A 10-15% increase in teacher salaries needed to ‘restore relativities’
10 September 2020
Section: Media Release
As reported in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, research conducted by Professor John Buchanan from the University of Sydney Business School has found an alarming decline in teachers’ salaries when compared to other professional groups.
Media release: Students with disability to increase by 50% within a decade
3 September 2020
Section: Media Release
A confidential NSW Department of Education disability strategy obtained under FOI laws has revealed inadequacies in planning for the state’s students with disabilities.
Media release: Valuing the teaching profession – an independent inquiry
28 August 2020
Section: Media Release
Valuing the teaching profession – an independent inquiry will begin public hearings on Monday 31 August in Sydney and continue until Thursday 10 September.
Media release: A cruel blow for students as Govt threatens school funding
25 June 2020
Section: Media Release
The Berejiklian Government must not be allowed to use students as pawns in its attempt to impose a wage freeze across the public sector.
Media release: New curriculum requires additional resources
23 June 2020
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation has welcomed the unhurried approach and commitment to working with teachers in the development and implementation of the new curriculum.
Media release: Strong growth in public school enrolments
2 June 2020
Section: Media Release
New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows continuing strong growth in public school enrolments and exposes the ideologically driven school funding policies of state and Federal governments.
Media release: Treasurer’s pay cut ‘deal’ is unacceptable
1 June 2020
Section: Media Release
Teachers will not accept the Treasurer’s latest attempt to impose a pay cut on the profession.
Media release: Teachers reject pay cut
27 May 2020
Section: Media Release
In the week of the full resumption of NSW public schools, teachers and principals have been rewarded with a slap in the face.
Media release: Morrison failing public schools on funding
2 April 2020
Section: Media Release
NSW Teachers Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos has condemned the appalling levels of funding the Morrison Government is directing to public schools in NSW.
Media release: Normal school operations must end to put the health and safety of students and staff first
25 March 2020
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation Executive met this morning and unanimously endorsed the following:
Media release: Teachers and principals are not dispensable
23 March 2020
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation Executive met today and unanimously endorsed the following:
Media release: Coronavirus advice conflicting, contradictory and impossible
17 March 2020
Section: Media Release
Schools must be given clear advice on action to be taken in the event that health protocols necessary to control the spread of COVID-19 cannot be implemented.
Media release: Government-fuelled largesse – it’s obscene
8 March 2020
Section: Media Release
Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos says revelations of the “billion dollar private school building boom” further expose defenceless funding priorities of state and federal governments.
Media release: Morrison’s gifts to private schools now valued at almost $5 billion – public schools get nothing
2 March 2020
Section: Media Release
Today’s announcement by the Morrison Government has confirmed the Federal Government’s special deals with private schools have reached almost $5 billion, while public schools get nothing.
Media release: TAFE review must restore funding and courses
25 February 2020
Section: Media Release
NSW Teachers Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos said the union would take the opportunity presented by the TAFE review to highlight the failed privatisation policies of successive state and federal governments.
Media release: Independent inquiry into the value of teachers’ work
17 February 2020
Section: Media Release
The NSW Teachers Federation has established an independent commission of inquiry into the value of teachers’ work.
Media release: Strong growth in public school enrolments
6 February 2020
Section: Media Release
New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows continuing strong growth in public school enrolments and exposes the ideologically driven school funding policies of state and Federal governments.
Media release: Morrison failing public schools on funding
4 February 2020
Section: Media Release
NSW Teachers Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos has condemned the appalling levels of funding the Morrison Government is directing to public schools in NSW.
Media release: Bushfire impact on Southern Highlands schools
24 January 2020
Section: Media Release
NSW Teachers Federation Deputy President Henry Rajendra and Senior Vice President Amber Flohm will be visiting Kangaroo Valley, Bundanoon and Hill Top on Tuesday 28 January 2020
Media release: Bushfire impact on South Coast schools
24 January 2020
Section: Media Release
NSW Teachers Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos will be visiting Mogo, Moruya and Batemans Bay on Tuesday 28 January 2020 as the school year begins, to lend support to teachers and principals and to ensure the needs of fire affected schools and communities are being met.
Media release: Bushfire impact on South Coast schools
24 January 2020
Section: Media Release
NSW Teachers Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos will be visiting Mogo, Moruya and Batemans Bay on Tuesday 28 January 2020