Monday 25 November 2013

Tuesday, 26 November 2013

First school celebrates connection to managed network

Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata and Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye today announced Massey Primary in Auckland is the first to connect to the Network for Learning (N4L) managed network. “Today we are celebrating a significant day for New Zealand schools, as Massey Primary is the first to take advantage of the $211 million that this Government is investing in the managed network,’’ Ms Parata says. ...

Careers New Zealand: Board appointments

Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata today announced three new members and three reappointments to the Careers New Zealand Board, and welcomed the release of the results of the Crown Entity’s Performance Improvement Framework (PIF) review. "I am appointing a current member of the Board, Dale Karauria, as the Chair of the Board, who brings governance and strategy experience to the role, and a detailed understanding of the pathways from education to work,” Ms Parata says. ...

International Education Snapshot released

Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment
Canterbury's international education industry is showing strong early signs of recovery with a 6 per cent increase in students according to latest data, Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce says. The International Education Snapshot report released today also shows that high-quality courses in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and postgraduate enrolments continues to trend upward. ...

Tertiary institutions face funding clawbacks from government

With barely a month left in the year, a handful of tertiary institutions look set to fall on the wrong side of a tough new repayment threshold that is likely to cost them millions of dollars.

Tertiary institutions likely to pay back millions

Listening to that was the Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce.

N4L goes live as 100 schools sign-up for new network

Techday NZ
“Several schools have mentioned they'll be reviewing their plans to use digital technologies in the classroom knowing they'll be getting their connection in the first term of 2014,” he adds. Wanaka's Mt AspiringCollege and South Canterbury's Waimate ...

NZEI backs call for fairer investment in young children

Parliament’s Health Select Committee has sent a clear message to the government that it needs to put more focus on quality early childhood education (ECE) to address child poverty and social inequity.

Deborah Hill Cone: Unlocking the most valuable lesson for children

"Ideally, what should be said to every child repeatedly throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of... 

Students consider future after Unitec staff made redundant

They have to reapply for 17 positions, a move that's angered students enrolled in the courses. "Right now there's a large group of people that are very upset, very disillusioned and they're not sure what to believe," says visual arts student Marisa ...

School to fight to save free bus

Stuff.co.nz
If Pleasant Point pupils need to catch a free bus to school, they will have to go to Opihi College from 2015. The Ministry of Education will change access to the Opihi Transport Entitlement Zone (TEZ) in the Pleasant Point area, effectively excluding ...

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