{"id":12837,"date":"2025-02-25T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12837"},"modified":"2025-02-25T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T00:07:00","slug":"primary-teachers-to-get-fast-tracked-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12837","title":{"rendered":"Primary teachers to get fast-tracked residency"},"content":{"rendered":"

The government is making it easier for teachers coming to New Zealand to apply for residency faster, with Immigration Minister Erica Stanford saying they’re making New Zealand a “competitive destination for overseas talent.”<\/p>\n

From late next month, primary teachers with a job offer from an accredited employer in the country will be able to apply for residency without first working for two years.<\/p>\n

It comes after a warning from the Ministry of Education schools\u00a0could be short 1250 teachers this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stanford said a “teacher shortage not only impacts students, but other staff as well.”<\/p>\n

“To attract skilled teachers from offshore to help address this, we are making New Zealand a competitive destination for overseas talent by moving primary teachers to the Straight to Residence pathway.”<\/p>\n

From 26 March, the streamlined process will allow eligible primary and intermediate teachers – and M\u0101ori medium equivalents – with a job offer to apply for residence.<\/p>\n

Last year, the government shifted secondary school teachers to the Straight to Residency pathway, resulting in 480 new teachers.<\/p>\n

This benefited thousands of students, said Stanford and “around 1170 people were supported with an Overseas Relocation Grant of up to $10,000 when coming to New Zealand.”<\/p>\n

Stanford added immigration is only one lever the coalition is pulling to grow the workforce. She listed a $53 million investment to double the School Onsite Training Programme, “so 1200 aspiring teachers can train in the classroom.”<\/p>\n

“The Ministry of Education is also subsidising training and financial assistance for trainees across primary and secondary and a range of subjects.”<\/p>\n

Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The government is making it easier for teachers coming to New Zealand to apply for residency faster, with Immigration Minister Erica Stanford saying they’re making New Zealand a “competitive destination for overseas talent.” From late next month, primary teachers with a job offer from an accredited employer in the country will be able to apply […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12839,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12837\/revisions\/12839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}