Monday 4 August 2014

Tuesday 5 August 2014


Mostly the same policy for $183 million more

Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment
The Labour Party’s skills and training policy for young people largely follows the Government’s ideas, only with a more expensive price tag, Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce says. “National has a very comprehensive programme for young people and has introduced the Youth Guarantee, Trades Academies, Maori and Pasifika Trades Training Initiatives, Vocational Pathways, New Zealand Apprenticeships, the Apprenticeship Reboot, the Youth Services programme and the Flexi-wage wage subsidy,” Mr Joyce says. ...
The Ministry of Education has developed a set of resources that respond to the national aggregate Public Achievement Information data. These resources have been created to support schools to inquire into what needs to be done differently in order to accelerate progress for those students requiring additional help to meet expectations.

Intenet Mana touts free tertiary education

Stuff.co.nz
The Internet Mana roadshow parked up in Palmerston North and promised the city's students free tertiary education. In a packed room at the Palmerston North Convention Centre, Internet Party founder Kim Dotcom was joined by Internet and Mana Party ...

Labour reveals youth unemployment plans

Stuff.co.nz
Labour's youth unemployment policy specifically provides for Maori and Pasifika, as $183 million is pledged to get every person under 20 into work, training or education. Robertson said Labour was targeting the 24,000 people under 20 who were ...
Under 20s 'in work or training under Labour'

Maori trades training in Labour package

waateanews.com
Employment, skills and training spokesperson Grant Robertson says more than 10 percent of youngsters aged 15 to 24 are not in work, education or training. He says Labour is targeting the under 20s because at that age young people make critical ...
Youth employment a pressing issue - BusinessNZ

Greens want free transport for students

NZ City
"Making transport affordable for those in education and training is a smart solution to the financial pressures facing students, as well as encouraging better transport choices amongst a large sector of society," he said. Research from 2011 found about ...
Public transport free for students with 'Green Card'

Miriam Pierard, Internet Party speaks the language of youth

Scoop.co.nz
Sometimes there's consultation, but in education there was little to no consultation on charter schools or national standards, and it's been a complete cock-up. “And why are the Government spending all the money from asset sales on roads, or the leaky ...

Mandatory exercise 'not a good fit with NCEA'

Stuff.co.nz
Being made to do 90 minutes of exercise during school time would put more pressure on NCEA students, says year 12 student Cameron Bishop. "I mean it would be nice because it would be time away from study but it would be time we could be doing study ...

Make exercise at school mandatory

Stuff.co.nz
Canterbury school leaders questioned whether Hamlin and Lee's proposal was practical or necessary. Canterbury West Coast Secondary Principals Association president Neil Wilkinson said it would be difficult for secondary schools to implement, and it was ...

Chance for a sustainable school

Stuff.co.nz
Proposals on the table for two new colleges on a greenfield site in Blenheim could be an opportunity to create New Zealand's best sustainable schools, a environmental educator says. Enviroschools regional co-ordinator and Marlborough District Council's ...

Financial literacy way out of poverty

New Zealand Herald
Financial education was crucially important, and most Kiwis didn't consider options outside of putting money into their home, he said. KiwiSaver had been an ... Maori students scored on average 466 points and Pasifika students 424. Students with an ...

Our agriculture education is in a mess

Stuff.co.nz
The current education scene is a dog's breakfast of courses offered by providers at all levels, all competing for bums on seats. It should never have been allowed to get this way. Clearly nothing has changed since the ancient Greeks invented the ...

Getting kids to grow, harvest and prepare their own food

Catherine Bell is the founder of the Garden to Table Trust which partners with primary schools to teach children to grow, harvest and prepare their own food. Catherine set up the trust in 2008 - and since then, 21 primary schools around the country have signed up.

Canterbury employers set to give teachers a workplace education

Leading Canterbury employers have stepped up to help the region’s teachers boost their students’ job prospects.

Faces of Auckland: Enticed by education

Stuff.co.nz
The Korean education system was failing her oldest son, Kevin, who was a delayed learner. He was born prematurely weighing just 1.8 kilograms and spent the first four months of his life in an incubator. Doctors were unsure if he would survive but Kim ...

Dimension Data helps Education New Zealand take to the cloud

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Dimension Data has deployed a Microsoft Private Cloud in its third and final phase of a programme of work that focuses on securely improving the user experience of Education New Zealand's globally spread employees, giving them better tools to be more ...
Dimension Data takes Kiwi education to the cloud…

Career College joins growing education specialists ACG

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
ACG has a wide portfolio of educational interests from private schools in New Zealand through to Vietnam and Indonesia and international schools. ACG first began twenty years ago with the establishment of a senior school, ACG Senior College, ...

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