Education Aotearoa has been relaunched as Ako journal
Focus on pay equity
Thousands of New Zealanders work in professions—including education—that have been historically underpaid, just because they're seen as women's work. That's all set to change as women make historic pay equity claims over the coming months.
Pay equity stories: Mel’s story
“I think people see us as just performing our natural womanly instinct to care and nurture. There is a common perception that ECE is not ‘proper teaching’; that it’s just glorified child minding. I get that reaction all the time to my job and it drives me crazy. I worked my butt off to educate myself on all that theory and pedagogy. But after four years and two degrees in a BA/BTeach I graduated into a marketplace that deemed me worth the same as a data entry operator or a mail room clerk.”
Pay equity stories: Maryann’s story
“I love my job. I love seeing the children I work with achieve their goals and develop and grow. My goal is to see Support Staff and particularly TAs paid a fair wage for the work they do.”
Pay equity changes with new government
Pay equity claims for NZEI support staff in schools and staff in early childhood have new hope with the change in Government. An early childhood teacher and a teacher aide share their stories about how pay equity would make a difference to their lives.
We’re not going to take it any more!
Teachers are seeking a big pay jolt and more time to teach in next year’s primary campaign.
On the way to equal pay
Three support workers, special education, have stepped up to take a case for equal pay. Mary Jones from Masterton (centre) and Kathy Power, (left) Christchurch, are pictured here with Kristine Bartlett, the aged-care worker who fought her case all the way to the Appeal Court. Denise Tetzlaff, from Auckland, is the third NZEI member to…
EA Magazine: Summer 2018
Watch your mailbox for the Summer 2018 issue of Education Aotearoa. Here's a preview of what's in the magazine.
Jacinda Ardern – It's all about the kids
"It was the 1980s, and I saw the effects of child poverty all the time. Our babysitter got hepatitis, I remember children with no shoes and no lunch - and it was really cold in Murupara in the winter - and I remember my mother having to explain to me what suicide was when the neighbour died."
We speak with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern about child poverty, additional needs funding, and health. Read more
Changes will attract te reo speakers to teaching
The new government wants more te reo in schools and centres. The work is now beginning to make that possible, writes Heeni Collins.
New hope for kids with change in leadership
The new government has a lot to do in the first 100 days, and education was an area in which it strongly campaigned. Chris Hipkins is up for the challenge writes Melissa Schwalger.
Stuff Education
- Wintec scandal: Former CEO's conflict over junior female staffer revealed 18 February, 2019
- Children don’t need male teachers, they need positive role models 18 February, 2019
- Zealandia youth ambassadors learn the ins and outs of conservation 17 February, 2019
- 'Crying need' for wholesale change in polytechnic sector - MP 17 February, 2019
- Popular Porirua childcare centre forced to move for the second time in two years 17 February, 2019
- Proposals to fix the 'broken' education sector shakes top-of-the-south 16 February, 2019
NZ Herald Education
- Optometrist donates free Le Tissier sunglasses to Northland students 18 February, 2019
- Early childhood centre numbers in Tauranga soar, as teacher shortage bites 18 February, 2019
- Tomorrow's Schools meeting: Teachers speak out against Bali Haque's plan to make them 'numbers in a spreadsheet' 18 February, 2019
- NZEI survey points to possible improvement in teacher shortage 18 February, 2019
- King's College tragedy: Star schoolboy softballer Trent Fa'aofo mourned 17 February, 2019
- Northland principals: More truancy prosecutions needed 17 February, 2019
Spinoff Education
- Why history teachers want NZ history to be a compulsory subject 4 February, 2019
- The bizarro world of the very young, very rich Jake Millar 28 January, 2019
- The Bulletin: Hurdles ahead for school second language teaching 11 December, 2018
- The one-man battle to help parents keep their kids safe online 4 December, 2018
- Why didn’t teachers strike under National? They were fighting to save education itself 21 November, 2018
- What the minister of education forgot to tell you 11 November, 2018
