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    <title>NZEI Early Childhood Education</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[News for ECE teachers]]></description>
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      <title>NZEI welcomes recommendations to improve quality for under-5s</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa has welcomed recommendations made to the Government from two advisory groups about ways to improve the quality of early childhood education, particularly for children under two.]]></description>
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      <title>Budget confirms bigger class sizes and lack of investment in children</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For the first time in decades, New Zealand children will be faced with bigger class sizes and a freeze on the number of teachers being employed.]]></description>
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      <title>Massey decision - a case of the tail wagging the dog</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Massey University is putting its own financial needs ahead of the needs of the education sector following its decision to scrap all undergraduate teacher education.]]></description>
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      <title>Quality Education needs to be key focus in Christchurch</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The NZEI Re Riu Roa says ensuring the delivery of quality education needs to be the priority in any reshaping of Christchurch's education sector.]]></description>
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      <title>Global campaign - better investment in early childhood education needed in NZ</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa is calling for better funding and support for early childhood education including a commitment to more qualified teachers and extending paid parental leave to six months. ]]></description>
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      <title>Smaller classes could solve teacher oversupply</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says smaller class sizes could provide a solution to what appears to be a teacher oversupply situation.]]></description>
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      <title>Research debunks government’s charter schools arguments</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa is welcoming New Zealand-based research which clearly debunks government claims that charter schools will help disadvantaged students and raise achievement levels.]]></description>
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      <title>Shutting down debate on paid parental leave short-sighted</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says extending paid parental leave would be a meaningful way to invest in children and families, and government attempts to shut down debate on the issue is short-sighted.]]></description>
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      <title>Charter School Working Group must work in public interest not vested interest</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says the Charter School Working Group needs to work in the public interest, not the vested interest]]></description>
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      <title>New Zealand should leapfrog failed performance pay agenda for education</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says principals and teachers oppose performance pay linked to student achievement outcomes because evidence shows this has a negative impact on quality teaching and children's learning.]]></description>
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      <title>Treasury should stick to its knitting</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa is asking why Treasury is trying to call the shots in education and says it needs to stick to its knitting.]]></description>
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      <title>Minister's babysitting suggestions belong back in the ark</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Suggestions from the Minister of Social Development that babysitting clubs could be set up to look after the children of beneficiaries, show a complete disregard for young children and their families, says the education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa.]]></description>
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      <title>International Women’s Day should highlight shameful pay equity record</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says International Women's Day is a good time to highlight the governmentâ€™s shameful record on pay and employment equity.]]></description>
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      <title>Close watch on outcome of ministerial inquiry</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says all schools and early childhood centres will be waiting with interest on the results of a ministerial inquiry into the employment of a convicted sex offender in education, to see if there are lessons to be learned.]]></description>
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      <title>New Zealand a top education performer but government policy counterproductive</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says the latest OECD education report shows New Zealand has a top performing education system but warns government policies could be counter-productive to that success.]]></description>
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