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Key: Pay hike 'noose around students' necks'
There is no new money to offer teachers a bigger pay increase unless they wanted to burden their students with a future of paying off national debt, says Prime Minister John Key.
There is no new money to offer teachers a bigger pay increase unless they wanted to burden their students with a future of paying off national debt, says Prime Minister John Key.
The Ministry of Education says it will not dock the pay of secondary teachers striking this week as a show of good faith.
Anne Tolley says secondary school teachers striking over pay and conditions need to wake up to the economic reality of their situation.
More than 120,000 students will be asked to stay at home for a day this week after the teachers' union rejected what the Ministry of Education says is an 'excellent' pay offer.
Leading educationist Professor John Hattie has given a more glowing assessment of the education system than the Government often gives it.
A new national service looks ready to start next year to make sure every 16 or 17-year-old ends up in work or training after leaving school.
Anne Tolley yesterday told teachers she would be 'appalled' if they told parents their children were failing National Standards.
Columnist Kerre Woodham finds herself in two minds about the teachers' strike.