Monday 9 June 2014

Tuesday, 10 June 2014


Encouraging sole parents into higher study 

Steven Joyce | Social Development
Budget 2014 will make it much easier for sole parents to move off benefit and into full time study announced Steven Joyce, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment and Paula Bennett, Minister for Social Development. The Government is investing between $18 and $24 million over four years to implement three policy changes that will align the student support system for sole parents with the benefit system. ...

Call to make Maori history compulsory

Radio New Zealand
Associate Education Minister Pita Sharples on Monday announced Government funding of $1.6 million to enable teachers and schools to support and strengthen the teaching of Maori history in years one to 13. The plan was to create a better sense of ...

Putting 'Investing in Educational Success' into context

Scoop.co.nz
NZCER is the same. Funding for university-based professional development has become insecure from year to year, or even a few months ahead. Within the school system the rot is mostly in the early childhood sector (now highly privatised but fighting to ...

Kiwis old and new to get fair go at community learning

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
A Labour Government will ensure all Kiwis can access Adult and Community Education courses by restoring National's devastating funding cuts, Labour Leader David Cunliffe says. “Labour will provide funding of $13 million ... “ACE gives Kiwis the chance ...

Verdict on Govt's ECE record: 'quantity up, quality down'

Voxy
While the Government was succeeding in getting early childhood education to greater numbers of Maori, Pasifika and low-income children, some of their 'ECE Participation Programme' projects were '$2 shop trinkets - cheap and unlikely to work in the long ...

'Exciting new chapter for schooling'

Stuff.co.nz
"Students in that class for a second year will become classroom leaders, but also parents will be able to go to a teacher they trust about issues they may have," Freke said. About 70 residents turned out to listen to the public forum, but the question ...

Partnership school groups eager for news

Manawatu Standard
Members of the group were unable to be contacted before the time of print, but a previous application shows the society has links to Hamilton's Te Kohanga Reo o Whakawatea and Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Whakawatea. According to a Hamilton city service ...

All-girl schooling helps tech success

Attending an all-girls college can keep women on the technology track, a panel of women investors and executives said at Bloomberg's Next Big Thing Summit on Monday in the United States.

Capital's allure yet to win over prestigious school

Highly regarded Media Design School is being wooed by the Wellington City Council, which wants it to relocate to the capital.

Teacher becomes big cheese

Stuff.co.nz
Learning the details of how to make cheese, and the science behind it, means she's been able to develop practical and useful teaching protocols to use in the classroom. "I have a lot of different ideas of what I want to do, and not just with science ...

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