Style The Honourable | ||
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Appointer Administrator of the Northern Territory | ||
The Northern Territory Minister for Education is a Minister of the Crown in the Government of the Northern Territory. The minister administers their portfolio through the Department of Education.
The Minister is responsible for planning, development and administration of schools, vocational education and training in schools, teacher registration, the regulation of the teaching profession, early years education and care services and regulation, distance education, the approval and accreditation of higher education institutions and courses, grants for educational organisations, and student assistance schemes. They are also responsible for the Charles Darwin University and the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education.
The current minister is Eva Lawler (Labor). She was sworn in on 12 September 2016 following the Labor victory at the 2016 election.