Effective from 26 March, eligible primary and intermediate teachers with job offers from accredited employers can apply directly for residency, eliminating the previous two-year work requirement.
Immigration Minister Erica Stanford highlighted the urgency of this initiative saying “We know the most important thing for students in the classroom is the quality of the teacher in front of them. A teacher shortage not only impacts students but other staff as well.
“To attract skilled teachers from offshore to help address this, we are making New Zealand a competitive destination for overseas talent by moving primary teachers to the Straight to Residence pathway.”
This policy builds upon the fast-tracking of secondary school teachers’ residency applications last year, which resulted in 480 new teachers entering New Zealand classrooms.
To further support this, approximately 1,170 individuals received an Overseas Relocation Grant of up to $10,000.
Beyond immigration adjustments, the Government is investing $53 million to bolster the teaching workforce.
This investment includes doubling the School Onsite Training Programme, enabling 1,200 aspiring teachers to receive in-classroom training.
Additionally, the Ministry of Education is providing subsidies and financial assistance for trainees across various subjects in both primary and secondary education sectors.
“This Government is laser-focused on ensuring schools across the country can employ the staff needed to set up our children for success.”
Broadcaster Chris Lynch is an award winning journalist who also produces Christchurch news and video content for domestic and international companies. This article was originally published by Chris Lynch Media and is published here with kind permission.
“To attract skilled teachers from offshore to help address this, we are making New Zealand a competitive destination for overseas talent by moving primary teachers to the Straight to Residence pathway.”
This policy builds upon the fast-tracking of secondary school teachers’ residency applications last year, which resulted in 480 new teachers entering New Zealand classrooms.
To further support this, approximately 1,170 individuals received an Overseas Relocation Grant of up to $10,000.
Beyond immigration adjustments, the Government is investing $53 million to bolster the teaching workforce.
This investment includes doubling the School Onsite Training Programme, enabling 1,200 aspiring teachers to receive in-classroom training.
Additionally, the Ministry of Education is providing subsidies and financial assistance for trainees across various subjects in both primary and secondary education sectors.
“This Government is laser-focused on ensuring schools across the country can employ the staff needed to set up our children for success.”
Broadcaster Chris Lynch is an award winning journalist who also produces Christchurch news and video content for domestic and international companies. This article was originally published by Chris Lynch Media and is published here with kind permission.
3 comments:
The shortage of primary teachers is a genuine one. The issue is not one of pay ... as a school principal I can assure you that the issues relate primarily to demanding and aggressive parents, children with (sometimes extreme) behaviour problems, and a system that demands teachers pick up the slack. LONG ago teachers in 70% of our schools ceased to be teachers in the academic sense, but became social workers, counselors, mediators, and conduits for state engineering ... this is not what many of them trained to do. Work hours and holidays are great, but the balance has tipped, and the numbers leaving the profession, and opting for alternative careers speaks volumes.
It's time to shut down the Ministry of Education and for the duty of educating children to return to whom it actually belong: their parents.
That last suggestion might work at primary level - although I can't but wonder how many of today's parents have any clue about English grammar and syntax - but certainly not above that.
At middle school/Years 5-8 level, kids are exposed to the full spectrum of academic disciplines (sciences, social sciences, humanities) by subject graduates (and throw vocational subjects in there too). At upper secondary level they are taught some pretty challenging material - today's Year 13 science student learns stuff that was just about unheard of in the late 19th/early 20th century. Very, very few parents can handle the range of disciplines at that level even if they are well-educated themselves (which would have been by specialist teachers, not by parents).
Educating children and adolescents is definitely the State's role. The role of the State (or rather its agents, viz teachers) is definitely not to indoctrinate kids into bizarre conceptions of sexuality held by a minority in society, or bizarre conceptions of Stone Age cultures and their associated hocus-pocus.
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