Newstags
Education funding
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TAFE funding central to commonwealth’s VET response
June 05, 2020The urgent restoration of billions of dollars cut from TAFE funding must be central to the Morrison Government’s response to a Productivity Commission report on the vital vocational education and training (VET) sector.
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Media release: Government-fuelled largesse – it's obscene
March 08, 2020Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos says revelations of the “billion dollar private school building boom” further expose defenceless funding priorities of state and federal governments.
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Media release: Morrison failing public schools on funding
February 04, 2020NSW Teachers Federation President Angelo Gavrielatos has condemned the appalling levels of funding the Morrison Government is directing to public schools in NSW.
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Deal is slush fund for rich schools
November 06, 2019A federal parliamentary hearing has confirmed investigations by the Australian Education Union that the Morrison Government’s $1.2 billion Choice and Affordability Fund is the antithesis of needs-based funding — it’s a slush fund for private schools
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Falling GDP spend on education magnified in new OECD figures
September 20, 2019New figures released this month in a snapshot of education jurisdictions around the world underline the grim extent of the Morrison Government’s cuts to public school funding.
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Market-goers share TAFE success stories, fear consequences of funding cuts
March 06, 2018Terrific stories about how TAFE can change people's lives were revealed by locals at the Riverside Markets in Kempsey on Saturday, Federation TAFE Organiser Adam Curlis said.
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Turnbull Government fails to deliver funding certainty for preschools
February 05, 2018The Turnbull Government has again failed to commit to long-term funding for preschools after it announced it will extend funding for the sector only up to the end of 2019.
