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Early Childhood Teachers’ Union Calls For Stop To Sector Regulatory Review
Tuesday, 16 July 2024, 12:10 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa National Secretary | Korimako Tangiata Stephanie Mills says the union is calling for the review to be paused or at the very least extended, so the process behind it can be carefully assessed. More >>
NZEI Te Riu Roa Opposes Expensive Charter School Experiment
Monday, 24 June 2024, 6:51 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa opposes the Education and Training Amendment Act legislation introduced to Parliament today which makes provisions for charter schools and allows the Minister to force public schools to convert to charter schools. More >>
Early Childhood Teachers Head To Parliament To Save Pay Parity Scheme
Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 3:02 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Early childhood kaiako and tamariki will go to Parliament tomorrow to present their eleven thousand-strong petition calling on the Government to ensure the current pay parity scheme for qualified early childhood teachers continues in the face of sweeping ... More >>
School Support Staff Mobilising After Budget 2024 Fails To Deliver
Monday, 10 June 2024, 3:24 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Hundreds of school support staff, essential to supporting children’s learning, are mobilising at paid union meetings from this week to discuss their priorities to take into collective agreement negotiations later this year. More >>
Educators Stand Up For Environmental Protection Of Aotearoa
Friday, 7 June 2024, 8:06 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Aotearoa’s largest education union, NZEI Te Riu Roa, stands with the coalition of environmental and community groups marching against the Government’s continued attack on the environment, Te Tiriti and democratic decision-making. More >>
A Backwards Budget For Early Childhood Education
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 5:37 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The union for early childhood education and kindergarten teachers, NZEI Te Riu Roa, says Budget 2024 doesn’t deliver certainty for the sector or relieve pressure on centres to meet essential costs, nor do anything to address the long-standing issues ... More >>
Budget 2024 Is Effectively A Frontline Funding Cut For Schools
Thursday, 30 May 2024, 4:21 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Education union NZEI Te Riu Roa says that Budget 2024 is effectively a cut in frontline funding for schools, with no new initiatives for children needing learning support and a funding cut for teacher aides. More >>
Rural Schools ‘on The Back Foot’ For Accessing Learning Support
Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 11:12 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Rural school principals in New Zealand are facing a dual resourcing crisis when it comes to learning support specialists, says Jane Corcoran from education union NZEI Te Riu Roa. The country’s largest union says that due to the geographical ... More >>
Extend New Teacher Supply Financial Support To Pay All Teachers In Training, Says NZEI Te Riu Roa
Sunday, 26 May 2024, 2:08 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The Government’s new teacher supply initiative, which includes financial support for those in school-based teacher training, should be available to everyone going through initial teacher education, says the country’s largest education union, ... More >>
Better Pay And Support Needed To Attract People Into Primary Teaching
Thursday, 23 May 2024, 1:11 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
What is needed is better pay, more support for children with learning challenges and a sharper focus on investing in initial teacher education and ongoing professional learning. More >>
Charter Schools Establishment Money Could Be Spent On Over 700 Teacher Aides Instead
Tuesday, 14 May 2024, 11:22 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa says today’s announcement of $153m for the establishment of a small number of new charter schools, an old idea that failed last time around, is money that is being diverted from an already diverse public education system. More >>
Hundreds Of Early Childhood Teachers To Call On MPs To Protect Their Sector
Monday, 13 May 2024, 1:23 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Hundreds of early childhood kaiako (teachers) and kaimahi (staff) are expected to meet around Aotearoa this week, calling on their MPs and communities to help protect their sector from future Government cuts and further deregulation. More >>
Training Of Teachers Needs A Major Overhaul - NZEI Te Riu Roa
Monday, 13 May 2024, 5:14 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The union for early childhood and primary teachers, NZEI Te Riu Roa, says an ERO report on the training of teachers shows that the system needs a major overhaul. More >>
Early Childhood Teachers Hold Public Meetings Over Concern For Cuts
Friday, 3 May 2024, 4:37 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Early childhood teachers are calling on their local MPs and communities to support them in their fight to protect their sector from potential pay cuts and further concerning deregulation. The meetings, run by NZEI Te Riu Roa members across Aotearoa, are open ... More >>
Mandated Single Approach To Reading Will Not Work
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 2:49 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The Minister of Education, Erica Stanford, has announced that as of Term 1 2025, all teachers in state schools will be required to teach reading using the structured literacy method. More >>
No Easy Fixes For Education Without Resourcing To Back It Up
Monday, 29 April 2024, 8:02 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The right approach here will be to broaden access to learning support, not to target it too narrowly. Restricting access to learning support is what is causing the problems now. More >>
Cuts To Ministry Of Education Backline Learning Support Damaging To Learning Support Needs
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 8:36 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The decision to cut staff at Ministry of Education who help frontline learning support staff will have a detrimental impact on long-term learning support needs, mokopuna, schools and whānau says the country’s largest education union, NZEI Te Riu Roa. More >>
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 >>
