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More Hypocrisy from John Banks – PPTA
Friday, 11 January 2013, 10:57 am | PPTA
PPTA president-elect Angela Roberts says it is “rankly hypocritical” of John Banks to be encouraging people to make submissions on the legislation setting up charter schools when he has deliberately excluded the public from the process up ... More >>
Rennie should be disqualified from secretary appointment
Thursday, 20 December 2012, 12:16 pm | PPTA
State services commissioner Iain Rennie should consider his role in recent appointments and reflect on whether he is the appropriate person to be approving a new secretary for education. More >>
Longstone forced to progress toxic agenda
Wednesday, 19 December 2012, 1:36 pm | PPTA
Secretary for education Lesley Longstone’s resignation is a symptom of the toxic political agenda she was imported to promote, PPTA president Robin Duff says. More >>
Secondary teachers’ collective agreement ratified
Tuesday, 11 December 2012, 12:38 pm | PPTA
PPTA members have voted to ratify a new secondary teachers’ collective agreement (STCA). The settlement includes the protection of all current provisions and an average pay increase of 2.66% over two-and-a-half years, PPTA president Robin Duff said. ... More >>
Longstone scapegoats collective over Novopay blunder
Thursday, 29 November 2012, 5:04 pm | PPTA
Imagine what would happen if the already shambolic Novopay system had to deal with a hundred thousand individual contracts – the result would quite simply be chaos. More >>
Attacks on teaching and learning conditions off the table
Friday, 23 November 2012, 5:17 pm | PPTA
After several weeks of negotiations PPTA has managed to head numerous attacks on teaching conditions off at the pass. More >>
Parata robbing from the poor to give to the rich
Friday, 2 November 2012, 4:43 pm | PPTA
The government is so short of cash it can’t afford to keep special schools open or provide extra staffing for low decile schools – yet it seems to have a spare $3 million to prop up ailing private school Wanganui Collegiate. More >>
Novopay training timing a joke – PPTA
Friday, 2 November 2012, 12:45 pm | PPTA
Schools crying out for help after the botched Novopay payroll system created a massive workload increase have been given just a days’ notice of a ministry training roadshow. More >>
Longstone must talk to her bargaining team - PPTA
Monday, 29 October 2012, 6:24 pm | PPTA
Secretary for education Lesley Longstone obviously needs to share her concerns about fairness and equity for all New Zealand students with her ministry’s bargaining team, says PPTA general secretary Kevin Bunker. More >>
Education bill for privateers not pupils – PPTA
Tuesday, 16 October 2012, 4:36 pm | PPTA
The government appears to be ashamed of its latest attack on public education, shunting out its education amendment bill at 5pm yesterday. Unregistered teachers, double-bunking and the usual spin were all characteristics of the bill which PPTA president Robin ... More >>
Training teachers to recognise abuse just the start
Thursday, 11 October 2012, 12:16 pm | PPTA
Moves to train teachers to recognise signs of child abuse are being welcomed by the PPTA - as long as there are back-up services available. More >>
Cross-Party Panel Provides Hope For Education
Thursday, 4 October 2012, 10:41 am | PPTA
After being thoroughly disappointed with the minister of education’s speech this morning, PPTA annual conference delegates were given a political ray of hope. More >>
Respect for teachers key to Finnish success
Tuesday, 2 October 2012, 5:20 pm | PPTA
Finland’s pre-eminent educational thinker Dr Pasi Sahlberg will share the secrets to his country’s phenomenal educational success at PPTA’s annual conference tomorrow. More >>
Where is the minister for public education?
Tuesday, 2 October 2012, 3:16 pm | PPTA
“It seems we have a very effective minister of privatising education. What we don’t have is a minister of public education,” says PPTA president Robin Duff. More >>
Warning from New Orleans for PPTA conference
Monday, 1 October 2012, 3:52 pm | PPTA
New Zealanders have an opportunity to stand up against an attack on public education that the New Orleans community never saw coming, says education activist Karran Harper Royal. More >>
Minister must apologise for CHCH school shambles
Friday, 14 September 2012, 12:40 pm | PPTA
The Canterbury community deserves an apology for the shambolic way information on the future of its schools was released yesterday, PPTA president Robin Duff says. Confusion and misinformation was rife after Education minister Hekia Parata insisted ... More >>
Canterbury schools deserve support not brickbats
Thursday, 6 September 2012, 1:37 pm | PPTA
PPTA president Robin Duff is appalled at the lack of compassion shown by education minister Hekia Parata as she continues to berate Christchurch schools about their performance. More >>
Legitimate access to data no excuse for bullying
Wednesday, 22 August 2012, 11:24 am | PPTA
PPTA has received information that explains how, in at least one case, education minister Hekia Parata was able to discover the schools of teachers who wrote to her from personal addresses. More >>
Changing charter school name will fool no one
Thursday, 2 August 2012, 12:58 pm | PPTA
The charter school brand has taken such a hit from New Zealanders who do not want it that its proponents have been forced to change its name. PPTA general secretary Kevin Bunker said re-labelling the New Zealand version of charter schools as ‘partnership ... More >>
“Collaborative” group meets behind closed doors
Friday, 13 July 2012, 2:30 pm | PPTA
A secret meeting of some members of the ministerial cross sector education forum is being held today, without the knowledge of many of the group’s members. More >>
