Learning Media wind-down completed
Bill English | EducationThe managed wind-down of Learning Media has been completed, Finance Minister Bill English and Education Minister Hekia Parata say. “The Learning Media board has managed the wind down in a way that provided certainty of provision for publications such as the School Journal, as well as ensuring staff were treated fairly,” Mr English says. ...
Live chat: Education Minister Hekia Parata
Stuff.co.nzOn Tuesday, it was revealed that New Zealand's education ranking has fallen from seventh to 18th in science, from 13th to 23rd in maths, and from seventh to 13th in reading, according to a report released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation ...
NZ falls in international education rankings
The UNICEF findings come hard on the heels of the latest OECD education report, which showed New Zealand sliding down international rankings in maths, science and reading. So is poverty holding children back at school?Scientists says poor student results cause for concern
Scientists say New Zealand's poor performance in the OECD's international maths and science tests mean students are missing opportunities for high paying jobs.Report shows NZ still not doing well enough for kids
The Unicef report is also critical of the Government response to the Children Commissioner's expert advisory group on child poverty. The Government adopted just 23 of the group's 78 recommendations aimed at reducing child poverty. Today's report says child poverty has remained a low priority for successive governments.Gap widens between NZ students
The gap between 15-year-old students who are excelling and those who are failing has widened despite the Government's increased focus on the "tail" of educational achievement.A range of problems from poverty to curriculum changes...National Gets Hammered Over Education
Scoop.co.nz (press release)“National's education policies have just taken a hammering in an international assessment which has heavily downgraded NZ student's achievements in maths, science and reading,” said MANA leader and Tai Tokerau MP Hone Harawira. “And yet they refuse to ...
Gordon Campbell on New Zealand's PISA education rankings
Scoop.co.nzOverseas, the latest PISA results are being hailed as the final nail into the coffin of the state funded charter schools/private sector provision experiment. This negative relationship between school choice and reading, science and maths outcomes was ...
Education policies caused achivement drop
Stuff.co.nzInstead of putting more focus on lifting teachers' professional practice, the National Government scrapped professional development for all areas of the curriculum - except a narrow focus on implementation ofNational Standards in reading, writing and ...
Opposition pounce on education survey
Education slide blamed on inequality
Kiwi students fall behind in basics
Parliament holds snap debate on education
NZ CityMr Hipkins said National Standards - a benchmarking report system for parents - wasn't working and was nothing more than a bureaucratic exercise. The Green Party's Catherine Delahunty said teachers weren't getting enough professional development.
National tying schools up in red tape
NZ education on 'right track'
Stuff.co.nz"So what National Standards do, and by the way - National Standards measure exactly was PISA has just measured - but instead of waiting three years for a sample of 4000, we are now working with every child, in every classroom year on year." Parata said ...
Dr Fiona Ell: Real issue is the gap, not rankings
Ranked lists seem to fascinate us. At this time of the year top 10s proliferate: books, music, political gaffes, and sporting moments. And everyone loves it when New Zealanders come out on top: winning the Booker Prize, topping the...Teach your techies well
Stuff.co.nzDan Schectman says this country needs to teach entrepreneurship to its engineering, science and computing students, as they are the groups most likely to create start-up companies. Speaking at an event in Auckland last night, he said New Zealand also ...
Education International welcomes policy insights by PISA
Education International (EI) welcomes many of the policy insights today's release of the results of the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) provides, especially ...
Martin Doyle cartoon: Anyone here order a PISA?
The best thing for the Minister of Education to do right now is to start listening receptively to expert commentatorsGovernment fixing student slide - Parata
Stuff.co.nz... 08:01 04/12/2013. FIRSTLINE/TV3. Hekia Parata talks to TV3's Firstline about NZ education ranking falling in an international report. ... "When we came into Government, we introduced National Standards, so that we would know, or at least the ...
Slippage blamed on lack of teachers
Stuff.co.nz"Teachers make schools, not initiatives." New Zealand had "lost ...Canterbury University College of Education pro vice-chancellor Niki Davis said it had always been hard to recruit good mathematics and science teachers, particularly in physics and ...
Review of teacher PLD shows sector voices are being heard
Scoop.co.nz (press release)NZSTA President Lorraine Kerr has welcomed the announcement that the provision of teacher professional development (now known asProfessional Learning and Development, or PLD) is being reviewed. “It's boards of trustees who employ the people who ...
Optimism in the early childhood sector is disappearing
Optimism in the early childhood education sector is sinking further, according to the latest ChildForum survey of ECE sector confidence and activity.Fewer students enrolled in Tertiary Study in 2012
Fewer students enrolled in tertiary study in 2012, and fewer of them are taking out student loans, Statistics New Zealand said today. For the first time since interest-free student loans were introduced in 2006, the proportion of tertiary students taking ...School principal unsure of legal rights during AOS lockdown
The principal of a Whangarei primary school has asked the Education Ministry to clarify his legal rights, after two parents insisted on taking their children away from the school during an Armed Offender Squad lockdown yesterday. A house in Mahana Place in the suburb of Raumanga was cordoned off in the afternoon, after reports of a violent incident there.Richmond School - another great loss
Stuff.co.nzThe unnecessary stress imposed on staff, parents and especially children by the threat of closure of so many Christchurch schools and particularly the timing so soon after a major natural disaster when stability is so incredibly important is unforgivable.
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