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								Education Amendment Bill (2012): Submission 
							
						
						
						
							
								PPTA  comments on three aspects of the Bill:
1 The surrender and retention of property
2 Charter schools
3 Multiple timetabling
					
					1 The surrender and retention of property
2 Charter schools
3 Multiple timetabling
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								Education (Update) Amendment Bill: Submission November 2016
							
						
						
						
							
								Our submission focuses on the issues that we have with the proposal for communities of online learning (“COOLs”) and we recommend that this part be removed from the Bill and,…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Education Legislation Bill: Submission February 2016
							
						
						
						
							
								This omnibus bill contains a number of measures that are largely technical and will have very minor impact on the sector, but there are a number of areas of the…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Updating the Education Act: Submission December 2015
							
						
						
						
							
								The following submission answers the fifteen questions from the consultation document.
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Education Amendment Bill No.2 (EDUCANZ): Submission May 2014
							
						
						
						
							
								PPTA have been arguing for some years now for the NZ Teachers Council to be changed into a statutory authority from its current status as an autonomous crown entity, we…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Review of Careers Information, Advice, Guidance and Education (CIAGE): Submission June 2015 
							
						
						
						
							
								Covers a number of matters addressed in the Review. More than 90% of eligible teachers choose to belong to the union, so it follows that 90% of careers advisers in…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Children's Action Plan:  Letter Nov 2014
							
						
						
						
							
								Comment on policy proposals for safety checking regulations to be made under the Vulnerable Children's Act 2014
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Te Huarahi Māori Motuhake Submission on the Education Amendment Bill 2012 
							
						
						
						
							
								(January 2013) Submission made on behalf of Te Huarahi Māori Motuhake opposing the changes to the Education Amendment Bill, in particular the section establishing charter schools.
... Te Huarahi is also…
					
					... Te Huarahi is also…
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								Childrens Action Plan-Withdrawal Letter October 2015
							
						
						
						
							
								Outlines the reasons for PPTA's withdrawal from working on this plan.
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Education Amendment Bill No 2: NZSPC Submission April 2014
							
						
						
						
							
								Submission of the NZ Secondary Principals' Council on the Education Amendment Bill No.2
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Submission to Education & Science Select Committee on SOP 176 Education Legislation Bill June 2016
							
						
						
						
							
								The creation in this SOP of a new class of teacher is a significant change, which the Select Committee is right to recognise that we have an interest in. This…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Education Amendment Bill No 2: EDUCANZ Submission May 2014 
							
						
						
						
							
								Outlines PPTA concerns particularly around the role and status of the NZ Teachers' Council
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Employment Standards Legislation Bill: Submission October 2015
							
						
						
						
							
								This submission sets out  PPTA’s submission on the Employment Standards Legislation Bill  and is informed by members’ concerns about insecure work and commitment to extending paid parental leave…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Employment Relations Bill: Submission July 2013
							
						
						
						
							
								PPTA is strongly opposed to the Employment Relations Amendment Bill and submits that the Committee recommend to the House that it not proceed.  The Submission outlines PPTA's concerns about…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Human Rights Amendment Bill: Submission December 2013
							
						
						
						
							
								There has been an unjustified lack of consultation on the proposals in the Bill – which proposes to amend a constitutional document. It is deeply disappointing that key stakeholders were…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								ICT Digital Literacy: Submission May 2012
							
						
						
						
							
								Submission to the Education and Science Select Committee Investigation into 21st Century Learning Environments and Digital Literacy
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Inquiry into engaging parents in the education of their children: Submission November 2013
							
						
						
						
							
								PPTA welcomes this inquiry and is pleased to be able to submit on this often under-emphasised area. The focus of PPTA members’ work is the learning that takes place in…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Education and Science Select Committee Inquiry Into Support of Students- with Dyslexia: Submission Sep 2015
							
						
						
						
							
								PPTA Submission to the Inquiry into the identification and support for students with dyslexia, dyspraxia, and autism spectrum disorders in primary and secondary schools
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Komiti Pasifika Education Plan: Submission May 2012
							
						
						
						
							
								Contains Komiti Pasifika Submission on the Pasifika Education Plan 2013-2017 and an extract from the March ERO report re impact and effect of the Plan 2009 - 2012
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Ministerial Inquiry into Novopay: Submission April 2013
							
						
						
						
							
								Submission includes results of a PPTA survey into Novopay impacts on pay period 24, 2013.
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								MoE Review on Technology  Provision for Year 7 and 8 Students in Greater Christchurch: Submission March 2014
							
						
						
						
							
								Endorses points made in the submission from the Canterbury Manual teachers, and adds some comments on the funding and staffing aspects of the proposal. One of things that was abundantly…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Productivity Commission: New Models of Tertiary Education: Response May 2016
							
						
						
						
							
								Comments on the Productivity Commission's Issues Paper : New Models of Tertiary Education.  PPTA is mainly concerned about what happens at the interface between secondary schools and tertiary education…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								NZTC Policy-Comparison: Comment June-2013
							
						
						
						
							
								Comments on proposed changes to the NZ Teachers' Council
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								NZTC Review - Dangerous waters ahead: Request for Submissions June-2013
							
						
						
						
							
								Urges PPTA members and others to make submissions on proposed changes to the NZ Teachers' Council
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								NZTC Review - Proposals: Submission July 2013
							
						
						
						
							
								Comments in depth on proposed changes to the NZ Teachers' Council
							
						
						
					
					
					
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