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STUDENTS
AND JOBS
Improving students' job prospects
Tas Govt media
release, 29 Sep 2015
 The Department of Education and the
Beacon Foundation are to work more closely together to make more
students job-ready...
SLEEP
EDUCATION
Call for sleep education lessons
The Courier-Mail
(via PressReader), 29 Sep 2015
 Researchers at Murdoch University
have called for schools to provide teenagers with lessons on sleep
after finding that the use of electronic devices at night was
associated with difficulty falling asleep, tiredness during the day
and depression...
Sleeping lessons to wake up
students,
Courier-Mail, 8 May 2013
TAS
EDUCATION POLICY
How to raise Tas education outcomes
 The Mercury
(opinion by Neil Cranston), 29 Sep 2015
Tasmania needs to further improve access to Years 11 and 12, counter an anti-education view held by
some people and improve the overall K-12 curriculum structure and
the ways teachers share information across the various stages,
a UTAS adjunct professor says...
TAS
EDUCATION POLICY
Parents play critical role in raising
outcomes
 The Mercury
(opinion by Alison Standen), 29 Sep 2015
Parents need to be equipped to be able to engage in their children's
education, the general manager of The Smith Family in Tasmania
writes...
TAS
EDUCATION POLICY
UTAS in for the school education
long-haul
The Mercury
(opinion by David Sadler), 29 Sep 2015
The University of Tasmania is
playing its part in the long-term repair of Tasmania's education
system, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Students and Education) says...
STUDENT
SUPPORT
Left alone in classroom
ABC News, 27 Sep 2015
 A mother says her 11-year-old daughter with autism
was regularly left alone in a Tasmanian classroom but the school
says the girl worked in line of sight of a teacher...
 TASMANIAN
SCHOOLS
Building boost for Parklands High
Tas Govt media
release, 26 Sep 2015
Building works totalling over $9 million have begun at
Burnie's Parklands High School, education minister Jeremy Rockliff
said today...
SCHOOL
ANTI-TERRORISM POLICY
Kit links green activism to terrorism
ABC News, 25 Sep 2015
 The federal
government's Radicalisation Awareness Information Kit
has been criticised for linking environmental activism and the
alternative music scene with the radicalisation process that can
lead to involvement in terrorism...
Radicalisation awareness
information kit (Australian Government)
Download the booklet (Preventing violent extremism and
radicalisation in Australia) [pdf]
BULLYING
Facebook unfriending can be bullying
ABC News, 25 Sep 2015
 Deleting a person as a Facebook 'friend' can amount to a
component of unreasonable behaviour that constitutes bullying, the
Fair Work Commission has found...
STUDENT
SUPPORT
Call for more speech pathology
support
The Mercury, 25 Sep 2015
 Not only are students
with speech and language disorders likely to perform poorly in
NAPLAN tests but many such students are more likely to be excluded
from the tests in the first place, Speech Pathology Australia says...
 TASMANIAN
SCHOOLS
Big furore over Big Picture school
ABC News, 24 Sep 2015
Parents of otherwise disengaged students are upset over
the move of Launceston's Big Picture school to Launceston College...
SCHOOL ANTI-TERRORISM POLICY
Boy referred to ecoterrorists during lesson
The Guardian (UK), 23 Sep 2015
After a London school student, who
is Muslim, referred to ecoterrorists during a classroom discussion
on environmental activism, his school removed him from the classroom
and subjected him to a formal interview, asking if he was connected
with ISIS...
Where will schools draw the
radicalisation line?, The Guardian, 9 Jun 2015
 NATIONAL CURRICULUM
What the national curriculum changes mean for schools
The Conversation
(opinion by Misty Adoniou, Bill Louden and Glenn C. Savage), 23 Sep 2015
Three experts give
their views on where the national curriculum is at and how
effectively it will be implemented...
SCHOOL
STAFFING
TDERL slams eSchool cuts
The Examiner, 23 Sep 2015
 The Tasmanian Disability Education Reform Lobby says
that with students with a disability no longer being actually
enrolled in the eSchool but merely registered there, the number of
staff will drop significantly - even though the students will still
be serviced by the eSchool...
Vulnerable children to suffer, The Mercury, 24 Sep 2015
eSchool cuts reduce autism support, The Examiner, 26 Sep 2015
 SEXUAL ABUSE
Former teacher pleads guilty
ABC News, 23 Sep 2015
A former Hobart and northern Tasmanian teacher and
fitness instructor has pleaded guilty to 12 charges of child sex
abuse...
 EDUCATION POLICY
Call for less market-driven policy
The Conversation
(opinion by Kelsey Halbert), 23 Sep 2015
Former federal education
minister Christopher Pyne's education legacy is
a little shaky, argues an education lecturer...
STEM SUBJECTS
Greater STEM emphasis needed
 ABC Lateline, 23 Sep 2015
If Australia is to rival Silicon Valley we must expand
the teaching of science, technology, engineering, maths and
computing subjects, particularly to early high school girls,
successful computer technology entrepreneur Scott Farquhar says...
STUDENT SAFETY
Selfie danger
Stylist, 22 Sep 2015
 More people are dying from taking
selfies than from shark attacks, the biggest cause of selfie death this
year being falls (followed by being hit by a moving vehicle)...
Selfie-related injuries and
deaths,
Wikipedia
NAPLAN
Call for less NAPLAN test practice
The Examiner, 22 Sep 2015
Spending time drilling students
with NAPLAN-style testing does more harm than good, education
lecturer Dr Damon Thomas says...
COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
Students need to learn coding
The Conversation
(opinion by Steve Goschnick), 22 Sep 2015
 Teaching
computer programming languages to students will not only help them
in their future careers but also foster their creativity, an adjunct
professor argues...
Computer science for kindies, npr.com, 18 Sep 2015
(includes a list of suggested coding resources for primary school
children)
STUDENT SUPPORT
No grade repetition please
The Conversation
(opinion by Danielle Romanes and Jordana Hunter), 21 Sep 2015
Holding a student back a year is not the logical solution it
sometimes appears to be but in fact may be very harmful, two
researchers argue...
 FEDERAL POLITICS
Turnbull's new Ministry
ABC News, 20 Sep 2015
The
Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has announced his new Ministry...
See
full ministry
(SBS).
Ministers with education
portfolios are:
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Simon Birmingham
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Luke Hartsuyker
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Richard
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LITERACY
Controversial SSP program tried in SA
ABC News, 20 Sep 2015
 A South Australian school is using
the whole-of-school SSP (speech, sound, pics) reading and spelling
program which has been described by some people as experimental...
TASMANIAN
SCHOOLS
Hagley's 160 years
ABC News, 19 Sep 2015
Hagley Farm School is celebrating 160 years of providing
agricultural education...
Strong family links to Hagley
school,
The Examiner, 19 Sep 2015
 STUDENT
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Emotional wellbeing tests?
ABC News, 19 Sep 2015
The Queensland Minister for Health
is considering an emotional wellbeing test to identify students who
may have mental health issues...
EDUCATION
POLICY
Education ministers make decisions
Christopher Pyne
website, 18 Sep 2015
Might these statements from Friday's
Education Council meeting be Christopher Pyne's last media releases
as education minister?
New national curriculum from 2016, covering:
- overcrowding in the primary curriculum
- teaching phonics
-
Western influences in Australian history
- students with a
disability
- parental engagement
- coding and other technical
skills from the early years
Revitalising STEM study in schools
Teacher education reforms
A more user-friendly My School website
LITERACY
Good reading
 Tas Govt media
release, 17 Sep 2015
Students from Bowen Road, Triabunna
and Perth primary schools were among 31,000 Tasmanian students to
earn certificates by participating in the Premier's Reading
Challenge this year...
 VET
No VET takeover
The Mercury, 17 Sep 2015
The Federal government's idea of taking over TasTAFE and
other state VET functions is not supported buy the Tasmanian
government, education minister Jeremy Rockliff says...
CREATIVITY
Clock boy to meet President
WDSU News, 16 Sep 2015
 A 14-year-old Texan school student has accepted a drop-in
invitation made by President Obama after the boy, who is Muslim, was
arrested by the police who were called to his school when his
English teacher saw the electronic clock he had created...
Clock a "fraud", claims
expert,
wnd.com, 20 Sep 2015
COMPUTERS
IN SCHOOLS
Are computers a waste of money?
The Register, 15 Sep 2015
 An
OECD report that compares student computer use across countries
concludes that computers have minimal impact on students' skills in
reading, mathematics and science...
Students, Computers and
Learning,
OECD, Sep 2015
Great teaching more effective than computer use,
The Conversation, 15 Sep 2015
 STUDENT
RETENTION
Evaluation of high school extension
program on way
The Mercury
(opinion), 15 Sep 2015
The six schools extending classes
beyond Year 10 have shown a 38 per cent increase in enrolments this
year, education minister Jeremy Rockliff says...
FEDERAL
POLITICS
Malcolm Turnbull to be PM
ABC News, 14 Sep 2015
Malcolm Turnbull has successfully
challenged Tony Abbott for the Liberal Party leadership,
winning 54 votes to 44. Julie Bishop has been re-elected as Deputy
Leader...
 HEALTH
EDUCATION
Teach about egg-freezing
SMH, 14 Sep 2015
Students should be taught about family planning from the
age of nine years and about egg-freezing technology from 16 years, a
fertility specialist says...
EDUCATION
POLICIES
The education policies of the
Presidential hopefuls
Education World, 13 Sep 2015
Donald Trump supports local control
of education and would like the Federal Department of Education
reduced in size. Hilary Clinton would like more spending on special
education and less "jumping from fad to fad"...
STUDENT
HEALTH
Time for later start times?
Education World, 13 Sep 2015
Researchers have found that 16-year-olds'
natural wake time is 8am, implying a 10-10.30am schoolday start, and
that for 18-year-olds the wake time is about 9am, implying an
11-11.30am start...
THE
CURRICULUM
Teach ethics in primary school
 The Age, 13 Sep 2015
The Humanist Society of Victoria has
proposed an ethics course to help children begin to tackle the big
questions...
STUDENT
SUPPORT
Exams stressful, study finds
The Conversation
(opinion), 11 Sep 2015
 A study of HSC students in NSW has analysed the sources
of high levels of stress associated with examinations, and suggests
several ways teachers and parents can relieve this stress...
STUDENT
HEALTH AND SAFETY
Tas school's asbestos scare
The Examiner, 10 Sep 2015
Students at northern Tasmania's St Finn Barr's Catholic
Primary School have been exposed to a low level of asbestos in a
Haines Educational mineral kit...
Student's geologist mother
suspicious of mineral in kit, ABC News, 11 Sep 2015
 GEOLOGY
Tasmania's split from North America
The Mercury, 9 Sep 2015
Tasmania split
from the west coast of North America 1.5 billion years ago,
UTAS PhD student Jacob Mulder says...
COGNITIVE
SKILLS
Misleading neuroscience claims in
education
The Conversation
(comment by Jared Cooney Horvath and Gregory Donoghue), 8 Sep 2015
 Two PhD candidates explain how to identify misleading
statements that claim neuroscience is the basis for particular
educational advice or propositions...
Using neuroscience terms to spread quackery in education, The
Conversation, 26 Aug 2014
SHOELACE
SKILLS
Fear over decline in shoelace-tying
skills
The Telegraph (UK),
4 Sep 2015
 The introduction of Velcro shoes has led to a delay
in the average age at which children experience the successful
mastery of the skill of shoelace-tying, the author of a book on
shoelace-tying says...
Ian's Shoelace Site
 COMPUTERS
AND STUDENT HEALTH
Screen time before bedtime harmful
The Conversation
(opinion by Sarah Loughran), 2 Sep 2015
The use of screen-based electronic devices in the
hours before bedtime may be harming the quality of sleep for
children and adolescents, a research fellow says...
 ROAD
SAFETY
$100,000 for Ride2School
Tas Govt media
release, 2 Sep 2015
Funding for Bicycle Network's
Ride2School bike safety program for primary schools was announced
today by the Minister for Infrastructure, Rene Hidding...
STUDENT
HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Promoting R U OK? Day
The Examiner, 1 Sep 2015
 Brooks High School is using the presence of the R U OK?
Roadshow bus to promote concern about the mental health of students
and to draw attention to the school's mental health day in October
and R U OK? Day next week, Thursday 10 September 2015...
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