Wednesday 4 February 2015

Thursday 5 February 2015


Iwi education profiles released Hekia Parata | Education

Education Minister Hekia Parata today released new information showing how iwi around New Zealand are achieving in education. The iwi education profiles provide an iwi-by-iwi breakdown of how Maori students are performing in the education system. “For the first time iwi, hapū and whānau can clearly see how their kids are progressing from early learning to 18 years of age,” says Ms Parata. ...

Smart new cricket programme for schools

Jonathan Coleman | Sport and RecreationSport and Recreation Minister Jonathan Coleman has taken part in a Cricket Smart lesson at Northcote Primary School in Auckland today. “Cricket Smart is a new range of curriculum-based learning and teaching resources for primary and intermediate students in Years 1 to 8. It is a fun and interactive way to bring cricket into schools,” says Dr Coleman. ...

Hekia Parata: Te reo no longer silenced

Several generations ago, children who dared to speak te reo Maori at school were cruelly silenced. The great Ngapuhi leader Sir James Henare, born in 1911, remembered as a schoolboy being sent into the bush to cut a piece of pirita,...

Compulsory Te Reo 'a complete waste of valuable teaching time' - Brash

TVNZ
Dr Brash began by saying he agreed with some of Dr Morgan's ideas, like being opposed to separate Maori electorates and quotas for Maori in education. But he called making Te Reo compulsory in schools "a complete waste of valuable teaching time" given ...

New Zealand schools keep bullying to themselves

New Zealand's bullying problem may be going unchecked because schools do not want to share their problems nationwide.The Chief Human Rights commissioner is calling for better data collection about bullies as part of a prevention...

University announces key partnerships with more to come

The University of Canterbury today announced key partnerships with the Crusaders, and Tactix, with a community engagement and a performing arts initiative still in development.

New principal vows to stop rot

The Nelson Mail
... past three weeks getting ready and, along with the board of trustees, had set three goals for the school for the year: Improving academic achievement; looking into the school's value and pastoral system; and making sure Maori students do as well as ...

More than half of schools using N4L's Managed Network

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
This is really important in the Intermediate school years, when teachers need to build a classroom culture allowing for more personalised learning to develop as their students become more independent and move closer to their secondary years.” A report ...

Intueri pays $1.2m for IT training outfit

NZ City
The IT training institute will help lay the foundation for Intueri's entry into IT provision at a level that is in high demand with international students, as well as complementing Intueri's existing offering, said chief executive Rob Facer. Intueri ...

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