Valuing Teachers: Teacher Salaries Compared
A pay deal offered to teachers would put some among the country’s top earners. Teachers are stuck in a stand-off with the Government over its latest pay offer. What’s been offered – and rejected – looks...
Category: In the News
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Secondary School Teachers to Strike
Secondary teachers will go on strike next month after “running out of patience” with collective contract negotiations, their union’s president says. Thousands of teachers will walk off the job in a national day of...
Tomorrow Schools and the Equity Gap
It’s interesting to see that word “review” and “reform” getting bandied about. At one point, reform was an issue as we fought off “GERM”… Now, a review is taking place of our school system,...
BYOD: It’s not as compulsory as you think
As a bit of a tech guru, it saddens me to see parents trapped in the psyche that they need to not only “Keep up with the Joneses”, but need to provide their child...
School Donations: Rich get Richer…
Original Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/109937537/rich-school-poor-school-top-schools-get-millions-in-donations-while-others-get-0 About $140 million was donated to New Zealand schools in 2017 – and more than half of that went to just 10 per cent of schools. Wellington College received the most money...
Five Year Limit – Enough time to make a difference?
It could be a seismic shift in education, tearing apart the model schools have operated on for more than 30 years. School leaders are “cautiously optimistic” about radical reforms recommended by an independent taskforce...