Tuesday, 22 January 2014

Over 200 schools signed up to managed network

Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata and Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye say 212 schools have signed agreements to connect to the Network for Learning (N4L) managed network. “The pace of connecting schools is gaining momentum. As of today, 212 schools have signed agreements and these communities will be looking forward to being connected in the near future,” Ms Parata says. “This is great news for our children as they begin the new schooling year over the next couple of weeks. ...

End-of-Year process positive for Novopay Steven Joyce | Education

Minister Responsible for Novopay Steven Joyce says a 100 per cent completion rate for schools involved in the End-of-Year process and an accompanying low error rate are tributes to the hard work done by school administrators and Novopay staff and contractors. Mr Joyce today released the reports on complaints and notifications received in regards to Pay Period 20 and 21 of the schools’ payroll - which are the End-of-Year pay periods. ...

Insight for 19 January 2014 - National Standards

In this Insight Highlight, John Gerritsen looks at National Standards 4 years on

Back-patting from Novopay minister

Backs are being patted all round as the Novopay school payroll service starts 2014 in much better shape than it was in a year ago.

Novopay problems 'seem to be easing'

Stuff.co.nz
Fiordland College had not experienced any problems during the holiday period, while Menzies College executive officer Judy Gould said she had found the Ministry of Education Novopay staff "very helpful" to deal with. She anticipated the start-of-year ...

Quality now the focus as student lesson learnt

Auckland stuff.co.nz
But New Zealand is failing to attract others from the lucrative and rapidly expanding Chinese international student market as the education system here struggles to recover from scandals in the early 2000s, says the NZChina Council. In 2004, 31 per ...

New era in schools source of upheaval

Stuff.co.nz
Ministry spokeswoman Katrina Casey said $5.17 million over six years would go to schools where pupils from the merged and closed schools enrolled - for teacher aides, educational resources, technology, and staffprofessional development. The Red Cross ...

Student creates a closer link

Auckland stuff.co.nz
Deborah Hohneck was shocked at what she learned while digging into the pasts of Maori elders for her thesis on education. The academic - and the deputy principal at James Cook High School - heard countless stories of bad school experiences from kuia ...

No 'pot of gold' for schools

Stuff.co.nz
A lack of public submissions on the future of secondary schooling may cost Blenheim the opportunity to develop a state-of-the-art school,education experts say. The final consultation meeting on the future shape of Blenheim's two colleges was held last ...

Students flock to revamped Canterbury University

3News NZ
This year is looking up for the University of Canterbury, with morestudents choosing to study in the quake-damaged city. The university has struggled financially, but for the first time since the earthquakesstudent numbers are tipped to climb in 2014 ...

Census shows region's brains

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"Given the amount of people we have in terms of education institutes, I would have been bitterly disappointed if we were below the national average, but these type of things are always really encouraging and positive for us," he said. "The important ...

Children can lead environmental change

Stuff.co.nz
Jeanne Williams told delegates at the New Zealand Association for Environmental Education conference in Christchurch yesterday early childhood was a critical time for forming values and attitudes toward the environment. Kindergartens started looking at ...

Grammar hostel zoning in on results

waateanews.com
A charity that uses a whangai model to get boys into a prestigious Auckland state school, wants to expand. InZone Education Foundation gets parents of Maori and Pasifika students to sign over shared guardianship of their sons so they can live in zone for ...

Plans under way for new Flat Bush school

Auckland stuff.co.nz
Work on a new primary school in Flat Bush is set to start this year. Ministry of Education head of infrastructure Kim Shannon says Ormiston Road Primary School is scheduled to open for the start of the 2015 school year. "Master planning and design work ...

Students to learn about robotics and renewable energy

High school students interested in a career in robotics, renewable energy, nanotechnology and the next generation of smart devices will be fascinated by the University of Canterbury’s E-Week camp from January 20 to 24.