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Fix this textJOURNAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS FEDERATION
Fix this textVol. 65 No. 14
Fix this textSeptember 26, 1983
Fix this textPrice: 95 cents
Fix this textRegistered by Australia Post Publication Number N8G1213
Fix this textTHE BUDGET
Fix this textThe 1983/84 budget for education represents a mixed result for teachers in which once again public
Fix this texteducation has not been treated as well as the private schools or other Government departments on average.
Fix this textPublic education increases by 7.6%, the budget overall by 9.2% and private schools by 9.5%.
Fix this textInfants and primary education which has been the subject of a prolonged campaign by the union, has
Fix this textreceived the following in the budget:
Fix this text1. relief from face-to-face teaching will be phased in from second term 1984 for class 3 and class 4 schools by
Fix this textthe provision of 95 teachers in a full year. The department informs us that the basis of the initial step will be
Fix this textone hour per week. It should be pointed out that the great bulk of cost involved would be borne by monies
Fix this textmade available from next year's budget, rather than this years. While this development is significant, it is far
Fix this textsmaller than the Federation would have hoped for.
Fix this text2. The budget refers to 108 teachers being made available for special education. This is misleading as the 108
Fix this textteachers are to cover a variety of specialised areas, including multicultural, Aboriginal and special education.
Fix this textThirty of the 108 positions are secondary positions. This initiative will make little impression on the
Fix this textGovernment's report on special education and the needs of 100,000 students.
Fix this text3. Teacher librarians the equivalent of 30 additional teacher librarian positions have been made available
Fix this textto provide an additional one day per week in the enrolment band 376 to 600. This is going to achieve very
Fix this textlittle for the 90% of students who have a library that is not open five days per week.
Fix this text4. Capital works and maintenance. Capital works has been increased by 24% and there has been an even
Fix this textmore significant increase in the provision of monies for maintenance. This is applicable to infants, primary
Fix this textand secondary education. It should be kept in mind, however, that last year's cut-back in capital works
Fix this textexpenditure saw only 105 of the 120 million dollars available spent on capital works. The other slsm was
Fix this textused to employ permanent and casual teachers. The large increase is therefore from this low starting point. A
Fix this textbetter guide is the funds available for capital expenditure from two years ago which amounted to SI 46 m.
Fix this textBecause the betterments are not as significant as they should be there will still be a loss of just under 500
Fix this textinfants and primary jobs. Secondary employment on the other hand, will increase by 950 for enrolments and
Fix this text30 for the betterments mentioned earlier. Ancillary staff is to be increased by 71 because of the needs of new
Fix this textand developing schools, Aboriginal teacher aides and special education teacher aides. For schools that do not
Fix this textfit these criteria, there is in fact, a net reduction in ancillary staff of 55.
Fix this textIn TAPE the capital works and staffing situation is disappointing. Three hundred extra TAFE jobs will be
Fix this textprovided but this contrasts with the Education Commission's view that 395 were needed simply to meet an
Fix this textanticipated enrolment increase of 16,000 students which the Commission said may still be short of the needs.
Fix this textIt can be expected therefore, that students will once again be turned away from TAFE colleges.
Fix this textTAFE is one of the few areas of the State budget where a significant increase in capital was not provided.
Fix this textIndeed, the 2.2% growth in capital works funds represents a real cut. It is hard to equate the words of the
Fix this textCommonwealth and State Governments about their concern for TAFE with their poor performance in the
Fix this textcapital area.
Fix this textOverall the budget reflects the need for the Government to defend itself in the various areas on which we
Fix this texthave campaigned. That it has done so by small provisions in these areas will be obvious to everyone. Clearly,
Fix this textthe Federation must continue to campaign vigorously if the consistent efforts by the State Government to
Fix this textcut-back expenditure on public education are to be stopped.
Fix this textMax Taylor
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Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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