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TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Devonport High redevelopment The tender for the management of a $10.5 million redevelopment at Devonport High School has been released...
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Uncertainty follows Govt's counter offer
The AEU says there will not be
enough time to consider today's wage negotiation counter offer
by the State Government before next week's planned closures of
schools, the details of which were announced this morning by the
DoE...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Campbell Town safety A Midland Highway underpass for Campbell Town Primary School students is urgently needed, Opposition leader Rebecca White and Member for Lyons Jen Butler say...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Lauderdale safety Infrastructure and education minister Jeremy Rockliff has revealed the details of speed reductions and introduction of safety barriers being considered to improve road safety around Lauderdale Primary School...
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Closing schools named
The Department of Education has
named 136 schools that will either close early or open late
next Tuesday and Wednesday to allow staff to attend stop-work
meetings...
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Stop-work meetings next week
Stop-work meetings on Tuesday
and Wednesday next week will involve a number of schools being
closed:
EDUCATIONAL PEFORMANCE
Youngsters excel in Tas An improvement in communication skills and general knowledge is one of the improvements shown by first-year Prep students in Tasmania, data from the Australian Early Development Census shows...
HEALTH
First meningococcal case for 2019 A man in his late 60s from the Huon Valley is in the Royal Hobart Hospital with the W strain of meningococcal disease.
MAINLAND POLITICS
Berejiklian
gets her majority
WEATHER ALERT
MAINLAND POLITICS
Berejiklian
government re-elected
JUSTICE Sue Neill-Fraser, who was sentenced to 24 years for murdering her partner, has been allowed to appeal her murder conviction...
HEALTH AND SAFETY
Blue-ringed octopus in Tas
STUDENT HEALTH AND WELLBEING
Teens watching violent footage There are some appropriate things teachers and parents can do if they find teenagers watching internet videos of violent events, a psychology lecturer says...
INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Metro bus disruption on Thursday
Severe disruption to Metro bus services in the
Greater Hobart area this Thursday, 21 March, will occur to
enable a stop-work meeting to be held...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Kingston High open Kingston High School wil be open as usual today, following a fire last night in a separate community-use building on the school site...
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Teachers lodge counter offer The AEU has given the Premier, Will Hodgman, one week to respond to its wage negotiation counter offer which includes a 3 per cent wage rise and improved conditions such as caps on class sizes...
TERRORISM Police say there was only one shooter at the two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, where 50 people were killed...
Police have apprehended three
men and one woman after murderous shooting rampages at two
mosques in Christchurch, New
Zealand, in which 49 people were killed.
HEALTH
Mozzie
alert
Facebook
outage
Social
media giant Facebook today underwent its most
severe outage
ever.
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Show respect for Tas teachers Education minister Jeremy Rockliff needs to depart from the hardline wage negotiation approach being pursued by Treasurer Peter Gutwein and not ask teachers to take a pay cut in real terms, Opposition education spokesperson Josh Willie says...
SCHOOL FINANCES
Public shaming claim A Sydney primary school gave bags of popcorn to those students whose parents were not in debt to the school, leading to claims of 'public shaming of children'...
STAFFING
More teachers An additional 69 teachers commenced in government schools this year as part of the state government's program to add 250 new teachers and 80 teacher aides over the next six years...
SEXUAL ABUSE
Pell gets
6 years Cardinal George Pell has received a six-year jail sentence for historic sex abuse, with a non-parole period of 3 years 8 months...
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Modified Brexit deal agreed
UK Prime Minister Theresa May
has secured an improved deal with the EU that addresses the
Irish border issue...
EDUCATION ONLINE
Google Classroom concerns
Some parents are concerned that doing homework on
the online Google Classroom platform was too early for younger
students and could lead to a decline in handwriting skills...
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Unions reject revised pay offer
Public sector unions have
rejected the government's pay offer rising to 2.5 per cent and
accompanying loss of conditions.
TEACHING PROFESSION
Out-of-hours work key focus Low teacher morale caused by excessive out-of-hours work and teachers' workload featured in an AEU submission to a federal parliamentary committee...
SCHOOL FARMS
Farm, staffing upgrades under way Planned redevelopment of school farms, increases in school farm teacher numbers and extra funding for school farm operations continue to be implemented, education minister Jeremy Rockliff says...
SCHOOL CURRICULUM
Ensure students are climate-change ready Schools need to be ready to teach students about climate change, Study International staff say ...
SCHOOL FUNDING
Unfair outcome for government schools State schools actually receive less funding than is identified in their needs-based targets, a Grattan Institute researcher says ...
STUDENT HEALTH
Meningococcal death followed school absence A 16-year-old St Mary's College girl who was absent from school on the day A, C, W and Y meningococcal vaccines were administered died from the W strain of the disease less than four months later...
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Launceston College labs upgrade A $750,000 tender has been advertised to provide refurbished science laboratories at Launceston College...
LITERACY
Reading Challenge looms
The 2019 Tasmanian Premier's
Reading Challenge will run from Mon 29 April to Fri 5 July 2019.
School registrations finish on Fri 15 March. Student
registrations run from Mon 18 March to Fri 5 April
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