Membership

IRSEA Membership benefits include

      Receive four interesting and informative newsletters each year

      Join us at social luncheons, and other face-to-face and online events

       Maintain meaningful contact and friendship with retired colleagues

      Enjoy continuing collegial support from retired colleagues and friends

      Keep in touch with developments in public education

      Participate in discussions of educational and other issues of interest to members

      Help us to support our extremely worthwhile, long-time students’ wellbeing charity, Stewart House

Are you eligible to become a member?

Were you at any time during your career in education or training employed as a senior educational administrator * within the New South Wales State Departments of Education or TAFE?
Have you formally retired, notwithstanding any post-retirement employment?

If so, IRSEA would welcome you to join our enthusiastic and mutually supportive community.

NEW

Associate memberships of IRSEA are now available to qualified senior educational administrators
currently employed by the NSW Department of Education or TAFE NSW.
Enquiries to the IRSEA Secretary  secretary@irsea.org.au

Membership subscription fees and voluntary donations

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IRSEA membership fees are currently (2025) $25 per year (increasing to $30 from 2026).
The members’ subscriptions cover the costs of publishing and distributing the Newsletter and other operational expenses.
Stewart House is our focus charity.
Members’ voluntary donations and some of our income are forwarded to Stewart House each year.
IRSEA is currently developing an MOU with the Public Education Foundation (PEF). When this is activated, we expect to be inviting members to make voluntary donations to PEF. Stewart House, however, will remain our major charity to support.

    Membership application guide and application form

* For IRSEA membership, a senior educational administrator is a person employed as a chief education officer (or inspector of schools) and any non-school based position above CEO in the NSW Department of Education, and in equivalent positions in the NSW Department of TAFE.