Book reviews
19 May 2020
Section: Member’s Voice
How the Sun Got to Coco’s House, No One is Too Small to Make a Difference, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
LGBTIQ events provide opportunity for recognition and inclusion
19 May 2020
Section: Columns
Specific days of recognition or celebration are an opportunity to reflect on how we incorporate and include LGBTIQ perspectives in our schools and subject areas.
Colour and creativity for IDAHOBIT
19 May 2020
Section: News
LGBTIQ communities around the world celebrated International Day Against Homophobia, Biophobia, Interphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) with colour and creativity on Sunday 17 May
Federation wins special considerations for IEC staff and students
18 May 2020
Section: Columns
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect our lives, testing us like nothing ever before.
Negotiating a crisis of pandemic proportions
As schools returned at the beginning of this year, we wondered how so many of our teachers and public school and TAFE communities would ever recover from the summer they had just endured.
Vale Allan Terry
15 May 2020
Section: News
Allan Terry was a proud Life Member of Federation. He died unexpectedly on 3rd May after a long illness.
TAFE staff meet challenges of pandemic
15 May 2020
Section: News
TAFE teachers and all related employees have done an incredible job of adjusting teaching and learning delivery to meet the needs of students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
TAFE Children Centres lever collective
14 May 2020
Section: News
Federation members teaching in TAFE Children Centres have demonstrated the value of working as a collective to achieve a range of employment and work health and safety protections for all staff members during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vale Jack Mundey (1929-2020)
11 May 2020
Section: News
Jack Mundey, the union leader who inspired generations of activists to build a modern environmental movement, died last night, aged 90.
ACARA is either incapable or uninterested in protecting our students
6 May 2020
Section: News
Federation has written to ACARA seeking “meaningful action” over the publication in newspapers of school league tables, in contravention of the terms of use of My School data.
May Day — a day of virtual workers’ struggle
4 May 2020
Section: News
International Workers Day, 1 May, was this year celebrated virtually, with members from many unions connecting to an event hosted by the Unions NSW May Day Committee.
Union pulled together as ‘Spanish flu’ hit
29 April 2020
Section: News
The birth of Federation just over 101 years ago was shaped amid similarly extreme and uncertain times as is the case with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Teachers rock as term 2 rolls out
28 April 2020
Section: News
Teachers returned to NSW schools to commence a difficult term on Monday with a spring in their step, overwhelmed by messages of support and recognition for their work from personalities, luminaries and parents around the country.
Staffing Agreement signals union win
24 April 2020
Section: News
While Federation has pursued the health and safety, industrial, employment and professional rights of teachers during this pandemic, the union has also secured a new 2020/21 Staffing Agreement that will commence day one, term 2.
Union secures guarantees for casual and temporary staff
After successful representations to the Department of Education, Federation has secured employment certainty for casual and temporary teachers amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Union will not forget bushfire-affected communities
15 April 2020
Section: News
Federation has refused to allow the escalating coronavirus pandemic to overshadow the response to last summer’s devastating bushfire season and the impact on our school and TAFE communities.
New York City Reports 50 Educators Lost To Coronavirus
14 April 2020
Section: News
The New York City Department of Education has reported at least 50 employees have died in recent weeks due to suspected or confirmed cases of the coronavirus, according to education blog Chalkbeat.
Staggered return to ‘normal’
14 April 2020
Section: News
The return to school after health restrictions begin to lift should be managed in stages, starting with kindergarten and year 12, Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos has proposed.
Hope for beyond the health crisis
12 April 2020
Section: News
Federation is already working on how it will respond to the political and economic challenges that will face public education, teachers and students in the post-pandemic period.
Storytime with Mr Skene
11 April 2020
Section: News
Amid the uncertainty and change pervading daily life is a joyous little corner of the internet where stories are told and young minds are being nurtured.
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.