Council Report: 10 August 2019
22 August 2019
Section: Administration
Federation holds a proud, firm and long held belief that social justice matters are union business. These beliefs were strongly displayed during the August Council meeting.
Support the student climate change movement on September 20
22 August 2019
Section: News
Members are encouraged to attend a workplace meeting on 20 September — the day of the student-led Global Climate Strike — to consider a motion on climate change that will be sent to state and federal politicians.
Members unite over unjust wages transition
21 August 2019
Section: News
NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell and her government colleagues from around the state have been hearing from Federation members that teachers want an immediate resolution to the standards-based pay inequalities for teachers in public schools, created by the NSW Government’s public sector wages policy.
Paper plane
21 August 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
Last week, I arrived at school, attended my morning briefing, sat down at my desk and had a feeling that I should be somewhere else. Not on a tropical island or at home in my bed, but a real feeling that I wasn’t supposed to be at work.
Have your say on resourcing for students with disability and their schools
19 August 2019
Section: News
Your union wants to hear from school teachers about the extent of inadequate targeted support funding for students with additional needs, as part of the Time to Act campaign.
Richest schools get cream of government funding
13 August 2019
Section: News
The gaping divide between Australia’s four biggest-spending schools and the poorest 1800 schools has graphically exposed the Morrison Government’s handouts to rich non-government schools at the expense of the public system, Federation President Maurie Mulheron said.
NSW Government’s unjust wages transition motivates unified member response
12 August 2019
Section: News
Federation members are taking collective action to fight pay inequities inflicted upon their public school teacher colleagues by the NSW Coalition Government.
Peace competition provides chance for students to be creative and win
12 August 2019
Section: News
Time is running out for students to complete entries for the Sam Lewis Peace Awards.
Election Notice: Federal Delegates E2019/32
12 August 2019
Section: Administration
Election Notice: Federal Conference Delegates E2019/32
Government funding can stop TAFE decline
7 August 2019
Section: News
The best way to reverse the fall in enrolments in government-funded vocational education was to restore funding to TAFE and reinstate it as the primary provider of vocational education in Australia, Ms Sharkey said.
Festival and Federation celebrate young talent
5 August 2019
Section: News
Folk music is gaining a growing following among young performers, who will be supported by Federation at the Sydney Folk Festival in August.
Voice, Treaty, Truth of Uluru Statement begins in the classroom
25 July 2019
Section: News
Indigenous lawyer and human rights advocate Teela Reid urged the teaching profession to educate students about the real truth of Australia’s history and to embrace the Uluru Statement from the Heart at Federation’s Annual Conference.
Wear it Purple Day: empowering together
24 July 2019
Section: News
Wear it Purple Day will be held on Friday 30 August with the theme – Stand Up. Stand Out
Collectivism kicks goals for justice, says former Socceroos captain Craig Foster
19 July 2019
Section: News
There were calls for former Socceroo captain Craig Foster to be named Australian of the Year, even prime minister, after he saved the life of a young refugee footballer from Melbourne detained in Bangkok on trumped-up charges laid by the country he fled, Bahrain.
Additional permanent EAL/D teachers to meet student need is long overdue
18 July 2019
Section: News
The number of students requiring specialist English language support has increased by 20 per cent over five years but not a single EAL/D teaching job has been added, Federation’s Annual Conference was told.
Music to the ears
17 July 2019
Section: News
Teachers’ work to foster performing arts talent was lauded by Talent Development Project artistic director Peter Cousens during Federation’s Annual Conference.
Wider focus for TAFE would better prepare students for their working lives
16 July 2019
Section: News
New social policy is desperately needed for the vocational education and training sector says Centre for Future Work associate Pat Forward.
Union vows to escalate push for conditions to improve Aboriginal students’ outcomes
10 July 2019
Section: News
Federation has committed to intensifying its efforts to the close the gap in Aboriginal education outcomes, with a set of comprehensive policy objectives endorsed by a decision of Federation’s Annual Conference yesterday.
A woman’s right to choose
10 July 2019
Section: Member’s Voice
The topic of abortion still carries a lot of stigma. Raising the issue, or even disclosing, “I had an abortion”, is met with some kind of judgement and the eyebrows inadvertently going up.
All changes to assessment and reporting must be led by the teaching profession, Conference declares
9 July 2019
Section: News
The recent NAPLAN outages revealed the “fiasco” the “flawed and corrupt” national testing tool had become, NSW Teachers Federation Annual Conference was told yesterday.
Forum to plot course to bolster TAFE
9 July 2019
Section: News
A national event on the future of TAFE is being planned by the Australian Education Union.