Wednesday, 7 May 2014

Māori educationalist not shocked by teacher bias

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
These types of teacher attitudes, argues Te Rina Warren, a mathematics lecturer at Massey University, are prevalent in our schools and most Māori students will have experienced a teacher who undervalues them in theclassroom. Turner's research, which ...

Attitudes to Māori learners not new

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
It's opened up a can of worms, because unfortunately many Māori have experienced the negative impacts of attitudes that teachers bring to theclassroom with them.” “Rates of Māori achievement in education are poor. What Hana's research tells us is that ...

Childhood centres in complaints to stay secret

Public complaints made about early childhood centres will be released by the Education Ministry, but no centres will be named.

Reparations from principal who took $30k from school come up short

The sentencing of a principal and her husband who admitted to siphoning more than $30,000 from a decile one school in South Auckland was interrupted when they showed up with a reparations check $2000 short of what had been agreed.In...

Varsity copyright fight continues

A dispute over how much universities pay for using photocopied material has ended up in court.

Digitisation gives education resources a future

Techday NZ
The Education Television and Video Communications Trust (eTV) and Silver & Ballard, New Zealand's leading audiovisual preservation and digitisation company, finished the project in four months. In that time over 1400 hours of audiovisual content was ...

School begins rebuild

Auckland stuff.co.nz
The 128-year-old Bayfield School in the suburb of Herne Bay is having 70 per cent of its buildings rebuilt and work started on April 17. Principal Sheryl Fletcher says classrooms and the library, computer and staff rooms are all part of the year-long ...