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PPTA Members Polled On Additional Pay Claim To Recognise Pay Equity Loss
Friday, 30 May 2025, 8:20 am | PPTA
“The shocking changes made recently to the Equal Pay Act have not only extinguished our members’ claim for pay equity, but they also prevent us from making a claim in the future,” says Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua president. More >>
Kāhui Ako Decision Insults Teachers
Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 1:14 pm | PPTA
Defunding Kāhui Ako is an insult to the professionalism of teachers and their aspirations to be more effective and to have careers as outstanding classroom teachers and mentors of colleagues for classroom teachers. More >>
New Pay Equity Law Locks Teachers Out Of Process
Friday, 9 May 2025, 11:49 am | PPTA
“The new legislation has a far narrower set of possible male-dominated profession comparators that can be used to form the basis of a claim. Comparators must be from the same employer, or a similar employer or within the same industry or sector." More >>
Secondary Teachers Initiate Bargaining Amidst Teacher Shortage And Pay Equity Tensions
Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 1:01 pm | PPTA
More than a third of schools that responded to the survey have teachers working in subjects they are not specialists in because they simply cannot find the teachers. The survey was responded to by almost 150 principals of state secondary and area More >>
PPTA Welcomes Government Decision To Pay Teachers’ Practising Fees
Monday, 28 April 2025, 10:09 am | PPTA
Teaching is an extremely rewarding and amazing profession; it is also an increasingly challenging and demanding one, so we need to everything possible to keep all of our experienced and skilled teachers in the workforce. Paying their Teaching Council ... More >>
Review Of Relationships And Sexuality Education Welcomed
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 8:43 am | PPTA
“In an increasingly fractured and online world, it is important that parents and whānau know what their rangatahi are learning at school. Nowhere is this more important than in relationships and sexuality education.” More >>
New Zealand Schooling System Should Provide For All, Not The Chosen Few
Thursday, 5 December 2024, 4:29 pm | PPTA
“A two-tier system of schooling, where one tier is desperately under-funded and under-resourced, while another tiny tier is funded to succeed, is not the way we do things, and not what most New Zealanders want for our public education system”, ... More >>
PPTA Urges Government To Act For Children In War Zones
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 2:13 pm | PPTA
Children are our future and have the right to access education wherever they live. We must do everything we can to uphold this fundamental human right. More >>
Secondary Teachers Welcome Continuation Of School Lunch Programme
Wednesday, 8 May 2024, 12:00 pm | PPTA
“We are pleased the Ka Ora Ka Ako school lunch programme will continue in its current form for the rest of the year, and will be expanded to include thousands of two to five year olds next year,” says Chris Abercrombie PPTA Te Wehengarua president. More >>
Government Refusal To Release Charter School Information Alarming
Friday, 22 March 2024, 9:26 am | PPTA
The Government’s refusal to release information, or consult with those directly affected, about impacts of charter schools on communities raises serious concerns about the costs and implications of this unproven experiment, says Chris Abercrombie ... More >>
Government Needs To Address Secondary Teacher Shortage Urgently
Friday, 15 December 2023, 11:49 am | PPTA
The Government needs to go where successive governments have failed – and solve the secondary teacher shortage crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand, says Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua acting president. “The worsening shortage of secondary teachers ... More >>
Secondary Teachers Question Rationale For Changes To Relationship Education Guidelines
Monday, 4 December 2023, 2:01 pm | PPTA
Secondary teachers are mystified by the reasons given by the Prime Minister for the need to remove the relationship and sexuality education guidelines, says Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua acting president. “When asked by the media early ... More >>
Public Education Should Be The Focus Of Government Investment
Friday, 24 November 2023, 11:36 am | PPTA
“Charter Schools are an expensive distraction from the important work of public education in Aotearoa” says PPTA Acting-President Chris Abercrombie “The vast majority of students in Aotearoa are in the public education system and this is where ... More >>
PPTA Seeks Urgent Meeting With NZQA About Exam Issues
Friday, 10 November 2023, 3:37 pm | PPTA
PPTA Te Wehengarua is seeking an urgent meeting with the NZ Qualifications Authority (NZQA) to express teachers’ serious concerns about the issues with this year’s exams so far. “Running exams is NZQA’s core business and the issues being experienced ... More >>
Education Mandates A Worrying Trend – PPTA
Monday, 11 September 2023, 2:06 pm | PPTA
The National Party’s recent announcement that it will mandate how reading must be taught is the latest in a seriously concerning trend, says Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua acting president. “These policy announcements seem designed ... More >>
PPTA National Executive To Consider Facilitator’s Recommendations On Dispute
Sunday, 18 June 2023, 6:57 pm | PPTA
PPTA Te Wehengarua and Ministry of Education negotiators met yesterday for facilitated bargaining on the Secondary Teachers’ Collective Agreement. Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua acting president, says the facilitator has released a decision ... More >>
PPTA National Executive To Consider Facilitator’s Recommendations On Dispute
Saturday, 17 June 2023, 4:31 pm | PPTA
PPTA Te Wehengarua and Ministry of Education negotiators met yesterday for facilitated bargaining on the Secondary Teachers’ Collective Agreement. Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua acting president, says the facilitator has released a decision ... More >>
Secondary Teachers Reject Collective Agreement Offers
Friday, 9 June 2023, 10:50 am | PPTA
PPTA Te Wehengarua members have voted overwhelmingly to reject the Government’s recent offers for settlement of the secondary and area school teachers’ collective agreements. “Members have given national executive and the negotiating teams a ... More >>
Secondary Teachers To Vote On Latest Offers From Government
Wednesday, 31 May 2023, 2:47 pm | PPTA
PPTA members will vote next week on new offers for settlement of the secondary teachers’ and area school teachers’ collective agreements that were received yesterday. “PPTA Te Wehengarua national executive met last night to consider the offers and we don’t ... More >>
Secondary And Area School Teachers Plan More Industrial Action
Friday, 24 March 2023, 10:06 am | PPTA
Secondary and area school teachers around the country have voted overwhelmingly in favour of more industrial action, including a one day national strike next Wednesday, in support of their collective agreement negotiations. “PPTA Te Wehengarua members ... More >>
