Monday 10 November 2014

Tuesday 11 November 2014


Applications open for $10m fund for teachers’ ideas

Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata has announced that applications have opened for the new $10 million Teacher-led Innovation Fund. The fund is part of the Government’s $359 million Investing in Educational Success (IES) initiative to help raise students’ educational achievement. Ms Parata says the fund will allow great ideas to be put into practice and shared across schools. “The heart of IES is about teachers learning from each other and schools working closely together, and this fund really supports that kind of collaborative approach. ...

Decile funding model has flaws - Parata

The Education Minister wants to find better ways of funnelling resources to students most at risk of not doing well. Her comments come as school deciles are re-calculated.

Schools await decile D-Day

Fears are running high among Manawatu schools ahead of this week's decile ratings release, which could see some schools' funding cut by hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Schools to learn of any changes to their decile ratings

The latest recalculation of school decile ratings.

The difference between rich and poor schools: Three ways of looking at decile data

New Zealand Herald
... looked at the differences across deciles for the number of entries in each subject and student accomplishment. Graham Jenson, a software engineer in Wellington, had published a separate interactive(above) on his blog at maori.geek.nz, which used ...

Time running out for decile funding system

School decile numbers are about to change, and that will mean changes to funding for nearly 16-hundred schools.
Schools are being told from today about decile rating changes which may impact their budgets.

Your Views on 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 ...

Patrick Walsh: There's a poverty fault line in NZ schools and it's creating an ...

New Zealand Herald
The statistics published today by the New Zealand Herald showing a demographic shift of European and Asian students to higher decile schools and a corresponding higher concentration of Maori and Pacific students in lower decile schools over the last ...

Your Views on school ethnicity changes

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 ...

Principal calls for fairer school funding

The school funding system should be reviewed after enrolment figures showed a growing divide between rich and poor, a leading principal says.Education Minister Hekia Parata has again signalled a wide-ranging review could be on the...

New Zealand’s top educators honoured

Five of the country’s top educators have been honoured with ASG National Excellence in Teaching Awards.

Evolve Education eyes NZ childcare firms

Stuff.co.nz
Australian company Evolve Education was understood to be planning to raise $130 million to buy New Zealand early childhood education businesses through a dual listing on the NZX and the Australian stock exchange. Evolve Education said today it ...
Evolve Education confirms IPO listing
Evolve Education confirms IPO, to raise up to $130 million
Evolve Education confirms share float

Exam fees add to stress for families

Hundreds of Manawatu families are applying for financial assistance to help cover secondary school exam costs, with fears pupils' qualifications could be quashed if parents don't cough up.

Schools have a role to play in sexual consent education

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“While parents have a critically important role to play in this kind of education – and must be actively involved - schools should also contribute so that our young people are receiving these messages from these two important influencers,” Ms McGill said.

There's a lot more to life than a degree

I certainly enjoyed the opportunity to learn after working in hospitality for two years when I finished school.

New Plymouth Boys' High principal resigns

Michael McMenamin has resigned as principal of New Plymouth Boys' High School.

Woman jailed for defrauding Ministry of Education

Stuff.co.nz
A ''cunning and deceitful'' Hamilton daycare centre owner who defrauded the Ministry of Education to the tune of $327,000 has been jailed for three years. Following a five-day jury trial in August, Trixie Rosina Leigh, 72, was found guilty on all four ...

Strong Support for Education in Marlborough region

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“Our Marlborough Trustees have always shown a real passion for the education sector as a way to make tangible difference in young peoples lives and this has not changed, with education making up 16% of Marlborough's annual donations budget,” says Ms ...

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