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ASTRONOMY
 Aurora alert
ips.gov.au,
30 Apr 2014
The Aurora is expected over Tasmania
tonight (30 April) "during early to mid evening hours"....
For the latest message go
to the BoM Space
Weather Status Panel, click on Aurora Alert (though sometimes
display of messages is delayed).
 EXTENDING HIGH SCHOOLS TO YEAR 12
Extension taskforce meets
Tas Govt media
release, 30 Apr 2014
The taskforce responsible for providing advice on the
extension of regional and rural high schools to Years 11 and 12 met
for the first time yesterday, the Minister for Education and
Training, Jeremy Rockliff, said today...
CLASS SIZES
Call to allow larger class sizes
SMH, 30 Apr 2014
Money could be saved by removing mandatory class size maximums, a
Centre for Independent Studies report's author, Jennifer Buckingham,
says...
 HOMEWORK POLICY
Homework questioned and criticised
SMH, 29 Apr 2014
Students have told a Victorian parliamentary committee
that homework is tiring and boring, and often is not checked by the
teacher...
CLASS SIZES
Call for smaller class sizes
SMH, 24 Apr 2014
Smaller class sizes really are beneficial, researcher David Zyngier
says...
 AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
Curriculum must recognise Anzac Day's importance
Christopher Pyne website, 24 Apr 2014
(Opinion article
published in Australian Financial Review, 24 Apr 2014, p18)
The federal government's review of
the Australian Curriculum will determine whether sufficient weight
is given to national days such as Anzac Day, education minister
Christopher Pyne writes...
 TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Stanley Primary is 100
The Advocate, 23 Apr 2014
Stanley Primary School is celebrating the centenary since
it was opened in 1914 by former Stanley School student and teacher
Joseph Lyons who had become State education minister and
subsequently went on to become Australian prime minister...
 STUDENT SUPPORT
Disability can mean no school today
The Mercury, 23 Apr 2014
Lack of resources is prompting schools increasingly to
ask parents not to send their child with a disability to school or
to come and collect their child during the day...
 EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY
Technology galore to record lessons
Herald Sun, 19 Apr 2014
A super-equipped classroom fitted out with video and
recording equipment will record teachers' and students' every move
in the interests of furthering educational research...
 New NSW premier
elected unopposed
ABC News, 17 Apr 2014
Mike Baird has been elected unopposed to replace Barry
O'Farrell as NSW premier. Transport minister Gladys Berejiklian is
the new deputy leader...
 ANZAC COMMEMORATIONS
Anzac prize winners sent to Western Front
Guy Barnett, Tas Govt media release, 17 Apr 2014
Six Tasmanian high school students
left for France and Belgium today, having become this year's
recipients of the Frank MacDonald Memorial Prize for their research
of a Tasmanian soldier who had fought on the Western Front...
NSW premier resigns
ABC News, 16 Apr 2014
 The premier of NSW, Barry O'Farrell, has announced his
resignation over the $3,000 bottle of wine he told the Independent
Commission Against Corruption he did not receive. Apparently he now
agrees he signed a thankyou note for it, though he still says he
cannot remember receiving the wine...
KIDS' FADS
Loom bracelets banned
The Examiner, 15 Apr 2014
 With some schools in Victoria and
NSW fighting the latest children's fad by banning loom bands and
loom bracelets, a number of Launceston primary schools are set to
impose their own restrictions...
ASTRONOMY
Lunar eclipse tonight
SMH, 15 Apr 2014
 The Moon is expected to be coloured
red and in eclipse when it rises at 5.23pm tonight...
TASMANIAN PRINCIPALS
North-West principal dies
The Advocate, 14 Apr 2014 (Updated)
The principal of Ulverstone Primary School, David
Cashion, has died...
EXTENDING HIGH SCHOOLS TO YEAR 12
Year 12 implementation begins
ABC News, 10 Apr 2014
Education minister Jeremy Rockliff has invited
Tasmania's 28 regional schools to lodge expressions of interest to be
among the first schools selected to run classes in Years 11 and 12
under the new government's election policy...
List of invited schools, Jeremy Rockliff, Tas Govt media release,
10 Apr 2014
Libs launch high school
revamp,
The Mercury, 11 Apr 2014
Exeter, Campbell Town and Cressy cold be among extended high schools,
The Examiner, 11 Apr 2014
TASMANIAN PRINCIPALS
North-West principal dies
The Advocate, 14 Apr 2014 (Updated)
The principal of Ulverstone Primary School, David
Cashion, has died...
EXTENDING HIGH SCHOOLS TO YEAR 12
Year 12 implementation begins
ABC News, 10 Apr 2014
Education minister Jeremy Rockliff has invited
Tasmania's 28 regional schools to lodge expressions of interest to be
among the first schools selected to run classes in Years 11 and 12
under the new government's election policy...
List of invited schools, Jeremy Rockliff, Tas Govt media release,
10 Apr 2014
Libs launch high school
revamp,
The Mercury, 11 Apr 2014
Exeter, Campbell Town and Cressy cold be among extended high schools,
The Examiner, 11 Apr 2014
COMPUTER SECURITY
Fear over Heartbleed bug
ABC News, 10 Apr 2014
 There is widespread uncertainty over
whether millions of Internet users have had confidential information
such as passwords leaked as a result of a bug in software used by
many large websites...
Do you need to change your banking and other passwords?
Here's what
Australia's banks and other major companies have said to
CNet.com
 STUDENTS AND ALCOHOL
More teens teetotallers
ABC News, 10 Apr 2014
A survey shows that the proportion of teenagers not
drinking alcohol at all has increased by about 20 percentage points
in Tasmania and the rest of the country over the last ten years...
Half of teens shun alcohol, Herald Sun, 10 Apr 2014
 MISSING
MALAYSIAN AIRCRAFT
Audible pings raise hopes
ABC News, 7 Apr 2014
Audible pings heard today by the Australian Navy have enabled the
underwater search area for the missing Malaysian Airlines jet to be
narrowed down considerably......
Kim Booth is new Tas Greens leader
 ABC News, 7 Apr 2014
Former Greens leader Nick McKim has not recontested the
leadership of the Tasmanian Greens.
COMMUNICATING WITH PARENTS
Allegations withheld from parents
The Examiner, 6 Apr 2014
 The DoE has defended its decision not to notify Westbury
Primary parents of allegations that a school volunteer had attempted
to procure a child for sex...
Decision defended by DoE, ABC News, 7 Apr 2014
GONSKI
FUNDING
State govt stands by Gonski
commitment
ABC News, 4 Apr 2014
 Education minister Jeremy Rockliff says the government
stands by its Gonski funding election commitment ...
Feds confirm their Gonski
commitment too,
ABC News, 4 Apr 2014
Education funding Senate inquiry opens in Hobart, The Mercury, 3
Apr 2014
AEU reminds State Libs of Gonski commitment, The Mercury, 4 Apr
2014
Make years five and six funding commitment clear, says O'Byrne,
Tas Labor website, 4 Apr 2014
 NEW STATE
OPPOSITION
Michelle O'Byrne gets shadow education and training portfolio
The Examiner, 3 Apr 2014
The new Tasmanian Labor leader, Bryan Green, has
announced the Opposition's shadow portfolios, naming deputy leader
Michelle O'Byrne as education and training spokesperson...
 KIDS' SPORT
Make helmets compulsory
The Advertiser,, 1 Apr 2014
A football coaching director has called for all junior
football players to be issued with helmets to protect them from
brain injury...
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