The 2024 NAPLAN results have delivered a damning indictment on the failure of governments to fully fund public schools and show, once again, the urgency of the Albanese Government delivering on their pre-election promise for public schools to be funded at 100 per cent of the Schooling Resource Standard.
read moreThe Australian Education Union acknowledges the significant $768 million funding deal struck between the Albanese Government and the Northern Territory.
read moreThe SSTUWA has received a second offer from the Department of Training and Workforce Development in regard to the 2023 General Agreement (TAFE Lecturers).
read moreThe State School Teachers’ Union of WA has welcomed full and proper consultation on any new regional education strategy.
read moreThe ballot for the Agreement in Principle 2023 (Schools) closed at 4pm on Thursday 4 July.
read moreIf you are intending to resign from your current position, it is important to know the minimum requirement for preserving your accruing long service leave.
read moreThe State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia said the education of students at WA public schools would be affected unless the Federal Government agreed to lift its funding at a meeting of education ministers in Sydney today.
read moreAn independent expert education panel has made clear to governments the full funding of public schools is “urgent and critical” and a precondition for improving results, equity and student wellbeing.
read morePISA results show the need for full funding to combat shortages and achievement gaps
read moreThe Australian Education Union says the interim report of the Senate Inquiry into increasing disruption in Australian school classrooms has failed to capture and address the complex issues that impact on teaching and learning in schools.
read moreEvery child has the right to a high quality education, delivered by qualified and professional teachers in their local neighbourhood. It is Australia’s public education system and its dedicated workforce that upholds this right.
read moreThe State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia has welcomed the announcement of a new Education Minister in today’s cabinet reshuffle, with the division into separate ministerial portfolios of early childhood education and training suggesting the state government is giving education a higher priority.
read morehe State School Teachers’ Union of Western Australia has rejected the state government’s desperate plans to fix the state’s teacher shortage, saying they will not address the underlying issues in the public education system.
read morePresident of the Cambodian hospitality union (LRSU) representing workers at the Naga World Casino Hotel was arrested in Phnom Penh airport and jailed on 26 November while returning from International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) World Congress in Melbourne.
read moreWe are at the end of yet another year which brought far more turmoil than we could have ever expected. We thought that we’d seen the worst of COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021 and that we were pretty well prepared - vaccinations mostly done – for the beginning of the year.
read moreThe State School Teachers’ Union of WA has acknowledged the state government’s removal of its fixed $1,000 wages cap in the Mid-Year Economic Review. The move comes after intense lobbying by the union movement.
read morePublic school principals and teachers continue to see NAPLAN as ineffective and outdated, according to a new survey conducted by the Australian Education Union.
read moreSSTUWA members enthusiastically participated in the Give the Cap the Boot sticker day in October to increase awareness of the union’s General Agreement 2021 negotiations and the Give the Cap the Boot campaign.
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