can someone name the education minister?

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Unbelievably, and concerning a cabinet decision where she did have options, Gillard decided to abolish the position of education minister.

The much-touted education revolution must not be as important in the second term as it was in the first.

The role has been broken up across a series of ministries - Schools for Peter Garrett, Innovation for Kim Carr and Skills for Chris Evans. But no education minister.

For such a complex policy area to be left without one master - and by a PM who used to be an education minister herself -- will stifle reforms.

Specifically, who is responsible for higher education now?

A spokesperson for Gillard said Carr is, but at a press conference yesterday Evans said that he was. Confusion abounds.

Given that universities teach the teachers as well as the doctors, engineers and many other professionals who underpin our modern economy, you would have thought Gillard would pay more attention to the sector.



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Incredible, unavoidable: choices blight future - Peter van Onselen