Australian Education
Australian academics’strike at UNSW: a few observations from the ISSE
By Mathew Benn, September 19, 2009
Academics and general staff at the University of New South Wales went on strike last Wednesday as part of the National Tertiary Education Union’s “National Day of Action”. Members of the Interna...
Australia: University staff strike for “day of action”
By our reporters, September 17, 2009
Members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) at 16 universities stopped work yesterday to fight increased workloads, a blow-out in class sizes, casualisation and other attacks on jobs and c...
Rudd’s Education Revolution “a disaster for universities”
By our reporters, September 17, 2009
Macquarie University’s National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) branch president Carolyn Kennett speaks with the World Socialist Web Site about the deepening assault on public tertiary education tha...
Gillard’s “Teach for Australia”: a corporate-backed assault on teaching
By Katrina Morrison and Laura Tiernan, September 14, 2009
Teach for Australia will parachute unqualified teachers into disadvantaged government schools. Part of the Rudd government’s “education revolution”, the initiative is modelled on Teach for Ameri...
Education deans oppose Teach for Australia
“Teachers need a depth of theoretical understanding”
By Laura Tiernan, September 14, 2009
Since the Rudd government’s Teach for Australia program was first publicly mooted at the start of 2008, it has been condemned by education deans at universities in Sydney and Melbourne.
Australia: International students protest lack of access to student concession cards
By Mathew Benn, September 4, 2009
Hundreds of international students protested in Sydney and Melbourne on Wednesday to demand access to the same student concession cards provided to domestic students.
Australia: NSW teachers union censors debate at mass meeting
By Laura Tiernan, August 28, 2009
Nearly 2,000 teachers packed the Rosehill Racecourse last night to oppose the publication of school league tables. But the New South Wales Teachers Federation worked to block any discussion, debate or...
Defeat Labor’s pro-market “education revolution”!
For a national boycott of NAPLAN by teachers, parents and students!
August 28, 2009
The Rudd Labor government’s “education revolution” constitutes a seismic shift, with every aspect of education, from early-childhood through to adult education, being subject to the full blast o...
Australian teachers union calls for streamlined dismissals
By Erika Zimmer, August 24, 2009
The New South Wales Teachers Federation is openly calling for streamlined procedures to dismiss teachers deemed “poorly performing”.
Australia: Teachers Federation annual conference: a green light for Labor’s pro-market “education revolution”
By Erika Zimmer, July 22, 2009
Last week’s New South Wales Teachers’ Federation annual conference served to deflect widespread opposition among teachers to the Rudd government’s pro-market education reforms.
Labor government continues to starve Australian universities
By Carolyn Robinson, July 9, 2009
The Rudd government’s second budget will drive universities even further down the path of market-driven privatisation and commercialisation.
Australia: League tables and democratic rights—a reply to News Ltd
By Laura Tiernan, July 8, 2009
Behind the moral outcry is a definite political agenda. Murdoch’s columnists and lead-writers are helping the Rudd Labor government push through education reforms opposed by virtually the entire tea...
