Bill enabling Trades Academies to become law

Bill enabling Trades Academies to become law
Anne Tolley | Education
The Education Amendment Bill (No 2), which has passed the last of its Parliamentary stages, will increase educational opportunities, reduce bureaucracy and improve student safety, says Education Minister Anne Tolley. “This Bill provides exciting new opportunities for Year 11 to 13 students by allowing them to participate in Trades Academies, removes unnecessary burdens on short-term child crèches, and ensures that those who pose a potential danger to children can be kept out of the classroom,” says Mrs Tolley...

Focus on teachers as learners

Focus on teachers as learners
NZCER
A number of articles in the third and final issue of set for 2010 take up the theme of teachers as learners. Researchers report from a Teaching and Learning Research Initiative research project at Hornby High School that challenged teachers to reflect on their underlying assumptions about knowledge and learning. Another article follows one teacher's journey as he works to power share and learn with students, and there is an exploration of what student teachers learn from their students. In an opinion piece, NZCER chief researcher Rosemary Hipkins addresses the concern about potential labelling of students under the National Standards, and NZCER researchers take readers through the revision of the PAT:Listening Comprehension test.

Confidence In Nga Whanaketanga Highlights Flaws With National Standards - Voxy

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Voxy
There is confidence that Ngā Whanaketanga could make a difference to Māori student achievement, in sharp contrast to mainstream National Standards, ...

Schools leave national standards out of reports - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Some primary and intermediate schools are defying the Government by leaving national standards in reading, writing and maths out of their end-of-year ...

Cuts will 'dumb down service' - Northern Advocate

Northern Advocate

URL: Cuts will 'dumb down service' Northern Advocate Ms McKay also claimed the Government's national standards would pile even more pressure on early childhood education providers. "Because schools will be ...

Tabs on teachers - Newstalk ZB

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Newstalk ZB
Anne Tolley says it means teachers who may be a danger to students, or are otherwise unsuitable, can be removed from classrooms while they are investigated.

National agrees to important amendment to education bill - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

URL: National agrees to important amendment to education bill
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“Locals should be given priority entry to state schools when roll limits are reached. “While Labour agrees with some of the changes in relation to private ...

Bill enabling Trades Academies to become law - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

URL: Bill enabling Trades Academies to become law
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The Education Amendment Bill (No 2), which has passed the last of its Parliamentary stages, will increase educational opportunities, reduce bureaucracy and ...

Tapu Misa: Answers start with the children - New Zealand Herald

New Zealand Herald

URL: Tapu Misa: Answers start with the children New Zealand Herald In the case of sole parents, Rebstock's "early investment" means access to quality childcare, and education and training, all of which the Government has ...

Student unrest in Britain a good opportunity for NZ - TVNZ

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TVNZ
Waitzman said British students have little difficulty getting student visas in New Zealand and Education NZ has worked out ways to assess secondary school ...

Boys behind girls in reading - Stuff.co.nz

URL: Boys behind girls in reading
Stuff.co.nz
A gender gap in Kiwi pupils' reading abilities may be influenced by a perception it was a feminine activity, a Canterbury academic says. ...

Tertiary students get in early - Waikato Times

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Waikato Times
The university turned away about 500 students who wanted to enrol in B semester this year as it tried to manage its Government-agreed target for student ...

Prepare for change, graduands told - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: Prepare for change, graduands told Otago Daily Times That was the advice paediatric specialist and senior University of Otago academic Prof Don Roberton gave biomedical and health sciences students at their ...

Aoraki Polytechnic Dunedin graduation - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
The annual graduation ceremony for students at Aoraki Polytechnic's Dunedin campus will be held in the Dunedin Town Hall today. This year, 119 students are ...

Remember the days of the old school yard - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: Remember the days of the old school yard Otago Daily Times Pupils past and present of High Street School took part in a festival day on Saturday to mark the impending closure of the school. ...

Expulsion recoils on Springs - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
The student's lawyer, Simon Judd, said the rare case - about five pupils had legally challenged schools over 30 years - hinged on the school failing to tell ...

Schools fail to reach consensus - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
Each school representative had five to 10 minutes to present their options at the meeting at St Clair School, which was chaired by Ministry of Education ...

School aims to bridge Maori learning gap - Waikato Times

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Waikato Times
... office in Te Awamutu and because of the educational statistics for Maori youth in the local mainstream secondary schools. Education Minister Anne Tolley ...

Students rally to aid family - The Daily Post

The Daily Post

URL: Students rally to aid family The Daily Post John Paul College students who are part of the Young Vinnies group this week presented the family with $108, two boxes of canned cat food and a cat blanket. ...

Concern for Greymouth students - Newstalk ZB

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Newstalk ZB
Jim Luders told Newstalk ZB despite the Greymouth figure being up 14 cases from last year, he's worried for his pupils. "Probably in some ways our greater ...