A damning review of the Teaching Council says the agency has lost focus on its core function of safeguarding children and needs transformative change to ensure it is meeting critical regulatory responsibilities. …
The report says the council is focused on “building the mana” of teachers and “being liked by the profession”.
However, this had come at the expense of child safety and key regulatory and stewardship functions.
“As a regulator, the council will not always be liked. Instead, it should aim to be respected,” Francis wrote.
I’ve chaired a regulator. This was a key thing you would know. Your aim wasn’t popularity but respect, predictability, and fairness.
To have the Teachers’ Council put popularity with teachers ahead of child safety shows why the Government has stripped it of some of its roles. Child welfare is too important not to do so.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders
5 comments:
The Nursing Council needs the same treatment.
This is also the crowd that demands that teachers "Demonstrate commitment to
tangata whenuatanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi partnership in Aotearoa New Zealand" thereby requiring teachers to take up a political cause which infringes their human rights as citizens of a democracy. See my article on this site: "Depriving teachers of their democratic rights as citizens," 28 May 2017.
So apparently no one in the Public Service 'leadership' group, whoever that may be, monitors the performance of the Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand (as it calls itself). Why not? And how many other similar taxpayer-funded organisations are currently falling'... “well short” of expected public sector standards'. Quite a few I expect. The egregious shortcomings of the Teaching Council only came to light due to the action of a whistleblower dobbing in the chief executive's apparent conflict of interest behaviour, behaviour that had been going on since 2018 without detection!
Anon 11:28 - there are plenty of potential whistle blowers who are scared of losing their careers.
Not just a this Council, but throughout the whole of the public service.
Please, whistle blowers make a loud noise for the benefit of your country.
An ex-teacher and erstwhile feminist, I have been increasingly alarmed at the 'woke' tendencies becoming apparent within the profession. Parents who care enough to hear their children's developing social awareness are opting for home-schooling - I would.
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