Election 2020 - Party Policies - Education - Secondary Education
25th Jul 20, 5:50am
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Secondary Education
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- Widen the teaching of practical and social life skills in primary and secondary schools.
- Resource the roll out of Te Kotahitanga programme to all secondary schools.
- Provide scholarships for Pacific language teachers at primary and secondary schools.
- Support the use of work-experience programmes within secondary schools to aid students’ transition to the workplace and enable students to learn in communities.
- Support the continued improvement of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA), and work with the teaching profession to undergo a review of the current three levels of NCEA assessment.
- Oppose the publication of league tables which rank schools on academic achievement.
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- Invest an additional $4.8 billion in school infrastructure, including $2 billion over five years for the Fix New Zealand’s Schools Alliance, and another $2.8 billion over a decade for new classrooms and schools to accommodate growth and reduce the need to impose restrictive zoning requirements.
- Establish a $160 million per year fund to support children with additional learning, behavioural and physical needs – allocated based on school roll and need – so schools can invest in the initiatives they believe are appropriate for their student community.
- Invest $150 million over four years to fund an additional six million hours of teacher aide support in classrooms, equivalent to around 1500 new teacher aides (at 25 hours per week), or an average of 600 hours per school each year.
- Deliver smaller class sizes by progressively reducing student-to-teacher ratios in primary schools. This will reduce teacher workloads and make sure children get more focused teacher attention in their foundation years.
- Establish at least 25 new partnership schools by 2023, including some focussed on high-priority learners such as Māori and Pasifika; children with additional learning needs; and in specialist education areas such as Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).
- Abolish the annual registration fee that teachers are currently required to pay to the Teaching Council for certification to teach.
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