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Professor Martin Thrupp
Monday, 8 January 2024, 10:43 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
QPEC is very sad to note the passing of Professor Martin Thrupp of the University of Waikato. Martin has been an enlightened voice in progressive education for all of his notable career. He has contributed intensely and forcefully in New Zealand, ... More >>
ECE should be publicly owned and delivered
Tuesday, 7 March 2023, 9:25 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
QPEC says that a major problem with the ECE sector is that a large part of it is for-profit, privately owned, and in many cases, part of foreign chains. In its place, QPEC argues for public ownership in a partnership model with Government and community. ... More >>
Te Pūkenga Plans Savage Attack On Polytechnic Education
Monday, 24 October 2022, 5:31 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
QPEC urges Education Minister Chris Hipkins to step in and prevent the new polytech national entity, Te Pūkenga, from taking the axe to vocational and trades education across the country in a drive to save money. On Friday Te Pūkenga Acting Chief Executive More >>
Public Funding For Public Schools
Thursday, 27 August 2020, 4:03 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
The Quality Public Education Coalition (QPEC) is appalled to hear of the decision to provide $11.7m in public funds to Green School in Taranaki, a private education-for-profit school. This move comes at a time when the Covid crisis has highlighted the huge ... More >>
A new future for work skills training in NZ
Friday, 15 February 2019, 9:22 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
QPEC welcomes the Minister's refreshing approach to Vocational Education, including the proposal for a new funding model for the sector that removes competition among institutes. We look forward to much enhanced certainty, stability, and equity for ... More >>
Autonomy of Māori Studies at Waikato University
Friday, 24 August 2018, 9:39 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
Rt Hon James Bolger Prof Neil Quigley Chancellor Vice-Chancellor University of Waikato Council University of Waikato More >>
Government Musn't Waver on Closing Dead Duck Charter Schools
Tuesday, 5 December 2017, 10:36 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
Charter schools are unnecessary and a failed experiment and the coalition government must act as quickly as possible to either shut them down, or transition them into the state system, according to QPEC deputy Liz Gordon. More >>
A Tale of Two School Types & Their Different Treatment
Thursday, 22 June 2017, 10:08 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
The release of the decision on accountability funding for charter schools, and the Ombudsman’s report on school closures, shows one set of rules for state schools dealing with vulnerable communities, and another set for charter schools, who were ... More >>
Drop Student Fees
Friday, 30 September 2016, 11:10 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
QPEC believes that the central question to ask of the Productivity Commission's proposals on tertiary education is, What is in the best public interest? More >>
What’s going on in education policy?
Thursday, 25 August 2016, 11:11 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
Dr Liz Gordon, QPEC convenor, says that QPEC supports the concerns of many other groups about two recently announced policy proposals. More >>
Free tertiary education
Monday, 22 August 2016, 10:36 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
Labour has announced a fees-free policy. But from a contrary viewpoint, The NZ Initiative has recently argued for means-testing student loans plus restoring interest on tuition aid. More >>
Earnings from Tertiary Education
Friday, 1 April 2016, 9:24 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
The Minister of Tertiary Education does a great disservice to the country by pushing income figures for a "prosperous" tertiary education. More >>
New Labour Party Education Policy – a tentative start
Monday, 1 February 2016, 11:23 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
QPEC welcomes Labour's Working Futures Plan to fund three years of free tertiary study as a step in the right direction. More >>
A regrettable episode
Thursday, 28 January 2016, 2:59 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
The Quality Public Education Coalition is relieved that the experiment to open a partnership school at Whangaruru in Auckland is over. Dr Liz Gordon says that the model is deeply ideological, based on the incorrect notion that the private sector ... More >>
A billion dollars spent on fees for ‘free education’
Wednesday, 20 January 2016, 5:35 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
Data released today provides further evidence of the growing inequalities in New Zealand education between schools catering to the wealthiest families compared to those educating New Zealand’s least resourced children. Key issues are: More >>
Academic freedom under attack
Monday, 30 November 2015, 11:43 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
The police constraints on Dr Jarrod Gilbert's research on gangs are an example of widespread and long-lasting restrictions on academic research contracts that are funded by government departments. More >>
Minister uses incorrect data to blame schools
Wednesday, 4 November 2015, 4:37 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
QPEC co-convenor Dr Liz Gordon is calling for the Minister to use the correct figures on the achievement gap between the richest and poorest in New Zealand. More >>
strong>New Tertiary League Tables: Employment Outcomes
Monday, 28 September 2015, 11:33 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
Minister Steven Joyce has announced that from 2017, tertiary institutions will be required to publish "information about the employment status and earnings of their graduates broken down by specific degrees and diplomas." More >>
Charter schools decision driven by politics
Monday, 17 August 2015, 9:33 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
The decision to open two more charter ‘partnership’ schools in New Zealand is indefensible on educational or social grounds, says QPEC Chairperson John Minto. More >>
Unitec job losses: press commentary
Tuesday, 11 August 2015, 10:17 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
Unitec job losses Unitec has announced 300 job losses in the next 3 years. In QPEC's view, the decision is the outcome of two factors. One is consistent government underfunding of tertiary education. The other is Unitec management's blind faith in neoliberal ... More >>
