Sunday 28 September 2014

Monday 29 September 2014

Parata suggests new assessments

Education Minister Hekia Parata has raised the possibility of introducing a new level of assessment for children in their first two years of secondary schooling.

Payment was for payroll errors, not compensation

A report in this morning’s Dominion Post claiming a $252,100 payment to the PPTA

Govt endorses ACT policy, announces new partnership schools

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
"The ACT Party is thrilled at the government's announcement of four new Kura Hourua Partnership schools." said ACT leader Jamie Whyte. "Kura Hourua Partnership schools are designed to bring committed people into educating our most vulnerable New ...

Funding boost for Asian languages an important step

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“Children learning te reo Māori are better placed to learn a second and third language than a child who remains monolingual.” The Foundation'sannual Perceptions of Asia survey, published in March, found New Zealanders consider Chinese the most ...

Upgrades rocket Hadlow school into the future

Stuff.co.nz
"It looks quite old-school . . . you look out the window and see them whipping around in ties and blazers, and then what they do in theclassroom is actually leading-edge," parent Samantha Venning said. Hadlow is undergoing an ambitious remodelling to ...

A good old-fashioned sex education

Stuff.co.nz
In his 1910 book Prostitution and Sex Education, author Willard Packard Hatch encouraged parents to mimic the lectures he himself gave to children: "From peanuts I go to eggs (fish), telling the wonderful story of salmon, shad, stickleback, frogs and ...

The great Auckland school zone shift

Thousands of students are travelling long distances across Auckland to avoid their local schools.Figures show that each day around 3100 students in West Auckland travel to secondary schools in the central isthmus, with a further...

Teachers support PM’s call for solutions to child poverty

NZEI Te Riu Roa is pleased to hear that the Prime Minister is calling for new ideas to address child poverty.

Otago researchers seek parents for survey of school costs

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Take-home items, activities, events, and school trips also often attract extra costs. Where a school provides experiences to most children, but not all, those who miss out may also miss out on opportunities to fit in toschool social groups. In this ...

UCOL Carpentry Students Know No Boundaries

Certificate in Carpentry students have gained plenty of hands-on fence building experience recently – a whole 200 metres of it.

Workday ships first app for higher education in strike against Oracle

PCWorld.co.nz
Workday has been developing the recruiting app with the help of a "Noah's ark of the education world," spanning Ivy League schools such as Yale to technical colleges and community colleges, said Liz Dietz, vice president of student strategy and product ...

NetSafe joins N4L

Techday NZ
NetSafe will also work in association with digital technology industry and government partners it has relationships with. NetSafe promotes the confident, safe and responsible use of online technologies through their work with schools and the wider ...

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