Monday 1 July 2013

'Wealthy' schools get more than 'poor'

Stuff.co.nz
The comments came after a New Zealand Council for Educational Research report was discussed at the Queenstown conference. The report revealed there was a growing disparity between schools in rich and poor areas. It found schools in wealthy areas ...

Parata: tertiary focus skewed

New Zealand is in danger of experiencing a shortage of skilled tradespeople with so much focus on channelling students into university and academia pathways, Education Minister Hekia Parata said in Queenstown at the weekend.

Minister a convert to the Taranaki vibe

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Are there to be any charter schools in Taranaki? The minister says she is unaware of any proposals from Taranaki. However, the Government has received 35 proposals in total and decisions would be made by the end of July, through to early August. All ...

Union assures teachers of redress for Novopay woes

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The association has launched a class action on behalf of its 18,000 members against Ministry of Education acting secretary Peter Hughes, after 10 months of botched Novopay payments to teachers and school staff. Nine of the country's worst- affected ...

Learning hampered by absences : ERO

Northern Advocate
The Education Review Office (ERO) has found that the positive learning environment at Taipa Area School is hampered by student absences and a high rate of stand-downs are affecting achievement levels. The roll of 326 students from Year One to 15 is 76 ...

Agriculture begging for graduates

It ranks as New Zealand's most productive, innovative sector.

A question of academic direction

Stuff.co.nz
Labour education spokeswoman Megan Woods said the Treasury's involvement was "totally inappropriate". "Cantabrians deserve that decisions about the future of their university are made for sound educational reasons." The university could be a ...

 Questions over sex education raise eyebrows

A boys' puberty quiz asking whether a lack of chest hair indicates a man is gay is raising eyebrows among sex educators.

'Free' school costs almost $1000 a year

Parents are paying hundreds of dollars to prop up free school education with one of the country's top colleges asking for close to $1,000, a Weekend Herald survey has found. Auckland Grammar topped the survey with an annual donation...

Passed fit for school

When Tristan Cosio started school a fortnight ago he was ready and prepped. New school bag? Yes. New lunch box? You bet. Big brother to look after him: Absolutely. Ministry of Health B4 School Check? No.The 5-year-old's mother,... 

Phillipstown closure 'illegal process'

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The decile one primary school, which has 163 pupils, had one building damaged by earthquakes, with an estimated $3.5 million cost to fix over 10 years. Surrounding land was classified as technical category 2 and 3. Parata's rationale for the merger was ... 

Ministry's lowball offer 'insulting'

More than seven months after Whangamata Area School's technology block was destroyed by fire, principal Ross Preece is still fighting for a fair deal to rebuild it. 

Maori and Pasifika Strategies Launch, Massey University, Palmerston North

Tariana Turia | Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment E nga matawaka e tau mai nei i tenei ata ki Te Kunenga ki Purehuroa, tena koutou katoa. Nga mihi o te Tau Hou Maori ki a tatou katoa. I am pleased and proud to be here today to launch the Maori and Pasifika@Massey University strategies. ... 

University launches course on NZ gangs

The University of Canterbury is launching a course on New Zealand gangs, which starts next month.A paper called "The Rise and Development of Gangs in New Zealand'' will be taught within the College of Arts.It will look at the...

College dumps donations to help parents

Huntly College has led a handful of schools in doing away with donations - a change principal Tim Foy said was driven by the needs of parents."This community doesn't have a lot of money and we did not want any students being penalised...

Got Milk? 112 Waikato schools do

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Better learning outcomes means a brighter educational future for our children, which, of course, means a brighter future for our country.'' Waipa District mayor Alan Livingstone told the children they were lucky to get nicely packaged, chilled milk ...

Christchurch secondary schools await post-quake reorganisation

Christchurch's state secondary schools hope to learn within the next month if they will be closed or merged in the government's reorganisation of the city's education system.

School left to pay cost of classroom phone theft

An intermediate school had to partially compensate parents for a box of students' phones stolen during school hours.The school's insurance company refused to pay out and an insurance watchdog has warned families to ensure their...

Friday 28 June 2013

Minister must reveal cost of charter schools

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
26 June 2013. Minister must reveal cost of charter schools. Education Minister Hekia Parata needs to be open and honest with taxpayers about how much they are forking out for charter schools, says Labour's Acting Education spokesperson Megan Woods

Raihania takes a stand for Maori learners

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Ikaroa Rāwhiti candidate, Na Raihania, has commended his Māori Party colleagues for asking the hard questions around support for Māori students in accessing tertiaryeducation opportunities. Today in the ... "Over the last six weeks I have had the ... 

Sharples defends record on te reo 

Radio New Zealand
Labour Party list MP Shane Jones says Dr Sharples is not generating new ideas to encourage Maori children to go to pre-school or addressing issues with kohanga reo. Last year, the Waitangi Tribunal made recommendations relating to kohanga which have ... 

Questions on value of homework

Primary school students spend nearly an hour each night doing homework, a national survey says, but some parents and teachers question the value of after-school study.The CensusAtSchool survey found that 77 per cent of students...

Coding camps for kids rise in popularity

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Yet high schools and universities seem to be out of step with the job market. Nine out of 10 high schools don't offer computer programming classes and the number of students graduating from college with a computer science degree is down from a decade ... 

International speakers at higher education conference

The Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) will have its 36th conference at AUT University starting Monday 1 July in AUT’s Sir Paul Reeves building - AUT’s newest learning space.

Principal ready to start

Auckland stuff.co.nz
Mr Laurenson says raising the students' NCEA results was his proudest legacy from his nine years in the principal's chair. And Mr Watson plans to build on that. "I'm obviously wanting to improve the academic results for the kids and that will probably ...

Principal condemns 'dead student' post

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Stimulate 2 Educate cyber safety and risk assessment consultant John Parsons is urging people who know anything about the page to speak out before the photos are referred to the police. Ad Feedback. "If you're ever aware of the person [posting the ...

Media Design School Names Darryn Melrose CEO

The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
During his tenure as CEO of M&C Saatchi, he worked with companies such as APN Online,Education New Zealand, Jetstar, Maori Television, Orcon, and Qantas Airways. Prior to joining Saatchi, Melrose was the CEO of AIM Proximity, the leading digital and ...

Student heading to Cambridge’s hallowed halls

It’s one thing to be accepted into a prestigious University, but to get a full paying scholarship as well was more than Katy Bond could have hoped for. The University of Auckland Art History student has won a prestigious Cambridge Commonwealth Trust ...

Art History student gains prestigious opportunities

Art History student gains two prestigious opportunities in Europe University of Auckland PhD student and tutor Jemma Field has been successful in receiving two prestigious European opportunities to support completion of her post-graduate research. The Art ...

College evacuated for second day

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Levin firefighter Dave McHattie said when he entered the classroom the smoke was coming from a metal cabinet, which was used to store chemicals. It was damaged inside and out but there was no fire, he said. Levin deputy chief fire officer Carl Beissel ...

Thursday 27 June 2013

Parata criticises Opposition over use of charter schools term

New Zealand Herald
When Green MP Catherine Delahunty asked Ms Parata how the ministry knew charter schools would reach the right demographic - underachieving Maori and Pacific students, Ms Parata further reminded her. "First of all they are partnership schools, or kura ... 

TEI council appointments and reappointments

Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce today announced appointments to seven tertiary education councils. There are six new council member including two new appointments to the council of the Victoria University of Wellington. There are also new council members and reappointments to six polytechnic councils. The appointments and reappointments of council members are: • Victoria University of Wellington council: new appointments of Mr Neville Jordan and Mr Neil Paviour-Smith, both appointed to 31 May 2017 ...

University to keep places for poor students

New Zealand Herald
... for the country, the University of Auckland council has supported a proposal to improve access to higher education for students from lower socio-economic backgrounds, regardless of ethnicity. At present, the targeted admission programme allows for ...

Novopay: Special focus on teachers affected by Christchurch changes

Plans are underway to ensure final payments for up to 50 teachers who could lose their jobs in the Christchurch education restructure are properly processed by Novopay.Labour's acting education spokeswoman Megan Woods asked Education...

OECD shows NZ’s lagging investment in public education:

Tertiary Update Vol 16 No 21

Teachers aren't to blame for low achievement, says ERO

Newstalk ZB
A report out from the Education Review Office today suggests teachers are not to blame for low achievement levels in some students. New national standards data shows Maori andPasifika pupils are performing worse than others. Today, the ERO has ... 

Graduates earn less in NZ - OECD report

New Zealand continues to have high levels of participation in tertiary education but graduates can expect to earn far less than those in other developed countries, according to the latest OECD report.The Education at a Glance report,...

Recordings encourage students to stay home

Students skipping lectures in favour of watching recordings online have been flagged as a concern in a review of the University of Auckland's Bachelor of Commerce degree.The university's council has been updated on progress towards...

Fulbright marks anniversary year with record numbers

Fulbright New Zealand marked its 65th anniversary last night by honouring a record annual cohort of exchange grantees. 83 New Zealand and US graduate students, academics, artists and professionals were honoured as Fulbright grantees at the organisation’s ...

ChildForum Early Childhood Network

Confidence in the early childhood education sector remains low, according to a new survey by national early childhood network, ChildForum.

Hamilton School makes case for state integration

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The school, which is year 1 to 13, also has the capacity to grow its roll of 290 to at least 450 pupils and, with extra classrooms, could cater for up to 800 pupils. Mr Bezuidenhout said 99 per cent of parents voted in favour of integration. However ...

Historic classroom faces end

Otumoetai Primary is planning to get rid of a classroom that has been on the site for 115 years.Principal Geoff Opie said the school had been left with no choice because it needed two new classrooms to cater for a large number of...

Mid-Year Intake For Future-focused Graduate Programme

People studying to implement sustainable practice in their communities and workplaces will meet in Wanaka in late July, as part of a Graduate Diploma offered by Otago Polytechnic’s Centre for Sustainable Practice.

23 schools share $20,000 Northland Regional Council awards

Projects involving everything from disappearing native frogs to re-emerging kiwi are among 25 school initiatives to share this year’s $20,000 Northland Regional Council Environmental Curriculum Awards (ECAs).

Tech boost for West Coast schools

Techday NZ
Over the last three years 31 schools in the region have invested $461,000 on newclassroom technology, including 265 new computers, 135 tablets, upgraded wireless networks, digital cameras, interactive whiteboards and data projectors. Development West ...

Wednesday 26 June 2013

New Secretary for Education: 
Peter Hughes announced as the new Secretary of Education

New education boss confirmed: 

The top former public servant called in to restore order to the troubled Ministry of Education has been confirmed as its new boss.

NZ education compares well with OECD:
Steven Joyce | Education
Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce and Education Minister Hekia Parata today welcomed the OECD’s latest education report, saying the findings show New Zealand continues to deliver a world-class education.
Education at a Glance 2013 compares education in 34 OECD and eight other countries, using data from 2010 and 2011.
According to the report, New Zealand is: ...
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Standardised assessment of learning poses dangers | TEU - Tertiary ...: 
The international assessment of student learning outcomes in higher education is wrought with difficulties and problems, Education International.

Dropout rate at lowest but still a concern
Stuff.co.nz
Principals attribute the improvement to a Ministry of Education crackdown on early leavers, and to the bedding-in of NCEA - though fewer job opportunities for teenagers may also help account for it. Boys are still more likely to drop out of school at ...
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Finding learning issues early could prevent crime
Stuff.co.nz
A Palmerston North education psychologist is advocating in-school screening to pick up learning problems at a young age - claiming knock-on benefits for crime and welfare rates. But she says the buck should pass to the state as many ... The trained ...

Catholic primary schools to merge
Stuff.co.nz
The merger comes after St Paul's in Dallington was red-zoned because of earthquake damage. The new school will be named St Francis of Assisi Catholic School. Catholic Education Office manager Mike Nolan said the new school would receive a $6 million ...

Push for on-site preschools:

 Parents should have the option to drop their 4-year-old off at school, says a principal who is set to open a preschool on his school's grounds.Next month, North Canterbury's Amberley School opens a preschool, thanks to a partnership...

Waikato childcare centres feel pressure to raise fees
Stuff.co.nz
The Government committed an extra $172.5 million to early childhood education over four years in its latest Budget last month. Early Childhood Council chief executive Peter Reynolds said most of the extra money was targeted for Maori, Pasifika, and ...

Flooding puts pupils' health at risk
Stuff.co.nz
When Porirua College began its redevelopment in 2008, Ministry of Education contractors connected new stormwater pipes to the Porirua City Council network on Driver Cres, council waste and water services manager Chris Hopman said. Council pipes ...

New Secretary for Education - 25 June 2013

New Secretary for Education: Peter Hughes announced as the new Secretary of Education.

25 June 2013

Ngāti Whakaue to head Rotorua education initiative: Te Taumata o Ngāti Whakaue Iho Akehas been appointed as the local community lead for a two year initiative to develop healthy, safe, well educated children and young people in Rotorua.

Call for inquiry into Te Wananga o Aotearoa appointments
Voxy
"What the council has done is shocking and simply not good enough for a publically funded organisation," said Willie Te Aho, who has written to the Maori Affairs Minister, Education Minister and the chairs of various Parliament select committees to ...

Digital literacy key focus of expert group
Techday NZ
“This group will be tasked with exploring ways to provide every student and educator, in both rural and urban New Zealand, with the knowledge, skills and abilities required for the 21st century,” says associate education minister Nikki Kaye. “I will be ...

Schools need to lead creative computing
Techday NZ
It is vitally important that creative computing becomes an essential part of the school curriculum and tertiary education programmes, according to a leading New Zealand technology expert. ... Hosted by Manukau Institute of Technology, more than 120 ...

Are school guidance counselors struggling to cope?: Sarah Maindonald is a guidance counselor at Hillmorton School in Christchurch, and on the board of the NZ Association of Counselors.

School gets an A for effort
Northland Independent Community
The report highlights the school's emphasis on educational success for Maori as Maori, with kaumatua advising on support. But it raises concerns about the declining roll, which has resulted in the loss of a "considerable number" of experienced teachers ...

Canterbury schools praised for resilience: Canterbury schools' response to the earthquakes is to form a template for those dealing with future disasters.

Pupils' hard work pays off in parade win | Otago Daily Times Online ...: A Queenstown Primary choir led the way on foot, with the float following behind with about 40 students onboard the bus. Teacher Muireann ... Each year the school enters the parade with artwork from pupils. Bungy adventure ...

NZTC's Bachelor of Teaching (ECE) revamped for 2013
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
NZTC's Bachelor of Teaching (ECE) revamped for 2013. New Zealand Tertiary College (NZTC), the specialists in early childhood teacher education, is to launch a fully reviewed and updated Bachelor of Teaching (Early Childhood Education) program on the ...

UCOL drives recruitment campaign: Starting today, UCOL is taking the enrolment process out into the community, to make it easier for people to enrol for programmes with mid-year start dates.

Monday 24 June 2013

'Astronomical' bill for Salisbury battle
Stuff.co.nz
Labour says Education Minister Hekia Parata's unlawful attempts to close Salisbury School, as well as the special education consultation process, cost the taxpayer more than $270,000. Last month the Richmond school received the news that it will stay ...
Minister returns from successful trip to ChileScoop.co.nz (press release)

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auckland.scoop.co.nz » International experts to speak at National ...: Dr Rosemary Hipkins, chief researcher, New Zealand Council for Educational Research; Michelle Hippolite, Chief Executive, Te Puni Kokiri and Pauline Winter, QSO, Chief Executive, Ministry for Pacific Island Affairs.

Private Schools Snare Biggest Share Of Special Needs... | Stuff.co.nz: The school that received the most taxpayer support for its students was King's College in Auckland - 24.4 per cent of its 180 students sitting NCEA exams got funding for special help. The funding allows students to sit assessments under special ... The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) last year spent $433,000 on special assessment conditions (SAC) - a jump from the $159,000 spent in 2011. Because of the sudden hike in funding requests, not all students ...

New allowance recognises expertise
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
... model was based on robust assessment of a teacher's knowledge and expertise and was skills-based, not performance-based pay. The Minister of Education has promoted the idea of performance pay that could be based on National Standards results.

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Taking it to the people is educator's mission
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Te Reo o Taranaki courses are held not in classrooms but on marae and in such places as schools, museums, libraries, and public health centres. "The award demonstrates our work isn't only about language. Our communities have survived confiscation and...


Supplementary Plan Guidance for 2014 ~ Tertiary Education ...: The Education (Proposed Investment Plans: Requirements, Content, Submission and Assessment) Notice 2 (attached) explains the criteria against which the TEC will assess proposed Plans for funding approval. The assessment ... An important part of the framework is the performance-linked funding policy, which sees a proportion of Student Achievement Component and Industry Training funding linked to the educational performance of TEOs. Performance-linked ...


Role for karakia in schools if less like religious propaganda
The Dominion Post
Trouble is, last time I checked, the Human Rights Commission recommended that state schools avoid prayers, and our Education Act makes it very clear that our state schools should be secular. ... Yet the minute the prayers are in Maori there is hell to pay.


Sunday Insight: Rich school, poor school: parents' decile dilemma: When Louise and Penn Trevella shifted from Wellington to Auckland with baby Phoebe for a new life, they looked forward to joining a tight-knit neighbourhood like the one they had just left.The Trevellas are typical of the increasing...

Evidence supports value of internal assessment in ... - Scoop.co.nz: The two-and-a-half year research project into how students learn to think critically and historically was led by Dr Mark Sheehan, a Senior Lecturer in Victoria's Faculty of Education, and involved seven history teachers and ...

Shifting schools puts kids' education at risk
Stuff.co.nz
Children from "transient" families are changing schools up to six times a year, a worrying trend that experts say is damaging our kids' education. In a few schools, the turnover rate is so high that by the end of the year more than half the roll will ...

Movies for jailed youth aimed at literacy
Stuff.co.nz
Corrections says the results of the Audio-Visual Achievement in Literacy, Language and Learning (AVAILLL) have been "promising enough" to roll it out at youth units at Rimutaka, Hawke's Bay and Waikeria prisons. The AVAILLL course is aimed at improving ...


Students discuss learning to learn strategies:
Secondary students from Wellington College discuss the strategies that help them learn how to learn.  

Tamariki School could get statutory manager
Stuff.co.nz
A Christchurch school's board of trustees that refuses to implement the Government's controversial national standards risks having its powers pared back by the Ministry of Education. Tamariki School, a small special character school in Woolston ...

Student loses control | Northern Advocate: On Friday, a 15-year-old student at Taipa Area School had to be restrained after he smashed down two doors and a window in a fit of rage. It is the latest of several violent incidents in Northland schools involving pupils. Coincidentally, the incidents have ... The PPTA has an "Anti-Violence Tool Kit" that assists schools with developing and implementing effective anti-violence procedures for when violence occurs towards staff and students. The two most recent incidents ... 

School releases pamphlet with sex alternatives
Stuff.co.nz
Christian schools say it's hardly surprising they think students should have a burping contest instead of having sex. Christian Schools Australia CEO Steve O'Doherty says horse riding, eating something new, blowing bubbles and playing ball without the ...

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Girls are all a-Twitter
Techday NZ
CensusAtSchool is a biennial online project that brings statistics to life in the classroom. Supervised by teachers, students aged between 10 and 18 (Year 5 to Year 13) answer 32 questions about their lives, many of them involving practical activities ...

Minister returns from successful trip to Chile

Minister returns from successful trip to Chile:
Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata says her trip to Chile highlighted the strength of the New Zealand education system and affirmed the direction we are taking in focusing on quality.
Ms Parata’s visit built on the very successful trip Prime Minister John Key made in March.
Ms Parata addressed the 13th national education seminar organised by Libertad y Desarrollo in Santiago, which was attended by over 1,000 teachers from public schools, principals, country school managers, educationalists, and other key sector stakeholders.
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ERO identifies best school practices - waateanews.com

ERO identifies best school practices
waateanews.com
The Education Review Office says only one in four schools are doing what is needed to allow priority learners, including low achieving Maori, Pacific, special needs, and students from low income families, to catch up with their peers. It says most ...

New proposals morph National Standards | Mana | Movement of the ...

New proposals morph National Standards | Mana | Movement of the ...: MANA educations spokesperson John Minto says it seems clear the government has serious plans to morph National Standards into National Testing after the election. He says the government has advertised a contract for an ...

Dom Post on National Standards | Kiwiblog

Dom Post on National Standards | Kiwiblog: I think there's a good case for requiring a core national curriculum, national testing, and minimum national standards in school and teacher performance. These require some government involvement, in my opinion.

National standards for mathematics: where to set the bar? | New ...

National standards for mathematics: where to set the bar? | New ...: This paper, written by a group of NZCER researchers, considers why many students who are making normal progress according to their results in NZCER's Progressive Achievement Test (PAT) in mathematics, would fail to meet the new ...

Few surprises in new National Standards data - New Zealand Herald

Few surprises in new National Standards data
New Zealand Herald
However, Maori and Pasifika students still trail other students, and boys continue to perform worse than girls. The Ministry of Education has established an advisory group of literacy and numeracy experts to analyse the data and make recommendations on ...

NCEA one decade on:
This report documents views and experiences of NCEA from NZCER's 2012 National Survey of Secondary Schools. It shows support for NCEA has remained high among principals and consolidated among teachers, school trustees, and parents. It’s the first time parental support has risen above 50 percent in the survey series and it was higher among parents with a child in the senior school.

beehive.govt.nz - Investment in education increases to over $9.7b

beehive.govt.nz - Investment in education increases to over $9.7b: Budget 2013 delivers $901 million in the current year and over the next four years for operating initiatives to lift educational achievement at every level of the system – from early childhood, to primary, to secondary, and into training for work, Education Minister Hekia ... “We want to see 98 per cent of all school entrants having participated in quality ECE in 2016, and 85 per cent of all 18 year-olds having achieved NCEA Level 2 or an equivalent qualification in 2017.

Budget 2013: Supporting parents and communities to lift educational ...

Budget 2013: Supporting parents and communities to lift educational ...: Education Minister Hekia Parata has announced the Government is investing $80.5 million of operating funding over four years in Budget 2013 to help support parents and communities play their role in lifting the educational ...

NCEA Level 3 alignment with The New Zealand Curriculum completed

NCEA Level 3 alignment with The New Zealand Curriculum completed: The three-stage alignment of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) with The New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) has been completed. NCEA Levels 1 to 3 are now aligned to NZC Levels 6 to 8. Completing this ... The Level 3 aligned achievement standards are now registered and published with supporting assessment resources, and teaching and learning guides for all subjects. Aligned achievement standards and support materials can be viewed ...

Inequality of School Achievement: Why the events of 2012 will not fix ...

Inequality of School Achievement: Why the events of 2012 will not fix ...: If learning and its achievement, as captured by such measures as NCEA, PIRLS and PISA, was spread across different groups in a fair and equitable way, then there might be less cause for concern, but it is not. Unfortunately ...

Partnership Schools/Kura Hourua: funding focuses on raising ...

Partnership Schools/Kura Hourua: funding focuses on raising ...: “This is about raising educational achievement, in particular for those groups of students who have historically been under-served by the system,'' Mr Banks says. “We already have a number of different types of schools ...

Supporting community education - Auckland stuff.co.nz

Supporting community education
Auckland stuff.co.nz
CHANGING GUARD: New director of community education at Edgewater College Sharmaine Hare, left, and community education administrator Louise Clark are reaching out to the community in an attempt to revive community education at the college.

Kids suffering as poverty strikes hard - Stuff.co.nz

Kids suffering as poverty strikes hard
Stuff.co.nz
An unacceptable level of poverty-related illnesses in West Auckland classrooms has prompted calls for more school nurses. The KidsCan charity says six children at one intermediate school had to be given enemas due to poor nutrition. Chief executive ...

Digital tools foster student creativity - Techday NZ

Digital tools foster student creativity
Techday NZ
To build on this and enhance creativity in the classroom the full range of Adobe Creative Cloud options have been made available to students and teachers in New Zealand, including Creative Cloud Student Teacher Edition. For educational institutions ...
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Preschool options pushed - Auckland stuff.co.nz

Preschool options pushed
Auckland stuff.co.nz
Low cost preschool education options are being promoted to West Auckland parents. Violence Free Waitakere is hoping to bridge the gap between preschool and primary schools in a collaborative project with educators. The organisation has pulled together ...

$5000 bonus for expert teachers

$5000 bonus for expert teachers: A pay deal has been signed between the union representing primary and intermediate teachers and the Government to introduce an allowance for 800 expert teachers worth $4 million, the start of performance pay.Principals will endorse...

Students discuss learning intentions

Students discuss learning intentions: Secondary students from Wellington College and Wellington East Girls College discuss their experiences with learning intentions. They challenge us to think about how to make these learning intentions more effective.

School counsellors lose compo bid after suicides left them with stress disorders

School counsellors lose compo bid after suicides left them with stress disorders: A married pair of school counsellors who developed post-traumatic stress disorder after a cluster of student suicides at a Hamilton school have lost their bid for compensation.Ron and Kath Cronin-Lampe brought a personal grievance...