More teachers walk off the job over school staffing crisis
4 March 2021
Section: Media Release
NSW Teachers Federation members at Merriwa Central School in the Upper Hunter have taken industrial action today and walked off the job over significant staffing problems.
NSW Dept of Education fails to address school staffing crisis – teachers stop work
2 March 2021
Section: Media Release
Teachers at Coomealla High School and Gol Gol Public School near Mildura and Bulahdelah Central School, walked off the job today protesting the reduction in staffing incentives and continued teacher shortages in rural and remote areas of the state.
Staffing crisis prompts teachers to walk of the job
24 February 2021
Section: Media Release
Teachers Federation members at Walgett Community College High School walked off the job this morning due to significant staffing issues.
TAFE teachers rally over sale of Scone TAFE
23 February 2021
Section: Media Release
Teachers, students and community members will rally in Muswellbrook outside the office of Upper Hunter MP Michael Johnsen, 20 Bridge Street, Muswellbrook, at 12.30pm on Tuesday 23 February 2021.
Inquiry calls for urgent action on teachers’ working conditions and salaries
20 February 2021
Section: Media Release
An independent inquiry has recommended major changes to the salaries and working conditions of teachers to address a crisis caused by rapidly escalating workloads, uncompetitive salaries and significant teacher shortages.
Teachers avert student bussing ‘nightmare’ in Sydney’s north-west
27 January 2021
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation remains concerned about inadequate buildings and infrastructure at Northbourne Public School and Marsden Park Public School in Sydney’s north-west.
Teachers condemn NSW Government over Scone TAFE sale
27 January 2021
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation has condemned the NSW Government’s bid to sell off the state-of-the-art Scone TAFE campus in Australia’s equine capital.
Auditor General Report highlights funding and policy failures
18 December 2020
Section: Media Release
This week’s Auditor General Report into the One TAFE modernisation program has concluded that “Commercial objectives of the program conflicted with legislated social objectives.”
NSW government fails to address lack of funding and support for public schools
6 December 2020
Section: Media Release
Today’s announcement by the Berejiklian Government to replace the discredited ‘Local Schools Local Decisions’ (LSLD) policy with ‘The School Success Model’ is more about spin than substance. It is yet another attempt to blame teachers and principals for system failures and the lack of adequate funding and support in our public schools.
NSW government fails to address lack of funding and support for public schools
6 December 2020
Section: Media Release
Today’s announcement by the Berejiklian Government to replace the discredited ‘Local Schools Local Decisions’ (LSLD) policy with ‘The School Success Model’ is more about spin than substance. It is yet another attempt to blame teachers and principals for system failures and the lack of adequate funding and support in our public schools.
Media release: Teaching jobs at risk under Berejiklian plan, class sizes to increase
25 November 2020
Section: Media Release
Classroom teachers, executive, specialist and principal positions are at risk due to the Berejiklian Government’s decision to push ahead with public school closures in the Murwillumbah community.
Media release: Valuing The Teaching Profession – An independent Inquiry
24 November 2020
Section: Media Release
Following more than four weeks of public hearings featuring representatives of the teaching service and other experts we have reached the final day of hearings at Valuing the Teaching Profession – An Independent Inquiry.
Media release: Valuing the teaching profession – an independent inquiry
24 November 2020
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation will make the case for change in the salaries and working conditions of teachers and principals on the first day of hearings of an independent inquiry in Sydney today.
Media release: Teachers welcome extra catch-up programs for public school students
10 November 2020
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation welcomes the decision by the Berejiklian Government to fund a program of additional school-based support for students who have fallen behind in their studies because of the impact of Covid-19.
Teachers Oppose Murwillumbah School Closures
29 October 2020
Section: Media Release
Following decades of school building maintenance neglect, the NSW Teachers Federation believes the State Government is now inflicting punishment on children and their families in the Murwillumbah community by its decision to amalgamate local schools.
Valuing the Teaching Profession – An Independent Inquiry
26 October 2020
Section: Media Release
The Independent Inquiry has heard from the experts. Now it’s time for teachers and principals to have their say at the second round of hearings which begin in Sydney on Monday 26 October 2020.
Parents, teachers and principals oppose new behaviour strategy
12 October 2020
Section: Media Release
Parents, teachers and principals have come together to voice their strong objection to the Department of Education’s mishandling of changes to the suspension and expulsion policy.
Parents, teachers and principals oppose new behaviour strategy
12 October 2020
Section: Media Release
Parents, teachers and principals have come together to voice their strong objection to the Department of Education’s mishandling of changes to the suspension and expulsion policy.
Students at risk due to a lack of school counsellors
11 October 2020
Section: Media Release
New research highlights the urgent need for more school counsellors in NSW with 98 per cent of teachers and 99 per cent of principals saying the number of students with mental health issues has increased in the last three years.
Urgent need for more school counsellors
20 September 2020
Section: Media Release
Enough is enough. A school counsellor to student ratio of 1:500 is well overdue.
A 10-15% increase in teacher salaries needed to ‘restore relativities’
10 September 2020
Section: Media Release
As reported in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, research conducted by Professor John Buchanan from the University of Sydney Business School has found an alarming decline in teachers’ salaries when compared to other professional groups.