The court provides guidance on the interpretation and application of two new sections of the Employment Relations Act 2000 (“the Act”).

Thank you to those who responded to our survey earlier this year regarding ERO. We used your comments as the basis of the submission we sent to ERO recently.

National MP Hekia Parata is the new Minister of Education and Minister of Pacific Island Affairs.

The ECC has been planning during the latter half of this year to advance our professional development programme into a sub-contracted model. We have designed the attached RFP to reflect this and are keen to receive proposals to host our professional development programme next year from April onward.

This dramatic title appeared on an article in the latest issue of Scientific American Mind (November/December 2011). However, it is a well-reasoned, well-documented case for keeping play as the central focus of the preschool years. Here are some excerpts.

ECC submission on Ministry policies for five year old children with special needs who wish to remain in an early childhood centre.