After years of campaigning and midway through an intense pay row with his Labor allies,Gavrielatos is finally ready to retire.
The authors of a report Chris Minns once hailed as a “blueprint” for fixing teacher salaries have accused Labor of undermining attempts to fix teacher shortages.
Premier Chris Minns’ key election promise to scrap the public service wage cap has come back to bite him with unions rejecting his government’s pay offer as little more than a variation on the Coalition’s controversial wages cap and an insulting breach of trust.
The most senior union official in NSW is “deeply disappointed and frustrated” after pay negotiations between the NSW government and Teacher’s Federation stalled last week.
The NSW Teachers Federation has hit out at the state government over a breakdown in pay negotiations,accusing it of backing away from an agreement struck in May.
Sexualised content and online attacks against teachers are escalating,the eSafety Commissioner warns,as state and federal ministers meet to address the issue.
The NSW Industrial Relations Commission handed teachers a 6 per cent pay rise over two years,with headline inflation currently running at 7.3 per cent.
In its final report on Tuesday,the education committee found university education faculties had “actively encouraged the deterioration in teacher quality”.
At least 10 per cent of the state’s 70,000 teachers would earn higher salaries under a plan that aims to stop educators from abandoning the classroom.
A catch-up tutoring program has shown positive outcomes when it comes to student engagement,but teacher shortages remain a challenge.
The rate of early career teachers quitting in their first five years surged to 11.6 per cent in 2021,up 50 per cent compared to the previous year.