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Harmful and outdated: Government standardised testing move is dangerous
The Government's decision to tender for new standardised assessment tests from year 3 risks shifting teacher efforts from personalised teaching and learning to over-assessment,…
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School lunches: Give schools option to use in-school and community providers immediately, union says
The Government should immediately allow schools to opt back into using in-school and community providers for school lunches rather than its centralised School Lunch Collective,…
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Teacher aides call for pay equity to be upheld on International Women’s Day
Teacher aides will begin discussions across the country next week — and vote later this term — on whether to endorse taking legal action under the Equal Pay Act against the…
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Call for Education Minister Erica Stanford to take over school lunches programme
Te Riu Roa has written to Education Minister Erica Stanford asking that she immediately take over the running of the school lunches programme.
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Govt delivers another gut punch to Māori with proposal to de-fund expert teachers
The Government has today delivered another gut punch to Māori by proposing the de-funding of expert teachers who support literacy and te reo Māori, NZEI Te Riu Roa says.
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Hoardings go up, petition signed as early childhood teachers wait for proposed reforms to hit Cabinet
Early childhood education teachers will be putting up hoardings on Children’s Day this Sunday...
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Union pays respects to visionary leader
Kua korero mai a NZEI Te Riu Roa, ko Kahurangi Iritana Te Rangi Tāwhiwhirangi, he kaiwhakarewa o te Nekehanga Kohanga Reo, he kaiwhakatere, he manukura hoki ki roto i te āo…
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Qualified teachers essential to quality ECE, say kaiako
NZEI Te Riu Roa, the union for early childhood education (ECE) and kindergarten teachers, says recommendations from the Regulatory Review of the ECE sector present troubling…
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Valuing education workers is key to reducing industrial action, says union
If teaching was a profession as valued by decision-makers as it should be there would be no need for industrial action, says the country’s largest education union NZEI Te Riu Roa.…