Joyce to strengthen ties in Japan and Korea
Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment
International Education will be a key focus of discussions when Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce visits Japan and Korea next week. The Minister leaves tomorrow to meet with Japanese and South Korean Government ministers and officials and attend New Zealand education events in both countries. ...
The Minister leaves tomorrow to meet with Japanese and South Korean Government ministers and officials and attend New Zealand education events in both countries. The events include receptions for New Zealand-educated alumni and meetings with ...
The Maori Party is calling the demise of Learning Media - Te Pou Taki Korero a sad day for New Zealand children and schools and is calling on the Ministry of Education to confirm how they will ensure that those learning in te reo Maori and English will ...
She said her decile one school required much more money to ensure it could improve itsachievement rates, and any change to deciles needed to address that. Roger Moses, headmaster of decile 10 Wellington College, said the origins of decile rankings ...
"National standards will get better and better, as did NCEA [National Certificate ofEducational Achievement]." Parata said it was a new way of understanding how children were progressing and a "journey of continuous improvement". The research had ...
The Government is claiming early success with a new mobile service to get more Pasifikachildren into early childhood education in south Auckland. Pasifika children have the lowest ECE participation and the government's spending $280,000 on the new ...
The fono occurs amidst community debate about the impact of the Government's freeze on funding for Pasifika bi-lingual education resources and the introduction of charter schools. Komiti Pasifika president and fono organiser Etelagi Leilua says that ...
... is the extent of literacy and numeracy problems in the population at large. Adultliteracy groups say around 40 per cent of New Zealanders don't read and write well enough to cope adequately in the workplace, and 13 per cent are more or less ...
Pornography has become the most common form of "sex education" for teenagers - to the point where it is now dictating the way they behave in relationships, new research has found. Acceptance of violence and extreme sex acts are also on the rise among ...
The proposed zone for Hamilton's long-awaited new secondary school can be revealed - but the southern border is set to become a battlefield. The enrolment zone for the secondary and intermediate schooling option, scheduled to open in Te Totara in 2016, ...
beehive.govt.nz - R&D Student Grants to grow our future innovators
$3.5 million worth of R&D Student Grants have been allocated to successful R&D active businesses enabling them to employ students with science, technology, engineering, design, or marketing degrees. Demand for both the ...Joyce to strengthen ties in Japan and Korea
Invest in NZThe Minister leaves tomorrow to meet with Japanese and South Korean Government ministers and officials and attend New Zealand education events in both countries. The events include receptions for New Zealand-educated alumni and meetings with ...
Demise of Learning Media a sad day - Maori Party
VoxyThe Maori Party is calling the demise of Learning Media - Te Pou Taki Korero a sad day for New Zealand children and schools and is calling on the Ministry of Education to confirm how they will ensure that those learning in te reo Maori and English will ...
'Clumsy' decile ratings may go
Auckland stuff.co.nzShe said her decile one school required much more money to ensure it could improve itsachievement rates, and any change to deciles needed to address that. Roger Moses, headmaster of decile 10 Wellington College, said the origins of decile rankings ...
National standards will improve - Parata
Sunday Star Times"National standards will get better and better, as did NCEA [National Certificate ofEducational Achievement]." Parata said it was a new way of understanding how children were progressing and a "journey of continuous improvement". The research had ...
School gets $4m funding for 11 kids
A residential school for special needs is receiving government funding of nearly $4 million a year to cater for just 11 pupils.Public achievement information available
Education Minister, Hon Hekia Parata, has released a suite of information aimed at making information about our education system more accessible and engaging for parents, whānau, schools and communities.Minister applauds ECE bus for Pasifika
Radio New ZealandThe Government is claiming early success with a new mobile service to get more Pasifikachildren into early childhood education in south Auckland. Pasifika children have the lowest ECE participation and the government's spending $280,000 on the new ...
Unions says deregistration of dangerous teachers needs changing
The Teachers' Council says it will meet as soon as possible with the Ministry of Education following revelations teachers, including paedophiles, remain registered even after pleading guilty to dangerous crimes.Charter schools to be unveiled
Details about the opening of controversial charter schools will be announced by the end of this month.The Early Childhood Council is urging journalists to "test and retest" the Teachers Council Disciplinary Tribunal rules around privacy.
The Teachers Council is reviewing its rules after Parliament's Regulation Review Committe found...
Bay of Plenty Regional Council Maori Policy Advisor Matemoana McDonald says the Western BOP District Council tried to raise that issue three years ago, and suggested linking the communications teams of the city council, WBOPDC and regional council, ...
And yet, New Zealand has continued to flat-line in international benchmarking tests like PISA - Programme for International Student Assessment - which are designed to indicate areas of concern in learning and highlight improvement. They test literacy ...
“More and more Maori and Pasifika students start school having attended early childhoodeducation. “In primary schools, National Standards and Nga Whanaketanga RumakiMaori are providing important information about the achievement of students in ...
Education call on Treaty issues
SunLiveBay of Plenty Regional Council Maori Policy Advisor Matemoana McDonald says the Western BOP District Council tried to raise that issue three years ago, and suggested linking the communications teams of the city council, WBOPDC and regional council, ...
What makes a good school?
Stuff.co.nzAnd yet, New Zealand has continued to flat-line in international benchmarking tests like PISA - Programme for International Student Assessment - which are designed to indicate areas of concern in learning and highlight improvement. They test literacy ...
How our students rank
Gisborne Herald“More and more Maori and Pasifika students start school having attended early childhoodeducation. “In primary schools, National Standards and Nga Whanaketanga RumakiMaori are providing important information about the achievement of students in ...
Knowledge lost from our kids' learning: expert
New Zealand's school curriculum has been hollowed out of knowledge as academic learning is increasingly abandoned for a misguided focus on skills and the process of learning, an academic claims.University of Auckland education associate...Let's bring knowledge back into schools
One of the great puzzles in education today is what has happened to knowledge.Bewildered parents suspect something has happened in schools but are not quite sure what. Knowledge is after all what schools are about, surely - so what...Hundreds of Pasifika educators drawn to Education Fono
Scoop.co.nz (press release)The fono occurs amidst community debate about the impact of the Government's freeze on funding for Pasifika bi-lingual education resources and the introduction of charter schools. Komiti Pasifika president and fono organiser Etelagi Leilua says that ...
Workplace a good place to improve literacy
Stuff.co.nz... is the extent of literacy and numeracy problems in the population at large. Adultliteracy groups say around 40 per cent of New Zealanders don't read and write well enough to cope adequately in the workplace, and 13 per cent are more or less ...
Pornography being used for teens' sex education
Auckland stuff.co.nzPornography has become the most common form of "sex education" for teenagers - to the point where it is now dictating the way they behave in relationships, new research has found. Acceptance of violence and extreme sex acts are also on the rise among ...
Helping Otago school-leavers discussed | Otago Daily Times Online ...
Although Otago's overall educational achievement levels were improving, Ms Parata said more work needed to be done, especially with Maori and Pasifika learners. ''In 2012, 83% of Otago 18-year-olds passed NCEAlevel 2, ...Zoning of new school a hot issue
Stuff.co.nzThe proposed zone for Hamilton's long-awaited new secondary school can be revealed - but the southern border is set to become a battlefield. The enrolment zone for the secondary and intermediate schooling option, scheduled to open in Te Totara in 2016, ...
Fewer students behaving badly | Otago Daily Times Online News ...
Student behaviour in Dunedin appears to be improving, with a significant drop in students being dealt with by the University of Otago for serious incidents.
NZEI Te Riu Roa says many schools and early childhood centres struggle to meet the needs of deaf children because of a lack of resources for adequate training of teachers and support staff.
And a pupil who has reached the highest levels is Cromwell College head boy David Borrie. The 17-year-old recently led a three-week expedition to Mt Everest. These pupils will be among the 57 outstanding teens from 29 ...
Strategy to attract overseas students | Otago Daily Times Online ...
A new strategy aimed at boosting international student numbers could help make Dunedin the ''premier'' export education destination in Australasia, Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull says.
Peter Hughes new secretary makes an ass of himself Have you read the comedy in a tragic sense doing the rounds? I’m talking about Boyo, otherwise known as Peter Hughes, the new secretary for education and his address to the Ministerial Cross Sector Forum – itself a matching comedy in a tragic sense. I laughed, I despaired, and a tumult of scenes flickered through my consciousness.
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