More success for thousands of children
Hekia Parata | EducationEducation Minister Hekia Parata says thousands more young people are on the road to success as a result of continued improvements in NCEA achievement and early childhood education participation. Ms Parata says the improved results for the Better Public Service Targets in both areas highlight the impact of extensive work to make sure that all kids get the chance to do their very best. “We’ve now got 78.6 per cent of 18 year olds with a minimum of NCEA level 2, which is up 4.3 percentage points in just two years and up more than 10 percentage points since 2008. ...
New Māori Language Strategy confirmed
Pita Sharples | Māori AffairsMinister of Māori Affairs, Hon Dr Pita Sharples, has today released the governments new Māori language strategy, which includes an updated model for Te Mātāwai, a Māori governance entity which will be charged with leading and guiding the Crown’s strategy for te reo Māori. ...
15 more Canterbury school pools to be repaired
Nikki Kaye | Education
The Ministry of Education aims to repair a further 15 quake-damaged school pools in the greater Christchurch area with most due for completion in time for the 2015 school year, Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye said today. “The pools repair programme is being funded as part of the government’s $1.137 billion investment over 10 years in education renewal in greater Christchurch,” Ms Kaye says. ...
The Ministry of Education aims to repair a further 15 quake-damaged school pools in the greater Christchurch area with most due for completion in time for the 2015 school year, Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye said today. “The pools repair programme is being funded as part of the government’s $1.137 billion investment over 10 years in education renewal in greater Christchurch,” Ms Kaye says. ...
Evaluation shows Youth Service working
Paula Bennett | Social DevelopmentSocial Development Minister Paula Bennett says an evaluation of Youth Service, the first of the Government’s welfare reforms, provides hard evidence that it is working in turning around young peoples’ lives. "Every bit of common sense told us that getting in early, connecting them with a mentor and engaging them in education and training would be one of the best things we could do. ...
Parents expect teachers to educate kids about internet safety even though most Kiwi teachers don't have the training.
Labour's plan to help struggling parents by tackling school donations is a political ploy but at least it recognises the nonsense that donations are voluntary, says the principal of a decile one school.Under Labour's plan announced...
Labour plans to end 'voluntary' school donations
A Labour Government would seek to end "voluntary" school donations by offering an annual grant of $100 per student to schools that stop asking parents for money to fund "day to day" spending."New Zealand has long prided itself on...Teachers and principals welcome Labour’s plans to address inequality in education
The Labour party’s plans to give an additional $100 per pupil to schools in lieu of parent donations would make a real difference to many schools and would help address the growing inequality in our school system.
The president of the Principals Federation, Philip Harding, says the Labour Party's plan to abolish donations from most schools will seriously disadvantage high-decile schools.
“It is a well-documented fact that low decile schools are the least likely to be able to raise significant funds from their communities yet it costs more to give their students the education they need.” While Labour's policy would not solve all the ...
PPTA welcomes move to bring back free education
Scoop.co.nz (press release)“It is a well-documented fact that low decile schools are the least likely to be able to raise significant funds from their communities yet it costs more to give their students the education they need.” While Labour's policy would not solve all the ...
Less than 5% of Principals support Govt initiative
“In a recent poll released this week, involving over 1000 principals throughout New Zealand, only 5% supported the government’s $359 million scheme to get principals talking to each other. In fact 54% of them were totally opposed, whilst the rest ...Parent complains to human rights watchdog about Bible teaching
A parent has taken concerns about religious teaching to the Human Rights Commission in the latest effort to remove the lessons from state school time.Red Beach School north of Auckland has been in a long-running dispute with parent...
Brian Rudman: Schools and their rules are not above the law
It's always great to see someone standing up to a bully. That Hastings schoolboy Lucan Battison also won the confrontation with his St John's College principal is the icing on the cake. As a child of the hippie era, when short hair...
Principals should not be too worried about the impact of the High Court's decision overturning Lucan Battison's suspension for refusing to cut his hair.The status of a school's ability to make and enforce rules has not changed.Lucan's...
Calls for Joyce to be upfront about plans after cut considerations ...
“The tertiary education sector has been under sustained pressure for six years, while all the time being kept in the dark by a Minister who refuses to talk about his plans for our staff and students.” “Democracy is about debating ideas and .... The TEU is a new union for all staff; everybody who works in tertiary education, including polytechnics, teacher education, universities, wānanga and private training institutions, REAPs and OTEPs. We are a democratic organisation ...Student loans 'punish' the ambitious
Stuff.co.nzWith the upcoming elections it's time to talk about the state of our tertiary education. As a recent graduate I found myself in the same predicament as a large number of unemployed graduates. I was after a teaching job, which were plentiful when I left ...
Student increase ups SIT surplus
Stuff.co.nzOne of the main causes of the larger surplus was an increase in the number of equivalent fulltime students (Efts) enrolled this year, he said. Figures presented at the meeting show more than 400 extra students have enrolled at SIT this year. To date ...
Students want housing allowance to match what MPs have given themselves
Scoop.co.nz (press release)A student allowance includes an element for help with rent, but it is calculated on a different basis than all other low income New Zealanders – and considerably different from what MPs are entitled to. Housing support for students is capped at a ...
Speak out against bullying in NZ
Stuff.co.nzAlthough I liked attending school, chronic bullying occurred during lunch times and in the classroom. I was bullied about my weight and stutter, about being sick, about having no interest in sport, about having no physical ability. During intermediate ...
Fair schooling should reduce disadvantage of poorest kids
Scoop.co.nz (press release)CPAG education spokesperson Professor John O'Neill said, “A narrow focus on quality classroom teaching is not enough to reduce educational inequalities between children who begin life in material disadvantage and those who don't. “Poor children do not ...
ACT Education Policy an Extreme Attack on our Schools
Scoop.co.nz (press release)This fringe party, which won just 2.5% of the Party Vote in its Epsom 'heartland', wants to privatise New Zealand's education system by turning public schools into charter schools. No evidence is presented for the benefits of this approach, only trite ...
Unions Attack Obama on the Education of Black Children
Scoop.co.nz (press release)The PPTA and the NZEI, two New Zealand teachers' unions, have gone to war with President Obama on charter schools, to which many black American parents choose to send their children. In his address to mark charter schools day in America, President ...
Small class sizes and school meals get another big tick
Scoop.co.nz (press release)“It's no accident that the country's top rating private schools, which now get a fair whack of taxpayer funding thanks to John Key and the Nats, have small classes and free school meals. “But the same policies aren't available to kids in hard-up areas.
New school plans have community excited
Manawatu StandardMilton Rauhihi, a member of the five-strong management team, said it had been more than a decade since full te reo Maori-led education had been available to Foxton families. The news of a kura kaupapa had been welcomed, he said. "It is early days; it ...
Mentor project to retain new Māori medium teachers
Massey News (press release)With a $2.3 Ministry of Education contract, the team is investigating why 70 per cent of new teachers in Māori medium schools leave their positon within three years compared with 30 per cent of new teachers in English language schools, and what can be ...
Māori Tertiary Teachers awarded for excellence
Māori Television... describe him as an individual who demonstrates an unfailing commitment in achieving the highest standards in the Māori language, for all. He has worked in Kōhanga Reo, in theatre, he has also judged kapa haka and Manu Korero speech competitions.
Education Trust and Northtec: Māori and Pasifika Training
Scoop.co.nz (press release)Te Matarau Education Trust, a new Tai Tokerau Hapu-Iwi collective made up of Te Uri o Hau, Ngātiwai, Ngati Hau, Ngati Hine, Ngati Rangi and Te Aupouri, has teamed up with NorthTec to provide trades training for Maori and Pasifika learners. Last month ...
Vote Tertiary Education
Scoop.co.nz (press release)Research priorities have included models for educational success, traditional child-rearing practices, Māori language revitalisation, resilience of whānau following the Christchurch earthquakes, the restoration of the marine environment following the ...
Winner of a tertiary teaching award, on "teaching in the dark
"Dr Karyn Paringatai is a lecturer at Te Tumu - Otago University's School of Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, and the winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's Supreme Award for Tertiary Teaching Excellence. The award recognises Dr Paringatai's 12 years of teaching students from a wide variety of backgrounds to become a whanau of champions for the revitalisation of te reo Maori, in both language and the performing arts. She explains how she incorporates traditional practices, such as "teaching in the dark" into her tutorials, and how they help learning, as well as her extraordinary efforts in providing pastoral care that will help her students feel more comfortable at university.
Pride of NZ: Mama G a mentor and teacher
Community Spirit category: When high school teacher Roshni Gounder came down with a sudden illness, many people expected her to give up her job.But a desire to get her chemistry students achieving to the highest of their abilities...
The Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Awards aim to recognise and encourage excellence in tertiary education, at a national level. They provide an opportunity for teachers to further their careers and share good practice in teaching. Up to 12 Sustained ...
Award recognises lifetime immersed in education
Scoop.co.nz (press release)The Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Awards aim to recognise and encourage excellence in tertiary education, at a national level. They provide an opportunity for teachers to further their careers and share good practice in teaching. Up to 12 Sustained ...
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