Ministers launch education portal Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata and Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye today launched a new digital portal for teachers, students and education administrators with Crown-owned company Network for Learning (N4L). Ms Parata says the Government has invested $211 million in the N4L managed network as a fully funded package for schools and has also tasked the company with developing the portal. ...Address to Festival of Education, Export Education Symposium, Auckland
Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education, Skills and EmploymentIt is my pleasure to be here this afternoon and can I say how pleased I am to see international education on the agenda. Over the last few years as Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment I’ve been privileged to travel overseas promoting New Zealand as a study destination, and helping to establishing links between New Zealand and overseas institutions. ...
Parata launches education portal
Stuff.co.nzEmbattled education minister Hekia Parata today launched a project to bring better online content to schools. Parata has been under fire this week over handling of allegations of misuse of money associated with Kohanga Reo. But today she sidestepped ..
N4L's 'Pond' provides gateway to collaborative environment
Techday NZThese include DigitalNZ, educational video service eTV, Google apps specialist Hapara, NZ On Screen, the National Library of New Zealand and New Zealand Geographic. Testers are using Pond to discover rich educational ... “For example, educators that ...
Strong Support for Festival of Education
More than 50 Christchurch schools, universities, Early Childhood Education providers and industry organisations will be represented in the workshops, performances and presentations at this weekend’s Christchurch Festival of Education.
Teachers accused of dodgy behaviour will no longer be able to hide behind name suppression.
Education Minister Hekia Parata yesterday launched an attack on TeKohanga Reo National Trust, accusing its board of failing to act responsibly, of not being democratic enough, losing public confidence and of putting its Maori language work at risk ...
Kohanga Reo Trust cleared but confusion remains
Independent Review of Kōhanga Reo National Trust released
Parata calls on SFO to probe Te Kohanga Reo Trust
Ms Collins may have done the Government no favours with with her de facto Oravida benediction but that has been emphatically trumped by Ms Parata's pretty much catastrophic handling of the kohanga reo scandal. She announced that the Ernst & Young ...
The Kohanga Reo National Trust board says Education Minister Hekia Parata was wrong when she said it wasn't investigating its subsidiary Te Pataka Ohanga. "A few things need to be corrected, and there are a few porkies (lies) being told as well," board ...
Maori leaders are calling on the Kohanga Reo National Trust to immediately address its problems, including allegations against its company Te Pataka Ohanga, and say the trust's failure to do so is jeopardising its future. Ngati Porou leader Apirana ...
Maori leaders say front up kohanga
Credit card scandal has become a farce
Blame at Hekia's feet
Schools had been thrown into unjustified and unsubstantiated turmoil -national standards, network reviews, unjustified closures of special schools, introduction of charter schools, a diabolical payroll system, a failed attempt to increase class sizes ...
... is necessary to enable JavaScript. Follow this instructions to enable JavaScript in your web browser. Vulnerable students 'let down' by charter schools - NZ First. Saturday 22 Mar 2014 1:32p.m. New Zealand First Education spokesperson Tracey Martin ...
Parata attacks kohanga reo board
New Zealand HeraldEducation Minister Hekia Parata yesterday launched an attack on TeKohanga Reo National Trust, accusing its board of failing to act responsibly, of not being democratic enough, losing public confidence and of putting its Maori language work at risk ...
Kohanga Reo Trust cleared but confusion remains
Independent Review of Kōhanga Reo National Trust released
Parata calls on SFO to probe Te Kohanga Reo Trust
A kohanga reo tale of woe
The Southland TimesMs Collins may have done the Government no favours with with her de facto Oravida benediction but that has been emphatically trumped by Ms Parata's pretty much catastrophic handling of the kohanga reo scandal. She announced that the Ernst & Young ...
Trust board says minister was wrong
NZ CityThe Kohanga Reo National Trust board says Education Minister Hekia Parata was wrong when she said it wasn't investigating its subsidiary Te Pataka Ohanga. "A few things need to be corrected, and there are a few porkies (lies) being told as well," board ...
Act now, leaders tell Kohanga
New Zealand HeraldMaori leaders are calling on the Kohanga Reo National Trust to immediately address its problems, including allegations against its company Te Pataka Ohanga, and say the trust's failure to do so is jeopardising its future. Ngati Porou leader Apirana ...
Maori leaders say front up kohanga
Credit card scandal has become a farce
Blame at Hekia's feet
Stand up for our schools
Stuff.co.nzSchools had been thrown into unjustified and unsubstantiated turmoil -national standards, network reviews, unjustified closures of special schools, introduction of charter schools, a diabolical payroll system, a failed attempt to increase class sizes ...
Vulnerable students 'let down'
3News NZ... is necessary to enable JavaScript. Follow this instructions to enable JavaScript in your web browser. Vulnerable students 'let down' by charter schools - NZ First. Saturday 22 Mar 2014 1:32p.m. New Zealand First Education spokesperson Tracey Martin ...
Leap of faith to believe Parata
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NZ First leader Winston Peters has previously excoriated Whanau Ora's ''whanau plan'' grants of up to $20,000 after discovering one went to a rugby club and another to a family reunion. In the case of charter schools, meanwhile, we know they will be ...
Last straw: Hekia Parata must go
The whole educational system and the underlying attitude towardseducation needs a total revamp. Putting a few over-qualified teachers who have been trained and indoctrinated into the current system will not going to resolve anything. It is time to ...
The adoption of catch phrases such as "digital natives", "twenty-fist century classrooms", "Education 3.0" are all indicators of a complete lack of understanding by the people who use these terms. If our education system needs anything, it is an ...
The Education Minister set a new benchmark for smoking rubber when she went from trumpeting a report "clearing" the Kohanga Reo National Trust of misspending public money to calling in the Serious Fraud Office within 24 hours. While Parata used ...
NZ First leader Winston Peters has previously excoriated Whanau Ora's ''whanau plan'' grants of up to $20,000 after discovering one went to a rugby club and another to a family reunion. In the case of charter schools, meanwhile, we know they will be ...
Last straw: Hekia Parata must go
NCEA is a failed system
Stuff.co.nzThe whole educational system and the underlying attitude towardseducation needs a total revamp. Putting a few over-qualified teachers who have been trained and indoctrinated into the current system will not going to resolve anything. It is time to ...
Education reforms 'heartless'
Stuff.co.nzThe adoption of catch phrases such as "digital natives", "twenty-fist century classrooms", "Education 3.0" are all indicators of a complete lack of understanding by the people who use these terms. If our education system needs anything, it is an ...
Espiner: Parata should be sacked
The PressThe Education Minister set a new benchmark for smoking rubber when she went from trumpeting a report "clearing" the Kohanga Reo National Trust of misspending public money to calling in the Serious Fraud Office within 24 hours. While Parata used ...
Classrooms at bursting point
Radical measures are on the cards to cope with a huge increase in the number of school-age children in Auckland as already full schools struggle to cope.The Ministry of Education must find space for 107,000 more school-age children...
Southland schools are struggling with new Novopay problems, prompting some to suggest it might finally be time to ditch the plagued system.
Teachers are uniting to fight for better representation on the new body replacing the Teachers Council.
Primary teachers will soon vote on a set of principles to determine whether their representatives will continue to be involved in the working group for the Government’s $359 million plan to fund highly paid new roles for some principals and teachers.
It now needs a fulltime te reo Maori teacher, a fulltime English teacher and a part-time science teacher, after a teacher walked away just weeks into the first term. The school's curriculum director, Natasha Sadler, did not return calls this week and ...
Yesterday, after a karakia from Matiu Eru and an address by Taradale High School principal Stephen Hensman, graduates from the School ofEducation and Social Sciences, ideaschool and Te Manga Maoristepped forward to receive their rewards for the ...
Meanwhile, New Zealand's Maori Affairs Minister Dr Pita Sharples said NZ Week was an important event to celebrate the cultural similarities and differences found in both countries. He thanked Malaysia for coming to New Zealand's aid when Christchurch ...
A special ceremony will be held in Rotorua today to launch a manuscript marking the completion of a landmark study that supports Māoriachievement in the education system. The study, carried out in Rotorua secondary schools, is entitled Ka Awatea which ...
The Ministry of Education's Katrina Casey says all parties want to get the pupil back learning with his peers. "The meeting will be with the Ministry, the boy and his family, to really talk about what the future of the child is. I think it's important ...
Ministry works to secure boy's educational future
Lewis Bostock, a first-year media studies teacher at Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland, was speaking at a conference in Wellington this week, encouraging teachers to explore new ways of using social media in theclassroom. But his advocacy of ...
Charter school 3 teachers down
New Zealand HeraldIt now needs a fulltime te reo Maori teacher, a fulltime English teacher and a part-time science teacher, after a teacher walked away just weeks into the first term. The school's curriculum director, Natasha Sadler, did not return calls this week and ...
Pride flows as EIT graduates step up
New Zealand HeraldYesterday, after a karakia from Matiu Eru and an address by Taradale High School principal Stephen Hensman, graduates from the School ofEducation and Social Sciences, ideaschool and Te Manga Maoristepped forward to receive their rewards for the ...
NZ graduates urged to revive alumni body
The Star OnlineMeanwhile, New Zealand's Maori Affairs Minister Dr Pita Sharples said NZ Week was an important event to celebrate the cultural similarities and differences found in both countries. He thanked Malaysia for coming to New Zealand's aid when Christchurch ...
Ceremony to mark launch of landmark Maori education research
Scoop.co.nz (press release)A special ceremony will be held in Rotorua today to launch a manuscript marking the completion of a landmark study that supports Māoriachievement in the education system. The study, carried out in Rotorua secondary schools, is entitled Ka Awatea which ...
Ministry to meet with Asperger's boy's family
3News NZThe Ministry of Education's Katrina Casey says all parties want to get the pupil back learning with his peers. "The meeting will be with the Ministry, the boy and his family, to really talk about what the future of the child is. I think it's important ...
Ministry works to secure boy's educational future
Teacher sees value in online connection
Stuff.co.nzLewis Bostock, a first-year media studies teacher at Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland, was speaking at a conference in Wellington this week, encouraging teachers to explore new ways of using social media in theclassroom. But his advocacy of ...
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