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Please come along to the Public Forum on Tue 9 March at 7pm at the Theatre Royal in Christchurch. Bring friends and family with you too!

Speakers include Lianne Dalziel MP, principals Denise Torrey and Peter Verstappen, academic Brad Meek, Dr Liz Gordon from QPEC, and parent Dellis Hunt.

Be great to see you there, lets fill the Theatre Royal!!!

For un update from the Support Staff negotiating Team Leader see: http://www.fairdeal.org.nz/profiles/blogs/update-on-support-staff



Support Staff will now need to show their strength in numbers on Friday 27 November at the "Lift the Freeze on Low Pay" Rallies around the country to show how fed up they are with the lack of a fair and reasonable offer from the Ministry.



Please do all you can to… Continue

I listened to this really interesting discussion on Jim Mora's panel discussion on National Radio on Thurs 12/11.



The Panel discussed comments from the Otago Uni Vice Chancellor who said the Government should charge interest on student loans so that there was money coming into tertiary education to help fill the funding gaps. They had an interesting speaker - Brian Gould who was the Vice Chancellor of Waikato Uni - he spoke about the public value of tertiary… Continue

Active NZEI members from all over the South Island participated in some "Hands up for Learning" action at Aorangi School which is under threat from closure - this is the link to the live Midday news report on TV1:

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/kids-put-hands-up-world-teachers-day-3101770/video