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News for Tasmanian Teachers
Archive for February 2019
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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Response on Monday
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Bigger wage rise offered
so long as
certain efficiencies are achieved...
CYBERSECURITY
Cybersecurity education means more work for teachers
Who'd want to be a principal?
More than one in three school
principals are seriously distressed, three education researchers
say...
Pell guilty
Cardinal George Pell has been
found guilty of child sexual abuse, it can now be revealed...
TASMANIAN POLITICS
Hidding resigns
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Taroona, Dalrymple, Mowbray tenders
FINANCIAL LITERACY
Pushing
big banks out of schools
SCHOOL BUS SERVICES
Planned school bus changes deferred
UPDATE 15 Feb 2019
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Big
kindy boost
Schools facing face recognition technology
Face recognition technology can
save teachers much of the time they spend taking roll calls, a
security and surveillance researcher writes...
Pay students to learn?
Monetary incentives for
students to learn and behave can work to a limited extent but
they can backfire, an academic writes...
Brooks resigns
Liberal Member for Braddon Adam Brooks has announced
his resignation from the Tasmanian Parliament on the grounds of
ill health...
POST-BUSHFIRE ARRANGEMENTS
Back
to school for real
New Bowen kindy
An architect has been appointed
to design the new $1.4 million kindergarten at the Bowen Road
Primary School, Member for Clark (previously Denison) Elise
Archer has announced...
Play money
The state government's Ticket to Play
program will fund sporting memberships of up to $100 for
qualifying disadvantaged children aged between 5 and 17 years,
the Minister for Sport and Recreation, Elise Archer, said today ...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
62,000 students in government schools
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
AEU sets 12 Feb deadline
Education targets for 2019
Education
minister Jeremy Rockliff has outlined the
government's targets, priorities and initiatives to raise
educational achievement in 2019...
TASMANIAN BUSHFIRES
School bushfire arrangements announced
EDUCATION TARGETS
RoGS logs improvements
Year 12 attainment and retention rate rises are among a
number of educational improvements in Tasmania highlighted by
the recently released Report on Government Services, education
minister Jeremy Rockliff says...
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The Tasmanian government has
scrapped its absolute 2 per cent wage rise policy, now offering
public sector unions:
Today's students need to know
how to cope with cybersecurity threats but the curriculum is
already overcrowded and most teachers will need extra training,
a researcher says...
Tasmanian Liberal MP Rene
Hidding has resigned from politics, denying abuse allegations
made against him at the weekend
Tenders have been called for
construction projects at:
School banking programs
provided by the Commonwealth and other banks are falling out of
favour with teachers...
Planned 2019 changes to the
Dover and Geeveston school bus services have been deferred
until 2020. This particularly affects the following schools:
More than 100 Tasmanian
kindergartens are to benefit from a $15 million capital works
program. Brand new kindergartens will be built at ten primary
schools:
Students in the Huon will
return to their own schools on the following dates, the Premier,
Will Hodgman, has announced:
