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PPTA News: the Magazine

Your Komiti Pasifika

June 29, 2022

PPTA News introduces some more members of Komiti Pasifika, the PPTA network that represents Pasifika teachers and students and promotes policies and programmes to address their professional, industrial and cultural concerns and issues

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Q & A with Hon. Jan Tinetti

June 29, 2022

The Associate Education Minister answers PPTA members’ questions about numeracy and literacy

Secondary teachers welcome NCEA timeline changes

June 28, 2022

Changes announced to the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) are sensible and will be better for students in the long term, says Melanie Webber, PPTA Te Wehengarua President.

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Collective Agreement negotiations begin

Philippa Lagan - June 27, 2022

Formal negotiations are under way for the first of five PPTA Te Wehengarua collective agreements

School attendance strategy welcome

June 9, 2022

The Government’s school attendance and engagement strategy, released today, has the potential to achieve a great deal of good in our communities, say secondary teachers and principals.

Urgent solutions needed to make schools safer

May 18, 2022

Going to secondary school – for both students and staff – is becoming increasingly dangerous in too many communities, and urgent solutions are needed, says Melanie Webber, President of PPTA Te Wehengarua.