July 2023
‘The wage cap is dead’: NSW public servants accept 4pc pay rise
More than 80,000 public servants have accepted the Minns government’s 4 per cent wage offer, paving the way for deals with teachers, nurses and health workers.
- David Marin-Guzman
May 2023
High school dropouts rise for the first time in years
The education gap between rich and poor is worsening with one in four of the most disadvantaged kids now likely to drop out of school.
- Julie Hare
October 2022
Union fined over NSW teachers’ strikes
The NSW Teachers Federation has been fined $60,000 over strikes that “plainly and deliberately” breached orders banning industrial action.
- Margaret Scheikowski
July 2022
Of 60,000 visa applicants in the queue, 32 are aged care nurses
Fewer than 1 per cent of the nearly 60,000 permanent visa applications the Albanese government is fast-tracking to fix dire shortages in schools and hospitals are education or health professionals.
- David Marin-Guzman
December 2021
- Opinion
- Education
High marks for classroom mediocrity
The teachers’ union is happy with a salary system that pays the talented and the time-serving just the same. Students, parents and taxpayers are the losers.
- Glenn Fahey
August 2021
NSW flags partial reopening of school sector
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says some schools could reopen sooner if they are in areas with few cases, while unions have accused the government of undermining school safety by delaying student vaccinations.
- David Marin-Guzman
July 2021
Risk ‘dramatically’ changed: NSW lowers AstraZeneca age
Mass vaccination clinics will start to give the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to anyone aged 40 and older because Sydney’s outbreak has “dramatically” changed the risks, officials say.
- Updated
- Finbar O'Mallon
June 2021
- Opinion
- Teaching
Treat teaching as a supply-side problem
It’s not burnout or the pay that’s to blame for shortages in the quantity and quality of teachers. It’s the lack of a flexible pathway for high achievers with expert knowledge to enter the profession mid-career.
- Glenn Fahey
January 2021
TAFE teachers’ award is a dead weight on new ideas and reform
Existing teachers are reluctant to risk their incredibly good conditions. As a result fresh ideas, and new ways of teaching do not flow into TAFE NSW.
- Robert Bolton
August 2020
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Classrooms are the key to recovery
Investing heavily in schools would be the best return on the vast amounts of money that governments are borrowing.
- Emma Dawson
April 2020
Teachers reject report claiming COVID-19 infection risk is low
The NSW union says the official report on the risk to teachers, which informed federal government deicisions, is based on too small a sample size.
- Robert Bolton
Teachers and states quibble while everyone else says get to work
In the biggest education system, NSW, no one can agree how to restart the school system.
- Robert Bolton
February 2020
Parents, teachers are failing 'cotton wool' kids
A school principal and representative of public school executives said students should be allowed to feel failure as a way of learning.
- Robert Bolton
Public schools fare better as government spending soars
The idea that government schools are suffering is not supported by recent data, which shows funding now outpaces that for private schools..
- Robert Bolton
November 2019
Lambie and Hanson holding out on union deregistration bill
Amendments secured by Centre Alliance have so far not eased concerns held by One Nation and Jacqui Lambie.
- Phillip Coorey