Thursday 3 October 2013

Friday, 4 October 2013

$470m for first three National Science Challenges

Steven Joyce | Science and Innovation
Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce has announced that up to $470.3 million over 10 years in funding will be available for the first tranche of New Zealand’s 10 National Science Challenges. Announced in May this year, the Challenges will take a strategic approach to some of the key science issues facing New Zealand. Three challenges have been selected in the first tranche. They are: ... 

Exclusive: $100m for crowded schools

Schools struggling to cope with Auckland's growing population are to be helped by at least $100 million as the Government admits it has had to play catch-up.About a million more people, including about 107,000 extra school pupils,...

Charter school wants to 'dispel myths'

Auckland stuff.co.nz
The Vanguard Military School chief executive is defending charter schools against the threat of a teachers' union boycott and promises from opposition parties to scrap them. Nick Hyde is running the North Shore's first partnership school and says he ...

PPTA standing firm against charter schools

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Members voted to support a paper presented at today's PPTA annual conference that will give them the strength to see off the charter school threat. The paper demands the $19 million set aside for charter schools be returned to the state school sector ...

Fears student representation will be cut

Radio New Zealand
The Maori Tertiary Students' Association says student representation on wananga councils may be lost if proposed changes are adopted. The Government wants to slash university and wananga councils from up to 20 members to between ... move would reduce

Faulty review of University governance

New Zealand’s national body for students, the NZ Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA), has called out a range of flaws and inbuilt bias in the Ministry of Education review of university governance.

Maori representation critical on University Councils

The Maori Party are calling for assurances that Maori student representation will be supported on to councils of tertiary institutions after changes to the makeup of University and Wananga councils were announced yesterday. 

Gloomy year for NZ in World University Rankings

- A gloomy year for New Zealand in the prestigious league tables, as Auckland falls further - California Institute of Technology holds on to the world number one spot for the third consecutive year, while Harvard University – tied with Oxford ...

$18.9m pumped into CPIT for trades

Stuff.co.nz
Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce yesterday announced the cash injection to support the growing demand for skilled workers for the Canterbury rebuild. CPIT council chairwoman Jenn Bestwick said trades participation had ...

University of Auckland to offer free online courses

The University of Auckland, New Zealand’s leading tertiary institution is to offer free online courses open to students around the world. In the initiative announced this week, the University will partner with FutureLearn, a UK-based consortium founded ... 

Primary schools waging war on scabies

Scabies, school sores and boils are being targeted by nurses as part of a pilot programme to be launched in six primary schools this month.

NZ Qualifications Forum

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
In particular, the focus on delivering skills for industry, getting at-risk young people into a career, improving adult literacy and numeracy, and growing international linkages will require all those involved in the qualification space to think ...

Student Job Numbers Leading to Quiet Optimism

The latest Otago figures released by Student Job Search has shown a small glimmer of hope in what has been a rough year for the student job market. “This has been the best month since March for Otago students looking for work,” said Francisco ...

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