TAFE is the principal provider of VET in this country. In order to maintain the high standards for which TAFE is renowned, employees need to work together with a joint sense of purpose.
As a team, lecturers, lecturers assistants, hourly paid instructors and educational managers share common interests in job security, working conditions, career development and salary justice. These common interests are protected and developed by the AEU which works exclusively in the education industry, and is the only body which consistently lobbies on behalf of TAFE employees. As a large and effective union, we are able to protect and improve your conditions and pay.
TAFE Division
Members are assigned to a sub-branch, usually the work group or campus. Sub-branches nominate delegates who represent those members at TAFE Divisional Council.
TAFE Divisional Council's role is to determine AEU policy and direction in relation to TAFE issues and to provide advice and make recommendations to AEU Branch Executive.
TAFE Divisional Council meets four times a year and comprises delegates elected from the AEU's TAFE sub-branches.
Articles
- TAFE members to rally in city today
A giant Christmas card signed by TAFE AEU members is being hand delivered to the TAFE Minister Tom Kenyon today, asking that he be Santa instead of Scrooge regarding skills training. > Read more
- Take the State of our TAFEs survey
Once again the AEU will be conducting the State of our TAFEs Survey. > Read more
- VIDEO: Skills for All a copy of failed Victorian reforms
TAFE members filled the AEU Conference Room last week for an important seminar on VET reform. > Read more
- Crisis in Victorian TAFE: 16 of 18 institutes under extreme financial pressure
The Victorian Government has opened all government VET funding up to private providers. TAFE providers in Victoria now have to compete, on cost, with private for profit RTOs to deliver training. > Read more
- Skills for All will lead to demise of TAFE
AEU Federal TAFE Secretary Pat Forward is interviewed on 891 ABC regarding the State Government's proposed reforms to the VET sector. > Read more
- TAFE folly: privatisation fears for SA
Educators are mounting a fierce campaign against the privatisation of TAFE in South Australia, fearing it will bankrupt the sector just as demand for skills is set to soar. > Read more
- Letter campaign sparks reaction
Last term, 350 TAFE members sent letters of protest about the implementation of Skills for All to state MPs > Read more
- A Guide for Educational Managers: Instruction and Assessment: what is the AEU view?
A guide to assist managers in dealing with workload scheduling has been circulated by DFEEST. > Read more
- The great SIS debacle
The premature and unduly hasty introduction of the new Student Information System (SIS) in TAFE has led to massive disruption to student enrolments, attendance recording, assessment and reporting of results. > Read more
- Staff Perceptions Survey - culture and capacity
TAFESA employees have recently received an invitation to respond to the 2011 Staff Perceptions Survey which is the successor to the Bulb Surveys conducted on two earlier occasions. > Read more
- Tough times ahead for TAFE
Recent announcements both at a state and federal level have set the scene for the most radical overhaul of the VET system in living memory. > Read more
- Invest in Quality, Invest in TAFE
Invest in Quality, Invest in TAFE has been the theme of the AEU campaign over the past 18 months to confront Federal and State Government policies of contestable VET funding and oppose second rate training outcomes. > Read more
- 29 reasons to become a member of the AEU
In the last arbitrated decision a number of significant gains were achieved on management of workload and modes of employment. > Read more
- Federal Government considering subsidy increase for private VET providers
The future of TAFE is set to be determined in the next 12 months with fears that the Federal Government will try and use a new funding deal to deliver far greater subsidies to private providers. > Read more
- AEU response to Skills Australia "roadmap"
Skills Australia released “Skills for prosperity: a roadmap for vocational education and training,” on May 3, 2011. > Read more
- TAFE Governance Proposal
As a consequence of the recent round of “consultations” over the proposals to corporatise TAFE as set out in the TAFE SA Governance position paper, a special meeting of the AEU TAFE Divisional Council was held last week. > Read more
- Know your rights regarding workload scheduling
Under the current TAFE SA Education Staff Arbitrated Enterprise Bargaining Award 2011, the rights of employees are clearly spelled out in the various clauses in Part 5 “Regulation of Workload." > Read more
- VET workforce of the future
In the past two years, there has been a very welcome re-focussing in TAFE and VET on the importance of those who work in the sector, and particularly on those who are integral to its central mission – teachers. > Read more
- TAFE discussion paper released
The AEU has released a discussion paper: A future framework for TAFE teacher qualifications, professional development and registration. > Read more
- TAFE Update: permanency conversions and lecturer progressions
The latest information from DFEEST is that of the total of 549 lecturers on contract as of 15 November, 376 have been offered conversion to permanent employment. > Read more
- TAFE Award implementation - an update
There are a number of matters arising from the new TAFE SA Education Staff Arbitrated Enterprise Bargaining Award 2010 that impact directly on members. > Read more
- Managing workload in TAFE
During arbitration of the TAFE Award, the AEU successfully argued, based on some excellent witness statements from members, that lecturers were experiencing significantly increased workloads. > Read more
- State Budget and TAFE
In the recent state budget, there were a number of announcements which will or may impact on TAFE members. > Read more
- TAFE salary rates
TAFE schedule as of October 1, 2010 > Read more
- TAFE Award implementation update
Last Thursday, the Industrial Relations Commission handed down the stage three determination and informed the Government and the AEU that the new Arbitrated Awards for DECS and TAFE employees would be operative from Friday 3 September. > Read more
- Lecturer role desciptors
Recently, it came to the attention of the AEU that lecturers, particularly in TAFE SA North, were being pressured to sign new Role Descriptors that had been developed. > Read more
- TAFE Lecturer 6 progression
The AEU is hearing mixed messages from campuses about the process of lecturers progressing from level 5 to level 6 > Read more
- Skills for All - is it good for VET?
Members should familiarise themselves with the Skills for All consultation paper although it is pretty clear that this paper outlines the direction the State Government is heading in and any feedback that is at odds with the ten point reform plan is unlikely to be welcomed > Read more
- TAFE Arbitration - Stage 2
The Industrial Relations Commission of South Australia today handed down Stage 2 of its TAFE arbitration decision. > Read more
- Lecturer Classification Structure now operative
As part of the South Australian Industrial Relations Commission's Decision No. 1 handed down on 10 February 2010, the new Lecturer Classification Structure becomes operative from the first pay period on or after 1 May 2010. > Read more
- Invest in Quality, Invest in TAFE
Keep public VET by supporting the campaign for increased government investment in TAFE. > Read more