First Partnership School to open today
Hekia Parata | EducationThe first of five Partnership Schools | Kura Hourua will be opened today in Auckland by Prime Minister John Key. Partnership Schools are part of the Government’s confidence and supply arrangement between the National and ACT parties, who are working together to identify significant improvements in school performance. ...
First charter school opens
Stuff.co.nzThe first of five controversial charter schools was opened today by Prime Minister John Key, in South Auckland. South Auckland Middle School (SAMS) is co-educational, caters for years 7 - 10 and is particularly focused on Maori and Pacific students.
Government pushing for more charter schools
The Government is working towards more charter or partnership schools beyond the five already approved Prime Minister John Key said ahead of the opening of the first one today.Mr Key will open the Villa Education Trust's South Auckland...Class reports confound
An estimated 10,300 new entrants are just starting school - and beginning to learn the "three Rs".And their parents will soon have to learn to grapple with the fourth R: Reports.The Herald on Sunday analysed some of last year's...School reward system lambasted
Stuff.co.nzThe issue of school donations has been controversial throughout the country with boards of trustees trying to find ways of encouraging the donations often needed to plug gaps that Ministry of Education funding doesn't meet. Other schools in Auckland ...
New providers for trades training
waateanews.comTariana Turia, the Associate Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment, says that means boosting the number of places in schemes like Pasifika Trades Training and He Toki ki te Rika from 600 to 3000 by 2015. The seven groups or consortia will ...
Students advised to hurry up | Otago Daily Times Online News ...
Students are being warned to hurry up and apply for student loans and allowances or risk missing out on payments.
When the government's answer to “underachieving” students is the establishment of charter schools, then anything they suggest needs serious scrutiny. So what exactly can executive principals achieve? If the government ...
University students create new literary journal
Faced with a wealth of creative writing talent but no outlet to publish it did not faze a group of industrious students from the University of Auckland; they simply created and published a new literary journal.
A primary school has come under fire after giving out tags to families which can be used to identify which students have had their voluntary donation paid.Whangaparaoa Primary School gave out the "2014 Donation Paid" tags upon payment...
A principal whose school abandoned rules in the playground has turned into an international media star in a week. Bruce McLachlan of Swanson School has turned into a poster boy for the good old days. "We actually started to turn a blind eye to what ...
School gets intl attention for letting kids be kids
3News NZA principal whose school abandoned rules in the playground has turned into an international media star in a week. Bruce McLachlan of Swanson School has turned into a poster boy for the good old days. "We actually started to turn a blind eye to what ...
Pupils pay heavy price for cheap holidays
Cheap flights are luring droves of families on holidays during school term time - to college principals' despair.Fees-row pupils kept out of class
About 30 boys are being pulled out of class and made to sit in the school hall while staff at Whangarei Boys' High School chase up outstanding fees.Parents who haven't paid money owed for last year's extracurricular activities have...
The course completion rates for the polytechnic's first semester in 2013 have been released. The results show Maori students at Witt had the highest percentage of students finishing the courses they enrolled for. Of the 2000 ...
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