Thursday 28 August 2014

Friday 29 August 2014

Greens to launch schools report today

Gay NZ
Rainbow issues spokesman Kevin Hague will present 'How Safe Are Our Schools?: An analysis of the Current Policy Framework Aimed at Protecting Queer Young People in New Zealand Secondary Schools' at an event in Auckland this afternoon.

Report shows education system failing queer students

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
... any awareness of trans* students, and two schools actually self-reported not teaching about gender and sexual diversity. “How can students be protected if schools don't even know what is going on in their classrooms and in the school environment?

Polycom's EduCart moves into classrooms

Techday NZ
“The RealPresence EduCart 500 makes it easier than ever to enrich lessons and increase student engagement with the ability to connect to other classrooms, peers, or experts in other locations,” Tony Sandberg, Director, Industry Solutions and Market ...

'Mindfulness' technique outrages parents

Some Christian parents opposed to a calming technique being taught at a Northern Southland school fear the devil will get inside the children's heads if the practice is introduced.

Funding boost for Asian languages an important step

The newly announced government fund, worth $10 million over five years, will enable schools to establish new Chinese, Japanese and Korean language programmes, or to expand existing ones.

$855000 to repair classroom

Stuff.co.nz
The Anglican Church will be given a council grant of up to $855,000 to help it repair an old stone classroom block at St Michael's School. The building dates back to 1913 and is part of a cluster of heritage buildings on the corner of Durham St South ...

Seeing double at Maeroa Intermediate

It would be easy to think you were seeing double at a Hamilton intermediate school - it has 13 sets of twins.

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