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

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Sydney : The Federation, 1919-2021
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Vol. 64 No. 14 (26 Sep 1983)
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JOURNAL OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES TEACHERS FEDERATION  

Vol. 65 No. 14  

September 26, 1983  

Price: 95 cents  

Registered by Australia Post Publication Number N8G1213  

THE BUDGET  

The 1983/84 budget for education represents mixed result for teachers in which once again public  

education has not been treated as well as the private schools or other Government departments on average.  

Public education increases by 7.6%, the budget overall by 9.2% and private schools by 9.5%.  

Infants and primary education which has been the subject of prolonged campaign by the union, has  

received the following in the budget:  

1. relief from face-to-face teaching will be phased in from second term 1984 for class and class schools by  

the provision of 95 teachers in full year. The department informs us that the basis of the initial step will be  

one hour per week. It should be pointed out that the great bulk of cost involved would be borne by monies  

made available from next year's budget, rather than this years. While this development is significant, it is far  

smaller than the Federation would have hoped for.  

2. The budget refers to 108 teachers being made available for special education. This is misleading as the 108  

teachers are to cover variety of specialised areas, including multicultural, Aboriginal and special education.  

Thirty of the 108 positions are secondary positions. This initiative will make little impression on the  

Government's report on special education and the needs of 100,000 students.  

3. Teacher librarians the equivalent of 30 additional teacher librarian positions have been made available  

to provide an additional one day per week in the enrolment band 376 to 600. This is going to achieve very  

little for the 90% of students who have library that is not open five days per week.  

4. Capital works and maintenance. Capital works has been increased by 24% and there has been an even  

more significant increase in the provision of monies for maintenance. This is applicable to infants, primary  

and secondary education. It should be kept in mind, however, that last year's cut-back in capital works  

expenditure saw only 105 of the 120 million dollars available spent on capital works. The other slsm was  

used to employ permanent and casual teachers. The large increase is therefore from this low starting point.  

better guide is the funds available for capital expenditure from two years ago which amounted to SI 46 m.  

Because the betterments are not as significant as they should be there will still be loss of just under 500  

infants and primary jobs. Secondary employment on the other hand, will increase by 950 for enrolments and  

30 for the betterments mentioned earlier. Ancillary staff is to be increased by 71 because of the needs of new  

and developing schools, Aboriginal teacher aides and special education teacher aides. For schools that do not  

fit these criteria, there is in fact, net reduction in ancillary staff of 55.  

In TAPE the capital works and staffing situation is disappointing. Three hundred extra TAFE jobs will be  

provided but this contrasts with the Education Commission's view that 395 were needed simply to meet an  

anticipated enrolment increase of 16,000 students which the Commission said may still be short of the needs.  

It can be expected therefore, that students will once again be turned away from TAFE colleges.  

TAFE is one of the few areas of the State budget where significant increase in capital was not provided.  

Indeed, the 2.2% growth in capital works funds represents real cut. It is hard to equate the words of the  

Commonwealth and State Governments about their concern for TAFE with their poor performance in the  

capital area.  

Overall the budget reflects the need for the Government to defend itself in the various areas on which we  

have campaigned. That it has done so by small provisions in these areas will be obvious to everyone. Clearly,  

the Federation must continue to campaign vigorously if the consistent efforts by the State Government to  

cut-back expenditure on public education are to be stopped.  

Max Taylor  

PRESIDENT  

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