Monday, 2 December 2013

Insights into the impact of National Standards in schools

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
NZCER chief researcher Dr Cathy Wylie presented on findings from theNational Standards questions in the survey at the New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE) conference in Dunedin on Thursday 28 November. The full survey results ...

National Standards Fail to Fire

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The New Zealand Council for Education Research (NZCER) study shows that less than 2% of school principals say that national standards data provide a reliable picture of student performance and only 16% of Boards of Trustees say that national standards ...

NZ education facing a bad report

New Zealand Herald
Ms Parata also announced that myriad programmes and their funding designed to support improved performance by Maori in education, such as Te Kotahitanga and Starpath, would be folded into a single programme called Building On Success. Read more ...

NCEA system fails students, say universities

Universities say high school students are coming to them under-prepared and with a poor work ethic - and they blame the NCEA system.A confidential report by the Tertiary Education Commission reveals a high level of concern in engineering...

Minister talks education priorities with Australian Ministers

Hekia Parata | EducationEducation Minister Hekia Parata met with her counterpart, Hon Christopher Pyne, Federal Minister for Education for Australia today at the Standing Council on School Education and Early Childhood Education in Sydney. ...

Is formal education starting too young?

A lecturer in education and developmental psychology at the University of Regensburg in Germany, Dr Sebastian Suggate, and a professor of education at Otago University, Helen May, discuss whether the trickle down effect of National Standards is formal education starting in year-1, and whether that's damaging developmentally to children.