Friday, 18 July 2014

$200,000 fund for youth projects and organisations

Nikki Kaye | Youth Affairs
Youth Affairs Minister Nikki Kaye has today opened Youth Fund 2015 with $200,000 available for community projects. “The Ministry of Youth Development’s Youth Fund is unique in that it supports projects designed and led by young people aged 12 to 24, or projects by youth organisations in partnership with young people that develop community participation,” Ms Kaye says. “Panels of young people will assess applications to determine successful projects and where the funding will go, resulting in a completely youth-led initiative. . 

$107.5m to Lincoln University science rebuild

Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment
Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce today announced that the Government has approved in principle to provide up to $107.5 million in capital funding toward the rebuilding of Lincoln University’s science facilities destroyed in the Canterbury earthquakes. ..

N4L announces Pioneer Schools

Techday NZ
N4L will be meeting with the Pioneer School Principals and lead teacher sin weeks 2 and 3 of Term 3. Those schools that were not selected for the guided programme have been given the opportunity to use Pond, and run a professional development ...

Call to teach financial literacy grows

New Zealand Herald
A lack of financial education saw people refinancing to keep up with their debt. "Often the credit card debt is the way they get the ... Maori students scored on average 466 points and Pasifika students 424. Massey University's Fin-Ed Centre director ...

1,600 to 1: Public, experts blast Joyce’s council changes

Tertiary Update Vol 17 No 23 Members of the public and education professionals came out swinging against changes to the controversial bill which removes guaranteed staff and student representation from the country’s 11 university...

Government continues bid to remove political independence of teachers

The government has ignored the overwhelming concerns of New Zealanders in its bid to quash the political independence of the teaching profession.

College's new zone to overlap elite schools

Another success story will see a central Auckland school get its own zone. A rapidly rising roll has caused the Ministry of Education to direct One Tree Hill College to draw up a proposed school zone.The school, which has seen its...