Two hours to change everything
5 December 2025
Section: Columns
Every teacher knows this reality: it’s 3.30pm, students have left and you face a mountain of work that can’t be…
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…
Active engagement in democracy is critical
12 December 2024
Section: Columns
Recent history reminds us that we should never take democracy for granted. The rising threat of authoritarian populism and the…
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…
Focus on classroom teaching and learning
20 July 2024
Section: Columns
Early Career Insights: Education Quarterly, Issue 10 2024 All teachers enter the profession wanting to be the best teacher they…
Survey reveals Hunter public schools stretched to breaking point
26 June 2024
Section: Media Release
A survey of public school teachers and principals in Newcastle and the Hunter reveals how the combined impact of the…
Survey reveals Northern Rivers public schools stretched to breaking point
25 June 2024
Section: Media Release
A survey of public school teachers and principals in the Northern Rivers reveals how the combined impact of the $1.9…
Survey reveals Illawarra and South Coast public schools stretched to breaking point
24 June 2024
Section: Media Release
A survey of public school teachers and principals in the Illawarra and South Coast reveals how the combined impact of…
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…
Change for the better
24 April 2023
Section: Columns
Welcome back to term 2! Today’s live stream broadcast with the Education Minister Prue Car and Acting Secretary Murat Dizdar…
The education choice
2 March 2023
Section: News
Teachers face an important choice on 25 March, with the major parties presenting a very different view of what they…
More than 3,300 vacant teaching positions in public schools
18 January 2023
Section: Media Release
The extent of the teacher shortage crisis has been revealed in new government figures showing there were 3,311 vacant permanent…
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.
Strategic plan approved for NSW election
3 July 2022
Section: News
Federation Annual Conference today approved a comprehensive plan to build broad community understanding†of the central planks of the More Than Thanks campaign, leading up to the March 2023 state election.
When you fail teachers, you fail children
22 June 2022
Section: Columns
We are in serious danger of burning out a generation of teachers, lost through overwork and disenchantment with the way their focus is constantly taken from their students to a mind-numbing amount of administration and compliance work. They also see a government in denial, unwilling to stand up for the profession or address the root causes of the shortages: the uncompetitive salaries and crippling workloads that are turning people away from teaching.
NSW Government given a week to act on teacher shortage crisis
14 June 2022
Section: Media Release
An extraordinary meeting of the NSW Teachers Federation Executive has today called on the NSW Government to immediately revise its wages policy and to urgently negotiate an outcome that will put an end to the teacher shortage crisis facing NSW schools.
Teachers send a loud and clear message to Premier
4 May 2022
Section: News
More than 15,000 members descended on NSW Parliament in Sydney on 4 May to send a loud and clear message to the Premier and his Government: Enough is enough!
Teachers give NSW Premier a month to resolve shortages, salaries and workload issues
20 February 2022
Section: Media Release
In a historic move, NSW Teachers Federation State Council has resolved to defer further industrial action giving the Premier an opportunity to engage in genuine negotiations with the union.