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Secondary teachers pencil in paid union meetings

October 19, 2022

Secondary teachers plan to hold two-hour paid union meetings around the country at the end of November to decide the next steps in their collective agreement negotiations.

Concerned about school attendance? Support Fair Pay Agreements

October 19, 2022

Anyone who cares about education should get behind the Fair Pay Agreements legislation, due for its second reading in Parliament today, says Chris Abercrombie, Junior Vice President of PPTA Te Wehengarua.

PPTA rejects Ministry’s offer for community education collective agreement

October 14, 2022

PPTA Te Wehengarua national executive has rejected an offer from the Ministry of Education for the settlement of the collective agreement covering adult and community education workers and out of hours music and art workers.

Call for new way to staff schools – on need not numbers

October 12, 2022

Secondary principals and teachers are calling on the Minister of Education to introduce a new way of staffing secondary schools that is based on student need, rather than student numbers.

Secondary teachers call for end to academic streaming

October 5, 2022

Secondary teachers are calling for an end to academic streaming by 2030 because of the educational harm it is causing to Māori and Pasifika students.

An end to streaming on secondary teachers' conference agenda

October 2, 2022

Adopting a policy on an end to streaming in schools is on the agenda of PPTA Te Wehengarua annual conference in Wellington this week.

PPTA News: the Magazine

Employment woes - renewing your practising certificate

Pip Lagan  -  September 16, 2022

Shoddy employment practices seem to be making it difficult for increasing numbers of teachers to qualify for a full practising certificate.

Secondary teachers welcome investment package but....

September 14, 2022

The Government’s announcement that it will provide funding for additional teaching and tutoring and more Te Kura summer school places, to help the students worst affected by COVID to catch up on or re-engage with learning, is welcome, says Melanie Webber, PPTA Te Wehengarua President.

PPTA News: the Magazine

Kicking off your career in COVID era

Pip Lagan  -  September 13, 2022

Haley Corney is a second year Design and Visual Communication teacher at Pāpāmoa College in the Western Bay of Plenty region. Hayley is one of the “COVID generation” of beginning teachers, who had only one practicum, and then has spent her teaching career in and out of lockdowns and battling the Omicron wave.