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								Education Update Amendment Bill SOP 250 (seclusion and restraint). Submission April 2017
							
						
						
						
							
								PPTA have concerns about how broad the drafting of the SOP is, and believe that it will lead to unintended consequences that go beyond stopping the use of seclusion, and…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Employment Relations (...contract out of Personal Grievance Provisions) Amendment Bill. Submission May 2017
							
						
						
						
							
								(May 2017) The National Party want to change the law so that people employed on an individual agreement who earn over $150,000 can contract out of the protections / recourse…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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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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								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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								Examination of the TPPA: Submission March 2016
							
						
						
						
							
								PPTA Submission to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee
on the International Treaty Examination of the TPPA.
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PPTA has expressed concern at elements of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement during…
					
					on the International Treaty Examination of the TPPA.
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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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								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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								NZSPC Tomorrows Schools review submission
							
						
						
						
						
					
					
					
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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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								Parental Leave and Employment Protection ... Bill: Submission November 2015
							
						
						
						
							
								PPTA's submission to the Government Administration Committee on the Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months Paid Leave and Work Contact Hours) Bill
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Policing (Cost Recovery) Amendment Bill: Submission April 2015
							
						
						
						
							
								In drafting this submission, we have reviewed the context and the policy-development process that the New Zealand Police (“Police”) went through for the proposals in the Bill.
PPTA strongly opposes…
					
					PPTA strongly opposes…
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								PPTA submission on MBIE consultation on immigration settings for international students
							
						
						
						
							
								PPTA made a submission on the consultation about changes to international student visas, as this will have an impact on secondary initial teacher education student numbers and the ability of…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								PPTA submission on the Education Service Agency
							
						
						
						
							
								PPTA Te Wehengarua supports the establishment of the ESA as local support will be necessary if we are to
address the inequity and lack of achievement highlighted by the Tomorrow’s Schools…
					
					address the inequity and lack of achievement highlighted by the Tomorrow’s Schools…
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								Productivity Commission Inquiry into More Effective Social Services: Submission December 2014
							
						
						
						
							
								PPTA perspective on education in this inquiry
							
						
						
					
					
					
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								Productivity Commission Social Services Report: Submission April 2015
							
						
						
						
							
								PPTA response to the Draft Report of the Productivity Commission "Effective Social Services"  2015
							
						
						
					
					
					
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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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								Review of  STAR and Gateway: Submission September 2013
							
						
						
						
							
								PPTA has had a long-standing concern about the interface between school and employment, training and further education, in which these two programmes play a very significant part. We have completed…
							
						
						
					
					
					
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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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