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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Union recognised for support of Stewart House
15 May 2018
Section: News
Federation was presented with a silver award at Stewart House’s annual awards presentation, for corporate sponsorship of the charity.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k – Review
15 May 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
Mark Manson has probably confused people, some may have even walked away from this book, by the use of his F-Bomb in the title.
RBG Documentary Review
15 May 2018
Section: Member’s Voice
RBG outlines the history US Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn, New York, Bader Ginsburg faced enormous sexism studying law at Cornell, Harvard and Columbia and later trying to gain employment in the law.
Governments must step up on funding school infrastructure
15 May 2018
Section: News
Over the next 10 to 12 years public school enrolments will grow by 23 per cent, demanding a major commitment to expenditure on school infrastructure and a thoroughly informed and well-planned program of public works.
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.
TAFE bound by outdated training packages
14 May 2018
Section: News
TAFE should be approved to develop local qualifications outside the present restrictive training package regime, according to renowned academic and former TAFE teacher Professor Leesa Wheelahan.