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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 >>
ECE ‘Boost’ An Administrative Burden For Whānau And Teachers
Tuesday, 26 March 2024, 5:44 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
"While any investment in ECE is welcome, this policy doesn't even begin to address the current crisis our ECE sector is facing.” More >>
Prime Minister's Punitive Welfare Sanctions Will Harm Children And Their Learning
Monday, 19 February 2024, 6:28 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
New Zealand’s largest education union, NZEI Te Riu Roa, strongly condemns the punitive sanctions against people on welfare benefits Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced this afternoon, saying that any sanctions a government takes ... More >>
Strike Action
Monday, 6 November 2023, 3:52 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Following a vote from NZEI Te Riu Roa members, NZEI advised on 16 October to all employers party to the Early Childhood Education Collective Agreement 2023 (ECECA), that a strike will take place. This affects around 100 Early Childhood Centres whose ... More >>
Smaller Class Sizes Will Genuinely Put Tamariki At Centre Of Education
Monday, 11 September 2023, 5:29 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Smaller class sizes are one of the most important steps we can make to improve learning in primary schools, NZEI Te Riu Roa said today off the back of a Ministerial Advisory Group Reviewing School Staffing announcement. NZEI Te Riu Roa president Mark Potter ... More >>
Teachers, Not Politicians, Should Decide Teaching Strategies, Education Union Says
Sunday, 10 September 2023, 9:46 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The president of NZEI Te Riu Roa, Mark Potter, says the National Party’s new education policy requiring all schools and all teachers to teach literacy in the same way ignores the importance of the professional judgement teachers make daily about what works ... 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
