Tuesday 12 May 2015

Wednesday 13 May 2015

NZCER appoints new director

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
responsible for the development, management and marketing of a wide range of evidence-based educational assessments, surveys, resources and services such as the widely used PAT “I am excited about leading NZCER as we strive to influence an ...

Maori with degrees earn thousands more

Radio New Zealand
More than 9000 tāngata whenua obtained a Level 7 qualification or Bachelor's Degree between 2006 and 2013, Statistics New Zealand information on education and training shows. The median income for people without a bachelor's degree was nearly ...

NCEA 'needs a PR campaign'

A panel of education experts says NCEA needs a major public relations campaign to raise limited public understanding of the qualification.

Education sector needs best and brightest: Minister

New Zealand's smartest students need to see teaching as a career.

Teenagers with learning difficulties missing out

Stuff.co.nz
It has been revealed teenagers with learning difficulties applying for Special Assessment Conditions (SAC) don't qualify for reader-writer aides, more time or a separate space to sit exams if their reading or writing ability is not what it should be ...

Students advised to build 'wiggle room' into credits

More than 20 per cent of students who applied but failed last year to enter university have managed to fight their way back in or have enrolled in a university bridging programme to get up to speed.Nine hundred school leavers who...

Students and staff meeting in Wellington to discuss education issues

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The national student union NZUSA is this week hosting a series of conferences in Wellington on issues in the tertiary education sector with students and staff from universities, institutes of technology and polytechnics (ITPs). The first conference ...

Marlborough schools in line for $1.8m investment

Stuff.co.nz
Twenty-one schools in Marlborough have signed up to a multi-million dollar government success scheme to lift student achievement. The scheme, called the Blenheim Community of Schools, will target student attendance, improve literacy and numeracy ...

Open Polytech finalists in PM's Education Excellence Awards

Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Chris Bishop, National List MP based in the Hutt Valley, has congratulated the Open Polytechnic for being nominated for a Prime Minister's Education Excellence Award. The Primary Science and Mathematics Teaching Team at the Open Polytechnic has been ...

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