Tertiary Education Union - Te Hautū Kahurangi o Aotearoa
9 August 2016
School kids will miss out under bulk funding
The government’s global funding plans for primary and secondary schools could force class sizes to rise, says TEU national secretary Sharn Riggs.
Riggs says TEU supports the Better Funding campaign that fellow education unions NZEI and PPTA launched today.
“We know from tertiary education, that when polytechnics with limited money are forced to make choices between having enough teachers and paying for other basic running costs, students lose out.”
“It will be the same in schools,” says Riggs.
Riggs says bulk funding drives up class sizes and creates an incentive for boards to choose cheaper options rather than better education.
“We support our primary and secondary education colleagues because we already know what bulk funding is like. Bulk funding has failed in the past and it will fail again.”
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