Monday 31 March 2014

Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Education inequity not only NZ's problem

Stuff.co.nz
NZEI president Judith Nowotarski said the summit was about addressing inequity in educational achievement, and addressing inequality outside the classroom would contribute to that goal. All children deserved the opportunity to thrive and reach their ...

Peter Lyons: Education should not be a case of left or right

The headmaster turned up the other day with the local MP. I was sitting down the back of the staffroom. He introduced me by saying "This is Pete Lyons, he does a bit of writing for the newspapers, he's a leftie." It was said in good...

NZ 'way ahead' of America

Efforts to ensure all Kiwi kids can access early childhood education are "way ahead" of a similar American push, says the US Secretary of Education.Arne Duncan has been in New Zealand at the International Summit on the Teaching...

Literacy challenge for iwi

waateanews.com
Keith Ikin from Waikato University 's National Centre of Literacy and Numeracy for Adults says when Maori kids drop out of school without NCEA level one, it's likely they can't read and write well enough to meet the demands of the modern workforce. He ...

Stuart McCutcheon: Govt plan threatens varsities' autonomy

New Zealand Herald
It is for this reason that the Education Act obliges us all, Government included, to "preserve and enhance autonomy and academic freedom". Of course, we should be accountable to the Government, because about half our revenues derive from the public ...

Union to present student allowance plan

MSN NZ News
The union is presenting its plan in Wellington on Tuesday to a panel of tertiary education spokespeople, including Dave Clendon of the Greens, Mana's Hone Harawira, Tracey Martin of NZ First and Grant Robertson of Labour. © NZN 2014. Most popular ...

Industry professionals to teach?

Stuff.co.nz
Lincoln-based Tertiary Education Union (TEU) organiser Cindy Doull said last week that the restructure would affect about 10 per cent of the university's roughly 650 staff. It is understood that all eight change proposals have now been made available ...

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