Australia among world’s top nations for teacher admin load and stress
10 April 2020
Section: News
More than half of Australian secondary teachers report high levels of administrative work, which takes time away from preparing for classes and is a major source of stress, an international survey has found.
Liberia: Teacher union provides educators with vital personal protective equipment
9 April 2020
Section: News
The National Teachers’ Association of Liberia (NTAL) donated US$2292 in personal protective equipment for education workers to fight COVID-19. It has also donated items such as buckets, cleaning products, sanitisers and soaps, to district education officers and institutions in the Montserrado and Margibi counties.
SSP and IEC teachers addressing additional complications to provide remote learning
9 April 2020
Section: News
Teachers in Schools for Special Purposes and Intensive English Centres are working with a unique set of challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic as they strive to provide educational continuity for students with special needs and English as an additional language or dialect requirements.
Governments must improve COVID-19 communications to CALD communities
8 April 2020
Section: News
Federation has joined with several community groups appealing for governments to effectively report COVID-19 directives to people with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds.
Benin: Backdoor privatisation of education under COVID-19
8 April 2020
Section: News
Although the Beninese public authorities have declared the closure of the country’s schools, pupils and teachers must nevertheless resume classes on 14 April.
TAFE is up to the task
7 April 2020
Section: News
TAFE is part of the NSW Government’s strategy to rebound from the economic slump that has accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic — offering 21 fee-free, accredited, online TAFE short courses to reskill job seekers and workers.
Governments try to dishonour their obligations during pandemic
7 April 2020
Section: News
In large parts of the world, teachers and education support personnel are not being paid salaries and receiving benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic, reports Education International.
Students should be at the centre of reporting: submission
Academic growth and individual achievement should be the focus of reporting, Federation’s submission to the review of NAPLAN states.
How schools are scrubbing up
3 April 2020
Section: News
With best-practice hygiene measures important during the Coronavirus pandemic, school cleaners at the very forefront of the battle against the spread of the virus in schools have secured significant guarantees from the NSW Government to maintain their vital work.
Cleaners rewarded for extra elbow grease
3 April 2020
Section: News
Their job is rated as more hazardous than those in the construction and mining industry*, so when it became evident the Coronavirus had reached our shores NSW’s school cleaners knew they were on the front line.
OECD: Technology divide exposed
2 April 2020
Section: News
The OECD is assessing the impact of technology on students and their learning outcomes as millions of schools close in more than 140 countries to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Join Palm Sunday online action for solidarity with refugees
1 April 2020
Section: News
Spare a thought for refugees in detention where crowded conditions make it difficult to practise social distancing and reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19, says Federation Multicultural Officer/Organiser Mandy Wells.
Lebanon: refugees and the COVID-19 pandemic
1 April 2020
Section: News
School closures in Lebanon have affected more than 1.3 million students at all levels affecting large numbers of refugees who are most at risk during the pandemic.
Somalia: Education union seeks guarantee of teachers’ salaries during COVID-19 school closures
31 March 2020
Section: News
While all schools in Somalia have been closed, the Somali National Union of Teachers is actively working to ensure that teachers, particularly those working in private educational settings, will continue to receive their salaries.
Inquiry head makes plea to school teachers to tell their stories
31 March 2020
Section: News
Members of the profession are being asked to share the realities of their working lives for the inquiry investigating the value of teachers’ work.
TAFE lessons halted; teachers to prepare for new delivery modes
30 March 2020
Section: News
TAFE NSW has suspended training and educational delivery from Monday, 30 March, until the start of term 2 in response to the threat of coronavirus (COVID-19).
24 hours: Federation in action
25 March 2020
Section: News
At the height of government-fuelled confusion over the operation of schools as COVID-19 spiked in NSW, Federation was able achieve some clarity in the interest of all our members’ health and safety.
Normal school operations must end
25 March 2020
Section: News
Federation has today called on the Government to stop delaying the inevitable and put the health and safety of students and staff first during the COVID-19 crisis.
Teachers and principals are not dispensable
23 March 2020
Section: News
In light of contradictory health advice from the Prime Minister last night and the failure of the NSW Premier to provide an unequivocal decision on schools, Federation regards the situation “a recipe for chaos”.
New schools’ Award approved by Industrial Relations Commission
19 March 2020
Section: News
The Industrial Relations Commission has handed down orders bringing the Crown Employees (Teachers in Schools and Related Employees) Salaries and Conditions Award 2020 into effect from 1 January, 2020.
Make your voice heard on family and domestic violence
18 March 2020
Section: News
In response to the recent horrific murders of Hannah Clarke and her three children in Queensland in February, many people are questioning how this can happen.