The federal government has set a deadline of June 30 for the states to accept their 2 for 1 deal on school funding. > Read more

The Australian Education Union has condemned the Opposition Leader’s outright rejection of the landmark Gonski reforms in his Budget Reply speech tonight in Parliament.  > Read more

AEU members in a number of schools and TAFEs around the state will take part in this year's IDAHO Day (International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia). > Read more

The Australian Greens have secured a Senate inquiry into NAPLAN testing to examine widespread concern the tests are having unintended consequences on teaching and student learning.  > Read more

Public schools will become more like private schools – because that’s what parents want – under a Federal Coalition government, shadow education minister Christopher Pyne told a CEDA lunch in Adelaide yesterday. > Read more

The 2013 PAC Handbook is now available. All AEU members, particularly those who hold a position on the PAC, are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the content. > Read more

A social media outcry last week forced the withdrawal of a television commercial linking a children's fish-extract supplement to success in the NAPLAN tests.  > Read more

AEU members in our schools, preschools and regional and district offices are understandably concerned about possible changes proposed in the DECD Brighter Futures program. > Read more

The Australian Education Union has welcomed the news today of the NSW State Government committing to the Gonski schools funding reforms in that state. > Read more

The Australian Education Union said today that the eyes of parents of every school-age child will be firmly fixed on the political leaders meeting at the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) tomorrow in Canberra.  Gonski is on the top of the agenda.  > Read more

The Australian Education Union said the way was now clear for an historic agreement on Gonski at the COAG meeting next Friday. > Read more

AEU SA State President Correna Haythorpe has welcomed PM Gillard’s commitment to allocate $14.5 billion in extra resourcing as a result of the Gonski school funding reforms announcement today. > Read more

The urgent need for more equitable funding arrangements recommended by the Gonski Review has been confirmed by new research which reveals the extent of the social divide in Australian schools. > Read more

The Australian Education Union has today slammed QLD Premier Newman’s glib tweet from this morning describing Gonski as a ‘great big tax slug on the super of hardworking Queenslanders’. > Read more

AMY LEVAI (nee O'Donoghue) was the first Aboriginal teacher to be trained and permitted to teach in South Australia. Sadly, Amy passed away on Good Friday, aged 82. > Read more

The Australian Education Union has begun a new advertising campaign in Queensland highlighting the urgent need for Premier Campbell Newman to take action on the findings of the Gonski Review. > Read more

Enjoy one month’s free health cover and 2 & 6 months waived* if you join Teachers Health Fund by 30 April 2013! > Read more

The Australian Education Union SA Branch State Council is calling on Liberal Spokesman for Education, David Pisoni, to apologise to public school teachers, or step aside from his position.  > Read more

Australian Education Union Federal President Angelo Gavrielatos has today welcomed the announcement of a parliamentary Inquiry into TAFE. > Read more

Nominations for the AEU WILD Program are now closed. > Read more