Te Awamutu Primary School matches kids' passions with class focus - Stuff.co.nz
Senior kids use their interests to pick a classroom at Te Awamutu Primary School. Pictured from left are ... Te Awamutu Primary School has six "passion classrooms" where the interests of year five and six students are the context for study. The ...
Taping child to his chair was a 'joke', Education Council says
It is understood this was one of the incidents investigated. The mother said the investigation was "unjust", since the Education Council never once contacted her to hear her son's side of the story. "She might have thought it was a joke, but we ...
Maori Education Trust in trouble - Radio New Zealand
The Maori Education Trust has had to sell its only assets, its farms, putting at risk the grants it is required to make to Maori students. It has allocated education grants since 1961because of the generosity of a number of private bequests, but after ...
Government wants new rules for young foreign primary pupils
The government wants to stop foreign children under the age of 11 from enrolling in New Zealand schools without having a parent or legal guardian in the country.
Top school drops Cambridge exams
One of the country's top state schools is ditching the highly renowned Cambridge exams to "fully embrace" the controversial New Zealand NCEA qualification.Westlake Boys High School, on Auckland's North Shore, says it believes NCEA...
Marking 25 years of irrelevant research
A study showing that nearly all mammals take the same amount of time to urinate has won a prize in the 25th year of Ig Nobel awards at Harvard University.
Victoria University to address bullying in schools - Educators NZ
According to a recent Trends in International Mathematics and Science report, New Zealand is one of the worst countries for incidences of recurrent bullying, ranked 46 out of 50 for bullying in primary schools and 24 at lower secondary school. Of Year ...
Charitable Giving to Universities in Australia and NZ
Universities in Australia and New Zealand reported significant growth in the number of donors in 2014, according to a report on higher education philanthropic giving in the two countries.
Universities express unease over plan to make graduate pay data public
The country's peak university body is uneasy about a government move to force universities and polytechnics to publish information on graduates' pay and employment status. Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce said the data, which will be available ...
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