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Skewing Marsden -- QPEC Response

Monday, 9 December 2024, 9:46 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC

The Minister's policy suggests a disturbing Government outlook that seriously undervalues the benefit of critical social sciences and humanities across the range of human activity. We urge the Minister to reverse her decision. And we urge other organisations ... More >>

Professor Martin Thrupp

Monday, 8 January 2024, 10:43 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC

QPEC is very sad to note the passing of Professor Martin Thrupp of the University of Waikato. Martin has been an enlightened voice in progressive education for all of his notable career. He has contributed intensely and forcefully in New Zealand, ... More >>

ECE should be publicly owned and delivered

Tuesday, 7 March 2023, 9:25 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC

QPEC says that a major problem with the ECE sector is that a large part of it is for-profit, privately owned, and in many cases, part of foreign chains. In its place, QPEC argues for public ownership in a partnership model with Government and community. ... More >>

Te Pūkenga Plans Savage Attack On Polytechnic Education

Monday, 24 October 2022, 5:31 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC

QPEC urges Education Minister Chris Hipkins to step in and prevent the new polytech national entity, Te Pūkenga, from taking the axe to vocational and trades education across the country in a drive to save money. On Friday Te Pūkenga Acting Chief Executive More >>

Public Funding For Public Schools

Thursday, 27 August 2020, 4:03 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC

The Quality Public Education Coalition (QPEC) is appalled to hear of the decision to provide $11.7m in public funds to Green School in Taranaki, a private education-for-profit school. This move comes at a time when the Covid crisis has highlighted the huge ... More >>

A new future for work skills training in NZ

Friday, 15 February 2019, 9:22 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC

QPEC welcomes the Minister's refreshing approach to Vocational Education, including the proposal for a new funding model for the sector that removes competition among institutes. We look forward to much enhanced certainty, stability, and equity for ... More >>

Autonomy of Māori Studies at Waikato University

Friday, 24 August 2018, 9:39 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC

Rt Hon James Bolger Prof Neil Quigley Chancellor Vice-Chancellor University of Waikato Council University of Waikato More >>

Government Musn't Waver on Closing Dead Duck Charter Schools

Tuesday, 5 December 2017, 10:36 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC

Charter schools are unnecessary and a failed experiment and the coalition government must act as quickly as possible to either shut them down, or transition them into the state system, according to QPEC deputy Liz Gordon. More >>

A Tale of Two School Types & Their Different Treatment

Thursday, 22 June 2017, 10:08 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC

The release of the decision on accountability funding for charter schools, and the Ombudsman’s report on school closures, shows one set of rules for state schools dealing with vulnerable communities, and another set for charter schools, who were ... More >>

Drop Student Fees

Friday, 30 September 2016, 11:10 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC

QPEC believes that the central question to ask of the Productivity Commission's proposals on tertiary education is, What is in the best public interest? More >>

What’s going on in education policy?

Thursday, 25 August 2016, 11:11 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC

Dr Liz Gordon, QPEC convenor, says that QPEC supports the concerns of many other groups about two recently announced policy proposals. More >>

Free tertiary education

Monday, 22 August 2016, 10:36 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC

Labour has announced a fees-free policy. But from a contrary viewpoint, The NZ Initiative has recently argued for means-testing student loans plus restoring interest on tuition aid. More >>

Earnings from Tertiary Education

Friday, 1 April 2016, 9:24 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC

The Minister of Tertiary Education does a great disservice to the country by pushing income figures for a "prosperous" tertiary education. More >>

New Labour Party Education Policy – a tentative start

Monday, 1 February 2016, 11:23 am | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC

QPEC welcomes Labour's Working Futures Plan to fund three years of free tertiary study as a step in the right direction. More >>

A regrettable episode

Thursday, 28 January 2016, 2:59 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC

The Quality Public Education Coalition is relieved that the experiment to open a partnership school at Whangaruru in Auckland is over. Dr Liz Gordon says that the model is deeply ideological, based on the incorrect notion that the private sector ... More >>

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