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Media releases 2024
Secondary teacher shortage shortchanges young people - and Aotearoa
The numbers of secondary teachers teaching subjects outside their specialist areas is at record highs, according to an annual staffing survey carried out by PPTA Te Wehengarua.
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Media releases 2025
New pay equity law locks teachers out of process
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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Media releases 2025
Secondary teachers initiate bargaining amidst teacher shortage and pay equity tensions
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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Media releases 2025
PPTA calls on Minister Stanford to come clean on Kāhui Ako
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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Media releases 2025
PPTA welcomes Government decision to pay teachers’ practising fees
PPTA Te Wehengarua welcomes wholeheartedly the Government’s decision, announced today, to pay teachers’ professional practising fees, says Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua president.
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Media releases 2025
Mentoring crucial for success of overseas and new secondary teachers
More support for mentors of new teachers is needed to keep secondary teachers in the profession, says Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua president.
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Draft English curriculum lacks connection with reality
The draft English curriculum released this week, raises concerns about how out of touch it is with the realities of secondary education in 2025 in Aotearoa New Zealand, says Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua president.
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Media releases 2025
More effective and lasting solutions needed for teacher shortages
It is good to see the Minstry of Education acknowledge there is a serious secondary teacher shortage but its solutions need to be more effective and bolder, says Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua president.
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Media releases 2024
Government refusal to release charter school information unreasonable and unlawful - Ombudsman
A complaint by PPTA Te Wehengarua about the Government’s refusal to release a range of information about its plans for charter schools, has been sustained by the Ombudsman.
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