Government Taskforce on Early Childhood Education

Government Taskforce on Early Childhood Education
Anne Tolley | Education
Education Minister Anne Tolley has announced the establishment of an independent taskforce on early childhood education (ECE).
The taskforce will review the effectiveness of ECE spending, propose inno...

Early childhood taskforce announced - Stuff.co.nz

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Early childhood taskforce announced Stuff.co.nz An early childhood education taskforce that critics say is set up to cut costs has been confirmed by Education Minister Anne ...

Taskforce will study cost of early education

Taskforce will study cost of early education
A taskforce has been set up to look at early childhood education funding and Labour says cuts will follow.Education Minister Anne Tolley said the taskforce would review the effectiveness of spending and look for ideas about learning...

Early childhood sector unhappy about review

Early childhood sector unhappy about review
Some in the early childhood education sector say they are shocked by the announcement of a Government review.

Early Childhood Sector questions intention of review

Early Childhood Sector questions intention of review
Early childhood care providers say they have been blind-sided by the announcement of a taskforce to review the sector.

NZEI Welcomes New Requirements For Teacher Training - Voxy

NZEI Welcomes New Requirements For Teacher Training
Voxy
"These new requirements will ensure the selection and training of teachers is even more robust. This can only strengthen the profession and be good for ...

Call for increased Early Childhood Education funding - Stuff.co.nz

Stuff.co.nz

Call for increased Early Childhood Education funding Stuff.co.nz Primary teachers union New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI), which represents early childhood teachers, said increasing investment and establishing a ...

Māori Students Study Their Environment - Voxy

Māori Students Study Their Environment
Voxy
Children attending total immersion Māori language schools in the Bay of Plenty now have a new tool to learn about their environment in their own language. ...

Speech: Culture Matters : One Shoe Doesn't Fit All' - Hon Tariana Turia - Voxy

Speech: Culture Matters : One Shoe Doesn't Fit All' - Hon Tariana Turia
Voxy
ERO posed a simple question to schools - how had they improved Maori student achievement? And yet despite its simplicity, the answer was anything but. ...

Primary literacy - Otago Daily Times

Primary literacy
Otago Daily Times
As soon as issues of ethnicity enter the debate about basic primary-school education, common sense flies out the window. The latest wail, that there is a ...

Tightening of rules for funding industry training

Tightening of rules for funding industry training
The government is tightening rules for funding industry training after finding more than a third of trainees enrolled have not completed their courses.

Student teachers should be supervised by registere

Student teachers should be supervised by registere
A new Teachers Council requirement that anyone supervising a student teacher must themselves be a registered teacher should bring an end to universities pressuring staff without practicing certificates into supervising students. That is the view ...

Profession to have a say on future teachers

Profession to have a say on future teachers
“The teaching profession is set to have a say on the approval of New Zealand’s 170 initial teacher education (ITE) programmes and those selected to become our future teachers,” said New Zealand Teachers Council (the Council) Director, Dr Peter Lind.

TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 38 - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

TEU Tertiary Update Vol 13 No 38
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Dr Ryan says that in recent years TEU has had concerns that some academic staff in schools of education who do not have formal teaching qualifications have ...

PPTA welcomes changes to student teacher education - TVNZ

PPTA welcomes changes to student teacher education
TVNZ
The PPTA also welcomed a focus on competency in Maori, and said requirements that students have teaching practice in a range of schools would prepare them ...

Student Teachers Should Be Supervised By Registered Teachers - Voxy

Student Teachers Should Be Supervised By Registered Teachers
Voxy
A new Teachers Council requirement that anyone supervising a student teacher must themselves be a registered teacher should bring an end to universities ...

NZ parents getting their kids up online

NZ parents getting their kids up online
New Zealand families are at the forefront of creating digital footprints for their children.

New ICT strategy for government agencies

New ICT strategy for government agencies
Government agencies are going to have to tighten up the way they buy and use information communications technology (ICT), Internal Affairs Minister Nathan Guy says. The government wanted to ensure the $2 billion a year spent on ICT was used wisely and represented value for money, he said today. "A 2008 survey found that much of this ICT spend is fragmented and duplicated," he said. "It's important that government agencies co-ordinate their planning, purchasing and delivery of ICT services."...

New research centre focuses on social innovation - Massey News (press release)

Massey News (press release)

New research centre focuses on social innovation Massey News (press release) A new research centre that aims to showcase New Zealand's social entrepreneurial spirit has been set up at the University. The New Zealand Social Innovation ...