School intervention report corrected
Hekia Parata | EducationEducation Minister Hekia Parata has today corrected the report that said the ‘Government could step in and take over schools if students marks aren’t good enough.’ “School interventions happen for a number of reasons related to educational performance. Previously, they have been due to safety, HR or financial issues, which are easier to recognise as there have always been measures in place to determine if there is a problem,” Ms Parata says. ...
Education Minister Hekia Parata and Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye today announced a plan to transform the way school property is delivered to better support 21st Century learning environments and improved outcomes for students. “Just as importantly, it will free up sector leaders, principals and their boards, to focus on the main business of schools – raising achievement,” Ms Parata says. ...
Families are already lining up to enrol their children at two charter schools due to open in South Auckland next year. That's according to the people who head the organisations chosen to run the controversial schools. Mangere-based Rise UP Trust and ...
The ministers also set out a plan which they say will bring schools into the 21st century and allow educators to focus on raising achievement. The ministry is setting up an education infrastructure service by the end of this year in response to a ...
Charter schools welcome
Stuff.co.nzFamilies are already lining up to enrol their children at two charter schools due to open in South Auckland next year. That's according to the people who head the organisations chosen to run the controversial schools. Mangere-based Rise UP Trust and ...
Govt to build three more schools
3News NZThe ministers also set out a plan which they say will bring schools into the 21st century and allow educators to focus on raising achievement. The ministry is setting up an education infrastructure service by the end of this year in response to a ...
New schools to be built
Three new schools and 65 additional classrooms are set to be built at a cost of $70 million over the next two years.Government to invest in three new schools
The Government plans to build three new schools to meet population growth in Auckland, Hamilton, and Queenstown and will open them in the first term of 2015.Education Minister Hekia Parata and Associate Education Minister Nikki...Alarm at speed of School Journal privatisation
There is growing alarm at the speed at which the government is moving to privatise the School Journal. Today is the deadline for private publishers to declare an interest in bidding for the publication – just three weeks since the government announced ...New primary will help ease bulging school rolls
The Ministry of Education has confirmed a new primary school for Hamilton's northern suburbs will go ahead.Schools face takeover if pupils failing
Schools where children are failing exams could be taken over by the Government as the Education Minister warns staff need to be held accountable for students' performance.The availability of more data on how schools are faring,...Funding cuts alarm tertiary sector
Stuff.co.nzLiteracy SC manager Karyn Thin said it would be forced to cancel its Adult Learning 30-week course and its Kickstart 20-week course for 18-plus-year-olds from January 2014. All tertiary funding was subject to annual renewal and it was a case of ...
Schools' test-focus queried
New Zealand's children will lose out on jobs if the schooling system becomes too focused on tests and traditional measures of achievement, a visiting expert has warned.Professor Yong Zhao, the presidential chair at the University...Educators shocked at Government takeover threat
A visiting education expert says the Government’s threat to take over schools where students do not pass National Standards would be disastrous for education.
Pupils could be pushed into easy-to-pass courses: Turei
Students could be pushed into subjects which guarantee passes if achievement data is used to help judge whether the government needs to take over a school, the Green Party says.Greens co-leader Metiria Turei said the use of student...Kids will suffer from Minister's bullying
Scoop.co.nz (press release)The education of kiwi kids will suffer if unreliable national standards data and NCEA results are used to determine if schools will be taken over by the Education Ministry, the Green Party said today. 24 September 2013. Kids will suffer from Minister's ...
School principals want tougher penalties for truancy
SundayNews.co.nzA Hamilton high school is taking legal action against the parents of a truant teen who has missed more than four years' worth of school. But with fines as low as $150 being handed down to guilty parents in court, principals say the law has no teeth and ...
School takes legal action taken against parents of truant
High school takes legal action against the parents of a teen who has missed more than four years of school.Minister needs to be made accountable for lack of support
Pat Newman, President of Te Tai Tokerau Principals Association wants Minister and her Ministry to be accountable for their lack of support for schools.Best school no guarantee of student success
Parents are being warned against sending their children to the best-performing school in the neighbourhood if they want their children to do well.Research from the London School of Economics shows they could be more confident and...Let us get our charter school arguments on the button
The charter school policy is being used by the government to provide a cover that something is being done, when nothing is.Foreign students down, despite $7m marketing
A government agency tasked with attracting international students to New Zealand has drawn criticism for spending millions on marketing without boosting numbers.Funding cuts hit YMCA, literacy
Stuff.co.nzLiteracy SC manager Karyn Thin said it would be forced to cancel its Adult Learning 30-week course and its Kickstart 20-week course for 18-plus-year-olds from January 2014. All tertiary funding was subject to annual renewal and it was a case of ...
School property management needs to fit learning and community needs
NZEI Te Riu Roa says it is important that any changes to the way school property is managed is based around learning and community needs.Naps nurture growing brains
Stuff.co.nzFew features of child-rearing occupy as much parental brain space as sleep, and with it the timeless question: Is my child getting enough? Despite the craving among many parents for more sleep in their offspring (and, by extension, themselves), the ...
More tech support for Novopay
Techday NZThe $6 million in extra funding will be included in the contractual discussions theEducation Ministry will have with Talent2 once the system is stable, on payments for additional costs that have been incurred since Novopay went live a year ago. Joyce ...
Schools' use of cloud services puts student privacy at risk
PCWorld.co.nzSchools that compel students to use commercial cloud services for email and documents are putting privacy at risk, says a campaign group calling for strict controls on the use of such services in education. A core problem is that cloud providers force ...
Banks takes schooling personally
waateanews.comAssociate Education Minister John Banks is defending the new partnership schools as a solution to Maori educational under-achievement. The ACT leader demanded state-funded private schools as part of his support agreement with National. The first five ...
School makes room for music
Auckland stuff.co.nz"Our students have competed in music competitions for many years, but they have never had their own space, they have had to move around from the hall to a prefab to aclassroom. "Our music programme is so good that it deserved to have its own room.
student body seeks unpaid fees
Stuff.co.nzUnder the relevant part of the Education Act 1989, tertiary institutions, if asked by a student body, were required to collect the membership fees on behalf of the student association, which was usually done as part of the enrolment process. As a ...
Kiwi kids sports 'neglected'
Stuff.co.nzSport is a fundamental part of our society which is neglected by our education system and particularly our Government (not party specific) whose priorities at present tend to the elitist or economical benefit spend associated with sport rather than the ...
Pupils adopt Kiwi strategy
Marlborough Express (blog)It's something the Jet programme highlights to boards of education and the government endorses when hiring English teachers. I have endeavoured to teach my students about New Zealand since ... During Maori Language week, the students learnt basic Maori ...
Several national firsts for UC’s School of Law
The University of Canterbury (UC) will soon appoint a director of Clinical Legal Studies, the first position of its kind in New Zealand.Whitireia and the Wgtn Institute of Technology join forces
Last night Whitireia and the Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec) jointly hosted industry stakeholders, local government representatives and major Kāpiti businesses at the Whitireia Kāpiti Campus. Invited guests had the opportunity of ...World Outdoors Summit leads the way in outdoor education
Scoop.co.nz (press release)Delegates will come away with access to fantastic tools and information specific to the outdoor education community, gain insights into the latest research and developments in outdoor education and learn about Māori whakapapa (genealogy) of the ...
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