Media Release: Thousands of suspensions of the most vulnerable students The most at risk children in NSW schools – who have one of three three key indicators of disadvantage, Aboriginality, disability or being in Residential Out of Home Care – are the most...
Make a submission to this inquiry and tell the Parliament that universities are more than just servants of corporations. Make a submission here by 24 July. The inquiry was referred by Mark Latham and is an attempt to get a NSW Parliament to adopt the position that...
The NSW Auditor General’s report into the failed Local Schools Local Decisions (LSLD) program shows how mismanaged and misdirected this multi-billion dollar experiment has been. With public schools desperately needing more resourcing to address the impacts of the...
Media Release: Parents and teachers need a plan for school closures and supervision The NSW Government must immediately develop options for retaining minimal supervision at NSW schools if a decision is made to close schools to deal with covid-19. The current...
Media release: TAFE HECS plans raise prospect of increased fees 25 February 2020 The NSW Government proposal to introduce the HECS system for TAFE students raises the very real prospect of significant fee increases, and the risk of high level debt for students doing...
The latest TAFE procurement tender will see essential curriculum planning for vocational education being outsourced. This is the outcome of years of Liberal Government cuts to vocational education which are resulting in key skills being lost, and core functions being...
Information received by the Greens, following a threat to censure the Education Minister, shows that public schools across NSW have $1.3 billion in unspent money. Averaged across the states 2,200 public schools this equates to almost $600,000 unspent for every school....
After pressure from the NSW Upper House the Government has finally released a secret report on the controversial Confucius Classrooms in NSW schools. The report discloses how the NSW Government signed an agreement with the Confucius Institute Headquarters of China...
Figures obtained by NSW Greens MP David Shoebridge show that some of the wealthiest and most exclusive private schools in NSW are hoovering up millions of taxpayer funds. Knox Grammar School which recently opened its $47 million dollar performing arts centre, charged...
The administration of Wollongong University is selling off the campus from under their students’ feet, with a proposed development on a quarter of the site including a retirement facility in association with property developer LendLease. Greens MP and...
Far reaching changes to the treatment of students with special needs have been recommended by a unanimous NSW Parliamentary Inquiry and should be a wake-up call to the government. The report handed down today sets a new path for special needs education and includes a...
