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The battle lines have been drawn and education is already shaping up to be a hot election issue this year.
2013 NZ Scholarship Award winners announced
Hekia Parata | EducationEducation Minister Hekia Parata today congratulated New Zealand’s top students on becoming the New Zealand Scholarship Award winners for 2013. “Last year almost 11,000 students participated in New Zealand Scholarship examinations, with 2,386 students achieving a scholarship. These students are scheduled to receive almost $3.7 million towards their further study over the next three years,” Ms Parata says. The monetary awards for the 2013 the New Zealand Scholarship Award winners are: ...
$465,000 to boost international education
Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education, Skills and EmploymentTertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce today announced the Government will invest $465,000 co-funding a dozen new growth initiatives in the international education industry. Successful recipients of the second round of International Education Growth Fund (IEGF) grants include Massey University, which is developing a new joint degree programme in China, and a group of Auckland schools working together to pilot a recruitment programme in several South American countries. ...
NZ welcomes Chilean scholarship students
Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education, Skills and EmploymentTertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce today welcomed the arrival of 96 top-performing students from Chile to study in New Zealand. The students, known as ‘Penguins’ due to their distinctive black and white uniforms, will visit New Zealand to expand their international outlook as part of the Chilean Government’s secondary school scholarship scheme ‘Penguins Without Borders’. They will be hosted by 47 schools around the country for two terms. ...
Charter school pays top dollar for teachers
New Zealand's largest secondary school lost five teachers after a charter school was established nearby which could offer better salaries.The Labour Party says the situation shows the Government has created a playing field that's...No accountability for charter school millions
Scoop.co.nz (press release)Education Minister Hekia Parata needs to assure New Zealanders thatcharter schools can't double-dip by claiming funding for their students and pass on the cost of their learning to state schools, Labour's Education spokesperson Chris Hipkins says.
Charter schools funded for more staff than state schools
Scoop.co.nz (press release)National President Judith Nowotarski says this raises serious questions about the government's claims that charter schools would be funded at the same level as a public school equivalent. “It is becoming increasingly clear that this is not true. For ...
Editorial: Wrong about motives
New Zealand HeraldCharter schools will be disastrous for the education system as a whole, as overseas evidence and our experience of increased competition and fragmentation show. The two charter schools in the North are receiving substantially more funding per ... As an ...
Council changes remove community voices
Tertiary Update Vol 17 No 1
Plans to remove staff, student and community voices from the governing councils of universities and wānanga will go before parliament this year. The minister of tertiary education, Steven...
Paul Spoonley, Pro-Vice Chancellor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Massey University; and Robert Greenburg, Dean of Arts, Auckland University.
Student cheating services hard to stop
Nine months into an investigation of a wide-reaching cheating scandal, the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) says students can and do use overseas-based cheating services.Connecting with China by degrees
A new initiative to encourage Chinese computer science students to study in New Zealand has won funding from the International Education Growth Fund held by Education New Zealand.Dr Paul Moon: Bible in Schools battlers denying our heritage
What a divine irony. At the same time that remnants of the country's first mission school were being excavated in Kerikeri, St Heliers School decided to remove religious education classes from its school day - part of a slow but seemingly...
Training around Ka Hikitia, which is the Ministry of Education's strategy to improve learning outcomes for Maori, was also suggested. The ERO declined to comment further on the report or to provide any specific examples when contacted by the Taranaki ...
Waitara school trustees 'must address problems'
Taranaki Daily NewsTraining around Ka Hikitia, which is the Ministry of Education's strategy to improve learning outcomes for Maori, was also suggested. The ERO declined to comment further on the report or to provide any specific examples when contacted by the Taranaki ...
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