Let teachers teach — Call to reduce paperwork
7 May 2018
Section: News
Federation is seeking a meeting with NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes to call for a review of administrative and paperwork requirements, plus more direct support from the Department to schools in relation to student learning needs.
Voices opposing NAPLAN mount
7 May 2018
Section: News
The call for reform of NAPLAN is growing, as criticism of the tests and reporting of results comes under increasing scrutiny.
Fairness sacrificed, says Shadow Education Minister
7 May 2018
Section: News
The Turnbull Government has sacrificed fairness for consistency, federal Shadow Education Minister Tanya Plibersek told Federation’s May Council meeting on Saturday.
Story of our union banner
2 May 2018
Section: News
There are interesting narratives associated with every aspect of Federation’s centenary marching banner, unveiled at the May Day Toast, held at Federation’s Surry Hills headquarters on 1 May.
Latest Gonski review highlights need to fund its reforms
1 May 2018
Section: News
Significant resources are needed to fund the recommendations in David Gonski’s latest report on education, yet Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has cut $1.9 billion from public schools over the next two years.
ABC Friends in need of teachers
23 April 2018
Section: News
Lobby group ABC Friends has urged teachers to join the fight to defend the national broadcaster from funding cuts and a conservative political agenda, including the assault by the Murdoch press.
Minister commits to permanent teachers in TAFE
20 April 2018
Section: News
The Minister for TAFE Adam Marshall has listened to TAFE teachers and committed to recruit permanent teachers to TAFE NSW.
Teachers send strong message to COAG
13 April 2018
Section: News
State and federal ministers in Adelaide for a Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting have been presented with a letter signed by 5900 teachers, principals, support staff and parents calling for fair funding of public schools.
Leave win for surrogacy and out-of-home care
11 April 2018
Section: News
After lengthy negotiations led by Federation and other public sector unions, and amid delays by NSW Treasury, teachers can finally access leave for surrogacy and permanent out-of-home care.
NAPLAN fosters bad writing: expert
9 April 2018
Section: News
World-leading figure in writing assessment Dr Les Perelman is suggesting a new approach for the NAPLAN major writing task.
It’s time for a new NAPLAN
9 April 2018
Section: News
A major report released today has revealed Australia’s NAPLAN testing regime is failing the nation’s students and is quite possibly contributing to declining performance standards across the nation.
Training course seeks to engage wider community
5 April 2018
Section: News
As a part of the Fair Funding Now campaign, Federation has conducted six targeted campaign training days involving Federation Representatives, parents and principals in the key electorates of Banks, Gilmore, Page and Robertson.
Your say: Let’s not forget our shared history
4 April 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
Bruce Pascoe’s remarkable 2014 account of how Aboriginal Australia, upon first contact, had a sedentary agricultural economy, even in what is now referred to as the “dead centre” of the country, is a lesson in how non-Aboriginal Australians have forgotten our shared history.
Startling figures support funding campaign
3 April 2018
Section: News
A national report that shows the declining performance of our most disadvantaged school students will cost the country at least $120 billion in coming decades, reinforced Federation’s campaign for fairer public school funding, President Maurie Mulheron said.
Public outrage at bus privatisation
3 April 2018
Section: News
The privatisation of public services is an issue close to the hearts of public school teachers.
Book Reviews
2 April 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
This editions book reviews include: Ambulance Ambulance! Macbeth, Game of Mates: How Favours Bleed the Nation
Overwhelming response to workload survey
31 March 2018
Section: News
Federation thanks the more than 18,200 members who responded to the survey “Understanding work in schools – the foundation for teaching and learning”, which closed on 26 March.
Change afoot as NSW Government responds to Disability Inquiry recommendations
30 March 2018
Section: News
The Berejiklian Government has tabled its response to the recommendations of the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Education of Students with a Disability or Special Needs in NSW.
Proficient and committed
29 March 2018
Section: Columns
I am writing this in a hotel room in Canberra having spent the day wandering the corridors of Parliament House, accompanied by parents and teachers, dropping in on politicians to argue for a fairer funding model for public schools. It’s a quiet room and as the sun sets, I’m reflecting on the past 40 years.
Enhanced school staffing entitlements
29 March 2018
Section: News
Significant improvements to school staffing entitlements will be one of the priority policy objectives of Federation in the lead up to the March 2019 state election.
Federal Government slow to respond on TAFE report
29 March 2018
Section: News
The Federal Government has paid little more than lip service to a raft of recommendations for TAFE made by the Standing Committee on Education and Employment in a report it tabled three-and-a-half years ago.