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NZEI Te Riu Roa
New Zealand Educational Institute
NZEI Te Riu Roa members work in every community in New Zealand, leading and advocating for quality public education.
We are the 50,000 principals, teachers and support staff who work in primary, area and secondary schools as well as early childhood centres, special education and school advisory services. We come together as NZEI Te Riu Roa - New Zealand's largest education union, a Treaty based organisation and a powerful advocate for quality public education.
We have the most important job in New Zealand - educating for the future.
NZEI Te Riu Roa - Latest News [Page 1]
Ministry Of Education Cuts Will Disproportionately Affect Pasifika
Friday, 19 April 2024, 9:38 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
More than 290 Pasifika early childhood and primary educators meeting in Auckland this week have urged the Government to re-consider proposed cuts to Pasifika staff and programmes at the Ministry of Education and within the wider public service. More >>
Large Scale Cuts At Education Ministry Will Have Negative Impacts On Schools And Children
Wednesday, 17 April 2024, 1:35 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The cuts will affect both the daily running of schools and early childhood education services, and will make support for students even more difficult to access. More >>
Early Childhood Regulation Changes: Put Children Not Business First, Says Union
Tuesday, 16 April 2024, 7:35 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The Government needs to be putting early childhood teachers, children, and their families first, rather than business, say members of the country’s largest education union NZEI Te Riu Roa. More >>
ECE ‘Boost’ An Administrative Burden For Whānau And Teachers
Tuesday, 26 March 2024, 5:44 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
"While any investment in ECE is welcome, this policy doesn't even begin to address the current crisis our ECE sector is facing.” More >>
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 >>
Prime Minister's Punitive Welfare Sanctions Will Harm Children And Their Learning
Monday, 19 February 2024, 6:28 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
New Zealand’s largest education union, NZEI Te Riu Roa, strongly condemns the punitive sanctions against people on welfare benefits Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced this afternoon, saying that any sanctions a government takes ... 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 >>
Strike Action
Monday, 6 November 2023, 3:52 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Following a vote from NZEI Te Riu Roa members, NZEI advised on 16 October to all employers party to the Early Childhood Education Collective Agreement 2023 (ECECA), that a strike will take place. This affects around 100 Early Childhood Centres whose ... 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 >>
Smaller Class Sizes Will Genuinely Put Tamariki At Centre Of Education
Monday, 11 September 2023, 5:29 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Smaller class sizes are one of the most important steps we can make to improve learning in primary schools, NZEI Te Riu Roa said today off the back of a Ministerial Advisory Group Reviewing School Staffing announcement. NZEI Te Riu Roa president Mark Potter ... More >>
Teachers, Not Politicians, Should Decide Teaching Strategies, Education Union Says
Sunday, 10 September 2023, 9:46 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The president of NZEI Te Riu Roa, Mark Potter, says the National Party’s new education policy requiring all schools and all teachers to teach literacy in the same way ignores the importance of the professional judgement teachers make daily about what works ... More >>
