LEAGUE TABLES
Mt Nelson Primary 32nd in Australia
The Mercury, 28 Jun 2014
Mount Nelson Primary School is the only Tasmanian school
- government or private - to make the top 100 Australian primary
schools in The Australian's league tables which are based
on NAPLAN results and other data...
Browse the top 100 primary and secondary schools (and also see
all schools ranked), The Weekend Australian, 28-29 Jun 2014
TEACHING QUALITY
Report on Tas teaching quality released
Auditor-General's
website (pdf file), 26 Jun 2014
The Tasmanian Auditor-General, Mike Blake, has made seven
recommendations on improving the quality of teaching in Tasmania...
Teaching quality in Tasmanian
public high schools
(full report) [pdf],
Auditor-General's website
Tas government school students better than expected (in Mt
Nelson Primary story), The Mercury, 28 June 2014
Teachers to top of class, The Mercury (editorial), 28 June 2014
EXTENSION TO YEAR 12
First six schools announced
Tas Govt media
release, 26
Jun
2014
The first six
schools to be supported in extending their high school classes to
Year 11 under the state government's program to extend regional high
schools to Year 12 have been announced by the Minister for Education
and Training, Jeremy Rockliff. The schools are:
Scottsdale High School
Smithton High School
Huonville High and
Dover District High (in partnership)
St Helens District High
and St Marys District High (in partnership)...
Six schools selected, The Examiner, 26 Jun 2014
Six schools selected, The Advocate, 26 Jun 2014
Six schools take steps towards Year 12, The Mercury, 26 Jun 2014
Six rural schools to offer more Year 11 and 12 subjects, ABC News, 26 Jun 2014
TEACHING PROFESSION
Teachers feel undervalued, report says
The Age, 25 Jun 2014
Australian teachers feel undervalued
and many say they lose quite a lot of class time through student
interruptions, an OECD report says...
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
Industrial action
next week
The Examiner, 24 Jun 2014, and ABC
News, 24 Ju 2014
Teachers and other staff in Tasmanian Catholic schools
plan to engage in four-hour strikes next week, but the Director of
Catholic Education, Trish Hindmarsh, says she believes schools will
be able to remain open. Next week's stop-works will be held on
Tuesday (Launceston), Wednesday (Hobart) and Thursday (Burnie)...
Catholic teachers to strike, ABC News, 25 Jun 2014
TEACHING PROFESSION
Specialist program causes teacher shortage
The Mercury, 23 Jun
2014
The state government's program to
train 25 specialist literacy and numeracy teachers is having the
unintended consequence of causing a shortage of senior English and
maths teachers in Tasmanian schools...
Specialist teachers will be
of benefit, Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for Education
and Training, 23 Jun 2014
Inadequate consultation by government, Michelle O'Byrne, Shadow
Eucation Minister, TasLabor website, 24 Jun 2014
Students will get qualified teachers, Jeremy Rockliff, Minister
for Education and Training, 24 Jun 2014
COMPUTER USE
Fears over
digital device babysitting
news.com.au, 22 Jun
2014
Young children are starting school
in need of speech therapy as a result of excessive use of digital
devices in place of human interaction...
TAFE
Fears over TAFE charges
The Examiner, 21 Jun
2014
Federal government proposals could lead to some TAFE
courses costing as much as university courses, the Examiner's
education reporter writes...
CYBERSAFETY
Bullying books launched
Tas Govt media
release, 20 Jun
2014
Children's books on cybersafety, cyberbullying and
sibling bullying, written by Mary Koolhof and produced in Tasmania,
were launched yesterday...
Books to beat bullying, The Mercury, 21 Jun 2014
EDUCATION FUNDING
Chaplaincy funding struck down
ABC News, 19 Jun
2014
Funding of the school chaplaincy program by the
Commonwealth Government has been struck down by a decision of the
High Court announced today...
Take the poll, The Advocate, 19 Jun 2014
Program in peril, The Mercury, 20 Jun 2014
Call to divert funds to counsellors, The Mercury, 21 Jun 2014
Chaplains to stay, The Examiner, 21 Jun 2014
SKILLS TRAINING
Mainland bodies providing skills training
The Mercury, 19 Jun
2014
Under the Skills Fund scheme, TasTAFE has to compete
with interstate training providers to whom millions of dollars are
paid...
STUDENT SAFETY
Students suffer cuts in prank
The Mercury, 19 Jun
2014
A number of Kingston High School students have been
injured in a pencil sharpener blade prank...
Students suffer cuts, The Mercury, 18 Jun 2014
AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
No changes in AC interim report
ABC News, 18 Jun
2014
The interim report on the
Australian Curriculum commissioned by federal education minister
Chistopher Pyne has yet to receive and comment on reports of subject
area specialists...
STUDENT SUPPORT
FamilyVoice attack attacked
TasLabor website, 18 Jun
2014
Opposition education spokesperson Michelle O'Byrne says
that as FamilyVoice Australia has ridiculed people struggling with
gender identification and has attacked the Safe Schools Coalition
program, education minister Jeremy Rockliff must condemn the
organisation...
STUDENT SUPPORT
Autism panel meets
Tas Govt media
release, 18 Jun
2014
The state government's promised Autism Advisory Panel had
its first meeting today, the Minister for Human Services, Jacquie
Petrusma said...
LITERACY
LOL! SMS boosts literacy
ABC News, 18 Jun
2014
Research by the University of Tasmania and a UK
university has found that using the heavily abbreviated text message
system actually improves children's spelling and grammar...
Texting improves spelling and grammar, BBC News, 13 Jun 2014
Texting shortcuts no threat, The Mercury, 18 Jun 2014
BUSINESS EDUCATION
NW Business Challenge
The Advocate, 17 Jun
2014
Over 90 North West high school
students are trying their hand at running a business in the Nextgen
Business Challenge...
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Catholic strike looms
ABC News, 17 Jun
2014
The Independent Education Union says
industrial action in Tasmanian Catholic schools could commence
within days, but the Catholic Education Office says schools will
remain open if a strike occurs...
Catholic school teachers to
strike,
The Mercury, 18 Jun 2014
EXTENSION TO YEAR 12
What
is actual subject choice impact?
TasLabor website, 16
Jun
2014
The state
government must provide details of the actual impact on Year 11 and
12 subject choices in the first year of extending regional schools
to year 12 (in view of the fact that seven of the schools to express
an interest in the scheme are already providing some Year 11 and 12
courses) Opposition education spokesperson Michelle O'Byrne says ...
Existing Year 11-12 offering
is no secret, Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for Education
and Training, 16 Jun 2014
SPORT
Two Tasmanians in hockey World Cup team
ABC News, 16 Jun 2014
The Australian hockey team that has
won the hockey World Cup contains two Tasmanians - Eddie Ockenden
and Tim Deavin...
Congratulations to Tasmania's
world champion hockey players, Will Hodgman, Premier, 16 Jun 2014
GONSKI REFORMS
Show us Gonski figures, Opposition says
TasLabor website, 15 Jun 2014
The Tasmanian government needs to specify the actual
shortfall Tasmania will suffer from the federal government's funding
of only a four-year Gonski program instead of a six-year program,
the state Opposition says...
EQUITY IN SCHOOLS
NAPLAN and inequity blamed
SMH, 15 Jun 2014
The main causes of falling
educational performance in Australia are standardised testing such
as the NAPLAN system and lack of equity in schools, rather than
socio-economic disadvantage or poor teaching, an overseas expert
argues...
STUDENT BEHAVIOUR
Suspended students fall
The Mercury, 15 Jun 2014
The number of Tasmanian students
suspended from school fell from 2867 to 2633 last year, Department
of Education secretary Colin Pettit said...
ANZAC COMMEMORATIONS
Students return from Western Front
Guy Barnett, Tas Govt media release, 14 Jun 2014
The six
winners of the Frank MacDonald Memorial Prize have been welcomed
home from their trip to France and Belgium by Guy Barnett, Parliamentary Secretary to the
Premier...
SCHOOL CLOSURES
Will they never learn?
The Age (reproduced from geoffmaslin.edublogs.org), 12 Jun 2014
Now that new inner-city families are becoming
established, the Victorians are ruing the time they sold off
inner-city land after closing and merging the then low-enrolment
inner-city schools...
See also earlier story:
Selling schools backfires for
NSW, SMH,
16 Feb 2014
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
Industrial action looms
ABC Radio, 12 Jun 2014, 5.50pm
Tasmanian Catholic school staff
members of the Independent Education Union have voted to undertake
industrial action consisting of distributing information to parents,
wearing badges and, after three days' notice, half-day stoppages and
possibly 24-hour stoppages.
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
George Town school hit by vandals
The
Advocate, 8 Jun 2014
Vandals have damaged books, computers and other equipment
in the Port Dalrymple School library...
[Arrests
have been made.]
LITERACY
School libraries to get Baldock book
The
Advocate, 8 Jun 2014
All Tasmanian high schools and colleges are to receive a
copy of Darrel Baldock: The Incomparable Mr Magic
by Peter Lyons...
STUDENT HEALTH
School nurses loom
Tas
Govt media release, 7 Jun 2014
Implementation of the state
government's policy of reintroducing nurses to Tasmanian government
schools has begun with the appointment of a project manager, the
Minister for Education and Training, Jeremy Rockliff, said today...
EDUCATION POLICY
Focus on all students
The
Mercury, 7 Jun 2014
A visiting US education expert has told Tasmanian
educationists that rather than concentrate on supporting the
students in a particular age group the focus should be on all age
groups...
COOKING
Fear for Devonport cooking competition
The
Advocate, 6 Jun 2014
Organisers are looking for a sponsor of the annual Tas
Cook Comp held at Devonport High School...
FILM AND VIDEO
Film competition under way
The
Mercury, 6 Jun 2014
Entries in the 12th annual
MyState Student Film Festival close on 31 October ...
STUDENT SUPPORT
Final bushfire report issued
Tas
Govt media release, 6 Jun 2014
The Transition to
Long-term Recovery report on the aftermath of the
Tasmanian bushfires of early 2013 has been released...
Tasmanian Bushfire Recovery website
LITERACY
Reading Challenge on
Tas
Govt media release, 4 Jun 2014
The Premier's Reading Challenge for
2014 commences on Tuesday June 10...
Premier's Reading Challenge website
Sheffield School students
reading at Railton, The Advocate, 10 Jun 2014
TAFE
Help with TAFE fees
Tas
Govt media release, 3 Jun 2014
TasTAFE diploma students will soon be able to defer
their fees HECS-style, education minister Jeremy Rockliff said today...
Subsidies stand, The Examiner, 18 Jun 2014
STUDENT SUPPORT
Disability taskforce meets soon
The
Advocate, 2 Jun 2014
The new state
government taskforce set up to review the education of students with
disabilities will have its first meeting on Monday 9 June ...
TASMANIAN COLLEGES
Don College ATAR pride
The
Advocate, 1 Jun 2014
Don College's median Australian Tertiary Admission Rank
has been better than the state average for the last three years...
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