August tertiary enrolment numbers reflect workplace recovery
Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education, Skills and EmploymentThe latest enrolment numbers for the tertiary sector are consistent with forecasts, with a slight decline in total numbers for the first eight months of this year. Overall in January to August 2013 there were 349,000 domestic students enrolled in formal study with tertiary education providers, which is 0.9 per cent less than the same period in 2012. The number of full-time equivalent domestic students was down slightly to 234,855. ...
QPEC Open Letter to Peter Hughes, Secretary of Education
Scoop.co.nz (press release)QPEC is a broadly based incorporated society involving parents, teachers, students and researchers which sees high quality publiceducation as critical to the social and educational development of our community. QPEC is a voluntary organisation which ...
New ways of teaching and learning - Threshold concepts: University ...
The Waikato study has been funded by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research through a Teaching Learning and Research Initiative (TLRI). Ann Harlow, co-principal investigator on the project, says threshold ...More charter schools to come
Stuff.co.nzMore charter schools are on their way after a second round of applications were announced by the Education Minister today. Hekia Parata said the Government had set "tighter priorities" for the second round of applicants, who could apply through the ...
Labour vows to repeal charter school legislation
More charter schools on the way
Sex education may confuse 5-year-olds
Stuff.co.nzFive North Island schools are now bravely rolling out a sex educationpolicy apparently tailor-made to be absorbed by ankle-biters as young as 5 years old. In a TV news item, teacher and sexuality educator Kathryn Heape beamingly told a reporter about ...
Insight for 17 November 2013 - Safer Sex?
Megan Whelan explores whether young people are getting the education about sexuality they need.No amount of Joyce's spin can hide the facts
Scoop.co.nz (press release)"The Tertiary Education Minister has turned himself in knots to find the positive spin on this data, but the reality is that his destructive cuts to student support and underfunding of tertiary education are having an impact, and the worst is yet to ...
Guiding teens to wise decisions
High school years are when teens face important decisions that will shape their future. But whom do they go to when they need advice?This year's Youthtown nationwide survey of 1,194 teenagers has found the people they turn to for...Generous gesture inspires school collection
Christchurch schools are repaying a favour to a Cook Island that raised $25,000 for the city after the February 2011 quake.Spanish exam errors infuriate teachers
Stuff.co.nzErrors have been found in three NCEA papers in the first two weeks of the exam season. Markers for the level 3 Spanish exam have been told to accept a range of answers after complaints from teachers about discrepancies in the translations of the ...
Need to Maintain Quality in Early Childhood Education
Early Education Sector Sounds Warning to Government on the Need to Maintain Quality in ECE Amid Push for Increased ParticipationPreschool boss inflated attendance for funding
A preschool boss who inflated attendance records in order to fraudulently get $25,000 in government cash has been censured by the profession.The woman, who is also a registered teacher, was licensee of a preschool which received...Teacher banned from management
Stuff.co.nzThe licensee of a preschool childcare centre who overstated funding claims, resulting in overpayment by the Ministry of Education, is facing restrictions on her ability to undertake school managerial positions. A decision from the Teachers Disciplinary ...
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