Tasmanian Times
Education
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1.0KPublic Education. How important is it?
A national and state overview. First in a three-part series The debate over our poker machines in hotels and clubs in Tasmanian...
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Mmmmm … Uni vice-chancellor salaries ….
How fascinating is this. It seems the Uni Of Tas vice-chancellor Peter Rathjen’s salary – ( Rathjen is about to move to...
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‘Schools shortchanged by $51 million, analysis shows’
First published October 27 The Tasmanian government diverted $51 million in education-specific GST funding away from schools in a single year, according...
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Aboriginal Education and the 800 large
*Pic: Above, below, Curiouser and curiouser … Bank Arcade yesterday First published September 22 In July this year four State Government tenders...
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Mr Rockliff and education …
First published July 31 I was disappointed to read Education Minister Jeremy Rockliff’s defence of tweaks to the Education Act (Mercury, July...
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A dim (re)view of Tasmanian Yrs9-12 education
First published June 12 In July 2016 the Tasmanian Government commissioned the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to undertake an independent...
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A letter to Jeremy Rockliff: I am appalled …
The Hon Jeremy Rockliff Minister for Education 25 January 2017 Dear Mr Rockliff, I am writing to you as a past President...
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Tasmanian butchers go vegan. Teachers do not want more public education …
Here’s a puzzle for you. See if you can guess which of these two statements is false: ‘Annual butchers’ picnic to go...
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UTAS: Conceit and deceit
*Pic of David Sadler from UTAS, HERE The UTAS response to having the highest first year attrition rates in Australia is a...
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Burning down the Aboriginal bark hut at the Tarremah Steiner school …
The way it was … PLEASE SHARE. To the person or persons responsible for burning down the Aboriginal bark hut at the...
