HUMAN RELATIONS
Music teachers' spat reaches crescendo
Courier-Mail, 31 Dec 2013
The brass and percussion teacher at
the Brisbane Boys' College has won workers compensation after a
disagreement with the woodwind teacher over the Big Band Ensemble...
SCIENCE FACILITIES
Science labs to be upgraded soon
Tas Govt media release, 23 Dec 2013
The State Government's $16 million Science and Technology
School Stimulus Package will see science lab upgrades at nine
Tasmanian schools and colleges in the new year...
TASMANIAN HISTORY
Port Arthur activities revamped
Tas Govt media release, 27 Dec 2013
Special summer fun for kids at the
Port Arthur Historic Site includes hands-on activities, live plays
and the Ghost Tour being made family-friendly...
Port
Arthur Historic Site Summer Activities Guide
ABORIGINAL CULTURE
It's now the kunanyi cable car and the kanamaluka silt problem
Tas Govt media release, 23 Dec 2013
The first Tasmanian Aboriginal place names to be used
under the dual naming policy have been announced ...
NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Curriculum under attack for political correctness
Courier Mail, 20 Dec 2013
The new federal government appears
set to water down or remove "politically correct" elements of the
Australian Curriculum, such as the cross-curriculum priorities of
Aboriginal culture, engagement with Asia and sustainability...
SCHOOL MERGERS
Railton and Sheffield to merge
Tas Govt media release, 19 Dec 2013
Railton Primary and the Sheffield School are to merge...
TCE
Certificates awarded this week
Tas Govt media release, 17 Dec 2013
More than 13,000 Tasmanian students have received the TCE
and other certificates...
STUDENT SUPPORT
Brekkie program continues
Tas Govt media release, 17 Dec 2013
Education minister Nick McKim has named the 28
Tasmanian schools to participate in the free school breakfast
program in 2014...
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S MID-YEAR ECONOMIC
AND FISCAL OUTLOOK (MYEFO): BUDGET STATEMENT
Trade Training Centres scrapped
ABC News, 17 Dec 2013
Treasurer Joe Hockey has announced that Trade
Training Centres will be scrapped to provide funds for the Gonski
reforms...
TAS EDUCATION SYSTEM
System failing students
The Mercury, 15 Dec 2013
How would you improve the Tasmanian education system? A
number of commentators give their views...
TRANSITION TO COLLEGE
College encouragement
The Advocate, 14 Dec 2013
Disengaged students will be encouraged to move on to Don
College from Reece and Ulverstone high schools through the spending
of $25,000 from the $900,000 Year 11 and 12 Regional School
Partnership Fund ...
GUNS IN SCHOOLS
Colorado school shooting
ABCNews, 13 Dec 2013
A teenager with a shotgun shot two students after
entering a Colorado high school looking for a specific teacher ...
NUMERACY
Big improvement in Tas Year 3 numeracy
ABC News, 13 Dec 2013
The NAPLAN numeracy results of
Tasmanian Year 3 students have improved significantly...
Australian Year 5 reading improves, ABC News, 13 De 2013
Tas students improved more strongly, Nick McKim, Tas Govt media release, 13 Dec 2013
In NSW, non-English background students did best, SMH, 13 Dec 2013
Tas students below all NAPLAN national averages, Michael
Ferguson website, 13 Dec 2013
School results boost, The Mercury, 14 Dec 2013
TMAG
TMAG summer activities announced
Tas Govt media release, 13 Dec 2013
Summer features at the Tasmanian
Museum and Art Gallery include exhibitions on Tattersall's in
Tasmania, works by innovative artists and photographs from Mawson's
trip to Antarctica, plus an artist-in-residence, a school holiday
program and a Family Day on Australia Day, 26 January...
TMAG holiday opening hours announced, Tas Govt media release, 20 Dec 2013
TEACHER SALARIES
Teachers vote on salaries
Tasmanian Times, 13 Dec 2013
Tasmanian AEU teachers are voting
today on a state government employment offer backed by the AEU
Tasmanian Branch Council...
SCHOOL CLOSURES
Lindisfarne North eyeing Geilston Bay
The Mercury, 13 Dec 2013
The overcrowded Lindisfarne North Primary School is keen
to take over the facilities of the soon-to-be-vacated Geilston Bay
High School...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Campbell Town charge
The Examiner, 12 Dec 2013
A student has been charged with assault following an
incident between two students at Campbell Town District High School
on Wednesday...
LITERACY
Phone read
The Mercury, 12 Dec 2013
Tasmanian students are participating
in the Smith Family's student2student
reading program which links young students with older students to
whom they read books by speakerphone...
KISSING POLICY
Six-year-old suspended for kissing
news.com.au, 12 Dec 2013
A six-year-old boy has been suspended for kissing a girl on the
hand, sparking discussion of just where the sexual harassment line
in the sand lies...
INDUSTRY TRENDS
Holden to close
ABC News, 11 Dec 2013
In a decision that reinforces the trend towards fewer
and fewer future manufacturing jobs being available for today's
students, Holden has announced it will close its Australian car
manufacturing facilities by the end of 2017...
STUDENT PERFORMANCE
Tas equal 3rd in science
Tas Govt media release, 10 Dec 2013
Tasmania's Year 6 NAP-SL (science literacy) results have
placed the state in the top four Australian jurisdictions...
GIFTED AND TALENTED STUDENTS
Gifted school push
The Mercury, 9 Dec 2013
An independent candidate for the forthcoming state election says a
high school in Hobart's northern suburbs should be converted into a
selective high school for gifted students...
COMPUTER ADDICTION
Schools need to act on computer addiction
ABC News, 9 Dec 2013
Schools need to take seriously the addiction to
smartphones, tablets and the internet suffered by many teenagers, a
computer addiction expert says ...
SCHOOL CLOSURES
Geilston Bay closing
The Mercury, 6 Dec 2013
Geilston Bay High School is to close at the end of this
year. Levendale Primary is also set to close...
Enrolments collapse followed upgrade
cancellation,
Michael Ferguson website, 6 Dec 2013
TASMANIAN TALENT
Primaries perform
Tas Govt media release, 6 Dec 2013
More than a thousand primary school students participated
in the Combined Primary Schools Annual Concert at the DEC tonight...
STUDENT HEALTH AND FITNESS
Moving and eating well
Tas Govt media release,, 6 Dec 2013
The Move Well Eat Well
program has been extended to promote healthy eating and physical
activity in early childhood services...
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
Wilderness engagement
Tas Govt media release,, 6 Dec 2013
Tasmanian students are being encouraged to engage in
wilderness and other environmental programs through the state
government's support of the Bookend Trust..
EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION
Too many short-term principals
The Examiner, 6 Dec 2013
Parents and staff are sick of the high turnover of
principals in some schools which is apparently due to adherence to
unnecessary public service rules ..
Reduce the number of classifications,
suggests AEU, The
Examiner, 10 Dec 2013
WORLD NEWS
Nelson Mandela dies
ABC News, 6 Dec 2013
Former South African president Nelson Mandela, who had led his
country out of apartheid, has died at the age of 95 ..
STUDENT PERFORMANCE
PISA reveals Aussie teens' education worse
news.com.au, 4 Dec 2013
Almost half of Australia's
15-year-olds now lack basic maths skills and a third are below the
national baseline level in reading and science..
What is happening in Tasmanian schools? (Editorial), The Mercury, 5 Dec 2013
Tas Libs will set national average as minimum target, Michael
Ferguson website, 4 Dec 2013
FUNDING PROMISES
Tas Liberals promise $45 million education boost
Michael Ferguson website, 3 Dec 2013
Opposition education spokesman
Michael Ferguson says a majority Tasmanian Liberal government will
spend $45 million on:
extending high schools to year 12
employing up to 105 new teachers, and
reducing Teacher Assistant stand down time ...
STUDENT PERFORMANCE
Four-year Gonski model too lean for PISA
improvements
Tas Govt media release, 3 Dec 2013
The latest PISA (Program for
International Student Assessment) results provide evidence that
disadvantaged students need the full six-year Gonski program,
education minister Nick McKim says ..
Aussie students falling behind, SMH, 4 Dec 2013
Tassie students fall behind in maths
and reading, The
Mercury, 5 Dec 2013
Use PISA figures with caution (comment), Jennifer Buckingham,
ABC The Drum, 4 Dec 2013
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Film award for Snug
Tas Govt media release, 3 Dec 2013
Snug Primary School has won the 2013 MyState Student Film
Festival Premier's Award ..
GONSKI FUNDING
Pressure on for six-year Gonski model
ABC News, 3 Dec 2013
The states are calling on the federal government to
reinstate the original six-year Gonski education funding model they
signed up for instead of keeping the trimmed down four-year version ..
Tas Libs need to back six-year Gonski
model, says McKim,
Tas Govt media release, 3 Dec 2013
GONSKI FUNDING
McKim welcomes Feds' change of heart
Tas Govt media release, 2 Dec 2013
Tasmanian education minister Nick McKim is pleased the
federal government now appears to be honouring its Gonski election
promises but he says six years of assured funding is needed instead
of the promised four ..
Gonski backflip, SMH, 3 Dec 2013
Tas Libs welcome confirmation that funding is safe, Michael
Ferguson website, 2 Dec 2013
GONSKI FUNDING
Gonski turnaround
ABC News, 2 Dec 2013
The federal
government has announced it
will honour Labor's Gonski commitments after all and will
reinstate $1.2 billion in Gonski funding which will give "full
funding certainty over the next four years" ...
Backflip on a backflip?, The Mercury, 2 Dec 2013
A fairer funding agreement, Tony Abbott and Christopher Pyne
media release, 2 Dec 2013
GONSKI FUNDING
Other people are confused, says Abbott
SMH, 2 Dec 2013
Even though education minister
Christopher Pyne in an education funding election promise referred
to "funding for your school" and his website said "every single
school" would receive the same funding as under Labor, prime
minister Tony Abbott says other people are confused if they think
the Liberals were promising no individual school would be worse off...
Others confused, says Abbott, The Mercury, 2 Dec 2013
SCIENCE
Science winners
Tas Govt media release, 1 Dec 2013
Prizes in the 2013 Tasmanian Science Talent Search were awarded
today by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education,
Paul O'Halloran...
GONSKI FUNDING
McKim rubs salt in Hodgman's Gonski wounds
Tas Govt media release, 1 Dec 2013
Education minister Nick McKim has attacked Opposition
leader Will Hodgman who is bound to be embarrassed after earlier
taking the federal Liberals' Gonski promises and recent reassurances
at face value and publicly supporting them ..
But the federal Liberals' Gonski promises were later confirmed, Michael
Ferguson website, 2 Dec 2013
GONSKI FUNDING
Abbott explains the broken Gonski promise
ABC News, 1 Dec 2013
The Prime Minister, Tony Abbott,
says it was the Gonski promise inside HIS head that matters, not the
promise that other people thought he gave...
GONSKI FUNDING
Pyne's 'return' to phonics
The Mercury, 1 Dec 2013
Federal education minister
Christopher Pyne says his new needs-based education model includes
phonics and other elements of
traditional literacy teaching...
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