Start term 1 with your JPL
4 March 2021
Section: News
Your Journal of Professional Learning (JPL) is ready to read now, with more than 100 articles across 12 editions there is something of significance for everyone.
Racing NSW approached TAFE to buy Scone campus
3 March 2021
Section: News
Racing NSW had offered to buy the Scone TAFE campus six months before it was even listed for sale, a NSW parliamentary hearing was told today.
More teacher walkouts over staffing issues
2 March 2021
Section: News
Teachers from Coomealla High School and Gol Gol Public School have today walked off the job protesting the reduction in staffing incentives and continued teacher shortages in rural and remote areas of the state.
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.
Election notice: Branch Conference Delegates – E2020/181
1 March 2021
Section: Administration
Nominations are called for Branch Conference Delegates (number of vacancies) representing the following Associations:
Walgett teachers walk over staff crisis
25 February 2021
Section: News
Teachers at a school in Walgett in northern NSW have taken industrial action and walked off the job on Wednesday over drastic staff shortages.
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.
Let’s beat One Nation’s bigoted Bill
23 February 2021
Section: News
Submissions to One Nation’s Education Bill close this Sunday and Federation encourages members to make an online submission “via survey” before the opportunity is gone.
Casual Vacancy for Branch Professional Officer – City Organiser
22 February 2021
Section: Administration
Casual Vacancy for Branch Professional Officer – City Organiser
Casual Vacancy for General Secretary
22 February 2021
Section: Administration
Casual Vacancy for General Secretary
Gallop report release highlights teaching crisis
20 February 2021
Section: News
Escalating workloads, uncompetitive salaries and significant teacher shortages had combined to create a crisis in NSW public education, according to the findings of an eminent panel’s inquiry into the profession released today.
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.
Crisis point – Gallop unveils findings of independent inquiry
17 February 2021
Section: News
The “scale and intensity” of change to teachers’ work since 2004 has outstripped any other era since 1970, at the same that the Department has withdrawn support and resources from the profession, the chair of the teaching inquiry told a schools summit in Sydney.
Penguin partners lead Mardi Gras message
10 February 2021
Section: News
Who better to tip a bouquet of ice on a discriminatory policy against diversity than a pair of loved-up penguins?
Private school funding shows ‘neglect’ of public students
3 February 2021
Section: News
A new report has shown that federal funding for private schools continues to grow at a faster rate than for public schools.
Rebuilding: Bega and better!
3 February 2021
Section: News
There was one group of students at Bega High School looking forward to returning to school after the holidays – to see how their special project is bearing fruit, or vegetables.
Vale John Hennessy
1 February 2021
Section: News
Former Federation General Secretary John Hennessy – remembered as a champion of workers’ rights as a fundamental human right – died at home late last week.
Wiyi Yani U Thangani—(Women’s Voices)—Securing Our Rights, Securing Our Future Report 2020
28 January 2021
Section: News
A landmark report on Australia’s First Nations women and girls has been released by June Oscar AO, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.
Scone TAFE sale: victim of Government’s own policies
27 January 2021
Section: News
Federation has slammed the NSW Government’s sale of the state-of-the-art Scone TAFE campus in Australia’s equine capital as the nation battles a skills crisis and rebuilds from the COVID pandemic.