Mentions of Post Primary Teachers Association in New Zealand Parliament debates
Post Primary Teachers Association has been mentioned in 42 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Education Amendment Bill (No 2) 2010
Second Reading 18 Nov 2010
ALLAN PEACHEY ... I also want to take a moment to acknowledge the contribution made by the New Zealand Educational Institute, the Post Primary Teachers Association, and the School Trustees Association. They made themselves available at very short notice, and I acknowledge that they ...
RAHUI KATENE ... Bill (No 2) today. A very interesting assessment of the current state of our education system was made in the Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) submission to the Education and Science Committee on the bill. A comment was made by the former Deputy Minister ...
Employment Relations (Secret Ballot for Strikes) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 10 Nov 2010
RAHUI KATENE ... in his view he presumes that some 95 percent of other unions are the same. Other big unions, like the 14,000-member Post Primary Teachers Association, are among those that already hold secret ballots. Despite the status quo, in the Council of Trade Unions’ submission ...
LYNNE PILLAY ... This is what the Government wants us to do to get in touch with workers. We got in touch with education workers. The Post Primary Teachers Association is in turmoil. So is the tertiary sector. What we are seeing under this Government is more strife and turmoil, and ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 27 Jul 2010
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... I waenganui i ngā hararei ā-kura kua hipa, e rima ngā hui i tū ki roto i a au o Te Arawa. Ko tētahi mō te uniana Post Primary Teachers Association. Ko tētahi mō te uniana New Zealand Educational Institute, Māori tāku e kōrero nei. Ko tētahi mō te Community Based ...
Education Amendment Bill 2009
Third Reading 6 May 2010
RAHUI KATENE ...isations—such as the School Trustees Association, the Principals Federation, the Secondary Principals’ Association, the Post Primary Teachers Association, the New Zealand Educational Institute, and the early childhood advisory committee—there were two notable omissions from ...
In Committee 24 Mar 2010
Hon MARYAN STREET ... is also terribly important for another reason. From my secondary teaching experience I went on to work for the Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) in a paid capacity, having already worked for the association in an honorary capacity for some years. I was ...
Tertiary Education
Adult and Community Education—Funding 4 Aug 2009
Hon Maryan Street Does she agree with the report of the Post Primary Teachers Association on building the educational infrastructure for economic recovery, which stated that adult and community education was ...
Budget Debate 3 Jun 2009
CATHERINE DELAHUNTY ... want in education, but the cutting is a clear indication of the Government’s values, priorities, and directions. The Post Primary Teachers Association rightly described the compulsory education sector section of the 2009 Budget as “smoke and mirrors”. To build some new ...
Education (National Standards) Amendment Bill
First Reading 12 Dec 2008
Hon CHRIS CARTER ... of the stakeholder groups in education—the School Trustees Association, the New Zealand Educational Institute, the Post Primary Teachers Association, the Principals Federation, or the parents and the students themselves—to have an input into the bill, because it is ...
Second Reading 12 Dec 2008
METIRIA TUREI ... has not gone to the public. We have not had families, the Secondary Principals Association, teachers, unionists, the Post Primary Teachers Association, or even school students tell us how they think this bill will impact on them. They are the ones, of course, who are ...
Employment Relations Amendment Bill 2008
Third Reading 12 Dec 2008
Hon Dr WAYNE MAPP ... I asked whether it was realistic that a collective agreement involving the New Zealand Educational Institute and the Post Primary Teachers Association would include probation provisions. The answer, logically, is that it will not, and that is effectively what the Hon ...
Second Reading 11 Dec 2008
Hon Dr WAYNE MAPP ... if there was any 90-day period in the educational sector involving the New Zealand Educational Institute and the Post Primary Teachers Association. The truth is that negotiations will happen in appropriate circumstances but not in other circumstances. One of the ...
Budget Debate 29 May 2008
ANNE TOLLEY ... kept their word.” So that was not a pass mark for the Minister. A press release at 5 o’clock that same day from the Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) President, Robin Duff, said: “Today’s bitterly disappointing Budget announcement was a blow to secondary teachers ...
Appointments - Assistant Speaker
Assistant Speaker 4 Mar 2008
GERRY BROWNLEE ... 30 years. Throughout that time I have seen her in numerous situations. She was once a firebrand unionist with the Post Primary Teachers Association. I remember her giving an impassioned speech in the late 1970s in which she persuaded the gathering to vote in favour of ...
General Debate 17 Oct 2007
LYNNE PILLAY ... No, it was not. And I ask why not, when the National Party has been advocating so strongly for unions such as the Post Primary Teachers Association around the Electoral Finance Bill? National members have said: “We’re acting for unions. This bill is not in their ...
General Debate 5 Sep 2007
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... on an ad campaign exposing the fraud of this Government’s climate change policies. Why should organisers from the Post Primary Teachers Association, who are not exactly mates of ours, not be able to run ads and say how Labour has broken its promises to teachers? Why ...
Justice
Electoral Finance Bill—Freedom of Expression 14 Aug 2007
Hon Bill English Does the Minister believe that for groups like Grey Power, the Post Primary Teachers Association, and Forest and Bird—who could advertise their political views freely in every election up until now—the fact that they ...
Hon Dr Michael Cullen Is the Minister aware that the last time the Post Primary Teachers Association, Grey Power, and the Royal Forest and Bird Protecton Society in any way supported the National Party was in 1990—and ...
Electoral Finance Bill
First Reading 26 Jul 2007
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... that I am holding up appeared today in the New Zealand Herald and the . It is an advertisement from the Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA), and it is the start of what I think will be a long and difficult campaign to get pay rises out of the ....
LYNNE PILLAY ... the most about? It was about third-party funding. Why did that cut such a nerve? Bill English, the champion of the Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA), and the friend of the unions! He is worried about the unions’ ability to communicate with their members, and ...
SIMON POWER ... Bill English, is to have Greenpeace, the anti-whaling lobby, the battery hen lobby, Amnesty International, the Post Primary Teachers Association, the New Zealand Educational Institute, the Council of Trade Unions, and the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing ...
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... Brethren. [Interruption] Oh, yes. They did not mention the Exclusive Brethren. They talked about the unions, the Post Primary Teachers Association, and the environmental movement—and we know they have always been strong supporters of those organisations! But we know ...
Hon TONY RYALL ... organisation to spend over $60,000. Well, actually, I do not think the lefties in the Council of Trade Unions, the Post Primary Teachers Association, and the New Zealand Educational Institute have worked that out yet. If we look at the advertising in most election ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 18 Jul 2006
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... They are trying to get access to it. So, far from being opposed to its being available, they want access to it. The Post Primary Teachers Association has no formal policy position on it—except that it does not like it. It suspects that it will now become public. The New ...
Education Amendment Bill
Third Reading 9 May 2006
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... why? It is for the same reason that Steve Maharey always gives: because the New Zealand Educational Institute, the Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA), and the Labour Party think education standards are not a good idea. That is the reason, and it shows a couple of ...
Prime Minister
Electoral Finance Bill—Select Committee Changes 14 Aug 2007
John Key ... the ordinary legitimate activities of bodies like Grey Power, the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, and the Post Primary Teachers Association?
Social Development and Employment, Minister—Confidence 1 Mar 2006
Dr Don Brash Has the Prime Minister seen the statement made by the Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) President, Debbie Te Whaiti, that the PPTA, of which Mr Benson-Pope was a regional chair, had a clear policy in ...
General Debate 7 Dec 2005
Hon PHIL GOFF ... schools in his electorate, threatening: “Yes, I do have a knife in your back, so be careful!”. The president of the Post Primary Teachers Association, Debbie Te Whaiti, I think accurately, described that attack as: “unprovoked, malicious, unethical and inexcusable.” It ...
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON ... responding to that member’s assertion about who paid for the National Party billboards by saying that it was not the Post Primary Teachers Association, it was not the engineers union, and it was not actually the Prime Minister’s office using taxpayers’ funds—something ...
Education
Schools, Secondary—Class Sizes 23 Nov 2010
Te Ururoa Flavell Does she agree with a paper presented to the School Staffing Review Group by the New Zealand Post Primary Teachers Association in June 2000 that there is strong evidence that small classes assist with the academic success of students from low socio-...
Education, National Standards—Evidence 27 Oct 2009
Hon Trevor Mallard It is the New Zealand Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) newsletter. Kate Gainsford is the president.
Numeracy—Year 11 Expectations 10 Sep 2008
ANNE TOLLEY Why did he state yesterday that he disagreed with the Post Primary Teachers Association’s views that the numeracy requirements at level 1 reflect “a very low level of achievement”, and that they are not “likely...
Anne Tolley Will he tell the House why he thinks he is right and the Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) and teachers are wrong, when they have clearly told the public that the level 1 numeracy credits are so easy that ...
Education System—Business Needs 9 Sep 2008
Anne Tolley Does the Minister agree with the Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) that the numeracy requirements for the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) level 1 reflect “a ...
Schools Plus—Finalisation and Implementation 17 Jun 2008
Hon CHRIS CARTER ... the Employers and Manufacturers Association (Northern), who has come out so strongly in favour of the policy; to the Post Primary Teachers Association, which has come out so strongly in favour of Schools Plus; or to school principals and the wider community, who are all ...
National Certificate of Educational Achievement—Confidence 27 May 2008
Dail Jones ... so many years after the introduction of NCEA, is there an absence of meaningful computer standards, as stated by the Post Primary Teachers Association President, Robin Duff,; what does the Minister intend to do to resolve this basic problem with the teaching of computing?
Schools—Funding 11 Sep 2007
Hon Brian Donnelly ... any indication that such a policy would not be resisted as bitterly by the New Zealand Educational Institute and the Post Primary Teachers Association as it was during the late 1980s and the whole of the 1990s, and does he believe constructive educational development can ...
Schools—New Zealand Teachers Council 24 Oct 2006
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... as my role to ensure that young people are in a safe environment when they learn, as do the Teachers Council, the Post Primary Teachers Association, the New Zealand Educational Institute, and Secondary Tertiary Alignment Resource.
Health and Fitness—Schools 17 Oct 2006
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... positive. The campaign has been endorsed by the Heart Foundation, the Medical Association, food industry groups, the Post Primary Teachers Association, the New Zealand Educational Institute, and teachers and principals. Many schools around the country, of course, have ...
School Curriculum—Government Policy 1 Aug 2006
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... gave it a 9½ out of 10. Reducing the seven curriculum documents down to one has led Debbie Te Whaiti from the Post Primary Teachers Association to say: “It will make classrooms a more enjoyable learning place for students and their families and teachers.” I hope ...
National Certificate of Educational Achievement—Variation 9 May 2006
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... over the exam season about variability, assuring me that the level was acceptable. I have also seen reports from the Post Primary Teachers Association, principals’ groups, the Ministry of Education, and various groups of that nature who indicate the same. I note recent ...
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... chair of the New Zealand Secondary Principals Council, has said: “I am one hundred percent supportive of NCEA.”, and Post Primary Teachers Association president, Debbie Te Whaiti, has said: “The 2005 NCEA results showed a big improvement.”
National Certificate of Educational Achievement—2005 Examinations 6 Apr 2006
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... New Zealand School Trustees Association, the Principals Association, the New Zealand Educational Institute, and the Post Primary Teachers Association—everybody that we possibly could talk to about these issues—
New Zealand Qualifications Authority—Scholarship 29 Mar 2006
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... John Hattie, and Terry Crooks. Last year the Scholarship Reference Group, which involved representatives from the Post Primary Teachers Association, the New Zealand Principals Federation, colleges of education, the Secondary Principals Association of New Zealand, and ...
SchoolSmart Website—Data Use 22 Mar 2006
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... New Zealand Principals Federation, the School Trustees Association, the New Zealand Educational Institute, and the Post Primary Teachers Association that the information is best released by the schools themselves, so that they can give context to the raw data. For the ...
National Certificate of Educational Achievement—Assessments 13 Dec 2005
Hon STEVE MAHAREY NCEA has received endorsement from the Post Primary Teachers Association, the Secondary Principals Association, Business New Zealand, and many principals, teachers, markers, and students around ...
New Zealand Qualifications Authority—Acting Chief Executive 13 Dec 2005
Hon Bill English Can the Minister tell the House why any marker would come forward, when the Post Primary Teachers Association has circularised all its members and told them that if they break the confidentiality agreement they have with the New ...
Education, Secretary—Standards-based Assessment 8 Dec 2005
Hon STEVE MAHAREY The Post Primary Teachers Association has expressed a motion of confidence in the system, as has the Secondary Principals Association. Research from the New ...
National Certificate of Educational Achievement—Examinations 7 Dec 2005
Hon STEVE MAHAREY The Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) recently passed a motion of confidence in the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA). Graham ...
Teachers—Professional Development Support 6 Dec 2005
Hon STEVE MAHAREY I have seen a report from the Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) that describes one piece of professional advice to a college principal as “unprovoked, malicious, unethical and ...
New Zealand Qualifications Authority—Vulnerability 22 Nov 2005
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... aren’t too many students nor teachers who will deny NCEA is considerably better than the system it replaced.” The Post Primary Teachers Association states in its latest report to the Government: “The changes in personnel and ways of working with the sector are a big ...