Planned post year 10 changes spark industrial threat
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Tasmanian high school teachers are a step closer to industrial action over their concerns about planned changes to education for Year 11 and 12 students.
The Australian Education Union is preparing to hold a ballot of members in coming weeks in its lobby to delay the changes for at least a year.
The State Government says three new education bodies, Polytechnics, Academies and Training Tasmania, will begin operating at four colleges next year.
But the legislation to enact the changes has not yet been introduced to Parliament, and the union says students and staff know little about how it will affect them.
The Premier David Bartlett has urged patience and says the laws to establish the new organisations will be tabled in the Lower House on October the 14th.
The union's President Leanne Wright says members will vote on what action to take in the next two weeks.
"The bottom line is we need to delay this."
The Opposition also supports delaying the changes until at least 2010.
