Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Maori focus for new teaching degree

waateanews.com
She says it's suited to people who want to improve the educational outcomes for our country's most vulnerable children, especially Maori and Pacific Island children, children with special needs and those living in low socio-economic areas. There will ...

Schools kept in dark on NCEA errors

Stuff.co.nz
Schools kept in dark on NCEA errors. JO MOIR ... NZQA deputy chief executive of assessment Richard Thornton said the error was not a privacy breach because the exam booklets did not contain any information that could identify a person. He said the next ...

Intueri Education documents near

Stuff.co.nz
Intueri, advised by Macquarie Capital and UBS, has been meeting institutional investors in Australia and New Zealand over the past week and is ready to pull the trigger on an equity raising worth A$180m (NZ$195m) to A$200m. Intueri is the largest ...

Nelson schools losing students

Stuff.co.nz
The service aimed to keep students with learning and behaviour issues in their own communities rather than moving them to residential schools like Salisbury. She said the school was "very quiet" at the moment. Despite this, Ministry of Education head ...

Kohanga working party welcomed

Radio New Zealand
A kohanga reo kaimahi [leader] is relieved a working party has been set up to investigate how the movement should move forward, saying it removes the burden from kohanga whanau. Kohanga Reo National Trust HQ in Wellington. Photo: RNZ / Diego ...

Key swipes at kohanga reo press ban

Prime Minister John Key has taken a swipe at kohanga reo leaders after they banned the journalists who broke a story about allegations of misspending from attending a press conference.