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NZEI: Time to end the charter school experiment
NZEI Te Riu Roa is calling for an end to the charter school experiment, and for all political parties to…
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School funding system a key issue for new education minister
New education minister, Nikki Kaye, who took over from Hekia Parata on Monday, is already under the pump from teachers'…
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Calling police on violent students “impracticable and inappropriate”, says NZEI
Primary school principals are expressing "horror and disbelief" at Education Minister Hekia Parata's suggestion that schools should call the police…
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Student suspensions looming at underfunded schools
The government's inadequate school funding and a staffing cap on specialist Ministry of Education staff has forced desperate Northland principals…
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Educators call on government to waive police check charges
Teachers' union NZEI Te Riu Roa is calling on the government to waive costs of police checking adults who work…
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Teachers’ union welcomes pay equity progress
Progress on pay equity is a huge credit to the hundreds of women who support the learning of the most…
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School support staff ready to fight funding freeze
The freeze on school funding and its impact on their pay negotiations will drive teacher aides and other school support…
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Collaboration is key to educational success: NZEI
Naming and shaming schools and then pitting them against each other in a competitive, profit-driven environment is a failed recipe…
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Cold, damp homes making children too sick to learn
Housing problems were the number one factor negatively impacting children's learning during 2016. Teachers' union NZEI is supporting the Healthy…
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Teachers’ unions want te reo Māori taught in all schools
Teachers' unions NZEI Te Riu Roa and PPTA Te Huarahi are backing the the Green Party's goal for te reo…
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Principals’ heavy workloads “a major health and safety risk”
An independent, in-depth health and wellbeing survey of primary school principals and deputies has uncovered alarming levels of stress, burnout,…
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Teachers’ relief at scrapping of bulk funding proposal
NZEI president Louise Green and PPTA president Angela Roberts say taking bulk funding off the table is a big win…
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Lift pay of support staff to that of prison officers – NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa is calling on the government to acknowledge low paid women "working for free" from today, by…
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Kiwi teachers “very capable” say parents
Teachers will welcome a new report finding that 90 per cent of parents in New Zealand consider their child's teacher…
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Call for departing minister to listen to educators – NZEI
Education minister Hekia Parata, who has announced that she is leaving politics, is being implored to make her parting move…
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Report on school exclusions highlights funding needs -NZEI
A report highlighting the barriers children with disabilities can face at school shows the urgent need to increase funding for…
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Tributes flow for workers’ champion Helen Kelly
Education professionals have joined the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions to pay tribute to former union boss, Helen Kelly,…
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New NZEI president seeks quality public education for all kids
Lynda Stuart, new president of NZEI Te Riu Roa, says she is driven by a belief in quality public education…
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Māori resource teacher honoured for her work
A resource teacher of Māori, based at Waitara East School in Taranaki, has been given one of the highest honours…
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Housing crisis now an education crisis, says NZEI
The NZEI is backing calls for a national strategy to end homelessness amid mounting evidence that thousands of children who…
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Support staff angered by lost pay
School support staff have reacted with anger to the Ministry of Education’s decision to not pay up to 6,000 annualised…
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Education funding advisory group report released
Education minister Hekia Parata has welcomed the report from the Funding Advisory Group and acknowledged the finding that six out…
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Educators rally to resist global funding proposal
Unprecedented combined meetings of 60,000 PPTA and NZEI Te Riu Roa members have begun around New Zealand.
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Funding targeted to benefit-dependent students ineffective, says NZEI
Treasury's warning that the government's decision to freeze school operational funding in the latest budget...
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School support staff overlooked in funding review
Educators are concerned that support staff – representing a third of the education workforce - have not received a single…
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