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SCHOOL AUTONOMY
Remote students to suffer
Courier Mail, 31 December 2010
Queensland teachers and principals are concerned the federal government's school autonomy plan could severely weaken the teacher transfer system that ensures teachers rotate through remote areas...

SCHOOL AUTONOMY
Loose language makes school autonomy plan unclear
The Australian, 31 December 2010
"The key difference is whether the school or the education department is the employer. It's the difference between hiring teachers and selecting teachers," education consultant Brian Caldwell said...

SCHOOL CURRICULUM
Primary schools urged to teach students to swim
SMH, 30 December 2010
CHILD drowning rates will rise unless schools do more to teach children to swim, the Royal Life Saving Society has warned...

VET
Training sector tenders anounced
Tas Govt media release, 30 December 2010
Skills Tasmania has awarded $9 million in tenders for the Skills Equip Program, the joint State-and-Federally funded Productivity Places Program, and the Workplace Skills Program and Trade Training for Apprentices...

SCHOOL AUTONOMY
School autonomy plan 'will cut funding'
The Australian, 30 December 2010
SCHOOL funding would be slashed and Australians would receive a lower quality of education under reforms proposed by Julia Gillard, the Greens have warned...

VET
VET changes follow surveys of business, trainees, apprentices
Tas Govt media release, 29 December 2010
Publication of RTO (registered training organisation) performance data and the establishment of a VET Workforce Development Plan are among initiatives that will help strengthen the VET sector...

TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Port Sorell School architects announced
Tas Govt media release, 28 December 2010
The development of the new Port Sorell School has taken a major step forward with the announcement today of the architects responsible for designing the project...

NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY
The Rudd/Gillard education revolution: an evaluation
Australian Conservative, 28 December 2010
The first thing to note about the Rudd/Gillard education revolution is that it is highly centralised, bureaucratic and statist in its approach...

NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Victoria to delay national syllabus
HeraldSun, 28 December 2010
THE two most populous states will delay teaching the national school curriculum in classrooms until 2013.
Only ACT schools will meet the government's preferred timetable of introducing the courses next year...

ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION
Free-range schools without rules
HeraldSun, 26 December 2010
As soon as you walk through the rickety front gate, you can tell Sydney school Currambena is no ordinary school...

POST YEAR 10 EDUCATION
Post year 10 appointments announced
Tas Govt media release, 23 December 2010
The Minister for Education and Skills, Lin Thorp, today announced the leadership team that will guide changes to Post-Year 10 education in Tasmania as this responsibility transfers to the Department of Education...

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
TMAG a major attraction for the holiday season
Tas Govt media release, 23 December 2010
Arts Minister Lara Giddings today encouraged Tasmanians to explore the many new exhibitions on display at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery during the holiday season...

STUDENT WELFARE
Deficiencies revealed in State care survey
ABC Online, 21 December 2010
The role of the education sector is critical in protecting children from harm, and teachers need more training in recognising the signs of child abuse...

TASMANIAN STUDENTS
Tassie's top 100 TCE students
Tas Govt media release, 21 December 2010
The wait is over for thousands of Year 11 and 12 students who today received their Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE) results...

TEACHER BEHAVIOUR
Teacher tells kids to 'f--- off and go home'
SMH, 20 December 2010
A former Queensland teacher told Year 3 students they should "f--- off and go home", according to evidence presented to a tribunal...

TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Better breakfasts for Tassie school kids
Tas Govt media release, 19 December 2010
The Minister for Education and Skills, Lin Thorp, said 22 schools are receiving funding to run breakfast programs in 2011...

NAPLAN TESTING
Teacher facing sack over NAPLAN cheating
ABC News, 17 December 2010
An Adelaide school teacher allegedly caught cheating in this year's National Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests is to be sacked...

TEACHER RETIREMENT INCENTIVES
AEU backs retirement pay
The Mercury, 16 December 2010
A STATE Government offer of up to $20,000 for teachers told to retire early has been welcomed by the Australian Education Union...

TEACHER RETIREMENT INCENTIVES
$20,000 early retirement offer to teachers
Tas Govt media release, 15 December 2010
The Minister for Education and Skills, Lin Thorp, has announced a retirement incentive for teachers in all school sectors at the top of the base-grade scale, for those in curriculum areas where there is no specific shortage...

BUILDING THE EDUCATION REVOLUTION
Tasmania performs well in BER report
Tas Govt media release, 15 December 2010
The Tasmanian Government school sector recorded the lowest total project cost per square metre for halls, classrooms and libraries of all Government sectors across Australia...

VIDEO SURVEILLANCE
Big Brother in the classroom
The Mercury, 14 December 2010
BIG Brother may soon move from the streets and into the classroom with Tasmanian principals and teachers supporting a move to introduce CCTV in schools...

VIDEO SURVEILLANCE
Big Brother is teaching you
Independent Online (Daily Mail story), 14 December 2010
London -The CCTV camera is now a part of modern life, and all our movements in public places are tracked - on the streets, roads and inside shops...

NATIONAL CURRICULUM
National Curriculum puts new pressure on school readiness
Essential Baby (Maggie Dent), 13 December 2010
Many families will by now have made the difficult decision about whether or not to start their child at school next year...

ASSESSMENT OF TEACHERS
Research finds test score growth is sign of a good teacher
Washington Post, 10 December 2010
While debate rages in the education world about how to measure effective teaching - or whether it is even possible to do so - research funded by a prominent advocate of data-driven analysis has found that growth in annual student test scores is a reliable sign of a good teacher...

SCHOOL TERMS
Four term school year consultation extended
Tas Govt media release, 10 December 2010
The consultation process examining the merits of moving to a four-term school year has been extended, the Minister for Education and Skills Lin Thorp said today...

TASMANIAN TEACHERS
Teacher wins rural award
The Mercury, 10 December 2010
The Tasmanian Rural Women's award of $10,000 could not have come at a better time for teacher Jackie Brown, coordinator of the Bridgewater High School Farm...

P&F MEETINGS
Defamed principal awarded $80k
SMH,10 December 2010
A SYDNEY school principal who was falsely accused of forgery during a Parents and Citizens Association meeting has been awarded $80,000 after suing the P&C president for defamation...

NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Curriculum blueprint sets high standard for the future
Daily Telegraph (ACARA Chair Prof. Barry McGaw),10 December 2010
THE Australian Ministers of Education took a historic step this week. We now have a national curriculum for the first time. It is for English, mathematics, science and history for foundation to Year 10...

NATIONAL CURRICULUM
National curriculum on hold until October
SMH, 9 December 2010
AN AUSTRALIAN national curriculum is a step closer to reality after education ministers agreed to begin introducing national courses for English, history, maths and science...

TASMANIAN LITERACY LEVELS
Editorial: Reading the stats
The Mercury, 9 December 2010
ANOTHER batch of poor literacy statistics for Tasmania has prompted another round of finger-pointing...

TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
100th primary school BER project completed
Tas Govt media release, 9 December 2010
Sorell School is the 100th Tasmanian primary school project to be completed as part of the Australian Government’s Building the Education Revolution (BER) package, Minister for Education and Skills Lin Thorp said today...

TASMANIAN STUDENTS
Southern Tasmania’s top students honored
Tas Govt media release, 9 December 2010
More than 40 outstanding students from southern schools were recognised in a special presentation ceremony in Hobart today...

TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Improved science facilities for Tasman District School
Tas Govt media release, 9 December 2010
The Minister for Education and Skills, Lin Thorp, officially opened  A $320,000 science laboratory upgrade at the Tasman District School this morning...

TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Sorell School awarded national philanthropy prize
Tas Govt media release, 9 December 2010
Sorell School has won $10,000 for its outstanding contribution to Cambodian orphans...

NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Tassie nod to schools reforms
The Mercury, 9 December 2010
THE Tasmanian Government has thrown its support behind the new Australian Curriculum and announced a timetable for its rollout in the state's public schools...

TASMANIAN LITERACY LEVELS
Libs target literacy slide
The Mercury, 9 December 2010
THE State Government's "failed experiments" with the education system were to blame for falling literacy standards, the Liberals said yesterday...

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT PERFORMANCE LEVELS
Not bad, but there's room for improvement
SMH, 8 December 2010
CHINESE students have blitzed their debut performance in a respected international exam in which Australian students from immigrant backgrounds topped their classes...

TASMANIAN LITERACY LEVELS
Tasmanian students' literacy results incomparable
Tas Govt media release, 8 December 2010
Interstate comparisons using Tasmania's literacy results from PISA (the Programme for International Students Assessment) was not comparing apples with apples...

NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Ministers endorse draft national curriculum
ABC News, 8 December 2010
Federal and state education ministers have endorsed the draft content of the national schools curriculum at a meeting in Canberra...

WORLD LITERACY LEVELS
Australian students' literacy levels declining
ABC News, 8 December 2010
A new international study shows Australian students compare well to those overseas, but the nation is slipping when it comes to literacy...

TASMANIAN LITERACY LEVELS
Tassie kids lag on literacy
The Mercury, 8 December 2010
THE literacy levels of Tasmanian students have collapsed, signalling the failure of a multi-million-dollar State Government push to improve standards...

TRADE TRAINING
Bridgewater Trade Training Centre opened
Tas Govt media release, 7 December 2010
The opening of the new $4.3 million state-of-the-art Trade Training Centre at Bridgewater is expected to help address local skills shortages, Minister for Education and Skills Lin Thorp said today...

NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Rushed curriculum must be delayed: union  
SMH, 7 December 2010
The national school curriculum's development has been rushed and its rollout must be delayed by a year, Australia's peak public education union says...

TEACHER SALARIES
Teachers’ 30% pay rise demand puts Baillieu to test
The Age, 6 December 2010
VICTORIAN teachers will demand a 30per cent pay rise over three years, in the first test of the Baillieu government’s election promise to make the state’s teachers the best paid in the nation...

NEW ZEALAND SCHOOLS
'Busy principal' works on at school with no pupils
The Dominion Post, 30 November 2010
A tiny rural school that has not had any pupils for three months is still open nearly every day, overseen by a "very busy" principal...

EDUCATION SPENDING
State must improve education
The Mercury, 3 December 2010
WHILE Tasmania has historically under-spent on infrastructure, low levels of education continue to be the major barrier to improving the state's prosperity, a leading economist has said...

MY SCHOOL WEBSITE
Schools website delay lauded
The Mercury, 3 December 2010
THE body representing the state's independent schools has welcomed the Federal Government's decision to hold off relaunching the controversial My School website until next year...

MY SCHOOL WEBSITE
Uproar over My School rankings
The Age, 2 December 2010
A MONTESSORI school in north-east Victoria that is struggling financially was ranked the third most advantaged school in the nation on the revamped My School website, raising serious concerns about the site's accuracy...

POST YEAR 10 EDUCATION
Learning empowers change
Tas Govt media release, 2 December 2010
The Minister for Education and Skills, Lin Thorp, has launched the Polytechnic’s 2011 Handbook and urged people to break the cycle of disadvantage through learning...

E-LEARNING
Tas e-learning uptake highest
Tas Govt media release, 1 December 2010
Tasmania is again leading the nation, with the highest uptake of e-learning in Australia, Minister for Education and Skills Lin Thorp said today...

 

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