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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 >>
Union Concerned Narrow And Fast-tracked Curriculum Change Won't Deliver Results
Sunday, 4 August 2024, 3:15 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The union says there is no silver bullet for teaching, and the Government's latest fast-tracked maths action plan is not in line with expert recommendations. More >>
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 >>
