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04 November 2011
Victoria Minister for Education Martin Dixon Total Time To Complete Today’s VCE English Exam: 17 Years! Victor P Taffa If every student sitting today’s VCE English exam took the test one after another it would take 17 years to complete. Fortunately, for more than 46,000 Victorian students picking up their pens for the first of the final VCE exams [...]
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03 November 2011
Victoria Minister for Education Martin Dixon Dixon Announces Maintenance Audit Of All Government Schools Following 11 Years Of Labor Neglect Victor P Taffa The Victorian Coalition Government today announced a full audit of the condition of buildings in every government school across the state. Education Minister Martin Dixon said the Condition Assessment Audit was needed following almost 11 years [...]
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02 November 2011
Western Australia Minister for Training and Workforce Development Peter Collier Skilling WA Delivering On WA Workforce Plan Victor P Taffa Review finds Skilling WA growing workforce and developing skills More West Australians in training than ever before Government commits an additional $33.4 Million to extra training places Training and Workforce Development Minister Peter Collier today released a progress report on the [...]
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22 October 2011
Victoria Minister for Higher Education and Skills Peter Hall Coalition Announces First Steps In Vocational Education And Training Reform Victor P Taffa Minister for Higher Education and Skills Peter Hall today announced the first steps in the reform of the vocational education and training (VET) sector, ensuring Victoria’s continued investment in skills and training that is essential to [...]
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22 October 2011
Victoria Minister for Education Martin Dixon Peter Garrett’s Blatant Hypocrisy Exposed Victor P Taffa The Victorian Government rejects Peter Garrett’s latest attack on Victoria in relation to the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) in today’s The Age newspaper. “This is rampant hypocrisy from Peter Garrett.” Minister for Education Martin Dixon said. “Peter Garrett has overseen massive cuts in Commonwealth [...]
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15 October 2011
Western Australia Minister for Education Elizabeth Constable WA Public School Teachers Are Nation’s Best Victor P Taffa Western Australian educators win two out of five national awards Winners competed against Catholic, independent and public school teachers and principals from across Australia West Australians won two of the nation’s biggest prizes in education at The Australian Awards for Outstanding Teaching [...]
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11 October 2011
Victoria Minister for Education Martin Dixon Final School Exams Start For Students Taking A Second Language Victor P Taffa Education Minister Martin Dixon has wished thousands of VCE student’s good luck or “bonne chance” as they begin their final languages exams, starting today. More than 10,400 students are taking VCE languages oral exams over the next month, while almost [...]
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09 October 2011
South Australia Shadow Minister for Education David Pisoni Another Weatherill Mess Victor P Taffa Premier-in-waiting Jay Weatherill will be leaving another a mess in his wake when he becomes Premier this month, after failing to support the former Principal of Coober Pedy High School and allowing her to be sacked. The former principal, Ms. Burtenshaw, was stood down [...]
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19 September 2011
Victoria Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business Louise Asher Free Information Day For International Students Victor P Taffa Victoria’s international students can learn more about renting a home, finding a job and keeping safe at the Victorian Coalition Government’s free International Student Information Day on Saturday 17 September 2011. Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business Louise [...]
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12 September 2011
Western Australia Minister for Education Elizabeth Constable WA Students Record Highest-Ever NAPLAN Rankings Victor P Taffa Western Australian school students have recorded their highest-ever rankings in the National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests. Education Minister Liz Constable said the report summary released today showed the State was ranked fourth in 12 of the 20 assessments; fifth in [...]
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11 September 2011
Victoria Minister for Education Martin Dixon Victorian Students Top The Nation In Literacy And Numeracy Tests Victor P Taffa For the fourth year running, Victorian students are among Australia’s best in the annual literacy and numeracy tests. Education Minister Martin Dixon today announced that Victoria’s results for the National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests for Years [...]
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01 September 2011
South Australia Shadow Minister for Education David Pisoni Weatherill – Same Old Labor Victor P Taffa Premier-in-waiting Jay Weatherill’s promise to make education a key element of his Government is a carbon copy of Mr. Rann’s commitment to be South Australia’s “Education Premier” – it is nothing more than rhetoric. Shadow Education Minister David Pisoni said Minister Weatherill [...]
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17 August 2011
Victoria Minister for Higher Education and Skills Peter Hall Victorian Coalition Government Support For VET System Drives Increase In Student Numbers Victor P Taffa Minister for Higher Education and Skills Peter Hall has welcomed the latest quarterly vocational education and training figures, which show a major jump in the number of Victorians undertaking training. The data from Skills [...]
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05 August 2011
Victoria Minister for Education Martin Dixon Student Leaders Share School Vision With Education Minister Victor P Taffa Victoria’s student leaders will today share with Education Minister Martin Dixon their ideas and aspirations for school life. Mr. Dixon will participate in the first day of the annual student-run Victorian Student Representative Council (VicSRC) congress at Oasis campsite, Mt. Evelyn, [...]
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04 August 2011
Western Australia Minister for Education Elizabeth Constable New College Set To Be Australia’s Agricultural Education Centrepiece Victor P Taffa Agriculture secondary students in Harvey would be learning in the nation’s best agricultural education facilities from 2013, with work under way for a major new college. Education Minister Liz Constable said the new $26.4 Million WA College of Agriculture – [...]
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04 August 2011
Western Australia for Minister Education Elizabeth Constable Parents Back Record Number Of School Bids For Independent Public School Status Victor P Taffa Families and communities across Western Australia are wholeheartedly backing schools in their bid to have more authority to make decisions best suited to their students. Premier Colin Barnett and Education Minister Liz Constable were at Creaney Primary [...]
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31 July 2011
Victoria Minister for Education Martin Dixon Heroic Teachers Save Kids From Bus Fire Victor P Taffa Minister for Education Martin Dixon has congratulated the quick actions of teachers that saved students from a bus fire this morning. “If not for the quick action of staff we would be telling a very different story about the events of today.” [...]
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27 July 2011
Victoria Minister for Education Martin Dixon Cindy McLeish Seymour MLA Smiles All Round For Strathewen Primary School Students Victor P Taffa Education Minister Martin Dixon today officially opened the newly rebuilt Strathewen Primary School as part of a visit to fire-affected communities in Melbourne’s north. Mr. Dixon was joined at the school by the Member for Seymour Cindy [...]
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24 July 2011
Victoria Minister for Higher Education and Skills Peter Hall $20 Million To Make Studying Easier For Regional Students Victor P Taffa Regional students will enjoy easier access to higher education opportunities under a new $20 Million fund officially launched today in Bendigo by Minister for Higher Education and Skills Peter Hall. Mr Hall said the $20 Million Regional Partnerships [...]
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23 July 2011
Western Australia Minister for Education Elizabeth Constable Lunch Box Lessons – Help For Parents Who Struggle To Pack A Healthy Snack Victor P Taffa Packing a healthy school lunch that children will actually eat is a daily challenge for many Western Australian mums and dads. However, with children’s obesity levels an ongoing concern and students eating at least 2,400 [...]
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