Teachers spend more time on data collection than student support: Survey
8 July 2025
Section: Media Release
Teachers are spending far too much time on data collection and compliance paperwork while being starved of time for activities…
Refugee Week: Showcase how diversity and unity make public education communities stronger
15 June 2025
Section: News
Federation is a proud sponsor of Refugee Week 2025, which has the theme Finding Freedom: Diversity in Community. With this…
Union members unite to protest proposed changes to Workers Compensation legislation and the anger was palpable
26 May 2025
Section: News
As the NSW Treasurer seeks to push significant ‘reform’ of the Workers Compensation through Parliament as early as this week,…
Significant gains for school members
12 December 2024
Section: News
Competitive salaries and significant improvements to working conditions are included in the new three-year salaries and conditions Award for school…
New Award conditions deliver crushing blow for LSLD
The recent Award agreement and subsequent settlement between Federation and the Department of Education not only delivers significant improvements in…
Workload: Your work, your health, our profession
A coordinated and targeted campaign to more deeply engage and ignite the membership on the unfinished business of the More…
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…
Paid practicums the way forward for the teaching profession
27 February 2024
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation has strongly endorsed a recommendation from the Federal Government’s Universities Accord Final Report to reduce financial…
Parliamentary report links psychological injury to workload, teacher shortage
5 December 2023
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation has strongly endorsed a NSW parliamentary committee’s recognition that crushing workloads are leading to more psychological…
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…
AI plans: Teachers, students and parents must take centre stage
6 July 2023
Section: News
The rise of artificial intelligence in education was a priority when Federation met with the NSW Department and then the…
Commit to social policy reform to address gender inequity, says Senior Vice President Amber Flohm
6 July 2023
Section: News
Federation Senior Vice President Amber Flohm called on delegates to commit to social policy reform that addresses gender inequality and…
Workload: the great sleight of hand
It is universally the case that the profession rightly bemoans the persistent collection of data in schools, its rise now repeatedly substantiated over a number of years as dragging teachers and principals away from their core business and what they signed up for: teaching and learning, progressing their students and public school communities. It’s a well-researched and evidenced phenomenon, known as the datafication of the teaching profession†and its insidious impact is being felt around the globe.
Risky business: workload and injury
A recent amendment to the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2017 makes it unequivocal in relation to the Department of Education and TAFE NSW’s responsibilities to respond to, manage and prevent psychosocial risks in the workplace.
Ensuring a world class public education system for NSW
Delegates at Annual Conference have reaffirmed Federation’s commitment to ensuring the NSW government meets its obligations to provide highly qualified, specialised, professional and well-paid teachers, and a well-resourced, world class public education system for all students in NSW public schools.
Muswellbrook and Maitland demand More Than Thanks
3 November 2021
Section: News
Teachers in Muswellbrook and Maitland have turned out to voice their concerns at the NSW Government’s inaction over worsening teacher shortages.
It’s time for more than thanks
16 September 2021
Section: News
Thousands of teachers and principals across the state joined a special broadcast to launch Federation’s new wages and workload campaign, More Than Thanks, this morning.
Support for casual members during pandemic restrictions
The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting all of us, but, in many ways, it is those in precarious employment who are the most affected.
Cold blast highlights dangerous gas heaters in classrooms
11 June 2021
Section: News
This week’s blast of arctic weather has prompted Federation members at Uralla Central School in the New England region to hold an unusual protest over dangerous unflued gas heaters in their school.
Protect professional status
Over the past six weeks, Federation has intervened in, and responded to, a multitude of impending policy changes directly affecting the work of our teachers and principals in schools and in TAFE.
Reduce the admin burden with actions, not rhetoric
Changes to administrative tasks over the past three years have saved principals just 10 minutes a day and just four minutes a week for teachers.