Is Anne Tolley scared of Auckland Grammar « Red Alert

Is Anne Tolley scared of Auckland Grammar « Red Alert
On the primary schools that refused to implement National Standards Anne Tolley had plenty to say such as, the opposition is driven by unions, teachers and principals afraid of accountability, afraid to change, if these schools break ...

Let's Celebrate! New Zealand Children Top in the World - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“We've got the recipe right, unlike our Australian and UK colleagues overseas who have succumbed to various forms of national standards and national testing ...

Business boss cool on ditching NCEA - Stuff.co.nz

3News NZ

URL: Business boss cool on ditching NCEA Stuff.co.nz He said Cambridge's end-of-year examinations were better suited to boys than the NCEA internally assessed focus. Internal assessment had a high workload, ...

Teachers gear up for more industrial action - TVNZ

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TVNZ
While high school students are happy to soak up summer holidays, time off due to strike action is a different story. "I don't want it to like ruin my ...

Intervention at Otago's schools rises - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
Under the Education Act 1989, the ministry can intervene in the management of a school when it believes there is risk to the operation of the school, ...

Scholarships for students to attend private secondary schools

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Applications have opened for the 2012 round of the Ministry of Education’s Aspire Scholarship, with at least 50 year 9 Aspire Scholarships available for 2012. The Aspire Scholarship is for students from low income families who would like to attend a New Zealand private secondary school. The scholarship contributes up to $15,000 a year for private secondary school tuition fees and up to $1,500 a year for course related costs, while the student is at that school. The scholarship does not cover boarding fees and cannot be used at state or state-integrated schools.

Parental lessons may miss most in need - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Prime Minister John Key has introduced at least four new programmes, including the first experiment with court-directed parenting education for teen parents ...

Top school's revolt against NCEA - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
But the Education Ministry's manager of Secondary Outcomes, Tony Turnock, says that all state schools are required by law to make NCEA available to pupils ...

When excellence begets `excellence' - Marlborough Express

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Marlborough Express
NZQA unit standards had only pass or fail and could not differentiate between the excellent student and the average student. The advantage of unit standards ...

Dancing to count for exam points - Stuff.co.nz

Stuff.co.nz

URL: Dancing to count for exam points Stuff.co.nz Students can sit two Pacific Indigenous Knowledge standards that count towards National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) levels 1, 2 and 3, ...

Empty schools like 'rotting corpses' - Shadbolt

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The 'rotting corpses' of abandoned Southland primary schools are a blight on the region's landscape, Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt says.Several schools merged and closed after a review by the Education Ministry in 2004.'When...

NCEA results available online - TVNZ

Otago Daily Times

URL: NCEA results available online TVNZ Students must be registered on NZQA's website, with National Student Number, to view their results. Scholarship results would be delivered mid-February, ...

250 Kaiapoi High students given wrong NCEA results - 3News NZ

3News NZ

URL: 250 Kaiapoi High students given wrong NCEA results 3News NZ “I told my family how good I did and they were pleased with that,” says former student Daniel Lynch. “But now I am not sure what I've actually got. ...

Te Aute College seeks help to solve problems - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
Struggling Te Aute College is asking the education minister to appoint a commissioner to run the Anglican Maori boys' boarding school. ...

Counting the cost of student loans - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: Counting the cost of student loans Otago Daily Times Students make their way to lectures at the University of Otago. Photo by Gregor Richardson. Since the student loan ...

Graduates Should Not Limit Their Boundaries To Just New Zealand - Voxy

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Voxy
John McIntosh has the best of both worlds and says there is no reason why the horticulture students he tutors at NorthTec cannot have the same. ...

Educator, poet, gardener

Harvey John McQueen, educator and writer. Born Little River, Banks Peninsula, September 13th, 1934. Died Wellington, December 25th, 2010, aged 76.
Among other life accomplishments Mr McQueen was the education speech writer for the then Prime Minister David Lange during the 1980's.
REF: Dominion Post, January 15th 2011, A25.