Teachers and principals vote overwhelmingly for change – NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa is going into its collective agreement negotiations soon with a strong mandate for change. In just released figures, NZEI teachers and principal members voted resoundingly at meetings in March (99.5% of teachers and 99% of principals) to support and take an active part in the It’s Time Kua Tae Te Wā […]
Read More →NZEI welcomes removal of hurdles to pay justice for women – NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa has welcomed joint recommendations from business, unions and government officials to scrap the hurdles to pay equity proposed by the previous National Government. The Labour-led Government announced this morning it would look at the recommendations from a joint working party to make it easier for women to make pay equity claims. […]
Read More →Workload, mentoring, pay: new educators call for action – NZEI
It’s time for the new Labour-led Government to prioritise better support for new teachers if the teacher shortage crisis is to be averted, a national hui of New Educators said at the weekend. Beginning teachers attending a NZEI Te Riu Roa New Educators’ Hui in Palmerston North say the high workload, low pay and lack […]
Read More →Nonsensical Ministry decision to refuse fair recruitment payments to primary teachers – NZEI
A Ministry of Education refusal to pay the same value “recruitment, retention and responsibility” (3R) payments to primary teachers as secondary teachers is nonsensical in the face of the current teacher shortage, NZEI Te Riu Roa says. Late last year the Government established a $1 million fund from which schools could apply for 3R funding, […]
Read More →Educators welcome child poverty reduction measures – NZEI
Changes announced today by the Government on how it will monitor and reduce child poverty have been welcomed by educators around the country. NZEI Te Riu Roa President Lynda Stuart says NZEI members, who work with very young children through to teenagers, see the effects of poverty on children’s education and general wellbeing every day […]
Read More →Children are the focus in new post-National Standards era – NZEI
Primary principals and teachers look forward to a fresh start this year using robust and well-regarded assessment tools, instead of shonky National Standards. With a focus on our world-leading curriculum, teachers will be freed to teach and to engage children in the learning that really motivates them. NZEI Te Riu Roa President Lynda Stuart said […]
Read More →Educators ask for funding to settle pay equity claims – NZEI
Educators working in schools and early childhood services are welcoming the new Government’s commitment to ending the gender pay gap for women and are asking that Budget 2018 includes money to speedily settle their pay equity claims. The Minister for Women has pledged to end the 12 percent gap in gender pay in the core […]
Read More →NZEI welcomes Govt support for children with extra needs
NZEI Te Riu Roa welcomes the education policies outlined today in the agreements between Labour and New Zealand First and the Greens. NZEI President Lynda Stuart said parents and educators would be especially pleased that the Labour-Green confidence and supply deal included ensuring that children with special needs and learning disabilities can fully participate in […]
Read More →Educators call on new government to take action – NZEI
Teachers and educators have huge hope that the new Labour led Government will herald the rebuilding of New Zealand’s public education system and restore our children’s birthright to a free, world-class education. Labour, the Greens and New Zealand First have all promised to restore funding for schools and early childhood education, and scrap discredited policies […]
Read More →Coalition talks should see big wins for education – NZEI
Whatever Government coalition emerges from negotiations in the coming weeks, educators are optimistic of major progress on the funding and quality of education, NZEI Te Riu Roa says. “New Zealand First is likely to have a significant influence on the shape of any future Government. The fact it has campaigned strongly on improving education for […]
Read More →ACT announces latest plan to undermine public education – NZEI
The latest ACT Party education policy, announced today, is a transparent attempt to undermine public education, teachers and unions that’s straight out of the party’s playbook, NZEI Te Riu Roa says. “For the Under Secretary of Education, David Seymour is staggeringly out of touch with what teachers say matters to them and what public schools […]
Read More →National Standards Plus a big minus for children’s learning – NZEI
The government’s plans to spend millions building a computer tool to track children’s progress as it happens, based on shonky National Standards, is an obsession with data gone mad, NZEI Te Riu Roa says. Requiring teachers to input standardised assessment data across a range of subjects in real time for 30 or more students in […]
Read More →More teaching time, not more measurement, teachers say – NZEI
Imposing further measurement of children’s progress on the shaky foundation of controversial National Standards is bad policy and bad for children, NZEI Te Riu Roa says. Education Minister Nikki Kaye announced yesterday Cabinet had decided primary schools must measure progress as well as achievement, especially for children who aren’t succeeding. NZEI President Lynda Stuart says […]
Read More →Robbing kids to pay for roads – NZEI
A bigger than expected surplus has only been possible because of the chronic underfunding of the education of New Zealand’s children, says NZEI Te Riu Roa. NZEI President Lynda Stuart said educators would be sickened by the size of the surplus, after years of being told there wasn’t money for the funding jolt desperately needed […]
Read More →Women will fight hurdles to equal pay – NZEI
Women in education will fight the Government’s attempt to create new hurdles that make it harder for us to achieve fair pay, NZEI Te Riu Roa says. The Government released the text of its Employment (Pay Equity and Equal Pay) Bill today. “While we’ve not had time to read the whole bill, the decision to […]
Read More →Educators welcome Labour’s plan to fix public education – NZEI
Educators welcome Labour’s commitment to put the ‘free’ back into free public education and to developing a plan to fix the chronic teacher shortage, NZEI Te Riu Roa says. “Labour’s full education manifesto, if implemented, would mark the beginning of a rebuild of schooling and early childhood education, which has suffered nearly a decade of […]
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