NZEI Te Riu Roa, New Zealand’s largest education union, was dismayed and surprised by Mayor Wayne Brown’s decision to insist on cuts to provision of early childhood education in his proposed budget. NZEI Te Riu Roa early childhood representative, ...
NZEI Te Riu Roa primary teacher members have endorsed two industrial actions, in a ballot which closed this evening. The actions endorsed by members in the ballot which ran from last Thursday to today are a one-day strike on Wednesday 31 May AND ...
NZEI Te Riu Roa, the country’s largest education union, welcomes the $1.8 billion investment in Budget 2023 to fund full pay parity for early childhood education (ECE) teachers and the extension of 20hrs free ECE to all 2-year-olds. Geena Fagan, an ...
NZEI Te Riu Roa, the largest education union in Aotearoa, says that this year’s Budget has disappointed primary educators. It is the second year in a row that school funding has not kept pace with CPI, and there are no investments in teacher pay, ...
Primary and area school principals begin a two-month work ban starting 8am Monday 24 April, the first day of term two. The work ban includes a pause on all Ministerial work that principals normally do, such as implementing the Curriculum Refresh, or ...
The settlement includes pay increases of up to 40 percent, covering more than 1,200 librarians and library assistants and around 400 science technicians.
Thursday, 27 May 2021, 7:00 am
Results from NZEI Te Riu Roa’s 2020 Health and
Wellbeing Survey show that workload related stress for both
principals and teachers is at a level far exceeding the
general population.
NZEI Te Riu Roa President Liam
Rutherford says the results are unsurprising and reiterate
the urgent need for more staffing resource in the
sector.
Almost half of the teachers surveyed work more
than 50 hours a week. Seventy percent of principals work
more than 50 hours a week and one in five work more than 60.
These workloads puts both groups at high risk of
experiencing adverse psychological and physical health
Sunday, 7 March 2021, 5:49 am
Innovation during the COVID-19 lockdowns, support that
went above and beyond for families after the Christchurch
shootings, mentoring children to be environmental
enthusiasts, and tirelessly advocating for a better, more
just early childhood education system are just a few of the
incredible examples of heroism being acknowledged in the
‘ECE Hero / Ngā Hautipua Kōhungahunga’ awards
today.
For a full list of the award recipients click
here.
Backed
by NZEI Te Riu Roa union, today’s Children’s Day ECE
Hero / Ngā Hautipua Kōhungahunga awards are recognising
early childhood professionals and their teams for showing
heroism in their profession after a particularly tough