Tag: Teachers
Life lessons lift learning
An innovative Tasmanian program, using games to teach students how to behave, is improving classroom attendance and literacy levels.[MORE]
Indigenous language teachers need better training, report says
The Federal Government's report into the future of Indigenous language programs says teachers need better training.[MORE]
Teacher to appeal against student-sex sentence
A 35-year-old teacher, convicted of having sex with a 14-year-old boy, will appeal against her sentence in the Supreme Court later this month.[MORE]
Union fears loss of school psychologists
The Education Union in Tasmania is angered by what it says is slow progress on pay and career issues relating to school psychologists.[MORE]
British teacher suspended over push-up punishment
A British schoolteacher has been suspended after making his pupils do push-ups as a punishment for arriving late to class, Britain's main teaching union.[MORE]
Protesters paint bleak future for TAFE
The South Australian Government has been accused of working by stealth to privatise the state's TAFE college system.[MORE]
Red pen tip 'came from teachers, not health experts'
Queensland Health Minister Stephen Robertson says the warning against using red pens in classrooms came from teachers, not mental health experts.[MORE]
Teachers chalk up another protest
About 100 public school teachers have staged a noisy protest outside New South Wales Parliament about changes to the teacher transfer system.[MORE]
Teacher wins food production scholarship
A Darling Downs teacher has won a scholarship to study ways to boost food production by up to 70 per cent.[MORE]
School leaver sparks Meningococcal alert
School leavers who celebrated in Dunsborough last week are being advised to monitor their health, after a female student contracted meningococcal disease.[MORE]
Teachers to rally over transfer snub
Hundreds of public school teachers are expected to rally outside New South Wales Parliament today in support of a Riverina teacher denied a transfer.[MORE]
Public school teachers stop work again
NSW teachers take their campaign against changes to their transfer system to State Parliament.[MORE]
Teachers accept pay deal
Western Australia's public school teachers will become the highest paid in the country, after voting overwhelmingly to accept the State Government's pay offer.[MORE]
Qld Govt slams 'tasteless' red pen debate
The Queensland Government says a parliamentary debate about banning red pens is tasteless and trivial.[MORE]
Catholic schools staff vote against pay offer
Staff at 45 of the New South Wales north coast region's Catholic schools yesterday voted to reject a new pay offer.[MORE]
TAFE pay offer below schools offer
TAFE staff get a 13pc pay rise offer, less than SA public teachers have been offered.[MORE]
Catholic teachers stop work
Teachers at Catholic schools across New South Wales are stopping work for an hour today to campaign for a 5 per cent payrise.[MORE]
Teachers vote for new working conditions
Tasmanian teachers have accepted a new pay deal for those moving to the academy and polytechnic system next year.[MORE]
Catholic school teachers to stop work
Teachers at up to 600 Catholic schools around New South Wales will hold stop work meetings on Tuesday in support of a 5 per cent pay rise claim.[MORE]
Teacher scholarships aim to boost bush education
Remote families have welcomed new initiatives aimed at recruiting and retaining teachers to isolated areas.[MORE]
COAG schools spending welcome but not enough: union
The Queensland Teachers Union has described the move to spend more than $45 billion on education over the next four years as too little, too late.[MORE]
Ex-teacher to face retrial
A jury in Burnie has found a former Tasmanian teacher not guilty on three sex-crime charges, but was unable to reach a verdict on six others.[MORE]
Critics come to the aid of the (education) revolution
Why has Julia Gillard, with her apparent commitment to evidence-based policy, adopted Joel Klein as a guru and NYC as a model?[MORE]
Performance-based pay boosts education quality: expert
A US education reformer visiting Australia says governments should pay teachers more to take on the most challenging situations.[MORE]
Gippsland TAFE teachers join pay protest
About 2,000 TAFE teachers have gathered in Melbourne to demand the Victorian Government reduce staff casualisation and improve salaries.[MORE]
