Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata says important progress has been made on the $359 million initiative to improve student achievement with several secondary schooling sector groups reaching agreements with the Ministry of Education. The Ministry has reached agreements with the organisations that represent the principals of the 339 secondary schools in New Zealand, and the NZ School Trustees Association which represents those Boards of Trustees and parents, on how the new principal roles will work as part of Investing in Educational Success. ...
Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata has today welcomed an agreement with the union representing around 18,000 secondary school teachers to support the $359 million initiative to lift student achievement. The Post Primary Teachers’ Association has today reached an interim agreement with the Ministry of Education and the NZ School Trustees Association on how the teaching roles will work as part of the Investing in Educational Success initiative. ...
Steven Joyce | Science and Innovation
Around 330 future Kiwi innovators will be able to benefit from R&D Student Grants announced today by Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce. The Government has this year made more than $4 million worth of R&D Student Grants available through Callaghan Innovation to 154 businesses to hire up to 328 students with science, technology, engineering, design, or business degrees to do R&D-related work experience. ...
Steven Joyce | Science and Innovation
The arrival of around 2000 top international scientists and researchers in Auckland later this month will make New Zealand the focus of the world science community, Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce says. The scientists are in New Zealand for a series of meetings to be held under the umbrella of World Science Week New Zealand. The week brings together a range of major international science summits alongside a series of public science lectures. ...
'The rejection of the Government's flagship education policy by primary school teachers and principals was "sadly predictable" in an election year, according to Prime Minister John Key.Speaking during a visit to Auckland's Mt Roskill...
Stuff.co.nz
The Government's flagship education policy, aimed at enticing mum and dad voters, has potentially been scuppered after the biggest teachers' union rejected it. The New Zealand Educational Institute - which represents about 50,000 teachers, principals ...
The Government's flagship education policy may soon be flying at half mast after being rejected by thousands of primary school teachers and principals.
Lynda Stewart is the Principal of May Road School in Auckland and on NZEI National Executive
The country's biggest teacher union has overwhelmingly rejected the Government's $359 million education policy.
Teachers and principals have voted overwhelmingly against the Government’s controversial “Investing in Educational Success” policy, including proposed highly-paid principal and teacher roles.
Only a day after the country's biggest teacher union walked away from the Government's flagship education policy, secondary school teachers have agreed to support it.
MSN NZ News
The plan would create four new school leadership roles and top principals and teachers would be paid to raise standards in other schools across the country. Ms Parata chose to accentuate the positive and focused on the decision for secondary schools.
3News NZ
"Although National Standards are in, they're certainly not 'in' the hearts and minds of the people implementing them. They've been grumpily implemented across the country by most teachers and schools." With more than half the NZEI's members taking part ...
3News NZ
Secondary school principals and boards of trustees have agreed to implement the $359 million plan to pay the best teachers and principals more to help lift achievement in schools where student perform poorly. Negotiations are continuing with the Post ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“New Zealand First looks forward to working with education interests after the election in a way that will benefit New Zealand's future – our children. “New Zealand First is promoting a 30-year vision for education where politicians step out of the ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
PrimeTime Transcript - Hekia Parata, Chris Hipkins Plus Professor Martin Thrupp,University of Waikato And Rose Patterson, NZ Initiative. 22/08/14. Education Minister Hekia Parata concedes that Charter Schools are playing only a “marginal” role in the ...
3News NZ
Senior teacher Adele Jacobs has been teaching for 27 years, has taught in three countries, and says we can't underestimate just how good New Zealand's classrooms are. "New Zealand has a world-class education system and so I take it that all our ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“Schools have already had National Standards, Novopay and charter schools forced on them. “In contrast, Labour's plan to lower class sizes has been welcomed by parents and teachers alike who know smaller class sizes are better for kids' learning.
Educational achievement information included Education Review Office reports and the cycle of return review, the level of student engagement, and National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) data. Catherine ...
Stuff.co.nz
Answers lie with giving kids permission to talk. JESS MCALLEN. Last updated 13:27 21/08/2014. MIke King. Fairfax NZ. ON A MISSION: Mike King says his motivation comes from his own bouts of depression and two suicide attempts.
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Dr Carpenter says she decided to edit the book and invite contributions after many years of being aware that working class and/or poor children, despite their potential, usually do not reap the rewards of our educationsystem. The book's title comes ...
I’m excited about growing up in a post-settlement era where Te Tiriti o Waitangi respects the mana and tino rangatiratanga of our people as genuine and authentic treaty partners. But it doesn’t mean, by any stretch of the imagination, that things ...
Radio New Zealand
She said the programmes were partnerships between education providers, the industry and iwi. Ms Button said it was about creating a range of job opportunities so whanau could be self reliant. She said already the government and the Maori Party have ...
Voxy
"You only need to look at the government's record on Pacific languages cancelling the Tupu series and Folauga journals and their inadequate Pasifika Languages Strategy and Pasifika Education Plan to see that. "The government needs to do more to ...
A Government programme that supports one group of NCEA students has ended up disadvantaging others, school leaders say.
Stuff.co.nz
Latta visited two Auckland schools in his search for answers on the workings behind NCEA along with the proof that it is a system that is working, contrary to its naysayers and critics. Interestingly, Latta sought far less commentary from experts and ...
New Zealand Herald
"Key objectives for the region include increasing tertiary education participation and attainment for people within our communities - particularly Maori - developing a highly educated and skilled workforce that is aligned to the needs of employers, and ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“Sustained hard work by the whole sector has halted a two year decline in student enrolments and resulted in record number of students choosing New Zealand as their study destination,” Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce says.
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Revenue for tertiary education changes can be found in a currently untaxed area of the New Zealand economy - financial transactions. NZ Independent Coalition will look to implement a 0.1% Financial Transaction Tax, following the example of 11 European ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Before January 2013, postgraduate students were eligible for grants of about $240 per week. Since the grant was ditched, they can borrow only $173 a week under the student loan scheme – and it must be paid back. Candidates were responding to a ...
Dr Mike Nagel is one of Australia's leading experts in child development - he's an Associate Professor in the school of science and education at the university of the Sunshine Coast. He's the author of a number of books, his latest just published is called "In the Beginning: The Brain, early development and learning".
Are entrepreneurs born or made?Despite decades of academic research, there is little agreement about the precise definition of entrepreneurship.Entrepreneurial leaders are described as risk-takers, innovators, bold opportunists...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Of those in classroom teaching roles, nearly a third are teaching in subject areas other than physical education. ``A key point is that programme not only trains students to be able to teach physical education up to senior secondary school level, but ...
Stuff.co.nz
The form asked parents to declare they would "undertake to pay such sums levied by the board of trustees by the date requested", which included school donations, technology fees, camps and education outside the classroom. The wording was not in line ...
Techday NZ
New Zealand and Australian secondary schools, universities and vocational institutions now have the opportunity to access Autodesk's professional 3D design software and creativity apps. In addition, Autodesk is also launching 'Design the Future'.
Luxurious holidays in the south of France or Rarotonga and an internship in New York are among the prizes on offer at an extravagant school fundraiser.They may be the kind of prizes most parents can only dream of as they turn another...
3News NZ
So were two high school entrepreneurs who have just returned from Hong Kong where they competed in the Fedex Express Junior Achievement International Trade Challenge Asia Pacific Finals. "The experience alone would have done it for us, but the prize ...
NZ students top honours at FedEx International Challenge
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Net profit after taxation attributable to Intueri shareholders was NZ$3.1 million and NZ$6.4 million when adjusted for amortisation costs. The pro forma results assume the combination of Intueri Education, OCA and Quantum were owned throughout 2013 and ...
An official complaint against Punavai Ole Atamai Preschool is before the Ministry of Education after a child wandered away from the Dunedin centre undetected on Monday.
A top Auckland private school has investigated allegations of racist remarks including the word n***** made by a student during a football match last weekend.Parents at a game between Birkenhead College First XI and King's College...
