Minister or his Department in a staff recruiting capacity and what amounts are chargeable to that Department or such agencies in respect of their annual salaries. [More…]
To what extent does the Department of Education or any such agency engage private employment agencies to assist in the recruitment of staff. [More…]
What sum was spent by the Department of Education or any such agency in engaging private employment agencies in the financial year 1974-75. [More…]
To what extent does the Department of Education or any such agency engage or otherwise obtain assistance from the Commonwealth Employment Service in the recruitment of staff and what sum has been paid to the Commonwealth Employment Service in respect of such assistance. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The number of children at school in local government areas in Victoria is contained in ‘Primary ana Secondary Education 1974’ published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Victoria. [More…]
Areas that ought to provide opportunities for Australians so that they can advance their cause in life at a later date- such as in education- also ought to be protected to the maximum extent possible. [More…]
There will be real growth in the education areas despite the stringency of the current financial measures- maybe not as much real growth as some educationists would like, but still real growth. [More…]
Of these measures, I would regard as the most farreaching the provisions in the Bill for the subsidising by the Government of pre-marital education programs. [More…]
However, the presentation of set programs or courses of pre-marital education that are not related to the particular circumstances of the persons attending them falls outside the concept of counselling. [More…]
While the Government recognises, and will continue to support, the invaluable counselling work of both the approved counselling organisations and the family court counsellors, we feel that pre-marital education programs and courses can, if supported and made more widely available, also play an important part in helping to reduce marital instability. [More…]
Accordingly, the Bill enables grants of money to be made to approved organisations for the conduct of pre-marital education programs. [More…]
In the same way as under the relevant provisions of the Family Law Act, the amendments provide for approved organisations to furnish annual financial statements and reports on their pre-marital education activities. [More…]
I am aware that already several organisations are conducting worthwhile pre-marital education programs. [More…]
An important corollary to assisting the provision of pre-marital education is the need to increase public awareness of the existence of these programs. [More…]
This Bill therefore inserts a requirement in the Marriage Act for a celebrant to hand to the parties to an intended marriage a document, in a form to be prescribed, outlining the obligations and consequences of marriage and indicating the availability of both pre-marital education and marriage counselling. [More…]
I have already indicated that the proposal to subsidise pre-marital education does not imply any diminution in the importance that, the Government attaches to individual marriage counselling. [More…]
Consistently with the policy of the Family Law Act towards the use of counselling, the Bill does not go to the extent of imposing a more general requirement of compulsory attendance at premarital education or counselling. [More…]
I understand that it is the view of most marriage counselling experts that counselling or education is most likely to be effective where it is sought voluntarily. [More…]
I hope that the combination of the amendments to extend the period of notice of intended marriage and to require celebrants to hand the prescribed document to the parties on giving notice will encourage more engaged couples to consider the value of attending a pre-marital education course. [More…]
The money is allocated to the States for purposes of housing, health, education, employment, welfare, enterprises, management, public utilities and recreation. [More…]
We must have money for the schemes, the ideas, the education, the housing, the health care- you name it- for the Aborigines, to bring Aborigines up to a standard whereby they can hold their heads high in the community. [More…]
Education is another problem right across the board. [More…]
Education and Aboriginal affairs were under constant attack when the Labor Government was in office. [More…]
They might go and have a look at what has happened in the education area in respect of the bilingual and other programs. [More…]
Nobody gave a damn about their education, their health or thenhousing. [More…]
One of the areas of greatest concern is education. [More…]
Today Aboriginal children are receiving a reasonable education. [More…]
We are giving them greater education. [More…]
If we are to give them an education but then close the doors of employment to them- we talk about black power- we will have problems in the future. [More…]
Whilst we may get away with discrimination against Aborigines who lack education and unsophisticated Aborigines coming out of the bush, we cannot train them, educate them and throw them back on the scrap heap. [More…]
This Government has always worked on percentages, and it cast a net to pick up one per cent or 2 per cent of young home owners and one per cent or 2 per cent of people who were interested in the tertiary and secondary education areas getting home science blocks. [More…]
But the whole thrust of requirements in regard to housing and education were disregarded at that time for gimmicks. [More…]
Will the Minister confirm that the proposed 2 per cent growth for education expenditure on schools in 1 977 takes no account of a 1.6 per cent growth in enrolments and thus schools throughout Australia can expect only a 0.4 per cent growth in funds? [More…]
I repeat that in the field of education, as I mentioned in my economic statement, there will be a real increase, not simply across the board, but in each of the areas in which the Government seeks to concentrate the expenditure of education funds. [More…]
As I recall what was said at the time, there was in fact a real increase of 2 per cent for universities, a real increase of 5 per cent for colleges, a real increasee of 2 per cent for schools, and I think the real increase in the technical education area was 7.5 per cent. [More…]
Having regard to the Government’s commitment in the anti-inflationary war to reduce the rate of growth of government expenditure, what we have foreshadowed as a clear commitment for the forthcoming financial year gives credibility to what the Government has been saying for a considerable period of time, that is, that we rate education as a very high national priority. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report tided ‘Access to Education- an Evaluation of the Aboriginal Secondary Grants Scheme’ together with a statement by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) relating to that report. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the National Committee on Social Science Teaching Research and Development Grants for 1973-74 and 1974- 75 administered under the Education Research Act 1970. [More…]
Pursuant to section 30 of the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974, 1 present a statement relating to financial assistance granted to the States in respect of that Act in the financial year 1974-75. [More…]
Other officers in a similar position are the Australian Captial Territory Fire Commissioner, the Chairman and members of the Australian Capital Territory Health Commission, and Chairman and members of the Interim Australian Capital Territory Technical and Further Education Authority. [More…]
Education: Federal Expenditure in Batman (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
and (2) Funds for non-Government schools in the electorate of Batman are made available under programs administered by the Department of Education and the Schools Commission. [More…]
Programs Administered by the Department of Education [More…]
Funds administered by the Department of Education were made available under the following acts: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Has the Commonwealth Government extended to these descendants of the Kanakas the same welfare rights given to Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the areas of health, education, housing and legal aid. [More…]
Tom Bull and I joked many times about the fact that we had both begun our formal education in a little country, one-teacher, 14-pupil school at a place called Gobbagaula. [More…]
1 8 and 1 9: A range of adult education and training courses is available to Aborigines at Yirrkala. [More…]
In addition to Mission and Government staff involved in Social work (including working with Aboriginals assistants) there are two adult education teachers at Yirrkala. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) How many applicants for assistance under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, whose eligibility has been approved from 1 January 1976, are still awaiting payment. [More…]
The Minister for Education has supplied the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Community Health Services conduct Health Education programs in schools and the Education Department is currently reviewing the effectiveness of the program. [More…]
The Aboriginal Medical Service provides health education at the AMS Centre. [More…]
(a) Effective consultation takes place between Adult Education, Technical Education of W.A., Education Department and Aboriginal communities. [More…]
The Department of Education is now reviewing the health education program for schools and communities in conjunction with the Community Health Services with a view to upgrading the service as required. [More…]
The Honourable G. McKinnon, M.L.C., Minister for Education, Cultural Affairs and Recreation, Western Australia [More…]
Does he share the concern that such priorities may lead to the sacking and under-payment of workers, the education of children of migrants and poor people in slum-like schools, the near starvation of pensioners and the humiliation and economic hardship of the unemployed. [More…]
He is a member of the council of the Commercial Education Society of Australia and a Fellow of the Incorporated Phonographic Society, London. [More…]
I have said repeatedly that essential programs in health, education and urban development will be maintained. [More…]
But it seems much more rational to me- and I hope to other members of this House- that the way to persuade people not to use tobacco, not to smoke, or not to do any of the things which a community as a whole feels should not be done, is not by prohibition or by prohibiting the mentioning of them on radio, television, or in other media but by active education, propaganda and advertising against these things. [More…]
The objectives of that Interim Committee were along these lines: The identification and classification of sites; the legal protection of designated sites; the physical protection, including maintenance, restoration, management and preservation of sites; professional and technical training; community education and information; and support for community groups concerned with protection of the National Estate. [More…]
The Minister for Education has supplied the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Fees assistance in respect of students at certain non profit making private institutions is not provided under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]
It is true however that all the full-time courses approved for fees assistance are also approved for living allowance payments under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]
am asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
How many foreign students are attending (a) universities, (b) colleges of advanced education and (c) technical and further education institutions. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]
Does the figure of $ 10.6m, which appears on page 33 of the statements attached to the Budget Speech as the 1976-77 allocation for migrant education, represent the total estimated expenditure on migrant education? [More…]
Are there other categories of expenditure on migrant education covered by recurrent grants? [More…]
We also have shown that even though there is financial stringency the real levels of spending on education will be increased in this financial year. [More…]
We have been able to re-establish a rolling triennial program for education planning- a triennial program that the previous Administration utterly destroyed by its financial incompetence. [More…]
Pursuant to section 8 of the Technical and Further Education Commission Act 1975 I present the report of the Technical and Further Education Commission for the triennium 1977-1979, together with a statement by the Minister for Education relating to that report. [More…]
They have little education and despise educated people and institutions of learning. [More…]
There has been simultaneously a new awareness of the potential role of radio in education and community affairs. [More…]
The Film and Television School was established with dual responsibilities, both to the film and broadcasting industry and to education. [More…]
It is proper therefore that its charter should include audio-visual communications in the light of ever increasing awareness of the importance of sounds and images, either alone or in combination in the process of education. [More…]
Unlike the other document required by section 42, this new document is not about the parties themselves; it is a document given by the celebrant to the couple outlining the obligations and consequences of marriage and indicating the availability of pre-marital education and counselling. [More…]
This clause will allow the AttorneyGeneral out of monies appropriated by the Parliament to grant to an approved organisation under such conditions as he thinks fit financial assistance for the conduct of a program of premarital education. [More…]
On my reading it seems eminently clear that there is a two-fold thrust; namely, by grants of money to approved organisations for extensive advertising of the courses and, in quite a revolutionary way, by clause 13 which requires an authorised marriage celebrant after receiving notice of intended marriage to give to the parties a document in the prescribed form outlining the obligations and consequences of marriage and indicating the availability of premarital education and counselling. [More…]
Although that legislation was considered as a non-party measure, one of the extraordinary points which seemed to divide persons on our side of the House from those on the then LiberalCountry Party side of the House was the suggestion that persons who have been cossetted in private academies of secondary education and then in universities until they are legally adults, above the age of 2 1 years, should be treated in the same way as persons who have been sent out into the world to earn their living from the age of 1 4 or 1 5 years. [More…]
Access to supposed middle class values about marriage in a formalistic pre-marital education is so much hokum and will never save marriages in this country. [More…]
Clause 8 is a very important clause which makes provision for grants to approved organisations, upon such conditions as the Attorney-General thinks fit, to subsidise the conduct of premarital education programs. [More…]
Secondly, I would much prefer to see the use of the premarital education provisions because there is a considerable difference between premarital education and marriage guidance counselling. [More…]
I think this is less preferable than a requirement that these young people receive some of the premarital education which is provided for in clause 8 of the Bill. [More…]
There are said to be problems with premarital education but I think they could be overcome. [More…]
One provision that concerns me is the requirement that, before marriage, the authorised celebrant give to the parties a document in the prescribed form outlining the obligations and consequences of marriage and indicating the availability of pre-marital education and counselling. [More…]
The letter refers to sub-section 13 ( 1) (c) which concerns the giving of a document to a couple outlining the obligations and consequence of marriage and availability of premarital education. [More…]
What I have described as the most significant part of this measure is that we are giving grants for premarital education because whereas in the past we have tended to concentrate on the parties during the marriage, this Bill tries to underpin the attitudes of those entering marriage. [More…]
So we will make grants to enable pre-marital education courses to be adopted. [More…]
Father Bernard- I will mention his name because he is one of the leaders in pre-marital education in Australia- in a telegram said: [More…]
by inserting after sub-section (5) the following subsection: “(5a) An authorized celebrant shall, as soon as practicable after receiving the notice referred to in sub-section ( 1 ), give to the parties a document in the prescribed form outlining the obligations and consequences of marriage and indicating the availability of pre-marital education and counselling. [More…]
The Government’s expenditure in the field of technical and further education has been showing a higher rate of increase than in any other field of education- universities, colleges of advanced education or school programs. [More…]
That was the establishment of a working party to examine the transition between secondary education and employment. [More…]
Apart from parliamentary and government spheres, it has sought submissions from universities, colleges of advanced education and firms of management consultants and chartered accountants. [More…]
Cuts of approximately $7m have also been made in the funding of the Department of Construction for Aboriginal education and health projects. [More…]
The child migrant education program has been absorbed into the Schools Commission for which there is no budgetary breakdown. [More…]
Any increase in the adult migrant education program will be largely absorbed by the increase in the migrant intake, and the future of ethnic radio remains in doubt. [More…]
How can the back bench members of the Government parties be so cynical and cold as to allow overseas aid to be cut, migrant education to be murdered, health care to be mutilated and schemes for the aged and the unemployed to be rendered almost useless? [More…]
It forgets that the revenues raised by governments from direct and indirect taxes in the private sector give governments the money needed to finance education, social welfare, health, roads, sewerage and so on. [More…]
It gives real increase in dollar terms in such priority areas as defence, which is up by 17.6 per cent, education, which is up by 15.3 per cent, and social security and welfare, which is up by 23.5 per cent. [More…]
Members of the Opposition must have been quite shattered last Tuesday evening- I am quite sure they still have not recovered- when they realised that all their verbal garbage during recent months, particularly during the last election campaign, about cuts that the Liberals would make in pensions, education and social welfare- (Quorum formed). [More…]
With the advent of increased education, job expectations in that area have grown but the job opportunities are available only in the capital cities, with the result that there is a buildup of pressure on young people to leave the provincial and country centres, to move into the cities, to leave their families and thus to be lost forever to those areas. [More…]
I point out just how difficult it can be in a provincial area- I suggest that all provincial areas in Australia are similar to Geelong, the one I cite- for young people with some degree of education who are seeking employment. [More…]
Most honourable members will have received letters from preschool centres complaining about the reductions proposed and outlined in a letter from the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), for financing the cost of staffing pre-school centres. [More…]
Investigation will continue on the need for a national body to co-ordinate education in social welfare in Australia. [More…]
The previous Labor Treasurer said in his Budget Speech- this is something that might appeal to honourable gentlemen opposite- that to introduce tax indexation without cutting education and social welfare commitments would be ‘to ask the impossible’. [More…]
We have made real increases in education funds and even greater increases in social welfare funds; yet we still managed to increase full tax indexation. [More…]
There will be more opportunity to elaborate on the cutbacks in real terms of funds available to various departments such as Health, Education, Environment, Housing and Community Development and Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
In the 1976-77 Budget stg70m was cut off hospital expenditure; stg146m off housing expenditure by increased charges; stg30m off education expenditure, including universities; f stg175 off capital expenditure by government owned industries; and stg100m off defence. [More…]
We have not made cuts in the education area. [More…]
Education expenditure is up in real terms. [More…]
The first example is the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]
The Government has already said, and it has repeated now, that in October this year it will make an announcement to the effect that there will be a significant increase in the tertiary education assistance scheme allowance, but no provision has been made in the Budget for an increase. [More…]
-Adequate steps will be taken on any future occasion involving any person, whether it is the Governor-General, me, the Minister for Education or even the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
It must have a staff of education officers to cope with the ever increasing demands of the many students on its facilities. [More…]
The Prahran College of Advanced Education says in its college regulations that maternity leave is ‘at least 24 weeks’ on full pay. [More…]
This prevents their replacement in that school with another school teacher and generally upsets the school ‘s education program. [More…]
A special study conducted by Mr Neville Behrens of the Education Department of Tasmania will be of considerable interest to honourable members. [More…]
So an increase in the size of a population centre is associated with an increased opportunity for higher education. [More…]
This allowance is not taxable and is designed to assist with the education, training and general welfare of all handicapped children. [More…]
The Labor Government’s programs for health, Medibank, education and the cities were programs that contributed to the total wellbeing of the vast majority of the people. [More…]
I mention, for instance, the reduction in finance for areas such as migrant education, urban development and Aboriginal development programs. [More…]
It was said in a leading daily this week that Australia’s future development, Australia’s wealth, the money that we get to spend on all of the other items contained in the Budget whether they be welfare, education or whatever else, comes from the pastoral and mining industries. [More…]
This is not just a political party point of view, it is the view of both employer and employee organisations, of teachers and of the Technical and Further Education Commission itself. [More…]
I refer to the Technical and Further Education Commission report for the triennium 1977-79 at page xxiii. [More…]
I thought that the Director of Technical Education in Victoria, Mr Watts, at the recent TAFE conference in Melbourne put it pretty well when he said: [More…]
Literally the proposed grants for 1977-79 period are bitterly disappointing and are only sufficient to ensure a stunted rather than a reasonably healthy development of technical education. [More…]
Children in deprived areas like my electorate of Melbourne for the first time had a government that cared about their educational needs. [More…]
For the first time, Federal spending on education was based on need. [More…]
Already the Fraser Government has indicated that it intends to downgrade the role of the Schools Commission in determining education funding priority. [More…]
The Budget puts paid to the hopes of education equality and the chance of a better environment in my own area of Melbourne. [More…]
I guarantee that not one back bencher opposite would know that it existed, let alone know of its needs and requirements in the areas of education and housing. [More…]
Let us look at child and adult migrant education. [More…]
In other words, the Government effectively is decreasing spending on adult migrant education while increasing the need. [More…]
The very real need for adult migrant education programs is shown by the fact that only 4 per cent of the adult nonEnglishspeaking migrants benefit from English language classes. [More…]
It reduces the chances of adult migrants receiving special English language education. [More…]
In Victoria alone the Department of Education estimates that there are 85 000 migrant children who need special help with English but who are being given no assistance whatsoever. [More…]
Yet this Budget cuts spending on migrant education by 2 per cent. [More…]
Real expenditure on education programs has been increased. [More…]
Funding for universities and education programs has been restored on a rolling triennial basis, having been broken and destroyed last year because of the financial incompetence of the Australia Labor Party. [More…]
Families struggled to afford a place to live, to meet the rising costs of education, to find and keep a job, to afford the prices at the supermarket and to protect the value of their savings. [More…]
Of course, government expenditure on roads, transport, education and hospitals is vital. [More…]
On the same basis, I believe that my electors are completely satisfied that education is being well served by the Government and that it will not suffer fundamentally. [More…]
Expenditure in education has been maintained in most areas but this has not allowed for any growth cuts which have been made to student assistance or to Aboriginal and migrant education. [More…]
The Whitlam Government doubled expenditure on education in its first year, it doubled it again in the second year and maintained the amount in real terms in its third year. [More…]
We can help in education- we can encourage trade, professional and educational organisations and institutions to become actively involved in assisting persons to acquire managerial and other skills. [More…]
Let me quote some of the cuts: Aboriginal programs $33m; growth centres $39m; land councils $28m; sewerage $63m; migrant education $llm; Medibank hospital benefits $118m; unemployment benefits $34m; Regional Employment Development scheme $153m; area improvement $15m; shipping $46m; uranium exploration $9m; shipbuilding $16m; export incentives $5 5m; and natural disaster payments $37m. [More…]
This evening I particularly want to speak about education. [More…]
The Budget which is before the House restores real money growth in education along with, of course, the re-introduction of the principle of triennial planning in education. [More…]
I mention in particular the increases in expenditure that have been made in the technical and further education area. [More…]
The Budget indicates that there will be a VA per cent increase in expenditurethat is, a real increase in expenditure- on technical and further education in the next year. [More…]
The Technical and Further Education Commission has been told that it can plan on a basis of a minimum increase of 5 per cent per annum in real terms in the succeeding 2 years. [More…]
I believe that this is one of the most important areas of education. [More…]
I agree with some of the comments made earlier by the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins) that a great deal more needs to be done in this area of education. [More…]
The 7 1/2 per cent increase in real terms which I mentioned is the greatest increase out of all the increases for the various educational commissions, but one must admit that the technical and further education area is starting from a lower base and needs that greater increase in order to catch up. [More…]
I put to the House that many people in universities and colleges of advanced education may actually find more satisfaction and courses that suit them better in technical and further education institutions. [More…]
Let me indicate some of the costs involved in supporting people at universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I suggest that if there are people at universities doing courses for reasons other than vocationalperhaps they are doing them for the social intercourse which university study allows; perhaps for the opportunity to get out of the house and to catch up on some things that they might have missed out on in their earlier life- we have to question whether this level of expenditure per student can really be justified and whether we can continue to support the high levels of increases in expenditure on universities and colleges of advanced education that have been occurring in recent years. [More…]
I believe the institutions involved with technical and further education have a very great role to play. [More…]
In particular a great deal of criticism has been levelled at the duplication in colleges of advanced education and in colleges of the Victorian Institute of Colleges. [More…]
Dr Bob Bessant, senior lecturer at the School of Education at La Trobe University, had this to say: [More…]
SIR,- It is to be hoped that the proposed inquiry into tertiary education in Victoria will not be confined to the problems created by the absorption of the State colleges within the Victorian Institute of Colleges and the establishment of a statutory committee to co-ordinate tertiary education in Victoria. [More…]
I give those examples to indicate that there has been a growing debate on the sort of expenditure in some post-secondary areas of education. [More…]
Technical and further education, however, has been operating on a shoestring budget. [More…]
There have been some major increases in expenditure but, by and large, I suggest that the institutions involved in technical and further education have been operating economically, have been making maximum use of community resources and have been providing courses that meet community and individual needs. [More…]
I was therefore interested to note that the Australian Education Council which met in Cairns in July 1 976 said: [More…]
Council is concerned at the difficulties being faced in providing funds to cope with the demands of technical and further education. [More…]
Although there has been a large increase in expenditure on technical and further education, we have a body of Ministers urging that there be further increases. [More…]
If people have difficulty because of a lack of education in reading and writing in their earlier life, they run adult literacy programs in order to equip people to undertake various certificate level courses which the college offers. [More…]
In urging that we ought to give continued and further attention to the area of technical and further education I think we have to avoid some of the mistakes that have been made in universities and advanced education. [More…]
While it is regrettable that many technical and further educational institutions have been operating on a shoestring budget, this has a major compensating feature. [More…]
This is a desirable feature which we must work to retain in technical and further education in this country. [More…]
When one looks at the Budget Papers one finds that the main items of expenditure are education $2,204m, which represents an increase of 15.3 per cent on the 1975-76 expenditure; social services $6, 187m, which represents 25 per cent of the total outlay; defence $2, 178m; and payments to the States during 1976-77 of $3,7 16m, which is 21 per cent more than the payments in 1975-76. [More…]
What is clear is that the young unemployed are largely unskilled and possess below average education levels. [More…]
Almost onehalf of those unemployed young people had not attempted any education beyond 3rd Form secondary standard, and 2 out of every 3 had not attempted beyond 4th Form. [More…]
Very nearly three-quarters of the young unemployed males there had not attempted any education beyond 4th Form. [More…]
The Opposition recognises that if the structural problems of youth are to be overcome, greatly increased funds will need to be channelled into technical education. [More…]
The Labor Government set up the Technical and Further Education Commission and introduced a program of funding for technical education that was decades overdue as a result of shameful neglect of this area by the Liberal and Country Party governments throughout the 1950s and 1960s. [More…]
The Opposition acknowledges that technical education has received substantially increased funding in this year’s Budget, but the backlog is so enormous that a much increased effort is needed. [More…]
Quite clearly, a much greater effort- much more than is being done at present- is needed in the area of technical education. [More…]
Secondly, I invite honourable members to examine our expenditure on education for this financial year and to discover the importance that we place on the vocational preparation of young people for employment in a modern economy. [More…]
It will be observed, as indeed it was conceded by the honourable member for Gellibrand, that the expenditure on technical and further education has been at a higher growth rate than the expenditure in respect of other forms of education. [More…]
The only action of the previous Government to which I can point as containing any acknowledgement of the youth unemployment problem is the appointment of a working party to examine the transition between secondary education and employment. [More…]
The report of this working party is expected to be received shortly by the Australian Education Council, and I await its findings with considerable interest. [More…]
The Government, as an act of policy, has withdrawn itself from those areas of employment-creation which would absorb the trained young people who are currently in universities and colleges of advanced education whose educational period is about to come to an end and who are about to move off the end of the education production line at a time when the jobs for which they started training no longer exist. [More…]
I should like to refer to a survey conducted by the Commonwealth Employment Service, which found that about 50 per cent of young people unemployed had attempted education only up to Form 3 level. [More…]
They are the people who for one reason or another coped less successfully with the education system, and the pattern is repeating itself in their experience in the labour market. [More…]
Education is too important a thing to be left to academics. [More…]
At a time when unemployment is expected to climb dramatically unemployment benefits are to be cut by nearly $34m; Aboriginal welfare is to be cut by $33m; migrant education by $ 10m; urban and environmental improvement programs by $ 142m; while wealthy mining corporations are given rich bounty. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
As I understand it, the architect of new federalism is none other than Senator Carrick, now Minister for Education. [More…]
It is a difficult matter of union education, and in the case of some of the more militant union leaders it is a point which only the rank and file can really impress upon them. [More…]
These cover, of course, a wide variety of areas such as education, health, homes for the aged, housing, industry assistance, etc. [More…]
The same can be said of education and most other facilities. [More…]
This has resulted in a lower standard of services being provided, not through any fault of the people employed in voluntary agencies, not through any want of education, but because the money is not available. [More…]
I have said repeatedly that essential programs in health, education, welfare and urban development will be maintained. [More…]
The education policy issued in October 1975 stated: [More…]
by leave- I wish to inform the House that the Government has decided to appoint a Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]
The Committee will deal with a number of fundamental issues related to education. [More…]
In particular, the Committee will examine the whole field of post-secondary education. [More…]
It will also examine the broader problem of the relationship between education and the labour market. [More…]
In the latter area the Committee will be asked to expand its review into secondary education as appropriate. [More…]
I will deal firstly with post-secondary education. [More…]
It is now more than a decade since the presentation of the Martin report on tertiary education in Australia. [More…]
In that decade there have been major changes in post-secondary educationchanges which were strongly influenced by the Martin report itself. [More…]
The whole system of colleges of advanced education has been developed. [More…]
Recently the Commonwealth has become more heavily involved in technical and further education. [More…]
Not merely has the structure of education altered. [More…]
During this period also there has been a vigorous debate about the role of education in our society, about the purposes of education and in particular about the appropriate relationship between education and the economy. [More…]
The developments in the structure of postsecondary education, the growing interest in concepts such as open education, recurrent education and retraining, the growing recognition of the importance of technical and further education and the question of education’s relevance to a person’s working life have led the Government to conclude that there is a need for a wide ranging review of the whole area of postsecondary education. [More…]
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is at present conducting a review of Australian education, focusing on the transition from school to work or further study. [More…]
A national working party established by the Australian Education Council has recently completed a report on the problems of school leavers in making the transition to employment. [More…]
This review will complement, not duplicate, the various State and other inquiries by taking a broad and long-term perspective on the development of post-secondary education, and by examining the relationship between education and the labour market. [More…]
I have mentioned that one important reason for this review is the changing structure of post-secondary education. [More…]
These developments have raised questions about the most appropriate allocation of responsibilities between the different sectors of postsecondary education. [More…]
Particularly because of the establishment of separate commissions in post-secondary education there has grown up a tendancy to treat the universities, the colleges of advanced education and institutions for technical and further education in isolation from each other. [More…]
More than that, there is a need to consider how post-secondary education as a whole relates to the needs of individuals and to the linkages between education and employment. [More…]
Because Australia has an advanced industrial economy and because the aspirations of our people demand it, there is a need for a substantial share of the nation’s resources to be devoted to education. [More…]
Because this share is so large it is vital that resources devoted to education should be used to maximum effect, that unnecessary duplication should be avoided and that integrated forward planning of educational provision be given every encouragement. [More…]
The Government wishes to set in train the extensive work required to anticipate needs for postsecondary education over the medium and long term. [More…]
In addressing itself to the provision of educational facilities and services it will examine amongst other things the overall pattern of institutions and courses including their objectives, the magnitude of the provision including the desirable balance between sectors, the relationship of educational provision to community and individual needs and preferences, the accessibility of education and training including reentry and transferability, the problems of special groups, for example, the handicapped, ethnic groups, Aboriginals and women, the responsibility of State and Commonwealth authorities in relation to the nature and location of institutions, preparation for employment including skilled and semi-skilled groups, the provision of recurrent education and the means of evaluating the quality and efficiency of the system. [More…]
Education has a vital role in achieving the objectives of the Government and the Australian people for an Australia in which everyone has a realistic opportunity to seek personal fulfilment. [More…]
It is not only through the education system that this objective will be achieved. [More…]
I now turn to the second major aspect of the inquiry- the relationship between education and the labour market. [More…]
If an education system fails to provide people with relevant skills- skills which they can use in their work- it is at the same time diminishing their chances of achieving satisfying lives. [More…]
The inquiry will need to consider the view that the education system, and particularly the pattern of postsecondary education is not matching satisfactorily the employment needs of many young people with the demands of the labour market. [More…]
Some have argued that the existing pattern of education and training in Australia has led to bottlenecks in the economy- shortages of critical skills which inhibit the creation of job opportunities in other areas. [More…]
In considering the relationship between the labour market and the education system the Committee has been asked to extend its review into secondary education as appropriate, having regard to the fact that a significant number of children do not proceed beyond year 10 in secondary schools. [More…]
The Committee of Inquiry will be required under its terms of reference to have regard to the Government’s objectives in the area of education. [More…]
These include widening, educational opportunity, including access to education for those with the ability, but lacking the means; expanding educational and occupational choice; developing quality and excellence in all spheres of education, and encouraging community participation in education and training matters. [More…]
Our educational system has a central role in increasing the capacity of people to adapt to change. [More…]
It includes also providing opportunities for re-entry into formal education for the updating of old skills or the acquisition of new skills relevant to new needs and new demands. [More…]
In this context the inquiry will be asked to examine the variety of linkages between education and employment. [More…]
The Committee is being asked to examine the role of the educational system in preparing people for work and influencing their choice of occupation- both for new entrants to the work force and for existing members; the extent of and trends in unemployment and underemployment especially amongst the young; the interaction between the labour market and rising educational standards of new recruits to the work force, including the role of educational qualifications in credentialling or selecting people for jobs; the needs of special groups with special regard to government services for special groups; and the manner in which manpower forecasts may be made their reliability and their application in educational planning. [More…]
I wish to emphasise however, that this inquiry will extend its consideration to a wide range of fundamental issues in education. [More…]
The Committee will take as given the arrangements for financing and co-ordinating post-secondary education agreed between State and Commonwealth governments except in so far as such consideration is essential to the main theme of the inquiry. [More…]
One sentence, for instance, did not even have a verb in it, which is surprising even for a former Liberal Minister for Education. [More…]
Some of them in fact did express solicitude for the plight of the young people leaving school, finishing their formal education and not able to get jobs. [More…]
For the first time in 20 years during which successive governments, Liberal and Labor, have appointed inquiries on education this particular committee will be precluded from inquiring into the particular method of financing, that is, what proportion of the national income should go to education or to some form of education. [More…]
Every previous Prime Minister, myself among them, has always left these expert inquiries that have been appointed into various aspects of education- since Murray 20 years ago- free to accept evidence and to make investigations into and reports upon the financing of their proposals. [More…]
Here of course this committee is to take as granted and not consider in detail the arrangements for funding and co-ordinating post-secondary education and so on. [More…]
If we go back to the old position of twenty or more years ago when the Federal government was not involved, inevitably we will get a situation in which the more remote and the less developed parts of Australia have inferior opportunities for education. [More…]
It is clear that the Government should recognise the special needs of post-secondary education and their relationship to employment opportunities for young people. [More…]
My Government was the first national government to investigate the needs of technical and further education and to set up an expert independent commission to administer this field and to allocate resources to it. [More…]
It has been obvious all this year that apprenticeship and further education schemes were in chaos, but nothing was done. [More…]
Almost one-half of those unemployed young people had not attempted any education beyond third form secondary standard, and 2 out of every 3 had not attempted beyond fourth form. [More…]
Very nearly three-quarters of the young unemployed males there had not attempted any education beyond fourth form. [More…]
This inquiry is expected to predict conditions and set guidelines for post-secondary education as far ahead as the year 2000. [More…]
The improved educational opportunities in Australia in the last quarter of a century have been brought about because we have changed the financial arrangements which obtained a quarter of a century ago. [More…]
Technical and further education- TAFE - [More…]
Education responsibilities go beyond meeting the needs of young people interested in career orientation and exploration of those wanting preparation for their first job. [More…]
Important as jobs are, important as the needs of industry are, education must still be seen as paramount in its own right; as a human process directed to the social and cultural needs of young people and their place in a civilised society. [More…]
Education is not a means to an end but an end in itself. [More…]
The Government will be failing in its duty, and its inquiry will be worthless, dangerous, circumscribed and counter-productive if education at any level is seen primarily as a function of economics and industrial efficiency. [More…]
They are: Sewerage 56.1 per cent, migrant education 50 per cent, old people’s homes 29.1 per cent, area improvement programs 96 per cent, shipping 49.5 per cent, pipelines 36. [More…]
In this respect it is noteworthy that of an estimated outlay for 1976-77 totalling $24,320.9m almost half is made up by health expenditure of $2,908.7m, education $2,204m, social security and welfare $6,187.1m- and I might mention that constitutes 25 per cent of total outlays- and culture and recreation $253. [More…]
It is rather significant that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) made a statement today regarding the establishment of a committee to review secondary and tertiary education to ascertain whether in actual fact the nations resources are being profitably directed in those fields. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) responded to the effect that education was a cause in its own right, that it was justified in itself. [More…]
To a certain extent that is true, but it must be equally clear that if we pursue a policy of education for itself without due regard to the eventual absorption and use of the talents so acquired by those engaged in it without concurrent attention to the economy we will be in the extraordinary position of having the best educated and, under our health programs, the most healthy and most cultured unemployed in our history. [More…]
It is true that most people subscribe to the notion that education must be paramount and that is perhaps a commendable attitude. [More…]
We recognised in the Western world that we were monumentally deficient in the educational field and that we urgently needed physicists and the like, so we embarked on this crash education program which has developed on a broader base in the meantime, so much so that we have imbued our young with the idea that if they do not proceed to tertiary education they are either derelict or a failure in some way or another. [More…]
We see many of our young students who, pressed by this philosophy to go on to tertiary education, are proving to be lamentably inadequate and they fall by the wayside and we inherit another crop of disenchanted young people who adopt extreme social practices to escape the reality of their own failures. [More…]
-The right honourable the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was my predecessor as Minister for Education. [More…]
I was therefore interested when the right honourable gentleman spoke about the importance of technical education and the need for a new emphasis on technical education in Australia. [More…]
When I became the Minister for Education, Commonwealth expenditure on technical education was $19m a year. [More…]
In my time as Minister for Education, we made technical education free and student enrolments at technical colleges rose from 400 000 to 70S 000. [More…]
1 would think that a 75 per cent increase in enrolments in 2 years showed a considerable re-orientation of Australian education towards technical education. [More…]
However, I think that the Prime Minister’s distinctions between technical education and other education need very careful examination. [More…]
When apprentice week was being held, I, as Minister for Education, looked particularly at the reading material required by apprentices. [More…]
A thoroughly efficient academic education which confers on the student literacy, numeracy and the power of expression is absolutely essential. [More…]
Let us not draw false distinctions between technical education and other education. [More…]
Perhaps I could best use the expressions of the Technical and Further Education Commission itself in relation to this matter. [More…]
They have had responsibility for technical education. [More…]
When I became Minister, we were concluding a triennium in which the Commonwealth had granted $36m over 3 years to the States for technical education buildings. [More…]
The Technical and Further Education Commission under Professor Richardson advocated an expenditure for capital facilities of $234m in 2’A years. [More…]
The position was reached of course where there were not the safeguards in this form of education that there had been in the Schools Commission. [More…]
So I drew his attention to the fact that with regard to capital expenditure on technical education in New South Wales, 10 Commonwealth dollars were being spent for one State dollar. [More…]
The icing on technical education which the Prime Minister particularly picked up with regard to Victoria was that for capital construction of technical colleges 4 Commonwealth dollars were being spent for one State dollar. [More…]
I think the depressing conclusion that one would come to with regard to the field of technical education was that the States of New South Wales and Victoriatremendously important States- were using Commonwealth grants of a capital nature for technical education as a substitute for and not additional to their own expenditure. [More…]
I think that the last speaker, in making his remarks on academic education, forgot a very important thing: It may be my opinion that someone ought not to study law because the country has enough lawyers - [More…]
But that ought not to be my decision if I am Minister for Education. [More…]
Admittedly greater pressure was put onto the resources when universities, colleges of advances education and technical colleges were made free. [More…]
I dislike the rather flimsy suggestion that there has been too great an emphasis in these fields, when the experiment of 1974-75 of making tertiary education free, is, after all, very new. [More…]
Under the old system for universities or colleges of advanced education, the Commonwealth found a dollar for every dollar found by the States. [More…]
So the Treasury was never critical of Universities Commission reports or of Colleges of Advanced Education Commission reports because before the Treasury got a look at them, 6 State Treasuries had engaged in a blocking activity. [More…]
I will not name the State nor the Under-Secretary of Treasury who, whenever the Universities Commission visited his State, would say: ‘Don’t you come down here recommending great expenditure on universities or colleges of advanced education. [More…]
When the Commonwealth became the exclusive authority to finance tertiary education, my, what a transformation came over the scene. [More…]
I was perpetually bombarded by Mr Thompson and Sir Eric Willis when he was Minister for Education. [More…]
It always amused me that the standard comment from the then Opposition benches while I was Minister for Education was how responsible the States were and how irresponsible the Commonwealth was. [More…]
My immediate successor as Minister for Education, Senator Margaret Guilfoyle, for whom I have a very great deal of respect, nevertheless used to tell a marvellous little story about the wastefulness of Commonwealth expenditure. [More…]
In any event, I think there was a vast advance in education during our period of office. [More…]
We in the education field sat back confidently to watch the fall in the price of books. [More…]
This case is very typical of the position regarding highly technical or educational material. [More…]
In the field of education this situation was very serious indeed. [More…]
Equally, in the field of advanced education the expenditure envisaged for the triennium was $462m. [More…]
We had to suspend the program for the triennium basically because of the leap in the recommendations for technical and further education capital from $46m in 3 years to $2 3 4m in 2lA years and then the recommendation of the Advanced Education Commission to double the expenditure from $840m in a triennium to $ 1,680m and envisaged $584m worth of capital. [More…]
To take as an example, one which my colleague from Swan would know quite well, WAIT, the Western Australian Institute of Technology, alongside Murdoch University, the Advanced Education Commission recommended $26m worth of building for the Western Australian Institute of Technology and $13m was recommended by the Universities Commission for Murdoch. [More…]
Do not make distinctions between technical and university education. [More…]
-I do not intend to join the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) in a discussion about education, but merely would like to make the necessary equation between what he has been speaking about and the Budget. [More…]
I think the necessary equation lies in the work of Kuznets in the 1950s in which he stated the simple proposition that education means economic growth and that if more is spent on education- this has been fastened on by so many university and other authorities over the years- ipso facto there will be a better economic performance only on account of this fact. [More…]
As the honourable member for Fremantle has pointed out quite clearly it is often the nature of the expenditure on education that needs to be examined if it is to have an effect on the broad economic parameters of any nation. [More…]
In its obsession with expenditure in the public sector the Government has overlooked 2 factors; firstly, that people quite naturally expect that governments are there to assist and provide for them in times of difficulty and to do for them the things they are not able to do for themselves, things such as the provision of health services and education and assistance in times of unemployment; secondly, that capital expenditure in the public sector creates jobs and profits in the private sector. [More…]
I can well remember a former honourable member for Barton, the late Dr H. V. Evatt, during the election campaigns in 1954 and 1955 talking about the need for Australians to spend vast sums of money on social welfare and decrying the standards of education in the community. [More…]
This in turn provides a major component of government revenue so that government can provide services in the areas of education, health and welfare and the other multitude of services that a government is expected to provide. [More…]
All it can come up with is the establishment of a committee to look at relating education to the needs of the labour market. [More…]
Expenditure on the child migrant education program is cut from $ 1 1 .5m to $700,000. [More…]
It will help to stimulate business whilst protecting the needy and protecting also the key areas of expenditure, health and welfare, including pensions of all kinds, education and defence. [More…]
It reduces the vote in the education field. [More…]
It was said, no doubt with some honestly, by the Treasurer that he thought the education vote was a 2 per cent increase. [More…]
He also forgot to mention that the guidelines given to the Schools Commission now state that there is to be no automatic cost supplementation as regards education. [More…]
Therefore there will be some less concentration of financial resources in education with all its needs. [More…]
The Government had an opportunity to spend some $200m a year in upgrading education resources. [More…]
Let us look at education because people continually claim that we do not allocate enough money for education. [More…]
As with social welfare, we have generously recognised the continuing need for a high priority for education expenditure. [More…]
In the field of education, the present Government has stated that it will provide greater State representation on the Schools Commission; greater responsibility both in terms of funding and administration may be transferred to the States in the area of education, particularly in relation to schools. [More…]
Every time we mention education we find 100 000 teachers throughout the country going into a mad spin saying: ‘Spend more, more, more; do what Labor did’. [More…]
What the Whitlam Government did was withhold money that the McMahon and Gorton government had been giving to the States for education, and say: ‘No, you are not having that any more. [More…]
We have increased expenditure on education from a few million dollars to well into the hundreds of millions of dollars ‘. [More…]
To those who may be concerned about educational expenditure let me say that the sum set aside in this Budget for the forthcoming year is in excess of $2, 000m. [More…]
That is a far cry from a government supposedly not interested in education. [More…]
He stated specifically that there would be no cuts for housing, education, employment, health and legal aid. [More…]
Funds will continue to be made available for housing, education, employment, health, legal aid etc. [More…]
The majority of these cuts have been in the areas of housing, health and education, the 3 areas most important to the self-respect and self-determination of any person. [More…]
Let me list the cuts in real terms which have been made in the appropriations for various Aboriginal programs: Support for Aboriginal sporting bodies has been reduced by 100 per cent; support for Aboriginal publications has been reduced by 100 per cent; support for Aboriginal land councils has been reduced by 13 per cent; support for enterprises- the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account- has been reduced by 77 per cent; support for town management and public utilities has been reduced by 36 per cent; support for recreational and cultural activities has been reduced by 37 per cent; payments to and for the States have been reduced by 37 per cent; Aboriginal study grants have been reduced by 22.6 per cent; funding for Aboriginal education in the Northern Territory has been reduced by 34.7 per cent; funds through the Department of Health have been reduced by 18.25 per cent; administrative expenses have been reduced by 13 per cent; funds for Aboriginal conferences have been reduced by 2 1 per cent; funds for investigations and research have been reduced by 30 per cent; support for Aborigines at government settlements has been reduced by 14 per cent; assistance to Aboriginal missions has been reduced by 12 per cent; support for ecological projects has been reduced by 12 per cent; support for Aboriginal hostels has been reduced by 10 per cent; support for Aboriginal enterprises has been reduced by 10 per cent; and support for Aboriginal housing through the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account has been reduced by 17 per cent. [More…]
Is he not aware of statements that I have made that I and my colleagues, the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) -and the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), have under discussion the results of a report by a working party into special works projects. [More…]
It says that funds will continue to be made available for housing, education, employment, health and legal aid- and so they have been. [More…]
Later I will mention matters specific to housing and education. [More…]
in setting the long term goals and objectives which the government should pursue and the programs it should adopt in such areas as Aboriginal education, housing, health, employment and legal aid; [More…]
The formation of a National Aboriginal Education Consultative Committee by my colleague the Minister for Education is also in fulfilment of that policy obligation. [More…]
Furthermore, if the honourable member for Hughes examines the figures for direct Australian Government expenditure on Aboriginal assistance he will see that in key areas such as health and education there has been a decrease in the amount of money appropriated to State government departments in these areas and a complementary increase in the amount of money going to Aboriginal organisations. [More…]
The greatest of the cuts have been in the areas of housing, health and education- the 3 areas most important to the self-respect and self-determination of any person. [More…]
Not only is the Government advocating lower wages before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission but also it is cutting those government services which directly increase workers’ living standards- health, urban programs, education and consumer protection. [More…]
Expenditure in education has been maintained in most areas but does not allow for any growth. [More…]
Cuts have been made in student assistance and Aboriginal and migrant education. [More…]
I have asked questions of the Government in the House of Representatives concerning the training of apprentices, secondary and tertiary education, and about rethinking its approach to the actual needs of industry and commerce. [More…]
It has not kept its promises in respect of the abolition of the means test, welfare or the reintroduction of fees for students at universities and centres of tertiary education. [More…]
The Australian people are entitled to expect a Budget which enshrines the principles of economic security, education opportunities, equality through social welfare, security of employment, and wage and income levels commensurate with skill. [More…]
The Federal Government has once again reduced the numbers of the Australian Public Service and entrance barriers to universities and colleges of advanced education are tighter than ever before. [More…]
They have promised that the wicked Government will cut expenditure on education, legal aid, Aborigines and on childhood, old people, and other welfare services. [More…]
But they know and the people of Australia know that even in times of severe budgetary restraint we have, by our allocations in the Budget, indicated to the people of Australia that we are committed to restoring economic sanity while improving education, health and welfare programs. [More…]
In addition to that, we have announced a far-reaching inquiry into education and training which will have an implication for people in future years. [More…]
Detailed first-hand investigations of professional education and practice have been carried out by 85 consultants commissioned by the Committee covering 14 professions in 47 countries. [More…]
A large number of information statements on professional education and practice in overseas countries has been published. [More…]
The first of those was the extremely hasty announcement last Thursday by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) of the establishment of a committee of inquiry into education and training. [More…]
That is all that we have- the relocation scheme and the announcement on the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]
Popular though those concessions were with so many people in the community, the really important acceptance of this Lynch Budget related to the tax indexation of personal incomes, together with the decision to increase social welfare in real terms, to accept a greater financial responsibility in the field of education, again in real terms, and to bring back some realism in the field of defence spending. [More…]
The increase in payments to handicapped children from $10 to $ 1 5 is also most welcome, but I am sure that the Treasurer is aware of the great needs which still remain for educating the handicapped child into the tertiary area of education. [More…]
Of course much has been done and there are countless stories of young people who have overcome not only their own disability but often the education systems themselves to achieve success. [More…]
It remains very much within the motivation of many significantly deaf and blind young folk themselves to achieve higher educational awards. [More…]
I hope that next year’s Budget will see the extension of appropriate educational allowances and the extension of invalid pensions to disabled children over the age of 16 years who remain full-time students. [More…]
If effective government geared to the needs of the 1980s and beyond is to be achieved … if the great issues of national and local concern such as education, health, social welfare, housing and urban development are to receive maximum intelligent attention … if all our resources including human talents and local knowledge are to be effectively harnessed … if innovation, diversity and imaginative reforms are to be encouraged . [More…]
I have said repeatedly that essential programs in health, education and urban development will be maintained. [More…]
Can honourable members opposite think of a more simple proposition than paying from the proceeds of taxation so that the rich pay more than the poor as is the case in respect of widows’ pensions, child endowment, defence, education and all these other services for which we legislate from time to time? [More…]
Specifically, they seek to persuade them that, politically speaking, there are no poor, no aged, no sick, no Aborigines, no immigrants, no people seriously squeezed by inflation, not many for whom unemployment is a major issue, no one whose health, education, food, shelter, protection from economic abuse or exploitation, or even survival, depends on the services of Government. [More…]
In our situation profits of course contribute very greatly to all aspects of our government expenditure and, through it, to areas such as health, education and social welfare. [More…]
The national strengths and vitality of the country depend upon the political stability, the institutions and values, the geographic strengths and weaknesses, the economy- especially national resources, industrial capacity and finance and the people, including their numbers, their location, character, morale, education, our scientific and technological base and, as the integrating factor, leadership. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
If so, does the Minister still consider it expedient to freeze teacher training or was the Minister misquoted when reported as saying that the present level of enrolments in teacher education courses should be regarded as a maximum. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
On 26 July I made a statement in Bathurst on the Australia-wide position as indicated by a study undertaken by the Department of Education and the Education Commissions. [More…]
The report is a preliminary one and is under examination by a working party of the Australian Education Council. [More…]
The large majority of persons commencing courses of teacher education in 1 977 will be undertaking courses of at least three years duration. [More…]
Because of the possibility of a considerable overall surplus developing throughout the next decade the Government thought it appropriate, pending the further analysis that is being undertaken, that the present total level of enrolments in teacher education should be regarded as a maximum. [More…]
am asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
What gains to revenue will be made during the year 1976-77 and in a full financial year by charging tuition fees to (a) persons who hold a first degree and are studying for second and higher degrees and (b) foreign students attending (i) universities, (ii) colleges of advanced education and (iii) technical and further education institutions (Hansard, 20 May 1976, page 2340 and 18 August 1976, page 348). [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Has the Government carried out a review of the student allowance scheme, or tertiary education assistance scheme, as it is known? [More…]
I was surprised this afternoon to hear the honourable member for Hughes make a comment in relation to the establishment of a university in Albury-Wodonga, because it was only in August 1975 that the Australian Universities Commission was instructed by the then Minister for Education, (Mr Beazley), that all new initiatives involving financial assistance for universities should be deferred. [More…]
When the elected Cabinet agrees on those recommendations- it is that elected Ministry which must have the final say- those plans about growth rates must be converted into energy needs, manpower needs, immigration needs and education needs in order to make decisions on what should be the key industries, decisions on the protection of full employment in this country and decisions in many other related areas. [More…]
and if these children do not get this help from Centres such as ours, providing Sessional care, there is nowhere else for these children to go, as there are no other organisations to cater for such specific problems, thus meaning our children are deprived of Pre-School education and care. [More…]
The major change consists of an additional clause which calls for the liquor industry to encourage responsibility in drinking by continuing education towards the rational use of alcohol. [More…]
the Australian code provides for the liquor industry to encourage responsibility in drinking by continuing education towards the rational use of alcohol. [More…]
Since its establishment the Bank has lent about US$3 billion for projects covering all the major sectors of economic development with emphasis on the development of infrastructure facilities in the transport and communications industry and electric power sectors as well as projects for agriculture, education, water supply and urban development. [More…]
1 per cent, migrant education expenditure by 50 per cent, old people’s homes by 29.1 per cent, area improvement programs by 96 per cent, shipping by 49.5 per cent, pipelines by 36. [More…]
That represents not just a reduction of last year’s allocation; in real terms it is the castration of funding for hospital facilities, clinics, health centres and health education programs for our Aboriginal community. [More…]
That is a tremendous amount of money for any nation to spend on social welfare and health, particularly when we compare it with the education expenditure of $2, 204m and the defence expenditure of $2, 178m both of which represent approximately 9.6 per cent of the gross national product. [More…]
Division 325 of the estimates for the Department of Health, a curious vote, relates to antismoking education. [More…]
Aboriginal assistance programs, as honourable members are aware, have in recent years received massive injections of funds, with each succeeding year showing ever increasing allocations in an attempt to relieve the very serious handicaps in housing, education, health and employment under which Australia’s Aboriginal people suffer. [More…]
In conjunction with my colleagues, the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street), I have been studying both short and long term measures which will be brought forward quickly for consideration by the Government including possible ways of converting the payment of unemployment benefits within communities into the funding of worthwhile work projects. [More…]
The link between education and employment is possibly of greater importance to Aborigines than others as formal education is brought more within then- reach. [More…]
Grants-in-aid to the States for health and education programs were reduced and grants to Aboriginal organisations working in these fields increased because of our commitment to working through Aboriginal organisations. [More…]
They said: ‘Who else gets education allowances in their situation?’ [More…]
Thousands of people scattered round Australia are getting educational allowances, at the top of the secondary school system in many areas. [More…]
I turn finally to the area of education. [More…]
In the Department of Education report for 1 975 1 notice that there has been a continuation of the disturbing downward trend of enrolments and attendance at Aboriginal schools in the Northern Territory. [More…]
No doubt that has made the prediction of education needs and staffing in Aboriginal schools very difficult. [More…]
I move from the housing area to the question of education. [More…]
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs earlier today mentioned that education had an extremely important part to play in the development of Aboriginal people in that if they did not have that basic background it made it much more difficult for them to obtain employment. [More…]
The Budget Papers refer also to the education of Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory. [More…]
But taken overall, that decrease in expenditure certainly reflects a drop in the education facilities made available for Aboriginal people. [More…]
At the outset, to my recollection there are only 2 government departmentsthe Department of Defence and the Department of Education- in which expenditure in real terms has grown. [More…]
When I was Minister for Education the first decision that we made regarding Aborigines concerned their right, if Aboriginal parents nominated it, to an education in their own languages. [More…]
When the Welsh were denied an education in their own language in primary schools they regarded this as a symptom of their conquest by the English people. [More…]
When it was revealed to us when we were in Government- it came through the education sectionthat large numbers of Aboriginal children in the Kimberleys were being born with brain damage, I wrote to the then Prime Minister and he asked for a conference of 3 Federal Ministers and 3 State Ministers. [More…]
As a result I established a working party, calling in my colleagues the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) and the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), to consider that matter among other matters affecting Aboriginal employment. [More…]
Mention was made by the honourable member for Wills and other members of education. [More…]
Firstly, the Minister for Education has established an interdepartmental committee to look into the level of all student allowances, including those payable under the various Aboriginal student assistance schemes. [More…]
Senator Carrick and I jointly visited the Northern Territory in July to look at education in the Territory. [More…]
One of the things that struck us forcibly, as it must have struck the former Minister for Education, the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), was the necessary link between vocational training and work opportunity in particular communities. [More…]
There has been a breakage of that link in recent times which my colleague and I are seeking to re-establish, because as more and more Aboriginal children come through the educational stream education is worth nothing to them if there is no suitable work for them back in their own community or where they would wish to establish themselves. [More…]
Mention was made also of reductions in expenditure on health and education in the Northern Territory. [More…]
What needs to be recognised in this case, as commentators and honourable members failed to recognise when reading the Budget papers, is that the amounts referred toapproximately $6m for education in the Northern Territory and $ lm for health in the Northern Territory- represent deferred capital works and not direct expenditure on health or education programs. [More…]
It has cut back on any improved sewerage proposals, on improved housing, particularly in the public sector, in improvements to urban public transport, health services, real value in education and in environmental and cultural services within our community. [More…]
There are significant measures in the field of education, namely, migrant education and education for migrant children. [More…]
Part of the rationale behind our policy for students is that they should gain a benefit from education in Australia and take back with them to their country of origin the benefits of the education here so that the society from which they come can gain from the experience which they have had in Australia. [More…]
The unsavoury task of smearing Professor Clark in Parliament has been entrusted to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick)-the Minister responsible for tertiary education in this country and for defending the values and freedoms of academic life represented by universities. [More…]
The reputation of so distinguished a man, so great an historian, so profound and compassionate an observer of our past and present society- a patriot in the truest sensewill survive whatever fly-specks the Minister for Education may try to leave upon it. [More…]
Every decent Australian will condemn what the Minister for Education has said and what the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), by his silence, has condoned. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
We believe that if people are to get the benefit of rebates for expenditure on education, life policies and similar matters the benefit should be based on expenditure actually undertaken. [More…]
Will the Minister also discuss with the Victorian Education Department the question of making appropriate employment arrangements to provide career opportunities for these people at the completion of their training period? [More…]
Education Department under a scheme funded by my Department. [More…]
I shall be entering into discussions and consultations with the Victorian Education Department to see that career opportunities are available to these people at the completion of their courses. [More…]
Mr H. G. Chapman (S.A.), representing the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, asked Mr Ian Viner . [More…]
I do not yet have the privilege of representing the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in this House. [More…]
The inquiry into education and training is worthwhile. [More…]
Therefore they stayed on in the education system. [More…]
There must also be a review of post-secondary education, and I am pleased to note the comments made in this regard by the Prime Minister recently. [More…]
I believe that there has been an imbalance in the development of post-secondary education in Australia which has led to many of the structural problems that we face. [More…]
Our educational institutions are turning out people who cannot be employed properly in the work force. [More…]
In addition, it studied the report of the Williams Committee on the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme- commonly known as TEAS. [More…]
We make the point quite clearly that we disagree with a number of matters in it, not the least of which is the suggestion that the previous Australian Labor Party Government did not do its duty in relation to education generally. [More…]
I remind the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner), who in this chamber represents the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), that if he looks at the financial resources which the Labor Administration allocated to education in its 3 years of office he will see that it was an all time record. [More…]
For example, in the last Liberal-National Country Party Government Budget the amount payable for education to the States was $259.4m. [More…]
So it should not be thought at any stage that we were unmindful of the needs of education. [More…]
The whole emphasis has been on the basis that there has been a great need in education in all the various levels throughout Australia, whether it be in the pre-school, primary, secondary or tertiary fields. [More…]
It considered that the Scheme for this reason was a significant advance on the previous competitive Commonwealth University, Advanced Education and Technical Scholarship Schemes. [More…]
Government has always thought to be good enough for education. [More…]
I make no comment about that, except to say that it is a tragedy for young people to have to drop out of tertiary education because of impecunious circumstances. [More…]
An even greater reduction in the number of students occurred in the College of Advanced Education. [More…]
The same situation applies in the technical education field. [More…]
That is quite a waste which obviously people interested in education would need to look at. [More…]
We have already seen increases in the staff of the Departments of the Capital Territory, Education and Health and such essential community services as fire brigades and police. [More…]
Our education authority and health administration likewise must be answerable to the local electorate through the community and through elected local representatives. [More…]
In which of our electorates are the local citizens deeply involved and supplying the membership for the administration of education, health or bodies such as the Totalizator Agency Board? [More…]
In Canberra it was possible to talk directly to the representatives of all the responsible authorities- housing, education, transport or water supply- around the table and come to a group decision. [More…]
We are not prepared to give the instructions that ought to be given to our educational institutions on preparing the children now going to school for what the work force will require. [More…]
We are still following traditional lines of education and preparing children for a society which may have existed in Australia 20 years ago. [More…]
I congratulate the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick)- indeed the entire Government- on the announcements which have been made today in relation to the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances and tertiary allowances generally. [More…]
I believe that today the Government has been vindicated against extremist critics who have contended without any justification whatsoever that it did not have a commitment either to education or to students attending tertiary institutions. [More…]
At the present moment there are 84 000 recipients of Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances. [More…]
Accordingly, I want to take a little time to consider what has happened in the field of tertiary education over the last few years including the period of the previous Administration. [More…]
The Government has today genuinely indicated its commitment to many students in this country whose future from an educational point of view was in doubt. [More…]
Those who inspired the strike last week, those who suggested that Senator Carrick was not concerned about them and those who considered that the Government had no commitment to education have finished up with egg on their faces. [More…]
These funds are reserved for research, education and extension and development projects having broad application to the fishing industry. [More…]
-I direct my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]
I was very pleased to hear the honourable member acknowledge how worthwhile were the increases in student allowances announced yesterday by the Minister for Education. [More…]
Health and education services break down. [More…]
The Committee has also made recommendations for the recruitment and training of police, that alcohol education programs be speeded up, that meaningful employment be given to Aboriginals, that accurate statistics be maintained on a regular and continuing basis at Aboriginal settlements, and that a drug and alcohol authority be established in the Northern Territory. [More…]
One is reminded of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training which the Prime Minister announced here 4 weeks ago. [More…]
The terms of reference required it to take as given and not consider in detail the arrangements for funding and co-ordinating postsecondary education agreed between the State and Commonwealth Governments’. [More…]
The Film and Television School was established originally with dual responsibility, both to the film and broadcasting industry and to education. [More…]
It is therefore entirely proper that the charter should include audiovisual communications in the light of the increasing awareness of the importance of sounds and images, either alone or in the process of education. [More…]
It is depressing, but not especially surprising, to learn that the Fraser Government’s attitude towards public funding and support of culture and the arts in Australia bears the same shortsighted, cynical and ultimately irresponsible hallmarks as do the Government’s other policies such as those to do with the economy, the social welfare structure, education, migrant welfare and so many other areas. [More…]
Firstly, that great egalitarian party, the Australian Labor Party, believes that it is very demeaning to do manual work if one happens to have the advantage of a higher education, but not otherwise. [More…]
But the Labor Government adopted a policy in the field of education and in other areas of allocating money where there was a need. [More…]
This policy applied to education in particular but it also applied to local government. [More…]
In addition, such matters as education and child care have also been greatly affected and this has affected the children and the communities in those centres. [More…]
We can contend, as honourable members do from time to time, and not only on the other side of the chamber, that we must have more welfare provisions and more care for the aged, that we must have more expenditure on education and a wide range of welfare requirements. [More…]
When we consider that 25 per cent of our Budget goes to health and welfare and that another $2,000m goes to education- all these areas are pressing, probably quite rightly, for more and more Government expenditure- we must be conscious of some responsibility for austerity or certainly there must be a lack of extravagance in doing ail that we would like to do. [More…]
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In the Budget Speech of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) the impression was created quite strongly that there was substantial real growth in monetary allocations to education. [More…]
The question we always faced when we introduced our education program was opposition on the basis that no real emphasis ought to be given to the needs concept as against the equality concept of money. [More…]
Honourable members might recall that when the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) was Opposition spokesman for education in this chamber he opposed the Education Commission Bill that we introduced and which had as a basis the needs concept. [More…]
It was only because of the support of the National Country Party in the Senate that we were able to establish the concept of an independent commission able to evaluate the needs of education in the schools as they apply in the technical field and the advanced college field. [More…]
There is also a reduction in the allocation for migrant education of $ 10.7m. [More…]
I want to pay tribute here to the fact that the Opposition spokesman on education, the former Minister for Education, the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) had a great dedication to people who suffered from the handicap of isolation, whether they were of migrant status or Aboriginal status, and to education generally. [More…]
But we do not see any similar increase to all those other aspects of education. [More…]
3 in the Budget Papers states with regard to migrant education: [More…]
In 1975-76 $10m was spent on child migrant education under the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 in the six months period to 31 December 1975; from January 1976, however, the child migrant education program has been financed from general recurrent grants administered by the Schools Commission. [More…]
So the Schools Commission has to find within this context of money money formerly given to migrant education. [More…]
Again one sees a reduction in terms of education. [More…]
It is for that reason we suggest that the Minister for Education should get back to the Treasurer and ask him to have another look at his Budget. [More…]
Education is a high priority matter for the Federal Government. [More…]
In the current financial year an amount equivalent to 9.1 per cent of estimated total Budget outlays is to be spent on education. [More…]
With this vast sum of money allocated for education, there arises the responsibility to ensure that it is spent effectively, purposefully and discriminately. [More…]
Is there an Austraiian education scandal? [More…]
Has education become the stamping ground of romantics and Utopian socialists who give it pretentious and unrealistic objectives? [More…]
The responsibility is to see that the money is well spent, that it is being used to achieve desirable and specific educational objectives, and to ensure that at all times the Austraiian taxpayer, the sole contributor of government funds, is getting value for his dollar. [More…]
I wish to examine broadly our educational spending in terms of these responsibilities. [More…]
Firstly, the importance of pre-school education cannot, in my view, be underestimated. [More…]
It has very important social and educational functions at a critical time in the development of the individual. [More…]
As well as this important social interaction, preschool education encourages the intellectual and creative development of the child. [More…]
Existing facilities for pre-school education in many parts of Australia are inadequate. [More…]
Even more fundamental than this just to live and successfully socially interact, we are required to possess a certain level of education and sophistication. [More…]
Primary education must impart the three Rs. [More…]
I have no quarrel with the increased educational emphasis on helping the child to develop to fulfil his or her full potential as a young human being, but a modern member of society has little future if he cannot read, write and count. [More…]
Have the decision makers in education- for example, the Schools Commission- decided that egalitarianism is the great objective of education, displacing the learning of skills and the dissemination of knowledge? [More…]
Any budgetary outlay for education must ensure that all children, irrespective of means, can freely and readily avail themselves of this education. [More…]
I now wish to direct my attention to postsecondary education. [More…]
The combined Federal expenditure on universities, colleges of advanced education, teachers colleges and technical education amounts to $1,30 1.8m or over half the budgetary outlay on education. [More…]
This is because the Federal Government has greater financial responsibility for those areas of education. [More…]
However, I do wish to make the point that, given the finite amount of money that the Commonwealth has to spend on education, the more it spends on post-secondary education the less there is available to allocate to the States for pre-school, primary and secondary education. [More…]
Are we wasting money on post-secondary education and, more particularly, tertiary education? [More…]
Tertiary education is in danger of becoming a sacred cow issue in Australia and, for reasons of self preservation, is resisting all attempts at rationalisation and improvement. [More…]
The Government is aware of this situation and the need to change it and has announced the establishment of a committee of inquiry into education and training. [More…]
One of its major considerations is how post-secondary education as a whole relates to the needs of the individual and to the linkages between education and employment. [More…]
The idea of a liberal arts education is losing its validity as new students see university less as an experience in itself and more as a means to an end. [More…]
Beazley) is that education must be seen as paramount in its own right, with the secondary consideration being its relations to work and the market place. [More…]
I, too, believe that education is a prime means for promoting individual self development. [More…]
There is emerging a changed sense of goals and possibilities in Australian education. [More…]
With respect to primary and secondary education, our responsibility dictates that all students be provided with the essential skills needed for successful and happy functioning in our society. [More…]
With respect to post-secondary education, our responsibility dictates that graduates are equipped to take their places in the work force. [More…]
I do not believe postsecondary education to be a right. [More…]
In the main it is an economic necessity, for many of the positions in our complex, industrialised society require a post-secondary education. [More…]
Those who sincerely seek an education as an end in itself out of a desire to quest for knowledge could have no quarrel with such an arrangement. [More…]
Much public money is presently being wasted on areas of post-secondary education, producing a breed of the educated unemployed. [More…]
Many such persons are over qualified for numerous jobs; yet their competition for jobs forces the minimal level for education required to unrelated and unrealistic levels. [More…]
I support the Budget estimates, especially with respect to pre-school, primary and second^ary education. [More…]
However, he did seem to fall for the current theme that flows from honourable members opposite of using education or any social endeavour as a stalking horse for political point scoring. [More…]
I take up the point that the honourable member made about pre-school education. [More…]
As I see the figures there has been a reduction of about $9m in the expenditure on pre-school education. [More…]
He does not want to see university fees imposed and he wants to see pre-school education opportunities expanded. [More…]
So far as I can see there is an enormous range of people with great literacy, competence and fluency, articulate in all sorts of ways, flowing through the education system. [More…]
Of course, we are in a mass education society. [More…]
The Labor Government’s contribution to education was almost to the point of magnificence as a social revolution. [More…]
We changed the whole priority system of expenditure by this level of government and we launched the Australian Government into the education system in such a way that not even the vandals who sit opposite can make it go backwards. [More…]
The Labor Government set priorities in the field of education which I think were essential for the community in which we live. [More…]
It established a new dimension in education. [More…]
Education is at the cross-roads. [More…]
Therefore we might have to look at getting people accustomed to understanding words such as ‘esoteric’ and so on in the field of education instead of turning them out when they are simply able to handle the three Rs, commendable though that would be. [More…]
Do we continue the education system right through life, as I think is eminently desirable, and make things available continuously to people, irrespective of whether they have missed out or feel that they need to be further educated? [More…]
I want to spend a few minutes on reminding the House about the continuing deficiencies in the field of education- special education, education buildings and so on. [More…]
A totally new concept in education architecture is needed. [More…]
Unfortunately- it is one of my griefs about the 3 years in which we were in government- we could not get any real action in the area which I represent from our education policy. [More…]
I must admit that at the moment, and over the last few years, my observations are, and have been, more superficial than they used to be but the Victorian education system is inclined to be more adventurous and progressive in attempting new ideas of school management than the rest of Australia. [More…]
I want to remind the Committee and the millions of people who have switched on their radios now that they know this debate is on of what education is all about as far as we of the Opposition are concerned. [More…]
The new federalism of which honourable members on the Government side speak is a threat to a proper education system in Australia. [More…]
No matter how hard we try, no matter how much we talk about the egalitarian base of Australian society, the facts are that there are great inequalities in the educational system in Australia and we will only overcome those by concerted effort in this Parliament. [More…]
Tasmania spends $137 per head on education, Victoria spends $125, South Australia spends $129, as does Western Australia, but in Queensland the figure is down to $99. [More…]
So there are enormous disparities in the geography of the Australian education system. [More…]
I refer to opportunities for education according to sex in this country. [More…]
Men outnumbered women by just under 2 to 1 in universities; in the colleges of advanced education 37 per cent of enrolments were male; in technical and further education there were nearly 3 men for every 1 woman. [More…]
The new federalism threatens the Australian education system and will prejudice any effort to develop a proper and equal Australian educational system. [More…]
I congratulate the Government on seeing fit to increase expenditure on education in a difficult’ budgetary year. [More…]
There was little opportunity for real growth in public expenditure in this Budget yet despite the dire predictions of many people who said that this Government would cut expenditure in this Budget in both real terms and absolute terms, it has seen fit to increase expenditure on education. [More…]
I want to refer to some of the problems that need to be dealt with in the Victorian education system because there have been some developments in that State which have been out of line, perhaps, with developments in other States. [More…]
In the past 4 years, for example, the Victorian Education Department has taken on one extra teacher for every 2 additional pupils so we now have one of the lowest teacher/pupil ratios in the world. [More…]
I believe this is the next priority to be dealt with in terms of overall expenditure in the Victorian education system. [More…]
I could point to individual schools and particular classes where there are problems and I do not deny that there will be particular areas where we need to improve the teacher/pupil ratio but overall one of the major problems to be dealt with in terms of overall expenditure is this problem of the capital requirements of the Victorian education system. [More…]
While there will be only 8000 additional children in Victorian schools next February the Victorian Department of Educationothers will be in a similar situation- will have to provide 30 000 new places. [More…]
Because of the imbalances of growth we have had there has been a great strain on the capital resources of the Victorian education system and I hope that when future allocations are made particular attention will be paid to this problem. [More…]
I want to turn to a couple of particular aspects of the estimates for the Department of Education in which I have some interest. [More…]
I refer in particular to the bilingual education program. [More…]
While it might not appear to honourable members that the bilingual education program has much application to my electorate I would point out that in my electorate there is the Australian headquarters of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, the academic arm of the Wycliffe bible translators. [More…]
This organisation is deeply involved in bilingual education programs not only in Australia but throughout the world. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that it has played an initiating role in developing bilingual education programs in various parts of the world. [More…]
The need for bilingual education programs in Australia has been recognised in recent years for the Aboriginal population in the Northern Territory in particular but it does have applications in other contexts as well. [More…]
This is the idea behind the bilingual education programs. [More…]
I can only applaud this move and hope that the good relationships which the Summer Institute of Linguistics has developed with the Department of Education and with the Department of Aboriginal Affairs will continue to grow and develop because there is mutual benefit in a cooperative relationship of this kind. [More…]
I believe we can do a great deal more to apply the principle of bilingual education to many schools in the community other than the Aboriginal communities of Australia. [More…]
I believe there would be great advantages in ensuring that teachers with these skills are put into schools where they can be used to explain to school children in their own language the concepts involved which the education system is trying to impart. [More…]
-The honourable member for Casey (Mr Falconer) spoke of Victoria’s capital expenditure on education. [More…]
He described how the ability of the Victorian Government to construct educational buildings was being reduced because, more than almost anybody else on earth, the Government had sought to reduce the pupil-teacher ratio. [More…]
I shall not call them educational reformists but there appear to be a number of young gentlemen who believe the best thing to do to Victorian schools is to burn them. [More…]
Mr Thompson, the Victorian Minister of Education, in a moment of inadvertence said: ‘We will rebuild that school in 2 years’. [More…]
In point of fact, in the construction of schools the record of the Victorian Government for its Educational Department buildings as compared with independent schools is quite disgraceful. [More…]
In the greater grants for capital in the last year of complete expenditure which I remember as Minister, for every 10 Commonwealth dollars spent on New South Wales technical education buildings there was one State dollar. [More…]
For every 4 Commonwealth dollars spent in Victoria on technical education buildings there was one State dollar. [More…]
The honourable member for Tangney spoke about pre-school education. [More…]
When the Australian Labor Party came to power it had the rather ambitious aim of spreading in 6 years preschool education on the Canberra level throughout Australia. [More…]
Then the honourable gentleman seemed to speak with some hostility about expenditure on tertiary and post-secondary education because it reduced the expenditure on primary and secondary education. [More…]
If the Commonwealth fully assumes the burden of tertiary education, surely the honourable gentleman recognises that it releases State funds. [More…]
When the previous Government could not face the tremendous recommendations of the Technical and Further Education Commission, which recommended a quintupling of capital expenditure, and the recommendations of the Commission on Advanced Education, which recommended a doubling, we suspended the triennium for a year with the intention of restoring it. [More…]
It is clear that the Government placed education in a high priority in the recent Budget, and this is as it should be. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government’s expenditure on education in 1976-77 is estimated at $2,204m, an increase of 15.3 per cent compared with 1975-76. [More…]
In addition, the decision to replace the previous fixed triennial funding system for major education programssuspended by the Labor Government in 1975- with a system of 3-year rolling programs from the beginning of 1977 is an excellent one. [More…]
It means that there will be a review at the end of each year, and this will provide the Government with greater flexibility in budgetary formulation whilst retaining a reasonable framework for the education commissions and institutions. [More…]
It enables education programs to respond more quickly to changing community needs and authorities to plan guidelines a year or two ahead. [More…]
The decision of the Commonwealth Government to set up a federal inquiry into education and training, announced recently by the Government, is also to be commended, especially as it covers both secondary and tertiary fields. [More…]
In view of the growing problem of unemployed school leavers and some graduate unemployment, it is imperative that such an inquiry probe into all aspects of education and the relationship of training programs to employment and manpower needs. [More…]
It should look at whether the education system of today is relevant to the employment needs of the many young people who are now finding themselves jobless. [More…]
If a student passes this HQC it leads him or her into the second year of a Certificate of Business Studies course at an agreed Advanced College of Education. [More…]
In the statement by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) on the guidelines for triennial reports of education commissions and other measures dated 20 May 1976, he pointed out that tertiary institutions should be looking at some form of rationalisation both within thenown institutions and between institutions, and face the reality that some re-structuring or even phasing out of duplicated courses must occur. [More…]
With the unemployment rate among university graduates at5.l per cent at 30 April 1975, that is those students who completed in the previous year, and among Colleges of Advanced Education graduates at 6.4 per cent for the same period, it is clear that such rationalisation should be given careful consideration. [More…]
The transition from education to the work force is difficult, no matter what the educational preparation may be, and the Monash University Careers and Appointments Office commented on 27 August in its publication Careers Weekly that it has noticed a declining willingness and ability on the part of employers to provide the training needed to achieve this transition. [More…]
I believe in the area of teacher education there is also a need for a review. [More…]
-The Department of Education will not be able to place all its studentship holders in employment as teachers this year, whilst next year the situation will be far worse, and many teachers will be actively seeking employment, throught necessity, in fields totally unrelated to their training. [More…]
The impact of the fall in the Australian birth rate and the drastically lowered migrant intakes, the latter the result of Labor Government policies, will move progressively through the educational system and there will be a decline in the number of students enrolling in schools in the 1980s. [More…]
I turn now to an area which interests me particularlythat of migrant education. [More…]
It appears that the program under the adult migrant education scheme will be limited to the maintenance of the present number of teachers and the present number of migrants enrolled in the courses. [More…]
In my electorate of Deakin, I plan to embark upon a recruiting drive for volunteers for the Department of Education’s home tutor scheme. [More…]
Many organisations take part in this Department of Education scheme, and I believe that it is all important now to stress the need for more volunteers in this area. [More…]
The Government in the context of economic restraint has done a great deal in the field of education by providing money and assistance for each level of education in 1977. [More…]
He won a scholarship to Scotch College for the last 4 years of his secondary education. [More…]
I welcome the opportunity to say a few words on the estimates for the Department of Education. [More…]
It would be inappropriate if we did not pay a tribute to an honourable member who, as Minister for Education between 1972 and 1975, saw the interest of this Parliament in education rise to a level of real meaning and real worth in the community. [More…]
I think he will be remembered for many long years in the history of education in Australia. [More…]
Having said that, I turn to an examination of the amount available in the estimates for the Department of Education. [More…]
As a member of the Opposition, the most generous thing that I can say about the estimates for the Department of Education is that we have come to a standstill in relation to education finance. [More…]
It is unfortunate that the standstill in relation to education will not allow many of the initiatives that were taken to be developed. [More…]
It is unfortunate that this Government has scrapped cost indexation and thereby placed in jeopardy the viability of the programs of many schools and education institutions. [More…]
There are some other artificial factors in the education estimates. [More…]
For example, in the field of migrant education it is noticeable that the child migrant education scheme has been absorbed into the School’s Commission program and that this effectively reduces the suggested real growth in the schools’ program. [More…]
In this area I note that whilst the funds for adult migrant education are up from $8.2m to $9.Im, this will maintain the adult migrant education program but will have no real regard to need. [More…]
Whilst the telephone interpreter service for people facing emergencies is an excellent program, it does indicate the inadequacy of our migrant education program. [More…]
On a previous occasion I referred to the Technical and Further Education Commission report and the availability of skilled workers. [More…]
I find it disturbing- the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) touched on this matter last night- that stories about illiterate students are being used to question the value of education outlays and even to question the value of the State school system. [More…]
-This discussion on the estimates for the Department of Education proves that there is real concern on both sides of the House about education. [More…]
I want to use a few minutes of the time allotted to me in this debate to correct some of the statements that unfortunately found their way into the Press concerning this Government’s funding of education. [More…]
Surely this proves conclusively that the FraserAnthony coalition Government places education very high indeed in the Budget priorities. [More…]
In addition to increasing real money spending on education, this Government has encouraged people interested and concerned about education by restoring triennial planning. [More…]
It has provided a blueprint so that people with a place in education can face the future with some confidence. [More…]
It is interesting to note that funding of universities, colleges of advanced education and schools shows a 2 per cent real growth in money terms when compared with last year. [More…]
The area of technical and further education, on which many honourable members have commented, has seen a 5 per cent real growth rate. [More…]
To my mind the most important thing that has happened in the education field during the last 3 years has been the announcement by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) that he is setting up a comprehensive board of inquiry to investigate education in Australia. [More…]
I fully support accountability, as it were, in education in these days when the traditional pre-eminence of universities in tertiary education is being questioned- and well it might be questioned. [More…]
It was set up to inquire into tertiary education in relation to the needs and resources of Australia. [More…]
Education cannot be treated in a vacuum. [More…]
I hope that we do not merely increase education funding to overcome unemployment. [More…]
I believe that it gave many worthwhile initiatives in education. [More…]
This is shown by the actions of the first Treasurer in the Whitlam Government, the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean), and the then Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in the first Budget. [More…]
I compliment them on the moneys they made available for education. [More…]
For far too long education had been the poor relation of Austraiian Government initiative. [More…]
The time has come when we must ask: ‘Is the community getting value for the money it is spending on education? [More…]
I hope that many outstanding matters will be looked at, particularly in the area of pre-school education. [More…]
Are we spending too much money on tertiary education and not sufficient in the preschool area. [More…]
We have noted the pre-eminence of university-type education. [More…]
The colleges of advanced education are more vocation oriented. [More…]
I regret to note that there has been some disadvantage as far as academic salaries are concerned for people in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
They are equal partners with universities in the education system. [More…]
-I am glad that the honourable member for Bendigo comes in with his interjection fully supporting the point of view that staffs of colleges of advanced education are entitled to academic salaries equal to the salaries paid to university staffs. [More…]
Colleges of advanced education are playing a vital part in providing education in living as well as in how to earn a living. [More…]
Let us encourage the good professors and lecturers to leave the big cities and to come out to the decentralised areas of the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Courses in colleges of advanced education are tailored to suit the modern era. [More…]
I instanced previously technical and further education. [More…]
-Mr Deputy Chairman, I wish to speak on the estimates for the Department of Education. [More…]
There have been so many examples where the Opposition has said that there have been cuts in education or in a particular section of education as to display plain ignorance of what is comprehended within the Budget. [More…]
As a number of newspapers have observed, the fact of the matter is that expenditure on education overall was up by 15.3 per cent to $2.204m. [More…]
I draw the attention of honourable members to the Budget Speech of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) in which he set out quite plainly the facts concerning overall expenditure on education. [More…]
Nevertheless honourable members opposite, including the former Minister for Education (Mr Beazley), have the gall to get up and criticise the present Government. [More…]
As the Treasurer has said, we have restored education to a high priority area. [More…]
I mention briefly migrant education funding. [More…]
Although the Opposition so frequently spoke of a cut- I think $10m was referred to- it failed to see that overall expenditure for migrant education has been maintained. [More…]
The same sort of thing is done by the Opposition in respect of child migrant education. [More…]
The figures show that $2 1.81m was spent through the Schools Commission program and through the Department of Education in 1975-76 in recurrent expenditure. [More…]
This year $23m is to be spent by way of a different appropriation through the Schools Commission and the Department of Education. [More…]
So one wonders really how serious the Opposition is when it claims that it has a priority in the area of education. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in another place, made his announcements across the broad area of student allowances and indicated that about $50m more would be provided through the student allowances programs in tertiary education, secondary education and Aboriginal education. [More…]
I could go on pointing out error after error in the basic consideration of the Opposition of the estimates of the Department of Education. [More…]
He asked why, if the Government was so prepared to increase student allowances and to find the money for that in the Treasury, it was not prepared to find extra money for capital works programs for tertiary education as recommended by the Universities Commission. [More…]
I draw the attention of the honourable member to the fact that total expenditure on tertiary education in 1977 will represent some $960m compared with $92 7m in 1976, an increase of $33m approved by this Liberal-National-Country Party Administration. [More…]
While the Universities Commission has not been able to propose any major capital works in 1977 within the $30m available, the colleges of advanced education which are projected to experience a larger increase in enrolments than universities in 1977, will receive $69m in 1977 for capital expenditure. [More…]
In other words, the Government fixes a priority on colleges of advanced education because of the increased enrolments expected in 1977. [More…]
While the Government cannot agree to the recommendation of the Universities Commission in respect of capital works in this financial year, nevertheless we have fixed a priority which the then Minister, the honourable member for Fremantle, in the previous Labor Administration was not prepared to do, namely, to increase student allowances to meet rises in the cost of living and the increased requirements of colleges of advanced education to cover increased enrolments in 1977. [More…]
1 suggest to members of the Opposition that the next time they enter a debate on education estimates they read the Budget Speech of the Treasurer and the Budget Papers much more carefully than they have on this occasion. [More…]
The allowances operated separately from the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]
Further to my answer to the question without notice by the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith on 7 October, my colleague the Minister for Education has asked me to draw to his attention the fact that total expenditure on tertiary education in 1977 will represent some $960m compared with $927m in 1976. [More…]
While the Universities Commission has not been able to propose any major capital works in 1977 within the $30m available, the colleges of advanced education, which are projected to experience a larger increase in enrolments in 1977 than universities, will receive $69m in 1977 for capital expenditure. [More…]
-My question, which is addressed to the Treasurer, relates to capital needs in education and the guidelines given to the various commissions. [More…]
With regard to colleges of advanced education, did the guidelines indicate that they would have only half the money they needed for their realistic needs in 1977 when compared with 1976? [More…]
-This is a matter which falls within the jurisdiction of my colleague the Minister for Education. [More…]
Of course, the House is very much aware that in a period of very tight budgetary conditions and overriding stringency in expenditure, education is one area which will see very real growth during the period ahead. [More…]
As it is 5 weeks today since the Prime Minister announced the terms of reference of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, how much longer will it be before he can announce the names of the chairman and members of that Committee? [More…]
Teachers can qualify by completing courses of three or four years’ duration often providing them with a liberal education and yet not equipping them adequately to actually teach the skills of reading and numeration to children. [More…]
In-service training and teacher development programs are essential if those teachers already qualified are to be able to obtain the additional skills to enable them to meet the challenge of new initiatives and directions in educational policy. [More…]
We conclude that the trend to integrate a wider range of handicaps within regular education is a policy that should be supported. [More…]
It will naturally be concluded from our report that funds for education and associated services will need to be gradually increased over time, if all the improvements that are foreseen are to be realised. [More…]
It should not, however, be concluded that we are advocating an immediate increase in governmental spending on education. [More…]
There is clearly room for administrative improvement in the delivering of services particularly in those areas where medical, educational and welfare services overlap. [More…]
The time may well have arrived for the Commission on Advanced Education to examine this matter with a view to rationalising existing courses particularly as the need just to produce enough teachers appears now to have been met. [More…]
Dr Elkins and Dr Maggs, our educational consultants, provided assistance and advice in both Parliaments. [More…]
Reference is made in the report to the study on Literacy and Numeracy in Australian Schools undertaken by the Australian Council for Educational Research. [More…]
This important survey- the first national survey of achievement in literacy and numeracy ever conducted in Australia- resulted directly from a request by the Committee to the Australian Council for Educational Research. [More…]
Professor Dunn in particular, and the members of the Education Research and Development Committee, supported this project and contributed to the design of the survey as well as providing the financial support. [More…]
Detailed papers, often carefully researched, were received from education departments, universities, colleges of advanced education, professional workers in the fields of education, medicine and the therapies. [More…]
A reevaluation by schools, parents and administrators of the aims and objectives of education is needed. [More…]
This will involve continuing evaluation of the educational needs of migrant and Aboriginal communities, recognition of the important contribution that parents can make to their children’s education, the needs of isolated schools and communities, and the importance of cooperation between doctors, medical workers, teachers and parents of perceptually handicapped children. [More…]
It is pleasing to note that the terms of reference were broadened to take into account, such factors as the failure to achieve, issues such as physical handicap, varying socio-economic levels, the culturally deprived and other factors which could contribute to the terrible situation where an individual, no matter where he comes from or whatever his walk of life, is deprived of the advantage of education and of the right that he has to achieve his maximum potential. [More…]
Nonetheless, the then Minister for Education in New South Wales, later to become the Premier, Sir Eric Willis, insisted that his department should not co-operate with this committee. [More…]
I would not like to see a move away from so-called progressive education. [More…]
Another area that the report refers to and makes specific representations about is that of education for migrant children and I acknowledge the special interest that the honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes) takes in this subject. [More…]
The Committee’s comment that it would like to be sure that departments of education make a great effort to recruit teachers, preferably from the relevant ethnic groups who are proficient in minority and migrant languages, who can converse with school children from ethnic minorities in their own language and with understanding of their background, is something that all governments should take into account. [More…]
Who would suggest that any parent should discard a child immediately that child has finished his or her education? [More…]
Spending on essential education, health and welfare programs will be protected against inflation. [More…]
Now people are saying that within the limits of their talents and education they should have the job of their choice. [More…]
The facts are these: If a student has the capacity to go on to tertiary education it is logical that the student should go on to year twelve. [More…]
If a student in the normal circumstances does not have the capacity for tertiary education, that student goes out and finds work, goes into a trade, attends a technical college and so on. [More…]
That again is one of the reasons we have instituted a full-scale inquiry into the relationship between education and training and the transferring from the educational process to the work place. [More…]
I instance the new relocation assistance scheme, improvements to the National Employment and Training scheme and the inquiry into secondary education and training. [More…]
We recently announced additional spending in relation to Aborigines and increases in the Tertiary Education Allowances Scheme. [More…]
They would like to think of ‘ political education ‘ - [More…]
The station has in mind, apparently, political education rather than hard core politics. [More…]
We instituted the Schools Commission so that every child could have a decent education. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) The Interim ACT Schools Authority and the Northern Territory Division of the Department of Education are each responsible for six offset duplicators available to teachers in schools. [More…]
The current law provides that a fair dealing for the purpose of education, criticism or review will not constitute an infringement of copyright (Sections 4 1 , 44 and 200 of the Copyright Act 1968-1973). [More…]
The use of these machines to reproduce copyright material does not however necessarily involve the infringement of copyright, according to the Copyright Act 1 968- 1 973 which provides for fair dealing for the purpose of education, criticism or review (Sections 41, 44 and 200 ). [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Discussions in relation to the current inquiry have taken place between Commonwealth and State Government members and officers in the context of meetings of the Australian Education Council. [More…]
The Department is aware that the Queensland Education Department is negotiating certain rights in respect to copying. [More…]
The Academy has two basic objectives: To provide a sound education as a foundation for further professional development, and to provide that education in a military environment appropriate to the three Services. [More…]
It is required as soon as possible because of the imminent expiry of the present agreement with the University of New South Wales and because, while some 16 per cent of Service officers receive a university level education now, the Chiefs of Staff require a substantially enlarged proportion of officers to hold degrees in the future. [More…]
Facilities at Point Cook now occupied by the Royal Australian Air Force Academy will meet a need for other RAAF educational and training purposes. [More…]
Other forms of officer training and education for Navy will continue to be provided at Jervis Bay. [More…]
I wish to announce the Government ‘s decision in principle to establish a Defence Force Academy to provide education at university level in a military environment for selected members of the 3 Services. [More…]
The Academy will provide education at tertiary level for officer cadets of the 3 Services. [More…]
On the other hand, I recognise the great need for university standard education among our leaders in the defence Services. [More…]
Incidentally, I was surprised to find that only 16 per cent of officers receive a university education. [More…]
First of all, the community is better served if the officers in its armed Services are better educated, at a more reflective standard of education and intellect, with a firmer grounding in the liberal traditions of our society. [More…]
I cannot but express a great deal of feeling and sympathy for armed Service officers who, as they enter middle age, have to retire at a particularly early age, many of them with mature members of their families on their hands who are undertaking expensive higher education- still expensive in spite of the fact that these days fees do not have to be paid at universities. [More…]
The resettlement scheme will provide a resettlement allowance, free fares and other assistance such as scholarships for further education and training. [More…]
I want to attack a government that would cut education spending. [More…]
I refer to the fact that the New South Wales Government has increased spending on education by a paltry 1 1 .6 per cent this year as compared with an increase of 29.2 per cent last year. [More…]
We increased education spending by IS per cent, which was about a 2 per cent increase in real terms, and the New South Wales Government has increased education spending by a paltry 1 1.6 per cent when IS per cent at least was needed to maintain the status quo. [More…]
Only recently teachers- teachers from a teachers’ union- at schools in the electorate of St George came to me with great concern about cutbacks in funds for technical and further education. [More…]
That was despite the fact that in this area the Commonwealth Government has provided $72 m. The teachers are very worried that the New South Wales Government is not going to provide the appropriate funds which should be flowing to technical and further education, which is an absolutely vital education process. [More…]
What is the New South Wales Minister for Education doing? [More…]
In that State, the education share of the Consolidated Revenue Fund is down to 30.6 per cent, compared with an average in the preceding 5 years of 32.5 per cent. [More…]
Indeed, if expenditure on education this year had remained at the same level as last year’s in terms of a percentage of the Consolidated Revenue, an extra $27. [More…]
lm would have been made available for education. [More…]
If the percentage had remained the same as the average for the past 5 years, an extra $56.3m would have been made available for education. [More…]
Yet it turned around and slashed education spending, and did it under the guise of saying that the Federal Government had made cuts. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education aware that at universities and other tertiary institutes in Australia there are a large number of splendid theatres, theatrettes, auditoriums and the like which are suited to a variety of theatrical and other recreational purposes and which are being provided almost totally from the public purse? [More…]
Does the Minister agree that these premises should be made more widely available to the general public and to performing groups not directly connected with the educational establishments themselves? [More…]
I understand that discussions are going on in the field of the arts and education, and this suggestion is worthy of further consideration. [More…]
The matter that I want to speak about today relates broadly to education but specifically to libraries. [More…]
Education is provided for in a number of places- in schools, colleges and universities. [More…]
But it has been my experience after quite some years of living that education does not necessarily end when one ceases to attend the formal places of learning; rather does it continue throughout one’s lifetime. [More…]
Therefore I strongly urge the Australian Government to look into this matter and to examine the possibility of coming to arrangements with the municipal and the State governments, if you like, on the basis of there being a rationalisation of the provision of libraries because of their importance in the community, they being generally the only source available to the average person to further his knowledge and his education in his own way. [More…]
My belief is that much of the audience of the ABC consists of people with higher education. [More…]
This choice covers the place of work, education, entertainment and recreation and their ability to sustain contact with people from over a wide geographical area. [More…]
The Public Service Board has advised that it does not have any information on costs of maternity leave or the number of Women employed in universities or colleges of advanced education. [More…]
When we compare that funding with the funding of education and defence, both at approximately $9,600m, we see that this Government really has concern for the aged and the disadvantaged. [More…]
I was rather astonished the other day during a meeting of the newly-formed House of Representatives Standing Committee on ExpenditureI think the honourable member for Balaclava (Mr Macphee) was present at the same meeting- when Professor Karmel told us that in Australia in 1976, despite the large amounts that we have spent on education, of every 100 boys and girls who start the high school course, only 35 pupils complete it. [More…]
What will be the fate of the 65 out of 100 pupils in Australia in the years ahead who have less than the full high school educational qualifications? [More…]
There can be a lot of argument about the quality as well as the quantity of education. [More…]
Therefore, the progress we are seeking on an international level requires growth in productivity, education, higher living standards and, of course, the necessary social changes which will bring those about. [More…]
Furthermore, the Minister might have mentioned or spelt out that for the past 10 years RMC Duntroon has been the scene of a unique experiment in Service education. [More…]
Finally, though the Minister did note that several universities were playing a useful role in helping to upgrade Service education, he might have paid a more fulsome tribute to the University of New South Wales which has done more to advance the cause of officer education than any other Australian university, and I say that despite the behaviour of the honourable member for Riverina. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister Ibr Education concerning an important matter in which you, Mr Speaker, have taken a keen and continuing interest, to your credit. [More…]
Since many pre-school children who have learning difficulties, such as the linguistically and economically disadvantaged, do not attend any educationally oriented institutions where such difficulties may be remedied, how and when does the Government intend to provide services in order that such children with difficulties will not be disadvantaged for the rest of their lives? [More…]
I have no doubt that my colleague the Minister for Education and the Government will give serious consideration to the report as a matter of urgency. [More…]
Dr David Moran, who was working with Professor Hollow’s team, is reported as having said that poor education, virtually a total absence of housing, toilets or clean water, high unemployment, racial tension, gross poverty and the inability of existing medical services to cope were the problems. [More…]
If that is true of people of inadequate background, inadequate education and so on who are European, how much more is it true that Aborigines do not sense that they need to go in to report at clinics that they have such things as leprosy, serious as that is, let alone some of the lesser things, such as trachoma, which by slow development can cause blindness. [More…]
It recognises the importance of housing, the importance of living conditions, the importance of education, the importance of good health. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party in government set out on this task of achieving the second objective through its special purpose grants in fields such as education, health and hospitals, social security, recreation and sport, and urban and regional development. [More…]
The House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties stated that there is a need to improve the overall quality of recreational and educational programs on television for children and that ‘there is evidence that television if used constructively can be beneficial in helping and motivating more people to read and can also be used in community education programs’. [More…]
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Furthermore, we should also be looking at the opportunity cost of undertaking increased defence expenditure at the expense of other public programs such as education or health or programs for a better environment, better roads, better harbours or better railways. [More…]
In July 1976 the Universities Commission presented to the Government its Report for 1977-79 Triennium, in accordance with the guidelines determined by the Government for the tertiary education commissions, which the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) announced in the Parliament on 20 May 1976. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to provide $4 15m for the approved programs of financial assistance to the States for the funding of colleges of advanced education in respect of the 1977 calendar year, following the acceptance of the financial recommendations made in the 1977-79 report of the Commission on Advanced Education, which conform to guidelines announced by the Government on 20 May 1 976. [More…]
The programs are based on the financial recommendations contained in the Commission’s report after transferring to the university sector $6.6m for allocation to the Deakin University on behalf of the Gordon Institute of Technology and the State College of Victoria Geelong, which will be absorbed into the Deakin University in 1977, and $3m to the technical and further education sector for advanced education courses in technical and further education institutions. [More…]
The main purpose of the Bill is to amend the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1972-76 and the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1976 to provide, in accordance with the established policy and procedural arrangements, supplementary grants totalling $33,284,880 to cover cost increases not allowed for when the 1973-75 triennial and 1976 programs in respect of colleges of advanced education and approved non-government teachers colleges were adopted. [More…]
The grants contained in the existing Act were based on amounts set out in the Commission on Advanced Education’s report, Recommendations for 1976. [More…]
The additional funds provided by this Bill bring the total Commonwealth financial assistance provisions for colleges of advanced education in the States to $744m for the 1973-75 triennium and $385m for 1976. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to provide financial assistance to the States for technical and further education in respect of the year 1977. [More…]
The Bill gives effect to the recommendations relating to 1977 contained in the report of the Technical and Further Education Commission for the triennium 1977-79. [More…]
The prime responsibility for technical and further education rests with the States and these amounts are supplementary to the States’ own efforts in this area of education. [More…]
Most of the projects are located in the State capitals where the Technical and Further Education Commission considers that thegreatest demand for new training facilities is to befound. [More…]
These areas are staff development and the improvement of the collection of data on the enrolments, staffing and resources of technical and further education so that firmly based planning decisions can be made. [More…]
Particular purpose grants are being provided to enable the States to achieve desirable improvements in the effectiveness of technical and further education. [More…]
The Bill also provides the first grants for programs to be carried out by non-government adult education bodies. [More…]
The Menzies Government after the war established a federal responsibility for tertiary education. [More…]
The present Prime Minister takes the view that except for tertiary education every function performed by governments in Australia must be returned to the compartment it was in before the war. [More…]
We made the funds available for colleges of advanced eduation teachers colleges, technical colleges- the whole range of tertiary education. [More…]
The Council will advise the Government on responsibility and revenue sharing as well as provide a medium for consultation and co-operation between Federal, State and local governments in vital areas such as health, welfare, education and community services. [More…]
There are wild horses up there and the honourable member’s education might be furthered in that regard. [More…]
I wish that the Minister’s officials in the corner would give him a little education on environmental questions. [More…]
The next recommendation in this report deals with the promotion of a large scale, intensive education program to encourage land holders to establish or retain wilderness areas on their properties. [More…]
The Government issued guidelines for the triennial programs of the education commissions on 20 May of this year providing expenditure in 1977 of $508m, in December 1975 prices, on schools in the States. [More…]
The Government has considered recommendations of the Schools Commission against the background of its own education policies for schools. [More…]
These include widening educational opportunity and promoting equality; parental choice in schooling; encouragement of community participation in education policy development and implementation; and special assistance to the educationally disadvantaged. [More…]
Principal among these are programs for disadvantaged country areas, to which I have just alluded, emergency aid for non-government schools in temporary financial difficulties, particularly in country areas, and grants for the education of children living in institutions. [More…]
The Government will be continuing the special purpose programs in 1977, generally at about the same level of activity as in 1976, for migrant and multi-cultural education; for disadvantaged schools; for handicapped children; for educational services and development; and for special projects. [More…]
The provisions incorporated in the Bill will contribute significantly to maintaining and improving primary and secondary education in both government and non-government schools in the States. [More…]
It is highly erosive of the confidence essential for the creation of wealth in this country so that we can afford all our laudable programs for social welfare, education and health out of our earnings and not further deplete our capital. [More…]
-I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]
He will be aware that the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties in its report which was tabled on 14 October discussed the Macquarie University’s special education centre at some length and, on page 51, made this point: [More…]
I ask the Minister Does the present Government intend to develop similar institutions across Australia so that improvements in teacher education can take place in the area of learning difficulties? [More…]
The significant aspect of the whole of the Government’s thrust in the Budget in relation to education was that there was growth in real terms and that this would satisfy the needs concept of education in Australia. [More…]
The big, basic problem in education has been that the Government, for the first time, has decided to set out money guidelines. [More…]
In relation to colleges of advanced education, the Commission on Advanced Education expresses its concern. [More…]
From the recurrent expenditure point of view, the Commission on Advanced Education said that, in the triennium 1976-78, it needed $ 1,087m. [More…]
In considering the allocation of funds between recurrent and capital expenditure in 1978 and 1979 the Commission noted the advice that colleges of advanced education should increase their intake . [More…]
If honourable members talk to State Ministers for education they will find that the previous activities of the Schools Commission in education excited the States to initiate new programs. [More…]
The other aspect is the technical education field, a relatively new field. [More…]
As one can imagine, the Technical and Further Education Commission has great difficulties indeed because the Commission regards itself as being the Cinderella of the education group. [More…]
At page xxxviii of the report of the Technical and Further Education Commission it is indicated that under the guidelines technical education received only $ 1 1 1 m in capital grants. [More…]
In other words, limited as the funds are, the technical education field is still the Cinderella in the fight for a share of the funds. [More…]
If it has to cater for 40 per cent of the tertiary education group, why is it that it is given only one-quarter of the amount allocated for tertiary education? [More…]
When considering the technology position, the structural change, the need to acquire skills in this country, one has to accept that the technical field should have a top priority in the educational needs of Australia. [More…]
The Opposition proposes to move this amendment because it believes that insufficient funds have been directed to this area of education. [More…]
The one area which could carry out that retraining function, given the encouragement and incentive, is the technical education field. [More…]
Acceptance of such a limited objective will cause profound disappointment among all those directly involved in technical and further education, a sector which for many years has been denied the sorts of resources made available to other sectors of education and which has seen the hopes flowing from the ACOTAFE reports deferred if not dispelled by the political and economic events referred to . [More…]
The TAFE Commission would regard this limited objective as the absolute minimum consistent with the maintenance of TAFE as a viable contributor to the total spectrum of post-school education. [More…]
I would like to refer to a statement made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) on 4 November. [More…]
Commissions say, these institutions have committed themselves for a number of years to programs that are very worth while, particularly, for example, in the migrant education field and programs of that nature, and they are not able to get their recurrent expenditure, they will have to meet this expenditure from their own resources, or, alternatively, reduce some of the existing standards that they have been able to build up. [More…]
I wish again to refer to the statement made by the Minister for Education on 4 November. [More…]
As shown on page 12 of his statement the Minister for Education said: [More…]
I mentioned at the outset the great problem of the limitation of funds allocated by a Treasury concept as against a needs concept in education. [More…]
One cannot just say on a cost benefit analysis what the needs of education are. [More…]
One just cannot guarantee what one is going to get out of a stream of life when it comes to the educational area. [More…]
These persons might need a lot more education after that. [More…]
The present education survey that is proceeding is upsetting State governments because they feel it may well affect the future of education if it is suggested that there is to be vocational training in secondary schools. [More…]
This could affect all the education programs. [More…]
I am surprised that the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) speaks this way in the debate this afternoon, because as a Minister in the previous Government he was part of the team which considered the triennial report of the education commissions and reduced the funds for 1976 by $ 105m compared with 1975. [More…]
When we arrived in Government on 1 4 December 1 975 education was another area where a disaster had occurred. [More…]
There were major problems in the education area. [More…]
Each of the commissions was asked to submit detailed programs after the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) made public on 20 May 1976 that what was needed was a complete review of the requirements of each of the commissions. [More…]
From that the guidelines which the Minister laid down provided a total expenditure of the programs administered by the education commissions of some $ 1,537m in the 1977 calendar year. [More…]
The Commission on Advanced Education received $3 85m in 1976 and will receive $494m in 1977. [More…]
The Technical and Further Education Commission received $65m in 1976 and will receive $70m in 1977. [More…]
After the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education, the Technical and Further Education Commission and the Schools Commission were asked to report they went to work and came up with a substantive program for spending in the 1976-77 financial year. [More…]
The education facilities of universities and colleges of advanced education can look forward to the future with a vast amount of confidence. [More…]
Colleges of advanced education are also an area of great importance to this Government. [More…]
The advanced education field is ever increasing because of the type of information which is now current and which needs to be disseminated to the people of Australia through the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The allocations in real terms by the Commission on Advanced Education covers some $404m at the 1975 cost levels. [More…]
I turn to deal with the technical and further education field. [More…]
The Government’s 1977 expenditure program on this area- formulated upon the recommendations of the Technical and Further Education Commission- will amount to $73m at December 1975 cost levels. [More…]
These funds include an amount of $3m to be transferred from the Commission on Advanced Education to cover advanced education courses in technical and further education institutions. [More…]
Together with special purpose grants, for staff development and data collection and processing, particular purpose grants, adult education grants and total recurrent grants, the total contribution will amount to some $8.9 1 m. [More…]
It is a great delight for me to sit down with my children, listen to what they are learning about and to read them the stories which are coming from the education system. [More…]
Migrant and multicultural education, which is a very important program in Queensland, will receive an allocation of $450,000. [More…]
Expenditure on the special education general support program will amount to $ 1.29m. [More…]
The allocation this year for migrant and multicultural education, disadvantaged school projects, special education general support projects and capital grants for general and specific purpose projects will total $26.434m. [More…]
The real way of advancing children’s reading skill, basic to education, I would suggest to the honourable member, is for them to read to him. [More…]
I wonder how soon it will be before the honourable member for Brisbane finds out that there is no Commonwealth expenditure on education in the State of Queensland. [More…]
I admire the honourable senator’s enthusiasm for Queensland and what the State will get in respect of technical and further education. [More…]
However, if the honourable gentleman cares to compare last year’s Budget payment to the States with this year’s Budget payment to the States he will find that once more Queensland has not completely spent the capital that was available to it from the Commonwealth for the construction of technical and further education colleges. [More…]
This is additional to the fact that, with the adroitness for which the Premier of Queensland is notable, that State is concealing technical education in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The more technical education work which Queensland puts into colleges of advanced education, the more the entire tab is picked up by the Commonwealth; whereas, as the honourable member so rightly observes, if this work is categorised as in the field of technical and further education, there is a State obligation to maintain its effort. [More…]
The honourable gentleman will find that the States are not very keen to carry their obligations, especially in the field of technical education. [More…]
The prime responsibility for technical and further education rests with the States and these amounts are supplementary to the States’ own efforts in this area of education. [More…]
If Queen Mary had ‘Calais’ written on her heart, I would have this expression which the Minister used written on my heart because, in the field of technical and further education, in the cases of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria while I was the Minister, the more the Commonwealth did in the field of capital grants for TAFE the less they spent of their own resources. [More…]
I quite agree that it would be very good if we could induce the States to continue to maintain their TAFE capital effort, including the field of residentials for technical education. [More…]
I will always remember being denounced for providing inadequate capital grants for technical education amounting to $46m in a triennium when 3 States had returned $7m unspent because they did not have the organisation to do the authorised building or possibly because basically they were not then interested in TAFE. [More…]
The other matter on which we need to be on guard when speaking about technical and further education expenditure, is how much of it represents a real advance and how much represents a desperate attempt to catch up with enrolments. [More…]
In my period as Minister for Education, enrolments in technical and further education rose from 400 000 to 705 000. [More…]
So, the increase in capital from $24m to $35m for technical education is in part an effort to accommodate this greatly increased enrolment. [More…]
In our period in office we were not under-estimating technical education. [More…]
I notice the persistence with which Senator Carrick has been saying that we cut expenditure on technical education. [More…]
The total amount provided for technical education rose from nearly $45 m in 1974-75 to $65m in 1975-76. [More…]
The Richardson report recommended capital grants to the States of $234m for building technical and further education colleges. [More…]
Anyway, we could not see the rapid mobilisation of labour and materials to make so vast an increase in technical and further education expenditure. [More…]
I do not expect enrolments in technical and further education, even part time, to continue to rise at the rate of 100 000 a year. [More…]
In fact, the Technical and Further Education Commission envisages an increase in enrolments of about 85 000 over a triennium which is a much slower rate than increases in enrolments in the past triennium. [More…]
Therefore, I believe that as economic pressures increase there will be a corresponding increase in the demand for technical and further education. [More…]
I do not want to labour this point any further, but honourable gentlemen opposite refer with pride to increases of 3.2 per cent in real education expenditure, and I accept the sincerity of that line of comment. [More…]
I refer to the Katherine Rural College which, with agricultural and technical courses and with its planned intention to meet the needs of young people in the Northern Territory, including young Aboriginal people, represents an important Commonwealth initiative in techical and further education. [More…]
We cannot attach any blame to the States if this college does not proceed because education in the Northern Territory is exclusively a Commonwealth responsibility. [More…]
I draw the attention of the House to an analytical breakdown of Northern Territory Aboriginal poulation by age relevant to the likely demand for this sort of education. [More…]
There is a tremendous need among Aborigines, apart from literacy in their own languages and in English, for special forms of education. [More…]
We recognise that a serious problem exists in the field of technical education with regard to Aboriginal people. [More…]
In our experience one feature of successful schemes for the education of Aborigines has been the recognition that a special approach is necessary. [More…]
I have concentrated exclusively in the field of technical and further education because in a debate that throws together 8 educational Bills there is not much sense in spending 2 minutes on each Bill. [More…]
The case for technical and further education was put very succinctly in the summary of the report of the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
When the Australian Labor Party came into power the reports on the state of technical education in Australia indicated that 70 per cent of the male work force and 80 per cent of the female work force had no skills. [More…]
The report of the Technical and Further Education Commission also states: [More…]
I suggest that the situation in which New South Wales was prepared to put in towards building- the capital construction in the TAFE area- last year only $ 1 for every $ 10 contributed by the Commonwealth and Victoria was prepared to put in towards TAFE capital construction only $1 for every $4 contributed by the Commonwealth accounts for the failure of the technical and further education program to keep pace with the increased enrolments. [More…]
I do not say that their planning departments were always able to make more space available for technical and further education students. [More…]
-I rise to support the Bills and to add that I am a firm supporter of the provision of more assistance for technical and further education. [More…]
However, I believe that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has done all within his power to accommodate this important sector in 1977. [More…]
Historically, technical and further education appears to have been an area of neglect in Australia. [More…]
On only 2 occasions in the past has technical and further education reached a prominent position in Australia’s post-secondary education system. [More…]
Apart from those periods of national emergency it is widely considered that technical and further education has been both under-valued by the community and inadequately supported financially. [More…]
The practice of apprenticeship was not revived until technical education began to develop in the 1870s. [More…]
The Australian Apprenticeship Advisory Committee provides an interstate forum consisting of the permanent heads of the State labour departments and the directors of the technical education and apprenticeship executives in each State. [More…]
He has spelt out for us one of the sad facts of education progress and policy- that we nearly always arrive at these programs too late. [More…]
When I look at this battery of Bills that is before us I ask myself how the Bills answer the problems of Australian education, how they protect the initiatives that the Labor government took in its 3 years of office and how they follow on the programs developed over the 20 years of education debate in this Parliament. [More…]
I think I should say, with deep regret, that I see this important issue of education, involving nearly $2,000m from our Budget, in one way or another, in Commonwealth funds alone, is reduced to an omnibus debate in this place in which 8 Bills are being considered and in which there are three or four speakers from each side. [More…]
But if this Parliament is to be a forum for political philosophies and the aims and aspirations of the people of Australia, education debates must not be reduced as they are today. [More…]
Perhaps it is time we produced an omnibus education Act which covers all the principles that are in these Bills and spelt them out and then each year made proper appropriations in a different form of legislation. [More…]
Firstly, we stressed the need to deal with the needs of the community for education and we placed needs at the top of the list. [More…]
The other thing that we stressed was the priority of education in the Australian scene. [More…]
During our period in office the vote for education exceeded the vote for defence for the first time in our history. [More…]
I was one of those people who were involved for many years in education debates in this House. [More…]
I used to say that the time would come when education would take as high a priority as anything else and I used to quote the defence figures. [More…]
One of the revolutions for which I think we were responsible was free university education and I hope that honourable members opposite who may have had the advantage of it or whose children may have had the advantage of it will protect it. [More…]
They only had to say that there was enormous waste in the education programs. [More…]
If we transfer that phrase to the education system, does he mean that the money that went to the Hamilton High School in his electorate was wasted? [More…]
Bourchier), who is trying to interject, mean that all the money that went into his electorate by any means whatever to education institutions was wasted? [More…]
I think honourable members opposite did Australian education a great deal of damage. [More…]
Now I turn my mind to the Bills which are before us, to the principles which are espoused and to the fact that one has a brief opportunity only in this debate to take part in the discussion on education. [More…]
I want to see whether the programs are continuing with the effort upon which we embarked to remove the great disadvantages from Australian education. [More…]
In what way will the financial programs which are spelt out in these Bills remove the inequalities in Australian education? [More…]
There is great disability in education opportunity if one lives in certain areas of Queensland. [More…]
They do not get the same sorts of educational advantages as do people who live in some of the other areas. [More…]
It is our duty to set programs in train which will open new horizons in education. [More…]
Our education system is basically much as it was 30 years or 40 years ago. [More…]
But I think that is changing as programs of teacher training and continuing education have increased over the last few years. [More…]
There is only one way in which we can bring a proper drive and real dynamics to education and that is through a Commonwealth input. [More…]
All State instrumentalities are bound up in the conservatism of their arrangements, in the centralism by which they are controlled and through the whole basic arrangements of the education system. [More…]
On the whole, as I see it, in various parts of Victorian education, there have been more radical developments and more progressive attitudes than there have been in most of the rest of Australia. [More…]
I think that in its general education program South Australia has been more progressive and has geared itself better to the future than have most of the other States. [More…]
It is only through curriculum development programs, by grants for innovation programs and by special attacks upon the disadvantages areas of education and so on that we will overcome these problems or get anywhere near overcoming them. [More…]
There is no doubt in my mind that the Australian State education systems are totally inadequate in administering new schemes. [More…]
I do not know where all the money went which was put into the Victorian education scheme. [More…]
I know that they were all overloaded with migrants and that they had other problems in education. [More…]
I know that very little of that money flowed to them even though people such as myself had been responsible in a large measure for the creation of the Australian Labor Party policies on education. [More…]
It seems to me that the Victorian Department of Public Works and Department of Education have no capacity whatsoever to take up this challenge. [More…]
In conclusion, I should like to challenge a few of the thoughts which are consistently flowing around the education system. [More…]
Therefore the child goes to school less well equipped to take up the challenge of modern education, and that applies particularly to migrant children. [More…]
These people are transferring into the work force ill equipped, and I hope that we will not surrender in any way to the view that some areas of education have been adequately served and that we will maintain a continual flow of funds. [More…]
-The honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) made some play of the fact that he was not given sufficient opportunity to address the House on these education Bills. [More…]
The 8 Bills are most significant and indicate clearly the support that the Commonwealth Government is providing for secondary and post-secondary education. [More…]
Within that context of post-secondary education I include apprenticeship education, to which my friend the honourable member for Franklin (Mr Goodluck) referred. [More…]
This Government is committed to education and these Bills amply demonstrate that commitment. [More…]
Contrary to the criticism- criticism often ill informed or in some cases purposefully orchestrated, I believe- there has been no cutback in education funding by this Government compared to the previous Government’s funding. [More…]
The cutback occurred in 1976, and I point out very clearly that this current year’s funding resulted from the previous Labor Government’s Budget, the 1975-76 Hayden Budget, when the Labor Government suddenly realised that its extravagant education programs, its multifarious programs, its wasteful programs, could no longer e financed. [More…]
The cutbacks came between 1975 and 1976, and in fact this Government has restored and increased the level of education expenditure over and above that of last year. [More…]
In relation to the post-secondary education sector, I have had some first hand experience with some of the difficulties involved in trying to plan, to budget and to administer within the rigid programs established by the previous Government. [More…]
For example, there was no prospect of being able to carry over finance from one triennium to the next, or in some cases within years of triennia, and there was in fact no incentive for good housekeeping within the education system. [More…]
Inflation was running at record levels which threatened the real values of recurrent and capital programs in the education sector. [More…]
A decision was made in August 1975 by the Whitlam Government to cut the programs of the 4 education commissions for the calendar year 1976 by a total of $ 105m compared with the allocation for the 1975 calendar year. [More…]
The Whitlam Government set aside the principle of triennial funding’ and planning, and that was disastrous from the point of view of any logical and well designed program for educational development, both in terms of physical facilities and in terms of course-planning and programming. [More…]
The Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education were amalgamated, and I sympathise with the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) who was at that time the Minister for Education. [More…]
He is a man for whom I have some regard, and a man who was genuine in his efforts to provide a high level of quality education for this country. [More…]
I doubt if the Minister for Education was properly consulted on that decision. [More…]
I think that we also saw a substantial change in attitudes of young people towards work, towards examinations, towards pass rates and towards the whole education system. [More…]
I should like to refer to the accusations of the cutback in the expenditure programs of the 4 major educational areas. [More…]
Reference can be made to the recent speech of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in the Senate in which he made it quite clear that compared to allocations made in 1976 as a result of the Hayden Budget the allocations for education programs in 1977 in all cases have increased giving a total of $ 1,537m for 1977 compared to $l,490m for the 1976 program and honourable members will recall that that was a cutback of $ 105m on 1975, the previous year. [More…]
What has been done since this Government took office besides making increased allocations to the 4 education areas? [More…]
Firstly I applaud the inquiry that has been instituted by this Government into the whole sector of post-secondary education, and secondary education for that matter, as it relates to the needs and demands of the workforce. [More…]
I think that we have been in danger of overeducation too many and leaving a great hiatus at the lower levels of post-secondary education, particularly as my colleague the honourable member for Franklin mentioned, at the apprenticeship levels and at the technical and further education levels. [More…]
This Government, as I mentioned before, has restored education funding. [More…]
It has provided for an increase in real moneys to universities by 2 per cent, to colleges by 5 per cent and to the technical and further education area by 7 per cent. [More…]
This was an issue that was mooted far and wide in the Press as indicative of how much this Government had cut back education funding. [More…]
In so doing I believe they lose sight of the original function, purpose and role for which colleges of advanced education were originally established. [More…]
I think that examination needs to be conducted of the college and technical education sectors of education. [More…]
There needs to be a clear definition of the roles of colleges vis-a-vis the roles of technical and further education institutions. [More…]
One of the results of doing this is that we have in this country probably the most inadequate provisions for the transferability of students between one sector and another of the post-secondary education system. [More…]
In many other countries there are ways and means and opportunities for people such as those who do not have full secondary qualifications, to acquire those qualifications in later life and to follow through to achieve the level of post-secondary education that they desire or that suits them best. [More…]
We see, for example, a university, a college of advanced education and one or more technical and further education institutions in the one centre. [More…]
Firstly, teacher education in Australian tertiary institutions needs to include training in the methods of procedures available to reduce learning difficulties. [More…]
The Select Committee’s report makes several critical recommendations about these aspects of teacher education. [More…]
We need to know whether the Australian Government is prepared to endorse and implement such change through the various tertiary education commissions and, if so, when will it occur. [More…]
Secondly, many pre-school children who have learning difficulties do not go to pre-schools or any other educationally orientated place at which such difficulties may be remedied. [More…]
The Australian Council for Educational Research found that 29 per cent of Australia’s 10-year-olds and 27 per cent of 14- year-olds cannot understand written material of greater complexity than their classroom textbooks. [More…]
They are not the findings of an educationist with his own barrow to push but the findings of research undertaken under the auspices of the Education Research and Development Committee of the Australian [More…]
One fairly typical response is to try to minimise the problems of basic educational skills. [More…]
Teaching a child to read is the most fundamental responsibility which is owed to him by his school and the education system generally. [More…]
Modern educational techniques, it is held, have destroyed standards of literacy and we need to . [More…]
return to a concentration on the sit up and shut up, strap across the buttocks, rote learning of the 3 Rs system of education. [More…]
Such stone age authoritarianism certainly fails every educational test except, just possibly, that of literacy. [More…]
It teaches mindless obedience rather than the truly educational value of inquiry and questioning. [More…]
If there is a necessity to return to some basic notion of education to achieve that, it ought to be done. [More…]
No one has been able satisfactorily to prove that there was ever a golden age in Australian education when standards of literacy were more satisfactory than they are at present; nor is it likely that we will ever have evidence to suggest that those in the generation of our grandfathers were better readers than those in our children’s generation. [More…]
If one goes into the schools seeking to discover what is missing in the link between the education situation and the home environment one need only speak to community relations officers. [More…]
If we are to go along with this elitist concept, ignore what is in our mind ‘s eye and in our hearts, and turn our attention to the silk department or the tertiary education area, we will be turning our back on those who need greater help. [More…]
I am not talking about whether the previous Government was right, how much money it spent on education or whether the present Government will do something better in this area in the future. [More…]
It relates specifically to the proposal to transfer the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, which has been situated at the Mount Nelson campus for several years, to the Newnham campus in Launceston and, in fact, to close down what has been, I believe, a very worthy addition to tertiary education in southern Tasmania. [More…]
It will be well known, I believe, by most honourable members who are interested in the field of education that the Karmel report dealt specifically with the field of tertiary education, which included the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education and the University of Tasmania. [More…]
In essence, the Karmel report recommended that the Mount Nelson campus of the TCAE be closed down and that a college of advanced education, which would be an autonomous body, be established in northern Tasmania. [More…]
I have said publicly in Hobart, and I feel that it is my duty to put it on record in this Parliament, that I can no longer remain silent on the question of the dismantling and abolition of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education at Mount Nelson. [More…]
I am opposed to the disbandment of the College of Advanced Education there and I hope that while it is a matter for the State Government, the State Parliament of Tasmania will give very serious consideration to deferring the implementation of the recommendations of the Karmel report, perhaps by way of a moratorium for at least 12 months, to enable all the implications to be carefully examined and assessed. [More…]
Indeed, I believe I would be in breach of my duty as the member of Parliament representing the electorate of Denison if I remained silent and witnessed the dismantling of this College of Advanced Education. [More…]
I believe that Tasmania needs 2 colleges of advanced education in conjunction with the other tertiary education facility available in Tasmania, namely, the University of Tasmania. [More…]
I find it very hard to accept the proposition that because there is a College of Advanced Education in Hobart and a smaller college at Newnham campus, the Hobart College should be abolished and transferred to Launceston because there is a Universty in Hobart. [More…]
-I am reminded by my colleague that it would be nothing short of scandalous if the facilities of the Department of Physical Education which were specially set up at Mount Nelson were to be transferred to northern Tasmania. [More…]
They are perhaps the most magnificent physical education facilities in the whole of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
I commend publicly that State Liberal spokesman on Education, Mr Mather MHA, for the time and trouble he has taken on this matter. [More…]
I appeal to the State Government not to take precipitate action, and I recommend publicly that there should be a moratorium on the implementation of the Karmel report for a period of 12 months in order that all the implications can be assessed and irreparable damage will not be caused to tertiary education in Tasmania. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) referred to comments in a number of the education commissions’ reports about the inadequacies of the funds to be provided, as indicated in the guidelines for 1978 and 1979. [More…]
In doing this, the Government will give careful consideration to the comments contained in the reports of the commissions and, in particular, to the needs of technical and further education, as indicated in the statement tabled in the House yesterday. [More…]
How hollow is it, then, for the honourable gentleman to come into the House during this debate and seek to charge the Government with a dereliction of responsibility in education by stating that the money which we are to provide is less than that which the commissions reported for the triennium that I have mentioned? [More…]
We have given clear undertakings to the education commissions that there will be real growth in the funds that they are to receive and we have provided them with a planning basis upon which they can put forward programs to the Government under the new rolling triennium proposals. [More…]
The honourable gentleman also referred to the statement by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) on 4 November when the Minister said that he would be asking the commissions to convey further details of the supplementation arrangements to the institutions. [More…]
I wish to emphasise that the Government has no intention of retreating from its undertaking to support real growth in the education programs on which the commissions make recommendations. [More…]
The honourable gentleman spoke at some length on technical and further education. [More…]
We all agree on the importance of this field and the importance of giving the States more support in their programs for technical and further education. [More…]
In regard to the need for expanded programs of training and their relationship to the work force, it is this Government which has instituted the recommendations of the Williams Committee inquiry into the relationship of education to the work force. [More…]
We realised that, as there is a restructuring of industry in Australia, and as there is a need for some restructuring of industry in Australia, our education institutions will have to tailor their programs to the needs of the work force. [More…]
In respect of technical and further education, I refer to the statement of the Minister for Education in the Senate on 4 November. [More…]
I take up here the points made by the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) when he spoke of the difficulties, as he saw the situation, of getting the States to bear their proper share of the responsibility for the expenditure on technical and further education. [More…]
It should be emphasised that the Government continues to give technical and further education a high priority and it is of central importance that the States continue to support technical and further education from their own funds, so that the Commonwealth Government grants will be a real addition to resources. [More…]
The Opposition proposes to move an amendment to the motion for the second reading of the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Bill. [More…]
Whilst the Opposition says that it does not oppose the Bill, it proposes that the House is of the opinion that insufficient resources are being directed into the technical education area. [More…]
I think it is enough to refer the House to the complete passage in the statement made by the Minister for Education in the Senate on 4 November as a complete answer to the amendment that has been foreshadowed by the Opposition with respect to the funds to be provided for technical and further education. [More…]
For colleges of advanced education the increase in money provided represents a S per cent increase and the total increase in enrolment is 5 per cent. [More…]
In technical and further education the proposed rate of increase in funds is 7.5 per cent and the expected increase in enrolments is of the same measure. [More…]
I and my colleague, the Minister for Education, now have the job of pulling the situation together, investigating what is required and putting into operation on a sound administrative basis some forward planning which will provide Aboriginals and others in the Northern Territory with vocational training opportunities that can fit the needs in Aboriginal communities. [More…]
The honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes) spoke at great length and vigorously on the needs of special education in the migrant field- literacy and numeracy. [More…]
I can assure him that my colleague the Minister for Education has had the matter under consideration. [More…]
I might remind the honourable member that the major recommendation of that committee was for teacher training and that is a responsibility of the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I have a special interest in this subject because of the work being done in the field of bilingual education for Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. [More…]
I cannot help but think that as this program develops we will see marked advances in the field of Aboriginal education and, I venture to suggest, a much more rapid advance in Aboriginal education than we have experienced in the past. [More…]
I foreshadow that the amendment to be moved to the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Bill by the Opposition will be opposed by the Government. [More…]
We propose to move an amendment to the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Bill 1976. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘while not opposing the Bill the House is of the opinion that insufficient resources are being directed into the technical education area ‘. [More…]
I remind him that if he looks at the statistics in relation to education, as far as they apply to the Labor Administration, he will see that we increased the funds for education from some 4.3 per cent of the gross domestic product to 6,3 per cent of the GDP within a space of 3 years. [More…]
There is a great need in the area of technical education. [More…]
I do not propose to delay the House but the real factors m technical education relate to retraining. [More…]
In regard to technical education, there is a great need for retraining. [More…]
I refer to the summary of conclusions which shows that the amount of money now allocated is insufficient to meet the needs of technical education in those skills, particularly as regards those skills which are lacking. [More…]
If there was no vocational education for Aborigines in the Northern Territory, that was after 23 years of the previous Administration. [More…]
I draw the attention of the honourable gentleman to the fact that every Aboriginal child in secondary education in Australia was put on a scholarship by the Australian Labor Party when in government and that the bilingual program was started for the first time in an attempt to communicate with them in their own languages. [More…]
These were fairly generous moves into the field of Aboriginal education. [More…]
I quite agree that there are tremendous problems with vocational education among the Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In many areas there are problems in getting any education at all to Aborigines. [More…]
At any time, and from time to time, during the year to which this Act applies, but subject to sub-section (4), the Commonwealth Education Minister may, at the request of the State Education Minister for a State, direct that this Act has effect as if the amounts specified in columns 2 and 3 of Schedule 1 opposite to the name of the State were varied in accordance with the direction, and, where the Commonwealth Education Minister gives a direction with respect to the variation of those amounts, then, for the purposes of this [More…]
the relevant financial assistance will, as soon as is practicable, be applied by the State, according to the respective needs of the schools concerned, for the purpose of meeting recurrent expenditure in respect of the year to which this Act applies in connexion with government primary schools and government secondary schools in the State and, in particular, will ensure that such part of the relevant financial assistance as is not less than the amount specified in column 2 of Schedule 3 opposite to the name of the State is applied in respect of recurrent expenditure in relation to migrant education provided at those schools; [More…]
In clause 12, after paragraph (a) of sub-clause (2), insert the following paragraph: (aa) after consultation with the Schools Commission, the Commonwealth Education Minister may permit the allocation of a specific amount from a school’s allocation to be spent at the. [More…]
Lip service has been paid to it on the basis that the statement that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) made on 4 November welcomes this sort of arrangement. [More…]
It is our intention to encourage as much decentralisation of decision making as possible to permit maximum responsiveness and local involvement in education. [More…]
I refer honourable members again to a statement made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in the Senate on 4 November, particularly to the passage in which he refers expressly to the attitude of the Government to encourage a more active role for parents, teachers and local communities in school management and decision making. [More…]
As I have said often before, speaking from my own experience in schools and school administration and with members of the school councils and so on, often these bodies are much better geared and equipped to carry out all sorts of operations, rebuilding programs, reconstruction programs and so on than is the education system. [More…]
We will not produce any kind of equality in this country, any manner of advance in the progressive areas of education, unless we are prepared to take the bit between our teeth and do it ourselves. [More…]
This is one area in which these things can be done with a great deal of advantage I think to the education systems. [More…]
For the first time unions on the island were registered, teaching was standardised so that Asians can now receive the same schooling that was previously available only to Europeans, and educational standards have been brought into line with the level of excellence currently obtaining in the Commonwealth Teaching Service. [More…]
A number of students travelled to Australia on re-settlement scholarships and enormous improvements were made in technical education and health standards. [More…]
I read in the Minister’s second reading speech that the resettlement scheme embraces resettlement allowances, free fares and other assistance such as scholarships for further education and training. [More…]
The research program deals with the farm, the manufacturing sector, the question of marketing of dairying products and requisite education programs. [More…]
It established a trust system, whereby moneys could be used for legal aid, a legal education and a legal foundation. [More…]
For the sake of the record, I was leading for the Opposition in the education debate which commenced at 2.30 p.m. and did not conclude until 6 p.m. [More…]
I was fully engaged in the education debate all that afternoon and the statement remained here. [More…]
It remained here from the time the Minister gave it to me and it certainly was here when he asked leave to intervene in the education debate at about 5.40 p.m. [More…]
I believe that we require a public education and involvement program aimed at ensuring a proper understanding of the public responsibility in the use and management of our water. [More…]
There was a segment during a news program tonight about what some educationists have had to say about our attitude to Aborigines in our education system. [More…]
The fact that the Federal Government moved into this field led to an increase in finance to assist in areas such as health, education and housing, which had been of concern to the Aboriginal people and those concerned about them. [More…]
Aborigines at the present time need a great deal of discrimination in their favour, and we did establish a system of compensatory education. [More…]
The legislation then provides that they shall be able to perform functions or services in respect of such matters as housing, health, sewerage, water supply, electricity, communications, education, relief work, roads and associated works, garbage collection and disposal, and welfare and community amenities. [More…]
Since then my colleagues the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, the Minister for Education and the Minister for Social Security and I have met. [More…]
What I and some of the State Transport Ministers fear the Government proposes to do after 1 July next year is to make bloc grants to State treasuries and then leave it to the State governments to apportion what money they will spend on education, health and transport. [More…]
-The Department of Education estimates that in the course of the next few weeks approximately 250 000 young people will leave secondary education. [More…]
Some, of course, will go on to further education. [More…]
I address my question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]
What steps will be taken to ensure that public investment in education is not placed in jeopardy or set at nought by inadequate or irresponsible school councils? [More…]
I will seek the information from my colleague the Minister for Education and give it to him as soon as I am able to do so. [More…]
The Australian people are becoming increasingly perturbed about some aspects of our education system. [More…]
The Australian Council for Educational Research publication, entitled Literacy and Numeracy in Australian Schools, points to an alarming rate of deterioration in the literacy and numeracy of our school children. [More…]
They must begin to relearn educational techniques and methods afresh. [More…]
Furthermore, another factor- confrontation- has found its way into education. [More…]
I have presented some of the perturbing facts with regard to education in Australia at the moment. [More…]
There are more and more parents who are concerned about the direction of education, about the fact that some of the basic skills which we in Australia for many years have taken for granted as part of the education system are not being taught and that some of the other factors to which I have referred tonight are being stressed to the detriment of the welfare of the students of Australia. [More…]
It seems to me that he has the idea that in the education system in this country people blindly and meekly accept those things which are put to them. [More…]
I always thought, in my own limited way, that the purpose of education was to make people question those things which are about them and not to accept blindly things that are put to them. [More…]
When they do that, when they raise questions about what is happening around them and do not blindly accept what is happening, members like the honourable member for Eden-Monaro stand up in this House and say that there is something wrong with the education system. [More…]
If there is anything wrong with the education system, it is that not enough emphasis is given to the questioning of things that go on around people. [More…]
The honourable member spoke about the amount of money spent on education and claimed it was being wasted. [More…]
I put it to him that a far greater amount of money is spent on the education of a pupil in the private schools such as Geelong Grammar and Melbourne Grammar than there is on any workers’ child who has to attend a school that is run by the State. [More…]
I, in turn, support the system where every child in this country, irrespective of the station in life of his parents and the depth of his parents’ pockets, has the right to a proper education. [More…]
I do not believe that what he has put to the House tonight is the proper situation of education in this country. [More…]
In short, the many facets of this important and growing industry contribute to the Australian economy through: Urban and rural development; decentralisation; new and expanded employment outlets; contribution to foreign exchange earnings; avenues for profitable short and long term investment; a contribution to education; new avenues for improving community health and welfare, both physical and mental; a deeper understanding of different cultural standards and community attitudes; and a wider base for international understanding and goodwill. [More…]
I believe that a Dr Helen Thorn is doing work in this regard as far as the health education of Aboriginal women is concerned. [More…]
I believe there is now a need for a male doctor to help the men in health education. [More…]
Having done that, they have been able to use their superior European- I emphasise the word ‘European’- education. [More…]
Recurrent support forpre-school education services under the Commonwealth Government’s Children’s Services Program is directed towards the salary costs of both pre-school teachers and assistants. [More…]
Grants for pre-school education also contribute to the support of play centres and toddlers’ groups, where staff are employed, and pre-school advisers. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Expenditure on Education- Reference No. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Will all students be discouraged from working during vacations because they are allowed to earn only $1,500 per annum, whereas previously, under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, they could earn that amount during the year and an unlimited sum during vacation. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has supplied the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
I ) The majority of students who will receive allowances under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme in 1 977 will be better off financially compared with the situation in 1976. [More…]
However, students who receive assistance from other Commonwealth awards will no longer be eligible for Tertiary Education Assistance. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
506 and correspondence on the subject of the disadvantaged schools program and rural schools, what State education authorities are using the socioeconomic scale developed by Broom, Jones and Zubrycki in 1 965 for the determination of eligibility for the program. [More…]
Is the Victorian Education Department currently reviewing the socio-economic scale or the disadvantaged criteria. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided me with the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Government and Catholic education authorities in each State are responsible for developing procedures for determining which of their schools should be declared as disadvantaged, and a variety of measures of the socioeconomic nature of the communities served by the schools are employed in these selection processes. [More…]
Officers involved in administering the Program in both Government and Catholic systems meet together from time to time and discuss various measures of disadvantage and its educational manifestations; relevant studies being carried out by particular education authorities are presented and considered at these meetings. [More…]
Organisers of the Disadvantaged Schools Program are aware of, and in some instances participate in, the researches in this field being conducted by the Australian Council for Educational Research, by some university education departments and by other agencies. [More…]
While reiterating that the process of selecting schools for declaration as disadvantaged is a matter for the education authorities in the States, I would add that it is my understanding that the Victorian Education Department is currently reviewing it procedures for determining socioeconomic disadvantage and is indeed devoting considerable effort to refining the methods of selecting its disadvantaged schools. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a report entitled ‘Consumer Education’ which has been prepared and furnished to me by the Trade [More…]
It will be of great assistance in formulating consumer education policy. [More…]
With regard to unemployment benefits for a young man who is willing to work and willing to be apprenticed, my inquiries indicate that the Victorian Department of Education has instructed the principals of its schools that they cannot issue certificates, stating that a youngster will not resume school, until the beginning of the next school year. [More…]
I suppose that involves getting down to a study of the education system in relation to industry and its needs. [More…]
The collection should be put into the universities of Australia, into the colleges of advanced education, into the art galleries in the great cities, the country towns and the provincial cities and in civic centres and art galleries all around Australia to let the people who paid for them draw some inspiration from them. [More…]
The first of these programs directly assists young people aged 15-19 years who have been away from full-time education for at least 6 months in the last 12 months, who are registered with the Commonwealth Employment Service and who have been registered with the CES for at least 6 of the previous 12 months. [More…]
Such massive issues as urban affairs, the environment, education and Aboriginal affairs which were not before regarded as the prerogative of this Parliament are now being considered. [More…]
I am concerned that the qualified pharmacist, a person with valuable training and possessing skills obtained at a tertiary education institute, is wasting a great deal of those skills carrying out present duties. [More…]
Is the community reaping the full benefit of the pharmacy education dollar? [More…]
The pharmacist’s more meaningful role could be achieved in many areas such as the dissemination of information to the community in health education programs and assistance to the medical profession by providing more pharmacological information. [More…]
A health education program conducted through the 5500 pharmacies to our 13.5 million people could save much suffering and reduce the quantity and cost of medical and hospital care. [More…]
It contains a report of a recent seminar held in the United States organised by the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare in which the national health schemes of 6 countries were discussed. [More…]
If the Government has money to spend on housing let me tell those honourable members opposite who do not know, that there are people around this country at the present time who have been denied an opportunity by 23 years of previous Liberal-Country Party government to get a decent education and as a result an opportunity to earn a higher income. [More…]
The Government introduced without comment the report of the working party on the transition from secondary education to employment, which working party was set up by the Labor Government, although the report makes a lot of recommendations for career guidance progams and pre-vocational training. [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations made it clear that approximately 250 000 young people will leave secondary education in the next few weeks. [More…]
He made it clear that some will try to find employment for themselves and some will go on with further education. [More…]
He had been Secretary to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and the Arts which questioned the Control Board’s advice on AM and FM broadcasting. [More…]
I feel that something should be done to rehabilitate these people not only physically but also educationally so that persons who had been injured and who had lost the ability to earn the money that they were earning in their former occupation can be given some educational assistance, as well as compensation, to allow them to upgrade their education so they can be retrained for other work. [More…]
We do not apologise for it in our education system. [More…]
There ought to be room for one person specifically from the education area to have some say and to comment on planning in this beautiful Council proposed by the Government. [More…]
So far, for a variety of reasons- I do not want to attach blame- the fact is that we have inadequate educational television and radio. [More…]
In the case of education you just cannot educate anybody who hasn’t got the basic principles of the three Rs thoroughly drilled into them. [More…]
Everyone who has any contact with schooling- I do not call it education, which is a lifelong process, but schooling- can cite shattering instances of illiteracy and total inability to express oneself amongst young people who are gaining what should be the benefits of an extended, expensive schooling. [More…]
Earlier this year, Mr John Penrose left his job as a lecturer at Adelaide College of Advanced Education because he believed Australia was being ruined by this lack of discipline, and that it was our schools and educational establishments where that disrespect for authority begins. [More…]
In particular, what action has been taken to implement those recommendations relating to the establishment of ( a ) a national system of coaching accreditation- recommendation 5 (b) a system of multi-level coaching courses- recommendation 6 and (c) professional training in sports coaching in association with tertiary education institutions- recommendation 7. [More…]
To encourage and support the development of recreational education and technical facilities to increase participation in sport in Australia, and to encourage development of national and international competitive excellence, and the development of technical advisory services. [More…]
Noting that the condition of human settlements largely determines the quality of life, the improvement of which is a prerequisite for the full satisfaction of basic needs, such as employment, housing, health services, education and recreation, [More…]
Inequitable economic growth, reflected in the wide disparities in wealth which now exist between countries and between human beings and which condemn millions of people to a life of poverty, without satisfying the basic requirements for food, education, health services, shelter, environmental hygiene, water and energy; [More…]
Rural dispersion exemplified by small scattered settlements and isolated homesteads which inhibit the provision of infrastructure and services, particularly those relating to water, health and education; [More…]
Creating more livable, attractive and efficient settlements which recognise human scale, the heritage and culture of people and the special needs of disadvantaged groups especially children, women and the infirm m order to ensure the provision of health, services, education, food and employment within a framework of social justice; [More…]
These policies must facilitate the rapid and continuous improvement in the quality of life of all people, beginning with the satisfaction of the basic needs of food, shelter, clean water, employment, health, education, training, social security without any discrimination as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, ideology, national or social origin or other cause, in a frame of freedom, dignity and social justice. [More…]
International and national institutions should promote and institute education programs and courses in the subject of human settlements’. [More…]
However, research is continuing under the auspices of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the United States of America. [More…]
Questions arise such as whether they will go back to school, whether they will go on to some other form of education or whether they are genuinely seeking employment. [More…]
-For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Committee on the Teaching of Migrant Languages in Schools, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Education relating to that report. [More…]
I am on record as giving a personal view on current cost accounting to a seminar in Melbourne entitled Dimensions of Current Cost Accounting run by the Business Law Education Centre on 4 November this year. [More…]
A year ago the Australian people were invited to get rid of the Labor Government- the Government that had created Medibank and health centres and legal aid, reformed education reformed our servile foreign policies, embarked on creative social programs and raised the living standards and expectations of all Australians. [More…]
The departments from which the Committee has taken evidence during the year in connection with the Auditor-General’s report and Treasurer’s Advance include Aboriginal Affairs, Administrative Services, AttorneyGeneral’s, Capital Territory, Construction, Defence, Education, Environment, Housing and Community Development, Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Industry and Commerce, National Resources, Overseas Trade, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Science and the Treasury. [More…]
The AttorneyGeneral (Mr Ellicott) will recall that by some miracle the Bill setting up that college was one of the educational measures which the Senate did not delay or defeat, as it did with the technical education proposals, the legislation dealing with the Karmel funding and the Schools Commission legislation. [More…]
-The report of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties is one of the most important documents in the field of education to come before this Parliament. [More…]
It is concerned with a single aspect of education- the group which does not achieve ‘minimum acceptable standards’ in numeracy and literacy. [More…]
It is a humane and compassionate document, containing practical and worthwhile recommendations, many of which could be quickly implemented with little expense, to deal with the vital question of under-achievement in the basic educational skills. [More…]
Together with the report of the Australian Council for Educational Research, the report of the Select Committee forms the basis of an alliance for literacy. [More…]
The Opposition welcomes the report of Dr Ronald T. Fitzgerald entitled Poverty and Education in Australia which was tabled today. [More…]
He also has closed to him most of his chances of taking full advantage of the opportunities which education could otherwise have afforded him. [More…]
Between IS per cent and 25 per cent of children are passing from primary school into secondary school and ultimately leaving school altogether without ever acquiring an adequate mastery of the basic educational skills which they need in order to function successfully as citizens and as members of the work force. [More…]
Teaching a child to read is the most fundamental responsibility which is owed to him by bis school and by the education system generally. [More…]
These include parental education, pre-school education and television. [More…]
Parents are the great untapped resource of the education system as far as meeting the slow learners’ need for warmth and individual attention is concerned. [More…]
Failing to mount a major research effort into getting the best from parental involvement in classrooms has been a major oversight on the part of the planners and administrators of Australian education. [More…]
There is room here for a general comment to be made on educational research. [More…]
What Australia is getting back from its educational research dollar reflects more the preoccupations of staff of the universities and colleges of advanced education than it does the problems facing teachers in their everyday work. [More…]
These require a setting of priorities each year for educational research by the national Government. [More…]
Each year a list should be prepared of specific projects which the Education Research and Development Committee lets out to research workers on a tender basis. [More…]
After asking 2 questions on this matter of the Minister representing the Minister for Education, I received an inane reply that the Government did not have any time to talk to the people in the State. [More…]
It proposes amendments to the legislation of some States which denies the responsibility of education departments to provide educational services to handicapped children. [More…]
It states that education departments should provide such services. [More…]
The Committee suggests that funding for special education should be undertaken, as far as possible, through recurrent grants programs. [More…]
One of the latter chapters of the report deals with teacher education. [More…]
These proposals involve interaction between State departments of education and teacher organisations, the Australian Universities Commission and the Advanced Education Commission, and teacher training institutions. [More…]
The Committee would like to be sure that departments of education make great efforts to recruit teachers, preferably from the relevant ethnic groups, who were proficient in minority and migrant languages, who could converse with schoolchildren from ethnic minorities in their own languages and with understanding of their backgrounds. [More…]
One of the upsetting aspects of even that course is that it only re-trains teachers by giving them a conversion course in the English language for 6 months and then a 12-month education period of study. [More…]
I commend the work of this particular State college to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and to the Government. [More…]
I have referred to the problems of migrant children and migrant education by way of teacher training. [More…]
All parliamentarians in all parliaments in Australia, who have responsibility for education, should look at this report and at the work that needs to be done as a result of it. [More…]
-I should like to ask the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) who represents the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) whether the Department of Education has reacted to the report of the Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties. [More…]
I imagine that the report has been submitted to the Department of Education and to the Australian Schools Commission. [More…]
If the Minister is not in a position to indicate to the House what their reactions are to the report, I would be grateful to receive from the Minister for Education a letter indicating the reaction of the Education experts of the Commonwealth Government to the recommendations of the Committee. [More…]
When I was the Minister for Education I authorised the investigation into the literacy and numeracy in Australia-n Schools, particularly directed at 11 -year olds and at 14-year olds. [More…]
The report of the Australian Council for Educational Research made available this year- as a result of decisions made when I was Minister for Education last year, has given us a base year. [More…]
Successive investigations into reading ability undertaken by the Department of Education from 1948 to 1964 make it clear that, despite the dismal reports that appear from time to time in the press, the standard of reading m the country as a whole has been going up steadily since the war. [More…]
When I was in the United Kingdom in June and July of this year I went to the College of Education at Edgehill and also to the Thomas Coram Child Research Unit of the Faculty of Education of London University. [More…]
I have already mentioned in this House that sometimes a difference is made between requirements of reading skill in technical education and in academic education. [More…]
There is almost no sector of education which does not require reading skills. [More…]
I hope that the Department of Education will take note of the recommendations of this year’s and last year’s exercise of the ACER in its report on literacy and numeracy in Australian schools. [More…]
A report has been issued to us today entitled Poverty and Education in Australia. [More…]
The truth about our Australian community is that the most articulate sections of the community regard education as a weapon to their advantage and to the advantage of their own children over other children and not as the instrument of every child’s dignity. [More…]
There are many taxpayers who are much poorer than many of the students at the university and who are paying taxes for the students’ education. [More…]
I believe it is very important that university education is free. [More…]
If a government does anything in education expenditure that starts shifting resources downwards in the community it will find itself under fire from articulate sections ofthe community. [More…]
I believe it is elitism in education if you are trying to socially privilege an economic or social group. [More…]
That is what I would call elitism in an extreme form in education. [More…]
I think we would be very wise in the field of education to confine the expression elitism to the question of social and economic privilege and not make it an instrument of attack on quality. [More…]
In other words, children and young people do catch from adults a value placed on education. [More…]
Secondly, under our adult secondary student scheme, adults who missed secondary education opportunities may come back to school. [More…]
There are many comments in this report on specific learning difficulties which are extremely valuable and that is why I would like very much to have the reactions of the Commonwealth Department of Education and the Schools Commission to it. [More…]
I am not an objective viewer, being a member of that Committee, but I regard this report as being a very valuable educational document brought down by a committee of this House. [More…]
I found that it was advice to no fewer than 23 different organisations involved with education-the 3 arms of government, the research institutions, the Schools Commission and many other organisations which have responsibility for the education of our children- including obviously, the State Education Departments. [More…]
The first one is that we do something about legislation in some of the States which denies the responsibility of education departments to provide educational services to handicapped children. [More…]
This has been one of the most callous areas of Australian education- the ignoring of our duty to handicapped children and to the parents of those children. [More…]
Their future education has been ignored. [More…]
I do not think the Victorian Education Department applied itself with proper vigour to the task. [More…]
We have a Department of Education. [More…]
I think this is one of the most important areas of educational activity. [More…]
I remind the House that Australia’s record in public education is probably as good as that of any other country. [More…]
At the end of the last century we established a free, compulsory and mostly secular education system. [More…]
Unfortunately we still have no clear objective in secondary education, for handicapped people or for specialist groups. [More…]
The recommendations and conclusions contained in the report are somewhat unique in a modern political era insofar as they do not of necessity advocate that more finance should be pumped into a particular stream -in this instance, the educational stream. [More…]
But there must be a reallocation of resources and this is a matter which is open for debate by the Parliament, by the people of Australia and by all people interested in education. [More…]
It was brought to our notice that one of the local service clubs in the small Queensland country town of Cunnamulla had donated $1,000 for the provision of a remedial teacher to bring this type of education to the children of the outback. [More…]
The needs of these children are very important and they are entitled to receive an adequate amount of resources to upgrade their education requirements. [More…]
A vast amount of public money has been expended in the area of teacher education. [More…]
Evidence taken by the Committee revealed that the older ‘type’ of teacher was better equipped to isolate the problem initially and to inculcate into the child a better understanding of the needs of education and how to achieve the desired ends. [More…]
They were taught to become teachers rather than academics in the educational sense. [More…]
We have reached the intolerable situation where one college of advanced education in one of the States devotes only 2 hours to what one might call the absolute foundation of educational teaching. [More…]
I hope that the Australian Council of Education Research will continue its research into the problem and that it will monitor progress. [More…]
My final comment, on a subject which has not been referred to, relates to the problem of adult education as far as literacy is concerned. [More…]
In addition free education, housing, electricity, water and other municipal-type services, transport amenities, medical and hospital treatment, and dental and optical services are provided. [More…]
My Department has been informed by the Department of Education that living allowances were provided from the special fund during 1975 to 134 students, amounting to $ 1 9 1 , 59 1 . [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a report in the Age on 27 October 1976 concerning the claim by the General Secretary of the Australian Teachers’ Federation that the membership of the committee to investigate Australia’s education system was stacked to provide recommendations in accord with the Government ‘s point of view. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The membership of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training represents a balance of interests and experience between the various sectors of education and the labour market area. [More…]
At our last meeting on 2 1 September I suggested that the Federation should make a submission to the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education: [More…]
am asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The details of that proposal are currently under review by the Department and I intend to refer the proposal to the Ministers for Education and Health for comment [More…]
Dunn, Professor S. S., as Chairman, Education and Research Committee [More…]
Waterhouse, Dr D. F., as Chairman, Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
How many of them are expected to (a) go into the work force and ( b ) further their education. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has supplied the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Department of Education does not have this information. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) What are the locations of Government education institutions in New South Wales which provide secretarial courses for students. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Secretarial courses in New South Wales are conducted in Government technical colleges and the Nepean College of Advanced Education. [More…]
I do not have the information the honourable member requires for technical colleges as Government technical colleges in New South Wales are administered by the New South Wales Department of Technical and Further Education which also determines policy on the location of courses, provision of accommodation and admission of students. [More…]
Enrolments in Secretarial Studies at Nepean College of Advanced Education in 1 976 totalled 9. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Figures on the intake of physiotherapy students in universities and colleges of advanced education for the period in question are set out in the tables below. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
Is this school considered to be one of the disadvantaged schools by the Victorian education authorities and the Schools Commission. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Victorian Government is responsible for the administration of primary and secondary education in government schools in Victoria. [More…]
The school was declared a disadvantaged school on the advice of the Victorian Minister of Education. [More…]
The information in respect of rejections would have to be obtained from the Victorian Education Department [More…]
These funds are allocated to schools in accordance with the priorities determined by the Victorian Minister of Education. [More…]
This money directed through Schools Commission programs is additional to that available to the State for education purposes from Commonwealth general revenue grants. [More…]
5 ) The only information in respect of this question known to the Schools Commission is that set out in (3) and that the school has received and receives support for migrant education through the Child Migrant Education Program and currently through the Migrant and Multicultural education program ofthe Schools Commission. [More…]
Further information would have to be obtained from the Victorian Education Department. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
1 ) With reference to the statement made by the Minister on 6 October 1 976 reviewing student assistance schemes, did the Minister state on that occasion that eligibility for independent status under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme on the grounds of 2 years’ self-support will be limited to those students who have been full ii-me in the workforce, or registered as unemployed. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has supplied the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The third area where this stimulatory spending should be made is on manpower programs such as youth employment subsidies, apprenticeships, vocational and technical education schemes. [More…]
The relocation assistance scheme is available and we are providing increased funds for technical and further education. [More…]
The return of stability in the financing of education as a result of the restoration of triennial funding has been another major achievement of this Government. [More…]
Affluence in a society is I think basically a good thing, because it enables that society to do the things that are required for disadvantaged groups, for education, to make sure that there is an equality of opportunity for all people no matter what their backgrounds might be. [More…]
Provision of emergency class rooms for migrant childrenfor Department of Education, at Drummoyne $23,100; Five Dock $23,100; Summer Hill $39,800-$86,000. [More…]
A recommendation to Ministers on whether to spend $ 10m on the education of the disadvantaged or not to spend it and reduce the deficit, can be argued in many ways, but the recommendation will always rest upon the values we attach to particular ends. [More…]
But a really scandalous action is that of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in the statement that looks like a report on the Independent Schools (Loans Guarantee) Act. [More…]
If the long term bond rate was 9lA per cent and the Catholic education authorities were paying 1 Vi per cent they had to pay 2 per cent. [More…]
One of the interesting aspects then was that this organisation put computer terminals into doctors’ offices thinking that doctors would be very interested not only in the pathology results that would come through the computer terminals but also in the fact that they could get some medical education. [More…]
The fact is that new ventures in social welfare or security, as in housing, higher education or transport, have, ever since the Second World War, always come from the Federal GovernmentLiberal or Labor- and the original funding for them has come from the Federal GovernmentLiberal or Labor. [More…]
In South Australia a candidate was very nearly elected on an education platform. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following information to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The distribution of grants is left to the New South Wales Minister for Education. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the text of a letter by the Minister for Education relating to the role and composition of the Schools Commission, together with a statement by the Minister relating to that letter. [More…]
I do not think there is any doubt that the cost of health care will grow much faster in the future and that as a result resources will be taken away, from other major areas such as education and welfare where they would otherwise be used. [More…]
The only areas of substantial growth were health, in which employment was up by 17 000, education, in which employment was up by 16 000, and the wholesale and retail trade, in which employment was up by 12 000. [More…]
Health and education of course provide very substantial areas of government employment. [More…]
Grants will not normally be available for furthering university or post-graduate education, as the Government believes adequate arrangements already exist to cater for such matters. [More…]
If other unions took the approach that was taken by those in Broken Hill in so many instances, I think the industrial relations scene in Australia would be far the better for that education. [More…]
These include smaller families, higher female work force participation rates, longer periods of formal education, the employment market’s emphasis on accreditation, the increased affluence of many members of the community, and changing life styles. [More…]
Those children are educated under the migrant education programs- programs which honourable members opposite know nothing about and programs which they oppose at every turn. [More…]
By engaging in this to too great an extent they ignore the diverse problems which the high migrant population poses in inner city electorates- the problems of housing, transport, education and a host of other problems which do not confront country members to the same degree. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Has any officer involved in the examinations section any qualifications in education or educational techniques. [More…]
and the Free Education Act of 1 906 of N.S.W., together with regulations made under these Acts prior to 1911, have any application in the A.C.T. [More…]
Bearing in mind that, in 1 937, an Education Ordinance was promulgated in the Territory and that section 3 of that Ordinance provided that ‘This Ordinance shall be incorporated and read as one with the Public Instruction Act 1 880 and the Free Education Act 1906 of the State of N.S.W. [More…]
and their application in the Territory’, was the effect of section 3 to incorporate into the Ordinance, and therefore bring totally into effect in the Territory, the Public Instruction Act 1880 and the Free Education Act 1906 of N.S.W. [More…]
Does the exercise of legislative power in the area of education in 1937 preclude from application in the Territory of amendments to N.S. [More…]
W. legislation on education, including regulations made under statute, after 1937. [More…]
That report identified the Public Instruction Act 1880 and the Free Education Act 1906 as being N.S.W. [More…]
Increased funds have been made available for technical and further education. [More…]
We are very fearful that we will see, particularly in the education field, a return to the old philosophy that the man who spends more money on the education of his child, which he can do only if he earns more, should get a larger tax deduction. [More…]
The Karmel report clearly shows the obvious discrimination that there has been in education in Australia for many years. [More…]
With the expenditure of over $3,000m on education alone, with the acceptance of the right of all people to have a high standard of education- one must question education for itself or education for specific jobs- we have still failed to find many so called educated people work commensurate with their conception of their abilities. [More…]
Despite its desire to attain high educational standards society has failed to decide who is going to be around to do the menial jobs. [More…]
That is one of the objectives of the present Government through its inquiry into education, one of the objectives of which is to examine whether people are going to be available and trained for the jobs which hopefully will be present in the economy in future. [More…]
This should have taught us the same lesson as we found in the field of education, which I noted earlier, that often massive financial expenditure does not equate with efficiency of service or with equality of opportunity. [More…]
New expenditures were voted for free college education, increased aid to schools, higher unemployment compensation and age pensions, and subsidies for sports and the arts. [More…]
Brief mention was made of education. [More…]
My Government is improving the existing arrangements in education in pursuit of equality of opportunity for all Australian students. [More…]
The communists in Vietnam are engaging in a grievous and systematic violation of human rights, including the detention of an estimated 300 000 people in so-called re-education camps, the suppression of cultural and political expression and the stifling of non-violent dissent. [More…]
Where are they now that the 300 000 people in re-education camps have no voice? [More…]
There is hardly a person who had had any education left alive in Cambodia. [More…]
Their friends were not so lucky in Cambodia, where most of the students and most of the persons with any education have been slaughtered. [More…]
I have had no trouble at all with the Minister and the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in obtaining assistance in getting school staffs increased. [More…]
A special project is being established with funds from this Government to provide language training, pre-employment education and a knowledge of the legal systems, industrial relations and the like for Lebanese young people who have recently arrived in Australia. [More…]
My Government is improving the existing arrangements in education in pursuit of equality of opportunity for all Australian students. [More…]
I thought that was what education was all about. [More…]
-Run by the Victorian Education Department. [More…]
Those 1 10 children have to do the best they can to muddle their way through the education system. [More…]
That indicates the emphasis that this Government places on education, and particularly in an area where it is badly and sorely needed. [More…]
My Government is improving the existing arrangements in education in pursuit of equality of opportunity for all Australian students. [More…]
Manpower and the training behind it are tied up with education and everything else. [More…]
If members of church congregations are politically ignorant and are therefore unaware of the dangers inherent in the social/labour doctrines, should the church arrange for the education - [More…]
The ‘education’ mind you- of its members in this area- or alternatively, should leaders of particular social groups related to each denomination organise some form of positive instruction by way of seminars etc., so that all individuals have the opportunity to learn about and understand the way of Australian politics. [More…]
I hope that from our point of view we in this nation will be able to meet people on a basis of understanding and so be able to control our education system and the development of this country that that sort of antipathy will not develop in Australia. [More…]
As soon as there is any pressure on the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) from whom I consider to be rather pampered tertiary students in Australia, he caves in. [More…]
In completing a tax return, anybody else, of course, who sought the $1,350 deduction would put together a number of different claims, including claims against insurance, rates and medical expenses, education expenses and the like. [More…]
I refer now to areas where I believe there are probably the most underprivileged people as far as education is concerned that we could find in this country. [More…]
I should like to mention that when the ICPA was formed in 1971 the deduction allowance for educational expenses was $400. [More…]
That education expenses for rebate purposes be raised to a level compatible with the cost of obtaining that education. [More…]
The honourable member will know that the major responsibility for education is vested in the States. [More…]
As a first step my colleague, the Minister in the other place, raised the report at the meeting of the Australian Education Council held in Hobart in February, and he found the State Ministers for Education to be sympathetic. [More…]
It must be recognised that this is not a matter which can be dealt with in a piecemeal manner; it must be looked at in the context of the whole of education. [More…]
Since the first congress in 1955, successive congresses have made an intensive examination of the problem of crime in modern society and have explored a number of imaginative and practical measures to meet this problem, covering such diverse areas as the integration of crime prevention planning with planning in urban development and education, new forms and dimensions of crime, the economic and social costs of crime, alternatives to imprisonment, the human rights of prisoners and the organisation of research to assist in the formulation of policy to deal with crime. [More…]
The Congress will bring from 1500 to 2000 visitors to Australia, including Ministers, judges, academic and other leading figures in the field of law, criminology, police, corrections, social welfare, mental health, sociology, education and related areas and disciplines. [More…]
Let them tell us how the rural people are serviced in education, health or local government by having an undue number of members of Parliament from the country areas. [More…]
The health services, the educational services and the building of local government were carried out only by a Labor Government- a government that believed in one vote one value. [More…]
by leave- For the information of honourable members, I present details of the establishment of the National Aboriginal Education Committee. [More…]
This period has seen the growth of more interest and activity in Aboriginal education than ever before with Commonwealth funds developing programs and helping education authorities throughout the country to make special efforts for Aboriginal people at all levels of education. [More…]
Later, in October 1975, the Department of Education, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and the Schools Commission agreed that a permanent advisory group should be set up. [More…]
Consultations between them, and with the Aboriginal Consultative Group, led to a proposal for establishment of a National Aboriginal Education Committee, with a wholly Aboriginal membership. [More…]
The Committee will be responsible for providing the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and his Department with informed Aboriginal views on the educational needs of Aboriginal people and appropriate methods of meeting these needs. [More…]
Its advice will be available also to me and my Department and other authorities concerned with education of Aboriginal people. [More…]
It will assist the Department of Education and other agencies in monitoring existing programs and in developing programs and policies and will be able to undertake and promote investigations, studies and projects on which to base its advice. [More…]
This Committee will be attached to and serviced by the Department of Education. [More…]
I trust it will contribute to policy initiatives which will serve to redress the educational imbalance which Aboriginal people experience and which will recognise the culturally plural nature of Australian society. [More…]
I hope these initiatives will foster education programs and activities which will assist Aboriginal people to live satisfying lives, sharing in and contributing to the total Australian society. [More…]
The Committee is headed by a full-time chairman with 18 part-time members who will provide a range of expertise in this area of education and an invaluable understanding of Aboriginal needs and problems. [More…]
He is a qualified tradesman and is currently undertaking studies at a college of advanced education. [More…]
His experience of traditional Aboriginal education and contemporary Australian education will be of great benefit to the [More…]
-by leaveThe Opposition supports the measure proposed by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and indeed, warmly congratulates the Minister on taking this initiative to its point of culmination. [More…]
I think it was back in July 1976 that the Minister for Education made an announcement that this matter was to be proceeded with. [More…]
In other words, 9 months elapsed from the time when the decision was taken by the previous Government to establish a National Aboriginal Education Committee to the time the announcement was made by the Minister for Education. [More…]
Of course the Opposition wants to extend its best wishes to the committee for the success of its investigatory work about Aboriginal education. [More…]
Wherever one goes in the pursuit of an understanding of Aboriginal affairs, the deficiencies of educational opportunities available to Aboriginal people are very apparent. [More…]
For example, in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, one finds immediately the deficiency of technical education facilities. [More…]
If we go to the islands to the north of AustraliaMelville Island, Bathurst Island, Elcho Island and Goulburn Island- again we find this generation of Aboriginal people who are virtually destined to a life as second-grade citizens because up to this point of time Australia has not taken proper initiatives in regard to Aboriginal education. [More…]
It is very interesting to refer to the report of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty where considerable space has been devoted to this problem of Aboriginal education. [More…]
In that report some mention is made of the historical events associated with Aboriginal education or the inadequacy of Aboriginal education. [More…]
That set Aboriginal education back many years. [More…]
The net effect of this effort- so much of it unproductive- is revealed by some startling figures which are contained in the report to which I have referred, namely, the Fifth Main Report, December 1976, entitled Poverty and Education in Australia. [More…]
A table showing the percentage of 10 to 19-year-olds enrolled in secondary education for the period 1966-1973 shows that in 1966, 15.1 per cent of Aboriginal young people of eligible school age were so enrolled. [More…]
Many eligible Aboriginal children are still not enrolled in secondary education. [More…]
So we have this powerless minority whose condition obviously has been contributed to by the inadequacy of education. [More…]
We can probably all hang our heads in shame when we look at the table relating to tertiary education and see the product of our total endeavour in terms of tertiary education. [More…]
The number of Aboriginal people enrolled in tertiary education in 1973 was fiftyseven; the next year that number had dropped by one- the enrolment was fifty-six. [More…]
It declared that it was anxious to see established a permanent educational body of Aboriginal people. [More…]
Under arrangements agreed on and approved by the then Minister for Education, the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) and me as the then Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, in October 1975 this particular objective started to get off the ground. [More…]
It was endorsed as a program by the then Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, and the objective was that the Department of Education assume executive responsibility at the Australian Government level for the development of programs in Aboriginal education. [More…]
It was intended that as soon as practicable the funding responsibility for Aboriginal education programs funded at the time by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs be transferred to the Department of Education. [More…]
That has been spelt out in terms of philosophical goals which probably are a little too lengthy for me to enunciate at the present time, but which certainly involve the concept that education should be seen as a major instrument of social change directed towards the quality improvement of Aboriginal education. [More…]
I refer further to the report on Poverty and Education in Australia in which the question of Aboriginal education was under consideration. [More…]
As we have previously pointed out, Aboriginal education requires special consideration because: [More…]
I congratulate the Minister for taking hold of this matter with firmness and for launching this committee which I believe will contribute very significantly in the years to come to the prospects of Aboriginal people being able to involve themselves in a self-management way in the pursuit of education. [More…]
To the end of December 1976, the Bank had lent about SUS3.4 billion to its developing member countries for projects covering all the major sectors of economic development with emphasis on the development of infrastructure facilities in the transport and communications industry and electric power sectors as well as projects for agriculture, education, water supply and urban development. [More…]
I want to leave this subject and speak about the dissolution of the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
The Government is mistaken in disbanding the Technical and Further Education Commission and combining segments of the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education and the Technical and [More…]
Further Education Commission in a Post Secondary Commission. [More…]
Firstly, the Commonwealth is totally funding universities and colleges of advanced education, including teachers colleges. [More…]
As far as technical education is concerned the Commonwealth is simply engaged in topping up grants. [More…]
When the Labor Government came to power we increased expenditure on technical education by 350 per cent. [More…]
We made technical education free and in my time as Minister for Education enrolments in technical colleges rose from 400 000 to 705 000. [More…]
It will be very difficult to combine in one commission the total funding of universities and colleges of advanced education, and the partial funding of technical and further education. [More…]
Another disastrous feature of this proposal, of course, is that the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education have been in existence for 15 years. [More…]
After the Kangan report the Technical and Further Education Commission came into being and it has not operated yet for 3 years. [More…]
South Australia played the game and treated our technical education grants as topping up grants. [More…]
It is quite pathetic to put in with university planning and college of advanced education planning technical colleges which are dealing with apprenticeships and many levels of education where they simply have to establish literacy before work can proceed. [More…]
I do not think people who are involved in universities and colleges of advanced education have the same way of thinking about the educational problems. [More…]
I do not believe there is an intelligent amalgamation of technical and further education with the other types of education. [More…]
I am afraid that the great historic fallacy of Australia whereby we have never put enough into technical education will be repeated. [More…]
He has put all his technical education or a very great deal of it into the college of advanced education area, which means that it will be totally financed by the Commonwealth and will not be made a matter for topping up grants. [More…]
They have continued their own efforts honestly and therefore might expect that in this separate field of education there will be a continuance of the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
Everything that it said presupposed that it would give the Technical and Further Education Commission a chance to get on with its work if the Liberal Party came into power. [More…]
Now the Government proposes to merge the Commission with a smaller body which will be concerned with the immense problems of universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
There is little doubt that technical and further education will be a side line. [More…]
People engaged in technical education have always said of themselves that they are the cinderellas of education. [More…]
I refer to another matter that was introduced by myself as Minister for Education, the bilingual program for Aboriginal children. [More…]
I came to a simple conclusion that if you denied people an education in their own language you were treating them as a conquered people. [More…]
Therefore our first educational decision was one which allowed Aboriginal parents who still lived with the full tribal customs to nominate the language in which teaching at their school was conducted. [More…]
The educational world of Australia is lost with admiration of the research of 2 gentlemen in Queensland, and quite justifiably so, at Mount Gravatt Teachers College. [More…]
If these learning problems exist for children whose mother tongue is English and the medium of education is English, how crushing must be the problem of Aboriginal children, whose mother tongue is not English, who have no English, but whose medium of instruction in the school is English?. [More…]
When I was Minister for Education I went into the Northern Territory and went into the classroom where the Aboriginal children were being spoken to in their own language by the teacher. [More…]
The second was that South African blacks like herself have been guilty of leaving intact the same educational oppression of having denied an education in the mother tongue to the Bushmen of Africa, who speak neither English nor Afrikaans, and whose language is educationally ignored. [More…]
Hemisphere, a journal of the Education Department, says: . [More…]
they wrote: ‘ We are extremely impressed with the Northern Territory bilingual program- so much so that we are inclined to assert that this program constitutes one of the most exciting educational events in the modern world. [More…]
Staff ceilings imposed on the teaching force in Canberra will not destroy the whole basic structure of education. [More…]
I stated that Commonwealth expenditure on education, housing, social security and welfare will amount to almost $12 billion or about one-half of expected total outlays in this financial year. [More…]
The Government caved in to the Australian Union of Students on the tertiary education allowances after only a one-day strike. [More…]
Humanity demands that we overhaul our antiquated technical and further education system so that the many unskilled Australians presently unemployed are given the opportunity to join the work force. [More…]
For too long Australia’s immigration policies, particularly the recruitment of skilled labour, has been a substitute for technical education programs designed to train and utilise Australian labour more effectively. [More…]
Little thought was given to housing or the education problems that exist, apart from even the normal provision of education facilities. [More…]
Of course we have had a levelling out recently in education spending because of the change in the population pattern. [More…]
That means that the resources to house them, to give them jobs, to provide their children with education and to provide security to the older sections of the family who ought to have proper reunion rights must be made available to those people, hopefully in family units. [More…]
Additionally, I think we need to examine the nature of our education system to ascertain whether sufficient resources are allocated to technical training and whether alternative forms of training for skilled trades other than apprenticeships are available. [More…]
There is a definite relationship between the education policies on the one hand and unemployment policies, population policies and industry policies on the other. [More…]
If there are something like 300 000 or 400 000 workers dependent on an industry such as the motor car industry it seems to me that it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to maintain an industry of that size with the lower population figures and the education figures projected in the Green Paper. [More…]
That would mean that our allocation of resources to education, health, social welfare, and urban and regional development could be planned without risk of dislocation. [More…]
It has pointed out to the community at large that poor parents send their children to these schools and that they have a just claim on the public dollar in the same way as has the public education system. [More…]
For instance, appointments to the Schools Commission should be made on merit and not from one source of education interest, for instance, the public education sector or the private education sector. [More…]
They should not be asked to make a judgment on what are the needs of roads or education because to do so, given that all cakes are finite, they are then being asked to make a judgment on the needs of defence, social services and other matters that are not germane to their skills. [More…]
In other words, the Schools Commission costs 0.47 per cent of the moneys it is evaluating, even without taking into account expenditure on education in schools from other sources. [More…]
The facts are that there are not viable plans for solving inflation, that there is not a solitary care for unemployed people, that there is no semblance of planning or concern in the fields of social welfare, health, urban planning, Aboriginal affairs, the aged or education. [More…]
I give one final example on education which will do nothing to help the actual problems which exist in this field: [More…]
My Government is improving the existing arrangements in education in pursuit of equality of opportunity for all Australian students. [More…]
The Government is firmly committed to furthering equality of opportunity for women in education, employment, and in public life. [More…]
With literally millions of dollars slashed from Aboriginal housing, health and education, that statement hardly makes sense. [More…]
Let us look at wage indexation and the Arbitration Court in relation to what this Government has done; the castration of the Regional Employment Development scheme and the National Employment and Training scheme; the promise of anti-union legislation; the nastiness shown towards the Aboriginal community; the haranguing of social service recipients and tertiary education students; the disregard for the status of women, community health and urban planning; and the mutilation of Medibank. [More…]
This week a report was produced from the Australian Government Commission of Inquiry into Poverty that dealt with lifelong education and poor people. [More…]
The reason is that the amount made available in the Budget by this Government for migrant education is down $ 10.7m. [More…]
At this stage no replacements have been made by the Education Department but it has agreed to put on 50 more teachers. [More…]
The Victorian Minister for Education must make a decision to fill all 107 positions. [More…]
He will have noted my question a week ago to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs about the report that was made last July by a working party consisting of officers from that Minister’s Department, his own Department, and the Departments of Social Security and Education, appointed to study the problems of Aboriginal employment, including the impact of unemployment benefit payments on Aboriginal communities. [More…]
When the increase in publicly provided benefits in education, health, social security and so on is added in, his total real income rose by 9.3 per cent. [More…]
In the longer term, an inquiry is under way as to how and which priorities should prevail in education, with special reference to technical education. [More…]
The Repatriation Department covers such things as Soldiers’ childrens’ education, rehabilitation, business loans, land settlement, war service homes, to add several non-Repatriation departments. [More…]
Education [More…]
Education is not just a matter of trying to pass university exams. [More…]
Education continues from the cradle to the grave. [More…]
It is unfortunate that it is hardly relevant to talk of tertiary education of Aborigines. [More…]
I ask the honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes) who will follow me whether he would care to explain how as a government they would increase dramatically spending on education, social welfare, housing, local government, and grants to the States, and how they would give indirect and direct tax cuts. [More…]
Lip service is paid within the concept of community relations to the matters of community education and migrant education. [More…]
Due to confusion in regard to teacher qualifications, as I said the other day, bureaucracy and indifference, a substantial number of children, many of them born in Australia, are receiving second class education which will condemn them and their children to being second class citizenry. [More…]
The overseas born worker needs special education in the ways of achieving industrial justice. [More…]
They are parental education and teacher training. [More…]
The United States of America National Government has long recognised the impact of television on family life and its largest single item in education outlays is now parental education. [More…]
Under the heading ‘The Disaster Area of Education’ an article entitled ‘How to Help your Child Learn to Read’ appeared. [More…]
The study of Australia’s educational system and its relationship to the needs of the work force until the turn of the century should play a vital part in solving some of our problems in the years to come. [More…]
If the figures that indicate that 40 per cent of the unemployed are under 21 years of age and that 75 per cent have no dependants are established, it would seem that a deal of responsibility for the unemployment rate must in fact fall on our education system. [More…]
Perhaps for too long we have concentrated on introducing initiatives into our system and have ignored what must be a basic of our education system- producing people who are qualified and confident to take their place in the work force. [More…]
It is very easy for a government to win electoral appeal by increasing education spending, by increasing health spending, by increasing social welfare spending or by increasing subsidies to a number of industries and concessions to many employment areas in the community. [More…]
There were great initiatives in education. [More…]
To the end of December 1976, the Bank had lent about SUS3.4 billion to its developing member countries for projects covering all the major sectors of economic development with emphasis on the development of infrastructure facilities in the transport and communications industry and electric power sectors as well as projects for agriculture, education, water supply and urban development. [More…]
Education, which was lower on the list of priorities, received about 2 per cent of the loans or about $ 14.5m. [More…]
If we look at the whole range of Labor initiatives and Labor achievements- in health, in education, in social security, in child care, in industrial policy, in incomes policy, in human rights- we can see that women and children are as much the beneficiaries as men, and that those in greatest need receive the greatest benefit. [More…]
Many people believed that our main concern was for the minority of career-minded women with higher education; that we were interested in abstract questions of women’s rights and women’s liberation rather than bread and butter issues; that the opportunities of professional women came before the needs of housewives. [More…]
Within the Commonwealth jurisdiction the Committee has made recommendations relating to the control of ORV use in the Territories, research and education programs, noise limits for vehicles and impact controls. [More…]
I see that education attracted only a very small, if not infinitesimal, part of the funds- 1.07 per cent. [More…]
closer integration with the general education system; [More…]
Another survey conducted by the New South Wales Health Education Advisory Council found that although only five of the 1407 boys in the survey of 30 government and nongovernment schools throughout New South Wales were of legal drinking age, 19 per cent purchased alcohol personally from licensed premises. [More…]
The Agency to be established under the legislation will complete this process of unification by absorbing aid functions carried out by other departments including the Department of Education and the Treasury. [More…]
The Bureau provides assistance to the sponsored students in various matters relating to their education, training and welfare. [More…]
The governments want to give them health care and education but cannot do so unless they can get water to start a hygiene program. [More…]
I recognise that the aid program must necessarily include a wide range of different programs, lt must include aid of an emergency type; it must involve trade aid; it must involve technical aid; and it must involve education aid. [More…]
It is the question of education aid to which I want to refer this evening. [More…]
When we look at education aid in particular we need to ask ourselves: What are the purposes that we wish to fulfil? [More…]
Are we aiming to cure a problem or do we seek, through providing aid that can be described as education aid, to prevent problems and difficulties from rising in the future? [More…]
I believe that the emphasis in relation to any education aid that is given should be on the prevention aspect. [More…]
I think it is important that in providing aid to the developing countries under the heading of education aid we should recognise that it will take time to achieve results. [More…]
So what we should be looking to is not only the benefit to a particular student and what he will do with his life so far as that aid affects him personally, but also what he will do for his country and his people with the skills that he gains as a consequence of the education aid that we provide from Australia. [More…]
We have an extensive education aid program. [More…]
The Bureau which is being established under this legislation will have responsibility for the international training and education program. [More…]
It covers the training and education which we in Australia give under various programs. [More…]
I shall cite some of them: The Colombo Plan, the Australia-Papua New Guinea Education and Training Scheme, the South Pacific Aid Program, the special Commonwealth-African Assistance Program. [More…]
The program also covers assistance in building up the education and training facilities and capabilities in the regions to which our aid is principally directed. [More…]
In recent times the Government has reexamined the guidelines that apply to the education aid program. [More…]
If that is the case it is wonderful for those students who come here and one cannot in any way become upset about the opportunities that become available to the students once they are given permission to enter Australian universities, colleges or other educational institutions. [More…]
But what one can criticise is the way which the Australian taxapayers’ money is being used because we are not getting the maximum developmental benefit from providing the particular group of students with the education facilities that are now available; we are not getting the maximum benefit from the dollars that are spent in terms of overseas aid. [More…]
I believe that if places are to be made available in Australian education institutions to students from overseas there should be a sensitive allocation to developing countries of the places in those institutions. [More…]
After all, if we look at the implicit costs of private students from overseas in our universities and other educational institutions and add in the implicit costs of the sponsored students we will find that the Australian taxpayers are spending $30m a year on these students who are not necessarily in Australia because of the developmental potential they have for the countries of their origin. [More…]
It is for that reason that I believe that the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Bureau within it should have the responsibility of the total overseas student program within Australiathe sponsored program and the private program- because at the present time a significant number of private students are using the education facilities offered them as a gateway to application to remain here in Australia. [More…]
I want to make one final point, that is, to urge that the emphasis on our education aid be changed. [More…]
Instead of providing as many teachers as we now need to provide to educate 14 000 students in Australia I believe that the teachers of some of those students should be made available on overseas secondment so that when they go overseas instead of teaching the number of students that they now teach in Australia they may have a far greater multiplier impact in the contribution they make to our education aid in the developing countries. [More…]
I think this could be achieved by a small university type administrative structure within Australia so that it draws off the staff of our existing home based universities and on a secondment basis, preserving leave and status entitlements, schools or sections of schools within our universities and our colleges of advanced education could be moved overseas to countries of need there to teach in the countries where the students will themselves pursue their future careers. [More…]
I urge that in this area we pay particular attention to ensuring that the quality of our aid is such that even on limited budgets we are achieving more for developing countries than is being achieved under the present distribution of resources going into education aid. [More…]
We must ensure that there are people in this country working to develop its economy and its defences and that the work effort of those people is able to be provided towards the benefits of the aged population and towards the education of the young. [More…]
The inadequacy of our schools and the inadequacy of education for migrants have only recently been taken up by the Australian Labor Party, and the present Government is now pursuing them. [More…]
The Minister goes on to mention how this aging population will ‘require the transfer of resources away from education and training and investment in productive processes to the needs of a proportionately increasing population of aged persons’. [More…]
That is a limited, narrow, ungenerous assumption, in my view, both of the supposed needs of the aged and of the meaning of education, training and productive processes. [More…]
Surely we will still need investment in education, training and productive processes in order to help the aged- I am getting close to that category- to retire gracefully because society requires them to do so, as I suggested earlier, for the benefit of the young who are being stifled. [More…]
This will require continuing education and training to help increasing numbers to cope with the discontent and frustrations they might otherwise feel. [More…]
The people who will lose are not only the people who are running the kindergartens but also, more importantly, the children and their parents who rely on these forms of education. [More…]
The functions of ASTEC are to advise the Government on science and technology, including: the advancement of scientific knowledge and the development and application of science and technology in relation to the national well-being; the adequacy, effectiveness and overall balance of the national effort in science and technology in government, industry, education and other sectors of the community; the assessment of gaps and overlaps in science and technology in Australia; the identification and support of new ideas of science and technology likely to be of national importance; the practical development and application of research discoveries and the fostering of technological innovation in industry; and the means of improving efficiency in the use of resources related to science and technology. [More…]
I recall that as Minister for Education and Science I took part in the discussion of his report at a subsequent meeting of the Forum. [More…]
Less will have to be spent on education but more on the social security system. [More…]
We know of the demands being made by educationists in Australia at present for increased funding of education, in both capital grants and in the provision of teaching services. [More…]
This may be due to the fact that there is now greater female access to higher education and to the job market. [More…]
If we are to have no population increase we would adversely affect these aspirations because we would transfer resources away from education, investment and productive processes to services both government and private for an increasing population of retired persons. [More…]
I recommend to honourable members who want to improve their education that next time they are passing through Melbourne they drive down Sydney Road. [More…]
The Yugoslav school has been able to attract support from politicians like me and from the New South Wales Department of Education in a way in which would not be possible if the Yugoslav people were to approach us simply as Serbs, Croats, Macedonians or Slovenes. [More…]
One view goes so far as to suggest that the situation of migrants in relation to education, health services etc. [More…]
In the field of education we now are developing a large number of teachers who are becoming expert in migrant education, and these people will go into the teaching services of the several States to pass on that knowledge to people who come in. [More…]
Unless there is a change of political direction over the next 2 decades, this young man, although a baby at the moment, will grow up in a world in which he may not have the opportunity to have the full benefit of the education system which should be available to all people in Australia. [More…]
His opportunity for an education may be limited to the depth of his parents’ pockets. [More…]
Children should have equal opportunities to obtain an education. [More…]
Areas such as education and health are the social responsibility of all Australians. [More…]
-One of the difficult problems that anybody in charge of education has to deal with is the staffing of schools. [More…]
They have taken a great deal of trouble to provide programs of education which will help to assist children coming from other schools. [More…]
I feel that the Minister for Education in another place, Senator Carrick, ought to be able, through the Schools Commission, to provide funds for those schools which are in a disadvantaged position or which are trying to help pupils who have difficulty in English, mathematics or migrant languages. [More…]
I also understand that when an American physical education teacher from Minnesota who is at Doveton High School goes back to the United States of America he cannot be replaced. [More…]
Why can a physical education teacher not be replaced? [More…]
I therefore told the school, the parents and the school councils involved that I think it is not correct that the Minister for Education, through the Schools Commission, cannot assist schools which have these serious problems in staffing. [More…]
But I think that anybody in the field of education should be able to express his views freely. [More…]
All I ask tonight is that the Commonwealth Minister for Education and the Minister for Education in Victoria do their best to assist the Doveton High School, the Hallam High School and the school in Springvale with their staffing problems because the provision of adequate staffing is urgent, necessary and important for the children in my electorate. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 10 March 1977: [More…]
Is it a fact that a student receiving an isolated children’s allowance is debarred from a secondary education allowance, or a handicapped child ‘s allowance, or vice versa? [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
They knew that basic and needed programs for health care, hospitals, education, housing, the cities, recreation, transport, sewerage, child care, sport, the environment would all suffer from the Fraser federalism. [More…]
Education is a striking example. [More…]
There would be scant opportunities for higher education today, and very little decent secondary education, if it were not for Federal participation and initiatives. [More…]
In 1947, 6.3 per cent of young people of university age were receiving a tertiary education; by 1975 the proportion had nearly trebled to 17.7 per cent. [More…]
In 1945 Federal expenditure on education was less than $10m. [More…]
The demand for education has grown so much in the past 30 years that total expenditure on education by the Federal Government this financial year is estimated at $2,204m. [More…]
The change has come about, at least partly, because of rising expectations, improving standards, the growing cost of teacher training and educational techniques and equipment. [More…]
Ten years ago colleges of advanced education received about $2m a year from the Federal Government. [More…]
In the last Budget Federal grants for colleges of advanced education totalled $455m. [More…]
Without Federal intervention there would be no unbroken rail guages between the States; urban transport, particularly the railways, would still be burdened with antiquated equipment and rolling stock; young people would still have inadequate and unequal opportunities for secondary and tertiary education; and new initiatives in health centres, the environment and child care would not have been considered. [More…]
If effective government, geared to the needs of the 1980s and beyond, is to be achieved … if the great issues of national and local concern such as education, health, social welfare, housing and urban development are to receive maximum intelligent attention … if all our resources including human talents and local knowledge are to be effectively harnessed … if innovation, diversity and imaginative reforms are to be encouraged . [More…]
employment, housing, social security, taxation, education). [More…]
Transition from Secondary Education to Employment (Question No. [More…]
Did the Ministers for Labour at their meeting on 25 February 1977 consider the September 1976 report of the Working Party on the Transition from Secondary Education to Employment which was established by the Education Council with the agreement of the Labour Ministers; if so, with what result. [More…]
The report of the Working Party on the Transition from Secondary Education to Employment was considered by the Conference of Ministers of Labour at its meeting on 25 February 1977. [More…]
At this meeting, Ministers for Labour concurred with a proposal of the Australian Education Council to establish a Commonwealth/State Working Party of education and labour officers to develop proposals for early consideration and, subsequently, to act as a steering group for further action in the area of vocational preparation programs. [More…]
A further inquiry will be conducted into postsecondary education by Professor Williams, and certain aspects of that inquiry relate to the matter presently before the House. [More…]
Thereafter, on 28 May last, officers of those Departments and of the Department of Education were appointed to a working party to make a full study of these matters. [More…]
Department of Education requires an additional $32. [More…]
Some of the measures provided have included: direct subsidies government purchasing policies research and development grants government development contracts tariffs and other restrictions on imports fostering of mergers of local ADP manufacturers enforcement of industry standards grants to computer education finance for rental schemes and capital investments at subsidised interest rates. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to establish a Tertiary Education Commission to develop and recommend policies on the basis of Commonwealth financial support for institutions in the whole post-school sector of education throughout Australia. [More…]
The Commission will be concerned with balanced and co-ordinated development and encouragement of diversified opportunities in post-school education. [More…]
The new Commission will play a significant role in shaping and influencing the future character of post-school education in Australia. [More…]
To achieve this goal the three existing education commissions- the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education and the Technical and Further Education Commission- will be replaced by 3 Councils of the same names. [More…]
These Councils will preserve much of the essential qualities of the existing commissions while working with and being subject to the co-ordinating functions and authority of the new Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
The title of the new Commission is a matter which has been given careful consideration and, in the interests of avoiding awkward and negative names such as ‘post-secondary’ or ‘postschool’ commission, the title ‘Tertiary Education Commission’ has been adopted. [More…]
This decision implies, for the purposes of the Bill, a change in the meaning of the term ‘tertiary education* as it has generally been used in Australia. [More…]
‘Tertiary education’ has normally been used to include only those studies which require, as a minimum entry level, completion of the full secondary school course; that is, university and college of advanced education courses almost exclusively. [More…]
For the purposes of this Bill ‘tertiary education’ will also encompass the wide range of courses in the technical and further education area. [More…]
The terms ‘primary, secondary and tertiary education’ will thus be used for the Commonwealth’s purposes as purely descriptive terms, with ‘tertiary education’ comprising university education, advanced education and technical and further education. [More…]
The decision to establish a new commission was taken in pursuance of the Government ‘s preelection education policy which drew attention to the problems of co-ordination between the existing commissions. [More…]
The new arrangements were discussed by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) with the State Ministers for Education earlier this year; and in the process of drafting the present Bill comment has been obtained from State authorities and from people eminent within the post-secondary education sector, including the Chairmen of the existing commissions. [More…]
The questions of appropriate mechanisms and the involvement or otherwise of technical and further education constitute points of variance. [More…]
The Tertiary Education Commission represents a major advance on earlier proposals for 3 main reasons: Firstly, it will include the important area of technical and further education; secondly, it recognises the distinct nature and status of each of the three post-school sectors; and thirdly, it obliges the Commission to consult with appropriate State authorities in the performance of its functions. [More…]
To exclude technical and further education from the co-ordinating mechanism would be to fail to appreciate the inevitable working interface between colleges of advanced education and institutions of technical and further education and the continuous need to rationalise functions between the two. [More…]
It would ignore also the need to upgrade the role of technical and further education in the postschool sector. [More…]
It is the Government’s firm intention to devote special attention to technical and further education, which has been for too long the area of least consideration to governments in post-school education, particularly in the allocation of resources. [More…]
The new Commission will have an important role in the development of these resources and of co-operative arrangements with the States for the support of technical and further education. [More…]
To assist the new Commission in the performance of its functions, the legislation will provide for a separate Universities Council, Advanced Education Council and Technical and Further Education Council, which will be statutory bodies. [More…]
Clause 37 of the Bill provides for the right of each Council, in addition to responding to requests from the Minister or the Commission, to inquire into and advise the Minister upon whatever matters it wishes within its own sector of education. [More…]
It is important for the future quality of education that those essentially distinctive and authentic characteristics of the various types of tertiary institutions should be preserved and developed, while recognising that the nature of individual units will change and evolve and the need for new-type institutions will emerge. [More…]
The Tertiary Education Commission will have a most important task of co-ordination across the whole area of tertiary education. [More…]
I would like to emphasise the point made in clause 9(1) that the Commission will be obliged to consult with the relevant State authorities in the performance of its functions and is expected to consult with other Commonwealth and State education bodies. [More…]
We are well aware of their responsibilities in the whole education field and of their importance to the achievement of rationalisation and co-ordination of the funding of post-school education. [More…]
Clause 44 (5) of the Bill ensures in particular that the States must be consulted by the Commission before it makes recommendations as to whether a particular institution should be classified as a university or college of advanced education for the purposes of the Act. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has written to the 6 State Premiers inviting the States to participate at the Education Ministers level in detailed discussions with the Commonwealth with the aim of achieving a more effective co-partnership in the whole field of education. [More…]
Such talks would include the development of any further co-operative measures among Commonwealth and State agencies which might be necessary to strengthen the functioning of the Tertiary Education Commission and its components. [More…]
I am confident that the new arrangements will permit a truly co-ordinated approach to the funding by the Commonwealth of post-school educational institutions and will provide effective means for preventing wasteful duplication and overlap. [More…]
The new Commission will maintain close contact with the Williams Committee on Education and Training which is currently inquiring into the future goals of education in terms of human fulfilment and career development. [More…]
Pending that report, the Commission will have to pursue some more urgent inquiries of its own, for example the use of resources for teacher education. [More…]
The Tertiary Education Commission will have the final responsibility for recommending programs for the 1978-80 rolling triennium within guidelines which the Government will issue in the near future. [More…]
At the outset honourable members will notice from the amendments that are being circulated that the Opposition has some reservations in the sense that it now appears that the Technical Education Commission is to be absorbed in what is now known as the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
I propose to address my remarks almost in toto to the Tertiary Education Commission BUI. [More…]
With regard to the Tertiary Education Commission Bill, I remind the House that it provides for the constitution of a Commission which will have a chairman and 8 other members. [More…]
A similar situation applies to the advanced education Council and what is known as the technical and further education council. [More…]
It follows from the various clauses of the BUI that the chairmen of those councils themselves become members of the Commission, so there is direct liaison between the Tertiary Education Commission and the advisory councils. [More…]
It is expectedindeed it is included in the BUI- that reports of the councils would also be available to the Minister and, I take it, to the Parliament because the Parliament would want to know that the decisions made at the Tertiary Education Commission level are in accordance in the main with the recommendations made by the advisory councils. [More…]
A tertiary institution is now denned in the Bill as meaning not only a university or college of advanced education but also a technical and further education institution or a prescribed Commonwealth institution. [More…]
The Opposition feels that it would have been better to retain the independent status of the Technical Education Commission. [More…]
I remind Government supporters of their own policy which was known as the education policy. [More…]
Under the heading ‘Tertiary Education ‘ it says: [More…]
The Liberal and National Country Parties established the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission of Advanced Education. [More…]
We recognise the need to seek greater co-ordination between the bodies involved in tertiary education and we believe much of the value of the 2 Commissions has stemmed from their distinctive nature. [More…]
We would therefore examine closely the Labor Government’s proposal to establish a Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
In its education platform at the last election the Government said that it would have a close look at that and that it felt there was a lot of merit in the distinctive programs of each of the commissions. [More…]
This is happening not only to these 2 commissions but also the Technical Education Commission is being absorbed. [More…]
The opening words of the policy speech of the Government in respect of technical further education states: [More…]
We will retain the technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
The Commission’s work has drawn attention to the neglected areas of education, its activities and its recommendations, and they will receive our close and detailed consideration. [More…]
Seeing education is a life long progress we will emphasise continuing education and re-training programs which while enabling Australians to fully develop their individual potential will prepare them for the challenge of a changing society. [More…]
It goes on to mention a number of reasons why technical education has been neglected, why it will cater for retraining positions, why it will cater particularly for women re-entering the work force and states that there is a great need to retain that Commission in an independent status. [More…]
The Opposition feels that it would have been worth while to do that because it is the Cinderella of education in the tertiary field. [More…]
Technical education applies to everybody in the community in one form or another. [More…]
In the advanced education field it is again very competitive. [More…]
But the great wealth of the community with all its talents untapped and untrained have a chance to further their education and to assist this nation by undertaking technical courses which are quite wide and well adapted to a large number of people. [More…]
The Opposition is therefore moving amendments on the basis that whilst it is not opposing the provisions of the Bill, it does not want to see technical education disadvantaged and it wants assurances that adequate financial resources will be made available to the technical sector to raise its standards to the level envisaged in the Kangan report, that further measures will be taken to ensure that technical education is not further isolated and that every effort will be made to ensure full provision for the development of further education. [More…]
I refer to the Budget Speech of the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) last year under the heading ‘Education’ with regard to the Government’s proposals for planning and minimum expenditure. [More…]
As announced in my statement in May the planning guidance for universities, colleges and schools- 2 per cent growth in real terms- and for technical and further education- 5 per cent growth in real terms. [More…]
Unless that ratio of three to five is maintained, in other words, unless the States are promised that that ratio will be maintained, there will be a diminution in standards of education at the tertiary level. [More…]
This will occur perhaps not so much at the university and advanced education level, where it has already been undertaken to accept full responsibility, but in the technical education field. [More…]
If there is to be State taxation it will be at the minimum level, so it could well be that technical education will be the sufferer if programs are to be cut. [More…]
7, which deals with payments to or for the States and local governments, it will be seen that under specific purpose grants recurrent, very considerable amounts of money are available for the universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I am happy to say this is also the case in the area of technical and further education. [More…]
With regard to the capital area, it will be noticed that in the last Budget Papers, when we were dealing with capital expenditure advances for universities and colleges of advanced education, the capital expenditures were reduced. [More…]
Expenditure on technical education was maintained but not at the level that is required. [More…]
For the first time the Federal Government was not looking at the needs of education as found by the respective commissions but was directing them as to the sum of money available to apply as best they thought fit. [More…]
That can be inferred from the 2 per cent growth in one area and 5 per cent in the technical education area. [More…]
For example, the Universities Commission- I am not limiting it just to technical education- said that the Commission’s understanding of this system of triennial funding was that each year it would be given guidelines in real terms which would consist of firm expenditure figures for the following year and guaranteed minimum figures for the succeeding 2 years. [More…]
These are insufficient guidelines for technical education in the States. [More…]
If they are to plan new projects, ideas, courses and buildings in technical education the lead time is a minimum of 2 years. [More…]
One comes to the nub of the argument when one looks at that part of Dr Coughlan’s report dealing with the problems of technical education. [More…]
One wonders whether this report was too honest, too open, too critical of the Government because it said that the Commission could not possibly allow for the proper needs of education if it had to stick to the guidelines. [More…]
Perhaps that is why the Technical and Further Education Commission is now being obliterated. [More…]
Despite the fact that technical and further education was known to be the Cinderella of education, the Commission is now being absorbed. [More…]
Is it because the report of Dr Coughlan and his colleagues was too open and direct as to the needs of technical education and stated that the guidelines directed by the Government went nowhere near meeting those needs? [More…]
In other words perhaps too much emphasis has been placed in the wrong area and certainly too little has been placed in the technical education area. [More…]
As the report stated, to maintain technical education there would need to be a minimum objective for enrolments. [More…]
The Commission then had to offer optional programs and suggest that the Government should have another look at this situation it was creating for technical education. [More…]
Commencing at page li the Commission set a summary of recommended expenditure which would go somewhere toward meeting the problems it sees as facing technical education. [More…]
It is for those reasons that we take this point and we propose this amendment that says that we are very concerned with all this evidence and, having all the background information that we are now getting about the new federalism policy and how it can well restrict growth of financial aid to the States in the large sums of money that are no longer to be maintained by way of specific purpose recurrent or capital grants, if aid is in any any diminished it will have a serious effect, to say the least, on technical education. [More…]
Worse still we look like facing a situation in which, as the Tertiary Education Commission will be dealing with a lump sum volume of money in toto to be applied across 3 different sectors, there will be somewhat of a scramble as to who will get what share of the cake. [More…]
It follows, does it not, that those representing universities and colleges of advanced education fairly and properly would want to maintain standards? [More…]
If they are to do that with the problems that are now highlighted both by the Universities Commission report and the Technical and Further Education Commission report which say that there is virtually no growth and that there will be problems to maintain existing commitments, technical education could well be even more the Cinderella than was envisaged by Dr Coughlan. [More…]
It is elementary, is it not, that to meet the needs of technical education the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) in his Budget and in his supplementary appropriations now should be giving greater allocation of funds to the State governments for technical education? [More…]
If the Government is allocating resources in the wrong area how will it possibly find additional funds to meet technical education needs? [More…]
In our view as an Opposition the Technical and Further Education Commission should have been retained with its separate identity, separate purpose and its separate application of its duty to the functions of technical education which have many difficulties, many problems. [More…]
It would follow, of course, that those in a tertiary commission might be prone to say that adequate courses are provided in universities and colleges of advanced education but that, as we all know, entry is limited by restrictions on numbers, whereas in the technical colleges opportunity to enrol is spread on a much better basis through regional development, particularly country development. [More…]
A very good lecture was given recently on education and what could be achieved. [More…]
It suggested that perhaps we have created too many tiers of education and that perhaps we should look at it from the point of view of a very high quality second course other than a university course. [More…]
We do not want to have education provided in a form of machined study on the basis that industry has particular needs. [More…]
I mention again that, whilst not opposing these pieces of legislation, which of course have already been decided upon by the Government when it has not really given its clear views as to what it is going to do with respect to technical education, we are very concerned at what we now find being absorbed into the tertiary education field. [More…]
the disadvantaged position of technical education in Australia be recognised and that adequate financial resources be made available to the technical sector to raise its standards to levels envisaged in the Kangan Report; [More…]
further measures be taken to ensure that technical education in Australia is not further isolated from secondary education; and [More…]
every effort be made to ensure full provision for the development of further education. [More…]
He mentioned that the States are currently funding 83 per cent of technical and further education. [More…]
Of course this is the case because the primary responsibility for technical and further education remains with the States. [More…]
Notwithstanding this fact, the Commonwealth has provided the largest real increase in its overall funding for education to the technical and further education sphere- an increase of 5 per cent on recurrent expenditure- and has also maintained the capital level at its existing rate. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingsford-Smith also mentioned that he believed this Government was downgrading technical and further education by incorporating that sector within the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
The real situation is that technical and further education will have a more effective voice than previously because of its participation in the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
In this Commission it will be able to argue its relative merits against the merits of both the College of Advanced Education aspect and the university aspect of tertiary education. [More…]
By incorporating technical and further education within the Tertiary Education Commission the Government is not downgrading but is in fact enhancing the capacity of technical and further education to obtain government assistance. [More…]
Both education Bills before the House this evening, I believe, have importance as far as vocational education is concerned, that is, education directed specifically towards obtaining employment. [More…]
Therefore, it will have some impact on technical education at the secondary level- that form of education which I believe is of greatest direct relevance to obtaining employment. [More…]
The Tertiary Education Commission Bill will have a direct impact on technical education at the post-school level. [More…]
The Tertiary Education Commission Bill will establish the Tertiary Education Commission to develop and recommend policies on the basis of Commonwealth financial support for institutions in the whole post-school sector of education throughout Australia. [More…]
The Commission will be concerned with balanced and co-ordinated development and encouragement of diversified opportunities in post-school education. [More…]
The new Commission will play a significant role in shaping and influencing the future character of postschool education in Australia. [More…]
In the Bill tertiary education encompasses a wide range of courses in the technical and further education area. [More…]
the important area of technical and further education. [More…]
Government of the inevitable working interface between colleges of advanced education and institutions of technical and further education and the continuous need to rationalise functions between the 2 areas. [More…]
It demonstrates the Government’s awareness of the need to upgrade technical and further education in the post-school sector. [More…]
The Government is committed to devoting special attention to technical and further education. [More…]
For too long it has been the area receiving least consideration from governments in postschool education, particularly as far as the allocation of resources is concerned. [More…]
The new Commission has an important role in the development of these resources and of co-operative arrangements with the States for the support of technical and further education. [More…]
Of course education is important in playing its role of preparing people for life and of providing the opportunity to learn about self-fulfilment, about a satisfying life style and about how to make an overall contribution to the community. [More…]
Unless the education system ensures that school leavers are competent in the basic skills they need for employment so that they can obtain a job, they will not be able to contribute in this way. [More…]
A number of reports published in 1976 drew attention to the problems of literacy and numeracy in Australian society in general and within the education system in particular. [More…]
A New South Wales Department of Education survey has provided that information. [More…]
Education authorities in Victoria have estimated that 40 per cent of secondary school children have extreme difficulties in reading, while 20 per cent cannot read at all. [More…]
The Australian Council for Educational Research took a survey of 10- year-old and 14-year-old students and found that many had learning difficulties that were related to poor literacy and numeracy. [More…]
However, regardless of the various qualifications and explanations that might be advanced to mitigate this picture, there is no escape from the fact that over the past 10 years or so, despite the tremendous increases in the amount of the taxpayers’ money spent on education, standards in this country have dropped. [More…]
Furthermore, many people who are involved in education are in agreement about the major reason for the decline: It has been caused by the increasing incursion into our schools of what is called the progressive system of education. [More…]
The children who suffer most from the new, less formal methods of education are those of average ability and limited selfdiscipline. [More…]
Apart from its inadequacy at the secondary level, the progressive system of education has also has a detrimental effect at the tertiary level, specifically in the training of teachers. [More…]
An increasing stress on academic, sociological and theoretical aspects of education has been to the detriment of the more specific training in practical techniques. [More…]
Such statements will not surprise those who believe that some teacher training institutions have concentrated more on empire building processes than education. [More…]
However, it was unable to determine whether Australia’s education standards were improving or deteriorating. [More…]
Apart from the Australian Council for Educational Research’s study of 10-year-old and 14-year-old students there is limited reliable national data on the overall incidence of learning difficulties or of particular difficulties. [More…]
In Adelaide the Department of Further Education is conducting literacy courses for 130 students. [More…]
Eleven hundred people are enrolled in a course run by the New South Wales Education Department. [More…]
However, I believe that more needs to be done in the first place by giving close attention to the problems I have highlighted in our education system to ensure that the problems of literacy and numeracy do not arise. [More…]
Young people also will be prevented from taking advantage of the expanded opportunities in technical and further education which are provided for by the Tertiary Education Commission Bill and to which I would now like briefly to refer. [More…]
In October 1975 the Liberal-National Country Party policy statement on technical and further education stated that the Technical and Further Education Commission’s work has drawn attention to a neglected area of education activity and that its recommendations will receive the coalition’s close and detailed consideration. [More…]
It went on to state that the Liberal and National Country Parties would consult with the States to determine methods by which they could promote and attract appropriately qualified persons into technical education. [More…]
In August 1976 the first Technical and Further Education Commission report for the 1977 to 1979 triennium was presented. [More…]
This demonstrates the Government’s very definite commitment to this area of education. [More…]
It should be emphasised that the Government continues to give technical and further education a high priority . [More…]
In January 1977, in announcing the arrangements for the new post-secondary education commission, Senator Carrick said that it was the Government’s firm intention to pay special attention to technical and further education, particularly in the allocation of resources. [More…]
In March 1977, in Wagga Senator Carrick made a significant statement on the whole tertiary education system. [More…]
It should be noted that once again the thrust of the statement was directed to technical and further education. [More…]
Senator Carrick said that Cabinet had authorised him to announce that it was the Government’s firm intention to pay special heed to technical and further education, once again with particular reference to the allocation of resources. [More…]
From these statements we see that the Government is giving a high priority to this important area of education. [More…]
Unless we have an increased enrolment in technical and further education, an increased opportunity in that area and an increased output from these institutions, Australia ‘s industrial productivity and’ ultimately its future prosperity will lag behind that of competitors overseas. [More…]
Therefore this area should continue to receive the high priority which the Government has demonstrated both in the legislation being debated in the House this evening and in the allocation it provided for this area of education in the last Budget. [More…]
He talked about the profligate spending of the Labor Government; yet this area of education is the very area where so much of that expenditure occurred. [More…]
He said that his Government’s commitment to education is undoubted. [More…]
If he heard the derision with which the televised comments and the guarantees of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) were received he would not be too happy. [More…]
Having said that, we can concentrate on the Tertiary Education Commission BUI. [More…]
My first attitude to this was that we should completely oppose the inclusion of the Technical and Further Education Commission in this Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
One of the reasons why, whilst the Opposition is critical, it is prepared to give the BUI a go is that it gives recognition to technical and further education as a field of tertiary education. [More…]
To exclude technical and further education from the coordinating mechanism would be to fail to appreciate the inevitable working interface between colleges of advanced education and institutions of technical and further education and the continuous need to rationalise functions between the two. [More…]
It would ignore also the need to upgrade the role of technical and further education in the post-secondary sector. [More…]
One would have thought that the universities and colleges of advanced education fitted into a compatible group because of a similarity in structure and in many of their courses; but I would remind the House that only last year when the matter of academic salaries for staffs at universities and colleges of advanced education was brought before the Academic Salaries Tribunal the General Secretary of the Federation of Staff Associations of the Australian Colleges of Advanced Education was moved to comment in writing to the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Withers) that in August he had advised the Minister of the serious educational implications that would flow from tacit acceptance of the Tribunal’s findings. [More…]
These remarks, often unsubstantiated, will do serious harm to the colleges of advanced education and therefore to the community, which looks to the colleges to provide an alternative form of tertiary education which must not be seen in their eyes as being in any way inferior to a university education. [More…]
That illustrates that there will be some difficulties in marrying even the universities and colleges of advanced education in this sort of set-up. [More…]
The universities, through the Universities Commission, have a much longer history of operating in the political and educational field of getting grants. [More…]
They have a clout that perhaps the colleges of advanced education do not quite have. [More…]
Certainly the technical and further education institutions do not have this experience. [More…]
One is concerned that technical and further education may be the Cinderella and may become submerged in this Commission. [More…]
It means that technical and further education is one area of tertiary education that has some differences from the other 2 areas, that there is this greater State involvement, and so much will depend on the performance of State governments. [More…]
The other aspects of the amendment are no less important, and I refer to the measures to be taken to ensure that technical education in Australia is not further isolated from secondary education. [More…]
I notice that the term ‘post-school education’ is being used to describe tertiary education. [More…]
It is very easy to see the stream of secondary education leading to the universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
It is much less easy to see a consistent stream in the secondary field leading to technical and further education. [More…]
For example, I submit that Victoria has a much more clearly defined system for secondary education in the technical field leading into this area, and I am concerned that we might lose sight of this problem if technical and further education in the tertiary sense becomes submerged in the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
Finally, there is the matter of the term ‘further education’, and much of this is concerned with adult education. [More…]
One does not hear it talked about too much in parliamentary circles, in political circles, or even in education circles, yet in the past it has shown fuckers of becoming a very fruitful field for enabling the continuance of lifelong education. [More…]
In speaking to the amendment, the honourable member for Kingsford Smith gave some notice that in the Committee stage the Opposition would be moving amendments requiring not only the new Tertiary Education Commission to present an annual report to the Minister for Education which he must then present to Parliament, but that the 3 advisory councils should do so also. [More…]
It is up to the councils and the commission to be able to report freely, as the Technical and Further Education Commission did on the 1977-79 triennium, and to be able to report critically on the needs, as the TAFE Commission did, battling against guidelines which were laid down. [More…]
Such reporting is necessary so that we know what the needs are in a particular field, whether it be universities, advanced education or technical and further education, and can analyse for ourselves just how bad or how good the Government’s decision on expenditure and encouragement in certain areas will be. [More…]
One wonders whether the extent of technical and further education is really realised. [More…]
In paragraph ( 10) on page xxv of its summary of conclusions the Commission acknowledges that there is a need to continue to co-operate with the tertiary commissions in examining the overall provision but it comments that there is an equally strong need for action at the State level to ensure rationalisation of educational resources in the post-school sector. [More…]
Interpreting available data conservatively, the Commission estimates that the equivalent full-time student enrolments of the State TAFE Departments/Divisions in 1975 were some 163 500 as compared with some 126 900 in universities and some 98 200 in colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Put another way, TAFE is meeting rather more than 40 per cent of the total institutional load of post-secondary education. [More…]
That leads me to have some concern as to what will happen when the 3 areas in tertiary education are put up against one another. [More…]
As I mentioned previously, one concern is that there is a much greater State financial involvement in the area of technical and further education. [More…]
So one sees technical and further education going into this new Tertiary Education Commission not in quite the same way as universities and colleges of advanced education, because of the differences in responsibility and financing and because of the greater involvement in it of State initiatives and State programs. [More…]
It is difficult to see how a combined Commission will be able to give a fair picture of what is needed because there will be many factors outside the control of that Commission, whereas those factors are much more readily controlled in the field of universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
My colleague the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith has dealt with the first part which points out the disadvantaged position of technical education in Australia and which requests that its recognition not be overlooked. [More…]
I know that assurances were given in the second reading speech by the Minister for the Capital Territory, but we are faced with the inherent problem of an inbuilt elitist attitude that this area of education may be disadvantaged. [More…]
Yet almost nothing is being done to promote migrant education or the teaching of foreign languages in Australia. [More…]
Almost nothing is being done to enable hundreds of thousands of Australian children to study their native languages in schools, let alone to acquire a general education through the medium of their mother tongue. [More…]
In 1974 a joint inquiry into schools of high migrant density was undertaken by a working party from the Federal departments of Education and Immigration and the New South Wales and Victorian departments of Education. [More…]
Reduced levels of educational achievement among migrant and locally born children were almost universal in the schools studied. [More…]
Language teaching is the key to the successful integration of migrants and the key to genuine equality of opportunity in education and employment. [More…]
If the decline continues Australia will be culturally poorer and migrant children will continue to be socially isolated and to suffer in their education. [More…]
In its fifth main report- on Poverty and Education in Australia, issued last December- the Henderson Commission stated that migrants were particularly handicapped by the Australian school system. [More…]
The Commission recommended that pilot schemes in bilingual education should be established under the auspices of the Schools Commission in schools where there is a high concentration of migrants. [More…]
The Committee was appointed in November 1974 by my colleague, the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), when he was Minister for Education. [More…]
The Fraser Government sat on the report for 9 months before it was tabled by the present Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in the Senate on 8 December. [More…]
We sought and received many reports on educational matters. [More…]
The report noted that there are strong educational and social reasons for enabling a migrant child to learn his own language as well as English. [More…]
The New South Wales Multicultural Education Committeean independent expert body promoting migrant education- has estimated that it would cost the Fraser Government only $2m to implement the Committee’s recommendations in New South Wales this year. [More…]
Its sole concern is with recruiting, vetting or deporting migrants, it has no responsibility for migrant welfare, health, education, housing, employment. [More…]
It took Australia 6 years to accede to the 1960 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation convention against discrimination in education. [More…]
Article 5 of that convention obliges the parties to recognise ‘the right of members of national minorities to carry on their own educational activities’ and ‘the use or the teaching of their own language’. [More…]
An exhaustive survey by Eva Isaacs of the education problems of Greek children in Sydney pointed to extraordinary hardships endured by Greek children from poor families. [More…]
My colleague in the other place, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), tabled on 8 December 1976 the report of the Committee on the Teaching of Migrant Languages in Schools for the very purpose of allowing public study and comment upon the report and to obtain public reaction to the recommendations within it. [More…]
I refer the House to the Fitzgerald report on poverty and education; to the fact that the Education Research and Development Committee- the ERDCestablished a study group to examine the research requirements of multi-cultural education; to the fact that the Curriculum Development Commission has set up a study group to examine the curriculum development of multicultural education; and to the fact that the ERDC, which I have already mentioned, has established a separate study group to discuss possible research initiatives by the ERDC in foreign languages. [More…]
No matter what the honourable gentleman seeks to say about the federalism policies of this Government, the undoubted fact- it is even a fact from which the honourable gentleman cannot run away- is that the teaching in the States is done through the State education systems and in the Territories through the Commonwealth education system. [More…]
So whatever the Commonwealth might seek to do must be done in co-operation and consultation with the State education authorities. [More…]
If it is not to be that, it can only be the alternative, which is to operate through the State education systems and the State teacher training colleges. [More…]
I am sure that he has also read what the Government says in its policy statements about migrant education. [More…]
Migrant Education [More…]
To speed up the processes of migrant education and language instruction while improving migrant counselling services, a Liberal/National Country Party government will make thorough investigation into all aspects of audio-visual aids for use in schools, factories and specific migrant centres. [More…]
Following on from this, a Liberal/National Country Party government will consult with and support ethnic communities in their own programmes of ethnic education. [More…]
To cater for migrant day-to-day problems, a Liberal/ National Country Party government will establish migrant education, information and interpreter centres in strong migrant areas to act as an accessible reference point, particularly for migrant wives. [More…]
A Liberal/National Country Party government will, in conjunction with the States, encourage the cooperation of source countries to embark on a teacher exchange scheme, to improve the standard of migrant education in Australia as well as to overcome the ‘brain drain’ complaint of some migrant countries. [More…]
I know from having discussed this problem with school principals and parents how valuable they have found consultation in respect of primary schools in particular because migrant children who do not know or understand the English language can be much better prepared for their further education through communication in their own language. [More…]
This has been a matter of discussion recently between the Minister for Education and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
It is relevant in this respect that we have developed bridging courses for overseastrained teachers whose qualifications are not sufficient to be recognised immediately for employment by the State and Catholic education authorities. [More…]
The State and Catholic education authorities in New South Wales and Victoria have been closely involved with the establishment of these courses and successful students will qualify for employment at primary school level. [More…]
The Minister for Education has given an assurance that this report, along with all other related reports, are presently undergoing comprehensive study within his Department. [More…]
May I draw to the Minister’s attention the fact that teachers colleges have now become colleges of advanced education and their financing is entirely centralised under the Commonwealth, that that was done by the Labor Party and that the present Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) is continuing that policy. [More…]
The second thing I should like to say to the Minister is that the Commonwealth Government is perfectly capable of suggesting to the Commission on Advanced Education or to its successor, the Tertiary Education Commission, that certain additional things may be necessary in the work of teachers colleges. [More…]
We vastly increased federal funds available, first to teachers colleges and then to the teacher education section of colleges of advanced education, with suggestions at various times that they should do things about Aboriginal education and other matters like that. [More…]
I have said before in this House that the educational world is admiring the work of Hart and Walker at Mount Gravatt College of Advanced Education. [More…]
If the Minister, who like myself is a West Australian, will look at section 32f of the Western Australian Education Act he will find a draconian provision that if any principal of a school or any proprietor of a school, which picks up the non-government schools, dares to conduct the school with a medium of instruction in a language other than English he is fined $200 for the first day and $50 for every day he continues to do so. [More…]
By that provision Western Australia effectively denies an education to Aboriginal children of a nonEnglish speaking background. [More…]
It can be said that where that does not take place the children have very little chance at all of an education. [More…]
Exactly the same position applies in migrant education. [More…]
One of the things that that Committee pointed out was the lack of enterprise of State governments and State Education departments as compared with banks. [More…]
But the courtesy which is extended to bank customers most education departments have not extended. [More…]
Aboriginal children’s education is rotten in the States. [More…]
The education of migrant children, outside the Catholic sector, has rotted in the States precisely because there is no commission administration, there is bureaucratic administration. [More…]
It is the duty of the director of education to defend the government and not rock the boat. [More…]
We began a process in migrant education that needs to be finished. [More…]
The Right Honourable John Gorton early in 1971, when he was still Prime Minister, admitted that the Commonwealth migration program was creating a crisis for State Education departments and that the Commonwealth would have to put in a special expenditure. [More…]
The moment we started these reports on what needed to be done, the expenditure on migrant education in 1974-75 was not $4m over 3 years but $20. [More…]
Many of these children will get a first class effective education only if, where there is a high concentration of migrant children, there is a bilingual education. [More…]
-I think the House will have very much appreciated the thoughtful address just delivered by the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), who was a former Minister for Education. [More…]
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner), who is at the table, has reminded me that section 32F of the Act to which the honourable member referred was repealed last year especially to allow bilingual education in north-west Australia. [More…]
When I travelled to Western Australia, the honourable member’s State, with the Government Parties Education Committee. [More…]
I am certain that some of the courses offered at the Western Australian School of Technology would be of great interest to the Department of Education. [More…]
We looked at similar courses being offered in other education establishments in the same area. [More…]
How much of that money went to improve migrant education? [More…]
I should like to see established a college of ethnic education- a whole college specifically devoted to the purpose sought in the report. [More…]
I am very glad to say that I have just had a talk with Mr Ian Adams, the director of ethnic education in Victoria. [More…]
Perhaps it should have been done in the time when the honourable member for Fremantle was the Minister for Education. [More…]
-We are debating the Tertiary Education Commission Bill 1977 and the Commonwealth Teaching Service Amendment Bill 1977. [More…]
1 wish to address my remarks mainly to the Tertiary Education Commission Bill whose purpose is to introduce a new commission to the Australian education scene. [More…]
The Tertiary Education Commission will replace the 3 existing commissions and have overriding control over the whole post-school sector of education. [More…]
I think that all honourable members on both sides of the House and indeed those people in the community interested in education will welcome this move, bearing in mind that the 3 existing commissions will be continued in the form of councils to advise the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
It should be borne in mind also that the chairmen of the 3 councils- I refer to the 3 councils, as they will be known, involved in the areas of universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education- will be full-time members of the new Commission. [More…]
The obvious benefits that will occur will be seen, firstly, in the technical and further education area. [More…]
However, it has been developing in the education field, and I shall return to that point in a moment because I wish to express some reservations about what is happening there as well as welcoming the changes or the advancements that have occurred. [More…]
No doubt there are many members of Parliament and certainly many members of the public who, while working on or being a representative on councils of various colleges, universities and so on, have very often been frustrated by what appears to be a preference by governments for one sector or another of education at different times. [More…]
In other words, there has been an apparent non-agreement between the 3 commissions in regard to what is best for education in the whole post-school sector. [More…]
The Commission which will now be formed will obviously have the power to take control of those situations and will help to bring to the whole spectrum of education a greater degree of liaison and planning. [More…]
A balance must be reached in all areas of education. [More…]
I have noted that in his second reading speech the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Staley) refers to 3 main reasons why the establishment of the Tertiary Education Commission represents a major advance on the present system. [More…]
He says that the area of technical and further education will be included as part and parcel of the Commission. [More…]
If one looks at the Budget figures- not just the last Budget but many previous budgets- one finds that technical and further education certainly did not receive anywhere near the allocation of government resources as did the other 2 sectors of education, namely, universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Of course, that is understandable if one is talking of colleges of advanced education which are attended by what one would call daytime or regular students. [More…]
But one must bear in mind that many more students and people are involved in technical and further education. [More…]
But I urge caution here in that we must not go overboard and decide that technical and further education is the be-all and end-all. [More…]
I trust that when the new Commission is established the 3 full-time members, in conjunction with the Chairman of the Commission and the 5 parttime members, will exercise a great deal of care and caution in developing the field of technical and further education in a balanced way. [More…]
We all want to see the technical and further education area developed. [More…]
We want to see it receive a fair proportion of the funds that are available for distribution for education. [More…]
A recent meeting of the principals of regional colleges of advanced education- a regional college is established in an area where no other form of tertiary education is available; in other words, the college of advanced education is the only form of tertiary education available in that area- expressed concern about this matter, and that concern has been relayed to those of us who represent such areas. [More…]
The concern expressed was that there could be an inbalance of representation unless great care is exercised by the Government in the appointment of the part-time members not only to the Tertiary Education Commission itself but also to the 3 councils. [More…]
There is concern that there should be representation for those regional areas in which there is only one type of tertiary education institution, whether it be a university or a college of advanced education. [More…]
I mention this matter as being one of great magnitude as regards colleges of advanced education. [More…]
We need to display fairness and balance to ensure that the less densely populated areas have equal representation in the field of education. [More…]
I suggest that at least one of the 5 part-time members on the Tertiary Education Commission should represent the regional areas so that there is an input of what is required, and what action ought to be taken in support of the regional areas. [More…]
As a member of the council of the college of advanced education in my area, too many times I have had to struggle to ensure that the funds that have been allocated to the college have been spent in the proper way in the areas to which they were directed. [More…]
I believe that it is time that we as a government, as a responsible body, should ensure that the weaker side or the lesser side in the education scene covered by this Bill- I am talking about the regional areas- are thoroughly represented. [More…]
I wanted to say only those few words on this matter because I regard it as being very important, as I am sure do many other honourable members who are associated with education, particularly in the regional areas. [More…]
In concluding my remarks I mention that I have written to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) on this subject. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner), who is at the table and who in this debate is representing the Minister for Education, will also take note of it and will take some positive steps to see that what I have suggested is put into operation. [More…]
-The honourable member for Bendigo (Mr Bourchier) has mentioned one of the difficult matters in technical education and that is how technical education can be made available for rural areas. [More…]
In spite of what was said in a recent speech the amount of money appropriated does matter to the States and their education departments. [More…]
The Labor Government almost immediately increased the amount of money available for technical education by 350 per cent when it came into office. [More…]
One of the points that interested the Ministry and as a consequence the Interim Technical and Further Education Commission, known as the Kangan Committee, was the fact that the enormously expensive equipment put into technical colleges requires a considerable number of students to use it. [More…]
There are regions which, because of some unique characteristic, should be the centres of a remoter area form of post-secondary education. [More…]
The first real studies conducted into the standards of 10-year-old and 14-year-old Australian children- 10 years as being near the end of their primary education and 14 years as being near the beginning of their secondary education- were the Australian studies in school performance. [More…]
This work was done by the Australian Council for Educational Research, known as ACER. [More…]
This work was carried out under the sponsorship of this body following directions given in my time as Minister for Education. [More…]
But we do not have any spot checks in Australian educational history on which to base anything. [More…]
There is too much pretence that something new is coming into technical education as a result of the present Government’s decisions. [More…]
Enrolments in technical education under the Whitlam Government increased in a very short space of time from 400 000 to 705 000. [More…]
Technical education was made free. [More…]
The purpose of a technical college is to provide re-entry into education by people who want to upgrade their qualifications. [More…]
This is why I regret that the Government proposes to include technical and further education with the other 2 commissions. [More…]
If we are honest we cannot stand up here and say that we know that such a move will be disastrous for technical education. [More…]
Nor can honourable gentlemen opposite say that they know that such a move will be good for technical education. [More…]
First, the Commonwealth totally funds universities and colleges of advanced education but it does not totally fund technical colleges. [More…]
Secondly, as the honourable member for Bendigo suggested, the technical sector of education is overwhelmingly part-time and is used by people of a comparatively advanced age who return for some reason to technical education. [More…]
However, a technical college of 36 000 students, such as a college in Sydney, cannot do anything without a director of education holding the principal’s hand. [More…]
Of course, if the Government does that and cannot accept the colossal expenditure that will be recommended, it will be told, even if it is adding $ 1 50m in real terms to education expenditure, that it is making cuts because the amount is not as high as was recommended. [More…]
You are back to the secret relations between a Minister for Education and the Director of Education where the advice is private. [More…]
It is on this basis that for years and years States like Western Australia were subject to the former section 20 and- I hope the Minister is right- the former section 32 (f) with regard to education. [More…]
The handicapped or the people in need of a linguistic education were inarticulate minorities and nothing was done about them. [More…]
It was the good old relationship between Directors of Education and their Ministers. [More…]
The second point that worries me, apart from the fact that the guidelines really are beginning to overthrow the nature of the commission system, is the eclipsing of the Technical and Further Education Commission when it had existed for only 2 years. [More…]
The Labor Government intended to combine the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
So, the Labor Government felt that the Universities Commission and the Commission on Advanced Education should be combined; that there should be 2 councils but that there should be a common capital recommendation to stop competitive bidding for building material and labour. [More…]
This Government has taken this into the field of technical and further education and I regret it. [More…]
Technical and Further Education Commission was being punished because, in effect, it did not accept the guidelines. [More…]
I am unhappy about the disappearance of the Technical and Further Education Commission for a number of reasons. [More…]
Apart from the question of total funding of the other 2 Commissions, and merely topping up in the technical and further education area and apart from unhappiness about the extinction of a commission which has been critical of the guidelines that have been given it by a Government, I believe that the area of technical and further education is not neces’sarily postsecondary. [More…]
What is needed increasingly in Australia is the re-entry into education of people who are not post-secondary. [More…]
I inherited from the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), who was my predecessor as Minister for Education, a secretary- Mr Gordon Hurst. [More…]
But they were at a tertiary education age and they needed some money. [More…]
The Labor Government established a system whereby they were given the tertiary allowance although they were only at the secondary level and they re-entered the field of education. [More…]
Phillip College in Canberra is par excellence a place of re-entry and the fact that young people of 20 or 21 or 22 come back into secondary education, really flat out to study, enhances enormously the prestige of education to the other young people in the College. [More…]
Technical colleges are admirably adapted to reentry into education. [More…]
They are not like colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Of course, with a master at blaming the Commonwealth and extracting the maximum advantage out of the Commonwealth, like Mr Bjelke-Petersen, the Government may find that technical and further education disappears altogether and is included with colleges of advanced education which are funded totally by the Commonwealth. [More…]
Mr Bjelke-Petersen very adroitly is making technical education a function of colleges of advanced education, which are funded totally by the Commonwealth, instead of by topping-up grants. [More…]
There is still, in my view, a very clear case for a special and separate consideration of an independent technical and further education commission. [More…]
-We have reached a stage in Australian education where an obvious rationalisation and accurate assessment of the post secondary area is needed. [More…]
Education has rapidly become a significant issue in our community and in our parliaments. [More…]
A study of the historical development of education in Australia, however, indicates an urgent need for a planning body to introduce a balance in funding and programs with the long term interests of the nation’s population in mind. [More…]
Too often education appropriations into each area of education have relied upon the ability of many groups to impress their will on the governments of the day. [More…]
Apart from inertia on the part of the planning authorities the lack of any rational co-ordination between all sectors of tertiary education, the neglect of careers guidance and the absence of close links between TAFE and the secondary schools, and the misplaced emphasis on the value of university degrees, there has been an unforgivable failure to understand and constantly bear in mind that the creation of the wealth upon which all the people in Australia depend for their livelihood and affluence is primarily the work of the skilled tradesman and the primary producer. [More…]
The urgency of allocating more resources to technical education in underscored by the facts that we can no longer count as much as in the past on the skills brought in by immigrants, on the strong belief that the young in Australia are in for prolonged periods of unemployment, that the demand for skills and for the upgrading of existing skills will increase, and that our technical education facilities have long been starved of funds for capital equipment . [More…]
The new Tertiary Education Commission is to develop and to recommend policies on the basis of government financial support for institutions in the whole post-school sector of education throughout Australia. [More…]
The Commission will be concerned with balanced and co-ordinated development and encouragement of diversified opportunities in post-school education. [More…]
The new Commission will play a significant role in shaping and influence the future character of postschool education in Australia. [More…]
To achieve this goal the 3 existing education commissions, the Universities Commission, the Commission on Advanced Education and the Technical and Further Education Commission, will be replaced by 3 councils of the corresponding names. [More…]
These councils will preserve much of the essential qualities of the existing commissions while working with and being subject to the co-ordinating functions and authority of the new Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
The Tertiary Education Commission represents a major advance on earlier proposals for 3 main reasons: Firstly, it will include the important area of technical and further education; secondly, it recognises the distinct nature and status of each of the 3 post-school sectors; and thirdly, it obliges the Commission to consult with appropriate State authorities in the performance of its functions. [More…]
To exclude technical and further education from the co-ordination mechanism would be to fail to appreciate the inevitable working interface between colleges of advanced education and institutions of technical and further education and of course the continuous need to rationalise functions between the two. [More…]
It would ignore also the need to upgrade the role of technical and further education in the post-school sector. [More…]
To assist the new Commission in the performance of its functions, the legislation will provide for a separate Universities Council, Advanced Education Council and Technical and Further Education Council, which will be statutory bodies. [More…]
They are to be regarded as important and authoritative sources of advice and contact in their own sectors and their views will be made known both to the Minister for Education and to the Commission. [More…]
Clause 37 of the Bill provides for the right of each Council, in addition to responding to requests from the Minister or the Commission, to inquire into and advise the Minister upon whatever matters it wishes within its own sector of education. [More…]
It is important for the future quality of education that those essentially distinctive and authentic characteristics of the various types of tertiary institutions should be preserved and developed, while recognising that the nature of individual units will change and evolve and the need for new-type institutions will emerge. [More…]
I am confident that the new arrangements will permit a truly co-ordinated approach to the funding by the Commonwealth of post-school educational institutions and will provide effective means for preventing wasteful duplication and overlap. [More…]
The new Commission will maintain close contact with the Williams Committee on Education and Training which is currently inquiring into the future goals of education in terms of human fulfilment and career development. [More…]
I wish to emphasise that this Bill, in establishing the Tertiary Education Commission, should not and will not remove from any government its responsibility for policy, for establishing its own objectives and for providing adequate appropriations. [More…]
What is important though is that such decisions or the setting of guidelines by a government can be assessed through the medium of public reports and be of long term educational value to this nation’s community. [More…]
Recently I have been involved in visits to educational institutions in various States. [More…]
While recognising areas of deficiency throughout Australia I also recognise a high level of education achievement. [More…]
The demands upon this nation’s resources make it imperative that there be a realistic disbursement of funds and objectives to all sectors of education. [More…]
It can only be in the interests of our young people and adults seeking education and training that the best possible use of resources is made. [More…]
However, difficulties and frustrations have been encountered by the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
In doing so, however, particularly in introducing some courses, they have put themselves in direct competition with colleges of advanced education which perhaps have committed already resources, funds and staff to similar courses. [More…]
The Opposition has gone to great lengths, both in this House and in the other place, in this debate to attack the Government on its education policy. [More…]
I feel that it is important to recognise that in a time of economic hardship and restraint, it has been possible to continue to support education in a positive and increasing manner. [More…]
The previous Government made many notable achievements in education and our Party has supported these advances on almost all occasions. [More…]
The other was that the last Whitlam Budget reduced expenditure on the 4 education commissions by $ 105m. [More…]
Of course, because of the Whitlam Government’s policies- its tariff cuts and its economic mismanagement generally- it created more juvenile unemployment and in fact created a greater demand for education under the new economic conditions. [More…]
In this situation in 1 977, the Liberal-National Country Party Government has put more money into education. [More…]
We all are aware of the appointment of a most important and significant committee- the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a table showing the expenditure programs of the various education commissions. [More…]
I read that part of the Hansard report of the Senate debate which gave the explanation that the Government was not doing anything novel in relation to this matter but that it was copying the Labor Party’s proposition contained in the Technical and Further Education Commission Act. [More…]
Section 8 of the Technical and Further Education Commission Act 1975 provides that there shall be reports. [More…]
A similar amendment was moved in the other place and was rejected there by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]
The honourable member for Kingsford-Smith has now sought to put his argument on the basis that what the Government proposes in clause 9 of the Tertiary Education Commission Bill 1977 is in fact different from what is provided in the present Technical and Further Education Commission Act. [More…]
Sixthly, towards the end of this century Australia will need to spend relatively more on such things as aged pensions and other age related welfare schemes and relatively less- I am sad to say this- on such things as child endowment, education, creches and the like. [More…]
There is a shortage of skilled tradesmen and we have people coming out of high school and coming out at every level of our education system who simply cannot find employment in the levels in which they anticipated or hoped that they would find it. [More…]
The whole question of skilled labour is there for us to manage in an education program if that is what we desire. [More…]
It has successfully initiated many programs in the fields of health, welfare, child care, education, ethnic affairs, recreation, youth, environment and community information and media access. [More…]
During discussion at an experts meeting organised by the OECD Directorate for Social Affairs, Manpower and Education in Paris, unemployment due to several factors was distinguished. [More…]
I believe that the ‘Modest Member’ indicated that these areas were education receiving 9. [More…]
I hope that the Government does apply the same cnterion when it is thinking of cutting expenditure on education, health and social welfare and when it is increasing the problems we face by ensuring that the numbers of students at our schools and tertiary institutions are maintained at much higher numbers than is necessary because of the lack of opportunities it creates for them. [More…]
Education, which had been substantially depoliticised by the establishment of the Schools Commission, and criteria whereby recommendations were made and the government of the day then had to make decisions as to what extent it would fund those recommendations, are now about to disappear insofar as they are public information or subject to public examination and suggestions as to what expenditure should take place. [More…]
Thus approximately 60 per cent of total outlays are involved in carrying out programs in the Departments of Defence, Health, Education and Social Security. [More…]
The decrease in the figures for this office and the other office I shall mention, Mount Druitt, was due to the recommencement of universities and colleges of advanced education and young people taking up scholarships. [More…]
The reduction was due mainly to people taking up scholarships in colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]
Labor Council education officer, Bob Carr, said: ‘Curtailment will lead to more strikes because many young men and women union officials have learnt and others are learning negotiation procedures, which are of great value in avoiding strikes.’ [More…]
The committee will also be asked to report whether the training should be integrated with other forms of management education. [More…]
Maybe the scheme has proven itself to be a formidable match to management education, so that the employers no longer enjoy the unfair advantage in industrial relations which they were permitted to enjoy for so long. [More…]
For a considerable time government has substantially funded various forms of management education. [More…]
They were the desirability of integrating trade union training into industrial relations training generally and the closer integration of trade union training with the general education system; the role, membership and staffing of the statutory authority concerned with trade union training; and the cost and methods of financing trade union training. [More…]
If the Trade Union Training Authority is to remain a viable counterbalance to management training it is essential that this autonomy of the Authority is not lost by its being diffused with management education bodies. [More…]
They affect people in receipt of social welfare benefits, pre-school education and migrants. [More…]
The subject of education was debated in this House today. [More…]
The honourable member for Higgins (Mr Shipton) was a member of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties and he knows very well that there are children in this country who are deprived of the opportunity of achieving their maximum level of educational development. [More…]
In many cases migrant children cannot achieve this objective and because of the inadequacy of our education services they are destined to fill the more meagre positions in our society. [More…]
The adult migrant education program in Australia, including part-time instruction, is to be cut by $74,000. [More…]
Expenditure on the child migrant education program is to be cut by $983,400. [More…]
Also, $419,000 is to be cut from the adult migrant education program. [More…]
Spending on migrant education programs was reduced by 2 per cent in real terms in this year’s Budget. [More…]
An amount of $167,000 has been cut from this item which is vital in the development of multilingual education programs. [More…]
Only $120,000 was allocated in the Budget for this financial year for those special investigations into the educational needs of disadvantaged groups in this community. [More…]
The Government claims that it is interested in reducing the educational disadvantage that migrant groups suffer because English is not their first language, but where is there some allocation to implement the recommendations of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties. [More…]
Technical education is one of the most serious areas of need in this country. [More…]
Yet we hear all this drivel about what we are doing in regard to technical and further education. [More…]
There was a meeting of educationists in Victoria recently and I noticed that some of our friends were there. [More…]
In family allowances the Government has introduced allowances payable for each child under 16 years of age, or under 25 years of age if receiving full time education. [More…]
He is on the very back bench after doing a very good job in the education ministry by comparison with other Labor Ministers. [More…]
For example, real defence spending is to increase by about 5 per cent and education by some 2 per cent a year. [More…]
We must better align our education system with vocational possibilities than has been the case in recent years. [More…]
It is true that teachers for pre-tertiary educational institutions are not on the list of eligible occupations for entry to Australia at the moment. [More…]
In respect of independent schools, if they can provide a case to the regional directors of migration, who, consult with the State Departments of Employment and Industrial Regulations, which suggests that they cannot recruit suitably trained teachers locally and that the teachers they wish to recruit overseas are of a standard which is acceptable to the Department of Education in the State in which those teachers will be employed, then the entry of those people may be looked at sympathetically. [More…]
After looking briefly through the Appropriation Bills, I am proud of the additional expenditure- I pick out one item only- that the Government has provided for education. [More…]
5m additional to what was previously approved for education spending. [More…]
Of course, much of this money will go to the tertiary education assistance scheme and recent rises announced by the Government. [More…]
I do not believe that education is only to turn out people to work. [More…]
In my view the education system is training people for jobs that no longer exist and not for jobs that the new emerging society will need filled in the next 25 years. [More…]
But those schemes represent costs to the revenue in the same way as there is a cost against the revenue when, in line with the increase in consumer price index, pensions and unemployment benefits are increased and the costs of health, education, defence and payments to the States are also increased. [More…]
The best sort of education in this area is to inform a person of his rights at the time those rights are in question. [More…]
This Ordinance is now law and will have the effect of prohibiting abortions in the Territory otherwise than at Canberra’s two public hospitals for a period of 90 days while the Assembly’s Standing Committee on Education and Health inquires into the abortion issue generally. [More…]
They have left school at a time when additional education would have been an advantage on the understanding that they would receive an apprenticeship. [More…]
However, I understand that the Canberra College of Advanced Education hopes to start a course of this kind next year. [More…]
It has approved development credits totalling more than $US 1 1 billion for all the major sectors of economic development, with special emphasis on agriculture and transportation as well as projects for education, urbanization, industry, population and nutrition, tourism, telecommunications and electric power. [More…]
The main purpose of the Bill is to amend the States Grants (Advanced Education) Act 1976 and the States Grants (Advanced Education Assistance) Act 1976 to provide, in accordance with the established policy and procedural arrangements, supplementary grants totalling $15,612,080 to cover cost increases which have occurred since the 1976 and 1977 programs in respect of colleges of advanced education were adopted. [More…]
This Bill amends the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974 and the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Act 1976 to adjust the approved programs of grants to the States for technical and further education, to provide for cost supplementation to December 1976 price levels. [More…]
This Bill completes the cost supplementation process for the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974. [More…]
Further amendments to the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Act 1976 will be necessary as information becomes available on movements in costs during 1977. [More…]
Australia to which refugees wish to go; the background of refugees to be accepted- their capacity for early integration or otherwise; the availability of special post arrival services- language instruction, education, training, accommodation, health and welfare; and the numbers of refugees for which voluntary agencies can care. [More…]
We have to recognise, however, that there can be refugees with the sort of background, education and skills enabling them to fit readily into the Australian scene. [More…]
A standing inter-departmental committee on refugees comprising a senior officer of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs as chairman, and senior officers of the Departments of Foreign Affairs, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Employment and Industrial Relations, Social Security, Finance, Health and Education with other departments and the Public Service Board to be co-opted as necessary, will be established. [More…]
Another example occurred in the Department of Education where it failed to consider the financial and accounting implications of the introduction of a new pay cycle for beneficiaries under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]
In the field of education there is no question that the great advances made during the period of the Whitlam Government have been negated to some degree by staff ceilings in the teaching profession and by the availability of ancillary staff. [More…]
In looking through the White Paper I find that it totally ignores the relationship between our manpower needs and our education ideals. [More…]
I cannot find anywhere in the White Paper the relationship between the emphasis we are putting on education by virtue of spending millions of dollars through this Government and /or the State governments and what we may need in industry. [More…]
One of the features of the Australian educational system which will obviously undergo change is the concluding matriculation figure. [More…]
When one compares this figure with Japan where 91 out of every 100 children complete high school, one can see that the greater emphasis on education which has taken place in Australia over the past 10 years will lift that figure enormously. [More…]
Obviously a lot of young people without a higher education who now go into manufacturing will perhaps in the future refuse to do so. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]
He will be aware that Parliament has passed legislation providing funds for construction of the engineering school at the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education and that a decision has been made to defer commencement of the works pending the outcome of the inquiry in Victoria into post-secondary education. [More…]
Will he confirm that the sum of $2.5m scheduled in the relevant Act is in no way in jeopardy pending the decision of the Newman committee and the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission? [More…]
Has the Government rejected submissions from the New South Wales Government recently for a modest increase in the funding for the adult migrant education service so that it could cope with the growing demand from migrants wishing to learn English or overcome literacy problems? [More…]
Is it true that the living allowance paid to migrants while they learn English by the Migrant Education Branch of the Department of Education has not been increased for 12 months and that the single rate allowance of $36 a week is now $1 1.10 less than the equivalent unemployment benefit payment? [More…]
-I would have thought that after being the shadow spokesman on immigration and ethnic affairs for 17 months the honourable member would have understood that this matter comes within the responsibility of my colleague, the Minister for Education. [More…]
The State Penitentiary in the area I represent has a daily population of 1400 prisoners but has only one or two ‘education officers. [More…]
We should have programs whereby we can guarantee that they can get intensive rehabilitation, education and assistance. [More…]
Their problems are usually parental, or the lack of parents, or the lack of education opportunities. [More…]
Action for World Development is an ecumenical development education agency sponsored at a national level by the Australian Council of Churches and the Episcopal Conference of the Catholic Church. [More…]
Unemployment to this excessive extent, through its inter-relationship with health, housing, education and community development generally, is severely undermining the progress in Aboriginal affairs made by successive governments at considerable public expense since the 1967 referendum. [More…]
What incentive is there for an Aboriginal child to succeed in his educational studies if his father is unemployed and there is every likelihood that the child may not be able to obtain employment at the conclusion of his or her education? [More…]
Further development of such training courses in collaboration with technical and further education institutions and other organisations, with support from the NEAT system, is now planned. [More…]
Fundamental to any long term improvement in the employment status of Aboriginals both in remote communities and in the open labour market is an improvement in the levels of educational attainment by Aboriginal students. [More…]
My colleague, the Minister for Education in consultation with the Mininster for Employment and Industrial Relations and myself, will promote a redirection of education programs to prepare Aboriginals for a work environment or for specific job training. [More…]
The initiatives I have outlined involve action to be taken by several Ministers, including the Ministers for Education, Employment and Industrial Relations, Social Security as well as myself. [More…]
-by leave-On 28 May last year the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) announced that a working party of officials from his department and the Departments of Social Security, Education and Employment and Industrial Relations would begin a full study of the problems associated with Aboriginal unemployment. [More…]
Were officers of his Department and the Departments of Aboriginal Affairs, Social Security and Education appointed on 28 May 1976 to a working party to make a full study of these matters. [More…]
The need for special initiatives in the field of Aboriginal employment stems from the high level of Aboriginal unemployment, lack of general education, formal and on-the-job training, work experience and discrimination against them. [More…]
My grievance concerns the Government’s failure to implement its promises with regard to migrant education and the admission by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) at question time yesterday that he had no interest or involvement in assisting migrants to gain a proficiency in the English language. [More…]
The Federal Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, has indicated to the State Government that the allocation will be about $3.5m-only $700,000 more than the present sum . [More…]
A newspaper article has reported Mrs Daphne Merry of the Migrant Education Action Committee as saying: … a report on the teaching of migrant languages in schools compiled by Professor Michael Clyne of Monash University snowed there was a great need for language teachers at the primary level. [More…]
3), which was debated earlier this year, we saw that expenditure on part-time instruction under the adult migrant education program was to be cut by $74,000. [More…]
Expenditure on the child migrant education program was to be cut by $983,400. [More…]
Also, $419,000 was to be cut from the expenditure on the adult migrant education program. [More…]
The spending on migrant education programs was reduced by 2 per cent in real terms in this year’s Budget. [More…]
There is no real representation from the people who know something about the education issue. [More…]
Will he do anything about the funds provided for adult education and English teaching? [More…]
It has been demonstrated that the 80 or so personnel actually employed as paid officers of the AUS have been able to apply their political ideologies on the councils of the AUS to the extent that delegates from the universities, Colleges of Advanced Education and higher schools of learning in Australia represented on the AUS have not had the opportunity to have a contrary point of view heard. [More…]
Again, in terms of education, we see that the AUS believes that entry to tertiary institutions should be based on the willingness of individuals to learn and not on academic preparedness. [More…]
It is now pressing its policies through education to insist that people follow the dictates of the AUS leadership. [More…]
This is a cognate debate and encompasses the 4 tiers of education, namely, universities, colleges of advanced education, technical colleges and schools. [More…]
Likewise, in relation to the amount provided to the States by way of advanced education assistance, the Minister stated: [More…]
The same proposal is to be found in respect of technical and further education assistance. [More…]
This Bill completes the cost supplementation process for the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974. [More…]
Further amendments to the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Act 1976 will be necessary as information becomes available on movements . [More…]
The Universities Commission dealt with the fundamental problem that the Government has created for the first time in education, namely, that irrespective of the needs in the 4 tiers the Government would set the guidelines as to how much money was available. [More…]
So immediately needs are compressed and problems are created for people in the education field, whether they are teachers or pupils. [More…]
The Technical and Further Education Commission stated in its report: [More…]
Whilst the Opposition welcomes what the Bills are saying, it cannot possibly say they go towards meeting needs in education which was the philosophy of the Labor Government. [More…]
But irrespective of the needs, this Government is stating that education bodies will have to make do with what they are being given in the Budget. [More…]
Particularly in the capital programs we see a marked deficiency in all the areas of education. [More…]
But let us come to the fundamental first base: A good education for children- an opportunity to get technical advancement, advanced college education or university advancement is the best investment any government can make. [More…]
They mentioned to me particularly the area of migrant education. [More…]
If any honourable members have attended public meetings at which emphasis is placed on the problems associated with migrant education, they will know that there has been a reduction in the facilities available to teach migrants. [More…]
In addition, the normal assistance we would expect to be made available to him to be assimilated into the community by way of educational standards and assisted in learning the English- these are now being denied to him. [More…]
I am able to say that in New South Wales the responsible State Minister is very concerned that in these Bills the funds provided will not meet the needs of migrant education in New South Wales. [More…]
The Opposition emphasises again, particularly in the fields of the schools and technical education what a dreadful indictment of Australia as a nation it is to think that we cannot provide sufficient of our gross domestic product to meet the needs of people who have talents and who are entitled to have the advantage of an education. [More…]
We see in the technical education field the great emphasis on the fact that if we could only educate our people in many more skills they would be able to find job opportunities. [More…]
That should not be the term we come down to without bothering to look at the human misery and needs that have been created, particularly in the field of education. [More…]
The point I want to make is this: Education should be a top priority for any national government. [More…]
We should all recognise that 20 years ago an honourable member who mentioned education in this Parliament was deemed to be out of order. [More…]
If we run the educational program strictly in terms of the volume of money available for education, we will not meet the needs. [More…]
Whilst the Opposition does not oppose these measures, because they are cost supplementary and therefore of some advantage, we emphasise that in the forthcoming Budget discussions the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner), who is at the table, should persuade his Treasury colleague to guarantee that education gets the appropriation of money that it needs. [More…]
Then all the tiers of education mentioned in these Bills will not have to suffer the pain and anguish of not knowing whether they can meet the problems of our young Australians, or not so young Australians when it comes to adult or migrant education. [More…]
-Many times we have heard from the Opposition, education institutions, teachers and academic staff organisations dire predictions about what will happen to education funding and expenditure. [More…]
I recall that not so long ago Senator Wriedt in the Senate predicted that the whole concept of cost supplementation would shortly be abandoned by the Government, but here we are now examining 4 Bills which are in fact cost supplementation Bills for the 4 main areas of education. [More…]
They are normal machinery Bills which provide for supplementary grants for increasing costs and for general agreements with various education commissions and bodies within the States. [More…]
The Bills cover 4 areas- advanced education, schools, technical and further education and universities. [More…]
In regard to advanced education there are 2 amendments to the 2 main Acts to provide, in accordance with policy, supplementary grants totalling $ 1 5.6m. [More…]
Opportunity has been taken to revise schedules and also to include a number of intraprogram transfers of funds, which within the advanced education sector were a difficulty with which many colleges had to live. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has stated that he will consider such transfer. [More…]
The technical and further education area will receive cost supplementation to the December 1976 price levels so that the real value of grants approved by the Government in the light of now known variations in costs will be maintained- The additional amount in respect of the States Grants (Technical and Further Education) Act 1974 is $700,000. [More…]
In my opinion it is an area which can afford to have some restraint imposed on its capital programs; but not likewise, however, the technical and further education area. [More…]
This Government has committed itself very clearly to the expansion and stimulation of the technical and further education area. [More…]
Of course, there have been many criticisms- most of them unfounded- of this Government’s intention with regard to education. [More…]
The Government has maintained the real level of contributions to all sectors of education and in the technical and further education sector has provided for a very significant increase in spite of the present economic circumstances in which we still find ourselves after taking office in 1 975. [More…]
In fact, the only reduction in education spending by a Federal government over the last few years was by the Whitlam Government towards the end of its period of office. [More…]
Let us see what did happen in the 1975 Budget, following a period of excessive expansion in most areas of education. [More…]
It became rather embarrassing to have to spend the funds that were being foisted on some sectors of education for projects that were not always viable or justifiable. [More…]
The previous Government, whilst it was rather lavish with its education spending, nevertheless needs to be commended to some extent. [More…]
Towards the end of this period of very rapid expansion in education we saw in the last Budget of the Labor Party in August 1975 a massive and unique cutback in the 4 education commissions totalling $ 105m. [More…]
Not only did the Government do that, but also, as far as I know without the consent of the Minister responsible, the Prime Minister of the time determined that he would amalgamate two of the advisory commissions in the tertiary education sector. [More…]
I recall that the then Minister for Education expressed some considerable public surprise that the Prime Minister had decided off his own bat that he would interfere with the commissions and amalgamate two of them. [More…]
Not only did we see a record cutback in education totalling $ 105m but we also saw the sorry record of other reductions. [More…]
Funds for colleges of advanced education were reduced by $32m. [More…]
For technical and further education, the pet baby of the Labor Party, funds were reduced y $9m which was a significant proportion of the total amount. [More…]
That was the only way in which any real progress, proper administration and management of tertiary education could be effected. [More…]
Now, some of the Labor Party’s spokesmen refer to those periods and say what a marvellous record the Labor Government had, how reliable it was and how well aware it was of the needs of education. [More…]
This Government has very responsibly assessed its commitments to education. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said: [More…]
Neither is there any attempt by the Commonwealth to retreat from its present position in which education is regarded as an area of substantial commitment, nor to reduce its overall financial contribution. [More…]
In most areas of education the States had the original responsibility. [More…]
Furthermore, when he introduced the programs in the Senate on 4 November last year the Minister for Education said that unlike the cuts and reductions in the past by the Whitlam Government this Government was able to make the claim that the universities would be able to maintain their full intake of students and, in fact, increase the total student population by 2 per cent. [More…]
He also said that there was provision for an increase of approximately 10 per cent in student intakes in colleges of advanced education in 1977 compared with 1976 and that there would be a 5 per cent increase in teacher education courses in 1977. [More…]
I think we have to relate the supply and demand situation for teacher education courses to our likely projections for population. [More…]
I shall conclude by referring to the 3 areas in the education sector which we have been considering. [More…]
These are universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education. [More…]
It became very fashionable at one stage, particularly in the 1973-74 period, for many cities and centres to decide that what they needed to stir things along was a college of advanced education. [More…]
Most of these people have little idea of what colleges of advanced education were established for and why the principle of advanced education was initiated. [More…]
I believe that this is one of the problems that has developed in the tertiary education sector. [More…]
There was an explosion of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Some locations in this country have universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education colleges. [More…]
We find that there are competing requirements within one area or one town or one city where, for the sake of parochial empire building, the principal of a college of advanced education requires a magnificent new library and the vice-chancellor of a university or the dean of a faculty also requires the same type of facility. [More…]
In all sincerity, we cannot justify some of the duplication of resources that has occurred in buildings particularly between those 2 levels of tertiary education. [More…]
I believe that there is a very real need in this country to break down the artificial barriers between technical education, further education and so-called tertiary education. [More…]
I believe it is important that we should try to develop a concept of post-secondary education across-the-board whereby we can provide real transferability between levels of education for students - [More…]
But I believe that we need to examine in some detail the concept of community colleges whereby we can have a real and beneficial rationalisation between what was called the tertiary education sector and what was called the technical education sector. [More…]
Concommitant with that would have to be a handing over of the very jealously guarded powers of the States concerning their technical education systems so that we can have some local control and some real autonomy and independence, financially, philosophically and academically, of the technical and further education sector. [More…]
The technical and further education sector, in my view, will never fulfil its role until it gains some degree of autonomy from the strangleholds of the State systems. [More…]
I also support his plea for the breakdown of the dividing lines between those sections of post-secondary education. [More…]
What I am concerned about is the difference in attitude to education between the previous Labor Government and the present Federal Government. [More…]
The present Government gives the Commissions guidelines within which to report on what should be done for the various aspects of education, what programs there should be and so on. [More…]
I shall refer only briefly to the Technical and Further Education Commission report where, under the guidelines that have been put forward, the Commission has very courageously registered its protest at this sort of attitude being taken, instead of it being allowed to report on the needs and letting the Government take the responsibility for saying what it would responsibly see as the expenditure to satisfy those needs. [More…]
We are told that the Government has a commitment to education. [More…]
Previous debates on education during this session have allowed some discussion of technical and further education. [More…]
I wish now to turn my remarks to perhaps a rather more parochial attitude to education in the primary and secondary fields and to express to the House the sorts of concerns that parent and teachers are expressing publicly so that their fears can be analysed and either proved or allayed. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that in April there were meetings throughout Australia in regard to education. [More…]
stop irresponsible talk of Budget cuts in education. [More…]
People concerned with education find the so-called rolling triennium a difficult animal indeed to understand. [More…]
We know that the TAFE Commission is to disappear into the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
Finally, this rally calls on the Victorian Premier and Minister of Education to make known publicly the educational needs and funding requirements of this State, and energetically to place constant pressure on the Federal Government to provide in full those funds recommended by the Schools and TAFE Commissions. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that with the previous Commonwealth involvement in education almost every student attending Victorian private schools enjoyed such facilities provided by Commonwealth funds. [More…]
Yet here in Australia we find- I am using Victoria again in the parochial sense- two-thirds of Victorian high schools do not have a gymnasium, nor do they have an assembly hall, a very basic area for the operation of a secondary education institution. [More…]
This particular school took part in the disadvantaged program, the innovations program and the inservice education program of the Schools Commission. [More…]
At the moment there is in the community a grave concern about the future financing of education and a grave concern that the new federalism lets Federal government off the hook and in turn is used by State governments to get off the hook. [More…]
-The 4 Bills presently before the House- the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Bill 1977, the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Amendment Bill 1977, the States Grants (Advanced Education Assistance) Amendment Bill 1977 and the States Grants (Universities Assistance) Amendment Bill 1977- all provide extra Commonwealth Government funds to the States for expenditure on all spheres of primary, secondary and tertiary education. [More…]
This legislation is a practical demonstration of the high priority that the Fraser Government and the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, give to education. [More…]
It ensures that the real increases in education spending that were promised in the 1976-77 Budget will be achieved. [More…]
It is a major achievement of the Fraser Government that in a time of restraint in government spending, which has been necessary to solve the economic problems that it inherited the Fraser Government has still ensured real increases in spending on education. [More…]
However, despite the Government’s very commendable approach to education, there are still certain problem areas. [More…]
Independent schools are an essential part of our education system. [More…]
Those schools which are able to increase fees become progressively less available to members of the community as an option for the education of their children. [More…]
Often those schools are the only source of adequate education for country children. [More…]
A possible initiative to which I believe the Government should give very close consideration in this area is the introduction of a voucher system for the funding of education. [More…]
Of course, vouchers can be applied to both the government education system and the independent schools system as a means of providing finance. [More…]
For instance, last year it totally failed to represent students effectively in respect of their problems concerning the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]
It failed to produce a worthwhile submission to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) on this matter. [More…]
I understand that the Education Officer of AUS refused to meet the Minister to discuss the problems of the tertiary education assistance scheme because she did not want to be involved in what she termed ‘bourgeois parliamentary politics ‘. [More…]
Those students who have been active in attempting to achieve reform deserve commendation and support from all of us who are aware of the important role that tertiary education institutions play in our community, in the future development of our community and in our democracy. [More…]
Against this expenditure only $1,000 was applied to the solution of a problem such as the tertiary education assistance scheme, an issue, of course, which affected the welfare of most students. [More…]
I strongly urge the Commonwealth Government and the Minister for Education to use their influence to bring about necessary changes in the structure of the Australian Union of Students and in the way that university union fees and student fees operate to ensure that a more responsible and moderate leadership comes to power in the AUS. [More…]
Joseph Stalin once said that education was a weapon whose nature depended upon whom you intended to attack with the weapon. [More…]
He is not the only materialist who thought of education as a weapon. [More…]
A great many people think of education as a weapon of their children’s advantage over everybody else. [More…]
The adequate view for the Commonwealth or the States is that education is the instrument of every child’s dignity, not the weapon of some children’s advantage. [More…]
In addition, there was the first ever expenditure by the Commonwealth on non-government teachers colleges which, in fact, in some cases got the status of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
For the special education courses there was a supplement of 15.4 per cent and for the related teacher replacement for the special education courses there was a supplement of 16.5 per cent. [More…]
Because of the nature of the very expensive recommendations involving unprecedently large increases in expenditure as envisaged particularly by the Commission on Advanced Education and by the Technical and Further Education Commission, the Whitlam Government was unable to accept the sharpness of these increases. [More…]
It disliked the concept of triennial funding altogether and it disliked what it regarded as the privilege for education in the cost supplementation or the indexation of grants being made. [More…]
The States have not been as active in advancing technical and further education as they might have been but, as far as the government schools are concerned, the rate at which they are advancing from purely State expenditure is beyond what Karmel envisaged. [More…]
I do not want to make the suggestion that the poorer schools in resource level necessarily are the poorer schools in education. [More…]
Nevertheless, Karmel worked out very clearly a strategy for improving education in the nongovernment sector. [More…]
It would be fair to say, I think, that the parents who send their children to non-government schools of higher resource levels are more articulate than anybody else in the education area in the Commonwealth, with the notable exception of the parents of children in Canberra schools. [More…]
I remember that when I was waited upon by a deputation of parents from Canberra secondary schools in particular, who seemed to be half the staff of the Australian National University, with a vast battery of educational experts, I felt like a piece of chewed string after spending an hour or two discussing their very articulate demands for their children. [More…]
It does not surprise me that the resources devoted to education in the Australian Capital Territory per capita are 30 per cent or 40 per cent higher than the Australian average. [More…]
I am bound to say that as Minister for Education I never experienced any Treasury resistance to high expenditure on education in the Australian Capital Territory because that is where the children of the Treasury officials are educated. [More…]
It has to be recognised as one of the facts of life in education, and I say this to the honourable member for Kingston, that the more underprivileged a section of the community the less articulate they are about the needs of their children. [More…]
One of the first decisions we made in education was that there should be a bilingual program in Aboriginal education. [More…]
Many of them jumped at the opportunity of having education in their own languages in their schools when the proposition was put to them and I understand that it has now grown to a point where there is education in 22 Aboriginal languages around the Northern Territory. [More…]
The grants applied to Aboriginal children of IS years of age and over to enable them to stay at school, and we extended the scheme to all Aboriginal children in secondary education. [More…]
There was some demand in the field of handicapped education, but in many of the States handicapped education had been a matter of private charity. [More…]
Until that day, cost supplementation defends education from the erosion of appropriations made for it. [More…]
It is always a pleasure to hear the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), who has just resumed his seat, speak in the House on the subject of education. [More…]
The House is debating a number of Bills, three of which increase the supplementation to tertiary education in Australia. [More…]
I remind the House that despite many of the comments made by honourable members opposite, it has been the Government’s firm commitment to increase the expenditure on education. [More…]
Despite many adversities in other areas, the Government has reversed the attitude and the previous commitment by the former Labor Government in the education field. [More…]
I remind the House that in 1977 we reversed the Australian Labor Party policy of cut and freeze in education. [More…]
We reversed it to give a 2 per cent growth in real terms to universities, a 5 per cent increase in real terms to colleges of advanced education, a 7.5 per cent increase in real terms to technical and further education and a 2 per cent increase in real terms to schools. [More…]
The Government has made a commitment to improve the area of education and is following through that commitment in a very active and constructive way. [More…]
It is of particular interest to me that an increasing emphasis has been placed on technical education. [More…]
In discussions I had I became very much aware of some of the fine work being done in the technical education field. [More…]
Some of the problems of technical and further education were brought to notice by the Chairman of the Technical and Further Education Commission at a conference held in Canberra recently. [More…]
I think that people working in technical education see some of the deficiencies of the education system more than people working at other levels of the tertiary education field. [More…]
The simple life tasks and skills that are sought to be learned by people attending school must be carried forward into their further education programs if they are to be effective in those programs. [More…]
Indeed you, Mr Speaker, drew to the attention of the House the shortcomings of some areas of education. [More…]
It is these life skills, a capacity to communicate and a capacity to undertake further education that has been the concern of the chairman of the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
It has caused much difficulty at the college here in Canberra to find that before entrants to trade courses could successfully undertake their courses, 40 per cent of them needed remedial education in mathematics. [More…]
I trust that the Government, over the period of its next term of office- over the next 5 years- will give great attention to the importance of technical and further education and the role which can be played by technical colleges and colleges of further education to provide life skills and, in fact, to provide people with a basic background of competency that must be vocationally based. [More…]
All these things require some level of literacy and numeracy skill that should be provided within the education system. [More…]
However, that does not detract from the important emphasis that must be placed by the education system on the skills off numeracy and literacy. [More…]
The colleges of advanced education which are receiving additional funds under the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Amendment Bill are responsible for teacher education. [More…]
Dr Elkins who was an adviser to the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties conducted a survey of colleges of advanced education throughout Australia. [More…]
The funds that are being allocated to tertiary institutions-technical and further education institutions and universities- should be applied in such a way that those institutions look at what they are accomplishing and at the requirements of the community rather than drift so far from those basic requirements that the institutions are no longer effective. [More…]
-The University is in a difficult situation in that it has been established by the incorporation of a State teachers college and a college of advanced education, and has taken over the partly completed site of the college of advanced education, the former buildings of the college of advanced education and the former buildings of the State college which most likely were reaching the end of their useful life. [More…]
During the last triennium as a college of advanced education the Deakin University did not receive funds. [More…]
I have here a letter which was written recently by the Chairman of the Interim Council to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), setting out some of the problems confronting the University. [More…]
Senator the Honourable J. L. Carrick, Minister for Education Parliament House, CANBERRA, A.C.T. [More…]
The Interim Council of Deakin University views with deep concern the possibility that the restrictions on education spending may mean a cancelling of next year’s building program. [More…]
The School of Education is in the sub-standard buildings of the former teachers college in North Geelong and is itself split between two sites. [More…]
I recognise, of course, that the restrictions on education spending which may put our building program in jeopardy are not of your choosing. [More…]
It is a problem which I hope is of concern to the Victorian Government and the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]
There have been real achievements in health, education, employment and the establishment of Aboriginal Organisations. [More…]
The paragraph to which the honourable member refers concluded: ‘To a large extent this means increasing emphasis on aid to the rural sector, not only in terms of economic inputs, but including also such factors as health, education, and employment’. [More…]
This emphasis will involve Australia in a wide range of activities, including infrastructure development, agriculture, animal health and nutrition, education and employment creation generally. [More…]
Of this amount, approximately $48m has gone towards the recurrent costs of pre-school education. [More…]
The Labor Party withdrew many of the concessional deductions previously available to taxpayers in important areas like education. [More…]
While there is no limit on the range of matters affecting Aboriginal Australians on which the Council may offer advice, it will be required to consult with specialist advisory bodies, such as the National Aboriginal Education Committee, with a view to avoiding duplicating the work of these bodies. [More…]
While there is no limit on the range of matters affecting Aboriginal Australians on which the Council may offer advice, it will be required to consult with specialist advisory bodies, such as the National Aboriginal Education Committee, with a view to avoiding duplicating the work of those bodies. [More…]
Surely there has to be better engineering in regard to what comes out of the education stream. [More…]
I do not believe that education is only to equip people to work. [More…]
Mr Simon asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education the following question, without notice, on 25 May 1977: [More…]
He will be aware that Parliament has passed legislation providing funds for construction of the engineering school at the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education and that a decision has been made to defer commencement of the works pending the outcome of the inquiry in Victoria into post-secondary education. [More…]
5m scheduled in the relevant Act is in no way in jeopardy pending the decision of the Newman committee and the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission? [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
As soon as material becomes available from the Newman Review of engineering education throughout Victoria the new Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission (or its interim committee) will present its advice urgently. [More…]
What is the relationship between the training of dental therapists and technical education programs and policies. [More…]
I have before me a proposal for a new building for the preschool centre and a hostel for young Aboriginal girls undergoing education- a very imaginative proposal but one which will cost a considerable amount of money and take some time, about 1 8 months, to complete. [More…]
The Commission is also to have functions relating to the promotion of human rights and the coordination of programs of education and research undertaken by the Commonwealth. [More…]
Those who seek to share the nation’s resources should clearly indicate the priorities of government expenditure in the fields of roads, transport, communication, social security, welfare, health, defence and education. [More…]
The Bureau is not asked to consider comparisons between transportation, education, health, welfare and other priorities of government. [More…]
The tax dodgers are getting away with it, and other people in the community are not receiving the benefits to which they should be entitled in respect of social services, education and so on because the revenue is not there. [More…]
Others would result from withdrawal of representatives of the Commonwealth Scientific, Industrial and Research Organisation, the Attorney-General’s Department and the Departments of Education, Social Security and Veterans’ Affairs. [More…]
Katherine South Primary School is intended to be the first school built using the new system of construction developed by the Departments of Construction and Education during 1976. [More…]
The Departments of Construction and Education will comply with this recommendation in the further design of the school. [More…]
Would children want to receive adequate education at the expense of damage to future generations? [More…]
Mr Grassby was speaking at a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation seminar on teacher education. [More…]
For this purpose his rebatable expenditure would include, subject to any maximum statutory limit, medical, education or funeral expenses and life insurance premiums paid directly by him in respect of his children. [More…]
If child minding expenses up to a limit of $250 per child were allowed as a deduction to “single” supporting parents who do not at present incur education expenses that may qualify for concessional rebate, the annual cost to revenue would be about $2m. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 20 April 1977: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
I ) Has his attention been drawn to a statement appearing in the Fourth Report of the Royal Commission on Petroleum that a deliberate campaign of public education on the scarcity of energy resources, together with practical advice as to how motor spirit may be conserved, is an essential precondition for public acceptance of policies of conservation, which will have to be implemented and which are likely to prove unpopular. [More…]
Will he ask the responsible Minister to initiate an education campaign aimed at public acceptance of the need for motor spirit conservation. [More…]
am asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 8 March 1977: [More…]
What steps have been taken to ensure that public investment in education is not placed in jeopardy or set at nought by inadequate or irresponsible school councils (Hansard, 30 November 1976, page 2944). [More…]
1 ) and (2)1 assume that my colleague is referring to the specific organisation known as the Preterm Foundation which I understand provides the following services in Sydney: pregnancy testing; pregnancy counselling and referral; legal termination of pregnancy; contraceptive counselling and medical assistance; research into abortion and contraception; education program. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 21 April 1977: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 4 May 1977: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 1 June 1977: [More…]
1 ) What is the name and classification of each officer of the Department of Education who travelled overseas or is scheduled to travel overseas during the periods (a) 1 1 November 1975 to 30 June 1976, and (b) 1 July 1976 to 30 June 1977 on duties associated with (i) overseas visits by the Prime Minister, (ii) overseas visits by the Minister, (iii) overseas visits by any other Ministers and ‘iv) overseas visits for any other purpose. [More…]
What charges were made against ‘*< estimates for the Department of Education in respect ‘ ‘ ~’.i of those officers under the categories listed in part . ‘ [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The education program for unemployed youth is another initiative in the case of some disadvantaged youths. [More…]
I also mention the education program for unemployed youth which is expected to absorb more than 550 young people in 1 977-78. [More…]
We sometimes encounter a questioning in this country as to why we should get involved in diverting resources to overseas countries when there is so much needing to be done in this country- for our own poor, education, health, and so on. [More…]
The second category will involve activities designed Tor the greatest possible impact at the grass-roots- improving nutrition, increasing employment and earnings, safeguarding health, expanding education, upgrading housing and strengthening social services. [More…]
If the aid is aimed at improving the education or health standards in a country with which we want to develop friendly relations, or if it is aimed at promoting peaceful co-existence in the world, the motivation is still self interest but as far as I am concerned the motivation is acceptable. [More…]
In addition, the quality of education for these children needs to be considered. [More…]
I do not believe that the Government’s policy sufficiently recognises the importance of the education of young persons who come to this country as refugees or quasi-refugees and who are unable to carry out the ordinary learning processes in the schools. [More…]
It is very important that this come about because the Palestinian people need the opportunity, just as the people of Israel, to raise their economic standards and to raise their educational standards. [More…]
As the standards of education rise and the standards within economies rise, so the need for political equality and political involvement arises on the part of those within a region. [More…]
Details of education expenditure were announced recently which involved the same level of expenditure in real terms as last year. [More…]
It is quite inadequate to suggest that the amount of money outlined in the statement will meet the needs of migrant education. [More…]
New South Wales alone, which I would say has to cater for perhaps one-third of the needs in migrant education, asked for and was denied $5.5m. [More…]
-Prior to the suspension of the sitting I was making a point about the inadequacy of trie funds provided for migrant education. [More…]
In that Budget the migrant education allocation was reduced to $ 10.6m from a previous allocation of $2 1.4m. [More…]
In other words, the Labor Government was giving quite substantial funds to migrant education. [More…]
If one looks at the explanatory notes in relation to migrant education at the time of that Budget one will see that in 1 975-76 $10m was spent on child migrant education in only six months. [More…]
So one can see that a substantial amount of money is required in the migrant education field. [More…]
Of course, the Government now says in respect of child migrant education that it is picked up in what is called the Schools Commission funding. [More…]
Yet if one looks at the previous Budget one can readily see that there had not been an adequate acceleration in the funds provided there in a general sense to provide sufficient funds for child migrant education, if in fact it was costing in excess of $20m at that time. [More…]
I refer now to the migrant education program. [More…]
I reiterate that in New South Wales alone the amount sought for adult education was $5. [More…]
By taking that as being the need of perhaps a third of the total one can see that one would need at least $ 16.5m for adult education if one is to provide adequate facilities. [More…]
This money provides for no growth factor in migrant education. [More…]
There is no more urgent need than the provision of the opportunity to give the migrants of this country an education, particularly from the point of view of language communication. [More…]
One can see the great problems that the States are having in trying to cope with what is legally a Federal responsibility in the migrant education field. [More…]
Again I emphasise the point that was made in the letter to me, and obviously to the Minister, from the Australian Council of Business Schools is that the criteria of the Minister for Education are wrong. [More…]
It is contrary to the whole Australian philosophy of education and to the suggestion that we are doing our best for the young people of this country. [More…]
I hope that he will have a look particularly at the submissions that have been made by the people who are interested in migrant education at a State level as well as the submissions those who are interested in the students of business colleges. [More…]
Unless she has a certain accomplishment in speed as a result of her high school education she cannot get in. [More…]
The only way she can go forward to tertiary education is by going into a private college. [More…]
These figures are going to become significantly worse unless the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) alters this decision. [More…]
Responsibility for matters relating to environmental education is shared between my department and the agencies responsible to the Minister for Education. [More…]
Participation in the Unesco/UNEP International Program in Environmental Education is co-ordinated by the Department of Education through the Australian National Commission for Unesco. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has participated in the Unesco/UNEP International Program in Environmental Education as follows: [More…]
In 1975 the Curriculum Development Centre supported financially the participation of Prof. P. Fensham, Faculty of Education, Monash University, in the Belgrade Workshop on Environmental Education, the first in a series of meetings forming part of the International Program. [More…]
The Centre has published Prof. Fensham ‘s report on the workshop and a copy of the Belgrade Charter on Environmental Education has been circulated to secondary schools throughout Australia. [More…]
In 1976, my Department was’ represented at the Asian Region Meeting on Environmental Education, at the invitation and expense of Unesco and on the nomination of the Australian National Commission for Unesco. [More…]
This meeting held in Bangkok, Thailand, was one of a series of regional meetings of experts in environmental education which reviewed the recommendations of the Belgrade Workshop in the light of regional and local needs. [More…]
The forthcoming Unesco/UNEP Intergovernmental Conference on Environmental Education will assist in promoting recognition of environmental education activities in both formal and non-formal education, and establishing an effective environmental education program with national and international dimensions. [More…]
1 ) Both the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development and the Curriculum Development Centre have been actively encouraging the development of environmental education in Australian schools. [More…]
My department is supporting financially a national conference on environmental education which will be considering the development of environmental education programs at the local and regional levels. [More…]
The conference will bring together education and environmental specialists and community groups from all over Australia. [More…]
In collaboration with the Curriculum Development Centre and the South Australian Council for Educational Planning and Research my Department is supporting financially a major educational materials development project in the field of environmental education. [More…]
The Curriculum Development Centre established a study group, of which my department was a member, to report on action it should take to stimulate the development of environmental education in Australian schools. [More…]
The study group report covers aspects of educational materials development and teacher development programs. [More…]
In addition to these specific activities my department undertakes regular liaison with State education authorities, teachers subject associations and individual teachers on the development of environmental education curricula in schools. [More…]
Where appropriate it stimulates or assists with teacher training programs in the field of environmental education. [More…]
My Department also arranges community forums such as the recent ‘National Housing Conference- Housing and the Community’, and the proposed national conference on environmental education which provide an opportunity for the exchange of ideas on such issues. [More…]
My department has a variety of programs covering contact with the media, publication and distribution of information, film production, education activities and conferences which contribute to public awareness of environmental, urban and community development issues. [More…]
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In every field- secondary and tertiary education, sport, recreation, the club movement- he was an active and forceful promoter of the interests and welfare of Wollongong and all its residents- those who were born there and those who had come there from other parts of Australia as well as from overseas. [More…]
Nobody hearing or reading the Treasurer’s Budget Speech could realise that there has been a tremendous squeeze on the States and local government; that the Government has broken its promises on education spending; that spending on health programs is down; that the provision for pensioner dwellings is down by 18 per cent in real terms; that funds for Aboriginal advancement are down 16 per cent in real terms; that provision for urban public transport has been cut by 25 per cent in real terms and funds for leisure and recreation facilities by 60 per cent in real terms; that urban programs have virtually disappeared; that the national sewerage program has been abandoned; that all migrants’ special serviceseducation, welfare, housing, health, languagehave been cut; that the growth centre agreements with the States have been unilaterally repudiated; that environment programs suffered cuts ranging from 24 per cent to 99 per cent in real terms; that the area improvement program has been abolished. [More…]
The Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, said on 4 November 1976: [More…]
I wish to emphasise that the Government has no intention of retreating from its undertaking to support real growth in the education programs on which the Schools Commission makes recommendations. [More…]
The Treasurer’s Speech repeated that $2,37 lm would be allocated for education programs in this financial year. [More…]
The Treasurer claimed a 10 per cent increase in funding in money terms, but omitted to tell us that it represented no growth in real terms for schools, universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Fees for pre-school education will inevitably rise, again favouring those who can afford to pay. [More…]
We have achieved that without reducing expenditures across the areas embraced by the Budget in the more significant fields of health, welfare, education, transport and industry. [More…]
Surely the reality is that people are being educated in our schools today in the belief- we are giving them higher, more costly and I hope more qualitative education than ever before- that when they finish there will be a job for them. [More…]
When one looks at the anatomy of the Budget one finds that over two-thirds of total Federal expenditure is accounted for by education, which takes 8.9 per cent; health, which takes 10.6 per cent; social security and welfare, which take 27.2 per cent, and payments to the [More…]
Underneath it all, we still subscribe to the need for full employment, but we have to acknowledge that people are being put through our education system at the moment and turned out with capacities that nobody wants. [More…]
That is sad, perhaps, and I do not believe that the only purpose of education is to equip people to do a job, but most of us do need to earn an income by being employed by somebody else. [More…]
Surely it will have some impact on employment for the future and on demands for education in the future. [More…]
In that regard despite the difficulties, government spending on education is up 10 per cent on the expenditure for last year. [More…]
I remind the House that 12 months ago it was indicated that education funds would have a growth of 2 per cent per annum and we know what the situation is in that area. [More…]
Despite the squeals from Labor supporters in the left wing teachers’ unions, spending on education will increase by 9.8 percent. [More…]
The massive sum of $2,371m will be allocated by the Commonwealth Government to education this financial year. [More…]
Coming to the field of education, there is no doubt that, considering the rate of inflation, there has been a cut in real terms- that seems to be the fashionable jargon phrase to use- in the amount allocated for education. [More…]
There has been a real cut in the amount of money that will be made available, and it is no wonder that those persons concerned with education are complaining strenuously. [More…]
It believed that people were better if they earned more money or if they had a better formal education. [More…]
If the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) were here he would admit that it was pressure that I applied to him as chairman of the education committee which resulted in payments being made for isolated children. [More…]
Notable in this cry has been the claim that there has been a drastic cut in education. [More…]
It is getting the results which are required in the field of education at all levels. [More…]
Assistance to the States which contribute so much in the administration of the services essential in welfare, education, health, employment and all the rest of it, has increased by 14 per cent. [More…]
The Education Program for Unemployed Youth is simply a program to keep occupied the young people who cannot get a job. [More…]
I am absolutely horrified at what the leader of this country- a man who, as far as one can tell from the qualifications which he writes after his name as a result of the education he received here and overseas, understands the English languagehad to say about waste disposal. [More…]
Forty-three thousand are unemployed because there are simply no jobs available; 19,000 are unemployed because there is no work available in the line of work which they normally do; 17,500 are unemployed because they have insufficient work experience; and 7,700 are unemployed because they lack education in schools. [More…]
Education levels, migrant intake and population projections for this country are vitally important to any committee that is asked to carry the responsibility of making recommedations on structural adjustment. [More…]
In addition to these matters, the country’s investment in education will bear heavily on the structural adjustment programs which are needed, but this Government acts as if it expects school leavers in 1977 to go into the same occupation that school leavers might have gone into in 1957. [More…]
I also mention the education program for unemployed youth. [More…]
Here the aim is to improve the skills and motivation of young unemployed people, particularly those with low or inadequate educational attainment which may be a barrier to their obtaining employment. [More…]
I issued an instruction to the head of my Department that from then on nobody was to be given tertiary education under NEAT unless he had my personal approval. [More…]
I needed to have from the Department an itemised statement showing the qualifications of the person and what his chances of getting employment would be once tertiary education had been supplied to him. [More…]
We ought to be spending a lot more money on technical education and not so much on university education. [More…]
Let me remind him that in the allocations for education in the present Budget there is particular emphasis on technical education. [More…]
The greatest percentage increase in outlay for all sectors of education is in the technical education field. [More…]
Why is fear being expressed by that level of the community, not by the uneducated but by those who are articulate and have access to education and access to information? [More…]
Of course we would like to see more money going into all sorts of areas- education, local government, roads, social welfare and soon. [More…]
To take another example, it would be easy and popular to spend much more money on education, to provide a bigger increase than the 10 per cent extra allocated in the Budget, to spend more than the $2,37 lm set aside. [More…]
I hope those people who are demanding more money immediately for education understand that so long as inflation continues the value of every dollar spent on education will be reduced, that we will not get a dollar’s worth of value out of every dollar spent unless the destructive and debilitating effects of inflation are controlled. [More…]
For a start, migrant education services have been cut by six per cent- to $ 10.2m- on last year’s Budget. [More…]
Child migrant education programs have been reduced by $130,000. [More…]
The overall reduction in real terms will adversely affect bilingual education course development which is so necesary if migrants are to retain a proportion of their cultural heritage. [More…]
The opportunities for young children to survive, by putting their backsides on two stools at once, in the desperate economic climate they face are being severely limited by this Government’s education policy. [More…]
They see problems created by poor migrant education facilities as one of the factors contributing to this state of affairs. [More…]
In many cases schools in these areas are even more poorly catered for in migrant education needs than schools in inner suburbia where the State Government at least has realised the problem in recent years and has taken some steps to improve it. [More…]
Tertiary courses would be a part of our education system. [More…]
The same inquiry urged State departments to establish centres where adolescent arrivals could participate in full time intensive courses preparatory to entering secondary education facilities, apprenticeship schemes or part time training courses. [More…]
There are the reports and recommendations in respect of which I have made representations on interpreter and translation education and services, telephone services, housing and accommodation needs, ethnic radio, industrial relations, workers’ compensation, immediate and longer term post-arrival care, health, education, legal aid, police and court awareness and procedures, consumer affairs and a host of other matters. [More…]
In the 1976-77 Budget Medibank was slashed by $450m; health services were doubled; programmed expenditure on four education commissions was reduced by $172m; tuition fees for second and higher degrees were reintroduced; taxing of social security pensions and benefits was introduced; grants for senior citizens centres were terminated; expenditure on sickness and unemployment benefits was cut by $33m; subsidies for aged persons homes were reduced by SO per cent; funding for the Australian Assistance Plan was completely withdrawn; funding for the Aboriginal people was cut by 30 per cent in real terms; the Labor Government’s programs for urban and regional development were virtually destroyed; funds for the school dental service were frozen; the legal aid service was strangled before it had a chance to function; child care services were savagely cut back, and despite all these cuts in government expenditure, taxes were also increased by 25 per cent and the Government did everything in its power to curb wage increases, with the result that over the year average wages fell by $ 1 1 .50 a week. [More…]
Education, aged persons’ accommodation, social security pensions, benefits and programs, growth centres, community health services, migrant services, Aboriginal affairs, urban rehabilitation and housing are some of the vitally important areas of government responsibility which have also gone wanting in this Budget. [More…]
In the area of government programs education has been mentioned as being an area in which there have been government cuts. [More…]
The argument can be presented that there has been no increase in expenditure for education. [More…]
But no increase in real terms means in fact that the Government could honestly claim there has been an increase in expenditure on education equivalent to the rate of inflation. [More…]
But by the end of 1977-78 taxpayers and the education community will see that the Government, as it did last year, has honoured its word and will retain a capacity for a real stability in education. [More…]
We have heard about education spending - [More…]
-Even the honourable member who interjects cannot quibble with my contention that there has been no growth in education spending. [More…]
There has been a great slashing of migrant services in terms of education, welfare, health and language training. [More…]
Instead there are insignificant increases in retraining schemes, a reduction in spending on apprenticeship training and no increased assistance for technical and further education for vocational training notwithstanding the fact that the unemployment benefit paid to the young unemployed represents over 200 per cent more than the total allocation for all vocational training. [More…]
Education also got a mention. [More…]
The total funds for education have been substantially increased. [More…]
One has to read into the figures for education the fact that this Government has substantially increased the amount of money allocated to the various States. [More…]
There is no way that one can look at this Government’s expenditure on education without looking at the same time at the massive increases that the State governments have had. [More…]
Apart from universities and colleges of advanced education, the Federal Government supplies only a topping up process for education which is the responsibility of the States. [More…]
This year it is estimated the States will get another 1 8 per cent in untied grants- money that they have at their disposal to supply to education if they wish. [More…]
We recognise the fact- the statement has been made by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick)- that in real terms we will supply the same amount of money this year for universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
He also made the statement that in real terms we will supply an increase of 10 per cent for technical education. [More…]
Apprentices in various trades rely on technical colleges for their education. [More…]
This is the very basis of the supply of all our social needs- education, health and all welfare services. [More…]
However, the Government may well discard them all by saying that people ought to look after themselves, or that when they are sick let them pick themselves up, or that when they need education let them pay for it themselves- they can all go to Melbourne Grammar. [More…]
It inflicts sacrifices upon the people of this country who can least afford it, namely, the Aboriginals, the migrants in my electorate and the people who need State school education. [More…]
Commonwealth expenditure on education will be $2,37 lm. [More…]
Yet educationists in Australia are screaming that insufficient funds are being made available for education. [More…]
A recent survey conducted at that office indicated that 52 per cent of boys and 54.7 per cent of girls registered had not gone beyond form three level of education, and only 18.9 per cent of boys and 16.4 per cent of girls had passed form four, five or the Higher School Certificate. [More…]
There has been some criticism that education expenditure has been merely maintained in real terms rather than increased. [More…]
I think that what the community is looking for now is not more spending on education but rather more effective use of the money we are already spending. [More…]
They pointed out, quite accurately in my view, that Melbourne Church of England Grammar School provides a better education than a typical state h igh school. [More…]
Of course, some of it is snobbery- old school tie, and so on- but most people are prepared to make sacrifices to send their children to such schools because they think they will get a better education. [More…]
In Victoria the pupil-teacher ratio at secondary schools is not 15 to 1 and there is no evidence that when class sizes fall below about 25 the smaller classes produce better education. [More…]
I mention these things because the path to improved education, which is of great importance to the whole community, lies primarily not in the spending of money but in the motivation and dedication of the teachers. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided me with the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Mr C. L. Beltz (Chairman), First Assistant Secretary, Education Planning Group, Commonwealth Department ofEducation. [More…]
Mr M. Watson, Director, NSW Department of Technical and Further Education. [More…]
The Working Party is operating under the terms of a resolution made at the February, 1977 meeting of the Australian Education Council. [More…]
affirm its conviction that concerted action by State and Commonwealth education and employment authorities should be taken in the area of transition from school to work or further education, with particular reference to the problems of early school leavers. [More…]
seek closer consultation and co-operation among education and employment authorities, both State and Commonwealth, in the development of policies and programs. [More…]
acknowledge the relevance and importance of vocational preparation to the total educational process and having considered the OECD examiners report and the report of the national working party, propose, in consultation with Ministers for Labour, to coordinate policies for improved careers, education and transition services. [More…]
recognise that TAFE authorities and institutions should be encouraged to take a more positive role in the transition area, including recurrent and adult education as well as in specialised vocational education. [More…]
The Working Party is required to develop its initial proposals for consideration at the next meeting of the Australian Education Council in November 1977. [More…]
Were officers of his Department and the Departments of Aboriginal Affairs, Social Security and Education appointed on 28 May 1976 to a working party to make a full study of these matters. [More…]
I hasten to add that local authorities in the United States and Canada have responsibility, of course, for functions such as police and justice, health and welfare, housing and urban renewal and in some cases, education which Australia does not have. [More…]
In particular, I refer to the restoration of the old tax deductions system whereby items of eligible expenditure such as education, life insurance and health were deducted from taxable income for the purpose of assessing tax. [More…]
They expect better education, hospitals, roads, highways, water, sewerage and medical facilities. [More…]
When cuts are made in education, health services, hospitals and medical facilities who suffers the most and where do they suffer? [More…]
Let us apply that dictum to education. [More…]
As I recall vividly, in the run-up to the 1975 election honourable members opposite said that they would maintain the standard of education and expenditure that we fixed from 1972 to 1975. [More…]
The Government’s education budget, presented in the papers as a 10 per cent increase, is in fact a 4 per cent cut disguised by a transfer of funds from the poor to the rich. [More…]
This is just one example of the 4,000 unsatisfactory classrooms which the South Australian Education Department estimates that it has. [More…]
He gives the lie to the Federal Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, who blandly states in his guidelines that it is hoped that savings can be made in the capital works area. [More…]
The report on Poverty and Education in Australia by Dr Ron Fitzgerald of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty indicates that it is at this level that education funding can first assist students who did not choose their parents carefully. [More…]
A whole generation of students depends on such programs if the report of the Organisations for Economic Co-operation and Development entitled ‘Review of Australian Education Policy’ dated November 1976 is correct. [More…]
The proposals of the Committee are, in effect, that all ‘State-type1 functions be transferred to the Territory Executive, except that major functions such as rural land, mining, education, health … be retained by the Australian Government and other major functions such as roads, ports, fisheries, national parks and the police be shared. [More…]
Whether it be in the area of health, transport or education, the national Government has even had to supplement State governments. [More…]
There is a worry that the facilities in respect of education and health, which are included in the transfer of the functions outlined in the statement, are not as good as they should be. [More…]
So just by virtue of decisions which are made outside the IAC which are instruments of government, such as those relating to education levels and so forth, one can see a change taking place. [More…]
I believe that the Government has in many ways opted out of its real responsibilities to give us a co-ordinated approach to industry, manpower, security, location, migration and education- all the heads of policy that ought to be taken into account when one talks about the future life of our industries and the future security of the working people. [More…]
The proposals envisage the delegation of wide policy and executive responsibility for important functions such as health, education and welfare services, public transport, the Australian Capital Territory police, municipal services, the present government housing operations and many other services of government in the Territory. [More…]
It should be expected that the Government would be looking to the same general processes of refinement in high expenditure areas here including education, welfare and health. [More…]
The Government accepted the recommendation of the Schools Commission that a system of loan guarantees be established and in November of last year, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) announced this decision and foreshadowed the introduction of the necessary enabling legislation. [More…]
It also is coming under severe and, in my view, justifiable criticism for its attitude towards education. [More…]
In its report, the commission said it was determined to protect programs for disadvantaged schools and for special education including the teaching of migrants. [More…]
It has cut back on education, on welfare housing for Aborigines, on child minding centres and on a host of other things on which it cannot properly justify cutting back. [More…]
We must ensure that different forms of education pay full regard to future vocational prospects and that we as a community obtain the best value we can for the money- our money as taxpayers- spent on education. [More…]
We ought to spend more money on technical education, on teaching people to become technicians and technologists, and a lot less money on universities. [More…]
What would be the position if we adopted a user pays principle in respect of many other fields in which the Commonwealth has a responsibility such as railways, education, water supply, social welfare and health? [More…]
In education we find that these large block funds that we are talking about tonight have been increased in general, but who gets knocked on the head over education funding when we reduce a certain amount of money for government schools this year? [More…]
‘We will get out of education. [More…]
Why do the State governments not get stuck into the education system and look after the pre-school children, as they were bound to do for many years previously? [More…]
In this regard we can mention the money spent on education, on the provision of schools and police stations. [More…]
There was less spent on education in real terms. [More…]
One has only to look at the record of all States to see their increased capacity in education and transport, the additional loans they will receive this year, the capacity of local government and the road programs that have been announced. [More…]
The major cuts in specific purpose funds include cuts in real terms for major programs such as education and roads. [More…]
It is acknowledged by the Minster for Education (Senator Carrick) that in relation to education, the undertaking to uphold a 2 per cent growth factor has not yet been fulfilled. [More…]
That being the case, with inflation there is a cut in real terms in education. [More…]
What is the relationship between the training of dental therapists and technical education programs and policies. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 25 August 1977. [More…]
1 ) Do the Government’s spending decisions on education announced on 3 June 1977 effectively involve the transfer of about $ 1 3 m from government schools to private schools. [More…]
Did the announcement indicate that real growth in education at both school and university level was actually cut. [More…]
Will 1978 be the start of a major slow-down in education outlays. [More…]
Was this decision taken on political grounds and not for education reasons. [More…]
14) Except for the $3.1m which has been granted to nonGovernment Teachers Colleges, will Colleges of Advanced Education have the same funds in 1978 as they did in 1977, if one takes into account the price rises factor. [More…]
Is he able to say whether the Treasurer indicated on 20 May 1977 that the Education Commissions were to work on the basis of a 2 per cent increase in real terms for spending in universities and schools in 1978 and 1979. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the fact that many people in the field of education regard these statements and the final decisions as examples of broken promises and demoralising in the extreme for education planners. [More…]
Is it the Government’s view that there should be zero or minus real growth in education over a long period of time- a consolidation period. [More…]
Will the net effect of the new directions in education spending be to weaken the Schools Commission. [More…]
Does the Government have any plans to make a definitive and genuine policy statement on education; if so, when. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: ( 1 M35) It will be recalled that the previous Government in 1975 reduced the total level of expenditure under the education Commissions’ programs for 1976. [More…]
By contrast, this Government adopted levels of expenditure for 1977 which restored real growth to the education programs. [More…]
Funds for colleges of advanced education were increased in real terms by 5 per cent, for TAFE by Vh per cent and for universities and schools by 2 per cent [More…]
The Government recognises that the slowing down of growth in universities and colleges of advanced education in 1978 may lead to some re-adjustments. [More…]
Such costs represent by far the major part of education expenditure. [More…]
Canberra College of Advanced Education: Purchase of BMW Motor Car (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 13 September 1977: [More…]
Has the Canberra College of Advanced Education purchased a BMW motor car during the last 2 years; if so, what was the purchase price paid and did it include sales tax. [More…]
Which Commonwealth and State education institutions of the status of the Canberra College of Advanced Education provide a car to be used for official purposes by their respective principals and what is the make and type of the vehicle so provided. [More…]
The Canberra College of Advanced Education has purchased a BMW motor car during the last two years. [More…]
Our commitment to research and development is a wholesale commitment because we realise the importance of it and its importance in relation to the ambitions of a lot of young people who are completing a very high standard of education in Australia. [More…]
Another particularly important area in Canberra is education. [More…]
The number of Australian public servants administering our education has risen from 596 to 698. [More…]
This Budget contains many worthwhile benefits and initiatives, introduced in spite of the reduced deficit and in spite of the knockers who predicted cuts in such things as education, the removal of the $16 per day private hospital bed subsidy, a reduction in social security benefits and so on. [More…]
One is in the field of education, where in the Isolated Children’s Allowance Scheme, certain allowances were increased in 1977. [More…]
Many people in the Murray electorate and I have been urging Ministers for Education to change the criteria for disadvantage. [More…]
The Government has also increased the Tertiary Education Assistance Allowance (TEAS), that is living allowance, for 1978. [More…]
That will be of benefit to country people because of the number of students who have to live away from home to obtain a tertiary education. [More…]
The amount to be contributed by parents in New South Wales for pre-school education has been doubled. [More…]
The Government continues to misallocate resources in its provision of health services by failing to increase funds in areas which put the emphasis on health maintenance; for example, the community health program, drug education, the school dental scheme, family planning and so on. [More…]
Despite these cuts in revenue, the funding of health, education, transport, defence and welfare has been maintained at very adequate levels. [More…]
Social security is up by 13.7 per cent; education is up by 16 per cent, despite claims that it has been cut; health spending is up by 1 1 per cent, including 17 per cent in assistance to the aged; funding to local government through the income tax sharing arrangements is increased by 19 per cent; and road funding and payments to the States has increased dramatically. [More…]
That accusation was made by the New South Wales Government which has accused the Federal Government of reducing expenditure in the field of education and in other areas. [More…]
According to an article in this morning’s Adelaide Advertiser, the South Australian State Labor Government’s Minister for Education, Dr Hopgood, has claimed that the Federal Government is failing by almost $ 1 m to meet its commitment to Aboriginal education in South Australia for 1977-78. [More…]
Dr Hopgood further claimed that that was $95,000 short of the State Government’s present program for Aboriginal education and therefore was preventing the implementation of his further proposals. [More…]
The facts regarding Commonwealth Government funding for Aboriginal education should be pointed out. [More…]
Therefore, Aboriginal education programs in South Australia can be maintained with the funds that are being provided in this financial year. [More…]
I am talking about Aboriginal education. [More…]
When a conclusion is reached this will involve funding for education and other aspects of Aboriginal welfare related to the outstation movement. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the report of the Tertiary Education Commission- ‘Recommendations for 1978 ‘ together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) relating to this report. [More…]
It appears that we have a two-class system in respect of pre-school education- one for the rich and one for the poor or the battlers. [More…]
The Government will regret its decision because preschool education is an issue in my electorate equal to unemployment. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 10 March 1977: [More…]
1 ) What were the amounts spent each year since 1 974 on the implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answers to the honourable member’s questions: [More…]
I ) The Australian Committee on Technical and Further Education recommended a program of assistance to State TAFE systems and institutions for the period July 1974- December 1975. [More…]
What sort of shortfall do they create in hospital facilities, education facilities, water supplies and other public utilities and services which are already strained to the limit at this point in time? [More…]
Furthermore, looking at the practicalities, it is well known that in the main schools in the non-government sector are associated with religious groups which are interested in religious education as well as in normal school type education. [More…]
I put to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs ( Mr Viner), who represents the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), and the Government that they should look at the situation in Australia at present. [More…]
I remember the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), when he was Opposition spokesman on education, opposing the establishment of the Schools Commission because it could make grants on any basis of need; he said it had to be on the fixed mathematical ratio of 20 per cent of running costs, irrespective of need. [More…]
We would not have a Schools Commission today if we had relied on the likes of the then Opposition spokesman on education, namely the present Prime Minister. [More…]
What sort of Minister for Education has the Government if he is subject to directions from the Prime Minister as to what the Commission will do? [More…]
I think it is a most serious indictment of the whole education program into which the Government has intruded. [More…]
We must bear in mind that 20 years ago if one mentioned education in this Parliament it was deemed to be outside the ambit of the constitutional powers of this Parliament. [More…]
There was no question at all of funding education. [More…]
It is for those reasons that we are very critical of the Government’s approach to this whole question of education. [More…]
There is no objection to that circumstance if they get it from some source other than schools funds but to direct that they will get money at the expense of schools in need is a shocking way to express a government policy on education. [More…]
An analysis in respect of New South Wales raises the old sectarian issue that we are anxious to get away from because our belief is that all children are entitled to get the best possible education. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) replied that there was no need to do so. [More…]
It can see that schools in certain areas need a guarantee- I believe that they need a grant- but the whole concept of education needs is opened up when legislation of this type is introduced. [More…]
The Government should clearly understand what has now happened because of the reduction in education funds. [More…]
In November last year the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) announced this decision and foreshadowed the introduction of the necessary enabling legislation. [More…]
This always happens when Bills of this nature or anything to do with education are foreshadowed. [More…]
I want to pay tribute to my esteemed colleague the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns), who is in the House at the moment who has always fought for education. [More…]
In any case the honourable member for Lilley, in March, asked the Prime Minister for some assurances, assurances which to some people would amount to a statement, that the non-government sector would receive a fair go in the allocation of money for education. [More…]
I do not want to have a philosophical argument at the moment about the essential issues and essential differences of government and non-government schools but I think it is perfectly clear to everybody that the contribution to education by the non-government sector over all these years, of favouritism for the free compulsory and secular system, is very significant. [More…]
Apart altogether from the state aid issue, voucher funding for schools is gaining wider and wider acceptance on sociological, economic and educational grounds. [More…]
It is the individual child ‘s personal need for a suitable education that establishes its right to this money, a right it exercises through its parents or guardians. [More…]
Were school funding the responsibility of the Department of Social Security this would free the Department of Education to concentrate on formally educational and pedagogical issues and services. [More…]
I mention two in particular, one by E. G. West entitled ‘Economics, Education and the Politician’ and another by A. Maynard entitled ‘Experiment with Choice in Education’. [More…]
I commend to the House the Bill that we have been discussing and I also commend the voucher scheme which I think would be a serious and proper step towards solving the perennial inequality between state and non-state systems of education. [More…]
We want to reinvigorate the world we live in and to renew society and I believe that this means putting as much real power as we can into the hands of ordinary people, especially power over their own lives and over the things which concern them most deeply, like education and the family. [More…]
Now he has the magic formula- the vouchers- which will solve all the problems of education, except perhaps teaching the children who go to the schools. [More…]
That is the fundamental principle to be looked at when we are talking about equality of education. [More…]
The actual running expenses of Australia, for the day to day running of such things as the defence system, payments for education and pensions, was about $ 17,000m. [More…]
Although a school has to be recognised as a school by the State education Minister, that Minister does not intervene in any way. [More…]
There is no schedule at the back of this legislationno apology to the State ministers that the dealing is to be done directly with people who are operating under State education legislation. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) said that the Bill limits the amount to $ 10m in any one year. [More…]
When one looks at the capital funds spent on education at the school level, not at the tertiary level, one sees that they are quite immense. [More…]
For example, in 1975-76, $383m was spent on capital funds for school education in Australia. [More…]
The Government has come in for severe criticism from different sectors of the community for breaking its promise in connection with education funding. [More…]
We should all be aware that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in another place in November 1976 committed the Government to a 2 per cent real growth in funds for universities, colleges of advanced education and schools in the 1977-78 and 1978-79 financial years. [More…]
It appears to me that the Government has decided to ignore that promise, just as it has ignored so many other promises, by holding spending on the public education system to the 1976-77 levels in real terms, despite greatly increased enrolments. [More…]
The Government’s decisions strike at the fundamental goal of our society, namely, equality of educational opportunity, a goal which successive Labor and Liberal governments have striven to achieve. [More…]
-The amendment moved by the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) is supported by the Opposition because we believe that the Government has betrayed the people by not maintaining the 2 per cent growth in educational funds which it said it would. [More…]
As I understand it, he has no leanings towards any particular political party, but he points out in a three-page letter written to all members on 3 June the unfair actions of the Government in breaking its promises in connection with education funding. [More…]
I hope that the Government will give consideration to accepting the amendment and therefore somewhat retrieve some of the face which it has lost as a result of betraying its promise to the people not so long ago in the field of education. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) spoke of the massive funding needs of education. [More…]
Naturally that had a bearing on the existing massive needs in the field of education. [More…]
If we are to maintain the policy on which this Government was elected- a dual system of education- we must honour that responsibility. [More…]
In 1972 the then Minister for Education, Mr Malcolm Fraser, indicated the Government’s intention to establish the principle that in future the grants would represent 20 per cent of the running cost per pupil m government schools, to be matched by a similar grant at the State level. [More…]
I believe it is a policy which everybody should be prepared to maintain, in light of the fact that this dual system of education certainly is accepted by the Government. [More…]
Let me say that in a debate on an education Bill it has been stated that the Commission should have complete control and that the Government should do everything the Commission recommends; its recommendations should be accepted by the Government without question. [More…]
If we could have maintained these schools in operation it would have been of general benefit to education as a whole and would have allowed to continue the dual system of education to which this Government is unequivocally committed. [More…]
If I could say, merely as an aside, he knows as well as I do that the Labor Government ‘s reputation in education is beyond reproach. [More…]
The allocation of funds for education purposes after the election of a Labor government trebled. [More…]
The concern of educationists in Australia at present is to the effect that the Government has failed to honour its election undertaking that it would maintain a one per cent growth factor in education. [More…]
General question of education at that. [More…]
I do not beeve that people consider that this is the year to expand enormously expenditure on education, but I believe that a fair thing to do in this year of curtailment and restriction is to maintain a one per cent growth factor. [More…]
Most people in Australia hope that we have put the issue of non-government education beyond the realms of politics. [More…]
After all, we are talking about a matter which could mean the Australian Government becoming the lender of the last resort in the nongovernment education area. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) who represents the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to what extent he anticipates that there may be a higher amount? [More…]
-I am bitterly disappointed that the Labor Party has chosen to hinder and to restrain with bureaucratic red tape the actions and discretions of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) who will have the honour of administering this magnificent piece of legislation. [More…]
I hope that by this time next year the States will recognise that if they do not come to the party and really co-operate with the capital costs of nongovernment schools we will reach the crisis which the honourable member for Lilley predicted and within the next few years we will not have the availability of educational facilities in the nongovernment school sector which this country, in my opinion, should be committed to retain. [More…]
If the non-government school system collapses the education system of Australia goes down with it. [More…]
If the Labor Government had adopted the allocation of education funds as provided for in the last McMahon Government in respect of the 1972-75 triennium the result would have been an allocation of one-quarter of the amount that the Labor Parry provided. [More…]
This Government is providing 20 per cent for a child who might need 80 per cent or 100 per cent, yet honourable members opposite stand up here as Australians and talk about education. [More…]
Without these basic amenities much of our present expenditure on schools, high schools, and tertiary and technical education is wasted, for without access to the literature and accumulated knowledge of our society the educational process must be conducted in a vacuum. [More…]
Seventeen months later we have still not seen any action by the Government to implement any of the recomendations of the inquiry- recommendations, I might add, that would cost the paltry sum of $20m a year, an amount that pales into insignificance when compared with the $2,37 lm that will be expended on education by the Federal Government in this financial year. [More…]
Spend $2, 371m on education but not a cent for libraries that ensure that the educational process does not end when our children complete their formal education. [More…]
Does Does the Government intend to establish appropriate courses at colleges of advanced education and technical colleges for the training of technicians and apprentices in conservation techniques and all aspects central to museum collections and displays; if so, when and where will these courses be established. [More…]
and (5) The Canberra College of Advanced Education proposes to introduce courses in materials conservation in 1978. [More…]
In its report ‘Recommendations for 1978’, which was tabled in the Parliament in September, the Tertiary Education Commission supported projected student enrolment figures for the Canberra College of Advanced Education which would allow such courses to proceed. [More…]
It is this: I venture to suggest that there is something wrong with our education system when so many people leave the system and are, to put it bluntly, unemployable. [More…]
There are people who even after several years of secondary education are barely literate. [More…]
What is wrong with our education system when year after year we produce people who are virtually unemployable or who, if they do obtain jobs, obtain jobs in fields which are quite unsatisfying to them? [More…]
Why has no previous government embarked upon such an exercise when it is so obvious that the education system we have is not one which produces individuals who are able to find satisfying, fruitful and productive work in the economy? [More…]
He will obtain also from other sources details of the education program for unemployed youth. [More…]
We have made that scheme more relevant to job finding rather than having an elaborate tertiary education assistance scheme which simply paid larger benefits to those people who were in the know. [More…]
We have the education program for unemployed youth under which some 550 people whose educational skills were not adequate in the education system will have those skills brought up to a level that will help them find jobs. [More…]
We have the Williams inquiry into education and training. [More…]
I do not know whether the fault is theirs, whether the fault is that of the education system or whether the fault is that of the industrial system. [More…]
The major areas of government expenditure are as follows: Defence, 8.7 per cent; education, 8.8 per cent; health, 10.5 per cent; social security and welfare, 27.2 per cent; and States and local government, transfer of payments, 21.8 per cent. [More…]
If we are not to reduce expenditure in those other four areas which provide benefits that people need- I refer to education, health, social security; and much of the money provided by way of States grants goes into those areas- we have to be prepared to take away benefits from those who are not in need. [More…]
We should direct funds to the needy in the public expenditure areas of health, education and welfare. [More…]
Might it not be possible to provide education in such a way that people are assisted with education if they need financial assistance, but not assisted otherwise? [More…]
Initially, in the shorter term might it not be possible to look at tertiary education, which is available to an elite few, and recognise that this is provided by the majority of people in the community, who do not have access to it; that it is paid for by the truck driver and the shearer? [More…]
Might not those people owe in some way at least a proportion of that cost of education to the truck driver and the shearer? [More…]
Might not tertiary education allowances be a loan and not a grant? [More…]
The range of communications that has suffered as a result of this Government’s Budget strategy goes to the very areas of my responsibility as spokeman for the Oppositionsuch areas as bilingual education, the education of migrant women, the Public Service and migrant services generally. [More…]
We need to give them more money in their pockets to spend on their families- on education, food and clothing. [More…]
I know that the Director-General has given a lot of attention to such things as the drug education program and the treatment and rehabilitation facilities for alcohol and drug dependency. [More…]
A similar situation arose when the assessment of needs in education expenditure was considered by the Whitlam Government. [More…]
The Schools Commission set out the desirable level of educational standards and where the areas of greatest deficiencies were, and then drew up a scale of funding that would ensure maximum expenditure in the areas of greatest need. [More…]
Our policy further stated that we would provide a variety of accessible ways in which to meet these needs as far as possible in the community setting and that we would stress prevention, education, rehabilitation and home care in preference to institutional care. [More…]
These projects range from community health centres to day hospitals, day care centres, geriatric services, health education services, maternal and child care services, drug and rehabilitation facilities, funding for community nursing and so on. [More…]
Has his Government made a decision on whether young men and women who leave school this year and who genuinely seek work and cannot find it but who are not going on to higher education next year will be granted unemployment benefit during the period before schools resume next year? [More…]
-We have just heard the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Antony Whitlam) talking about the provision for pre-school education and child care centres. [More…]
What he failed to do was to indicate to the House his attitudes to the overall matter of the care and education of young children. [More…]
I come from a State where pre-school education is free and where there is provision for pre-school education for in excess of 80 per cent of the children in the four to five year age group. [More…]
It is time that the States exercised their responsibility and allocated greater proportions of funds into the area of childhood services, not merely into child care or pre-school education but into services to support the family in order that children can be brought up by their families and given appropriate care and education so that when they do start school they can begin their formal education without disadvantage. [More…]
The value of education programs has been reduced by 16 per cent in real terms, health programs by 13 per cent, and legal aid by 19 per cent. [More…]
These cuts have not only affected the provision of basic amenities- housing, education and health services- they have also thrown thousands of Aborigines out of work. [More…]
Education programs are up by $6.8m, an increase of 18 per cent to $43m. [More…]
Certainly I discovered that in talking to people in the Commonwealth Department of Education, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and other agencies in both Adelaide and Darwin. [More…]
They do not stop to appreciate that in sending in trained medical personnel, inevitably some aspects of the traditional Aboriginal society will be broken down because Aboriginals will be brought into contact with people with a different type of education and from a different type of culture. [More…]
The objectives of these exchanges would be to promote mutual knowledge and to facilitate the presentation of each country in such books, as well as to promote the exchange of information on technical innovations in the field of education. [More…]
The subject of educational materials is likely to be discussed at the forthcoming CSCE Review Conference in Belgrade. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Government recognises the disadvantages suffered by isolated children in respect of education, and has done much in that area, will the Government also act to assist those very deserving people who have to travel long distances to receive medical care? [More…]
I believe the States, which are now $640.5m better off as a result of the Fraser federalism policies, should be playing a greater role than they have played in the past in looking after the health, education and other welfare aspects of the people who live within their States. [More…]
Without company profit and profitability there would be no tax by which programs of social welfare, health and education can be provided. [More…]
We have heard much about grants-in-aid and money for housing, health, education, employment, welfare and so on for Aborigines. [More…]
Substantial cuts in funding for Aboriginal Affairs include: Housing, down by 3.81 per cent in real terms; education, down by 8.9 per cent in real terms; employment, down by 0.1 per cent in real terms; enterprises, down by 10.5 per cent in real terms and legal aid down by 0.9 per cent in real terms. [More…]
Further, the 1977-78 figures in relation to the adjusted Hayden Budget figures show decreased support for education, health, social security and Aboriginal programs. [More…]
Expenditure by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs on Aboriginal health has been cut by 1 1 per cent in real terms over the past three years and expenditure on education has been cut by 12 per cent. [More…]
Quite some time ago a pre-apprenticeship training scheme was established in Port Augusta, in conjunction with the Port Augusta College of Further Education. [More…]
For education, expenditure last financial year was $36.4m. [More…]
The final point was to initiate new programs in areas of education and counselling to assist in the management of small business. [More…]
We provided funds for the program which now includes extensive teaching aids and equipment, a full time teacher seconded from the Victorian Department of Education and three part time teachers. [More…]
He alleged that the adult migrant education courses at the Church of All Nations have been suspended. [More…]
This was conveyed to Dr Moonie by officers of the Department of Education this week. [More…]
For instance, the funds for the adult migrant education program in 1977-78 totalled $9,663,000. [More…]
In respect of child migrant education, in 1976 we provided $23,254,000 through the Schools Commission’s general current grants program for child migrant education. [More…]
In addition, in 1976-77 some $534,870 was provided for other services for child migrant education. [More…]
So again, funds have increased for child migrant education. [More…]
If the Minister were serious about child migrant education he would never be out of the office of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), because funds are being cut in that area. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and the Federal Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) provided additional teachers. [More…]
An additional $150,000 was granted last week and there will be guarantees of funds to ensure that the migrant education services are fully maintained. [More…]
I pay great tribute to those employers who are introducing migrant education classes at their premises. [More…]
The Australia-wide need for a lift in the standard of education in the principles and practice of small business operators became an immediate objective for the Government. [More…]
Through the Workers Education Association in South Australia I ran a small business training course for about 10 years before coming into this place. [More…]
The fifth and remaining point was to do what we could to improve the counselling and education services available to assist small businessmen by advising them of management techniques. [More…]
If a person wants to enter a trade or a profession a wide variety of courses is available to him through the universities, colleges of advanced education and colleges of technical and further education, but if someone wants to go into business the only way in which most people can gain experience is through trial and error. [More…]
Why is the Department so disjointed in the areas of education, legal aid and so on? [More…]
I deal first with adult migrant education. [More…]
In the last financial year the allocation for adult migrant education from the Commonwealth Government was $2.7m. [More…]
The New South Wales Minister of Education is well aware of the system. [More…]
The New South Wales Minister for Education has had clear assurances from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) and also from the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) that there will be a commitment to maintain levels at least sufficient for last year and to enable the courses to continue. [More…]
To make the point, $2 1.3m was spent on migrant education in 1974-75 and $2 1.4m in 1975-76; but in 1976-77 the allocation was $ 10.6m. [More…]
They come here, they need housing, education and other facilities that are in short supply and they do not improve those situations. [More…]
Less will have to be spent on education and more on the social welfare system. [More…]
The technical education authorities are showing a great deal of compassion. [More…]
I am sure that with education, correct promotion and initiatives on the part of the Government, partial conversion to LP gas would greatly reduce the amount of petrol used in Australia each year. [More…]
Is it a generally accepted fact that Aboriginals in Australia have poorer health, education, employment and other welfare prospects than non-Aboriginal Australians. [More…]
5 ) Did the Interim Report from the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs concerning the Alcohol Problems of Aboriginals in the Northern Territory indicate that in some areas there is a lack of accurate information about Aboriginals regarding matters such as health, employment, education, sources of income and patterns of expenditure. [More…]
Mr Acting Speaker, education has joined the long list of broken promises by the Fraser Government, but unlike the broken pledges about employment, Medibank, hospitals, wage indexation, growth centres, water projects, Aborigines, legal aid, migrant welfare, urban transport, which were given under the pressures of the last election campaign, education has suffered a double breach of undertaking. [More…]
In his ministerial statement on programs of the education commissions for the 1977-79 triennium, Senator Carrick stated on 4 November last: [More…]
the commissions were asked to proceed with plans based on minimum growth rates of two per cent per annum in real terms for universities, colleges of advanced education and schools. [More…]
will establish base levels of expenditure for 1978 at the same real level as for 1977 in the case of universities, colleges of advanced education . [More…]
One need not go back far to the time when he was Minister for Education and Science and when the Australian Labor Party first proposed the Commission and the needs concept for our schools. [More…]
He was not even the official Opposition spokesman on education at that time. [More…]
He urged the Opposition to use its numbers in the Senate to reject the monumental series of education Bills, all of which had a clear mandate from the people and which transformed the prospects for education in this nation. [More…]
For more than a century the education debate in Australia was poisoned by sectarian bitterness for which the term ‘state aid’ became the code name. [More…]
The real debate on education- the nature, needs and purpose of a proper educational systemwas destroyed and debauched by it. [More…]
The real debate never got off the ground; the spurious debate divided the community and retarded the cause of education. [More…]
The Australian people were entitled to think that at last we had established a common education policy which recognised the needs of all schools and which recognised above all the responsibility of the national government for meeting those needs. [More…]
At last the Australian people believed that the real debate about the nature and purpose of education in a modern society could begin unimpeded, undistorted, by prejudice and by social and sectarian division. [More…]
The Schools Commission was not only the agency for recommending the spending of vastly expanded funds, but the expert agency through which all interested partiesteachers, parents, school organisations, education departments- could participate in and contribute to the genuine debate on education. [More…]
In education, as with the so-called new federalism, the present Prime Minister wants to turn the clock back. [More…]
He seeks a return not just to things as they were before the 1972 election but as they were before the war- before uniform taxation and before successive governments, Liberal and Labor, accepted some measure of responsibility for education. [More…]
Formal financial guidelines were to be developed and communicated to the various education commissions each year. [More…]
Its independence also depends on its ability to put down its version of the best breakups of education funding. [More…]
The important thing in this debate is that we know that those schools were achieving different and better results and that if we do not have an education system that is varied we will never have the opportunity to identify the different and the better. [More…]
Some children have the cost of their entire education met from the taxpayers’ dollar. [More…]
The Opposition makes the point that the independence of the Schools Commission has been affected in all aspects of education but most importantly in what is called financial resource allocation. [More…]
The resources that parents want to devote to the education of their child could be as high as $ 1 ,400 a year. [More…]
It is no good talking about that being the norm for every child in Australia, because the same resource allocation is not available to all in the competitive education system. [More…]
This is a major outcome of the Commission’s work over the past four years and indeed may be one of the major achievements of the Commonwealth in its role in Australian education. [More…]
An analysis of the difference in monetary terms between the 1977 guidelines and the 1976 guidelines, which were bad enough, shows a reduction of $33m in the allocation for education in Australia. [More…]
That is the most divisive thing that could be done from the point of view of education. [More…]
The Whitlam Government first issued them in 1975 when it set aside, completely out of hand, the reports of all the education commissions for the 1976-78 triennium. [More…]
In the 1975 Budget the Federal Labor Government cut spending for the four education commissions by a total of $105m. [More…]
Funds for universities were cut by $2 1 m; for colleges of advanced education by $45m; for colleges of technical and further education by $9m - [More…]
Furthermore, not only were guidelines set and principles undertaken which were completely without precedent, but further the previous Government amalgamated, virtually without consultation or warning, the Australian Universities Commission and the Australian Commission on Advanced Education. [More…]
This Administration’s guidelines, on coming to government, have guaranteed growth in all areas of education particularly the technical and further education area. [More…]
This is as a result of the very difficult circumstances in which this Government came to office and the fact that there are many areas of public expenditure, including education, which must be and should be restrained to some extent in order to ensure that inflation and the growth of government expenditure can be controlled. [More…]
What will that mean in terms of education requirements, the retraining requirements and even the training requirements for industry? [More…]
The State governments, for example, have an enormous responsibility in the area of education. [More…]
Perhaps we could have more assistance for education. [More…]
The people in my electorate are disadvantaged by being, sometimes, many hundreds of miles from the nearest education establishment. [More…]
There was a lot of discussion today about education. [More…]
There were no ABC appearance at the news conference to release the State Australian Labor Party education policy on Wednesday, 12 October. [More…]
A reference was also given to the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts to inquire into the effects of television on childhood development. [More…]
Included in this figure is $900,000 for the first stage of the Woden Technical and Further Education College which, in total, is estimated will amount to $6.4m. [More…]
During his period as Minister for Education the present Prime Minister played very heavily on the disputes and divisions in the community which derived from the State aid arguments which were a deep seated area of community concern. [More…]
Those divisions were healed by the adoption of proper measures which took into account consideration of the needs of the education system, namely the establishment of the schools commissions which were opposed in this place by the present Prime Minister. [More…]
It would not have been difficult for the Government to provide to class A schools the amount of money it felt necessary in addition to making allocations to the other areas of education. [More…]
The honourable member for Corio had the audacity to attack the stand taken by the present Prime Minister on the question of State aid when he was Minister for Education some five or six years ago. [More…]
As an impartial and, I believe, objective Australian, I say that I believe we have had two outstanding Federal Ministers for Education in recent times. [More…]
The two Ministers for Education whom I believe the people of Australia will remember for many years to come are Malcolm Fraser and the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) to whom this country owes a very deep and very substantial debt of gratitude. [More…]
When the Prime Minister was Minister for Education, education in this country went forward in leaps and bounds because of his compassion, his humanity and his dedication to his task. [More…]
I believe it was completely uncalled for that the honourable member for Corio should suggest that in some way the Prime Minister, when he was Minister for Education, did less than justice to the school children of Australia and to the parents of those children. [More…]
I believe that the record is clear and that the people of Australia are very much in the debt of the Prime Minister for what he did when he was Minister for Education. [More…]
I quote from a paper presented by Mr R. Bruce Gates, Senior Lecturer in Management at the Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education. [More…]
Broadly, the publications in the Department’s library cover the subjects of immigration, emigration, the education, health and welfare of migrants, automatic data processing and demography. [More…]
The purpose of COPQ library is to collect and make available to its research staff and professional expert panels material from both Australian and overseas sources, which describes and evaluates higher education and the gaining of professional qualifications. [More…]
There will be more and more foreign takeovers of Australia’s industries and natural resources and a further drastic cutback in funds for education. [More…]
In recent years many claims for unemployment benefit have been made during the summer vacation by school leavers prior to their making serious efforts to obtain employment and by others who claim to be unemployed but who actually intend to resume school or go to tertiary education after the vacation. [More…]
The Government has decided that a period of six weeks is reasonable, and the Bill provides that, in the case of school leavers, unemployment benefit is not payable for six weeks after the date of ceasing full-time education. [More…]
A person who has completed a course of secondary education apart from sitting for examinations will be deemed to remain a full-time secondary school student until after the completion of the examinations. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, under the pre Budget system introduced by our predecessors the practical situation, despite appearances to the contrary, was that taxpayers did not really get any rebate for certain expenditures- superannuation, municipal rates, education expenses and the like- unless their total expenditure exceeded $ 1 ,690. [More…]
The education estimates give us a chance again to talk about the problems that are facing the education area. [More…]
This is evidenced by the number of reports we have now from the Schools Commission and the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
It took a change of government in 1972 to bring into focus the real needs of education. [More…]
If we look at this matter from the point of view of the needs of education, in 1972 they were perhaps assessed at $400m. [More…]
The biggest worry for anybody concerned is that there could be division in the ranks of the two sectors of the education area. [More…]
It is made very clear that the non-government sectors of education are objecting to funds being diverted from the government sector. [More…]
The Commission makes the point that the Government’ has to look at whether it can continue to maintain the standard of education and the standard of enrolment. [More…]
In paragraph 4.37 of the Tertiary Education Commission s report is a reference to the problems of the Griffith University and what should be done. [More…]
There are particular problems for colleges of advanced education because there has been a limitation in the amount of money being made available. [More…]
In that State, of all the College of Advanced Education enrolments some 46 per cent are for teacher training yet the Commonwealth Government has directed that there is to be no increase in the funds they need. [More…]
Clearly, because of this limitation, women will suffer a great disadvantage in gaining access to teacher training in the tertiary education field. [More…]
The technical education field is most important. [More…]
It is deemed to be the Cinderella area of education. [More…]
The Tertiary Education Commission report states: [More…]
In New South Wales a total of $ 102m will be provided in the field of technical and further education. [More…]
However, I can understand that this year has to be a year of consolidation and review rather than a year of any large growth in the funding of education. [More…]
But in this year of consolidation and review all sections of our education system should practise moderation and restraint in spending, not the least within universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
For many years, in fact well before I became a member of this House, I felt that universities and colleges of advanced education were advancing too quickly. [More…]
If we look back to 1950 we find that there were only seven universities and no colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Today there are 19 universities and 83 colleges of advanced educationa total of 102 institutions. [More…]
Today colleges of advanced education alone are costing $53 7m in Commonwealth funds whereas in 1966-67, the first year in which the Commonwealth became involved, only $6.2m was provided. [More…]
When we arrive at a stage when the chairman of a college of advanced education suggests that perhaps it is time for some colleges to close then lt is time for this Government and the new Tertiary Education Commission to look closely at what is happening in the tertiary field. [More…]
In discussing the tertiary field I would leave technical education out of consideration because it is a recognised fact that technical colleges need considerably more funds for expansion in order that we may train more carpenters, plumbers, electricians, motor mechanics and other associated tradesmen of which there is such a shortage in Australia today. [More…]
I refer to the earlier comment that some colleges of advanced education should be closed. [More…]
In 1976 some 17,601 students were undergoing teacher education but they were spread over 21 colleges. [More…]
People should have the opportunity to undertake courses of study to further their education. [More…]
However I am afraid that many courses which have been established at colleges of advanced education should have been left to universities or technical colleges. [More…]
If a plan of rationalisation is decided upon, some students may have to return to correspondence courses, but I am sure there are many who in the past and today are finding this manner of education quite satisfactory. [More…]
But it is good to know that there are those in the education field who are at last realising what the position is. [More…]
On 23 September last the Chairman of the Association of Principal Officers of Regional Colleges of Advanced Education in a letter to Professor Karmel, the Chairman of the Tertiary Education Commission, said: [More…]
At a recently held meeting of this Association, the matter of the proliferation of external courses in higher education was discussed. [More…]
We also wish to invite the Commission to convene a meeting of senior executives of universities and colleges of advanced education which are interacting in the offering of external courses. [More…]
I have had compiled details by field of study of students in New South Wales who are enrolled in colleges of advanced education to emphasise the area where I believe duplication is taking place. [More…]
-At the time the comment of change in colleges of advanced education was made, on 6 May last, the Chairman of the Higher Education Commission of New South Wales had this to say: we have gathered … at a time when extraordinary changes are to be seen in post secondary education in particular. [More…]
It’s been a very short era and those of us who were involved in its beginning, barely ten or twelve years ago, can hardly believe that the cycle of change has been so rapid in post secondary education. [More…]
In those heady days just after the war there was an unthinking commitment on the part of all of us to more education. [More…]
We were going to develop this country of ours through education and many of us approached it with a fervour that could only be described as religious. [More…]
Education was going to be the key that would unlock all of the development for our country into the future years. [More…]
However, the education industry as it is now called, and I don’t think it’s an unfair epithet to apply to it, has overreached itself. [More…]
So there is now throughout our community at official and suburban level, as it were at provincial level, an enormous questioning of the advantages of education viewed in relation to the costs of providing the education. [More…]
All the backroom planners and statisticians had a marvellous time in laying out their forward plans for the growth, always the growth, mark you, the growth and expansion of education, and as I heard it put the other day, so wrong have some of the projections and predictions been in education that the Irish are now telling jokes about the planners. [More…]
We need universities and we need colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I do not believe that this is what we want for our children but neither do we want to see grand buildings at colleges of advanced education or universities when young children are suffering. [More…]
My thoughts have been expressed to many teachers and parents and citizens associations, and above all to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]
I will do what I can to see that there is some review of tertiary education spending thus providing money for where it is urgently needed. [More…]
-I join my colleague the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) in his criticism of the Government’s role in its relative rundown of expenditure on education and its attitude towards the education commissions. [More…]
I think it a great cause for regret that the Government’s actions have caused a stifling of the debate on the quality of education which had been growing in the Australian community. [More…]
The Government seems to have removed stimulus and to have placed the dead hand on the aspirations of all those people who are concerned with education and who have shown some interest in it. [More…]
This may be the last opportunity that I will have to pay a tribute to a former Minister for Education, the honourable member for Fremantle, Mr Kim Beazley. [More…]
I think that one must pay a tribute to the great stimulus he gave to educational thought in the Australian community. [More…]
In referring to that program the opening paragraph of an article in the Education News, Volume 15, No. [More…]
Its primary purpose is to lift the quality of education in all Australian schools. [More…]
It seems to me that the attitude of this Government to education expenditure is stifling much of the stimulus for these programs. [More…]
Much of the determining in an inexpensive way of what innovation can be used to improve the quality of education in our schools has disappeared in the community. [More…]
The honourable member for Macquarie (Mr Gillard) spoke about what happened in the field of tertiary education and raised some doubts about it. [More…]
I perhaps share some of those doubts about whether we did not start at the wrong end in many ways by concentrating so much on tertiary education. [More…]
He has made a considerable contribution to education. [More…]
He has inspired people in education. [More…]
He was concerned not only with the quantity of education and spending on education but also with quality in that field and for that I believe he will be remembered. [More…]
He decried the fact that there was not continuing real growth in education and he depreciated the additional funds that had !one into the private education sector. [More…]
The Schools Commission is a body which is especially skilled in advising the Government and, for that matter, the Parliament and the public, on priorities within education. [More…]
It is in no position to say that we should have less defence expenditure and more education expenditure. [More…]
To say that so much must be spent on education is to say that so much will not be spent in some other area. [More…]
If expenditure on education, or any other area for that matter, is to go on growing in real terms at a faster rate than the economy itself is growing, of course, other areas must decline. [More…]
In recent years education has increased its share of the gross domestic product It cannot expect and should not expect to go on doing so indefinitely, because if its share grows at a rate faster than the economy itself grows, it will be taking an ever greater share and leaving an ever smaller share to be allocated to other areas. [More…]
I submit that in the education area an attempt to achieve too great a rate of growth in the 1970s has resulted in unnecessary and considerable wastage. [More…]
Let us look at the additional funds which have been provided in the area of private education. [More…]
Section 26.3 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights states quite unequivocally that there is a right of parents to decide the type of education that their children should receive. [More…]
Some parents believe that their children ought to have a religious education. [More…]
Some parents believe that the private education system provides a better grounding in the three Rs. [More…]
I submit that a person who is taxed to provide education, amongst other things, is entitled to the same consideration from those taxes, irrespective of where he sends his children to school. [More…]
It may be reasonable to discriminate between parents on the basis of wealth; it is not reasonable to discriminate between parents because of the choice they make in relation to the education of their children. [More…]
-Education is again becoming a controversial issue with the Australian people. [More…]
He has sent a copy of this letter to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]
I hope the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen), who is our shadow Minister for Education, will correct me if that is not the case, as he makes a deeper study of these matters. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister been drawn to the Smith Ferranti Report on Computer Education Needs in Australia. [More…]
Is the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs aware that the New South Wales State Government is experiencing great difficulty in maintaining adult migrant education services? [More…]
I am aware also of the increasing demand which is making itself felt for adult education classes in English. [More…]
I have been actively consulting with my colleague who has responsibility in this matter, the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick. [More…]
Spending on essential education, health and welfare programs will be protected against inflation. [More…]
The truth of the performance is that education spending has been reduced in real terms for 1978, despite increased enrolments; $ 13.8m has been syphoned off from government schools to non-government schools, in explicit contradiction to the recommendations which the Schools Commission made on the basis of the respective needs of schools. [More…]
The 1977 Budget reduced migrant education services by 6 per cent in real terms compared with last year’s Budget. [More…]
Aboriginal education programs have been reduced by 16 per cent in real terms, Aboriginal health programs by 1 3 per cent in real terms, and Aboriginal legal aid by 19 per cent. [More…]
-There is no doubt that the Government can take real pride in the funds that it has made available for education despite the major objective that the Government has pursued since it came to office, to reduce inflation. [More…]
It is correct to say that wages and salaries form the major part of the current grants for education expenditure and they will continue to be supplemented by the Government to cover the cost increases. [More…]
The Government intends to permit all the projects contained in the Advanced Education Commission’s program in 1978 to continue. [More…]
In this regard the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), will be empowered to effect transfers of capital funds both between sectors of the educational program and between States after advice from the Commission. [More…]
They will be made in the best interests of educational advancement generally. [More…]
With an increase in Commonwealth payments to the States this financial year of more than $600m, or 17 per cent under the tax sharing arrangements, the States have ample capacity to increase further their spending on education, if they so wish. [More…]
Through the funds that are made available, they can provide funds for education to a greater degree than they were able to do before. [More…]
The Government will be continuing programs for disadvantaged schools in country areas and for special education, including provisions for children in institutions, at the same base level as in 1977. [More…]
As recommended by the Commission, the base program for migrant and multi-cultural education, whilst the same in total has been adjusted between the States and systems to bring the payments more in line with the actual distribution of migrant children. [More…]
The cost of education to people in outlying areas is a tremendous burden and something more will have to be done about it. [More…]
Non-government boarding schools have provided much of the education for students who have to live away from home. [More…]
One of the features of the last three or four years has been the consistent attack upon the Labor Party’s education policy by people who use it as a stalking horse in politics, without saying anything specific about what they would have done. [More…]
It was a remarkable performance to raise the amount of public effort in education in Australia in the three years in which the Labor Party was in government. [More…]
It is significant that when the attacks come upon Labor’s expenditure on education they are never specific. [More…]
I refer for instance to the statement that it is maintaining 2 per cent real growth in education. [More…]
One of the weaknesses in education over the last two or three years, perhaps four years, has been the hiatus in public demand, public criticism and public campaigning. [More…]
The ordinary citizen seems to have lapsed into some sort of apathy about education. [More…]
It is very rare now for delegations to come to members to tell them what is needed in education. [More…]
There were features of the Australian education system which the Labor Government wished to sponsor and there were features which it wanted to eradicate. [More…]
The Australian education system has been notable for its universality for the last 100 years. [More…]
Unfortunately this Government, through its assistance to the private sector in education and particularly the level six schools, is aggravating the situation. [More…]
The Australian education system unfortunately continues to be conservative in its approach to the future. [More…]
When I look at the expenditure by the Curriculum Development Centre I can see that last year $2m was expended and this year there is an allocation of $1.9m which is not a significant decrease but when one takes into account inflation and other matters that are apparent in education, it is a significant decrease in terms of possible effort. [More…]
I want to raise the question of technical education and in particular the disadvantaged schools in my electorate. [More…]
I was the secretary of my Party’s education committee almost from a year or so after I became a member of Parliament until I entered the Ministry in 1972. [More…]
During that period the Party apparatus worked solidly on the question of education, developed its priorities and knew where it wanted to go but one of the great inadequacies of the system was having to rely upon the States. [More…]
There is total inadequacy in buildings, equipment and in the capacity to produce special education. [More…]
As I see the education system in Australia it does not really stretch its candidates enough. [More…]
-In the speech on the estimates for the Department of Education my colleague the honourable member for Maranoa, Mr Corbett, was elaborating on the contribution by the Commonwealth Government and the State governments to the area of education. [More…]
I want to make a few comments in this debate on education today in Australia. [More…]
It seems to me that a number of misconceptions are creeping into our education system. [More…]
What concerns me most of all is what to do with the final product because far too often these days when one speaks to personnel managers of companies and when one speaks to people in various avenues of employment and you see the product which has been turned out from some of our educational centres you must pose the question: Are we on the right course? [More…]
I sometimes feel that not a great deal of consideration is given to the basic causes but rather to some of the personal ambitions and empire building by people in some of our educational institutions. [More…]
I am quite convinced that we need these days to review the general course of education. [More…]
A more practical approach is needed to the general avenues of education. [More…]
It is in education that we have planned everyone’s expectations as to the salvation of the future. [More…]
Another avenue which I think will have to be looked at in the near future is the question of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
These were established in fairly recent times to develop technical education. [More…]
There is far more technical education needed in Australia. [More…]
These are technical education centres, and that is the services they should be forced to provide. [More…]
It is not a time to turn technical education courses into another form of university which in itself produces an unemployable product. [More…]
I would like to bring some real relevance back into not only the universities but also the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Within these universities and centres there ought to be, through the Department of Education, some way in which the general thrust of spending programs is reviewed. [More…]
While I have dealt with the higher levels of education I think we also need to do something in the primary and secondary levels. [More…]
Governments in the 1960s and 1970s have undoubtedly paid a lot more attention to education than previously. [More…]
In some ways I suspect that secondary education has not been brought up to date and has not quite met the demands. [More…]
-After an annual real growth of 39 per cent under the Labor Government, there has been no growth in education expenditure under this Government. [More…]
At present there is no growth in better education and no growth towards a fairer distribution of the benefits of education. [More…]
Yet the education system is failing to meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of school children each year who graduate without basic literacy or numeracy skills. [More…]
An Australian Council for Educational Research survey of 10-year old and 14-year old students found that there is a considerable problem in Australian schools with significant numbers of children failing to reach adequate levels of numeracy and literacy. [More…]
A minimum level of basic education is essential in the society in which we live. [More…]
This is not the only area of failure of our education system. [More…]
Further educational disadvantage is suffered by many other children, such as country students, Aborigines, migrants and girls. [More…]
The education system has failed many girls by reinforcing the expectation of different behaviour and goals for boys and girls and therefore greatly limiting the choices open to girls. [More…]
Finally, educational institutions have failed in many cases to adequately equip students for the work situation or for making the best choice of a career. [More…]
The working party on transition from secondary education to employment found many inadequacies in the present career preparation services for students during secondary schooling. [More…]
Students do not have an opportunity to explore the whole spectrum of career choices open to them, their personal suitability for particular careers, the employment prospects in each and the educational implications involved. [More…]
The poor performance of the education system in this area has particular relevance in our current situation of high youth unemployment. [More…]
Whilst recognising that many factors have influenced unemployment amongst school leavers, part of the problem is the low productivity of early school leavers because of inadequate basic education and, of course, the majority of those unemployed lack sufficient education and training. [More…]
It is against this background that the Government has provided insufficient funds for the growth and development of our education system. [More…]
By failing to honour his promises to mamtain real growth in education and to maintain a rolling triennium funding system under which, during this next financial year, there would be a 2 per cent real growth in education, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has destroyed any semblance of forward planning. [More…]
Education is not something that can be turned on and off like a tap. [More…]
It is simply not possible to plan sound education on a yearly basis. [More…]
All planning in education, if it is to be sound and productive, must be long range planning. [More…]
These were the schools that were acknowledged in the original report of the Karmel Commission to be way in advance of the remainder of the educational sector. [More…]
It was hoped that with the increased expenditure on education under the program that we had initiated children in these deprived schools- I am referring to the bulk of the state schools and a large proportion of the Catholic parochial schools in the private school sector might attain by 1980 the level of children in the rich schools. [More…]
each of them represents a vital element in strategies to improve the quality of education; they are not optional frills only to be funded in good times. [More…]
Here we have a government which claims to be committed to improving the quality of the Australian education system, yet it forces cuts in the already very inadequate funds devoted to finding solutions to the failures and inadequacies of our system. [More…]
How can these problems be overcome without exploration and experimentation to develop more constructive approaches to education? [More…]
This means that there is no money being allocated for rethinking and re-examining the basis of education in order to make education both more relevant and more accessible to the children in our community. [More…]
Solutions will not be found by simply maintaining the existing education system or even by increasing expenditure on its own. [More…]
In fact, many people claim that the problem with our present education system is that we have to get away from these new-fangled approaches to education. [More…]
The reality is, of course, that the majority of children going through our schools and the majority of schools know nothing of modern education techniques. [More…]
They are still buried in the old traditional approach to education. [More…]
The innovation grants and the special services grants about which I have been talking were an attempt to find out why the education system is failing- the traditional education system. [More…]
I wish to say a few words on the proposed expenditure for the Department of Education. [More…]
I do not basically disagree with most of the things he mentioned, but I think my views might vary somewhat in that I do not believe that the colleges of advanced education should be in any sense regarded as inferior to the university system of education. [More…]
In many respects there has been an over-exaggeration of university education in Australia, to the neglect of some other areas. [More…]
We find in the Budget Paper National Income and Expenditure 1976-77’ that on government account for the year ended June 1977 we spent $4,030m on education. [More…]
I am not aware of the figure for non-government education but it could well have reached some $600m or $700m. [More…]
Of course these days the major pan of the expenditure on education originates in this Parliament. [More…]
I must say that I was disturbed recently when, as a member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Expenditure, I was told by an authority who is now engaged in an examination of what I think is called post-secondary education on behalf of the Government that of every 100 people in Australia who start off to do what is called high school or a secondary course, only 30 per cent finish. [More…]
It would seem to indicate to me that there is something wrong with pre-secondary education in Australia. [More…]
I do not believe that education should equip people only to work. [More…]
But I also think it is quite unrealistic not to believe that in today’s world and in the forseeable future the majority of people will have to work when they complete their education. [More…]
This is why I think there has to be a better attempt to match from the beginning what education is supposed to do in terms of satisfying both cultural and the vocational responsibilities. [More…]
We have heard a lot of what is now called further education or continuing education, and sometimes rather philosophically permanent education, and that because of changing needs and circumstances people will need retraining and so on. [More…]
Surely everybody must acknowledge that in 1977, and looking forward to the end of this century, manufacturing will no longer be the major source of absorbing into work of one kind or another those who go through the education system. [More…]
There is no doubt whatever that quantitatively we are spending more on education now than ever before. [More…]
We suggest that the Government does not spend enough in total on education. [More…]
Compared with what is spent now, the amount spent on education doubled in two years from 1972-73 to 1974-75. [More…]
Education expenditure is now at least three times as much as it was four years ago. [More…]
It would seem to me that there is something wrong in the pre-secondary education area. [More…]
by leave- I wish to inform honourable members on behalf of my colleague the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and myself of the Government’s decision today to allocate an additional $2.3m for migrant education programs for the remainder of the 1977-78 financial year. [More…]
During the past few months it has become evident that there has been a substantial increase in demand for migrant education services. [More…]
The additional funds will bring the total funds available for the adult migrant education program in 1977-78 to $ 11.82m. [More…]
The funds will be used to maintain the program generally in the face of the increased demand and to provide English language classes for refugees and further accommodation for classes at education centres in migrant hostels. [More…]
This increase in living allowances is the second this year, as honourable members will recall from statements made by the Minister for Education following the Budget. [More…]
Details of this project wil be announced by the Minister for Education as soon as possible. [More…]
In each of the two years 1974-75 and 1975-76 the total national enrolments in adult migrant education were 75,000 persons. [More…]
Otherwise there would not have been any further payments for migrant education. [More…]
Anybody who takes a keen interest in adult migrant education will know that the various State Ministers have been making repeated representations to the Federal Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) for more money. [More…]
As a direct example, New South Wales sought more than $5m as the basic grant for adult migrant education. [More…]
There are more difficulties now in migrant education. [More…]
If cuts are to be made the obvious place to make them, as far as the Government is concerned, is in migrant education. [More…]
In 1974-75 the adult migrant education allocation was $2 1.3m. [More…]
1) 1977-78 shows that the Government reduced the amount available for child migrant education. [More…]
It is no good saying that closed circuit television will be investigated as though it will help in adult migrant education without taking some positive action. [More…]
During the past months an increase in demand for migrant education services has become evident. [More…]
I have in my hand correspondence that clearly shows that the Ministers of various State governments are saying: ‘Look, unless you do something for migrant education particularly in the adult field, we will not even be able to maintain the existing paltry standards we are able to provide’. [More…]
In the education vote substantial cuts ave been made in what have been called the special and disadvantaged areas. [More…]
Those areas include adult migrant education. [More…]
It is for that reason that the Government, at this belated period some two months after introducing this Budget and within 48 hours, perhaps, of dissolving this Parliament, suggests now as a matter of urgency that it will give another $2.3m for adult migrant education. [More…]
To suggest that the allocation will be a Christmas gift or perhaps will be temporary on the basis that a person might be able to avail himself of the program whether out of work or working on a part-time basis is no way to deal with adult migrant education. [More…]
It is for those reasons that while the Opposition welcomes the statement it is disappointed to think that the money could not have been made available at the time of the Budget, at the time there were negotiations between officers of the States and the Commonwealth as to what the needs were in not only adult migrant education but also child migrant education. [More…]
In fact there has been a cut in the amount of resources available for child migrant education. [More…]
I invite him to convene a meeting of the State Ministers of Education and to look at the correspondence that has been submitted to his colleague. [More…]
He will see that in the fields of adult migrant education and child migrant education the Commonwealth should be making available a much more substantial sum than the $ 11.8m now provided. [More…]
The OECD committee into education policy in Australia said last year that we should be looking not just at subsidy schemes for attracting employers but also at compulsion schemes, at levy-granting schemes which compel employers to train the appropriate quota of tradesmen. [More…]
It is in regard to the Government’s educational program for unemployed youth. [More…]
In Wollongong the classes are in danger of collapse because when these people are transferred from one program to another, from unemployment relief to the NEAT scheme, and attend the education program classes for unemployed youth there is a long delay before they receive their payments. [More…]
Some have low levels of education or have not achieved success at the levels that they have attempted. [More…]
Another benefit would be that it would give a very desirable break between the time a student leaves school and the time he proceeds to some form of post-secondary education. [More…]
I believe that one of the great costs and one of the great problems of post-secondary education is the large number of young people who enter these institutions not highly motivated and not really knowing what courses they wish to do. [More…]
Motivation, surely, is the most important single indicator of success in any post-secondary education endeavour. [More…]
I pay a tribute to the people who are working under the education program for unemployed youth, another scheme that was introduced by this Government. [More…]
Whether it is the Commonwealth Youth Support Scheme or the education program for unemployed youth, we have to be prepared to be nonpolitical in these matters and get out and help the chronically unemployed youth. [More…]
We have to look at the education facilities and we have to work out what has to be done to improve our education facilities. [More…]
If ever there was a condemnation of an educational system, it is this one factor. [More…]
It was that the radius for local telephone calls be extended to 100 kilometres and that all subscribers should have access to a local call charge to their main centres of commerce, or medical or education facility. [More…]
During the same period social spendingexpenditure on education, health and social security- nearly doubled. [More…]
This means an education program which we should keep up in the Parliament. [More…]
It means an education program to acquaint our people with what must be done to make this country safe. [More…]
The education level is higher than when I was launched into the scene 40 years ago. [More…]
In a recent case in Melbourne a married couple with a six-year old daughter were both sentenced to three months gaol for attempting to obtain a little over $31,000 from the tertiary education allowance scheme by making false claims. [More…]
Drug Education Program [More…]
This is the Prime Minister who said in his policy speech two years ago: ‘We have a comprehensive strategy to restore prosperity’, and who said: ‘Spending on essential education, health and welfare programs will be maintained’. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 6 October 1977: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Other preventive measures recommended by the Committee to overcome the causes of alcohol abuse include the need for improved alcohol education. [More…]
It is worth making the observation that with the continuing use of special purpose grants parliaments should consider the development of new techniques to ensure more effective parliamentary overview, especially in those areas where there is 100 per cent Commonwealth funding such as tertiary education where the legal as well as the financial overlap between State and Federal responsibilities will require further clarification. [More…]
In redistributing that profit back into this country we provided benefits for people in a myriad of areas where we took up responsibility, such as school dental services, community health services, better roads and improvements in urban environment, Aboriginal welfare and education. [More…]
This seems to me to be an appalling reflection upon the intellectual integrity of people in the community who have had the advantage- again, mainly at public expense- of better education than the rest of the community. [More…]
These are: General resources programs- general recurrent grants, including funds for child migrant and multicultural education, emergency aid for nongovernment schools, and capital grants; specific purpose programs- disadvantaged schools and schools in disadvantaged country areas, special education for handicapped children including children living in institutions, services and development including education centres, and special projects. [More…]
The base program for migrant and multicultural education is the same in total as for 1977, but has been adjusted between States and systems to bring the payments more into line with the actual distribution of migrant children. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to provide financial assistance to the States for universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education for 1978. [More…]
The Bill gives effect to the financial recommendations contained in the report of the Tertiary Education Commission for 1978. [More…]
The amounts provided for each of the three tertiary education sectors are as follows: [More…]
It will be recalled that the guidelines for 1978 provided for base levels of grants at the same real levels as for 1977 in the case of universities and colleges of advanced education and an increase of 10 per cent in real terms for TAFE. [More…]
The amounts now provided in the Bill take into account the small adjustments to capital expenditure recommended by the Commission in the light of its assessment of likely cash flow for the advanced education sector building program in 1978. [More…]
The full building program proposed by the Advanced Education Council and recommended by the Commission is incorporated in the legislation to enable all projects to commence in 1978. [More…]
In the past, separate Bills have been required to implement the approved programs of the three tertiary education sectors. [More…]
Following the establishment of the Tertiary Education Commission, replacing the three previous commissions concerned with tertiary education, it has been possible to consolidate the necessary legislation in one Bill. [More…]
The new arrangements will permit a greater degree of flexibility in the administration of approved programs, thereby assisting the Commission in its functions of co-ordination and rationalisation for the tertiary education system. [More…]
The effect of this provision is to withdraw appropriations for projects for which the States are not seeking support and for four projects in the advanced education sector which were included in the review of capital projects not under contract which was conducted by the Commission at the request of the Government under the guidelines for 1978-80. [More…]
In addition to appropriating funds for 1978, the Bill amends the States Grants (Universities Assistance) Act 1976, the States Grants (Advanced Education Assistance) Act 1976 and the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Act 1976 to provide for adjustments to approved programs of grants for 1977, for movements in costs between December 1976 and June 1977. [More…]
People like me have had to go around our electorates and speak to responsible groups of school teachers about the fact that we cannot keep increasing our funding for education so rapidly. [More…]
Education is probably one of the most important measures in that area as a social indicator of the social concern of government administrators and of the opportunity for improvement they provide for people within society. [More…]
Education expenditure per capita in Queensland is $ 1 5 1 , as against $ 1 69 on average in Australia. [More…]
When we look at the situation in South Australia we discover that the average amount spent on education there is $194 per capita. [More…]
That means, in very simple terms, that if the Queensland Government were to make an equivalent effort in the field of education to that being made by that forward-thinking and inspired government in South Australia, the Queensland Government would have provided $90m more for education than it has in its 1975-76 Budget. [More…]
There is no consolation at all for any Queenslander to be aware, as we mostly are in Queensland, that we have the worst standards of education of any State in the Commonwealth. [More…]
Queensland spends less per person on education than any other State in the Commonwealth. [More…]
They were thrown out of work, with utter disregard for their wives and famines and their children’s education. [More…]
Also the shadow Minister for immigration and community relations, the honourable member for Melbourne, committed Labor to a dramatic increase in education spending. [More…]
It is to provide a number of other services such as education broadcasting and Aboriginal programs. [More…]
In the three short years the Australian Labor Party was in office it managed to license two fine music stations- one in Melbourne and one in Sydney- and 12 or 14 tertiary education institutions. [More…]
The achievement of the coalition parties since coming back into power, on top of thenprevious 23 years of non-activity, has to been to go backwards, with the closure of 3ZZ, the gutting, if I may use that term, of 2EA and 3EA and no further action on the tertiary education institution licences. [More…]
The Government objected most vehemently to licences being issued to tertiary education institutions. [More…]
ployment benefits for school leavers and those leaving tertiary education institutions. [More…]
b ) is receiving full-time education at a school, college or univesity; and [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Commonwealth Funding of Education Projects in Queensland (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 13 October 1977: [More…]
1 ) What was the amount of expenditure through the Department of Education on capital works within the electoral divisions of Leichhardt, Herbert, Kennedy and Dawson during each of the years 1973-74 to 1976-77, inclusive. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Department of Education has not had any expenditure on capital works within the Electoral Divisions of Leichhardt, Herbert, Kennedy and Dawson during each of the years 1973-74 to 1976-77, inclusive. [More…]
I have not included funds which may have been made available through the education commissions. [More…]
asked the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 17 August 1977: [More…]
What sum has been spent on earthworks at Ballarat College of Advanced Education in each of the last 5 financial years. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
I am advised that the amounts spent on earthworks projects, including projects with a major earthworks component, at the Mt Helen Campus by the Council of the Ballarat College of Advanced Education (prior to July 1976, the Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education) from its allocations of funds for Siteworks and for other Works and Services have been: [More…]
The honourable gentleman should know that the promises made so far by Labor in relation to expenditure on the hospital development program, the sewerage program, growth centres, area improvement programs, die Australian Assistance Plan, tourist development, community assistance for leisure facilities, the program to reduce unemployment, national compensation, aged persons’ accommodation, Medibank, the reintroduction of petrol price equalisationabolished by the Labor Government- extra government funds for the beef industry, expansion of migrant education services, ethnic radio and television stations, expansion of telecommunications research, the establishment of overseas agricultural services, together with the substantial additional funds promised in relation to education, total about $3 billion. [More…]
These training programs are being monitored constantly by my colleague, the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, and also by the Minister for Education. [More…]
encouraging individual consciousness of the energy costs of decisions through education, provision of information, and labelling of consumer goods for energy efficiencies. [More…]
-The two Bills that are the subject of the cognate debate are the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Bill and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill. [More…]
The question of grants to education, whether in the schools area of in the tertiary area, has been the subject of reports by the appropriate commissions, that is, the Schools Commission and the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
They have been the subject of consideration in the Budget debate and in the matter of public importance raised by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) in respect of that very important matter- the direction and guidelines given to the Commissions which, in the view of the Opposition, have reduced the amount of necessary funds that should have been made available to meet the needs of education, whether in the schools area or in the tertiary area. [More…]
The Opposition criticises these amounts as being completely insufficient to meet the needs of education and has the very well documented support of the Commissions themselves. [More…]
These Commissions have investigated the needs and priorities of both schools and tertiary institutions and have been able to establish that the guidelines announced by the Government mean there will be severe retardation of the excellent progress that was being made as a result of the Labor Government’s innovations in the field of education, whether in the schools area or the tertiary area. [More…]
The States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill 1977 provides assistance by way of recurrent and capital grants totalling $1,1 36m for universities, colleges of advanced education and technical colleges. [More…]
That is quite a sizable amount of money, but it goes nowhere near meeting the needs of education in Australia. [More…]
I hark back to the time when we first entered into the area of assessing the needs of education. [More…]
I remind honourable members that in respect of Commonwealth budget outlays the statistics show that under the Liberal Government of 1972-73 the appropriation for education was $442m. [More…]
So honourable members can see the Labor Party’s remarkable interest in education and the needs of children. [More…]
In respect of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill I propose to move: [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: ‘whilst not opposing the provisions of the Bill, the House is of opinion that (a) there is insufficient funding for technical education in Australia, and (b) the Government’s intention to transfer a major section of tertiary education funding to the States will be to the detriment of tertiary education’. [More…]
In that report Karmel was able to identify the great needs of children and the priorities that were necessary to give children an equal opportunity, and that is what education is all about in this country- to give every youngster an equal opportunity. [More…]
If honourable members look at the tables in the Karmel report at pages 18 and 19 they will see that there was a study of 150 students of high measured ability who did not complete secondary education and that most of them were in the lower socioeconomic group. [More…]
In fact, Karmel was able to say that of those 150 children a mere 14 per centthe brightest children- would survive to complete their secondary education because of their low socio-economic standard. [More…]
To the extent that higher education is financed from taxes it has thus a somewhat regressive effect, poorer people contributing to the cost of education of a group in which the children of richer parents predominate and from which recipients can expect to draw higher than average incomes. [More…]
The United States, for example, spends ten times more on the education of the ten per cent of its children on the top of the socio-economic scale than on the 10 per cent on the bottom. [More…]
Karmel did something that I think was very essential from the point of view of trying to bring about equality in education. [More…]
That illustrates the great disparity as regards education needs in the different categories of schools. [More…]
The tables to which I have referred are evidence that unless the Government grapples with the needs of education it will not give equal opportunity to every child in Australia. [More…]
We welcome the fact that in the election on 10 December education again will be a major issue. [More…]
Other matters which are very similar to this show that right throughout the area of education we have continual cuts. [More…]
I again mention the fact that we are dealing with, for example, migrants and the problem of migrant education. [More…]
If any honourable member takes an interest in migrant education, as many do, they will see the real problem. [More…]
The Commission, in dealing with migrant and multicultural education, states: [More…]
It cannot just hide, as it has done for many years past, by saying that education is not really a Commonwealth or Australian Government matter. [More…]
If honourable members look at the Hansard for 1958 they will see an urgency debate on education being ruled out of order because it was not within the ambit of the Constitution. [More…]
Let us look at the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
We are keen to see the problems of tertiary education properly looked at. [More…]
We have massive unemployment and the building industry is below its full capacity yet the guidelines of the Government in the field of education are deliberately causing a cut in the building program. [More…]
If we can keep people at school until the end of their secondary education we can encourage them to continue in the tertiary field. [More…]
That is what is needed in this country to illuminate clearly the problems of education. [More…]
In regard to colleges of advanced education, we see that they have a further problem in their cost structure and that also a substantial amount has been transferred from what should have been available to them. [More…]
But in teacher education we find that 68 per cent of enrolments are women. [More…]
Because of the reduction in the funds available the report states that the Advanced Education Council is aware that if the existing structure of advanced education is maintained a general reduction in pre-service teacher education enrolments must significantly affect the participation of women. [More…]
While the Guidelines enabled the Council to provide each State with a firm basis for 1978 planning they did not provide a base for the advanced education sector for 1979 and 1980. [More…]
The remarks in regard to technical education are quite serious indeed. [More…]
As my colleague the honourable member for Fremantle, Mr Beazley, has said, technical education was the Cinderella of education until such time as he got interested in it. [More…]
On page 1 73 of the report it is stated that of the $525m expended in technical education the national government has contributed the paltry sum of $35m-some 7 per cent. [More…]
But the technical education area is the area which has to meet the need. [More…]
This is why there is a crisis in education at present. [More…]
It is because the Government, dictated by fiscal measures, has said that it will reduce the amount of money available to education. [More…]
In the technical education field the Technical and Further Education Commission complains about the fact that while it has been able to create some additional places they will probably fall short by some 50,000. [More…]
He is the best advocate for education it has ever had. [More…]
He abolished tuition fees for universities, college of advanced education and technical education. [More…]
We began the long overdue process of upgrading and renewing technical and further education and established the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
We accepted full responsibility for the education of teachers at all levels and that involved the comprehensive support of teachers colleges. [More…]
For the first time as a national responsibility we began the vital task of providing educationally related services designed to allow Aboriginal Australians to take their rightful place in our society. [More…]
As Minister he made special efforts to foster quality of education by establishing the Curriculum Development Centre, promoting research and financing an enormous number of special innovatory projects in Australian schools and the community at large. [More…]
We want them again to support Labor on the basis of its record in education because it is only through a Labor philosophy that the needs of children will be properly identified. [More…]
For a definition as to which schools are disadvantaged and the decision on which schools are disadvantaged, we will rely upon the State Ministers for Education. [More…]
For the definition of disadvantaged non-government schools the Commonwealth Minister for Education shall determine the position for himself. [More…]
We are looking for equality between the various forms of education in Australia. [More…]
There is no doubt that one of the features of Australian education has been the inequality between States as there has been between country and city areas, between various socio-economic areas in the major cities and between Aboriginal communities and non-aboriginal communities. [More…]
The only way of levelling out inequalities between States and giving all the young people of Australia the same advantages and the same access to education is for the Commonwealth Government to lay down the principles upon which disadvantaged schools will be served. [More…]
I understand that the present Government is obsessed with State rights and therefore is loth to interfere with the power of State governments in the field of education. [More…]
The general principles of education which we would have liked to have put before the Parliament will have to be bypassed. [More…]
Our duty is to all Australians, including young people, in the education system equally and the objective is to create equality of access and equality of opportunity to a higher standard of education. [More…]
I hope that the Minister is able to answer my comments or at some stage to get an effective answer from the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) as to the reasons for clause 4. [More…]
-We are debating this afternoon two Bills concerned with States grants in the field of education. [More…]
I wish to speak briefly to the first of these which provides financial assistance to the States for universities, colleges of advanced education, and colleges of technical and further education for 1978. [More…]
This Bill gives effect to the financial recommendations contained in the report of the Tertiary Education [More…]
Universities will receive some $5 94m, colleges of advanced education $443m, and technical and further education institutions $97m. [More…]
In the past separate Bills have been required to implement the approved programs of the three tertiary education sectors. [More…]
With the establishment of the Tertiary Education Commission, which replaced the three previous commissions concerned with tertiary education, it is now possible to consolidate the necessary legislation into one Bill. [More…]
These new arrangements will permit a greater degree of flexibility in the administration of approved programs, thereby assisting the Commission in its functions of co-ordination and rationalisation for the tertiary education system. [More…]
The additional funds provided are $24m for universities, $10m for colleges and $3.4m for technical and further education institutions. [More…]
Naturally, such predictions have concerned teachers, academic staff and educational institutions. [More…]
In short, they are: The general resources programs- general recurrent grants, including funds for child migrant and multicultural education, emergency aids for nongovernment schools and capital grants; specific purpose programs- disadvantaged schools and schools in disadvantaged country areas, special education for handicapped children, including children living in institutions, services and development including education centres and, of course, other special projects. [More…]
In indicating the National Country Party’s support for this legislation, I must make some comment about the representations I have had over past months in relation to education funding and the Government’s attitude to the Schools Commission. [More…]
Do not let us forget that in August 1975 the Australian Labor Party made massive cutbacks through the four education commissions which totalled some $105m. [More…]
In these areas expenditure on universities was reduced by $21m, expenditure on advanced colleges was reduced by $32m and, at a time of record increases in unemployment as a result of gross economic mismanagement, there was a $9m reduction in expenditure in the field of technical and further education. [More…]
This action set back education planning and created chaos in the system. [More…]
In 1978, more than 167,000 students are expected to benefit from the Government’s education assistance schemes. [More…]
These included students who must live away from home to continue their education, students who were self-supporting and students who had the responsibility to support dependants. [More…]
It is ensuring that the best possible education standards for all Australian children apply, whether they attend government or non-government schools. [More…]
It stresses that the States have increased their education spending beyond the levels necessary for maintenance of effort. [More…]
In fact the States have been able to allocate a greater proportion of their total budgets to education. [More…]
In 1975-76 the States’ recurrent expenditure on education was $ 1,967m. [More…]
Education’s total share of State budgets in that period increased from 28.4 per cent to 29.4 per cent, a gain of $75m compared with normal maintenance of effort. [More…]
In 1976-77 all States were able to balance their budgets and to make substantial tax cuts, demonstrating their enhanced capacity to increase funding on education and on other programs. [More…]
This year the Liberal-National Party Government took the following additional initiatives: Extension of the disadvantaged schools concept to country areas, a $3.5m joint government/nongovernment schools scheme; and a $lm joint funding program for additional education assistance to children in residential institutions. [More…]
This illustrates the importance of the federalism general revenue funding to State education budgets. [More…]
I make one further point, and that is the need to break down barriers between technical education, further education and tertiary education. [More…]
I believe we must develop the concept of postsecondary education so that we can provide real interchange between levels of education for students and other people. [More…]
This Government has committed itself to the expansion and the provision of and an impetus to all sectors of education. [More…]
However, we cannot tolerate a continuation of competing requirements for the sake of empire building, with the duplication of resources, particularly as it occurs in universities and in the colleges of advanced education area. [More…]
The National Country Party supports these Bills and gives the assurance that education has the highest priority in our policy in terms of development and implementation. [More…]
I am quite sure that all members of my party will join me when I express gratitude for the tremendous contribution that the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) has made in the whole realm of education. [More…]
Although the honourable member commended me very warmly, he accused me of very serious cuts in my last budget in education expenditure. [More…]
Colleges of advanced education got $393m. [More…]
Technical education expenditure rose fom $70.6m to $10 1.3m- a 40 per cent increase. [More…]
I draw his attention to the fact that colleges of advanced education had had capital of $234m in a triennium, and the recommendation for the next triennium was $584m. [More…]
I had called the education commissions together beforehand and said: ‘We do not want the Commonwealth competing with itself for labour and building materials’. [More…]
That is why the Commission on Advanced Education and the Universities Commission were combined. [More…]
The present Government has gone further in the combination by adding-mistakenly, in my view- the Technical and Further Education Commission in the new tertiary Commission. [More…]
However it is about schools that I wish to speak because those who have a tertiary education are the recipients of a great expenditure derived from the taxpayer by comparison with children in primary and secondary schools. [More…]
Although I am not attacking that, I am saying that in one’s priorities one cannot regard anybody receiving a tertiary education in Australia as underprivileged from the point of view of the Commonwealth’s concern. [More…]
I draw the attention of the House to a television debate not very long ago between Senator Wriedt, the Labor spokesman on education, and Senator Carrick, the present Minister for Education. [More…]
Senator Wriedt objected to the Government’s objective of a flat rate grant of 20 per cent of the recurrent costs of State education as the basic Commonwealth grant to non-government schools. [More…]
Can we just forget about non-government schools for a minute and look at the position of a director of education in a State school system? [More…]
After all, if we are talking about non-government education we might as well face the fact that we are speaking very largely about Catholic education. [More…]
When a beautifully logical body like the Schools Commission looks at need and never gets firmly into its mind that the Catholic Church is not a monolith but is highly decentralised as between different dioceses with bishops of vastly different levels of ability, vastly different levels of interest in education, vastly different ability to mobilise their people in an educational effort and with different numbers of schools run by orders that are not under their control, you have a somewhat illogical structure from the point of view of bureaucratic administration. [More…]
They have been able to get over some difficulties and to set up in States Catholic directorates of education that are more logically bureaucrat. [More…]
The Commonwealth came into education as a new personality and did not need to be bound by the church and state disputes of the 1870s or the 1880s that had originated in the United Kingdom. [More…]
The first aspect of the problem is that the poorer people are, the less critical they tend to be about what their children are getting in education. [More…]
Secondly, the view of the Government about education ought to be somewhat different from the view of the parenteven the good parent. [More…]
Now as a parent I want my child to have educational advantages, but honourable gentlemen opposite are not in the slightest degree interested in my child’s advantages. [More…]
They ought to be interested in education as an instrument of every child’s dignity and every child’s efficiency. [More…]
If children have deployed behind their education already a very high resource level, it is not wise in a budget of limited resources to deploy more behind those children at the expense of those less privileged, who are not getting a proper deployment of resources behind their education. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen), who led for the Opposition in this debate, spoke about very great rises in Commonwealth expenditure for education under the Labor Government. [More…]
The working class generally tends to believe that education is a good thing; that other people get advantages and privileges out of it and therefore there should be more of it for them and for their families. [More…]
We were not tremendously critical of education as education. [More…]
Is all that is going as education on in the schools ideal? [More…]
Though not intensely critical one thing that was done by the Labor Government to look at values in education was establishment of the Curriculum Development Commission. [More…]
The purpose of this Commission was to co-operate with State governments and private education authorities, to look at the nature of the educational process. [More…]
Criticism has been constant, but most of the structure of educational innovation introduced by the Labor Government has been maintained by the present Government. [More…]
After all, I think it is agreed that since the various Commissions came into being- those that were established by our predecessors and those established by ourselves- they have greatly advanced education wherever they were and they therefore deserve confidence and not undermining. [More…]
This Bill is really the first brought in since the change to Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
It will be obvious to honourable members who examine the situation that the change to that Commission has brought substantial changes in the way grants for tertiary education assistance are given. [More…]
I would suggest, Sir, that when we are considering the setting up of the Tertiary Education Commission, with the combination of the three groups and we have the format of the Bill in the way it is presented, this is one of those times when honourable members of this House should be able to make close examination of what is contained in the Bill. [More…]
Firstly it deals with insufficient funding for technical education in Australia. [More…]
Criticism in this area could be levelled also at the previous Labor Administration because technical and further education was the last sector to get off the ground. [More…]
We find that although there is an increase in real terms for technical and further education, this really does not compensate for the neglect of technical and further education in the past. [More…]
This is one area where the Government is to be greatly criticised for not accepting its responsibility and accelerating the area of technical education for Australia’s benefit. [More…]
The next criticism contained in the amendment is in regard to the Government’s stated intention to transfer a major section of tertiary education funding to the States. [More…]
There is no doubt that this will react badly to the detriment of tertiary education. [More…]
We have all experienced the situation that occurred in that field prior to the Labor Government accepting full responsibility for tertiary education. [More…]
The tendency, in today’s economy particularly, to keep the young person in education longer so that he does not become an unemployment statistic is placing greater and greater strains on tertiary education. [More…]
One looks back to the bad old days when the States funded tertiary education, admittedly through the autonomous bodies that controlled tertiary institutions. [More…]
One can see this intention to transfer a major proportion of education funding back to the States as only a retrograde step because it has been shown in the past that in so many areas State Education Ministers can indulge in a lot more pork barrelling. [More…]
But in education a great disadvantage is the temptation at the parochial level of the States to indulge in pork barrelling in funding the various institutions. [More…]
There have been great advances in tertiary education since 1972 and it would be a shame to see a backward step taken in that area. [More…]
The same criticisms that were offered to the State Grants (Schools Assistance) Bill are offered on the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill. [More…]
This was the element that we were able to introduce in our education legislation, whether it was under the schools assistance legislation or the tertiary education legislation. [More…]
We were able to use needs as a basis and guidelines were not so restrictive as to prevent some free choice by the commission on needs for the various aspects of education. [More…]
I feel in this tertiary education field that the technical education field is still the Cinderella. [More…]
Last year the Tertiary Education Commission indicated in its report the disadvantage which was suffered by newer institutions because of the freeze imposed on capital expenditures. [More…]
So the House will understand the sorts of difficulties which exist in the circumstances, I point out that in the humanities-social studies areas of degree courses, any student wishing to study sociology, which is part of the education faculty of the university, would have to travel some 9 to 10 miles to attend lectures because of the education faculty is situated in the old premises of the Geelong Teachers College, which is located in North Geelong, whereas the university is located in the Old Gordon Institute in the Waurn Ponds area. [More…]
My friend, the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins), and I have taken a long term interest in education. [More…]
The urgent need for the Commonwealth to take action to ensure that sufficient funds are available to each State of the Commonwealth to provide adequate public education facilities for its people. [More…]
The points I make about technical education in particular are well set out in the report of the Technical and Further Education Commission for the triennium 1977-79. [More…]
It points out that the occupational mix of the labour force will operate to increase still further the importance of technical and further education in the development of labour force skills. [More…]
In the educational aspects of this process, the Commission sees the role of TAFE institutions as being of major importance. [More…]
I taught in the Victorian education system for 20 years. [More…]
I am not one who believes that all the gold plated trimmings and so on are needed in education to make teaching effective, but certainly teaching is easier and more effective if the equipment and the environment is adequate. [More…]
It is unfortunate that over the last 30 or 40 years we have not capitalised in many areas of our education system as much as did the generation of our grandparents. [More…]
I am afraid that over the last two years there has been a great fall-off in the dynamics of change in education. [More…]
I think I should say that in my experience those people who have been occupied in the education industry, if one could term it such, have suffered a serious blow to their morale because of the insecurity that has developed over the last two years in relation to the development of curriculum research and such matters. [More…]
It is concerned with clause 4 of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill, which reads: [More…]
That clause then sets out the institutions from which he may receive a submission- universities, colleges of advanced education, technical and further education institutions. [More…]
I think that is of great advantage to the tertiary education institutions when the Commonwealth says: ‘You can have $20,000 for this purpose or $ 1.35m for that building somewhere else’. [More…]
If an application for funds is sent off to the Victorian Education Department which does not specify the Brunswick Technical College or a building project at the Moreland High School, or in which it is not specified that the funds are for the purpose of fixing up the Fitzroy Primary School, those works will not be earned out. [More…]
I think we have to instil in the States the same sense of direction, if one likes to call it that, the same sense of constitutional challenge in relation to primary and secondary education as we have been doing in relation to tertiary education for nigh on 20 years. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) to put those points in his diary so that his colleague, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), can look at them. [More…]
But migrants are getting the same kind of second and third class treatment in this area of lower air fares as they are getting from the Government in other areas such as migrant education. [More…]
The next problem we have to face is education in conservation. [More…]
He was a distinguished Minister for Education in the former Government. [More…]
In respect of the honourable member for Fremantle, his commitment to Australian education and the fact that he removed it from the political football field will stand to his everlasting testament. [More…]
There was then Mr Tregear, Sir Alan Turner and Mr Parkes, and now Mr Pettifer, all of whom were great forces for my education. [More…]
We served together on the Council of Adult Education in Victoria, when he was Chairman. [More…]
Under Article 1 1 of the Agreement to facilitate the integration of children of Yugoslav workers into the Australian education system and give them the opportunity of learning their mother tongue. [More…]
The Agreement between Australia and Yugoslavia on the o Residence and Employment of Yugoslav citizens in Australia came into force on 20 May 1970 but has not been implemented because of procedural difficulties which arose subsequent to the signing of the Agreement Nevertheless, Yugoslav migrants have the same opportunity as other migrants to participate in English language courses and classes provided under the adult migrant and the multi-cultural education programs. [More…]
What steps have the Australian authorities taken under Article 11 of the Migration and Settlement Agreement between Australia and Malta, which entered into force on 1 July 1970, to promote facilities and establish classes to assist Maltese migants including their families to acquire knowledge of the English language and to facilitate the integration of the children of Maltese migrants into the Australian education system and give them the opportunity of learning the Maltese language. [More…]
English classes are available for adult Maltese migrants as part of the overall adult migrant education program. [More…]
Special funds are provided through the Schools Commission to education authorities in the States for migrant and multi-cultural education including English language classes for migrant children from non-English speaking backgrounds. [More…]
What steps have the Australian authorities taken (a) under Article 2 1 of the Migration and Settlement Agreement between Australia and Italy, which entered into force on 8 July 1971, to promote facilities and establish classes to assist Italian workers and their families to acquire knowledge of the English language and to facilitate the integration of the children of Italian workers into the Australian education system and give them the opportunity of tuition in the Italian language and (b) under Article 2 of the Agreement of Cultural Co-operation between Australia and Italy, which entered into force on 28 May 197S, to facilitate the integration of Italian children into the Australian community while maintaining their cultural ties with their country of origin. [More…]
English classes are available for adult Italian migrants as part of the overall migrant education program. [More…]
Special funds also are provided through the Schools Commission to education authorities in the States for migrant and multi-cultural education including English language classes for migrant children from non-English speaking backgrounds. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Commonwealth funds are provided to the Preston Institute of Technology under States Grants (Advanced Education) legislation on a calendar year and not a financial year basis. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 5 October 1977: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 6 October 1977: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question. [More…]
1 ) to (4) Officers of the Departments of Health, Finance, Education, Aboriginal Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Immigration, Ethnic Affairs and Social Security have met to ensure cooperative preliminary planning for the International Year of the Child. [More…]
am asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 23 August 1977: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 8 September 1977: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Consistent with this approach, full-time students in the colleges concerned will continue to be eligible for Ternary Education Assistance Allowances. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 18 October 1977: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
am asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 6 October 1977: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
What has been the State expenditure on pre-school education in each State in 1971-72 and each subsequent financial year (Hansard, 3 1 May 1 972, page 3444). [More…]
What has been the Federal expenditure in each State on pre-school education in 1971-72 and each subsequent financial year, and what will be the corresponding amounts in 1977-78. [More…]
Education (State)-Mesdames J. Patmore, A. McEnry, T. Ackerley, S. Peattie, J. [More…]
Education (Commonwealth)-Messrs J. McCulloch, B. Hartney, R. Calitz. [More…]
Education (State)- Mesdames J. Patmore, A. McEnry, T. Ackerley, S. Peattie, J. [More…]
Education (Commonwealth)- Mr J. McCullochEducation Officer Class 2 Messrs B. Hartney, R. CalitzEducation Officers Class 1- Student Service Section, involved among other duties in administration of Aboriginal Secondary and Study Grant Schemes in Tasmania. [More…]
Education (State)- Mesdames Patmore, Ackerley, Prior, Daley-Hobart; Mrs McEnry-Sygnet; Mrs PeattieHuonville; Mesdames Meyes and Down- Acton; Mrs Pettit- Smithton; Mrs Trail- Launceston; Mrs HaywoodCressy; Mrs Cooper- Summerdale; Mrs Boutten- Flinders Island; Mrs Van Englen- Summerdale. [More…]
Education (Commonwealth) Messrs McCulloch, Hartney and Calitz- Hobart. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 19 October 1977. [More…]
1 ) How much was spent by the Department of Education on advertising and services during the period (a) 11 November 1975 to 13 December 1975, (b) 14 December 1975 to 30 June 1976, (c) 1 July 1976 to 30 June 1977 and (d)l July 1977 to date. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Advertising by the Department of Education is undertaken for the most part to draw the attention of interested institutions and persons to grants, benefits, scholarships and other forms of assistance under the programs for which it is responsible. [More…]
In the ACT and Northern Territory advertising is also used to inform prospective students of courses at Technical and Further Education Institutions and to indicate the availability of course to migrants. [More…]
There is also the Education Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]
Higher levels of education have given young people the view that they will accept only certain types of employment. [More…]
We have to accept that as being a natural outflow not necessarily of more successful education but of more plentifully available education programs. [More…]
Certainly the role of the education system in creating false expectations should be examined and I will certainly be looking at the Williams report with considerable interest when it is available. [More…]
Despite promises made at the last two elections, funds allocated to overcome those disadvantages have been cut in all areas- health, education, housing, work projects and industrial enterprises by Aboriginals. [More…]
But judging from the non-specific nature of the proposals for action and worse the indication that even more dependence will be placed on ‘non-government migrant resource centres’ any migrant with any insight can only conclude that little or nothing will be done for 20 per cent of the population suffering disadvantages through barriers of language, in areas or health, welfare, education and job opportunities, just to name a few. [More…]
The advantages of administrative arrangements instituted by the Labor Government- advantages in the dispersal of welfare services, support for the migrants, health services, education and so on provided for all Australians, many of whom are migrants, some of 50 years standing- now have been destroyed. [More…]
Affairs and not from the Department of Social Security or the Department of Education, as other Australians may, simply because they are termed new Australians? [More…]
In what way has the Government protected and enhanced the rights of migrants to equal opportunity, equal education and equal access to social justice? [More…]
The Government will introduce measures to ensure that parents of handicapped children pay no more for their education than parents of other children, and to provide further assistance for the education of children in isolated areas. [More…]
In 1940 Dr Colin Clark proposed dividing the economy into three sectors: Primary (that is to say, farming, mining, forestry), Secondary (manufacturing) and Tertiary (services generally including education, transport, government, utilities, construction and retailing). [More…]
The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) were two of the Ministers who came into my electorate to ensure that Brisbane remained where it should- in the hands of the Liberal Party. [More…]
I wish the House to consider the current deficiency in Federal funding of adult migrant education programs, particularly those conducted in New South Wales, including my electorate of Cunningham. [More…]
At present financial responsibility lies with the Federal Government for this service although it is administered by the States via their education departments. [More…]
There is a great need for improvements in adult migrant education. [More…]
Mr Bedford, the New South Wales Minister for Education, estimated last August that at least $5m was required to provide an adequate service for 1977-78. [More…]
Several weeks ago officers of the Federated Ironworkers Association, the Adult Migrant Education Service, Australian Iron and Steel and I inspected these facilities. [More…]
Educationalists say that at least 800 hours is required to acquire proficiency in a foreign language. [More…]
We saw an end to ad hockery and the beginning of a rational and national approach to so many problems- the problems of urban life, manufacturing industry and education, the immense problems faced by Aboriginal people, the inadequacies of childhood services and health care delivery services, the conservation of our natural and built environment, the development of our natural resources and the upgrading and bringing into the twentieth century of our international relations. [More…]
Improvements were made in education, community health centres were established, research was made into social and environmental problems and possibilities were opened up via the area improvement program. [More…]
No doubt it is still the case with education. [More…]
Real wages are down and living standards have been reduced by the cutting of funds in real terms for community programs- for health and welfare, transport, road, sewerage, housing, migrant services, education programs and the like. [More…]
We have to ask ourselves: Is it because our education system does not prepare our young people for the world of work? [More…]
For the first time in the fields of education and health care there was the view that these were matters of right for all Australian citizens. [More…]
However, the family has been stripped and is still being stripped of many of its functions- its responsibility for the education of young children; its responsibility to provide the socialising experience for young children; its role in the past as a productive unit; its functions and responsibility to be the unit that conveys social values to young children; and its responsibility to provide to its members some measure of economic security. [More…]
This suits those who believe that the care and education of young should be the responsibility of the state. [More…]
Wages, taxation, education, employment, social security and many other policies are and should be used, in the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ‘to protect the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society’. [More…]
I simply conclude by commenting on some points made the other night by the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr West) about immigration and migrant education in Wollongong. [More…]
Clearly, whilst in some areas such as health services, welfare services or education, the cultural background of an individual is relevant throughout life, in the case of employment that should not be so. [More…]
If the Government is not limiting its recruitment to those migrants proficient in English, this would point to a desperate need for migrant education in full and part time English courses. [More…]
In the last Budget $ 10.4m was provided for adult migrant education, an amount virtually unchanged in monetary terms from that provided in 1976-77, although it was much less in real terms when one takes inflation into account. [More…]
A more constructive approach is needed in the areas of re-training and recurrent education, in job creation schemes that are both socially and economically useful and in the provision of English courses. [More…]
The present Government reintroduced the Department of Immigration and expanded it to include ethnic affairs,, and subsequently has added other services to that Department- settlement services, telephone interpreter services, adult education services, et cetera. [More…]
The honourable member for Maribymong particularly mentioned migrant education. [More…]
ment somehow has cut the funds available for migrant education. [More…]
I have in front of me a comparison of the amounts spent on migrant adult and child education under the last Hayden Budget of 1975-76, as it has become known, and under the present Budget. [More…]
In this Budget year, 1977-78, the amount for the adult program has been raised to $1 1,878,000, which is the largest amount of money ever spent in Australia on adult migrant education, and the amount for the child program has been raised to $26,005,500, which again is the largest amount ever provided. [More…]
Rather than perpetrating this myth that the Government has cut back on expenditure in the migrant education field I hope that following my explanation in the House today the honourable member and his colleagues will put before the public the correct figures because rather than decreasing the amount of money available in fact a significant increase in expenditure has been made by the Fraser Administration. [More…]
implementation of a program of public education aimed at ensuring a proper understanding of the factors affecting the development and use of water resources and a sense of responsibility in relation to these matters; [More…]
maintain a program of research, studies, dissemination of results, education and such other measures as may be required to enable the water management goals set out in this Statement to be achieved; [More…]
The Government is reducing the public sector so that the people no longer will be able to obtain a reasonable ‘social wage’ in the form of public transport systems, urban renewal, regional development, housing, education, health, and welfare assistance for the disadvantaged and the unemployed. [More…]
The people of Swan are not narrow minded, but they express concern also at the apparent departure of common sense from the education system and from the marriage laws. [More…]
They point out to me that an enormous amount of Commonwealth and State money seems to be spent on an education system which is not achieving any better results than those that they can remember when they were growing up and which seems to put into the heads of the children ideas that education is something to round off a human being properly instead of teaching him how to take his place in the working world. [More…]
One can understand why basic, common-sense, simple people are concerned about these huge Commonwealth expenses in education. [More…]
People of both political persuasions without exception continually condemn these huge Commonwealth expenditures on education. [More…]
There are people of different nationalities in the suburbs of Sydney and education is a big issue. [More…]
In particular, new and determined initiatives are urgently needed in migrant education, employment opportunities and job training, following two years of heavy cutbacks in government spending. [More…]
Since the Labor Government’s last Budget in 1975, government finance for migrant education has been cut in real terms by 60 per cent. [More…]
The effect of this immoral attitude is reflected in the educational and social deprivation of significant numbers of migrant families who are brought to this country and then virtually abandoned. [More…]
I also call on the Government to expand its present programs for the training of young people in employable skills and to raise the quality of technical education facilities. [More…]
It could well be that our system of education needs a complete rethinking. [More…]
I know that education is a holy cow. [More…]
If one criticises our education planners and our educators, it is almost classed as heresy. [More…]
Until such time as we can get some of these academics out into the real world- the world in which we must battle for something- I cannot believe that we will have any change in our education systems. [More…]
If a person does not have the capacity to think no type of education will ever make that person think. [More…]
In many cases, in my view, education is absolutely wasted. [More…]
I honestly feel that we parents must also take our share of the blame in regard to education. [More…]
But I feel that too many parents for personal snob value- not snob value for the child but snob value for themselvespush little Johnny or Mary into educational pursuits which are beyond their mental capacity. [More…]
I have seen children- young men and young ladies- who have completed a course of education to obtain the higher school certificates. [More…]
But they received the greatest kick in the tail when the examination results were published because they did not have the intellectual capacity to do a course of education that their parents had pushed them into. [More…]
I would like to see an in depth study of our present educational system to see whether in the end result society is receiving value for its education dollar. [More…]
It seems to me that there must be changes in our education system itself and that government moneys must and should be spent for the benefit of the nation -for the benefit of our children certainly- but not as it seems apparent today for the benefit of school teachers- a group which is treated as another holy cow. [More…]
That is only natural because they want their children to get a good education. [More…]
There is no doubt that educational facilities will be denied to the children who live there. [More…]
I ask the responsible Minister to give this matter urgent consideration and to see that some kind of concession or some consideration is given to those school teachers, because I can assure him that it is difficult enough to provide education for the children in those remote country areas. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), who represents the Treasurer in the Senate, said: . [More…]
It is absurd not to have a good objective look at Aboriginal education, Aboriginal housing and all the other problems at the same time. [More…]
Surely we could be the Switzerland of this part of the world and use our higher standard of education to build up high technology industries. [More…]
By failing to adopt this approach, the Government has in many ways opted out of its real responsibilities to give us a co-ordinated approach to industry, to manpower problems, to job security, to location of industries, and to migration and education- all elements of policy that ought to be taken into account when one talks of the future of our industries and the future security and lives of our working people. [More…]
The doubling of the education budgets in 1973 and 1974 and the subsequent distribution of the funds made available under those budgets on a real needs basis under the Karmel report saw an amazing revolution in the ordinary state schools- the parochial schools in Parramatta where the bulk of the children go. [More…]
An equally important aspect of this matter is that young people entering into the education system have to be provided with confidence to train for executive and managerial positions in secondary and manufacturing industries. [More…]
They are lucky to have a disposable income of $142 a week out of which they must pay rent or, perhaps a housing loan of up to $40 or $50 a week, and meet the cost of food, education, clothing, entertainment and all the rest. [More…]
The Darwin Community College is still the responsibility of the Commonwealth Department of Education, but it is to be passed over to the Northern Territory in July 1979. [More…]
I have been referring only to the economic benefits of tourism, but what of the benefits to the health, welfare and education of our people, not to mention the goodwill and understanding gained from international visitations. [More…]
Some of the schools in the electorate of Grayndler have 43 different nationalities amongst the pupils and, because this Government fails to make available sufficient funds for education, those young boys and girls are unable to get a basic education in English. [More…]
Tourism makes a contribution to our balance of payments position, to our general economic development, to employment opportunities, to decentralised development, to the community wellbeing and to the extension of the education process and other social benefits. [More…]
He is referring to the blacks- the right to control their own education. [More…]
They are denied equal opportunities with whites in education, in employment and, most importantly, in determining by whom they should be led and by whom they should be governed. [More…]
We also will have to ask some hard questions about education, particularly tertiary education. [More…]
Is there no merit at all in a system of student loans- even loans of larger sums, if necessary, than the present Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance- to enable students to lead civilised lives, free from the distractions of money, while they are studying, but to repay that loan when they start earning income? [More…]
We should be examining the subjects of health care, social welfare, education and many of the other sacrosanct areas of government expenditure to see whether there is a better way of achieving the same desirable end- a method of helping those who really need help, yet at the same time encouraging their self-reliance. [More…]
We cannot afford to ignore the areas of health, education, welfare and welfare housing. [More…]
Do we need universal free education? [More…]
Again, I think not, particularly at a time when we have truck drivers, shearers and other people who work with their hands, paying for the higher education of people who, after having completed their education, will lay claim to higher incomes than those taxpayers will ever hope to get. [More…]
Education Assistance Scheme arrangements be loan arrangements? [More…]
For example, children of deceased contributors aged 21 to 25 undergoing full time education will now be entitled to benefits in the same circumstances as the children of pensioners who died prior to 1 July 1976. [More…]
Zoos are in fact gardens and, more importantly they are part of our education system. [More…]
Education is dominant. [More…]
The latter approach is receiving increasing attention in this country, from the zoo administrations themselves and from the education departments. [More…]
It should be possible for industry and foundations to make contributions to zoological gardens for specific education programs such as those which have been established at the Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens. [More…]
When this program was first introduced in 1965 2,600 school children went through the education system. [More…]
Research is also part of the education concept. [More…]
This is a particularly important education process in itself. [More…]
Education in zoological gardens should not be merely an elaborate biology course. [More…]
The four major aims of the Yooralla pre-employment program are: First, to provide work experience and information; secondly, to endeavour to equalise the socialisation opportunities for disabled young people with those of their ablebodied peers; thirdly, to increase the independence of disabled people so that as much as possible they may lead a life style independent of financial support systems; and fourthly, education of the public, both generally through the interaction of the able-bodied and disabled people in the program and with employers involved in the unit. [More…]
Its failure after more than two years to come to grips with what is fundamentally wrong in the economy is the reason why so much else is wrong in the areas of employment, social welfare, education, health, migrant welfare, farm industry, mining, manufacturing, the motor industry, and Aboriginal programs. [More…]
His Excellency also said that he was concerned about the quality of education in Australia. [More…]
They will support an education program and a publicity campaign to encourage Australians to use petrol with a 92 octane rating in preference to a 98 octane rating. [More…]
As Dr Swindell, lecturer in science at Mount Gravatt College of Advanced Education, said in a letter to the Australian of 5 November 1977: [More…]
They have brought to us the free gift of education in their skills. [More…]
At the present time, our educational institutions are not turning out the product that will be required. [More…]
Not enough emphasis in the educational field is being directed towards the ultimate goal. [More…]
The products of education that we will turn out in the 1980s will have to be far more self-reliant. [More…]
We have an education system that is turning out students of whom about 20 per cent cannot read or write and are not trained even for an unskilled job such as driving a truck because to do that they need to read a street directory and street signs. [More…]
In 1967-68 education expenditure was 2.8 per cent of total expenditure and this increased over that period to 9 per cent. [More…]
Expenditure on education, health and social security- only three items in the Budget- totals 47 per cent, nearly 50 per cent, of total expenditure. [More…]
Expenditure on education has risen from $172m in 1967-68 to $2,37 lm this year and expenditure on health from $360m to $2,8 14m and expenditure on social security from $ 1,039m to $7,248m. [More…]
In recent days there have been allegations by the Queensland Minister for Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement, Mr Charles Porter, and by the Premier, Mr Bjelke-Petersen, that the Uniting Church which now administers these two missions in the Gulf of Carpentaria is unable to provide adequately for the health and education of the inhabitants- 750 or more at each settlement; over 1,500 people. [More…]
The health and education standards there ought to be our common property. [More…]
Now we are told that it is health and education that the church authorities cannot manage. [More…]
In the case of education, it also has the responsibility to provide teachers. [More…]
Of course health care, education and other needed resources must be taken to those decentralised groups so that they can maintain a healthy and fulfilling life. [More…]
The lights of those groups desiring to live on and work their tribal lands within the boundaries of the reserve be recognised and that the Government accept the responsibility of maintaining essential services such as medical, education, communication and supplies in consultation with the groups. [More…]
It is one of the things I suffer for the benefit of my further education. [More…]
If only the community bodies in this great country, the small businessmen, mayors and chairmen in our cities and towns, Aboriginals, education and welfare bodies, and so on- the little people- could galvanise such a response from the Prime Minister with one simple uncomplicated letter, as IBM cares to describe it. [More…]
Eligible Aboriginal children together with other school children are currently receiving free dental care including dental health education under the Australian School Dental Scheme. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government is, however, establishing a Trust Fund for the education and general benefit of the children of the Council workers killed in the explosion as an indication of the Government’s concern for their families. [More…]
Education outlays have risen from below 3 per cent to virtually 9 per cent of the Budget outlays. [More…]
Whilst it is very easy for the electorate to take the view that in matters of health, education and social welfare, for example, governments should be prepared to spend whatever is necessary, it is extraordinary that when we start to debate matters of defence, suddenly we hear the cry from the Opposition: ‘What is the Government doing about it? [More…]
Appropriations for defence represented 8.8 per cent of Government outlays, education represented 8.9 per cent, health represented 10.6 percent and social security and welfare- wait for it- 27.2 per cent. [More…]
children of deceased contributors aged 21 to 25 undergoing fulltime education will now be entitled to benefits in the same circumstances as the children of pensioners who died prior to 1 July 1976. [More…]
I think that a reading of the conclusions of the paper would indicate that it is a rash person who offers readycut solutions and that there will be a long haul in working out solutions to these problems which I think the indications show will get worse before they get better, even though we undertake a strenuous program of investigation, education and consultation with all the groups involved. [More…]
A long and patient re-education process will be required in consultation with Australian Medical Association spokesmen and other spokesmen of the prescribing professions to work out a mutually responsible formula whereby there will be peer review and also a review by those who are responsible for providing the facilities that doctors use and to which doctors seek access. [More…]
I would suggest that equally, those responsible for education expenditure should be called upon to accept a greater degree of accountability for the increasing percentage of government expenditure that is required in that area, particularly when one looks at the new demographic projections which reveal that our population is not increasing at the rate at which it was suggested a few years ago it would increase. [More…]
A whole range of recommendations in the health and education areas are no longer appropriate or valid as a result of the slower growth in our population. [More…]
The Commission’s discussion paper concluded that ‘prevention of illness and disability accompanied by effective health education, has the greatest long-term potential for containing the general inflation of health expenditures’. [More…]
He cannot charge anyone for conducting health education sessions on nutrition or preventing accidents or on home care of minor illnesses. [More…]
A public health education program must be developed and evaluated along with other prevention programs. [More…]
The discussion paper goes on to suggest, however, that the prevention of illness and disability, accompanied by effective health education, has the greatest long term potential for containing the general inflation of health expenditures. [More…]
Why are doctors any more sacrosanct and entitled more than any other skilled workers trained in government technical education institutions to set their own fees? [More…]
I move on to Curtin ‘s expression of the belief that national health services, like education, should be available to all. [More…]
As at 28 February 1978, the Departments of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Health and the Department of Education have identified positions where at least 10 per cent of the occupants’ working time is spent in dealing with clients in a language other than English. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 1 March 1978: [More…]
Category E Licences: Will be issued to educational bodies intending to provide programs of continuing and adult education, but including material designed to enrich the cultural life of the audience. [More…]
Category E licences will be issued to educational bodies intending to program for continuing and adult education. [More…]
In the capital cities, Category E licences will normally be issued only to consortiums of educational institutions in Phase I. [More…]
They may also be issued to a single institution with the proviso that other educational institutions be allowed reasonable participation. [More…]
In all the States, education, health and community welfare departments, for example, provide services to Aboriginal communities in the same way as they do to other citizens. [More…]
In Queensland, as in other States, the Commonwealth Government provides grants through the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to support the special programs of State education, health and other departments in Aboriginal and Island communities. [More…]
They are realistic people and they see advantages in some of the benefits that white civilisation can give them such as health care, education, career structures and economic opportunities. [More…]
Queensland will be responsible for health, education and law and order just as it is anywhere else. [More…]
It has cut back expenditure in health, education, housing, generally in the welfare area, and in all of those areas in which it is well established that Aboriginal people have distinct disadvantages, not through their own fault but because of generations of neglect which has been imposed upon them by the dominant white culture of this society. [More…]
It deals with the questions of housing, health, sewerage, water supply, electricity supply, communication, education and training. [More…]
As the Bill acknowledges, there is a role for the Queensland Government to play in providing these services, unless honourable members opposite believe that we can have in any one State a situation of one set of laws in relation to education, for example, for one group of people- the Aboriginal peopleand another set of laws for the rest of the community. [More…]
If the Opposition cannot fight on one question it brings in a new element, one which is likely to exacerbate the situation further and one which is likely to lead to the situation in which the very important question of services such as health and education- we would expect the Queensland Government to continue to provide those services for Queensland people, including Aboriginal people- would be put in jeopardy by promoting an all-out confrontation. [More…]
I am sure that if we put to the Aboriginal people that the question was whether we provided land and total land rights in Queensland, acquired all the reserves on just terms, that is, paying out that money for those rights, and lost ali their other programs throughout the rest of Australia- housing programs, education programs, health programs- they would say responsibly that they would wish to see the maintenance of those programs which would be to their immediate benefit. [More…]
This item of legislation has been developed around pursuing that objective in relation to self-determination but not bringing into conflict a whole range of other questions such as the education and health services which the State would normally provide and which the State is expected by us to continue to provide to the communities. [More…]
A number of complaints, particularly in relation to health, education and law enforcement, have been made by residents of Mornington Island and Aurukun. [More…]
It is an indictment of the Queensland Government if those services have been lacking because the provision of health services, schools and teachers- that is, the education of the people in those communities- and law enforcement in those areas is entirely the responsibility of the Queensland Government. [More…]
It seems to me that those communities have been deprived of adequate services in the past although it was evident to us that education at least was up to standard. [More…]
What progress has been made in implementing recommendations contained in reports of the Hospitals and Health Services Commission, in particular (a) the encouragement of discussion by their organisations of interrelationships among professionals and their disciplines, their registration standards, and delegation of functions to purpose-trained aides and other support staff, (b) the provision of specific grants for initiating training for ail members of health teams, study leave and community health training, (c) the involvement of States, academic and professional organisations in discussion of interdisciplinary training, (d) the exploration of the concept of multi-purpose ‘ health aides, (e ) the definition of limits of responsibility of different health workers in varying situations and geographic settings, (f) a greater community involvement in identifying and meeting needs, (g) encouragement to applicants for community health funds, (h) the maintenance of the Federal share of 75 percent capital and 90 percent running costs pending review of Federal/ State relations, up to 100 per cent funding for approved national projects, and providing legislation as a formal basis for the Community Health Program, (i) the development with the States of standard evaluation procedures and administrative details of devolved responsibilities (j) the priority of projects indicating evaluation and feedback procedures when applying for funding, (k) the transfer of paramedical and home nursing funding to the Community Health Program, co-ordination of this program with home care and handicapped persons assistance and family planning funding, and inclusion in the program of services operating before 1 July 1973, (1) family planning training for community health workers, (m) hospital management links with community services, (n) the placement of more emphasis on health hostels, health education, promotion and training under the community health program, (o ) the implementation of the report on Health Transport Policies for Australia, and (p) funding rural health training, location incentives and continuing education for isolated professionals. [More…]
Greater emphasis has been placed on developments in health education and promotion in recent times. [More…]
In conjunction with St John Ambulance Association and the Health Commission of New South Wales, the Commonwealth is currently funding a pilot project designed to provide health education and first-aid knowledge for persons living in isolated communities with a view to increasing their selfreliance and generally promoting better health. [More…]
A Study Group in Health Education, to identify health educations needs in Australia, with particular emphasis on school health education, is one of a number of groups established by the Curriculum Development Centre. [More…]
The National Health and Medical Research Council has also established a Standing Sub-Committee on Health Education. [More…]
Against this background the view is taken that it should be the policy of the Australian Electoral Office, in consultation with other appropriate authorities, to develop programs of electoral education aimed at ensuring that Aboriginals are better equipped to meet their electoral responsibilities should they have chosen to take up the option to enrol. [More…]
Both the posters and the leaflets were made available to officers of the Aboriginal Adult Education Section of the Department of Education to assist them in the electoral education of Aboriginals. [More…]
One of the objects of this exercise was to see if there were any particular problems being encountered by Aboriginal voters which should be covered by future education programs. [More…]
In conjunction with the Western Australian Education Department a special electoral education program was conducted for Aboriginals prior to the 1 977 Federal elections. [More…]
The Australian Electoral Office has had discussions with the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and the National Aboriginal Education Committee with the object of drawing up continuing programs of electoral education for Aboriginals. [More…]
-The Government is aware of the concern in developing countries about their educational problems, including the problem of illiteracy, and is assisting in solving them in a number of ways through activities conducted under the aid program. [More…]
Training for teachers from these countries is provided in Australia and at education institutions, such as the University of the South Pacific, within developing countries themselves. [More…]
The assistance which Australia gives to education in developing countries is planned and carried out in close consultation with the governments concerned. [More…]
Requests are seldom made for Australian teachers to teach in schools in developing countries but a number of Australian educational experts have been sent to work in their teacher training colleges or to assist their education departments in developing their educational systems. [More…]
Also, direct financial assistance is given to a number of in-country education institutions. [More…]
On 1 March 1978, in a debate on a matter of public importance, the Minister asserted that in the field of migrant education ‘a significant increase in expenditure has been made by the Fraser Administration’. [More…]
The simple facts are that this Government has a record of concern and expenditure in the ethnic affairs area, and particularly in the migrant education area, which has never been matched by any previous government, particularly the Government in which the honourable member was a Minister. [More…]
I have said, and I stand by the statement I made, that in fact a record expenditure has been allocated for migrant education in this financial year. [More…]
Concern for the unemployed outranked concern for inflation, industrial disputes, crimes of violence and education. [More…]
The creation of jobs in the public sector in response to urgent social needs in fields such as health, adult education, environment protection and social services. [More…]
Measures affecting the size of the labour force, such as extended education, paid educational leave or flexible retirement. [More…]
I believe that we also need to look at changing patterns in education to help enlarge personal ranges of choice. [More…]
We need to have more provision for adult education, especially in the arts. [More…]
The Tasmanian Treasurer is also the Minister for Education. [More…]
Every time I went to an education meeting he attacked the Federal Government, and now he is attacking the Federal Government by saying that it is selling Tasmania down the drain. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister given consideration to the report submitted to the Victorian Government on post-secondary education, commonly referred to as the Partridge report? [More…]
Will the Prime Minister give an assurance to this House that the Commonwealth Government will make its views known to the State Government and to the Tertiary Education Commission on its policy of decentralisation and what place the post-secondary education institutes play in provincial areas in Victoria? [More…]
I instance Warrnambool, Ballarat, Bendigo and the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education at Churchill. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister advise the House of the significance of the Partridge report to the current inquiry being undertaken by the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training in Australia? [More…]
The honourable gentleman has probably had discussions with the Gippsland Institute, just as I have had discussions with representatives of the Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education. [More…]
If one looks at what has happened over that period of 10 years, there was an extraordinary increase from 1 7 per cent to over 27 per cent in social welfare expenditure, health expenditure almost doubled, and education expenditure trebled. [More…]
However, in regard to education we have to allow for the fact that there has been a transfer of responsibilities from the State to the Federal area so that, in themselves, those stark figures do not reflect completely the position with regard to education. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the report of the Tertiary Education Commission for the 1979-81 triennium, volume I, recommendations and guidelines, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Education relating to the report [More…]
Another change to be made by the Bill will benefit taxpayers who have dependent children for whom payments are made under the isolated children’s education assistance scheme. [More…]
But speaking in a less broad context about economic policy, the 1977-78 Budget specifically introduced tax cuts and upheld the health, education, defence and social security budgets in very difficult times. [More…]
They were talking about dramatic increases in education spending. [More…]
They should be talking about greater efficiency in education and a better standard in our schools. [More…]
The integration of different uses such as conservation, scientific research, education, fishing, tourism and mining will be a complex but rewarding task. [More…]
The first, which will be known as Category E licences, are to be issued to educational bodies intending to provide programs for continuing and adult education, including material designed to enrich the cultural life of the audience. [More…]
I welcome the concept of the Category E licence that will be issued to educational bodies that are providing a real educational service, not like some that have been put over by some stations in the past. [More…]
Adult education and continuing education are very great things and are needed in the community. [More…]
The participation of a particular educational institution or a consortium of institutions is indeed an exciting prospect. [More…]
The Minister points out that the programming of these educational stations may include material designed to enrich the cultural perspectives of the audience served’. [More…]
I am glad that he said that, because the Minister who preceded him in that portfolio took a very narrow view of education. [More…]
When I issued those licences my view was that anything which increased the understanding and the tolerance of the community- anything at all- was education. [More…]
Life experiences are educational. [More…]
That is certainly the case judging by the panic response or the phone calls I got from a number of the student stations and so on which had been told that they had wandered outside the definition of ‘education’. [More…]
I said: ‘As far as I am concerned, that is education, but if you want to be sure to hang on to your licence you had better concentrate on the three Rs and nothing else ‘. [More…]
I simply say that when we licensed education stations we intended that public broadcasters should be included. [More…]
One of the conditions made by me was that they were not to be just educational licences but also were expected to include public broadcasters. [More…]
Firstly, Category E licences will be issued to education bodies intending to program for various educational activities and specifically as was mentioned- for continuing and adult education. [More…]
There is an FM station licenced under the old Wireless Telegraphy Act operating from Bathurst under the auspices of the Mitchell College of Advanced Education. [More…]
It might be that if the State education departments have their own stations then the ABC has less need to provide educational programs. [More…]
The son or daughter of a teacher may require education that is not available in a small isolated town. [More…]
But the legislation should not apply in western New South Wales because at present it is hard to obtain experienced teachers who are needed for the education of children in these areas. [More…]
I am sure that the Schools Commission would wholeheartedly agree that without acceptable teacher accommodation and some assistance in respect of rent education for the western division children will suffer. [More…]
I ask the Government and particularly the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to give every consideration to seeing that a commonsense solution is found to the problem. [More…]
If we do not achieve this we will crowd out opportunities for expenditure in other important social welfare, education and job creation areas. [More…]
We introduced the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]
What sum was paid by the Department of Education, or by Departments formerly encompassing the functions now performed by the Department of Education, to each airline for air travel within Australia during 1 976-77. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The figures are provided for my Department, the Tertiary Education Commission, the Schools Commission, the Commonwealth Teaching Service, the Curriculum Development Centre and the ACT Schools Authority. [More…]
Has the Government supported the Rathburnie Environmental Education Estate at Linville in the Brisbane Valley or any other project which aims to demonstrate the long-term commercial viability of land and environment conservation practices. [More…]
The Government has not supported the Rathburnie Environmental Education Estate at Linville in the Brisbane Valley, however, under the States Grants (Soil Conservation) Act 1974 and the Environment (Financial Assistance) Act 1977 the following projects aimed at demonstrating the long-term commercial viability of land and environment conservation practices have been supported: demonstration catchment, Pisant Creek, South Australia demonstration project- pitting of denuded pastoral and marginal land, South Australia demonstration erosion and reclamation control project in cereal growing districts of Western Australia demonstration of a method of sand-trapping and dune rebuilding, Western Australia. [More…]
Enrolments in Universities and Colleges of Advanced Education (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 14 March 1978: [More…]
What was the enrolment of (a) each Australian university and (b) each Australian college of advanced education in each year since 1972. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Education. [More…]
Can the Minister assure the House that the Government will critically examine the future funding of the ANU to ensure that it does not set up further business enterprises masquerading as educational facilities? [More…]
I will ask the Minister for Education to investigate this matter to see what sort of unnatural advantages there are in beds in universities and what action ought to be taken if indeed there are the unnatural advantages in beds in universities to which the honourable member refers. [More…]
In addition to housing, the Commission undertook massive expenditures in the areas of education and health. [More…]
The new institution will provide a balanced and liberal university education concurrently with a program of military education and training. [More…]
In October 1976, 1 announced that the present Government had decided that the institution would be established to provide a university education in a military environment for selected members of the Defence Force. [More…]
The Academy Council will be responsible for maintenance of an appropriate military environment at the Academy, and for military education and training conducted there to meet the requirements of the Chief of Defence Force Staff. [More…]
By arrangement with my colleague, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), I will be seeking the advice of the Tertiary Education Commission on the level of funding appropriate to the university function and activities of the Academy. [More…]
In initiating this Bill to establish the Defence Force Academy, I should record my particular gratitude to three universities which, to serve a national purpose, have made special arrangements over the years to provide university education to a significant proportion of officer cadets of all three Services, and which have agreed to continue to do so until the Academy opens. [More…]
I conclude by saying that the Bill does more than provide an apparatus for education and training. [More…]
This Bill adjusts the approved programs of grants to the States for tertiary education for the years 1977 and 1978 by amending the States Grants (Universities Assistance) Act 1976, the States Grants (Advanced Education Assistance) Act 1976, the States Grants (Technical and Further Education Assistance) Act 1976 and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977. [More…]
Amounts provided by the adjustments to legislation for 1977 for each of the tertiary education sectors are $5m for universities, $4.2m for colleges of advanced education and $0.4m for technical and further education. [More…]
These adjustments, which represent the final supplementation to the 1977 programs, bring the total amounts provided to the States for tertiary education in respect of 1977 to $56 1.8m for universities, $439.5m for colleges of advanced education and $85. [More…]
4m for technical and further education. [More…]
Additional amounts provided for 1978 by adjustments to the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 are $28m for universities, $18m for colleges of advanced education and $3.6m for technical and further education. [More…]
8m for colleges of advanced education and $10 1.2m for technical and further education. [More…]
As a college of advanced education it will be subject to general oversight by the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
The College will be concerned with the education and training of maritime and fishing industries personnel and is the only college in Australia established solely for this purpose. [More…]
Since the College is being established to serve Australia-wide needs, the Government intends that it will develop standards of education and training which will be acceptable at international level. [More…]
The Bill confirms Launceston as the location of the College and there will be unique opportunities for co-operation between the College and its neighbouring educational institution, the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]
In fact a sound basis of co-operation has already been established and I look forward to a situation where many educational facilities will be used by both institutions to prevent the unnecessary duplication of resources. [More…]
It will provide a centre in Australia for the co-ordination of professional maritime education and training which at present are fragmented and deficient in many respects. [More…]
Unfortunately, the escalating bill for the treatment of illness has reached such a proportion that insufficient resources have been available for important preventive health education programs. [More…]
The community health program, of course, has a tremendous potential for going to the grass roots of the community in respect of health education plans. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the Schools Commission report for the triennium 1979-81, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) relating to the report. [More…]
The same happened to education services. [More…]
Dramatic new steps were taken in relation to education. [More…]
But such things as Aboriginal bilingual education, the programs and support for Aboriginal children at schools and the isolated children’s programs, which covered the non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal communities, are Labor initiatives that have been taken forward. [More…]
For instance, we have an enormous range of Catholic schools and education facilities. [More…]
If he had taken the trouble to inquire he would have found that the halls are run separately from the education vote at the University. [More…]
It can consider the activities and technological problems of higher education institutions and private enterprise. [More…]
As Minister for Education and Science at the time, I took part in the discussion of his report at a subsequent meeting of the Forum. [More…]
6m are sought for migrant education services, and $6m for aged persons homes and hostels. [More…]
As we will point out when we move our later amendments in which we ask the Minister to give reasons, we believe that the Minister should be concerned with increasing communication and consultation with and increasing the education of the Aboriginal communities as to the reasons why he makes a decision against an application. [More…]
The Government is very concerned about the increased evidence that has become available to it of abuse of social service benefits and allegations of abuses in the areas of social security benefits, health benefits and education allowances. [More…]
One thing that is certain is that the Government is not prepared to stand by and allow fraud and abuse to take place in the areas of social service benefits, health insurance arrangements and education allowances at the expense of the rest of the community. [More…]
They have the ideas and the drive, but they need the training and the education to help them in what is for the most part a strange field, this field of management, of accounting, and the like. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]
Have similar programs been planned for commencement in 1978 by the Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences, Victoria, which proposed degree courses in nursing administration and nursing education. [More…]
Did the Commission on Advanced Education recommend approval of the nursing degree program at WAIT and was this recommendation rejected by the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
Does the decision discriminate against the nursing profession by denying nurses access to higher education and the opportunity to upgrade, increase and improve their professional knowledge and skills. [More…]
Is the decision of the Tertiary Education Commission at variance or in keeping with the attitude of the Government and is any Government initiative likely to occur which will have the effect of facilitating continuation of the courses both at WAIT and the Lincoln Institute. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
to (6) Under the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977, the Tertiary Education Commission has the statutory responsibility for approving advanced education courses for funding purposes. [More…]
Towards the end of last year the Commission considered several courses in nurse education which had been proposed for approval for funding purposes, including post-basic degree courses in nursing at the Western Australian Institute of Technology, and in nursing education and nursing administration at the Lincoln Institute. [More…]
The Commission decided not to approve these courses for funding purposes in 1 978 as it considered that approval of these proposals would pre-empt the deliberations of the Committee on Nurse Education and Training, which the Government has established to provide objective advice on the whole range of questions relating to the education and training of nurses at both the basic and post-basic level. [More…]
In particular, the Commission was aware that the proposed course at the Western Australian Institute of Technology, which the Advanced Education Council had recommended for approval prior to the establishment of the Committee on Nurse Education and Training, would be the first degree course in nursing to be introduced at a tertiary institution in Australia and the Commission was concerned at the possible implications of such a move when the whole question of nurse education was under review. [More…]
I understand that the Committee on Nurse Education and Training will be reporting to the Tertiary Education Commission later this year. [More…]
If proposals are re-submitted to the Advanced Education Council the question of approval of degree courses in nursing at the Western Australian Institute of Technology and the Lincoln Institute can then be reexamined, in the light of a co-ordinated, national plan for the development of nurse education and training. [More…]
am asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 March 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 9 March 1978: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Eligibility for admission is normally the satisfactory completion of secondary education. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]
1 ) What sum was spent by the Department of Education on advertising and services during the period (a) 11 November 1975 to 13 December 1975, (b) 14 December 1975 to 30 June 1976, (c) 1 July 1976 to 30 June 1977 and (d) 1 July 1977 to date. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
to (7) Advertising by the Department of Education and Statutory Authorities is undertaken for the most part to draw the attention of interested institutions and persons to grants, benefits, scholarships and other forms of assistance under the programs for which it is responsible. [More…]
In the ACT and Northern Territory advertising is also used to inform prospective students of courses at Technical and Further Education Institutions and to indicate the availability of courses to migrants. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]
How many (a) full-time and (b) part-time staff are employed on tea-making and distribution in (i) the head office and (ii) other offices of the Department of Education. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) Six full-time staff are employed on tea-making and distribution in the Department of Education head office. [More…]
Those people eligible had to be unemployed for six months during the last 12 months and had to be away from full-time education for at least six months. [More…]
One important conclusion reached was that tribal Aborigines would soon become integrated into one Australian society and that the Government should assist this to occur smoothly by providing more access to free post-primary education, including a knowledge of political and civic functions and structures, social integration of schooling and employment, and decent housing. [More…]
The Committee of this House in 1961 rejected considerations of alcoholism, bank balance, education, work or housing as having any proper bearing on fitness to vote. [More…]
The first is the question of improving voter education amongst Aboriginal communities everywhere. [More…]
Just before the Kimberley by-election in December last year, we saw a hastily organised education campaign funded by the Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) in an attempt to take attention away from the Liberal Party’s practices in the earlier election. [More…]
The only disappointment is that that education program, now that the by-election is out of the way, has fizzled into nothing. [More…]
The Government has demonstrated, by the important program it ran in Western Australia in relation to Aboriginal education and participation in voting, that it will react to the matters specifically complained about which can be demonstrated. [More…]
The course run by the State Education Department ‘s Adult Aboriginal Education Section in Western Australia before the by-election in that State is a good example of the Government’s concern. [More…]
What we are after is that the political activity of the Aboriginal people and their political rights be guaranteed by a program of education, enrolment, and so on, to ensure that when elections are held, the Aboriginal people take their place in the community as such. [More…]
Far more education should be given to Aborigines on how to vote and the reasons for voting, explaining who the people are and so on. [More…]
It is only through economic development that we can generate the national income that is necessary to improve housing and education, develop and maintain national parks and assist those other nations in the world less fortunate than ourselves. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has reported recently that, of 15 countries with comparable economies, Australia has the highest proportion of people under 25 years of age competing for jobs in the work force and the lowest proportion undergoing education? [More…]
The programs that have been devised by my colleague the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations in consultation with the Minister for Education have provided opportunities for training and opportunities for work to tens of thousands of young Australians. [More…]
I should also mention that a long while ago the Williams inquiry into education and training was appointed and we hope to receive its report quite soon. [More…]
Is he aware that such personnel have been caused great personal inconvenience and subjected to financial losses through travelling to their new postings to make alternative housing and education arrangements and in the purchasing of school uniforms? [More…]
What has been his response to representations made to him on 28 October 1977 by the NSW Local Government Community Workers’ Association in which concern and dismay was expressed about the drastic curtailment of funding for the following Government responsibilities: (a) welfare workers under the States Grants (Home Care) Act, (b) Family Law Court Counselling Service, (c) education programs, including after school care, child care and other family care programs, and migrant classes for adults, (d) health care services including community health centres, domiciliary care services and women’s health centres, (e) unemployment and unemployment relief schemes, (0 housing, in particular housing for the aged and invalid people, (g) pension and benefit reductions in real values and proposed transfers of responsibility for these, (h) 470 community programs funded under the Australian Assistance Plan, (i) programs for the handicapped, (j) the Legal Aid Commission Bill, (k) Aboriginal affairs, (1) grant in aid services for migrants and interpreter services, (m) Australian Government printing services, (n) national co-ordinating bodies for youth affairs, (o) women ‘s refuges subsidies reductions and (p) Australian Bureau of Statistics processing. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 7 April 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
and (2) The operating costs of courses conducted under EPUY are a charge to the Department of Education. [More…]
At the same time- and this has been illustrated by the InterScan venture, the Nomad venture and other activities with which we have been identified most actively- we have been seeking to create new industries, with new job opportunities, to harness our high education and our technology and to create satisfying jobs, not to treat workers as chattels as the honourable member said. [More…]
2m in last year’s Budget was paid to the well-off private schools at a time when the overall level of expenditure on education was being kept constant. [More…]
In the field of education there has been a reduction of $ 1 7.7m in tertiary scholarships- in other words, a cut of over 10 per cent. [More…]
We must look also at the question of education in the framing of the Budget. [More…]
I hope that we will look at the reintroduction of tertiary education fees. [More…]
There is nothing in our education system about how to survive in an unemployment society; or how to live and relate to adults in such a society, . [More…]
Minister for Education Minister for Foreign Affairs Minister for Finance Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Minister for Health [More…]
If we had something like $250m or more to spend on Aboriginals in terms of housing, education and health, those programs would be subjected to enormous pressure and would probably be lost. [More…]
It is clearly related to the quality of services that the community wants to see provided by governments; in other words the standards of community health, education and welfare. [More…]
I feel- and I hope that the Minister will understand the view I am expressing- that his predecessor was, if I may dare to suggest it, too biased in favour of the production side of radio and television and did not to my way of thinking manifest enough interest in the purpose of the existence of this facility which really is to provide entertainment, information, education and satisfaction to consumers. [More…]
I refer, in particular, to station 2MCE-FM, which has been operating for some years from the Mitchell College of Advanced Education at Bathurst. [More…]
Also it would help to provide quality services in neglected areas such as children’s and educational programs, because managements would not all the time have to be looking over their shoulders at advertising revenue and saying: ‘We dare not put on quality programs because the advertisers would punish us.’ [More…]
Having an IBA would permit specialisation of television channels or radio stations, as required, in order to serve the needs of sections of the audience- information services, education services and entertainment services. [More…]
-I find myself in the rather unusual position of leading for the Opposition on these Bills but perhaps that will be explained when I indicate at the outset that neither the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Bill nor the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill will be opposed by the Opposition. [More…]
But, in so saying, this does not indicate the Opposition’s approval of either the Government’s budgetary policy or its attitudes to education generally. [More…]
So, even with these adjustments, it is the same basic government education program. [More…]
I think this debate will give us the opportunity to project what the educational needs are and what course will be followed. [More…]
The Bills do illustrate the high degree of involvement of the Australian Government in education funding. [More…]
In the ternary education area the amounts are greater. [More…]
8m for universities, $439.5m for colleges of advanced education and $85.4m for technical and further education. [More…]
8m for colleges of advanced education and $10 1.2m for technical and further education. [More…]
If we look at this degree of involvement, relative to the options open to an Australian government in the education field, it is obvious that one of the options open to the Government is certainly not withdrawal from education financing. [More…]
I do not need to dwell on the fact that this heavy commitment for education spending has developed since 1973 and was based on the initiatives of the then Labor Government. [More…]
But education, in itself, is pretty lively and changeable. [More…]
However, honourable members will recall that at the time the guidelines were laid down, claims and complaints were made by the Opposition that these guidelines would restrict and even cause loss of the initiatives in education, and that progress would grind to a halt. [More…]
It must indicate now what its attitude will be in the education field. [More…]
Earlier I referred to the question of a continuing examination of educational needs in the light of changing society. [More…]
There is nothing in our education system about how to survive in an unemployment society: or how to live and relate to adults in such a society, . [More…]
Of course, they have added many other tasks to our education system. [More…]
The changing complexion of the news media which was discussed in the previous debate, has brought with it educational problems. [More…]
So with these changing values and attitudes there is a constant challenge to the nature of the curriculum and teaching and to the very organisation of our education system. [More…]
This special projects program takes a very small part of the funds spent on education, yet the program covers quite a wide variety of projects. [More…]
Their main focus is on more effective learning in basic curriculum areas, but they also include organisational changes in schools, radical departures from traditional learning patterns such as cross age tutoring, the extension of the learning environment through outdoor education, field stations and work experience, improved community/school liaison and adventurous extensions of the drama, music, dance and art experience of students. [More…]
Educational improvement depends not just on attempts to change all in uniform ways, but on local adaptation, on ‘lighthouse’ developments which extend the vision of others, and on individual initiative. [More…]
These initiatives were in education, but once again we face the problem of a commitment by government to continue this program to get schools up to acceptable levels. [More…]
We believe that the difficulties of education have been exacerbated by what is happening in the economic circumstances of Australia generally. [More…]
That is why we say the Government should make an early commitment to or give an early indication of its proposals in education. [More…]
It is not my intention to deal with the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill. [More…]
There is no doubt that at the moment the greater concentration should be on technical and further education. [More…]
One wonders whether the formal university education has not been pushed to its very limit in the numbers that are admitted, and I believe that we should examine the balance that is there. [More…]
I would like to talk to the House for a few moments about the tertiary education grants which we are discussing in the legislation now before the House. [More…]
Those of us who have worked on the Government member’s education committee have taken a good deal of trouble to try to find out whether tertiary education in the country is relevant to the needs of the country and to our future. [More…]
Compared with other tertiary institutions, whether in the United Kingdom, Europe or in the United States, it can be seen that there is no need for us to have any anxiety about the quality and the quantity of buildings available for university education. [More…]
I will not follow up what the former honourable member for Fremantle pointed out in a debate in his position as Minister lor Education, but we have become anxious about the number of tertiary colleges and places of learning which appear to be a duplication or which appear to be in competition with one another, particularly in Western Australia and Victoria. [More…]
I do not want to take up much of the time of the House but I do want to say that I am glad to note that in the heavy industrial areas in the district from which I come, the city of Dandenong and the electorate of Holt, the Government has made a major move to give technical education a priority. [More…]
I have had discussions with the principal of that college and I have been impressed by the general desire of those who are involved in technical education to make certain that the courses they offer are not confined to apprentices and the young people who undertake normal training and who attend normal classes but are available to all people in the community. [More…]
These colleges have offered to take back into their ranks the young people who urgently need a chance to get the level of education that they lost the opportunity to obtain or unfortunately abandoned at the ages of 14, 15 or 16 years when they did not really comprehend the importance of education. [More…]
From speaking to the education institutions in my electorate and everywhere I have travelled in Australia I must admit that I feel very proud of what the Government has done in relation to technical education. [More…]
I have absolute confidence in the Government’s ability to work with the Australian Schools Commission and to provide a level of education which is relevant for the children of this country for the years ahead. [More…]
I ask the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman), who is sitting at the table, to be kind enough to convey the feelings of the House to the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) who is a member of another place. [More…]
We are grateful always for the careful attention the Minister for Education pays to almost every question we put to him and every letter we write to him and we thank him for his continuing interest in education in our electorates, which he has demonstrated by the number of times that he has been to visit our electorates personally to talk to those in charge of education, to children in the schools and to those in the teaching profession. [More…]
He is an admirable Minister for Education. [More…]
At present, there are serious problems in the field of tertiary, secondary and technical education. [More…]
If legislation which was introduced recently in the Victorian Parliament, and which was not considered to be legislation on an education basis as it had nothing to do with the report from which it arose, becomes law- I feel that it will not become law because more rational second thoughts will take place or have taken place- it would place that State in the position in which it could censure and override decisions of the councils of universities and colleges of advanced education on educational and staffing matters directly relevant to their academic functions rather than their financial or other commitments. [More…]
It would also place them in a position in which they would not be able to make direct application to the Commonwealth organisations responsible for education without first obtaining the approval of a Victorian body which was to be set up. [More…]
The basis of this move was again for political decision-making purposes, not for decisionmaking on the basis of education content. [More…]
It was in fact designed to ensure that applications met political needs rather than the education needs of the State. [More…]
Serious problems exist within the tertiary education system in Victoria. [More…]
Those problems will be solved only if rational debate takes place on them and only if they are tackled as educational problems, not political problems. [More…]
I believe it would be better for Victoria and the educational institutions concerned if the inquiries which were to deal with the matter were to be extra-curricula rather than internal to that State because there are pressures in the State which will totally prevent any real appraisal taking place. [More…]
I wish to make some general observations in relation to the Bills, the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill and the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Bill. [More…]
For the purposes of schools and educational institutions in my electorate, I wish to mention briefly the amounts of supplementation we are making. [More…]
In the tertiary education sector we are providing an additional $5m for universities, $4. [More…]
2m for colleges and $0.4m for technical and further education. [More…]
These supplementations for the 1977 program will bring the total figure for universities in 1977 to $56 1.8m and $439.5m for colleges of advanced education and $85.4m for technical and further education. [More…]
Additional amounts provided for 1978 are $28m for universities, $18m for colleges of advanced education and $3. [More…]
6m for technical and further education. [More…]
The amounts appropriated in these Bills suggest very much that the policies our Government is undertaking in the economic area are proving to be of great advantage in the effective spending of public and taxpayers’ money for education. [More…]
Of course in the light of our present economic situation and particularly the unemployment difficulties, it is essential that career education and pre-vocational courses continue and expand within our schools. [More…]
The honourable member for Holt (Mr Yates) mentioned that our Government is today placing important emphasis and a priority on spending in technical education. [More…]
Of course as a result of this it is only natural that the expansion that has taken place over many years in the higher tertiary areas- in the universities and the colleges of advanced education- will come under some pressure, particularly in the area of capital facilities. [More…]
I must mention one or two other aspects that I see as tremendous improvements in education, particularly as they apply to country areas. [More…]
One problem that I see developing that is disadvantaging country students who wish, and have to go away for, tertiary education is in relation to the payment of the tertiary allowance. [More…]
But country students who in almost all situations have to leave their homes for tertiary education are finding that they are severely disadvantaged by the fact that a living away from home allowance is not available for their courses. [More…]
This of course is tied to the tertiary education allowance and the loss of that allowance automatically means the loss of the living away from home allowance. [More…]
I am well aware that a program in my area known as the Mallee track, operating in an area containing Ouyen, Murrayville, Sea Lake and Patchewollock, is proving to be of enormous benefit both to the immediate education programs of those students and through the innovation that it will bring about throughout the total education system in Australia. [More…]
It has involved parents and teachers and the community outside the school as they have never been involved in education and it is proving, as I said, a great program. [More…]
The economic policies of our Government are today allowing the money that is spent in education to be effectively used to the benefit of students, their parents and ultimately to the benefit of our community. [More…]
I am fairly certain that the honourable member for Mallee (Mr Fisher) is sensitive to what education is all about but is in danger of becoming complacent under the barrage of propaganda which is supporting the Government’s failure to do anything effective in the community. [More…]
What exactly does the Government mean when it talks about annual programs in the education programs of this Government. [More…]
There are no education programs. [More…]
They have done everything possible to reduce in absolute terms and in relative terms the effort that goes into education. [More…]
As I see the situation, the facts are that the Government’s approach to education has disadvantaged the whole education system of Australia. [More…]
That is having a great impact upon the way in which they look at the relevance of the education system. [More…]
Ever since I became interested in national policies in education I have been astonished that people are surprised at changes of the growth rate of the student body in the school system of Australia. [More…]
As a result, in 1953, 1954 and 1955 there were enormous pressures on the primary schools and the people in the education system of Australia were surprised. [More…]
Of course educational demands do not come simply from population growth and changes; they come from a big increase in the aspirations of people for their children and the aspirations of the children for themselves, and an increasing number of adults who have aspirations for themselves too. [More…]
I would also say that those remarks apply to the Australian education system of the generations of my grandparents and greatgrandparents and those of my friend from Mallee and most other colleagues here whom I see sitting in the chamber. [More…]
Between the 1870s and 1900 the education system turned a 60 per cent literate population into a 100 per cent one. [More…]
Secondary education was of no real moment other than occasionally in the late twenties and thirties- its development was interrupted by World War II- until the postwar period. [More…]
Subsequent to achieving the initial impact of secondary education growth, in the course of carrying on the primary school system for another few years we have done nothing to consider what secondary education ought to be about. [More…]
One of the great problems we face at the moment is what we are to do with those people who find, at the age of 15, 16 or 17, the education system unsatisfactory. [More…]
There ought to be something inside the education system which gives them satisfaction and is relevant to the needs of the community. [More…]
I remind honourable members that some 20 years ago or thereabouts, I believe in May 1958, a debate was initiated on the role of the Commonwealth on education. [More…]
What then are to be its principal functions, in the face of the fact that a century-old education system exists in each of the States? [More…]
I think that its principal function is to ensure equality for all Australians in regard to access to education, in the quality of education available to them, and in ensuring that there is an increasing relevance in the quality and function of the education that they receive. [More…]
The problem areas of Australian education, it seems to me, especially in the last two years, have remained largely untouched. [More…]
One of the objectives of the education program of the Labor Government between 1972 and 1975 was to remove the inequalities in Australia’s education system. [More…]
Some States have put more effort than have others into education over the century or so since the advent of what used to be called free, compulsory secular education. [More…]
So there is a geographical base to the inequality in Australian education. [More…]
I am sympathetic to the point made by my friend from Mallee, that there is no doubt that, despite the rather extraordinary efforts during the last century to create a universal system across Australia, with equal access to quality education from one end of the country to the other, the people in his electorate are probably often disadvantaged by distance and other factors compared with, say, even the people in my own electorate. [More…]
A very high quality of education started to develop in part of the electorate of the honourable member for Mallee when I began to teach there in 1939. [More…]
That was symbolic of the effort that was put into education by an earlier generation. [More…]
There are still disabilities imposed upon people in education arising, for instance, from sex: There are more chances for young men than there are for young women. [More…]
There are two areas to which we should apply ourselves: First, we should exert continuing pressure to create an equal access system throughout Australia and raise the quality of education. [More…]
I want to amplify briefly the effect that the wages explosion between 1974 and the present has had on the education problem. [More…]
Everybody is aware of the significant amount of funding that goes into education budgets, both Commonwealth and State and, as well, from the pockets of private school parents who must pay a great deal towards the cost of education. [More…]
One of the most significant features of the whole education process is the amount that has to be devoted to wages and salaries of teachers and others involved in our institutions and schools. [More…]
The honourable member for Calare (Mr MacKenzie) and I have an intense interest in education and in applying the Commonwealth’s contribution to education as sensibly as possible. [More…]
It is obviously of great concern to us as it is to all honourable members and to the community to know the amount of funds going into the salaries vote as pan of the whole education process. [More…]
I have to spend a couple of minutes of the time of the House this afternoon emphasising some of those figures and putting the argument into perspective so that people will be aware of the significance of the wages content of the total education vote. [More…]
As time goes by, the disparity between the advantages of living in the metropolitan areas and of living in those areas- I refer particularly to the cost of education and the difficulty of getting to places where specialist medical attention is available- is something that we will have to consider further. [More…]
The article mentions the National Employment and Training scheme, the relocation assistance scheme, the Special Youth Employment Training program, the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprenticeship Full-Time Training, the CRAFT technical education rebate, the CRAFT off the job training rebate, the CRAFT partial apprenticeship scheme and the Educational Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]
I have been thinking about the suggestion made by Dr Sax in the report on health costs that prevention of illness and disability, accompanied by effective health education, has the greatest long-term potential for containing a general inflation of health expenditure. [More…]
Education in the last generation in Australia has seen a revolution. [More…]
The State committees will provide grass roots contact with industry, centres of education and the community generally. [More…]
I draw attention to a further quote of Mr Bowes when he said: ‘These current labour market imbalances are likely to proceed into the future as long as either the international economic situation, the education system and community values all remain unchanged or government and employers insist upon relying on those policy actions which seemed sufficient during the previous decade’. [More…]
Today to every young person leaving school anxious to enter the workforce it appears to be a great wall holding them back, restricting their opportunities, forcing them into employment necessitating far less than the skills they have been trained in, necessitating their long travel from their home, and making it appear futile to continue any form of higher education. [More…]
In addition to that, we can expect 200,000 women, who are not now in full-time education and who are not presently in the work force, to seek work in that period. [More…]
It also initiated the education program for unemployed youth and the relocation assistance scheme. [More…]
Work is now being done in the Scandinavian countries to try to solve some of the problems of the transition from education to work by a part time pattern of work in education between the ages of 1 5 and 1 7. [More…]
The report of the Commission of Inquiry into Poverty and Education 1976 stated: [More…]
To assist in a better understanding of the manpower policy and requirements, the Government set up the Williams Committee into the relationship between education and training and the Crawford study into structural adjustment of industry. [More…]
He nominated his Government’s encouragement of tertiary education, something in which he had had a close personal interest, and the development of the national capital. [More…]
He was convinced that all Australians should have opportunities to share in a full educational experience and his Government presided over a vast expansion in tertiary education in this country. [More…]
Some initiatives were also undertaken in the field of education. [More…]
Australia’s progress in fields such as education, national development and trade during the Menzies-Fadden and the Menzies-McEwen period makes that quite clear. [More…]
There was his attitude to education, which he liked to take pride in himself as his greatest achievement. [More…]
The development of Canberra as the nations capital and the extension of Commonwealth responsibility into the field of education, particularly at the tertiary level, must rank as enduring policy achievements. [More…]
UNESCO- UNESCO is a major international organisation with more than 140 member governments and significant activities in almost every field of education, science, the social sciences, culture, communications and development. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Department of Education has six positions of Assistant Grade 1 located in Darwin locally designated Home Liaison Officer. [More…]
1 ) Did the Royal Commission on Human Relationships (a) report that Australians of South Sea Island descent are not eligible for the special benefits introduced for Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders in fields such as education, health and housing unless they claim to be Aboriginals, a claim which many feel is a denial of their own origin and (b) recommend that action should be taken to extend to them eligibility for benefits now available to Aboriginals. [More…]
The IDC comprised the Departments of Social Security (convenor), Prime Minister and Cabinet, Employment and Industrial Relations, Education and Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
1 ) Was the previous Attorney-General seeking a general agreement by Ministers for Education, vice-chancellors of universities, principals of colleges of advanced education, authors, librarians, publishers and the Copyright Council on the copying of authors’ publications in educational institutions. [More…]
3 ) Any current or future planning for the further development of Commonwealth rehabilitation services and facilities on a regional basis would have regard to the existence of all health, education and welfare services and facilities within the region. [More…]
It can come only from health, education and welfare spending which together make up nearly half of the Budget expenditure. [More…]
Rapid growth of the education system and reduced migration have led to changes in the skill composition of our work force. [More…]
The States have important responsibilities- for instance, in the field of education. [More…]
How can the States plan properly for their respective education systems until they have such vital information? [More…]
I know that one of the aspirations of this Government is one day, when it is feasible, to establish an educational television network. [More…]
It is certainly not an efficient means of providing true educational facilities to the people of the outback. [More…]
I think that is even more reason why we should be striving for a situation where we can use this type of facility in providing education to the people of the far flung areas of Australia and, indeed, to the people of the major capital cities and the major provincial towns scattered around the coastline as well. [More…]
However, technical and further education has the potential to provide training and offers scope for the rationalisation of training resources. [More…]
Added to this, such areas as paid educational leave concern the employers no less than the unions. [More…]
The amendments also provide for the Authority’s closer involvement with technical and further education. [More…]
As honourable members will see from the Bill, under the new arrangements the Tertiary Education Commission will be represented on the Australian Council and the appropriate TAFE bodies will be represented on the State Councils. [More…]
In March 1 969 when he was Minister for Education and Science he addressed the Science and Industry Forum of the Australian Academy of Science. [More…]
Science and technology are major components of social change, natural resource use, education and the changing nature of work- to give just some examples. [More…]
Also, minutes and agenda papers, and an invitation to be represented at council meetings when items of interest are on the agenda, are sent to the following group of departments and agencies: Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development, Department of Finance, Department of Productivity, Department of Transport, Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Telecommunications Commission, and the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
Three years later, after the then Prime Minister appointed such a committee, his Minister for Education and Science- the present Prime Minister- backed down from his previous position. [More…]
They include the implications for employment, education needs and environmental consequences. [More…]
A growing Austraiian professional constituency asks for more emphasis on prevention of disease, health promotion, health maintenance and health education. [More…]
The National Policy will ensure that, for example, State Governments undertake ‘ life be in it ‘ type programs and that the respective State Education systems change the emphasis in Sport and Recreation from the secondary sector of education to primary level. [More…]
He also said that the last survey in 1 970 showed that 75 per cent of post primary government schools did not have a gymnasium or covered activity area and that 75 per cent of our children at that level in government schools did not have a planned continuous program of physical education. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 10 May 1978: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
to (4) In February 1977 the Australian Education Council, which is the body composed of Federal and State Ministers for Education, approved a co-operative study to be undertaken into the building costs of both government and non-government schools in Australia. [More…]
Officers from the State Departments of Education and Public Works, the Schools Commission, the Commonwealth Departments of Education and Construction and experts from the private sector have been involved in the study. [More…]
A report has been completed and sent to the members of the Australian Education Council and will be listed for discussion at its next meeting. [More…]
The CRAFT Technical Education Rebate is payable whenever technical education is carried out throughout the apprenticeship. [More…]
The amounts paid in each year will therefore escalate as new intakes start their technical education. [More…]
Taking into account the 1978 intake of 76, the total CRAFT Technical Education Rebate payable for 1978 is likely to be some $97,000. [More…]
(This will be payable in respect of first and second year apprentices attending compulsory technical education courses). [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the work experience plan conducted by the Victorian Government since 1974 under which school students work in industry for a short period as an integral part of their education. [More…]
1 ) How many persons were (a) in in-plant training under the NEAT Scheme, (b) employed under the Special Youth Employment Training Program, (c) employed under the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Full Time Training and (d) enrolled in the Education Program for Unemployed Youth as at 28 February 1978. [More…]
A total of 423 young persons were enrolled in the Education Program for Unemployed Youth (EPUY) as at 28 February 1978. [More…]
The fact is that the great majority of those completing full time education are able to find employment without any financial assistance. [More…]
In view of the deepening national concern over youth employment, including that expressed by the trade union movement, what steps do the Minister, the Minister for Education and the Cabinet propose to take concerning the introduction of a national community youth cadet scheme both at home and overseas? [More…]
He appointed the former Governor-General to a position in the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. [More…]
Housing and employment difficulties have to be solved and children’s education arranged. [More…]
It points out that, since about 20 per cent of our community are currently ‘migrants’, a similar proportion of the Commonwealth’s general expenditure on education, health, social security and welfare and other areas should be for the benefit of migrants. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware of the current Commonwealth programs and services directed specifically to migrants, covering migrant education, migrant welfare, interpreting and translation and other programs and services. [More…]
The Review found that the main areas of need -such as for fluency in English and for better communication and information- are common to virtually all areas such as health, welfare, education, employment and the law. [More…]
This will cover classes in English and formal orientation courses including advice and assistance in housing, education, employment and other areas of need. [More…]
There will also be provision for better education for teachers of adult migrants, additional funds for training such teachers and for the provision of teaching materials. [More…]
The adult migrant education program will be established as a three-year program and an extensive survey of the needs for English of the various migrant groups will be conducted to improve planning and monitoring. [More…]
We agree that schools are the key element in achieving such a goal and we will allocate $5m over the next three years to develop multicultural and community language education programs. [More…]
I am sure that it will bring a reduction in expenditure on education. [More…]
He nominated social security, welfare programs, health and education. [More…]
Apart from the serious effect this would have of increasing unemployment, will the Acting Prime Minister give an assurance that the Labor Government initiated improvements in the fields of social security and education will not join health in being further eroded by the Government in the forthcoming Budget? [More…]
Will he say definitely that pensions will continue to be indexed, that the means test will not be imposed on those who are over 70, that the allowable income for those pensioners who are under 70 will be indexed, that family allowances will not continue to lessen in real terms and that education expenditure will continue to be maintained in real terms? [More…]
In the 157th report the Committee had been critical of the Department of Defence, the Department of Education, the then Department of Manufacturing Industry and the then Australian Council for the Arts. [More…]
The Department of Education failed to obtain ministerial approval to extend the broadbanding of incomes when calculating living allowances under the tertiary allowance scheme. [More…]
Indeed, the present Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations used the word ‘education’ in his speech, although he is now proposing to delete it from the definition. [More…]
Professor John Niland, Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of New South Wales has written that TUTA’s establishment represents ‘the most significant development of the last 50 years in the area of trade unionism and education’. [More…]
Many other educational bodies are now consulting TUTA about industrial relations programs and are using TUTA materials, especially the excellent films TUTA has produced with Film Australia. [More…]
Members of this House should see these films which are now in wide use in universities, colleges of advanced education, technical colleges, management education and schools. [More…]
TUTA is now a recognised part of Australia’s training and education resources. [More…]
Yet another company has agreed to meet the travel costs of bringing a German trade union education expert to work with TUTA for a few months, probably in the field of health and safety. [More…]
However, the Technical and Further Education Commission has the potential to provide training and offers scope for the rationalisation of training resources. [More…]
It was the Minister’s amendment in 1975 which caused a representative of the then Prime Minister, a representative of the then Leader of the Opposition and a person nominated by the then Minister for Education to sit on the Australian Council. [More…]
the representative of a teachers’ organisation on the State Councils should be replaced by a representative of Technical and Further Education nominated through the State Ministers for Education; [More…]
As part of our national education budget, $3m is not a substantial sum of money and in terms of the achievements of the trade unionists who have been through the college the Australian community has had good value for every dollar that has been spent. [More…]
A very substantial part of the cost of their training and education comes directly out of taxpayers’ money. [More…]
Governments should not interfere in any type of education. [More…]
If the Government sticks its little political fingers into this education pie one wonders what it will do next. [More…]
I return now to his oft stated reference to $3m of our national education budget being spent on this education. [More…]
The Authority can play a role in taking part in co-operative courses, perhaps with technical and further education institutions, to involve employers in those sorts of courses. [More…]
TUTA aims to provide a training and education service for the whole union movement in Australia. [More…]
The Director of Studies- Mr Peter Matthewscame to the college highly accredited as an educationist. [More…]
He was previously education officer with the Australian Council of Trade Unions, having been appointed there in 1970. [More…]
But the running of a college is more than being an education officer; one also has to be a supervisor. [More…]
He will be able now to carry out his duties and his responsibilities with greater effect by virtue of the fact that he will have someone to oversee him, a person who came not as a supervisor but as an education officer having been appointed as education officer to the ACTU in 1970. [More…]
His thesis was entitled ‘Workers Education Association of Queensland, 1913-1939’. [More…]
I am delighted to read in the second reading speech of the Minister’s intention to appoint a representative of technical and further education. [More…]
This will avoid a great amount of confusion because the emphasis must not be on educational matters, as I have said previously; it rather should be of a practical nature. [More…]
I cannot see that we should have a wastage of resources in providing at the college classes and lectures which are available at colleges of advanced education or technical colleges. [More…]
Possibly we could have an arrangement with colleges of advanced education, like the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education in Toowoomba, to have a part external studies course, because unless farm leaders have specialised training we will reach a situation where they will be left behind in the race to represent their people. [More…]
To allow employer representatives to sit on the Australian Council for Union Training is like demanding that the Catholic Education Office in each state should accept the Grandmaster of the Freemasons Lodge on its board of control and demanding also that as catholic education is being given millions of dollars of Federal funds a government-dominated board ought to be appointed and made answerable directly to the Minister to decide what the syllabi, curricula and appointments shall be in all the catholic colleges and schools in Australia. [More…]
Why has the definition of ‘education’ disappeared? [More…]
We are now in the area of deciding what education is all about. [More…]
I shall quote to the House some comments that were made in 1975 about this whole area of education which has been written out of the definitions. [More…]
The Bill lacks in that it no longer mentions the word education. [More…]
It leaves out the word education. [More…]
Doubtless honourable members could have a long debate on what the word education means. [More…]
There is much more to be said about the Bill because it goes into many other areas, but it seems to me that the thing we are arguing about here and now is the question of education. [More…]
It seems that the Government, through the Minister, has decided that education is far too broad a term to be used in the definition of trade union training. [More…]
I submit to the Committee that that is not the case, that perhaps education is a broad term but it has a real meaning in the general sense in the community. [More…]
Without the inclusion of the word education the whole concept of TUTA falls to the ground. [More…]
Trade Union Training Authority must carry with it a connotation of educational training. [More…]
For reasons best known to himself, which the Minister has not made clear to me, to the peak councils, to the trade union movement generally, to TUTA or to the community, for some reason or other he has decided to exclude the word education. [More…]
If the Minister does not believe that trade union training authorities, or, to be specific, the Trade Union Training Authority by its nature is an educational institution, let him say so. [More…]
I might have my own views on what education means and, if the Minister disagrees, perhaps he will tell me. [More…]
It seems to me that if one if to advance people from one position to the next that, of itself, is education. [More…]
He had denied to educationists the right to move people from one place to the other. [More…]
Is that not part of their education? [More…]
How can the Minister exclude the word education? [More…]
My principal complaint is that the word education has been deleted from the definition in clause 3 (b). [More…]
A need exists to have the word education restored to the Bill. [More…]
Why is the Minister afraid of the word education? [More…]
He should respond to that and tell honourable members why he has written out the word education. [More…]
If one looks at education in this country- it has to be said, as I think the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr West) was attempting to suggest earlier, education is in a real sense power- one realises that what we have is a disequilibrium of power. [More…]
We do not have a situation in which there are relatively equal partners; we have a situation in which a very large section of Austraiian society has been cut off from the massive funds which we have put into education in the past few years. [More…]
The point I want to make is that one institution has been established to serve the trade union movement, to provide, as the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) has suggested quite properly, education for the trade union movement rather than some narrow notion of training. [More…]
He is creating a situation in which conflict is inevitable, because there is no basis for discussion and no basis for education. [More…]
1 accept that because he has had a tertiary education and I have not. [More…]
He will determine what the education system throughout the College will be. [More…]
am asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 4 April 1978: [More…]
We will be talking about publicity and education campaigns, help for the industry and all the rest of it that will put together an important and significant conservation program for the nation in co-operation with the States, but- and this is a big ‘but’ and depends on whether you argue just how elastic prices are in this case- the price will encourage people to take notice of the campaign. [More…]
This was despite some off-setting reductions in general purpose payments to the States as a consequence of Federal takeover of responsibilities such as the railways in Tasmania and South Australia and also despite the fact that there was an off-setting reduction in general purpose payments to make up for the fact that the Federal Government took over total financing of some State responsibilities such as tertiary education. [More…]
While the States were greatly expanding their role as providers of services (education and health expenditures increased from 5.92 per cent of gross domestic product in 1973-74 to 8.61 per cent in 1975-76), their net increase in indebtedness fell from 0.45 per cent of gross domestic product to 0.35 per cent. [More…]
Those areas referred to the whole of the social infrastructurethe need to build up education, health services, urban and regional development, welfare housing, social security and welfare. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a copy of a statement by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) concerning compulsory membership of student associations at the Australian National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
Is education to join health and possibly security as a victim of real cuts? [More…]
I conclude my remarks dealing with this whole area of positive Government approach by referring to the education program for unemployed youth. [More…]
It is not possible to package and compartment the population of the Northern Territory into Aborigines and non-Aborigines and to say that these are the health, education, welfare, transport and other services for Aboriginal people, and those are the services for nonAboriginals. [More…]
There is a need for increasing the intensity of the education by the white population to avoid this backlash. [More…]
That is something else that ought to be undertaken by the Federal Government as an educational exercise throughout Australia, because that is an Australian responsibility. [More…]
There may be some exceptions and, because we are moving along a road towards statehood, I would acknowledge that there might be a desire to say, Well, it is not for 12 months that we will want them to have executive authority in matters of health and education. [More…]
The proposals of the Committee are, in fact, that all ‘State type’ functions be transferred to the Territory Executive except that major functions such as rural land, mining, education, health … be retained by the Australian Government and other major functions such as roads, fisheries, national parks and the Police be shared. [More…]
The timetable for the transfer of functions disclosed by the Minister in his speech of 14 September indicates that the important areas of education, land administration, mining service and administration, health services, roads and transport services are to be effective from 1 July 1979. [More…]
The responsibility for education and health are being left up in the air at the moment. [More…]
I think this is probably a wise decision in the short term, but certainly in the long term I would like to see both health and education made responsible to the elected people of the Northern Territory. [More…]
The elected representatives know the needs and aspirations of the people, in terms of health services and education, and they are in a better position to respond to the needs of the people rather than to have those decisions made by people in Canberra. [More…]
This body is the standing interdepartmental committee on refugees, comprising senior officers of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (which chairs the committee), Prime Minister and Cabinet, Employment and Industrial Relations, Social Security, Finance, Health and Education, with other departments and the Public Service Board being co-opted as necessary. [More…]
According to the Minister for Finance, the Government is going to be cutting back on social security, health and education programs. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 8 March 1978: [More…]
1 ) What staff canteens are operated by the Department of Education [More…]
What decision has been made by the Department of Education concerning subsidisation of each canteen and what was the estimated cost of such subsidisation to each canteen for 1976-77. [More…]
Are there any arrangements made by the Department of Education for any staff canteen to be operated by private enterprise; if so, which canteens and under what terms and conditions. [More…]
in servicing, education, communication, transport, etc. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 9 May 1978: [More…]
1 ) How many officers and employees of the Department of Education have their home telephone rentals or charges fully or partially paid by the Department. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 10 May 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable senator’s question. [More…]
1 ) and (2) There are no members of parliament on any advisory or consultative committees responsible to me as Minister for Education. [More…]
Proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction. [More…]
Everyone has the right to education. [More…]
Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. [More…]
Elementary education shall be compulsory. [More…]
Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. [More…]
Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. [More…]
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [More…]
There are none of the continuous effective debates that we had a few years back on such matters as foreign policy, education and other great matters of moment. [More…]
There should be a central maritime college, set up as part of a college of advanced education. [More…]
The decision to locate the College near the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education and near the city of Launceston with a broad harbour and closeness to the sea carries through the Commission’s expressed wishes. [More…]
present training is not going far enough within the type of courses that are provided, is not giving a full range of types of courses, nor does it equip those who take the courses with a standard of education that has a general application. [More…]
Clearly, the Commission saw the College as the means for overcoming these limitations and gaps which exist in the present system of maritime education. [More…]
It is also expected that the College will provide for higher educational studies to a degree course level, this being one of the reasons for locating the College near the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]
These developments have only emphasised and added to the need for improved maritime education. [More…]
Other countries have been actively pursuing maritime education for a number of years already. [More…]
Yet it is worth while noting that the benefits of mariners with such an education will extend to all Australian shipping- costal, international, and fishing. [More…]
As a college of advanced education it will be subject to general oversight by the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
The College will be concerned with the education and training of maritime and fishing industry personnel. [More…]
Since the College is being established to serve Australia-wide needs, the Government intends that it will develop standards of education and training which will be acceptable at international level. [More…]
The College will develop into an important educational institution in Australia. [More…]
It is to provide maritime-related education and training for people who wish to become, or who are, officers of merchant or fishing vessels. [More…]
We should understand that the College will be sited adjacent to the Tasmanian college of advanced education at Newnham and that there will be a joint usage of the facilities of both the Tasmanian college of advanced education and the Maritime College. [More…]
For that we should thank the Department of Transport, the Department of Education and, in particular, the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
An important recommendation of the Select Committee was that the incidence of learning difficulties should be determined at regular intervals by a nationwide survey similar to the study of ‘Literacy and Numeracy in Australian Schools’ conducted by the Australian Council for Educational Research. [More…]
The Education Research and Development Committee (ERDC) now has a study group reporting on the feasibility of instituting a regular program of national assessment of educational standards and progress. [More…]
The Schools Commission has set up a Special Education Advisory Group and during 1978 intends to conduct a national survey which should show up students with special needs and possibly throw light on the question of when children with special needs should be educated in regular classes. [More…]
The Curriculum Development Centre is also interested in special education and is planning a project in the area. [More…]
In pan as a direct result of the Select Committee’s report, the former Universities Commission surveyed and reviewed in 1977 the development of teacher education programs in special education in Australian universities. [More…]
In addition, the Government ‘s continued support for the education and welfare of Aborigines and migrants is contributing significantly to combating learning difficulties within those groups. [More…]
As the majority of teachers are employed in the States and the State education authorities are substantially responsible for establishing their own priorities in the allocation of resources for primary and secondary education, the report was referred in 1 977 to the Australian Education Council. [More…]
The Select Committee’s report was concerned with teacher education, and its Chairman has spoken of unsatisfactory elements in the training currently being offered to teachers. [More…]
I am myself concerned about the quality of teacher education and I am consulting with the State Ministers in preparation for instituting a national inquiry into teacher education. [More…]
The inquiry will examine the field of teacher education in general, taking into account the whole range of needs. [More…]
The latest information on learning difficulties will be made available to the inquiry and it is my view that a wide ranging teacher education inquiry is necessary to produce effective changes that will be generally adopted and lead to the improvement of learning opportunities of children throughout Australia. [More…]
am asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: (1), (2) and (3) The Committee on the Teaching of Migrant Languages in Schools was set up by the Commonwealth Government with the agreement of the State Ministers for Education. [More…]
It was always intended that the Committee’s Report would be of use and guidance to State and non-government education authorities, to individual schools and to the community generally, as well as to the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
Its recommendations, including those on multicultural education and the teaching of community languages, have been accepted by the Government and will be implemented expeditiously. [More…]
am asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The consolidated report referred to is not exclusively devoted to the teaching of migrant languages but covers a number of areas of relevance to education policy. [More…]
asked the Minister representating the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 8 May 1978: [More…]
1 ) How many libraries are in the Depanment of Education, where is each located and what is the main purpose of each. [More…]
When were the provision, number and purpose of libraries in the Depanment of Education last reviewed by the Depanment and/or the Public Service Board, and what recommendations were made at that time. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) A total of 7 libraries and Information Centres exist within the Commonwealth Depanment of Education. [More…]
These depanmental libraries are relatively autonomous and of varying sizes and provide information and research material for Education Depanment officers. [More…]
The Northern Territory Education Division’s Media Centre provides teachers, principals and depanmental officers with library material and information and also carries out some processing of materials for schools within the Territory. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 14 March 1978: [More…]
What tertiary education institutions received Commonwealth Government grants for research in 1977-78 and what was the amount involved in each case. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) and (2) The Tertiary Education Commission does not have an established program for the funding of specific research projects in tertiary education institutions. [More…]
It should also be noted that tertiary education institutions, especially universities, finance research from general recurrent funds recommended by the Commission, although there is considerable difficulty in measuring the amount of expenditure from this source devoted to research activities. [More…]
The Department of Education and other agencies such as the Schools Commission and the Education Research and Development Committee (ERDC) may provide funds to tertiary education institutions for education research. [More…]
Details of grants for education research may be obtained from the annual reports of the relevant agencies. [More…]
It is possible for tertiary education institutions to receive funds for research from other Commonwealth departments and authorities. [More…]
As a proportion of (a) Gross Domestic Product and (b) Gross National Expenditure, what was the expenditure by OECD countries on (i) health, (ii) social welfare and (iii) education in each of the last 10 years. [More…]
Public Expenditure on Education’ (July 1 976). [More…]
am asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 22 February 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 3 May 1978: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Government, on the advice of the Tertiary Education Commission, provides financial support for all Australian universities by way of general block grants for various broad categories of operating expenditure as well as for building projects. [More…]
1 ) The Committee on Medical Schools’ Report ‘Expansion of Medical Education’ (1973) recommended a supply target for medical manpower of one doctor per 543 population by 1991. [More…]
In respect of the Commonwealth, for example, arrangements are currently being made for a committee of officers of the Departments of Education, Health, and Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Tertiary Education Commission to examine the issues further. [More…]
She had lived a brilliant life having been born in 1891 and after her education at Melbourne Church of England Girl’s Grammar School, Melbourne University, Berlin and Budapest, she became a talented musician in her own right. [More…]
Both the Inquiry into Education and Training, chaired by Professor Williams, and the Study Group on Structural Adjustment, chaired by Sir John Crawford, are giving attention to future supply and demand for manpower. [More…]
CRAFT provides rebates for employers who release apprentices during paid time for technical education and approved off-the-job training, and allowances to apprentices compelled to live away from home to follow their apprenticeship. [More…]
The Canberra College of Advanced Education introduced courses in materials conservation in 1978. [More…]
These courses which are at post graduate and undergraduate level are funded by the Commonwealth under normal Advanced Education arrangements. [More…]
Statutory Authorities responsible to the Minister for Education (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 29 May 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Education has supplied the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Australian Capital Territory Apprenticeship Board; The Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority; The Commonwealth Teaching Service; The Curriculum Development Centre; The Schools Commission; The Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a recent press report of the alleged view of the GROW organisation that the Federal Government’s drug education program was doing more harm than good; if so, will he investigate the report and inform the House if there is any substance in the alleged view of the organisation. [More…]
I am aware of the recent press report concerning alleged views of the GROW organisation on drug education. [More…]
The claim that the Federal Government’s National Drug Education Program is doing more harm than good is not in accordance with the true situation. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government, in 1977-78, provided $825,000 for the National Program which is developed, coordinated and evaluated by the Drug Education SubCommittee of the National Standing Control Committee on [More…]
The Sub-Committee comprises Federal and State Health education administrators as well as members with special expertise in the education, management and law enforcement fields and has developed a national approach to drug education. [More…]
The Drug Education Sub-Committee considers that the provision of information on drugs is only one aspect of an education program. [More…]
It recommends that drug education be conducted in the broad context of health education with emphasis on personal relationships, lifestyles, decision-making and ‘alternatives’ to drugs. [More…]
The National Program follows the principles advocated by the World Health Organization and UNESCO for effective drug education. [More…]
You can be assured that there is no substance in the alleged views of the GROW organisation concerning the Federal Government’s Drug Education Program. [More…]
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Water Research and Education Committee [More…]
The activities and responsibilities of welfare officers vary according to local needs and priorities, but in general include determination of the needs of the aged population and the development of services and facilities to meet these needs; liaison with committees of senior citizens’ centres and service clubs for the purpose of establishing or extending the centres’ services and facilities; supervision of the services provided; fostering co-operation and liaison among various welfare activities for aged persons and encouraging interest in these activities; and providing an education program which will encourage senior citizens’ centres to promote purposeful activities. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 June 1978: [More…]
What is the average teacher/non-teacher staffing ratio in (a) universities, (b) colleges of advanced education and (c) technical & further education colleges located in (i) metropolitan and (ii) non-metropolitan areas. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the Schools Commission report for the triennium 1979-81, dated July 1978, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Education relating to the report. [More…]
When on 7 August the Queensland Cabinet made critical decisions to the effect that local government functions in the two communities should be funded through the Department of Local Government, that health functions should be funded and be the responsibility of the Department of Health, that education likewise should be the responsibility of the Department of Education and that welfare should be the responsibility of the Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement, it appeared that at last these difficulties had been overcome. [More…]
Since its establishment the Bank has lent about $US4 billion for projects covering all the major sectors of economic development with emphasis on the development of infrastructure facilities in the transport and communications, industry and electric power sectors as well as projects for agriculture, education, water supply and urban development. [More…]
Mr Weir was one of the early appointments to the Legislative Research Service where he was in charge of education and welfare research from early 1968 to mid- 1973. [More…]
Others who leave school after 12 to 16 years of intensive education, will be unemployed for a year or more. [More…]
Moreover, the family allowance is to be reduced to offset a child’s income from such sources as the tertiary education allowance scheme. [More…]
Our outlays on education would be redirected. [More…]
It is fundamental that the greatest growth in education outlays should be in the areas of greatest need. [More…]
Deference to privilege must not be reintroduced into education funding. [More…]
Having emasculated the National Employment and Training scheme, which at least provided some kind of framework for manpower planning in the education and training area, the Government has introduced as part of the NEAT scheme the Special Youth Employment Training Program which subsidises employers, at their profit, and provides six months of cheap labour and perhaps training. [More…]
Hierarchies dominate every aspect of Australian life- in the political parties, the professions, business, education, commerce, industry, the Public Service and the armed forces. [More…]
Fourth, there should be greater absorption of Australia’s young people in fulltime education. [More…]
I refer to the National Employment and Training scheme, the Special Youth Employment Training Program, the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Fulltime Training, the Community Youth Support Scheme, the Relocation Assistance Scheme, the Education Program for Unemployed Youth and training for industry and commerce. [More…]
It is part of an education program for small businessmen. [More…]
The standard of living of the Australian people depends upon the strong demands of the trade unions for improved conditions in social services, education, housing and a host of other areas. [More…]
What action has been taken on the recommendations of the report to him entitled ‘The Greater Involvement of Aboriginals in the Economy of the Pilbara and Kimberley Regions’, and, in particular, the provision of (a) planning for training for specified industries and irrigation-based development expected, (b) adequate staff for duties, with facilities and accommodation comparable with those provided for other departments and mining staffs, (c) ternary and continuing education facilities and investigation and development of existing facilities, (d) co-ordination and detailed legislative policy planning of facilities, (e) offices of his Department in each major town, (f) cultural and work exchange programs, (g) training teams, films and media promotion of community understanding and (h) a demographic survey. [More…]
Then there is the problem of a small nation struggling for independence, having the support and encouragement of well intentioned people but nevertheless facing the fundamental problems faced by many developing countries, of having no real infrastructure in health, housing and education matters and having no political capacity to control in a normal way the usual problems of a small nation. [More…]
Who benefited most from Medibank, more education, child care centres and better public hospitals? [More…]
This might involve a close look at our education system. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
The solution to that problem can only lie in public education and an honest approach. [More…]
This was not only because the demand for labour was growing but also because an increasing number of people were staying at school for longer and a rising proportion were going on to universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
At the same time, educational institutions have ceased absorbing an increasing proportion of our young people. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Waste ferrous metals from the Canberra College of Technical and Further Education are collected by a private contractor for recycling. [More…]
In the Northern Territory, both the Education Division of my Department and the Darwin Community College re-use waste paper as far as possible, although there are no current arrangements for recycling. [More…]
1 ) On what occasions in the last 3 months have there been meetings with officers of the Queensland Education Department and the Co-ordinating and Advisory Committee to discuss the question of truancy and the continued provision of educational services to the outstation communities at Aurukun and Mornington Island. [More…]
Mr Macpherson and Mr O’Rourke, members of the Co-ordinating and Advisory Committee; Messrs Jacobs, Browne and Harman of the Queensland Department of Local Government; and Mr Young, Inspector of SchoolsSecondary Education of Aboriginals and Islanders, of the Queensland Department of Education. [More…]
Mr Young provided the Committee with information on the staffing of the Aurukun School and on education services provided there and for the outstation groups in the area. [More…]
There was no discussion of the need to ensure that existing transport arrangements which allow the Education Department to provide services to the outstations are maintained. [More…]
The August figures show that there was a growth of 7,400 in the number of young people looking for their first job, which means that parents and young people at school are prepared to sacrifice the completion of their education in the hope that they will be able to find employment before the rush comes at the end of this year. [More…]
So education has gone up in the air as young people search for their first job. [More…]
As a result we are holding a special meeting at the end of November by which time we hope that the interdepartmental committee report on technical change, the Williams report on the connection between education and work and the report of the Crawford group which is looking into the structure of Australian industry will have been presented. [More…]
This Budget significantly reduces the social wage by hacking away at public expenditure on health, education, housing, transport, urban and regional affairs and other public services. [More…]
The Prime Minister, whose Oxford education was bought rather than earned disdains talent. [More…]
Parents or grandparents sometimes put funds in trust to meet the expenses of their children ‘s or grandchildren’s education. [More…]
Recently the Queensland Education Department has seen fit to run courses for the training of blind adults. [More…]
Persons cannot be considered for NEAT assistance until they have been away from full-time education (including tertiary education) for at least 4 months. [More…]
at least 4 months away from full-time education in the last 12 months; and [More…]
release of apprentices to basic trade courses of technical education. [More…]
Technical Education Rebate under CRAFT Claims for 1977 received up to 30 June 1978 were: 14,628 employers 27,464 apprentices. [More…]
There will have to be recurrent education for workers to catch up with the new techniques. [More…]
For young people we should be looking at a completely different method of technical education. [More…]
Spending on Aboriginal education has also suffered under this Government. [More…]
Spending on Aboriginal education as a proportion of the total education budget has dropped from 2.2 per cent under the Australian Labor Party Government to 1.8 per cent under the Fraser Government. [More…]
Bilingual teaching is poorly provided and bi-cultural education exists hardly at all except where a dedicated teacher makes a special voluntary effort. [More…]
I do not want to get into a political slanging match with my friend the honourable member for Capricornia (Dr Everingham) who has just spoken about Aboriginal education but I must say that having visited Kormilda College in Darwin, the Aboriginal Teacher Training College in Batchelor, and the schools at Bathurst Island, Melville Island and Mornington Island, I am astounded that he could make the speech that he has just made. [More…]
There was, and there is, a problem about whether the money for Aboriginal education is getting to those who need the education or whether it is getting lost on the way through administration procedures. [More…]
That was one aspect of Aboriginal education that troubled many of us on our visits to the Northern Territory and elsewhere. [More…]
But frankly, if the honourable member for Capricornia wants to attack the Queensland Government about its education policy or its work in hospitals at Mornington Island and elsewhere, I should just like to say that so far as I am concerned, and from what I have observed, he is doing it entirely on a party political basis. [More…]
I have had a chance to visit various companies, schools and hospitals and have had the opportunity to take note of what the Government is spending on education. [More…]
Deputy Director of Education in Brisbane and the Chairman of the Government Parties’ education committee, Senator Martin. [More…]
He said: ‘You are giving us education and learning but, tell me, what will my people do when they have finished this learning?’ [More…]
To all those who are smokers- whether they are cigarette, cigar or pipe smokers- who are over the age of 2 1 years and who have presumably made their judgment, I do not apologise, but I do say that I am directing these remarks to the education of young people. [More…]
Department of Education. [More…]
We accept that there are difficulties and that there is a need for education in this area; that with an increased deficit there is a requirement for increased public sector borrowing. [More…]
We believe that if there is a proper education campaign in the community- recognising that these are the policies for economic health, recognising that there is no reason why an increased borrowing requirement brought about by the deficit that we have in mind should add to interest rates- these things can be achieved without any adverse effects. [More…]
After 1966, however, the trend for young people to stay on longer in full time education was reflected in the reduced growth rate of the teenage labour force. [More…]
Put another way, the increases from the growth of our teenage population were temporarily absorbed by educational institutions and did not immediately emerge to seek entry into the labour market. [More…]
The groups of people hardest hit by the slackness in the demand for labour were and are those with few skills, lack of work experience, broken job histories and low levels of education. [More…]
We have provided a significantly greater share of education resources to the technical and further education sector. [More…]
We have used this program to assist the transition from education to work of those young people who have experienced more difficulty than the majority of their contemporaries. [More…]
We have made provision for remedial education assistance, under the Education [More…]
Let us assume a continuation of current immigration policies resulting in a net contribution to the labour force of approximately 20,000 a year; a return to the pre- 1974 trend in female participation rates by about 1981, remembering that our female participation rates are still significantly below those in a number of industrialised countries; and that young people participate in education and the labour force at present rates. [More…]
With its awareness of the problems ahead, the Government has already commissioned important studies under Professor Williams on education and training, and under Sir John Crawford on structural problems in industry. [More…]
We promised to provide extra help this year for isolated children to enable them to receive an education. [More…]
Builders who operate in the Capital Territory and the education system, which uses the services of the ACT Electricity Authority for the servicing of much of its plant and equipment, always say that they can get very quick and good service from the Authority. [More…]
Tonight I wish to raise a matter concerning the education of migrant adults and children in Brisbane. [More…]
In doing so, I request the Government to give favourable consideration to the acquisition of more space for the facilities used for migrant education in Brisbane. [More…]
Presently those facilities for migrant education which happen to be in my electorate are located on the first and second floors of Phoenix House, Adelaide Street, Brisbane. [More…]
Migrant education officers have sought additional space for some time. [More…]
The agents for Grace Church Holdings, the lessee of the property, have told me that they have set aside one floor in anticipation of extension of the migrant education facilities. [More…]
Migrant education includes the education of adults as well as the preparation of their children for primary and high schools. [More…]
I am told that the Liberal Party’s Education Committee chaired by Senator Kathy Martin will be conducting a fact finding tour around Australia looking at Aboriginal and migrant education. [More…]
I earnestly hope that it will support the proposal to extend migrant education facilities at Phoenix House, that it will acknowledge the real need for more capital expenditure in the area of migrant education and that it will help make available two demountables for the migrant education facilities at Corinda- which is in the electorate of the honourable member for Ryan (Mr Moore), who is presently overseas. [More…]
I am sure that, were the honourable member here tonight, he would join me in my plea for a better deal for migrant education in Brisbane. [More…]
I am also sure that honourable members from both sides of the chamber understand the urgent need for migration education, not only in my electorate of Griffith but also throughout Australia. [More…]
I trust that the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Chaney) will assist the migrant education officers in Brisbane by granting them the extra space they require. [More…]
Income Tax: Expenditure on Social Security, Health and Education (Question No. [More…]
Joint Board of Christian Education (Commission on Youth Work) [More…]
Area School Council, the Nhulunbuy Corporation and Town Board, the Gove Peninsula branch of the CLP, Nabalco Pty Ltd, Messrs Graham and the Honourable Jim Robertson, Northern Territory Minister for Community Development and Minister for Education, and Mr Ballantyne, the local member of the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
Since that level of education has now been stipulated as necessary for apprenticeship at the mining operation, this will tend to keep the families together in the town. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education aware that the ACT Teachers Federation called a stop work meeting today in the Australian Capital Territory government schools? [More…]
I understand- and again perhaps I might put it delicately- that the not unattractive Chairman of the ACT Education Authority is a candidate. [More…]
To me it seems somewhat naive that we have people striving for extra money to pay the educational expenses of their children when they would be only too prepared to have three or four hours work on a Saturday or Sunday morning at the standard rate of pay. [More…]
Surely it is reasonable and acceptable to honourable members who sit on the Opposition side that costs be contained and that there be no penalty rates at weekends or on holidays so that women, young people, university students and students from colleges of advanced education - [More…]
It was stated in relation to the Department of Education, in respect of student assistance schemes, that the figure rose from $2.43m in 1977 to $2.67m in 1978, although the number of cases of overpayments involved fell from 9,174 to 8,661. [More…]
It offers significant tertiary education services in the form of the university, technical and further education and a college of advanced education. [More…]
-If the honourable member knew something about tax returns he would realise that if I claim for education expenses I have to indicate whether they have a separate form of income and being quite honest about it I said yes, that they have. [More…]
Wales Department of Technical and Further Education for $18,000 and a Cessna 170 VH-CAS, sold to the Department of National Development for $8,000. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Tertiary Education Commission for the 1979-81 triennium, volume 2, containing recommendations for 1 979, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Education. [More…]
Other examples are education, entertainment and all sorts of miscellaneous services which are available in the community, including the accommodation industry, hire services, beauty salons and computer services. [More…]
We know that Australia has social security, health and education programs that are the best in the world. [More…]
It provides data for economic and social planning and for assessing the need for and the impact of housing, education, welfare and taxation policies. [More…]
I refer, for example, to adult migrant education. [More…]
I hope the Minister can correct me, but from my attempt to bring all the figures together, excluding expenditure for initial settlement programs for which there is a considerable sum available for adult migrant education- I should have thought that that was meant to be encompassed in that allocation because the review specifically mentioned allocations for these initial settlement programs- as far as I can estimate an amount of $0.54m has been allocated instead of $0.59m as was recommended. [More…]
In order to rationalise this situation sensibly, the Government has assisted migrants by adding settlement services, the telephone interpreter service, adult education services and other services within the one department. [More…]
The Opposition spokesman mentioned migrant education. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has almost doubled funds for the adult migrant education program in Australia over the past two years. [More…]
In the area of child migrant education there has been an increase in expenditure in each of the years since this Government took office. [More…]
I was pleased to read through the proceedings of the residential workshop of the Department of Continuing Education at the University of New England last year. [More…]
I think that one ought to recognise that for 23 years there was a Liberal Party government in this country which certainly did not talk about multi-culturalism, which certainly did not introduce programs on migrant education, which certainly did not support centres like the Ecumenical Migration Centre or the Migrants Clearing House and which left voluntary agencies with limited resources to fight alone in the whole field of migration welfare. [More…]
17m for migrant and refugee education and nearly $lm by way of grants to Good Neighbour Councils. [More…]
All I can say to the honourable member for Batman is that he seemed to be a little confused in relation, firstly, to the history of migrant education and, secondly, to the contribution that migrants make towards the economic well-being of this nation. [More…]
I gently point out to the honourable member that, in fact, the previous Labor Government was not responsible for the initiation of migrant education in Australia. [More…]
The Northern Territory this year has already seen massive rises in electricity charges, cuts in library grants for the Northern Territory Education Department, a 54 per cent increase in third party vehicle insurance, increases in motor registration fees and stamp duty. [More…]
Under the Federal Government Budget salaries paid by the Northern Territory Department of Education are down 1.37 per cent in real terms despite a planned 48 extra staff. [More…]
On examination of the Budget Papers we do not even know how much Federal money will be spent on Aboriginal education in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Government has disguised the figure by incorporating it in the Budget category Government Schools and Pre-Schools in the Northern Territory’ rather than giving Aboriginal education in the Northern Territory its own category as has been the practice in the past. [More…]
As museums have unique advantages as a means of education, and as a large proportion of school children rarely visit them, or visit them without adequate preparation or proper briefing, museums should be used more as a source of formal education and by universities. [More…]
If necessary, this development should be funded at the expense of certain other facets of the Australian Government’s education program. [More…]
Long before this became a matter of current debate, the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training was established by this Government. [More…]
That amount was allocated as follows: Farm research, $310,604; manufacturing research, $455,8 14; and other projects, including education grants, et cetera, $169,200. [More…]
Severe cutbacks in areas vital to the realisation of equal opportunity- education, child care, retraining, health, welfare, legal aid, et ceterahave been the order of the day under the Fraser administration. [More…]
Women particularly will suffer from higher unemployment and reduced health, education and child care services. [More…]
Therefore, the Department of the Capital Territory becomes involved in such things as the fire brigade, roads, police and education which, in the States, are State functions. [More…]
For example, we heard this week that per capita education spending in Canberra is something like 32 per cent above the national average. [More…]
It is a pity that the honourable member for Herbert (Mr Dean) did not concede that some of the expenditure, especially in areas such as education, is the result of government policies and not some gross expenditure or lavishness on the people of Canberra. [More…]
I think that ought to be taken into account when anyone starts talking about the amounts which are expended in Canberra, especially on such things as education. [More…]
At the moment the ACT Schools Authority, the Federal Department of Education and the Australian Teachers Federation are having somewhat of a difference over the staff ceilings which probably will apply in 1979. [More…]
Stop work meetings in education are always a sad thing. [More…]
I must express disappointment tonight that the Teachers Federation could not have waited another week or so so that this industrial problem, this problem about the future of our children’s education, could be settled in a responsible way. [More…]
I believe that one way in which Australia could assist this peaceful transition would be through the provision of educational scholarships for South Africans, both white and non-white, which would encourage co-operation among the various ethnic groups resident in South Africa and thereby cause a further moderation of their attitudes. [More…]
When those students who had been educated in Australia returned to South Africa with the benefit of education in an Australian environment, they would be able to contribute more effectively to a peaceful resolution of that country’s problems. [More…]
Grants to the States for Aboriginal education have decreased by 2.24 per cent over last year or by 9.9 per cent since the last Labor Budget. [More…]
In total, spending on Aboriginal education under the Fraser Government is 12.7 per cent or $5m less in real terms than it was under the Labor Government. [More…]
The Council will possess the necessary powers for local government activities in the village area, and will advise the Government on a broad range of matters affecting the community for example education, health and immigration. [More…]
In brief, the Task Force was required to take into account the use of such a system to provide high quality radio and television broadcasting and other telecommunications services to all Australia, its application in the areas of health, education, science, transport and defence; its use by the private sector for improved communication information and other services; and the implications of a satellite on current radio and television services and the terrestrial communications system. [More…]
The report also identifies potential improvements with communications associated with defence, transport, health, welfare, and education. [More…]
On the subject of meeting community needs, the Task Force also highlights the possible value to isolated communities in health care, education and general welfare from improved communications which could be facilitated by satellite. [More…]
I refer to the report of the Williams inquiry into education and training and the report of Sir John Crawford on structural change. [More…]
Strangely enough, despite the fact that there has been a significant growth in Federal funding, members of this House have continually been told by State Ministers in New South Wales, parents and citizens federations and other groups in the community that the Commonwealth apparently is not carrying out its responsibilities in regard to education. [More…]
How is it that this House, which authorises approximately 11 per cent of all expenditure on education in New South Wales, should be held responsible for the transgressions of the New South Wales Government when last year $80m less was spent on education in the area of capital works in particular than was spent in 1975-76? [More…]
The honourable member has raised the question of education. [More…]
One has to take only a very cursory look at the Budget Papers to realise that the account given by the honourable member of the education situation represented a distortion of the facts. [More…]
At present, the rate of rebate for certain concessional expenditure in excess of $1,590 on items such as medical and education expenses, life assurance and superannuation, municipal rates, etc., is equal to the standard rate of tax of 32 per cent. [More…]
The Bill gives effect to the Government’s decision that family allowance will no longer be paid for students receiving Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances or other related Commonwealth education allowances. [More…]
In order to compensate for the loss of family allowance, the rates of TEAS and other related Commonwealth education allowances are being increased by $5.25 a week. [More…]
This Bill provides for amendments to the Repatriation Act and associated Acts to give effect to the Government’s decisions covering: Nominations of persons to Repatriation determining authorities by organisations representing dependants of deceased veterans and exservicewomen; the provision for pulmonary tuberculosis to be dealt with in the same way as other disabilities; automatic adjustment of the main repatriation pensions in accordance with movements in the Consumer Price Index only once a year; the provision of an upper age limit of 25 years for student children undertaking fulltime education, in respect of whom Service pensioners receive additional allowances to their basic Service pensions; the provision for incometestfree pensions to be frozen at their present cash level and additions to income-test-free pensions to become subject to the normal income test as applied to pensioners under 70 years of age; and the removal of references to the sustenance allowance. [More…]
Currently, a service pensioner can receive in addition to the basic Service pension, additional allowances to assist support a student 16 years of age and over undertaking full-time education but no upper age limit is specified. [More…]
It is the Government’s view that the child of a Service pensioner will have had sufficient time to embark upon and complete his full-time education and attain appropriate qualifications to facilitate entry into a chosen vocation by the time he attains 25 years of age. [More…]
However, allowances already in payment in respect of student children 25 years and over will continue while students are undertaking full-time education. [More…]
It cannot be stressed often enough in this chamber that in 1972 Australia was one of the poorest served countries in the developed world in terms of access to health, education and welfare services. [More…]
At that time no other countries, with the exception of Greece and Japan, were spending less on public welfare, which included health, education and social security expenditures. [More…]
Another tremendous welfare problem concerns education in country areas. [More…]
The Government is experimenting with the country education project to help to overcome some of these problems. [More…]
In regard to tertiary education, the means test for the living away from home allowance which country people require to attend colleges of advanced education or universities does not recognise particular problems of country people. [More…]
I would ask whether our present plans for drug education are appropriate. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) and the Government: Are our education programs the best that we can have? [More…]
They are: Affection, love and understanding; nutrition and medical care; free education; full opportunities for play and recreation; a name and a nationality; special care if handicapped; to be among the first to receive relief in times of disaster; to learn to be useful members of society and to develop individual abilities; to be raised in a spirit of peace and universal brotherhood; and to enjoy those rights regardless of race, colour, sex or national or social origin. [More…]
They are getting some management experience in health and education at the moment. [More…]
This year these training items have been isolated from general functional areas such as health, education and employment. [More…]
Today the Australian Capital Territory Teachers Federation commenced a campaign of rolling strikes designed to put pressure on the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to increase the number of teachers to be made available to the Australia Capital Territory government schools system. [More…]
We are not prepared to accept the decision of the Minister for Education to enfore staff cuts . [More…]
threatens the future education of every child attending a Government School. [More…]
How can it be claimed that that situation will ‘threaten the future education of every child attending a government school ‘ when on the figures accepted by the Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority there are only 13 fewer teachers than it wanted, in a system employing 2,772 teachers? [More…]
The Commission believes that in the interests of maintaining proper balance in resource allocation there should be no increase in real per student expenditures on secondary education in the Australian Capital Territory in the immediate future. [More…]
Does he intend to extend to these conscientious objectors the same courtesy as his colleague the Minister for Education has promised to people objecting to the use of student union funds at The Australian National University. [More…]
1 ) Has the New South Wales Aboriginal Family Education Centres Federation informed the Regional Director (Eastern), Department of Aboriginal Affairs, that it decided on 6 April 1 978 to refuse Federal funding for the last quarter of 1978-79. [More…]
Has the Federation been an autonomous allAboriginal self-help movement since 1969 emphasising aboriginality and family education especially for infants and their parents, run mainly by people supporting themselves by taking menial contract work despite having done special training at Sydney University. [More…]
The Federation was formed in 1974 to support local Aboriginal family education centres using materials and methods originally prepared in association with the Adult Education Department of the University of Sydney. [More…]
) What was the Commonwealth Government’s (a) appropriation for and (b) expenditure on Aboriginal education in each of the following categories during1 977-78: (i) grants to each State; (ii) grants-in-aid; (iii) the Aboriginal Secondary Grants Scheme; (iv) the Aboriginal Study Grants Scheme; (v) Overseas Study Grants; (vi) Aboriginal education services in the Northern Territory, and (vii) the National Aboriginal Education Committee. [More…]
What is the Commonwealth Government’s appropriation for Aboriginal education in each of the same categories for 1978-79. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 24 August 1978: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Funds for non-government schools in the electoral division of Melbourne Ports in the period in question have been made available under programs administered by the Department of Education and the Schools Commission. [More…]
Programs administered by the Department of Education: Funds administered by the Department of Education were made available under the following acts: [More…]
Department of Aboriginal Affairs; Department of Administrative Services; Attorney-General’s Department; Australian Bureau of Statistics; Australian Electoral Office; Australian Taxation Office; Department of Business and Consumer Affairs; Department of the Capital Territory; Department of Construction; Department of Defence; Department of Education; Department of Employment and Industrial Relations; Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development; Department of Finance; Department of Foreign Affairs; Department of Health; Department of Home Affairs; Department of Industry and Commerce; National Capital Development Commission; Department of National Development; Department of the Northern Territory; Postal and Telecommunications Department; Department of Primary Industry; Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Department of Productivity; Public Service Board; Department of Science; Department of Social Security; Department of Special Trade Representations; Department of Trade and Resources; Department of Transport; the Treasury; Departmentof Veterans’ Affairs. [More…]
Has the Government received the second report of the Tertiary Education Commission on study leave? [More…]
When the Government’s decisions are made the Minister for Education will be making a statement in relation to the matter. [More…]
I do not think that this is an entirely simple question, and the Government will be looking at it having in mind the best needs of the students of Australian universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
This Bill denies family allowances to students in receipt of student allowances such as allowances made under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme but it leaves the wealthy alone. [More…]
If a member of this Parliament decides he wants to provide, say, $3,000 a year for one of his children who is attending university or a college of advanced education, the family allowance for that child will still be intact. [More…]
It is families who will suffer because the students receiving allowances under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme will no longer receive the family allowance. [More…]
I think it is long overdue that the Government solved the anomalies that arise in relation to those persons who receive an allowance under the tertiary education assistance scheme, on the one hand, and others who are entitled to the unemployment benefit. [More…]
the scheme known as the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme; [More…]
the scheme known as the Adult Secondary Education Assistance Scheme; [More…]
the scheme known as the Pre-School Teacher Education Assistance Scheme; [More…]
The Government is taking away the family allowance from the parents of students who are entitled to an allowance under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, and we all know that a severe means test is applied under that Scheme. [More…]
In other words, the Government is taking away the family allowance from those parents whose children qualify to receive a benefit under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and other schemes, yet it is not removing the family allowance from those people who earn much more. [More…]
One can go on to refer to the elimination of family allowances for students under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]
We constantly allow ourselves the luxury of extraordinarily high standard facilites for the few whilst permitting and even encouraging the poorest quality services for the less powerful- and in education we have a classic example of that. [More…]
We find under the existing arrangements that no family can receive at one and the same time a family allowance and a Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance, that the one child family is better off by $1.75 a week, that the two-child family is better off by 25c a week and that the five-child family is worse off by $ 1.75 a week. [More…]
In 1974 it reduced the education expenses allowance from $400 to $150 per annum again discriminating against the large family. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has not replied to the various representations made to him for additional forms of assistance to be made available to the schools to ensure that the students who are already there are not put under enormous pressure and that the migrant students receive something like a decent education. [More…]
Clause 23 seeks to abolish the payment of the family allowance for those students who are covered by certain prescribed education schemes. [More…]
The six schemes are: The Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme; the Adult Secondary Education Assistance Scheme; the Pre-School Teacher Education Assistance Scheme; the Aboriginal Study Grants Scheme; the Commonwealth Teaching Service Scholarship Scheme; and the Post-Graduate Awards Scheme. [More…]
These families which do not qualify under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme, for example, will still receive the family allowance in respect of their children. [More…]
However, I want to say in fairness to the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt) who is at the table and who has shown himself to be remarkably sensitive and responsive to the needs of the community, that I believe he more than perhaps any other Minister would watch closely the impact of the alteration with respect to the family allowance scheme on young persons who are qualifying for assistance under education schemes. [More…]
The Department of Education will liaise closely with the Department of Social Security in order to prevent the situation arising in which an overpayment of family allowances may occur. [More…]
-We of the Opposition oppose clause 25 because it denies payment of the family allowance in respect of a dependant receiving a benefit under the tertiary education assistance scheme. [More…]
Upon education, State grants and grantsinaid last year totalled $8,248,000. [More…]
I could go on to illustrate just what health, education and other programs will mean to people and to communities; how we are supporting in all walks of life Aboriginals who want to help themselves, who no longer want simply to receive a Government handoutbut projects designed to support the work that they want to do within their own communities and for themselves. [More…]
Departments represented on the Task Group are Environment, Housing and Community Development (Chair), Aboriginal Affairs, Education, Employment and Industrial Relations, Finance, Health, Home Affairs (Office of Women’s Affairs), Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Prime Minister and Cabinet and Social Security. [More…]
These consultants are in the main employed by tertiary education bodies and other government instrumentalities. [More…]
Professor Bruce Williams is to report shortly on the role of our education systems in equipping people for work. [More…]
Both those studies are of fundamental importance and will give industry, educational establishments and governments, both Federal and State, clear guidelines for immediate action. [More…]
I also make a plea for some proper training colleges so that if we are to go into the tourist industry in some depth we have people of quality properly trained throughout our education system. [More…]
An investigation is being carried out to see whether the Mission is eligible under the terms of the Employment Program for Unemployed Youth scheme which is administered by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick). [More…]
The program itself was specially aimed at preparing people who have been disadvantaged or disabled by educational, social, economic or physical circumstances to live productively and independently in the community. [More…]
This was achieved by providing a three-strand program of vocational training, life skills training and remedial education. [More…]
The NEAT scheme, particularly, relates to people able to avail themselves of technical college and higher education which has been in operation prior to the present unemployment situation occuring. [More…]
-Tonight I want to bring to the attention of the House a matter which has not attracted much publicity in the media up to date but which I believe is of vital importance to the future of education in Australia. [More…]
The Williams and Crawford inquiries were appointed a considerable time ago, as the terms of reference make very plain, against the background of a Commonwealth concern for the future of education and training and hence for the employment prospects of many, many thousands of Australians. [More…]
Scheme, the National Employment and Training Program, the Special Youth Employment Training Program, the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Full-Time Training and the Education Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]
But the crisis in the inability to speak the language is in education. [More…]
Lack of understanding because of language problems is bad enough, but when it means that children miss out on education, sometimes entirely, we are creating longer term problems and continuing costs to the community. [More…]
However they are not quite average as Victoria has the best education department of all States and Hotham has one of the few big migrant hostels, the Enterprise Hostel, at Springvale. [More…]
Despite laws regarding compulsory education and threats from social welfare agencies that children who could not be fitted into schools were truants, it was some time before 25 forlorn kids at Enterprise were permitted to go to Springvale South High School, and then the school council had to pay $550 for one term ‘s bus fares. [More…]
I gather that there is also a problem in that students attending a school which has a migrant language department are ineligible to take courses in intensive English provided by the Child Migrant Education Centre in Melbourne. [More…]
Whilst I have concentrated on the difficulties for migrants in education due to their inability to converse in English, this inability has ramifications in other areas, as the Galbally report indicated. [More…]
This report goes a long way in recognising migrant problems as a whole, and contains significant recommendations on settlement services, but it does not give sufficient support to the vital question of child education, perhaps because it is a State responsibility. [More…]
The Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Department of Social Security and the Department of Education are now working closely together and we must hope that they will find solutions. [More…]
It is interesting to note that the Education Department may be forced to stipulate that there be only one fulltime ethnic teacher to 100 migrants, with no notice taken of the number of ethnic groups or the range of ages. [More…]
The Minister gave an assurance last year that regardless of whatever action was taken standards of education in Canberra would not be reduced. [More…]
Some people may think that everything in the educational system in Canberra is bright and beautiful just because the schools happen to be rather new. [More…]
The type of education that children in Canberra are getting is suffering because there are not enough teachers. [More…]
The National Employment and Training scheme, the Special Youth Employment Training Program, the Community Youth Support Scheme, the Education Program for Unemployed Youth and the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Fulltime Training represent the mainstay of Government measures to overcome the labour market difficulties. [More…]
The Williams inquiry is expected to make major recommendations about the future of education and training in this country without any honest indication from the Government of the long term prospects for Australian industry. [More…]
Several Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries are already using schemes of this sort, including exemption from payroll tax, new forms of vocational training, paid education leave and work experience programs for schoolage youth. [More…]
-I would like to deal with two aspects of child migrant education. [More…]
Since 1971, the Commonwealth Government’s child migrant education program has concentrated on teaching English to immigrant children who were unable to participate adequately in mainstream classroom activities because of insufficient knowledge of English. [More…]
More recently the scope of the program has been expanded to include multi-cultural education. [More…]
There is no consensus as to the content, problems, inplications and likely strategies of multicultural education although there are broad principles which apparently meet with general acceptance. [More…]
Despite general agreement on the crucial role played by migrant education for increasing the well-being of all our citizens, the Federal Government’s funding of child migrant education this year is nothing short of tragic. [More…]
This makes a mockery of the repeated claims by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) that his Government has provided strong and continuing support for child migrant education. [More…]
Recognition of the educational needs of children with immigrant backgrounds has been painfully slow. [More…]
Having dealt with the specific issue of migrant education, I would now like to turn to the general question of education, to the needs in the school community and the way the Government has allocated its funds. [More…]
First of all, in real terms there has been an increase of one per cent for education. [More…]
On the basis of the estimates that have appeared over the years of the educational needs in the community, there is no doubt that we need increases far larger than that if we are going to catch up in the areas of greatest need which exist in far too many of the Government schools and far too many of the non-government schoolssadly, usually the parochial Catholic schools. [More…]
-I support the appropriation for education but I must express the disquieting feeling, of not only myself but also many others, that governments and their advisers, even under the adverse conditions that exist at the moment, are much more disposed to raise taxes than to reduce spending. [More…]
Perhaps education, particularly at the tertiary level, is the most obvious area in which to reduce spending. [More…]
Of total Federal Government expenditure on education of $2,498m, announced in this Budget, nearly 60 per cent will go to the tertiary area. [More…]
For many years the universities and colleges of advanced education have had unbelievably generous treatment from governments and have expanded spectacularly. [More…]
The provision of free education is costing the taxpayer a packet and, according to many observers in this place and elsewhere, gross extravagances in the tertiary institutions are rife. [More…]
We have to ask ourselves whether the enormous amounts spent on education result in better people. [More…]
Ten years ago spending by the Federal Government on health, education and social welfare used to make up one-quarter of the total Budget outlays. [More…]
With the shortage of money that we have I wonder about the merit of the Commonwealth financing curricula development exercises such as the Social Education Materials Project, abbreviated to SEMP; Man; A Course of Study, abbreviated to MACOS; and another called Messageways. [More…]
To sum up, he said: let us please eliminate the glib, meaningless, pseudo-intellectual jargon used in education . [More…]
This method of levelling out by means of taxation has actually been suggested by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in a statement published in the Age on 7 July 1 977 and in the Canberra Times on 1 1 July 1977, but it was left to pass unnoticed by most of the media. [More…]
This system would draw education funding away from a concentration on the needs of schools to a concern for the needs of the individual family. [More…]
No doubt there would still be arguments about the appropriate size of the Government’s education spending, but at least each child would receive the same basic allowance, something that is not happening at present. [More…]
At the same time, if parents were allowed to have and exercise a full right of choice, it is probable that they would also show a greater interest in schooling, in choosing an appropriate school, and this greater parental participation would encourage promotion of higher standards of education in the schools. [More…]
Rather than letting this failure to do justice continue until, as is quite likely, the private sector of education gets into even greater financial difficulties, it seems to me that it would be wiser to give more detailed consideration to what I have outlined. [More…]
-In speaking to the estimates for the Department of Education I want to raise a matter of specific and real concern to the area I represent, which basically is the Geelong area. [More…]
That institution itself is not able to obtain the accommodation it needs in order to function properly as a senior technical school and training institution under the Technical and Further Education Commission. [More…]
In fact, the facilities were less than half of those that the college of advanced education would have expected. [More…]
It is quite unsatisfactory and almost unreal that in north Geelong some lectures are given in the faculty of education, that at Waurn Ponds, about 13 miles away, other lectures associated with the same course are given, and that about half way between, in a converted factory, other lectures associated with courses in the same institution are given. [More…]
They have to travel extreme distances between institutions in order to obtain an education at a tertiary level. [More…]
In general, the denial of capital funds is in fact a denial of educational opportunities. [More…]
Every school above kindergarten looked as though it would be promoted to a degree conferring institution in order to meet the political requirements of the Victorian Government without any consideration at all of the educational status and standing of the degrees which were conferred or the welfare of the students who were subjected to this type of economic or political expansion of these facilities. [More…]
This is an important development in the education system and one which I believe should be supported. [More…]
-In speaking to the estimates for the Department of Education I bring to the attention of the Committee some facts about literacy and numeracy. [More…]
A further 2.9 per cent attended year 3 or year 4 of primary school, with a total of 22.1 per cent who had not proceeded beyond primary school or who had had no secondary school education. [More…]
In 1971 one quarter of our population had had no secondary school education. [More…]
So in total the education of 65.4 per cent of children had not proceeded beyond the equivalent of year 3 in secondary schooling. [More…]
The Government has made commitments to special programs in which various government departments, apart from the Department of Education, have been involved. [More…]
It is my view that these programs should be conducted with an overview by the Department of Education in such a way that they have the proper educational content. [More…]
It is interesting to note that that part of the Henderson report on poverty which dealt with education stated that, following an extensive survey and interview conducted by Professor Henderson, it was found that in order for people to have a satisfactory work life literacy and numeracy were crucial in the gaining and holding of a job. [More…]
-The Committee has before it the estimates for the Department of Education for the financial year 1 978-79. [More…]
It is expected that $492,632,000 will be spent this year on education generally. [More…]
That figure represents the Commonwealth’s share of the cost of education. [More…]
When we add to that cost the amount expended on education by the States, we find that the education vote for the whole of Australia represents a tremendously large part of the money expended by both the Commonwealth and the State governments. [More…]
I often wonder whether or not the funds we appropriate to education are spent wisely. [More…]
I often wonder whether in these times education gets more than its fair share of the cake. [More…]
I realise that in saying this I am treading somewhat on the corns of educationists because education has become a holy cow and anybody who speaks against it is looked upon as almost a pariah in the community. [More…]
I think we have to be realistic in regard to the amount of money we provide for education. [More…]
We have to look at areas of expenditure other than education. [More…]
Also we have to have a decent, hard look at whether the funds being allocated to education are being spent wisely. [More…]
Not everybody has the capacity to attend a college of advanced education or a tertiary institution. [More…]
But if a person has the academic ability to be able at least to try to further his education by attending a college of advanced education, a technical college or a tertiary institution, he should have the opportunity to do so. [More…]
As against that, one often wonders whether the funds that are allocated for education are being spent too much on teachers and not enough on children. [More…]
I know that it is not really popular nowadays even to talk along those lines but I often wonder whether teachers themselves realise that after all education is provided for children and not of necessity only for teachers. [More…]
Whether children are getting their fair share of the funds that are allocated for education is a matter for discussion, I think, and it is a matter to which we as members of parliament should give a great deal of thought. [More…]
Education is for children. [More…]
I think that if we have a decent look at the amount of money which is made available for education, we should also have a decent look as to how that money is allocated. [More…]
I have felt for many years that in the area of education far too much money is spent on what is called ‘pure’ education and an insufficient amount is spent on technical education. [More…]
At what stage does one cut off from general education and at what stage does one try to train people for a job in life? [More…]
In the United States of America there is an overemphasis on tertiary education and there are doctors of philosophy by the thousands who cannot get a position because they are overeducated. [More…]
There is also a tendency for people in my age group- I left school at 14 and educated myself later in my own time- who were reared during the Depression years when the opportunity for a complete education was not available, to go overboard where their children are concerned. [More…]
Educationists will say- they have said to me- that, even though a person fails, he has been educated. [More…]
Having said something on education generally, I feel that we have to look very closelyparticularly the unions and the employers together- at the field of technical education. [More…]
Consequently, the responsibility for the education of apprentices is left largely to government enterprises. [More…]
In most cases their subjects do not cover any of the particular lines of education which would fit them for their later life in the apprenticeship or trade in which they will seek to be employed. [More…]
I think it is about time that we had a good, cold, hard look at our education system, particularly with the idea of streaming off boys and girls at a much earlier age and putting them through courses which would fit them for the employment for which they have some bent. [More…]
One thing with which I was impressed was the education system. [More…]
If the Soviet education system has a fault, I think it is that there is a tendency for the children at present to be over-educated. [More…]
Whilst I criticise our system in Australia for overeducation, I think I have seen a greater measure of it in the Soviet Union. [More…]
In the education system there at present every child must be educated through the full high school system and must do all the academic subjects up to the equivalent of year 12. [More…]
It is only at 18 years of age that they find their way into the work force or further levels of tertiary or trade education. [More…]
I think the Soviet Union system is probably showing the benefit of that over-emphasis on education because at present it appears to be the leader in the scientific field. [More…]
I enjoyed listening to the thoughful and very sensible speech of the honourable member for Banks (Mr Martin), particularly his comments on technical education. [More…]
I think a number of speakers have said that the education field was one field in which, in this period of belt tightening, we perhaps could have tightened the belt just a little more. [More…]
I want to speak about the two extremes of education, those children, who are disadvantaged for one reason or another and the advantaged students who are at tertiary institutions. [More…]
First, I would like to deal with the problems of education faced by children in the isolated areas. [More…]
Another form of education is by correspondence. [More…]
Their formal education takes place without aids and materials that are common to larger schools. [More…]
Many of their parents cannot afford it, and are making great sacrifices to give their children an education. [More…]
I refer now to another special problem, the education of Aboriginal children. [More…]
I refer now very briefly to problems associated with tertiary education. [More…]
For instance, there are in Australia 80 colleges of advanced education, with 15,000 students. [More…]
One problem is that there is a great misuse of resources, with very small colleges of advanced education duplicating the resources of universities. [More…]
All university education in Australia is now free. [More…]
I believe that is why the Labor Government did bring in the free education scheme for universities. [More…]
But I have spoken to a number of vicechancellors about the problem and they assure me that since free university education has become available there has been a great falling off in the motivation of students; that students think that attendance is a right; that they are going to stay on and they need not work very hard. [More…]
It is time to decide whether we should spend these vast sums of money upon giving free university education to children. [More…]
Interestingly, however, one of the three education references that were made in the Budget Speech concerned the tightening up of tertiary study leave. [More…]
But equally so, I think the opportunity for university administrators to visit other universities and examine other systems of tertiary education is also an invaluable experience, given that the university is set in an international environment. [More…]
Admittedly, he includes in this figure some notional idea of additional staff to replace those overseas, but the Tertiary Education Commission’s report, which included all universities and all colleges of advanced education and included all direct and indirect costs, still manages a total of just under $24m. [More…]
Many of us grew up committed to the idea that universal education would be a major force in promoting social equality. [More…]
In many ways education reinforces already existing disadvantages in society. [More…]
Walking, physical co-ordination, sport, swimming, driving, cooking, using tools, social relationships, including sex and marriage, and basic philosophy, by which I mean a general secular or religious commitment and elementary reasoning, are learned outside the school education system, but they are the things that tend to be the major components of our lives. [More…]
The point is that from an educational point of view the electorate of Lalor- it is characteristic of the western suburbs of Melbourne generally- is a virtual intellectual proletariat. [More…]
It is taken for granted that there is a double standard in our educational system. [More…]
It is a two-tiered educational system. [More…]
It is taken for granted that most of them will finish their secondary education and that they have high levels of personal aspiration. [More…]
It is taken for granted that the overwhelming majority of students will drop out before they complete their secondary education and that most of them are aimed not at a career but at what is described with somewhat less dignified language as simply a job ‘ and they will go into the work force as factory fodder. [More…]
I will have time to refer to only one other thing that concerns me very much about our education system. [More…]
The tables point out that to a large extent the languages that we teach are still determined very much by the traditional English style of education that we inherited. [More…]
I cannot understand why it has not been included in the total concept of education. [More…]
In education emphasis is given to literacy, numeracy and drama but not to sport. [More…]
I am concerned that with the great emphasis that is put on education sport is excluded from the curriculum. [More…]
He made an important point when he mentioned the downgrading of sport in the education system. [More…]
We should look at this carefully as should educationists. [More…]
I think that sport should be given its proper place in schools and in the education system. [More…]
-In the few minutes available I want to pay some specific attention to the Government’s manpower programs, so-called- the National Employment and Training scheme, the Special Youth Employment Training Program, the Community Youth Support scheme, the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Full-time Training scheme and the Education Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]
Australia needs an integrated and systematic plan that offers the unemployed the choice of employment, job training, education or community service. [More…]
Therefore NEAT has an estimated throughput of 30,000 trainees in 1978-79, which provides little hope that NEAT will make any significant contribution to the education and training of the adult work force over the age of 24 years. [More…]
The training element involved in CYSS is also constrained by the guidelines which prevent ‘formal education classes or instruction in job skills as those normally provided by educational and training institutions’. [More…]
Let us look at educational standards. [More…]
If we are to look at social aspects we have to look at education. [More…]
This is what the teachers in the schools say about the people who go through the education system: ‘All we do is to train a kid until he is 16 or 17 years old and we don’t give two hoots where he goes once he leaves school’. [More…]
Surely the education system must take its share of the responsibility for unemployment because of the way it is putting the kids on the labour market. [More…]
So consideration must be given to education in this regard. [More…]
These people lack skills; they lack work experience; they usually have broken job histories; and, above all, they have low levels of education. [More…]
He said that if we were to try to achieve the pre- 1 974 situation in the labour market, we would be looking towards an increasing labour force as a result of immigration of some 20,000 people a year, a return to the pre- 1974 trend in female participation rates, which is considerably below what it is now, no change in the participation of young people and education in the work force, respectively, and no normal additional participation following an increase in the demand for labour. [More…]
The advantages that a modern industrial country with a high standard of living and education has over another country are in its technical capacity and its capacity to maximise the values of the inputs that have gone into the society. [More…]
Expansion of non-vocational education and further education; [More…]
Greater absorption of young people in full-time education; [More…]
The economic value of domestic work must be recognised and properly remunerated in the same way as we recognise the value of public health or education. [More…]
Education at secondary schools for vocational purposes is decreasing in value. [More…]
Greater emphasis should be placed on education as a means of developing personal potential. [More…]
Compared to 15 other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member nations, the proportion of Australians engaged in full time education to the age of 24 years is strikingly low. [More…]
Education aimed at a tertiary professional qualification will not necessarily suit a majority of young people, but alternative types of education need to be investigated. [More…]
Further education and the encouragement of arts and craft work ought to be seen as good things, per se, which this community can well afford, quite apart from any role they have as employment generators. [More…]
The same applies in respect of education and health services. [More…]
The Department of Education is to take over a fair amount of the functions of the Ministry of Science. [More…]
What is wrong with wanting children to respect their parents, to have proper education and to wish standards to be high? [More…]
The Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts inquiry into the Maintenance of Levels of Employment for Musicians by the ABC was conducted in 1976 and 1977 and the Report was tabled in the Senate in June 1 977. [More…]
I think the honourable gentleman will understand that certain specific aspects of the recommendations fall within the portfolio responsibilities of other Ministers, for example the Minister for Education. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Nurse Education and Training to the Tertiary Education Commission entitled ‘Nurse Education and Training’, together with a statement by the Minister for Education. [More…]
The Organisation is encouraged to co-operate with tertiary education institutions in this area. [More…]
The State committees will provide a link with industry, centres of education, and the community generally at a grass roots level. [More…]
They would prefer the existing service education system to be modified rather than to commence a new project. [More…]
I understand that the feasibility studies have commenced already and that they are in the following areas: The student assistance program under the Department of Education; the property management area of the Department of Administrative Services; and the administration of Australia’s foreign aid by the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
For instance, if the Government spends 10 per cent more on, say, education this year than last year, the Government is generally judged by the people as having improved the education system. [More…]
We believe that when the Government is planning development projects of an ongoing kind, it should realise that this Agency deserves some sort of commitment, at least on a rolling triennium basis such as has been adopted for education commissions and research authorities. [More…]
Other commissions which did not come within my responsibility were the education commission. [More…]
The Committee concludes that proper interpretive facilities are an important tool in the education of tourists and in the management and control of tourism in natural areas. [More…]
I think it is vital for Australians, not only for their enjoyment but also for their education, that there should be proper interpretive centres to explain in an audio-visual way what is going on. [More…]
We continue to support research and education in the field of air pollution. [More…]
On 17 October, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) announced that the Government had accepted the recommendations contained in the report of the Schools Commission for 1979. [More…]
The report had been prepared pursuant to the guidelines to the Schools Commission for the 1979-81 triennium which the Minister for Education announced in the Parliament on 9 June 1978. [More…]
The specific purpose programs are for child migrant education, disadvantaged schools and students in disadvantaged country areas, special education for handicapped children including children living in institutions, services and development and special projects. [More…]
Until now the child migrant education program has operated as a part of the general recurrent grants program. [More…]
The Bill provides for the introduction of the new multicultural education program in 1979. [More…]
The problem of education for these young people was the subject of a report undertaken by the Australian Capital Territory Schools Authority recently. [More…]
At the moment two of the six positions are vacant and are being advertised, leaving four draftsmen to handle all the legislative drafting for the following departments: Department of the Capital Territory; the Department of Education; the Health Commission; Treasury; the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs and the AttorneyGeneral’s Department. [More…]
An amount of Sim will be allocated for drug education; $6. [More…]
It was a document put out by the catholic bishops for the education of Catholic people who, in parishes throughout Australia, will be studying this document. [More…]
We are wasting a lot of money on education in this country if the great majority of the people- we are talking about 70 per cent of the Australian people- have not been able to think out what they want, even when the Labor Party introduced its Medibank scheme, when it provided expensive universal cover and when 70 per cent of the Australian people insured themselves for their choice of doctor and other ancillary benefits. [More…]
However, if one believed that governments should be responsible for the welfare of its citizens- all its citizens- and that governments should show the way in job creation programs, in providing health services, education, transport, et cetera, one would agree that this government is a miserable failure. [More…]
I would have hoped that the honourable member for Hotham would have had the education to know exactly why. [More…]
I want to raise for the attention of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), his representative in this place and, indeed, the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar), a serious situation which has developed in many schools in my electorate and, I suspect, in many schools in Victoria where there are pupils with ethnic backgrounds. [More…]
The problems arise out of new criteria which have been adopted by the Federal Department of Education working in conjunction with State education authorities in Victoria. [More…]
The effect of this policy- obviously it flows from the Budget cuts in respect of education- is simply to discriminate selectively against children of migrant or ethnic backgrounds. [More…]
In very few of these schools- I challenge the Minister for Education to name one such school- in any of the inner suburban areas of Melbourne the provision of English migrant teachers meets the very real demands for educational service of children of migrant and ethnic background who are trying to be educated. [More…]
This, I think, unfairly discriminates against children of ethnic origin who have substantial educational handicaps. [More…]
It reduces the level of educational teaching to children of one social grouping, namely, children of ethnic and migrant backgrounds. [More…]
I refer to the Treasury, through its taxation system; the Department of Social Security, through its income support system; the Department of Education, through its responsibility to maintain freedom of choice in education; the Department of Health; the Department of Aboriginal Affairs; the Attorney-General’s Department; the Department of Veteran’s Affairs; and the department responsible for housing. [More…]
As I suggested earlier, if changes to direct taxation levels, changes to the health insurance scheme, changes in pensions or family allowances, changes in education funding and other measures all combine either to improve or disadvantage the circumstances of individual families, it is more a coincidence than reasoned social policy. [More…]
In the policy statement of the Victorian Premier for the 1976 election reference was made to road safety, but that dealt with legal, police and education matters. [More…]
I refer to an article which appeared in the Centralian Advocate on Thursday of last week concerning a report on certain educational problems in the fringe Aboriginal camps around Alice Springs. [More…]
The report has been submitted to the Northern Territory Innovation Committee in Education. [More…]
It has no funds allocated for any education or other similar projects. [More…]
That type of organisation is the appropriate avenue to which to apply for funds for some sort of survey of educational needs. [More…]
I emphasise that it is particularly important that with the prospect of limited, if any, further expansion in the CSIRO and the tertiary education sector, there must be opportunities to permit and encourage the frequent infusion of new ideas into the CSIRO. [More…]
Similarly, in Melbourne the organisers of the WHYP have been told that their scheme, which has placed many kids in employment- kids who had been long term unemployment risks- is highly regarded in the Department but that it must go because it does not meet the guidelines and/or ought to be the responsibility of the technical and further education institutions. [More…]
However, Mr Watts, the Victorian Director of Technical Education, was quoted in Saturday ‘s Age as saying: [More…]
The new policy guidelines which I have seen, and which presumably the people of West Heidelberg have not seen, appear to provide much more emphasis on educational programs and to neglect the social or community work component which has been the essence of the success of WHYP. [More…]
The emphasis on integrating education and community work components that is present in WHYP is not accidental, based as it is on substantial research carried out in West Heidelberg by the poverty inquiry. [More…]
I draw attention to the pioneering work in Australia of Dr Shirley Smith of the School of Education at the University of New South Wales and, in particular, to her seminal suggestions on recurrent or lifelong education as a means of providing a socially useful and personally satisfying work alternative. [More…]
The matter of health is as important to the old as taxation is to the workers and education is to the children. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 10 October 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
In 1977, the full time students in universities and colleges of advanced education numbered 102,901 and 84,894 respectively. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to provide financial assistance to the States for universities, colleges of advanced education, and technical and further education. [More…]
It will be recalled that the guidelines for assistance to tertiary education in the 1 979-8 1 triennium provided for the introduction of fixed recurrent funding for the triennium. [More…]
Recurrent grants for 1980 and 1981 for advanced education and technical and further education will be provided by legislative amendment in the 1979 autumn sittings after the Government has considered supplementary advice from the Tertiary Education Commission, in relation to advanced education, and the report of the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training in relation to Technical and Further Education. [More…]
The amounts provided for each of the three tertiary education sectors for 1979 are as follows: [More…]
Recurrent grants to each State for advanced education in respect of those years were set out in the statement of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) to the Senate on 19 October 1978. [More…]
The amounts provided are based upon the programs of the Tertiary Education Commission for the 1979-81 triennium which the Minister for Education announced to the Senate on 19 October 1978. [More…]
The amount provided for technical and further education includes the first component of the additional $50m for capital works in that sector which was announced in the Government’s ‘Guidelines for the Education Commissions, 1979-81 Triennium’. [More…]
As announced in the Senate on 19 October 1978 a shortfall in expenditure of the 1978 capital program will enable additional university and college of advanced education capital projects to commence in the second half of 1979. [More…]
In addition to appropriating grants for the 1979-81 triennium, the Bill amends the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1 977 to supplement approved 1978 grants for cost increases between December 1977 and June 1978. [More…]
4m for colleges, and $lm for technical and further education. [More…]
It also amends the States Grants (Advanced Education Assistance) Act 1976 to allow for the transfer of $782,000 between capital and recurrent programs for Queensland in 1977 to enable colleges of advanced education in that State to meet unavoidable increases in superannuation contributions. [More…]
The purpose of the loan was for grants to the States for education. [More…]
We do encounter questioning as to why we should get involved in diverting resources to overseas countries when there is so much needed to be done in this country’ in relation to the poor, education, health and so on. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the election statistics for the Senate election and general election of members of the House of Representatives held on 10 December 1977, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Administrative Services outlining the information and electoral education services which the Australian Electoral Office has been developing over the last two years. [More…]
That table reveals that of the ordinary loan funds approved a mere 17.16 per cent had been applied to agriculture and agro-industry; 21.96 per cent had been applied to industry, including development banks; 20.99 per cent had been applied to transport and communications; 10.71 per cent had been applied to water supply and urban development; 26.58 per cent had been applied to power- and there must be a message in that percentage- and 2.6 per cent had been applied to education. [More…]
With respect to education, in the longer term there needs to be much more of a turning towards Asia in Australian schools, universities and in the media. [More…]
Yet if anything, interest in Asia in Australian educational institutions seems to be dropping away. [More…]
Commonwealth support for the scheme is made available through the Adult Migrant Education Program. [More…]
Commonwealth expenditure on the Courses-in-Industry scheme cannot be readily separated out in all cases because some staff and other resources are used in relation to the adult migrant education program generally as well as in support of this particular scheme. [More…]
Subject to this comment it is estimated that $328,000 was spent on that scheme during the 1977- 78 program year from the funds provided for the adult migrant education program. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: (1), (2) and (3) The matters raised by the honourable member’s question are the concern of the Western Australian Post-Secondary Education Commission. [More…]
In accordance with approved arrangements for consideration of new teaching activities and courses in universities and colleges of advanced education, the Tertiary Education Commission considered a number of proposals placed before it in relation to Western Australian institutions. [More…]
The Western Australian Post-Secondary Education Commission submitted four course proposals for approval for introduction in 1979, as follows: [More…]
The Tertiary Education Commission felt that as this proposal had significant implications for the future development of teacher education institutions no decision should be made which might pre-empt a comprehensive consideration of appropriate developments. [More…]
In addition, Murdoch University has submitted to the Tertiary Education Commission for approval a proposed new teaching activity in linguistics to begin in 1980. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 26 October 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 12 October 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Funds for non-government schools in the electoral division of Lalor in the period in question have been made available under programs administered by the Department of Education and the Schools Commission. [More…]
Programs administered by the Department of Education: Funds administered by the Department of Education were made available under the following acts: [More…]
Because of the concern about this matter I have set up a task force under Dr Sidney Sax which will include representatives from the Tertiary Education Commission, the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, the Department of Education and the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
In real terms, spending on Aboriginal housing has fallen by 28.5 per cent since the last Labor Budget; on Aboriginal health by 28.7 per cent; on Aboriginal education by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs by 20.3 per cent; on Aboriginal employment programs by 5.9 per cent; on Aboriginal welfare by 4.9 per cent; on Aboriginal enterprises- that is, selfmanagement by 70.5 per cent; on town management and public utilities by 50.5 per cent; on cultural and recreational funding by 33.8 per cent; and on legal aid by 15.8 per cent. [More…]
In Darwin the Committee heard evidence from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and the Department of Education on their failure to carry out a Cabinet decision relating to the rental of Commonwealth owned houses in the Territory. [More…]
It has been suggested that the program ought to be transferred to Technical and Further Education from where it is currently funded by the National Employment and Training scheme. [More…]
In all surface surveillance activities, Quarantine officers place considerable emphasis on education of the local inhabitants as a factor in disease control and quarantine security. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 14 September 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Education systems have been aware of the needs of migrants and Aboriginal children for a long time and as far as the States are concerned, the responsibility for the education of all children within them is vested with State Education Departments; it is thus their primary responsibility to consider and react to the findings of the report. [More…]
Since 1976 the Schools Commission, through its General Recurrent Grants Program has provided specific support for migrant and multicultural education. [More…]
(i) Similarly, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs makes funds available to State Education authorities each year to enable extension and improvement of Aboriginal education activities, including the teaching of basic skills. [More…]
The results of the ACER study were discussed at the annual meeting of the State Superintendents of Aboriginal Education held in Brisbane in June 1978. [More…]
This meeting was also attended by representatives of the Commonwealth Departments of Education and Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
Also the bilingual education program, which is operating in some 18 schools in the Northern Territory, is designed to enable Aboriginals to develop linguistic competence. [More…]
The Chairman of the Committee, the honourable member for Mitchell, visited the States with Mr S. Dunn, Chairman of the Education Research Development Committee in mid 1977 and discussed the action that the States were taking in relation to the recommendations of the report. [More…]
The Australian Education Council will also be examining strategies to adapt their systems to the needs of Aboriginals and migrants. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Data from the survey has been published in ‘The Teaching of Modern Languages in Australian Schools, 1975 - Department of Education, Research Branch Report 3’ (AGPS, Canberra, 1977). [More…]
The position is in charge of the Migrant Services Branch and calls for wide administrative experience and the stipulated tertiary education, which can be attracted from within the Australian Public Service. [More…]
tertiary education in social administration with social work background desirable. [More…]
Is it also a fact that the teachers had to borrow furniture because the State Department of Education did not supply any? [More…]
The Minister for Health, the AMA, the Health Commission and Dr Sidney Sax all tell us that the universities and colleges of advanced education are turning out too many doctors. [More…]
Let the surplus of doctors and specialists who are being turned out from universities and colleges of advanced education be employed in hospitals, outpatient departments and medical centres at a generous salary. [More…]
I wish to make some comments on the approach that the Government is taking to education and its funding. [More…]
Before discussing that in more detail, I am intrigued to note in the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill a similar bias expressed in a very subtle way in the funding of universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education institutions. [More…]
However, for the CAEs and technical and further education institutions funds have been appropriated for one year only. [More…]
Despite the talk the Schools Commission tried to propose an overall increase of 5 per cent for education. [More…]
Following the issuing of guidelines by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), in real terms we find that there is a one per cent increase in the Budget allocation. [More…]
We have been told that there will be an increase in migrant and multicultural education. [More…]
This is the real increase in expenditure for education. [More…]
As the cost of education in government schools goes up, the funds allocated to private schools will increase automatically to maintain the same relationship. [More…]
In the report on education of the Minister for Education, which has just been released, we find that it is claimed that the level 6 schools are those eligible for the highest level of government support. [More…]
I refer to migrant education. [More…]
In the second reading speech, the Government’s decision was announced in relation to migrant education. [More…]
Until now the child migrant education program has operated as part of the general recurrent grants program. [More…]
The Bill provides for the introduction of the new multicultural education program in 1979. [More…]
In a speech entitled: ‘It’s time for migrant education to go’, the Commissioner for Community Relations, Mr Al Grassby, said this: [More…]
-The debate on the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Bill and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill gives us the opportunity for some considered thoughts on the use and what the Opposition might term the misuse of Government funds for education. [More…]
At the outset, I wish to pay tribute to the pioneers in this Parliament who in the years gone by have been the people who were responsible for the injection of Commonwealth funds into the education of the Australian child and the Australian adult. [More…]
We find now that the Commonwealth Government is responsible for the total costs of tertiary education and is a considerable provider for funds in the area of the Schools Commission responsibility and the area of primary and secondary education, mentioned by the previous speaker, the honourable member for Maribyrnong (Dr Cass). [More…]
Whilst not wishing to enter into a great debate with the honourable member, I wish to point out that there have been many pluses in the successes of education and education funding since the return of the Fraser- Anthony coalition government approximately three years ago. [More…]
That to me is a significant increase in education input. [More…]
Our philosophy is that each child in Australia, irrespective of the income of his parents, is entitled to some basic contribution to help his or her education in a school of the choice of the parents by virtue of the fact that they are taxpayers. [More…]
It is also worth pointing out that, contrary to rumours, outlays on education in the last Budget increased by 6. [More…]
That is a significant input by the Commonwealth Government into education, notwithstanding a very tight economic climate and environment. [More…]
Some 8.7 per cent of estimated total outlays are funded by the Commonwealth Government in the area of education, and that is an increase of 6. [More…]
Those figures are worthy of note by people who criticise us for not making an input in the education area. [More…]
There has to be a relationship between quantity and quality of education, and that leads me to the absolute necessity to have accountability in educational funding. [More…]
It is necessary to make sure that the educational share of the available government dollar goes as far as possible. [More…]
It is true that funding for recurrent costs for colleges of advanced education is not included in this Bill, and the previous speaker gave the reasons for that. [More…]
Let us hope that the report of the Williams Inquiry into Education and Training will be released by the end of the year. [More…]
Basically, recurrent costs also will be funded on the basis of a triennium for colleges of advanced education. [More…]
We have a fiscal year which goes from July to June whereas educational funding is done on a calendar year basis, a school year basis. [More…]
Whilst the Commonwealth Government is often criticised for not giving enough money to the States for purposes that the States believe are essential to allow them to fulfill their commitments, it is appropriate to recall that the Commonwealth meets all the costs of tertiary education. [More…]
If the States are going to adopt that approach they should also display at the entrance to every college of advanced education and university a sign stating: ‘Your child attends here by virtue of the generosity of the Federal Government. ‘ [More…]
For far too long in Australia we have looked at education merely for education’s sake. [More…]
It is time we considered education with greater emphasis on training for work and training for living. [More…]
What is the sense in turning out people through an educational system who are the best dressed men and women in the world but have nowhere to go and do not know how to get there. [More…]
The Williams inquiry will touch on the topical aspect of whether our present education system is the best one. [More…]
We must have a disciplined approach and far-sighted vision as we launch education into the 1980s and 1990s and beyond into the 21st century. [More…]
The inquiry underlines the philosophic aims and objects of education. [More…]
I want to talk about colleges of advanced education and point out that in the Darling Downs area next calendar year the Commonwealth Government wil be injecting the huge sum of $ 14.356m into the colleges of advanced education- the Queensland Agricultural College at Lawes and the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education at Toowoomba. [More…]
5 m into a local region to serve the people there who seek higher and better education in a wonderful environment. [More…]
That is big business, and we pay tribute to a government which has spread its wings wide and has not looked at education as being just the province of the metropolitan areas. [More…]
Let us consider for a minute the wonderful input of these regional colleges of advanced education and the great service given by people. [More…]
To think that this man moulded and guided the basic education of a great Australian. [More…]
He has seen the college grow from a purely agricultural college to a college of advanced education, a college which now has courses not only in rural matters but also in hospitality, valuations, food technology, food processing, food service management. [More…]
We have the inquiring personality of the researcher and scientist, coupled with the dedication of the field worker and the trained mind of the business man all being developed at the college of advanced education, which is funded by this Government. [More…]
There is a need for the changing technical education environment to be looked at and the study going on at this institute is the most thorough and full, as well as the first, critical analysis of an ongoing institution. [More…]
We have had a macro approach over the total area of education. [More…]
In the few minutes left to me I want to talk about the 19 per cent increase in real terms in technical and further education. [More…]
They will have a wide range of options, not stereotype ones but what we might term a ‘family of trades ‘ education. [More…]
In this cognate debate we are dealing with the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Bill and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill. [More…]
I want to make just one passing reference to the tertiary education field. [More…]
Recently when the Government was floating the proposition that tertiary fees should be restored for students at tertiary institutions- thank goodness that that has now been retracted- it was said that freedom from paying fees at tertiary institutions had not appreciably assisted children from lower income families to gain tertiary education. [More…]
I thought that that was more a function of defects in the primary and secondary education systems than it was a matter of the fees being charged at tertiary institutions. [More…]
In the late 1960s and early 1970s education was a vital field of great public and parliamentary debate. [More…]
Between 1972 and 1975 there were massive changes in educational opportunities and in the involvement of financing from the Australian Government and, I believe, there was a great deal of improvement in our education system. [More…]
However, I am appalled at the present dearth of public and parliamentary debate on education. [More…]
The placing of these education Bills at the tail end of the session, and with so little involvement, indicates how much interest in the subject has been lost by parliamentarians. [More…]
So much inequality still exists in the education system. [More…]
I fear that the recent guidelines set by this Government have caused a rekindling in the community of those old fears and the old arguments about education funding. [More…]
The School Council, together with the parents of children attending this school, are deeply concerned with the lack of education facilities within the Lalor area. [More…]
In recent months we have seen the Schools Commission’s report; we have seen the issuing of a discussion paper on some aspects of school finance in Australia from the Schools Commission; and we have had the ministerial statement on education on 2 1 November. [More…]
In addition, material has been circulated by the Australian Teachers Federation, the Council of State School Organisations, the Australian Union of Students, the Federal Catholic Education Office, the University Staff Association, and so on. [More…]
I refer honourable members to an article by Dr Don Smart which recently appeared in Education News. [More…]
Menzies, rose in the House of Reps to move an urgency motion calling for substantial federal aid to Australian education at all levels. [More…]
Mr Menzies told the House that he deplored the current state of Australian education, and urged the Commonwealth Government to make a major contribution to educational reform. [More…]
He said that the Government should begin by establishing- in collaboration with the States- an independent committee of experts to investigate Australia’s educational problems and to make suitable recommendations for all sectors. [More…]
In its own Territories, the Commonwealth is, of course, solely responsible for financing education but, even in the States, education is tending to become, in effect, a partnership between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
The States have the prime responsibility, particularly in primary and secondary schools, but the Commonwealth is now sharing with the States in financing tertiary education and is making a direct contribution to secondary education. [More…]
I should like to commence my remarks about the Commonwealth’s education program for 1971-72 by emphasising the close concern which the Commonwealth has, and will continue to have, with educational matters. [More…]
The Government fully recognises the national importance of education and of the development of educational services, and its objective is to do what it appropriately can, in co-operation with the State governments, to improve the quantity and quality of education in Australia. [More…]
We then progressed to the step where tertiary fees were abolished and where there was a massive influence on total education throughout Australia. [More…]
The Labor Party is determined that every child who embarks on secondary education in 1973 shall, irrespective of school or location, have as good an opportunity as any other child of completing his secondary education and continuing his education further. [More…]
One could not leave this matter without quoting also a comment made by Mr Beazley, the Minister for Education of that era. [More…]
What has to be recognised in Australia is the power of simple snobbery and the extent to which education is regarded as a weapon to ensure the advantage of ‘our child over their child’. [More…]
Perhaps there is a growing tendency to regard education not as a weapon of advantage, but as an instrument of the dignity of all children and young people. [More…]
If this view becomes general, the educational revolution that matters will have been achieved. [More…]
Dr Smart, in his article, analysed the reasons for the increased involvement of Commonwealth governments in education. [More…]
Surely these are factors which indicate that despite the effort that has been put in and despite what has been happening, as a matter of responsibility we in this House should be discussing these matters and seeing what the answers are, instead of letting the great education debate and the concern for it just die. [More…]
I ask the House to consider the deficiencies in the services provided by Queensland in these important respects: On secondary education, the expenditure per head by Queensland is 27.2 per cent less than the average of the six States. [More…]
On technical education, expenditure per head by Queensland is 23.2 per cent below the average of the six States. [More…]
The total in this education area which includes those I have mentioned- primary education, training of teachers and so on- is 11.7 per cent below the average of the six States. [More…]
It is a factor which should be borne in mind by the people of Queensland that they are getting a level of service in these very important areas of education, health and welfare which is far below that being provided by the other States, despite the fact that their own government is being funded by the Federal Government specifically with funds designed to enable the Queensland Government to provide services which are of the same standard, quality and range as those provided by the other States. [More…]
In Queensland there is clearly a desperate need to expand the services in the health, education and welfare area. [More…]
Some $800,000 will be spent by the Office this financial year on research and education to further road safety in Australia. [More…]
The Government welcomes these developments and, to ensure that this political involvement is available to aU Aboriginals no matter what life- style they choose to live, has approved a comprehensive program of electoral education for Aboriginal people living in non-urban areas. [More…]
The Government has been helping Aboriginals throughout Australia to maintain, develop and restore and rebuild their cultural identity through the programs of the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council and through bi-cultural and bilingual education programs. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 18 October 1978: [More…]
What has been the real level of (a) total public expenditure and (b) Commonwealth Government expenditure on education ona 1974-75 basis for each year since 1974-75. [More…]
How many persons (a) in general and (b) between the ages of 15 and 24 are enrolled in courses of continuing education, compared in percentage terms with the other OECD member states. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 17 August 1978: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
An important innovation in Aboriginal education in recent years has been the introduction of bilingual programs. [More…]
As in the Northern Territory, the local language is used extensively in outstation education wherever this development occurs. [More…]
While the numbers are still not large, they represent a growing and significant involvement of the Aboriginal people in their education. [More…]
(a) Seven colleges of advanced education (Armidale, Canberra, Mt Gravatt, Mt Lawley, Newcastle, Townsville and Torrens) offer Aboriginal education studies in teacher training courses including studies at the graduate level. [More…]
For Commonwealth Teaching Service Scholarship holders in their pre-service training, specialised Aboriginal education subjects are provided by several colleges cf advanced education. [More…]
The Queensland Department of Education provides opportunities for teachers to take the Graduate Diploma in Aboriginal Studies at Townsville CAE. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 10 October 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 19 October 1978: [More…]
What is the allocation by the Department of Education for spending on Aboriginal education during 1 978-79. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Budget estimates for 1978-79 for the Department of Education include the following specific allocations for Aboriginal education: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 26 October 1978: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
and (2) The Tertiary Education Commission commented on the medical manpower situation in Volume 1 of the Report for 1979-81 Triennium. [More…]
Accordingly, the Commission considered that it would be difficult to justify any further expansion of medical education, and recommended that universities should not increase the intake of undergraduate students into medical courses. [More…]
This committee comprises officers of the Departments of Education, Health, Employment and Industrial Relations and Immigration & Ethnic Affairs and the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
Arts, education. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 16 November 1978: [More…]
Did the Department of Education make a submission to the Review of Australia’s International Civil Aviation Policy. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 21 November 1978: [More…]
How many officers of the Department of Education (a) sought approval, (b) were granted approval and (c) were refused approval to travel on Concorde aircraft during (i) 1976-77, (ii) 1977-78 and (iii) 1978-79 to date. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Education: Disarmament and the Arms Race (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 17 November 1978: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 23 November 1978: [More…]
If so, how many persons have been offered apprenticeships in each of the last 6 years by (a) the Department of Education, (b) the relevant bodies, and (c) statutory authorities. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) The Australian National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education are the only bodies responsible to me which employ apprentices. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 22 August 1978: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 21 November 1978: [More…]
Which schools in Victoria have received grants from the Commonwealth Government’s Disadvantaged Schools Program and Country Education Project. [More…]
-the Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 24 November 1978: [More…]
Does the Department of Education or any agency under the Minister’s control prepare an index of Hansard. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The National Inquiry into Teacher Education established in June this year is charged with the responsibility for examining the effectiveness of techniques of early detection, diagnosis and remediation of learning difficulties. [More…]
In response to the report of the Select Committees on Specific Learning Difficulties, which itself was unable to determine the precise number of illiterate adults and children in Australia, the Australian Council for Educational Research was funded by the Government through the Education Research and Development Committee to conduct a national study of literacy and numeracy among 10 and 14 year-olds. [More…]
Programs for teaching illiterate adults are conducted and/or supported by a number of Commonwealth departments and by the Technical and Further Education Council. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 17 October 1978: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
From 1972 to 1977 a similar scheme, known as the Asian Studies Travel Grants Scheme, had been administered by the Department of Education. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 27 September 1978: [More…]
1 ) In respect of each computer owned or operated by the Department of Education and statutory authorities and business undertakings under the control of the Minister, what information stored therein can be sold, hired, lent or given to any person or organisation other than properly authorised employees of the Department of Education, authority or business. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has supplied the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Department of Education (See my answer to Question No 2208). [More…]
Tertiary Education Commissior (See my answer to Question No 2208) [More…]
The Darwin Community College and the Canberra College of Advanced Education have a nil return. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 27 September 1978: [More…]
How many computers are (a) owned, (b) operated, (c) in the process of being purchased or (d) rented by the Department of Education and statutory authorities and business undertakings under the control of the Minister. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Department of Education [More…]
Processing of education allowances payable under schemes of Student Assistance. [More…]
Tertiary Education Commission [More…]
3 ) Processing of annual statistical collections for each sector of tertiary education. [More…]
Canberra College of Advanced Education [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 17 November 1978: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question. [More…]
The total estimated grants provided by the Tertiary Education Commission to Macquarie University in 1978 are set out below: [More…]
The Minister for Education, Senator Carrick- an enlightened fellow, perhaps best known for his attempts to reintroduce sectarianism into education funding- said on 4 February that our young people lack motivation and have no goals in life. [More…]
Rather than accept the challenge of creating jobs for a generation of young Australians they are prepared to stand by and blame the unemployed, the education system, the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission but never their own economic policies and selfish political philosophies. [More…]
Whilst no money can be made available under this legislation for experimental purposes, possibly under the associated legislation of education, planning and research into transport matters, money could be made available to develop a bus prototype so that we do not have to import engines, the chassis and the drives in such numbers because of the inability of the Australian market to produce the same. [More…]
In addition, I am sure that honourable members will be interested to know that under the arrangements both health and education will remain with the Australian Government. [More…]
They have been working with the teacher, who comes out of the Western Australian education system, and seem to be young people who could either be developed to be of greater use as teachers or could become involved in what we might call the Public Service of Cocos in the future or could do clerical work for the cooperative. [More…]
To add to the dilemma, there are the school leavers who, having finished their education, have attempted to find employment during the summer holidays and, not having been successful, have returned to school and swelled the numbers of sixth formers. [More…]
These were two of the factors which prompted me to initiate the establishment of a committee of officials, under the chairmanship of Dr S. Sax, Chairman of the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat, from the Departments of Education, Health, Employment and Youth Affairs and Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a research paper issued by the Taxation Institute of Australia Research and Education Trust which criticises a value-added tax because of the difficulties in introducing the system and educating those affected, the administrative and compliance costs which are excessive for efficient taxation collection, the accompanying inflation, the imposition of the onus of collection on a group not familiar with the requirements and the flow-on effect in terms of unemployment. [More…]
1976- 1 Internal Auditor; 1 Concert Officer; 5 Typists; 2 Regional Assistants; 1 Administrative Assistant; 7 Clerical Officers; 4 Cleaners; 1 Clerk Grade 1; 1 Clerk Grade 2; 3 Announcers; 1 Talks Assistant Grade 2; 1 Staging Assistant; 1 Education Producer; 1 Cinecameraman; 3 Production Assistants; 2 Clerks Grade 3; 1 Film Clerk Grade 1; 1 Sound Recordist; 1 Sound Effects Officer; 1 Film Editor Assistant; 1 Program Officer Grade 1; 1 Designer (Regionals); 6 Unable to determine classifications and designations; 6 Operations Officers Grade 1; 5 Broadcast Technical Officers; 1 Broadcast Tradesman; 1 Journalist; 3 News Operations Assistants; 7 Musicians. [More…]
1977- 1 Clerk Grade 2; 2 Cleaners; 1 Program Officer Grade 1; 2 Education Officers; 1 Conductor; 1 Staging Assistant; 1 Graphics Artist; 1 Producer; 2 Announcers; 1 Rural Officer; 1 Sports Reader; 1 Reporter; 1 Clerk Grade 3; 6 Operations Officers Grade 1; 1 Broadcast Technician Trainee; 1 Broadcast Engineer Officer 1; 2 Musicians. [More…]
Manager Queensland; Assistant Manager Queensland; Concert Manager; Accountant; Investigator, Budgets; Chief Clerk; Paymaster; Supervisor Administrative Services; Personnel Officer; Premises and Property Officer; OIC Branch Registry; Program Director; Assistant Programer D(R); Assistant Programer D(TV); Supervisor Publicity; Supervisor TVPres; Music Supervisor; Supervisor Talks; Supervisor Sport; Supervisor Rural; Supervisor Education; Sound Librarian; Supervisor Production Facilities; Senior Film Officer, Presentation Sup(R); Executive Producer; News Editor; Chief of Staff; Heads of News Gathering (R & TV); Director Engineering; Supervisor Training; Supervisor Technical Operations; Supervisor TV Production Operations; Supervisor TVTrans Operations; Supervisor Radio Operations; Supervisor Installations; Supervisor Maintenance; Area Supervisor; Assistant Director Engineering (TV); Assistant Director Engineering ( R); Senior Draftsman; Workshop Foreman; Engineer Supply Officer. [More…]
It does not have general access to community faculties, health facilities, education facilities and basic advice facilities which are readily available to other sections of the community. [More…]
Members of parliament do not necessarily deliver government services or carry out any sort of education program, and they should not be expected to do so but the total lack of that sort of facility does exist and will continue to exist unless some new approach is taken. [More…]
In the education area- I realise that this is often a State problem- we have not seriously sought to tackle the problems of a different form and structure of education for children living in remote areas. [More…]
In descending order of importance they were: Access to friends and families, access to education, natural environment, social and recreational facilities, cultural facilities, community facilities, suitable housing and the big city atmosphere. [More…]
He spoke at length about the anomalies that arise in all of the allowances and means of assistance, whether they be isolated children’s assistance, the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance or other forms of assistance available to a great multitude of people in various areas and for various reasons. [More…]
These groups, covering areas like transport, health, education, legal affairs and housing, meet regularly to ensure continued liaison between the different spheres of government. [More…]
Perhaps that goes back to our education system that is not educating our young people to suit the jobs available. [More…]
Something is wrong with our education system. [More…]
They are available to anyone who can read and, despite the Government’s attacks on education, most Australians can read. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 23 November 1978: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The education appropriation rose from 2.9 per cent to 8.7 per cent. [More…]
In recent years the greatest pressure has been for increased expenditure in the areas of health, welfare and education, for example. [More…]
New South Wales- Association for Consumer Education; Australian Consumers’ Association; Campaign Against Rising Prices; Country Women’s Association of New South Wales; The Home Economics Association of New South Wales; Union of Australian Women. [More…]
Victoria- Australian Telecom Employees’ Credit Cooperative Limited; Consumer Education Centre; Consumers’ Association of Victoria; Credit Consumers’ Network; Gippsland Regional Consumers Association; Home Economics Association of Victoria; The Country Women’s Association of Victoria; The Tenants Union of Victoria; The Dietetic Association, Victoria; Victorian Commercial Teachers Association; Western Region Consumers ‘ Association. [More…]
Although there has been an increase in cheese consumption, I think there is enormous scope for additional consumer education in regard to the consumption of Australian cheese. [More…]
We are spending much money on education in the tertiary field to produce design engineers and good technology. [More…]
I want to conclude with a plea, through the Minister for Finance (Mr Eric Robinson) who is at the table, to the Commonwealth Department of Education to apply its mind to the increasing use of offensive language in the newspapers of Australia. [More…]
Their education will be grievously affected. [More…]
What better way would there be of assisting than by ensuring that post-graduate courses were available at colleges of tertiary education to enable people to specialise in soil conservation work. [More…]
The Government cannot say to them: ‘Irrespective of how much training you have done, your higher school certificate or tertiary education, you are going to leave your family, you are going to leave your home. [More…]
The problem is not the rate of tax but the growing expenditure on health, welfare and education with which the Government and the country are faced today. [More…]
In 1967-68, ten years ago, this Government had a total commitment to health, education and social security and welfare of $ 1,571m. [More…]
In 1967-68 the expenditure on those three items of health, education and welfare represented 72 per cent of personal income tax collections. [More…]
There is no doubt at all that Canberra is an area of very high savings, an area of the highest average earnings in the nation, an area of a high standard of education, beautiful and expensive community facilities, beautiful natural resources and apparent prosperity. [More…]
It has the best education system in Australia and probably one of the best in the world. [More…]
However, 47 visits were for pap smears, 25 for menstrual problems and 23 for sex education. [More…]
They would undertake a training program which will incorporate an initial full time training period, including technical education comparable to that required for apprenticeship - [More…]
In a number of cases, the Study Group’s analysis of particular issues will, as it recognises, be complemented by related studies commissioned by the Government such as the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, the Inquiry into the Process of Technological Change in Australian Industry and the Inquiry into the Australian Financial System. [More…]
Other members will be the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair), the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), the Minister for Industrial Relations (Mr Street), the Treasurer (Mr Howard), the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs (Mr Viner), the Minister for Productivity (Mr Macphee), the Minister for Business and Community Affairs (Mr Fife) and the Minister for Special Trade Representations (Mr Garland) as assistant to the Minister for Trade and Resources (Mr Anthony). [More…]
Australia lacks the widespread physical education and sports participation encouraged by other developed countries to produce a healthy, physically fit nation. [More…]
The Education Department of South Australia, in its discussion paper published in August 1978, had this to say- and I know that the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) will be very interested in this: [More…]
I feel that we shall have more success through the education system, with the present generation of young children just starting school, than we will in changing the life style of older generations who, for the most part, gave up regular physical exercise once they left school. [More…]
It could easily be adopted by Australia, as an article in the December 1978 issue of the Australian Journal for Health, Physical Education and Recreation points out. [More…]
forms an integral part of the educational process in the GDR. [More…]
As a result, physical education enjoys equal status with the other school subjects. [More…]
In fact, students can make up for academic grades by achieving excellent physical education grades. [More…]
Physical education starts on its own as a subject and is accepted as such. [More…]
Sport is unhesitatingly accepted as the ideal medium for physical education. [More…]
Dr Willee the head of the Department of Physical Education at the University of Melbourne in September 1977 stated: [More…]
There is a crying need for education to include in its curricula at both primary and secondary levels substantial programs of fitness and recreational activities, to have standards at which all members of the community can aim, particularly the young people, who are Australia’s future Olympic competitors. [More…]
The Labor Government also had two reports on education of recreational workers made and under youth affairs we investigated the recreational requirements of the youth of Australia. [More…]
We seem to have a move away not only from physical education in schools but also from having specialist physical education teachers. [More…]
This is because the physical education teacher is not so useful in making up the margins in mathematics, science and so on when we are concerned with training children. [More…]
They are associated, but I am just saying that the physical education specialists are not getting the prominence that they did, say, in the late 1940s and 1950s. [More…]
I heard the honourable member for Scullin talking about physical education teachers. [More…]
Not having been to school for a year or two, I do not know about the prominence today of physical education teachers. [More…]
He was not a physical education teacher. [More…]
The trouble probably began in the education system itself. [More…]
We need to see whether some programs can be developed through colleges of advanced education. [More…]
If programs dealing with the various sports could be attached to colleges of advanced education, I think it would be a very good idea. [More…]
May I say that the areas of education and sport are ones of equal importance. [More…]
At a State level we need to introduce through the education system the idea that sport is not just something that one does on a wet afternoon in the school hall. [More…]
-Does the Minister for Health agree that the yearly escalation of ill health costs to the Government could be contained by greater concentration on health education and extensive use of preventive medicine programs? [More…]
For example, is sufficient emphasis given to the establishment of physical education standards in primary and secondary schools throughout Australia? [More…]
To that objective, Senator Carrick, the Minister for Education, and I have embarked upon a program to complement the national drug education program in our schools. [More…]
Four points are allocated for education, but what are the points given for? [More…]
By contrast, in Canada, which uses a similar scheme, there are 12 points for education and one point is allocated for each year of education. [More…]
When I first came here we did not debate matters concerning education or health or Aboriginal affairs, but we did have lengthy debates on foreign affairs, defence policy and the like. [More…]
Would they come from health, from education or elsewhere? [More…]
If we are spending large sums of money on defence- I do not deny it- and if that is an argument for the establishment of a committee, why not establish a standing committee of the Parliament on health, a standing committee of the Parliament on social security or a standing committee of the Parliament on education? [More…]
Government programs in the health, education and welfare fields are actively seeking to assist these persons. [More…]
They are then eligible for assistance under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 16 November 1978: [More…]
Has the Department of Education studied the Warnock Report on Special Educational Needs which was tabled in the United Kingdom Parliament in May 1978; if not, will the Minister ensure that such a study is undertaken. [More…]
Has any consideration been given by the Government to increasing the measure of assistance made available for the education of young persons who have already left school, but who are finding employment particularly difficult to obtain because of their learning disabilities. [More…]
When will the report of the Inquiry into Education and Training be tabled in Parliament and when will the recommendations of this report be acted on. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Department of Education and the Schools Commission are studying the Warnock Report. [More…]
However, given the responsibilities of State Governments in education in Australia, much of the Report will be of more direct relevance to the activities of State Education Departments than to those of the Commonwealth education authorities. [More…]
Whether in a legal sense professionals who make an assessment of a child’s health or education problem have a right to withhold information from the child’ s parents could only be answered by reference to the variety of authorities employing these professionals and to the professional associations to which they belong. [More…]
In the practical circumstances of professional health and education workers dealing with parents this is an important and complex issue, but I doubt whether a simple answer can be given in terms of moral rights and duties. [More…]
The Education Program for Unemployed Youth which was introduced in 1 977 to assist young people for whom educational disadvantage is a barrier to their obtaining stable employment has been considerably expanded since its introduction and is currently being evaluated by the Australian Council for Educational Research. [More…]
5 ) I assume that the conference referred to is a Seminar of Reading Disabilities held in 1978 and sponsored by the Education Research and Development Committee. [More…]
The Seminar brought together education research workers and administrators and included, as one of the keynote speakers, Professor Satz of the University of Florida who was visiting Australia as a guest of the Dyslexia Research Foundation. [More…]
One purpose of the seminar was to provide an opportunity for an exchange of information and views between eminent researchers in the special education area and appropriate representatives from each State Education Department; its second purpose was as a vehicle for identifying research and development needs to assist ERDC in any future activities particularly in relation to its commissioned research programs. [More…]
Proposals for courses in colleges of advanced education originate in the colleges themselves. [More…]
All courses require the support of the relevant State coordinating authority in advanced education before they can be approved for funding purposes by the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
Some teacher education courses containing elements on learning disabilities are already conductedin a number of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The Government recognises the importance of this subject, as indicated by the fact that it has asked that the National Inquiry into Teacher Education should have particular regard to training in the early detection, diagnosis and remediation of learning difficulties and handicaps. [More…]
Furthermore, the Report of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties has been referred to the Australian Education Council for a joint Commonwealth/State approach to the problem. [More…]
The Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training has been received and will be tabled as soon as printed copies are available. [More…]
In fact, these are often the people most vocal in opposition to sex education in schools and extended child care. [More…]
If Federal MPs were genuinely concerned to discourage abortion, they would be better advised to press for more generous family allowances and support for single mothers, and to promote sex education and family planning. [More…]
All of us would favour measures which would reduce the number of abortions- especially education regarding sex, contraception and human relationships generally. [More…]
My personal feeling is that in protection of Mother and Child, there should be a continuing responsibility by Governments in regard to family allowance, medical services, child care, education and housing, etc. [More…]
Does he agree that the habit of regular physical activity should be introduced early in a child ‘s school life but that many Australian schools lack specialist physical education teachers, while teachers generally and parents underestimate the significance for health and mental alertness of regular physical exercise? [More…]
Did a 1970 survey show that 75 per cent of post-primary children in government schools are denied a planned continuous program of physical education because their schools are without a gymnasium? [More…]
Does he agree that it is imperative and urgent that a program be adopted to make physical education a daily requirement at all levels in government schools and to provide gymnasia to all schools and a physical education specialist teacher on the basis of one physical education teacher to every 200 children? [More…]
The Confederation is being supported in its campaign by the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation. [More…]
Approaches have been made by the Confederation to Premiers and Ministers responsible for Sport, Health and Education in each State on the proposed campaign. [More…]
Although most schools have some kind of arranged sporting and physical education activities there is a need to stimulate the interest of children in sport and physical education. [More…]
I also believe that in recent years there have been some disturbing signs that schools and education systems are paying less attention to that requirement than they used to pay on earlier occasions. [More…]
I think it once used to be regarded as an obligation on teachers not only to look after the mental education of students but also to make time available so that a school could develop the fullest possible range of sporting activities. [More…]
I would not look to the solution of the problem that is implied in the honourable gentleman’s question, merely by the provision of gymnasia or physical education teachers, although they can make a contribution. [More…]
I think the obligation is not just on one teacher- a physical education teacher. [More…]
It has the highest expenditure on education of any State in the Commonwealth. [More…]
For the information of honourable members, I present the report of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training and seek leave to make a statement on the report. [More…]
Mr M. H. Bone, a former DirectorGeneral of the Department of Further Education in South Australia; Mr C. O. Dolan, the National Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union, Senior Vice-President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, a member of the Tertiary Education Commission and a member of the National Training Council; Dr A. M. Fraser, the Director of the Queensland Institute of [More…]
Technology, a member of the Advanced Education Council of the Tertiary Education Commission and a member of the Queensland Board of Advanced Education; Miss Pauline Griffin, an Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commissioner, and a member of the Council of the Australian National University; Miss E. M. Guthrie, a Regional Director of Education in the New South Wales Department of Education; Mr J. [More…]
A. L. Hooke, C.B.E., Chairman of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd; Sir Peter Lloyd, formerly chairman of Cadbury Fry Pascall Australia Ltd, and a member of the Council of the University of Tasmania, Dr W. D. Neal, chairman of the Western Australian Post-secondary Education Commission; and Mr D. R. Zeidler, C.B.E., Chairman and Managing Director of ICI Australia Ltd. [More…]
The Committee’s task, as reflected in its terms of reference, was wide-ranging, covering not only the provision of educational facilities and services at the postsecondary level, but also the relationship between the educational system and the labour market, including the problems of unemployed youth, and especially early school leavers. [More…]
The Committee commented that the quality and range of the system of education is of great importance to the future of our country, and it hoped that its report will contribute to understanding of the problems and possibilities and help to raise both the quality and the efficiency of the system. [More…]
Recognition of the importance of education is highlighted by the fact that expenditure on education has more than doubled as a percentage of the gross domestic product in the last 20 years. [More…]
In presenting its report to me the Committee has pointed out that its review of education and training in schools was restricted to the problems of transition to work or further study. [More…]
Its main recommendations in regard to schools relate to greater emphasis in teacher education on ways of teaching reading and number work, further studies by the Australian Council for Educational Research to specify the range of performance levels to be expected of pupils of varying abilities at particular ages, and the accountability of schools for achieving specific objectives. [More…]
The Committee’s most important general recommendations in post-secondary education, as conveyed in the letter of transmittal, are: [More…]
a ) that specialisation between sectors should be maintained, but that access to education in areas too small to sustain specialised institutions should be extended by contract arrangements between institutions; [More…]
that plans for growth in the number of students should be related to prospective growth in gross domestic product, and that most of the expansion in numbers in the Committee’s projection- which is based on an assumed 2 per cent annual growth in productivity- should be accommodated in colleges of advanced education and technical and further education; [More…]
that in view of high attrition rates in advanced education, colleges of advanced education should give greater attention to curriculum planning and the selection of the appropriate levels of study for their students; [More…]
that there should be a National Centre for Research and Development in Technical and Further Education to analyse the skills required for various occupations in the middle level and trade fields, and to prepare modular programs that could be used for original training, retraining and further training; [More…]
Each State will need an authority capable of coordinating advanced education and TAFE activities in the middle level field, and for this and other reasons the Committee has recommended that the State authorities be given a greater responsibility for allocating recurrent funds to the colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Education and employment [More…]
The Committee commented that the links between education and employment are complex. [More…]
The Committee has noted that unemployment is high among teenagers and especially high among those with least education. [More…]
The Committee’s suggestions for dealing with that problem relate partly to schools but mainly to technical and further education: In particular they suggest an extension of some of” TAFE’s least conventional activities- for example, remedial work for early school leavers, not necessarily at standard TAFE premises, and flexible special training programs. [More…]
The Committee’s proposals for changes in education to improve the employability of young people therefore concentrated on the general tendency for youth unemployment to be higher than for all persons and on the problems of special groups. [More…]
The Committee’s review of manpower forecasts, their reliability and application in educational planning, did not persuade it to advocate any substantial extension in this area. [More…]
The Committee argued that a considerable part of the demand for post-secondary education, and of the demand for the products of post-secondary education, is a consequence of the rise in material wealth. [More…]
The report concludes that the major factor in credentialism is the extension of opportunities for education. [More…]
The report discusses the future of some of the smaller universities and colleges of advanced education and has suggested the merger of Murdoch University and the University of Western Australia. [More…]
The report goes on to point out that there has been a continuing process of rationalisation in the advanced education sector involving a few closures and many amalgamations. [More…]
Consultation with the States will be essential on many of the matters raised, and the Australian Education Council is already planning to hold a special meeting to discuss the report, probably in June. [More…]
Lastly, I wish to thank all members of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, and especially the Chairman, Professor Williams, for the task which they have so ably performed in preparing this major report. [More…]
The report will be of great assistance to the Government and, indeed, to all those concerned with education, training and employment. [More…]
Committee of Inquiry into Education and TrainingReportMinisterial Statement, 22 March 1979. [More…]
-The report of the Williams Committee on Education, Training and Employment has been two and a half years in preparation. [More…]
By its wide ranging and ambitious terms of reference it has raised immense hopes of producing a blueprint for Australian education until the year 2000. [More…]
There are a number of recommendations which commend themselves, some of which are the recommendations for increased funding of research to universities; a rational transfer of credits between institutions; return to full triennium funding; better labour statistics and facilities for manpower planning; the need for a special effort to increase numbers of Aborigines in skilled trades; the endorsement of migrant education; wide access of skilled trades to women; special efforts to improve numeracy and literacy skills; greater flexibility in staffing of universities; special attention to the needs of the handicapped and arrangements to be negotiated with the civil services, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, industry and other universities for exchange and secondment of staff. [More…]
One was to reassess educational facilities and services from a series of aspects which were outlined in the terms of reference. [More…]
The other was to assess the role of education in relation to the needs of the labour market. [More…]
Let us look at the challenge of the first of those tasks, the reassessment of educational facilities and so on. [More…]
Economic factors have been at work in the economy, bringing about a range of changes right throughout our socio-economic system and impinging as heavily on the educational system as anywhere else. [More…]
So we have noted in the period 1970 to 1975 there has been a rapid acceleration in the number of full time students leaving universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The working party of the Australian Education Council has forecast a surplus of school teachers of 73,700 by 1985. [More…]
I find it massively worrying to go to colleges of advanced education and universities and find that there is still a substantial number of young people coming through the educational faculties and departments of those institutions. [More…]
I wish to look at a few of the implications of the recommendations as a whole in relation to education. [More…]
In effect, the report is advocating an even more rigid tertiary education structure than we now have, even though it claims it is attempting to produce flexibility. [More…]
It also seems to have structured the tertiary education system in a way that I find less than wholesome. [More…]
I move to the second requirement set before the inquiry, that is, the assessment of the role of education in relation to labour market needs. [More…]
Education institutions at all levels must be sufficiently flexible to deal with these demands. [More…]
It does not explore properly the sort of supporting services or measures that come in behind commendable recommendations made in relation to an expansion of technical and further education services in the community; for instance, finance for people undertaking prevocational training. [More…]
The Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance for tertiary students averages $1,970 per beneficiary. [More…]
It may seem that I am being unduly harsh on the Committee of Inquiry in stressing our disappointment on this side of the House at the failure of the Inquiry properly to come to grips with an assessment of the role of the education system in this country in relation to labour force needs, manpower requirements, now and in the future. [More…]
The report deals almost exclusively with post-secondary education. [More…]
The Australian Council of Social Services, after thorough social and economic research in the community, has also underlined the need for manpower policies, especially in relation to the education system, as an essential support part of any such programs. [More…]
These current labour market imbalances are likely to persist into the future as long as either the international economic situation, the education system and community values all remain unchanged or governments (and employers) insist upon relying on those policy actions which seemed sufficient during previous decades. [More…]
Secondly, as the South Australian Government has very pertinently pointed out, there must be a role for education in any such program. [More…]
We have been led to believe by the comments of the Prime Minister particularly, as well as other Ministers, that this is an area to which attention would be devoted in this inquiry in the sort of detail that would allow us to formulate more confidently policies about manpower and its relationship to the education system. [More…]
That has not happened, and it is my firm belief that the education system has to be restructured massively so that the training of skilled tradesmen required in our community can proceed successfully. [More…]
There are some worthwhile proposals involved in the report, but, overall, it is not a blueprint for Australian education, especially in relation to labour force requirements until the year 2000, as the Prime Minister promised two and a half years ago when he announced that this inquiry had been set up. [More…]
There have been many attempts to explain the very sharp increase in youth unemployment in terms of poor standards of education, a relative increase in award rates of wages for juniors, the high labour turnover rates of young workers, a large increase in unemployment benefits relative to post-tax earnings from 1973 onwards and its effect on the incentives to accept employment in the less pleasant or stimulating jobs, or by some combination of these factors. [More…]
The Committee, under the chairmanship of Dr Sidney Sax, Chairman of the Social Welfare Policy Secretariat, included representatives from my Department and from the departments of Education, Employment and Youth Affairs, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and from the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
This is ten years earlier than anticipated in the report entitled ‘Expansion of Medical Education’ which has been adopted by successive governments as the planning basis for the intake of students into our medical schools. [More…]
I respect that belief, although from a personal point of view, due to my education, experience, training and the life which I have led, I do not support it. [More…]
The real solution involves many potential elements- improved systems of family support, not only financial but also educative, counselling and moral; improved sex education in our schools; improved understanding of human relationships; better family planning facilities, and many other elements. [More…]
On top of that there are education costs for six years of primary education and four years of secondary education, a total of roughly $ 13,760. [More…]
This is the position in respect of education, health, hospitals and so on, but in this case there is to be an exception. [More…]
We have been thinking of providing an allowance for pregnant girls before their child is born, to provide them with more enlightened sex education and better family planning. [More…]
In the areas of better support for mothers, and in the provision of contraceptive advice and education- in the whole range of socio-economic area- we have no alternative but to improve the present system which quite obviously has not been satisfactory. [More…]
We should be worrying much more about education in terms of contraception and in terms of preparing young people for the problems ahead. [More…]
What is the movement doing about increasing family allowances, improving the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme and so on? [More…]
I believe that we should all support programs such as sex education and family planning which will assist in reducing the number of abortions sought. [More…]
It concentrates on the provision of information and education as well as some direct promotions. [More…]
In the few moments I have to speak in the adjournment debate tonight I shall deal with modern education and the criticism of modern education which we hear almost constantly. [More…]
I think back to my education when the three Rs were important. [More…]
I feel that education in those years lacked sensitivity and depth. [More…]
Modern education as I understand it and as I see it with my children tends to be more sensitive by inculcating in children the wonders of the world in which they live and trying to establish in their minds a sense of responsibility about it and a love for people who have a differing sense of values, a different ethnic sense and a different culture. [More…]
In those terms I think that education today is better and richer. [More…]
They get an education which is fuller and more sensitive. [More…]
In this financial year $750,000 has been allocated to the States for the family planning associations within the States, including the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission for educational programs. [More…]
This allocation is not just to educate patients who are to receive the benefits of the education but also to educate doctors and other people who have a very important responsibility in this area. [More…]
In fact, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners generally supported the family planning associations in their educational programs for its practitioners. [More…]
by leave- At the outset I remind honourable members that an advisory committee on science and technology was established in 1972 when I was the Minister responsible for education and science. [More…]
I remind the House that the Australian Institute of Marine Science was established under a previous coalition government when I was Minister responsible for Education and Science. [More…]
Dr Lang is a member of the Commonwealth Council for Rural Research and Extension, and also a member of the Universities Council of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
Not merely to remain competitive with the civilian sector and provide wage equality, but in terms of training, retraining, specialisation, broader education, higher education. [More…]
I have mentioned some of them: Retraining, new specialisation and higher education. [More…]
We have today a Joint Services Staff College providing mid-career education for the senior officers of the future. [More…]
It is less relevant today because of the increased scope of government expenditure which is directed at assisting individuals or organisations; for example, health, education, social security and welfare programs. [More…]
Young people participating in the new Inner Northern Education Program for Unemployed Youth within my electorate are being forced to survive for weeks without any income. [More…]
The course that I have referred to is part of an education program orientated to transferring literacy, numeracy and life skills to unemployed youth. [More…]
I am concerned that- whatever the purpose for which the Government establishes schemes such as the Inner Northern Education Program for Unemployed Youth- having established a scheme the Government at least should show a humane approach to its participants. [More…]
that matters specified in Schedule 2 to the Bill include referendums, electoral law, the recruitment and management of the Norfolk Island Public Service and education; [More…]
Schedule 2 to the Bill concerning matters over which the Norfolkers should have unimpeded control should be amended to include referendums, electoral law, the recruitment and management of the Norfolk Island Public Service and education. [More…]
that matters specified in Schedule 2 to the Bill include referendums, electoral law, the recruitment and management of the Norfolk Island Public Service and education; [More…]
There are also the matters of social security, education and health. [More…]
One could go on for a long time listing the achievements of the Victorian Hamer Liberal Government in such areas as health, education, sport, the arts and housing. [More…]
I turn now to another report which has been tabled in the Parliament, namely, the report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts on the impact of television on the development and learning behaviour of children. [More…]
This money is used to pay for social services, education, defence, health and all the other expenditures incurred by the Commonwealth in its Budget. [More…]
The Government proposes that the Assembly have complete legislative power and executive control over (the matters listed in the schedules), subject to a right of veto by the Administrator in respect of education, immigration, customs services and fishing. [More…]
The second letter, from the President of the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation.was addressed to Mr Bill Hayden but was forwarded on to me. [More…]
His initiative and impact will long be remembered by those who knew him well, and those people involved in physical education, recreation and sport who benefitted from his programs. [More…]
Having had many discussions with Frank, having been a political competitor, having been a man who respected him over a long period and having known of his education and training at St Mary’s Cathedral College, as mentioned by the Prime Minister, I leave honourable members with this thought: When the time came for Frank to arrive at perhaps the most significant entry gate and he was invited to identify himself, in my judgment he would have said in the Latin which I know he learnt: ‘ Adsum semper fidelis’. [More…]
Assessment of Incapacity and War Pensions, (i) Part 1 1, Allowances related to war pensions and transport benefits, (j ) Part 12, Service Pension, (k) Part 13, Protective Administration of Pensions and Allowances, (I) Part 14, Basis for Entitlement to Treatment, (m) Part 15, Repatriation Treatment Services, (n) Part 16, Rehabilitation, Re-establishment and Re-employment, (o) Part 17, Allowances related to Medical Treatment and Rehabilitation, (p) Part 18, Education of Children of Certain Members, (q) Part 19, General Benefits, (r) Part 20, Administrative Discretions; and (s) Part 2 1, Public Understanding. [More…]
At this Conference it was agreed by the Ministers for Labour that the Working Party Report should be re-examined following publication of the Report of the Study Group on Structural Adjustment under the chairmanship of Sir John Crawford, and the Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training under the chairmanship of Professor B. R. Williams. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 28 February 1979: [More…]
1 ) Of all students currently undergoing secondary education, what percentage is attending (a) private schools (b) catholic schools and (c) Government schools. [More…]
Of all students currently undergoing university education, what percentage have attended (a) private schools (b) catholic schools and (c) Government schools. [More…]
-The Minister for Education -has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
420 1 .0) show that of all students undergoing secondary education in 1978: [More…]
Against this background the Australian Electoral Office in consultation with other appropriate authorities has undertaken a variety of electoral education activities aimed at ensuring that Aboriginal people are better equipped to meet their electoral responsibilities should they choose to enrol. [More…]
in conjunction with the Western Australian Department of Education a special pilot electoral education program was conducted amongst Aboriginal people in the Kimberley area of Western Australia. [More…]
While similar statistics are not available for the Kimberley area in Western Australia the opinion of special observers sent to polling booths in this area was that the special pilot electoral education program had had a significant beneficial impact in assisting Aboriginal people. [More…]
Specific pre-election information/education activities such as these will be continued in the future. [More…]
In addition the Australian Electoral Office has recognised the need to have an effective continuing program of electoral education for Aboriginal people. [More…]
This program will involve two mobile education teams and the overall initiative has been developed in close co-operation with the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, the Council for Aboriginal Development and the National Aboriginal Education Committee. [More…]
I refer the Prime Minister to his statement made in Esperance last weekend that youth unemployment affected only 10 to 12 per cent of young people and that youth unemployment problems were largely caused by deficiencies in the education system. [More…]
I made the point that in a number of schools there was a tendency to downgrade physical work and trade training; there was a tendency to suggest that one had no real future unless one could get to a university or a college of advanced education. [More…]
Pursuant to section 9 of the Education Act 1 970, 1 present the annual report of the Education Research and Development Committee for the year ended 30 June 1 978, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Education relating to the report. [More…]
There is the real likelihood that the workforce will become polarised into a relatively small technological elite, able to move with and enjoy the advancing technologies and to adapt to the changing circumstances and a much larger proportion of work people whose skills have become outmoded and who lack the education or the mental attitudes to adopt to change. [More…]
A widely based initial education, greater use of further education and retraining and an acknowledgement by society that anyone who has served well for as long as they are able to do, deserve to be well treated in later years, are all matters that will have to be appreciated. [More…]
These factors in combination pose greater problems in the education, training, selection and management of the future work force in the developed nations and it is doubtful whether past and existing practices will be adequate. [More…]
If one adds the education bill and the defence bill to that tally one finds very little scope for budgetary flexibility in other areas. [More…]
Family allowances which had previously been paid for students receiving the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance were abolished. [More…]
It is possible to tackle the big items of health, education and welfare in a way that will not do anything to disadvantage the needy but in fact will improve their position- by placing means tests on benefits paid to those who are not needy. [More…]
Pursuant to section 30 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act 1967 1 present a report by the Council of the Canberra College of Advanced Education on the operations for the year ended 31 December 1977 together with financial statements in respect of that year. [More…]
We would have to test our constitutional power to make laws in relation to hospitals, schools and education and in relation to whether we could take over the land and deal with it in a particular way. [More…]
This legislation is directed at those unscrupulous operators and not at their victims who are being actively assisted by government programs in health, education and welfare. [More…]
It is also currently spending $lm a year on an education program designed to dissuade young people who may be contemplating trying out drugs from doing so. [More…]
Others have been involved in treatment and preventive education. [More…]
Equally, I believe, the State police departments and education departments are being starved of funds. [More…]
I believe that a similar state of affairs exists in the areas of education against drug abuse or the provision of alternatives to drugs by the encouragement of more sporting activity and provision of facilities for young people, to say nothing of the provision of more jobs. [More…]
The more effective are the police and customs officers the less effective will be education and treatment and control of diversion from doctors, chemists and pharmaceutical wholesalers. [More…]
It may feel that in heavy penalties for trafficking it has found a cheap substitute for treatment and education. [More…]
It is remarkable that one can go to a bookshop and buy a book that will allow children, if they have had a basically sound education to make these drugs. [More…]
He commented on the fact that, in association with Federal and State Ministers, an enormous amount of work is being done in education and health. [More…]
Government programs in the health, education and welfare fields are actively seeking to assist these persons. [More…]
I am aware of some of the material that is available through the Commonwealth and State health education centres on this matter, and there is excellent material there. [More…]
Education, treatment and compassionate rehabilitation must all play a role in finding the long term solution. [More…]
In this regard, through the administrations of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt), the Government is playing a leading role in the joint Commonwealth-State program which wascommended by the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins). [More…]
For example, it had considerable exposure to the education system, to other churches, to the American political system, to the media generally, to the social welfare organisations, to the legal system generally and to lawyers, and somehow it never failed the test. [More…]
Prof. Ronald Enroth, a sociologist at Westmont College in California and the author of a book about cults, said in an interview that a typical cult member is 1 8 to 22 years old, white, middle or upper-middle class, and has at least some college education and a nominally religious upbringing. [More…]
Box 293, Brisbane, Qld 4001; (c) Reader in Education; (d) 8.9.77-7.9.82. [More…]
It recommended, for example, that an urgent education program should be undertaken to explain to land councils, Aboriginal councils and Aboriginal associations both the implications of the conclusions reached and the implications for them of the phasing out of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs over perhaps 10 or 15 years in favour of clans, tribes or whatever. [More…]
So far we have seen no evidence that any department is accepting responsibility for coordinating the education and advisory services for the design and setting up of information systems as checks and balances in selfmanagement, as the report recommends. [More…]
This follows agreement with my colleagues, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) and the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr Ellicott) whose separate departments presently distribute the free issue of the Flag to the groups currently eligible to receive it. [More…]
and the need for cither Federal or State bureaucracies to provide health and education, social security and other services. [More…]
Mr Shann Turnbull advocated in his report that the Aborigines should not pay taxation on the royalties, but he went on to advocate that the Commonwealth Government should not provide funds for health or education services. [More…]
The honourable member suggested that under the figures produced by Mr Turnbull money need not be provided by any government department for health, education or other services for Aboriginals; that, in fact, there would be no need for taxes- all services could be paid for from the proceeds of royalties. [More…]
Mr Turnbull, as the honourable member for Dundas suggested before the suspension of the sitting, said that there would be available so much money that there would be no need for any taxes to be levied- it would provide for health, education, roads and other services. [More…]
Under the School Dental Scheme, free dental care, including prevention, dental health education and treatment, is available to school children to the completion of primary education. [More…]
This Bill amends the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1977 and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978. [More…]
The Bill adjusts the approved programs of grants to the States for tertiary education for the years 1978 and 1979 by providing additional amounts in the light of variations in costs between June and December 1978. [More…]
In addition to supplementing the grants for 1979 in respect of approved advanced education level courses in Technical and Further Education institutions, the Bill provides a further $485,000 for these courses. [More…]
It also modifies the conditions relating to the provision of funds for special initiatives in the training of TAFE teachers in order that State instrumentalities as well as colleges of advanced education may become eligible to receive grants. [More…]
In his statement to the Senate on 19 October 1978, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) noted that a shortfall in expenditure of the 1978 tertiary education capital programs would enable additional university and college of advanced education capital projects to commence in the second half of 1 979. [More…]
In accordance with the Government’s decision to restore fixed triennial funding for recurrent expenditure the Bill also provides recurrent grants for colleges of advanced education in respect of the years 1980 and 1981 at the same real level as for 1 979, and supplements the recurrent grants to universities, for these years, which were provided previously in the principal Act. [More…]
The total provisions for recurrent expenditure, other than for equipment, for universities and colleges of advanced education are $6 15.8m and $422.2m respectively for each of the years 1980 and 1 98 1 . [More…]
It is expected that arrangements for recurrent grants for technical and further education in respect of 1980 and 1981 will be announced during the Budget sittings after the Government has considered the report of the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]
In accordance with the new arrangements for funding non-government business colleges, announced by the Minister for Education on 6 December 1978, the Bill makes provisions for grants to the States for assistance to non-government business colleges in the 1979-81 triennium. [More…]
The proposed level of assistance, $55 per student per month at December quarter 1978 cost levels up to a maximum of $550 per student per annum, is the rate which was recommended by the Tertiary Education Commission in its report on non-government business colleges. [More…]
Assistance in 1979 is being provided in respect of courses which were in existence in 1978 and met the guidelines recommended by the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
In approving courses beyond 1979, the Minister for Education will be advised by a small standing committee. [More…]
The Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, whose report was unique in that it failed to produce one positive proposal to alleviate youth unemployment, cost approximately $lm. [More…]
Over the past three years, the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, as it was called before it was broken up, has placed before Cabinet numerous submissions relating to job creation, education and training. [More…]
A reduced level of economic growth in turn makes it more difficult for the community as a whole, generally working through the Government, to provide those welfare, education, health, and other services that modern communities seem increasingly to demand. [More…]
Tertiary Education: OECD Countries (Question No. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 22 February 1979: [More…]
What proportion of the population aged from1 7 to 22 inclusive is undertaking tertiary education according to the latest OECD statistics for each of the OECD countries. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
For example, the OECD statistics for Australia exclude persons attending teachers colleges and technical and further education institutions, while those for several of the other OECD countries are based on an incomplete coverage of between 80 and 90 per cent of tertiary education. [More…]
The different emphasis placed on parttime education is also of considerable importance when interpreting the data since the OECD statistics refer only to full-time students, as are the general differences in education systems. [More…]
A description of how the education systems in each country are classified is contained in ‘Classification of Educational Systems- Summary Volume’ OECD Paris1 975. [More…]
Bearing the above cautionary notes in mind, the table below shows the proportion of the population aged from1 7 to 22 inclusive undertaking full-time tertiary education according to the most recent available OECD statistics. [More…]
1 ) In view of the findings of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts on the possible adverse neurophysiological effects of television on children, what funds has the Government allocated or does it intend to allocate, to further research in this area. [More…]
1 ) The Government is presently considering the Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts titled Children and Television. [More…]
1 ) Which of the recommendations relating to (a) advertising and (b) education programs made by the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts in its report on the impact of television on the development and learning behaviour of children has the Government (i) accepted or (ii) rejected. [More…]
1 ) The Government is presently considering the Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts titled Children and Television. [More…]
-I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Education to recommendation 5.33 of the Williams report, which states: . [More…]
that the Tertiary Education Commission discuss with the University of Western Australia and Murdoch University and the Western Australian Post-Secondary Education Commission an integration of the activities of the two universities. [More…]
On education the Government spent 10.5c of that dollar. [More…]
That disregards the fact that the States are the primary custodians of our children ‘s education throughout the nation. [More…]
I have mentioned education and health. [More…]
Education, health, transport, housing and similar matters could be looked at realistically. [More…]
The Public Service was not going to be slashed, Medibank was to be maintained and essential health, social welfare and education programs were to be preserved. [More…]
Perhaps it will be in the area of education, which has been flagged in the Treasurer’s speech. [More…]
In view of the fact that Australia’s population growth is stabilising, will the Prime Minister agree that calls for increased expenditure on health and education infrastructure and benefits are based on extremely tenuous grounds? [More…]
-There was a time when there was a very significant backlog in education expenditure which needed to be made up. [More…]
The indications that were in the honourable member’s question about a stabilising population, about a stabilising or even a falling school population, are very relevant to the size of the education vote. [More…]
They wanted less expenditure on health, education and on social services. [More…]
He argued in favour of higher taxation and lower health, education and social service benefits. [More…]
Education takes 9c. [More…]
If governments are not able to explain satisfactorily to the people of Australia what is being done for education, for the Aboriginal people and in the area of health and the people reject our proposals then I suppose we would have to mend our ways. [More…]
But no one can tell me that there is anybody in this country who thinks there is any advantage to this nation by reducing the quality and the quantity of our health services, by putting a stopper on the advancement of educational programs or by reducing the misery of the Aboriginal people even further. [More…]
They want more generous tertiary education assistance. [More…]
Let us look at education generally which is administered by the States. [More…]
I have also been advised that a few staff are away in the Departments of Veterans’ Affairs, Education, Health, the Capital Territory Health Commission, Postal and Telecommunications, Productivity- except for the Patents Office, my colleague will be pleased to knowAdministrative Services, Home Affairs- except for the office of Women’s Affairs, my colleague will also be pleased to know- the Taxation Office and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
There will be substantial savings in health, in education, in payments to primary industry, in transport and in other areas. [More…]
It is prepared to cut back ruthlessly on social welfare spending such as health, education, housing and protection of the environment, to make room for greater handouts to the corporate sector. [More…]
Training of workers includes trade union and apprenticeship training, NEAT and the Education Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]
We should add to it the benefits given to private companies by the provision of infrastructure costs, by transport services, by electricity subsidies, by subsidies on the sewerage schemes, by research and development carried out by the CSIRO and in our universities, and the training of workers in the education system. [More…]
Declining school enrolments and stabilising enrolments in universities and colleges of advanced education also provide an opportunity to moderate the flow of resources into those areas. [More…]
In the time available to me tonight I wish to address myself to the lack of credibility and sensitivity demonstrated by the Treasurer in the areas of health, transport, education and housing. [More…]
The Government has made similar vague threats in the area of education. [More…]
Education institutions around Australia are in suspense. [More…]
Colleges of advanced education know that they are for the chop. [More…]
Students at tertiary institutions are fully aware of the talk about dropping tertiary education allowances- or at least substantially squeezing them- and returning to tuition fees. [More…]
What the community does not know is the breadth of educational resources which will be affected by the coming cuts. [More…]
Apart from the cuts foreshadowed by the Treasurer, the Government has campaigned strongly against student unions, undermining their effectiveness in lobbying Parliament for a civilised share of the nation’s resources to be channelled into education. [More…]
The Australian Education Council, at its meeting in Melbourne last year, established a committee to review in very broad terms, the work of the Schools Commission. [More…]
Obviously the Government’s guns are aimed at the Schools Commission which has done so much for equality of education resources and facilities, not to mention equality of opportunity, in Australian schools since its establishment by the Labor Government. [More…]
Education programs have been more rigorously pruned than on any other previous occasion. [More…]
It will be the secondary school students and students at colleges of advanced education and technical institutions. [More…]
This, like the report of the Williams inquiry, will ensure that the universities remain unscathed while the poor, the disadvantaged and those most dependent on government secondary and technical education will suffer. [More…]
To begin with, a lower level of educational attainment is one of the most significant characteristics of the unemployed, and particularly unemployed youth. [More…]
The education systems have no control over the labour market and they cannot by themselves correct the social problems which derive from unemployment or underemployment caused by economic policy and economic circumstances. [More…]
Might I also remind the House that it was this Government which instituted the Crawford inquiry into structural change and the Williams inquiry into the relationship between education and work. [More…]
He obviously is quite unaware of the shift in priorities, which this Government has made quite consciously, so as to provide more funds to the technical and further education field. [More…]
I am quite sure that when my colleague the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, announces the expenditure programs for education for the next financial year it will be seen that this priority in favour of tertiary institutions is maintained. [More…]
In all, at a cost of some $400m, over 400,000 people have been assisted by various programs, including NEAT, SYETP, the Community Youth Support Scheme, the apprenticeship support scheme and the Education Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]
The Education Program for Unemployed Youth has helped 7,400 young people since it was introduced in July 1977. [More…]
From speaking to my colleagues I know how valuable the EPUY has been to young school leavers who, because of low educational standards or for other personal reasons, find it difficult to cope with the current labour market. [More…]
These measures follow those introduced by the Honourable Kim Beazley when he was Minister for Education. [More…]
In respect of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill, he said: [More…]
In accordance with the Government’s decision to restore fixed triennial funding for recurrent expenditure the Bill also provides recurrent grants for colleges of advanced education in respect of the years 1980 and 1981 at the same real level as for 1979, and supplements the recurrent grants to universities, for these years, which were provided previously in the principal Act. [More…]
It is expected that arrangements for recurrent grants for technical and further education in respect of 1 980 and 1 98 1 will be announced during the Budget sittings after the Government has considered the report of the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]
Education is another large block of expenditure which has come under close attention . [More…]
The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) will shortly issue detailed guidelines for the programs of the education commissions in 1980. [More…]
Honourable members will appreciate that the changes that occurred two days after the introduction of the Bills and the fact that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has not announced the proposed guidelines and the changes of direction that he will be trying to attain make it very difficult for us to discuss just where education is going under these Bills. [More…]
It is obvious that there is to be a serious downgrading of the importance of education to this Government with very widespread effects in the community. [More…]
As we know already, the guidelines imposed by this Government on the various education committees have already attracted adverse comments from those bodies themselves, particularly to the point of their being able to do their real job effectively. [More…]
I think that it would be as well for us in this” period of adjustments being made and uncertainty being introduced into the future to look at the general education scene because, after all, these Bills affect the whole broad spectrum of education. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party sees education as a great social tool in promoting equality of opportunity. [More…]
We are not talking about equality of education. [More…]
Its very nature means the educational process is flexible and innovative. [More…]
So it is as well to restate some of the beliefs that we have in education. [More…]
We see education, amongst other things, as a lifelong process, so that while schooling will be normally the province of the young, opportunities should be available for individuals to take their secondary or continuing education at any stage of their adult lives. [More…]
Education should not be seen as the responsibility of the formal education system alone. [More…]
Government strategies in education should be aimed at developing a coordinated network of educational facilities which are responsive to community and individual needs and which have a great deal of diversity and innovation and include equality of opportunity, accessibility and the maximum devolution of responsibility, and in that way enhance the quality of life of all people. [More…]
Governments have already accepted the need for the provision of a compulsory education system and a universal, free, secular system of education open to all citizens. [More…]
We have to provide financial assistance to enable the diversity of education provisions in keeping with the equality of educational opportunity I mentioned before. [More…]
Guidance is already given in the establishment of the various commissions dealing with the stages of education. [More…]
When in government the Australian Labor Party undertook to co-operate with the States to provide and operate educational services which were available to all without charge. [More…]
We tried to provide benefits to students in the same way, in liaison with the States and even with other countries, on matters relating to education, on research relating to education and on the various educational services. [More…]
To this end I have quoted rather extensively from the Labor Party’s platform and policies on education. [More…]
We should take an historical look at the involvement of the Australian Parliament in education. [More…]
Honourable members are well aware that constitutionally education was left to the States. [More…]
During the years of World War II the Federal Labor Government of that time introduced various measures to stimulate education. [More…]
From 1949 to 1972 Liberal governments started to intrude further into the education field. [More…]
1 think we should note that at that time the present Prime Minister, who was the Minister for Education, emphasised the per capita grants system. [More…]
The majority of those measures did very little to provide equality of opportunity in education. [More…]
The States themselves were failing to keep up with even minimal educational needs. [More…]
In the 1960s and the early 1970s the Labor Party identified inequalities in education. [More…]
It was then that it postulated the needs basis for further Federal participation in education. [More…]
It will be recalled that, as a result of the findings of that Commission and later the Schools Commission, a number of advances were made in education. [More…]
It was established, with full State co-operation, to allow some diversity in opportunity, and it did not just stop at primary and secondary school education. [More…]
The needs in post-school education were also recognised. [More…]
At that stage the Technical and Further Education Commission was established. [More…]
The areas of further education- that is, recurrent education, adult education and the sort of steps that could lead up to the open university- were taken up, explored and encouraged. [More…]
The House will recall that full funding for universities and colleges of advanced education was introduced. [More…]
There was an acceleration in teacher education programs. [More…]
Student allowances were provided to enable isolated children to be compensated for their disadvantage and to have a freer approach to education. [More…]
There was emphasis on migrant education. [More…]
I remind the House that the present Government promised to maintain the levels of education assistance that had been attained during the 1972-75 period and that it even promised to improve them. [More…]
That is what we have now- the topping up Bills introduced on the 22nd of this month, and on the 24th; the announcement of some vague change in the immediate future so that educationists, kids and parents do not know where they are. [More…]
Let us look at what some of the actions of this Government mean for education. [More…]
As well as receiving regular reports from the Schools Commission, this Government has had reports from a number of expert commissions, including the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, the House of Representatives Select Committee on Specific Learning Difficulties, and the Australian Council of Educational Research report on literacy and numeracy. [More…]
In his speech the Treasurer (Mr Howard) said in relation to education: [More…]
There must be a clear reason to increase education expenditure in real terms, and in its submission the Australian Teachers Federation stated: [More…]
Another matter of concern to the Opposition, and it seems to be happening by stealth in the education policy of the Government, relates to the transfer of funding which the Government is providing. [More…]
Prime Minister when he was Minister for Education. [More…]
One of the objects of the reintroduction of per capita grants would be that the Government would spend relatively more of the education dollar on wealthier private schools, on the ostensibly fair grounds of equal grants per capita. [More…]
I believe that the Government by inducing inequalities in its division of the education dollar, is trying to re-introduce this divisive matter, which was removed by the adoption of the needs policy and by the provisions which were given to the Schools Commission to carry on. [More…]
There is no doubt that one of the defects in the Australian Government’s involvement in education has been the question of accountability with the States, because they have jealously guarded what they see as their constitutional right. [More…]
A complaint from the Arthurs Creek primary school states that education allowances set in 1973 have never been updated. [More…]
The library allocation, together with the education allowance, was set in 1973, and in 1979 the school is still trying to work on the allowances set in 1973. [More…]
In order for schools to take part in that resource centre, which is of benefit to them and in which they have to be involved, they must take a severe cut in their educational allowance. [More…]
If it is to abandon the needs principle which is accepted by people throughout the field of education and if it is to go back to the old divisive system of per capita grants and of allocating funds to privileged schools, I warn the Government that it will suffer a real upsurge and defeat. [More…]
-As the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins), who preceded me in the debate, has pointed out, these two education Bills are of a machinery nature. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in his second reading speech on the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Bill stated that the purpose of the Bill is to adjust grants to the States for government schools in respect of cost increases which have occurred since this legislation was last before the Parliament. [More…]
The second Bill we are debating is the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill. [More…]
This Bill also adjusts the approved programs of grams to the States for tertiary education for the years 1978 and 1979. [More…]
In addition to supplementing the grants for 1 979 in respect of approved advanced education level courses in Technical and Further Education institutions, the Bill provides a further $485,000 for these courses. [More…]
It also modifies the conditions relating to the provision of funds for special initiatives in the training of TAFE teachers in order that State instrumentalities, as well as colleges of advanced education, may become eligible to receive these grants. [More…]
In his statement to the Senate on 19 October 1978 the Minister for Education noted that a shortfall in expenditure on the 1978 tertiary education capital programs would enable additional university and college of advanced education capital projects to commence in the second half of 1979. [More…]
With the additional amounts that this Bill provides in respect of 1978 and 1979, the total programs of grants to the States for each sector is as follows: Universities in 1978 received $630m and in 1979 will receive $660m; colleges of advanced education received $460m in 1978 and will receive $476m in 1979; and TAFE institutions received $102m in 1978 and will receive $125min 1979 [More…]
The proposed level of assistance- $55 per student per month at December quarter 1978 cost levels up to a maximum of $550 per student per annum- is the rate which was recommended by the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
I am sure that all honourable members will agree that this additional input is essential, particularly in rural areas where tertiary education opportunities are very limited. [More…]
The honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins) engaged in a fairly wide-ranging discussion of education matters. [More…]
I would particularly like to refer to the new trends and tendencies in our education system which have been brought about mainly because of the need for constant retraining by our work force if it is to survive in today’s modern labour market. [More…]
One unanswered question concerning the education work alliance is whether the right balance is being struck in the training received by apprentices. [More…]
Today many educators argue that occupational education should be directly related to the trade because the amount of technical knowledge that must be mastered leaves no time for such art or liberal art frills. [More…]
I believe that over the years Australia has performed admirably in relation to providing education facilities from resources in this country. [More…]
I am extremely pleased to see that there has been a change in the input into education, with a greater emphasis on the technical and further education area. [More…]
However, it provides a basis, I believe, on which to assess the role and the relevance of education as it exists and the changes that need to be made. [More…]
It will be essential and necessary for a slowing down in capital growth within our educational system. [More…]
Over the next few months a number of Bills relating to education will be introduced in this House. [More…]
Perhaps it goes without saying that whilst various new programs have been introduced through this Federal Parliament over many years, we all recognise the tremendous input that was made by the Minister for Education, Mr Beazley, in the time of the Australian Labor Party Government. [More…]
I do not think it is necessary for me to point out that he was rewarded for his efforts in the education field by being removed from the shadow portfolio. [More…]
However, I believe that our present Minister for Education and our Government will carry on those advances which were made and which will result in an improvement and expansion of resources in the education area. [More…]
-The cognate debate on these two basically machinery Bills, the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill and the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Bill, gives honourable members an opportunity to raise matters of education generally. [More…]
However, it amazes me to find that speaking in this most important debate on education we have a medical practitioner, a farmer and a motor mechanic. [More…]
The statement by the Treasurer (Mr Howard) last week cast a shadow over education in this country. [More…]
Before addressing those wider education issues, I should like to comment on one aspect of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Bill which is before us tonight. [More…]
The second reading speech of the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Staley) who in this chamber represents the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) stated that there had been a shortfall last year in tertiary education capital programs and that this would be held over to the second half of 1979. [More…]
My second question is: How will this Bill be affected by the Treasurer’s warning to get tough on education spending on capital works? [More…]
Now I turn to the questions on the subject of education. [More…]
Education institutions around Australia are in suspense. [More…]
The programs for universities, colleges of advanced education, and primary and secondary schools and the hopes of students throughout Australia all hang on the statement which the Minister for Education will make in the Senate in the coming weeks. [More…]
What those sectors and the community generally do not know is the breadth of educational resources which will be affected by the coming cuts. [More…]
Apart from the cuts foreshadowed in Thursday night’s mini-Budget, the Government has waged a bitter campaign against student unions in an attempt to undermine their effectiveness in lobbying Parliament for a reasonable share of the nation’s resources to be directed toward education. [More…]
-Secondly, in Melbourne last year the Australian Education Council established a committee to review in very broad terms the work of the Schools Commission. [More…]
The Commission has done enormous good for the cause of equality of education resources and facilities, not to mention equality of opportunity, in Australian schools since its establishment by the Labor Government. [More…]
It has taken much of the politics out of education funding. [More…]
The Queensland and Western Australian governments have not been able to play the pork-barrelling game of directing Government funds to schools for political and not educational purposes. [More…]
The Premiers of Western Australia and Queensland have been left with one less political rabbit to pull out of the hat- we will make sure that they do not get those rabbits to pull out of the hat- so that they can use the education programs to further their own political games. [More…]
The Education Council announced that there was a move to re-introduce block grants, meaning simply that the money goes untied to State Treasurers for them to spend as they see fit. [More…]
Increasingly, the Government has abrogated its responsibilities in education by leaving a vacuum for the States to fill. [More…]
The Government has chosen to take the needs basis away from the Commission as the sole basis for funding, and has imposed a distribution based on its own prejudices, not social or educational equity. [More…]
The Government has applied a general reduction to primary and secondary education funding in line with its warnings. [More…]
The Government is spending relatively more of the education dollar on wealthier private schools at the expense of not only State schools but also many Catholic parish schools. [More…]
-The direction of the Government in tertiary education is just as vividly clear. [More…]
Universities and colleges of advanced education have been squeezed until the pips squeaked. [More…]
The tables show that in the period from 1976 to 1979 student numbers at the universities and colleges of advanced education will have increased by 12.5 per cent while funding has fallen 4. [More…]
We can expect cuts in real recurrent expenditure and even in total amounts for education this year. [More…]
How can the Government cut education further? [More…]
The effect of this sort of mindlessness in education policies is effectively expressed in an advertisement authorised by the Federation of Australian University Staff Associations which was published a few days ago. [More…]
The major inquiry into education and training by the Williams Committee said recently: [More…]
There is even talk that fees for tertiary education will be reintroduced. [More…]
It is generally recognised that tertiary education assistance will be reduced even further. [More…]
The report also established a broader role for education, rather than merely imparting job skills. [More…]
More controversial than that, he would also have future tertiary education funding drawn from an endowment fund created by levying a tax on all former tertiary students. [More…]
There would then be an education crisis of truly classic proportions. [More…]
-I support the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Amendment Bill and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill. [More…]
But I insist- I had something to say elsewhere today about matters like this-that the Government must soon have a more complete look at the tremendous education expenditure to see whether we are getting the value for it that we ought to be getting. [More…]
It was popular once to pour money into education firmly in the belief that money would solve all problems but I think that we have found in this area and in a number of other areas such as welfare and health- in fact, just about any field we have had anything to do with recentlythat money is not the answer. [More…]
In education in particular there seems to be an absence of direction and clear vision. [More…]
They will get the lion’s share not only of education spending but also anything else for which we allocate funds. [More…]
That more money is not the answer is the firm conclusion of two people, one an educationist and the other an economist. [More…]
I refer to Mr D ‘Cruz of the School of Education at La Trobe University in Melbourne and Mr Sheehan of the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at Melbourne University. [More…]
Recently they published a report for the Australian Council for Educational Research. [More…]
It appears that five years after the Australian Schools Commission began using the money approach as a solution for all problems and to redress inequalities among Australian schools they have found that nongovernment schools, particularly some Catholic schools, are achieving higher levels of education outcomes than government schools in spite of lower resource inputs. [More…]
At present, when the Schools Commission is providing 85 per cent of the finance for Catholic primary schools and when the amount allocated to government schools is tending to flatten out, the authors suggest that it is no longer sensible to look at Australian education in terms of resources. [More…]
The conclusion they drew is that there is no evidence to sustain the view that educational disadvantage exists in the area of lowest resources. [More…]
I believe that it disproves the entire education thesis that people on the other side of the House are continually putting forward. [More…]
What this tells me is that we are not getting value for the money put into education. [More…]
That belief is also supported to some extent by yet another educationist, Professor Chipman, the editor of the ACES Review. [More…]
Recently he told the Queensland Branch of the Australian Council of Educational Standards that there were three root causes in the present education problem. [More…]
the real issue is not how great the decline in standards has been, but why there has not been a massive improvement with the increased funding, more favourable teacher-pupil ratio, and the higher public esteem enjoyed by education in recent years. [More…]
As I said before, Professor Chipman claims that there are three root causes of the present malaise in public education. [More…]
The dominance of muddled and largely indefensible educational theories and philosophies in many teacher education establishments, particularly universities, and in education administration. [More…]
The third: the absence of any effective form of accountability in public education. [More…]
The introduction of an Australian basic certificate should be accompanied by a voucher system of educational funding at the school level, coupled with a means-tested system at the senior secondary and tertiary levels. [More…]
This would mean providing each family with a ticket representing the real cost of providing that family’s children with a standard approved education, a ticket which the family could then spend at the school of its choice, paying additional funds if it wished for any non-standard features a particular school might provide. [More…]
The old maxim stands, and I know that my friend the honourable member for Moore (Mr Hyde) will be delighted to hear it, because it applies not only in education but in everything else: ‘Fund the supplier and the consumer gets short shrift; fund the consumer, and the supplier meets the demand.’ [More…]
The Schools Commission’s excellent project for devolution of educational authority, including financial authority, I assert can best be implemented by funding the consumer, that is, the child attending school or his family- not the school directly or the system, but the child whose education, whose life therefore, is what this whole operation is about. [More…]
I have a word of sympathy for the Federal Minister whose first public mention of it last October to the Australian Capital Territory Chapter of the Australian College of Education was passed over completely by the Press. [More…]
I believe the Schools Commission has been holding seminars with Professor J. E. Coons, whose book Education for Choice- the Case for Family Control is recommended for study and discussion. [More…]
While one may want to be critical of particular aspects of what has been carried on in the name of education, on the whole one never fails to be impressed with the dedication and the enthusiasm that teachers have brought to the school situation and the creative way in which they have tackled what I believe to be extremely compex problems. [More…]
It is rather sad that, at this period in our history, education is obviously no longer the matter of central concern that it was a few years ago to the Parliament and perhaps even to the Government. [More…]
I do not particularly want to argue tonight, as I am sure the honourable member for Swan would expect me to, that education ought to be getting a larger share of the national Budget. [More…]
Education is one of the areas in which the Labor Government’s record is very good. [More…]
They sought to take politics out of educational funding. [More…]
I would have thought that any genuine Liberal as opposed to a Tory would have supported our policy concerning the redistributive aspects of education funding which sought to provide for people who were in the greatest need some kind of positive discrimination. [More…]
The whole business of education- the priorities, the school atmosphereought to be a matter which is not decided in the national Parliament or in the State parliaments but which is determined by the parents themselves. [More…]
The consequences or Labor policies in terms of education expenditures are clear enough. [More…]
Public expenditure on education increased by 79.7 per cent, or 26.0 per cent in constant price terms, in the three years to 1975-76. [More…]
Total expenditure on education rose from 4.9 per cent to 6.5 per cent of gross domestic product in the same period. [More…]
I hope that those ominous remarks of the Treasurer the other night were not designed to suggest that somehow we have been spending too much money in the area of education, that somehow there had been waste and extravagance and that somehow that money had not been spent in the best way. [More…]
I am particularly referring to educational funding in relation to the schools area. [More…]
When I think in terms of my own electorate, and indeed, of the school which my own children attend and when I see the needs that have existed and still exist in those schools across a very wide variety of indicators, I believe that educational funding certainly does need to be sustained at something like the levels at which it has been sustained over the past few years. [More…]
I think that if one makes comparisons between sectors of education then one sees that there is an enormous way to go for the average government school if it is to reach the kind of standards that the ruling class of this country regard as adequate for its children. [More…]
I want to move on beyond the question of funding to just raise some of the issues which I think are important in relation to education. [More…]
He was very critical of the funding of schools within the context of the communities and he wanted to move towards the American proposals in relation to an educational voucher system. [More…]
I do not believe that education is a matter of a welfare benefit. [More…]
I think education is a right. [More…]
If we are to achieve equity within education, we have to think not simply of individual people whose needs are impossible to assess in terms of just individual characteristics but we have to try to meet the whole needs of the pupil within a community setting. [More…]
I say to the honourable member that there is a sense in which we have, as a nation, expected far too much of education. [More…]
I believe that some of the problems that are associated with some of the feeling of let-down that is being expressed by some speakers tonight about education is a reflection that many people in our society expect that if only we could do something to improve education- I believe that we have improved education at all levels- then somehow, many of the other problems from which our society suffers would immediately be eliminated. [More…]
When one talks about reading programs and literacy programs and tries to blame the effectiveness of the teacher or the educational system in transmitting knowledge to the children under their care and says that somehow because particular children do not reach certain arbitrarily denned standards, then that is a reflection on the teachers, one is ignoring the whole importance and the basis of social structure and its interaction with educational processes. [More…]
As much as one might applaud an emphasis in terms of educational opportunity, if we are to produce a greater degree of equality, a more egalitarian society, I do not believe that this will be done merely through education. [More…]
That, of course, is not an argument for doing the very best that we can with the educational dollar. [More…]
Very often those children are now numbered in our universities and colleges of advanced education as the very brightest and best students. [More…]
When one is attacking teachers and the profession and talking about waste in education, one ought to take account of the fact that hundreds of thousands of children have, in a sense, progressed effectively through that system and have achieved skills. [More…]
I just very quickly move to what I think will be one of the more fundamental issues in relation to education and what is certainly quite central to the argument of the Williams report. [More…]
I refer to the question of the relationship between education and economics, education and employment, education and work or education and the industrial aims of our society. [More…]
Some people- I would number Professor Williams among them- are arguing in a real sense that primary, secondary and tertiary education ought to be geared very much to economic objectives. [More…]
The people who are so concerned about numeracy and literacy, as the sole end of education, are very often businessmen who do not know the first thing about education. [More…]
I believe that much the same argument will be advanced more and more about university education and education in the various college sectors. [More…]
I believe that more and more it will be said that education ought to be tailored to the economic needs of society and that the purpose of education is not the self-realisation of the individual, the establishment of a better Australian community or the production of people who have a better understanding of a complex society with problems such as the problems of rapidly changing technology; but that the purpose of education is to produce people who are prepared to accept direction, people who are incapable of thinking for themselves, people who are incapable of being critical of society, people who are incapable of taking on the critical role of citizenship which one would have thought the small 1’ liberal philosophy since the days of John Stuart Mill had always been about. [More…]
I regret this increasing necessity to talk about the relationship between education and opportunities for young people to work, in a situation in which they are being deliberately denied work, pursuant to a fiat of government policy. [More…]
We ought to be very careful about what this Government is saying about education policy. [More…]
If we are not careful, it will be designed to ensure that the working class kids of this nation do not get any opportunity to have an education beyond the area of technical and further education, universities will become centres of privilege, and the kids from the private schools will get the opportunity to have the kind of education which is denied to the ordinary rank and file children of this country. [More…]
The attitude of honourable members opposite to the whole system of education has become more and more irrelevant. [More…]
We thought that we had won the battle about the general direction of education and that the Creadon of an equal society with equal opportunity and an equal education system for everybody on this continent was one of the accepted national objectives. [More…]
Education is the most pervasive social enterprise. [More…]
Many people in this place have spent lengthy periods in the education system; but I am afraid that those on the other side of the House are increasingly becoming insensitive to the needs of the community as a whole. [More…]
In this debate tonight I would just like to remind the House of some of the history of education over the last 20 years, because seemingly people have forgotten what it has all been about. [More…]
There has been an almost irresistible and savage attack on education expenditure since about, I would say, the middle of 1974, or a fraction earlier, after Labor had been in government for about 1 8 months. [More…]
Education is back there in the State capitals’. [More…]
It would be perhaps a little ungracious now to start to attribute some of his policies of that time to the real political reasons, but he had an impact on education. [More…]
It created a totally new element and a totally new atmosphere in Australian education. [More…]
The continuing reports from the Schools Commission have been the major sign posts in Australian education. [More…]
One of the achievements of the Commission was to give real definition to the needs policy- to make the needs of the schools and the children in them the principal basis for education policy and education funding. [More…]
In the last two or three years I have seen a continuing attack upon this whole attitude, and in listening to my colleagues opposite I find a continual denunciation of education expenditure and welfare expenditure. [More…]
I understand that on the other side there is a group of people who are continuously clamouring in the party room for the government to reduce expenditure on education. [More…]
What about some of the more important but unnoted progressive things that were done in the education program of the Labor Government under my former colleague, Kim Beazley? [More…]
This scheme was administered very cheaply and brought a whole new environment to Australian education. [More…]
Following the innovation program the Labor Government set out upon a total equalisation program in education throughout Australia- the needs policy was essential to that- and to upgrade the whole principle of education. [More…]
There were advances in education which people now seem to ignore or forget. [More…]
Early in Australia’s history enormous efforts were made to ensure that every person received some sort of education even if there were only 10 or 12 children in a school. [More…]
My view is that we are not in the business of creating education as a charitable organisation. [More…]
A child as a person, has an absolute, inalienable right to equality of education input no matter where he or she lives and no matter whether the parents are rich or poor. [More…]
I think that is a logical, social attitude to have on education in a country such as Australia which has developed over the last century or so. [More…]
I would be gratified if the Government, through the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Staley) who represents the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), or the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), denied this rumour. [More…]
The first Labor Government Budget in which the education vote became greater than the defence vote was regarded by me as a major social and economic achievement in Australia. [More…]
I think back to the 1950s when the Labor Party used to campaign for increased expenditure in Australian education. [More…]
But now the stage has been reached where we need not only to hold education expenditure at its present level but to expand it in some areas. [More…]
I suppose this Government has a policy of opting out of education. [More…]
One hears Ministers of Education saying that we have too many teachers. [More…]
Among the weaknesses in the education system are some of the irrelevancies that still remain. [More…]
The schooling and training that they get ought to be the principal element of their working life at that stage and the working part ought to be a part of their education. [More…]
Some 100 years ago when our universal education system was established it was easy to see the objective. [More…]
When it came to secondary education the task was to turn out professional and technically trained people. [More…]
In the last 10, 15 or 20 years people have aspired towards obtaining a university education. [More…]
The Government will not find an answer to it by continually attacking it as a waste of money or by reducing the funds allocated to education. [More…]
Even the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, who must bear some responsibility for the present situation, seems to recognise the value of research. [More…]
The myopic vision of this penny-pinching government will sacrifice the long-term positive benefits for the whole community of research in higher education institutions. [More…]
Certainly the Williams report on education, training and employment acknowledges the flaws in the Government’s policy. [More…]
The interdepartmental working group was composed of this extraordinary melange of organisations, namely, the Department of Adminstrative Services; the Department of Education; the Attorney-General’s Department, the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development; the Department of Health; the Department of Industry and Commerce; the Department of Science; the Department of the Treasury; the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; the Australian Telecommunications Commission; the Public Service Board; and the National Library. [More…]
The total Budget allocation for the Territory has only recently been brought together on Budget night in a uniform, if somewhat confused, statement on the expenditure of the Department of the Capital Territory, the National Capital Development Commission, the Department of Education and the Department of Health. [More…]
The basic concept of the Defence Force Academy was to replace the degree stream component of the Royal Military College, the Royal Australian Air Force Academy, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Darling Downs Institute, and the Royal Australian Navy College with a single academy that would provide a balanced and liberal university education in a military environment for officer cadets of the three Australian services, concurrently with a program of professional military training. [More…]
The Committee believes that each Service should be free to determine its own method of educating officers and there should not be an enforced uniformity of education. [More…]
The Committee received evidence that there is insufficient use of tertiary education institutes and recommends that full use should be made of these institutes. [More…]
The Committee has put forward a number of suggested arrangements for the three Services which should be examined as a means of providing cost effective tertiary education towards the training of highly skilled professional officers of the Defence Force. [More…]
Commonwealth expenditure for health, welfare and education has risen from 25 per cent 10 years ago to nearly 50 per cent at present. [More…]
If the expenditure on health, welfare and education has doubled in the last 10 years, how much further can it go? [More…]
Let us look at education. [More…]
The only change last year in the education budget was an increase for those schools which were known as Level I and Level 2 schools. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say whether the United States of America Department of Health, Education and Welfare has launched a campaign to impress upon Medicare and Medicaid recipients the desirability of having a second opinion before surgery. [More…]
-The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (1)1 understand that in September 1 978 the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare (DHEW) began an extensive campaign to promote the seeking of second opinions before surgery, particularly for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. [More…]
The Prime Minister will recall, as do I, that as far back as 1946, when a committee was established under General Rowell to report on the training of cadets at the Royal Military College, the Australian National University was asked whether it would provide tertiary education for cadets at the Royal Military College. [More…]
I hope that education will be next. [More…]
Admittedly it has been reduced from $80m to $73m, but that is brought about merely by removing the tariff on books, which would have restricted the rights of individual citizens to acquire books for purposes of private education and self-development. [More…]
He can spend it on his children’s education, their clothes and their entertainment, et cetera. [More…]
Drug use in ACT: Completed in 1978; to determine use of drugs in the ACT, to establish a baseline and assist in the development of drug education programs. [More…]
1979- One surveyDrug use in ACT: A current survey similar to that carried out in 1978; to establish trends in drug use and assist with drug education programs. [More…]
My question is directed to the Prime Minister or the Minister acting for the Minister for Education. [More…]
In the last Victorian Government election policy speech, for example, a commitment was made to move from 20 per cent to 25 per cent of the costs of education in government schools to be paid on account of children in independent schools. [More…]
Last year I remember that the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins) was silenced on an education question in the same area. [More…]
Need for Community Education: [More…]
At the time when the report was tabled, the Department of Transport and the Departments of Education and Science and the Environment had already put into action eight of the recommendations. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 5 April 1979: [More…]
With reference to the Government’s 10 point policy package for Tasmania announced in November 1977, has the Minister carried out an examination of the scope for specialist courses of national interest at the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Tertiary Education Commission has carried out an examination of the scope for establishment in Tasmania of additional specialist courses of national interest and I have received a report from the Commission. [More…]
The recommendations of the Tertiary Education Commission are under consideration and an announcement concerning this matter and other aspects of the 1 0 Point Plan can be expected in the Budget context. [More…]
1 ) Eight surveys were commissioned or carried out during 1977 and 1978 for the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training (CIET), the secretariat for which was located in my Department. [More…]
(a) Professor D. G. Beswick, Director, Centre for the Study of Higher Education. [More…]
analysis of existing data from longitudinal surveys of education and training to employment and further research. [More…]
(a) Mr P. W. Hughes, Head of School of Teacher Education, Canberra College of Advanced Education, and Dr C. Collins, School of Teacher Education, Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
the Education System and the Labour market: a survey of 25 employer organisations concerning the opinions of personnel managers on education and training. [More…]
Survey prepared for the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]
Results of the survey were submitted to the (Williams) Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training as part of the submission of the Office of Youth Affairs. [More…]
Chairman of the Drug Education Sub-Committee (exofficio member). [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to a report on page 7 of the Australian of 8 May 1979 that the United States of America Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Mr Joseph Califano, has launched a national campaign against alcohol abuse with a counselling and referral service in his own department which has about one problem drinker for every 1 8 staff members. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 2 May 1979: [More…]
1 ) How many opinion polls or surveys have been commissioned or carried out by the Department of Education in each year from 1975 to date and how many have not been completed. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 9 May 1979: [More…]
1 ) How many Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme beneficiaries in each State have been prosecuted for failure to comply with Student Assistance Regulations 85 ( 1 ) ( a ). [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Regulation 85 ( 1 ) (a) of the Student Assistance Act 1 973 requires a beneficiary to notify the Department of Education within seven days if he discontinues any part of the approved course he is undertaking and provides a penalty for failure to do so. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 5 June 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Funds for non-government schools in the Electoral Division of Scullin in the period in question are made available under programs administered by the Department of Education and the Schools Commission: [More…]
Programs administered by the Department of Education: Funds administered by the Department of Education were made available under the following acts: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 28 March 1979. [More…]
) What criteria are used to formulate the Adjusted Family Income rate for the calculation of the living allowance under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) Maximum living allowances under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme are payable where the Adjusted Family Income of the student’s parents does not exceed $8,700. [More…]
I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Education to recommendation 5.33 of the Williams Report, which states: . [More…]
that the Tertiary Education Commission discuss with the University of Western Australia and Murdoch University and the Western Australian PostSecondary Education Commission an integration of the activities of the two universities. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question : [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 28 March 1979: [More…]
When will the reports be received from the (a) working party established by the Australian Educational Council meeting on 8 December 1978 to investigate the coordination of planning and administration between the Tertiary Education Commission and the States through either the provision of a direct State representative on the Commission or the establishment of more appropriate consultative arrangements, ( b ) working party of senior officers established by the Council meeting in Melbourne on 8 December 1978 to compile information on programs being undertaken or contemplated to facilitate the transition of young people from school to possible employment and to recommend the further development of such action by education authorities of the States and the Commonwealth and (c) working party established by the Council at its last meeting in Melbourne to examine the consultative arrangements and procedures including legislative provisions, governing the distribution of Commonwealth funds to the States through the Schools Commission. [More…]
) Is it a fact that a letter was sent to the Queensland Minister for Education by the Queensland Association of Academic Staff in Colleges of Advanced Education stating its opposition to what it refers to as a Commonwealth Government proposal to introduce shared funding for tertiary education. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) (a) The working party set up by the Australian Education Council to deal with tertiary education issues will hold its second meeting in June 1 979 and is expected to report to a special Council meeting to be held 28-29 June 1979. [More…]
The latter meeting has been called primarily to examine the Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training (the Williams Committee). [More…]
The working party of senior officers established to compile information on the transition from school to work is expected to submit its report to the special meeting of the Australian Education Council referred to above. [More…]
The working party dealing with the schools area reported to the February meeting of the Australian Education Council. [More…]
It was agreed that consultative arrangements between the Schools Commission and State Education Departments would be strengthened, both in regard to the preparation of Commission reports and the administration of Commission programs. [More…]
I am aware that the Queensland Association of Academic Staff in Colleges of Advanced Education wrote to the Queensland Minister for Education expressing its opposition to the introduction of shared funding for tertiary education. [More…]
The Commonwealth is continuing its discussions with the States on possible improvements in co-operative arrangements across the whole field of education. [More…]
Issues in tertiary education are expected to be discussed at the special June meeting of the Australian Education Council, when comments from the tertiary education working party (see 1 (a) above) are expected to be available. [More…]
The Commonwealth will continue to exercise its national responsibilities in education by helping to ensure that the highest possible standards are maintained in institutions at all levels. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 23 May 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
A decision has been taken by the Government to introduce an annual charge on overseas students undertaking courses at Australian universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The program has made an important contribution to international cultural exchange and goodwill and provided benefits to developing countries, especially those in areas close to Australia, through additional educational opportunities and skilled manpower training for their people. [More…]
Whilst there will be no limits on numbers accepted, it is not expected that the numbers in this category will be substantial as most countries now have extensive secondary educational systems and many prefer their students to complete their basic education in the national system. [More…]
A constraint on the numbers of private overseas students approved to come to Australia to undertake formal courses of study has been the cost to Australia of providing these educational opportunities. [More…]
The average annual tuition cost per full-time student at universities is estimated at around $5,500 per annum and at colleges of advanced education just over $4,000 per annum. [More…]
However, in their case part of the cost of their education at tertiary level comes from Consolidated Revenue contributed in part through tax by their families. [More…]
No such contribution is made by overseas students or their families although many are well able to afford such costs and, indeed, would have to pay fees if the student undertook higher education in the home country. [More…]
They will apply from the beginning of 1980 to new students and to students changing courses where the student undertakes an award course at a university or college of advanced education. [More…]
In view of this and because of the Government’s firm belief that it is in Australia ‘s interests to develop cultural exchange and international understanding, the new policies have been designed with a view to an increase in the number of students who will be admitted for study at Australian universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I turn now to the adult migrant education program. [More…]
Most courses are provided by State education services under arrangements with the Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. [More…]
The cost of these courses is met from the appropriations for the adult migrant education program in the Commonwealth Budget. [More…]
The objectives and targets arising from the Galbally report and accepted by the Government have meant a strengthening and refocusing of the English language education program for adult migrants and refugees as well as a substantial increase in activity. [More…]
1 m is to be appropriated for the operation of the migrant and refugee education program in Australia during 1 979-80. [More…]
A further $820,000 is to be appropriated to establish facilities including educational accommodation for the initial program. [More…]
The Galbally report recommended that the permanent nature of the adult migrant education program should be given practical recognition by establishing for it a rolling three-year program. [More…]
When tabling the report on 30 May 1978, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said that the adult migrant education program would be established as a three-year program. [More…]
They have achieved a level of training, education and qualification which they may not have been able to get in their home countries. [More…]
On the question of the cost, the figures given by the Minister illustrate dramatically how much the Australian taxpayer contributes to the education of these people. [More…]
I am simply recognising that the parents of our own students pay in part, through the taxes they pay, for the education of their children, whereas the parents of overseas students are relieved of that burden. [More…]
At the same time it seems unreasonable, as noted by the Minister, to allow the people who are well able to paywherever they might go- to be able to take advantage of the free tuition in our colleges of advanced education and universities. [More…]
I wish to refer briefly now to the subject of adult migrant education programs. [More…]
The Government needs to spend much more money in the education system to ensure that there is bilingual or multi-cultural education or education to guarantee that all children have a facility in more than one language. [More…]
Secondly, they have said that the Government should spend more money on health, welfare, education or other things. [More…]
They do not need the education which is going to pour from my lips at this moment. [More…]
It seems strange to me that when a submission was put to that Remuneration Tribunal this year suggesting that representatives of the Capital Territory- they have three times the work load of other members of this Parliament and have to look after local council and State government affairs, as well as matters concerned with health, education, buses, removing of manure from streets and the like- should be provided with an extra member of staff, we got very little hearing. [More…]
-On 23 May 1979 the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges) asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education a question on notice (Notice Paper, page 5507) concerning research funding in Australian universities. [More…]
The most serious example of cultural and social deprivation is the wide gap between the levels of educational absorption and educational expectation in the west and the east. [More…]
I believe that it is a tragedy that the Whitlam Government, despite the generosity of its spending on education, absolutely failed to narrow the gap. [More…]
In some ways it could be said that it even helped to perpetuate the already existing gap in educational expectation between the east and the west. [More…]
Our educational system is not well suited to narrowing the gap. [More…]
Australia has a split level educational system with first and second divisions which perpetuate existing social, ethnic, class and regional divisions in society instead of resolving them, which of course was the classic small ‘1 ‘ liberal hope for universal education. [More…]
The first division may be defined as being, firstly, predominantly urban middle-class; secondly, achievement-oriented and with a high expectation of success; thirdly, aimed at producing qualifications for a career with the presumption of affluence, readily marketable skills, and a high degree of professional satisfaction and personal autonomy to determine work patterns; and fourthly, marked by a high level of absorption in post-secondary education. [More…]
The second division in Australia’s educational system may be defined as being, firstly, predominantly working class, ethnic, rural or regional; secondly, failure-oriented with a low expectation of success; thirdly, producing people who will compete for a declining number of relatively low paid semi-skilled or unskilled jobs, often insecure, with a low degree of personal satisfaction and little personal autonomy; and fourthly, marked by a low degree of absorption in post-secondary education. [More…]
Educational absorption at post-secondary level in the first division can be as much as six times greater than in the second division, as can be seen from participation rates in education for first division electorates such as Bradfield and Wentworth in New South Wales, Kooyong and Chisholm in Victoria and Sturt and Boothby in South Australia, and second division electorates such as Sydney and Reid in New South Wales, Burke and Lalor in Victoria and Port Adelaide and Bonython in South Australia. [More…]
Specifically, for example, the 1976 census figures showed the contrasting rates of educational absorption at the tertiary level in the electorate of Burke, which is marginally worse than Lalor, and Kooyong, which has the highest absorption rate in Victoria. [More…]
However, it must be recognised that Australia has an unusually high proportion of young people competing for jobs, as our educational absorption rate is low. [More…]
Paradoxically we have both a higher level of youth employment and a higher level of youth unemployment, just as we have smaller numbers in full time education. [More…]
This reflects firstly the lack of interest generated in much of Australian education and secondly the relatively slow growth of an information economy compared with, say, the United States or Canada. [More…]
Educational absorption is lowest in industrial suburbs, country towns and among girls and the children of migrant families, where education is geared to expectation of failure. [More…]
In the affluent middle-class suburbs there is a general expectation of educational success and a high proportion of young people complete tertiary studies. [More…]
Group 1 comprises those who want to complete tertiary education and actually do so. [More…]
Group 2 comprises those who have the capacity to complete and undertake tertiary education but who for a variety of reasons prefer early entry into employment, early marriage and establishing a home to waiting for several years to complete a degree and then seeking work. [More…]
Group 3 comprises those who have no intention of entering tertiary education and would be unlikely to succeed. [More…]
If more people in group 2 were absorbed in full-time education far more jobs would be available for those in group 3. [More…]
In the United States, basically, the people in group 1 and group 2 are competing with each other within a framework of continuing education. [More…]
On the other hand, in Australia it is basically the group 1 people who go on towards tertiary education. [More…]
In India, the child born in a community of more than 5,000 persons has seven and a half times as good a chance of receiving a University or College education as the child born in a rural village. [More…]
These reasons include the attitudes towards women’s liberation, a community acceptance that many married women may work, and the higher education which has given women the ability and desire to participate more actively in community affairs and business and other related influences. [More…]
They may develop a cynical attitude to the whole system, charge employers with discrimination against the young or blame the irrelevancy of their education or false promises of careers at the end of their training. [More…]
Conventional wisdom held- until recentlythat a solution was to extend education so that all those trying to enter the work force would be acceptable to employers as efficient and productive workers. [More…]
Allied with this is the irreproachable principle of equal education opportunity for all and this has led to the free availability of higher education for all youth. [More…]
When employment opportunities are depressed, free access to higher education has a double attraction. [More…]
While a rising proportion of young people are attracted to tertiary education for positive reasons of improving their chances of employment and careers, some are further encouraged because it provides an activity in some cases even a poor living- when the job market fails to do so. [More…]
Unfortunately, the expansion of education has not solved the problem of matching young people’s job aspirations with the needs of the work place. [More…]
The additional education has often proved unnecesary to qualify young people for their first jobs. [More…]
A further complication arises because the proportion of students, who take out their higher education in academic courses and vocational training oriented to a special skill or occupation, is not always correlated with community requirements for the respective skills acquired when the courses are completed. [More…]
There may be a point of development at which a young person gains more, in the overall context of his life, from taking a job than from further full-time education. [More…]
I do not have time to go into those but I particularly mention education. [More…]
Federal Members of Parliament from New South Wales continually receive letters, petitions and objections from people in the community who have been hoodwinked into thinking that any lack of funding for education is the fault of this Government. [More…]
We affirm that there should be no discrimination based on race, colour, sex, descent or national or ethnic origin in the acquisition or exercise of the right to vote, in the field of civil rights or access to citizenship, or in the economic, social or cultural fields, particularly education, health, employment, occupation, housing, social security and cultural life. [More…]
Being aware that legislation alone cannot eliminate racism and racial prejudice, we endorse the need to initiate public information and education policies designed to promote understanding, tolerance, respect and friendship among peoples and racial groups. [More…]
We affirm that there should be no discrimination based on race, colour, sex, descent or national or ethnic origin in the acquisition or exercise of the right to vote, in the field of civil rights or access to citizenship, or in the economic, social or cultural fields, particularly education, health, employment, occupation, housing, social security and cultural life. [More…]
In particular, it states that there must be equality in cultural fields and education. [More…]
These deal with financial assistance to the States, research, soil conservation in the Territories, taxation policy, administrative arrangements and education. [More…]
Finally, the report recommends Commonwealth support for the establishment of a graduate and a post-graduate college in soil conservation at an Australian university or college of advanced education. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has informed me that in the current climate of restraint in public expenditure, it woul not be possible to provide special funds for soil conservation courses outside the existing funding arrangements for tertiary institutions. [More…]
However, there are appropriate procedures for the soil conservation authorities to influence the content of courses at tertiary education institutions towards a higher soil conservation component. [More…]
It is now up to the soil conservation authorities to consult with appropriate tertiary education institutions with firm indications of the support likely to be forthcoming for course units relating to the training of soil conservationists. [More…]
In August 1971, following that speech, the then Minister for Education put in hand a feasibility study into the establishment of a national maritime training school. [More…]
management consultants and submitted to the Wark Committee on Advanced Education. [More…]
That sector is producing quality of life things such as education, information, health and welfare services and so on. [More…]
The object of the United World Colleges, which I can remember his speaking to me about when I was Minister for Education more than 10 years ago, is to bring young men and women from many different countries together, to create an understanding between them, to create an understanding of their different countries, of their different histories and of their different cultures and hoping by that means to inspire, possibly, potential future leaders of countries and thereby to avoid some of the fears and some of the hatred and suspicion which can so often lead to war and to the disaster of war which Lord Mountbatten knew and understood better than most. [More…]
The new jobs and the new technology, after all, are designed to fulfil human needs- and it is doubtful if there are any absolutely new needs: new products are essentially refinements of our need for shelter, food, heat, entertainment, education, transport, etc. [More…]
‘convivial’ industries (to adopt the language of Ivan Illich) which are intended to promote the quality of life, but do not produce tangible goods or services which are capable of being exported or sold at a profit, for example, education, health and welfare services. [More…]
We need to look forward to ( 1 ) a national superannuation scheme, (2) maximum eligibility for retirements benefits after a 35-year working life time, (3) more equitable educational absorption so that working class children have the same access to tertiary education and professional employment as do middle class children, (4) more flexible attitudes to work, leisure and time use and, (5) recognition of paid domestic work as a major area of job creation. [More…]
This is not a Budget for the unemployed, the homeless, the home seekers, the Aboriginal people, the young through education or anything else, the sick or the old. [More…]
For example, in the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances, no distinction is made between those students who are forced to live away from home because of distance- that is, those who live in provincial or country centres- and those who choose to live away from home, in other words, metropolitan students. [More…]
It adds to the disadvantage which country children already suffer in primary and secondary education, compared with city children, and it makes a mockery of the claim of equal opportunity in education. [More…]
At one stage in 1975 he said, in the context of discussing the various claims that are made on the national exchequer, that to expect increases in education, to expect increases in welfare, to expect greater health benefits and also to expect tax indexation was to ask for the impossible. [More…]
In the 1975 Budget Speech I announced that in the preceding year there had been an increase of 7 per cent in real terms in the income of the average income earner, and if one made allowances for redistributional benefits in the fields of education, welfare, health and so on, the increase in real terms was 9.5 per cent. [More…]
One low income family which has been particularly singled out for treatment by the Government is the family of a student who has to survive on the tertiary education allowance. [More…]
They hate anything to do with tertiary education. [More…]
For example, there will be an additional 1 1 per cent spent on community health this year, an additional 16 per cent on the education program for unemployed youth, an easing of the means test for student assistance schemes, a 45 per cent increase in national drug education and a 29 per cent increase in additional funds for school dental schemes. [More…]
The regressive measures that this Government has introduced since it came to office include the personal income tax restructuring in 1978, a tax on social security benefits, the abolition of estate and gift duty, the excise duty increases in 1978-79, the customs duty increases in 1978-79, non-indexation of family allowances, the abolition of the property component in the means test, less frequent indexation of pensions, the freezing of unemployment benefits, the moves to payment in arrears, harassment of recipients, freezing of rates for juniors, non-indexation for those without dependants, the abolition of the maternity allowance, the cut in the Aboriginal programs, the complete destruction of Medibank, the composition of education funds, cuts in urban public transport funds, the reduction in the coal levy, oil pricing at import parity, the investment allowance, and the increase in the retention allowance. [More…]
They include the raising of the tax threshold, the family allowances, the tax on lump sum leave payments, the departure tax, the technical and further education scheme and the training schemes, and the unemployment benefit for farmers. [More…]
You let it freeze at the 1974 levels for two years just as you froze the Tertiary Education Assistance scheme allowance; yet you have the effrontery to attack us. [More…]
In the mini-Budget of May this year the Government said that it would cut capital works and major equipment grants for education, but this will only increase the problem of overcrowded classrooms. [More…]
A further $16.3 has been provided for technical and further education this financial year. [More…]
While the Government was stimulating the private sector, cutbacks were occurring in health, education and welfare areas of the Budget. [More…]
Education showed a continual shift to the non-government schools, and in welfare there was a freezing of many of the extra benefits; for example, supplementary benefits which have been unchanged since this Government has been in power. [More…]
In education there is a 3. [More…]
(Health Education and Sociology); Vera G. Charnas, BA (Health Surveillance); Patricia M. Desmarchelier, BappSc QIT (Microbiology); Christian A. J. Dupressoir, BSc (Occupational Hygiene); William B. Hennessy, MB BS, DTM&H FRACP FRCP (Clinical Tropical Medicine); Kersi M. Meher-Homji, MSc Bombay (Virology); Denys C. Torpy, BA MB BS DTM&H Liv. [More…]
South Australian Education Department [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the Schools Commission report for the triennium 1979-81, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Education relating to the report. [More…]
I also present the Schools Commission report on Commonwealth financial assistance for schools in the Northern Territory for 1980, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Education relating to the report. [More…]
On the other hand, after making a modest allowance for inflation, the Budget gives less to Canberra in total social welfare appropriations, education appropriations, health appropriations, and the construction budget for the National Capital Development Commission. [More…]
It had been opposed, predictably, by the Left, local government, education and welfare lobbies and unions, and also by politicians of both sides, by the Press and by big business. [More…]
Jobs on the city payrolls are down by 8.5 per cent and in education, where the cuts have fallen on ancillary employees rather than teachers, by 8.9 per cent. [More…]
It has also been remarked that there is less need for education spending as population levels off, as is happening in Australia. [More…]
The aim of the Whitlam Government was to give 12 months of pre-school education to every child in Australia. [More…]
Education expenditure in real terms is reduced, perhaps to the extent of about 6 per cent. [More…]
Can honourable members imagine what that is going to do to the graduates of the medical schools including the paramedics, who we are financing through tertiary education on the basis that they might have a job to go to in a country or city hospital? [More…]
We have had four years of slashing of public expenditure and of cuts in education, welfare, health care, urban development and almost every area of human endeavour. [More…]
I think the Government does not realise that the bulk of the people under 1 8 years of age who are unemployed- this is the experience in my electorate- are people who lack a real education. [More…]
lm, which is an increase of $6.1m, has been allocated to the adult migrant and refugee education program. [More…]
He lamented over telephone charges, fuel costs and the rural inadequacies of the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme. [More…]
This is occurring at “a time when no meaningful policy of manpower training, or even significant worker education, is emerging from within the ranks of this Government. [More…]
Therefore, those people receiving in excess of $12,000 per year who are healthy, who have not adopted a child, who have incurred no education expenses or who live in rented accommodation, will be ripped off when they need the money the most, in their retirement years. [More…]
Is he able to supply similar figures for the Australian National University and the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
When we look at expenditure on education for migrant children, and presumably refugee children, we find first of all that compared with the overall allocation provided by the Labor Government in its last Budget there has been a very significant reduction. [More…]
So we need to look in other places and, sure enough, funds are provided under the Department of Education, for example. [More…]
Departments are combined it is clear that the present allocation is not keeping pace with the value we put on education for migrant children and refugees when we were in government. [More…]
Under the Department of Education there is an allocation for emergency classroom accommodation for refugee children, which is an increase of $89,000. [More…]
There is a modest increase for child migrant and refugee education in a category labelled Associated Services’. [More…]
Once again, I cannot be sure what that means, but given the increase in the number of refugee children we are taking, I cannot see that amount doing all that much good, bearing in mind that by virtue of the Government’s accepting the Galbally report, it is also presumably waking up to the needs of all the other immigrant children in the country who have not had adequate educational opportunities provided for them because there has been inadequate funding over the years. [More…]
So overall, one can conclude only that despite all the flowery language of the Liberal Government spokesmen, in real terms there has been a reduction in the allocation for education services when compared with the needs of the immigrant community. [More…]
The ethnic health workers would be trained to provide direct health education, preventive, support and counselling services to members of ethnic groups, with particular attention to the needs of women, the aged, the handicapped, those at risk of mental breakdown and those under treatment in the community. [More…]
I once visited an institution- a college of advanced education, I think- where people were being taught to try to cope with these sorts of problems and how to teach about different cultures, languages and so on. [More…]
This program embraces the Special Youth Employment Training program and the Education Program for Unemployed Youth, which seek to assist unemployed youth. [More…]
I would like to cite the amounts of untied grants- not special grants for health, education and so on- that have been allocated to the New South Wales Government. [More…]
As with previous Fraser Government Budgets, funding which goes to Aboriginal people has been cut in regard to housing, health, education, employment, enterprises, town management, public utilities, cultural and recreational funding, legal aid training and consultation and research- in fact, in every category except for general welfare where there has been a small increase. [More…]
In education there has been a cut in both grants in aid and grants to the States. [More…]
There has been quite a debate on the question whether we are getting value for money in education spending. [More…]
Yet the position is that with only one in every 50 Aboriginal children, representing 2 per cent, going beyond grade 9, as compared with nearly one in four white children, representing 24 per cent, going beyond grade 9, there are cuts in this most needy area of education, the education of Aborigines. [More…]
That Committee comprises such representatives as Dr Coudreau, Director General of the National Committee on Tuberculosis and Respiratory diseases in Paris, France, Dr Nigel Gray, Director of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria who also attended as a representative of the International Union Against Cancer, Dr Loransky, Director of the Central Institute for Scientific Research in Health Education in the Ministry of Health of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in Moscow, Dr Djordjevic from the Occupational Safety and Health Branch of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland and a number of other world renowned specialists in their respective field- not a lightweight committee. [More…]
In 1978 the United States National Institute of Education commenced a survey on teenage smoking habits. [More…]
Members will be aware of the sacking of Joseph Califano Jnr, the former Secretary of State for Health, Education and Welfare in the Carter administration in the USA. [More…]
These might include health warnings on packets, taxation manipulation, restrictions on smoking opportunities, encouragement of the rights of the non-smoker, as well as measures such as are involved in political, publicity and education programmes. [More…]
One who earns more should pay a greater proportion of health costs, as they do for lots of other services in the community such as the provision of roads, education, the police force or anything else. [More…]
An aspect of education spending announced in this Budget for which the Government deserves condemnation is the decision to introduce tuition fees for private students from other countries who are receiving tertiary education in Australia. [More…]
In order to carry out its research programs, the Institute will draw on expertise in the universities, colleges of advanced education and other educational institutions, community bodies and individuals. [More…]
Importantly, it will need capacity to appraise and use the results of the research programs as a basis for its community education programs and for developing reports and advice to the Minister. [More…]
Therefore, whilst the Institute will not direct its research programs into Aboriginal issues, it is clear that a close co-operative working relationship with the various organisations involved in Aboriginal issues will be highly desirable and that joint programs and projects, particularly in community education, could well eventuate from such relationships. [More…]
According to Labor, more money should be spent on education, regional development, health, welfare, the States, and a hundred relatively smaller items. [More…]
On the contrary, assistance was given carefully and with restraint in a number of deserving areas- education for youth, education grants-in-aid and an easing of the means test on student assistance schemes. [More…]
In the area of education $6,000m is being paid by nearly six million taxpayers. [More…]
In real terms the Government has cut education funding by telling the States that it had to reallocate a number of its budgetary programs. [More…]
This has cut education funding across-the-board throughout Australia. [More…]
We have seen the educational opportunities for the children of my generation and my own children who have gone to schools in my electorate slowly but surely sink into the mire. [More…]
7m; children’s services have been cut by $ 1 7.3m; payments to the States for schools have been cut by $22.8m; payments for child migrant and refugee education have been cut by $7.2m; payments for pre-school and child care have been cut by $ 18.6m; payments for housing have been cut by $205.8m and payments for leisure and cultural facilities have been cut by $5.4m. [More…]
The Government has been concerned in this area as in other important areas of potential redistribution, such as education, health and welfare, on the one hand to reduce the total volume of funds available and on the other to seek to ensure that the money that is spent is spent basically on behalf of its natural constituency, that is, on behalf of the better off, the more affluent or, if you like, the middle class. [More…]
Similarly with education it has sought to ensure, by transferring funds from public schools to private schools, the reintroduction of the educational inequality which was marked in so many conservative Budgets before the Australian Labor Party came to power in 1972. [More…]
In the past it has relied on gaining the consent of the people through the use of a range of welfare services, the education system, the media, the churches, the arbitration system, the law and the Parliament. [More…]
The intelligence officer needs to be a person of good education, sound practical sense, and with an insight into people. [More…]
Today the people have education, health care and adequate diet. [More…]
In our National Employment and Training Scheme the number supported will be 31,000; in the Education Program for Unemployed Youth, 5,000; in the Special Youth Employment Training Program, 49,000; in our Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Full-time Training Program, 85,000; and in our Community Youth Support Scheme Programs, 40,000-a total of 210,000 Australians supported by government money which we are prepared to invest in their future. [More…]
Is it also a fact that the expenditure of $140m on the National Employment and Training System, the Community Youth Support Scheme, the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Full-time Training scheme and the Education Program for Unemployed Youth represents 0.12 per cent of the gross national product, while Canada and the United States of America spend six times that amount and Sweden spends 20 times that amount? [More…]
A national workshop on off-road vehicle management was held at the Canberra College of Advanced Education last December, and was attended by representatives from the Commonwealth, State and local government, off-road vehicle clubs and environmentalists. [More…]
Department of Education [More…]
This is a significant and growing area of education and one which fulfills a very great need in our society. [More…]
What is alarming to me in this instance is that there is clear evidence that this Government has acted to divert funds from an education program which is one of the real successes of the innovations in recent years to the Prime Minister’s electorate purely for domestic political purposes. [More…]
People have a right to seek to improve themselves through tertiary education. [More…]
Many of the people doing so are people whose basic skills at the completion of their formal education were such that their job opportunities were limited. [More…]
Many of them are adults who have to gain this education off campus because, quite obviously, they cannot afford to undertake full time education as they have to earn their living. [More…]
It is an area of education which is important and which should be maintained. [More…]
One matter of significance that I do want to mention is the Government’s sustained support for education. [More…]
I mention this because I have found some sections of the community being flooded with propaganda which asserts that the present Government has cut funds for education. [More…]
If we make an appraisal of total funding for education it can be seen that the criticism is unfounded and misleading. [More…]
Therefore, per student there has been a huge increase in public spending thus enabling a further major expansion in education. [More…]
That is the sum invested by tax payers in the education system. [More…]
When we consider total funding for education including recurrent funding, we find that 5.6 million taxpayers in Australia are contributing no less than $6,000m a year to education. [More…]
I rate health and education as being pretty equal basic needs in this community and pretty equal basic rights. [More…]
In the area of adult migrant education, the Galbally report’s recommendations have provided a boost to action through increased expenditure. [More…]
In the on-going Adult Migrant Education Program, current enrolments total around 100,000. [More…]
Overall, the Adult Migrant Education Program will receive $24,100,000 in the current financial year, an increase of 34 per cent on expenditure in the 1978-79 financial year. [More…]
That trend has enormous implications for areas including education, service industries and domestic consumption in the years ahead. [More…]
It has reduced its support for the education system and has made it clear that it does not consider that the State education system or the systematic Catholic schools education systemwhich deals with those people in the lower income groups in the general community- are worthy of support. [More…]
I think that we would be deluded if we expected education institutions to adjust automatically their intakes to take account of employment opportunities for their graduates. [More…]
Questions on the Government’s policy towards Japanese and Asian language training in Australia might be more properly directed to my colleague the Minister for Education, although this issue is probably more one for the State Governments. [More…]
But, as a nation with a relatively high standard of education, we are woefully short of skills due to the Government’s inadequate manpower policy. [More…]
There are to be increases in the education area. [More…]
He spent a considerable time talking about rural poverty, education in rural areas, decentralisation, and the quality of country school buildings, but very little time talking about a direct agricultural policy. [More…]
Education is one area which has received a lot of comment and criticism as a result of this Government’s policies. [More…]
Is the honourable member saying that we should continue to pour more and more money into education in the face of declining enrolments? [More…]
Is he saying that taxpayers should be spending more than the $1,000 a year per head which they are now spending on education? [More…]
Many people are questioning the proposition being pushed so widely that the expenditure of more and more money is the only answer to quality in education. [More…]
The States readily blame all education problems on the Federal Government. [More…]
Yet it is interesting to note that there are wide disparities between the States in their contributions to education. [More…]
They are the result of a declining commitment by State governments to meet their constitutional responsibilities to provide secondary education for the children in their States. [More…]
I find it very odd that the honourable member should denigrate the Australian Labor Party’s achievements in education between 1972 and 1975. [More…]
He said that this trend had enormous implications for education, service industries and domestic consumption in the years ahead. [More…]
-New South Wales is the worst State for education standards in Australia. [More…]
It cannot be the fault of the Federal Government’s education spending program, as it is required to be even-handed throughout Australia and does not benefit any one State against another without the agreement of the States. [More…]
Yet the only criticism that is ever mounted on education spending in New South Wales always seems to be politically oriented against the Federal Government. [More…]
For the facts are that New South Wales has simply been lagging behind the other States in education spending ever since Labor came to office in New South Wales. [More…]
This has been the result of a slowdown in recurrent education spending in New South Wales per pupil in real terms; that is, after accounting for inflation. [More…]
But that tells only part of the story of the New South Wales Government’s education deception. [More…]
In the year to June 1978, while recurrent funding per primary pupil in New South Wales had been cut back to a real increase of only 2 per cent in Victoria it was as high as 6.5 per cent, reflecting a different set of priorities south of the border that is given to education as against other State projects. [More…]
Yes, there is an enlightened Liberal Government in Victoria compared with the anti-education Labor Government in New South Wales. [More…]
It is not only Victoria which is so clearly outperforming New South Wales on education. [More…]
This dismal performance in primary and secondary education is also reflected in pre-schools where Mr Wran has admitted that children’s services in New South Wales are ‘unacceptably below standards in other States’ and where provisions for disadvantaged children are ‘woefully inadequate’. [More…]
The reason for outlining all these facts is to dramatise the utter dishonesty of the present campaign against the Federal Government’s alleged ‘slashing’ of education spending this year. [More…]
There was a realisation that no population program should be considered from policies and plans of health, housing, education, employment, the environment and the use of resources. [More…]
The main objectives of the report are to improve the quality of life for these increasing numbers, to have governments concentrate on the requirement of food, shelter, clean water, work, education and medical care, as well as a decent environment to live in. [More…]
Whilst the family allowance has been frozen at the same level for three years prices have escalated by 30 per cent, spending on education has been reduced, child care services have been starved of funds and housing has become dearer and dearer. [More…]
Many forms of education allowance including the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances are having their means tests adjusted so that more students can benefit from them than would otherwise be the case. [More…]
The very important education program for unemployed youth will receive $3. [More…]
The Government has cut back the funds available for education, whether it is in the state school system or the private sector. [More…]
One could talk about the priorities in relation to expenditure on education in which there have been substantial transfers of funds from the government school system to the private school system and there have been substantial transfers of funds from the poorer schools to the schools which are already best equipped. [More…]
The whole concept of needs in relation to education has been jettisoned by this Government. [More…]
to promote and advance education and educational institutions including the provision of scholarships, grants and bursaries [More…]
The business and affairs of the Association shall be under the management of the Committee of the Association which shall be elected from financial members and/or persons interested in the advancement of education who are invited by the Australian Labor Party National Executive to become members of the Committee. [More…]
I hope that members on both sides of the House, including those who are connected with education and those who deal with the Community Youth Support Scheme and those who deal with apprenticeship, will try again to see whether this country, learning from the lessons of Europe and other countries, will devise a better scheme to look after young people who, for one reason or another, are unable to get employment. [More…]
The fourth one, at Grassmere in Doveton, concerns the teaching and the assisting of young people who have not had a sufficient education at school. [More…]
Only today I gave the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) a request from Mr Andrew Davis that the Government assist in this youth education scheme to take place at the Grassmere Centre. [More…]
There are a number of other serious matters in the education field. [More…]
Those Asian students who came here three or four years ago were given an undertaking in the high commissions in Kuala Lumpur, in the Philippines, in Bangkok and in Singapore that if they were successful in their secondary school education in Australia they would be staying on for their tertiary education. [More…]
I hope it will safeguard the position of these young Asian students who are our guests and will preserve their right to carry on with their tertiary education. [More…]
They involve reshaping the adult migrant education program, giving impetus to multicultural education in schools and in the community and upgrading the teaching of English as a second language. [More…]
With the on-arrival program, we have made substantial progress in building up settlement services and education facilities covering orientation and English language courses. [More…]
The Adult Migrant Education Program operates widely throughout the community. [More…]
From an appropriation of some $24m to adult migrant education this year, an increase of $6m on expenditure in 1978-79, about $2m is directly related to Galbally initiatives. [More…]
Formal machinery is being set up to provide advice on migrant education and multicultural education. [More…]
Except in the education field, we are having to move more slowly towards agreement on some of the 19 recommendations which impinge on State responsibilities. [More…]
We tried to ensure that services for migrants would be available within the service departments and that there would be sections within the departments of Social Security, Health and Education to deal with the needs of migrants. [More…]
The Minister says that we have to give a great impetus to multi-cultural education in schools and in the community and we have to upgrade the teaching of English as a second language. [More…]
Recently I directed the attention ofthe House to publicity in the metropolitan media of Sydney concerning a matter which I hope the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) will duly note. [More…]
Because of either maladministration in the Institute of Technology or in the Commonwealth Department of Educationwhich is responsible for the funding of universities and colleges of advanced educationongoing funding for this course has not been provided. [More…]
These young people, who have attempted to educate themselves and gain a valuable qualification now find that because of circumstances beyond their control they will not be able to complete that education. [More…]
I would hope that this Parliament and the Minister for Education would take note of their plight and that in the next few weeks some recourse will be opened to them so that their plans for additional education will come to fruition. [More…]
Either the Commonwealth Department of Education or the Institute of Technology administration should be severely censured for the problems that they have caused these young people. [More…]
He has managed to get himself an education, but the people who are attending the Institute of Technology in the main are students from the inner city suburbs of Sydney, people who have worked their way through high school to ensure that they will do a little better in the world. [More…]
-The honourable member could do with some education, instead of sitting there looking like a frog. [More…]
They want to get an education. [More…]
Especially as they are not allowed to receive training or education if they also receive the unemployment benefit. [More…]
At the Australian College of Education Conference in Perth about a month ago, a Professor Jochimsen of West Germany spoke to the conference and pointed out the range of vocational training schemes in operation in West Germany. [More…]
The Government, through its various schemes- National Employment and Training scheme, Education Program for Unemployment Youth, Special Youth Employment Training Program, Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Full-time Training Scheme and Community Youth Support Scheme- will be helping about 210,000 persons at a cost of $132m. [More…]
In Question Time this morning I cited the Schools Commission, Professor Karmel of the Tertiary Education Commission and the Australian College of Education Conference. [More…]
The Williams report, like Professor Jochimsen of West Germany who spoke to the Australian College of Education Conference has pointed out that extended training beyond the period of compulsory schooling will assist the young unemployed. [More…]
I made the point that this kind of policy will deal with the situation where young school leavers are faced with long periods of unemployment and inaction and that that situation is unsatisfactory, especially as those young people are not allowed to receive training or education if they receive the unemployment benefit. [More…]
I pointed out that the basic philosophy behind the thinking of young people is that the 15 to 19 years age group should have a comprehensive range of education, training and employment options available to them which makes unemployment, in the sense of idleness at the community’s expense, an unacceptable alternative. [More…]
The transition policy would improve the interface between education and the labour market. [More…]
I venture to suggest that a transition policy of the kind which extends the training opportunities, which builds up the educational confidence, which builds up the range of skills of our young people, can properly be regarded as a bold measure and one designed to prevent the waste of human resources at a critical stage in young people’s lives. [More…]
It would give future young Australian men and women opportunities for education, training, work experience or support which would help them acquire the skills and experience needed to obtain a job. [More…]
I have no hesitation and my colleague the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has no hesitation in pursuing this policy, as we will, in conjunction and discussion with the States, industry and the unions. [More…]
There is this vague reference to other benefits which exist in the way of special education allowances. [More…]
The secondary education allowance is a maximum of $550 a year, and that is on a means tested basis. [More…]
It became nothing more than an overgenerous system of tertiary education allowances. [More…]
Some 85,000 young people will be assisted under the various aspects of the NEAT scheme this year, the most important of those being the Education Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]
-Tonight I draw the attention of the House to the consequences for education of the recent New South Wales State Budget. [More…]
As honourable members will know, the record real spending on education in Australia is mainly bringing more and more pay for more and more teachers, and not better facilities for children at schools. [More…]
This is particularly so in New South Wales, where the record value of education money is being diverted from buildings and equipment for pupils into salaries. [More…]
This year only 15.3 per cent of the New South Wales record total education spending is budgeted to go into school buildings and equipment. [More…]
This drastic slump in funds for equipment and buildings cannot be blamed on alleged Federal Government finance cuts, as the total money made available for education from State and Federal sources combined has continued to rise to record levels each year. [More…]
As a result the four-year increase in New South Wales budgeted spending on school education of 42 per cent to a record $956m has, of course, been accompanied by this drop in capital spending. [More…]
Now we did not hear Labor members of the New South Wales Parliament, or Labor members in this House, complaining when some two years ago the Wran Government cut $15m from New South Wales capital spending programs on education. [More…]
It is not up to the Federal Government to dictate to the States how they should distribute their education money between buildings and equipment, and teachers salaries, but it is disgraceful when States blame the Federal Government for problems emerging from their own decisions, particularly when more Government money is being spent on each child in State schools in Australia than ever before. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 7 June 1979: [More…]
How many (a) motor cars and station wagons by make and tare, (b) trucks and other commercial vehicles by make and mass and (c) motor cycles by make, are operated by the Depanment of Education and statutory authorities and business undertakings under the Minister’s control. [More…]
Is this the interface between education and the labour market that the Minister referred to in his address to the National Youth Conference, or is it a statistical expression of the dull and unmotivated group of jobless young workers which the Prime Minister identified for the Catholic bishops? [More…]
Of the remainder- and I emphasise these figures to the House- 8 per cent were considered to have insufficient work experience and 7.9 per cent were considered to be lacking the necessary education or skills. [More…]
That means that some 16 per cent of those persons who are looking for work cannot find it because they lack work experience or lack the necessary education and skills. [More…]
Therefore, a transition policy, a comprehensive policy seeking to further the education of young people beyond compulsory, general education schooling into the technical field, into the further education field, into trade training, into vocational training, which of course is wider than trade training, and into work experience programs will help those who at present are unemployable because they lack that experience or that skill. [More…]
New South Wales increased its education budget by nearly $ 130m or by over 1 1 per cent with an addition of almost 900 teachers. [More…]
In Queensland education expenditure was up by between 10 percent and 1 1 per cent, with over 250 extra teachers. [More…]
In Western Australia the education budget went up 14 per cent, with over 245 more staff. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to put into effect the Government’s decision to introduce an annual charge on overseas students studying in Australian Universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
At that time I mentioned that the Government has been anxious to make available additional educational opportunities for overseas students. [More…]
At the same time the Government has been concerned at the cost of providing educational opportunities for overseas students attending educational institutions wholly or partly funded from public moneys. [More…]
With these considerations in mind, the Government has decided that private overseas students attending Australian universities and colleges of advanced education, which are fully funded by the Commonwealth, should be called upon to contribute towards the cost of their education. [More…]
The charges do not apply at this time to overseas students attending other educational institutions which receive funds from the Commonwealth. [More…]
Clause 5 of the Bill imposes the charge on overseas students enrolled in a prescribed course for a year, Clause 4 of the Bill defines the term ‘overseas student’ and provides definitions of the courses and educational institutions to which the charge will apply. [More…]
The charge will apply to persons other than permanent residents who enrol in certain courses at universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Postgraduate students who are the holders of a scholarship providing a basic stipend of at least $3,500 per annum awarded by a university or college of advanced education for study at the institution concerned [More…]
Students who are the subject of approved reciprocal exchange agreements between Australian universities or colleges of advanced education and overseas tertiary institutions [More…]
They are, firstly, students already in Australia who were admitted specifically to undertake the final two years of their secondary education in Australia as a preliminary to an approved tertiary course, and who commence that course in 1980 and 1981. [More…]
The Government is aware that by coming to Australia these students have already committed themslves to education in Australia and may have adversely affected their prospects of further study in their home countries or elsewhere, if they are now unable to pay charges in Australia. [More…]
degree or continuing to a Diploma of Education on completion of a first degree. [More…]
There is a real danger not only that local government will be forced to restrain severely growth of community services such as education, welfare, recreation and cultural activities, but also that public works of various kinds will be allowed to deteriorate. [More…]
Experience has shown doubtful qualifications of many selection officers in the Department of Immigration posted overseas in terms of their limited education and their limited crosscultural experience. [More…]
As it stands, it is obvious to me that the English language tests clearly would favour applicants from the United Kingdom and would favour many northern Europeans whose languages are more closely related to English, whose education system sponsor the acquisition of English rather more readily than southern Europeans and whose cultural framework has a greater affinity with the United Kingdom and is reflected in concepts and usages of language. [More…]
The matters to which the honourable gentleman referred are of direct relevance to the discussion of a school-to-work transition policy on which I and my colleague, the Minister for Education, have been working in co-operation with the States. [More…]
The report of the Colombo meeting which has now come to hand addresses itself very directly to this question under the heading: ‘The Role of Education in Alleviating Youth Unemployment’. [More…]
Furthermore, the report pointed to the necessary relationship between education and employment. [More…]
That is the very thing to which the Schools Commission in its report of this year, the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training, Professor Karmel, Senator Carrick and I, amongst others, have pointed as an area of urgent need. [More…]
It has been a matter of serious debate in the public arena amongst educationalists and others who are concerned with youth unemployment. [More…]
It will be remembered that in 1974 the then Labor Government established the Academic Salaries Tribunal to overcome a serious problem which had developed throughout Australian universities and colleges of advanced education because until that time there had been no set procedure for the determination of academic salaries. [More…]
The problem developed because of the increased role of the Commonwealth in relation to the funding of tertiary education institutions coupled with the fact that those institutions were, and still are, autonomous institutions established under State laws. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to allow the Tribunal to make determinations or reports on academic salaries for: Firstly, newly establish Commonwealth tertiary institutions; secondly, new categories of academic staff; and thirdly, particular categories of staff in all States and Territories for either universities, colleges of advanced education or both; without having to undertake a general review. [More…]
The Bill also corrects an ambiguity as to whether the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973 covers technical and further education institutions. [More…]
This ambiguity resulted from the creation of the Tertiary Education Commission which encompasses these institutions. [More…]
The salary for these people ought to be viewed in the context of the very important research in which they are engaged in universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The Tribunal may, without having a general review make determinations or reports on academic salaries for, firstly, newly established Commonwealth tertiary institutions, secondly, for new categories of academic staff and, thirdly, particular categories of staff in all States and Territories for either universities, colleges of advanced education or both. [More…]
One aspect of the Remuneration Tribunals Act which needed attention related to the confusion whether there was power in the Act to recommend salary levels for institutions other than colleges of advanced education and universities, that is, those created by the Tertiary Education Commission which encompasses all three levels of post-secondary education. [More…]
The amendment makes the distinction and clearly establishes the fact that the Tribunal has responsibility for the top two levels of the post-secondary education sector but not for the technical and further education area. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 22 August 1979: [More…]
1) Has the Australian Capital Territory advised against the use of Bliss Symbols since 1978 but no other education authority has done so on any occasion. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: ( 1 )-(4) It is important to note that there are two types of symbols in use. [More…]
1 ) Has the Government been contacted by any member of the Queensland Government in connection with a sex education lecture given to pupils at a Brisbane college by a Sydney-based art lecturer whose trip to Brisbane was apparently financed by Commonwealth Government funds. [More…]
The fact is however that there are long lead times, and the Government has placed the great emphasis of its retraining programs and its education funding in those vocational areas for which it is perceived that there will be a long term demand. [More…]
The nominations would be for people who are unskilled or who have the bare minimum of education and training. [More…]
Improved delivery of health and education services to all people away from the main population centres; [More…]
The working group report, of course, cited the manufacture of earth station equipment in Australia, the installation, operation and maintenance of equipment and services such as education and community organisations using satellite links as possible areas where new employment opportunities could arise. [More…]
It suggests that these jobs will be created in the installation, operation and maintenance of equipment, services such as health, education and community organisations using satellite links and new unspecified types of employment available only if a satellite exists. [More…]
We see the tremendous advances that have been made in Canada in the field of education, in being able to set up special educational channels and to bring programs to the people in the far flung areas. [More…]
We can adapt that system to our needs here too, to provide people in the remote areas with the best possible educational facilities. [More…]
But to get back to the people in the extremely isolated and remote areas of Australia about whom the Opposition appears not to be very concerned those are the people who have extremely difficult circumstances in regard to health and education services, and the availability of those services for their children. [More…]
So this facility will not only provide communications services right throughout Australia but also education services. [More…]
It may well be that educational programs transmitted through the satellite system will be used by people all over Australia. [More…]
Perhaps even children living in the inner city suburbs will be able to tune into a channel simply by turning on their television sets and watch an educational program that is being transmitted right throughout Australia. [More…]
I was most interested in the remarks recently of Professor Karmel of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
Man cannot subsist on the pursuit of education and vain hope for something better. [More…]
Another 7.9 per cent said that their main difficulty was the lack of necessary education and skills. [More…]
We appreciate that surveys have shown that the primary reason why so many young people are unemployed is that they lack experience and they lack the skills required by employers- either specific skills or a broad range of educational competence. [More…]
It is for that reason that we as a government believe that we must tackle this area constructively and positively, starting with the children in schools, prior to the end of compulsory schooling, and extending beyond that period into technical and further education and into a range of vocational training as well as work experience programs. [More…]
The honourable gentleman would be aware of the work undertaken by the Flinders University, the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and the Bureau of Transport Economics. [More…]
I refer to an excellent paper given by Justice Mary Gaudron at the Australian College of Education in Perth. [More…]
There are positive steps to be taken, such as the monitoring and supervising of the introduction of new technology and the promotion of education and retraining. [More…]
In the United States, more than 50 per cent of young people aged between 20 and 24 years are undergoing full time education- itself enormously labour absorptive -while in Australia only 21.4 per cent of young people between the ages of 17 and 22 are in full time or part time education. [More…]
Certainly we lack the educational basis of the United States to create new jobs in the ‘ Information Sector ‘. [More…]
But, corresponding to what I have been saying about capital works, if one looks at the particular areas of spending, such as health, education and welfare, one will see that the cutbacks are much more obvious and one will see the implications of the Government’s strategy much more clearly displayed. [More…]
If the Minister’s statement is true, in other words that most of the students stay here, the effect is that these students are being educated at the Australian taxpayers’ expense and by virtue of that education are then gaining easy permanent residence in this country and are, in fact, depriving their own countries of resources and skills. [More…]
He continues: the Government has decided that private overseas students attending Australian universities and colleges of advanced education, which are fully funded by the Commonwealth, should be called upon to contribute towards the cost of their education. [More…]
We have profited from their misery and it is our moral duty to help them overcome their problems in seeking to develop rapidly their inadequate education facilities by providing these services in Australia. [More…]
The schools could be set up so that not only those who can afford to get to Australia can get here, but also so that those who cannot afford to leave their own countries because they do not have enough money could still attend our educational institutions in those countries. [More…]
Those institutions would be financed by Australia and would enable a broader crosssection of the community in those countries to obtain the benefit of this educational opportunity. [More…]
For all these reasons I think that it is unwise to proceed with this legislation until we have come up with a positive alternative to ensure that the need for education can be met without destroying the hopes of people who wish legitimately to be educated so that they can go back home and genuinely help their countries to develop. [More…]
The Overseas Students Charge Bill introduces an annual charge on overseas students in Australian universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
The Government assumed full responsibility for universities and colleges of advanced education from 1 January 1974. [More…]
The estimated cost of full time students’ tuition fees at universities is $5,500 and for advanced colleges of education it is $4,000. [More…]
The Bill provides for an annual charge for overseas students enrolled at universities and colleges of advanced education and in courses leading to a degree or diploma. [More…]
While we have an identification of programs such as the drug education program, dental health and community health, the National Heart Foundation, the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria and other bodies are crying out for funds to be able to promote the preventive aspects of health. [More…]
For example, I refer to questions of migration, education and so on. [More…]
Other important roles such as public information, research, investigation and education have been neglected because of lack of funds. [More…]
It is an article by the Chairman of its Education Committee, Mr Garth Polkinghorne. [More…]
The organisation was conducted by the Department of Further Education using its staff and some from the Department of Agriculture and Roseworthy College. [More…]
This Tertiary Education Assistance Allowance is paid to many people in the community while they are receiving training. [More…]
On September 17 we learnt that the Minister for Education, Senator Carrick, had said “no” to TEAS for on-farm training. [More…]
I am most upset about this and so is the education committee, but we will continue to try and get training funds for primary industry in SA. [More…]
I am sure that these people who are interested in fostering this on-farm training for young people in South Australia would fully agree with what Mr Polkinghorne, the chairman of the education committee of United Farmers and Graziers of South Australia Incorporated has to say on this matter. [More…]
One of its objectives is to assess the impact of radical teaching in education. [More…]
Other members were Mr C. O. Dolan, Senior Vice-President, Australian Council of Trade Unions; Mr R. G. Fry, Chief Executive and National Director, Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia; Mr T. B. Prescott, proprietor, T. B. Prescott & Co., Motor Engineers; Mr R. H. Wallace, Director of Technical and Further Education, Queensland; and Mr A. M. Coulthard, Secretary, National Training Council. [More…]
Particular strengths in Australia which the Report highlights are the technical and further education system, the initiatives of the National Training Council and its industry training committees, and the training programs such as the National Employment and Training System and the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Full-time Training. [More…]
Some of the major recommendations include: Continuing support and development of the tripartite network of the National Training Council and Industry Training Committees as the major means of involving all parties in assessment of industry training needs; growing involvement of industry in assisting technical and further education- TAFE-authorities to develop training relevant to meeting industry needs; development of the NEAT program to meet the need for further training and upgrading of existing employees in firms, as well as of the current focus of NEAT upon the unemployed; expansion of the National Training Council’s sponsored group training schemes which help groups of small companies to join together to meet common training needs; continuing development of new trade training arrangements which increase quantity and quality of trade training; and support for Crawford and Williams recommendations aimed at improving the availability of manpower information, particularly information concerning skills shortages in industry. [More…]
Also, many of the areas covered by the report are matters to which the Government is giving continued attention and which are complemented by related studies commissioned by the Government, such as the Crawford Study Group on Structural Adjustment, the Williams Committee of Inquiry into Education, Training and Employment, and the current Myers Committee of Inquiry into Technological Change in Australia. [More…]
In preparing the Government’s response to the Mission’s recommendations, I have sought the views of my State Labour Minister colleagues and the Australian Education Council, as well as the National Training Council and its network of industry training committees. [More…]
Most also included government and education authorities. [More…]
This group has been expanded, quite validly and sensibly, to include education authorities. [More…]
I would have thought, from the committees that we have had in operation in Australia quite recently looking at education and retraining, that an authority such as those working in most of those countries should be, at least, debated in this Parliament. [More…]
The specific purpose programs are for child migrant education, disadvantaged schools and students in disadvantaged country areas, special education for handicapped children including children living in institutions, services and development and special projects. [More…]
There has been a broadening of the provisions within the multicultural education program to provide for national level projects, to facilitate the program’s administration and to encourage schools to be more responsive to the multicultural needs of all children. [More…]
They worked very hard to raise the level of pre-school education available in New South Wales. [More…]
Perhaps I should say that the policy of the Government for some years now has been that pre-school education is essentially a State government responsibility. [More…]
Department of Education [More…]
In relation to the proposed expenditure for the Department of Education: [More…]
I mention that the departments covering the areas of health, welfare and education spend about $14.5 billion per annum, which is about 46 per cent of the total outlays of the Commonwealth. [More…]
There is an expectation of failure built into the educational system in the west. [More…]
It is taken for granted that very few of them will complete their secondary education. [More…]
It is taken for granted that only a handful of them will go on to any kind of tertiary education. [More…]
The result is, of course, that if one happens to live in Camberwell or Malvern or in any of the suburbs of the east of Melbourne it is taken for granted that there is a very high chance, a very high probability, that one or more of one ‘s children will complete their secondary education and will go on to tertiary education. [More…]
It is true that a couple of departments of Melbourne University connected with veterinary science and agriculture are located in my electorate but, on the whole, there are very few opportunities for further education in the west. [More…]
I think that we ought to be doing far more towards providing further and better facilities, particularly for education in the west. [More…]
I mention that the gift provisions already apply to gifts to the Council for Christian Education in Schools representing the Protestant churches and the Council for Jewish Education in Schools. [More…]
-by leave-I present a statement by the Tertiary Education Commission entitled ‘Funding of Tertiary Education’. [More…]
Due to the importance of this inquiry, it has decided to table the submission from the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
This submission to the Public Accounts Committee is the first definitive statement by the Tertiary Education Commission, which was established in June 1977, on its functions and operations. [More…]
The submission not only provides details of the procedures followed by the Commission in recommending Commonwealth funds for tertiary education and in administering approved programs but also describes the respective roles of the Commission, State authorities and tertiary institutions. [More…]
The Public Accounts Committee and the Tertiary Education Commission’s Chairman, Professor Peter Karmel, believe the early publication of this document will give individuals and institutions a further opportunity to provide comment to the Committee before it formally takes oral evidence. [More…]
The Public Accounts Committee ‘s inquiry into the funding of tertiary education was initiated in May 1979 to review the arrangements for Commonwealth funding of universities, colleges of advanced education and technical and further education with particular reference to the respective roles of the Commonwealth, State and institutional bodies concerned and with the objective to find whether the administration and co-ordination of funding arrangements are cost effective. [More…]
To inquire into the system of grants to support tertiary education; [More…]
To inquire into the operations of the Tertiary Education Commission and its associated councils with particular reference to: [More…]
The relationships between the Commission and the councils and State education co-ordinating authorities, State departments concerned with education, and tertiary education institutions; [More…]
The procedures adopted by the Commission and the councils to evaluate, or have evaluated, tertiary education institutions, their courses and the ‘product’ of tertiary education; and [More…]
The procedures adopted by the Commission and the councils to investigate, report on and recommend alternative action for the allocation of resources in the tertiary education sector. [More…]
As a result of our Federal-State Public Accounts Committee conference in June 1977, it was agreed that real advantages might be gained in conducting inquiries into subjects such as education where concurrent responsibilities existfor example sections 107 and 108 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
During the inquiry, the Committee sought submissions from several departments and government authorities and held public hearings into matters relating to the Departments of Defence, Education, Primary Industry and National Development as well as the Canberra Commercial Development Authority. [More…]
In examining aspects of the Department of Education’s control over student assistance allowances, the Committee is aware of the Department’s difficulties in reconciling the need for prompt and regular payment of benefits with the demands of proper control of public moneys. [More…]
The Committee has recommended changes to the application forms for the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme which it believes will place greater onus on students to recognise and act upon their responsibility to advise the Department of status changes. [More…]
I have mentioned health, education and housing. [More…]
This Bill provides for grants amounting to $225.3m to the States for 1980 for the capital and equipment programs of universities and colleges of advanced education and for the recurrent and capital funding of technical and further education. [More…]
Northern Territory for 1980, for advanced education and TAFE recurrent purposes and for major building projects in relation to the provision of tertiary education. [More…]
In order that the Northern Territory be funded under the same arrangements as apply in the States the Bill also provides $2.8m for advanced education recurrent purposes in the Northern Territory for 1 98 1 . [More…]
The States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1978 provided grants to the States for universities, colleges of advanced education and TAFE institutions for 1979 as well as recurrent grants for universities and colleges of advanced education for 1980 and 1981. [More…]
The grants provided for in the Bill are consistent with those announced by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in the Senate on 16 October. [More…]
The Bill puts into effect arrangements relating to the consideration of new teaching developments in universities and colleges of advanced education which have been agreed to by the Australian Education Council and endorsed by the Government. [More…]
Under the present Act, the Tertiary Education Committee is required to approve, for funding purposes, all courses of advanced education; it has exercised control over major new developments in universities through its financial recommendations. [More…]
The Bill introduces a new system under which universities and advanced education authorities, subject to State requirements for co-ordination, may introduce new courses of study which do not fall within classes declared by the Minister on the advice of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
It is intended that these classes will cover new developments of national significance involving major financial or educational implications or potential duplication among the three sectors. [More…]
The Bill provides a definition of courses of advanced education which is necessary in view of the new arrangements for teaching developments. [More…]
Minister on the recommendation of the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
It is intended that the kinds of awards determined by the Minister will be the categories currently recognised by the Australian Council on Awards in Advanced Education. [More…]
Under the existing legislation, payments of advanced education building grants to the States, must be transmitted to the colleges concerned without undue delay, despite the fact that some projects may run ahead of schedule while others may fall behind. [More…]
These amounts were approved within the programs for advanced education for the 1979-81 triennium. [More…]
In the case of ASIO, the problems were nepotism, lack of education, lack of training and poor recruitment. [More…]
Queensland also has the lowest expenditure on education per head of any State. [More…]
Queensland spends less on education. [More…]
If Tasmania was not getting enough money for hospitals, education, forests or anything else, it was pointed out that this dreadful Commonwealth Grants Commission was dictating to the State as to how it should raise the money for its Budget. [More…]
I find it strange that in a country of 14 million people, strongly endowed with the world’s most valuable resources, enjoying one of the highest standards of living in the world and spending $14.7 billion annually on health, welfare and education, areas of real need involving minuscule appropriations remain relatively ignored. [More…]
However, a restricted document compiled by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development, Directorate for Social Affairs, Manpower and Education was referred to in the Financial Review just a few days ago. [More…]
The comparisons and predictions of higher youth unemployment in the 1 980s are contained in a restricted document compiled by the OECD’s Directorate for Social Affairs, Manpower and Education. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Education relating to the meeting of the Australian Education Council held in Perth on 25 and 26 October 1979. [More…]
I would suggest that graduating doctors be required to do some time in the country as part of their education. [More…]
These problems are in the area of housing, education and very serious unemployment. [More…]
That, in view of the report by the Directorate for Social Affairs, Manpower and Education of the OECD on Youth Unemployment released on 27 September this year that ‘the outlook for a return to full employment over the next few years is much more gloomy in the light of recent increases in oil prices’, this Parliament determines that as a matter of urgency a Joint Committee should be established to inquire into the effect which the Government’s decision to go to world parity on oil pricing is having on employment opportunities in Australia. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that family allowance rates have been frozen since 1976 while prices have risen by 48 per cent; that a family with four children is now $7 a week worse off than before the family allowance was introduced; that the maternity allowance has been abolished; that family allowance has been discontinued for students receiving the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowance; that the TEAS allowance would have to be increased by something like $10 a week to provide the same spending power as it did in 1975; and that an extra $ 1 7 a week would be required to restore a family on average weekly earnings to the living standard it enjoyed at the end of 1975? [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Education aware that, since 1974, the academic staff of the Department of External Studies at the University of Queensland had declined from 56 to 37 and, as a consequence, there has been a reduction in the number of subjects available to external students? [More…]
I refer to my previous representation on this subject and ask the Minister: What action can be taken to ensure that the services of the Department of External Studies at that University are restored to provide an acceptable level of tertiary education to people in the Northern Territory and also outback Queensland? [More…]
-I know that the Minister for Education in another place will be aware of the representations of the honourable member on this matter. [More…]
The working group will be representative of the Department of Home Affairs, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Department of Education, the Department of Social Security, the Department of Science and the Environment and the National Library of Australia. [More…]
This general review will have regard to the library services currently available at educational institutions and the scope for public access to these and the special library resources and facilities which are available for handicapped persons and proposals for handling any improvements necessary in this field. [More…]
More importantly, the honourable member for Bradfield pointed out that a constructive policy regarding health and education is now beginning. [More…]
With respect to the new international economic order, there is undoubtedly scope within Australia for a domestic education program to make our citizens aware of this international concept and ofthe reality of the interdependence of nations. [More…]
Can he say whether the following public buildings contain asbestos: (a) Parliament House, Canberra; (b) the New South Wales Art Gallery; (c) the National Library; (d) Sydney University’s Indoor Swimming Pool; (e) the Facilities Building (University Hall), and the Humanities I building of the James Cook University of North Queensland; (f) certain buildings of the Canberra College of Advanced Education; (g) the Reserve Bank Building, Canberra; (h) Melrose High School Library and Assembly Hall, Canberra, and (i) Electricity House, Canberra. [More…]
The educational opportunities, the new expertise, the tertiary education and further development into the electronics field which this development will open up are part and parcel of the huge developments of today. [More…]
In particular, it has been put to the Government that keeping such students within the system disadvantages them by restricting their ability to generate sufficient income to cover the cost of their own education. [More…]
If such students had decided not to continue their education they would not have been affected by the proposed changes. [More…]
The Treasurer claimed that it was necessary to overcome what would be a restriction on the student’s ability to generate sufficient income to cover the cost of his education. [More…]
Later on today we will debate major education Bills. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: whilst not declining to give the Bill a second reading, the House is of opinion that the Government should be condemned for (a) the continuing decline in funding of Australian schools by its failure to honour its firm undertaking to provide for a minimum growth rate of 2 per cent per annum in real terms for schools and (b) its failure to respond to glaring deficiencies and developing needs in the education system highlighted in reports to the Government by its advisory bodies ‘. [More…]
To the second Bill, the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill (No. [More…]
That all words after ‘That’ be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: whilst not declining to give the Bill a second reading, the House is of the opinion that the Government should be condemned for the (a) continuing decline in funding in real terms for tertiary education in Australia and the consequent long-term detrimental effects on the quality and standard of tertiary institutions and (b) continuing pressure being placed on State Governments to share the cost of tertiary education ‘. [More…]
In my remarks I wish to concentrate on the deficiencies in the education system and the sorts of advice the Government is getting, as well as, in the Opposition’s view, the totally inadequate response by the Government to this advice. [More…]
Of course, the Government has a number of competent professional advisory bodies at all levels in the field of education. [More…]
He is associated with members who represent all the sectors of education- state schools, Catholic schools, other independent schools and State education departments. [More…]
They succeed in arriving at a consensus view; in other words, their reports represent a diverse range of approaches to the problems of education. [More…]
Then there is the Tertiary Education Commission which is headed by Dr Peter Karmel. [More…]
It was that committee of inquiry into education which evolved the needs policy- a policy which I like to think ended much of the divisiveness caused by the State aid argument that had been bedevilling the community for many years. [More…]
Dr Karmel was surrounded and accompanied by experienced committee members drawn from education, business and the trade union movement. [More…]
For instance, in his statement on the Schools Commission report of 1978, the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) had this to say: [More…]
It had wide-ranging terms of reference and, of course, most of its recommendations related to tertiary education. [More…]
But a very important set of those recommendations dealt with youth unemployment and the place of schools and of technical and further education in helping the community and the young unemployed deal with this problem. [More…]
Changes in the philosophy and administration of the schools cannot have caused the sharp increase in teenage unemployment, but there is a long-standing youth unemployment problem and changes in the philosophy and administration of education could possibly contribute to a solution. [More…]
The inadequacy of curricula is particularly clear in the area of career education where early school leavers are concerned. [More…]
The Committee supports the proposals in the TEND Committee report that, in pre-service education, all teachers should be introduced to the ideas and techniques involved in school-community relations, and the ACTU proposals that, to learn about, or update their knowledge of, the world of work outside the teaching profession there should be a continuing series of seminars on the world of work, and the provision of opportunities for the short-period release or secondment of teachers to other fields of work. [More…]
Schemes of public financial support to individuals in full-time education beyond the end of compulsory schooling, and to those desiring work but unable to find it, need to be reviewed, both for their internal consistency and in relation to each other. [More…]
Many of these individuals might be better served by further education of an appropriate kind. [More…]
By rejecting the Schools Commission advice, the Government goes against sensible opinion in all sectors of education in Australia which are basically satisfied with the present machinery and arrangements. [More…]
The way the Government is behaving, one would think that all our education problems had been resolved. [More…]
The need to strengthen co-operative education evaluation and decision-making in schools in which all teachers participate and in which parents and students are also involved is seen by the Commission as educationally desirable and as a necessary condition of greater autonomy for schools. [More…]
None of this can be achieved without educational innovations, such as the sorts of things that the Schools Commission, the Williams Committee and the Tertiary Education Commission have been talking about. [More…]
Generally it is a fact of life that the more affluent and better educated classes receive most benefit from overall spending on the education system. [More…]
At the moment it can be argued that education is a divisive force in our society which separates in terms of opportunities and then reinforces differences in attitudes between various groups and interests. [More…]
In the interests of long term social cohesion of our society, and to enhance our ability to cope with overall national challenges, the Labor Party, if in government, would aim in its education policy to continue in a selective manner to give assistance to areas of identifiable educational disadvantage, which include ethnic groups, rural youth and our inner city areas. [More…]
We would aim to harness education as part of an overall youth policy dealing constructively with the problems of unemployed youth. [More…]
A youth scheme which offers the choice of education, employment, part time work, subsidised training or voluntary community activities for all youth aged between school-leaving age and 1 8 years is an essential development for the future. [More…]
We must ensure means of funding recurrent education to allow persons to gain access to necessary educational provisions and retraining at all times of life. [More…]
In practice the Commission has been a considerable influence towards social cohesion, and has done much to dissipate religious intolerance and bigotry in the educational field in Australia. [More…]
We must attempt to define the roles of various institutions, particularly universities, the Commission on Advanced Education and technical and further education. [More…]
It is important that the public has a clear perception and is confident of the structure and purposes of our education system. [More…]
We must ensure that institutional barriers between various sectors of the post-secondary education system are lowered to ensure ease of access from one to. [More…]
A Labor government would encourage a balance between training and education in our schools and postsecondary institutions. [More…]
A proper education at any level requires both aspects, particularly in rimes of marked social and technological change. [More…]
We must make our educational institutions more flexible to meet manpower projections and requirements, to ensure proper rewards are available to the trained. [More…]
However, non-vocational education defined as ‘humanities, hobbies, crafts and leisure activities’ should be offered at appropriate levels by all institutions. [More…]
Learning exchanges, self-help groups, adult education councils, schools, TAFE, CAEs and universities all have a role here. [More…]
An important link between national goals and the education system is the need for Australia to become a technologically advanced society. [More…]
None of these objectives can be achieved by an education system in isolation and will need to be integrated with other government activities. [More…]
However, action by the education system is essential to its fulfilment. [More…]
The present Liberal Government, other than cutting costs in a manner which affects disproportionately the most needy in our society, exhibits no coherent intellectual vitality on the issues of educational philosophy which will be of most use to the nation in the 1 980s. [More…]
before the Parliament are the States Grants (Schools Assistance) Bill 1979 and the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Amendment Bill (No. [More…]
The Commonwealth interest in education began in the post- World War II era but, more precisely, it began in the late 1950s. [More…]
That interest caused a situation to develop so that in the early 1960s the arguments on the Commonwealth’s interest in education were: If only this country could spend 3 per cent or 4 per cent of the gross domestic product on education everything would be okay. [More…]
I can recollect the statements put out by National Union of Australian University Students- a body now defunct- talking about the days when 3 per cent or more of the gross domestic product would be spent on education and everything would be all right, that we would have arrived where we ought to have arrived. [More…]
But the education program in which the Commonwealth was interested began most appropriately in the late 1950s. [More…]
The Murray Commission report of 1957- presaged the Commonwealth’s interest and concern in terms of university education. [More…]
The 1963-64 era projected the Commonwealth into an interest in terms of secondary education, in other words, education below the tertiary level. [More…]
It was simply that money spent on education was always well spent. [More…]
It stated the simple point that if you only had money spent on education, it became the great engine of” economic growth. [More…]
The reasoning was simply that dollars spent on education meant growth and that the dollars spent on education meant prosperity- whatever prosperity meantand that the dollars spent on education meant happiness. [More…]
Australia now knows that education is a far more complex situation than would have been thought in the 1950s. [More…]
I make the point that what is important is to look at the most effective expenditure of money in education and to look at it in terms of its program effectiveness. [More…]
That brings us to consider the needs principle in education. [More…]
Karmel developed an interest in terms of the needs principle for education. [More…]
The honourable member for Maribyrnong (Dr Cass), who has an interest in this area, would be unfair to try to purloin for himself or his own Party any overwhelming concern or a concern to the exclusion of others in respect of genuine needs in education. [More…]
It is a far cry from the day when it was said that little needed to be spent on education. [More…]
To prevent that dance from occuring it was decided that money spent on education ought to be so spent and ought to have a role in developing fair shares and a sense of justice in society. [More…]
That is of the present system- is that students in a high proportion of non-government schools still have less spent on their education than those in government schools. [More…]
They have been mean, parsimonious, stingy and quite unjust in their consideration of what in general terms is the largest sector of the Australian education system in need below tertiary education. [More…]
I know that in the House tonight there are some people who are very interested in education. [More…]
I am delighted to know that the Chairman of the Education Committee of the Institute of Public Affairs, Mr Roger Dean- the former honourable member for Robertson- is listening. [More…]
I know that he would be glowing with excitement and interest in this debate on education. [More…]
-Before the Schools Commission report comes out each year the Commonwealth indicates its transfer of funds to education. [More…]
Every member of this House knows that is the minority of funds which goes to support children in education. [More…]
The Commonwealth does it to make up for the meanness and parsimony of those who are principally obliged and concerned in terms of education. [More…]
In terms of Kuznets’ original proposition, if one makes the point that money spent on education is worthwhile and helps a country to grow, and if Australia has expended far more real and proportional resources on education in recent years than it has in past years, the question is: How much are we going to allocate to those areas most in need? [More…]
I have been watching some of the cases before the High Court in respect of the Commonwealth’s interest in education and I have looked at the challenge to section 116 of the Constitution, which challenge I say is dripping with venom and bitterness. [More…]
The ultimate intent of the challenge, as has been made clear in propaganda which has been sent to members of Parliament in recent days, has been to say: ‘Let the Commonwealth get out of education. [More…]
In other words, the intent is to return that vulnerable sector of education to the States that have shown little interest in it in any case. [More…]
Once upon a time we could spend our private resources on education. [More…]
It is painfully clear to any novice that the Government, by stealth, has embarked on a deliberate course away from the needs policy and maintenance of effort, to a policy of gradual reintroduction of per capita grants and an attitude of laissez faire with regard to State education funding. [More…]
The guidelines of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) issued to the Commission confirm the relentless drift in policy. [More…]
The Queensland Minister for Education recently announced cuts in the areas of teachers’ aides, relieving teachers, janitors, groundsmen and school cleaning and administrative staff. [More…]
This is just one example of how the States will be responding to cuts in Federal Government allocations for education. [More…]
Similarly, this Government can abdicate its responsibilities for education, but there is no guarantee that the States will take up the slack. [More…]
That table indicates that, in 1978, Queensland education expenditure on capital works for each student was $87 compared to $ 127 in New South Wales, $ 1 50 in Victoria, $126 in South Australia, $128 in Western Australia, and $210 in Tasmania. [More…]
I now wish to deal with the Federal Government’s motivation for adopting such a negative attitude to education funding. [More…]
Firstly, for those so innocent, naive or brainwashed as my friend, the beekeeper is- I refer to the honourable member for Holt (Mr Yates)- as to doubt that there have been cuts in education, let us examine table B3 of the Schools Commission Report for this year. [More…]
Now, if some coalition faithfuls- we have the beekeeper again- still need to be persuaded that the Government has indeed aborted general education in Australia, let me go further than 1976 to make a comparison between this Government and the record of the Labor Government on education- a record on which we shall be proud to campaign in the next election. [More…]
In 1971-72, expenditure for education was $327m. [More…]
In 1970-71 dollar terms, education expenditure for 1973-74 was an increase of 92.8 per cent. [More…]
In constant 1970-71 dollar terms, the growth in Commonwealth Government outlays for education during the present Government’s two terms in office has been 2.8 per cent in 1976-77, a negative 0.4 per cent in 1977-78, a negative 2.1 per cent in 1 978-79 and a negative 6.3 per cent in 1979-80. [More…]
These figures include total expenditure on education, that is, figures on expenditure for tertiary education which, by virtue of decisions taken by the Labor Government during its terms, has taken a greater percentage of the Government’s allocation. [More…]
Whilst I am sure that there are a few hardheaded Government apologists who will stand by this regime through thick and thin- and there has been plenty of thin so far as general education is concerned- I trust that the figures to which I have referred have done something to stir their minds and their consciences, even if they do not stir the bees. [More…]
What are the other results from this retreat from education? [More…]
Cuts in education have meant a retrenchment of staff, less money for research and therefore the deterioration of research which has enormous long term implications for Australia. [More…]
There has been a reduction in student services and increases in staff/student ratios with appalling consequences for the quality of education. [More…]
Last, but by no means least in importance, cuts in education have resulted in educational discrimination against disadvantaged and minority groups. [More…]
Just as the Government reintroduced the element of politics into pensions, so too it has made education funding a political football. [More…]
So not only is there a non-government tilt in the allocations of funds for schools assistance, but even within that sector of education there is open discrimination in favour of the wealthier private schools. [More…]
When it comes to the issue of education we have an old boy network rather than men in a government who put memories of the social and economic elitism of their own private school educations ahead of the needs of all schools in this country. [More…]
It is doing the same thing to education. [More…]
If we have had wild and contradictory health cuts, if we have had utter passivity by this Government about libraries in this country, what we have had in the educational field is simply a nibbling away, a cutting back year by year in a marginal fashion of educational provisions- a process of remorseless attrition. [More…]
The man who has presided over education has never presented a single educational ideal to this country. [More…]
His only interest in education is somehow to cut back the resources. [More…]
The honourable member for Lilley dared to talk about a bipartisan, imaginative approach to education. [More…]
If honourable members go through the speeches of the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick)- I challenge them to examine those speeches- they will find that they are completely bereft of ideas. [More…]
I think honourable members will search in vain for a new idea in education in any of the speeches delivered in this Parliament by the present Minister for Education. [More…]
Not a single innovation is suggested in any of those speeches in relation to educational policy in this country. [More…]
There is not a single imaginative proposal towards educational developments in this country. [More…]
There is not a single challenging idea about education compared to the wealth of ideas that poured forth from the Labor Minister for Education in the previous Government. [More…]
Under this Minister education is simply an issue of dollars and cents. [More…]
Indeed, like the whole Government, the Minister for Education when faced with an idea is like a rabbit paralysed before a snake. [More…]
The Minister told us in September that the Williams Report on Education, Training and Employment, the major report on education in this country in recent years, was under study by the Government and that in due course its recommendations and findings would come before the Senate. [More…]
I want to consider university education which we have not talked about specifically. [More…]
What is worrying me is that the financial obsessions of this Government are not only eroding the educational potential of this country but also, if one considers universities, one sees that under this Government tertiary institutions have been increasingly entrapped in a most complex bureaucratic machine in relation to the distribution of resources. [More…]
Yet in its effort to control educational finance at university and colleges of advanced education level it has created an appalling, complex administrative process for dealing with tertiary education. [More…]
The Tertiary Education Commission states: [More…]
It is quite impossible for the Tertiary Education Commission to perform its functions in consultation with State authorities . [More…]
The Tertiary Education Commission says the same thing. [More…]
Apart from the lack of time to undertake a deliberate examination of medium and long term requirements in ternary education, whether at the level of the Commission and Councils, State authorities or institutions, the lack of a guarantee of the magnitude of the funds available for the second and third years of the rolling triennium prevents any effective forward commitments for new expenditure from being made. [More…]
I think it is important for all of us to protest against the growing inflexibility of this bureaucratic procedure and the way in which planning resources are determined for universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
I agree with honourable members on both sides who say that we need to make universities and colleges of advanced education more muscular institutions. [More…]
Roughly, the student populations in universities and colleges of advanced education are levelling out. [More…]
In order to make the best possible use of their resources, universities and colleges of advanced education need to rationalise imaginatively. [More…]
I will not quote again from the Tertiary Education Commission’s report. [More…]
Universities and colleges of advanced education need certain discretionary resources, funds to switch between staff and equipment. [More…]
Of course, the task of those departments is to ensure that every dollar is properly accounted for but a degree of control has been imposed by universities and colleges of advanced education which is in effect a bureaucratic inhibition on rationalisation within the university and college of advanced education sector. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 7 June 1979: [More…]
1 ) What is the total volume of fuel consumed per annum by motor vehicles operated by the Department of Education and statutory authorities and business undertakings under the Minister’s control. [More…]
Pursuant to section 12 of the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 I present a report entitled ‘Child Migrant Education 1978-79’. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report of the Australian National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation for the 1977-78 biennium, together with the text of a statement by the Minister for Education relating to the report. [More…]
But so are the skills in our community because of the greater amount of education we have compared with many of our competitors. [More…]
That high technology project, its research and development, has itself been built on the high standard of education which we have in this country. [More…]
Our people have a relatively high standard of education. [More…]
Certainly, it is higher than the general level of education of most of our neighbours. [More…]
This was caused in large part by a reduction in this Government’s spending on capital works, health, education and social services. [More…]
I think that it is a pretty important question to get some information for policy in regard to education and other matters. [More…]
The Australian National University Amendment Bill 1 979 brings together in one Bill a number of amendments that relate to the Australian National University Act, and replaces the Amendment Bill that was introduced by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in the Senate on 24 November last year. [More…]
The sections of the Bill dealing with student organisations will provide that: Membership of a student organisation will be voluntary; fees payable in respect of membership of a student organisation will be voluntary; compulsory fees can only be used for the provision of amenities or services; where the Council of the University makes compulsory fees moneys available to a student organisation for the provision by that organisation of approved amenities or services, the Council must first be satisfied that the governing body of that organisation is representative of its members; in addition, where the Council of the University makes compulsory fees moneys available to a student organisation for the provision by that organisation of amenities or services, then it is the duty of the Council to ensure that the moneys are applied only in respect of the provision of amenities or services that are not of an academic nature, that are of direct benefit to the University, and that have been declared in university statutes to be amenities or services in respect of that organisation; compulsory fees moneys are not to be paid to a national organisation which represents students but they may be paid to national student organisations whose principal function has to do with sporting or recreational activities, or with a particular education, social or cultural field, or with the interests of post-graduate students; financial statements are to be prepared and audited each year showing details of the manner in which compulsory fees have been expended. [More…]
The Council of the University believes that the name School of General Studies, which has the connotation of ‘general’ studies or adult education, is inappropriate as the name of the undergraduate arm of the University. [More…]
The Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill 1979 also replaces the Bill which was introduced by the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in the Senate in November last year. [More…]
This Bill allows for the insertion into the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act of provisions similar to those in the Australian National University Amendment Bill which will give effect to the Government’s policy on membership of student organisations and, in addition, amends the financial provisions in the Act to bring them into line with current Commonwealth provisions. [More…]
In addition to these provisions, the Bill maintains the relationship which exists in the Act between the Minister for Education and the College. [More…]
Finally, as with the Australian National University Bill, the opportunity has been taken to amend the financial provisions of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Act so that they are in line with current Commonwealth provisions. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 30 May 1979: [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 22 August 1979: [More…]
For what programs and policies concerning immigrants has the Department of Education been responsible in each year from 1 970 to date. [More…]
On what dates did the transfer of responsibility for programs and policies referred to in pan ( 1 ) to or from the Department of Education take effect. [More…]
With what other Federal or State Government Departments or authorities does the Department of Education share responsibility for the programs and policies referred to in part ( 1 ). [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: ( 1 ), (4) and (5) The programs and policies concerning immigrants for which the Department of Education has had responsibilities in each financial year from 1970 to date are set out below. [More…]
Child and Adult Migrant Education Programs- From 1970-71 until 1973-74 both the Child and Adult Migrant Education Programs were administered by the former Department of Immigration with the Department of Education (Education and Science until the end of 1972) providing consultative advisory and servicing functions. [More…]
Education was directly responsible for the development and production of English language teaching and learning materials. [More…]
Full responsibility both for the Child and Adult Migrant Education Programs was transferred to the Department of Education from the Department of Immigration on 12 June 1974. [More…]
On 1 January 1976 the responsibility under the Child Migrant Education Program for the provision of funds for specialist teachers and in-service training was passed to the Schools Commission. [More…]
The Department of Education continued to exercise responsibility for overall policy, the demountable classroom program, the contingency program for refugee children, emergency classroom accommodation for refugee children, teaching and learning materials and assistance in teacher education [More…]
As from 20 December 1977 the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs assumed responsibility for the Adult Migrant Education Program. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 23 August 1979: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) and (2) The Williams Report on Education, Training and Employment examined the question of research in Australian universities, at length. [More…]
Apprentices are taken on in the normal way in the public and private sectors and employers- where eligible- are paid a rebate for the release of their apprentices to undertake the technical education component of their basic trade course (normally 3 years) or to undertake an offthejob training programme. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 10 October 1979: [More…]
1 ) Was expenditure on the lease or rental of office accommodation, storage areas, teaching space and portable buildings, accepted as a proper expenditure for college purposes by colleges and co-ordinating authorities under the provision of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Act 1976, 1977, 1978 by the Auditor-General and the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
Were any specific approvals required from the Tertiary Education Commission or the Advanced Education Council for the expenditures listed in part (1) and/or were any conditions attached to this expenditure by the Tertiary Education Commission or the Advanced Education Council. [More…]
Have the Auditor-General and the Tertiary Education Commission accepted expenditure on the lease or rental of equipment including vehicle hire, telephones, telex and other communication equipment, computing and peripheral equipment, printing and other reproductive equipment, scientific and general teaching equipment, as a proper expenditure for college purposes under the appropriate provisions of the States Grants (Tertiary Education Assistance) Acts 1976, 1977, 1978. [More…]
Were any specific approvals required from the Tertiary Education Commission or the Advanced Education Council for the expenditure listed in part (5) and /or were any conditions attached to this expenditure by the Tertiary Education Commission or the Advanced Education Council. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
1 ) A condition of the grants for college purposes under the States Grants Acts for tertiary education assistance in 1976, 1977 and 1978 is that the State will cause to be provided to the Commission an audited statement of expenditure on college purposes by each college during the relevant year. [More…]
The Tertiary Education Commission does not collect data showing amounts expended by institutions on the rental or lease of accommodation. [More…]
Target levels for colleges of advanced education and universities are not set in terms of commencing students. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 23 October 1979: [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that the Tasmanian Minister for Education (Mr Holgate) plans to reduce or even close down the Mount Nelson campus of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: (1 to 3) Since 1 976 various changes have taken place in the structure of tertiary education in Tasmania. [More…]
I understand that the State considers that these changes require an examination of the use being made of the Mount Nelson campus of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]
The Tasmanian Minister for Education has announced his intention of establishing a committee to study the accommodation requirements for tertiary education in southern Tasmania. [More…]
The possibility of relocating some elements of the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education in buildings in Hobart, other than the Mount Nelson campus, is apparently one of the matters under consideration. [More…]
The constitutional power over education lies with the State. [More…]
However, the Commonwealth provides the funds for the university and the college of advanced education. [More…]
If the Tasmanian Government were to develop proposals which could alter the level or nature of such funding, it would be necessary for the proposals to be considered by the Commonwealth Government in the light of advice provided by the Tertiary Education Commission. [More…]
People can talk about health, education, housing and all sorts of things but unless the Aboriginal people who still live in tribal communities are given land rights the other things do not seem to matter a great deal. [More…]
Greater understanding can be brought about by better education at a number of levels. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Grants are provided for building and equipment projects, general recurrent expenditure, migrant education, disadvantaged schools, special schools, and for schools in need of short-term emergency assistance. [More…]
Grants provided under this legislation are made available on condition that the recipient furnish to the Commonwealth Minister for Education, within a specified time, a certificate by a qualified accountant verifying that the grant money has been applied for the purpose for which it was given. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
These growing enrolments are clear evidence of recognition by State Education Departments and schools of the importance which needs to be attached to the teaching and study of Asian languages. [More…]
The Committee comprised representatives of all State Departments of Education, as well as of my Department, and its life was to have been five years. [More…]
by leave- The Commonwealth Government is concerned about the problems of young people in making the transition from school to work or to further education, and is prepared to join with the States and the Northern Territory in developing a comprehensive policy to assist them. [More…]
It is envisaged that a range of developments in the interests of young people making the transition from school to employment will be stimulated or extended as a result of this initiative and that in the longer term the education system as a whole will become better geared to the needs of young people in the changing circumstances of the 1980s. [More…]
We wish to provide appropriate education and training courses for them and also tackle the problem of those in the schools who are likely to be in similar difficulties when it comes their turn to leave. [More…]
Expansion and development of transition courses in technical and further education institutions, including pre-apprenticeship, prevocational and pre-employment courses. [More…]
Expansion of the number of places available in the Education Program for Unemployed Youth-EPUY. [More…]
Expansion of school counsellor, vocational education and guidance services to provide more intensive and comprehensive assistance for students at risk and their parents. [More…]
Establishment of after-school and vacation programs of vocational education and counselling. [More…]
Community education projects to include increasing employers’ and parents’ understanding of school activities and programs to increase teachers’ awareness of specific employment requirements for new employees. [More…]
It considers, however, that there is a need for substantial changes and development in education, training and preparation for initial employment for a significant minority of young people who have unsatisfactory experiences at this important and formative stage of their lives. [More…]
The Government has decided, therefore, to commence a program of special action directed to the transition from education to working life. [More…]
The aim of the Commonwealth ‘s policy is that ultimately all young people in the 15 to 19 years age group be provided with options in education, training and employment, or any combination of these, either part time or full time, so that unemployment becomes the least acceptable alternative. [More…]
Progress towards this objective is seen as involving development of improved techniques for identifying children at school who are likely to be at risk in transition from education to work, improved vocational education and counselling services and provision of alternative courses for at risk* students. [More…]
In addition, expansion and development of TAFE programs, such as pre-apprenticeship and preemployment courses and the EPUY program, which contribute to the successful transition of young people to employment is regarded as an important element of a comprehensive transition education and training program. [More…]
In the development of programs the Government would wish to see attention given to the particular problems which girls have in making the transition from education to employment. [More…]
Over a period the Commonwealth wishes to see the pattern of allowances and benefits for young people, and of related assistance to industry, reorganised to ensure that these separate measures provide the appropriate incentives to participation in education and training. [More…]
They are consistent with the deliberations of the Australian Education Council, which led the State, Northern Territory and Commonwealth Ministers for Education who constitute the Council, at its meeting last month, to endorse the need for a comprehensive policy on transition from school to work. [More…]
The developments are also a natural consequence of the findings of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]
They will be provided, as special grants, in addition to the programs of the Tertiary Education Commission and the Schools Commission. [More…]
The particular purposes for which the grants may be spent will be worked out in discussions with State, territorial and nongovernment education authorities to commence immediately the States and the Northern Territory accept the Commonwealth’s offer. [More…]
The Government will invite the Tertiary Education Commission and the Schools Commission to take account of this new policy in the development of their program proposals. [More…]
Employers should develop closer links with education systems, particularly at the local school level, in the interests of, on the one hand, schools understanding better the requirements of the work place and, on the other hand, employers appreciating more clearly the education processs and the difficulties faced by young people and their teachers in preparing adequately for the complex requirements of life and work in the 1980s and 1990s. [More…]
by leave- I am speaking because the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) has put out this statement simultaneously with the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs (Mr Viner). [More…]
The Government is proposing expansion and development of transition courses in technical and further education and full time courses for up to one year in duration to prepare young people for vocations, particularly in trades and technical occupations where shortages of skilled workers still exist. [More…]
These deficiencies in the education system have been known for years. [More…]
Finally it suggested that it was very important to consider schemes which deal with the problem of youth unemployment, the place of schools and of technical and further education in helping the community and the young unemployed to deal with this problem. [More…]
The Government mentions the aim of its policy is that ultimately all young people in the 1 5 to 19-year age group would be provided with options in education, training and employment, or any combination of these, either part time or full time, so that unemployment becomes the least acceptable alternative. [More…]
The main purpose of both Bills, the Australian National University Amendment Bill and the Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill, although it is not obvious from reading the clauses of the Bills, is to dismember and destroy the Australian Union of Students. [More…]
The objectionable clauses in the Bills are clauses 16 and 19 of the Australian National University Amendment Bill and clauses 5 and 6 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill, which are virtually identical in wording. [More…]
The clauses tie the hands of the Australian National University Council and the Canberra College of Advanced Education Council by providing that moneys collected by way of fees shall not be made available to any student organisation- the Australian Union of Students is not actually named at this stage- unless ‘the Council is satisfied that the governing body of the organisation is representative of the members of the organisation’; and by providing that Councils may not pass statutes to authorise expenditure on ‘amenities or services that are not of an academic nature’ unless the provision of these amenities will directly benefit the University, the College of Advanced Education or its students, or promote sporting, recreational, educational, social, cultural or post-graduate interests. [More…]
It is striking, for example, that clause 19 of the Australian National University Amendment Bill and clause 5 of the Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill provide that membership of student unions should not be compulsory. [More…]
They were, of course, stated by Senator Carrick, the Minister for Education, who originated this miserable Bill. [More…]
It was further noted that the Chancellor had received a letter dated 24 October 1979 from the Minister for Education concerning the ANU Amendment Bill 1979. [More…]
The Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor assured the Council that no undertaking had been given to the Department of Education or to the Minister that the University would treat the disposition of the 1 979 fee in accordance with the prospective provisions of the Government’s amendments to the ANU Act. [More…]
3098/1979-Copy of a letter dated 24 October 1979 from the Minister for Education to the Chancellor on Amendments to the ANU Act. [More…]
3099/1979-Copy of a letter dated 26 October 1979 from the Chancellor to the Minister for Education in reply to the Minister’s letter. [More…]
Copy of the Second Reading Speech by the Minister for Education on the Australian National University Amendment Bill 1979. [More…]
to endorse the views of the Vice-Chancellor as expressed in his Information Release, and the Chancellor in his letter to the Minister for Education. [More…]
I rise to speak very briefly in support of the Bills and to oppose the amendment which has been moved by the Opposition in relation to the Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill. [More…]
The thrust of these two Bills - the Australian National University Amendment Bill and the Canberra College of Advanced Education Amendment Bill- represents the Federal Government’s response to the problems of compulsory membership of student organisations, so-called student unionism, and the unrepresentative use of student funds from those campuses for which the Federal Government has some sort of legislative responsibility. [More…]
State: Ministry of Housing, Department of Education. [More…]
State: Office of the Minister for Ethnic Affairs, Education Department, Housing Department, Health Services Department, Social Welfare Department. [More…]
State: Depanment of Health and Medical Services, Education Depanment, Crown Law Department, State [More…]
Education [More…]
Commission on Advanced Education (xi) [More…]
Technical and Further Education Commission (xi) [More…]
The Commission on Advanced Education, the Technical and Further Education Commission and the Universities Commission were replaced by the Tertiary Education Commission on 22 June 1 977. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 22 August 1978: [More…]
Do Education Programs for the Unemployed Youth courses provide unemployed youth with several weeks of technical training in non-certified skills for no specific employment vacancies. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
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asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 9 October 1979: [More…]
3569 (Hansard, 7 June 1979, page 3177), what was concluded in the reports presented to the Australian Education Council meeting in June 1979 by the working parties established by the Council in December 1978 (a) to investigate the co-ordination of planning and administration between the Tertiary Education Commission or the establishment of more appropriate consultative arrangements and (b) to compile information on the transition from school to work. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Government will not introduce shared funding for tertiary education as a topic for discussion at future meetings of the Australian Education Council. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable members question: [More…]
1 ) (a) The Working Party on Commonwealth/State Coordination of Post-Secondary Education made a number of recommendations all of which were adopted by the Australian Education Council at its meeting in June 1979. [More…]
The implementation of these recommendations means that new arrangements are being established with the States for co-operation over the planning and administration of tertiary education. [More…]
There will be regular consultative meetings between the Tertiary Education Commission and State coordinating authorities to discuss general matters in regard to policies and procedures, and to provide a forum for dealing with Australia-wide issues relating to the balanced and coordinated development of tertiary education. [More…]
1 ) (b) The AEC Working Party on Education and Employment presented its report to the special June 1979 meeting of the Australian Education Council. [More…]
These recommendations included that all schools and education systems give immediate attention to the early identification of students considered likely to be ‘at risk’ in the transition from school to work, that schools be encouraged to experiment with alternative programs relevant to the wide ranging needs of students, that the AEC examine means of facilitating re-entry of early school leavers to the education system, particularly to TAFE, that work experience programs and link courses be expanded, that transition services be expanded for special g roups, e.g. [More…]
Aboriginals, the handicapped, country and transient students, and that initiatives be taken to involve the community in transition education. [More…]
The Australian Education Council at its June 1979 meeting set up a small Standing Committee on Transition Education to implement these recommendations and to stimulate action in the States and Territories in co-operation with widely based state committees. [More…]
and (3) The Government has no plans to introduce shared funding for tertiary education as a topic for discussion at future meetings of the Australian Education Council. [More…]
If the States wish, it is open to them to raise the matter individually or through the normal mechanisms of the Australian Education Council. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 11 October 1979: [More…]
1 ) Do conditions governing the payment of Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme allowances preclude the recipients being eligible for supporting parents benefits; if not, how many recipients of the allowances are receiving supporting parents benefits. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Recipients of supporting parents benefit are not precluded from receiving benefits under the Tertiary Education Assistance Scheme (TEAS). [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 16 October 1979: [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the references to the (a) importance of the role of schools in community education for improved community relations and ( b) limited resources currently available for this purpose, which are contained in the 4th Annual Report of the Commissioner for Community Relations. [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply. [More…]
Under Recommendation 45 an additional amount of $5m is being provided by the Commonwealth over a three year period, commencing in 1979, to assist in the area of multicultural education in schools. [More…]
In response to Recommendation 48, the Tertiary Education Commission has approached tertiary institutions throughout Australia with a view to having components on the cultural background of ethnic groups included in appropriate professional courses. [More…]
This phase is concerned with the revision of the draft materials for publication, the production and publication of related materials (movie films, Aboriginal literature), the production and publication of a teacher inservice education package and the dissemination of all materials. [More…]
The interest in the materials being expressed by State Education Departments, as well as by individual teachers, indicates that CDC should aim to make the basic kit, and as many associated materials as possible, available for use at the start of the 1 98 1 school year. [More…]
As further evidence of the Government’s general concern to effect improvements in the field of Aboriginal education, it should be mentioned that the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs discussed with State and Northern Territory Ministers at a recent meeting of the Australian Education Council the promotion of Aboriginal studies in schools. [More…]
The Minister stressed the importance of community education programs to enable all Australians to gain a better understanding of the present situation of Aboriginal people. [More…]
I also draw the honourable member’s attention to the Minister’s report ‘Child Migrant Education 1 978-79 ‘ which I tabled in the Senate on15 November 1979. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 23 October 1979: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following reply to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
Section 23 (z) of the Income Tax Assessment Act exempts income derived by way of a scholarship, bursary or other educational allowance by a student receiving full-time education at a school, college or university. [More…]
Exclusion from the section 23 (z) exemption means that the living allowance, incidentals allowance and thesis allowance payable under a Commonwealth Postgraduate Award are now assessable income in the hands of an award holder but the travelling allowance and establishment allowance are not Expenses of self-education incurred in carrying out the terms of the Award qualify for deduction against an Award holder’s assessable income except for the first $250 of such expenditure which qualifies as concessional expenditure for concessional rebate purposes. [More…]
It is not possible to provide details of total expenditure by the Government to discourage smoking as the Commonwealth supports, or has supported through other funding mechanisms, a wide variety of health education activities carried out in hospitals, health centres and other health agencies. [More…]
asked the Minister representing the Minister for Education, upon notice, on 7 November 1979: [More…]
-The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
No; the Committee recorded its expectation that as Canberra develops provision win be made for the exhibition of examples of industrial design, for a technological museum, for museums of Aboriginal and archaelogical materials and for art education services which will be linked with the Gallery and which the Gallery should notseek to duplicate. [More…]
While there may be some doubt as to the precise definition of a ‘voluntary’ organisation, in relation to the 1974-75 financial year, I received requests from the Technical Teachers Association of Australia, the Australian Parents Council, the Australian Music Examinations Board and the Australian College of Education for funds to establish and /or maintain a national secretariat [More…]
The Government is continuing its contribution, commenced in earlier years to the costs of maintaining the national secretariats of the Australian Association of Adult Education ($17,000 per annum), the Australian Council of State School Organisations ($20,000 per annum ), and the Australian Pre-School Association ($40,000 per annum). [More…]
My remarks there concerning the background to the Government’s decisions on the 1976 education programs apply to this Bill. [More…]
In considering amendments to the principal Act, the Government has sought to make only the minimal changes necessary to implement the 1976 programs in technical and further education. [More…]
The Minister for Education has provided the following answer to the honourable member’s question: [More…]
The Department of Foreign Affairs, in consultation with the Departments of Defence, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, Trade and Resources, National Development, and Education, has given detailed consideration to the Joint Committee’s report and its recommendations. [More…]