One Australian expert says wage increases for teachers are not a silver bullet for resolving the myriad problems facing the New South Wales’ education sector.
His comment comes after tens of thousands of teachers on June 30 walked off the job in the biggest teacher strike in the state in over 20 years demanding better pay and condition.
The two unions behind the protest, the New South Wales (NSW) Teachers Federation and Independent Education Union (IEU) are demanding a pay increase of five to seven percent, instead of the three percent previously offered by the state government.
But Glenn Fahey, director of the education program at the Centre for Independent Studies, was critical of the approach saying it was just a demand for “more pay for less work and less accountability.”…