Organisers said they knocked back 30 per cent of applications due to high demand as Sydney prepares to host WorldPride.
The NSW government has reached a compromise with the powerful teachers’ union over Education Minister Sarah Mitchell’s signature policy overhauling suspension and expulsion policies in public schools.
A new proposal from the NSW education minister could make teaching careers more attractive and see significant changes in both the volume and quality of new teachers five years from now.
It’s the third time this year NSW teachers have gone on strike,vowing to take their fight for higher wages all the way to next year’s state election.
Many across senior ranks in and around the state’s education sector quietly admit there is a leadership quality issue.
More than 250 public schools were listed by the NSW Education Department as non-operational on Wednesday.
Dominic Perrottet has tried to placate public sector workers with his strongest signal yet the government will move on wage reform this year.
The most over-funded schools were Loreto Kirribilli,St Aloysius College and St Augustine’s College,which each got more than twice what they were due.
Australian teachers report spending 4.1 hours a week on general administrative work,compared with the OECD average of 2.7 hours.
Wool buyer Natalie Lyons always wanted to become a teacher. But the two years’ study required - and subsequent loss of income - made the idea unfeasible.
The NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell has accused the teachers’ union of being “hell-bent” on hanging students out to dry for political purposes.