A charter school responds to the PPTA
A further guest post, responding to the PPTA guest post, from the Villa Education Trust: The Villa Education Trust is one of the 5 organisations given the opportunity to begin a Partnership School to...
View ArticlePPTA finds five good things in education in 2013
The PPTA goes to battle a lot against the Government on educational issues. However they have done a blog post highlighting five good things the Government did in education in 2013. They are: Continued...
View ArticleFlavell on PPTA boycott
Maori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell says: Te Ururoa Flavell, Maori Party Co-Leader, has expressed disappointment at the influence of PPTA in advising Whangarei Boys High teachers to not teach...
View ArticleInvesting in Educational Success initiative moves forward
Hekia Parata announced: Education Minister Hekia Parata has welcomed advice from sector leaders on the Government’s $359 million initiative to raise student achievement, saying it maintains momentum...
View ArticleLabour against paying the top teachers more
The Herald reports: The Government’s $359 million expert teachers policy has proved to be the latest in a series of “epic failures” in the education sector due to a lack of consultation with teachers...
View ArticlePPTA reaches agreement
Stuff reports: Only a day after the country’s biggest teacher union walked away from the Government’s flagship education policy, secondary school teachers have agreed on an interim deal over it. Today...
View ArticlePPTA on Investing in Educational Success
The PPTA has a blog post on some of the misinformation on the Investing in Educational Success initiative. They state they are supportive of it because: IES is a political initiative because it comes...
View ArticleSecondary teachers vote for education reforms
Radio NZ reports: 80 per cent of PPTA members have agreed to include two new teaching roles into their collective employment contract. They’re a key part of the government’s $360 million policy, which...
View ArticleSupporting trade academies
Stuart Middleton from MIT writes: The New Zealand Herald is right to call for more enrolments in trades academies. Yet to protect teacher management jobs from funding cuts, the NZ Post Primary...
View ArticleThe shameful teacher boycoot
The Herald reports: When Chief Petty Officer Kelly Kahukiwa left the navy to teach in Northland he did not know what a charter school was. Now, because he had a job at a Whangarei charter school, the...
View ArticlePPTA wants to ban international school qualifications
The Herald reports: It said schools offering Cambridge and IB made public assertions that portrayed the NCEA as not challenging or lacking credibility – which was not true – and therefore should be...
View ArticlePPTA confirms they want to ban international qualifications
The Herald reports: Head of the PPTA, Angela Roberts, said it wanted Cambridge gone as it was undermining NCEA, and was calling for a ban. So sad. Tags: PPTA
View ArticlePPTA sees sense
The Herald reports: The secondary teachers union will drop a proposed move to ban foreign qualifications, saying it was proving a “distraction” from the real issues around NCEA. A Post-Primary...
View ArticleHas PPTA killed off Teach First?
Stuff reports: School principals plans for next year have been thrown into disarray as a groundbreaking teacher training programme is ruled illegal. The scheme enables high-achieving university...
View ArticleA split in the PPTA?
The Herald reports: The case has caused some division within the union. The Herald understands the PPTA Onehunga High School branch approved a motion supporting the Teach First programme, and objecting...
View ArticleGuest Post: Bureaucracy gone mad – what would National say if Labour was...
A guest post from the PPTA: Earlier this year the Secretary of Education, Peter Hughes, had his regular grilling by the Education and Science Select Committee. Maurice Williamson, who’s not usually the...
View ArticleSeymour vs PPTA
The Herald reports: Act leader David Seymour has slammed comments made by an education union president – saying teacher stress has nothing to do with serious offending against children. But Angela...
View ArticleWill PPTA’s Roberts stand for Labour?
Stuff reports: Labour leader Andrew Little has ruled out running in New Plymouth in this year’s election, leaving it wide open for outgoing teacher union president and Taranaki high school teacher,...
View ArticleGuest Post: Continuing problems with the new seclusion and restraint provisions
A guest post from the PPTA: Seclusion seclude, in relation to a student or child, means to place the student or child involuntarily alone in a room from which he or she cannot freely exit or from which...
View ArticlePPTA wants the worst teachers paid $87,000 a year
The Herald reports: Teacher unions are warning of likely strikes to seek pay rises costing “hundreds of millions of dollars”, including an extra allowance for teaching in areas of expensive housing...
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