Wear red on June 20 to support Refugee Week action
14 June 2017
Section: News
Refugee Week 18 – 24 June – ‘With courage let us all combine’
National TAFE Day
13 June 2017
Section: News
While the future of thousands of Australian vocational training and education (VET) students remain uncertain, today’s National TAFE Day reminds students, educators and the community that the Federal Government needs to do more to secure funding for Australia’s public TAFEs.
Concerns raised over ‘People Matter’ survey
9 June 2017
Section: News
In response to questions raised by Federation, the Department has confirmed in correspondence on 31 May that data from the “People Matter Survey” is provided to the Department in relation to the responses from individual workplaces with a certain number of employees.
Pride March Against Trump and Turnbull: Global Day of Action
8 June 2017
Section: News
Confronting threats to LGBTIQ equality in Australia and the United States, Federation will join a march in Sydney on 11 June in common cause with marches being held across the United States, and all are welcome to join.
National Gonski Week
5 June 2017
Section: News
The NSW-Commonwealth Gonski agreement provides NSW public schools the greatest funding increases over the next two years. This is now under threat because the Federal Government is refusing to honour its funding share of the agreement. In total, this will be a $846 million cut to NSW public schools. Funding figures for each NSW public school can be found here.
‘Don’t give up the fight: keep lobbying’, urges Gonski campaigner
5 June 2017
Section: News
Veteran Gonski campaigner Dianne Byers urges teachers and parents to keep up their efforts to achieve needs-based funding for schools, as outlined in the signed NSW Gonski agreement. “Continue to lobby all MPs and senators in the federal parliament. Keep tweeting, emailing, visiting and Facebooking,” she says. “As long as it takes, our students are worth it.”
Campaign for recognition of Australia’s First Peoples
30 May 2017
Section: News
The Referendum Council’s Uluru Statement, arising from the National Constitutional Convention attended by more than 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates last week, calls for:
Talking and questioning improves student outcomes: CPL course
29 May 2017
Section: News
Ways to increase students’ attention spans were shared at the Centre for Professional Learning’s Improving Student Learning by Creating a Thinking Classroom course today. The brain is looking for novelty, presenter Sandra Rohan said. Other tools for increasing student attention spans include incorporating humour, music, movement, choice and games.
Public Education Day, 25 May 2017
25 May 2017
Section: News
A message from Maurie Mulheron, President NSW Teachers Federation
A cuppa and a chat with your MP to mark Public Education Day
25 May 2017
Section: News
Federation members and staff celebrated Public Education Day today with a morning tea during which they lobbied state and federal representatives to keep faith with the original full Gonski schools funding plan.
Powerful poetry gets giggles and raises issues faced by Aboriginal Australians
23 May 2017
Section: News
Federation’s Aboriginal Members Conference delegates were treated to performance poetry by Steven Oliver of Black Comedy fame on Saturday. His poems raise issues such as Aboriginal incarceration levels, reduced life-expectancy, substance abuse and suicide rates:
It takes a very special person to be a teacher: launch of new TV and cinema ads
23 May 2017
Section: News
It takes a very special person to be a teacher: launch of new TV and cinema ads
More than half of students with disability missing out on funded support, according to government figures
22 May 2017
Section: News
Figures from the 2016 Nationally Consistent Collection of Data confirm there is a crisis in disability education in Australia, said AEU Federal President Correna Haythorpe in a media release on Saturday. “This annual census shows 469,000 students have a disability or learning difficulty but schools are only receiving funding to support 200,000 students with disability,” Ms Haythorpe said.
When commercialisation meets education: scripted lessons
22 May 2017
Section: News
The challenge to reverse the growing commercialisation and privatisation of education requires solidarity across nations, Education International project director Angelo Gavrielatos told Federation’s 20th Aboriginal Members Conference on Saturday.
Aboriginal Members Conference
20 May 2017
Section: News
Federation’s 20th Aboriginal Members Conference gets underway this morning with an agenda full of topics of interest to teachers. Workshop sessions will cater for teachers’ varying interests, including:
Achievements and challenges of Aboriginal journeys shared at Friday Forum
20 May 2017
Section: News
The life journeys of several Aboriginal men and women were shared at Federation’s Friday Forum last night, ahead of today’s Aboriginal Members Conference. “I believe we are in the fourth phase of our shared history,” said Uncle Vic Chapman, who was the first Aboriginal principal in NSW public schools.
Turnbull’s cuts agenda failed to convince State Ministers
18 May 2017
Section: News
Parents, school communities and state ministers remain united in their fight against Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s agenda of education cuts that will see students miss out on $3.2 billion in funding in 2018 and 2019, the Australian Education Union said in a media release today. Today’s COAG Education Council meeting was a farce, aimed at giving states the illusion of consultation, in an attempt to railroad states to agree on a flawed plan, the federal union said.
IDAHOT marks turning point
17 May 2017
Section: News
Today is IDAHOT (International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia) or IDAHOBIT International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia), an internationally recognised day of action to give visibility to the experiences of LGBTIQ people around the world. The day marks the date that the World Health Organisation decided to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1990 and as such is an appropriate day to take action against homophobia, biphobia and transphobia.
Teachers welcome Labor’s pledge to invest in public schools and TAFE
12 May 2017
Section: News
The NSW Teachers Federation welcomes Federal Labor’s budget reply announcement of greater investment in public schools and TAFE.
Dramatic intervention on school funding
11 May 2017
Section: News
In an unprecedented move, the head of NSW public education has been compelled to urgently write today to every public school principal in the state, instructing them not to rely upon or trust the funding figures released by the Turnbull Government.
Data shows NSW public schools to lose millions under Turnbull funding plan
11 May 2017
Section: News
NSW public schools will lose $846 million under the Turnbull government’s plan for school funding, Acting Federation President Gary Zadkovich said today.