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PPTA News: the Magazine
AI - not what you know but how fast you can learn
The increasing development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) means that the most valuable skill emerging now is adaptability, not knowledge - that was one of the key messages from AI academic Dr Simon McCallum to PPTA Te Wehengarua regional officers at the Issues and Organising seminar earlier this year.
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Media releases 2024
Excluding teachers from curriculum processes is risky
It is becoming clear that last week’s revelation, via Radio New Zealand, that there was a secret group re-writing the English curriculum, is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the deliberate exclusion of teachers from critical curriculum changes and processes, says Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua president.
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Government’s education budget heavy on promises but light on delivery
The Government’s Budget presented today is not the investment into the frontline for secondary education that we were promised, says Chris Abercrombie,president of PPTA Te Wehengarua.
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Media releases 2024, Charter schools
Charter schools’ lack of transparency and accountability seriously concerning
The Government is planning to keep secret huge amounts of information about how charter schools will operate, a recently released cabinet paper shows.
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Media releases 2024
Hundreds of millions needed for local state schools – not charter schools
All students in Aotearoa New Zealand have a right to a high quality education at their local state school.
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Media releases 2024
Secondary teachers welcome continuation and expansion of school lunch programme
“We are pleased the Ka Ora Ka Ako school lunch programme will continue in its current form for the rest of the year, and will be expanded to include thousands of two to five year olds next year,” says Chris Abercrombie PPTA Te Wehengarua president.
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Media releases 2024
Charter schools and Te Tiriti focus of secondary teachers’ meetings
The return of charter schools and the Government’s position on Te Tiriti will be the focus of paid union meetings attended by more than 21,000 secondary and area school teachers next month.
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Media releases 2024
Disbanding of pay equity taskforce seriously backward step
The disbanding of the Public Service Commission’s pay equity taskforce takes Aotearoa New Zealand workers back at least a decade and shows an utter disregard for fairness at work and the value of women’s work, says Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua president.
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Media releases 2024
Urgent action needed to ensure schools’ online exams proceed without hitches
Recommendations of the review into major glitches with some NCEA online exams last year need to be implemented urgently to ensure schools’ confidence in the system, says Kate Gainsford, Chair of the Secondary Principals’ Council.
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