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BrainEDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Pictures in the mind
The Conversation (opinion by Rebecca Keogh and Joel Pearson), 30 Nov 2017
To the surprise of those who can't, some people can easily imagine visual images. To the surprise of those who can, some people are unable to imagine visual images...

TASTAFE
Mike Blake new TasTAFE Chair
The Examiner, 30 Nov 2017
TasTAFEFormer Auditor-General Mike Blake will be the new TasTAFE Chair, education minister Jeremy Rockliff announced today...

Bullet New TasTAFE Chair, Tas Govt media release, 30 Nov 2017

TEACHING PROFESSION
More pay and respect the solution
ABC News, 30 Nov 2017
MoneyStudies into how to improve students' educational performance are continually being undertaken but it would appear that the fundamental solution boils down to greater teacher pay and more respect for teachers...

QUEENSLAND ELECTION
Narrow Labor win most likely result in Qld election
ABC News, 25  Nov 2017
QueenslandEarly results suggest Annastacia Palaszczuk's Labor government is more likely than not to be returned in today's state election, although there is a chance her party may not achieve a majority. Election analyst Antony Green says the situation is too complicated to call..

Bullet UPDATE Sun 26 Nov 2017: Antony Green calls the election for a Labor win with a majority of two seats.

STANDARDISED TESTING
Standardised testing essential
The Conversation (opinion), 24  Nov 2017
NAPLANStandardised tests such as NAPLAN are required for evidence-based educational practice, three researchers write...

TasmaniaPUBLIC VS PRIVATE SCHOOLS
Shift to state system
The Examiner, 22 Nov 2017
More higher income Tasmanian parents are sending their children to government schools, ABS data shows...

David Cassidy (Image: ABC)MUSIC INDUSTRY
David Cassidy dies
ABC News, 22 Nov 2017
David Cassidy, actor in the TV sit-com show The Partridge Family and solo singer, has died at the age of 67...

Skye Kakoschke-Moore (Image: ABC)FEDERAL FARCE
Yet another dual citizen
ABC News, 22 Nov 2017
It hasn't stopped yet.
Now Senator Skye Kakoschke-Moore of the Nick Xenophon Team says she is a British citizen
..

Robert Mugabe (Image: Wikipedia)WORLD NEWS
Mugabe goes
ABC News, 22 Nov 2017
Former school teacher and ruthless tyrant 93-year-old Robert Mugabe has finally resigned after 37 years as president of Zimbabwe...

Canberra GirlSTUDENT SUPPORT 
Robot gives ill girl telepresence in classroom
ABC News, 21 Nov 2017
A terminally-ill Canberra girl is able to participate in her kindergarten classroom from elsewhere by means of a mobile robot...

Early learningEARLY CHILDHOOD 
New children's strategy announced
Tas Govt media release, 21 Nov 2017
The whole-of-government Tasmania's Strategy for Children - Pregnancy to Eight Years 2018-2021 was announced by education minister Jeremy Rockliff today...

Bullet Tasmania's Strategy for Children (DoE website)

Jim Molan (Image: ABC)FEDERAL FARCE 
Molan likely new senator
ABC News, 20 Nov 2017
Retired Army major general Jim Molan appears likely to be the new senator to replace Fiona Nash's replacement Hollie Hughes...

TASMANIAN SCHOOLS 
South Hobart upgrade
Tas Govt media release, 20 Nov 2017
Southern TasmaniaImprovements including new classrooms and decks linking classrooms linking classrooms to outside learning areas were opened at South Hobart Primary School today by education minister Jeremy Rockliff...

Malcolm Young (Image: ABC)MUSIC INDUSTRY 
AC/DC's Malcolm Young dies
ABC News, 19 Nov 2017
Co-founder of AC/DC Malcolm Young has died at the age of 64. He was brother of Easybeats co-founder George Young who died in October...

STUDENT HEALTH AND NUTRITION 
Healthy Kids kit launched
Tas Govt media release, 17 Nov 2017
The online Healthy Kids Toolkit was launched today by the Minister for Health, Michael Ferguson...

Bullet Healthy Kids website (DHHS)

FEDERAL FARCE 
Constitutional absurdity extends to teachers
ABC News, 16 Nov 2017
JusticeThe "office of profit" element of Section 44 of the Constitution, which has prevented Liberal Holly Hughes from becoming a replacement senator and may keep out Andrew Bartlett and Steve Martin as well, extends to ordinary public sector employees such as government school teachers if they do not resign before standing for federal parliament, Andrew Probyn writes...

STUDENT BEHAVIOUR
Hutchins student charged
ABC News, 16 Nov 2017
JusticeA Hutchins student has been charged over a serious assault following a complaint made to police in late October...

SoccerSPORT 
Socceroos make World Cup finals
ABC News, 15 Nov 2017
The Socceroos have defeated Honduras 3-1 to qualify for participation in the World Cup finals...

FEDERAL FARCE 
Hollie Hughes ineligible to replace senator
ABC News, 15 Nov 2017
Hollie HughesThe High Court has ruled that Liberal Hollie Hughes, the senator next in line to replace Fiona Nash who had to resign due to her dual citizenship status, is herself not eligible to become a senator on the grounds she took a government job following the original election...

TEACHING PROFESSION 
STEM awards
Tas Govt media release, 15 Nov 2017
STEMRecipients of STEM Excellence Awards presented today by information technology minister Michael Ferguson included a teacher from Waimea Heights Primary and a teacher from Marist Regional College...

FEDERAL POLITICS
Same-sex marriage survey result:
YES 61.6%
NO 38.4%

ABC News, 15 Nov 2017

ABSThe results of the federal government's same-sex marriage survey were released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics at 10.00am today:
YES 61.6%
NO 38.4%
The proportion of eligible voters participating was 79.5 per cent...

Bullet ABS Marriage Survey results: main page
- Tasmanian results

Early learningEARLY CHILDHOOD 
Stronger CFC push recommended
The Examiner, 14 Nov 2017
A Legislative Council committee has recommended that there should be more Child and Family Centres, they should be better funded and there should be more linking of services between them...

CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE 
Friends' sex abuse allegation
ABC News, 14 Nov 2017
JusticeInvestigations are under way after a former Friends' School student made allegations of decades-old sexual abuse by a senior staff member...

STUDENT TRANSPORT 
No bus fare rise
Tas Govt media release, 14 Nov 2017
BusStudent bus fares will not rise in 2018, but starting with 2019 they will increase by 10 cents every two years, infrastructure minister Rene Hidding said today...

FEDERAL CITIZENSHIP FARCE 
Jacqui Lambie resigns
ABC News, 14 Nov 2017
Jacqui Lambie (Image: ABC)Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie has received confirmation that having a Scottish-born father with British citizenship entitles her to British citizenship and that accordingly she will resign from the Senate...

FEDERAL CITIZENSHIP FARCE 
Citizenship deal
ABC News, 13 Nov 2017
Passport ((Image: Wikipedia)Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition leader Bill Shorten have agreed to all MPs and senators having until 1 December to prove they are not dual citizens...

Bullet Scott Ryan elected new Senate President to replace Stephen Parry, ABC News, 13 Nov 2017
Bullet New One Nation replacement senator dumps One Nation, ABC News, 13 Nov 2017

FEDERAL CITIZENSHIP FARCE 
John Alexander resigns over citizenship
ABC News, 11 Nov 2017
John Alexander (Image: ABC)Liberal MP and former tennis champion John Alexander has announced he will resign because of the uncertainty over whether he may be a dual British citizen by descent. However, he will contest the resulting by-election...

Bullet Did Liberal MP Nola Marino acquire Italian citizenship through marriage?, SMH, 10 Nov 2017

STATE ELECTION 
No policy responses
The Examiner, 10 Nov 2017
AEUThe AEU Tasmanian Branch has so far received no response from any of the three Tasmanian political parties over its request for policies promising 250 more teaching staff and more support staff ..

UTASUNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA 
New VC for UTAS
Tas Govt media release, 10 Nov 2017
The new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tasmania is Professor Rufus Black who is currently Deputy Chancellor of Melbourne-based Victoria University, education minister Jeremy Rockliff announced today ...

TEACHING PROFESSION 
Principals to be prepared
Tas Govt media release, 10 Nov 2017
PrincipalThe new Principal Preparation Program will give principals intensive mentoring and professional development, education minister Jeremy Rockliff said today...

FEDERAL POLITICS 
Replacement senators: uncertainty continues
ABC News, 10 Nov 2017
JusticeOne of the four replacement senators announced today by the High Court needs status clarification herself...

Poppy (Image: poppytime.com)REMEMBRANCE DAY 
Thinking critically about Remembrance Day
The Conversation (opinion by Kim Wilson), 10 Nov 2017
Children need to be taught to think critically about the context in which Remembrance Day commemorations are held, an academic writes...

Robot (Image: classroomclipart.com)COMPUTING AND EDUCATION 
AI requires us to 'reconceive schooling'
ABC News, 9 Nov 2017
Students need to acquire a different skill set and to be assessed differently in preparation for working in a world of artificial intelligence (AI), a US expert says...

TEACHING PROFESSION 
Teacher censured for carrying child
stuff.co.nz, 9 Nov 2017
New Zealand flagA teacher at a New Zealand school has been found guilty of misconduct for carrying a struggling child to the principal's office...

FEDERAL POLITICS 
Jacqui Lambie's citizenship questioned
ABC News, 8 Nov 2017
Jacquie Lambie (Image: ABC)Now Senator Jacqui Lambie is being asked about her citizenship status as her father was born in Scotland...

Bullet Labor's Justine Keay being asked about citizenship status too, The Examiner, 8 Nov 2017
Bullet And now Nick Xenophon Team MP Rebekha Sharkie may need the High Court, ABC News, 9 Nov 2017

TASMANIA
Helicopter crash victim named
ABC News, 8 Nov 2017
Southern TasmaniaRoger Corbin, the Rotorlift boss and well-known Tasmanian rescue pilot who has saved countless lives, died in yesterday's helicopter crash at Hobart Airport...

AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS 
Car crashes into classroom
ABC News, 7 Nov 2017
NSWTwo primary school students are dead and 21 others injured after a parent dropping off her child ploughed into a classroom at a south-west Sydney school...

Melbourne Cup (Image via Ausclassroom.com)TEACHING PROFESSION 
Teacher sacked over Melbourne Cup sweeps
Yahoo!7 News, 31 Oct 2017
Running Melbourne Cup sweepstakes with Year 9 students last year was one of the reasons behind a Western Australian teacher losing his teacher registration...

FEDERAL POLITICS 
Citizenship "audit"
ABC News, 6 Nov 2017
Passport ((Image: Wikipedia)Federal MPs and senators will be required to lodge details of their citizenship status according to a plan announced today by PM Malcolm Turnbull who says the requirement is not an audit...

Bullet Now John Alexander MP could be a dual citizen, ABC News, 6 Nov 2017

US SHOOTINGS 
Church massacre
ABC News, 6 Nov 2017
US flagAt least 26 people are dead and 20 injured after a gunman opened fire on the congregation in a small-town Texas church...

TAS BY-ELECTION 
Jo Siejka elected
Tas Electoral Commission website, 5 Nov 2017, 9.00pm
Legislative Council (Image: Tas Parlt website)
Labor candidate Jo Siejka will win the Pembroke by-election for the Legislative Council, tonight's vote count confirms...

Bullet Tas Electoral Commission results page
Bullet ABC News

FEDERAL POLITICS 
Saga continues
Huffington Post, 5 Nov 2017
Assistant immigration minister Alex Hawke says he does not have dual citizenship even though his mother emigrated from Greece...

TAS BY-ELECTION 
Pembroke count so far
Tas Electoral Commission, 4 Nov 2017
Legislative Council (Image: Tas Parlt website)
The top five candidates at the close of today's counting of only first preferences in the Pembroke by-election for the Legislative Council are:
- Jo Siejka (Lab) 32.3%
- James Walker (Lib) 25.8%
- Doug Chipman (Ind) 19.9%
- Bill Harvey (Greens) 9.3%
- Richard James (Ind) 7.4%.

Bullet Too close to call, ABC News, 4 Nov 2017

STATE ELECTION POLICIES 
Labor's digital strategy
TasLabor website, 3 Nov 2017
Madeleine Ogilvie (Image: TasLabor website)Opposition spokesperson on the digital economy Madeleine Ogilvie says Labor's tech sector policy for the coming state election will include a four-part Digital Economy Policy which will encourage the sector to grow and include initiatives such as Hi Tech High...

FEDERAL POLITICS 
Federal farce continues
ABC News, 3 Nov 2017
Josh Frydenberg (Image: ABC)The Australian newspaper has claimed federal energy minister Josh Frydenberg's citizenship is in doubt as his mother was born in Hungary. However, her Jewish parents, who escaped the gas chambers, had been made stateless and she was born stateless, although Hungary restored citizenship to such people several years ago...

TAFE 
$188,000 payout questioned
ABC News, 2 Nov 2017
TasTAFEFormer TasTAFE head Stephen Conway had received a $188,000 payment under his contract when he resigned after being accused of giving favourable employment treatment to a close friend...

Bullet Release contract to enable payout conditions to be examined, Michelle O'Byrne, Opposition education spokesperson, 2 Nov 2017
Bullet Contract should have been tabled, Andrea Dawkins, Greens education spokesperson, 2 Nov 2017
Bullet Deal questions, ABC News, 3 Nov 2017

TAFE 
New TasTAFE CEO
Tas Govt media release, 2 Nov 2017
TasTAFEJenny Dodd, Chief Academic Officer at TAFE Queensland, is the new TasTAFE CEO, education minister Jeremy Rockliff announced today...

TERRORISM 
Terror attack in NYC
ABC News, 1 Nov 2017
US flagA terrorist has driven a rented ute along a cycle path in New York City, killing eight people and injuring eleven...

TASMANIAN SCHOOLS 
Dunalley's disaster resilience
Tas Govt media release, 1 Nov 2017
Southern TasmaniaDunalley Primary School's successful recovery after the devastating 2013 bushfires has led to nomination as a finalist in the 2017 Resilient Australia Awards...

FEDERAL POLITICS
Dual citizen resigns
ABC News, 1 Nov 2017
Stephen Parry (Image: ABC News)Tasmanian Liberal senator Stephen Parry has announced he will resign, having received confirmation that he is a dual citizen with the UK which is his father's country of birth...

STUDENT SUPPORT
New disability funding models
Tas Govt media release, 1 Nov 2017
DisabilitiesThe state government has announced it is engaging in consultation over a new funding model for students with a disability and has approved a new staffing model for the three government support schools in Tasmania ...

UTASFEDERAL GOVERNMENT 
NSRB member appointed
Tas Govt media release, 1 Nov 2017
The federal government has appointed Tasmanian associate professor Natalie Brown from the Underwood Centre to the National School Resourcing Board...


 

 

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