Australian Education Union

The organisation that represents Australian public school, early childhood and TAFE teachers, education leaders and education support staff industrially and professionally.

THE EDUCATOR

Turning point

Back-to-back crises in 2020 have laid bare the dangerous inequalities of Australia’s school funding. But could they at last provide the springboard for levelling up?

TAFE TEACHER

New Zealand Ditches Marketisation Model

Since 2018, the vocational education and training sector in Aotearoa New Zealand has been going through a period of radical and exciting transition, with reforms that will see the most significant changes to the sector in a generation.

NEWS

Prominent Australians supporting public education

“Public education has been central to the fight against Covid-19 in 2020. From the outset, and even as the health strategy changed as circumstances changed, public school educators acted in the same spirit in which public schools were established – in the public interest and for the common good..” Professor Emeritus Alan Reid AM, University of South Australia.