NSW Teachers Federation

Salaries, Staffing and Security Campaign

Government cost cutting means resource reductions for schools.

Venues for stop work listed here.

Executive has authorised all members to attend stop-work meetings for up to two hours on Friday 18 May at venues across NSW.

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Vocational education and training consultation - have your say!

On Wednesday 28 September the NSW Minister for Education, Adrian Piccoli, announced a consultation on the future of the NSW vocational education and training (VET) sector. It is called Smart and Skilled: making NSW number one. Have your say!

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Gonski Review Released

After 18 months of investigation, and over 7000 submissions received from the public and stakeholders, the Gonski Review into school funding has been released.

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Time to invest in our public schools

Send your message to the federal government at forourfuture.org.au

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Dr Lyndsay Connors speaks on public education funding

Following a highly successful tour by the Australian Education Union Public Education "funding bus" through Queensland and NSW, a dinner was held at Blacktown, in the western suburbs of Sydney on 15 February.

What doesn't the Minister's Letter Say?

Posted: 16 May 2012

Critically important that members attend stopwork meetings

Posted: 15 May 2012

Venues - Stopwork Friday 18th May

Posted: 15 May 2012

Salaries Staffing and Security Update: May Council Decision

Posted: 10 May 2012

Letter to Adrian Piccoli re Devolution Questions

Posted: 10 May 2012

At Texas schools, making do on a shoestring

Posted: 10 April 2012

For Hutto and the 1,264 other public school districts in Texas, this has been the year of doing without. Texas lawmakers cut public education...

National Union of Teacher's urges strikes and mass resistance in opposition to local pay

Posted: 10 April 2012

Schools face further disruption after teachers voted on Monday to stage a campaign of mass resistance, including strikes, against government plans...

Wisconsin law limits access to abortion services, sex education and repeals the state's Equal Pay Enforcement Act

Posted: 10 April 2012

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker did nothing to refute the idea that Republicans are waging a "war on women" late last week when he quietly...

Free jailed teacher unionists in Bahrain

Posted: 29 March 2012

On March 12 2012 members of the Peace Environment and International Issues Special Interest Group resolved to publicise to the broader membership a...

Raise teacher status to improve schools, says OECD

Posted: 15 March 2012

Teaching must be made more attractive for the brightest students, says a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

The war on teachers: Why the public is watching it happen

Posted: 14 March 2012

All over the nation, teachers are under attack. Politicians of both parties, in every state, have blamed teachers and their unions for the nation...

Teacher survey shows morale is at a low point

Posted: 14 March 2012

The slump in the economy, coupled with the acrimonious discourse over how much weight test results and seniority should be given in determining a...

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