Sunday 9 February 2014

Monday, 10 February 2014


From garage to Partnership School academy

Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga | Pacific Island Affairs
An approach to teaching Pacific children which started in a Mangere garage culminates today in the opening of Auckland’s second partnership school. The Rise Up Trust is a not-for-profit community organisation which provides education services for Pacific and Maori whanau. It currently provides after-school mentoring to South Auckland families. ...

Party urged to spare charter schools

Radio New Zealand
Rise Up is the first Pasifika charter school, offering a Christian-basededucation involving the whole family and teaching the national curriculum to 50 children up to Year 6. Forty-seven children have been enrolled. Ms Ikinofo, who also chairs the ...

Play fair with partnership schools

Northland Independent Community (blog)
There's an education showdown brewing in Whangarei, with the PPTA looking to sink a proposal floated by a partnership school that would see their students joining public high school classes for non-core subjects. Te Kura Hourua o Whangarei opened this ...
Charter kura gets little mainstream school support

Charter Schools Increase Earnings and Educational Achievement ..

Private and charter schools appear to have significant but modest effects on test scores but much larger effects on educational attainment and even on long-run earnings. A new working paper from Booker, Sass, Gill and ...

Principals concerned at spend on charter school

The Mangere Principals Association, says today’s opening of a charter school in the area flies in the face of the community efforts to raise educational achievement. The Chair of the Association, Fiona Cavanagh, says that the Ministry of Education’s ...

Teachers too busy

Radio New Zealand
O'Sonia Hotereni takes classes at Te Whata Tau O Putauaki, a Maorimedium school, and recently gave a speech on Maori primary educationin Wellington. Teachers are tied up compiling reports and ensuring students meet reading and writing standards, ...

Fewer interventions in Otago schools

Otago Daily Times
Otago schools appear to be getting better at recognising potentialeducation-harming issues and getting help before they require intervention by the Ministry of Education. The latest ministry figures show the number of interventions in Otago schools ..

Education feels fallout of Mainzeal crash

A $30 million cost blowout at the Manukau Institute of Technology's new campus building, caused by the collapse of Mainzeal Property and Construction, will deprive South Aucklanders of better educational facilities, an academic boss...

Principal to set school on new path

Auckland stuff.co.nz
In its 10-year plan, the Ministry of Education indicated a 2018 start date to carry out $20 million to $30m redevelopment plans. Duthie was hoping for a go-ahead to make a start on the auditorium "very soon". "I feel a terrible obligation, and great ...

Yoobee offers its first “online” NZQA approved qualification

Yoobee’s first online NZQA approved qualification is now open for enrolments. The programme will start on 3 March 2014 and be delivered fully online. The Certificate in Digital Media is a level 3 programme that provides students with a pathway to ...

University of Waikato launches 50th anniversary celebrations

Hundreds of staff are expected to attend the launch of the University of Waikato’s 50th anniversary celebrations on 14 February at the Gallagher Academy for Performing Arts on campus.

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