Match up between Teaching Council and marriage over teachers’ fees goes to court docket

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15 Nov, 2020 04: 51 FORENOON 3 minutes to read

By John Gerritsen, of RNZ

An ongoing face between the secondary teachers’ union and therefore the Teaching Council over fee improves for teachers’ practising certificates is actually heading to court.

Some Post Primary Teachers’ Association also has applied for a judicial review of each of our council’s decision to renew teachers’ involving certificates every year instead of every a couple of years.

In an application stored with the High Court in Wellington, the union said the council consulted teachers about increasing this fees for certificate renewal, approximately breaking the fee into three gross annual instalments.

It defined the council never raised the potential for renewing the certificates themselves yearly.

It argued its council did not have the power to change for better all teachers’ fee payments between triennial to annual.

The application also challenged the council’s decision to use part of the fee to repay leadership training for teachers.

The application asked the court of quash the council’s decisions.

It was the latest development any dispute following the council’s announcement recording that it would increase the licence makeup fee from $220 every four years to $157 a year, or $470 over three years. The change would come into effect in February in 2013.

The PPTA contrariwise the increase, and in June its individuals passed a vote of not confidence in the council.

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The exact Teaching Council announced earlier this year and how it would more than double teachers’ freedom renewal fees. Photo / 123rf

It also told members it would ask your current council’s chief executive, Lesley Hoskin, in addition to two board members who listed the secondary school sector, to allow them to resign. Though the union’s president Prise Boyle distanced himself from the resignation demand, saying he did not agree to why that was included in a cover letter sent to members.

Finally the union has been lobbying for the local authority or council to restrict its activities to guru registration and teacher competency.

However , the council seems to have positioned itself as the professional recording of the teaching profession, with duties including enhancing the status associated teachers and sharing best apply.

The Teaching Council said it would vigourously defend it’s poker room against the union’s allegations.

However , the council said to be able to not to prejudice the case and allow each judicial process to have a clear and therefore fair path, it would not investigate the case.