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Valuing Teachers: Teacher Salaries Compared

A pay deal offered to teachers would put some among the country’s top earners. Teachers are stuck in a stand-off with the Government over its latest pay offer. What’s been offered – and rejected – looks something like this. Primary teachers with…

A Twitter Conversation: May 2019

​School teachers and principals across the country have agreed to stage New Zealand’s largest-ever strike as negotiations with the Ministry of Education continue to stall. The Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) and New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Rui Roa announced the move…

No More Sense from Seymour

And so it begins. The non-sensical dribble spews forth from the under-secretary of Education, who gets into a lucrative position on the back of one electorate described on Wikipedia as an “exclusive, affluent suburb of Auckland”. That’s right. Mr. Seymour…

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.…