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A new report shows investment in public school capital works would help lift student performance and could generate over $5 billion every year in economic stimulus due to increased employment and improved student outcomes.

As COVID-19 continues to reap havoc and draw the public’s attention, governments across Canada are sharing a privatisation playbook as they use the pandemic as cover to transform publicly funded public education.

There is a measurable advantage in being a union member. This point is fundamental to everything that follows.

Wear it Purple Day on 27 August is about showing LGBTIQ+ young people that they have the right to be proud of who they are.

Education workers are invited to participate in a new sporting games event being held in Mandurah during the school holiday period in October.

We, the undersigned experts in education, are teachers, education support professionals, principals, early childhood educators, lecturers, associate professors and professors. We are First Nations people who collectively embody a millennia of minutes, thousands of hours, and hundreds of decades of long, hard work in the Australian education industry.

More than 150 Indigenous education experts and practitioners have issued a statement responding to mistruths in relation to the Australian Curriculum review by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA).

Sarah Dawkins was the 2020 SSTUWA participant in the Anna Stewart Memorial Project. She shares her experiences

Along with the SSTUWA’s Mid-West schools organiser Sam Yates, I recently visited schools and members badly affected by Cyclone Seroja which tore through the region in April this year.

About 81 per cent of respondents to the SSTUWA’s State of our Schools survey have considered leaving the teaching profession in the past four years as increased workloads have led to many fearing for their personal health and well-being.

As you read this article materials will have arrived at your workplace to assist your involvement in discussing the SSTUWA’s Log of Claims.

The collegiate principals (CP) initiative has been moving along at a pleasing pace, with the more than 450 requests from school leaders (as of late Term 2) to be involved in the program, reflecting its importance.

Western Australia’s economy is handling the impacts of COVID-19 better than anyone anticipated, and we’re expecting a multi-billion dollar surplus in the next budget. But at the same time that our economy is booming, education funding per child is falling and teachers’ wages are stagnant.