From the President
President’s address to November State Council
Read the full speech given by SSTUWA President Matt Jarman to November State Council Conference 2024.
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Read the full speech given by SSTUWA President Matt Jarman to November State Council Conference 2024.
Public schools funding, the state of education in WA, nationally and globally and the honouring of two SSTUWA stalwarts headlined November State Council Conference for this year.
The Growth Team have once again had a busy and productive year. From 1 January to 30 September, across 189 events and online interactions, the SSTUWA’s Growth Team recruited 492 financial members and 305 student members.
The SSTUWA’s annual Women’s Conference was held in October. This year’s theme, Count her in, invest in women, accelerate progress, was based on the United Nations International Women’s Day theme and one we commemorated earlier on in the year.
If you are already thinking ahead to 2025 then now is an excellent time to explore key resources available to you as a Department of Education teacher.
Our community needs strong public schools. Our schools need a capable public education system. Recent years have seen a drift that needs to be dealt with and our schools cannot wait.
The latest Closing the Gap data contains some good news – there is a marked increase in early childhood enrolments for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.
Public education in Argentina is under threat from a political agenda that has made its way into the national government and aims to – in the words of President Javier Milei himself – “destroy the state from within”.
