Federation Update NSW Teachers Federation

In this edition of Federation Update, we have a range of issues from September Council including the Fair Funding Now! Week of Action, Teachers Workload, Schools Buildings and Rural and Remote Incentives.

In this edition of Federation Update, we have a range of issues from June Council including the Schools Funding campaign as we enter into elections, the results of a comprehensive survey on teacher workload (and the departmental response to it), the need to press for permanency in staffing and a troubling change to federal laws on students who are refugees.

In this episode of Federation Update John Dixon, General Secretary of the Teachers Federation, launches our centenary year celebrations; Joan Lemaire explains our partnership with a team of academics for research into teacher workload; Maurie Mulheron gives an update on the evolution of the schools funding campaign; and we launch a new news portal for the union.

In this Federation Update we hear from an AEU national conference on the Future of TAFE. We also hear about a siginficant win for teacher permanency in NSW. Federation has also produced a resource pack to explain the importance of the School Resource Standard.

In this Federation Update we hear from Federation President, Maurie Mulheron on Schools Funding and the proposed Phonics Test in Year 1. We also hear from Federation General Secretary, John Dixon on the Marriage Equality issue in Australia. Federation also offers advice on the NAPLAN confidentality agreement that teachers were asked to sign.

In this edition of Federation Update, we hear an update on the state of change in the Gonski debate, the issue of affordable housing for teachers, the commercialisation of public schooling, and a review of NAPLAN Online.