‘Better Information for Parents’ now available
Hekia Parata | EducationEducation Minister Hekia Parata today announced the launch of a Ministry of Education project to encourage more families to ‘be involved, get enrolled’ in quality early childhood education (ECE). The Better Information for Parents project, which is being led by the Ministry’s Early Learning Taskforce, is designed to help mums and dads understand how quality early learning and ECE can give their children a stronger start in education. It will be delivered to parents by frontline workers, online and through radio advertisements in seven languages. ...
New PPP school procurement announced
Hekia Parata | EducationEducation Minister Hekia Parata and Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye today announced that building and maintaining four new schools around New Zealand could be delivered using a public private partnership (PPP). An invitation for Expressions of Interest will be issued for the design, construction, financing, and maintenance of Aranui Community School and Rolleston Secondary School in greater Christchurch, Wakatipu Secondary School’s new site in Queenstown and a new school in Auckland yet to be confirmed. ...
Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment
Tertiary education research funding will be simplified and strengthened in changes announced today by Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce. The Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) rewards and encourages excellent tertiary education research by assessing research quality, allocating funding based on results, and publishing information on research performance. It also contributes to the Government’s wider science, research and innovation objectives, by supporting research activities that provide social and economic benefits to New Zealand. ...
Tertiary education research funding will be simplified and strengthened in changes announced today by Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce. The Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) rewards and encourages excellent tertiary education research by assessing research quality, allocating funding based on results, and publishing information on research performance. It also contributes to the Government’s wider science, research and innovation objectives, by supporting research activities that provide social and economic benefits to New Zealand. ...
New tertiary strategy targets key challenges
Speech to the Higher Education SummitSteven Joyce | Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment
Introduction Good morning. It’s great to be here. Today I’m going to outline and launch the new Tertiary Education Strategy for 2014-19. The new strategy builds on the gains we as a sector have already made. It will drive the tertiary system to be more outward facing and engaged, with stronger links to industry, community and the global economy. I’m also going to detail the final package of changes we’ll make to the Performance-Based Research Fund to make it more efficient and more effective. ...
Students to rise to The Challenge in honour of fallen heroes Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata today launched a new school competition to continue the living legacy and heroism of the 28th (Māori) Battalion. The new competition, called The Challenge, is an opportunity for Year 7 – 13 students to keep the Battalion’s legacy alive using 21st Century technology, by reflecting on the triumphs and tragedies of those brave young men. ...Reforms proposed for the teaching profession in a new report
Former Auckland Grammar headmaster, John Morris is one of the authors of a New Zealand initiative report 'Teaching Stars: Transforming the Teaching Profession'. The report says teachers' pay scales should be rejigged and extended, and they should apply for progression rather than receive it automatically as they do now. Their performance could be assessed not just on NCEA pass rates, but should include broader measures such as on-the-job learning, mentoring of junior teachers, and contributions within the school environment.Call for minister of Maori education
Radio New ZealandPoliticians should create a minister of Maori education, a Lower Hutt community leader Neville Baker says. There was a debate in his circles that a government portfolio should be dedicated to matauranga for tangata whenua, the Waiwhetu Marae head said.
Tertiary Education Strategy 2014 - 2019
The Tertiary Education Strategy 2014-19 sets out the Government’s expectations and priorities for New Zealand’s tertiary education systemEducation Ministry apologises to schools
Principals' groups say schools with an exemplary record for working with poor children are furious the ministry has decided they need help tracking and understanding students' results and developing remedial programmes for struggling learners.
Train teachers in schools: report
Aspiring teachers should be trained mostly at schools instead of university to help get the best and brightest in front of classrooms, a report argues.The push for "training schools" comes in the first year of a groundbreaking scheme...
Maori language in crisis
Marlborough ExpressIt might be one of our official languages but Maori language will not survive unless more New Zealanders start learning it, a cross-sectoreducational group says. The Auckland Regional Languages Strategy Group is urging the Minister of Maori Affairs ...
Religious instruction policies will not be altered, despite some schools making changes after complaints from parents, the Ministry of Education says.Parents at four schools in Auckland and Palmerston North have raised concerns...
"With our school's 'core business' being that of teaching and learning, and with our recent success in raising student achievement levels across allnational standards areas, the board believe that by not acting on the concerns raised, our school's ...
"With our school's 'core business' being that of teaching and learning, and with our recent success in raising student achievement levels across allNational Standards areas, the board believe that by not acting on the concerns raised, our school's ...
At the dinner table with family, in the classroom and the cafeteria with teachers and classmates, and outside of school with peers. You can't replace that with screen time. But could IF reinforce the tools of healthy social development, for all kinds ...
The Ministry of Education's Schools Network Upgrade Project is facing additional costs and workloads, after an interim injunction preventing the Ministry of Education from awarding the contract for the final phase of the project. However, the Ministry ...
No more Bible class during school time
Stuff.co.nz"With our school's 'core business' being that of teaching and learning, and with our recent success in raising student achievement levels across allnational standards areas, the board believe that by not acting on the concerns raised, our school's ...
Christian classes shifted
Stuff.co.nz"With our school's 'core business' being that of teaching and learning, and with our recent success in raising student achievement levels across allNational Standards areas, the board believe that by not acting on the concerns raised, our school's ...
New tertiary education strategy focus: Workplace skills
Building stronger links with industry to enable students to leave university with skills employers want will be a focus of a new tertiary education strategy announced today.The five-year programme aims to provide students with the...Govt pushes for public private partnership to meet school bill
Part of the bill for building four new schools could be met by a , the Government said today.An invitation for Expressions of Interest will be issued for the design, construction, financing, and maintenance of Aranui Community School...Can a video game teach empathy?
Stuff.co.nzAt the dinner table with family, in the classroom and the cafeteria with teachers and classmates, and outside of school with peers. You can't replace that with screen time. But could IF reinforce the tools of healthy social development, for all kinds ...
Govt reopens Schools Network Upgrade Project following court injunction
Techday NZThe Ministry of Education's Schools Network Upgrade Project is facing additional costs and workloads, after an interim injunction preventing the Ministry of Education from awarding the contract for the final phase of the project. However, the Ministry ...
Promotion of quality ECE needs to be backed by the right policies and funding – NZEI
NZEI Te Riu Roa has welcomed the Minister of Education's focus on promoting quality early childhood education in a new project aimed at parents, but says the Government must commit to the right policies and funding if all parents and youngsters are aPPP schools will cost kids, the community and taxpayer – NZEI
The long term cost of using private companies to build and manage state schools will fall on children, communities and the taxpayer, NZEI Te Riu Roa says.
Labour plans for free computers
Stuff.co.nzLabour is planning to supply tablet computers or laptops to all pupils of low decile schools, according to speech notes the party accidentally sent to the Government. Yesterday the office of Labour MP Clare Curran emailed the party's proposed ...
Kiwi Children Being Rushed into Chain Store Schooling
Scoop.co.nz (press release)“New Zealand charter schools already have millions of dollars of private assets paid for by the taxpayers and now overseas companies are trying to take a share. “New Zealand is being rushed down the path towards chain-store schooling for our children.
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