Vocational education and training review panel’s funding recommendations must be implemented in coming NSW Budget
25 March 2024
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation endorses the Vocational Education and Training Review Panel’s first report released today, which recommends changes to…
2024 School and TAFE planners available online
29 January 2024
Section: News
PDF versions of Federation’s 2024 school and TAFE planners are available for immediate download. Members can find the planners…
Negotiations underway for new enterprise agreement
20 November 2023
Section: Columns
TAFE Talk: Education Quarterly, Issue 8 2023 Federation and TAFE NSW have begun formal bargaining for a replacement to the…
Teachers Welcome Billions For Skills, Vocational Training
17 October 2023
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teacher Federation welcomes the Albanese Government’s announcement of a National Skills Agreement with state and territory governments to…
Members’ TAFE stories enlighten VET Review panellists
12 September 2023
Section: News
Federation TAFE councillors have provided insight for the Review into NSW vocational education and training (VET), about the problems in…
Members mark TAFE Day
6 September 2023
Section: News
NSW Teachers Federation members celebrated National TAFE Day today and reflected on the difference a TAFE education has made to…
Recurrent funding must be restored
4 September 2023
Section: Columns
TAFE Talk: Education Quarterly, Issue 7 2023 There’s a $200 million recurring shortfall in the TAFE NSW budget, a joint…
Reimagining VET through expansive public education provision
12 July 2023
Section: News
Federation Senior Vice President Amber Flohm told Annual Conference that ‘opportunities to reimagine the provision of vocational education with the…
Putting the up in skill sets
9 June 2023
Section: News
What would you think if garbage trucks honked at you as you made your way along the street? Sally George,…
Get snappy around campus
23 May 2023
Section: Columns
TAFE Talk: Education Quarterly, Issue 6 2023 TAFE is an amazing public asset that changes countless lives for the better…
Officers meet with state’s new TAFE Minister
18 April 2023
Section: News
Federation held its first meeting with Tim Crakanthorp as Minister for Skills, TAFE and Tertiary Education on Friday, 14 April,…
Why Perrottet is not the way
20 March 2023
Section: News
10 reasons why a re-elected Premier would be bad news for teachers and public education. All the research shows workloads…
Switch Now campaign
13 March 2023
Section: Columns
TAFE Talk: Education Quarterly, Issue 5 2023 Great news: union fees for part-time casual TAFE members have been slashed under…
25 March – the future of public education is at stake
22 February 2023
Section: Columns
What is at stake for teachers in this election?
Everything.
Wage caps hurt Hunter, hit education
29 November 2022
Section: News
The NSW Government’s employee salary cap and austerity drive is threatening public services in the Hunter – including schools and TAFE – that inject a crucial $6 billion into the region…
No wage cap, job security for TAFE teachers: Labor’s poll pitch
25 November 2022
Section: News
Federation has welcomed a Labor pledge to abolish the wage cap for TAFE teachers and bring the union back to…
Strike rally outside the office of TAFE Managing Director’s Ultimo Office
2 November 2022
Section: News
TAFE members of the NSW Teachers Federation at over 60 colleges across NSW will take protected industrial action today, striking for 24-hours.
24-hour TAFE strike draws attention to Government inaction
2 November 2022
Section: News
They don’t give a bugger about TAFE teachers, TAFE students or TAFE as an institution but they give a bugger about their own cushy nest; they all want to get re-elected in the March election. We need to loudly talk about why we’re not going to re-elect them.â€
State Election 2023 – The change TAFE needs
4 July 2022
Section: News
Federation Annual Conference today approved a recommendation to redouble its calls on the Perrottet Government to abandon its obsession with ideological cuts to TAFE NSW.
Edu-business pockets $60m TAFE windfall
20 May 2022
Section: Columns
Over the past five years, TAFE NSW has spent a staggering $60,456,959 on outsourcing to two consult-ancy companies alone, a Budget Estimates hearing has revealed.
No contest: the decade they killed TAFE
14 March 2022
Section: News
Although a new agreement has not been finalised, all Australian governments indicated support for “a viable and robust system of…