Tag: Teachers
TAFE pay offer below schools offer
TAFE staff get a 13pc pay rise offer, less than SA public teachers have been offered.[MORE]
Catholic teachers stop work
Teachers at Catholic schools across New South Wales are stopping work for an hour today to campaign for a 5 per cent payrise.[MORE]
Teachers vote for new working conditions
Tasmanian teachers have accepted a new pay deal for those moving to the academy and polytechnic system next year.[MORE]
Catholic school teachers to stop work
Teachers at up to 600 Catholic schools around New South Wales will hold stop work meetings on Tuesday in support of a 5 per cent pay rise claim.[MORE]
Teacher scholarships aim to boost bush education
Remote families have welcomed new initiatives aimed at recruiting and retaining teachers to isolated areas.[MORE]
COAG schools spending welcome but not enough: union
The Queensland Teachers Union has described the move to spend more than $45 billion on education over the next four years as too little, too late.[MORE]
Ex-teacher to face retrial
A jury in Burnie has found a former Tasmanian teacher not guilty on three sex-crime charges, but was unable to reach a verdict on six others.[MORE]
Critics come to the aid of the (education) revolution
Why has Julia Gillard, with her apparent commitment to evidence-based policy, adopted Joel Klein as a guru and NYC as a model?[MORE]
Performance-based pay boosts education quality: expert
A US education reformer visiting Australia says governments should pay teachers more to take on the most challenging situations.[MORE]
Gippsland TAFE teachers join pay protest
About 2,000 TAFE teachers have gathered in Melbourne to demand the Victorian Government reduce staff casualisation and improve salaries.[MORE]
TAFE teachers strike over pay dispute
Central Victorian TAFE campuses say they are ready to deal with the repercussions of a teacher strike today.[MORE]
Authorities vow to stamp out school 'fight club'
The West Australian Education Department says it is conducting further investigations into an alleged fight club involving students from a Perth high school.[MORE]
Opposition wants to target literacy with federal money
The West Australian Opposition wants some of the one billion dollars in education funding announced by the Commonwealth spent on an intensive literacy program.[MORE]
Parents back move to lift teacher standards
The Tasmanian State School Parents and Friends Association has welcomed the Federal Government's commitment to make teaching standards the main focus of a new funding deal.[MORE]
Minister defiant as teachers turn to harassment tactics
SA's Industrial Relations Minister Paul Caica says he is not intimidated by the education union's new harassment tactics.[MORE]
Teachers to continue action despite strike ban
The teachers union says its industrial campaign will go ahead, despite a strike ban.[MORE]
Protesting won't help, Govt tells teachers
The SA Govt has warned teachers that today's after school rally will not benefit their argument for better pay and a new school funding model.[MORE]
Teachers' appeal on no-strike ruling
SA teachers lodge an appeal over an IRC order to abandon their Friday strike.[MORE]
Frustration over teacher strike
SA parents have express frustration at the lack of notice given about the cancellation of today's teachers' strike.[MORE]
SA teachers must show up: Education Dept
South Australian teachers are ordered by the IRC to call off their Friday strike.[MORE]
Riverina teachers threaten 48hr strike
Teachers at Riverina public schools and TAFE colleges are threatening to strike for the first two days of the 2009 school year.[MORE]
Parents in dark as teacher pay deal deadlocked
Parents are still in the dark about whether Friday's planned strike by New South Wales public school teachers will go ahead. [MORE]
UK teachers to head to regional WA
The Education Department is on a recruiting drive in the United Kingdom to try to entice teachers to relocate to regional towns in Western Australia.[MORE]
Teachers vow to delay school year
Public school teachers across NSW have voted to strike for the first two days of the 2009 school year.[MORE]
