Calls for better resourcing amid violent student concerns
Government – not teacher – action is needed to address classroom issues involving students with a disability, QTC president, Kevin Bates, tells The Educator.
Government – not teacher – action is needed to address classroom issues involving students with a disability, QTC president, Kevin Bates, tells The Educator.
Why are so many people leaving this all-important profession?
In the midst of the disability funding crisis, one school has made changes to provide its special needs students with a quality education.
The AEU says new data has confirmed its claims that students with a disability are entrenched in a worsening funding crisis.
Christopher Pyne now has a chance to move on from his “failed” Independent Public Schools (IPS) policy and do something which will benefit public schools, says the AEU.
Labor leader, Bill Shorten, has announced he will seek a senate inquiry into the education of students with disabilities.
The 2015 Budget does nothing to address the 100,000 students with a disability in need of “urgent” support, says the AEU.
Rising workloads are the driving factor behind teachers leaving the profession, a new survey from the AEU shows.
Regardless of how well teachers are trained, they need the support of properly-resourced schools, says the AEU’s Correna Haythorpe.
The Independent Education Union (IEU) warns that some preschools will be forced to close unless they get additional funding.