Stokes prioritises administrative workload reduction
7 June 2018
Section: News
Education Minister Rob Stokes says he shares “concerns that a teacher’s core role of educating children in the classroom can be adversely affected by the administrative burden,” in a letter to Federation, dated 1 June.
Incentive restored for rural and remote schools
6 June 2018
Section: News
The ability for our hardest-to-staff schools to convert long-term temporary appointments into permanent positions above establishment has been restored.
Federation takes pay discrepancy to Minister
6 June 2018
Section: News
Federation has written to the NSW Education Minister Rob Stokes seeking to resolve discrepancies that arose out of the transition to standards-based pay.
Retired Teachers Association news
4 June 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
At the May meeting, the RTA condemned the Turnbull Government’s budget. The ABC now faces an $84 million cut to its funding over the next three years and it seems that analysis of federal policies and expenditure on the broadcaster’s side is met with a large financial stick.
Teachers invited to have their say on Aboriginal education policy
30 May 2018
Section: News
A peak Aboriginal congress is seeking consultation with the education sector to prepare a policy document to present to education ministers at their next Council of Australian Governments meeting.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Chaplains in schools: probably illegal, certainly immoral
18 May 2018
Section: Columns
In the recent federal Budget, an additional $247 million has been allocated to the schools chaplaincy program. This brings the total amount of funding for the scheme, since its introduction in 2006 by the Howard Government, to about $1 billion.
Council Report: 5 May 2018
18 May 2018
Section: Administration
Key issues discussed at May Council included Federation’s response to “Gonski 2.0”, the preliminary findings arising from the Understanding the work of schools survey, the push for a new NAPLAN, protecting and enhancing staffing entitlements and initial teacher education.
News from the Retired Teachers Association
18 May 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
The Combined Retired Union Members Association is seeking clarification from Unions NSW about the State Government’s decision to penalise union officials and unions for engaging in industrial action.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Your say: From little things, a union will grow
16 May 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
This year I made the move to Timor-Leste to work in one of the several remote districts. My school has about 600 students from kindergarten to year 12 and I teach the national English curriculum. English, along with Tetun, Portuguese, and Bahasa Indonesian are mandatory subjects in high school. Portuguese and Tetun are taught from primary school.
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.
Association Spotlight: Camden-Campbelltown
15 May 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
Our Association is home to the Tharawal people, bordered by the Gandangara to the south and Muringong to the north of the Nepean River.