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Principal Workload And Wellbeing

2 items · 2 aliases · peaked week of 19 Apr 2026 · first seen 6 May 2026

A new poll reveals widespread concern among primary and secondary school principals about the pace, consultation, and impact of recent government curriculum reforms, citing excessive workload, lack of support, and potential harm to student learning.

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  • yes, we have. I mean, when I started here, I dealt with one of those as well. But I am fortunate compared to many of my colleagues, as I say, in some other schools where I know that they've been. Charges by multiple OAA requests, sometimes more than one within a week and in one of the cases at least. Well, yes, heaps of paperwork, but also heaps of digging that really you have to do, most often you have to do as a principal because of confidentiality and so on and Privacy Act. But the other thing is I'm aware that there are some cases where people have used AI to generate or to auto-generate OIA requests. And so you sort of, you have to respond as a human being, but someone else is taking the cheap shot.
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hdpa-drive Government / N-A

time spent on compliance at expense of teaching

Andy England: Darfield High School Principal on schools pushing for exemptions to OIA requests
22 Apr
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