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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 16 August 2022 Ending Ability Grouping to empower Māori learners in Aotearoa New Zealand
Liam Rutherford
Variously practiced as ‘ability grouping’, ‘streaming’, ‘attainment grouping’, ‘setting’, ‘banding’ or ‘tracking’, pedagogical practices that group students based on perceived ability or prior achievement are longstanding and widespread world over. Research, however, has long shown that this has negative impacts for students, especially those from lower socio-economic backgrounds, ethnic minorities,...
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Climate action and literacy 2 November 2021 Aotearoa New Zealand, education unions and climate change
Liam Rutherford
Aotearoa New Zealand is in a privileged position, along with a small number of other countries, of being relatively COVID-free. We do face many challenges that the rest of the world often doesn’t hear about – such as serious pollution of our waterways, extreme levels of poverty and inequality, a...
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Equity and inclusion 4 March 2021 New Zealand: Trade union promotes women's leadership in the education sector
Women’s leadership in the education sector was the focus of the Women in Leadership Summit organised in New Zealand by the Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA).
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Union growth 3 June 2020 New Zealand: Historic pay equity increase for education support personnel
In New Zealand, education unionists have won historic pay equity increases for education support personnel. Over 22,000 school teacher aides have been offered a life-changing pay equity settlement including pay increases of up to 28 per cent.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 September 2019 “Copyright Issues and Teachers' Dilemma in Asia Pacific”, by Dr. Robert Jeyakumar.
Dr. Robert Jeyakumar
I woke up in Budapest on a fine summer morning to deliver a lecture using materials I had prepared in Malaysia in accordance with copyright exceptions allowed in Malaysia. Just before the lecture, I was informed that my materials did not conform to copyright laws in the EU. Dismay! This...
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Standards and working conditions 31 May 2019 Members of New Zealand teacher unions unite in largest teachers' strike in New Zealand history
Almost 50,000 New Zealand teachers take to the streets to advocate for a higher education budget.
Members of New Zealand teacher unions unite in largest teachers' strike in New Zealand history
Resources
Understanding the invisible workforce: Education support personnel’s roles, needs and the challenges they face
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Independent Schools Education Association Inc.
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