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TASMANIAN
SCHOOLS
A Brighton high school?
 The Mercury, 31 Mar 2014
A new Years 7-12 high school in Brighton would help raise
retention rates, local mayor Tony Foster says...
Elephant in the classroom, The Mercury (Editorial), 2 Apr
2014
 KIDS' SPORT
No more losing
ABC News, 31 Mar 2014
A proposed ban on keeping the score at under-10 AFL
football games will deny losing players the opportunity to develop
resilience, critics say...
WHALING
Whales rejoice
 ABC News, 31 Mar 2014
In a win for whales and Australia,
the International Court of Justice has ruled that Japan's whale
hunts in the Southern Ocean have not been for scientific purposes
after all and has banned the issuing of future permits...
 NEW TASMANIAN OPPOSITION
Bryan Green to be Labor leader
ABC News, 31 Mar 2014
Former Deputy Premier Bryan Green is to be the new leader
of the ALP in Tasmania following the resignation of Lara Giddings
from the position today. Former Minister for Health Michelle O'Byrne
will be deputy leader...
NEW TASMANIAN GOVERNMENT
Jeremy Rockliff to be education minister
 ABC News, 30 Mar 2014
The incoming Deputy Premier, Jeremy Rockliff, will be the
Minister for Education and Training in the new state government. The
Liberals' education spokesperson, Michael Ferguson, will become
Minister for Health...
Hodgman names new ministers, Will Hodgman website, 30 Mar 2014
NAPLAN
Senators criticise NAPLAN
ABC News, 27 Mar 2014
 A Senate Committee's report says
that NAPLAN testing has:
been unfair to disadvantaged students
encouraged coaching during class time
fostered unhealthy competition between schools through league
tables
caused anxiety for students
....
NAPLAN crackdown,
news.com.au, 27 Mar 2014
 TASMANIAN ELECTION
Tasmanian election count finished
ABC News, 27 Mar 2014
The state election count is over,
with all successful candidates being named....
Tasmanian Electoral Commission results page
LITERACY AND NUMERACY
National Literacy and Numeracy Week announced
Aust Govt media release, 25 Mar 2014
 National Literacy and Numeracy Week for 2014 will be
held from Mon 25 to Sun 31 August, federal education minister
Christopher Pyne said today....
NLNW web page
Medibank Private to be sold
ABC News, 25 Mar 2014
The Australian government has announced it will sell Medibank
Private.
TEACHING PROFESSION
No more T-shirts and thongs for teachers
ABC News, 23 Mar 2014
 The NSW government has tightened the dress code for
teachers, banning the wearing of rubber thongs, T-shirts, revealing
outfits and clothes that display alcohol or cigarette branding....
Dress code not needed in
Tasmania, says AEU, The Examiner, 25 Mar 2014
 GEOGRAPHY
Wrong Perth
Wicked Thoughts (blog), 22 Mar 2014
A U.S. television news network has demonstrated
a need for their local geography curriculum to be expanded, by
relating the search area for the missing Malaysian aeroplane to
Perth, Tasmania, instead of Perth, WA....
Labor govt for SA
ABC News24, 11.10am, 23 Mar
2014
South Australian Independent Geoff Brock
is to support a minority Labor government.
 INNOVATIVE IDEAS
Long-term educational planning supported
The Mercury, 22 Mar 2014
The Tasmanian Principals Association
and business groups have expressed support for the idea of planning
educational change over periods longer than the election cycle, such
as 10 to 20 years...
TEACHING PROFESSION
Duties harming teaching quality
The Examiner, 21 Mar 2014
 AEU
state president Terry Polglase backs the conclusion of a Grattan Institute report that
says demands on teachers by state and federal governments are
unnecessarily taking away time from teachers and therefore holding back good quality teaching...
Making Time for Great
Teaching [pdf], Ben Johnson, Grattan Institute, March
2014
BULLYING
Anti-bullying campaign grows
 The Mercury, 21 Mar 2014
Cygnet Primary and Brooks High
are among the many schools taking a stand against bullying...
 STUDENT TRANSPORT
New way to cross a river
The Telegraph, 20 Mar 2014
Continuing to attend school at times of flooded rivers is so
important that some Vietnamese children are individually floated
across the local river in a large plastic bag..
YouTube video
MISSING AEROPLANE
Has the plane been found this time?
ABC News, 20 Mar 2014
Australian aircraft are headed towards debris identified by
satellite in the Indian Ocean that could be from the missing
Malaysian aeroplane ...
For the latest news see
ABC News 24
 ANZAC COMMEMORATIONS
Simpson Prize winners named
Aust Govt media release, 17 Mar 2014
As one of the eight national winners of the Simpson Prize
a Rose Bay High School student will be able to
attend the Anzac Day commemorations in Gallipoli ...
Simpson Prize website
STATE ELECTION
Votes damaged in preference cut-up
ABC News, 17 Mar 2014
The Tasmanian Electoral Commission's
letter-opening machine has sliced through the voting preferences of
a number of postal votes, rendering 163 ballot papers invalid...
STATE ELECTION
Liberals take majority government
ABC News, 15 Mar 2014
Tasmania is set for a majority
Liberal government...
For progressive first
preference voting figures see:
the Tasmanian Electoral Commission's
Progressive results page
the ABC's
Tasmanian
election website
STATE ELECTION: EDUCATION POLICIES
AEU presents summary of education policies
AEU website, accessed 14 Mar 2014
The
Australian Education Union has published the major political
parties' responses to 19 educational policy questions...
Tasmanian Labor [pdf]
Tasmanian Liberals [pdf]
Tasmanian Greens [doc]
AEU analysis of the top six questions [pdf]
 STATE ELECTION: EDUCATION POLICIES
Libs publish full response to AEU questions
Michael Ferguson website, 14 Mar 2014
Opposition leader Will Hodgman has reiterated his
support for the Gonski education funding reforms and has complained
that the Australian Education Union has not published his full
responses to their questions ...
Liberals' full response to AEU
education policy questions
[pdf]
NATIONAL CURRICULUM
Curriculum overcrowded
The Age, 11 Mar 2014
 The national curriculum is
overcrowded, requiring students in Year 3 to learn about economic concepts
such as opportunity cost and mathematical algorithms, the
Australian Primary Principals Association says...
STATE ELECTION: SPORTS FACILITIES
Labor pledges sports centre at Geilston Bay
Tas Labor website, 10 Mar 2014
Labor has promised to contribute $8
million towards construction of an indoor community sports centre in
the grounds of the former Geilston Bay High School...
STATE ELECTION: EDUCATION
Support for extending high schools to Year 12
The Mercury, 10 Mar 2014
A survey shows that more than 60 per
cent of Tasmanians support the Liberal policy of extending high
schools to Years 11 and 12...
STATE ELECTION: EDUCATION
The education issues
The Mercury, 9 Mar 2014
Mercury reporter David Killick
identifies the education issues that people will consider in the
forthcoming Tasmanian state election...
 COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS
Losing computers
The Examiner, 8 Mar 2014
A Launceston computing teacher says
that because of budget constraints his school now has fewer
computers per student...
STATE ELECTION: CARETAKER CONVENTION
Labor school closure letter was inappropriate and unclear: claim
Tas Liberals website, 6 Mar 2014
A letter sent to parents by
education minister Brian Wightman breached the caretaker conventions
of the election period and in any case avoided making it clear
whether or not Labor would support forced closures of schools after
the election, the Liberals say ...
Letter sparks row over
caretaker convention, The Examiner, 7 Mar 2014
 STUDENT HEALTH AND WELFARE
Alcohol and drugs harming education
The Mercury, 6 Mar 2014
Students' results and attendance levels are being adversely affected
by their use of alcohol and drugs, a survey by the Australian
National Council on Drugs shows....
 STUDENT HEALTH
Free vaccinations for students
Tas Govt media release, 5 Mar 2014
Year 7 boys and girls are receiving vaccinations for protection
against human papillomavirus (HPV)....
 STATE ELECTION: AGRICULTURE EDUCATION
PICSE cut a blow for agriculture education
Tas Greens website, 4 Mar 2014
A plan to cut funding to PICSE, the Primary Industry
Centre for Science Education, is being opposed by Tasmanian Greens
member and former Parliamentary Secretary for Education Paul
O'Halloran ...
 STUDENT SUPPORT
Down Syndrome support called for
ABC News, 4 Mar 2014
A report by Down Syndrome Tasmania has drawn attention to the need
for greater support for children with Down Syndrome ...
STATE ELECTION: EDUCATION FORUM
Where was Ferguson?
Tas Labor website, 4 Mar 2014
Liberal education spokesperson
Michael Ferguson has been criticised by education minister Brian
Wightman for not turning up to an ABC Radio education forum...
STATE ELECTION: NATIONALS' EDUCATION
POLICY
Nationals release education policy
The Mercury, 3 Mar 2014
The Tasmanian Nationals Party's
education policies include: teachers living in their students'
communities, an inquiry into teachers' workloads, dental vans,
school health checks, high schools extending to Year 12 if courses
are not adversely affected, and supporting continuation of the
federal government's school kids bonus...
 STATE ELECTION: CHILD AND FAMILY CENTRES
Two more CFCs
Tas Labor website
(scroll down), 3 Mar 2014
Sorell and Invermay will each get a Child and Family Centre,
education minister Brian Wightman says...
STATE ELECTION: KIDS BONUS
$100 for 95 per cent attendance
ABC News, 2 Mar 2014
 Labor has promised that
low-income families will be paid $100 per student and an additional
$100 for 95 per cent school attendance if it is re-elected...
$200 to keep kids in school, The Mercury, 3 Mar 2014
School Kids Bonus replacement
promised by Labor, The
Examiner, 2 Mar 2014
Labor's state-based School Kids Bonus, Tas Labor website, 3 Mar
2014
STATE ELECTION: CHILD SAFETY
Bravehearts promise
The Mercury, 2 Mar 2014
The Liberals have pledged $800,000 to fund a four-year Bravehearts
child safety program in Tasmanian schools...
TEACHING PROFESSION
Researching good teaching
The Mercury, 2 Mar 2014
 UTAS professor Kim Beswick is a member of the Teacher
Education Ministerial Advisory Group which will report to the
federal government on teacher training...
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