Tuesday 4 February 2014

Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Design Group meets on new education initiative

Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata has welcomed the first meeting of the working group that will recommend the best design detail for the four new teacher and principal roles, announced by the Prime Minister at the beginning of the year. The new roles will provide better career pathways, recognise the highest quality of teaching and leadership, and raise the quality of learning and student achievement for all our children and young people. ...

Smart politics or smart policy?

Auckland stuff.co.nz
This will see 5,000 teachers being paid $10,000 on top of their usual annual salary to lead other teachers and opening their classroom doors to share their teaching excellence. Notching up another level is the Expert Teacher role for a select 1,000 ...

More kiwis head to university, chase post-graduate degrees, census shows

National Business Review (subscription)
More kiwis are gaining tertiary qualifications and despite an OECD survey showing a drop in the educational ranking of New Zealand 15-year-olds, an increasing number of teenagers are completing their school years, the latest census shows. Of some 3 ...

Brian Rudman: Principals who extort fees need re-educating

It's time Education Minister Hekia Parata got her priorities right. On Monday, she could have defended New Zealand's free and universal education system, by caning Whangarei Boys' High School principal Al Kirk for humiliating 30 pupils...

Demand for UCOL courses high

The number of people enrolling to study at UCOL in 2014 is well up on the same time last year. UCOL’s Student Information team have been very busy handling the enrolment applications and more are rolling in the door with most classes due to start from ...

History in making

Auckland stuff.co.nz
Brothers Raymond, 10, and Gafatasi, 11, Rimoni were among 102 students eager to start at the first of five charter schools to open in the country. Their mum Rosemarie Rimoni says it was an easy decision to enrol her sons because the new school offers ... 

Parents wary to embrace iPads in school

The Government is considering giving more money to schools for smart devices after a Bay of Plenty school dished out iPad minis to pupils. 

Sweet as - schools get free fruit

School children will next week have their lunch boxes filled with free bananas, apples and ... mineolas.Fruit in Schools is into its ninth year and providers will deliver 500,000 pieces of fruit to low decile schools next week,...

School rises above hellish year

Stuff.co.nz
A $7 million investment in new buildings is set to bring new beginnings for Putaruru's Maori immersion school, which is bouncing back after a teacher faced abuse charges. Te Wharekura o te Kaokaoroa o Patetere endured a year from hell in 2013, firing ...

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