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. 52 No. 12 (21 Jul 1971)
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education JOURNAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS' FEDERATION 1
Federation Council on CRISIS! Call for Minister^ resignation! FACING WHAT FUTURE? 1
WHEN DID YOU GET THIS ISSUE? 1
In this issue: 1
Executive Meets 1 , 3
education 2
Editorial Compulsory Sport and the Teacher Shortage: 2
The President Writes: 2
Hawke to Talk Union University Seminar 2
Annual Conference Topics 2
Court Controlled Ballot 2
St. George Association An end to Playground Duty? 3
New South Wales Teachers’ Federation Nominations for the Election of Correspondence and Interviewing Officer 3
Epping Boys' High: Staff Action on Crisis 3
PRIMARY& INFANTS August 7 Conference: priorities & proposals for action... 4
NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS’ FEDERATION Nominations for the election of Organiser 5
Grantham High: Parents support Teachers 5
State Aid Swindle! 5
Education in S.A. The Karmel Report 6
Advertising 6
TEACHER-TAX A GUIDE TO HELP YOU PREPARE YOUR 1971 INCOME TAX RETURN 7
BEFORE FILLING IN THE FORM 8
WHAT YOU MAY CLAIM FOR DEPENDANTS 8
MEDICAL & RETIREMENT EXPENSES 9
Extra time for trainee teachers 9
EDUCATION EXPENSES, SCHOLARSHIPS, 10 , 11
LAND AND WATER RATES 10 , 11
ALLOWANCES: CLAIM FOR ALL YOO CAN 12
CLOTHING, CONTRIBUTIONS & OBJECTIONS 13
Advertising 14
Pre-school problems 15
Promotions List Appeals Against Non-Placement 15
Letters to the editor: An American Visitor 16
Pollution Feature Praised 16
Chatswood Request 16
Country Criticism 16
Advertising 16
N.S.W. v. The Rest 16
Advertising 16
Education and Teacher Assessments 17
Sydney Synagogue 17
June Report: Australian Teachers’ Federation 17
Advertising 17 , 18
Association Reports: Stewart House Generous Contributions Received 18
Primary Specialists 18
Fairfield-Liverpool Teachers’ Association 18
Obituary Richard (Dick) Healey 18
Advertising 18 , 19
Stewart House 19
federation library 19
EDUCATION CROSSWORD No. 137 19
Advertising 19
WORKING CONDITIONS: 20

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education  

JOURNAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS' FEDERATION  

Vol. 52, No.  

JULY 21, 1971  

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Federation Council on CRISIS!  

Call  

for  

Minister^  

resignation!  

FACING WHAT FUTURE?  

The efforts of Federation to publicise  

the staffing crisis in New South Wales in  

1972, reported in the July 7,1971, issue  

of Education have borne some fruit.  

When that issue went to press the Minister  

had agreed to meet the three senior officers  

of the Federation and the general secretary,  

on Tuesday, July 1, to discuss the staffing  

crisis and ways in which it could be over-  

come. This was the first occasion since  

October last year that the Minister has  

allowed deputation from Federation.  

Minister’s Announcement  

On staffing the Minister said:  

Cabinet had approved of the setting up  

of an enquiry to establish the reasons for  

resignations of teachers and dropouts among  

teacher trainees.  

Stage 111 of the ancillary staff plan will  

be implemented immediately, commencing  

with the secondary schools and then pro-  

ceeding to the primary schools.  

The request has been made to the  

Treasury for additional officers to go to  

the United Kingdom in connection with the  

recruiting campaign and more attention  

would be given to Scotland and Northern  

Ireland.  

■ There will be an extension of the crash  

courses for graduates and they will take all  

suitable applicants. He will look at the  

question of taking into these courses appli-  

cants who are not Australian citizens.  

The employment of superannuated  

teachers who had not reached the age of  

65 had been discussed with Cabinet and is  

being looked at by Mr. Maddison, Minister  

of Justice as matter of policy.  

■ They will take up the question of the  

early release of the report of the Working  

Party on Inspections.  

■ He will talk with the Minister for  

Housing and Minister for De-centralisation  

to see if special allocation of houses for  

teachers could be made in country areas as  

are made when new industry is established  

and will also raise this in relation to certain  

outer metropolitan areas, such as Green  

Valley and Mount Druitt.  

He will look at the question of the pay-  

ment of return fares to Australian teachers  

overseas as possible short term solution.  

He is not prepared to make any recom-  

mendation to Cabinet for teachers to be  

released from national service.  

On teacher education, the Minister said:  

“A minute has gone to Cabinet requesting  

that teachers’ colleges be declared Colleges  

of Advanced Education. This would involve  

all teachers’ colleges being declared C.A.E.’s  

as from certain date with the retention  

of their present staff. However, the neces-  

sary administrative procedures would be  

implemented over period of time. As  

C.A.E. the colleges would grant terminal  

awards which would be acceptable through-  

out Australia.”  

Minister’s News Release  

In his news release on the same day however  

the Minister placed the main emphasis for  

the crisis on the wastage at teachers’  

colleges.  

He said: “In its six years of office the  

Government has extended the period of  

teacher training, expanded the total teaching  

strength by more than 36 per cent, and has  

almost doubled the number of teacher train-  

ing scholarships.  

“Despite this concentration on teacher  

tiaining, wastage of students has accelerated  

to such an extent as to make it extremely  

difficult for the Education Department to  

plan effectively.  

“I am strongly of the opinion under these  

circumstances that the widest possible review  

of the system should be undertaken.  

“It will consider methods of selection, pro-  

gress within courses, attitudes to teaching,  

adequacy of existing courses and proposals  

for new courses in teacher education.  

“I will ensure that the enquiry will com-  

mence with the minimum possible delay.”  

Many of the points discussed with the  

Federation deputation were not mentioned  

at all.  

Director-General Confers  

The deputation with the Minister was fol-  

lowed by conference between Federation,  

the Public Service Board and the Director-  

General. The attitude of the Department to  

the Federation can be gauged from the fact  

that the press were given the Director-  

General’s statement before Federation. His  

statement was also misleading, suggesting that  

Federation was willing party to decisions  

contrary to Federation policy.  

Department’s Decision  

The Director-General stated: Resulting from  

conferences between the Director-General of  

Education, the Public Service Board and the  

N.S.W. Teachers’ Federation, the staffing of  

schools for 1972 is being planned on the  

following basis:  

(1) The patterns of elective subjects avail-  

able to pupils who will enter Forms II and  

in 1972 will be rationalised. Pupils who  

seek to study an elective which is not avail-  

able at their own school will be given every  

possible assistance to pursue studies of  

their choice.  

(2) School sport will cease to be com-  

pulsory part of the curriculum, but may be  

offered by individual schools as an optional  

extra activity, still within the normal school  

week.  

(3) Assistant teachers will be relieved of  

three periods previously devoted to the  

teaching and supervision of sport, but instead  

will be allocated an extra two periods for  

classroom teaching.  

“These changes are proposed to enable  

schools to offer full programme of teach-  

ing in 1972,” Mr. Verco said. “They are  

being taken in conjunction with the stepped-  

up overseas recruitment activity, the results  

of which recently have been encouraging.  

Other measures which are being taken in-  

clude the employment of more than 1000  

additional ancillary staff and an augmented  

programme of teacher education for  

graduates wishing to become teachers.  

“The hours of duty of teachers will not  

be increased.  

“The Government has provided funds in  

excess of $3 million for payment of fees to  

teachers who teach and supervise sport.  

“Every effort is being made to ensure  

adequate educational opportunity for all  

secondary pupils in the coming year, but  

the necessity to adopt these measures has  

become unavoidable, having regard to the  

short-fall of teachers expected in 1972.”  

The Director-General’s statement proved  

that the Department had completely lost  

control of the organisation of secondary  

education in New South Wales for 1972. The  

“temporary” measures for 1971 pale into  

insignificance alongside these further inroads  

into education.  

WHEN DID YOU GET  

THIS ISSUE?  

Federation has received numerous  

complaints about the late arrival of  

“Education” at schools.  

We would like to know how late it is  

in arriving at your school, so fill in the  

coupon below and let us know.  

NAME:  

SCHOOL:  

DATE OF ISSUE:  

DATE RECEIVED:  

Contact your local post office as well.  

If they know you’re anxious to get  

“Education” this may expedite delivery!  

In this issue:  

Playground Duty. St. George Association  

argues against playground duty for teachers.  

P. 116.  

Primary Conference. Letters from primary  

and infants’ teachers. P. 116.  

Working Conditions. Further resolutions on  

working conditions by school staffs and  

associations. P. 128.  

Tax Guide. detailed explanation for  

teachers filling out taxation returns. Take-  

out supplement. Pp. 119-122.  

Executive Meets  

Federation Executive spent the bulk of its  

meeting on Tuesday, July 6, discussing the  

Director-General’s solutions. Strike action  

was considered, but deferred while schools  

were canvassed on their views. Every high  

school and central school in the State was  

contacted by telegram and their decisions  

were considered at the adjourned Executive  

meeting on Friday, July 9.  

Over 75% of school staffs had replied by  

Friday evening. These replies showed an  

overwhelming rejection of the abolition of  

compulsory sport: the two extra teaching  

periods in lieu of sport were also soundly  

rejected.  

However, many replies requested more  

time and information before approving strike  

action. Although majority of replies  

favoured strike action Executive deferred  

recommendation of this extreme step until  

the Department’s decisions were further  

considered by members.  

Council meets  

On Saturday, July 10, Federation Council  

met to consider the recommendations from  

Executive and passed two resolutions on the  

staffing crisis.  

Publicity Fund  

The first resolution directed Federation to  

set up publicity and action fund of $lOO,OOO  

and reads as follows:  

(a) That $lOO,OOO be allocated for pub-  

licity and action fund and that of this  

$lOO,OOO one fifth of the amount at least  

be allocated to local Associations and  

schools, particularly in country areas, to  

protest at the:- —  

1. Failure of the Commonwealth Government  

to provide greater percentage of the Gross  

National Product to Education, comparable  

to other affluent countries viz. Canada,  

Sweden.  

2. Failure of the State Government to  

establish an Education Commission as pro-  

mised.  

3. Failure to implement its ancillary staffing  

programme for primary schools and set up  

the promised enquiry into the further ancil-  

lary staff required.  

4. Failure to develop ancillary services in  

technical colleges in accordance with pre-  

sent day needs.  

5. Failure to provide for reduction in class  

sizes for primary and secondary schools and  

technical colleges.  

Cont. on Page 115, Col.  

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N.S.W. Teachers' Federation & New South Wales Public School Teachers' Federation. (1919). Education : journal of the N.S.W. Public School Teachers Federation Retrieved May 24, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-727264102

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