Stuff.co.nz
In its latest report, the Government said that despite improvements in overall achievement of National Standards and NCEA, disparity in educational outcomes for Maori students remained a challenge. Significant gains, however, had been made in the area ...
More support for disabled young people
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Disabled students with high needs will receive more support to transition from school to adult life, Disability Issues Minister Nicky Wagner says. Budget 2015 delivers an additional $16.3 million over the next four years for participation and inclusion ...
Special needs school shining brightly
Northern Advocate
In just three years Northland's only special needs school has gone from having its hand held by the Ministry of Education to being one of the top educators in the region. Blomfield Special School and Resource Centre in Whangarei is one of only a ...
Editorial: Bilingual kids in the classroom a treasure
Children coming into Auckland primary schools are carrying an undiscovered treasure — the ability to speak more than one language. It has been a rare thing in New Zealand but the immigration wave of this century is making it...
Australian parents face paying for education
Stuff.co.nz
The paper makes explicit the prospect of public school fees for high-income families by saying: "The States and Territories would have the option to 'top-up' funding to government schools, if they wished to do so, to ensure all public school students ...
Record numbers expected for school trustees conference
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The NZSTA annual national conference is on track to be sold out again this year, with registrations tracking ahead of last year's record numbers. The conference has consistently attracted over 800 registrations in recent years. Online registrations ...
Parents have the power to get school rules changed
Stuff.co.nz
In society, it is the government of the day and in the case of New Zealand schools, it is... um... is it the school principal? Or the Minister of Education? Or is it that every teacher has their own version of the school rules? Well, no! The school ...
Hato Petera principal claims major issues being overlooked
Māori Television
Hone Matthews says, 'We've met with the whānau, we've spoken with them, we've informed the Ministry of Education, we've issued a trespass notice and informed the police.” The person in question is the partner of a dorm manager at the college. Despite ...
Decile ratings 'crippling' Taranaki's smaller schools
Stuff.co.nz
Five Taranaki schools applied for reconsideration - four of those schools were ruralschools with rolls of 50 students or less. The Ministry of Education has now released the results of its review, with some schools faring better than others. Marco ...
Slow broadband keeps students up to 2am
Stuff.co.nz
Last year their twin sons, who are year 13 students at Marlborough Boys' College, were doing German and Spanish by correspondence as it was not offered at the school. However, the Correspondence School had stopped sending out work by post due to ...
City council's plan to help Wellington students
Stuff.co.nz
Wellington's tertiary institutions contribute more than $2 billion to the region's economy and much more in research, technology and human capital. Our council hugely values the contribution that students and staff make to the city's vibrancy ...
Student body more feminine
Hone Matthews says, 'We've met with the whānau, we've spoken with them, we've informed the Ministry of Education, we've issued a trespass notice and informed the police.” The person in question is the partner of a dorm manager at the college. Despite ...
Decile ratings 'crippling' Taranaki's smaller schools
Stuff.co.nz
Five Taranaki schools applied for reconsideration - four of those schools were ruralschools with rolls of 50 students or less. The Ministry of Education has now released the results of its review, with some schools faring better than others. Marco ...
Slow broadband keeps students up to 2am
Stuff.co.nz
Last year their twin sons, who are year 13 students at Marlborough Boys' College, were doing German and Spanish by correspondence as it was not offered at the school. However, the Correspondence School had stopped sending out work by post due to ...
City council's plan to help Wellington students
Stuff.co.nz
Wellington's tertiary institutions contribute more than $2 billion to the region's economy and much more in research, technology and human capital. Our council hugely values the contribution that students and staff make to the city's vibrancy ...
Student body more feminine
Student body more feminine A bastion of blokedom has been breached — Lincoln University has gone girly. This year student numbers show if you check the names on the gumboots outside the Library you are more likely to find Hannah than Hamish scrawled on them. ...
Mention the name of an Ivy League school and the assumption about the students who go there is immediate - genius, or rich.For many of the pupils, that may be true, but a handful of New Zealand teenagers accepted into top universities...
Auckland stuff.co.nz
Northland College in Kaikohe hit national headlines earlier this month for its "ghetto environment" which includes water leaks, mould, asbestos, a rotten ceiling, holes in walls and weeds in the spouting. But principal Jim Luders says "everything is ...
Sacked Invercargill principal must pay school $21k
3News NZ
An Invercargill principal sacked from her job last year over a toxic working environment at her school must pay more than $20,000 for the employment investigation process. Marlene Campbell was sacked as head of Salford School in March last year by the ...
Northland College in Kaikohe hit national headlines earlier this month for its "ghetto environment" which includes water leaks, mould, asbestos, a rotten ceiling, holes in walls and weeds in the spouting. But principal Jim Luders says "everything is ...
Sacked Invercargill principal must pay school $21k
3News NZ
An Invercargill principal sacked from her job last year over a toxic working environment at her school must pay more than $20,000 for the employment investigation process. Marlene Campbell was sacked as head of Salford School in March last year by the ...
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