Steer your PDP to align with professional goals
31 May 2023
Section: Columns
Early Career Insights: Education Quarterly, Issue 6 2023 If you’re an early career teacher, the Performance and Development Plan (PDP)…
Explainer makes a statement
28 May 2023
Section: Columns
Yarning In Progress: Education Quarterly, Issue 6 2023 The Uluru Statement from the Heart Explainer Video (2019) produced by filmmaker…
Crisis response and recovery
24 May 2023
Section: Columns
Know Your Rights: Education Quarterly, Issue 6 2023 Federation continues to engage with the Department on behalf of members’ health…
Get snappy around campus
23 May 2023
Section: Columns
TAFE Talk: Education Quarterly, Issue 6 2023 TAFE is an amazing public asset that changes countless lives for the better…
If you don’t know, find out
19 May 2023
Section: Columns
Multicultural Matters: Education Quarterly, Issue 6 2023 As teachers, we strive to inspire students to be informed and caring global…
Government on notice: it will be held to its commitments!
18 May 2023
Section: Columns
It was prescient that Minister Prue Car should thank The Hon Dr Geoff Gallop in her speech at our recent…
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…
Education is paramount to eradicating racism
17 March 2023
Section: Columns
Multicultural Matters: Education Quarterly, Issue 5 2023 Racism is “a very real human rights issue in contemporary Australia”, according to…
Disability support classes are a state responsibility
16 March 2023
Section: Columns
Enabling Equity: Education Quarterly, Issue 5 2023 The provision of support classes to enable the engagement of students with disability…
Perrottet Government’s policies are deliberately gendered
14 March 2023
Section: Columns
Women In Education: Education Quarterly, Issue 5 2023 One of the key findings of the Valuing the Teaching Profession inquiry…
Switch Now campaign
13 March 2023
Section: Columns
TAFE Talk: Education Quarterly, Issue 5 2023 Great news: union fees for part-time casual TAFE members have been slashed under…
Voice to Parliament: fact and fiction
6 March 2023
Section: Columns
Yarning In Progress: Education Quarterly, Issue 5 2023 It is time our nation formally recognised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…
Release time and you
1 March 2023
Section: Columns
Early Career insights: Education Quarterly, Issue 5 2023 Teachers in NSW have some of the highest face-to-face teaching allocations in…
Safeguarding your service
28 February 2023
Section: Columns
A Casual Word: Education Quarterly, Issue 5 2023 Federation has noted an increase in members whose service record on SAP,…
Permanent appointments
25 February 2023
Section: Columns
Know Your Rights: Education Quarterly, Issue 5 2023 When seeking approval to teach, I specified teaching subjects for approval and…
25 March – the future of public education is at stake
22 February 2023
Section: Columns
What is at stake for teachers in this election?
Everything.
The Restrictive Practices Framework
23 November 2022
Section: Columns
Federation recognises that every attempt must be made to minimise, reduce and eliminate the use of restrictive practices in schools and is committed to working towards this goal.
Age discrimination
22 November 2022
Section: Columns
Age discrimination is against the law. It is defined by the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board as when you have been treated unfairly because of your age or because you are the relative, friend or colleague of someone of a particular ageâ€.
New hope for the system, but…
21 November 2022
Section: Columns
Unions and educators have deliberately been excluded from skills policy decision making, but this looks set to change, based on announcements from federal Labor.
Statement from the Heart to our children
21 November 2022
Section: Columns
The campaign for a constitutionally enshrined Voice is the most important campaign in our lifetimes.
Interim approval to teach long term implications
20 November 2022
Section: Columns
In 2019, the Department of Education changed the processes for gaining approval to teach in NSW public schools in a misguided attempt to address teacher supply issues.