Boards Continue Defiance of National Standards Requirements - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
A group of nearly three hundred school Boards that last year announced they would defer compliance with National Standards target setting are still ...

Early childhood education funding - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
By alizahannah on Wed, 9 Feb 2011 Regardless of Michael Woodhouse's claims about the increase in spending on Early Childhood Education nation-wide (ODT ...

Education teams' historic meeting - Hawke's Bay Today

Hawke's Bay Today

URL: Education teams' historic meeting Hawke's Bay Today Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce approved the merger of Tairawhiti Polytechnic and EIT Hawke's Bay on January 1. EIT's roll is expected to top 4200 ...

Students praised for NCEA results - Times Online - Auckland

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Times Online - Auckland
In the next three to five years, he hopes to lift all levels of student achievement in NCEA, and match or better the achievements of other decile-10 schools ...

Canterbury students save the kiwi - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Thanks to 40 students from Hurunui College in North Canterbury, three young great spotted kiwi / roroa will be released into the Nina valley this Saturday. ...

Parent claims bully-tactics from schools over 'donations' - TVNZ

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TVNZ
The issue of school fees has been topical for years. Back in 2005, then education minister David Benson Pope launched an investigation into a school in the ...

Parents Pay $800 To Set Up Child For First Year, MP Says - Voxy

Voxy	URL: Parents Pay $800 To Set Up Child For First Year, MP Says Voxy Wellington, Feb 10 NZPA - Parents are paying more than $800 to set up a five-year-old for the first year of school, the Labour Party said today as it ...

New Zealand’s first 5 Green Star school

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The new Ormiston Senior College in Auckland is the first school in New Zealand to achieve a 5 Green Star Education Design 2009 rating...