$566000 for environmental education
Efforts to inspire young people to get involved with protecting New Zealand's natural world will benefit from $566,000 of funding announced today, Conservation Minister Maggie Barry says. “Six significant environmental education projects will receive ...
Waikato Tainui encourage self sufficient Marae - Māori Television
Ike Rākena, Kaitiaki of Te Kōhanga Reo o Makaurau says, “The desire to set up our own Kōhanga Reo came from our elders, who saw that our grandchildren were attending Kōhanga reo outside their area, and that they had the facilities, they should teach ...
Few Shore public high schools offer NCEA alternatives - Auckland stuff.co.nz
Just two North Shore public high schools will offer alternatives to NCEA following Westlake Boy's High School's decision to phase out Cambridge exams. From next year Takapuna Grammar School and Rangitoto College will be the only Shore public high ...
Agriculture to go in more school homework - Stuff.co.nz
Over the next few years this will be phased in to NCEA Levels 1, 2 and 3 students and cover a range of curriculum areas based on school and teacher feedback. The agriculture material will be mainly based around the red meat industry, but programme ...
Chorus of experts call for universal age of state child care to be raised to 21 - Stuff.co.nz
Almost 80 per cent did not have NCEA Level 2. More than 30 per cent had a youth justice referral by the age of 18, while nearly 20 per cent had had a custodial sentence. Almost 40 per cent had a community sentence. Wills said the age of care should be ...
Tolley 'ashamed' of 'horrific' stats in CYF report3News NZ
Speech to Fostering Kids New Zealand ConferenceScoop.co.nz (press release)
New project highlights gaps in literacy programmes - Stuff.co.nz
Ministry student achievement and investing in educational success deputy secretary Graham Stoop said their approach recognised that all students learned in different ways and at different stages. "We know a one-size-fits-all approach doesn't work.
Steve Maharey: Assessment as learning
Sir Richard Taylor of Weta Workshop fame tells an interesting story about the New Zealand education system. Weta employs a large number of young people who he characterises as intelligent, self-motivated, creative, hardworking and...
Kids learning code make a connection with future
Among Malcolm Turnbull's first words as the newly elected leader of Australia's Liberal Party, and hence heading for the Prime Minister's job, were: "The Australia of the future has to be a nation that is agile, that is innovative,...
Teacher spat in Down's Syndrome child's face
An Auckland teacher who spat on a five-year-old Down's Syndrome boy's face will be allowed to keep teaching.Marion Johnson was charged with serious misconduct after another teacher at Mt Richmond Special School in south Auckland...
Digital learning teachers awarded - Educators NZ
Kristin School teacher Nathan Calvert was awarded the inaugural NEXT Foundation Expert Teacher Award at the ceremony. ... “I take my hat off to our first cohort of teachers for taking this crucial step to develop their digital and collaborative ...
Parents will fight school closure
The parents of pupils at a school being closed over concerns for student safety will present the Education Minister with a petition calling for it to be kept open.
School closure consult 'farce' says principal
The decision to close an East Cape kura next year was already rubber-stamped and the consultation process was a farce, its principal says.
Te Reo first for new bill
The Te Reo Māori bill has been held up because Minister of Māori Development Te Ururoa Flavell wants to translate the piece of legislation into Māori, he says.
School's $5.3m redevelopment underway - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
and commitment of Avonhead School and its community as they celebrate the start of the school's $5.3m redevelopment. “It was a privilege to share this special day with Avonhead ...
Education leaders gather in Rotorua
More than 350 leaders in education will descend on the Rotorua Convention Centre for the NZEI Te Riu Roa Annual Conference from 28-30 September.
Vic students vote to keep their national voice
Students at Victoria University of Wellington have voted to stay in the national student movement by a 45-point margin in a referendum held this week.
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