Wednesday 13 November 2013

Thursday, 14 November 2013

Minister announces review of interventions into schools in difficulty

Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata says she has asked the Secretary of Education, Peter Hughes, to review the way interventions are managed in schools in difficulty. ...

Speech to Annual ITO Qualifications Forum

Hekia Parata | Education
Introduction: Significant developments in technology, a global recession and the move to a global economy have meant that our students need to be highly skilled to gain access to better jobs, better incomes, and better life opportunities. Knowledge, qualifications and skills are the key that opens the door to these opportunities. Like many developed countries, our education system has well-established and well-understood pathways for progression to degrees and academic achievement. ...
Radio New Zealand
he Education Minister, Hekia Parata, has launched a review of the use of commissioners at schools in difficulty.

Secretary of Education to review how commissioners & limited statutory ...

Newstalk ZB
The Secretary of Education has been asked to review the way commissioners and limited statutory managers operate within schools. Education Minister Hekia Parata has made the request of Peter Hughes after her officials met with the New Zealand ...
Review of intervention
Otago Daily Times
Ms Parata said she had asked Secretary for Education Peter Hughesto review how the ministry helped schools in difficulty move back into full self-governance. ''This has been an area of discussion for us and it is timely to see if we can improve this ...

NZEI welcomes review of school interventions

NZEI Te Riu Roa says it welcomes the Minister of Education’s announcement that there is to be a review of the way commissioners and limited statutory managers operate within schools.

Schools 'left in debt' by cost of commissioners

Radio New Zealand
Schools 'left in debt' by cost of commissioners. Updated 27 minutes ago. Principals say their schools have had to cut budgets and go into debt because of the cost of commissioners appointed by the Ministry of Education. The Government has ordered a ...

Ministry not yet confident about Novopay

Radio New Zealand
The Ministry of Education is not yet confident that the Novopay school payroll system will handle the busy pay rounds at the start of next year. Education Secretary Peter Hughes has told Parliament's Education and Science Committe he is confident the ...

Alarm over outrageous' NCEA exam gaffe

An "outrageous" mistake with yesterday's NCEA Level 1 German exam has alarmed the Qualifications Authority and sparked an inquiry.The entire exam paper - apart from the instructions - was printed in German, even though the specifications...

NCEA blunder won't cost students

Stuff.co.nz
The NZQA received 26 complaints about Tuesday's NCEA Level 1 German exam which was printed entirely in German despite studentsbeing told questions would also be in English. It also contained translation errors. The NZQA is investigating the mistakes ...

Students can change flawed NCEA exam marks

Students can forgo poor marks from a flawed NCEA exam, The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) says.

Minister Misleads Listeners

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
This leads people to believe that the only reason left, is political, based upon the principals standing up to the current Minister on National Standards!” Ms Parata stated this morning that it was fine for commissioners to be paid for out of a school ...

Principals keen for online exams

Stuff.co.nz
But principals are questioning the future of the paper-based assessments; as classrooms become more in tune with technology, so should end-of-year exams, they say. Freyberg High School principal Peter Brooks said written exams were a thing of the past ...

Science success

Stuff.co.nz
And her work has seen a 30 per cent jump in the number of Maori and Pacific pupils studying science at her school in the past two years. Pass rates have risen to 81 ... Thirteen Manurewa High pupils won regional or national science awards; others were ...

In-Home Childcare Provider Encouraging ECE Participation

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
PORSE In-home childcare has today committed to taking a leading role in South Auckland to encourage more Māori and Pacific Island children into early childhood education (ECE) to reach Government targets. The Papakura and Takanini regions in South ...

Change needed in tertiary sector

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The TEU has today released their report Te Kaupapa Whaioranga: The blueprint for tertiary education, which sets out proposals to returntertiary education in New Zealand to an equitable and accessible system focused on the public good, rather than the ...

Changing direction by degrees

Many people dream of changing their life's direction, but few actually do. An exception is student John Mead who has swapped his life caring for and treating animals, for the life of an artist.

Childcare centre to close

Stuff.co.nz
The Hargest Community Childcare Centre will close next month, ending 30 years of education and play opportunities for children in the area. A letter from the trust responsible for the centre was sent to parents last week. The letter cites declining ...

Training in IT helps teacher win award

Techday NZ
Literacy skills are also embedded in her programmes, enabling students to interpret or 'decode' the language in examinations. “It may not be easy for teachers to do individual education plans for each student but it's easy for all teachers to prevent ...

Hungry kids need food in schools

About 100 children will be fed breakfast in front of Parliament House tomorrow (Wednesday morning), as Mana promotes the first reading of its Feed the Kids Bill, supported by more than 25 organisations including NZEI Te Riu Roa.

Boys take to reading - when it's on an iPad

Technology is helping to boost the appeal of reading for young boys, and they're getting smarter because of it, new research has found.

Chucking the ball a good exam call

Rugby fanatic Gafatasi Fuimaono swapped the ball for the books a few months ago and reckons doing so will get him a better exam result.The 16-year-old was one of 47,000 Year 11 students from around the country to sit their first...

School ordered to reverse suspension of principal

A Catholic school that suspended its principal over serious misconduct allegations has been ordered to reverse the move by the Employment Relations Authority.Principal of Christchurch's Our Lady of Victories School, Barbara Perry,...

Twelve Questions: Madeline Gunn

1. Girls' schools for girls: co-ed schools for boys? There's obviously a problem logistically in this! I do think that girls' schools are very good for building the confidence of girls. At a co-ed school they only get half the l...

AUT appoints top academics to prestigious title

Five AUT University academics can now add the title of ‘Professor’ to their names as AUT announces its new professorial appointments. The professors are experts in the disciplines of: mathematics, construction management, ecology and midwifery, ...

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