Set up for the best possible start: Future Teacher Scholarships
24 January 2020
Section: News
Federation’s $4000 Future Teacher Scholarships enrich recipients beyond financial support, awardees embarking on their teaching careers in 2020 can attest.
Media release: Bushfire impact on Southern Highlands schools
24 January 2020
Section: Media Release
NSW Teachers Federation Deputy President Henry Rajendra and Senior Vice President Amber Flohm will be visiting Kangaroo Valley, Bundanoon and Hill Top on Tuesday 28 January 2020
Media release: Bushfire impact on South Coast schools
24 January 2020
Section: Media Release
NSW Teachers Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos will be visiting Mogo, Moruya and Batemans Bay on Tuesday 28 January 2020
Attention members on fortnightly direct debit or auto credit card payments
19 December 2019
Section: Administration
Due to the Christmas Holiday period, there will be a temporary change for NSW Teachers Federation members who have arrangements to pay their union subscription via direct debit or credit card on a fortnightly basis.
Federation breaks staffing cap and secures additional EALD positions
Federation is proud to report that the arbitrary staffing cap, initially set in 1983, has been broken.
Members campaign for crucial leave provision for all workers
18 December 2019
Section: Columns
The We Won’t Wait domestic violence campaign continues to lobby for paid family and domestic violence (FDV) leave included in the National Employment Standards.
Different paths — same direction
15 December 2019
Section: News
It’s never too early or too late to come to Federation activism. In fact, there’s never been a better time
Wrong site for Bega campus
15 December 2019
Section: News
Minister for Skills and Tertiary Education Geoff Lee has chosen the wrong location for the Bega TAFE construction project.
Campaign goes on…
14 December 2019
Section: News
For decades, school funding has been an area of contested policy between governments. This year was to be the final year of the original “Gonski agreements”.
Make time for consultation
13 December 2019
Section: News
Cuts to the Department and TAFE and the implementation of Local Schools, Local Decisions and Smart and Skilled have led to many teachers feeling isolated from key decisions in their workplace.
2020 membership fees
13 December 2019
Section: Administration
Under the Rules, the power to set the fees, as with all financial decisions, rests with the Branch Executive. This is qualified by Branch Rule 4 “Subscriptions and Levies”.
Survey will guide salary bargaining
12 December 2019
Section: News
Federation has been holding meetings with TAFE members to undertake a survey and discuss upcoming enterprise bargaining.
Women in education
11 December 2019
Section: Columns
Returning to work after maternity leave requires planning.
Union stands with Pacific educators
11 December 2019
Section: News
A high-level conference of Pacific teacher unions has heard how government reforms are undermining public education in the region.
Public education: the bedrock of a democracy
10 December 2019
Section: Columns
It was Canadian philosopher John Ralston Saul who argued that any society that educates more than 10 per cent of its children in private schools can no longer call itself a democracy. Australia is well above that figure. Saul is right.
Statewide meetings endorse new award
10 December 2019
Section: News
Federation members came together at more than 200 venues across the state on 5 December to overwhelmingly endorse the new salaries and conditions Award for the next two years
Book review
10 December 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
A First Book of Animals, The Godwits, The Extraordinary Life of a Migratory Bird, Queer, There and Everywhere and If I was your Girl
Aquatic classroom brings wave of benefits
10 December 2019
Section: News
Knowledge and confidence in and around aquatic environments — as well as an increased awareness of risks and dangers in the water — play a lead role in the development of public school students participating in the School Swimming and Water Safety Program.
Workplace contacts
9 December 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
Bridget Poon’s experience during the campaign against voluntary student unionism of the mid-2000s whet her appetite for unions and the collective voice.
There’s nothing casual about teaching
9 December 2019
Section: News
Communication with casual teachers, Compliance monitoring and reporting, Additional opportunities for temporary teachers in rural and remote areas and School staffing
Program saves children from deep trouble
9 December 2019
Section: News
On a sunny summer’s day at picturesque North Sydney Olympic Pool — with the harbour lapping at the door and the iconic bridge towering overhead — it has to be the best classroom in the world.