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 EXTENSION TO YEAR 12
Year 12 announcement next month
The Mercury, 30 May 2014
The four
regional high schools to be assisted with extending their classes to
Years 11 and 12 from next year are expected to be announced next
month...
 TASMANIAN PRINCIPALS
New Collegiate principal
The Mercury, 30 May 2014
Former Friends' School teacher Judith Tudball will take
over from Robyn Kronenberg as principal of Collegiate from next year ...
 TASMANIAN PRINCIPALS
East Launceston principal retires
The Examiner, 28 May 2014
East Launceston Primary School's principal, Judy Pill, is
being farewelled this week ...
 FEDERAL BUDGET
Tas education "loses" $850m
The Examiner, 28 May 2014
Tasmanian students will be $850 million worse off under
the federal government's Budget plans, the Opposition education
spokesperson Kate Ellis estimates (based on Labor's alternative
plans for the next decade)...
YEARS 11 AND 12 IN REGIONAL SCHOOLS
Beaming teachers
The Mercury, 28 May 2014
Teachers of
specific subjects in which there is a shortage of teachers will have
to be beamed into Year 11 and 12 classes in Tasmanian regional
schools using videoconferencing...
 ANZAC CENTENARY
Rose Bay High plants Anzac memories
The Mercury,
26 May 2014
Rose Bay High School is creating a
remembrance garden to mark the centenary of World War 1...
DoE
Anzac Centenary Competition details
 INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Catholic staff planning industrial
action
The Mercury, 26 May 2014
Tasmanian Catholic school teachers
and other staff appear set to undertake direct action over pay and a
range of conditions...
COMPUTER USE BY STUDENTS
Bullying main issue as computer use
soars
news.com.au, 26 May 2014
 With ABS data showing weekly computer use by young people
has risen from three hours in 2006 to 13 hours in 2013,
schoolchildren have nominated bullying as their number-one concern
(replacing pollution)...
 GONSKI FUNDING
Rockliff reiterates Gonski support
The Mercury, 25 May 2014
The Minister for Education and Training, Jeremy Rockliff,
says he is committed to funding the Gonski reforms for the fifth and
sixth years even though the federal government has not provided a
similar commitment...
TAFE
Budget a boost for TAFE?
 The Mercury, 24 May 2014
The federal Budget's theme of 'Earn or learn' for young
people could lead to an increase in the number of young unemployed
taking up TAFE courses...
 TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Dunalley Primary construction soon
Tas Govt media
release, 24 May 2014
Tenders to build a new
Dunalley Primary School are to be called this weekend, the Minister
for Education and Training, Jeremy Rockliff, said today...
EXTENDING HIGH SCHOOL TO YEAR 12
Now ten schools vie for Year 12
extension
The Examiner, 24 May 2014
The Minister for Education and
Training, Jeremy Rockliff, discusses the issues facing education in
Tasmania, and adds that a tenth school will be considered in the
Year 12 extension program ...
 TEACHING PROFESSION
Recognising teachers and volunteers
Tas Govt media
release, 23 May 2014
Nominations are being invited until
25 July for the RBF Department of Education Awards for Excellence
which include Teacher of the Year, Principal of the Year and
Volunteer of the Year awards...
Awards program, DoE website
WORLD NEWS
Thai army takes over
ABC News,
22 May 2014
A coup
d'etat has occurred in Thailand.
 GONSKI FUNDING
Tas teachers confront PM
The Mercury, 22 May 2014
Teachers calling on the federal
government to continue Gonski funding beyond the first four years
heckled Prime Minister Tony Abbott in Hobart today...
CYBERSAFETY
Cyberattack compromises eBay security
BBC News, 21 May 2014
 Online auction website eBay has
urged customers to change their passwords after hackers used
employee passwords to access a database containing customers' names,
encrypted passwords and other details...
FEDERAL BUDGET
Gonski speaks out
ABC News, 22 May 2014
School funding reform hero David
Gonski has attacked the federal government's plan to cut education
spending over the next 10 years...
 STUDENT HEALTH AND SAFETY
Walk safely to school this Friday
The Examiner, 20 May 2014
Students from West Launceston
Primary School and thousands of other students around the country
will be taking part in the Walk Safely to School Day promotion on
Friday, 23 May...
LITERACY
Word history an aid to good spelling
 The Courier, 20 May 2014
Knowing a bit of etymology helps
poor spellers, a Canberra literacy educator argues ...
BULLYING
Bullying expert
in Tasmania
Tas Govt media
release, 20 May 2014
Western Australian health educator and international
expert on bullying and cyberbullying Professor Donna Cross is in
Tasmania to run workshops for teachers and parents...
Educator to speak on bullying, The Advocate, 20 May 2014
Professor Donna Cross Workshop Materials,
DoE, 21 May 2014
NAPLAN
NAPLAN having unintended consequences
ABC News, 19 May 2014
 NAPLAN testing is not achieving what
it set out to do and it is causing anxiety among some students, a
Whitlam Institute study shows...
FEDERAL BUDGET
Tassie families among worst hit by Budget
The Mercury, 19 May 2014
 The federal Budget will make sole parents on $55,000 per
annum almost $20,000 worse off over the next four years, research by
the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling shows...
Low-income couples with
children to bear brunt, ABC News, 19 May 2014
DINOSAURS
World's largest dinosaur found
The Telegraph, 18 May 2014
A new
species of titanosaur weighing 77 tonnes (not 100 tonnes as some
stories first reported) has been discovered in Patagonia, Argentina...
EXTENDING HIGH SCHOOL TO YEAR 12
Nine schools vying for Year 12 extension
The Examiner, 16 May 2014
Of the 28 high schools invited to
express an interest in taking on Years 11 and 12 classes, nine have
put their names forward to be among the first four to take part...
Nine schools express Years 11
and 12 interest, Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for Education
and Training, 17 May 2014
Extension policy applauded, The Mercury, 18 May 2014
FEDERAL BUDGET
Education programs
cut
Kate Ellis website,
14 May 2014
The federal Budget cuts at least 16 education programs,
federal Opposition education spokesperson Kate Ellis says...
FEDERAL BUDGET
Funding for students
with a disability cut
Kate Ellis website,
14 May 2014
The federal Budget cuts all dedicated support for
students with a disability, Opposition education spokesperson Kate
Ellis says...
Tasmanian students with
a disability hardest hit, The
Examiner, 16 May 2014
FEDERAL BUDGET
Education funding "set to grow"
Aust Govt media
release, 14 May 2014
 The federal Budget will give schools
a "renewed" chaplaincy program, more support for Languages Other
Than English and greater support for science and technology related
teaching, education minister Christopher Pyne says...
State premiers angry over cuts to education and health, ABC
News, 14 May 2014
Schools lose secular option under new chaplaincy program, The
Guardian, 14 May 2014
 BREAKING UP FIGHTS
Broom teacher reinstated
USA Today, 13 May 2014
The U.S.
teacher who was sacked for using a broom to break up a fight
between students has been given her job back - "with retroactive
pay". ...
FEDERAL BUDGET
Federal Budget cuts education spending
The Mercury, 14 May 2014
The federal government's Budget has
confirmed that Gonski funding will be cut after four years...
Commitment on schools funding for first four years honoured,
Christopher Pyne, Minister for Education, 13 May 2014
 FOUR-TERM YEARS
Attendance up slightly
The Mercury, 13 May 2014
Tasmania's first term of a four-term school year has seen
student attendance rise from 90.19 per cent to 90.69 percent ...
Extending schools to Year 12 will build on attendance improvement,
Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for Education and Training, 13 May 2014
 STUDENT SUPPORT
Disability taskforce established
Tas Govt
media release,
11 May 2014
A taskforce to assess the
educational and related needs of students with a disability has been
established
by the Minister for Education and Training, Jeremy Rockliff ...
NAPLAN
NAPLAN's downside lamented
The Examiner,
8 May 2014
 With next week's NAPLAN tests looming, the state's
parents' and principals' groups have expressed their concerns over
NAPLAN results being used for comparing schools...
Of little use for comparisons, The Mercury, 13 May 2014
 FORMER POLITICIANS
New job for Wightman
The Examiner, 8 May 2014
Former Labor education spokesperson Brian Wightman is now
chief executive of Launceston's Cornerstone Youth Services...
BREAKING UP FIGHTS
Teacher sacked for using broom
Huffington
Post, 8 May 2014
A U.S.
teacher has been sacked for using a broom to break up a fight
between two students...
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LITERACY AND NUMERACY
Literacy and numeracy specialists soon
 The Mercury, 7 May 2014
Recruitment for 25 literacy and
numeracy specialists will begin tomorrow, education minister Jeremy
Rockliff said today...
ANZAC CENTENARY
Gallipoli trip awaits Year 11 students
The Mercury, 5 May 2014
Seven Tasmanian Year 11 students
will be selected to be present at the Anzac Centenary Dawn Service
at Gallipoli in 2015, education minister Jeremy Rockliff said today
in launching an Anzac Centenary research competition for students...
DoE
Anzac Centenary Competition details
 SEX EDUCATION
Alarm
over Tas teen STD, pregnancy rates
The Examiner,
5 May
2014
The teenage pregnancy rate in
Tasmania is the second highest in Australia (following the NT), a
survey by La Trobe University shows...
COMMISSION OF
AUDIT
Dismantle Gonski, says Commission
SMH, 1 May 2014
The federal government's Commission
of Audit has recommended that the final two years of Gonski funding
not be proceeded with, that all funding allocation (and policy)
responsibilities for schools be transferred to the states, and that
all Commonwealth VET programs be abolished...
Dismantling Gonski a breach
of trust,
Bryan Green, Tas Opposition leader, 1 May 2014
Audit recommends cutting back Gonski funding, SMH, 1 May 2014
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