The Catholic Weekly 5 July 2020

catholicweekly.com.au 6 NEWS 5, July, 2020 FROM THE commencement of the 2023 school year, three existing Catholic colleges in Tasmania - St Aloysius Catho- lic College, MacKillop Catho- lic College and St Virgil’s Col- lege - will begin to provide year 11 and 12 Catholic edu- cation according to Archbish- op of Hobart Julian Porteous. “It has been very pleasing to observe the desire of all parties to see that Catholic education works together to advance the Catholic forma- tion of young Tasmanians, particularly in the senior sec- ondary area,” said Archbishop Porteous. Archbishop Porteous, together with the Tasmani- an Education and Training Minister Jeremy Rockliff and Catholic Education in Tasma- nia director Dr Gerard Gaskin, launched the Greater Hobart Catholic College Extension Project in Hobart on 24 June. The education system in Tasmania is a three-tiered sys- tem, instead of a two-tiered system on the mainland. Schooling is broken into three tiers – primary, secondary and college. College education covers what would be years 11 and 12 on the mainland. At the present moment there are nine colleges in Tas- mania – only one of which is Catholic. With this initiative there IN A major move Catholic Education in the Diocese of Sandhurst in Victoria will be restructured to a limit- ed company as of 1 January 2021, announced Sandhurst Bishop Shane Mackinlay. One direct consequence of the restructure is that staff in each of the 56 schools will be employed under the au- thority of Catholic Educa- tion Sandhurst Ltd instead of solely relying on the par- ish priest as the executive of parish schools. The restructure comes in light of a Victorian Govern- ment directive based upon recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Catholic Education Sandhurst director Paul Desmond said the chang- es would deliver benefits. “Good governance comes from having a structure that enables the best people to ¾ ¾ David Ryan ¾ ¾ David Ryan Sandhurst schools move to new systemic model Tasmanian colleges expand in $53mmove Bishop Shane Mackinlay of Sandhurst meets Catholic school students in Bendigo. will be four Catholic col- lege-tiered schools and sub- sequently 12 colleges in total on the island. The project is the culmination of three years of research and planning to expand the provision of years 11 and 12 at Catholic colleges in the greater Hobart area. It is estimated that it will in- ject an estimated $53 million into the economy through capital works projects planned for Catholic school and college campuses in the region. The announcement pro- vides certainty for the future needs of students, and par- ents seeking a Catholic edu- cation for their children, for the next 20 years. bring their voices to the ta- ble. To ensure the best plac- es they can be. The safeguarding of chil- dren is in everything we do,” he told The Catholic Weekly . Mr Desmond also said that the restructuring would al- low for Catholic Education in the central Victorian dio- cese to maintain a consistent standard across its school system. “We will be able to get consistency across all our schools. They’ll be far easier to share expertise and resources – streamline the Catholic Education Of- fice service provision to our schools, a much more rigor- ous religious education pro- gramme,” he said. In addition, the model will allow for parish priests to engage more in their pastoral work in the school and community without the burden of management du- ties, he said. “Priests will have much more time to focus on their pastoral works and can spend his time with the people of his parish and not have to worry about the running of a school which he is currently responsible.” The rest of the year will be used to fine-tune the setup of the company, to be known as Catholic Edu- cation Sandhurst Ltd, and which will include a board of directors. In brief New Bishop for Sale POPE FRANCIS has ap- pointed Monsignor Greg Bennet from the Archdi- ocese of Melbourne to be the 10th bishop of Sale in Victoria’s south east. The 57-year-old is cur- rently parish priest of the inner city parish of St Jo- seph’s in West Brunswick. Archbishop Peter Comensoli said that Mons Bennet “has given a generous and deep com- mitment to the people of God” in the archdiocese for the past 28 years. Bishop-Elect Bennet was ordained a priest in Melbourne in 1992. He has held sever- al leadership positions within the Archdiocese of Melbourne, including as director of Ministry to Priests and later as inau- gural director of the Of- fice for Evangelisation. His appointment fol- lows the recent depar- ture from Sale of Bishop Patrick O’Regan who was installed as Archbishop of Adelaide last month. PRINT OPTIONS  3 MONTHS PRINT SUBSCRIPTION FOR $55 (for delivery in Australia)  6 MONTHS PRINT SUBSCRIPTION FOR $85 (for delivery in Australia)  12 MONTHS PRINT SUBSCRIPTION FOR $150 (for delivery in Australia)  12 MONTHS PRINT SUBSCRIPTION TO ASIA $310  12 MONTHS PRINT SUBSCRIPTION OUTSIDE ASIA $354 PAYMENT OPTIONS 1. 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