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NZEI Educators Join Chain Of Solidarity To Mark International Workers’ Day
Friday, 1 May 2026, 10:59 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa national member leader Mark Potter said: “Our message today is simple: we are united, we are organised, and we will continue to fight for the respect, resources, and fair conditions that every educator in this country deserves.” More >>
NZEI Te Riu Roa Demands: Restore Te Tiriti Obligations And Halt Curriculum Rollout
Wednesday, 15 April 2026, 10:19 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
In a brief to the Tribunal, NZEI Te Riu Roa President Ripeka Lessels sought remedies for the harm and prejudice caused to Māori by "a pattern of Crown conduct that has systematically undermined Te Tiriti o Waitangi obligations in education." More >>
NZEI Te Riu Roa Demands: Restore Te Tiriti Obligations And Halt Curriculum Rollout
Wednesday, 15 April 2026, 8:06 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The group is advocating for an education system that is equitable, honours its promises to Māori, and ensures every ākonga sees themselves in their learning. More >>
NZEI Te Riu Roa Fights Resurgent Gender Bias In Education
Friday, 6 March 2026, 1:43 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
"During Working Women's Week, which is the powerful lead-up to International Women's Day on 8 March, we are highlighting the pay inequities still holding women back," NZEI Te Riu Roa President Ripeka Lessels said. More >>
'Unfair Overreach': NZEI Te Riu Roa Challenges Ministry Pay Deductions
Tuesday, 10 February 2026, 11:13 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Conor Fraser said specialist staff frequently work overtime just to keep the system afloat and 'working to rule' demonstrates what a manageable workload actually looks like. More >>
$2.5b Investment Needed To Stop Tamariki Sitting On Learning Support Wait Lists
Tuesday, 8 April 2025, 7:12 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
2024 data obtained by NZEI Te Riu Roa showed children under five waiting six months to access the Early Intervention Service in some regions, which has huge impacts on their learning and oral literacy. More >>
Stop Early Childhood Education Going The Same Way As School Lunches, NZEI Te Riu Roa Says
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 12:05 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
“The school lunches changes have cut costs while torpedoing quality and even introducing safety risks. Now we’re facing quality cuts to young children’s education – even saying teachers don’t need to be qualified to teach in the classroom – and ... More >>
Harmful And Outdated: Government Standardised Testing Move Is Dangerous
Friday, 21 March 2025, 9:18 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The Government's decision to tender for new standardised assessment tests from year 3 risks shifting teacher efforts from personalised teaching and learning to over-assessment, Ms Madden says. More >>
School Lunches: Give Schools Option To Use In-School And Community Providers Immediately, Union Says
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 8:54 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Te Manukura | President Ripeka Lessels is calling for schools to be given the option as the union releases a survey of more than 200 principals & area school kaiako about the new lunch programme, which finds almost 80% of respondents were ‘not satisfied’ ... More >>
Teacher Aides Call For Pay Equity To Be Upheld On International Women’s Day
Friday, 7 March 2025, 1:57 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Teacher aides will begin discussions across the country next week — and vote later this term — on whether to endorse taking legal action under the Equal Pay Act against the Ministry of Education. A review of their pay, required under the Equal Pay Act ... More >>
Call For Education Minister Erica Stanford To Take Over School Lunches Programme
Tuesday, 4 March 2025, 7:11 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa President Ripeka Lessels says Associate Minister David Seymour has failed to resolve the problems introduced to the programme when he altered it to cut costs and now Minister Stanford needed to step in. More >>
Government Delivers Another Gut Punch To Māori With Proposal To De-fund Expert Teachers
Friday, 28 February 2025, 5:18 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa president Ripeka Lessels says the proposal is another blow to Māori after Education Minister Erica Stanford recently cut Te Ahu o te Reo, a highly effective te reo learning programme. More >>
Hoardings Go Up, Petition Signed As Early Childhood Teachers Wait For Proposed Reforms To Hit Cabinet
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 12:20 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa National Executive representative for early childhood education Zane McCarthy says the recommendations prioritise the interests of corporations who receive millions in tax-payer funding, so they can put profits above quality early education. More >>
Solving Teacher Shortage Is About Valuing Teachers And Decent Pay, Says Union
Friday, 21 February 2025, 10:49 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa Te Manukura | President Ripeka Lessels says shortages forecast in the latest teacher demand and supply planning projection are an ongoing pressure for primary schools and a major stress for school leaders. However, there are solutions, ... More >>
Union Pays Respects To Visionary Leader
Monday, 3 February 2025, 2:38 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa says that Dame Iritana Te Rangi Tāwhiwhirangi, founder of the Te Kōhanga Reo movement, was a visionary leader in Māori education, ensuring many generations of mokopuna learned te reo and tikanga. Dame Iritana passed away on 1 ... More >>
Qualified Teachers Essential To Quality ECE, Say Kaiako
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 12:11 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The report, released on Wednesday, recommends what it calls "greater flexibility in workforce qualifications" to support access to & quality of ECE, however teachers say this doesn't address the true causes of the shortage of teachers and will place ... More >>
Valuing Education Workers Is Key To Reducing Industrial Action, Says Union
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 4:34 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
“It's a pity Governments haven't valued teaching enough to make decent pay offers and that it takes educators having to take industrial action to really shift conditions in which tamariki learn.” More >>
New Māori Education Action Plan Light On Detail
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 4:58 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The plan looks very much like a mirroring of the new English medium literacy and structured mathematics curricula. We cannot see a focus on pūtaiao science or Aoteraoa histories, both important subjects for Māori ākonga, says Ripeka Lessels, the incoming ... More >>
New Hearings Report Backs ‘Child-Centred’ Vision For ECE
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 10:31 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The hearings report backs a child-centred vision of early education that ensures culturally responsive learning for tamariki Māori and Pasifika, prioritises the health and safety of all tamariki, and provides enough additional learning support. More >>
ECE Teachers' Action To Call For Children To Be At Centre Of Decisions About Sector's Future
Wednesday, 27 November 2024, 8:48 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
“The majority of submitters to the review supported what we, as early childhood kaiako and teaching professionals, are calling for: good ratios of teachers to children, qualified teachers in the classroom, and paying teachers enough to address and reduce ... More >>
