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There’s much more to maintaining a school than meets the eye. Matthew Downey’s work is crucial to keeping his regional primary school running. When Matthew…
There is no silver bullet for the teacher workload crisis. But recognising the changing roles and increased expertise of support staff is a great place…
Future Perfect: Overseas opportunities
If you’d like to try teaching overseas, now is the time to start looking. Given the general shortage of good teachers worldwide, you should have…
Record student numbers arriving in Australia, with more than 700,000 student-visa holders in the country at the end of February. The pandemic and associated border…
Future Perfect: Law changes for the better
Over the past 18 months, the federal government has passed three tranches of industrial relations laws, ushering in many positive changes for working people. Two…
The IEU has recently concluded bargaining with three colleges, with outcomes providing meaningful benefits for members. These agreements provide benefits over and above the basic…
Major wins for Catholic systemic principals
Principals in Catholic systemic schools have voted for their new enterprise agreements (EA). Results have started coming in. Principals in nine dioceses have voted up…
The Federal Government has passed three tranches of industrial relations laws to get wages moving and provide better protections for working people. But all of…
Never far from the students
Elizabeth O’Callaghan was awarded an OAM for Services to Education in the Australia Day Honours List 2024 for her long career mentoring students, teachers and…
Stay in touch with your union
The IEU holds regular meetings for principal members. They take place at the IEU head office, 485-501 Wattle St, Ultimo NSW or via Zoom. This…