Jason Clare retains post as Australian education minister

Australian education minister Jason Clare has retained his position in a cabinet reshuffle that has added new responsibilities to his portfolio and created a separate post of assistant minister for international education.

Julian Hill, a former Victorian international education bureaucrat who became co-chair of 바카라사이트 Parliamentary Friends of International Education after entering politics, will take on 바카라사이트 assistant ministry job on top of responsibilities in customs and multicultural affairs.

¡°International education is such an important export for Australia,¡± prime minister Anthony Albanese explained in a media conference announcing his new ministry. ¡°This sector is complex. There¡¯s been examples as well of inappropriate activity. It¡¯s important we get it right.¡±

Universities Australia chief executive Luke Sheehy said 바카라사이트 role¡¯s creation was welcome ¡°given 바카라사이트 sector¡¯s importance to 바카라사이트 Australian economy and our relationships with 바카라사이트 outside world¡±. Innovative Research Universities executive director Paul Harris said 바카라사이트 appointment augured well for ¡°sustainable growth in international education to benefit students and Australian society¡±.

Hill faces likely pressure to shield overseas students ¨C particularly those on exchange or enrolling in English language colleges ¨C from recent planned hikes to visa application fees, while refloating stalled legislation to improve integrity in international education.

Sydney MP Andrew Charlton has also been allocated a new portfolio as assistant minister for science, technology and 바카라사이트 digital economy. New South Wales senator Tim Ayres?is now senior science and industry minister, displacing Ed Husic who lost his cabinet position in a factional deal.

Victorian senator Jess Walsh is minister for early childhood education and youth, replacing former academic Anne Aly who has taken over responsibilities for small business, international development and multicultural affairs. Assistant education minister Anthony Chisholm has relinquished that position, instead assuming assistant ministerial oversight of resources.

There has been no change to 바카라사이트 key ministries of home affairs and skills, held by Tony Burke and Andrew Giles. Universities Australia said 바카라사이트 reappointments provided important ¡°continuity¡± in an era of reform.

¡°Minister Clare has been a steadfast advocate for universities,¡± Sheehy said. ¡°His continued leadership is vital as we work to make our higher education sector stronger.¡±

Meanwhile, former University of Melbourne vice-chancellor Glyn Davis has resigned from his position as Australia¡¯s chief civil servant?and will?depart as secretary of 바카라사이트 Department of 바카라사이트 Prime Minister and Cabinet in mid-June.

¡°Professor Davis is a man of unique strengths: an intellectual who embraces 바카라사이트 practical, an institutionalist who champions reform,¡± Albanese said. ¡°He worked calmly and steadily to reassert 바카라사이트 purpose of 바카라사이트 public service. He leaves a great national institution in far better shape than he found it.¡±

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