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NZEI Te Riu Roa
New Zealand Educational Institute
NZEI Te Riu Roa members work in every community in New Zealand, leading and advocating for quality public education.
We are the 50,000 principals, teachers and support staff who work in primary, area and secondary schools as well as early childhood centres, special education and school advisory services. We come together as NZEI Te Riu Roa - New Zealand's largest education union, a Treaty based organisation and a powerful advocate for quality public education.
We have the most important job in New Zealand - educating for the future.
NZEI Te Riu Roa - Latest News [Page 2]
Pay Parity In ECE Needs Long Term Commitment
Thursday, 31 August 2023, 6:43 pm | NZEI
ECE teachers welcome today’s announcement of funding to match the pay increases won by their colleagues in kindergarten and schooling. However, NZEI Te Riu Roa says that the Government’s decision to kick the can down the road on guaranteeing funding ... More >>
Learning Support For Tamariki Needs More Funding, Not Budget Cuts
Tuesday, 29 August 2023, 3:47 pm | NZEI
Thousands of tamariki are already missing out on the learning support they need to thrive, and any cuts in government budgets must not affect support they need, NZEI Te Riu Roa said today. NZEI Te Riu Roa has today written to the Secretary for ... More >>
Proposed Teaching Requirements Must Be Properly Resourced
Monday, 21 August 2023, 3:17 pm | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa broadly supports the common practice model which has been designed by educational researchers and experts. However, the union, which represents around 30,000 primary school teachers, says time and resourcing to prepare the best learning ... More >>
Area School Teachers Vote To Accept New Collective Agreement
Sunday, 20 August 2023, 8:23 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Area school teachers have voted to accept the latest Ministry of Education collective agreement offer. The offer followed prolonged campaigning by area school teacher members, including participation in the largest education strike in New Zealand history ... More >>
Pay Equity Funding Decision Angers Early Childhood Teachers
Thursday, 17 August 2023, 10:01 am | NZEI
Early childhood teachers are angry and disappointed by news yesterday that the Government has delayed an in-principle decision to fund pay equity for ECE teachers. ECE kaiako are part of a large pay equity claim for all teachers across schooling and ECE that ... More >>
Specialist Learning Support Staff Accept Offer
Thursday, 3 August 2023, 2:12 pm | NZEI
Specialist learning support staff have voted to accept their latest offer from the Ministry of Education and have withdrawn their strike action. Specialist learning support staff cover a huge variety of educational specialists who work to support ... More >>
Principals Call On Ministry To Fund All Lump Sum Payments To Teachers
Monday, 24 July 2023, 8:44 am | NZEI
Primary school principals say some schools will face budget holes and some students may go without resources because the Ministry of Education has changed its initial advice about lump sum payments won by teachers in their latest collective agreement ... More >>
Specialist Learning Support Staff Vote For Ban On New Cases From Next Week
Thursday, 20 July 2023, 11:32 am | NZEI
Speech language therapists, psychologists, advisers on deaf children, behaviour specialists and other Ministry of Education specialist staff have voted in favour of industrial action in a secret ballot earlier this week. NZEI Te Riu Roa members ... More >>
Primary Principals Accept Latest Offer From Ministry Of Education
Thursday, 29 June 2023, 3:34 pm | NZEI
Primary principals have voted to accept the latest Ministry of Education offer on their collective agreement. This was the third offer put to principals and follows a long campaign which saw them take part in the largest education strike in this ... More >>
Early Childhood Sector Fair Pay Agreement Process Gets Go Ahead
Monday, 19 June 2023, 4:54 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The early childhood sector is set to embark on the next steps in their Fair Pay Agreement process which will set minimum pay and conditions for over 35,000 workers. A Fair Pay Agreement would explicitly set minimum conditions and pay for a sector ... More >>
Schools Face Leadership Crisis Over Next Five Years
Monday, 12 June 2023, 10:33 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Nearly half of new primary school principals intend to leave their role in the next five years, a new survey by NZEI Te Riu Roa has found. The findings of a Principal Sentiment Snapshot survey are being released at the union’s Educational Leadership ... More >>
Primary School Teachers Accept 4th Collective Agreement Offer
Wednesday, 7 June 2023, 8:12 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Primary teachers have voted to accept the latest Ministry of Education collective agreement offer. This was the fourth offer put to teachers and follows a long negotiation campaign which included the largest education strike in this country’s history. ... More >>
Union Dismayed By Mayor's Proposal To Cut ECE
Thursday, 1 June 2023, 5:06 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa, New Zealand’s largest education union, was dismayed and surprised by Mayor Wayne Brown’s decision to insist on cuts to provision of early childhood education in his proposed budget. NZEI Te Riu Roa early childhood representative, ... More >>
ECE Focus Should Be On Lower Ratios And Better Pay
Thursday, 25 May 2023, 11:17 am | NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa, New Zealand’s largest education union, welcomes the extension of 20 hours early childhood education (ECE) to two-year-olds because it means greater equity of access for tamariki and their families. The policy announced in last week’s ... More >>
Outcome Of Primary Teacher Industrial Action Ballot
Monday, 22 May 2023, 7:03 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa primary teacher members have endorsed two industrial actions, in a ballot which closed this evening. The actions endorsed by members in the ballot which ran from last Thursday to today are a one-day strike on Wednesday 31 May AND ... More >>
Disappointing Budget For Primary Educators
Thursday, 18 May 2023, 5:41 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa, the largest education union in Aotearoa, says that this year’s Budget has disappointed primary educators. It is the second year in a row that school funding has not kept pace with CPI, and there are no investments in teacher pay, ... More >>
Big Steps For Our Smallest Citizens
Thursday, 18 May 2023, 5:31 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa, the country’s largest education union, welcomes the $1.8 billion investment in Budget 2023 to fund full pay parity for early childhood education (ECE) teachers and the extension of 20hrs free ECE to all 2-year-olds. Geena Fagan, an ... More >>
Area School Teachers To Vote On Move To Industrial Action In Term 2
Wednesday, 26 April 2023, 4:51 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Area school teachers across the country will vote on whether to move to industrial action this term, including taking rolling strikes, says NZEI Te Riu Roa, New Zealand’s largest education union. Area school teachers have only had one offer which was back ... More >>
Principals Stand Strong At The Start Of Term As After Hours Work Ban Begins
Monday, 24 April 2023, 5:02 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Primary and area school principals begin a two-month work ban starting 8am Monday 24 April, the first day of term two. The work ban includes a pause on all Ministerial work that principals normally do, such as implementing the Curriculum Refresh, or ... More >>
Primary School Teachers To Vote On Improved Offer
Monday, 17 April 2023, 2:10 pm | NZEI
Primary school teachers will be voting on an improved offer for their collective employment agreement after taking part in the country’s largest ever education strike in March. The NZEI Te Riu Roa primary teacher members negotiating team received ... More >>
