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STUDENT ATTENDANCE
School
attendance tops nation
Tas Govt media release,
30 June 2010
Tasmanian Government schools
lead the nation in school attendance across many year groups, Minister
for Education and Skills Lin Thorp said today...
EDUCATION PROMISES
Testing time on school pledges
The Mercury,
28 June 2010
LABOR faces a battle as the
Greens and Liberals vow there will be no more compromise on pre-election
education promises...
MENTAL HEALTH
Kindy kids to be tracked for mental health
The Australian,
25 June 2010
EVERY kindergarten student
currently enrolled in NSW will be tracked for the next 20 years in an
attempt to find clues on mental illness...
THE BASICS
PM highlighted her education in the basics
Adelaide Now,
24 June 2010
New Prime Minister Julia
Gillard is grateful she learnt the proper use of apostrophes and commas
in primary school...
NATIONAL CURRICULUM
New
national curriculum agreed for Qld schools
ABC Online,
24 June 2010
Queensland students from Prep
to Year 10 will be taught the new national curriculum after an agreement
between state, Catholic and Independent schools...
STUDENT SAFETY
No abduction attempt after all
The Mercury,
23 June 2010
The child-abduction scare near
Blackmans Bay turns out to have been caused by two women looking for a
grandchild...
TEACHER STRESS
Stress leave
numbers haven't doubled after all
Tas Govt media release,
23 June 2010
Stress leave by Department of
Education staff has remained constant, Minister for Education and Skills
Lin Thorp said...
And claims that senior secondary stress numbers had doubled falsely
compared a six-month period with a 12-month period...
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
Auditor-General report backs up post year 10 data
Tas Govt media release,
23 June 2010
An independent report by the
State’s Auditor-General supports Department of Education post year 10
enrolment data, the Minister for Education and Skills, Lin Thorp, said
today...
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
Advisory Taskforce formed
Tas Govt media release,
22 June 2010
The Minister for Education and
Skills, Lin Thorp, has announced the formation of the Stakeholder
Implementation Advisory Taskforce in relation to the evolved Post-Year
10 Education and Training model...
SCHOOL PERFORMANCE
Outstanding teachers fight for recognition
SMH, 20 June 2010
Outstanding teachers, mediocre
teachers, leadership, successful schools...
TEACHER STRESS
Stressed-out teachers
The Mercury,
20 June 2010
THE number of senior secondary
teachers suffering mental illness or stress has doubled in less than two
years...
STATE BUDGET
Tasmanian Budget 2010-11
Minister for Education and Skills:
Giving Children a Better Start in Life
(PDF 148 KB)
Education and Training Still a Priority
(PDF 151 KB)
Extending Literacy Support for Schools and the
Community (PDF 156 KB)
STUDENT VIOLENCE
Student violence threatens teachers
Winnipeg Free Press: Opinion, 18 June 2010
A student points a gun at a
teacher in an Australian classroom, yells "Die bitch, die," and pulls
the trigger...
SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Hobart schools ecology centre an Australian first
ABC Online, 18 June 2010
Australia's first science and
ecology learning centre is to be built in Hobart...
NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Tasmanian schools supported during National
Curriculum transition
Tas Govt media release, 18 June 2010
Tasmanian schools would be
given planning time and strong support while making the transition to
the National Curriculum, the Minister for Education and Skills, Lin
Thorp, said today...
NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Tasmanian schools supported during National
Curriculum transition
Tas Govt media release, 18 June 2010
Tasmanian schools would be
given planning time and strong support while making the transition to
the National Curriculum, the Minister for Education and Skills, Lin
Thorp, said today...
BUILDING THE EDUCATION REVOLUTION
Nice shelves, pity no books
SMH, 17 June 2010
SCHOOLS will be unable to get
full value from billions of dollars worth of new libraries because of
long-running declines in staffing and book budgets, teachers and
librarians warn...
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
Advisory group being formed
Tas Govt media release, 15 June 2010
Establishment of a post-year 10
reforms implementation advisory group was underway, the Minister for
Education and Skills, Ms Lin Thorp, said today...
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
Let the principals take charge
SMH, 14 June 2010
I have learnt that the greater
the authority given to a principal (or the greater the authority taken
by a principal), the more likely a school will flourish...
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
Prepare students for life, not rankings
SMH, 14 June 2010
The new head of a NSW high school
principals' group says a positive approach is key, writes Anna Patty...
NATIONAL CURRICULUM
What teachers say about the draft curriculum
The Age, 14 June 2010
ENGLISH
MATHEMATICS
HISTORY
...
NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Science plan askew, say teachers
The Age, 14 June 2010
VICTORIAN science teachers are unhappy
that emerging fields such as photonics, nanotechnology and DNA
technology are not included in the proposed national science curriculum...
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
Leave
your dreams at the door
The Australian, 12 June 2010
David Bartlett has abandoned
his schools reform in what is surely a sign of things to come...
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
Principals face sack if test results don't improve
The Age, 11 June 2010
PRINCIPALS have been threatened
with the sack if their school's results in national tests don't
improve...
And year 3 and 5 teachers have found the stress associated with the
tests so great that they have even requested a change of year level...
NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Visual art to lose special focus in schools curriculum
The Australian,
11 June 2010
VISUAL arts teachers are
"appalled" by the proposed national arts curriculum for schools, saying
it forces the subject to compete with the other arts disciplines instead
of being treated as a separate field of study...
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT
My School gets more data and safeguards
SMH,
10 June 2010
The federal government's
contentious My School website will include more information about the
socio-economic background of students and make their absences more
prominent...
NATIONAL CURRICULUM
National curriculum to force cutback in subjects at Queensland schools
Courier Mail, 9 June 2010
QUEENSLAND schools could be
forced to slash subjects under the proposed national curriculum which
has "unrealistic content expectations", the State Government warns...
COMMONWEALTH-STATE SCHOOL FUNDING
There's a (funding) revolution going on?
ABC Online,
9 June 2010
A real education revolution has
started and no one has noticed...
ASIAN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Asian languages losing their allure
The Australian,
9 June 2010
SPARE a thought for Kevin Rudd. An
Asianist among Asianists, he recently had to launch reports showing how
weak Asia literacy is in our schools...
SCHOOL PERFORMANCE
Privately run school rankings site riles union
ABC Online,
8 June 2010
The Australian Education Union
wants another website publishing school rankings based on NAPLAN test
results to be closed down...
- See: Better Education website
- Tasmanian data:
Better
Education: Tasmanian primary schools
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
Education revamp disappoints academy boss
ABC Online,
8 June 2010
The head of the Tasmanian Academy
says the abolition of its board is a politically expedient move that
disrupts academic progress...
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
School reforms wound back
The Mercury,
8 June 2010
TASMANIA'S secondary college system
will be restored and the power to run colleges handed back to
principals...
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
Back to the future for Tasmanian education system
ABC Online,
7 June 2010
Tasmania's colleges for years 11
and 12 students are on their way back...
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
Refining
post-year 10 education and training model
Tas Govt media release,
7 June 2010
Minister for Education and Skills
Lin Thorp MLC announced today that Cabinet had endorsed changes to the
current model for post–year 10 education and training following
extensive consultations...
See
Fact Sheet
[108K PDF] |
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
School system changes today
The Mercury,
7 June 2010
TASMANIANS are expected to learn
today exactly what changes will be made to the ailing post-year-10
education system...
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
Coalition to face acid test
The Examiner, 7 June 2010
THE first test of the fledgling
Labor-Green government will come in Parliament tomorrow as the momentum
builds to roll back Tasmania Tomorrow...
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
Education Union seizes Tas Tomorrow initiative
ABC Online,
6 June 2010
The Education Union has drafted its
own legislation to roll back the controversial Tasmania Tomorrow
post-Year 10 changes...
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
Poor vocational training stats
The Mercury, 6 June 2010
THE number of students in
vocational training has collapsed under the Tasmania Tomorrow revamp,
new data shows...
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
New shake-up for post-year 10
The Mercury, 4 June 2010
TASMANIA'S embattled post-year 10
sector will get a major overhaul in weeks, the Education Minister has
announced...
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
Govt
under fire to fix Tas Tomorrow
ABC Online, 3 June 2010
Tasmania's Education Minister is
under pressure to reveal how the Government will fix the state's ailing
post-year 10 education system...
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
Changes are required, says Minister
Tas Govt media release,
3 June 2010
The Minister for Education and
Skills, Lin Thorp today said that changes were required following her
consultation on post-year 10 education...
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
Key player abandons Tas Tomorrow
ABC Online, 3 June 2010
The Tasmanian Government's
post-year 10 education system has been dealt another blow, with one of
its key players wanting out...
POST YEAR 10 CHANGES
Institute wants out of reforms
The Examiner,
3 June 2010
THE TASMANIAN Skills Institute
wants to be cut out of Tasmania Tomorrow...
NEW NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Dumbing down English teaching
The Australian,
2 June 2010
UNDER the new national schools
curriculum students studying English as a Second Language will
apparently study more literature than those studying Essential
English...
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