Learn, grow, connect, inspire - this was the theme of the most recent QTU Women's conference held in the June holidays. Four words with a lot of meaning and a lot to deliver.
Applications for the QTU’s Roselynne Anderson Scholarship are now open.
The QTU is proud to be hosting the 2024 Dr Evelyn Scott Memorial Lecture, which this year will be held in Parliament House.
In May, stakeholders attended a Teacher Workforce Roundtable to discuss the challenges faced by the teacher shortage crisis.
Fitness Passport is a discounted workplace health and fitness program available to employees and their families.
Our teachers and school leaders are committed to maintaining up-to-date professional knowledge and skills.
The QTU’s New Educator Network (NEN) program continues its decade-long success in supporting early career teachers’ development as Workplace Representatives.
The QTU has brought forward the EB11 claim development process by six months to ensure that it is completed before the state election, so the key items can be put to the major parties and commitments can be sought before the people of Queensland go to the polls on October 26.
The Miles government brought down its pre-election State Budget on Tuesday, 11 June. The Budget featured a number of cost-of-living measures that will generally be welcomed, increased funding for health, and a continuing program of infrastructure development. But what was in it for education?
Special schools and special school teachers play a crucial role in providing education and support to students with a variety of diverse learning needs.
The urgent need for the full funding of state schools is underlined in new research that reveals acute teacher shortages across Queensland, unsustainable teacher workloads, and alarming declines in student and teacher wellbeing.
The latest Federal Budget failed to deliver. On Budget night, Canberra was abuzz about cost-of-living measures, paid practicums, teaching scholarships, HECS debt relief, and more. However, the Budget was strangely silent on state schools, teachers, education support staff, and students.
The needs-based funding system agreed to by the Commonwealth and state and territory governments uses a resource standard to determine how much money a school or school system needs to meet the needs of its students. That resource standard is called the schooling resource standard (SRS).
As QTU WHS Organiser, I had the opportunity to work-shadow the team from the Department of Education’s Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) Assurance Program – ITD focus.
All workers have the right to a safe and healthy work environment – including those who work in schools and TAFE.
The QTU Women’s Conference is held biennially in the first two days of the winter break. The 2024 edition was a great success, with around 130 delegates from across Queensland in attendance.
Queensland unions have welcomed the state government’s first tranche of substantive amendments to the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991, but says further reform must be taken to better protect working Queenslanders from faith-based discrimination.
On 9 January 1889, 23 teachers and principals from schools across the colony of Queensland met in Brisbane to establish the first teachers’ union on this continent – the Queensland Teachers’ Union (QTU).
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Congress 2024 was held in Adelaide (in person for the first time since 2018) and came at a significant time for the union movement and society at large.
More than 200 representatives from major private health funds and health services across the world have attended the International Federation of Health Plans (iFHP) Biennial Conference in Paris.
many people realise. As a public servant, you have additional responsibilities when it comes to having an online presence or publishing material online. These can have very serious real-world implications when it comes to your employment.
School opinion survey 2024
School opinion surveys open between 22 July and 16 August, and we often field a number of questions from members at this time. Here are some of the most frequently asked questions.
Retirees are supposed to “stop and look at the flowers,” but do they really take the time to do this?
