High number of teachers apply for $10m fund
Hekia Parata | EducationEducation Minister Hekia Parata has welcomed the more than 200 applications for the first round of the $10 million Teacher-led Innovation Fund. The new fund is part of the government’s $359 million Investing in Educational Success Initiative and provides funding for teachers to develop innovative ideas to be put into practice and shared across schools. ...
The three best and worst ways to modify a child’s behavior
How do you get your child to change the way they behave? Nathan Mikaere-Wallis is the Director of X-Factor Education, and discusses what the research tells us are the best and worst ways to go about this. He's formerly a board member of the Brainwave Trust, and has been a lecturer at the Christchurch College of Education, lecturing in human development, brain development, language and communication, risk and resilience.Racism at Auckland University tackled in project
You're pretty smart for a Tongan, eh?Māori and Pacific University unite against racism
Māori Television"Learning to cope with every day racism in kind of modern forms of colonialism was something that helped them succeed in higher education," says Mayeda. Te Rarawa and Ngāti Kahu descendant Chloe Manga who is in her final year of studying a Bachelors ...
Teachers' union criticises fee for police vetting
Passing the cost of police vetting on to school communities will only increase inequity and the vulnerability of children, says the president of the secondary school teachers' union.Mai Chen: St Bede's decision raises questions
The case of St Bede's College students, Jordan Kennedy and Jack Bell, breaching the Civil Aviation Rules while on a school rowing trip raises the following questions:Can schools still discipline their students if they misbehave?...N4L reaches 500000 school users on Managed Network
Scoop.co.nz (press release)Northland's rural Broadwood Area School is one of many schools which has found success using the Managed Network to fast track its digital learning plans. Since connecting to the Managed Network six months ago, Principal Pani Hauraki says a whole new ...
N4L finalists for two Hi-Tech Awards
N4L (Network for Learning) has been named a finalist for two categories in the New Zealand’s Hi-Tech Awards.Staff, students fight for elected places on university councils
University students and staff are fighting a rear-guard action to retain elected places on university councils.
She's also recommending it to others, especially Maori. "Now it's all about education. Ieducate everyone - 'come on, you've got to stay at school'. "Because of me being at school, my daughter has gone back to school. She's doing nursing at Wintec and ...
The Ministry's Education Early Learning Regional report for March says that Otago and Southland have a higher then average rate of participation in early childhoodeducation. The national average for participation sits at 95.9 per cent, in Southland ...
Never too old to finish your studies
New Zealand HeraldShe's also recommending it to others, especially Maori. "Now it's all about education. Ieducate everyone - 'come on, you've got to stay at school'. "Because of me being at school, my daughter has gone back to school. She's doing nursing at Wintec and ...
Strong early childhood participation levels in Southland
The Southland TimesThe Ministry's Education Early Learning Regional report for March says that Otago and Southland have a higher then average rate of participation in early childhoodeducation. The national average for participation sits at 95.9 per cent, in Southland ...
Mai Chen: St Bede's decision raises questions
The case of St Bede's College students, Jordan Kennedy and Jack Bell, breaching the Civil Aviation Rules while on a school rowing trip raises the following questions:Can schools still discipline their students if they misbehave?...Are you guilty of doing your child's homework?
Stuff.co.nzAnd I saw it a lot when grading papers in my daughters' elementary schoolclassrooms. I'd say that at least a quarter of them had been written by adults. When I pointed it out to the teachers, they always shrugged their shoulders and said the parents ...
TEU and ITF debate apprentice report
Tertiary Update Vol 18 No 8 A Ministry of Education report suggests industry training delivered apprenticeships are cheaper and more effective than managed apprenticeships delivered through polytechnics and institutes of technology. The Industry Training Federation (ITF) is welcoming the report but TEU says it has taken a narrow view of industry training and ignores the …
Continue readingTEU and ITF debate apprentice report →Leaving high school
The Nelson MailWhile McMenamin believed the "major scandal" was the system's failure to meet the needs of Maori and Pasifika children, a range of new policies and programmes had started to make a difference. He was also pleased with the links NPBHS had developed ...
Encouraging more primary school children to ride bikes – with council money
Scoop.co.nz (press release)The Wellington City Council is aiming to encourage primary school children to ride bikes by becoming the first local body to fully fund and manage Bikes in Schoolsprojects at three Wellington schools. This will put more than 1300 students each year in ...
Schoolkids to get taste of great outdoors
The Motueka Rudolf Steiner School has bought its dream site for a new school campus by knocking on the door of the former owner.principal calls time on 61-year career
Stuff.co.nzBrought up in Invercargill, Sutton's love of teaching was sparked at the age of 12 when she helped out her former new entrant teacher in the classroom. She recalled getting the strap often for talking and said that was proof that punishment did nothing ...
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