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…
A turbulent time for teaching
21 September 2021
Section: News
While teachers meet the demands of remote learning and preparing lesson packs during the lockdown, it’s a safe bet most of them won’t have to look after the alpacas as well.
Naomi’s special field of knowledge
15 September 2021
Section: News
In testing times, Careers Adviser Naomi Toogood has gone to great lengths to practise what she teaches.
Education department admits dodging protocols for Murwillumbah merger and confirms staff cuts
1 September 2021
Section: Media Release
The planning for a mega-merger of four schools in Murwillumbah had side-stepped the NSW Government’s own protocols for consultation for such a project, documents reveal.
Mice motion shifts inertia
6 June 2021
Section: News
Imagine mice running through your classroom and the stench of dead ones.
ARIA award rocks Wilcannia
27 November 2020
Section: News
With Sarah Donnelley being voted the Telstra ARIA music teacher of the year came deserved recognition but not, she says, for herself. She claims those winning votes are for the children of the remote western NSW town of Wilcannia on the banks of the Darling.
Working above and beyond a flawed system
13 November 2020
Section: News
Complexity of student needs, staffing shortages and disadvantage are issues that are magnified in remote and regional settings, where government services, employment and distance all play a counter-productive role in the delivery of education.
Bush issues left out back
11 November 2020
Section: News
Teaching in rural and remote NSW comes with its specific challenges and issues, as related by teachers from regional schools who gave evidence to the Gallop inquiry on 10 November.
Support for schools in bushfire crisis
11 November 2019
Section: News
Schools, TAFE workplaces and local communities in several NSW regions are being significantly affected by bushfires.
Federation saves jobs
10 November 2019
Section: News
Federation Representative at Broken Hill High School Jason Bradley has witnessed first hand the benefits of the staffing moratorium negotiated by Federation
Forced transfer on hold for dry areas
9 November 2019
Section: News
Negotiations with the Department in August last year resulted in an agreement to suspend forced teacher transfers in parts of the state affected by drought to support schools and the community
Political and natural disasters: both bad for communities
8 November 2019
Section: Columns
There are very few national institutions with the reach of TAFE.
Country comes first
8 November 2019
Section: News
Mismanagment … corporate greed and capitalism in this country has killed our rivers
Systemic change is vital to overcome rural divide
30 September 2019
Section: News
Federation has stepped up the campaign to address the growing divide between the learning outcomes and opportunities of rural and remote students and their metropolitan counterparts, calling on the Department to adopt structural solutions to overcome intersecting educational disadvantage.
Statewide solution to inequity involves raising the school staffing entitlement
28 August 2019
Section: News
System failures are denying the necessary resources and staffing that schools need to realise the potential of rural students, says Federation Acting Deputy President Henry Rajendra.
Significant lump sum hits bank accounts of rural and remote teachers
6 May 2019
Section: News
During the holidays members of rural and remote schools received their first payments under the new Rural and Remote Incentive packages, negotiated by the union.
Teacher housing: battle of the bush
8 April 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
Accommodation has consistently been a problem for teachers in rural areas.
New incentives to attract and retain teachers
19 September 2018
Section: News
Federation has continued to campaign for increased levels of funding and strategies to attract and retain teachers at rural and remote public schools in NSW.
Incentive restored for rural and remote schools
6 June 2018
Section: News
The ability for our hardest-to-staff schools to convert long-term temporary appointments into permanent positions above establishment has been restored.