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$63 million cuts disaster for schools
Friday, 27 May 2011, 9:43 am | PPTA
The Ministry of Education will now have to stump up $63 million from its budget to fund employer contributions to KiwiSaver and other retirement schemes, said Post Primary Teachers Association president Robin Duff. More >>
Ops grant cut sidelines students
Thursday, 19 May 2011, 4:45 pm | PPTA
Secondary schools will have less to spend on each student next year said Post Primary Teachers Association president Robin Duff. “The Budget does not compensate for inflation in schools’ operations grant funding,” he said. School rolls will be ... More >>
Calling for Budget sense
Wednesday, 18 May 2011, 1:45 pm | PPTA
PPTA President Robin Duff said while the Budget would be tight on the back of a recession and the Christchurch earthquake, it was no excuse to slash funding to secondary schools. “There is no fat to trim – school’s budgets are really tight”. Eighteen ... More >>
Geocaching, treasure hunt for teachers
Monday, 18 April 2011, 2:34 pm | PPTA
New Zealand Post Primary Teachers Association Professional Conference 2011 Secondary school teachers from across New Zealand will take to the streets of Wellington in a treasure hunt geocaching style. More >>
Secondary Teachers’ Collective Agreement Ratified
Monday, 11 April 2011, 5:29 pm | PPTA
Post Primary Teachers’ Association members ratified a collective agreement with the Ministry of Education with 86 percent support. More >>
Secondary teachers’ collective agreement ratified
Monday, 11 April 2011, 2:18 pm | PPTA
April, 2011 Post Primary Teachers’ Association members ratified a collective agreement with the Ministry of Education with 86 percent support. More >>
Retirement earned after 45 years in education
Wednesday, 30 March 2011, 1:08 pm | PPTA
After 45 years in the education sector secretary for education Karen Sewell has earned her retirement, PPTA president Robin Duff says. More >>
Teachers to vote on possible agreement
Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 4:46 pm | PPTA
PPTA members throughout the country will meet to decide whether to ratify a settlement of the secondary teachers’ collective agreement. PPTA and the ministry of education have been back in negotiations since the beginning of this year and agreement has ... More >>
NCEA survey reveals broken promises
Thursday, 17 February 2011, 4:16 pm | PPTA
An NCEA survey released by PPTA today exposes the government’s failure to support secondary schools during a period of massive change. Schools from Southland to Upper Northland are struggling under the increasing workload around NCEA created by government ... More >>
Negative PPP report no surprise – PPTA
Wednesday, 2 February 2011, 2:31 pm | PPTA
A report throwing serious questions at government plans for public private partnerships (PPPs) in schools comes as no surprise to PPTA president Robin Duff. Duff, who takes over from (now senior vice president) Kate Gainsford, said the business case prepared ... More >>
More platitudes from Tolley
Friday, 17 December 2010, 1:26 pm | PPTA
It is ironic that education minister Anne Tolley is calling for “calm and constructive” negotiating when the government has gone out of its way to provoke through silly game playing, PPTA president Kate Gainsford says. More >>
PM and ministers refusing to engage - PPTA
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 4:01 pm | PPTA
As secondary teachers prepare to discuss escalating industrial action in 2011, the prime minister and government MPs are closing their doors to them. Throughout the collective agreement negotiations government MPs countrywide have been refusing to ... More >>
$30,000 to be wasted on what teachers already know
Friday, 26 November 2010, 5:22 pm | PPTA
The Ministry of Education plans to spend $30,000 on “promotional services” to draw people into teaching - at a time when it is very publicly showing it doesn’t value teachers at all. PPTA president Kate Gainsford was astounded to learn of a ... More >>
Area school offer worse than primary and secondary
Monday, 15 November 2010, 4:58 pm | PPTA
Area school teachers across the country will begin a series of paid union meetings today to consider a worse offer than that presented to their primary and secondary colleagues. More >>
Rostering home reinstated – PPTA members furious
Friday, 12 November 2010, 12:13 pm | PPTA
PPTA members are furious that the Ministry of Education - being well aware of the disruption calling off yesterday’s action would cause - responded with nothing but the promise of a talkfest. More >>
Tomorrow’s year 10 rostering called off
Wednesday, 10 November 2010, 4:50 pm | PPTA
Tomorrow’s year 10 rostering off has been suspended to allow negotiations to continue, particularly focussing on issues around class size and teaching conditions. More >>
Does the government even want to settle?
Tuesday, 9 November 2010, 4:30 pm | PPTA
PPTA negotiators were left doubting the government’s commitment to settling the Secondary Teachers’ Collective Agreement, after two days of hard bargaining. More >>
Negotiations to resume next week
Friday, 5 November 2010, 12:49 pm | PPTA
PPTA and the Ministry of Education will be back at the bargaining table on Monday, with both parties understanding this is last opportunity of to reach a settlement that can be ratified this year. More >>
Ministry wage statements confuse teachers, public
Wednesday, 20 October 2010, 4:00 pm | PPTA
The Ministry of Education’s last minute statements about not docking teacher pay for this week’s strikes have caused some confusion among PPTA members, parents and the general public. More >>
Christchurch schools exempt from PPTA action
Tuesday, 19 October 2010, 5:13 pm | PPTA
After strong aftershocks affected Canterbury schools today PPTA has resolved to exempt the region from this week’s industrial action. More >>
