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Secondary School Teachers to Strike

Secondary teachers will go on strike next month after “running out of patience” with collective contract negotiations, their union’s president says. Thousands of teachers will walk off the job in a national day of action on April 3. At a…

National Standards Plus

Seriously. How ridiculous? Mum is running late for work, driving over the hill to her 9 til 5 job in the city centre. A notification comes through on her phone at 9:01am, and although she knows she shouldn’t, she checks…

Primary schools to measure student progress

In response to – August 26, 2017. Measure. Measure. Measure. Weigh. Weigh. Weigh. Data. Data. Data. “The Government has made a decision to shift towards a system that measures student progress, alongside National Standards / Ngā Whanaketanga Rumaki Māori,…

NZEI: Not Zealous Enough. Ick.

Three years ago the government announced their latest plan for collectives of schools to get together and share in the pot of $359 Million to share teachers, resources, and knowledge. Naturally, and rightly, NZEI took the initiative to their members.…

Prison Beds or Educated Society

Two point five billion dollars. $2.5 billion dollars. $2,500,000,000.00 That’s a lot of dollar coins. Let me tell you what they will spend it on. No. Not fixing the poverty problem sweeping the country. No. Not assisting children living in…

Email from the Minister

———- Forwarded message ———- From: “The Right Honorable Minister” <HerMajestyParata@ministryofed.govt.nz> Date: 4/02/2016 7:26 PM Subject: Ongoing Expenditure and Orders To: “Accounts” <MrFudge@ministryofed.govt.nz> Good morning sir, However, it is a short lived good morning as this morning has not been good at…