Wednesday 18 September 2013

Thursday, 19 September 2013

Principals are the guardians of quality teaching and assessment in their schools

Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata today met with Phil Harding, President of the New Zealand Principals’ Federation (NZPF) to discuss action to strengthen confidence in New Zealand’s high trust model of education. The Minister initiated the meeting following public comments made by Mr Harding that he believed there were examples of unprofessional assessment and teaching practice in some schools that might affect the reliability of schools’ National Standards data. ... 
The Government is putting an extra $6 million into technical support and training to ensure the end of year/start of year process in the school payroll runs smoothly. “The end of year/start of year is the most complex annual process in the school payroll and will be a significant test of the improved performance of Novopay,” Minister Responsible for Novopay Steven Joyce says. ... 
Minister Responsible for Novopay Steven Joyce today released the reports on complaints and notifications in regards to Pay Periods 11 and 12 of the schools’ payroll. Pay Period 11, which was paid on the morning of 21 August, paid 89,320 people a total of $175.03 million. The report shows that complaints and notifications were received regarding 0.21 per cent of staff across the country, 24 staff were notified as not paid, 77 were overpaid, and 83 underpaid. Affected staff were from 151 schools or 6.16 per cent of schools in the payroll system. ...

Charter schools worry principals

Stuff.co.nz
The potential march south of charter schools into the region has the Manawatu Primary Principals' Association wary. New Zealand's first charter schools were announced yesterday, with the five partnership ventures set to be up and running in Auckland ...

Charter school isolation labelled "apartheid"

Newstalk ZB
Young Maori boys are some of those soon to benefit from the new charter schoolseducational model. He Puna Marama Trust runs a Whangarei-based boys academy, one of five to be recently awarded a charter schools contract by the Ministry of...

Govt injects further $6m into Novopay

The Government is pushing an extra $6 million into ensuring there are no new glitches with the Novopay system when the calender year ticks over to 2014.

The assessment of teacher quality - Education response group

An investigation into current issues in evaluating and rewarding teachers. Education policy response group INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION MASSEY UNIVERSITY September 2013

Programme addresses truancy

Auckland stuff.co.nz
"It's about working with schools and the community to address the issues and talk withpupils and their families about why they're not at school. "Maybe they're dealing with something and through home visits, going to schools and checking out popular ... 

Massey set to offer free cyber study

Plans to make some of New Zealand's academic expertise available for free is creeping closer, as Massey University puts the finishing touches to launching its massive open online courses.

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