Chris Hipkins MP
Hekia Parata's latest plan to subject school students to even more testing and assessment won't do anything to lift the educational achievement of the kids who are struggling, Labour's Educationspokesperson Chris Hipkins says. “New Zealand school students are already amongst ... Our kids and teachers are spending so much time preparing for tests and assessments that they aren't getting time to actually learn and teach. “Rather than obsess about statistics, the ...
Nikki Kaye | Education
A contract has been signed with the consortium Interlink which will provide over $100 million worth of modern, multi-purpose, transportable classrooms over ten years, says Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye. “This contract will deliver at least 50 transportable classrooms each year to schools around New Zealand, but is designed to deliver more if required,” says Ms Kaye. “The classrooms will be invaluable in situations where a permanent building is temporarily out of action, or we need to meet rapid roll growth in a particular location. ...
A contract has been signed with the consortium Interlink which will provide over $100 million worth of modern, multi-purpose, transportable classrooms over ten years, says Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye. “This contract will deliver at least 50 transportable classrooms each year to schools around New Zealand, but is designed to deliver more if required,” says Ms Kaye. “The classrooms will be invaluable in situations where a permanent building is temporarily out of action, or we need to meet rapid roll growth in a particular location. ...
Nikki Kaye | Youth
Youth Minister Nikki Kaye today opened applications for Youth Fund 2016, which makes $200,000 available for community projects led by young people. “This fund is unique because it supports projects designed and led by young people themselves, either working alone or in partnership with youth organisations,” says Ms Kaye. “As well as benefiting their communities, this helps young people between the ages of 12 and 24 develop decision-making and leadership skills. ...
Insight for 19 July 2015 - Top Teachers - Divided Schools
Youth Minister Nikki Kaye today opened applications for Youth Fund 2016, which makes $200,000 available for community projects led by young people. “This fund is unique because it supports projects designed and led by young people themselves, either working alone or in partnership with youth organisations,” says Ms Kaye. “As well as benefiting their communities, this helps young people between the ages of 12 and 24 develop decision-making and leadership skills. ...
Insight for 19 July 2015 - Top Teachers - Divided Schools
John Gerritsen explores why the government's flagship scheme to improve education is dividing schools.
Education threatening Māori leaders - educationalist
An American educationalist is challenging the Minister of Education to do more through the school curriculum to nurture and develop the next generation of Māori leaders.
School racial segregation disadvantaging students, report says
Education threatening Māori leaders - educationalist
An American educationalist is challenging the Minister of Education to do more through the school curriculum to nurture and develop the next generation of Māori leaders.
School racial segregation disadvantaging students, report says
Stuff.co.nz
Waikato University professor of education Martin Thrupp did not believe the British study translated to New Zealand, given the success of kura kaupapa for Maori and the country's unique considerations of the treaty and indigenous culture. Ministry of ...
Families face split by schools
Siblings are likely to end up at separate primary schools as strict new school zones come into force at a number of Auckland primary schools this year.The Ministry of Education has contacted 10 state schools concerned classrooms...
The trouble with being gifted
Stuff.co.nz
Namely, the professional development of teachers doesn't adequately cover giftededucation. Few teacher training colleges offer specialised training and often teachershave to take it upon themselves to seek further information. There can be ...
Students miss out on trades
Waikato University professor of education Martin Thrupp did not believe the British study translated to New Zealand, given the success of kura kaupapa for Maori and the country's unique considerations of the treaty and indigenous culture. Ministry of ...
Families face split by schools
Siblings are likely to end up at separate primary schools as strict new school zones come into force at a number of Auckland primary schools this year.The Ministry of Education has contacted 10 state schools concerned classrooms...
The trouble with being gifted
Stuff.co.nz
Namely, the professional development of teachers doesn't adequately cover giftededucation. Few teacher training colleges offer specialised training and often teachershave to take it upon themselves to seek further information. There can be ...
Students miss out on trades
High school principals will cut the number of pupils attending popular trades academies in a bid to protect the jobs of teachers and senior management.The academies were introduced in 2011 offering courses ranging from hospitality...
Herald on Sunday editoral: Secondary schools shut doors to trades
Herald on Sunday editoral: Secondary schools shut doors to trades
Teachers' unions always insist they are professional bodies serving the interests of education, not just their members.How disappointing, therefore, to discover the Post Primary Teachers' Association's secondary principals' council...
PPTA now wants trades training banned in schools - Whale Oil Beef ...
There is a story in a Sunday newspaper that illustrates what dreadful backwards thinking people the unionised teachers are. Children are being discouraged, or even banned, from attending trades courses because the ...
Teachers looking to bridge the gap between kindy and primary school
Three Taranaki teachers are looking for a new approach to give kids a "flying start" when they head to primary school.
Lecturers: It's hard to survive as a student - The Wireless
More students in New Zealand are working long hours and shouldering huge debt - and it's leaving them exhausted, sick and unable to get the most out of their education, university lecturers say. “Being astudent is hard”, ...
Government under fire for charter school 'rort'
The government is under fire for awarding a charter school a contract before ensuring it had somewhere to teach its kids.Villa Education Trust was unable to find a big enough site to lease before it opened its Middle School West...
Tomorrow's Schools 25 years on
Voxy
This finding is consistent with every previous piece of research that has been done on school choice in New Zealand, which finds that parents make social/ economic rather than educational choices for their children. In short, the evidence is that ...
Govt to fund ICT schools
3News NZ
The Government will spend $28.6 million on three technology-focused graduateschools in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch over the next four years, Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce says. The Information and ...
Educators NZ - Interactive projectors changing classrooms
Educators NZ
“After the earthquakes a new campus plan was drawn up which included three newclassroom blocks and the renovation of a fourth block,” he says. “Our requirements meant that the projectors all be the same brand, of particularly high quality and that ...
New research shows students want LGBTI education | Stuff.co.nz
Stuff.co.nz
The workshops took place over a six week period, both schools were co-educationalmetropolitan Auckland schools. Aych McArdle, education director of Rainbow Youth, says the results come at an important time, with recently released information showing ...
OBITUARY: Joan Holland, a dedicated educator
A generation of young women had their lives shaped by a formidable role model.
Early Childhood sector takes stock and looks to the future
Hundreds of teachers will meet in Auckland this evening to discuss the future of early childhood education in New Zealand.
Funding Shortage Puts the Brakes on Vital Peer-to-Peer Tutor
More than 6,000 Kiwi secondary students are spending their holidays swotting subjects without the help of our country’s top talent as critical funding is stretched for New Zealand’s acclaimed not-for-profit, dedicated peer-to-peer tutoring programme ...
South Auckland gets a boost of academic mana
New Zealand Herald
Government's goal is 55 per cent of all 25-34-year-olds having a tertiary educationqualification. • Another of its tertiary education priorities is lifting the achievement ofMaori and Pasifika students. • South Auckland has the fastest growing youth ...
Grey Lynn school looks for attention
NZ Catholic
“From that lots of ideas and opinions were brainstormed,” she said, “and one major aspect that came across was that a couple of new parents said, 'We didn't know that there was a school. We knew about the church, but didn't know about the school.'”
Manawatu Prison's Te Ara Maori Unit gaining mana after Alpha Christian unit
Stuff.co.nz
Both Andrew and James believe they will take their education with them, learning te reo Maori also, when they get out of prison in a few years. "I sort of lost heart when I was younger, with the path that I took," Andrew says. And James: "I haven't ...
PPTA now wants trades training banned in schools - Whale Oil Beef ...
There is a story in a Sunday newspaper that illustrates what dreadful backwards thinking people the unionised teachers are. Children are being discouraged, or even banned, from attending trades courses because the ...
Teachers looking to bridge the gap between kindy and primary school
Three Taranaki teachers are looking for a new approach to give kids a "flying start" when they head to primary school.
Lecturers: It's hard to survive as a student - The Wireless
More students in New Zealand are working long hours and shouldering huge debt - and it's leaving them exhausted, sick and unable to get the most out of their education, university lecturers say. “Being astudent is hard”, ...
Government under fire for charter school 'rort'
The government is under fire for awarding a charter school a contract before ensuring it had somewhere to teach its kids.Villa Education Trust was unable to find a big enough site to lease before it opened its Middle School West...
Tomorrow's Schools 25 years on
Voxy
This finding is consistent with every previous piece of research that has been done on school choice in New Zealand, which finds that parents make social/ economic rather than educational choices for their children. In short, the evidence is that ...
Govt to fund ICT schools
3News NZ
The Government will spend $28.6 million on three technology-focused graduateschools in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch over the next four years, Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce says. The Information and ...
Educators NZ - Interactive projectors changing classrooms
Educators NZ
“After the earthquakes a new campus plan was drawn up which included three newclassroom blocks and the renovation of a fourth block,” he says. “Our requirements meant that the projectors all be the same brand, of particularly high quality and that ...
New research shows students want LGBTI education | Stuff.co.nz
Stuff.co.nz
The workshops took place over a six week period, both schools were co-educationalmetropolitan Auckland schools. Aych McArdle, education director of Rainbow Youth, says the results come at an important time, with recently released information showing ...
OBITUARY: Joan Holland, a dedicated educator
A generation of young women had their lives shaped by a formidable role model.
Early Childhood sector takes stock and looks to the future
Hundreds of teachers will meet in Auckland this evening to discuss the future of early childhood education in New Zealand.
Funding Shortage Puts the Brakes on Vital Peer-to-Peer Tutor
More than 6,000 Kiwi secondary students are spending their holidays swotting subjects without the help of our country’s top talent as critical funding is stretched for New Zealand’s acclaimed not-for-profit, dedicated peer-to-peer tutoring programme ...
South Auckland gets a boost of academic mana
New Zealand Herald
Government's goal is 55 per cent of all 25-34-year-olds having a tertiary educationqualification. • Another of its tertiary education priorities is lifting the achievement ofMaori and Pasifika students. • South Auckland has the fastest growing youth ...
Grey Lynn school looks for attention
NZ Catholic
“From that lots of ideas and opinions were brainstormed,” she said, “and one major aspect that came across was that a couple of new parents said, 'We didn't know that there was a school. We knew about the church, but didn't know about the school.'”
Manawatu Prison's Te Ara Maori Unit gaining mana after Alpha Christian unit
Stuff.co.nz
Both Andrew and James believe they will take their education with them, learning te reo Maori also, when they get out of prison in a few years. "I sort of lost heart when I was younger, with the path that I took," Andrew says. And James: "I haven't ...
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