The NSW Government has released a statement outlining spending cuts to the education portfolio totalling $1.7 billion over the next four years.

 

Staff numbers within the Department of Education and Communities will be cut by around 1,800.

 

 This includes a realignment of state and regional offices which will result in a reduction of around 600 positions over the next 4 years.

 

 

 A review of central support functions for TAFE NSW and ‘efficiency improvements’ in Institutes will result in a reduction of around 800 positions over the next 4 years.

 

 

In addition, by 2015-16 the equivalent of around 400 school administrative staff positions will be made in employee related savings as a result of efficiencies from the Learning Management and Business Reform (LMBR) program.

 

 

 Teachers in government schools will be quarantined from these reductions.

 

A new structure for the Public Schools NSW portfolio will result in a reduction of around 200 FTE positions.

 

The Department’s regional structure will be replaced with a model developed in the light of the new State Office structure and the Local Schools, Local Decisions reform.

 

The full statement is here.

http://www.dec.nsw.gov.au/about-us/news-at-det/media-releases1/building-a-sustainable-education-system-in-nsw