| The President Writes |
Public education’s share of enrolments declining
Federation’s three-day annual conference, attended by 600 teachers from schools and TAFE colleges around the state, enabled membership reflection and debate on how the union can best promote the values of public education and the work of public education teachers. |
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| Campaigns - Salaries |
Salaries payment sought
Federation is seeking confirmation from Education Minister John Aquilina that payment of the first salary increases, including back pay and the cash payment, will be made to teachers in the August 17 pay. |
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| School Funding |
Fund for feel-good promotion of public education
Federation's Public Education Fund was officially launched by President Sue Simpson at Annual Conference. |
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| Union campaigns |
Support for Joy staff
Seventy workers at Joy Mining Machinery in Moss Vale have been locked out since mid-April by their employer, Hamischfeger Industries, a US multinational. |
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| TAFE - Funding |
Aquilina told Seaforth closure causing problems
Education Minister John Aquilina was greeted by 40 demonstrators protesting about the closure of Seaforth TAFE when he arrived to open the new Engineering Skills Centre at Brookvale TAFE on July 18. |
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| School Funding |
ALP ‘botches’ policy
Australian Education Union (AEU) Federal President Denis Fitzgerald has blasted a draft version of a new education policy to be submitted to ALP Conference this week. |
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| Curriculum |
HSC students drop maths, science and the humanities
The Board of Studies has recently released a report on the preliminary entries for the new HSC. It has revealed that the proportion of entries in mathematics, science and the humanities has dropped. This has tremendous implications for staffing and faculty organisation in all secondary schools and colleges. |
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| Union campaigns |
GATS to impact on public education
The Multilateral Agreement on Investment is dead but has been revisited in the form of the World Trade Organisation's General Agreement on Trades in Services (GATS), which the Australian Government signed in 1994 and is now coming into effect. |
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| Country Teachers |
Rights inquiry outlines 73 recommendations
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission has released a report and 73 recommendations regarding rural and remote education. |
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| Country Teachers |
Las Vegas of the Bidgee
Balranald, like so many little towns in Australia, is really out there. |
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| Union campaigns |
ACTU takes up gay and lesbian issues
History was made at the ACTU National Congress held in Wollongong from June 26 to 29, when for the first time there was an official gay and lesbian caucus held as part of the conference. |
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| Campaigns - Working Conditions |
Common rooms are not general purpose rooms
Many Federation members have asked about their staff common room being used for a range of other purposes, for example parent interview room, small student group “classroom”, lunchtime/recess meeting room, storage room and so on. |
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| Peace awards |
Peace awards focus on culture
The theme for this year’s Sam Lewis Peace Awards is the United Nations’ International Year for the Culture of Peace. The Federation is asking that entries show what needs to be promoted and encouraged. |
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