PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
Teachers
boost skills at summer schools
Tas Govt media release, 31 January
2011
Nearly 200 Tasmanian Government
school teachers are boosting their skills at summer schools throughout
the State this week...
PARENT SURVEY
Our great divide on schools revealed
Sunday Telegraph, 30 January
2011
PARENTS are demanding a greater
say in the running of schools and want bad teachers sacked and the best
rewarded with pay rises
...
See News Ltd newspapers'
national education survey results [pdf file]
PARENT SURVEY: SCHOOL AND
TEACHER PERFORMANCE
Parents want schools and teachers ranked
Sunday Mail, 30 January
2011
A MAJORITY of Australian parents
want bad schools named and shamed publicly to improve education.
They also want teachers to face annual job performance reviews and for
parents to be given a say in the reviews to determine how their
children's teachers are performing...
PARENT AND TEACHER SURVEY: CURRICULUM
CONTENT
Aboriginal history on agenda
The Sunday Times, 30 January
2011
AUSTRALIAN parents want their
children to learn more Aboriginal history, sex education and job skills
at school...
MEASURING THE PERFORMANCE OF
GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Measures of peformance improve
Tas Govt media release, 28 January
2011
A number of measures of
educational service performance such as year 10 to 12 retention have
improved...
POST YEAR 10 TRANSITION
Unenrolled
potential year 11s to be captured
Tas Govt media release, 26 January
2011
The Reach Your Potential Campaign
promoting the wide range of educational pathways and choices available
to students after year 10 will begin on Wednesday (26 January)...
DoE website details
STUDENT SUPPORT
Innovative
Flexible Education Grants recipients announced
Tas Govt media release, 25 January
2011
Fifteen recipients of funding to
keep students engaged in education have been announced...
DoE website details
COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS
Australian schools get iPads
SMH in stuff.co.nz, 24 January
2011
Australian private schools are
expanding the use of new technologies in classrooms, rolling out iPads
to help teachers and students with learning...
SKILLS TRAINING
Skills Institute's support program providing
life skills
Tas Govt media release, 23 January
2011
The Skills Institute's Skills for
Life program has helped almost 700 trainees and apprentices during its
first six months...
ADULT LITERACY TEACHING
Teacher
register to help improve adult literacy
Tas Govt media release, 19
January
2011
A new teacher register for adult
literacy programs is expected to play a major role in delivering better
literacy outcomes around Tasmania, the Minister for Education and Skills
Lin Thorp said today...
TEACHER RETIREMENT
Early
retirement offers made to teachers
Tas Govt media release, 19
January
2011
The State Government has formally
offered 79 teachers an incentive to retire early, the Minister for
Education and Skills Lin Thorp said today...
TEACHER SALARIES
Smaller classes favoured over pay rises for teachers
SMH, 16
January
2011
A NATIONAL survey has found that
people think investment in public schools to lower class sizes should be
a greater priority than giving teachers bonus pay and recruiting the
best talent into schools...
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Government
investment in early years reaps rewards
Tas Govt media release, 12
January
2011
A new report has shown that
Tasmanian children are benefiting from a State Government investment of
$12.6 million in the early years, the Minister for Education and Skills,
Lin Thorp, said today...
TEACHER PERFORMANCE RATINGS
Teacher ratings to be disclosed
The Australian, 12
January
2011
A US judge has ruled that the
school system can publicly release the performance ratings of more than
12,000 teachers on the grounds that the interests of parents and
taxpayers outweigh the privacy rights of public employees...
TEACHER BEHAVIOUR
Crosses burned on students' arms
Huffington Post, 11
January
2011
An Ohio science teacher accused
of burning the image of a cross on students' arms has officially been
fired...
POLYTECHNIC TEACHER REGISTRATION
Tradie teachers angry
The Mercury, 10
January
2011
CONCERNS are mounting over new
Polytechnic teacher qualification demands amid fears they could cause an
exodus of staff from the embattled institution...
TEACHER CONTRACTS
Contracts driving away good teachers in Victoria
The Age (Opinion), 10
January
2011
Waiting anxiously for the start
of school and the jobs it may or may not bring are thousands of
Victorian teachers employed on fixed-term contracts...
HOLIDAY PROGRAMS IN TAS
Libraries offering holiday activities for
kids
Tas Govt media release, 9
January
2011
More than 100 ‘scary’ school
holiday events and activities begin this week at libraries and Learning
and Information Network Centres (LINCs) throughout Tasmania...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Builder
appointed to Tasmanian eSchool project
Tas Govt media release, 7
January
2011
A builder has been appointed to
refurbish facilities at Howrah Primary to accommodate the Tasmanian
eSchool...
NAPLAN TESTING
State blocks report on NAPLAN cheating claims in Queensland
HeradSun, 7
January
2011
A NATIONAL report detailing
cheating and security breach allegations on the 2010 NAPLAN tests has
been held back following a request by Queensland's Education Minister to
not release state figures...
SWINE FLU
Surge in swine flu cases predicted as children go back to school
Guardian (UK), 3
January
2011
The return of UK students to
school following the Christmas holidays this week is likely to spur a
fresh surge in the number of flu cases, parents are being warned...
DISCIPLINE POLICY
Rules on school expulsions 'will fuel bad behaviour'
Telegraph (UK), 3
January
2011
UK schools will be effectively
powerless to expel the worst behaved children under controversial
Government reforms to discipline policies, head teachers have warned...
TRAINING
Commencements
up at Skills Institute
Tas Govt media release, 4
January
2011
More apprenticeships and
traineeship s are being taken up in Tasmania...
LEAGUE TABLES
School league tables lift standards, study finds
The Australian, 3
January
2011
Public reporting of school test
results lifts student performance, particularly among the poorest and
low-scoring schools...
NAPLAN TESTING
Primary school teacher sacked for cheating
AdelaideNow, 3
January
2011
A South Australian primary school
teacher has been sacked and another reprimanded for cheating in national
tests...
SCHOOL REFORM
Where true school reform occurs
SMH Opinion, National Times: Politics, 1
January
2011
A document* from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development strongly recommends the US lift its lamentable results by
looking abroad to the world's top performers, including Shanghai,
Finland and Canada...
*Strong Performers and Successful
Reformers in Education: Lessons from PISA for the United States
SCHOOL AUTONOMY
At last, the promise of a true revolution in education
The Australian, Letters, 1 January
2011
The benefits of giving authority
in vital decision-making areas to public schools, their principals and
their councils are numerous...
SCHOOL AUTONOMY
OECD tick for school autonomy
The Australian, 1 January
2011
SCHOOLS able to select their own
teachers perform better in student tests of literacy and numeracy...
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