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    <title>NZEI Worksite Reps</title>
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      <title>Education Sector joins together to fight against increased class sizes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Education sector leadership groups are meeting on Tuesday to co-ordinate action following the Government's refusal to reconsider its decision to increase class sizes.<br />
The outrage has been building throughout the education sector at the decision to cut frontline teaching staff despite the election promise that this would not happen.]]></description>
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      <title>Government backtrack doesn't address education blunder</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The moves by the government to soften the effect its Budget policies will have on the country's intermediate schools do not appear to go far enough to reverse the damage threatening to undermine our public education system.]]></description>
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      <title>Government class size policy in tatters</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Government's announcement that it will cap teacher cuts at a maximum of two per school is an admission that its policy of increasing class sizes is in tatters, says NZEI Te Riu Roa National President Ian Leckie.]]></description>
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      <title>Principals and teachers to launch urgent claim on class size to protect children's learning</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Principals and teachers will be asked to support an urgent proposal aimed at reducing class sizes when they meet next month to vote on the claim they will put forward during their collective agreement negotiations, an emergency summit of NZEI's elected leaders agreed this weekend.]]></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>Technology music and art on the way out</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Intermediate schools around the country are reeling at how the new teacher-student ratios will hit them following the government's decision to increase class sizes.]]></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>Government needs to listen to strong concerns over class sizes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[NZEI Te Riu Roa says the government needs to heed the call of Federated Farmers which has come out today against the decision to increase class sizes.]]></description>
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      <title>Performance pay could cut teacher salaries</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Minister of Education's refusal to say how much extra top teachers would earn under a performance pay system raises questions about whether the government's real agenda is to cut the teacher wage bill rather than boost teacher quality.]]></description>
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      <title>OECD Report highly critical of performance pay for teachers</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union, NZEI Te Riu Roa says a recently released OECD report on performance pay for teachers has raised serious concerns about how performance-based pay impacts on the quality of teaching.]]></description>
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      <title>Parents look out! Your child's education at risk</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union, NZEI Te Riu Roa says the government's decision to increase class sizes will have a severe impact on the quality of education in primary schools.]]></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>Ministry of Education should acknowledge its role in unfair League Tables</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The publication of school performance data based on national standards is both unfair and reckless, says NZEI Te Riu Roa National President Ian Leckie.]]></description>
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      <title>Science squeezed out by focus on national standards</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The education sector union, NZEI Te Riu Roa says it's not surprising that less than a third of schools have been found to have effective science programmes for Year 5 to 8 students.]]></description>
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