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News for Tasmanian Teachers
Archive for March 2019
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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
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...
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
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Stop-work meetings next week
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...
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
HEALTH AND SAFETY
Blue-ringed octopus in Tas
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
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Kingston High open
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Teachers lodge counter offer
TERRORISM
HEALTH
Mozzie
alert
Facebook
outage
Social
media giant Facebook today underwent its most
severe outage
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Show respect for Tas teachers
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'...
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...
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
EDUCATION ONLINE
Google Classroom concerns
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Unions reject revised pay offer
TEACHING PROFESSION
Out-of-hours work key focus
SCHOOL FARMS
Farm, staffing upgrades under way
SCHOOL CURRICULUM
Ensure students are climate-change ready
SCHOOL FUNDING
Unfair outcome for government schools
STUDENT HEALTH
Meningococcal death followed school absence
Launceston College labs upgrade
A $750,000 tender has been
advertised to provide refurbished science laboratories at
Launceston College...
LITERACY
Reading Challenge looms
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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...
The Department of Education has
NW Tas:
schools close early on Tue 2 Apr 2019
The NSW government has managed
to win 47 seats in the Lower House election, enabling Premier
Gladys Berejiklian to govern with a majority of one...
Sue Neill-Fraser, who was
sentenced to 24 years for murdering her partner, has been
allowed to appeal her murder conviction...
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...
Police say there was only
one shooter at the two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, where
50 people were killed
UK Prime Minister Theresa May
has secured an improved deal with the EU that addresses the
Irish border issue...
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...
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...
Schools need to be ready to
teach students about climate change, Study International staff
say ...
State schools actually receive
less funding than is identified in their needs-based targets, a
Grattan Institute researcher says ...
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