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EDUCATION ANNUAL REPORT
More teachers now
Tas Govt media release, 31 Oct 2017
 Among other things, the
Department of Education's Annual Report for 2016-17 shows that
government schools have the equivalent of 107 more teachers
since the state government came to office, education minister
Jeremy Rockliff says...
Libs oppose Labor's
motion reinforcing Libs' report, Michelle O'Byrne, Opposition
education spokesperson, 1 Nov 2017
Labor opposes Libs'
motion supporting extension of all high schools to Year 12, Roger Jaensch, Member for Braddon, 1
Nov 2017
 FEDERAL POLITICS
Another Senator to bite the dust?
ABC News, 31 Oct 2017
Tasmanian Liberal senator and
president of the Senate Stephen Parry has revealed he is looking
into his possible dual citizenship...
 MAINLAND POLITICS
Queensland election on 25 November
ABC News, 29 Oct 2017
Queensland Labor premier
Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced that a state election will
be held on Saturday 25 November...
EDUCATION FUNDING
Funding shortfall
Greens media release, 27 Oct 2017
 $51 million in funds earmarked
for education have not been spent on Tasmanian students
according to analyst Martyn Goddard, Greens education
spokesperson Andrea Dawkins says ...
ELECTION POLICIES
AEU calls for more teachers
ABC News, 27 Oct 2017
 Australian Education Union
Tasmanian president Helen Richardson has issued a pre-election
call for 250 more teachers plus more teacher assistants and more
literacy and numeracy specialists...
Quality Education for
All
campaign launch, AEU Tas media release, 27 Oct
2017
Supporting Tasmanian students, Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for
Education and Training, 27 Oct 2017
AEU campaign launched, The Advocate, 27 Oct 2017
 TEACHING PROFESSION
World Teachers' Day thankyou
Tas Govt media release, 27 Oct 2017
Education
minister Jeremy Rockliff has marked World Teachers' Day by
expressing his appreciation to Tasmania's teachers and other
staff in the education sector for the work they do...
FEDERAL POLITICS
High Court decision announced
ABC News, 27 Oct 2017
 The High Court has
delivered its judgment on the status of the seven politicians
whose citizenship status is in doubt:
- Only TWO politicians
are safe: Matt Canavan and Nick
Xenophon
- FIVE politicians were deemed
ineligible to have stood for election in the first
place: Barnaby Joyce, Scott Ludlam, Larissa Waters,
Fiona Nash and Malcolm Roberts.
The decision means the
Liberal-National government loses its majority and will depend
on Barnaby Joyce being successful in a by-election...
High Court decision (High Court
website)
COMPUTER SECURITY
Ransomware reminder
StaySmartOnline, 26 Oct 2017
 A .doc (Word document)
attachment that could install old ransomware on
computers is currently being emailed to Australians, the
Australian Government's StaySmartOnline website warns.
They
also warn that new ransomware posing as an Adobe Flash
upddate has begun hitting overseas computer users ...
 MUSIC LEGENDS
Fats Domino dies
ABC News, 26 Oct 2017
New Orleans rock 'n' roll
pioneer Fats Domino, especially known for his 1950s historic hit
Blueberry Hill and more recently in the news when he
survived Hurricane Katrina, has died at the age of 89...
 TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Montrose upgrades opened
Tas Govt media release, 25 Oct 2017
Upgrades that form part of a
$5.8 million project were opened at Montrose Bay High School by
education minister Jeremy Rockliff today...
WW1 COMMEMORATIONS
WW1 essay winners named
Tas Govt media release, 25 Oct 2017
 The five student winners of the
2017-18 Frank MacDonald Memorial Prize will receive a tour of
the Western Front.
The students attend the following schools:
- Rose Bay High
- Taroona High
- St Patricks College
-
Launceston Church Grammar...
STUDENT RETENTION
Three more Collective ed. schools wanted
Tas Govt media release, 25 Oct 2017
 Expressions of interest are now
open for three schools to join the Collective ed.
program which supports students remaining in education and
becoming job-ready.
The program is supported by the Paul
Ramsay Foundation, the Beacon Foundation and the state
government...
 FEDERAL POLITICS
Friday citizenship ruling
ABC News, 24 Oct 2017
The High Court of Australia will
give its ruling on Friday at 2.15pm over the future of
the seven
politicians whose citizenship has been questioned, the most
prominent of whom is deputy PM Barnaby Joyce...
 FINANCIAL
LITERACY
Critical thinking critical
The Conversation (opinion by Carly Sawatzki), 24 Oct 2017
Teaching children
about money involves more than budgets, compound interest and
debt, requiring a future orientation and critical thinking
skills as well, a lecturer writes ...
 MUSIC INDUSTRY
Easybeats co-founder dies
ABC News, 23 Oct 2017
George Young, founding member of
the Easybeats, co-writer of hit song Friday on My Mind
and a producer of AC/DC, has died at the age of 70...
 INTERNATIONAL
POLITICS
Decisive win for Shinzo Abe
ABC News, 23 Oct 2017
Japanese prime minister Shinzo
Abe has been re-elected in a landslide victory, achieving a
parliamentary majority in excess of two-thirds...
FINANCIAL
LITERACY
More financial literacy needed
The Conversation (opinion by Ross Guest), 23 Oct 2017
Too many Australians
are taking on home and other debt they do not understand,
requiring an expansion of financial literacy education in the
wider community and, particularly, also in the already-crowded
school curriculum, an economics professor says...
 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
Reverse the TAFE decline
ABC News, 22 Oct 2017
The Australian TAFE system is
on the brink of collapse, an overseas expert says...
EDUCATION
EMPLOYEES
Excellence awards announced
Tas Govt media release, 20 Oct 2017
The Minister for Education and
Training, Jeremy Rockliff, has announced the sixteen winners of the
2017 Department of Education Awards for Excellence...
North and North East
award winners,
The Examiner, 20 Oct 2017
Coastal winners, The Advocate, 20 Oct 2017
 NEW ZEALAND
POLITICS
NZ First leader forms coalition with Labour
ABC News, 19 Oct 2017
New Zealand First leader and
"kingmaker" Winston Peters has announced he will form a
coalition government with the
Labour Party, making
37-year-old Jacinda Ardern the next prime minister...
 PUBLIC SERVICE
No reduction in public service numbers
Tas Govt media release, 19 Oct 2017
Premier Will Hodgman says he
expects there to be no reduction in the size of the Tasmanian
public service in the foreseeable furure...
STUDENT SUPPORT
ECIS lives
Tas Govt media release, 18 Oct 2017
 Tasmania's Early Childhood Intervention
Service (ECIS), which supports the involvement in education of
children with a disability, will continue alongside the NDIS
(National Disability Insurance Scheme) until 2020, education
minister Jeremy Rockliff said today...
Decision took too long, Michelle O'Byrne, Opposition
education spokesperson, 18 Oct 2017
 SOCIAL MEDIA
Poet attacked
ABC News, 17 Oct 2017
A number of NSW students who were unhappy about
having to analyse a poem by Indigenous author Ellen van Neerven
in an HSC exam have abused the poet on social media...
 EXTENDING HIGH
SCHOOLS
Fresh round of high school extensions opens
Tas Govt media release, 17 Oct 2017
High and district high schools
interested in extending their classes to Years 11 and 12 from
2019 are invited to lodge an Expression of Interest between
Wednesday 18 October and Friday 17 November 2017, education
minister Jeremy Rockliff said today...
COMPUTER
SECURITY
Alert for wi-fi users
ABC News, 17 Oct 2017
Patches to fix a wi-fi weakness
whose exploitation is termed a "KRACK attack" will shortly be
made available by Windows and Apple but security experts are
concerned not all small businesses such as coffee shops will
install the update straight away to protect their customers...
SCHOOL SAFETY
Wounding charge
ABC News, 17 Oct 2017
UPDATED
An 18-year-old has appeared in
court after being charged
over the stabbing of a 15-year-old student at New Town High
School on Monday...
CHILD AND FAMILY
CENTRES
Pembroke promise
TasLabor website, 16 Oct 2017
 A
majority Labor government would build a Child and Family Centre
in the Mornington/Warrane area, Labor leader Rebecca White said
in supporting Pembroke Legislative Council candidate Jo Siejka...
Only the Liberal
candidate can deliver, Jacquie Petrusma, Minister for Human
Services, 15 Oct 2017
 FINANCIAL
LITERACY
Choice attacks CBA school banking domination
ABC News, 15 Oct 2017
Consumer
magazine Choice has criticised the Commonwealth Bank's
school banking marketing techniques...
 SOCIAL MEDIA AND
SEX EDUCATION
Image-based abuse lessons needed
The Examiner, 13 Oct 2017
Relationships and sexuality lessons need to be
expanded to address the rise of revenge porn and other types of
image-based abuse, experienced sex education providers say...
NAPLAN
NAPLAN robo-marking attacked
ABC News, 12 Oct 2017
 A retired US professor has criticised NAPLAN's plan
to use computers to mark essays...
Algorithms reward
nonsense in essays, The Conversation (opinion by Kai
Riemer), 20 Oct 2017
TASMANIAN
EDUCATORS
Professor Eleanor Ramsay dies
Tas Govt media release, 11 Oct 2017
 Education minister Jeremy Rockliff has acknowledged
the passing of Professor Eleanor Ramsay who was a co-founder of
Education Ambassadors Tasmania...
PARENTS
Parents' views differ
ABC News, 10 Oct 2017
 The latest annual ASG (Australian Scholarships Group) Parents
Report Card on education in Australia shows a strong difference
between the views of Asian and Australian-born parents on the
importance of academic success and where sex education and
social skills should be taught...
INCLUSION
Focus on inclusion efforts
ABC News, 9 Oct 2017
A NSW student with autism who had been
strapped to chairs and moved by means of other people holding
boxing pads against him no longer wishes to be at school..
STUDENT SUPPORT
Autism research partnerhsip
Tas Govt media release, 6 Oct 2017
The state government is contributing more
than $800,000 over four and a half years towards a Tasmanian
autism research base in conjunction with the Autism Cooperative
Research Centre, Minister for Human Services Jacquie Petrusma
has announced..
TASMANIAN
SCHOOLS
Solar underway at Huonville High
ABC News, 6 Oct 2017
Huonville High School has begun
installing solar panels purchased with the $133,000 it won
competing for the world-wide Global High Schools Zayed Future
Energy Prize..
 FEDERAL POLITICS
Nick Xenophon to quit
ABC News, 6 Oct 2017
Senator Nick Xenophon says he
will leave federal politics and stand for the South Australian
parliament..
 TEACHING
PROFESSION
Could artificial intelligence replace teachers?
Education World (opinion by Keith Lambert), 5 Oct 2017
The rapid improvements in artificial
intelligence will enable AI in computer programs and robots to
enable teachers to work more efficiently rather than be
replaced, a teacher writes..
MASS SHOOTINGS
58 killed in Las Vegas shooting
ABC News, 3 Oct 2017
 A gunman has fired on
an outdoor concert crowd in Las Vegas, killing at least 58 people and
injuring at least 515...
TAFE
TasTAFE audit info row
ABC News, 2 Oct 2017
 The non-release of an interim audit report on the
spending and actions of TasTAFE executive level officers has
been criticised by Opposition skills and training spokesperson
Josh Willie and AEU (Tas) TAFE Division president Damian Von
Samorzewski..
First quarter TasTAFE
audit update received, Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for
Education and Training, 28 Sep 2017
TasTAFE audit details need to be made public, Josh Willie,
Opposition skills and training spokesperson, 2 Oct 2017
TasTAFE CEO acknowledges staff anger, ABC News, 6 Oct 2017
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