Articles from Australia
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Union renewal and development 23 January 2017 Australia: tertiary education loses historic leader
Colleagues from the higher education sector in Australia and around the world are remembering the life and work of Carolyn Allport, a founding leader of NTEU union who passed away last week.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 5 January 2017 Australia: union calls for increased funding to support students with disabilities
In response to data released by state and federal governments, the Australian Education Union has highlighted the funding gap to support students with disability.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 4 October 2016 Australia: union rejects government funding plan for education
Education unionists have strongly rejected new financing arrangements for education proposed by the federal Education Minister, arguing that they would lead to a schools not receiving the minimum resources needed to provide quality education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 August 2016 Australia: Cuts hit public schools in remote areas of Northern Territory
A report shows that public schools’ per-student funding in Australia’s Northern Territory decreased by 6.7 per cent between 2012 and 2014, hitting public schools in remote areas and indigenous students the hardest.
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Standards and working conditions 17 August 2016 Australia: Support staff celebrated as vital for quality education
From 15-19 August, Australian teacher unionists will show their appreciation to support staff, recognising that, while schools could not function without support staff, they often do not get the professional recognition they deserve.
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Equity and inclusion 10 August 2016 Australia: teacher honoured for work with indigenous students
Teacher unionists have awarded an educator for her outstanding and ‘simple’ contribution to providing indigenous students with quality education, a welcomed respite of positive news amidst the Northern Territory’ youth detention abuse scandal.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 30 May 2016 Australian Government cuts to school funding exposed
Contrary to its call to implement needs-based funding to schools across the country, Australia’s coalition government’s budget has revealed that the neediest schools are set to lose financial support, a move that affects disadvantaged students.
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Equity and inclusion 29 February 2016 Australian teachers’ union calls on government to boost education funding
The Australian Education Union is gearing up for a $2 million TV advertising campaign aimed at garnering support for extra education funding under the so-called "Gonski programme."
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Equity and inclusion 11 February 2016 Treatment of asylum seeking students raises ire of Australian principal
A Melbourne principal is prepared to risk the threat of jail by speaking out against the ongoing plight of his high school students who continue to live in an asylum seeker detention centre.
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Equity and inclusion 27 October 2015 Australia’s education system still plagued by inequality
A new report has revealed that Australia’s schools lack the funding to keep up with the needs of a growing student population, and among those especially hit hard and left behind come from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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Standards and working conditions 31 August 2015 Australia: education unionists stand up for paid parental leave
The Australian Education Union has criticised the Abbott Government’s proposed changes to the Paid Parental Scheme, leading up to 47,000 national public educators to lose access to the Commonwealth’s Paid Parental Leave scheme.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 13 August 2015 Australia: widening gaps in achievement between advantaged and disadvantaged schools
The Australian Education Union has deplored the results of the latest National Assessment Program–Literacy and Numeracy showing huge gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged students and called for targeting funding allocated to schools.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 19 May 2015 Teacher union members fight to protect quality education from free trade
The Independent Education Union of Australia, an affiliate of Education International, is lobbying the country’s government to reject the inclusion of educational services into the controversial Trade in Services Agreement.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 May 2015 Australia: Increasing workload driving teachers out of the profession
Increasing workloads are the main reason teachers consider leaving the profession, according to new research from the Australian Education Union.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 31 March 2015 Australia: Privatisation of vocational training detrimental to students
Reacting to a recently published study, education unions have stressed that authorities of New South Wales must guarantee minimum public funding levels for technical and further education, and avoid the unchecked privatisation that has destroyed vocational education.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 11 February 2015 Australia: Government must do more for students with disabilities
With an estimated 100,000 Australian students with a disability being denied financial support, the Abbott Government is being called upon to urgently deliver on its promise to increase funding to those who need it most.
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Equity and inclusion 27 November 2014 Australian movement demands better government care of child refugees
A group of prominent Australians are spearheading a movement calling on the Australian Government to do better when it comes to caring for children seeking refuge in the country.
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Equity and inclusion 27 November 2014 Australian movement demands better government care of child refugees
A group of prominent Australians are spearheading a movement calling on the Australian Government to do better when it comes to caring for children seeking refuge in the country.
Australian movement demands better government care of child refugees