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 PUBLIC SECTOR STAFF CUTS
Half Principal Network Leaders to go
Tas Greens media release, 31 Oct
2014
The jobs of six of the state's Principal Network Leaders are to be
cut, Greens education spokesperson Nick McKim says..
TASMANIAN EDUCATION STAFF
Awards for Excellence announced
 Tas Govt media release, 31 Oct
2014
A number of outstanding Tasmanian
teachers and departmental staff have been recognised in the RBF
Department of Education Awards for Excellence..
Top awards go to Penguin
school,
The Advocate, 6 Nov 2014
NAPLAN
Ministers agree on online NAPLAN timetable
Aust Govt media release, 31 Oct
2014
 Australia's education ministers
agreed this morning to trial online NAPLAN testing in 2016, federal
education minister Christopher Pyne said...
Naplan literacy and numeracy
tests to be online in 2017, SMH, 31 Oct 2014
 LITERACY
Record number in Reading Challenge
Tas Govt media release, 30 Oct
2014
A record number of Tasmanian
students entered the Premier's Reading Challenge this year ...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
ELECTIONS
Tas Electoral Commission
2014 progressive election
results
Sue Hickey has displaced Damon
Thomas as Hobart's Lord Mayor.
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BoM, 28 Oct 2014.
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PUBLIC SECTOR POSITIONS
Tas education job cuts announced
ABC News, 28 Oct
2014
 The Treasurer, Peter Gutwein, has announced that of 861 public
sector positions to be axed 266 would be cut from education between
now and June next year...
Treasurer's statement on
public service job cuts, 28 Oct 2014
Job cuts will
affect the lives of students, Michelle O'Byrne, opposition
education spokesperson, 28 Oct 2014
Job cuts were avoidable, Kim Booth, Greens leader, 28 Oct 2014
Call to hold independent review of the public sector, Kim Booth,
Greens leader, 29 Oct 2014
 TAX RISES
Rise in petrol tax in two weeks
ABC News, 28 Oct
2014
The Australian government will raise petrol taxes by about half a
cent per litre from 10 November in a plan that bypasses Parliament ...
 TAFE
TasTAFE in national training award finals
Tas Govt media releases, 27 Oct
2014
Finalists in the Australian Training Awards to be
announced on 21 November include training provider TasTAFE and
Burnie TasTAFE teacher Jocylyn Cross...
 LITERACY
Reading encouraged by volunteer dogs
ABC News, 27 Oct
2014
Montagu Primary School is the first
Tasmanian school to use listening dogs to encourage reluctant
readers under the Delta Society's Classroom Canines program...
 ATTENDANCE RATES
Every day at school counts
The Examiner, 27 Oct
2014
Student absenteeism is a serious matter and is being
monitored closely in Tasmania. The report provides attendance data
for most schools in northern Tasmania...
STUDENT BEHAVIOUR
Principals to look out for potential terrorists?
 ABC News, 26 Oct
2014
Following the raising of the national terrorism alert
level, New South Wales principals have been asked to exercise
vigilance and report any concerns about student behaviour...
 SCHOOL
SHOOTINGS
First-year teacher a hero
The Telegraph, 25 Oct
2014
The first-year teacher of social
science who grabbed the arm of a student before he could shoot more
students has been hailed a hero in the US...
NAPLAN
NAPLAN tests online in 2016
news.com.au, 25 Oct
2014
Australian students will be
undertaking online interactive NAPLAN tests in 2016...
$24.7m plan for online NAPLAN testing, Christopher Pyne,
Australian Minister for Education, 25 Oct 2014
PUBLIC SERVICE PAY FREEZE
Unions offer savings
ABC News, 24 Oct
2014
 Tasmanian public sector unions have
proposed a number of savings measures to avoid the need to axe 500
jobs...
Union proposal doesn't add
up, says Gutwein, The Examiner, 24 Oct 2014
Proposal needs to be accepted, Kim Booth, Greens Leader, 24 Oct
2014
Tas government rejects unions' pay
freeze plan, The Mercury, 25 Oct 2014
WORLD NEWS
 Gunman invades Canadian parliament buildings
ABC News, 23 Oct
2014
A gunman has killed a soldier and fired shots in the Canadian
parliamentary buildings....
PUBLIC SERVICE PAY FREEZE
Teachers' jobs threatened
ABC News, 22 Oct
2014
The Treasurer, Peter Gutwein, has
warned that teaching jobs could be lost if the pay freeze does not
go ahead...
Options could include cutting
front-line services, Peter Gutwein, Treasurer, 22 Oct 2014
 STUDENT HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Physical activity benefits school work
The Conversation, 21 Oct
2014
Spending more time on physical activity at school helps
students to improve their academic results, Swedish research shows....
 AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
Gough Whitlam dies
ABC News, 21 Oct
2014
Former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam has died at the age of 98....
Former Prime Minister Gough
Whitlam dead at 98, news.com.au, 21 Oct 2014
 STUDENT SUPPORT
Supporting shy students
The Age, 20 Oct
2014
Teachers need to consider the needs
of shy students and give them room, former shy student Sian Prior
writes...
 COMPUTER VULNERABILITIES
Check your browser for the POODLE flaw
PC World, 17 Oct
2014
Although the POODLE flaw is not as serious as some other
computer vulnerabilities, using a password on a public network such as public wi-fi
is risky if your browser has been compromised by it...
Test your browser
for the POODLE vulnerability
 EDUCATION ACT REVIEW
Exclusion fear
The Examiner, 17 Oct
2014
Children with a disability who had exhibited behavioural issues
could be discriminated against under proposed changes to the
Education Act, a disability lobbyist says...
Parents key to overhaul, says
Minister,
The Examiner, 17 Oct 2014
PUBLIC SERVICE WAGE FREEZE
Police accept pay freeze
The Examiner, 17 Oct
2014
The Police Association has agreed
to the state government's 18-month pay freeze in return for
protection of its frontline employees' jobs...
Frontline police escape job
cuts, ABC
News, 17 Oct 2014
 INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Tas international ed awards announced
Tas Govt media release, 16 Oct
2014
Awards for excellence in the provision of and
participation in international education in Tasmania were presented
tonight...
EDUCATION ACT REVIEW
Aggressive parents face bans
The Examiner, 16 Oct
2014
Parents who
are unruly in a school could be banned or fined under the proposed
changes to the Education Act...
NATIONAL CURRICULUM REPORT
General capabilities still needed
The Conversation (comment by
Sue Roffey) , 15 Oct
2014
It would be a travesty to remove
from the Australian Curriculum the four "general
 capabilities" of
critical and creative thinking, personal and social capability,
ethical understanding and intercultural understanding, an academic
argues...
Curriculum review contains contradictions, The Conversation
(comment by Libby Tudball), 15 Oct 2014)
 LITERATURE
Richard Flanagan wins Man Booker prize
ABC News, 15 Oct
2014
Tasmanian-born author Richard
Flanagan has won the $88,000 Man Booker prize for his novel The
Narrow Road to the Deep North..
Tasmania at centre of world
literary map, The Mercury, 15 Oct 2014
 CENTENARY OF ANZAC
Anzac Centenary launch looms
Tas Govt media release, 14 Oct
2014
The Tasmanian Centenary of Anzac
program will be officially launched this Saturday, 18 October 2014,
the Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier, Guy Barnett, said today...
Centenary of Anzac website, Tasmanian Government
Anzac Centenary 2014-18, anzacwebsites.com
PATHWAY PLANNERS
Pathway plans for prisoners?
The Mercury, 14 Oct
2014
 Education minister Jeremy Rockliff described it as
"more Labor scaremongering" when Opposition education spokesperson
Michelle O'Byrne asked whether pathway planners would be required to
work with prisoners on sex offender programs...
Minister must reveal
redeployment options for pathway planners, Michelle O'Byrne, Opposition education
spokesperson, 14 Oct 2014
Emails show prison jobs were offered, Michelle O'Byrne,
Opposition education spokesperson, 16 Oct 2014
EDUCATION ACT REVIEW
Education Act review feedback sought
Tas Govt media release, 13 Oct
2014
Community
views are being sought on appropriate school starting and leaving
ages and any other possible changes to the Education Act, education
minister Jeremy Rockliff said today...
Reviewing Tasmania's Education Act, DoE Blogspot site
 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Artists in Residence for 2015 announced
Tas Govt media release, 13 Oct
2014
Eight artists and eight colleges
and independent schools selected for the 2015 Artist in Residence
program have been announced by the Minister for the Arts, Vanessa
Goodwin...
NATIONAL CURRICULUM REPORT
Teachers lack basic skills, report says
The Telegraph, 12 Oct
2014
Today's teachers lack sufficient
grammar skills, the report Review of Australia's
Curriculum to be released today says...
Review calls for less crowded
curriculum, news.com.au, 12 Oct 2014
Curriculum overcrowded, needs more early childhood literacy and
numeracy, ABC News, 12 Oct 2014
Overhaul of 'bloated' curriculum supported, The Age, 12 Oct 2014
Experts respond to curriculum review, The Conversation, 12
Oct 2014
Initial government response to curriculum review, Christopher
Pyne, Federal education minister, 12 Oct 2014
Tas teachers likely to be cycnical, The Mercury, 13 Oct 2014
Earliest year for new curriculum now 2016, news.com.au, 13 Oct
2014
NATIONAL CURRICULUM REPORT
Tackle suicide through curriculum
The Telegraph, 12 Oct
2014
Including discussion about sex,
drugs and religion in the high school curriculum would help combat
youth suicide, the National Curriculum Report prepared for education
minister Christopher Pyne says...
 CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
No media, school tells former students
ABC News, 10 Oct
2014
Ahead of next week's child sexual abuse Royal Commission,
Hutchins School has instructed its old boys to refer any media
enquiries to the school's headmaster...
Not ebola in Qld
ABC News, 10 Oct 2014, 7.05am
Good news - the
Queensland Red Cross volunteer with a mild high fever has
tested NEGATIVE for the ebola virus .
 EDUCATION SYSTEMS
Why are East Asian children so far ahead?
The Conversation (comment by
John Jerrim), 9 Oct
2014
Although it is not clear why East
Asian students do so well in tests it would appear that their family
culture rather than their school systems holds the explanation, a
British expert says ..
PATHWAY PLANNERS
Legislative Council inquiry welcomed
Tas Greens website, 9 Oct
2014
The expected Legislative Council
committee inquiry sparked by the plan to abolish pathway planners
will allow members of the community to show their support for the
Guaranteeing Futures program which has underpinned five years of
improved retention rates, Greens leader Nick McKim says ..
New My Education program deserves support,
Vanessa Goodwin, Acting Minister for Education and Training, 8 Oct
2014
DoE My
Education website
PUBLIC SERVICE JOB CUTS
Three more in every class?
The Mercury, 9 Oct
2014
Class sizes could rise by three students under state
government Budget and job cuts, AEU president Terry Polglase says...
Threat to learning, The Examiner, 9 Oct 2014
Qld ebola fear
news.com.au, 9 Oct 2014
Queensland
authorities are testing a Red Cross volunteer for the ebola virus.
 COMPUTER EDUCATION
Computer hacking school for Glenorchy?
The Mercury, 9 Oct
2014
Kirsha Kaechele, who is married to
MONA founder David Walsh, hopes to establish a hacking school in
Glenorchy to give disadvantaged youth a pathway to the IT industry...
 LUNAR ECLIPSES
Cloud threatens tonight's lunar eclipse
The Mercury, 8 Oct
2014
Unless cloud gets in the way a lunar eclipse will be
seen over Tasmania from 8.14pm tonight, with a full eclipse from
9.25pm for one hour...
PUBLIC SERVICE JOB CUTS
Health and education hardest
hit, says CPSU
 The Mercury, 8 Oct
2014
Tasmania's public sector union
estimates that the education sector will lose 186 of the 500 extra
jobs to be cut by the state government...
 TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Relocated Lindisfarne North on track
The Mercury, 8 Oct
2014
The new Lindisfarne North Primary School is expected to
open as planned on the old Geilston Bay High School site at the
beginning of next year...
Work begins on new site for
Lindisfarne North, Vanessa Goodwin, Acting Minister for
Education and Training, Tas Govt media release, 7 Oct 2014
STUDENT
SUPPORT
Disability funding call
 SMH, 7 Oct
2014
The AEU has called on the federal government to honour
its election promise to increase funding for students with
disabilities...
 SCIENCE AND MATHS
Decline in science and maths participation
SMH, 6 Oct
2014
An Australian survey shows a dramatic decrease in the
proportion of Year 12 students studying maths and science subjects...
Decline to be examined, SMH, 8 Oct 2014
 STUDENT PERFORMANCE
Boys ahead of girls in maths
The Age, 6 Oct
2014
Confidence appears to be the key in explaining why an
ACER analysis of OECD survey figures shows that boys are about
one-third of a year ahead of girls in maths...
 STUDENT RETENTION
Engaged parents crucial
The Mercury, 6 Oct
2014
Parental involvement is key to ensuring disadvantaged
students stay learning through to Year 12, writes Alison Standen of
The Smith Family...
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
Hutchins under Royal Commission spotlight
Canberra Times, 6 Oct
2014
Sexual abuse allegations against a former Hutchins
principal and teacher are being investigated by the Royal Commission
into Child Sexual Abuse...
Former headmaster being investigated,
The Mercury, 6 Oct 2014
 HANDWRITING
Pen device overcomes handwriting fatigue
Canberra Times, 6 Oct
2014
Twin teenagers have invented a device that attaches to a pen to help
computer-generation kids maintain handwriting speed and avoid
writing fatigue during exams...
WrightWeight website
SUNDAY 5 Oct 2014
Daylight saving
has begun
Have you turned
your clocks forward one hour?
TEACHING PROFESSION
World Teachers Day celebrated
Tas Govt media release, 5 Oct
2014
World Teachers Day is an opportunity to thank teachers for their
commitment and acknowledge the important role they play in society,
the acting education minister, Vanessa Goodwin, said today...
CAREER GUIDANCE
Pathway Planning replacement announced
Tas Govt media release, 4 Oct
2014
The state government's
My Education initiative will replace Pathway Planning
and Guaranteeing Futures by formalising a careers and futures
teaching role that K-12 classroom teachers will now play, the acting
education minister, Vanessa Goodwin, said today...
 SCHOOL CLOSURES
Audit will intensify school closures debate
The Mercury, 4 Oct
2014
The Tasmanian Auditor-General, Mike Blake, has announced
that he intends to examine the efficiency, size and location of
government primary schools...
Number of government primary
schools (memorandum) [pdf], Tasmanian Auditor-General,
29 Sep 2014
DoE not providing up-to-date enrolment figures, The Mercury, 5
Oct 2014
 STATE
BUDGET
Cuts concern principals
The Examiner, 3 Oct
2014
A
majority of principals surveyed by the AEU have criticised the state
budget which cuts Pathway Planners and IT support in schools,
although it does increase Gonski-based funding...
THE CURRICULUM
Common curriculum must allow for choice
The Conversation (opinion by
Kevin Donnelly), 3 Oct
2014
 Some people would argue that
requiring a centrally controlled common curriculum to be followed
would promote equity between students, but significant
diversity and flexibility must be permitted to allow schools to reflect the unique
nature of their students and their communities, Kevin Donnelly
writes...
ROLE OF EDUCATION
Education a public good, not a private commodity
The Conversation (opinion by
Stewart Riddle), 1 Oct
2014
Education
is undertaken primarily for the public benefit, and equity and
social justice suffer from the thrust of privatisation, academic
Stewart Riddle argues ...
 SCHOOL CLOSURES
Close or merge city schools
The Mercury, 1 Oct
2014
City schools in Hobart and Launceston need to share the
school closure burden, economist Saul Eslake says...
Parents' group asks for
closure guidance, The Mercury, 2 Oct 2014
STUDENT BEHAVIOUR
Cheating register for HSC students
SMH, 1 Oct
2014
NSW HSC students who plagiarise or pay someone else to do
their school-based assessment work will be listed on a cheating
register as recommended by the NSW Independent Commission Against
Corruption (ICAC) ...
 EDUCATION POLICIES
Minister sums up policy progress
The Mercury, 1 Oct
2014
The Minister for Education and
Training, Jeremy Rockliff, has detailed where the government is up
to in implementing its education election promises and has commented
on some current education issues...
Reviewing Tasmania's Education Act, DoE Blogspot site
 STUDENT HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Body clock conflict for teens
Northern Star, 1 Oct
2014
New research shows that later
starts can benefit the mood and health of teenagers and improve how
well they learn...
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