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NZEI Te Riu Roa Joins Calls To Restore Cut To Pasifika Early Literacy Project
Tuesday, 12 November 2024, 8:24 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Tute Mila, incoming NZEI Te Riu Roa General Membership Representative, says that the Pasifika Early Literacy Project has been crucial in helping Pasifika learners thrive in their education and maintain their cultural identities. More >>
Union Submits Complaint About Charter School Legislation Employment Violations To International Labour Organisation
Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 10:32 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Stephanie Mills, National Secretary of NZEI Te Riu Roa, says the new legislation prioritises profit-making over children's education and teachers’ work rights. More >>
An Effective System Tackling Absenteeism Should Have Educators At Its Centre
Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 9:30 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa President, Mark Potter, says “the weaknesses identified in the current system are down to either lack of resourcing or socioeconomic factors that contribute to absenteeism like trauma and poverty.” More >>
Teachers Stand Up For Public Education On Nationwide Day Of Action
Wednesday, 23 October 2024, 11:54 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Teachers, support staff, and school and centre leaders are committed to continuing to improve the education system to realise the promises of Te Tiriti and deliver equity of learning opportunities for all. More >>
Cuts To School Lunch Programme Puts Further Pressure On Stretched Schools
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 3:27 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The cuts to funding announced by the Associate Minister of Education means schools providing meals themselves have had funding cut by 25-50%. (From up to $8.29 per head to $4 a head). Funding for schools buying in lunches from commercial providers ... More >>
Introducing Newly Elected NZEI Te Riu Roa President Ripeka Lessels
Tuesday, 1 October 2024, 2:19 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Ms Lessels was elected to the position today at Hui-ā-Tui, the annual NZEI Te Riu Roa conference, and will succeed outgoing president Mark Potter in February 2025. More >>
State Of The Sector: Early Childhood Education Heading In Wrong Direction Say Teachers In Workforce Survey
Monday, 30 September 2024, 2:38 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
This results of this survey make it absolutely clear that undermining teachers and children in favour of businesses is not the answer and will have grave repercussions for kaiako and tamariki. More >>
School Attendance Announcement Shows Coalition Government Out Of Touch With Schools
Thursday, 26 September 2024, 1:45 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The Associate Minister’s ‘crackdown on truancy’ shows a lack of awareness about the root causes of truancy in Aotearoa. More >>
Cut To Te Reo Programme A Few Days After Te Wiki O Te Reo Māori A Mistake
Thursday, 26 September 2024, 11:15 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The Minister for Education, Erica Stanford, has announced that the funding will be cut and diverted into publishing maths workbooks because of the Government’s fast-tracking next year of the new maths curriculum. More >>
Parliament Passes Pathway To Privatisation Of Public Schools
Wednesday, 25 September 2024, 2:49 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa president Mark Potter urges communities to consider proposals to convert to private operation very carefully; once a school moves to private operation there is nothing in the legislation to allow a pathway back to becoming a public ... More >>
Parents Overwhelmingly In Favour Of Pay Parity For Early Childhood Teachers, Survey Finds
Tuesday, 24 September 2024, 1:36 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
More than 90% showed concern for children’s safety should teacher-child ratios be increased. Almost 87% of parents and caregivers agreed that regular safety measures, such as sleep checks, room temperature checks, nappy checks, and food safety, were ... More >>
Education Leaders Unite Against Government's Moves To Downgrade Place Of Te Tiriti In Education
Wednesday, 18 September 2024, 11:39 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
“As education sector leaders, we will work together to oppose the downgrading of Te Tiriti in the Education and Training Act and will support our members to engage and take action to uphold Te Tiriti in our schools,” Te Akatea president Tracy ... More >>
Deregulation Proposals By For-Profit ECE Employer Group Shows Total Disregard For Early Childhood Teachers
Tuesday, 17 September 2024, 1:21 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The proposals include cutting pay parity for all early childhood teachers, reducing the number of qualified teachers outside of government subsidised hours, and removing kindergarten from the state sector. It also deems mandated minimum teacher-child ... More >>
Primary Principals And Teachers’ Groups Ask Government To Pause The Fast-tracking Of Curriculum Change In Schools
Monday, 16 September 2024, 2:28 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Primary principals urge the Education Minister to delay the 2025 rollout of new math and English curricula, citing insufficient support and potential burnout for teachers. More >>
Union Says Moving ITE From Teaching Council To Ministry Of Education Is Wrong
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 11:22 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa has signed a joint statement to oppose a proposal by the Minister of Education to move the oversight of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) from the Teaching Council to the Ministry of Education. More >>
Scrapping Pay Parity For Some Teachers Will Not Solve Early Childhood Education Crisis
Sunday, 15 September 2024, 11:07 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
These changes in no way address the underlying reasons for the teacher shortage: poor teacher-child ratios, workloads that are too high for an already over-burdened workforce, and the ongoing difficulties to secure learning support for children who ... More >>
Children In Some Regions Waiting More Than Six Months To Access Learning Support Specialists
Wednesday, 28 August 2024, 12:41 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Some children waiting for early intervention services to support speech and language, behavioural challenges and other learning needs now wait for as long as 183 days and nationally on average 126 days – according to data obtained by education union ... More >>
Qualified Early Childhood Teachers Essential To Positive Outcomes For Tamariki
Thursday, 22 August 2024, 7:23 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
An ERO report on children’s oral language shows the Government should be investing in an 100% qualified early childhood teacher workforce, better teacher to child ratios, and improved paid parental leave, NZEI Te Riu Roa early childhood teacher members More >>
Teachers, Parents Speak Up At Public Hearings On Govt’s Regulatory Review
Wednesday, 14 August 2024, 10:54 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Teacher shortages, teachers responsible for up to 10 young children at a time, and losing teachers to less stressful work are just some of the issues faced by early childhood education (ECE) teachers who are speaking up at public hearings in major ... More >>
UK Teacher Warns: Charter Schools Will Increase Privatisation Of Education In Aotearoa
Wednesday, 7 August 2024, 10:08 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
As Govt hastily ushers through one of the most far-reaching changes to public education in Aotearoa, a visiting leader of teachers in England is warning that charter schools will not put the needs of children first and should be recognised as deregulation ... More >>
