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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Specialist learning support staff have voted to accept their latest offer from the Ministry of Education and have withdrawn their strike action.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 >>
ECE Focus Should Be On Lower Ratios And Better Pay
Thursday, 25 May 2023, 11:17 am | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa, New Zealand’s largest education union, welcomes the extension of 20 hours early childhood education (ECE) to two-year-olds because it means greater equity of access for tamariki and their families. The policy announced in last week’s ... More >>
Primary School Teachers To Vote On Improved Offer
Monday, 17 April 2023, 2:10 pm | NZEI
Primary school teachers will be voting on an improved offer for their collective employment agreement after taking part in the country’s largest ever education strike in March. The NZEI Te Riu Roa primary teacher members negotiating team received ... More >>
Watershed Plan To End Streaming In Schools Released
Monday, 20 March 2023, 11:03 am | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa welcomes ‘Kōkirihia – The plan for removing streaming from our schools’ which was launched today in Christchurch to an enthusiastic audience of educators. ‘Kōkirihia’ outlines the steps for a cross-sector strategy to ... More >>
Historic Pay Equity Settlement For School Librarians And Science Technicians
Monday, 6 March 2023, 12:05 pm | NZEI
School librarians, library assistants and science technicians came together today with the Minister of Education, Jan Tinetti, to witness the signing of an historic pay equity settlement at the offices of NZEI Te Riu Roa in Wellington. The settlement ... More >>
Principals Reject Government's Second Offer, Will Pursue Further Action
Friday, 24 February 2023, 2:55 pm | NZEI
Primary and area school principals across Aotearoa New Zealand have overwhelmingly rejected a second offer from the Ministry of Education to settle their collective employment agreement and voted to pursue further action. The principals, all of whom ... More >>
Report Shows How Tough COVID-19 Was For Children, Educators
Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 9:07 am | NZEI
The Quality Public Education Coalition’s report on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on students shows the need for a systemic overhaul of primary education's funding and staffing models, according to NZEI Te Riu Roa President Mark Potter. ... More >>
Pay Equity Delivers Up To 40% Pay Increases For School Librarians And Science Technicians
Friday, 3 February 2023, 2:13 pm | NZEI
Members of NZEI Te Riu Roa negotiating on behalf of school librarians, library assistants and science technicians are excited to announce that proposed pay equity settlements are ready to be voted on by their colleagues. They include pay increases of up to ... More >>
Kindergarten Teachers Reject Government Offer
Friday, 2 December 2022, 9:31 am | NZEI
Thousands of kindergarten teachers from across Aotearoa have resoundingly rejected their collective agreement offer from the Ministry of Education and kindergarten associations. NZEI Te Riu Roa members covered by the Kindergarten Teachers' Collective ... More >>
Principals Reject Government Offer, Send Negotiations Back To Table
Tuesday, 29 November 2022, 11:47 am | NZEI
Primary and area school principals from across Aotearoa have rejected a Ministry of Education offer to settle their collective employment agreements and unequivocally told the Government it is time to take action now to fix the education system. The ... More >>
Budget 2023 Needs To Unlock Funding For Learning Support
Thursday, 17 November 2022, 11:50 am | NZEI
Budget 2023 will need to unlock sufficient funding to address inequitable access, understaffing and unmet needs in learning support if proposed reforms are to succeed, NZEI Te Riu Roa said today. Associate Education Minister Jan Tinetti today released ... More >>
New NZEI Te Riu Roa President Driven To Improving Children's Education
Thursday, 6 October 2022, 3:25 pm | NZEI
The focus for the next two years for new NZEI Te Riu Roa President Mark Potter will be on ensuring that educators get the resources they need to give tamariki the education they deserve. Mr Potter, the principal of Berhampore School in Wellington, was elected ... More >>
Report Shows Urgent Need For Overhaul Of Funding And Support For Education For Disabled Children - NZEI Te Riu Roa
Wednesday, 28 September 2022, 12:03 pm | NZEI
Findings from a new report into education for disabled children show political leaders urgently need to fix the funding system for children with high needs, NZEI Te Riu Roa President Liam Rutherford has said. The report by the Education Review Office, ... More >>
Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori Needs To Kickstart More Funding For Te Reo In Education
Tuesday, 13 September 2022, 9:14 am | NZEI
Ko te ngakau titikaha hei whakatipu i te reo Māori kei roto i Aotearoa, ko te whakangako i te putea kia tupu ake te reo Māori me te kaha o ngā kaiako, kaiāwhina, e ai ki a Te Akatea me NZEI Te Riu Roa. The commitment to growing te reo Māori in Aotearoa ... More >>
NZEI Te Riu Roa Submits On Fair Pay Agreements Legislation
Wednesday, 29 June 2022, 10:19 am | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa has delivered its oral submission in support of the Fair Pay Agreements Bill, outlining how it will benefit workers and improve the quality of early childhood education. When the legislation comes into force the Union will be seeking a Fair ... More >>
NZEI Supports Students' Petition
Tuesday, 14 June 2022, 2:03 pm | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa is throwing its support behind a petition started by three inspirational students at Macleans College in Auckland who have demonstrated that social awareness and positive activism is alive and well amongst the younger members of Aotearoa. ... More >>
NZEI Seeking Feedback On Unified Pay Proposal
Tuesday, 14 June 2022, 12:31 am | NZEI
New Zealand’s largest education union NZEI Te Riu Roa is looking forward to members’ response to a Council of Trade Unions’ proposal to negotiate a unified pay agreement between public sector unions and the Government. The proposal to join negotiations ... More >>
