Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata and Associate Education Minister John Banks today announced the first Partnership Schools | Kura Hourua. Minister Parata says Partnership Schools offer a new, innovative and dynamic approach to engaging students in education. “They will help young Kiwis be the best they can be by helping raise aspirations and encouraging them to succeed,” she says. ...
Five charter schools to open in 2014
New Zealand Herald
Education Minister Hekia Parata and Association Education Minister John Banks said five organisations had successfully applied to be partnership, or charter schools. They are: ... Maori and Pasifika organisations comprised more than half of the list.
Concern about charter schools 'trial'
MSN NZ News
While some are welcoming the government's announcement of the first five charter schools, critics say they're concerned the system is being trialled on disadvantaged kids. Education Minister Hekia Parata and Associate Education Minister and ACT leader ...
MSN NZ News
While some are welcoming the government's announcement of the first five charter schools, critics say they're concerned the system is being trialled on disadvantaged kids. Education Minister Hekia Parata and Associate Education Minister and ACT leader ...
New Partnership Schools Association Marks ‘New Era’
The desire to speak with a unified voice is the motivation for a new association launched today by schools chosen to lead the Government’s partnership school scheme in 2014.
Charter schools a costly diversion from supporting success
The Government’s charter school policy is another expensive National-ACT educational experiment diverting resources and energy from supporting quality teaching and learning in all schools
Nothing New or Innovative in Charter School Announcement
The five charter schools announced by the Minister of Education this morning offers nothing new or innovative to lift the achievement of students. It reveals amediocrity of thinking by the Charter School Authorisation Board. Although promised a new model ...
QPEC statement on charter schools: Is this it?
QPEC members can find nothing new, exciting or innovative in these proposals - nothing that does not already exist within the public school system except a touch of military discipline and a dose of Remuera missionary schooling in South Auckland.
Authorisation Board Welcomes First Partnership Schools
Partnership Schools/Kura Hourua Authorisation Board Chair Catherine Isaac welcomed the announcement of the first five Partnership Schools. “The announcement marks a very significant step in the development of educational opportunities in New Zealand.
We will fight charter schools every step of the way
PPTA plans to fight the establishment of the newly announced charter schools every step of the way, with a paper heading to annual conference exploring how they will do it.
Rise UP Academy: New Partnership school in South Auckland
The Rise UP Trust are pleased to announce The Rise UP Academy, Junior School will open in February 2014 for fifty students from years 1-6.
Green Party Will Undo Charter Schools
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“We acknowledge that the operators of some of these schools will have the best intentions at heart, but fundamentally the charter schools model is not the solution to educationalunderachievement for Maori, Pacific and poorer kids. We know some of what ...
Parents using decile system wrongly: paper
NZ City
It was intended to help identify schools at lower ends which required higher levels of funding, but instead has been used by parents as a proxy for educational quality, the paper says. Rolls at decile one to three schools went down by 12 per cent ...
PPTA slams misuse of decile rating system
Parents' misuse of decile ratings has inflamed racial and social class stigma in schools, sparking a call for a major overhaul of the funding system, a new report claims.
Individual Steps Are the Key to Literacy In Our Children
A one-size-fits-all pattern used by schools to improve children’s literacy is not necessarily helping every child learn to read.
Technology to change teaching and learning
Techday NZ
Further ideas he has for developing the technology include Substitute Teacher, a website that provides learning materials when a teacher can't be in the classroom or when a student can't attend a class; and Better Dumb, which he suggests could give ...
Farming education against the trend
Stuff.co.nz
Students Christina Cotton (left) and Alannah Wright learn how to fit milking cups under direction of Feilding High School farm tutor Mike Goodson. Year 10 student George Thorpe's job is feeding the new calves at the Feilding High School farm. Year 10 ...
Stuff.co.nz
Students Christina Cotton (left) and Alannah Wright learn how to fit milking cups under direction of Feilding High School farm tutor Mike Goodson. Year 10 student George Thorpe's job is feeding the new calves at the Feilding High School farm. Year 10 ...
Business Teachers Come Face to Face with Shanghai
Eight secondary school teachers will be more confident teaching their students about New Zealand’s business links with China after a study trip to Shanghai.
Jeremy Suisted: Basic knowledge building blocks to better minds
Elizabeth Rata has fired a timely shot across the bows of current Western teaching models.Her article has ignited debate about her conclusions that New Zealand has "taken our eyes off what to teach".Traditional academic knowledge...
Steve Maharey: Education is not just about knowledge
As the Minister of Education who was responsible for the introduction of the national curriculum, I was very interested to read the article by Elizabeth Rata in the Weekend Herald on September 7. It argued that today's students...
The school you went to...
Stuff.co.nz
It got me thinking about schooling in NZ. Rather, it got me thinking about whether the school you attend makes you some kind of person. Are people who go to our nation's poshest private schools better than the poorest public school student? Should we ...
Te Taitokerau Trades Academy MoU Signing Signals Way Forward
A new strategic partnership between NorthTec and Te Taitokerau Trades Academy -- a co-operative enterprise representing all of the Secondary Schools in the region -- is a step in the right direction, says NorthTec Chief Executive Paul Binney.
Kenakena School Tops NZ - May Not Afford To Go To Next Level
Teams of students from Kenakena School in Paraparaumu have won two of the New Zealand categories in this year’s problem solving Tournament of the Minds. A total of sixty teams participated from throughout the country.
Annette Joyce - retiring NZ Principal
Long serving principal of Rotorua Girls High on lifting achievement rates for Maori and Pacific students.
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