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Welcome to the website of the New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association / Te Wehengarua (PPTA), the professional association representing teachers and principals in secondary and area schools, and teachers in intermediates, technicraft centres, and community education.
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Collective agreement discussions ‘complex’ |
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Paid union meetings (PUMs) to vote on a number of proposals
March 2, 2010
PPTA members will be attending paid union meetings (PUMs) later this month to vote on a number of proposals geared toward developing a claim for the Secondary Teachers Collective Agreement (STCA).
The proposals cover four areas – professional support for teachers, remuneration, good employment conditions and student and teacher learning conditions, PPTA president Kate Gainsford said.
They call for an improved base level remuneration of 4% for a one-year term and a range of further improvements to targeted allowances.
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Regional meetings March 2010 |
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Paid Union Meetings March 2010
March 2, 2010 (updated 4 March)
Regional PUMs are being held between 23 – 25 March for members to vote on claims proposals for the STCA – see map or list of dates |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 06 March 2010 16:19 |
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Dimming the lights at night classes |
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Dimming the lights at night classes ‘for a brighter future’
February 23, 2010
Dimming the lights at night classes ‘for a brighter future’ – PPTA launches dimming.co.nz
The National Party’s slogan ‘securing a brighter future’ is a far cry from the effects of its policy, says PPTA president Kate Gainsford.
“And nowhere is this more evident than the slashing of adult community education (ACE) funding in schools by 80%,” she said.
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School choice paper a waste of taxpayer money |
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“fiscally irresponsible, superficial and glib"
February 17, 2010
The Inter-Party Working Group for School Choice report is a colossal waste of public money, PPTA president Kate Gainsford says.
'Step Change: Success the Only Option', was celebrated last night with top quality wine and canapés in the banquet hall of parliament.
Hosted by ACT deputy leader Heather Roy and attended by the well-heeled patrons of independent schools, it was supposedly designed to benefit the 20% of students who are educationally underprivileged.
Gainsford said the working group’s findings were so confused it couldn’t even agree on a single report. Instead two have been released - one the whole group could agree on, and a second put forward by Roy and Roger Douglas.
“The reports cobble together disconnected bits of research, simplistic generalisations and ‘mum and apple pie’ principles. They gives no evidence of any considered thinking at all – as a research exercise I would have to give them a ‘not achieved,” she said
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Ready, Fire, Aim! Standards advisory group gets it backwards |
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Government has priorities backwards
February 17, 2010
Setting up an advisory group after the controversial and untested National Standards have been rolled out in schools shows the government has its priorities backwards, PPTA president Kate Gainsford says.
“We have seen this time and time again. What will come next will be a raft of expensive, unbudgeted, ad-hoc groups brought in to prop up a process that was deficient to begin with,” she said.
Education minister Anne Tolley’s claims that she is open to “independent, free and frank advice,” were seriously open to question, Gainsford said.
“Instead of proper thinking and planning, the government has insisted on rolling out an untrialled scheme that is fraught with unresolved difficulties and risks. It is trying to do things on the run without due diligence,” she said.
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