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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Election notice – Branch Councillor from the Aboriginal Members Roll
3 April 2020
Section: Administration
Australian Education Union New South Wales Teachers Federation (NSWTF) Branch – Branch Councillor By-election
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.
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.
Election notice – Branch Councillor from the Aboriginal Members Roll
3 April 2020
Section: Administration
Nominations are called for one (1) New South Wales Teachers Federation (NSWTF) Branch Councillor from the Aboriginal Members Roll
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.
Media release: Morrison failing public schools on funding
2 April 2020
Section: Media Release
NSW Teachers Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos has condemned the appalling levels of funding the Morrison Government is directing to public schools in NSW.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Media release: Normal school operations must end to put the health and safety of students and staff first
25 March 2020
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation Executive met this morning and unanimously endorsed the following: