Sunday 22 February 2015

Monday 23 February 2015

Education agreement signed with UAE

Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment
Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce has welcomed the signing of an education agreement to strengthen New Zealand’s education relationship with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully and the UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs, His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah Al Nahyan signed the agreement today in Wellington. ...

School Trust issued with notice 

Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata has issued the Trust running Te Pumanawa o te Wairua School with a performance notice requiring it to take immediate action to address areas of serious concern at the school. Ms Parata met with the Ngā Parirau Mātauranga Charitable Trust today to lay out her concerns about ongoing issues identified by the Education Review Office (ERO) and the Ministry of Education. The Trust is the sponsor for the school at Whangaruru. ...
Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata today announced the five winners of a prestigious tertiary scholarship in honour of the 28th Māori Battalion. The Ngārimu VC and 28th (Māori) Battalion Memorial Scholarship Fund Board, which is chaired by Ms Parata, has been supporting future Māori leaders to succeed in education since 1948. ...

PaCT sessions for interested schools

Introductory presentations on the Progress and Consistency Tool (PaCT) began last week in New Plymouth, South Auckland and Rotorua.

'Make charter schools teach Te Reo'

Radio New Zealand
And he said he would take that a step further by making a prerequisite for charter schools to include Te Reo Māori as a core subject. Mr Spellman said if the language was in the education system, then New Zealand children would grow up and accept Te...

Hekia Parata discounted concerns on Northland charter school

Stuff.co.nz
This was backed up yesterday by Ministry of Education secretary Peter Hughes, who told MPs at a select committee that the school had problems, and needed more time. Because charter schools were dealing with the most challenging students - many of ...

Education in NZ: Teachers upload confidence

The average Kiwi teacher is a woman in her early fifties. She's facing a generation of kids she wasn't trained to teach who have grown up with Wi-Fi, the cloud and hand-held technology.But a postgraduate digital course has more...

Fourth generation of Te Rōpū Manutaki heads to Te Matatini - Feature

Māori Television
Manutaki will live on in the projects we have completed, in our kōhanga reo, in our kura, in our secondary school, in our school of traditional martial arts and in the activities on this marae. When visitors come here they are greeted by Te Rōpū ...

No pain no gain for Ngarimu scholars

waateanews.com
Education Minister Hekia Parata says the scholarships commemorate the brave men of the 28th (Maori) Battalion and this year's recipients exemplify the same traits that earned the Battalion an honoured place in New Zealand's history, such as ...

Labour blames Parata for school crisis

3News NZ
Whangaruru was one of the first five charter schools to open at the beginning of last year. They are an ACT Party initiative under its support agreement with the government, and they're controversial. They are taxpayer-funded but can be run by church, ...

Opportunity to learn te reo Maori critical for success

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
That means investing more in initial teacher education, ongoing professional development, employing more resource teachers of Maori, upskilling current educators and ensuring there is wider whanau and adult learning opportunities available." She said ...

New role gives support to Māori and Pacific students

Jo Frew is not averse to tapping on the shoulder of students at Lincoln University if she does not recognise the face and feels she should. She is Lincoln’s new Māori and Pacific support coordinator and her role, to help those students achieve success, ...

Equipping youth with financial skills

Stuff.co.nz
Flutey described the company's service as a fun, interactive platform which improved financial literacy and motivation in the classroom. It was targeted at 8 to 12-year-olds, but some high schools had already signed up after it launched a few weeks ago.

Bible studies concerns heard by Human Rights Commission

Arguments around religious education in state schools will be presented at the Human Rights Commission today.

Bible lessons lead to court

A father is taking his child's school and the attorney-general to the High Court in a landmark case over school Bible lessons.

Playground preacher upsets parents

Stuff.co.nz
Parents are horrified a Bible instructor has been approaching primary school pupils outside of class hours to evangelise, which they say violates their child's right to a secular education. The parents of a 6-year-old girl said they were frustrated ...

Canterbury establishes Community Engagement Hub

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“We have an amazing opportunity to use the dynamic Canterbury region as ourclassroom and need to bring the university to the community instead of always asking them to come to the Ilam campus. Many Christchurch, New Zealand, and international ...

Kiwi kids go under the microscope

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
CensusAtSchool New Zealand, known in te reo Māori as Tataurangakitekura Aotearoa, is a non-profit, online educational project that aims to bring statistics to life in theclassroom. Supervised by teachers, students anonymously answer 35 questions about ...

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