Department advice on disability data collection during COVID
11 August 2020
Section: News
The Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) provides information about the number of students with disability in schools and the adjustments they receive.
ARTEXPRESS reimagined due to COVID-19
10 August 2020
Section: News
The show must go on, as they say, and despite COVID closures, Artexpress has followed the rest of the creative world online.
Investment needed to avoid Closing the Gap failures
9 August 2020
Section: News
Education is at the centre of three of the 16 new targets for the National Agreement for Closing the Gap, announced by the Morrison Government.
New name for super fund raises awareness
9 August 2020
Section: News
With an announcement of its renewed commitment to the environment, First State Super has also revealed a new name, Aware Super.
New SIG to provide supportive network about sports education
7 August 2020
Section: News
Despite mandated hours for physical activity in public schools and a strong research base highlighting the importance of student involvement in physical activity, sport in schools is largely being left up to individual teachers to ensure its effective implementation.
Global education industry capitalises on pandemic crisis
7 August 2020
Section: News
Education International has launched ground-breaking new research that maps the extent of private actors’ influence in education since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Need for lactation support highlighted during World Breastfeeding Week
6 August 2020
Section: News
The World Health Organization and United Nations Children’s Fund have called on governments to protect and promote women’s access to skilled breastfeeding counselling, which is a critical component of breastfeeding support.
Indigenous COVID-19 resource
6 August 2020
Section: News
As the COVID-19 pandemic increased concerns about the disruption to Aboriginal students’ studies, Indigenous educators developed an online resource for teachers to help re-engage Aboriginal students with school.
Calculate how much a wage freeze will hurt your pocket
1 August 2020
Section: News
In the face of an assault on the wages of public sector workers, Unions NSW has launched an online calculator set to raise awareness of the financial damage the Berejiklian Government’s policy will do to workers in NSW.
Philippines: State’s terror campaign against teachers must stop
1 August 2020
Section: News
Philippines’ Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) has denounced the harassment of regional secretary of the union and public elementary school teacher Maria Cristy Borbe by military personnel.
Students with disabilities left behind
31 July 2020
Section: News
As new reports highlight the growing funding gap between public and private students, research during the pandemic reveals that parents of students with a disability felt their children had been “left behind by Australia’s education system” during the crisis.
Webinar program
31 July 2020
Section: News
Federation developed a program of free professional development courses specifically for casual and temporary members, which the union had planned to deliver face-to-face during 2020.
Experts discuss crisis recovery
27 July 2020
Section: News
The requirement for remote, or online, learning during the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the public education system in Australia to opportunistic edtech companies that have been waiting in the wings.
Education at the core of jobs-led virus recovery
25 July 2020
Section: News
More than a million secure jobs would flow into the Australian workplace under a comprehensive five-point economic reconstruction plan developed by the ACTU to steer the nation through a COVID-10 recovery.
Public education: Building great Australian lives
24 July 2020
Section: News
Becoming an actor was an unlikely career path for a young Deborah Mailman growing up in the north-western Queensland mining town of Mt Isa.
JobTrainer must fund TAFE to build recovery
20 July 2020
Section: News
It is essential that the JobTrainer announcement of a combined $1 billion federal, state and territory subsidy to boost Vocational Education and Training (VET) is focused on delivering high-quality education through TAFE.
Progress made on EDConnect service issues
14 July 2020
Section: News
In response to sustained representations by Federation on behalf of members, the Department is finally taking important steps towards improving the level of service provided by EDConnect.
Ukraine: Anti-worker legislation delayed following protests
11 July 2020
Section: News
In a series of warning protests on 30 June, trade unions from all sectors, including education, mobilised against proposed changes in labour law violating freedom of association, the right to organise, and the right to collective bargaining.
Unions unite to shape post-pandemic world
11 July 2020
Section: News
Union leaders and progressive thinkers, including US civil rights activist Reverend Al Sharpton, joined an international online democracy conference at the end of June where trade unions from around the world shared ideas for an improved post-pandemic world.
Fighting the privatisation of education
10 July 2020
Section: News
Federation’s Centre for Professional Learning is jointly presenting an online forum featuring international experts discussing ways to further the fight against the privatisation of education systems.
Time is running out to put your thoughts on the profession into writing
30 June 2020
Section: News
How do you feel about the mounting expectations placed on you? Do your colleagues feel the same way about these additional responsibilities?