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…
After hours digital policy to support teacher wellbeing
22 March 2024
Section: Media Release
Teachers will be able to switch off their devices after school and enjoy uninterrupted personal time under a new policy…
Teachers back Minns and Car in fight for education funding
1 February 2024
Section: Media Release
NSW teachers have endorsed the strong determination of Premier Chris Minns and Education Minister Prue Car to secure full funding…
More action needed to address teacher shortages
28 January 2024
Section: Media Release
The New South Wales Teachers Federation has urged the NSW Government to tackle the state’s teacher shortage after new data…
Feds must fully fund public schools
9 December 2023
Section: Media Release
The New South Wales Teachers Federation is deeply alarmed at reports the Federal government may fall short of fully funding…
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…
Ending the teacher shortage
24 October 2023
Section: Media Release
The Teachers Federation says a recent wage agreement it struck with the Minns Government will help replenish teacher numbers, as…
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…
Historic boost to NSW teachers’ pay will tackle teachers shortage
9 September 2023
Section: Media Release
Beginning and top-of-scale teachers in NSW will become the nation’s best paid from October 9, helping tackle the statewide teacher…
NSW teacher shortage won’t be solved with 2.5 per cent
22 August 2023
Section: Media Release
The State Government must rule out a 2.5 per cent wage cap or risk a worsening teacher shortage. The Government…
AG report shows urgency of addressing teacher shortages in the Bush
10 August 2023
Section: Media Release
The NSW Government must honour its agreement to lift teacher salaries amid a damning Auditor General report into regional, remote…
Perrottet plan to cut teaching qualifications rejected by expert panel
23 March 2023
Section: Media Release
An expert panel chaired by former NSW Department of Education secretary Mark Scott has rejected the NSW plan for a…
NSW has the worst student teacher ratio in the nation
19 February 2023
Section: Media Release
New figures show NSW public schools have the highest number of students per teacher in the country. The Australian Bureau…
NSW Labor commits to action on the causes of teacher shortage
6 October 2022
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation today welcomed the commitment by NSW Labor to take action on the causes of growing teacher shortages – uncompetitive salaries and unsustainable workloads.
Union calls for government to negotiate over wages and workload
28 September 2022
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation today called for the Perrottet Government to abandon plans to deliver a real wage cut to all teachers in light of the premier’s latest idea to significantly lift the salary of top teachers.
Perrottet plan to put unqualified teachers in the classroom
27 September 2022
Section: Media Release
The NSW Government is pressing ahead with a plan to put unqualified teachers in the classroom despite previously rejecting it as expensive, unworkable and at odds with the government’s focus on quality teaching.
TAFE teachers vote YES to Protected Industrial Action
9 September 2022
Section: Media Release
NSW TAFE teachers now join a growing list of State Government workers outraged by the Perrottet Government’s state wages cap of an insulting 2.53%.
TAFE teachers reject Perrottet’s salary cap
1 September 2022
Section: Media Release
At a time of a national skills crisis the Perrottet Government should be investing in TAFE and its teachers. As a result, TAFE teachers have rejected the NSW Government’s insulting 2.53 per cent salary cap in an Enterprise Agreement Ballot whose results were revealed today.
NSW Government is misleading parliament and parents over teacher shortages
4 August 2022
Section: Media Release
Appearing before the NSW parliamentary Inquiry into teacher shortages in New South Wales†the NSW Teachers Federation will put the spotlight on the NSW Government’s denial and attempted concealment of the severity of the teacher shortage crisis and its impact on students and teachers alike.
Minister’s decision to use university students to fill teacher shortage a desperate act’
22 July 2022
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation has called the Government’s decision to deploy university students into public school classrooms a desperate actâ€.
Tens of thousands of teachers send Premier a strong message on workload and salaries
30 June 2022
Section: Media Release
Teachers from Government and Catholic schools in NSW took strike action across NSW and the ACT today, calling on the NSW Government to urgently act on the teacher shortage and its underlying cause – uncompetitive salaries and unsustainable workloads.