The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) has been a game changer for many sectors and industries, including early childhood education and care (ECEC). In the ECEC space products and services which use AI to write observations and reports, assist with Certificate III...
Rostering in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings is not easy. In fact, as far as managing an ECEC setting is concerned, creating and implementing rosters is probably the hardest task for any leader to implement effectively week in week out. That...
In December 2023, the Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Closing Loopholes) 2023 Act received royal assent which modified/introduced new laws regulating the rights of workers. The changes made to this act were framed around closing the loopholes that can, if exploited,...
After lengthy pause educator wage negotiation news picks up again. After a nearly three month pause in news flow, the Independent Education Union of Australia (IEU) has confirmed that wage negotiations focused on increasing educator pay and conditions are ongoing and...
Three reasons why optimising your roster makes sense in 2024 With the annual transition of kindergarten children moving up to primary school now complete, service leaders across Australia will be squarely focused on returning to the daily focus of educating and caring...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) recently released its final Childcare Inquiry report, with one of the eight final recommendations focused on the early childhood education and care (ECEC) workforce. The ACCC analysis shows that educator labour...
