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 SCIENCE EDUCATION
CSIRO's Double Helix Club to end
The Mercury, 31 Jul
2014
The funding for the popular
extra-curricular hands-on student programs of the CSIRO's Double
Helix.Club has been cut..
STUDENT HEALTH
Soda drinks adversely affect learning
 CBC News, 31 Jul
2014
Research has found that consuming
soda drinks sweetened in the usual way with high-fructose corn syrup
impairs the ability to learn and remember...
 EARLY CHILDHOOD
Invermay CFC call
TasLabor website, 29 Jul
2014
Opposition education spokesperson Michelle O'Byrne has
called for a Child and Family Centre to be built at Invermay...
SCIENCE EDUCATION
Students knock up brochure with lofty aim
 The Mercury, 27 Jul
2014
As part of their science curriculum, students at West
Hobart's Lansdowne Crescent Primary School are producing a brochure
to help people learn about the animals and plants in nearby
Knocklofty Reserve...
DRUG EDUCATION
ACARA drug lessons from Year 3
Daily Telegraph, 27 Jul
2014
 Students from Year 3 onwards are to
learn about the dangers of illegal drugs and how to respond to
drug-related situations...
TEACHING PROFESSION
Teachers have to spend own money
The Examiner, 25 Jul
2014
 Teachers are spending an annual
average of $1848 of their own money on educational supplies and
student needs ...
 THE ENVIRONMENT
Digging for the future
The Examiner, 25 Jul
2014
Students at Youngtown Primary School got their hands
dirty to participate in Schools Tree Day yesterday ...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Albuera Street completes first 100 years
Tas Govt media
release, 23 Jul
2014
Albuera Street Primary School today celebrated the
centenary of its opening...
LITERACY AND NUMERACY
Specialist
teachers begin
 Tas Govt media
release, 23 Jul
2014
The state government's promised 25
specialist literacy and numeracy teachers commenced working today...
Literacy boost, The Mercury, 24 Jul 2014
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Catholic strike looms
ABC News, 23 Jul
2014
 Staff at Tasmanian Catholic schools
plan to hold a one-day strike on Thursday 7 August...
Statewide strike by Catholic
teachers,
The Mercury, 23 Jul 2014
TEACHER SALARIES
Pay freeze looms
The Mercury, 23 Jul
2014
 The state government plans to
legislate to limit annual public sector pay rises to 2 per cent per
annum following a one-year pay freeze from October...
Limits on wage rises to fix budget problem,
Tas Govt media release, 22 Jul 2014
 STUDENT AND TEACHER HEALTH
Rash of measles cases in Tasmania
DHHS public health
alerts, 22 Jul
2014
The number of measles and possible
measles cases in Tasmania has risen from two to seven ...
Measles Fact Sheet [pdf], DHHS website
EARLY CHILDHOOD AND CHILD CARE
Early childhood report released
Productivity
Commission media release, 22 Jul
2014
The Productivity Commission's draft inquiry report on
Childcare and Early Childhood Learning
includes the recommendation that school principals be responsible
for ensuring that before and after school care is provided...
Download the Childcare
and Early Childhood Learning report, Productivity Commission website
Quality key in early learning, Michelle O'Byrne, Opposition education
spokesperson, TasLabor website, 22 Jul 204
Tasmania snubbed, The Mercury, 23 Jul 2014
 UNBELIEVABLE POLICIES
Vic teachers sue over forced laptop payments
The Age, 21 Jul
2014
On being required to pay for the use of Education
Department laptops, Victorian teachers are taking their employer to
court...
 ROAD SAFETY
Blitz on road safety around schools
The Examiner, 20 Jul
2014
Police are running a road safety campaign this week, with particular
focus on traffic moving to and from schools...
BULLYING
Bullying video competition announced
Tas Govt media
release, 20 Jul
2014
 A student competition requiring the production of a short
video on the role of bystanders in the prevention of bullying,
especially cyberbullying, has been announced by the Minister for
Education and Training, Jeremy Rockliff...
TERM DATES
Term dates for 2016 to 2018
released
Tas Govt media
release, 19 Jul
2014
 The school and college term dates
for 2016, 2017 and 2018 have been announced by the Minister for
Education and Training, Jeremy Rockliff...
Term dates set years ahead, The Mercury, 20 Jul 2014
TEACHERS REGISTRATION BOARD
New TRB registrar
 Tas Govt media
release, 19 Jul
2014
Education
minister Jeremy Rockliff has announced the appointment of Lee Anne
Raynor to the Teachers Registration Board, joining the recently
appointed chair of the Board, Stephen Mannering...
 VISUAL ARTS
Burnie hosts students' art
The Advocate, 18 Jul
2014
Artworks by Tasmanian Year 11 and 12 students is on
display at the Burnie Regional Arts Gallery as part of the QVMAG
ArtRage2013 exhibition...
HEALTH
ALERT
Measles rears its ugly head
DHHS website, 17 Jul
2014
Measles has spread to Tasmania, with
two cases being confirmed this week. [The last case of measles in
Tasmania was in 2009.]...
Measles alert issued, The Mercury, 17 Jul 2014
STUDENT HEALTH
Teens drinking and smoking less
The Guardian, 17 Jul
2014
Australian teenagers are drinking and smoking less than they were
three years ago, research shows...
DRUGS IN
SCHOOL
Concern over drug use in northern Tas
The Examiner, 17 Jul
2014
Reports have pointed to the use of the drug ice by
students as young as 13 from some schools in northern and north-west
Tasmania...
 SCHOOL DISCIPLINE
Suspensions deny students their rights
The Examiner, 15 Jul
2014
Academics say that suspending
students for misbehaviour is ineffective and could break their right
to an education...
Suspensions usually occur
again,
The Examiner, 17 Jul 2014
SCHOOL DISCIPLINE
Corporal punishment backed
SMH, 15 Jul
2014
The head of the federal
government's review of the national curriculum, Kevin Donnelly, says
he has no problem with corporal punishment if the school community
supports it and it is done properly...
Pyne rules out corporal punishment, ABC News, 16 Jul 2014
No caning for Tassie kids, The Examiner, 17 Jul 2014
SCHOOL SAFETY
Fear over school's asbestos
The Examiner, 13 Jul
2014
A construction worker recalls asbestos dust being created
when the bottoms of doors were cut off at Burnie High School during
the 1970s..
 STUDENT SUPPORT
Repeating a year can do harm
SMH, 10 Jul
2014
Repeating a year at school is like playing Russian
roulette as it can sometimes do more harm than good, an education
and psychology expert says...
 SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook filter to be trialled
SMH, 10 Jul
2014
A Sydney school is to trial a filter for students
using Facebook, Twitter and Instagram that provides a warning when they are trying to send
inappropriate messages, the rationale for the need being that young people
apparently do not develop natural filters in their own brains until
their late teens ..
LITERACY AND NUMERACY
Specialists to begin in Term 3
The Examiner, 10 Jul
2014
Seven specialist literacy and
numeracy teachers are due to commence in the North in Term 3 ..
 FINANCIAL LITERACY
Financial skills surprisingly good
ACER media release,
9 Jul
2014
The level of financial literacy of
Australian teens ranks them equal-third in the world, a PISA survey
conducted by the OECD and released by ACER shows ..
One in ten students lacks financial skills, IFA (Independent
Financial Adviser), 10 Jul 2014
STUDENT SUPPORT
Support lacking, survey says
The Examiner, 9 Jul
2014
 Most parents of children with a disability say the
support their children receive is 'inappropriate', a survey released
by the Tasmanian Disability Education Reform lobby says...
 TASMANIAN GOVERNOR
Governor dies
ABC News, 8 Jul
2014
The Tasmanian Governor, Peter Underwood, has died,
following a deterioration in his medical condition ..
Governor 'gravely ill', ABC News, 7 Jul 2014
ENTERPRISE EDUCATION
Aussie kids missing out on entrepreneurial skills
The Age, 7 Jul
2014
 Australian schools are failing to
teach entrepreneurial and business skills to students but the
British are considering an expansion of their enterprise curriculum
to include children as young as five years...
 EXTENSION TO YEAR 12
Student views on extending high
school
The Mercury, 6 Jul
2014
Three Huonville
High School students give their views on the opportunity to join
Year 11 classes at their school next year ..
FINANCIAL LITERACY
Children's bank account rip-offs
SMH, 5 Jul 2014
 A Choice survey has found some
Australian bank and credit union accounts designed for children
contain exorbitant fees and savage conditions...
Teaching kids about money, Choice, 4 Jul 2014
 SCHOOL SAFETY
Teacher stabbed in front of class
Express, 4 Jul 2014
A mother stabbed her child's teacher to death in front of
a class of children in south-west France ...
STUDENT SUPPORT
Funding cut to RU MAD group condemned
 TasLabor
website, 3 Jul 2014
The state government's $50,000 cut in funding to A
Fairer World which runs the RU Making a Difference
program has been criticised by Opposition education spokesperson
Michelle O'Byrne ...
 ARTISTS IN SCHOOLS
Seven artists for colleges in 2015
Tas Govt media release, 2 Jul 2014
Applications for the 2015 Artist in Residence program have been
invited by the Minister for the Arts, Vanessa Goodwin...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Waimea attains new Heights
Tas Govt
media release, 2 Jul 2014
New kindergarten and playground facilities were opened at
Waimea Heights Primary School by the Minister for Education and
Training, Jeremy Rockliff, today...
LITERACY
Writing competition winners announced
Tas Govt
media release, 2 Jul 2014
 Students from Princes Street
Primary, Reece High, Kingston High, Cressy District High and Hellyer
College have been named as winners of the What Matters?
Writing Competition...
Reece High student praised, The Advocate, 3 Jul 2014
 CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
Catholic
teachers rally in Hobart
The Mercury,
2 Jul 2014
Catholic teachers marched through
the streets of Hobart this morning in support of pay and conditions,
including a better deal for teacher aides (Tuesday, 1 July)...
More Catholic teachers strike, ABC News, 2 Jul 2014
More strikes threatened, The Advocate, 4 Jul 2014
 HEALTH
Tassie swine flu surge
The Mercury,
2 Jul 2014
Swine flu, also known as H1N1, is taking off in Tasmania
but there is no cause for alarm, doctors say...
 ROAD SAFETY
Statewide road safety blitz on Wednesday
The Mercury,
1 Jul 2014
Tasmania Police will carry out a 24-hour blitz on drivers
not following the road rules tomorrow (Wednesday 2 July)...
Statewide road safety blitz, The Examiner, 1 Jul 2014
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
Catholic strikes begin
ABC News, 1 Jul 2014
Catholic school staff began their
campaign of four-hour stoppages this morning (Tuesday, 1 July)...
Catholic teachers march in
Launceston, The Mercury, 1 Jul 2014
Teachers take action to streets, The Examiner, 1 Jul 2014
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