Better tutoring from fellowship
waateanews.comThe fellowship, provided by UNESCO and the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, is worth $30,000. Jesse Pirini is developing a tutoring programme for his own Ngati Tuwharetoa iwi as part of his doctoral research at AUT University. He says it ...
Five schools get special recruitment allowance
Hekia Parata | EducationEducation Minister Hekia Parata says schools in Northland, Waikato, Hawkes Bay and Canterbury are the first to gain approval to use a new allowance to recruit principals who can help them tackle significant challenges. The Principal Recruitment Allowance was agreed as part of Investing in Educational Success, the $359 million package to help lift students’ educational achievement. ...
Information-sharing on student loans welcomed
Steven Joyce | Revenue
Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce and Revenue Minister Todd McClay have welcomed the announcement of an arrangement that will see Australia and New Zealand share data to assist New Zealand to recoup unpaid student loans of defaulters in Australia. Prime Minister John Key and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced the information-sharing arrangement at their annual Leaders’ Meeting today. ...
Education Minister Hekia Parata announced on Sunday that schools with significant challenges in Northland, Waikato, Hawke's Bay and Canterbury will be given a $50,000 allowance to help them recruit the right principal for the job. The schools are...
"We're supporting schools with significant challenges to do one of the . . . most important things they can to lift educational achievement, which is get the right leadership in place." The board of trustees of a school could apply for the allowance to...
Five schools get special recruitment allowance
A recent report on Whangarei Boys' High School found a growing gap between the achievement of Maori and Pakeha students. The Education Review Office (ERO) report released in January put the school on a one to two year review cycle, rather than the ...
... New Zealand, they should know who these kids are, where they come from, and what sort of culture they have.” The next step for the Office of the Auditor-General is to look into the resources allocated to the education sector and whether it's ...
First schools get cash for principal hire
NZ CityEducation Minister Hekia Parata announced on Sunday that schools with significant challenges in Northland, Waikato, Hawke's Bay and Canterbury will be given a $50,000 allowance to help them recruit the right principal for the job. The schools are...
Under-achieving schools' principals to get salary top-up
Stuff.co.nz"We're supporting schools with significant challenges to do one of the . . . most important things they can to lift educational achievement, which is get the right leadership in place." The board of trustees of a school could apply for the allowance to...
Five schools get special recruitment allowance
Success of Maori students critical for Boys' High: ERO
Northern AdvocateA recent report on Whangarei Boys' High School found a growing gap between the achievement of Maori and Pakeha students. The Education Review Office (ERO) report released in January put the school on a one to two year review cycle, rather than the ...
Relationships between Māori families and schools must be strengthened
Māori Television... New Zealand, they should know who these kids are, where they come from, and what sort of culture they have.” The next step for the Office of the Auditor-General is to look into the resources allocated to the education sector and whether it's ...
Social science more popular than science and technology
Students beginning university this week are most likely to take a degree focused on human society or culture, despite the ongoing push towards science and technology.Humanities and social science subjects were the field of choice...
Forget top marks, just toughen up
Teachers showering Kiwi kids with praise - and never allowing them to fail - are threatening to do more harm than good, a leading educationist says.University of Melbourne's Professor Stephen Dinham has urged teachers to ditch untested...New Aranui super-school given helping hand in recruitment
A proposed new super school in Christchurch is one of the recipients of the Government's new special recruitment allowance. The Education Ministry is allocating $50, 000 to five schools around the country in need of new principals.Universities New Zealand responds on UE
Universities say while they have enrolled many of those who came up short for this academic year they are not lowering their standards.
Student numbers at the University of Canterbury continue to fall, with the 2014 enrolment the lowest in five years. The student headcount has dropped more than 21 per cent since 2010, dropping from 18,783 that year to 14,725 in 2014. University ...
The press would focus on where the university had already established a reputation, such as agricultural science, food research, veterinary science and practice, public health, creative arts, education, psychology, Maori Studies, military and ...
Their work covers a range of genres, from history and fiction to science, technology and business topics, reflecting the diverse research covered by the University's fivecolleges – Business, Creative Arts, Health, Humanities and Social Sciences, and ...
The police are planning to dispatch fluent Maori speaking officers to Kohanga Reo, Kura Kaupapa and secondary schools in south Auckland. Inspector Nga-Wati Chaplow said officers want to get closer to Maori at an early age. "By the use of Te Reo we are ...
Promoting student wellbeing, Palmerston North girls high school running sessions including 101 ways to be happy. Palmerston North Girls' High School year 11 students, from left, Abbey Hoffman, 15, ...
Jenny Williams, principal of Samuel Marsden Collegiate School, which has students from pre-school to year 13, said older children were active in different ways that could mean they were injured more. "The younger children do a lot of play. They are ...
A new partnership between New Zealand owned companies – education ICT specialist Cyclone and leading payment solutions provider Debit success – is giving parents/caregivers payment options that are making a positive affordable difference. The recently ...
Education costs pile up, Cyclone to the rescue
Furthermore, teachers need to be centrally involved in the planning and implementation so that their classroom needs are at the heart of the design of the initiatives. With 93% of primary teachers and principals voting “no confidence” in IES last year ...
New Zealand First supports the call from the New Zealand Principals' Federation for greater resourcing to meet the needs of Pacific learners in the classroom. “The Principals' Federation says it is not 'obvious how to apply (the Ministry of Education's...
Many who did not achieve University entrance are still enrolled
Many of the school-leavers who failed to meet the tougher new university entrance standard have squeaked in after all. Universities have enrolled many of those who came up short.Plunging university roll 'just temporary down cycle'
Stuff.co.nzStudent numbers at the University of Canterbury continue to fall, with the 2014 enrolment the lowest in five years. The student headcount has dropped more than 21 per cent since 2010, dropping from 18,783 that year to 14,725 in 2014. University ...
Publishing house for Massey 'not just for staff and students'
Manawatu StandardThe press would focus on where the university had already established a reputation, such as agricultural science, food research, veterinary science and practice, public health, creative arts, education, psychology, Maori Studies, military and ...
Massey launches own publishing press
Scoop.co.nz (press release)Their work covers a range of genres, from history and fiction to science, technology and business topics, reflecting the diverse research covered by the University's fivecolleges – Business, Creative Arts, Health, Humanities and Social Sciences, and ...
Police coming to a kura near you
Radio New ZealandThe police are planning to dispatch fluent Maori speaking officers to Kohanga Reo, Kura Kaupapa and secondary schools in south Auckland. Inspector Nga-Wati Chaplow said officers want to get closer to Maori at an early age. "By the use of Te Reo we are ...
Schools work to ease student stress
Stuff.co.nzPromoting student wellbeing, Palmerston North girls high school running sessions including 101 ways to be happy. Palmerston North Girls' High School year 11 students, from left, Abbey Hoffman, 15, ...
Full tums help the sums
It's lunchtime at Hora Hora Primary School. A class of 6-year-olds wearing wide-brimmed green hats pours out of a classroom and on to the painted benches outside.They crack open their lunchboxes to reveal cling film-wrapped sandwiches,...St Mark's School senior leaders resign
St Mark's School's two most senior leaders have resigned amid its state intervention.High cost of accidents in Wellington's schools
Stuff.co.nzJenny Williams, principal of Samuel Marsden Collegiate School, which has students from pre-school to year 13, said older children were active in different ways that could mean they were injured more. "The younger children do a lot of play. They are ...
Payment plans a solution for education expenses
Scoop.co.nzA new partnership between New Zealand owned companies – education ICT specialist Cyclone and leading payment solutions provider Debit success – is giving parents/caregivers payment options that are making a positive affordable difference. The recently ...
Education costs pile up, Cyclone to the rescue
Experts find IES evidence doesn't stack up
Scoop.co.nz (press release)Furthermore, teachers need to be centrally involved in the planning and implementation so that their classroom needs are at the heart of the design of the initiatives. With 93% of primary teachers and principals voting “no confidence” in IES last year ...
Pacific Education Needs More Support
Scoop.co.nz (press release)New Zealand First supports the call from the New Zealand Principals' Federation for greater resourcing to meet the needs of Pacific learners in the classroom. “The Principals' Federation says it is not 'obvious how to apply (the Ministry of Education's...
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