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Pasifika educators criticise Government direction
Monday, 19 August 2013, 4:05 pm | NZEI
Pasifika education leaders were united last weekend in condemning Government economic and educational policy when they spoke at a big Pasifika Education conference in Auckland. The three keynote speakers called for a more inclusive economic policy, ... More >>
Living Wage - key focus for school support staff claim
Monday, 19 August 2013, 2:56 pm | NZEI
School librarians, teacher aides, IT support and administration staff will be meeting over the next fortnight to discuss their claim for a new collective employment agreement. More >>
Tick for Kids - children at centre of local body elections
Monday, 19 August 2013, 2:38 pm | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa says a new campaign to put children at the centre of local body and DHB elections will be a good guide for voters who are looking for candidates who prioritise the health, wellbeing and education of children and young people. More >>
NZEI Te Riu Roa complaint forces charter schools revelation
Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 5:23 pm | NZEI
The Ministry of Education has finally been forced to reveal the names of organisations who have shown an interest in setting up a charter school in New Zealand. More >>
Need for transparency over charter schools
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 3:30 pm | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa says the findings of an Ombudsman’s investigation into the process around charter schools shows that there is an urgent need for more transparency. More >>
Another pointless and costly National Standards exercise
Thursday, 18 July 2013, 4:23 pm | NZEI
The publication of unreliable National Standards data by region today is an expensive distraction that risks creating an unhealthy competition between regions but will do nothing to help lift the educational achievement of students. More >>
Costly tool for schools to fix flawed National Standards
Wednesday, 10 July 2013, 3:19 pm | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa is urging all political parties to oppose the Government’s plan to make compulsory a computerised assessment system to measure student achievement. More >>
Lack of planning in teacher oversupply
Friday, 5 July 2013, 11:53 am | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa says the number of beginning teachers seeking jobs is proof of lack of planning by Government and labour market failure. More >>
NZEI congratulates school on supporting living wage
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 4:37 pm | NZEI
The move by a Dunedin school to become the first Living Wage school in New Zealand is just the start of a national movement in the education sector, NZEI Te Riu Roa says. More >>
US study finds poor result for charter schools
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 12:54 pm | NZEI
A new independent study in the United States shows that after 20 years in existence, traditional public schools continue to out-perform charter schools overall. More >>
New allowance recognises expertise
Friday, 21 June 2013, 5:24 pm | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa says that a new teachers’ allowance, ratified by members covered by the Primary Collective Teachers’ Agreement recently, recognises classroom expertise and will help keep great teachers in the classroom. More >>
Most teachers effective in helping struggling learners
Wednesday, 12 June 2013, 12:21 pm | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa says an Education Review Office report just released shows 85 percent of teachers are effective at improving learning outcomes for Pasifika, Maori, low-income and special needs students in spite of under-resourcing of specialist support for ... More >>
Schools support staff – heroes of the education sector
Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 6:38 pm | NZEI
Schools around the country will be celebrating the role of support staff tomorrow (Wednesday 12 June). More >>
Teachers welcome Labour’s plans to drop “ropey" Standards
Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 6:35 pm | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa says it welcomes the decision by the Labour party that it will not continue with the National-led Government’s “ropey” National Standards and would work with the sector to come up with a more robust way of assessing student ... More >>
Private funding of Aranui school may mean loss to community
Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 5:36 pm | NZEI
Government plans to allow private companies to build and own the new supersize Aranui school development could severely compromise the concept of it as a community campus, NZEI Te Riu Roa warns. More >>
Government wastes education funding on Standards data
Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 11:09 am | NZEI
Millions of dollars have been spent on introducing irrelevant National Standards to produce student data that tells schools what they already know, NZEI Te Riu Roa says. More >>
Tampered data further knocks confidence
Friday, 7 June 2013, 11:16 am | NZEI
National Standards data due to be released next week (June 10) will be even more unreliable than last year’s, because of changes to an assessment tool used to inform teachers’ judgements about children’s writing, says NZEI Te Riu Roa. More >>
Massive problems in Ministry led to Novopay debacle
Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 4:25 pm | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa says Government Ministers need to take responsibility for a Ministry that was sick, over-confident and had poor systems of governance and accountability. More >>
Christchurch Decision Will Bring Stress to School Community
Wednesday, 29 May 2013, 5:28 pm | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa says today’s final decision on school closures and mergers in Christchurch will bring more hurt to school communities already stressed by the Government’s botched process over the past year. More >>
Food in schools good start in fight against underachievement
Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 3:00 pm | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa says the much-needed initiative to provide food for children in schools is an acknowledgement by the Government that poverty and educational achievement are inextricably linked. More >>
