Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation

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Nef 331.8809944 EDU
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Sydney : The Federation, 1919-2021
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Vol. 93 No. 02 (5 Mar 2012)
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EDUCATION Journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation 1
Resources delayed are resources denied The Gonski review has called for governments to immediately increase schools funding, including additional recurrent funding of $5 billion. 1 , 4
Current school staffing system delivers again DEC confirms that public schools in NSW were staffed for the new school year. 1 , 7
How positions are being filled 1
EDUCATION 2
Executive 2
Officers 2
Contents 2
Advertising 2
TAFE teachers vote yes in strike ballot 3
Salaries battle continues The saga of salaries for all Federation members is ongoing with the following occurring since the last issue of Education. 3 , 7
Our Fed Reps 3
Gonski's recommendations revealed at last The Review of Funding for Schooling has made the achievement of equity an important principle of its new national funding system. 4 , 6
Key findings 4
Bus tour supports campaign for more school funding 5
Student teachers campaign for our future 5
Port Macquarie hosts funding campaign tour 5
Campaign attracts top level support 5
Bus to Blacktown 6
Association spotlight Biacktown Teachers Association 6
NSW Government attacks public sector again The O'Farrell Government is seeking massive increases to the financial penalties for contravening IRC dispute orders. 7
PARS Framework withdrawn Federation has offered to work with the Department on a training package. 7
What funding equity would mean for OUf school 8
Colyton HS 8
Staffing system changes put rural education at risk 8
New Zealand school system hampered by devolution 8
Increase your service transfer odds 9
Handy hints when lodging a service transfer 9
Department corrects vacation pay advice 9
Aboriginal students need opportunity Minister asked about public education funding and equity for Indigenous students. 9
In brief 10
Further consultation on draft K-10 syllabuses 10
ROSA is not a test 10
Teachers build a haven for Thai children 11
Student and teacher health at risk 11
Advertising 11
Life Member receives Australia Day honour 12
GLBTI contacts make for inclusive Associations 12
Auditor-General warns of ageing teacher workforce NSW Parliament has been updated on the teacher workforce, retention rates, and student teacher ratios by the Auditor-General. 12
Reconciliation through student art 13
Sydney Uni budget cuts hurt refugees 13
Advertising 13
Uruguay reforms leading the way 14
The Murray-Darling faces death with latest plan The latest Murray-Darling Basin Plan has disappointed environment campaigners. 14
TAFE students cut from course 14
Can I have lunch now? Teachers are entitled to have lunch. Supervised eating time for students should be calculated as face-to-face teaching time. 15
Going strong at 80 15
Greens introduce bill to save Gosford PS Are we looking at the thin end of the wedge for public school land sell-offs? 15
Empowering Local Schools opposed 15
School visits and tabloid “duds” The media falls to mention the rights principals are most interested in fighting for. 16
letters PHONES FOR GORILLAS 16
Don’t have it so good 17
Carbon copy Barry’s O’Shane shame 17
GET ON WITH IT 17
Advertising 17 , 18
features 19
School transport debacle was foreseeable The Treasury and the Department had been warned that cutting and capping the budget for the Assisted School Travel Program would cause problems. 19
Inside 19
Paper Plane 20
Pooncarie-a leap into the unknown Teachers should consider the upside of moving to remote communities like Pooncarie. 20
Are you in the right membership category? 20
Get your students involved with filmmaking 21
Federation's stall supported at Mardi Gras" Fair Day 21
Class of’58... you are requested to commence duty. Graduates from the Armidale Teachers College signed a bond promising to teach wherever they were posted and waited anxiously for their first Department appointment. These are their stories. 21
In the library New resources 22
Retired Teachers Association 22 , 23
Social news 22
World fails to act on climate change A United Nations conference has fallen short of delivering real and global action on climate change. 23
In brief 23
Art Express heads out on tour 24
Advertising 24
your say 25
NSW Government should buy historic Colebee site 25
Advertising 26
reviews 27
Film 27 , 28
Inside 27
Computer Corner 28
Advertising 28
Theatre 29 , 30
In brief 29
Federation Library 30
Advertising 30
Corkscrew 31
New at Aboriginal Studies Press 31
Book My Past Life: The Soviet Experience 32
Book Earth Then and Now: Amazing Images of Our Changing World 32
administration 33
"lections to be conducted at March Council 33
Date change for Women's course 33
Advertising 33 , 34 , 35
DT SMITH 35
Snapped in and out of clas 36
Anniversary of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations 36

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EDUCATION  

Journal of the New South Wales Teachers Federation  

Agreement No. PP255003 00104  

Ask Sally if there is an age  

limit on teaching 15  

Plus  

Service transfers  

ROSA 10  

Lunch breaks 15  

March 5, 2012 V0193N02  

Resources delayed are  

resources denied  

The Gonski review has called for governments to immediately increase  

schools funding, including additional recurrent funding of $5 billion.  

The Australian Education Union campaign bus has been touring marginal federal electorates as part of the push to turn the  

Gonski review recommendations into legislation. See stories pages and 6.  

Maurie Mulheron  

President  

"Greater support for govern-  

ment schools is particularly im-  

portant given the need to lift the  

outcomes of greater number of  

students, the comparatively poor  

state of government school in-  

frastructure, and the higher con-  

centrations of disadvantaged stu-  

dents in government schools."  

"The need for the additional ex-  

penditure and the application of  

what those funds can do is urgent.  

Australia will only slip further  

behind unless, as nation, we act  

and act now."  

In essence, these two state-  

ments from the final report from  

the Review of Funding for School-  

ing, chaired by David Gonski,  

encapsulate the central recur-  

ring themes of the panel's find-  

ings: new funding model is es-  

sential, all levels of government  

must commit to increase fund-  

ing to public schools, and as  

nation there is an urgency to act  

now to prevent further entrench-  

ment of social and educational  

disadvantage.  

The much-awaited final report  

of the Gonski review provides  

an historical opportunity for the  

Federal Government, along with  

state governments, to establish  

fairer and more transparent fund-  

ing arrangements. This is the  

most significant school education  

review to have occurred in more  

than 40 years. The report recom-  

mends additional recurrent fund-  

ing of $5 billion of which $3.8 bil-  

lion would be allocated to public  

education.  

After 18 months, during which  

the panel received over 7000 sub-  

missions, undertook numer-  

ous school visits, consulted with  

every stakeholder group across  

all systems, issued discussion  

papers and research findings,  

and gathered feedback, the prior-  

ity now is to ensure that all poli-  

ticians act in the national interest  

and turn the recommendations  

into legislation. As the report  

highlights, the existing funding  

regime is deeply flawed, designed  

to advantage the few over the  

many.  

But the report goes further. It  

exposes that the existing fund-  

ing model, whereby many private  

schools are allowed to operate at  

much higher resource levels than  

government schools, has led to  

profound negative social change.  

It has led to an overall decline in  

achievement levels and has accel-  

erated the gaps between the per-  

formance of students in wealthy  

communities compared to those  

in disadvantaged communities.  

The Gonski report is unequivo-  

cal in its call for all levels of gov-  

ernment to commit to greater  

investment in schools funding.  

While the figure of $5 billion  

has grabbed the headlines, it is  

worth putting this amount into  

some perspective. It represents  

less than 0.5 per cent of GDP. Ac-  

cording to 2011 OECD report,  

Australia's public expenditure on  

schools is ranked 25th out of 32  

OECD countries, which reflects  

the fact that Australia is below the  

OECD average.  

Gonski recognises the need  

to consolidate the many general  

and special purpose programs to  

provide certainty and security  

around recurrent funding. The  

increase of $5 billion is based on  

modelling using 2009 figures.  

Nevertheless, the projected fund-  

ing recognises the "heavy lifting"  

of the public sector that is based  

on enrolment share but also en-  

rolment profile. The greater con-  

centrations of students with  

»  

Current school staffing  

system delivers again  

DEC confirms that public schools in NSW  

were staffed for the new school year.  

Gary Zadkovich  

Deputy President  

The current state-wide staffing  

system has again delivered quali-  

fied teachers to more than 2200  

public schools across NSW for the  

new school year, confirmed DEC  

senior officers at the Staffing Mon-  

itoring Committee meeting on  

February 22.  

In the context of the push by  

state and federal governments to  

replace this system with devolved  

procedures that require schools  

to hunt for staff in competitive  

marketplace, the Department’s  

acknowledgement is highly  

significant.  

While Federation recognises the  

current system could and should  

be improved in number of im-  

portant ways, its effectiveness in  

ensuring curriculum guarantee  

for students through the supply  

of qualified teachers to all parts  

of the state is clear vindication of  

Federation's staffing policy.  

Ensuring that every public  

school student is taught by quali-  

fied teacher is fundamental gov-  

ernment responsibility. This is an  

important challenge given that  

the NSW Auditor-General report-  

ed in February 2008 that half the  

NSW public school full time teach-  

er workforce of 50,000 would reach  

retirement age by 2016.  

Those who say public schools  

should be empowered to locally  

"hire and fire" their teachers mis-  

understand the importance of  

transfer system in attracting teach-  

ers away from the preferred, more  

favoured locations along the east-  

ern seaboard to harder to staff  

schools further west. Under de-  

volved approach, schools in fa-  

voured locations will be winners;  

others in remote or disadvantaged  

areas will be losers. This is neither  

equitable nor fair to students, fam-  

ilies and communities. Nor is it in  

the state or national interest.  

In state as socio-economically  

diverse and geographically vast as  

NSW, the recruitment, retention  

and distribution of teachers cannot  

be achieved without state-wide  

staffing system that includes teach-  

er transfers. Tins system works by  

encouraging teachers to accept an  

appointment in schools they might  

not normally choose, because they  

are given credit for this service and  

priority for appointment to more  

preferred location after set period  

of time.  

»  

How positions are  

being filled  

Figures from the 2010-11 staffing  

operation highlight how the cur-  

rent mixed mode system effec-  

tively balances the opportunity for  

schools to locally select teachers  

to meet particular requirements,  

while ensuring teacher supply for  

students and permanency/employ-  

ment security and career mobility  

for teachers.  

Classroom teacher positions are  

filled as follows:  

• 60 per cent through school-  

based decision from range of  

options. Most of these are filled  

through open advertisement/local  

selection on merit;  

•17 per cent through nominated  

transfers when school’s enrol-  

ment decreases and position is  

abolished, teacher is relocated  

to the nearest suitable vacancy  

in anotherschool.This provides  

permanency/security of tenure for  

teachers in the state-wide teaching  

service;  

•13 per cent through service and  

incentive transfers that provide  

credit for service in harder to staff  

schools and career mobility, and  

compassionate transfers for  

particular reasons;  

• per cent through priority em-  

ployment for new graduates/  

Aboriginal teachers/resumption of  

duty including teachers who  

have taken maternity leave and  

leave without pay for child rearing  

responsibilities.  

Executive teacher positions are  

filled as follows:  

•77 per cent of assistant principal,  

head teacher and deputy principal  

positions through open advertise-  

ment/local selection on merit;  

•69 per cent of principal positions  

through open advertisement/local  

selection on merit.  

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