EDUCATION BUDGET
Two in three schools received more funds
Tas Govt media release, 31 Aug 2012
More
than two- thirds of Tasmanian government schools had an increase in
their School Resource Package in real terms this year, education
minister Nick McKim said in
response
to an AEU survey on school budget cuts...
AEU Survey,
31 Aug 2012
VET
Tas Cert IV done online from NSW
Tas Govt media release, 31 Aug 2012
A
partnership with a NSW organisation has enabled 20 Tasmanian
students to obtain a Certificate IV in Social Housing through online
study...
VET
Search on for TasTAFE head
Tas Govt media release, 31 Aug 2012
A
nationwide search is on for a chief executive officer of the new
TasTAFE...
LITERACY AND NUMERACY
Literacy and Numeracy Week almost over
Tas Govt media release, 31 Aug 2012
Literacy
and Numeracy Week has allowed many Tasmanian schools to showcase
innovative learning opportunities, education minister Nick McKim
said at Lenah Valley Primary today...
STUDENT SUPPORT
TOOL shed opens
Tas Govt media release, 31 Aug 2012
A
refurbished Training Opportunities and Options for Learning (TOOL)
shed was opened at Cambridge by the Premier, Lara Giddings, today,
to provide an alternative way for young people to access practical
training programs...
STUDENT SUPPORT
Study without stress
Tas Govt media release, 31 Aug 2012
Students should develop stress-free study habits, but if stressed
students need support many sources of assistance are available, the
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education and Skills,
Paul O'Halloran, told a student forum today...
EDUCATION BUDGET
Budget cuts being felt
ABC News, 31 Aug 2012
An
AEU survey of Tasmanian teachers shows budget cuts are adversely
affecting learning programs and teacher workloads...
The Examiner,
31 Aug 2012
MOBILE DEVICES
Require mobile phone licences
SMH, 28 Aug 2012
Students should be required to qualify for a special licence to use
mobile phones and tablets, adolescent psychologist Michael
Carr-Gregg says...
NAPLAN
Teachers need to make use of NAPLAN data
SMH, 28 Aug 2012
NAPLAN
and other student test data is being underutilised by teachers and
inappropriately used for school accountability, the NSW
Director-General of Education says...
TASMANIAN APPRENTICES & TRAINEES
It pays to be called Joshua
Tas Govt media release, 28 Aug 2012
A third of the 15 male apprentices and trainees representing
Tasmania at the WorldSkills Australia National Competition are
called Joshua...
STUDENT HEALTH AND FITNESS
Free sports gear for primary schools
Tas Govt media release, 28 Aug 2012
Tasmania's
primary schools are about to each receive three footballs, three
netballs, a pump and an equipment ball bag under the 2012 Hawks in
Schools program, the Minister for Sport and Recreation, Michelle
O'Byrne, said today...
Download the
free eWorkbook from the Hawthorn Football Club,
provided by the Hawks Move Well Eat Well program and Bupa.
STUDENT HEALTH
Call to weigh students
The Age, 27 Aug 2012
There has been another call for Australian schools to take on the
role of weighing and measuring students in the fight against
childhood obesity...
LEARNING SKILLS
Memory raises its head
The Age, 27 Aug 2012
A
downside of today's teaching being so dynamic and interesting is
that extended written examinations are relatively harder for senior
students than in days gone by, which requires teachers and students
to consider the old memorising and learning tips...
LITERACY AND NUMERACY
Celebrating literacy and numeracy
Tas Govt media release, 27 Aug 2012
National
Literacy and Numeracy Week was launched today by the Minister for
Education and Skills, Nick McKim. Schools providing special
literacy and numeracy activities this week include: - Bruny
Island District School - Campbell Town District High -
Lauderdale Primary - Lenah Valley Primary - Ravenswood Heights
Primary - Riverside Primary - Smithton Primary - Spreyton
Primary - Tasmanian eSchool - Waimea Heights Primary -
Zeehan Primary - Herdsmans Cove Primary (Jordan River Learning
Federation)...
VISUAL ARTS
Young Archies portrait winners announced
Tas Govt media release, 26 Aug 2012
The Minister for Education and Skills, Nick McKim, has announced the
winners of the Young Archies portrait competition for students in
Tasmanian
government schools. The schools whose students produced the
winning entries are: - Jordan River Learning Federation -
Illawarra Primary - Brighton Primary
-
Lansdowne Crescent Primary - Howrah Primary - Ogilvie High
- Taroona High - Launceston Colle.....
DRIVER EDUCATION
Teach 12-18yo's to drive
The Advocate, 25 Aug 2012
School students should be taught how to drive, racing car driver
John Bowe says...
SCHOOL CLOSURES
Wesley Vale closure fear
The Examiner, 25 Aug 2012
The Wesley Vale community is concerned that the opening of the new
Port Sorell school will lead to the closure of their local school...
SCIENCE TEACHING
Elizabeth College celebrates National Science Week
Tas Govt media release, 24 Aug 2012
Elizabeth College is engaging in science promotion activities
arising out of last week's National Science Week...
TASMANIAN TEACHERS
Retired teachers rehired
The Mercury, 23 Aug 2012
Of
about 240 Tasmanian teachers who were given special incentive
payments of up to $20,000 to retire early, at least 35 have been
rehired as relief teachers...
WEB SAFETY
School students must be warned
Herald Sun, 22 Aug 2012
The
jailing of a 22-year-old Victorian man for creating an offensive
Facebook page has prompted the Law Institute of Victoria to call for
better education in schools to ensure teenage students are warned of
the stricter penalties they could face if they publish inappropriate
material on the Internet...
STUDENT HEALTH AND SAFETY
Hearing loss for iPod teens
The Mercury, 22 Aug 2012
Teenagers with iPods and iPhones playing too loudly are beginning to
suffer from hearing loss...
MARKETING EDUCATION SERVICES
Asian student intake boost planned
Tas Govt media release, 22 Aug 2012
The Tasmanian government is planning to double the intake of
overseas university students and to increase the number of
pre-tertiary students coming to the state...
STUDENT
AND STAFF HEALTH
Flu cases fall
The Mercury, 21 Aug 2012
The number of cases of flu in Tasmania
is falling, after a jump in July...
DHHS fluTAS
page (graph above shows reports of symptoms - click graph for report)
ASIA LITERACY
More Asian content needed
The Age, 21 Aug 2012
The
Australian education system now places far too little emphasis on
Asian languages and Asian Studies, former Treasury Secretary Ken
Henry says...
LEARNING
Learning a concept more deeply
SMH, 20 Aug 2012
Students appear to learn a concept better, in the sense of being
more successful at applying it to new situations, if they are first
allowed to fail in attempts to solve a problem whose solution would
require an understanding of that concept, associate professor Manu
Kapur has found...
TEACHER QUALITY
Teacher quality key to quality teaching
SMH, 20 Aug 2012
Research shows that the quality of teaching is the most significant
school influence on student outcomes...
EXTENDING HIGH SCHOOL TO 11/12
Minister seems to be excluding urban areas
Michael Ferguson website, 20 Aug 2012
Opposition education spokesman Michael Ferguson says the Liberals'
policy is to extend high school to years 11 and 12 in all areas of
Tasmania, not just in regional areas as appears to be the intention
of the Minister for Education and Skills, Nick McKim...
GONSKI SCHOOL FUNDING REFORMS
Government schools receive enough funds
SMH, 20 Aug 2012
Federal
Opposition leader Tony Abbott says Australia cannot afford the
Gonski school funding recommendations and in any case Australian
government schools receive enough funding already...
Abbott in damage control, SMH, 21 Aug 2012
LITTERING
Tasmania tops the nation in litteracy
Keep Australia Beautiful, 20 Aug 2012
It appears that Tasmanians are the most skilled at littering and
getting away with it, a
regular survey by Keep Australia Beautiful recording that Tasmania
has the highest average number of littered items per 1,000 square
metres across sites selected for the survey ...
- Keep Australia
Beautiful
-
Tas Govt media release, 20 Aug 2012
GONSKI SCHOOL FUNDING REFORMS
Gillard assures independent schools of funding increases
ABC News, 20 Aug 2012
Prime Minister Julia Gillard
told the Independent Schools of Australia today that all students
would be provided with the same funding regardless of the type of
school they attended, in a "shake-up" that will give every
independent school more funds
...
TEENS AND GAMBLING
Gambling risks for young Tasmanians analysed
The Mercury, 20 Aug 2012
The views of 14 to 17 year olds are reflected in a UTAS report on
the attitudes of young Tasmanians towards gambling, Weighing up
the Odds, released by the Minister for Human
Services, Cassy O'Connor...
Weighing up the Odds
(UTAS report), DHHS website
What's the Real eal?? (Teaching kit for Tasmanian high schools),
DHHS website
GONSKI SCHOOL FUNDING REFORMS
No Tasmanian school to be worse off
The Mercury, 20 Aug 2012
Federal
education minister Peter Garrett says modelling of Gonski funding
proposals that suggests many Tasmanian schools will lose out will be
changed to ensure that none are made worse off ...
GONSKI SCHOOL FUNDING REFORMS
Gillard announcement on Gonski expected
The Examiner, 19 Aug 2012
Prime Minister Julia Gillard is expected to
make an announcement on Gonski funding on Monday in view of News
Ltd's release of a list of schools that would be worse off under the
current Gonski funding model ...
SCHOOL LEAVING AGE
Parents welcome leaving age proposal
ABC News, 19 Aug 2012
Parents
at yesterday's Tasmanian State School Parents and Friends conference
have welcomed the proposal to raise the school leaving age to 18
years...
GONSKI SCHOOL FUNDING
81 Tas schools would be Gonski losers
The Mercury, 19 Aug 2012
Figures obtained by the Mercury show that
in Tasmania 77 government and 4
Catholic schools would be worse off under the current Gonski funding
formula. The 20 Tasmanian schools that stand to lose the most in
total funding are: 1 Glenorchy Primary School (-$979,315) 2
Guilford Young College (-$805,536) 3 St Aloysius Catholic College
(-$709,401) 4 Mount Carmel College (-$542,344) 5 Rocherlea
Primary School (-$497,535) 6 Rosebery District High School
7 Geilston Bay High School 8 Rokeby Primary School 9 Risdon
Vale Primary School 10 Table Cape Primary School 11 Clarendon
Vale Primary School 12 Somerset Primary School 13 Bowen Road
Primary School 14 Waverley Primary School 15 Warrane Primary
School 16 South Hobart Primary School 17 Goodwood Primary
School 18 Claremont College 19 East Devonport Primary School
20 Campbell Street Primary School
See the other Tasmanian schools in the
full list of Australian schools on the Mercury's website.
Michael Ferguson, Opposition education spokesman,
19 Aug 2012
Peter Garrett, Federal Minister for School Education, in a letter to
the editor of the Sunday Tasmanian, 26 Aug 2012, said the above
story was "wrong".
OUT-OF-AREA ENROLMENTS
Parents in two minds over zone policy
The Mercury, 19 Aug 2012
At
yesterday's Tasmanian State School Parents and Friends conference,
parents were split between those who supported zoning restrictions
in order to preserve the viability of local schools, and those who
could see the benefits of freedom of choice, particularly for those
who worked nowhere near their local school ...
SCHOOL LEAVING AGE
Leaving age discussion paper to be prepared
Tas Govt media release, 18 Aug 2012
A
discussion paper is to be prepared on raising the school leaving age
to 18 and on improving education services in Years 11 and 12 in
regional areas, the Minister for Education and Skills, Nick McKim,
told the Tasmanian State School Parents and Friends annual
conference today ...
-
The Examiner, 18 Aug 2012 -
The Advocate, 18 Aug 2012 -
Michael Ferguson, Opposition education spokesman, 18 Aug 2012
VET
Do a PhD or Masters on VET benefits
Tas Govt media release, 18 Aug 2012
An
advanced degree scholarship at UTAS on the benefits of Tasmania's
VET industry has been announced...
GONSKI REFORMS
Gonski reforms delayed
SMH, 18 Aug 2012
The
federal government's response to the Gonski school funding reforms
is expected to be announced in the next few weeks rather than next
week...
TASMANIAN STUDENTS
Rosny student wins best musical act prize
The Mercury, 17 Aug 2012
Rosny
College student Asta is the winner of Triple J's national
competition for the best school-age musical act...
-
Triple J Unearthed website -
936 Hobart report, 16 Aug 2012
-
AstaSounds -
Statement by Minister for Education and Skills,
17 Aug 2012
TEACHING PRACTICE
Poor students missing out on good teaching strategies
SMH, 17 Aug 2012
Students from a wealthier background are more likely to have
teachers who use four particular strategies that raise reading
performance, such as asking students to explain the meaning of a
text and telling them in advance how their work will be assessed...
MEMORY
Memory discovery over taking a break
SMH, 16 Aug 2012
Learning
is improved by taking a break rather than having continuous
practice, as the break allows the brain to convert short-term memory
to long-term memory, Sydney scientists have found...
TRADE TRAINING CENTRES
Call for West Coast trade training centre
The Advocate, 15 Aug 2012
The
West Coast needs a trade training centre that could prepare students
for local industries such as aquaculture, mining and tourism, West
Coast mayor Darryl Gerrity says...
APPRENTICES
Apprentices chosen
Tas Govt media release, 15 Aug 2012
Three Tasmanian apprentices are representing the State in Canberra
this week...
SCHOOL SAFETY
Students share views on safety
Tas Govt media release, 15 Aug 2012
Ten students from Waimea Heights Primary School met the Minister for
Education and Skills, Nick McKim, today in the second of three
Tasmanian student forums on school safety...
SOCIAL MEDIA
Social
media policy coming
The Examiner, 14 Aug 2012
Teachers will soon have clarification on social media interaction
with students ...
Chemical leak at Zinc Works
STAY INSIDE WARNING NOW CANCELLED
Tuesday, 14 Aug 2012, 9.55am, updated 10.46am
Tas Fire Service says people no longer need to
stay inside as a result of a hazardous materials leak at Nyrstar in
the Hobart suburb of Lutana.
No-one injured.
ABC News report
OUT-OF-AREA ENROLMENTS
Out-of-area comments extension made
The Examiner, 14 Aug 2012
The
due date for comments on the Tasmanian government's draft
out-of-area policy has been extended ...
VET
Skills Tasmania merger on way
ABC News, 13 Aug 2012
Skills
Tasmania is to merge with the Department of Education ...
GOVT GONSKI RESPONSES
Behaviour management plan looms
The Mercury, 12 Aug 2012
Special training to help new teachers deal with violent and
disruptive students will be part of a new deal to be announced by
Prime Minister Julia Gillard this month ...
CYBERSAFETY
Mobile phone test plan
The Mercury, 12 Aug 2012
Tasmanian
schools are being asked to take part in a trial to give young people
an online cybersafety test before they can take mobile devices to
school...
SCHOOL CLOSURES
New fund will soften or avoid closures
Tas Govt media release, 10 Aug 2012
The
Tasmanian government's $3.5 million School Transition Fund is
designed to avoid compulsory school closures by helping schools
transition to alternatives such as amalgamating, co-locating,
voluntary closure or forming a federation with other schools ...
- DoE
School Transition Fund
information document [pdf]
BRIBERY IN EDUCATION
Paying students money raises test results
The Telegraph (Maralyn Parker Blog), 8 Aug 2012
Researchers
have shown that paying students money is effective in making them
perform better in standardised tests
- by the equivalent of five or six months of learning...
POST YEAR 10
Needy get jeans thanks to Polytechnic students
Tas Govt media release, 10 Aug 2012
Tasmanian
Polytechnic fashion design and technology students prepared hundreds
of pairs of pre-loved jeans that were available for giving away at
Colony 47 today...
TEACHING PROFESSION
Swearing teacher out for 15 months
The Mercury, 10 Aug 2012
A
Queensland teacher swore at students, pushed students, slapped a
year 8 student, threw a duster at a year 10 student, and more...
TEACHING PROFESSION
Performances of more teachers should be checked
SMH, 10 Aug 2012
The
NSW Commission of Audit has called for a huge increase in the number
of teachers whose performance is reviewed...
TAFE
Interim Chair for TasTAFE needed
Tas Govt media release, 9 Aug 2012
The
Minister for Education and Skills, Nick McKim, today called for
expressions of interest for an Interim Chair of the Board of
TasTAFE, and announced that the new TAFE will no longer be a
statutory authority but will become a business unit of the
Department of Education...
DIVERSITY
Diversity resource launched
Tas Govt media release, 9 Aug 2012
Difference
Differently, an online resource aligned with the Australian
Curriculum to teach Years 3-10 students about diversity, was
launched in Tasmania today
by the Minister for Education and Skills, Nick McKim...
Difference Differently is produced by
Together for Humanity
with funding from DEEWR
TRADE TRAINING CENTRES
Break O'Day Trade Training Centre opened
Tas Govt media release, 8 Aug 2012
A Trade Training Centre has been opened at St Helens District High
School in the Break O'Day municipality...
LOCAL EMPOWERMENT
Mountain Heights begins empowerment
Tas Govt media release, 8 Aug 2012
As
an Empowering Local Schools Plus School, Mountain Heights
School has begun engaging the local community in developing a vision
and direction for the school...
TASMANIAN STUDENTS
PM's award for Tassie VET student
Tas Govt media release, 8 Aug 2012
A Tasmanian VET Agriculture student is one of 20 Australian students
to win a Prime Minister's Award for Skills Excellence.........
SCHOOL LEAVING AGE
Make 18 years the school leaving age
The Mercury, 7 Aug 2012
Students should be required to stay at school until they turn 18,
with no job exemption, suggests Tasmania's parent body ...
-
Proposal backed by Uni dean, The Mercury, 9 Aug
2012
STUDENT
AND STAFF HEALTH
Flu cases jump
The Examiner, 7 Aug 2012
The number of cases of flu in Tasmania jumped sharply in July.
The vast majority of cases were in southern Tasmania...
DHHS fluTAS report (graph
at right shows reports of symptoms)
STUDENTS AND TV
Poorer children watch more TV
The Mercury, 7 Aug 2012
Children from low socioeconomic backgrounds watch far more
television than rich children, research by the Australian Institute
of Family Studies shows...
TASMANIAN STUDENTS
Ex-Queechy student led Mars rover team
The Examiner, 6 Aug 2012
A
former student of Launceston's Queechy High School led a software
team on the Mars Curiosity rover project...
AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
Compulsory school sport needed for Olympics
success?
SMH, 7 Aug 2012
The new health and physical education subject of the National
Curriculum will not make sport compulsory when it is introduced in
2014 ...
-
Sport's decline, SMH, 7 Aug 2012 - Wasington
TEACHING PROFESSION
Too many young teachers leaving
SMH, 6 Aug 2012
Schools need to be proactive in providing support to keep young
teachers in the profession...
ASIAN LANGUAGES
Inter-generational mentoring boosts Asian
language skills
The Age, 6 Aug 2012
Matching students of Asian languages with older native-born speakers
significantly improves conversational skills...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Old Rocherlea Primary to be demolished
Tas Govt media release, 6 Aug 2012
The
empty buildings at the former site of Rocherlea Primary School are
to be demolished...
SPECIAL EVENTS
Mars landing today (Monday)
news.com.au, 6 Aug 2012
The
Mars Curiosity rover is expected to land on Mars at 3.31pm Tasmanian
time today. Live coverage on the
Internet:
begins at 1.30pm on
NASA TV
is accessible through
news.com.au
(scroll down)
is also on NASAJPL
might be on
ABC News24
closer to 3.31pm ...
-
PCMag report,
5 Aug 2012
ADULT EDUCATION
Is Adult Ed dying?
The Mercury, 6 Aug 2012
Adult Education (now LearnXpress) enrolments have declined
considerably...
EDUCATION SPENDING
False economy to cut education spending
The Examiner, 5 Aug 2012
As a better education leads to improved health and a longer life, it
makes no sense to reduce education spending in a climate of rising
health costs, argues a demographer...
TEACHER PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Annual performance reviews for teachers
Aust Govt media release, 3 Aug 2012
Teachers
throughout Australia will undergo annual performance reviews from
next year, federal school education minister Peter Garrett announced
today following a national meeting of education ministers.
Performance evidence will include classroom observation, student
results, and parental and student feedback...
-
AITSL
(responsible for teacher professional standards)
-
The Advocate's report,
3 Aug 2012
EARLY YEARS EDUCATION
Early learning pride
Tas Govt media release, 2 Aug 2012
Education
minister Nick McKim told a national forum today how Tasmania's
Launching into Learning program has successfully supported parents
as their child's first teacher...
TEACHER SALARIES
Premier welcomes teacher pay agreement
Tas Govt media release, 2 Aug 2012
The
premier, Lara Giddings, has welcomed the AEU's acceptance of an
greement for teachers to receive a 2 percent salary rise in line
with other public sector employees...
TEACHER SALARIES
Tas teachers' 2% rise
ABC News, 2 Aug 2012
Tasmanian
teachers have agreed to a wage rise below inflation - 2 per cent per
year for the next two years - the AEU vowing to vigorously pursue
bigger increases in 2014...
-
The Mercury's report, 3 Aug 2012 -
The Examiner's report, 2 Aug 2012
TEACHING PROFESSION
Testing for existing teachers
SMH, 1 Aug 2012
Experienced
teachers in NSW would have to undergo the kind of rigorous testing
applied to trainee teachers under a discussion paper on raising
teaching standards,
Great Teaching, Inspired Learning ...
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