Increased competitiveness found among schools - Radio New Zealand

URL:   Increased competitiveness found among schools
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The Council for Educational Research survey found primary and intermediate school principals' sense of being in competition with other schools, ...  See also Insight link below

Tolley swings her axe - New Zealand Herald

Tolley swings her axe - New Zealand Herald: "

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Tolley swings her axe New Zealand Herald Education is best started intensively and early. Like, in the years before primary school. Where physical impediments to learning can be identified, ...

Joyce admits public not wowed - Stuff.co.nz

Joyce admits public not wowed
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The Government has put together a business case for a national education network which would see schools use a dedicated network to use video conferencing ...

Innovative school leads the way - The Daily Post

Innovative school leads the way - The Daily Post: "

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Innovative school leads the way The Daily Post The school's academies help pupils learn in a context that is meaningful to them. While everybody learns the same content, lessons approach each subject ...

Quality, not quantity - Otago Daily Times

Quality, not quantity
Otago Daily Times
Industry training organisations grew out of the perception arising in the late 1990s that one of the deleterious consequences of the previous decade's ...

We don't know how lucky we are - New Zealand Herald

New Zealand Heral

We don't know how lucky we are New Zealand Herald Expect to hear more about this result from striking secondary teachers and primary teachers upset at the introduction of the Government's National Standards ...

Q+A: Mana by-election debate - TVNZ

Q+A: Mana by-election debate
TVNZ
We're trying to raise national standards there. No, seriously- PAUL What are you gonna do about jobs? HEKIA Because jobs can only come by sustainable growth ...

Conference told education system must not fail another generation - Radio New Zealand

Conference told education system must not fail another generation Radio New Zealand New Maori Party president Pem Bird says the party cannot let the education system fail another generation of Maori children. Mr Bird told the Party's annual ...

Staff literacy leads to improved profitability

Staff literacy leads to improved profitability: "
Kate Wilkinson | Social Development and Employment
The Hon Kate Wilkinson applauds this year's Skills Highway Award winner, GT Liddell, which increased its income 64% over three years through workplace literacy training.
'This is a great example of a ...Read More

Huge gap in work literacy skills

URL:  Huge gap in work literacy skills:
"A staggering 40 per cent of Kiwi adults lack the literacy skills to carry out their jobs.It's a statistic that is worrying everyone from Business New Zealand to the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions and specialist organisations..."

Booming school forced to cap numbers - Otago Daily Times

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Booming school forced to cap numbers Otago Daily Times Ministry of Education figures show nine state primary schools in Dunedin have enrolment zones. The five largest primary schools - Silverstream, George St, ...

Hunting for the good kids within

Hunting for the good kids within:
"They are among the country's worst young criminals, but you would not know it from spending a day with them.The 10 young men, aged 15 to 17, in the first intake of the Government's highly-anticipated new boot camps, or Military..."

Good news for city's special needs kids - The Daily Post

Good news for city's special needs kidsThe Daily PostHe said it outlined the need for greater emphasis on mainstream schools doing more for special education students. Rotorua's Kea St Specialist School was ...

New framework for cybersafety

New framework for cybersafety: "
Preparing young people for the new opportunities and challenges of ultra-fast broadband requires a new framework for cybersafety. Launched by NetSafe and the Ministry of Education the new Learn, Guide, Protect approach provides schools with resources to build student-centered cybersafety programmes that fit your own school context.
Visit the Learn, Guide, Protect website

Boards of Trustees webinar series

Boards of Trustees webinar series: "
The Ministry of Education is delivering two series of webinars during November to directly support Boards of Trustees.  check out the Ministry's website at www.minedu.govt.nz/boards

Outside control for two schools - The Bay of Plenty Times

Outside control for two schools
The Bay of Plenty Times
Her appointment followed three resignations from the school's board of trustees in February. Since then the board of trustees has received training and ...

Troubled school in recovery - Stuff.co.nz

Troubled school in recovery
Stuff.co.nz
Mr Mooar said the school environment had improved dramatically since he arrived and last month he reported to the Ministry of Education that a commissioner ...

College plugs into hi-tech rollout - The Nelson Mail

College plugs into hi-tech rollout
The Nelson MailThe Nayland College upgrade features 38km of data cable which allows the school's 1500 students to connect to fast wireless broadband in every classroom at ...

Ending violence - Marlborough Express

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URL: Ending violence Marlborough Express It's a confident assurance for a high school pupil to make but Jess speaks as a peer support person at Marlborough Girls' College and as chairwoman of the ...

Hundreds celebrate teachers' work - TVNZ

Hundreds celebrate teachers' work
TVNZ
Hundreds of teachers, parents and students marched up Auckland's Queen Street to celebrate World Teacher's Day. World Teacher's Day is a day to thank Kiwi ...
Teachers hold march on Auckland's Queen St  Radio New Zealand

New unit for special needs - SunLive

New unit for special needs
SunLive
Read More Otumoetai College students with special needs now have access to a facility which replaces the unit which stood previously at the college. ...
Students on bus during collisionSunLive
Accolades for volunteersSunLive

Insight, Sunday 31 October: School Choice

John Gerritsen explores how much the choice of school affects a child's academic achievement. (duration: 26′01″)   Download:    MP3    
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