Education

Schools face the Skullbone

SCHOOLS FACE THE SKULLBONE Students from four Tasmanian high schools are seeing the results of a year of preparation come to fruition...

Public Debate About Rebuilding TAFE Applauded

The Tasmanian Education Association applauds today’s announcement by the shadow minister for education, Michael Ferguson, that the Liberal opposition will push for...

Tasmanian Education Association calls for the reunification of TAFE

Old school site can continue to cater for community

An adult education provider has developed a proposal that will keep the historic former Macquarie Street State School in South Hobart as...

New Education Union launched

This is a significant day in the history of Tasmanian education workers. The Tasmanian Education Association (TEA) was launched today in all...

Harvard’s Kindness Pledge

This year Harvard freshmen started what administrators hope will be a new tradition: they signed a pledge promising to uphold values tied...

Slash and burn in Tasmanian Polytechnic?

Hag has been told there are going to be big cuts in Tasmanian Polytechnic (and possibly mergers). It will affect all departments...

Community uproar at heritage item at risk

The Giddings (and Greens) Government has again shown callous indifference to the wishes of the voting, tax-paying public with its decision to...

Tassie students lag behind

THE reading, writing and numeracy skills of Tasmanian school students have dropped in key areas in the past year, prompting fears they...

An afternoon at Inveresk

Museums are generally the domain of those who love the smell of things old and musty. Imaginings of horn-rimmed spectacles, bow ties...