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 Advice for ACE employees in schools who are PPTA members
The following provides advice for ACE employees in schools who are PPTA members to know their rights.
Key advice for ACE employees in schools who are PPTA members
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Advice for ACE employees in schools who are PPTA members |
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24 June 2009 (updated September 2009) Given the recent Budget announcement that all ACE funding in schools will cease at the end of 2009, affected schools will be considering their options. The following provides some advice to assist employees to know their rights. |
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ACE funding cuts to schools |
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Letter to secondary school principals from CLASS President Maryke Fordyce Wednesday 10th June 2009 Kia ora ACE Funding Cuts to Schools By now, schools with Adult Community Education (ACE) programmes will have received a letter from the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) regarding the funding cuts to ACE in schools, effective from January 2010. |
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8 June 2009 Dear principal Drastic cuts to Adult and Community Education funding for schools This letter contains information about the recent Budget cuts to ACE funding for schools, alerts you to a national campaign opposing this and provides advice about employment matters for ACE employees in schools: |
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Bill English's 2006 press release |
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"The demise of night classes is bad for schools, for communities and for thousands of people who use them to learn something new."(Bill English, Night classes can be saved, 30 January 2006) See for yourself at http://www.billenglish.co.nz/ |
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Vast budget cuts to ACE in schools |
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5 June 2009 While schools and boards are pondering whether to continue with self-funded courses or not PPTA have prepared a document about surplus staffing provisions for these employees (Overview of surplus staffing (redundancy) provisions for employees of ACE in schools).The response from Minister Anne Tolley about who pays for the redundancy costs is that the boards are the employers and will have to carry those costs! Previously costs incurred through central decisions have been paid centrally as in school re-organisations - not so now! |
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ACE in secondary schools |
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Adult and community education (ACE) delivery in about 230 secondary schools continues to engage over 250,000 adult students across NZ each year in a range of courses largely as short ‘evening classes’. A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers Report concludes that ACE makes a significant social and economic contribution to the education sector, to the individual and to the wider community. It says that as the sector is driven by individual and community learning needs the marginal value it creates is substantial. It calculates that each dollar of government generates a return of $16-$22 – and it is also successful in creating a culture of lifelong learning. |
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