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 GONSKI FUNDING
Tas Gonski hope
Tas Govt media release, 27 Jun 2013
Premier Lara Giddings says she is making contact with new prime
minister Kevin Rudd's office with the aim of signing up for Gonski
funding as soon as possible...
 Federal Labor
leadership
Kevin Rudd to
be PM again
ABC News, 26 Jun 2013
Kevin Rudd defeated Julia
Gillard in a ballot for the ALP leadership held at 7.00 pm tonight.
The new Deputy Prime Minister is to be Anthony Albanese.
The new Leader of the Senate is to be Senator Penny
Wong.
GONSKI FUNDING
AEU Gonski call
 The Mercury, 26 Jun 2013
State AEU president Terry Polglase
said he hopes premier Lara Giddings will make a Gonski commitment by
this weekend...
Government must hurry up over Gonski, Michael Ferguson website, 23 Jun 2013
STUDENT SUPPORT
Special
needs improvement needed
Michael Ferguson website, 23 Jun 2013
Students with a disability need more choices and a better future,
Opposition education spokesman Michael Ferguson says...
 ASTRONOMY
Supermoon tonight
ABC News, 23 Jun 2013
The Moon will be much larger than usual tonight, Sunday
23 June...
 GONSKI FUNDING
$400m at risk for schools
The Mercury, 22 Jun 2013
Tasmanian schools could miss out on
$400 million if the state does not sign up for the Gonski reforms,
prime minister Julia Gillard says...
Aust Govt media release, 22 Jun 2013
 PONTVILLE DETENTION CENTRE
More asylum seekers now at college
Tas Govt media
release, 21 Jun 2013
An additional 75 young asylum seekers are now attending Claremont
Colllege...
STUDENT HEALTH
Virus alert as child dies
ABC News, 20 Jun 2013
Parents have been asked to watch for the symptoms of enterovirus,
which can cause hand, foot and mouth disease in children...
Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, Tas Dept of Health and Human services
NAPLAN
Teachers blamed for NAPLAN stress
 SMH, 19 Jun 2013
ACARA - the federal government
agency that manages the NAPLAN tests - has blamed teachers and
principals for the stress that the testing now causes students...
BULLYIING
Study provides bullying generalisations
news.com.au, 19 Jun 2013
 Boys are overt in their bullying whereas girls are
covert, according to an Australian survey of children aged 10 and 11
years...
SOCCER
Soccer World Cup ahead for Australia
ABC Radio, 9.55pm 18 Jun 2013
By defeating Iraq 1-0 in tonight's match, Australia's
Socceroos have gained entry to next year's FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
TAFE
TasTAFE board members named
Tas Govt media release, 18 Jun 2013
The Minister for Education and Skills, Nick McKim, today
announced the names of six new TasTAFE board members...
STUDENT SAFETY
 Asbestos alarm
The Examiner, 18 Jun 2013
Three grades were kept at home for two days when asbestos
was discovered in Port Dalrymple School...
SCHOOL CLOSURES
 Geilston Bay closure fear
The Mercury, 17 Jun 2013
Geilston Bay High School's parents like their school
having a low enrolment but are concerned that its small size is a
threat to its future...
EXTENDING HIGH SCHOOL TO YEAR 12
Scrap high schools extension policy
Tas Govt media release, 16 Jun 2013
The Liberals need to discard their policy to extend high schools to
Years 11 and 12 now that an AEU committee has said the policy will
disadvantage rural students and the education system, education
minister Nick McKim says...
SCHOOL MERGERS
More mergers
The Examiner, 14 Jun 2013
Education minister Nick McKim has announced the mergers of Rocherlea
and Mayfield primary schools in the North and Glenorchy's Timsbury
School and Howrah's Southern Support School in the South...
GONSKI REFORMS
 Tas June 30 Gonski deadline now doubtful
ABC News, 14 Jun 2013
With South Australia announcing its
support for the Gonski reforms, Tasmanian premier Lara Giddings has
warned that Tasmania is unlikely to make the 30 June deadline as
earlier envisaged...
The Examiner, 14 Jun 2013
Margate gas bottle explosion
The Examiner, 14 Jun 2013
ABC News
STUDENT SUPPORT
Enjoying school important
The Mercury, 14 Jun 2013
Enjoying school rates higher than high marks in enabling students to
turn into successful adults, a Tasmanian study shows...
OUT-OF-ZONE ENROLMENTS
Changed school zones ahead
The Mercury, 13 Jun 2013
 Thousands of primary school children will find that
their local high school has changed under draft school home area
maps released yesterday...
School zones tightened, The Examiner, 12 Jun 2013
Principals' workload to rise, The Examiner, 13 Jun 2013
Principals to lead consultation, The Advocate, 13 Jun 2013
Death of parent choice, Michael Ferguson website, 13 Jun 2013
Robbed of choice, The Mercury, 14 Jun 2013
Not robbed of choice, Tas Govt media release, 13 Jun 2013
Consultation sham, Michael Ferguson website, 14 Jun 2013
Adherence to Act not being assured by Minister, Michael Ferguson
website, 14 Jun 2013
OUT-OF-ZONE ENROLMENTS
Draft school home area maps released
Tas Govt media release, 12 Jun 2013
School intake zone
maps have been released as education minister Nick McKim calls
for public comment by 30 August on the government's out-of-home-area
enrolment policies...
School Home-Area Maps, DoE website, 12 Jun 2013
Up for comment, The Mercury, 12 Jun
2013
Guidelines released, The Examiner, 12 Jun 2013
Comment sought, ABC News, 12 Jun 2013
McKim must release maps, Michael
Ferguson website, 11 Jun 2013
STUDENT SUPPORT
Preventing youth suicide
Tas Govt media release, 12 Jun 2013
Headspace School Support in Tasmania has been launched to enhance
support in schools that may be affected by youth suicide...
The Mercury, 13 Jun 2013
STUDENT HEALTH AND SAFETY
Synthetic drugs alarm
The Mercury, 12 Jun 201
Parents need to warn their children about the synthetic drugs that
are available over the Internet and from Tasmanian stores...
Schools ought to be worried, Newcastle Herald, 6 Jun 2013
GONSKI FUNDING
IQ gap children may miss out
The Examiner, 11 Jun 2013
A lower severe disability IQ
cut-off point may see some Tasmanian children miss out on additional
Gonski funding...
Call for IQ cut-off to be raised, The Examiner, 13 Jun 2013
TASMANIAN TEACHERS
 Ag teacher honoured
The Mercury, 10 Jun 2013
Jordan River School Farm coordinator and teacher
Jackie Brown has received an AM in the Queen's Birthday Honours list
for service to agricultural education...
OUT-OF-ZONE ENROLMENTS
Out-of-home-area guidelines loom as empty classrooms grow
The Examiner, 10 Jun 2013
Out-of-home area guidelines for Tasmania's schools are expected to
be released to school communities tomorrow...
School viability questions, ABC News, 11 Jun 2013
Guidelines may improve occupancy rates, The Examiner, 11 Jun
2013
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Schools bursting
The Examiner, 10 Jun 2013
Nine schools in Tasmania are bursting at the seams, six of them with
occupancy rates above 110 per cent...
 INTERNET IN SCHOOLS
Fear over spying Internet
The Australian, 9 Jun 2013
Parents are concerned that children's use of the Internet
in the classroom is exposing them to data mining and distraction
through targeted advertising...
SafeGov.org's survey on Internet
services and student privacy, Wall Street Journal, 23 May 2013
PHOTO CAPTIONS
Be careful drafting photo captions
The Mercury, 7 Jun 2013
A photo caption in the published yearbook of an American school
identifies some of the students as "Someone", "Some tall guy" and
"Creepy smile kid", presumably because the author assumed the
correct names would be inserted later...
NAPLAN
NW NAPLAN joy
The Advocate, 7 Jun 2013
For schools in the
socio-economically disadvantaged category Burnie High School and the
Sheffield School have done well in the latest NAPLAN tests ...
SCHOOL FARMS
School farms not under threat
Tas Govt media release, 6 Jun 2013
There are no plans to force school farms to close, the Minister for
Education and Skills, Nick McKim, said today...
GONSKI IN TASMANIA
Tas Gonski delay reasons revealed
The Examiner, 5 Jun 2013
The reasons Tasmania has not yet
signed up for the Gonski funding apparently concern funding to
non-government schools and Tasmania's lower lower-IQ cut-off for the
severe disability register...
SCHOOL FARMS
School farms under threat
The Examiner, 5 Jun 2013
Hagley and other Tasmanian farm schools may have to close if they
are unable to meet their own "liability costs"...
However, DoE Deputy Secretary Andrew Finch
has assured schools there is "no cause for concern" and that Hagley
and other schools will not have to close. (ABC Radio,
approx. 9.30am, 6 Jun 2013)
EDUCATION FUNDING
Ferguson criticises State education budget
Michael Ferguson website, 4 Jun 2013
Following the Budget Estimates hearings at State Parliament,
Opposition education spokesperson Michael Ferguson says:
Tasmanian schools have
283 fewer teachers and teacher aides since Nick McKim has been
education minister
the government is attempting to move
Gonski funding
away from some disadvantaged schools
the government's budgeted funds for
Years 11 and 12 in regional areas in 2014-15 would provide the
equivalent of only one extra teacher for the whole of Tasmania, and
education minister Nick McKim will later
this year be calling for
school upgrade submissions for capital works funds that do not
exist.
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
 Enrolments down, behaviour up
The Mercury, 4 Jun 2013
The number of students enrolled in Tasmanian government
schools has fallen but suspensions and absenteeism are also down...
CHILDREN'S COMMISSIONER
Interim Children's Commissioner named
The Examiner, 4 Jun 2013
Northern Tasmanian educator Elizabeth Daly is the interim
Commissioner for Children...
Tas Govt media release, 4 Jun 2013
HIGH SCHOOLS TO YEAR 12
Libs promote Year 12 plan
ABC News, 3 Jun 2013
The Liberal Opposition says that if it gained government it would
enable high schools to teach to Year 12 while still retaining the
colleges...
The Examiner, 3 Jun 2013
Bringing Year 11 and 12 to Tasmanian communities, Michael
Ferguson website, 2 Jun 2013
STUDENT HEALTH AND SAFETY
Student needle prick scare
The Mercury, 3 Jun 2013
Three students at a Hobart primary school pricked each other with a
syringe they found...
HEALTH AND FITNESS
Participation best ever
Tas Govt media release, 2 Jun 2013
The participation of Tasmanians aged 15 years and over in sport,
recreation and physical activity is the best it has ever been,
statistics show...
The Mercury, 2 Jun 2013
ASTRONOMY
Watch for
the auroras
ips.gov.au, 1 Jun 2013
Auroras are expected in the night sky in Tasmania tonight due to flare
activity on the sun...
 TEACHER HEALTH
Teachers best at not smoking
Yahoo! 7 News, 1 Jun 2013
Teachers are the best at giving up smoking, with 7
percent of the education profession not smoking...
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