Issues In Education - Mmegi Online

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Dr Beeby was the foundation director of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research in 1934, and became Director General of Education in New Zealand ...

Principles and trustees push National Standards aside

REF: Sunday Star Times, January 16th 2011, A2Nearly halfway through the introduction of National Standards in primary and intermediate schools, the policy is in danger of stalling.
This story quotes a pre-christmas NZCER survey, showing 31% of 195 principles had made no use of the Standards in school planning.

Tolley draws battle lines on standards - national | Stuff.co.nz

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Anything goes' in an election year fight to bed in the national standards, Education Minister Anne Tolley has declared.

Tolley declares war on education system for political purposes

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On the one hand she has been in battle with primary schools and the NZEI for the best part of two years in ramming through National Standards. It was but part of a two page policy document at the last election, and interestingly it said ...

Kids Tolley's election year cannon-fodder « The Standard

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The international evidence that National Standards don't work is conclusive. Only 20% of schools are ready to implement them and over 300 schools are refusing all together. What's our Minister for Education's response to the objections ...

Teachers' union risks public support wearing thin - The Dominion Post

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The Dominion Post
Primary school teachers and their principals also dislike this Government because, after advice from educational experts, it introduced National Standards ...

Schools won't phase out NCEA - Waikato Times

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URL: Schools won't phase out NCEA Waikato Times But both principals said having two assessment systems allowed them to be flexible in catering to their students' needs, which was the important thing. ...

Kelvin Davis: Education Minister Running For Cover - Voxy

Voxy	URL: Kelvin Davis: Education Minister Running For Cover Voxy "After hiding from the issue for a full week, she finally comes out swinging - about National Standards! "Does she honestly believe that her attempt to ...

Tolley 'running for cover' over NCEA - TVNZ

New Zealand Herald

URL: Tolley 'running for cover' over NCEA TVNZ Labour's hitting out at Education Minister Anne Tolley after one of the country's most prestigious schools moved away from NCEA in favour of an ...

Labour accuses Tolley of avoiding NCEA issue - Newstalk ZB

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URL: Labour accuses Tolley of avoiding NCEA issue Newstalk ZB Kelvin Davis, Labour's education spokesman, is criticising Education Minister Anne Tolley over avoiding the issue of NCEA being dropped at Auckland Grammar. ...

Minister backs Grammar headmaster's NCEA rebellion - New Zealand Herald

New Zealand Herald

URL: Minister backs Grammar headmaster's NCEA rebellion New Zealand Herald She says that the Auckland school is offering NCEA to those who want it, even though it will be only a handful of Year 11 students. ...

Tolley defends school's move towards exams

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Education Minister Anne Tolley has backed Auckland Grammar's decision to offer its students Cambridge exams instead of internal assessment, saying she's pro-choice.

Editorial : Grammar's branding exercise

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Right on schedule, just as schools gear up to begin the new year, the issue of educational achievement has come back into the headlines. As revealed in this <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10699994"...

Act student union bill worries Waiariki chief - The Daily Post

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URL: Act student union bill worries Waiariki chief The Daily Post The Education Amendment Bill, which is set to be passed by March, would mean it would no longer be compulsory for students to pay student union fees, ...

Students given a peek into the world of tertiary science - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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While at Canterbury the three students spent a week working with UC chemistry PhD student Jan-Yves Ruzicka on an aspect of his research into the potential ...

Polytechs may have to turn students away - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Polytechnics say their enrolments are so high they are likely to turn prospective students away again later this year. NZ Institutes of Technology ...

Stimulating an interest in science - Manawatu Standard

Manawatu Standard

URL: Stimulating an interest in science Manawatu Standard The students' brains were given a break in the evenings when they went bowling or go-karting. Tararua College student Jason Carr, 17, said he expected camp ...

Fewer places prompt Waiariki's tough policy - The Daily Post

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The Daily Post
"If a student gets a place and then mucks around, they're keeping away others who deserve to be here," he said. Students used to take Waiariki for granted ...

High enrolments reported at polytechnics - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Polytechnics say their enrolments are so high they are likely to turn prospective students away again later this year. NZ Institutes of Technology ...

Call to restrict junk-food sale near schools - Stuff.co.nz

Stuff.co.nz

URL: Call to restrict junk-food sale near schools Stuff.co.nz AFTER SCHOOL SNACK: The high number of outlets near schools is thought to be a factor in the childhood-obesity epidemic sweeping the Western world. ...

Parents urged to park safely at school drop-offs - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“Walking kids to school when the weather's fine is not only a great way to deal with traffic chaos around schools but also provides an excellent opportunity ...

Australian schools get iPads - Stuff.co.nz

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Australia's federal government says iPads can be distributed by schools under its digital education revolution program, which aims to provide every student ...

UC Research Shows Student Academic Performance Robust Post-Earthquake - Voxy

Voxy	URL: UC Research Shows Student Academic Performance Robust Post-Earthquake Voxy University of Canterbury research has revealed that overall academic performance by undergraduate students at UC in Semester 2 of 2010 was as good as that ...