PPTA
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Administration
Area school principals settle on Ministry offer
All teachers and principals in the compulsory schooling sector have now ratified their collective agreements.
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History waits: pay delay lawsuit, principals shun MoE, NZEI speaks out
It’s been a rocky road for the education sector. How will the Accord work for teachers? How can schools with…
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Novopay promises July lump sum payments
"I was counting on this money for my deposit. My bank will not allow me to place an offer..."
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Teachers accept offer, urge Accord progress
Optimistic about the accord and pay progress, each of the three key parties have released their official statements on the…
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Offer steps up for area school teachers
The settlement comes after area school and wharekura teachers joined with their primary and secondary colleagues in the largest education…
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Unions back new offer, split teacher opinion
Union members will receive a lump sum and teachers will receive around a 3% pay rise by 2021.
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Administration
New offer on the cards? Union silence has teachers on tenterhooks
While we were all waiting with baited breath to find out whether NZEI would announce a member vote on rolling…
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Administration
I’m worried. I’m terrified. I’m striking for our future.
21 years ago, when I first started, it mattered to actually teach.
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Mega-strike calls government money bluff
Teachers, families and low-income workers agree teachers should earn a fair wage. Can the biggest teacher strike ever achieve this?
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Education
Free state education a step closer with NCEA changes
The kiwi ideal of free state education is a step closer with the announcement that NCEA will be free of…
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Administration
NZEI and PPTA to ballot members on joint strike action
... on whether to take joint strike action on 29 May.
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Administration
Secondary teachers and NZEI support student climate action
“We belong to the successive generations who have made this climate mess, and we are whakamā our young people are…
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Administration
“Thanks but no thanks”: teachers reject another Ministry offer
Union representatives on the negotiating team simply did not believe that the latest offer was good enough to take out…
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Secondary teachers disappointed with last week’s half-hearted offer
“The offer was last-minute and half-hearted. We don’t understand why they bothered; they must have known our members will find…
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Administration
Senior teachers applaud charter school & National Standards scrap
Charter schools were a deregulated, privatised form of schooling that we simply don’t need in New Zealand. They didn’t have…
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Education
What the PPTA president had to say to members last week
Jack Boyle addressed an audience of more than 100 last week at the PPTA conference ahead of the latest vote.…
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Unions applaud post-primary vote to reject
"We desperately need more teachers across New Zealand, and we need to retain skilled educators in the profession as well."
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Secondary teachers “significantly underpaid”, say principals
Teachers in secondary schools are significantly underpaid, according to principals across New Zealand.
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PPTA concerned about transfer of PLD to Education Council remit
The Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA) says it is concerned about how teachers will continue to access professional learning and…
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Schools urged to end use of illegal temporary contracts
Schools throughout the country are being asked to pledge their support to the next generation of teachers by not using…
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Schools urged to consider non-binary uniform options
Schools are being urged to review their policies to ensure that all students feel safe and welcome, no matter what…
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PPTA: Education budget a timid sprinkling of coins
Secondary teachers who were hopeful for an education budget that looked to and planned for the future, for children and…
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PPTA: New report on charter schools “a whitewash”
The second charter school report is more of a public relations exercise than rigorous evaluation, claims the Post Primary Teachers'…
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PPTA: Education (Update) Amendment Bill an opportunity lost
The government has ignored children, parents, teachers and other education experts by only making minor and technical changes to the…
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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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