Schools 'slow to improve results'
Stuff.co.nzPost-Primary Teachers' Association president Angela Roberts said schools were "pretty much working at capacity" and lacked resourcing and professional development needed to get a "systematic lift". The study, which focused on the Level 2 results of 40 ...
Select Committee Reports Back on Education Amendment Bill
Scoop.co.nz (press release)Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce and Education Minister Hekia Parata today welcomed the report back on the Education Amendment Bill (No 2). “The report back, by majority, was completed by the Education and Science ...
Education and Science Select Committee report disappoints
Scoop.co.nz (press release)This week the Education Amendment Bill (No 2) moved out of the Education and Science Select Committee without amendments to its dangerous reforms to reduce the size of universities and wānanga councils. If the Bill passes guaranteed student and staff ...
Education Advocacy Group "Deeply Concerned" Over Decision
Scoop.co.nz (press release)The decision has been met with dismay from the school and tertiary teaching sector at large and several educational organisations and commentators, including Educational Institute secretary Paul Goulter, who has called the bill's announcement 'an ...
Academic's support for caning in schools outrages teachers
An arch-conservative appointed to rid Australia's national curriculum of supposed left-wing bias has backed the use of corporal punishment in schools, provided it is "done properly". Dr Kevin Donnelly, who has previously called for...Course helps young tradies build career
New Zealand HeraldGetting local Maori and Pacific Islanders into a career, not just a job, is the main aim behind a new training programme. SkillMe Maori and Pasifika Trades Training was launched in Rotorua yesterday by Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister ...
Rural areas may lose the faith, says priest
NZ CatholicFr Damian Wynn-Williams, parish priest of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, told NZ Catholic that children in rural areas are not receiving any Catholic education at all, apart from the adult sermons they may receive in church on Sunday. “I'm really ...
More places earmarked for rural medical students
Scoop.co.nz (press release)Half of the positions will be offered to rural students through the Regional and Rural Admissions Scheme at the University of Auckland and the Rural Sub Category at the University of Otago. The other 17 places will be offered to students through the ...
Exhibition highlights Māori Deaf students' experiences
Scoop.co.nz (press release)The unique collaborative project saw students from Kelston Deaf Education Centre in Auckland step out of the classroom with a goal of developing a stronger connection to their whakapapa, using photovoice and narrative methods to explore te ao Māori ...
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