Govt shifts $55 million into more student places

Govt shifts $55 million into more student places
Steven Joyce Tertiary Education
The Government will fund almost 3,000 more university student places over the next two years in response to high demand for full-time tertiary study, Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce announce...

New Zealand science and science education policy news | Code for Life

New Zealand science and science education policy news Code for Life
Today the Royal Society and the Chief Science Advisor (Sir Peter Gluckman) has released a paper Inspired by science, prepared by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, discussing these issues. (Available as a PDF file.) ...

Education: Principals Start Campaign Against National Standards - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

Education: Principals Start Campaign Against National Standards
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
'An NZCER report showed that children making “normal” progress for their year level would be judged to be “failing” when assessed against their Year level ...

Principal to attend standards meeting with open mind - Radio New Zealand

Principal to attend standards meeting with open mind
Radio New Zealand
A member of the National Standards Advisory Group says he will attend the group's first meeting with an open mind. The Principals Federation says the ...

School principals to campaign against national standards - Radio New Zealand

School principals to campaign against national standards
Radio New Zealand
A group representing more than 2300 school principals has begun a public campaign against the national standards in reading, writing and maths. ...

National Standards: Why parents should be worried

National Standards: Why parents should be worried
As the debate over National Standards gains momentum, New Zealand Principals’ Federation President Ernie Buutveld explains why parents should be concerned about the system, and tells us why it won’t deliver on the government’s promises.

PPTA to meet Education Ministry tomorrow - Stuff.co.nz

3News NZ

PPTA to meet Education Ministry tomorrow Stuff.co.nz The secondary teachers' union says it will return to the bargaining table with the Ministry of Education tomorrow morning. The Post Primary Teachers ...

Teachers call off strike - NZ City

Teachers call off strike
NZ City
He says it's only four weeks until external NCEA exams and having Year 11 pupils out for a whole day of learning was going to be a disadvantage to them.

Teachers' strike off after new Govt offer - New Zealand Herald

New Zealand Herald

Teachers' strike off after new Govt offer New Zealand Herald Finance Minister Bill English then weighed in, saying teachers should not waste their time trying to persuade Education Minister Anne Tolley they needed a ...

Ministry welcomes postponement of strike

Ministry welcomes postponement of strike
The Ministry of Education has welcomed the PPTA’s decision to postpone its planned strike for this Thursday 14 October

What do you think of the Govt cuts to early childhood education? - 3News NZ

3News NZ

What do you think of the Govt cuts to early childhood education? 3News NZ Over the next four years the Government is cutting $480m from early childhood education, about $90m of it is being redirected elsewhere, but overall, ...

Funding for extra domestic students - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

Funding for extra domestic students Otago Daily Times None of the extra student places announced yesterday will go to polytechnics, a decision which Otago Polytechnic chief executive Phil Ker said yesterday was ...

Labour accuses govt of education money-go-round - TVNZ

Otago Daily Times

Labour accuses govt of education money-go-round TVNZ Labour is accusing the government of a money-go-round after it announced $55 million funding for nearly 3000 extra university places. Tertiary Education ...

Childhood education cuts pressure family - Star Canterbury

Star Canterbury

Childhood education cuts pressure family Star Canterbury A Christchurch survey by the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) has shown that 92.3 per cent of early childhood centres set to lose funding will ...

Govt says schools are failing Pacific students - Radio New Zealand

Scoop.co.nz (press release)

Govt says schools are failing Pacific students Radio New Zealand Around 30% of Pacific Island young people plan to look for work on leaving school according to the report and most in tertiary education don't study for ...

Global classroom projects - The Press

Global classroom projects
The Press
One of the core founders was Waimairi School's principal Mike Anderson. He attended an Apple conference in San Francisco that year and took along a New ...

Funding reshuffle bad move, says union - New Zealand Herald

Otago Daily Times

Funding reshuffle bad move, says union New Zealand Herald But it has come under fire for taking money from industry training to pay the $55 million bill. Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce yesterday said the ...

Unfair funding switch in tertiary education - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

Unfair funding switch in tertiary education
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The CTU is critical of the Government announcement to remove funding equivalent to 55000 places in industry training. Peter Conway, CTU Secretary, ...

New uni places to be Government funded - Newstalk ZB

New Zealand Herald

New uni places to be Government funded Newstalk ZB Fifty-five million dollars has been taken out of the budget for Industry Training Organisations and will instead go into helping with the high demand for ...

Universities Welcome Additional Funding For More Student Places - Voxy

Universities Welcome Additional Funding For More Student Places
Voxy
They employ over half the country's research staff, have the bulk of its fundamental research capability and train nearly all its postgraduate students ...

Universities welcome additional funding for places

Universities welcome additional funding for places
Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara (Universities NZ) welcomes the government’s announcement to invest more money into university student places for 2011 and 2012. This decision is in accord with what universities have been pointing to for some ...

Boost to university places welcomed

Boost to university places welcomed
Students welcome today’s announcement of an extra 3,000 more university student places over the next two years as a useful boost for tertiary funding and are pleased the Government has heard the calls of student representatives and the sector about ...

Unfair funding switch in tertiary education

Unfair funding switch in tertiary education
The CTU is critical of the Government announcement to remove funding equivalent to 55,000 places in industry training.

Flexible Education a Winning Approach for Hospital - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

Flexible Education a Winning Approach for Hospital
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Terry Moore, Chief Executive Officer for Southern Cross Hospitals, said the ongoing educational development of nursing staff was key to the organisation's ...

Kindergarten opens at school - Nelson Mail

Nelson Mail

Kindergarten opens at school Nelson Mail School principal Sonya Hockley said the kindergarten association and school had worked together, to provide "seamless education" for children from six ...