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PPTA News: the Magazine
Teaching Council consultation disappoints
Inadequate consultation on an unreasonably large Teaching Council fee increase has been followed by unnecessary re-consultation
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PPTA News: the Magazine
COVID cloud continues
COVID still overshadows all of the work being carried out by PPTA Te Weherangua, writes Melanie Webber
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PPTA News: the Magazine
Tū Toa – PPTA Pasifika Fono
The countdown is on to a fabulous Fono, featuring inspiring keynote speakers, stimulating workshops and much fun
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PPTA News: the Magazine
Your Komiti Pasifika
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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PPTA News: the Magazine
Q & A with Hon. Jan Tinetti
The Associate Education Minister answers PPTA members’ questions about numeracy and literacy
Read moreSecondary teachers welcome NCEA timeline changes
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
Formal negotiations are under way for the first of five PPTA Te Wehengarua collective agreements
Read moreSchool attendance strategy welcome
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.
Read moreUrgent solutions needed to make schools safer
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.
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