Teacher Registration Board of Western Australia

Probably the most useless organisation in existence. I would really like to know what they provide teachers. They charge like wounded bulls, no longer issue membership cards and now they stop issuing invoices or reminders for mandatory memberships. We are expected to check their website ourselves otherwise we will be escorted from our workplace if our memberships have lapsed. Sick to death of having to pay for no visible benefit.Edit: There are two fees to pay to this rubbish organisation- annual fees and also a renewal of registration (why?- every other organisation charges one fee- you don't pay, you aren't renewed). I would really like to know how I, as a teacher, actually personally benefits from this. This must be the only business that charges you twice!! Take note of the generic response from the TRBWA below- doesn't address any benefits for already registered, hard working teachers. A legalised Ponzi scheme.

Don’t ever waste your money getting advise from them as they would just say what’s on their website. They asked you to pay to get advice for your qualifications but it would take months for you to wait for their advice and you’ll only get the information that’s already on their website. They would just make u feel that your voice will be heard to make it look like their doing their job. Bye to my hard earned $320 advice fee, I was expecting to get the results faster as I paid for the service but it was the opposite. I wouldn’t doubt that in the future their would huge shortage of teachers.

TRBWA is enforced unionism, started by some strong unionists some years ago.

The TRBWA is a dreadful organisation, that treats teachers like cash cows. They have only just in recent months, started online invoicing. They have gained a very poor reputation. Here are some of the reasons.1) Registration is fraught with red tape and insane bureaucracy.2) Transferring registration from another state takes weeks to months and is frightfully expensive.3) If you take a teaching position overseas for a few years and let your registration expire, you end up as a provisional teacher again.4) They claim to wipe all knowledge and paperwork from previous registration, after a few years, so you have to submit everything once again from scratch.5) The TRBWA doesn't recognise overseas teaching experience at all.6) The fee structure is incredibly unfair. An inactive teacher pays $90.50 a year, just to keep registered. Many other state's teacher registrations, have a far cheaper annual fee for inactive teachers.As a Primary teacher with 30 years experience, mostly in Australia and a previous registration, when I rejoined after a few years, I was offended to be classed as a provisional ( beginning) teacher again.In my opinion, they are just are just a stumbling block for teachers, are inflexible and illogical in their approach. The WA state government needs to return it to its previous state owned and run facility.

I allowed my registration to lapse as I wasn't sure how long I'd be working overseas. When I returned, they took TWELVE WEEKS to re-register me! All my details were already in their system. By the time it came through the year was nearly finished but of course I still had to pay the yearly fee. I've been working in London where it took only four weeks to get registered, and I'm a new citizen there! Plus, the only reason it took that long there was due to a delay with my AFP clearance... this organisation needs a serious auditing.

I would like to congratulate the TRBWA on its ingenious business model here. Force customers to pay for a service which serves no real purpose, has little outlay and provides benefits that have already been offered to the customer. An absolutely brilliant yet cunning plan.Let me explain. Firstly, TRBWA claim that their national criminal record check" is independent and "more broader" than the Working With Children Check. Yes

Haven't met a single teacher or principal who doesn't attest to the TRB being daylight robbery.The consistent reply is what are we paying for?"Whatever you do

What a horrible organisation to deal with. The simplest follow-up was too hard for them, despite the money I had paid year after year.My story is that I was de-registered after moving house. They had my correct email addres and telephone number, but I had neglected to update my postal address. So, what did they do - call or email to confirm I really wanted to be deregistered? No, they simply went ahead and did it - and were no help as I had to go about re-registering, losing my useful foundation-member status in the process.They have improved their systems somewhat recently, but I was still not reinstated as a foundation member, and believe I was treated poorly; I never received anything like an apology.

Have been urgently waiting for the TRBWA to give permission for Victoria to register me as a teacher. They have had the email for quite some time but alas no one has made any effort to finalise. I will likely miss out on my job opportunity for 2023 due to this