Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata has welcomed new figures which show more New Zealand children are participating in early childhood education before starting school. The latest figures show the early childhood education (ECE) participation rate has increased to 95.7 per cent for the year ended December 2013. That’s an overall increase of 0.5 percentage points from the same time last year. ...
Health Minister Tony Ryall and Education Minister Hekia Parata have today launched a new guide designed to help deliver better health services for secondary school students. “Evidence shows quality school health services improve student wellbeing – which leads to better learning and helps young New Zealanders reach their full potential,” says Mr Ryall. “The new Youth Health Care in Secondary Schools framework is a practical guide to assist those planning, funding or providing primary health care services in secondary schools.” ...
Pita Sharples | Education
Associate Education Minister Hon Dr Pita Sharples today announced the establishment of a new Year 1-13 designated character school for Christchurch. The school, to be known as Te Pā o Rākaihautū, will have a designated character that offers a place-based curriculum for the 21st century founded on tikanga and Te Reo Māori, Te Ao Māori values, culture and history. ...
Hekia Parata | Education
Programmes for the Festival of Education are now being finalised, Education Minister Hekia Parata says. “I am delighted to see the wide range of involvement and support from educators, students, agencies and communities in our Festival of Education programmes. Each Festival programme reflects the uniqueness of the cities where they are taking place. “The Festivals of Education are all about celebrating excellence and innovation in our education system, and the teachers, students, parents and community who all contribute to this.” ...
Hekia Parata | Education
An expanded Pasifika initiative Power Up for NCEA 2014 has launched this week, following a successful introduction last year, to help Pasifika students with their NCEA study Education Minister Hekia Parata says. The initiative, which focuses on developing Pasifika family education plans to help students and their families prepare and study for NCEA, is already beginning to show results in markedly raising achievement.
Nikki Kaye | Education
Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye says from today schools with ultra-fast broadband can share their fibre connections with their local communities. “Last November, I announced that the government had agreed to progress schools with ultra-fast broadband having the option to become digital hubs for their communities. I am delighted to confirm that this can now happen, with the Ministry of Education releasing its policy and guidelines today,” Ms Kaye says. ...
Students do much better when they are internally assessed than when they are put under the pressure on external assessments. NZCER Press book Understanding NCEA is used as a source for this article.
The Novopay system continues to fail hardworking school support staff, teachers and principals, NZEI National Secretary Paul Goulter said today.
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He also said a project to simplify the pay was under way and it would need the support of the sector unions. A regional support network of 80 payroll specialists and nine payroll advisers has been established by theEducation Ministry in a bid to ...
The Ministry of Education has hit back at suggestions it did not provide enough support to a school which later expelled a teenager with Asperger's.It came after lawyers for Auckland's Green Bay High yesterday told a court the legal...
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President of the Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association, Sonya Clark, challenges the Tertiary Education Minister, Steven Joyce, to live on the living costs students' loan after he claimed that they had risen with inflation. “The ...
Students cry poor but minister unmoved
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Its philosophy will be founded on tikanga, te reo Maori, and Te Ao Maorivalues. School spokesperson Mani Stirling says they aim to attract Maoriin mainstream education. He says there about 8000 Maori students in Christchurch, with 95 percent of them ...
Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association (VUWSA) President Sonya Clark said she was, “alarmed and concerned”, at the commercial agenda being proposed for universities by the Tertiary Education Commission Chairperson John Spencer.
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AS@U executive members met UCOL management, the TertiaryEducation Union branch president and talked to the New Zealand University Students' Association about what would be next. "We're just working out what's best to do and how we can best ...
Manawatu Standard
Impending industrial action would upset the polytechnic's day-to-day dealings, Tertiary Education Union (TEU) branch president Tina Smith said. "This strike action will affect students, it will disrupt our day and our work. We don't want to do this, we ...
The programme for the inaugural Christchurch Festival of Education was revealed today at Waimairi School. Inspired by the highly successful London Festival of Education, New Zealand’s Festival of Education has been developed by Cognition Education in ...
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A special ceremony will be held in Rotorua today to launch a manuscript marking the completion of a landmark study that supports MÄ ori achievement in the education system. The study, carried out in Rotorua secondary schools, is entitled Ka Awatea ...
AUT University has appointed Walter Fraser to the position of Head of Pasifika Advancement with effect from 14 April 2014. The Head of Pasifika Advancement provides strategic advice and leadership to advance initiatives across the University that build on ...
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A Northland school, misled and let down by the backers of charter schools, is now struggling with the outcome, says New Zealand First. ...“But the backers of charter schools seduced them and rushed them through the process to become a charter school.
