Aranui Community Leadership Group appointed
Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata says nine people have been appointed to the Aranui Community Leadership Group (ACLG), established to lead community consultation on the year 1-13 Aranui campus announced last month. “Members were selected following registrations of interest received from the Aranui community. The members of the group were chosen because of their experience and commitment to the community,” says Ms Parata. ...
A programme to improve the way Maori perform in the education sector is being relaunched, after a damning report on how its initial introduction was botched. Associate Education Minister Pita Sharples today unveiled the refreshed Ka Hikitia programme to ...
Associate Education Minister Hon Dr Pita Sharples encouraged whanau, teachers, hapu and iwi to keep up their focus on supporting Māori student success, as the updated Māori education strategy, Ka Hikitia – Accelerating Success 2013-2017 and the new ...
He says NCEA is getting harder and he needs to focus on studying for his exams. School headmaster Rob Sturch says looming assessments make it "crucial" that the boys focus. "There's too much time spent on idle chat and social networking instead of ...
Parents at Parakai School are circulating a petition aimed at keeping open the last Maorimedium education class in South Kaipara. Carole Povey, whose five year old son was in Te Whare Kakano Maori Medium unit, says the school board seemed ...
Fewer medical students are choosing to become GPs because they do not get paid enough and the work hours are enormous, an Otago University School of Medicine professor says. Jim Reid said the nationwide struggle to access GPs could be partly ...
"We have no records about how these items came to be in storage at the University, but when they were uncovered, we knew we had to give them back," said Dr June Jones, Religious and Cultural lead for the College of Medical and Dental Sciences.
New data confirms the value of tertiary qualifications
Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment
Higher qualifications mean higher employability and higher wages for young people says Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce. A new report by the Ministry of Education released today Looking at the employment outcomes of tertiary education, refreshes and updates information released earlier in the year to students and parents about the value of tertiary education qualifications. The report traces young people’s earnings and destinations for the first six years after graduation. ...
Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye says ground-breaking research released today by the Ministry of Education has found timber-framed classrooms are extremely resilient to earthquakes. “This is good news for the education budget because we will not have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on earthquake strengthening these buildings,” Ms Kaye says. “The research has confirmed these buildings are safe and resilient in quakes. This means that we can focus on modernising buildings to provide better learning environments. ...
Recommendations from the National Standards Aggregate Results Advisory Group to the Minister of Education point to a lack of confidence in the standards and call for review processes to be implemented claims a spokesperson for the New Zealand ...
They received approval from the Education Ministry to build a new three-classroom block but with a confined site Mr Grey said expansion would take a lot of "strategic planning". "We've got quite a restrictive site with a retirement village, a gully and ...
Calls for review of national standards
Techday NZRecommendations from the National Standards Aggregate Results Advisory Group to the Minister of Education point to a lack of confidence in the standards and call for review processes to be implemented claims a spokesperson for the New Zealand ...
City exodus means boom for country schools
Stuff.co.nzThey received approval from the Education Ministry to build a new three-classroom block but with a confined site Mr Grey said expansion would take a lot of "strategic planning". "We've got quite a restrictive site with a retirement village, a gully and ...
Maori education strategy relaunched
waateanews.comA programme to improve the way Maori perform in the education sector is being relaunched, after a damning report on how its initial introduction was botched. Associate Education Minister Pita Sharples today unveiled the refreshed Ka Hikitia programme to ...
Getting the best for all Māori students
Scoop.co.nz (press release)Associate Education Minister Hon Dr Pita Sharples encouraged whanau, teachers, hapu and iwi to keep up their focus on supporting Māori student success, as the updated Māori education strategy, Ka Hikitia – Accelerating Success 2013-2017 and the new ...
New partnership aims to boost international student numbers
Global education provider Navitas Limited will next week open its doors as an affiliated college on the University of Canterbury’s (UC) campus to recruit and prepare international students for degree study at UC.Graduates' pay dreams 'unrealistic'
New graduates with dreams of earning big bucks when they finally enter the workforce need to be realistic about their starting wage and to be clever about what topics they choose to study, recruitment experts say.A new report from...Online 'addicts' too tired for schoolwork
Stuff.co.nzHe says NCEA is getting harder and he needs to focus on studying for his exams. School headmaster Rob Sturch says looming assessments make it "crucial" that the boys focus. "There's too much time spent on idle chat and social networking instead of ...
School antics spark Parakai petition
waateanews.comParents at Parakai School are circulating a petition aimed at keeping open the last Maorimedium education class in South Kaipara. Carole Povey, whose five year old son was in Te Whare Kakano Maori Medium unit, says the school board seemed ...
Open Letter to the University of Auckland Council
I write to you as the President of the largest students’ association in New Zealand, the Auckland University Students’ Association (AUSA). I represent not just their interests, but the interests of every student pursuing and hoping to pursue tertiary ...New Te Wānanga o Aotearoa CEO Jim Mather welcomed
New Te Wānanga o Aotearoa chief executive Jim Mather will focus on getting fully up to speed with the business and the key priorities for the nationwide tertiary education provider in his first weeks in the job.Students put off GP career by low pay
Stuff.co.nzFewer medical students are choosing to become GPs because they do not get paid enough and the work hours are enormous, an Otago University School of Medicine professor says. Jim Reid said the nationwide struggle to access GPs could be partly ...
Students Rally to F**k the Fees!
At 3pm on Monday the 21 October, University of Auckland students will rally to oppose a 4% tuition fee rise.Making homework fun
Parents simply want to encourage and spur on their offspring to ensure they don’t fall behind their classmates, while their children simply want to do anything but schoolwork the moment the bell goes for the end of the day.Lincoln University joins open education partnership
Lincoln University has today (21 October) announced its membership of the Open Education Resource university network (OERu) as a gold-level anchor partner.Ceremony for Maori remains at UK uni
NZ City"We have no records about how these items came to be in storage at the University, but when they were uncovered, we knew we had to give them back," said Dr June Jones, Religious and Cultural lead for the College of Medical and Dental Sciences.
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