COMMUNITY COMPUTER LITERACY
Tassie ranks last
The Examiner, 31 Jul 2017
Telstra's Australian Digital
Inclusion Index has given Tasmania the lowest score of all the
states and territories, sparking a call by TasICT chief
executive Will Kestin for the teaching of coding in schools..
Measuring Australia's
Digital Divide [pdf]
Labor's Innovation and ICT Industry Advisory Council a
public-private partnership, Madeleine Ogilvie, Opposition
spokesperson on the digital economy, TasLabor website, 2 Aug
2017
STUDENTS AND SOCIETY
What Matters? awards
announced
Tas Govt media release, 31 Jul 2017
The results of the What Matters?
essay competition have been announced by Elise Archer,
Speaker of the House of Assembly. The winners and runners-up
come from the following schools: - Princes Street Primary
- South Hobart Primary -.Ogilvie High - Reece High -
Queechy High - Huonville High - Hobart College -
Hellyer College ..
SPORT
Les Murray dies
ABC News, 31 Jul 2017
Soccer commentator and host Les
Murray, who started with SBS as a Hungarian subtitle writer, has
died at the age of 71...
TasTAFE
New board member
Tas Govt media release, 29 Jul 2017
Former general manager Aaron Devine has been
appointed to the TasTAFE board of directors...
TasTAFE
TasTAFE to rebuild trust
ABC News, 27 Jul 2017
Following an expenses scandal and sharp drops in
student enrolments and courses completed, TasTAFE is undergoing
a clean-up and staff retraining...
FUTURE TRENDS
Current education system not equipping students for the future
ABC News, 27 Jul 2017
For
today's students to have the skills they need for work in 2030
the education system must change, according to the Foundation
for Young Australians' New Work Smarts
report. It says there should be more emphasis on:
STEM subjects (science, technology,
engineering, maths)
human interaction
creative thinking and problem
solving
self-management and entrepreneurial skills
lifelong learning ...
FYA media release
The New Work Smarts report, July 2017 [pdf]
EDUCATION ACT
Term-time holiday crackdown
ABC News, 26 Jul 2017
The new Tasmanian
Education Act makes it harder for parents to take their children
on family holidays during the school term...
Clarification on
term-time holidays, Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for
Education and Training, 26 Jun 2017
Can you take your child out of school for a holiday?, ABC
News, 26 Jun 2017
FEDERAL POLITICS
And now a Cabinet Minister resigns over citizenship
ABC News, 25 Jul 2017
Nationals
senator and Minister for Resources Matt Canavan has resigned
from the ministry but not the Senate until a High Court ruling
is obtained over his mother having obtained dual Italian
citizenship for him without his apparent knowledge or consent...
STUDENT OPINION
First Q&A student show
ABC News, 24 Jul 2017
The
ABC's first Q&A program using high school panellists and a
student audience focused on unemployment and suicide...
STUDENT BEHAVIOUR
Surge in primary teacher attacks
The Telegraph (UK), 20 Jul 2017
A massive jump of 75 per cent over four years in the
number of British primary school students expelled for attacking
their teachers has been attributed to the rise in students'
"rights", the loss of experienced teachers, poor teacher
training and disengagement of students due to a narrowing
curriculum and a focus on exams...
WEATHER ALERT
Icy
roads continue
BoM website, 23 Jul 2017
Ice on Tasmanian roads is
forecast for tonight and tomorrow (Monday) morning...
Road closures: see
Tas Police
community
alerts
BoM
warnings page
ARCHAEOLOGY
Australia's human history 65,000 years old
The Conversation (opinion by Joanne Orlando), 20 Jul 2017
Having paid special attention to accuracy, researchers today
published findings that Aboriginals first set foot in Australia
65,000 years ago. This research confirms that areas between
Africa and Australia must have been settled more than 65,000
years ago...
COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
Embracing the benefits of social media
The Conversation (opinion by Joanne Orlando), 20 Jul 2017
Parents can work with their
children to exploit the learning and social benefits of social
media, a researcher says...
Children's screen time
not the evil we think, stuff.co.nz, 20 Jul 2017
FEDERAL POLITICS
Now Senator Waters resigns over citizenship
ABC News, 18 Jul 2017
Greens senator Larissa Waters
has resigned after realising she had not renounced her Canadian
dual citizenship...
FEDERAL POLITICS
Super ministry announced
ABC News, 18 Jul 2017
The federal government will
combine ASIO, the Australian Federal Police, Australian Border Force
and some other security-related agencies into Home Affairs, a
super ministry to be headed by immigration minister Peter Dutton...
LITERACY
Spoken word benefits
The Conversation (opinion by Signy Wegener and Anne
Castles), 17 Jul 2017
Modern eye-tracking technology
has helped researchers find that the number of words young
children know orally helps them enhance their reading skills...
EDUCATION IN TASMANIA
School reform opportunity
The Examiner, 16 Jul 2017
Raising retention and
educational opportunity are among the educational aims
Tasmanians are well-placed to pursue, Mainland education expert
Professor Bob Lingard says...
STUDENT SUPPORT
Northern Support School's adequacy questioned
The Examiner, 16 Jul 2017
The refurbishment of
Ravenswood's Northern Support School is unsafe and inadequate,
Labor's education spokesperson Michelle OByrne and the Tasmanian
Disability Education Reform Lobby say...
Special needs school
upgrade bungled, Michelle O'Byrne, Opposition
education spokesperson, 14 Jul 2017
DoE working with school and stakeholders, The Examiner, 17
Jul 2017
How did refurbishment go so horribly wrong?, Michelle
O'Byrne, Opposition education spokesperson, 24 Jul 2017
FEDERAL
POLITICS
Senator Ludlam resigns
ABC News, 14 Jul 2017
Greens senator Scott Ludlam has
resigned on realising his dual citizenship with New Zealand had
made him ineligible to be elected...
COMPUTING
LoRa internet challenge for schools
Tas Govt media release, 14 Jul 2017
Schools are encouraged to enter
the LoRa Schools Challenge which requires students to prepare a
presentation of an internet idea using a statewide Internet of
Things, information technology minister Michael Ferguson said
today...
LOWER STARTING AGE
Fears over childcare centre leases
The Examiner, 13 Jul 2017
The
state government has moved to allay fears that some privately
run childcare centres located at schools might lose their leases
in order to make room for the coming increase in early childhood
school enrolments ...
Childcare centres face
closure, Michelle O'Byrne, Opposition
education spokesperson, 12 Jul 2017
NUMERACY
Encouraging numeracy in young children
The Conversation (opinion by Sivanes Phillipson and Ann
Gervasoni), 12 Jul 2017
Two academics put forward
eleven games and activities that parents can use to enhance
their children's numeracy skills...
EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION
Thoughtless school merger decision reversed
stuff.co.nz, 11 Jul 2017
Just as traumatised Christchurch children and parents
were trying to rebuild their lives after the 2011 earthquake,
the New Zealand Ministry of Education announced without consultation that it
would undertake a school merger...
LITERACY
Encouraging literacy in young children
The Conversation, 11 Jul 2017
There are several ways parents
can engage with young children in order to support their
acquisition of literacy skills as they get older ...
EDUCATION ACT
New Education Act operates from today
Tas Govt media release, 10 Jul 2017
The new state Education Act
commenced today. It covers the management of student behaviour,
student attendance, the number of years of compulsory schooling,
home schooling and students with a disability. For more details,
and a list of elements that come into force in future years, see
the DoE's
Education Act web page...
DoE
Education Act web page
STUDENT HEALTH AND
WELLBEING
District nurses next
Tas Govt media release, 7 Jul 2017
The state government is
extending its school nurses program to 27 district schools...
More nurses for regional
schools, The Examiner, 7 Jul 2017
REPORTING TO PARENTS
Compulsory parent-teacher meetings?
The Examiner, 7 Jul 2017
An Exeter High School parent has
criticised the school on social media for requiring parents to
attend a parent-teacher meeting to receive their children's
mid-year reports, but the Education Department says parents who
are unable to attend can still receive the reports...
LABOR EDUCATION POLICIES
School costs review among Labor policies
TasLabor website, 4 Jul 2017
State Labor's
conference in George Town endorsed all of Labor's education
policies, Deputy Opposition leader and education spokesperson
Michelle O'Byrne says. These include:
strongly supporting access to public education
rejecting the Government's plan to lower the school
starting age
restoring Pathway Planners
reviewing school costs and fees imposed on
families ...
TasTAFE
TasTAFE auditor appointed
Tas Govt media release, 4 Jul 2017
Accounting firm Wise, Lord and Ferguson has been
appointed to investigate and report on the appropriateness of
certain elements of staffing, staff remuneration and staff
expenditure at TasTAFE, education minister Jeremy Rockliff said
today...
Majority Labor government
would provide system overhaul and involve business, Michelle O'Byrne, Opposition
education spokesperson, 4 Jul 2017
Misconduct in public office should be a crime in Tas,
Andrea Dawkins, Tas Greens education spokesperson, 5 Jul 2017
Taxpayers to bear the $450,000 cost of TasTAFE audit, Josh
Willie, Opposition skills and training spokesperson, 10 Jul 2017
VET
Why has VET trust declined?
The Conversation (opinion by Peter Hurley), 3 Jul 2017
Australia's VET (Vocational
Education and Training) sector has suffered from corruption and
exploitation. It is essential that legitimacy is restored to its
certification system, a researcher writes...
NAIDOC WEEK
Cultural activities spark interest
ABC News, 3 Jul 2017
An Aboriginal history lesson at
Austins Ferry Primary School using the resource From
Gumnuts to Buttons has left students wanting to
know more about their culture...
STUDENT HEALTH
Meningococcal W vaccine for 15-19yo's
Tas Govt media release, 3 Jul 2017
A rollout of free
Meningococcal vaccine for teenagers aged 15-19 years will begin
with students in Grades 10, 11 and 12 in Term 3 this year ,
minister for health Michael Ferguson said today. The
four-antigen vaccine will protect against the W, A, C and Y
strains...
School suspensions debate
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