Friday, 6 September 2002, 11:27 am Press Release: ACT New Zealand
Poll Shows Mallard Out Of Touch
Friday 6 Sep 2002
Revelations that over two-thirds of New Zealanders reject
the centralised pay system for secondary teachers shows
how hopelessly out of touch Minister of Education Trevor
Mallard is, ACT Education Spokesman Donna Awatere Huata
said today.
An NBR poll has found that 70 per cent of
people support a system of performance-based pay for
secondary teacher's, while only 21 per cent opposed
it.
"The antiquated, centralised pay system that this
government has zealously pursued, as well as the
Minister's cosy relationship with the PPTA, has doomed
this country to the continued shortage of skilled
teachers as well as the subsidisation of bad teachers.
"This country needs a Minister of Education, not a Minister
of Teachers. It is time the government listened to the
people and gave individual communities the ability to pay
good teachers more," Mrs Awatere Huata said.
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