SCHOOL CLOSURES
Ireland closing small schools too
Irish Times, 29 Dec 2011
Ireland is planning to close
schools with four or fewer teachers, but opponents say the solution lies
in changing management arrangements, including the use of
federations. [An example of a federation is the Jordan River Learning
Federation just established in Tasmania.]...
MUSIC EDUCATION
Band membership helps learning
The Examiner, 24 Dec 2011
A Tasmanian study shows that
being a member of a band helps with learning...
TEACHING PROFESSION
Teacher dismissed following underage charges
ABC News, 23 Dec 2011
An Ogilvie High School woodwork
teacher has been charged with having sex with an underage student...
SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook scam
warning issued
Tas Govt media release, 22 Dec 2011
The "cleverest yet" Facebook scam
mimics Facebook's security procedures, Acting Minister for Consumer
Affairs Scott Bacon warns...
AWARD NAMES
McKim stands by award name change
The Mercury, 22 Dec 2011
The renaming of the Pride in Our
School Award for Community Spirit to "Think Globally, Act Locally"
aligns with the national curriculum, education minister Nick McKim says...
AWARD NAMES
Award name change propaganda, says Ferguson
Michael Ferguson website, 22 Dec 2011
Renaming an award for outstanding
achievement to the Greens slogan "Think Globally, Act Locally" is
shameless Greens propaganda by the education minister, opposition
education spokesman Michael Ferguson says...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Bracknell teacher stays after all
The Examiner, 22 Dec 2011
A teacher Bracknell Primary
School was due to reluctantly lose is to remain now...
STUDENT SAFETY
Ignorance used as the excuse
The Examiner, 22 Dec 2011
There was a serious failure on
the part of the school and the teachers, counsel assisting the coroner
at the inquest into the death of Rene Levi indicated yesterday...
STUDENT SAFETY
Excursion a shambles
The Mercury, 22 Dec 2011
Counsel assisting the coroner
said the excursion in which Rene Levi died was shambolic and he
recommended to the coroner that culpability be shared by the Department
of Education, the principal and at least two teachers...
TASMANIAN STUDENTS
Family of top students
The Mercury, 22 Dec 2011
A top Hutchins student comes from
a family where the siblings motivated each other ...
STUDENT SAFETY
Ignorance the excuse, says counsel assisting
The Advocate, 22 Dec 2011
The counsel assisting the coroner
for the inquest into the death of Rene Levi has made submissions
relating to a specific permission form not having been signed and a Risk
Management Assessment not having been carried out ...
ONLINE EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS
YouTube for Schools opens up new world
New York Times blog, 21 Dec 2011
Google has introduced "YouTube
for Schools" to make it easy for school network administrators to allow
YouTube educational videos to be accessed from within schools while
still keeping the rest of the YouTube website blocked if necessary...
- YouTube for Schools
-
YouTube announcement
-
How to sign up
STUDENT SAFETY
Student answers questions about swimming instructions
ABC News, 21 Dec 2011
Students were not told where to
swim, the inquest into the drowning death of Latrobe High School student
Rene Levi was told today ...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Amalgamation
leads to redevelopment at Glenorchy Primary
Tas Govt media release, 21 Dec 2011
The amalgamation of Glenorchy and
Brent Street primary schools has led to a $4.8 million redevelopment at
Glenorchy Primary, Minister for Education and Skills Nick McKim said
today ...
STUDYING SCIENCE
Science downward trend continues
SMH, 21 Dec 2011
The number of year 12 students
studying a science subject has fallen by almost half in the last 20
years, an Australian Academy of Science report has found ...
GENDER SKEWING
HSC results show continuing boy/girl numeracy/literacy skewing
SMH, 21 Dec 2011
The NSW HSC enrolments and
results are strongly skewed towards girls in the humanities and towards
boys in maths and science...
ONLINE MATHS SUPPORT
Maths Online sponsorship ends
SMH, 21 Dec 2011
Access to online mathematics
tuition program Maths Online will apparently no longer be free now that
McDonald's has ended its sponsorship of the service ...
- Maths Online website
TCE RESULTS
Tassie's top
students named
Tas Govt media release, 20 Dec 2011
With the release of this year's
Tasmanian Certificate of Education results, the Tasmanian Qualifications
Authority (TQA) has published a list of students receiving an Australian
Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) of at least 98.00 ...
POST YEAR 10
VET review
paper released
Tas Govt media release, 20 Dec 2011
A consultation paper for the
review of VET providers has been released, written submissions being due
by 16 March 2012...
- DoE
VET review website
TRADE TRAINING CENTRES
$2.5m for
trade training centres
Tas Govt media release, 19 Dec 2011
The Australian Government will
provide $2,5 million for two trade training centre projects...
TRADE TRAINING CENTRES
Three trade training centres coming
The Mercury, 19 Dec 2011
Trade training centres will be
constructed at Deloraine High, Sorell School and St Patrick's College...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
School farm fears for Edith Creek
The Advocate, 19 Dec 2011
Edith Creek Primary School
parents are concerned that budget cuts could lead to the loss of their
school farm...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Bracknell battles to keep teacher
The Examiner, 18 Dec 2011
Parents at Bracknell Primary
School are trying to avoid the instability they say would result from
the loss of a highly-regarded teacher...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS, STUDENT SUPPORT
Breakfast for
21
Tas Govt media release, 18 Dec 2011
Funding for breakfast programs at
21 Tasmanian schools has been announced...
FOUR-TERM YEAR
Nothing to
worry about
Tas Govt media release, 16 Dec 2011
The State Government has applied
to vary the teachers' award but Minister for Education and Skills Nick
McKim says not to panic as the change is only to adjust for taking leave
when the four-term year is introduced in 2013...
NBN AND CURRICULUM
NBN-ready education portal coming
it-wire.com, 15 Dec 2011
A $20 million project exploiting
the National Broadband Network's bandwidth will include giving students
and teachers flexible access to the ABC's archive from mid-2012...
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
NSW students increase VET subjects take-up
The Telegraph (Maralyn Parker), 14 Dec 2011
NSW students are increasingly
including VET subjects in their year 11 and 12 studies...
SCHOOL CLOSURES
Fingal closure warning
Michael Ferguson website, 14 Dec 2011
The closure of the Fingal campus
of St Mary's High School could put at risk 650 jobs from a $40 million
investment by Hard Rock Coal Mining, opposition education spokesman
Michael Ferguson says...
ULTRA-SECULAR EDUCATION
NSW school has a non-Christmas Christmas
Daily Telegraph, 14 Dec 2011
A Sydney Montessori school has
removed all mention of Christmas, Santa, carols and Christianity from
its festive celebrations ...
STATE BUDGET
Old schools
need to be sold
Tas Govt media release, 12 Dec 2011
The Premier, Lara Giddings, says
that old school infrastructure needs to be sold but also says this is not to
make up for revenue shortfalls as the Opposition is claiming...
EDUCATION MINISTRIES
Federal reshuffle adds an assisting education minister
ABC News, 12 Dec 2011
The Prime Minister, Julia
Gillard, has announced that Brendan O'Connor will become the Minister
Assisting for School Education and will have special responsibility for
handling the recommendations of the Gonski report due to be released
early next year...
-
Prime
Minister's statement
EDUCATION FUNDING
Garrett prepares us for big education funding changes
SMH, 11 Dec 2011
Federal Education Minister Peter
Garrett is hammering the need for new approaches to funding schools,
presumably to ready our minds for the release of David Gonski's report
early next year...
EDUCATION FUNDING
Gonski excitement mounts
SMH, 10 Dec 2011
The federal government will
release David Gonski's report on education funding at the beginning of
the 2012 school year...
DISASTER EDUCATION
New disaster resource
Federal Attorney-General, 9 Dec 2011
Disaster Mapper, a new resource
for students and teachers, has been launched by the Federal
Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, as part of the existing
Emergency Management
for Schools website...
-
Disaster Mapper site
CHILD LABOUR
Child labour review due in 2012
The Mercury, 8 Dec 2011
Workplace Relations minister
David O'Byrne said the government would release its child labour review
in 2012...
POST YEAR 10
Polytechnic staff cuts loom
The Mercury, 8 Dec 2011
The Tasmanian Polytechnic could
lose up to 50 staff due to budget cuts...
POST YEAR 10
One TAFE again and no teacher loss, say Libs
Michael Ferguson website, 7 Dec 2011
A Liberal government would revert
to a single post year 10 entity, moving to a modern day TAFE, and would
end inefficiencies without a reduction in teacher numbers, opposition
education spokesman Michael Ferguson said...
- See also
Libs would rebuild TAFE (5 Dec 2011)
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Windermere
Primary opened
Tas Govt media release, 7 Dec 2011
The new $15 million Windermere
Primary School in Hobart's northern suburbs, the result of a merger
between two other schools, was opened today by the Premier, Lara
Giddings, and the Minister for Education and Skills, Nick McKim...
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Tas child
labour laws under review
Tas Govt media release, 7 Dec 2011
The Uniting Church's student
part-time work survey will be considered as part of the review of child
labour laws in Tasmania, Minister for Workplace Relations David O'Byrne
said today...
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Part-time work hampering students
The Mercury, 7 Dec 2011
Most Tasmanian students who work
part-time find homework a struggle or are tired at school, a Uniting
Church survey shows...
SCHOOL CLOSURES
School closures on agenda, say Libs
Michael Ferguson website, 7 Dec 2011
The government still has school
closures on its agenda, opposition education spokesman Michael Ferguson
said today...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Somerset Primary a success
The Advocate, 7 Dec 2011
The merger of two schools to form
Somerset Primary School has clearly been successful, Premier Lara
Giddings said yesterday...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
New Somerset
Primary opened
Tas Govt media release, 6 Dec 2011
The new $7 million Somerset
Primary School was opened today by the Premier, Lara Giddings, and the
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education and Skills, Paul
O'Halloran...
MY SCHOOL DATA
Private schools' results better
SMH, 6 Dec 2011
Private schools' My School results
are better than those of government schools even after taking student
backgrounds into account, an Australian Economic Review analysis shows...
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
Roundtable
chaired
Tas Govt media release, 6 Dec 2011
Education and Skills Minister
Nick McKim chaired the International Education Industry Roundtable in
Hobart today...
RETENTION RATES
Libs focus on retention rates
Michael Ferguson website, 5 Dec 2011
The Liberals are keen to work
with the University on finding ways to improve Tasmania's school
retention rates, opposition education spokesman Michael Ferguson says...
ROLE OF MUSIC AND DRAMA
Music and drama boost school performance
SMH, 5 Dec 2011
A program enabling disadvantaged
schools to share arts facilities is benefiting students.
The more music and drama there is in a school, the better the students
perform academically, a professor of teacher education says...
POST YEAR 10
VET review
announced
Tas Govt media release, 5 Dec 2011
A review of the VET provision
functions of the Tasmanian Skills Institute, the Tasmanian Polytechnic
and other public VET providers has been announced by the Minister for
Education and Skills, Nick McKim...
CYBERSAFETY
Explicit texting protocols announced
ABC News, 5 Dec 2011
New protocols on sexually
explicit texting and photographs shared by young people have been
announced by Tasmania Police...
ABORIGINAL EDUCATION
Aboriginal
bursary available
Tas Govt media release, 3 Dec 2011
The Alma Lily Stackhouse
scholarship is available for a year 10 Aboriginal student to complete
years 11 and 12...
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
Strict attendance policy hits top year 2 chess players
SMH, 3 Dec 2011
Two grade 2 Sydney Grammar
students who missed 10 days of school to participate in the World Youth
Chess Championships in Brazil have now been ordered to leave their
school, the principal having told their father beforehand they were not
free to be absent for the trip...
TEACHER UNION
Polglase AEU president
The Examiner, 3 Dec 2011
The new Australian Education
Union state president is Terry Polglase...
TEACHER UNION
Polglase likely AEU president
The Mercury, 2 Dec 2011
Bowen Road Primary School
principal Terry Polglase appears to be the winner of the recent AEU
election...
SCHOOL CLOSURES
Submission exposes budget priority of closures
Michael Ferguson website, 1 Dec 2011
A submission to the School
Viability Reference Group by Federal Labor MPs Carol Brown and Julie
Collins shows they realise the state government places a higher priority
on saving money than on students' needs, opposition education spokesman
Michael Ferguson says...
SCHOOL CLOSURES
School closures delay call
ABC News, 1 Dec 2011
Federal MPs Julie Collins and
Senator Carol Brown have called on the Tasmanian government to delay the
school closures investigation until after the Commonwealth's review of
education funding...
BICYCLES IN EDUCATION
Bicycles in learning reduce suspensions
The Age, 1 Dec 2011
Relating various aspects of
applied learning to bicycles has improved behaviour and reduced
suspensions at a Victorian community high school...
SCHOOL EMAIL POLICY
Forwarded private email contained school logo
The Mercury, 1 Dec 2011
A teacher's anti-gay marriage
email petition was sent from his Hutchins email account, forwarded
copies continuing to show the Hutchins identification ...
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