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bookworms

Media releases 2025

Qualifications system must enable all learners to thrive

August 4, 2025

Every young person in Aotearoa New Zealand deserves the chance to succeed in a qualifications and assessment system that meets their needs and keeps them at the centre, says Chris Abercrombie.

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abacus

Media releases 2025

Government offer fails to address core issues of teacher recruitment and retention and unmet student need

July 23, 2025

Secondary teachers are looking for a collective agreement settlement that reflects teachers' value, skills, and the pressures of the cost of living, says Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua president.

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Kobe

Media releases 2025

PPTA hopes for simple and speedy collective agreement talks

June 17, 2025

PPTA Te Wehengarua members hope their negotiations for a new collective agreement, beginning today, are as simple as the issues at the heart of the talks.

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Cashmere High School

Media releases 2025

PPTA members support additional salary claim

June 11, 2025

Members of PPTA Te Wehengarua, the secondary school teachers’ union, have overwhelmingly supported lodging an additional pay claim in their upcoming collective agreement negotiations now that new pay equity law has locked them out of any future process.

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Media releases 2025

PPTA members polled on additional pay claim to recognise pay equity loss

May 30, 2025

Members of PPTA Te Wehengarua, the secondary school teachers’ union, are being polled on whether they want to lodge an additional pay claim in their upcoming collective agreement negotiations now that new pay equity law has locked them out of the process.

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classteach

Media releases 2025

Budget initiatives come at expense of working women

May 22, 2025

Secondary teachers welcome some of the initiatives announced in the Budget today, including changes to the Ongoing Resourcing Scheme (ORS) and an increase in alternative education funding, but deplore the way these have been funded, says Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua president.

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tui

Media releases 2025

New pay equity law locks teachers out of process

May 9, 2025

Clauses in the new pay equity legislation will make it impossible for teachers to progress a pay equity claim, says Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua president.

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Cam

Media releases 2025

Secondary teachers initiate bargaining amidst teacher shortage and pay equity tensions

May 7, 2025

Every secondary student in Aotearoa New Zealand deserves a teacher who is trained in the subject they are teaching, and too many are being denied this, the latest PPTA Te Wehengarua staffing snapshot shows. 

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books

Media releases 2025

PPTA calls on Minister Stanford to come clean on Kāhui Ako

May 6, 2025

PPTA Te Wehengarua, the secondary school teachers’ union, has asked the Education Minister Erica Stanford to release any proposal relating to the future of Kāhui Ako.

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