Finalists showcase strength of NZ content in educational publishing
Booksellers.co.nz
New Zealand students need strong local content to help them think critically, engage in their own environment and learn. The finalists in this year's CLNZ Education Awards showcase the very real strength and breadth of our home-grown educational ...
Minister meets with Finland’s education experts
Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata is delighted with the reception that the collaborative Communities of Learning model received at the Global Education Industry Summit in Helsinki, as well as with having had the opportunity to meet with a number of experts in Finland’s education system. The Summit on October 19 and 20 brought together ministers of education and international education experts to discuss and engage in education issues and strategies for innovation. ...
NZ/Korea joint qualification recognition one step closer
Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment
A joint research project between New Zealand and Korea has brought formal senior secondary school qualification recognition between the two countries one step closer. Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce and the Republic of Korea's Minister of Education HE Hwang Woo Yea met in Seoul today and announced the completion of the research project, which confirmed senior secondary school curricula between the two countries is comparable.
Charter schools paid for students that aren't there
NZ/Korea joint qualification recognition one step closer
Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment
A joint research project between New Zealand and Korea has brought formal senior secondary school qualification recognition between the two countries one step closer. Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce and the Republic of Korea's Minister of Education HE Hwang Woo Yea met in Seoul today and announced the completion of the research project, which confirmed senior secondary school curricula between the two countries is comparable.
Charter schools paid for students that aren't there
For the second year in a row, the government has funded charter schools for more students than they actually have.
Government funding of charter school rolls questioned
Stuff.co.nz
The seven charter schools who had not met minimum rolls were funded for 669 students but only had 490 students in September. Post Primary Teachers Association president Angela Roberts told Radio NZ charter schools should not be funded for students ...
Government funding of charter school rolls questioned
Stuff.co.nz
The seven charter schools who had not met minimum rolls were funded for 669 students but only had 490 students in September. Post Primary Teachers Association president Angela Roberts told Radio NZ charter schools should not be funded for students ...
Complaints about early childcare education centres on the rise
Stuff.co.nz
Complaints against early childhood education centres are increasing every year, with most relating to governance and health and safety concerns. The Ministry of Education has revealed 360 complaints were lodged in 2014 against centres and kohanga reo, ...
Concerns Remain for Children in Early Childhood Education
Scoop.co.nz
Early childhood complaints rise
Complaints about early learning services jumped almost 50 per cent in a year, with children's health and safety the leading cause for concern.Understaffing issues almost tripled, justified behavioural complaints more than doubled...
Support service: Māori education under threat
Radio New Zealand
... this initiative would mean that I would no longer receive the support of mentoring, a whānau environment to work in, career information evenings, and most importantly the opportunity to help close the inequality gap for Māori and Pasifika students ...
Funding cuts threaten Pasifika centre
Auckland stuff.co.nz
New Zealand's oldest Pacific community education provider could be forced to shut because of funding cuts. The Pasifika Education Centre in Papatoetoe was founded in 1974 to help educate the country's rising Pacific Island population. But its future is ...
Students get second chance at education
Māori Television
Coleman believes the Māori aspect of learning plays a big part. “We use whare tapawhā as a model, even though it's a health model it fits very nicely into education and its actually good for all kids, the majority of our kids are Pākeha,” said Coleman.
Handling stress at exam time: A message for all senior secondary students
Stuff.co.nz
School balls: more trouble than they're worth?
Stuff.co.nz
"Simply if a school's ball becomes problematic because of student behaviour ... it's only natural for schools to say 'Well, why are we doing this?' "And we have made it clear in the past and in the present, that if we hear that there are large scale ...
Supporting teen parents into education and training
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“A range of supports has contributed to 48 per cent fewer teen mums being on a main benefit at the end of 2014 compared to 2009, and we are continually looking at how we can offer them more support to get into education, training and employment,” says ...
People's History: education for freedom – or conformity?
Scoop.co.nz
Inspired by the centennial of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA), the organisers asked presenters to look at aspects of education history in New Zealand, through the critical lens shaped by educator Paulo Freire: iseducation for freedom, or ...
One in 400 Auckland students turns up to fees protest | Kiwiblog
Early childhood complaints rise
Complaints about early learning services jumped almost 50 per cent in a year, with children's health and safety the leading cause for concern.Understaffing issues almost tripled, justified behavioural complaints more than doubled...
Support service: Māori education under threat
Radio New Zealand
... this initiative would mean that I would no longer receive the support of mentoring, a whānau environment to work in, career information evenings, and most importantly the opportunity to help close the inequality gap for Māori and Pasifika students ...
Funding cuts threaten Pasifika centre
Auckland stuff.co.nz
New Zealand's oldest Pacific community education provider could be forced to shut because of funding cuts. The Pasifika Education Centre in Papatoetoe was founded in 1974 to help educate the country's rising Pacific Island population. But its future is ...
Students get second chance at education
Māori Television
Coleman believes the Māori aspect of learning plays a big part. “We use whare tapawhā as a model, even though it's a health model it fits very nicely into education and its actually good for all kids, the majority of our kids are Pākeha,” said Coleman.
Handling stress at exam time: A message for all senior secondary students
Stuff.co.nz
School balls: more trouble than they're worth?
Stuff.co.nz
"Simply if a school's ball becomes problematic because of student behaviour ... it's only natural for schools to say 'Well, why are we doing this?' "And we have made it clear in the past and in the present, that if we hear that there are large scale ...
Supporting teen parents into education and training
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“A range of supports has contributed to 48 per cent fewer teen mums being on a main benefit at the end of 2014 compared to 2009, and we are continually looking at how we can offer them more support to get into education, training and employment,” says ...
People's History: education for freedom – or conformity?
Scoop.co.nz
Inspired by the centennial of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA), the organisers asked presenters to look at aspects of education history in New Zealand, through the critical lens shaped by educator Paulo Freire: iseducation for freedom, or ...
One in 400 Auckland students turns up to fees protest | Kiwiblog
Carrying lunches and the occasional placard, the students crowded the quad to protest those increases. A stage and PA system were set up for speakers, who included student representatives and politicians. Probably wasn't ...
New prisoner education programmes launched
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and Methodist Mission Southern have been contracted by Corrections to deliver the intensive literacy and numeracy programmes in all Corrections-run prisons, giving priority to learners with the highest educational needs.
New prisoner education programmes launched
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and Methodist Mission Southern have been contracted by Corrections to deliver the intensive literacy and numeracy programmes in all Corrections-run prisons, giving priority to learners with the highest educational needs.
New ICT grad school set to pump NZ tech industry
Educators NZ
These include a Master of Software Development focused on developing real-world software-based systems and a Master of Information Technology, which is designed to sharpen the technical skills and knowledge of those already in industry or who have a ...
NZ universities seeking more opportunities with China
All eight New Zealand universities are in China this week as part of a Ministerial delegation led by Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce. Their goal is to deepen links between the education systems of both countries in line with the importance ...
Limited Statutory Manager appointed to rural Palmerston North school
Stuff.co.nz
A Ministry of Education manager has been appointed to address a number of curriculm and assessment issues at a small rural school near Palmerston North. The Ministry of Education has confirmed that it has appointed Laura Snowden as a Limited Statutory ...
Ex-truckie rewarded for teaching role
New Zealand Herald
Whangarei's Regan Reti was recently awarded a Ministry of Education Kupe Scholarship as one of the country's top 30 Maori and Pasifika student teachers. He's pictured with 4-year-old Durome Henry and 3-year-old Chloe Valentine (on the slide).
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