Prisoner learning places to nearly double Peseta
Sam Lotu-Iiga | Corrections
A huge increase in prisoner education aims to help prisoners get jobs on release and reduce their risk of reoffending. Educational achievement is important to help prisoners take part in and benefit from employment, rehabilitation and reintegration programmes. “We know that prisoners who can hold down a job on release are far less likely to commit crimes. That’s good for them and their families and helps make our communities safer,” says Corrections Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga. ...
The Education (Breakfast and Lunch Programmes in Schools) Amendment Bill provides for the introduction of fully State funded breakfast and lunch programmes into all decile 1 and 2 schools and other designated schools. The meals will be available to all ...
'Feed the kids' bill defeated in Parliament
Caritas' position is based on a small-scale research report it is currently conducting about the many different ways that Catholic schools are responding to hungry children at school. The qualitative survey of schools involved both online questions and ...
Family First NZ says that attempts to feed children at school is well-intentioned but will be a short-term band-aid to mask the more serious issues of parental neglect, loan sharks, budgeting, and family breakdown. “A child whose parents cannot even ...
A huge increase in prisoner education aims to help prisoners get jobs on release and reduce their risk of reoffending. Educational achievement is important to help prisoners take part in and benefit from employment, rehabilitation and reintegration programmes. “We know that prisoners who can hold down a job on release are far less likely to commit crimes. That’s good for them and their families and helps make our communities safer,” says Corrections Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga. ...
Is over-asssessment to blame for rising anxiety and stress
Anxiety and stress is on the rise among college students and over assessment by schools is being partially blamed. An Education Review Office report has found that over assessment for NCEA can put student welfare at risk. Wellington Girls College Principal Julia Davidson and Evaluation Services manager for the Education Review Office, Stephanie Greaney, discuss.Food In Schools Bill Defeated
Scoop.co.nzThe Education (Breakfast and Lunch Programmes in Schools) Amendment Bill provides for the introduction of fully State funded breakfast and lunch programmes into all decile 1 and 2 schools and other designated schools. The meals will be available to all ...
'Feed the kids' bill defeated in Parliament
No to”one-size-fits-all” policy on food in schools – Caritas
NZ CatholicCaritas' position is based on a small-scale research report it is currently conducting about the many different ways that Catholic schools are responding to hungry children at school. The qualitative survey of schools involved both online questions and ...
'Food In Schools' Fails To Address Real Issue
Scoop.co.nz (press release)Family First NZ says that attempts to feed children at school is well-intentioned but will be a short-term band-aid to mask the more serious issues of parental neglect, loan sharks, budgeting, and family breakdown. “A child whose parents cannot even ...
Greater educational needs for children with disabilities
NZEI Te Riu Roa backs the findings and recommendations of a new report that shows children with disabilities are more likely to live in poverty than other children.Joyce asked how much tertiary staff worth
Tertiary Update Vol 18 No 7 Steven Joyce does not have an answer yet for how much he believes a good university tutor, university lecturer, senior university lecturer, polytechnic tutor, polytechnic lecturer, senior polytechnic lecturer, wānanga tutor, wānanga lecturer, and senior wānanga lecturer deserves to be paid. …Campaign for democratic councils launches today
A nationwide campaign to get one-third of seats set aside for democratically elected staff and students on university and wānanga kicks off at Otago University today at a rally with the university's registry steps.
Students stand up for democratic universities
Today the national student union NZUSA will be joining with the Tertiary Education Union to launch the two organisations’ campaign to maintain elected staff and student representatives on New Zealand’s eight university councils.
“Steven Joyce's power grab by abolishing democracy on university councils was a chilling attack on universities' role as a critic and conscience in society. “It flies in the face of good governance principles, which should include representation of ...
Labour backs return to university democracy
Scoop.co.nz (press release)“Steven Joyce's power grab by abolishing democracy on university councils was a chilling attack on universities' role as a critic and conscience in society. “It flies in the face of good governance principles, which should include representation of ...
$300000 funding boost to upgrade school technology infrastructure
Scoop.co.nz (press release)Between 2011 and 2013 DWC funded 31 West Coast primary schools $303,000 to upgrade wireless networks and purchase new classroom technology including computers, tablets and digital cameras. An independent review of the first year of the Computers ...
Vodafone's 'school in a box' offers education hope for refugees
Vodafone New Zealand is helping to boost education in refugee areas with the development of its instant classroom - a digital "school in a box".The instant classroom consists of a laptop and 25 tablets pre-loaded with educational...Samsung offers education solutions for schools
Educators NZThe solution makes classroom collaboration easier and more fun. Students are encouraged to actively engage in lessons through features such as screen-sharing, on-screen quizzes and digital handwriting using the S-pen. The intuitive management tools ...
Should teachers include porn in their sex ed lessons?
Stuff.co.nzAt 15, however, while I'd certainly have enjoyed watching a little porn, I most definitely wouldn't have wanted to do so in a classroom setting. I say this even with the anatomical advantage of being able to conceal arousal. Teenage boys already spend ...
Greater focus on upskilling boards of trustees
One of NZSTA’s key goals in 2015 is to provide all boards of trustees with the opportunity to build on their governance capacity through participation in high quality professional development (PD) opportunities says Lorraine Kerr, President, NZ School ...
Vocational Pathways supports young people to qualifications
Falling in love with school again Vocational Pathways, supporting young people to get the qualifications they need. Ezra Taulamana is a girl with a lot of love. She loves performance, dance, singing, drawing, painting, and art. She also has a lot ...
School authorities often recommend parents leave the school to handle it. This is fine if the school is successful in stopping the bullying. However, this is not always the case. Most school programs to address bullying make only modest improvements ...
Chairwoman Rachel Murdoch says it is essential schools have notice of developments that will cause their rolls to boom. An increase of primary school-aged children in the area would seriously impact on the school's current planning for building ...
What should parents do if their child is bullied at school?
Stuff.co.nzSchool authorities often recommend parents leave the school to handle it. This is fine if the school is successful in stopping the bullying. However, this is not always the case. Most school programs to address bullying make only modest improvements ...
School wants input into developments
Stuff.co.nzChairwoman Rachel Murdoch says it is essential schools have notice of developments that will cause their rolls to boom. An increase of primary school-aged children in the area would seriously impact on the school's current planning for building ...
Destiny Church school turned down for state integration
Destiny Church's bid to make its private school part of the state system has failed.The church says the rejection is disappointing as its case was compelling and valid."We have other schools in New Zealand that are Christian-based...
This follows the principal and school manager being made redundant last night in line with criteria set last month by the Minister of Education Hekia Parata. It's business as usual at Te Kura Hourua ki Whangaruru following an announcement from the ...
Whangaruru charter school seeks new principal
Māori TelevisionThis follows the principal and school manager being made redundant last night in line with criteria set last month by the Minister of Education Hekia Parata. It's business as usual at Te Kura Hourua ki Whangaruru following an announcement from the ...
New Plymouth achievers win Edmund Hillary scholarships
Sporting efforts by two former New Plymouth high school students are paying dividends – both have won a Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship to attend university.
Striking balance key as Waikato University ponders new rules
The University of Waikato is pondering how to shrink its governing body in line with reforms, while balancing size with representation of relevant groups.
Massey University is selling its 10ha Hokowhitu Campus in Palmerston North through an international tender process. The site includes a mix of office and educational buildings, a marae and sporting facilities. The existing buildings provide 30,000 ...
Massey University's 10ha Hokowhitu campus is being sold by international ...
Interest.co.nzMassey University is selling its 10ha Hokowhitu Campus in Palmerston North through an international tender process. The site includes a mix of office and educational buildings, a marae and sporting facilities. The existing buildings provide 30,000 ...
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