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Union says new government adopting radical aims of ACT will not serve tamariki
Before National allows ACT to determine a radical direction of change in education, they should listen to teachers and parents about what is needed for tamariki, says New…
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Early childhood teachers should not be short-changed because of inadequate forecasting
The incoming government has an urgent job to do fixing early childhood education funding, education union NZEI Te Riu Roa says.
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Early childhood education teachers strike over essential funding
Kaiako and kaimahi from around 100 community early childhood education centres across the motu covered by the ECE Collective Agreement will take strike action for the first time…
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Largest ECE survey in years, Kōriporipo, highlights teachers under pressure
The largest survey of the early childhood sector in Aotearoa in recent years, Kōriporipo, shines a light on the immense pressures facing ECE kaiako and kaimahi and makes…
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Do not return to standardised testing, do not run education like a business
Educational success comes from investing in the connection between teachers and learners through smaller class sizes, not running the education system like competing supermarkets…
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Historic first ever collective agreement at large private ECE provider
Early childhood kaiako and kaimahi are celebrating today as a first collective employment agreement is reached between Evolve Education, the country’s second largest private ECE…
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Specialised teachers deliver a petition to the Minister to stop cuts that will impact children most in need
A group of teachers took a clear message to the Minister of Education, Jan Tinetti, this morning to urge the Government not to reduce specialist staff who support tamariki in…
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Smaller class sizes will genuinely put tamariki at centre of education
Smaller class sizes are one of the most important steps we can make to improve learning in primary schools, NZEI Te Riu Roa said today off the back of a Ministerial Advisory Group…
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Teachers, not politicians, should decide teaching strategies, education union says
The president of NZEI Te Riu Roa, Mark Potter, says the National Party’s new education policy requiring all schools and all teachers to teach literacy in the same way ignores the…