PPTA Archive

  • Catherine Delahunty

    PPTA strikes for pay and conditions - by Catherine Delahunty



    Yesterday I ducked out of the office to march through Wellington with the secondary school teachers on strike for improved pay and conditions. I talked to teachers on the march about how it felt and they all said they would rather be negotiating. There had been eight years of successful negotiations and now the new [...] read more
    September 16, 2010 10:34 am - 5 Comments
  • Catherine Delahunty

    Who lives in the real world? - by Catherine Delahunty



    I must admit, I did a double-take this morning when I read John Key’s comment that Secondary teachers’ plans to strike next month shows “how disconnected they are from the real world”. Who would you say is more connected to the “real world”? The thousands of teachers at the coalface of our secondary schools? Or [...] read more
    August 31, 2010 4:00 pm - 42 Comments
  • Catherine Delahunty

    Valuing our teachers properly - by Catherine Delahunty



    The media tends to pitch a teachers’ strike as an attack on students – who will no doubt be thrilled to have a day off school should the planned secondary schools strike go ahead. However, the real issue is the Government’s hostility towards teachers, who are calling for improved wages and conditions. read more
    August 30, 2010 3:18 pm - 84 Comments
  • frog

    Welcome to a dimmer future - by frog



    The government has failed to listen to the hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders who have had their lives enriched by night classes. They had no mandate to make these cuts and have ignored the fact that night classes have made a significant contribution to the economy at a minimal cost. read more
    February 24, 2010 8:19 am - 26 Comments
  • frog

    Scoping your teacher’s facebook page - by frog



    There’s an interesting debate here in The Press this morning about the Teachers Council’s process for monitoring teachers’ registration and how it might relate to teachers’ private lives and especially on-line records: The new clause in the Teachers Council code brings censure for “any conduct that brings or is likely to bring discredit to the [...] read more
    July 29, 2008 9:50 am - 18 Comments