Education & TAFE

Maintaining the best standards in public education must be the number one priority of government.

Every student has the right to feel safe at school, irrespective of their race, religious beliefs, gender identity or sexuality. 

Every student has a right to feel safe at school - Irrespective of their race, religious beliefs, their gender identity or sexuality.

The Government is pumping density all through the inner west but there's no sign of planning for the community infrastructure we need.

I was proud to host some of Summer Hill's most outstanding Indigenous students this week and to announce Isaac Bamblett of De La Salle College Ashfield as the Summer Hill Aboriginal Student of the Year.

The impact of Baird’s cuts are being felt here in the inner west – we’ve already lost Petersham West St campus by stealth and residents are right to fear for the future of Enmore and other TAFE campuses across Sydney.

Petersham TAFE West Street campus is the latest victim of the Baird Government's ideological war on TAFE. Staff and students have been told the campus will close by the end of 2016. Some were told to pack their bags by the end of the week

Jo Haylen, the Member for Summer Hill, condemned the Baird Government’s continued attacks on TAFE in NSW, with confirmation in the NSW Budget this week that the West Street campus will close, enrolments have plummeted and thousands of TAFE teachers and support staff have been sacked. 

Jo Haylen, the Member for Summer Hill, has condemned the Government's decision to close Petersham TAFE West Street Campus and calls on the Government to retain the campus as a public education facility. 

“If the Government refuses to maintain West St as a TAFE campus, they should categorically keep the property in public hands.