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NZEI, PPTA Presidents Join Rallies in Australia
Thursday, 30 November 2006, 9:44 am | NZEI
The presidents of New Zealand’s two largest education unions will join Australian workers tomorrow (Thursday November 30) in protesting against industrial laws being used to reduce pay and working conditions in Australia. More >>
Principals Support Workload & Careers Direction
Friday, 24 November 2006, 10:53 am | NZEI
Primary teachers and principals have voted to endorse the direction their union, NZEI Te Riu Roa, is taking to develop a clearer career path for teachers and to address their workload. More >>
Bill English Wrong About Primary Teacher Meetings
Tuesday, 7 November 2006, 7:56 am | NZEI
National’s education spokesperson, Bill English, is wrong when he states that primary teachers and principals have taken a half day off today to discuss industrial relations. More >>
Primary Teachers and Principals Attending Union Me
Friday, 27 October 2006, 3:45 pm | NZEI
More than 20,000 primary teachers and principals throughout the country are attending more than 200 paid union meetings in school time. The two hour meetings begin on Monday (October 30) and run for three weeks until Friday November 17. More >>
NZEI Satisfied Teachers’ Vetting Fair
Wednesday, 25 October 2006, 4:38 pm | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa is satisfied the vetting of teachers carried out by the New Zealand Teachers’ Council is fair and robust and that the safety of students in schools and children in early childhood education centres is paramount in the council’s ... More >>
NZEI Pleased Date Set for Qualified Teachers
Thursday, 19 October 2006, 5:18 pm | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa is pleased that the Government has set the date by which early childhood education centres must ensure that half of their teachers are qualified. Education Minister Steve Maharey today announced that from December 31 next year, early childhood ... More >>
Hamilton School Principal Re-Elected
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 5:06 pm | NZEI
Hamilton primary school principal, Irene Cooper, has been re-elected National President of the country’s largest education union, NZEI Te Riu Roa. She was re elected on the final day of the union’s Annual Meeting in Wellington which was attended by ... More >>
Scholarships for Teacher, Physiotherapist
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 3:05 pm | NZEI
A physiotherapist at a school for students with cerebral palsy and an early childhood head teacher have today been awarded research scholarships by the education union, NZEI Te Riu Roa. More >>
Support Staff Endorse Physical Contact Guidelines
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 11:15 am | NZEI
Support staff who work with children in schools and early childhood education centres, have today endorsed NZEI’s new guidelines on physical contact with students. More >>
NZEI Launches Guidelines On Physical Contact
Tuesday, 26 September 2006, 2:01 pm | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa is today (Tuesday September 26) launching new guidelines on physical contact with students, to assist its members who work as teachers and support staff in schools and early childhood education centres. More >>
NZEI Champions Quality Public Education
Tuesday, 26 September 2006, 10:20 am | NZEI
New Zealand’s largest education union, NZEI Te Riu Roa, says it’s vital for New Zealand’s future that we have a quality public education service that is free, well resourced and universally accessible. More >>
NZEI Vision For Quality Public Education
Monday, 25 September 2006, 4:38 pm | NZEI
Zealand’s largest education union, NZEI Te Riu Roa, has today launched a position paper that sets out its members’ vision for building a quality public education service in New Zealand for the 21st century. More >>
World Teachers’ Day: 5 October 2006
Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 5:09 pm | NZEI
World Teachers' Day was started by UNESCO and is celebrated in over 100 countries around the world each year. It represents a significant token of the awareness, understanding and appreciation displayed for the vital contribution that teachers make to education ... More >>
NZEI Te Riu Roa Honours Contributions to Education
Tuesday, 19 September 2006, 12:48 am | NZEI
The Human Rights Commissioner is among a group of people being honoured by the country’s largest education union for making significant contributions to education. NZEI Te Riu Roa is presenting a series of awards on Sunday September 24, the opening day ... More >>
NZEI Backs Getting Parents in Children’s Education
Monday, 18 September 2006, 1:03 pm | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa endorses the new magazine-style booklet launched today as part of a government’s Team-Up programme, aimed at encouraging parents to get more involved in their children’s education. More >>
NZEI Supports Locked Out Supermarket Workers
Thursday, 7 September 2006, 10:43 am | NZEI
Members of the country’s largest education union, NZEI Te Riu Roa, are greatly concerned that Progressive Enterprises is trying to starve its distribution centre workers into submission over their bid for employment parity and a national collective ... More >>
NEMP Helps Identify Students Strengths
Friday, 25 August 2006, 11:57 am | NZEI
The education union, NZEI Te Riu Roa, says the information provided by the National Education Monitoring Project (NEMP) is extremely useful for schools. More >>
Schools Support Staff Endorse Claims
Friday, 11 August 2006, 9:57 am | NZEI
Several thousand school support staff have endorsed a package of claims for improvements in their pay and working conditions that will be presented when theyre-negotiate their collective employment agreement in October. More >>
Draft Curriculum Gives Schools More Freedom
Tuesday, 1 August 2006, 9:47 am | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa welcomes the draft version of the revised curriculum released today as it gives schools more freedom to tailor their teaching to the needs of their students. More >>
45,000 NZEI Members Oppose Mapp Bill
Thursday, 27 July 2006, 1:12 pm | NZEI
The country’s largest education union, NZEI Te Riu Roa, today presented a submission opposing the Bill, by National MP Wayne Mapp, that will mean anyone who starts a new job can be sacked during their first three months and have no ability to challenge ... More >>
