Whenever I’m asked “What’s the Union doing about (..........)”, I am reminded of the diverse views within the QTU’s membership.
Michelle Peters has been named this year’s QTU Emma Miller Award winner.
Tuesday 10 September was National TAFE Day, a chance to recognise the extraordinary dedication and skills of TAFE teachers across the nation who are delivering high-quality vocational education for their students...
The Australian Education Union has announced the Queensland winner of its “The Heart of TAFE” photography competition.
Properly funded public education is broadly supported by communities across Australia. The injustice of governments overfunding the most privileged schools while state schools, including those educating children facing the greatest disadvantage, remain underfunded below minimum standards must end.
On World Teachers’ Day, we celebrate the immeasurable difference teachers make in the lives of their students, communities, and colleagues.
At the time of writing, the QTU has not yet received formal responses from the parties addressing the QTU 2024 State Election Asks.
On Saturday 7 October, QTU officers and members attended the South East Queensland launch of the Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) “Fighting for Queenslanders” campaign.
The QTU has received concerns from members, via branches, in relation to the roll out of updated senior secondary syllabuses by the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA) and some of the conflicting information around what resources will be updated and provided to support this roll out.
Delegates at August State Council endorsed an interest based bargaining approach that focusses on developing mutually beneficial agreements to address often complex issues, rather than focusing on an oppositional “win or lose” fixed position.
The 2024 Dr Evelyn Scott Memorial Lecture, which is hosted annually by the QTU to bring people together in pursuit of justice for First Nations Peoples, has been delivered by Dr Janine Gertz, Research Fellow at University of Queensland’s Centre for Indigenous Futures.
School community engagement with diverse learners − from the highly able to those with complex individual needs or those who have been impacted by trauma − is intense, time-consuming, and multidimensional.
From the beginning for Term 4, the QTU will again be offering a cost-of-living membership offer.
In early August, the Department of Education sent out a draft strategy aimed at providing a high-level approach to address and prevent occupational violence and aggression (OVA) in department workplaces and to support staff, students, and the community.
Wear It Purple Day is an annual event celebrated in many schools across Australia and overseas, designed to celebrate LGBTQIA+ youth.
At the end of Term 3, the QTU became aware of an issue with the DoE’s communications to members regarding guaranteed, requested and required transfer outcomes.
As part of the last EB, the DoE committed to reviewing the teacher transfer and mobility processes for teachers and classified officers.
October is National Safe Work Month (NSWM) – a time to commit to building safe and healthy workplaces for all Australians.
Workers are more productive, more engaged, absent less and less likely to experience workplace injuries when health and wellbeing is part of their daily working lives.
The QTU has being receiving calls from members complaining about fencing.
Mould generally grows in warm or moist conditions, including where there is water leakage, and so is a specific and potential work health and safety (WHS) hazard. Queensland’s tropical climate makes exposure to the hazard of mould a foreseeable risk.
As part of Safe Work Month in October, the Queensland Teachers’ Education Centre (QTEC) is hosting a series of one-hour webinars to promote and support safe and healthy workplaces for our members.
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).
When something different is about to occur, as is frequently the case in a workplace setting, investing the time and thinking to develop and implement a process that allows for meaningful consultation to occur can produce significant dividends.
Teachers, like other professionals, may sometimes receive subpoenas related to their role, or for the purposes of seeking information about a particular student.
There are five student free days (25 hours) in 2025, which all permanent (full and part-time) teachers must attend or make up the hours (refer below for more detail on part-time teachers).
The quotation “Man shall not live by bread alone” is mentioned several times in the Bible, and it is something that many come to live by. However, I fear that it has been taken too literally, for some of the woes of our country stem from that fact that some of us have over-indulged in the good things of life.
