Archive for the ‘Industrial Issues’ Category

pink on performance pay

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

I was watching question time in Federal Parliament the other night having arrived home from a late school council meeting. I know you must be thinking - what question time? There was a question put to one of the ministers about education and the minister were extolling the virtue ...

League tables

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Over the past week newspapers all over Australia have featured articles and editorials on the Federal Governments new tax payer funded website "My School" which will allow parents [and others] to see how their schools rates against the national average in a series of tests [NAPLAN] and benchmarks [ i.e. ...

Principal’s unhappy with “deal” and stop work.

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

On Wednesday the Australian Principal's Federation [APF] called a stop work over the proposed industrial agreement. Its the first time anyone could remember principal class officers taking industrial action as a group. I took this image at the stop work meeting where over 400 normally conservative principals gathered to express this anger over ...