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'Optimistic': PPTA President criticizes Ministry of Education's teacher numbers prediction

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 27 Feb 2026, 5:20pm
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'Optimistic': PPTA President criticizes Ministry of Education's teacher numbers prediction

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Fri, 27 Feb 2026, 5:20pm

Students may be short changed by a lack of secondary school teachers.

The latest Ministry of Education figures show a predicted shortfall of just over seven hundred high school teachers this year. 

Post Primary Teachers Association President Chris Abercrombie says the Ministry of Education's prediction that the gap will be filled by 2028 is overly optimistic. 

He says we need to take the politics out of teaching and get down to a solution with a long term plan for staffing. 

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