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Schools
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Bundanoon Beginning Teacher Conference well received
October 08, 2019More than 60 new teachers gathered at “the place of deep gullies” – Bundanoon – on Gundungurra land for a two-day Beginning Teacher Conference last month.
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School Award negotiations and you
October 01, 2019Bargaining is about collective power and strength.
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Opportunity to recruit for your union as a Project Officer
October 01, 2019As part of the continuing implementation of the Annual Conference Decision 2004 Recruitment and Activism and the Future of the Union, the General Secretary is seeking Expressions of Interest from school teachers in their first few years of teaching, who believe they can make a significant contribution to the role of Project Officer.
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Systemic change is vital to overcome rural divide
September 30, 2019Federation has stepped up the campaign to address the growing divide between the learning outcomes and opportunities of rural and remote students and their metropolitan counterparts, calling on the Department to adopt structural solutions to overcome intersecting educational disadvantage.
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Federation forces Department to fix the glitch
September 30, 2019The union’s persistence has led to the Department of Education working to rectify the situation where about 9000 teachers working on part-time leave will be left without income for a period during the summer vacation.
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There’s nothing casual about teaching
September 29, 2019The way the Department of Education processes requests for casual approval after separation, due to retirement or resignation, has changed.
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Auditor-General’s Report: a lost opportunity if changes are imposed without negotiation with the teaching profession
September 27, 2019The NSW Teachers Federation has argued that rigorous and consistent professional teaching standards must be applied, met and monitored
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Write the wrongs: better use of resources to redress funding
September 27, 2019While NSW public schools have a $622 million maintenance backlog and governments choose to instead pour money into private schools, members should be speaking regularly with parents about funding, Federation President Maurie Mulheron said.
