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Equity and inclusion 13 August 2024 Education Voices | Laures Park, Laureate of the 2024 Mary Hatwood Futrell Human and Trade Union Rights Award
Laures Park
At Education International’s 10th World Congress, Laures Park was awarded the 2024 Mary Hatwood Futrell Human and Trade Union Rights Award. In this interview, Laures retraces her fight for the rights of Māori people and minority groups in New Zealand.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 26 January 2024 International Day of Education: Unionists celebrate the right to education by campaigning for quality public education for all
On January 24, the International Day of Education, education unionists from around the world came together to reaffirm their commitment to the universal right to education and to mark the first year of the Education International global campaign Go Public! Fund Education. The campaign is an urgent call for governments...
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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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Union growth 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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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 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.
New Zealand: Historic pay equity increase for education support personnel
Resources
Unions leading the way to decolonise education
Understanding the invisible workforce: Education support personnel’s roles, needs and the challenges they face
Affiliates
Independent Schools Education Association Inc.
ISEAPO Box 47 665 Ponsonby 1144 AucklandNew Zealand Educational Institute - Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu RoaP.O. Box 466 Wellington 6140New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association
NZPPTAP.O. Box 2119 Wellington 6140New Zealand Tertiary Education Union
NZTEUhttp://www.teu.ac.nz [email protected] tel: +64 (4) 801.50.98 tel: +64 (4) 801.47.34 fax: +64 (4) 385.88.26PO Box 11-767 6142 Wellington