TAFE shines at Vivid Sydney
29 May 2018
Section: News
Regional TAFE NSW students have not only hit the big city for this year’s Vivid Sydney but they’ve brought the bright lights with them.
Don’t Keep History a Mystery
28 May 2018
Section: News
Celebrating National Reconciliation Week (NRW) in your school or workplace is a great way to be engaged and learn more about history of the First Peoples of Australia and their achievements.
Aboriginal Conference explores funding and the future
25 May 2018
Section: News
“Values, visions and voices” was the theme and all these aspects were shared by Federation’s Aboriginal members at their 22nd conference on Saturday 19 May.
Public school system is one of the greatest agents of change
25 May 2018
Section: News
The first Aboriginal Australian to graduate from Harvard Law School has labelled the Australian public school system as one of the greatest agents of change for the nation.
Documentary covers Federation’s contribution to Aboriginal education
21 May 2018
Section: News
It was an idea hatched at an Aboriginal Friday Night Forum in 2015, a documentary tracing the stories of members who set the way for today’s Aboriginal teachers and the contribution of Federation’s long campaign to uphold the rights of our First Peoples and advance the cause of Aboriginal education.
There’s nothing casual about teaching
18 May 2018
Section: News
Why should casual teachers develop a PDP and engage in the Performance and Development Framework?
May 17: Become an LGBTIQ rights ally
17 May 2018
Section: News
Many people around Australia and the world are marking May 17 with acts of recognition and action that highlight the plight of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, other sexuality or gender identity (LGBTIQ).
Minister Birmingham comments about basket weaving TAFE course causes social media storm
17 May 2018
Section: News
Simon Birmingham’s attempt to be smugly dismissive of Labor’s budget-reply commitment to TAFE funding have set off a social media storm, with thousands of TAFE graduates showing their support for TAFE and the positive effect their qualifications had on their lives and careers.
Huge win for Victoria’s TAFE teachers
17 May 2018
Section: News
This month’s Victorian Budget announcement will increase public sector wages 11.2 per cent by 30 June next year.
Improvements won for Hospitality teachers and Career Advisers
16 May 2018
Section: News
Federation has won important gains to relieve workload for hospitality teachers and clarify the classroom teaching requirements of career advisers.
Campaign method keeps local issues from spiralling
16 May 2018
Section: News
Federation’s Delegates Conference offered a workshop that focused on organising around local issues and problems to develop the skills, strengths and capabilities of our on-the-ground activists.
Union recognised for support of Stewart House
15 May 2018
Section: News
Federation was presented with a silver award at Stewart House’s annual awards presentation, for corporate sponsorship of the charity.
Governments must step up on funding school infrastructure
15 May 2018
Section: News
Over the next 10 to 12 years public school enrolments will grow by 23 per cent, demanding a major commitment to expenditure on school infrastructure and a thoroughly informed and well-planned program of public works.
TAFE bound by outdated training packages
14 May 2018
Section: News
TAFE should be approved to develop local qualifications outside the present restrictive training package regime, according to renowned academic and former TAFE teacher Professor Leesa Wheelahan.
Parent leaders primed for campaign
14 May 2018
Section: News
New research has shown teachers and principals are ideally placed to drive the campaign for fair funding for public schools.
Budget puts big business ahead of education
12 May 2018
Section: News
Federation welcomes Labor’s commitment to restore, in full, the $17 billion cut from schools by the Turnbull Government.
Labor budget response commits to restoring funding to public schools and TAFE
11 May 2018
Section: News
The NSW Teachers Federation welcomes Labor’s commitment to restore in full the $17 billion cut from schools by the Turnbull Government.
President dashes minister’s attack
11 May 2018
Section: News
Teachers, as a grouping, generally like to follow the rules. They like to know the boundaries, they like their students to follow the rules (sometimes with more or less success) but if the rules are wrong they have a duty, a professional obligation, to speak out — sometimes as individuals, sometimes as a collective voice. The collective is always more powerful.
Damaging policy cuts schools’ support
11 May 2018
Section: News
It is critical that Federation members and public school communities remain committed to holding governments to meeting the minimum resource standard, as detailed in the Fair Funding Now campaign, so schools can adequately address the learning needs of all students.
Association works towards wider participation
10 May 2018
Section: News
As the first term of the 2018 school year came to an end, teachers from the St Marys-Mt Druitt Association gathered for an afternoon of barefoot bowls and pizza.
Seminar addresses inclusion of diverse families
10 May 2018
Section: News
With the recent legal recognition of same-sex marriages in Australia, being inclusive of LGBTIQ people and their families is an important topic. Consequently, Federation recently teamed with the Gayby Baby Project to develop a seminar for teachers to consider how to welcome all types of families into school settings, including LGBTIQ families.