EDUCATIONAL 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
Former Auditor-General Mike Blake will be the new
TasTAFE Chair, education minister Jeremy Rockliff announced
today...
New TasTAFE Chair, Tas Govt media release, 30 Nov 2017
TEACHING PROFESSION
More pay and respect the solution
ABC News, 30 Nov 2017
Studies 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
Early 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..
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
Standardised tests such as NAPLAN are required for
evidence-based educational practice, three researchers write...
PUBLIC 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...
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...
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..
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...
STUDENT 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 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...
Tasmania's Strategy for
Children (DoE website)
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
Improvements 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...
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...
Healthy Kids website (DHHS)
FEDERAL FARCE
Constitutional absurdity extends
to teachers
ABC News, 16 Nov 2017
The "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
A Hutchins student has been charged over a serious
assault following a complaint made to police in late October...
SPORT
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
The 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
Recipients 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
The 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...
ABS Marriage Survey results: main
page
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Tasmanian results
EARLY 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
Investigations 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
Student 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
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
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...
Scott Ryan elected new
Senate President to replace Stephen Parry, ABC News, 13 Nov 2017
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
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...
Did Liberal MP Nola
Marino acquire Italian citizenship through marriage?, SMH, 10 Nov 2017
STATE ELECTION
No policy responses
The Examiner, 10 Nov 2017
The 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 ..
UNIVERSITY 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
The 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
One of the four replacement senators announced today
by the High Court needs status clarification herself...
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...
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
A 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
Now Senator Jacqui Lambie is
being asked about her citizenship status as her father was born
in Scotland...
Labor's Justine Keay
being asked about citizenship status too, The Examiner, 8 Nov 2017
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
Roger 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
Two 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...
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
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...
Now John Alexander MP
could be a dual citizen, ABC News, 6 Nov 2017
US SHOOTINGS
Church massacre
ABC News, 6 Nov 2017
At 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
Labor candidate
Jo Siejka will win the Pembroke by-election for the Legislative
Council, tonight's vote count confirms...
Tas Electoral Commission
results page
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
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%.
Too close to call, ABC News, 4 Nov 2017
STATE ELECTION POLICIES
Labor's digital strategy
TasLabor website, 3 Nov 2017
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
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
Former 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...
Release contract to
enable payout conditions to be examined, Michelle O'Byrne, Opposition
education spokesperson, 2 Nov 2017
Contract should have been
tabled,
Andrea Dawkins, Greens education spokesperson, 2 Nov 2017
Deal questions, ABC News, 3 Nov 2017
TAFE
New TasTAFE CEO
Tas Govt media release, 2 Nov 2017
Jenny 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
A 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
Dunalley 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
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
The 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 ...
FEDERAL 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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