Sunday 15 June 2014

Monday, 16 June 2014


500 schools connected to Network for Learning 

Nikki Kaye | Education
The rollout of fast internet to schools has reached a milestone ahead of schedule, with 500 schools now connected to the Government’s Managed Network, Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye announced today. The Government is investing $211 million in the Network for Learning (N4L) programme, which will provide quick and reliable internet complete with uncapped data, web filtering and network security services for participating New Zealand schools. ...

Flexible school hours possible – Parata

3News NZ
Schools may be able to choose their hours if it will improve their learning outcomes, Education Minister Hekia Parata says. Charter schools can already pick their hours and days and it's possible
this could be extended to all schools. "I'm interested ...

High gambling worries for Pasifika students

A report into youth gambling in New Zealand suggests more than a third of Pasifika high school students worry about their gambling habits, compared to one in 16 students of European background.

Rose Blackett: gifted children

President of the New Zealand Association for Gifted Children who will speak at events during the upcoming Gifted Awareness Week.

Patrick Gower interviews Education Minister Hekia Parata

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Ensuring that well look, this isn't about a union per se, this is about kids getting a better education; it' about parents getting the best teachers in their classroom. Is it just unions being unions; is that what you're saying? Or have the unions got ...

Principal 'bursts the literacy bubble'

Manchester Street School principal Rex Wheeler remembers being a "sandpit boy" as a child - keen to be doing almost anything other than reading or writing.

Labour against paying the top teachers more | Kiwiblog

The Herald reports: The Government's $359 million expert teachers policy has proved to be the latest in a series of "epic failures" in the education sector due. ... Instead, we need to lift educational achievementacross the board and it doesn't matter if some people leave school unable to do more than dig ditches or clean toilets because we need that work done. Vote: Thumb up 0 Thumb down 0 You need to be logged in to vote; prosper (101 comments) says: June 12th ...

Fallout for southern schools

Stuff.co.nz
Former James Hargest College principal Paul O'Connor, who was acting principal during the intervention at Wakatipu High School, said he did not think there was "any sort of calamity" in schools in Southland and Otago. There was strong support for ...

Parents take on school bullying

A couple who allege that their 9-year-old son was strangled, tackled, stomped on and wit nessed a classmate being stabbed in the back with a pencil is fighting back at what they believe is a ''bullying culture'' within a Christchurch school.
Senior primary school students - with support from Donna Mahanga- are helping train the next generation of readers at Hamilton's Nawton Primary School.

University drives into the rough

The Southland Times
OPINION: Lincoln University is New Zealand's land-based university, with a special focus on agriculture and related industries. In recent years, the university has been facing hard times. This is despite the resurgence of New Zealand's agricultural ...

Tertiary staff fear for jobs

Stuff.co.nz
Private tertiary institution International Pacific College confirmed this week its 100-strong staffing pool had been downsized in order to meet an operational deficit. About six positions were altered, two roles ... The report, commissioned by the ...

Innovative Professor receives Distinguished Education Award

Techday NZ
John Grundy is the recipient of the 2014 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) Distinguished Education Award. The Swinburne University of Technology Professor receives the award for ...

University of Auckland among innovation award winners

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Titanium Technologies NZ (TiTeNZ) are a team of researchers fromuniversities, Crown-owned research institutes and industry partners who won the Kiwinet AJ Park Commercialisation Collaboration Award.University of Auckland Associate Professor in ...

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