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COMPUTER LITERACY
Computer loan scheme
Tas Govt media release, 30 Mar 2022
 An additional $5 million is
to be spent on computer devices that eligible students may
borrow from their schools, education minister Roger Jaensch
announced today.
CORONAVIRUS AND SCHOOLS
School outbreaks
follow festival
The Mercury, 30 Mar 2022
 Coronavirus outbreaks
have hit a number of Hobart schools including Hobart College
and Rosny College, following students' participation in the
music festival Party in the Apocalypse at Cornelian Bay at
the weekend.
Tas daily cases hit record high of 2,472,
Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for Health, 30 Mar 2022
FEDERAL BUDGET
Fix underfunding
AEU (Tas) website, 29 Mar 2022
 The underfunding of education in government
schools needs to be fixed in tonight's Federal Budget, AEU
Tasmania President David Genford says.
CORONAVIRUS AND COLDS
Know cold behaviour
The Conversation (opinion by Thea van de Mortel), 28 Mar 2022
 During
a coronavirus pandemic it is especially important to know
how to avoid catching and passing on a common cold, an
academic says.
POLICE SEARCH
Missing girl found
ABC News, 25 Mar 2022
Shayla Phillips, the
four-year-old girl who went missing on the Tasman Peninsula,
has been found alive and well.
EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION
Joy for regulators
Tas Govt media release, 24 Mar 2022
 Legislation that will
enhance the regulatory framework of education in Tasmania
has been passed by Parliament, education minister Roger
Jaensch says.
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
View the Hobart school master plan
Tas Govt media release, 24 Mar 2022
Consultation over the draft
master plan for the new Hobart City High School commences on
Monday 28 March and lasts for eight weeks.
View the draft master plan from the DoE's
Get Involved page
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Pay rise for teachers
Tas Govt media release, 22 Mar 2022
 The Australian Education
Union and the Tasmanian government have agreed on a 2.35 per
cent teacher pay rise and for teachers to be paid for
teaching above their normal maximum teaching load.
FUEL COSTS RESPONSE
Free buses for 5 weeks
ABC News, 22 Mar 2022
 Travel on Tasmania's Metro and
privately-operated buses including school buses will be free
for five weeks from next Monday 28 March.
Free bus travel as
cost-of-living relief, Michael Ferguson, Minister for
Infrastructure and Transport, 22 Mar 2022
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
College training centre on fire
ABC News, 21 Mar 2022
There is a major fire at the
Trade Training Centre of Guilford Young College in Bowden
Street, Glenorchy.
The Mercury
website
SA POLITICS
Labor wins SA election
ABC News,19 Mar 2022
 The ALP has decisively
defeated the Liberal government in today's state election in
South Australia.
CORONAVIRUS
Cases break record
ABC News,18 Mar 2022
 At
9,105 cases, Tasmania currently has its highest ever total
number of active coronavirus cases.
CORONAVIRUS
Cases spike
The Mercury, 16 Mar 2022
Tasmania
has recorded 1859 new coronavirus cases, the third ever
highest daily rate. The jump is due to most cases now
being the more vigorous BA-2 variant.
NAPLAN
New NAPLAN tools today
ABC News, 16 Mar 2022
 New
NAPLAN search tools to be released today on the
MySchool website
aim to prevent the construction of crude league tables of
schools and instead focus on the progress of a particular
school itself.
MySchool
website (Find school, click on 'View School
Profile', click on 'NAPLAN', click on 'Student progress' or
on 'Results')
Improvements to NAPLAN from 2023,
ACARA media release 16 Mar 2022
CORONAVIRUS
Mask-wearing
eased further
ABC News, 11 Mar 2022
Although
a wide range of venues will no longer be subject to
mandatory mask-wearing from 5.00pm today (Friday), masks
will still need to be worn by some people including school
staff and visitors, and secondary school students.
COVID AND SCHOOLS
Plan extension released
Tas Govt media release, 7 Mar 2022
 The
COVID-safe schools plan for the remainder of Term 1 in
Tasmanian government schools is now available.
DoE COVID plan page
COVID-safe schools plan (weeks 6-10)
COVID-safe schools detailed plan (weeks 6-10)
AEU response, AEU (Tas) website
SPORT
Shane Warne dies
ABC News, 5 Mar 2022
 Australian legendary spin
bowler Shane Warne has died of a suspected heart attack at
the age of 52.
CORONAVIRUS
Mask phase-out begins in Tas
ABC News, 4 Mar 2022
Compulsory
wearing of masks when shopping in Tasmania will end at
midnight tonight (Friday).
Staged approach, Peter Gutwein,
Premier, 4 Feb 2022
UKRAINE WAR
Fire at nuclear power plant
CNN, 4 Mar 2022.
UPDATED 1.40pm
 A nuclear power plant in
Ukraine was initially reported to be on fire after being
attacked by Russian troops but later information indicates the
fire is in a training building outside the plant's perimeter.
SPORT
Rodney Marsh dies
ABC News, 4 Mar 2022
 Australian legendary
wicket-keeper Rodney Marsh has died at the age of 74 following a
heart attack.
EDUCATION FUNDING
Gonski goal gone?
The Conversation (opinion by Rachel Wilson), 3 Mar 2022
 The Gonski reforms of ten years ago which aimed to
level the playing field for all government and non-government
school students have not been fully implemented, a new book
explains.
Waiting for Gonski: How Australia failed its schools, by
Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor, UNSW Press
AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM
More financial literacy needed
The Conversation (opinion by Laura de Zwaan and Tracey West), 3
Mar 2022
 Two researchers say high
schools should expand their financial literacy teaching into
more curriculum areas and preferably teach it as a standalone
subject.
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