Education Minister launches Education Excellence Awards
Hekia Parata | EducationEducation Minister Hekia Parata today launched the inaugural Prime Minister’s Education Excellence Awards which aim to recognise and celebrate excellence in teaching, leadership, community engagement and governance. “Our education system is top performing for most of our young people, and that is a credit to our teaching profession, and to the parents, families, and communities that support our schools. These Awards will recognise and celebrate those successes. ...
OECD Education Representatives in NZ for study programme
Hekia Parata | EducationRepresentatives from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are currently in New Zealand to study Learning and Change Networks (LCN) as part of their Innovative Learning Environment study. Education Minister Hekia Parata was at Rata Street School today with David Instance, Director of the OECD’s Innovative Learning Environment section and Tony Mackay, OECD’s Consultant Advisor as part of their study. ...
$30 million redevelopment for two Auckland schools
Hekia Parata | EducationEducation Minister Hekia Parata and Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye today announced major property redevelopments for Freemans Bay School and Southern Cross Campus in Auckland. “We know that great teaching and learning goes on in our schools, but having modern learning environments just makes the whole process of raising achievement for all our young people that much easier,” says Ms Parata. ...
Lifting the quality of initial teacher education provision
The Ministry of Education currently has a programme of work underway to improve the expertise of graduating teachers and to strengthen their practiceMaori 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 ...
Pasifika Youth Speak Education Truths
Scoop.co.nz (press release)A performance by Māori and Pasifika high school students, led by Sela Faletolu, CPIT Te Kaiwhakauru Pasifika, will provide solutions to captivate disengaged youth back into their education. The city's decision makers will be listening. The group of 50 ...
Ideaschool’s Reshaped Degree Attracts Other Educators
Interest in EIT’s project-based arts and design degree has triggered Government-funded research aimed at helping other tertiary educators develop similar programmes.
The chairman of the Secondary Principals' Council says the extreme behaviour claimed by the Roastbusters facebook group will probably have come as a shock to many school leaders.
Tech-savvy teachers transform lessons
Techday NZIn addition, one in three respondents felt that in 10 years' time, students would be learning in virtual classrooms, making the physicalclassroom all but obsolete. Michael O'Sullivan, chief executive of Cambridge International Examinations, says ...
New app may help young readers
Techday NZThe project is being co-ordinated by the University's School of Nursing with the research supervised by Professor Stuart McNaughton from the Faculty of Education. A group of 260 children are taking part in the six-month randomised controlled trial.
The Mind Lab
Scoop.co.nz (press release)“While understanding technology is critical for all children as the foundation for all their future learning, computing must be seen as a tool, rather than as an education device in its own right” says Valintine. The Mind Lab was developed to provide ...
Scholarships awarded to students for rural health education
6 November 2013 Scholarships awarded to medical students Aspiring to a career in rural healthHigh school high-tech
Auckland stuff.co.nzThe benefits of moving from paper to computers are many and the reward is "a classroom that's much more dynamic". Mr Duff has been ... Go to rosehill-college.co.nz, email byod@rosehillcollege. school.nz or call 295 0661 to find out more. Ad Feedback.
AUT a contributor to the New Zealand Story
AUT University represented the New Zealand education sector today at the launch of the New Zealand Story initiative. AUT’s Vice Chancellor Derek McCormack spoke alongside Prime Minister Rt Hon John Key and Minister for Economic Development Hon Steven Joyce ...
Associate Professor Peter Adams has received the 2013 University of Auckland Teaching Excellence Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching.
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