The first meetings will be held tomorrow (Monday 28 November) in Dunedin, Queenstown and Auckland. The secondary teachers’ union, PPTA Te Wehengarua, has been in negotiations with the Ministry of Education for about six months. PPTA Te Wehengarua’s claims for new collective agreements for its secondary and area school teacher members include a cost of ...
“We need collective agreements that contain salaries and conditions that will help stem the worsening shortage of subject specialist teachers in our high schools and area schools,” says Melanie Webber, president of PPTA Te Wehengarua. “We need salaries and conditions that will attract people into secondary teaching and keep existing teachers in the profession. We ...
“As the Education Review Office report released today shows, the factors that are resulting in fewer ākonga attending school regularly are wide-ranging and complex and there is no easy fix. Missing Out: Why aren’t our children going to school? However, teachers know what is needed. “As the Education Review Office report released today (Thursday 10 ...
Earlier this year, as part of negotiations for a new collective agreement for area school teachers, PPTA Te Wehengarua claimed improvements to pay and conditions, i.e. greater recognition of the roles, for Learning Support Coordinators. Area schools teach students from Year 1 to through to Year 13 in rural communities of Aotearoa New Zealand. The ...
Head of Arts at Waimate High School, Nicole Solomon, has swapped the art room for the lecture theatre to return to university this year and further her goals as a lifelong learner. Nicole, who already has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFa) and GradDip Teaching Secondary, is studying toward a Masters in Māori and Indigenous ...
More than thanks. That’s the campaign slogan of our New South Wales Teachers’ Federation colleagues who are heading into the second year of their push to achieve better wages and conditions for their members. They’ve been out four times, fined by the government, and are still yet to achieve a settlement. Meanwhile international research describes ...
PPTA Te Wehengarua members have re-elected Melanie Webber as their president for a third term. Melanie, a media studies teacher at Western Springs College Ngā Puna o Waiōrea, says one of her key goals for 2023 is to get a satisfactory settlement of the secondary teachers’ collective agreement. “We desperately need to stem the tide ...
“We would much prefer to be beginning the term in a settled environment but after 11 months of negotiations we haven’t been able to make satisfactory progress on some major issues,” says Kieran Gainsford, a member of PPTA Te Wehengarua negotiating team. “There is a worsening shortage of secondary teachers, and we need salary rates ...
“The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) decision issued today has correctly identified that pay is one of the key areas of concern for our members. Facilitation will continue the negotiating process and we hope that having an independent person in the room will be helpful.” In the decision, the ERA aknowledged PPTA’s position that the Ministry’s ...
“We welcome the Minister’s decision to defer the implementation of changes to NCEA Levels 2 and 3 by a year. These new timelines will enable the changes being made to the national curriculum to be more properly aligned with the changes to assessment – we had serious concerns about the fact that these changes were ...