Senate debates
Thursday, 16 May 2024
Questions without Notice
Tertiary Education
2:37 pm
Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source
Thanks, Senator Tyrrell. As I said, I'm not aware, as the representing minister, of whether the accord review had anything specific to say on that point. But I would surmise that the reality is that, while students do undertake that kind of practical training outside the university environment—it might be in a classroom, it might be in a hospital or it might be in another environment—there's still a requirement on universities to supervise. That's not on a day-to-day basis but to check in, to moderate the course and to assess the student's performance. So there is still a requirement on universities to deliver some kind of service to the students and to the employer who is hosting that student in a practical environment.
I recognise the point you're making, but it's not without cost to universities. Of course, you would have seen in our announcements this week that we do expect universities to provide a high-quality education to students at an affordable price. Some of the measures that we've undertaken will help to deliver that.
URL: https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2024-05-16.140.1
Referer: None
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
Number: 2
Message: include(/srv/www/production/releases/20260517060354/twfy/www/includes/easyparliament/../easyparliament/templates/$format/$template.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory
File: /srv/www/production/releases/20260517060354/twfy/www/includes/easyparliament/commentlist.php
Line: 107
Source:
105 */
106 public function render($data, $format = 'html', $template = 'comments') {
107 include __DIR__ . '/../easyparliament/templates/$format/$template.php';
108 }
109
Sorry, an error has occurred
We've been notified by email and will try to fix the problem soon!
URL: https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2024-05-16.140.1
Referer: None
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
Number: 2
Message: include(): Failed opening '/srv/www/production/releases/20260517060354/twfy/www/includes/easyparliament/../easyparliament/templates/$format/$template.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php')
File: /srv/www/production/releases/20260517060354/twfy/www/includes/easyparliament/commentlist.php
Line: 107
Source:
105 */
106 public function render($data, $format = 'html', $template = 'comments') {
107 include __DIR__ . '/../easyparliament/templates/$format/$template.php';
108 }
109
Sorry, an error has occurred
We've been notified by email and will try to fix the problem soon!