Thursday 17 September 2015

$5.5m projects see new classrooms open at Auckland schools - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye has welcomed the opening of new state-of-the-art classrooms at Auckland's Mount Albert Grammar School and Sylvia Park School (Tamaki). “These new classrooms are part of our broader plan to address roll growth at ...

Toby Curtis: Charter schools the key for Maori - New Zealand Herald
We believe kura hourua can be a circuit breaker in closing the educational achievement gap between Maori and non-Maori students. While much has been and is being achieved through the kohanga reo, kura kaupapa and kura a iwi movements, a large and ...

New algorithm helps map health trends
A new research tool is decoding doctors' notes, and using previously untouched medical data to map health trends.

New school for Western East Cape
A new Year 1-13 school will be opened in the Western East Cape next year to provide better educational opportunities for the young people of Te Whānau-a-Apanui says Education Minister Hekia Parata. Te Kura o Ōmaio, Te Whānau-a-Apanui Area School and Raukokore School will close on 27 January 2016, and Year 1-13 schooling in the area will be provided by the new school, initially to be known as Te Kaha Community School. It will open at the beginning of 2016 and operate on the current Te Whānau-ā-Apanui Area School site

Philip Harding: Big questions for Govt's new overseers of our teachers
And behold, God gave the world Educanz, and the sector looked at it, and was not particularly happy. The replacement for the old Teachers Council has its challenges ahead.Despite more than 1000 submissions raising concerns about...

Joyce unaware of National MP on Taratahi board
Steven Joyce, the Minister of Tertiary Education, did not know of his MP colleague Barbara Kuriger’s role on the board of Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre during the time it has been accused of rorts and fraud, Labour’s David Cunliffe says.

Editorial: Teacher-discipline rule changes too late for boy taped to chair
EDITORIAL: Are schools for children or are they for teachers? That may seem a flippant question but you have to wonder if reality has been completely out of kilter with common sense, given the way a recent complaint against a Christchurch teacher was handled by the school and the teachers' governing body.

Labour calls out Govt's tertiary data requirement plan - Educators NZ
Labour says the Government's recent announcement that tertiary institutes are required to reveal where their graduates end up working and what they earn is a step in the right direction, however the plan comes with what the opposition party is calling ...