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 ONLINE EDUCATIONAL GAMES
Tas history online game launched
Tas Govt media release, 30 Nov 2015
The Voyage, a free online game about
provisioning and navigating ships bound for Van Diemen's Land, was
launched today by the Minister for the Arts, Vanessa Goodwin...
Play
The Voyage online now
EDUCATION FUNDING
Call for government schools funding increase
The Mercury, 30 Nov 2015
 The Australian Government Primary Principals Association
has called for a new model for funding education and reducing
disparities between schools...
 TERRORISM
AND STUDENTS
Exposing children to terrorism news
The Conversation (opinion by Elizabeth
Handsley), 30 Nov 2015
With many children's feelings and
behaviour likely to be affected by viewing news about serious
terrorist incidents, parents should consider how they can handle
such situations, a professor of law advises...
 STUDENT HEALTH AND
WELLBEING
Ten school nurses now operating
Tas Govt media release, 29 Nov 2015
Ten full-time equivalent registered
nurses are now working in Tasmanian schools, with an additional ten
expected by July 2017, education minister Jeremy Rockliff said
today....
 EXTENSION TO YEARS 11 AND 12
Extra years working
The Mercury, 29 Nov 2015
The state government's
policy to extend high schools to Years 11 and 12 is having results,
but Tasmanian Principals Association president Malcolm Elliott says
research on the policy's effectiveness needs to be undertaken....
EDUCATION POLICY PROCESS
OECD figures easy to misinterpret
The Conversation (opinion by
Radhika Gorur), 27 Nov 2015
 Statistical information provided by
the OECD's annual publication, Education at a Glance,
should not be solely relied on by education policy makers because
its figures can be misleading, an education lecturer argues. For
example:
Returns on official
education spending in some Asian countries overstate their school
system efficiency because they ignore the unofficial spending on
private tutoring by many parents.
The apparent evidence
that smaller class sizes in Australia fail to deliver expected
higher educational returns may be due to poorer performing students
being taught in smaller groupings, as well as the temporary but
frequent removal of weaker students from larger classes for support
lessons...
 STUDENT HEALTH AND
WELLBEING
Protecting children's mental health
Aust Govt media release, 26 Nov 2015
From July 2016 teachers will be trained to provide a
supportive environment for students with mental health issues, under
the Australian government's Mental Health in Education initiative...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Welcome reversal of eSchool cuts
The Examiner, 26 Nov 2015
 Education minister Jeremy Rockliff has reversed the
planned cut of eight eSchool staff for next year...
Staffing model finalised for
2016,
Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for Education and Training, 26 Nov 2015
Staffing reversal supports students with a disability, Andrea
Dawkins, Greens education spokesperson, 26 Nov 2015
 SCHOOL COMPETITIONS
WW1 prize winners announced
Tas Govt media release, 25 Nov 2015
The six recipients of
the Frank MacDonald Memorial Prize for 2015 are students from
Devonport High, Ogilvie High, St Mary's College, Burnie High, Sacred
Heart College and Taroona High..
EXTENSION TO YEARS 11 AND 12
Years 11 and 12 extension policy extended to urban schools
Tas Govt media release, 24 Nov 2015
Ulverstone High will be the first urban
school to extend its classes to Years 11 and 12, education minister
Jeremy Rockliff announced today - in changing a policy that had
previously been limited to rural and regional high schools...
Ulverstone High puts hand up, The Mercury, 25 Nov 2015
What are the implications for Don College?, Michelle O'Byrne,
Opposition education spokesperson, 25 Nov 2015
 WORLD NEWS
Brussels on highest alert
Sky News, 23 Nov 2015
All schools are to be closed today in Belgium's capital, Brussels,
which has been placed on the maximum security alert over fears of a
Paris-style terrorist attack..
 WORLD NEWS
Mali hotel siege: no more hostages
ABC News, 21 Nov 2015
Government forces have freed
more than 100 hostages from a hotel under siege in
Mali, a
French-speaking country in West Africa..
 TEACHING
PROFESSION
Teacher charged
ABC News, 20 Nov 2015
A government school teacher in southern
Tasmania has been charged with having sex with a student...
COMPUTER
LITERACY
Decline in computer literacy skills
ABC News, 17 Nov 2015
 Students' skills in using computers
for purposes other than social media have declined over the last
four years, a report by the National Assessment Program (NAP) shows...
Why ICT is failing in schools, The Conversation (opinion by Michael
Phillips), 19 Nov 2015
LEARNING
How teens would overhaul learning
singularityhub.com, 17 Nov 2015
 Six bright US teenagers give suggestions on how future
school education could be improved, such as focusing on the
students' perspectives, doing things as opposed to acquiring
knowledge, avoiding reliance solely on online courses...
 ETHICS IN
GOVERNMENT
DoE reveals gifts
The Mercury, 17 Nov 2015
The Department of Education's register of gifts and
benefits shows that 12 gifts were declared by staff over the last
two years...
BIG
PICTURE SCHOOLS
Big Picture transformation in Launceston
Tas Govt media
release, 14 Nov 2015
 The Launceston City Campus Big Picture School will from
2016 have a dedicated principal and join only three other Australian
schools to become a Big Picture Demonstration School, education
minister Jeremy Rockliff announced today...
TERRORISM
Paris terrorist attack
 At least 120
killed, 200 (including one Tasmanian) injured across Paris.
Watch ABC News 24
TCE
 TCE
exams loom
Tas Govt media
release, 13 Nov 2015
The Tasmanian Certificate of
Education exams begin on Monday next week...
TASMANIAN
EDUCATION SYSTEM
Seek students' views
 The Mercury
(opinion by Margaret Reynolds), 12 Nov 2015
Senior students need to be consulted in reforming
Tasmania's education system, the convenor of the Richmond Public
Policy Group suggests in a wide-ranging discussion of the challenges
our school system faces...
TASMANIAN
EDUCATION SYSTEM
Education optimism looms
The Mercury
(editorial), 12 Nov 2015
The launch of Education Ambassadors Tasmania will promote
a welcome debate on the future of education in Tasmania...
TASMANIAN
EDUCATION SYSTEM
Education Ambassadors Tasmania launched
The Mercury, 12 Nov 2015
 Governor Kate Warner has launched
Education Ambassadors Tasmania which aims to use people with a high
profile and other community leaders to promote and facilitate
educational change in Tasmania...
Education Ambassadors Tasmania website
EXTENDING
HIGH SCHOOL TO YRS 11-12
Interest high in 11-12 extensions
The Examiner, 12
Nov 2015
Premier Will Hodgman has checked on
progress at Scottsdale High School, one of the first six schools to
extend their classes to Years 11 and 12...
EQUALITY
OF OPPORTUNITY
Too many falling through the cracks
The Conversation
(opinion by John Smyth), 12 Nov 2015
As current solutions are failing to solve the growing school dropout
problem, greater attention needs to be paid to the perspective of
the enamoured young people themselves, a professor argues...
Poppy Time
Remembrance
Day Websites
INFRASTRUCTURE
FUNDING
Surprise school and TAFE buildings boost for 2015-16
 Tas Govt media
release, 8 Nov 2015
$10.475 million in funding that is unable to be spent as
planned on budgeted building projects this financial year has been
quickly reallocated to upgrade 14 schools and TasTAFE, the
Treasurer, Peter Gutwein, has announced...
Innovative funding switch, The Mercury, 9 Nov 2015
TASMANIAN
EDUCATION FUNDING
Surprise funding boost for 2016
Tas Govt media
release, 7 Nov 2015
 The state government will spend $11 million on an
additional 105 full-time equivalent teachers next year, educational
minister Jeremy Rockliff said today...
Tas will spend $134m on
Gonski reforms, The Mercury, 7 Nov 2015
$11m makes up for less than half of last year's staffing cuts,
The Mercury, 8 Nov 2015
 EARLY
CHILDHOOD
Rights of the child forum focus
Tas Govt media
release, 7 Nov 2015
The rights of the child was the main theme of a forum
held by the Tasmanian Branch of Early Childhood Australia today
which was opened by the Minister for Human Services, Jacquie
Petrusma...
NUMERACY
Bedtime maths stories
The Conversation
(opinion by Kylie Robson), 5 Nov 2015
 Mathematically flavoured bedtime
stories read to children by their parents can improve the children's
maths performance at school, research shows...
TASMANIAN
EDUCATORS
Hardie Fellowship winners announced
Tas Govt media
release, 4 Nov 2015
The names of twelve DoE educators to be awarded a Hardie
Fellowship to undertake professional learning in the USA have been
announced...
BULLYING
Getting ready to pick on the bullies
news.com.au, 3 Nov 2015
 State government anti-bullying legislative
proposals and a paper on online bullying prepared by the
Tasmanian Law Reform Commission are expected to be available
before the end of the year, Attorney-General Vanessa Goodwin
said today...
EDUCATION
POLICY
Supporting education
Tas Govt media
release, 3 Nov 2015
The state government is supporting education by speeding
up the 7-12 extension policy, committing to six years of Gonski, and
more, education minister Jeremy Rockliff said in response to
Opposition criticism...
BIG
PICTURE SCHOOLS
Big Picture campus safe for now
 Tas Greens media
release, 2 Nov 2015
Launceston's City Campus Big Picture School will remain
where it is for the time being, Greens education spokesperson Andrea
Dawkins says...
 LEARNING
COMPUTER CODING
Is programming only for the maths elite?
The Age, 1 Nov 2015
Although maths geniuses are usually
good at computer programming there is absolutely no need for a
student to be a maths genius to be able to learn programming...
TASMANIAN
SCHOOLS
Kings Meadows tenders called
Tas Govt media
release, 31 Oct 2015
The tender process has begun for the completion of about
$7 million worth of redevelopment work at Kings Meadows High School...
Labor opposes school
upgrades, claims Courtney, Tas Govt media release, 1 Nov 2015
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