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 THE NEW
SCHOOL YEAR
Policies
aim to improve outcomes
Tas Govt media release, 31 Jan 2016
With 62,000 students about to
commence the new school year in 196 government schools,
education minister Jeremy Rockliff has drawn attention to
several education initiatives that will operate this year...
 THE NEW
SCHOOL YEAR
Principals facing strife
The Mercury, 31 Jan 2016
Tasmanian principals are
concerned about the harassment, bullying and violence they will
see in the coming school year...
 THE NEW
SCHOOL YEAR
Students and parents facing stress
The Examiner, 30 Jan 2016
Anxious parents and students are worried about the
start of another school year...
EDUCATION FUNDING
Shorten promises full Gonski
The Conversation (opinion by Michelle Grattan), 28 Jan 2016
 Opposition leader Bill Shorten
says a Labor government would implement the Gonski reforms for
2018 and 2019. And he has outlined education reform targets for
2020 and 2025...
Labor's multi-billion
dollar education reforms commitment, ABC News, 28 Jan 2016
Your Child. Our Future policy, Bill Shorten,
Opposition leader, 28 Jan 2016
Labor schools policy short on detail, Simon Birmingham,
Minister for Education and Training, 28 Jan 2016
Why Gonski funding is needed, The Conversation (opinion by
David Zyngier), 29 Jan 2016
Gonski promise is attempt to capitalise on Labor's education
credentials, The Conversation (opinion by Glenn C. Savage),
1 Feb 2016
Education plan's funding unreliable due to reliance on long-term
projections, ABC FactCheck, 1 Mar 2016
STUDENT
SUPPORT
Disability misdiagnosis common
The Conversation (opinion by Linda J. Graham), 27 Jan 2016
 Deliberate stretching of disability diagnoses in
response to current funding restrictions is causing
inefficiencies in the education of students with a disability,
an academic writes...
How schools avoid
enrolling students with a disability, The Conversation (opinion by Linda J.
Graham and others), 28 Jan 2016
Parents' rights in countering disability discrimination, The
Conversation (opinion by Karen O'Connell), 29 Jan 2016
 TASMANIAN STUDENTS
ADF scholarship awarded
Tas Govt media release, 27 Jan 2016
Newstead College student Ethan
McArthur is to be presented with the Corporal Cameron Baird VC
Scholarship by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier, Guy
Barnett...
PARENT-SCHOOL RELATIONS
No
pyjamas, pleads principal
BBC News, 26 Jan 2016
 A UK principal has asked parents to refrain from
delivering students and attending parent-teacher meetings in
their pyjamas...
Anti-pyjamas principal
speaks out, The Telegraph, 30 Jan 2016
ANTI-BULLYING LEGISLATION
Require anti-bullying policies
ABC News, 25 Jan 2016
 Tasmania's Law Reform Institute has suggested it
should be compulsory for schools to implement anti-bullying
policies...
 PARENT-SCHOOL RELATIONS
Avoiding disputes between parents and teachers
The Conversation (opinion by Rebecca English), 25 Jan 2016
Teachers and parents can take
proactive action to avoid conflict between them, an education
lecturer writes...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Five tenders called
Tas Govt media release, 23 Jan 2016
 Tenders have been called for
building works at five Tasmanian schools:
- Cooee Primary
- Cressy District High
- Margate Primary
- Rokeby High
- Springfield Gardens Primary...
 TOTAL
FIRE BAN
Four-day total fire ban issued
Tas Fire Service, 22 Jan 2016
A total fire ban for the whole of Tasmania has been
declared for the next four days, Saturday 23 to Tuesday 26
January (Australia Day)...
SCHOOL
CANTEENS
Minister meat in PETA sandwich
Tas Times, 21 Jan 2016
 Animal rights group PETA has
criticised education minister Jeremy Rockliff for his comments about
its efforts to urge Devonport schools to remove meat from
canteen fare...
PETA letter outrageous, Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for
Education and Training, 21 Jan 2016
SEXUAL
ABUSE
Hutchins belatedly writes about abuse
The Mercury, 21 Jan 2016
 The Hutchins Board has acknowledged the failure of
past administrations in handling claims of sexual abuse of
students...
LITERACY
Why English is hard to learn
The Conversation (opinion by Sean Sutherland), 21 Jan 2016
 Inconsistencies in the English
language, such as widely varying pronunciation of vowels, make
the language particularly hard to learn for certain ethnic
groups, an English lecturer writes...
 ANTI-TERRORISM LAWS
Police visit student's home after spelling error
BBC News, 20 Jan 2016
A 10-year-old UK Muslim boy is
now "scared of writing" after his school reported him to the
police when he wrote that he lived in a "terrorist house" when
he meant "terraced house"...
ABORIGINAL PLACE NAMES
More dual names
 Tas Govt media release, 20 Jan 2016
Aboriginal names for Great Lake,
Rocky Cape and a number of other Tasmanian geographical features
have been announced...
TEACHING PROFESSION
Teacher shortage fear
ABC News, 18 Jan 2016
 Rising student numbers in Australia
combined with increasing numbers of teachers leaving the
profession could lead to a national teacher shortage...
Where new schools will be
needed, The Conversation, 22 Jan 2016
CYBERBULLYING
Cyberbullying rise
 news.com.au, 18 Jan 2016
A report to be released today by the Children's
eSafety Commissioner, Alastair MacGibbon, will show a
rise in young people creating fake Facebook and Instagram
accounts to impersonate others and use in cyberbullying...
Children's esafety
Commissioner
STUDENT
SUPPORT
Senate disability report supported
The Examiner, 17 Jan 2016
The Tasmanian Disability Education
Reform Lobby has supported the recommendations of a Senate
committee report, saying that its recommendations align with
those of a Tasmanian report on students with disability...
More disability training
for teachers needed, ABC News, 15 Jan 2016
LITERACY
How to choose a program to fix reading problems
The Conversation (opinion by John Munro), 15 Jan 2016
When selecting a reading
intervention program, teachers should ask certain key questions
about how well it is likely to work, writes an education
associate professor...
TERRORISM
Burkina Faso terror attack
ABC News, 14 Jan 2016
 At least 20 people are dead following a
terrorist attack on a hotel in Burkina Faso, the former French
colonial state in West Africa once known as Upper Volta...
TEACHING PROFESSION
Female teacher's admission
ABC News, 15 Jan 2016
A former Education Department teacher
has pleaded guilty to having sexual intercourse with a boy under
17 years...
TEACHING PROFESSION
Teacher faces manslaughter probe
ABC News, 15 Jan 2016
 The French teacher who led
students into a closed skiing area is facing a manslaughter
investigation after an avalanche killed two of his students...
TERRORISM
Explosions in Jakarta
ABC News, 14 Jan 2016
 Seven people have been killed
near the United Nations offices in the Indonesian capital,
Jakarta, where eight explosions and gunfire have been heard...
 TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
New building works at New Town High
Tas Govt media release, 13 Jan 2016
Improved disability access and a
new administration centre feature in capital works being
undertaken at New Town High School, infrastructure minister Rene
Hidding said today...
 TEACHING PROFESSION
How to keep teachers in the profession
The Conversation (opinion by Merryn McKinnon), 11 Jan 2016
The economic loss to the
education system caused by the relatively high teacher attrition
rate can be countered by a cultural shift that provides teachers
with mentoring and time to innovate and reflect, a
university lecturer argues...
 TEACHING PROFESSION
Keep Tas principals safe
The Examiner, 8 Jan 2016
Tasmanian Principals Association
president Malcolm Elliott and AEU state secretary Terry Polglase
say better school design and greater legal authority for
principals would help combat the increasing number of attacks on
school principals...
 EDUCATION
FUNDING
Gonski demise could boost private school numbers
The Conversation (opinion by Richard Tease), 7 Jan 2016
The end of the Gonski reforms could
widen the funding gap between government and private schools and
cause recent gains in social cohesion to be lost, an adjunct
professor argues...
NUMERACY
Tables
tests for UK 11-year-olds
BBC News, 3 Jan 2016
Every British student is to be tested on their times
tables up to 12x12 before leaving primary school in a move the
Education Secretary says will involve judging teachers by their
students' results...
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