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Pioneering educator receives top award

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24 Oct 2023: Alumna and Associate Professor Clair Andersen has become the first Aboriginal person to receive a prestigious award from the Australian Council for Educational Leaders. Associate Professor Andersen has been awarded the ACEL’s Tasmanian Eminent
Literacy roundtables to encourage Tasmanian solutions

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27 Jun 2023: Researchers, policy-makers and community representatives will come together on a mission to improve literacy levels in Tasmania. Early years literacy will be the focus of the two-day Cuthill Family Foundation Literacy Roundtables to take place at
Literacy symposium to encourage Tasmanian solutions

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28 Aug 2023: Researchers, policy-makers and community representatives will come together on a mission to improve the state’s literacy levels at the University of Tasmania this week. Early years literacy will be the focus of the two-day Cuthill Family Foundation
New scholarship for next generation of teachers

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1 Nov 2023: The University has partnered with the Tasmanian Government to help ensure the state has the quality teachers it needs with a new scholarship valued at up to $31,000. The Teach Tasmania Scholarship will be made available to eligible Bachelor of
Tasmanian Aboriginal oral traditions among the oldest recorded…

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14 Aug 2023: New research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science indicates Palawa (Tasmanian Aboriginal) stories recall geological and astronomical events that occurred 12,000 years ago, placing them among the oldest recorded oral traditions in the
Education alumna’s placement turned into flood relief

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26 Jun 2023: Tegan McDougall (BEd 2023) never expected her teaching degree to include sandbagging and delivering supplies to flood victims. But that’s just what happened when the rural Victorian town Tegan was undertaking her final teaching placement in was
Spotlight on Dr Zi Siang See, Lecturer in Innovation Design, Digital…

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20 Oct 2023: Dr Zi Siang See specialises in the design, use and integration of interactive media, including augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). His research and practice are multidisciplinary, bringing together the fields of education technologies,
Teaching Generation Next

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8 May 2023: Children are well aware of climate change. By the time they enter early childhood education, they are increasingly likely to have lived through floods or bushfires or know of people in their family or community who have been negatively affected by
Empowering Indigenous girls to pursue higher education

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30 Mar 2023: Associate Professor Sadie Heckenberg used International Woman’s Day to share details of her vision for improving educational and social outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls. Sadie – a Wiradjuri scholar and the University of
The top 5 things to do at Hobart Open Day if society fascinates you

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25 Jul 2018: Are you interested in how the law works, the dark side of history, or how to educate the next generation? Come to Hobart Open Day and hear from our staff and students about what to study to feed your thirst for knowledge. Whether you’re
Interdisciplinary curriculum offerings are critical to our future

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8 May 2023: The study of sustainability traces its origins back to the 5th century BC physician Hippocrates, but its emergence as a broadly-based academic discipline is relatively recent. Researchers working on sustainability focus a variety of analytical tools
Care for Country

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8 May 2023: When the oceans rose some 10,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, Palawa peoples became isolated on their own island, separated from the great northern landmass. Their ability to survive and thrive in this isolated environment speaks to
Literacy roundtables encourage Tasmanian solutions

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24 May 2024: A report by the Australian Education Union estimates 50 per cent of Tasmania’s population has inadequate reading skills for their daily life. Seeing the need for solutions, a two-day symposium – the Cuthill Family Foundation Early Years Literacy
International consortium honours work across Indigenous education

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9 Mar 2023: Associate Professor Clair Andersen, who has spent a lifetime promoting education opportunities for Australia’s First Nations people, has been recognised for those efforts on an international stage. She has been inducted to the World Indigenous
Spotlight on Kim Beasy, Senior Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy

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26 Jun 2023: Dr Kim Beasy specialises in education for sustainability. Kim’s teaching and research engage diverse communities in the social, environmental, economic and cultural dimensions of sustainability. She seeks to inform and show how transitions toward
Hive mind at work in new learning destination

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2 May 2024: Over the past few months, the Underwood Centre's Limitless Learning team has facilitated ten intergenerational workshops with local students and families at Hive Tasmania. This has led to the creation of educational resources by kids, for kids, that
Supporting our best new journalists

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9 Jul 2024: Clancy Balen has been awarded Best New Journalist at the 2024 Tasmanian Media Awards. Mr Balen, who has been working as a journalist for two-and-a-half years, was one of the many winners on the night working for the ABC. “I’m a relatively new
Connecting with our neighbours through education

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6 Jun 2023: The University will help build connections between educators in Australia and across South-East Asia when a ground-breaking webinar series continues this month. The Australia-ASEAN Academics Forum was formed in 2021 to improve online education
Graduates secure prestigious scholarships to ask the big questions

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29 Jun 2017: Two University of Tasmania graduates will undertake the opportunity of a lifetime as recipients of a scholarship to study theology at the University of Oxford. Adrian Staples and Harrison Virs have been awarded the scholarships by Reverend Professor
Literary Fellowship provides opportunity to become role model

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21 Dec 2022: Jen Evans is hoping her recent literary success helps to path the way for her to become a role model for Queer and Aboriginal writers. Dr Evans, who is currently Aboriginal Research Fellow at the College of Health and Medicine, recently received the