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Scrapping Pay Parity Is Not The Solution To The ECE Sector Crisis
Friday, 15 March 2024, 10:59 am | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa members working in early childhood education (ECE) say the Government should come clean on whether it is going to scrap pay parity for early childhood teachers. Pay parity means the pay rates of ECE qualified kaiako (teachers) are determined ... More >>
Education Leaders Call On PM To Save School Lunch Programme
Tuesday, 12 March 2024, 3:58 pm | NZEI
Aotearoa’s education sector leaders have jointly written to the Prime Minister, urging him to continue investing in Ka ora Ka Ako (the Healthy School Lunches Programme) at current levels. Leaders of schools, early learning peak bodies and unions say ... More >>
Pay Equity Win For Therapists In Schools And At Ministry Of Education
Tuesday, 5 March 2024, 9:07 am | NZEI
Therapists in schools will receive a significant pay increase of up to 34% after therapists covered by the pay equity claim voted to accept the proposed settlement. The claim, raised by NZEI Te Riu Roa in November 2020, recognises the historical ... More >>
OIA Shows The Eyewatering True Cost Of Charter Schools
Wednesday, 14 February 2024, 9:14 am | NZEI
The National and ACT experiment with charter schools that ran from 2014 to 2018 cost up to $48,421 per student annually, more than six times the average funding spent on students in state schools, new OIA documents released to NZEI Te Riu Roa ... More >>
School Lunches Essential But Reinvest Any Savings Into Education
Friday, 2 February 2024, 11:21 am | NZEI
Aotearoa's largest education union, NZEI Te Riu Roa, says the Government's decision to continue to fund Ka Ora, Ka Ao Healthy School Lunches programme is commonsense in ensuring successful learning outcomes for tamariki. However, Prime Minister Christopher ... More >>
Early Childhood Education Teachers Take Action Urging Government To Prioritise Tamariki
Tuesday, 5 December 2023, 3:31 pm | NZEI
Kaiako and kaimahi working in early childhood education (ECE) are holding a national day of action to call on the new government to put tamariki first by prioritising improvements to the ECE sector. The new government’s clear intention to scrap a ... More >>
Fund Full Pay Parity For ECE Educators Before Paying Landlords
Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 11:16 am | NZEI
A policy decision in the recently released National-ACT coalition agreement documents means landlords will receive a large Christmas bonus that no one voted for – at the expense of tamariki and their educators. Landlords would now receive around $3 ... More >>
Children Need A Government That Cares About Early Learning, Not Removing Rights And Safeguards Of Quality
Friday, 24 November 2023, 3:26 pm | NZEI
The government should be focusing on better early childhood education funding, not regulation, if it wants the quality and safety of early learning for tamariki to be improved, says NZEI Te Riu Roa, New Zealand's largest education union. Pay parity ... More >>
Early Childhood Teachers Should Not Be Short-changed Because Of Inadequate Forecasting
Wednesday, 22 November 2023, 1:48 pm | NZEI
The incoming government has an urgent job to do fixing early childhood education funding, education union NZEI Te Riu Roa says. A recently released Cabinet paper from September shows the previous Labour Government walked back from their commitment ... More >>
Early Childhood Education Teachers Strike Over Essential Funding
Monday, 6 November 2023, 10:43 am | NZEI
Kaiako and kaimahi from around 100 early childhood education centres across the motu will take strike action for the first time ever on Wednesday 8 November after voting last month to take industrial action. The teachers, who are part of the Early ... More >>
Funding The Basics Brilliantly Would Be A Start
Friday, 29 September 2023, 3:39 pm | NZEI
Both major parties needed to have prioritised ongoing new investment in children and education in their allowances for new spending, NZEI Te Riu Roa president Mark Potter said today. “The two fiscal plans released this week made pre-commitments ... More >>
Largest ECE Survey In Years, Kōriporipo, Highlights Teachers Under Pressure
Wednesday, 27 September 2023, 9:17 am | NZEI
The largest survey of the early childhood sector in Aotearoa in recent years, Kōriporipo, shines a light on the immense pressures facing ECE kaiako and kaimahi and makes recommendations that could transform the sector. Undertaken by NZEI Te Riu Roa, the most alarming ... More >>
Pay Parity In ECE Needs Long Term Commitment
Thursday, 31 August 2023, 6:43 pm | NZEI
ECE teachers welcome today’s announcement of funding to match the pay increases won by their colleagues in kindergarten and schooling. However, NZEI Te Riu Roa says that the Government’s decision to kick the can down the road on guaranteeing funding ... More >>
Learning Support For Tamariki Needs More Funding, Not Budget Cuts
Tuesday, 29 August 2023, 3:47 pm | NZEI
Thousands of tamariki are already missing out on the learning support they need to thrive, and any cuts in government budgets must not affect support they need, NZEI Te Riu Roa said today. NZEI Te Riu Roa has today written to the Secretary for ... More >>
Proposed Teaching Requirements Must Be Properly Resourced
Monday, 21 August 2023, 3:17 pm | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa broadly supports the common practice model which has been designed by educational researchers and experts. However, the union, which represents around 30,000 primary school teachers, says time and resourcing to prepare the best learning ... More >>
Pay Equity Funding Decision Angers Early Childhood Teachers
Thursday, 17 August 2023, 10:01 am | NZEI
Early childhood teachers are angry and disappointed by news yesterday that the Government has delayed an in-principle decision to fund pay equity for ECE teachers. ECE kaiako are part of a large pay equity claim for all teachers across schooling and ECE that ... More >>
Specialist Learning Support Staff Accept Offer
Thursday, 3 August 2023, 2:12 pm | NZEI
Specialist learning support staff have voted to accept their latest offer from the Ministry of Education and have withdrawn their strike action. Specialist learning support staff cover a huge variety of educational specialists who work to support ... More >>
Principals Call On Ministry To Fund All Lump Sum Payments To Teachers
Monday, 24 July 2023, 8:44 am | NZEI
Primary school principals say some schools will face budget holes and some students may go without resources because the Ministry of Education has changed its initial advice about lump sum payments won by teachers in their latest collective agreement ... More >>
Specialist Learning Support Staff Vote For Ban On New Cases From Next Week
Thursday, 20 July 2023, 11:32 am | NZEI
Speech language therapists, psychologists, advisers on deaf children, behaviour specialists and other Ministry of Education specialist staff have voted in favour of industrial action in a secret ballot earlier this week. NZEI Te Riu Roa members ... More >>
Primary Principals Accept Latest Offer From Ministry Of Education
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 3:34 pm | NZEI
Primary principals have voted to accept the latest Ministry of Education offer on their collective agreement. This was the third offer put to principals and follows a long campaign which saw them take part in the largest education strike in this ... More >>
