| Description | (October 2009) Barbara Hill Field Officer PPTA.
Managing employment law issues in schools is becoming an increasingly demanding responsibility in an era of high expectations of accountability placed on boards of trustees and teachers by successive governments and the public. Since the advent of “Tomorrow’s Schools” in 1989, school boards have been “self managing independent Crown entities” with varying levels of knowledge, experience and training, operating within a decentralised education system. External bodies, such as the Ministry of Education (MoE), the Education Review Office (ERO) and the New Zealand Teachers Council (the Council), to varying degrees, place requirements on employers and/or employees, provide advice and assess/audit their performance. They are not, however, accountable for what happens in schools. |
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