Friday, 16 August 2013

Schools must be accountable

The Dominion Post
From this year, kura and Maori medium programmes that deliver the Maori language curriculum have been required to report how they are progressing with the Nga Whanaketanga Rumaki Maori standards they use. According to a Ministry of Educationreport, ...

Landmark education agreement between PNG and Victoria University

Radio New Zealand International
I think education will drive the evolution and the development of our country through the millennium development goals that we have set. Luamanuvao Winnie Laban was centrally involved in establishing the new agreement and other Pasifika initiatives at ...

Abolish teacher-name secrecy, MPs demand

Teachers appearing before a disciplinary tribunal should be named, a parliamentary select committee has ruled.The Teachers Council's practice of automatically suppressing the names of school staff complained about is not in accordance...

Prisoners to pay for TV access, education channels

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
... be rolled out to prisons across the country in the following twelve months. If they pay for rental TVs, prisoners will only be able to view TV One, TV2, TV3, Prime and MāoriTelevision and two education channels, which are in the early stages of ...

Teaching no 'second rate profession'

Having been a teacher for 30 years and taught from five to twenty five year olds, in New Zealand, Asia, the Pacific and Europe I have had a wide and varied perspective of the teaching profession.