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QueenslandHUMAN 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...

ScienceSCIENCE 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
Port Arthur Historic SitesTas 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...

Black bullet Port Arthur Historic Site Summer Activities Guide

Tasmanian Aboriginal flagABORIGINAL 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 ...

Australian CurriculumNATIONAL 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...

NW TasmaniaSCHOOL MERGERS
Railton and Sheffield to merge
Tas Govt media release, 19 Dec 2013

Railton Primary and the Sheffield School are to merge...

 

TasmaniaTCE
Certificates awarded this week
Tas Govt media release, 17 Dec 2013

More than 13,000 Tasmanian students have received the TCE and other certificates...

TasmaniaSTUDENT 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...

TasmaniaTAS 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...

NW TasmaniaTRANSITION 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
USAABCNews, 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

NAPLANThe NAPLAN numeracy results of Tasmanian Year 3 students have improved significantly...

Bullet Australian Year 5 reading improves, ABC News, 13 De 2013
Bullet Tas students improved more strongly, Nick McKim, Tas Govt media release, 13 Dec 2013
Bullet In NSW, non-English background students did best, SMH, 13 Dec 2013
Bullet Tas students below all NAPLAN national averages, Michael Ferguson website, 13 Dec 2013
Bullet School results boost, The Mercury, 14 Dec 2013

TMAG
TMAG summer activities announced
Tas Govt media release, 13 Dec 2013

TMAGSummer 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...

Bullet TMAG holiday opening hours announced, Tas Govt media release, 20 Dec 2013

AEUTEACHER 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...

Southern TasmaniaSCHOOL 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...

Northern TasmaniaTASMANIAN 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
LiteracyThe 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
Holden CruzeABC 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...

ScienceSTUDENT 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...

Cube 4x4x4GIFTED 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...

FacebookCOMPUTER 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

Southern TasmaniaGeilston Bay High School is to close at the end of this year.
Levendale Primary is also set to close...

Bullet Enrolments collapse followed upgrade cancellation, Michael Ferguson website, 6 Dec 2013

TASMANIAN TALENT
Primaries perform
GuitarTas 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...

FruitSTUDENT 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...

Tas wildernessENVIRONMENTAL 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..

Northern TasmaniaEDUCATIONAL 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 ..

Bullet Reduce the number of classifications, suggests AEU, The Examiner, 10 Dec 2013

Nelson Mandela (from abc.net.au photo)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

OECDAlmost 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..

Bullet What is happening in Tasmanian schools? (Editorial), The Mercury, 5 Dec 2013
Bullet Tas Libs will set national average as minimum target, Michael Ferguson website, 4 Dec 2013

Michael FergusonFUNDING 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:
Bullet extending high schools to year 12
Bullet employing up to 105 new teachers, and
Bullet reducing Teacher Assistant stand down time ...

STUDENT PERFORMANCE
Four-year Gonski model too lean for PISA improvements
Tas Govt media release, 3 Dec 2013

OECDThe 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 ..

Bullet Aussie students falling behind, SMH, 4 Dec 2013
Bullet Tassie students fall behind in maths and reading, The Mercury, 5 Dec 2013
Bullet Use PISA figures with caution (comment), Jennifer Buckingham, ABC The Drum, 4 Dec 2013

Southern TasmaniaTASMANIAN 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 (Better Schools) fundingGONSKI 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 ..

Bullet Tas Libs need to back six-year Gonski model, says McKim, Tas Govt media release, 3 Dec 2013

Nick McKimGONSKI 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 ..

Bullet Gonski backflip, SMH, 3 Dec 2013
Bullet Tas Libs welcome confirmation that funding is safe, Michael Ferguson website, 2 Dec 2013

Christopher PyneGONSKI 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" ...

Bullet Backflip on a backflip?, The Mercury, 2 Dec 2013
Bullet A fairer funding agreement, Tony Abbott and Christopher Pyne media release, 2 Dec 2013

Tony AbbottGONSKI 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...

Bullet Others confused, says Abbott, The Mercury, 2 Dec 2013

ScienceSCIENCE
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...

Nick McKimGONSKI 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 ..

Bullet But the federal Liberals' Gonski promises were later confirmed, Michael Ferguson website, 2 Dec 2013

Tony AbbottGONSKI 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...

 

Christopher PyneGONSKI 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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