Serious about early education - Gisborne Herald

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Gisborne Herald
In some areas, 40 percent of children start school having had no access to ECE. At a time when the Government is borrowing $250ma week to keep the country ...

More Cost-Cutting to Early Childhood Education

More Cost-Cutting to Early Childhood Education
Early childhood education continues to be the target of government cost-cutting with cuts to support grants for beginning teachers. The Ministry of Education is withdrawing the Provisionally Registered Teacher Grants from July next year to any new teacher ...

More to be done on tax, education, says Treasury secretary

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More can be done to improve the tax system to promote economic growth, Treasury secretary John Whitehead says, in a speech which also addresses youth unemployment and regulations that limit bio-technology as issues.Whitehead also...

English alone amplifies isolation - Manawatu Standard

Manawatu Standard

URL: English alone amplifies isolation Manawatu Standard Language teaching in most of New Zealand's universities is facing major challenges, with declining student numbers and tightening finances crimping the ...

Schools among those who mourn miners' deaths

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Jim Luders, the principal of Greymouth High School, where some of the miners were old boys, says the tragedy is having a direct impact on pupils and teachers.

Benefit could be docked if child skipping school

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Benefit payments could be deducted if a child fails to attend school, or services could be contracted out to agents outside the government if options proposed by the Welfare Working Group are adopted.

'Review student loans and pensions' - New Zealand Herald

New Zealand Herald

URL: 'Review student loans and pensions' New Zealand Herald "We need to lift teacher quality in order to raise the performance of students across the whole school system," Whitehead said. ...

University and institute join forces to attact young scientists - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
A joint graduate school in plant and food science has been created with the goal of doubling the number of post-graduate students studying in those areas to ...

ONE News Extra: Greymouth High School Principal Jim Luders (2:58)

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Greymouth High School Principal Jim Luders talks about how the 29 mining deaths will affect his school and pupils.

NZ online advertising grows 18% year-on-year

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The Interactive Advertising Bureau of New Zealand (IABNZ) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) have released online advertising expenditure figures for Q3, 2010. The growth of New Zealand’s online advertising market continues, with the most recent July-September 2010 quarter totalling to $67.93m, up $4.83m on the Q2, 2010 result.

School helps pupils in 'tough time' - New Zealand Herald

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URL: School helps pupils in 'tough time' New Zealand Herald Greymouth High School will be doing everything they could to support the families and the community and would be open today for students who wished to go to ...

Kids get stuck into restoration - Southland Times

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Southland Times
Fiordland College principal Linda Miller said year 7 to 10 students had spent the past week working on various aspects of the project. ...

Three other schools face bussing fee - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
A few pupils from the 58-pupil school had chosen to go elsewhere for their year 7 and 8 schooling, she said. Bluff Community School and Woodlands Full ...

Top honour for Salisbury School - The Nelson Mail

The Nelson Mail

URL: Top honour for Salisbury School The Nelson Mail The Enviroschools concept is about the wellbeing of the whole school, community and eco-system. National director Heidi Mardon said 735 schools around the ...

Otama principal takes the reins at Longford - Southland Times

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Southland Times
He was appointed after the school had been under a statutory manager, put in place by the Education Ministry to deal with employment and performance issues. ...

Leading Maori secondary school on hunt for students - The Daily Post

The Daily Post

URL: Leading Maori secondary school on hunt for students The Daily Post Photo / File A - 310510bf5 One of the country's leading Maori secondary schools has launched a recruitment campaign in a bid to lift its student roll for ...