TEACHING
PROFESSION
Supporting new teachers
The Conversation (opinion), 3 Jan 2019
Three academics outline six
ways new teachers can be encouraged to stay in the profession...
TAFE
TasTAFE fees hike criticised
TasLabor website, 31 Dec 2018
TasTAFE are raising fees by up
to 3 pe cent at the same time that course offerings are being
cut, Opposition skills and training spokesperson Anita Dow says...
TasTAFE
fees have not increased for three years, Jeremy Rockliff,
Minister for Education and Training, 31 Dec 2018
All Sydney-Hobart yachts have arrived (Official
website, 31
Dec 2018)
Tasmanian yacht Alive wins
overall Sydney-Hobart on handicap (ABC News, 30
Dec 2018)
Protest against Wild Oats XI deemed invalid (ABC
News, 29 Dec 2018)
Sydney-Hobart News
Sydney-Hobart Yacht Tracker
UNIFORM AND
ATTENDANCE
Smart uniform monitors students
ABC News, 28 Dec 2018
Students in eleven Chinese schools have begun
wearing a chip-embedded school uniform that monitors their
movements, identifying when they arrive and leave school, skip
classes without permission and even where they go out of school
hours...
EDUCATION POLICY
Education roundup
The Conversation (opinion by Bronwyn Hinz), 21 Dec 2018
A researcher presents a state-by-state summary of
this year's major changes in education, along with known
features of national government and Opposition education
policies ...
STUDENT
CERTIFICATION
ATAR results reissued
Tas Govt media release, 19 Dec 2018
Human error was responsible for
incorrect ATAR scores being issued yesterday ...
Error causes drop in exam
scores, ABC News, 19 Dec 2018
ENVIRONMENT
Incredible refusal
ABC News, 18 Dec 2018
The owners of the Ocean Monarch oil rig which is currently
parked in the Derwent estuary have refused to let the
government's Environmental Protection Authority undertake a
biosecurity inspection...
STUDENT
CERTIFICATION
Top students named
Tas Govt media release, 18 Dec 2018
A list of Tasmania's top
students based on their tertiary entrance scores has been
released by education minister Jeremy Rockliff who says that a
higher percentage of students overall received their TCE
compared with last year...
SPORT
World record for Tassie's Titmus
ABC News, 15 Dec 2018
Eighteen-year-old Tasmanian
swimmer Ariarne Titmus has broken the 400 metres women's
freestyle world record in a competition in China...
STUDENT ASSESSMENT
Students taught the wrong material
ABC News, 14 Dec 2018
Year 12 Visual Communications
and Design students at a Melbourne school
were not taught the complete curriculum this year...
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Theresa May survives
BBC News, 13 Dec 2018, 8.00am AEST
Britain's Prime Minister,
Theresa May, has retained leadership of the Conservative Party
after successfully surviving a parliamentary party no-confidence
vote, 200 votes to 117...
Brexit deal still in deep
trouble, The Conversation (opinion), 13 Dec
2018
MOBILE PHONE POLICY
Mobile phone ban looms
ABC News, 13 Dec 2018
Mobile phones will be
banned in NSW primary schools from next year in an attempt to
reduce cyberbullying and classroom distraction...
CYBERBULLYING
Removing web bullying content
Tas Govt media release, 12 Dec 2018
The planned national 'Right to be forgotten"
laws will help to protect children from cyberbullying by making
it easier to remove content from social media and websites,
premier Will Hodgman said today...
STUDENT HEALTH AND FITNESS
Worse at long jumps than their parents
ABC News, 12 Dec 2018
Today's children have
poorer muscular fitness as a result of doing fewer outside
activities such as climbing trees and playing hopscotch,
research by Active Healthy Kids Australia shows...
More physical activity to
reduce depression, The Conversation (opinion), 11 Dec
2018
How much physical activity do teenagers need?, The
Conversation (opinion), 11 Dec 2018
TEACHING PROFESSION
Hair-cutting teacher faces jail
ABC News, 11 Dec 2018
An American chemistry teacher faces jail
after cutting a student's hair while singing the national
anthem. Includes
VIDEO ...
AUSTRALIAN CURICULUM
Simplify the cluttered curriculum
ABC News, 10 Dec 2018
We need a simplified curriculum that focuses
on basics such as reading, writing and mathematics, with less
emphasis on soft skills such as teamwork and critical thinking,
federal education minister Dan Tehan says...
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
GBE workers get more than 2pc
TasLabor website, 10 Dec 2018
Workers in GBEs
(Government Business Enterprises) are receiving wage rises of
well over 2 per cent, such as 2.45 and 2.9 per cent, Opposition
Treasury spokesperson Scott Bacon says...
BULLYING
Bullying incident dealth with
Tas Govt media release, 10 Dec 2018
A bullying incident in a southern Tasmanian
school that has been shown on social media and has been
highlighted by the Opposition was dealt with by the school last
month, education minister Jeremy Rockliff says...
TASMANIAN PEOPLE
Michael Kent dies
ABC News, 6 Dec 2018
Former Woolworths
Tasmanian CEO, business identity and Glamorgan Spring Bay mayor
Michael Kent has died at the age of 76...
EDUCATION FUNDING
Long-term certainty for students in need
Tas Govt media release, 6 Dec 2018
The 10-year National School
Reform Agreement will ensure schools receive funding to assist
students with disability, and students with behavioural
challenges and re-engagement needs, education minister Jeremy
Rockliff announced today...
STUDENT SUPPORT
Helping self-medicators
The Conversation (opinion by Katherine Mills and Natalie Peach),
5 Dec 2018
Two academics suggest
how teachers and parents can identify and help adolescents who
are attempting to handle trauma by using alcohol or drugs...
EXTENSION TO YEARS 11 AND 12
Catholics copy
ABC News, 4 Dec 2018
Three Catholic schools
in southern Tasmania will extend their schools to Years 11 and
12, just like the state government system has done...
WEATHER ALERT -
UPDATED
Winds have passed
BoM
website, 3 Dec 2018
The
warning of damaging winds issued earlier today no longer
applies...
BoM
warnings
Power outages
Road
closures (Police)
SES
STUDENT SUPPORT
Selling SEL
TasLabor media release, 2 Dec 2018
Labor's Social and Emotional
Learning (SEL) policy for schools will reduce trauma and
bullying, spokespersons Michelle O'Byrne and Sarah Lovell say...
Government is already
supporting safe school communities, Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for
Education and Training, 2 Dec 2018
CHURCH FUND-RAISING
Church names doomed properties
ABC News, 2 Dec 2018
The Anglican Church has released a
final list of 73 churches, graveyards and other properties it
now confirms are to be sold and 34 properties it has removed
from the original sale list..
73 properties to be sold [pdf]
34 properties removed from the sale list
[pdf]
Church sale news page, Anglican
Church website
US POLITICS
George Bush Sr dies
ABC News, 1 Dec 2018
George Bush Sr, US
president from 1989 to 1993, has died at the age of 94. His wife
Barbara died last year..
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