Monday 10 November 2014

Monday 10 November 2014

Minister wishes students the best for exams

Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata has offered her best wishes to the 143,000 students sitting NCEA and New Zealand Scholarship examinations. “This is an exciting time because it’s the culmination of many months of hard work and study, but it can also be stressful and demanding. “I congratulate these students for all their work so far and wish them all the very best over the next three weeks. “I know that parents will be doing everything they can to support their kids over the coming days, just as they have done throughout their lives. ...
NCEA exams start today, Monday marking the beginning of 3 weeks of swot and stress for 143-thousand secondary school students and their families.
Thousands of students across the country will sit their first NCEA exam this morning.Just over 39,000 students will sit Level 1 science at 9.30am, with more students also sitting Japanese, geography, chemistry and history exams...

First NCEA exam kicks off with science

Stuff.co.nz
Thousands of teenagers head in to their first major NCEA exam this morning. More than 39,000 pupils will sit Level 1 science at 9.30am, along with smaller groups sitting agricultural and horticultural science, chemistry, geography, Japanese, and ...

New decile rankings hit school budgets

Stuff.co.nz
A quarter of a million pupils will be hit by school funding cuts to be announced this week, which principals say will force them to turn to sausage sizzles and "voluntary" fees to resource their classrooms. But in a Peter-paying-Paul exercise, the ...

PPTA members vote on government policy

Secondary teachers start voting today on whether to include the government's new top jobs for teachers and principals in their collective agreement.

Interactive: The decile drift - how school rolls have changed according to ...

New Zealand Herald
Many of those schools increasingly cater to Maori and Pasifika - with high decile schools seeing a big jump in Pakeha and Asian enrolments. The Ministry of Education points to changing demographics as one explanation for the trend, revealed by a Herald ...

Your Views on school ethnicity changes

The number of Pakeha children attending schools in New Zealand's poorer communities has halved since the mid-1990s.Many of those schools increasingly cater to Maori and Pasifika - with high decile schools seeing a big jump in Pakeha...

$24.7 million to transform NAPLAN to online testing « ForeignAffairs ...

Online NAPLAN testing will transform national testing from a written format to a tailored online one with questions that vary in difficulty depending on the ability of the student. “Every year there are concerns raised about ...

Do Schools Really Need Principals?

Rafiq Kalam Id-Din is walking down a hallway at Brooklyn's Professional Prep charter school when he sees a fourth-grader in the doorway of a so-called "djed room." The room, named after an ancient Egyptian symbol for stability, is...

Charter schools claim early success

Stuff.co.nz
On the wall of a classroom full of Maori and Polynesian students at SAMS, a poster reads: "Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try." Of the 110 students, 93 per cent come from the Government's "priority learners" group. Eighty one per cent of the ...

First certificate opens doors

Stuff.co.nz
SENSE OF CERTAINTY: Joseph Maugaotega has done his first adultworkplace training with Hornby-based B&D Doors and it has given him the confidence to move out of the family home and go flatting for the first time.

St Kent's challenges other schools to save lives

St Kentigern School has set the challenge to other schools to get behind fundraising for Kiwi inventor Sir Ray Avery's LifePod incubators.Sir Ray's charity, Medicine Mondiale, launched a $2 million global fundraising appeal on October...

Teaching awards reflect students and papers

Otago Daily Times ...
University of Otago academics Dr Kristin Hillman (centre), Dr Gill Rutherford and Otago physics PhD student Malcolm Smeaton have won teaching awards. Photo by Gregor Richardson. University of Otago lecturer Dr Kristin ...

NZEI congratulates expert teachers

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“These are teachers who have proven to be experts in the classroom. They are people who are working at the top of their game. And they're certainly the teachers we want to encourage to stay in the classroomswhere their skills will make the greatest ...

Grant a thrill for Northland lecturer

Northern Advocate
Dr Stewart's research project, titled Maori-Medium EducationalScholarship, will study the results of te reo Maori policies in New Zealand universities. "I'll be looking at theses that are written in te reo Maori and analysing them carefully, comparing ...

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