Families too poor for NCEA
Stuff.co.nzThe cost of NCEA fees is forcing hundreds of Waikato students or their families to apply for financial assistance. More than 1700 Waikato applications for help to pay for subject or scholarship exams have already been approved this year. Throughout New ...
School-zone 'apartheid'
Stuff.co.nzSchools are manipulating zones to attract the advantaged and limit access to the disadvantaged in what educators are calling a growing ''educational apartheid''. The Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA) wants an Education Ministry review of ...
Landslide no mandate for reform - teachers
3News NZThe largest teachers' union in the country says it will continue to fight against the Government's plans to reform the education system, despite the weekend's historic election landslide. In winning 48 percent of the vote, National became the first ...
Teach voting in school: Greens
MSN NZ News
The Green Party wants children taught the value of voting after one of the worst election turnouts in the country's history. Just over 77 per cent of enrolled New Zealanders voted in Saturday's election, an increase from 74.2 per cent in 2011, but ...
Action needed to increase voter turnout numbers
Hard-up students are scrimping on basic necessities due to shoe-string budgets, worrying student union leaders. A New Zealand Union ofStudents' Associations (NZUSA) survey of 5000 polytechnic and university students found nearly half of fulltime ...
The Green Party wants children taught the value of voting after one of the worst election turnouts in the country's history. Just over 77 per cent of enrolled New Zealanders voted in Saturday's election, an increase from 74.2 per cent in 2011, but ...
Action needed to increase voter turnout numbers
Students starve to pay their bills
Stuff.co.nzHard-up students are scrimping on basic necessities due to shoe-string budgets, worrying student union leaders. A New Zealand Union ofStudents' Associations (NZUSA) survey of 5000 polytechnic and university students found nearly half of fulltime ...
Calling all leaders - October is connected educator month
Connected Educator Month is a global initiative designed to support and promote networked approaches to educational professional learning. This year it is coming to New Zealand. Leaders and teachers are invited to engage this month-long event from October 1, 2014. Thousands of educators, in NZ and beyond, will be connected to free professional learning events, communities and resources, regional, national, and global workshops, keynotes, panels, discussions and more. Why not join them?
It explores three key areas that high expectation teachers enact differently: the way they group students for learning, the way they create a caring classroom community and the way in which they use goal setting to motivate students and to promote ...
The election outcome does not bode well for the care of children and the early childhood education sector which sees little positive change in the near future. Promises for improving the sector were made on the hustings and the more vibrant ones were ...
National Standards were also not good for schools, Facer said. "They [schools] were forced to comply without professional development. Some schools had to reinvent the wheel working with a flawed system." In his new role working for himself, Facer said ...
High expectation teachers lift students' success
Scoop.co.nz (press release)It explores three key areas that high expectation teachers enact differently: the way they group students for learning, the way they create a caring classroom community and the way in which they use goal setting to motivate students and to promote ...
National win will not benefit Early Childhood Education
Scoop.co.nz (press release)The election outcome does not bode well for the care of children and the early childhood education sector which sees little positive change in the near future. Promises for improving the sector were made on the hustings and the more vibrant ones were ...
Principal takes on role as consultant
Stuff.co.nzNational Standards were also not good for schools, Facer said. "They [schools] were forced to comply without professional development. Some schools had to reinvent the wheel working with a flawed system." In his new role working for himself, Facer said ...
Turtle-bot heads into battle
New Zealand university students are about to battle international competition to decide who has built and programmed the best robot.A team from the University of Auckland will today fly to Sydney - with their hopes pinned on a creation...Tour aims to build understanding of Korea in NZ classrooms
Ten teachers from Invercargill to Auckland are about swap their classrooms for Seoul – a city at the forefront of technology, trade and culture.
Perched up by the university, St John's College has a wonderful view across to Pirongia and over the top of Hamilton. But it's a boys' school and not many of them are contemplating the view during lunch time - instead there are chattering, chuckling ...
Prime Minister John Key's former Christchurch primary school has been sold and the site is being cleared for future development. Bryndwr's Aorangi School was closed by the Ministry of Education in 2010 and 2.2-hectares of land disposed of through the ...
Former pupil returns to lead
Stuff.co.nzPerched up by the university, St John's College has a wonderful view across to Pirongia and over the top of Hamilton. But it's a boys' school and not many of them are contemplating the view during lunch time - instead there are chattering, chuckling ...
Site of John Key's former school to be developed
Stuff.co.nzPrime Minister John Key's former Christchurch primary school has been sold and the site is being cleared for future development. Bryndwr's Aorangi School was closed by the Ministry of Education in 2010 and 2.2-hectares of land disposed of through the ...
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