South Australian Australian Education Union (AEU) staff claim they felt threatened, devalued and distressed after being “berated” by a union secretary, a Fair Work Commission bullying hearing was told. Union staffer Howard Spreadbury sparked the action against his employer, the Australian ...

Independent Schools Australia (ISA) will ask all political parties to rule out funding cuts to independent schools in the next election to put an end to what it calls the "blame game" that pits school sectors against each other. The ...

A report by the Productivity Commission has revealed a startling disparity between funding funnelled into private schools and that given to their public counterparts. The private schooling sector saw a 22 per cent faster growth in government funding over the past decade ...

The Australian Education Union has blocked the implementation of Clare's reforms as the funding legislation was introduced to Parliament on Thursday.

A scathing report produced by the Australian Education Union (AEU) found five top private schools spent more money on capital works than governments did for 3,372 public schools, over half the public schools in the country, in 2021. It also ...

The Australian Education Union (AEU) and its supporters met with Minister for Education Jason Clare earlier this month to remind the government of their election promise to fully fund all public schools by 2028. The AEU said the federal government ...

South Australian public school teachers have voted to proceed with a full day strike today after pay and condition negotiations between the union and the government failed to reach an agreement. Thousands of SA teachers will walk off the job ...

South Australian teachers could walk off the job again as early as next week, the state’s education union has warned. Some 170 schools closed on Friday as thousands of teachers waged industrial action over their pay demands. In a branch council meeting held ...

There's growing momentum among teaching unions to boycott a government-backed challenge tasking high school students to design a nuclear-powered propulsion system. The Nuclear-powered Submarine Propulsion Challenge, launched by Deputy Chief of Navy Rear Admiral Jonathon Earley in June, seeks to ...

Teachers are telling the state government to “show us the money”, with a list of demands including pay rises of up to 25 per cent over three years, more than $1bn in extra classroom support and a 20 per cent reduction in ...