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LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Voters change council leaders
ABC
News, 31 Oct 2018
 Tasmania's local government
elections appear to have delivered some major leadership
changes, including:
- Anna Reynolds as lord
mayor of Hobart
- Helen Burnet as deputy
lord mayor of Hobart
- Debbie Wisby as mayor
of Glamorgan-Spring Bay
- Dean Winter as
mayor of Kingborough
- David Munday as mayor
of King Island.
These likely results are subject to checking...
Election results, Tas Electoral
Commission
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Indonesian plane crash
ABC
News, 29 Oct 2018
 A Lion Air plane with
at least 189 people on board has crashed shortly after taking
off in Indonesia...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Snug gym
Tas
Govt media release, 27 Oct 2018
 A $2.5 million tender
for the construction of a multi-function gym-performance hall at
Snug Primary was advertised today...
EDUCATIONAL DISADVANTAGE
Economic benefits
The
Conversation (opinion by Richard Holden), 25 Oct 2018
 Improving the
education and lives of students in less well-off areas yields
far greater benefits for the economy than most people realise,
an economist writes...
STUDENT SAFETY
Seven students stabbed with syringe
ABC
News, 24 Oct 2018
 Seven students at
Plumpton High School in Sydney's west have been stabbed with a
syringe in what appears to be a prank by another student...
(Update)
14-year-old charged after pricking eight students with syringe,
ABC News, 26 Oct 2018
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Get Involved in building projects
Tas
Govt media release, 24 Oct 2018
 The DoE's
Get Involved campaign encourages community input
into decisions about school building projects such as Penguin
District School, the new Brighton High School and the JRLF
school farm redevelopment, education minister Jeremy Rockliff
says...
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Strike rallies warn of more to come
ABC
News, 24 Oct 2018
 Rallies of public servants
around the State have reaffirmed their dissatisfaction with the
government's 2 per cent pay offer...
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
No change to bus timetables
ABC
News, 24 Oct 2018
Metro and private bus operators
will not change their timetables to collect students leaving
school earlier than usual today...
The SOUTH AEU members' meeting has been
moved to the Parliament House lawns
(AEU website)
Disrupting parents and schools, Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for
Education and Training, 24 Oct 2018
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Now
63 early closers
DoE
website, 2.20pm 23 Oct 2018
The number of schools planning
to close early tomorrow (Wednesday) is now 63 (having earlier
risen to 66 then 67). Schools no longer on the early closing
list are:
- Dodges Ferry Primary
- Exeter District High
- Oatlands District High, and
- Punchbowl Primary
...
Union disrupting services, Peter Gutwein Treasurer, 23 Oct 2018
AEU justification for
strike action wrong, Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for
Education and Training, 23 Oct 2018
STUDENT PERFORMANCE
Tassie not so bad after all
ABC
News, 23 Oct 2018
 In comparison with other Australian
students, Tasmanian students are performing "well above average"
when socio-economic factors are taken into account in analysing
NAPLAN data, according to the Grattan Institute...
Measuring student
progress, Grattan Institute (provides link to
report)
Report welcomed by
government, Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for Education
and Training, 23 Oct 2018
Queensland seems to be the model to copy - but what exactly are
they doing right?, ABC News (opinion), 23 Oct 218,
OFFSHORE DETENTION
Eleven children removed
ABC
News, 22 Oct 2018
 Eleven children were
removed from Nauru for medical attention today, Australian
Border Force officials have said...
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Early closing for 66 schools
ABC
News, 22 Oct 2018
Sixty-six Tasmanian primary and
high schools will have to close early on Wednesday when teachers
attend AEU stop-work meetings. The
closing times vary from 1.30pm to 2.45pm ...
List of 66 schools to close early, with closing times,
DoE website. (Check this page for any updates.)
AEU flags potential
school closures, AEU media release, 16 Oct 2018
Minister must decide if
schools will close early, AEU media release, 19 Oct 2018
School closures on Wednesday, Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for
Education and Training, 22 Oct 2018
CERTIFICATION
Employer-friendly VCE promised
ABC
News, 22 Oct 2018
 Labor has promised that if it is
successful in Victoria's November state election it will ensure
leaving certificates provide information about a student's
standards in literacy and numeracy, information employers have
long been asking for...
FEDERAL
POLITICS
Phelps on track to win
ABC
News, 22 Oct 2018 (updated)
ABC election analyst Antony Green says independent candidate
Kerryn Phelps is on track to win the Wentworth by-election,
albeit with a narrower majority than first predicted....
PUBLIC
EDUCATION
Education Ambassadors named
Tas Govt media release, 18 Oct 2018
Marking 150 years of
public education in Tasmania, education minister Jeremy Rockliff
has named
19 adult and student Education Ambassadors...
Details of Education
Ambassadors (DoE)
DoE announcement
NAPLAN
Told you so
ABC News, 18 Oct 2018
The AEU deputy president says the AEU's
concerns about online and paper-and-pencil NAPLAN tests not
being comparable have been vindicated in a report by the NSW
Education Department...
TAFE
Apprentices jump
Tas Govt media release, 18 Oct 2018
 The newly released
TasTAFE Annual Report shows that the number of apprentices rose
from 3958 in 2015 to 4385 in 2017...
TECHNOLOGY
Mini motos built at school
stuff.co.nz, 18 Oct 2018
Some New Zealand students are building and racing their own
electric mini motos...
COMPUTER
TECHNOLOGY
Classroom robots loom
The Conversation (opinion by Kristyn Sommer and
Marie Boden), 17 Oct 2018
 Robots facilitate
learning when students learn from them or learn with them, and
even when students have to prepare themselves for teaching the
robot, two researchers say...
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Stop work meetings loom
AEU Tas website, 16 Oct 2018
 Some schools may have
to close early on Wednesday next week, 24 October, when the AEU
will hold stop work meetings around Tasmania, to make the point
that 'enough is enough' over a range of issues...
 RELIGIOUS
FREEDOM
Lack of support for LGBTIQ discrimination
The Conversation (opinion), 16 Oct 2018
Discrimination by
religious schools against LGBTIQ students and teachers is not
supported by the wider community, four sociology academics write...
Legislation needed, The Conversation (opinion),
17 Oct 2018
 TASMANIAN
POLITICS
Relationship sparks stand-down
ABC News, 16 Oct 2018
The Minister for
Primary Industries, Sarah Courtenay, will step down to allow an
investigation of her personal relationship with the DPIPWE head,
Dr John Whittington, to take place...
 STUDENT
HEALTH AND NUTRITION
Food as a reward
The Conversation (opinion), 16 Oct 2018
Five experts all say
that food should not be used as a reward for good behaviour by
children...
LITERACY
Giving help to spelling strugglers
The Conversation (opinion by Misty Adoniou), 16 Oct 2018
 A literacy academic
provides tips for parents who wish to help children who need
spelling assistance...
 STUDENT
SUPPORT
Youngest misdiagnosed with ADHD
kidspot.com.au, 15 Oct 2018
The youngest and
less mature children in a class are more likely to be wrongly
diagnosed with ADHD and consequently receive inappropriate
medication, another study shows...
STUDENT
HEALTH
Open the classroom windows
stuff.co.nz, 15 Oct 2018
 A study of indoor and
outside air quality at a New Zealand school shows that for the
sake of students' health the classroom windows should be opened
more often...
 YOUTH
POLICY
Out of the mouths of schoolkids
ABC News, 11 Oct 2018
Tasmanian school students gathered at
Campbell Town to provide their views on how a better future can
be created for youth...
RELIGIOUS
FREEDOM
Narrow
the gay student ban
ABC News, 10 Oct 2018
(Updated)
A report from a panel
chaired by former Liberal MP Philip Ruddock recommends that
the ability of religious schools to turn away gay students
should be formalised. This would effectively 'contract' the
power, not expand it as earlier news reports had claimed,
Ruddock says...
EARLIER REPORT:
Religious schools would
gain right to expel gay students, The Guardian, 10 Oct 2018
Ruddock report constrains, not expands, federal religious
exemptions, The Conversation (opinion), 11 Oct 2018
PM vows to ban expulsion of gay students, ABC News, 13 Oct
2018
LITERACY
Getting boys to read more
The Conversation (opinion by Margaret Kristin Merger),
10 Oct 2018
An education lecturer
suggests six strategies to "connect boys with books"..
 EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
Birthday lottery
The Conversation (opinion), 9 Oct 2018
Where a child's
birthday falls in relation to his or her state's school starting
cut-off age has an impact on their self-confidence and success
in life, research shows...
CYBERBULYING
Jail for trolls and cyberbullies
ABC News, 8 Oct 2018
 Cyberbullying and online trolling could lead to jail
under laws to be introduced in NSW. Even juveniles will be
subject to the laws, but "in the most extreme circumstances"...
The spelling has finally changed form "gaol" to
"jail":
Jail or gaol, ABC, 22 Jun 2016
EARLY CHILDHOOD FUNDING
$1.75 billion for three-year-olds promised
The Conversation (opinion by Allison Elliott), 5 Oct 2018
 Research shows there
certainly are benefits from boosting early childhood education,
as federal Opposition leader Bill Shorten has promised to do...
Labor pledges $1.75b for three-year-old preschoolers,
ABC News, 5 Oct 2018
EDUCATION FUNDING
'Sector-blind' funding a myth
ABC News (opinion by Glenn C. Savage), 4 Oct 2018
 Gonski's needs-based funding aims and equality in
education are not achieved under a so-called 'sector-blind'
approach to funding for Catholic and independent schools, an
education academic writes.
Should the government
pick up the tab for private school funding?, ABC News, 5 Oct 2018
RETENTION RATES
Retention rate: stagnant or rising?
ABC News, 3 Oct 2018
 ACARA data shows
Tasmania's Year 12 retention rate has risen by only one
percentage point to 71.5 per cent over the 10 years to 2017, but
education minister Jeremy Rockliff says over the last four years
it has risen from 70 to 74 per cent..
Retention reforms working, Jeremy Rockliff, Minister for
Education and Training, 3 Oct 2018
Tackle disengagement much earlier, Michelle O'Byrne,
Opposition education spokesperson, 3 Oct 2018
FINANCIAL LITERACY
CommBank paid Qld schools $400,000
ABC News, 2 Oct 2018
 The Commonwealth Bank
has paid Queensland government schools almost $400,000 to sign
up students to their school banking program...
Time to get Dollarmites out of schools, ABC News (opinion), 3 Oct
2018
No data on CommBank's
Dollarmites in SA, ABC News, 3 Oct 2018
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