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Government funding can stop TAFE decline
August 07, 2019The best way to reverse the fall in enrolments in government-funded vocational education was to restore funding to TAFE and reinstate it as the primary provider of vocational education in Australia, Ms Sharkey said.
Category: TAFE
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Festival and Federation celebrate young talent
August 05, 2019Folk music is gaining a growing following among young performers, who will be supported by Federation at the Sydney Folk Festival in August.
Category: Schools
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Voice, Treaty, Truth of Uluru Statement begins in the classroom
July 25, 2019Indigenous lawyer and human rights advocate Teela Reid urged the teaching profession to educate students about the real truth of Australia’s history and to embrace the Uluru Statement from the Heart at Federation’s Annual Conference.
Category: Aboriginal Education
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Wear it Purple Day: empowering together
July 24, 2019Wear it Purple Day will be held on Friday 30 August with the theme – Stand Up. Stand Out
Category: LGBTIQ
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Collectivism kicks goals for justice, says former Socceroos captain Craig Foster
July 19, 2019There were calls for former Socceroo captain Craig Foster to be named Australian of the Year, even prime minister, after he saved the life of a young refugee footballer from Melbourne detained in Bangkok on trumped-up charges laid by the country he fled, Bahrain.
Category: Schools
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Additional permanent EAL/D teachers to meet student need is long overdue
July 18, 2019The number of students requiring specialist English language support has increased by 20 per cent over five years but not a single EAL/D teaching job has been added, Federation’s Annual Conference was told.
Category: Multicultural Education
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Music to the ears
July 17, 2019Teachers’ work to foster performing arts talent was lauded by Talent Development Project artistic director Peter Cousens during Federation’s Annual Conference.
Category: Schools
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Wider focus for TAFE would better prepare students for their working lives
July 16, 2019New social policy is desperately needed for the vocational education and training sector says Centre for Future Work associate Pat Forward.
Category: TAFE
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Union vows to escalate push for conditions to improve Aboriginal students’ outcomes
July 10, 2019Federation has committed to intensifying its efforts to the close the gap in Aboriginal education outcomes, with a set of comprehensive policy objectives endorsed by a decision of Federation’s Annual Conference yesterday.
Category: Aboriginal Education
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Forum to plot course to bolster TAFE
July 09, 2019A national event on the future of TAFE is being planned by the Australian Education Union.
Category: TAFE
