'Astronomical' bill for Salisbury battle
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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)
all 2 news articles »
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.
and more »
Taking it to the people is educator's mission
Stuff.co.nz
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
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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 ...
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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
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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-TwitterStuff.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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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 ...
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