Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

The first thing we're doing, as we did in the legislation this Senate passed last year, is making sure that as federal funding grows states will no longer get away with being able to take their funding out. We're making sure that the cost shift that's happened before doesn't occur and that investment in extra support for students actually flows through as investment in extra support for students.

Secondly, we're continuing to see full implementation of our reforms around teacher quality, ensuring that primary school teachers in future have subject specialisation and ensuring that practices for admitting people into teaching through universities are stronger, clearer and based on a range of the skill sets that are necessary to succeed. We implemented our reforms to the national curriculum, and we're now working with David Gonski and a panel of skilled educators to identify the next wave of reforms that we want states and territories to work with us on to ensure quality learning outcomes in schools and that the record growing investment we're making gets the best results for Australian school students.