Thursday 20 August 2015

Friday 21 August 2015

Hekia Parata defends charter school that allegedly rewarded kids with KFC
Stuff.co.nz
Labour education spokesman Chris Hipkins said charter schools had "descended into chaos" and funding allocated to create two more was a complete waste. Ad Feedback. "The charter schools experiment has been a spectacular failure. Time and money ...

$9.9m Westmere School redevelopment completed
Nikki Kaye | Education
Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye will visit Westmere School in Auckland this afternoon to mark the completion of a $9.9 million redevelopment. “The project was completed early last month and includes 21 new teaching spaces, a new library and administration building and general infrastructure upgrade,” says Ms Kaye. “There were weather-tightness and structural issues with a number of existing buildings at the school. ...

Real talk between schools and science and tech industry
Stuff.co.nz
In addition they have been surveying teachers about their knowledge of what was already happening in those industries and what they were doing in classrooms to relate to that. And on Thursday afternoon a "meet and greet" with local industry ...

High-needs preschool had choice: Ministry
The Ministry of Education says an Auckland high-needs preschool that lost funding after becoming a playgroup had a choice.

There is no doubt driving is a skill but is it a subject?
The Labour party have plans for work and labour, one of those plans is to have schools teach kids how to drive and part of those plans is to make driving a part of NCEA.The broad principal if I understand it correctly, is we need...

Former students fight to prevent school closure
Radio New Zealand
Education Minister Hekia Parata announced a consultation with the Turakina Māori Girls' College board last week about its viability, after the roll fell from 152 pupils in 2003 to just 54 this year. Turakina former student Toni Huata said about three ...

New Partnership Schools Kura Hourua are Go
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Rise Up Academy was featured at length in the Herald's series on Auckland http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11496798. The woman behind the school, Sita Selupe was Next Magazine's Woman of the Year in 2014 and won a ...

Hekia Parata defends charter school that allegedly rewarded kids with KFC
Stuff.co.nz
Labour education spokesman Chris Hipkins said charter schools had "descended into chaos" and funding allocated to create two more was a complete waste. Ad Feedback. "The charter schools experiment has been a spectacular failure. Time and money ...

Bad classrooms make kids feel unimportant - PPTA
3News NZ
Shoddy, unsatisfactory and rundown – a nationwide review has revealed the true extent of the shocking state of some of our schools. Bill English and the Ministry of Education have admitted the situation is much worse than previously realised, and the ...

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