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
- Teacher and reliever shortage hits Manawatū classrooms 22 October, 2018
- Two-time author wins international student excellence award 22 October, 2018
- One in three university students aren't completing their degrees 21 October, 2018
- Cadets gain freedom of the city after 30 years 21 October, 2018
- Barber's career change helps win building apprentice award 20 October, 2018
- Four-year-old 'safety risk' kicked out of north Auckland daycare 20 October, 2018
NZ Herald Education
- The Conversation: Cheating on industrial scale is big business 21 October, 2018
- Tauranga College stalwart Gary Ware dies, days before schools' diamond jubilee celebrations 19 October, 2018
- Waikino School: The story of New Zealand's first and only mass school shooting - and a family secret laid bare 19 October, 2018
- University of Auckland Vice-Chancellor Stuart McCutcheon to step down 18 October, 2018
- McAuley High School principal hires employment lawyer as school waits for ministry decision 18 October, 2018
- Auckland high schools face 10% teacher shortfall within seven years 17 October, 2018
Spinoff Education
- Inside the campaigns: how National took the migrant and rural vote 27 September, 2017
- A collector confronts her demons by watching Collection Intervention 6 September, 2017
- Our body language expert decodes Winston Peters’ interview with Duncan Garner 20 July, 2017
- Sugar shot Monday: How did Bill English cope on the interview rounds after last week’s debacle? 13 March, 2017
- The revolutionary live email interview conducted by Steve Braunias: part 4 of the strange story of the lost island of ‘Ata 1 March, 2017
- AMN8 Queenstown: The man who unboiled an egg: inspiring science behind the viral research 14 February, 2017
