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Extra funding a welcome start
Thursday, 4 May 2006, 4:40 pm | PPTA
The announcement of extra funding to combat disruptive student behaviour is a welcome start to tackling an extremely difficult issue, PPTA president Debbie Te Whaiti said today. More >>
Report: Standards for Teachers and Teacher Ed
Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 5:12 pm | PPTA
Professional standards for teachers and teacher education can be ‘generic’ or ‘specified’. Generic standards are broad descriptors of teachers’ skills and knowledge. Specified standards attempt to define more precisely what is to be taught, what would count ... More >>
Standards should guide, not control
Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 5:09 pm | PPTA
Professional standards for teachers should remain at a broad level that guides teachers rather than controls them, according to a paper commissioned by PPTA and NZEI. More >>
PPTA puts spotlight on quality teaching
Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 11:03 am | PPTA
Creating the conditions to enable quality teaching is about strengthening the partnership between teachers, students, parents, communities and Government, PPTA president Debbie Te Whaiti said today. More >>
Consistency key to teacher confidence
Friday, 7 April 2006, 1:11 pm | PPTA
The 2005 NCEA results show a big improvement in consistency that should help boost teacher confidence in the NCEA, PPTA president Debbie Te Whaiti said today. More >>
Respect school’s grief
Tuesday, 28 March 2006, 4:44 pm | PPTA
PPTA is urging media organisations to give Putaruru College staff and students space to come to terms with the death of another student who attended the school. More >>
Time to boost secondary library funding
Tuesday, 28 March 2006, 2:43 pm | PPTA
The Government urgently needs to boost funding for secondary school libraries to improve students’ literacy, research and ICT skills, PPTA president Debbie Te Whaiti said today. More >>
Politicians should call off the witch hunt
Friday, 3 March 2006, 11:07 am | PPTA
Teachers and students at Bayfield High School are feeling the pressure of the continuing media and political witch hunt of former associate education minister David Benson Pope, PPTA president Debbie Te Whaiti said today. More >>
Time to dispense with secondary ‘failure’ myth
Thursday, 2 February 2006, 5:50 pm | PPTA
It is time to dispense with the mythology that students turn up at secondary school and suddenly fail, PPTA president Debbie Te Whaiti said today. More >>
TEC model forces night class closures
Friday, 27 January 2006, 3:12 pm | PPTA
The move to a contestable and bulk-funded model is responsible for the closure of night courses at Tamaki and Glendowie colleges, and this may be just the beginning, PPTA president Debbie Te Whaiti said today. More >>
Exam fine-tuning pays dividends
Wednesday, 25 January 2006, 3:53 pm | PPTA
The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) should be congratulated for the thorough processes it has implemented to ensure that last year’s exams fairly and accurately reflect student achievement, PPTA president Debbie Te Whaiti said today. More >>
Branch calls on Board and CEO to resign
Wednesday, 14 December 2005, 5:18 pm | PPTA
Secondary teachers at The Correspondence School today called on the Board of Trustees and the CEO to resign after a “fail” assessment for their performance this year. At a union meeting today the PPTA branch assessed many aspects of their performance ... More >>
NCEA attacks unfair on the kids
Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 12:38 am | PPTA
National education spokesman Bill English and a tiny minority of markers are once again turning the NCEA into a political football, PPTA president Debbie Te Whaiti said today. More >>
Peachey must come clean over Selwyn
Thursday, 8 December 2005, 12:38 am | PPTA
Reports that National Party MP Allan Peachey made disparaging remarks about Selwyn College to a contributing primary school add to the growing evidence that his email threat to Selwyn’s principal was more than a mistake, Debbie Te Whaiti said today. More >>
Peachey apology not enough
Monday, 5 December 2005, 11:36 am | PPTA
National MP Allan Peachey’s apology to Selwyn College over an emailed threat to its school principal doesn’t go far enough, PPTA president Debbie Te Whaiti said today. More >>
NCEA report card shows promise
Friday, 2 December 2005, 4:24 pm | PPTA
The Learning Curves report released yesterday paints an encouraging picture of the direction NCEA is heading, but there is plenty of room for improvement, PPTA president Debbie Te Whaiti says. More >>
PPTA releases briefing papers
Thursday, 24 November 2005, 11:05 am | PPTA
More support for NCEA, the need for smaller class sizes, help for secondary schools to recruit and retain technology teachers and insufficient operations funding are among the key issues raised in PPTA’s briefing papers to the new government. More >>
NZEI and PPTA Presidents To Join Oz Workers
Friday, 11 November 2005, 12:10 am | PPTA
The presidents of New Zealand's two largest education unions will join a national day of community protest in Australia next Tuesday against legislation aimed at stripping Australian workers of many of their basic workplace conditions. More >>
Funding gap contributes to safety failures
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 9:58 am | PPTA
An incident such as the gas explosion at Kaitaia College could happen again because schools’ operations grants are already stretched to the limit, PPTA president Debbie Te Whaiti said today. More >>
Appalling ignorance over transgender issues
Monday, 31 October 2005, 1:41 pm | PPTA
Supporting the basic human rights of transgender and intersex people has nothing to do with political correctness and Wayne Mapp’s remarks over the dumped gender identity bill are just another glaring example of intolerance, PPTA president Debbie ... More >>
