$500,000 Youth Financial Literacy Fund
Nikki Kaye | YouthYouth Minister Nikki Kaye today announced the opening of a Financial Literacy Fund to support organisations to deliver financial literacy skills to young people. “The fund will prioritise initiatives focused on assisting disadvantaged youth. In Budget 2014, Government announced $2.5 million of new funding over the next three years for youth enterprise initiatives,” Ms Kaye says. “The funding will support young people to learn financial literacy and business enterprise skills, as well as get opportunities to develop social-enterprise projects. ...
Quiz: Are you smarter than a 15-year-old?
Stuff.co.nzFor a taste of what the 143,000 teenagers sitting NCEA and scholarship tests are facing, we've prepared this quiz based on questions from previous years' level 1 maths, English, science, history, geography and classics papers. To ease the culture shock ...
Schools standing strong over opposition to education plans
Scoop.co.nz (press release)Primary schools remain strongly opposed to the government's Investing inEducational Success policy despite strong attempts by the Ministry ofEducation to sell the policy to them. NZEI Te Riu contacted 70 percent of Auckland principals after the ...
PM’s downplaying of hunger in schools stuns principals
Primary principals are astounded by the Prime Minister’s latest comments about hunger in schools. When questioned in parliament last night about hungry school children, John Key said that at all the decile 1-4 schools he had visited, principals...
“We believe that in education, as with all things, that a one-size-fits all approach is no longer applicable – to really prepare our children for the future, we need to think innovatively and look to forming strong collaborative relationships within ...
Strong Support for Education in the Nelson Tasman region
Scoop.co.nz (press release)“We believe that in education, as with all things, that a one-size-fits all approach is no longer applicable – to really prepare our children for the future, we need to think innovatively and look to forming strong collaborative relationships within ...
Combined Council to appoint one Chief Executive
The Council of Whitireia Community Polytechnic (Whitireia) and the Wellington Institute of Technology (WelTec) have been considering the next stage for the strategic partnership of these two highly successful and well-regarded Wellington region institutions.
TRADE UP: Grey Lynn School students Ethan Hall, Ruby Honore, Emily Allan and Koen Dettling are ready to trade a toilet as part of theirclassroom project, With One Loaf. The class want to continue to trade items until they can secure a house for a ...
Students' ambitious trade project
Auckland stuff.co.nzTRADE UP: Grey Lynn School students Ethan Hall, Ruby Honore, Emily Allan and Koen Dettling are ready to trade a toilet as part of theirclassroom project, With One Loaf. The class want to continue to trade items until they can secure a house for a ...
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