NSW students will return to school full-time by the end of the month. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the education system and community were ready for a complete return to face-to-face teaching and confirmed a May 25 return date. “Since starting ...
More »AEU, NSWTF criticise governments for ‘recipe for chaos’ ahead of urgent meeting today
Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s statement on Sunday night regarding school closures has caused major confusion among principals, teachers, education support staff and parents, according to Australian Education Union (AEU) federal president Correna Haythorpe and the NSW Teachers Federation. She has urged ...
More »Leadership in Education – Part 2: Patrick O’Reilly – Where have we gone wrong?
Despite record investment in education, Australian students’ literacy and numeracy levels have been steadily declining. This podcast series speaks with some of Australia’s K-12 education leaders and asks the key question: What, if anything, are we doing wrong? In episode ...
More »Is this the end of EPAC?
The NSW Employee Performance and Conduct unit (EPAC) was under siege this week with critics of the government unit calling it “opaque”, “slow” and “lacking procedural fairness”. The unit, which investigates misconduct in schools, has also been accused of using ...
More »An alt-take on Morrison’s school funding announcement
Sector politics has long plagued school funding. But with the federal government's announcement of an extra $4.571 billion for independent schools, partisan outrage has peaked. There's even intra-party vexation. (Liberal) NSW Education Minster Rob Stokes told ABC Radio Sydney that it's "not fair" ...
More »Wentworth candidate “owes teachers an apology”
Mea culpa. That’s how Wentworth by-election candidate Dave Sharma signed off on an apology tweet for comments he made in the Sydney Morning Herald a few months ago. In an opinion piece for the publication, the Liberal Party candidate for ...
More »‘The whole process is designed to break you’: bullied NSW teachers claim they’re officially silenced
Tony Parker, a former high school geography teacher, isn't allowed to fully share his story of being bullied.† Legally, he is prevented from doing so. That's not, however, the kind of silencing he and his peers, Peter Anderson and Kathy Simpson, are aggrieved ...
More »Amid #libspill, NSW teachers cry out for funds
How would schools fare under a Peter Dutton-led government? According to the NSW Teachers Federation, they couldn't do much worse than the status quo. The union is using the battle for leadership of the Liberal party to highlight one of ...
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