URL: Teachers taking leave from schools to work with researchers
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Host organisations for this group of teachers include the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, The University of Auckland, Department of Conservation, Lincoln University, NIWA, Victoria University, Unison (powerlines company) and Jasmax Ltd ...
Thursday, February 17, 2011
auckland.scoop.co.nz » Government Confidence in National Standards ...
URL: auckland.scoop.co.nz » Government Confidence in National Standards ...
The Prime Minister's admission that there are problems with National Standards is a significant victory for the thousands of parents, teachers, principals and academics who have expressed deep concerns, says the education sector union ...
The Prime Minister's admission that there are problems with National Standards is a significant victory for the thousands of parents, teachers, principals and academics who have expressed deep concerns, says the education sector union ...
Poster Schools and Principals
URL: Poster Schools and Principals
Take, for instance, the poster principals for national standards. These principals, by definition, favour a solid regime of testing in literacy and numeracy. They also use such a regime as a driver of their schools, as a selling point ...
Take, for instance, the poster principals for national standards. These principals, by definition, favour a solid regime of testing in literacy and numeracy. They also use such a regime as a driver of their schools, as a selling point ...
Teacher groups urge rethink on standards - New Zealand Herald
URL: Teacher groups urge rethink on standards
New Zealand Herald
Calls for a full review of National Standards grew yesterday following confirmation that a key player in the development of the controversial system was resigning. The debate surrounding the standards was reignited this week when ...
New Zealand Herald
Calls for a full review of National Standards grew yesterday following confirmation that a key player in the development of the controversial system was resigning. The debate surrounding the standards was reignited this week when ...
Boards stunned by PM's admission - Newstalk ZB
URL: Boards stunned by PM's admission
Newstalk ZB
The admission by the Prime Minister that the implementation of National Standards isn't going smoothly has stunned a coalition of school boards. A rebel coalition of school boards is stunned at an admission by the Prime Minister that the implementation ...
Newstalk ZB
The admission by the Prime Minister that the implementation of National Standards isn't going smoothly has stunned a coalition of school boards. A rebel coalition of school boards is stunned at an admission by the Prime Minister that the implementation ...
PM's Standards Admission "Extraordinary" - Voxy
 Hawke's Bay Today | URL: PM's Standards Admission "Extraordinary" Voxy The Prime Minister's admission that different schools are interpreting the National Standards differently is no surprise to the 300 Boards of Trustees in the Boards Taking Action Coalition. Schools in the coalition have long claimed that the National ... |
More schools join rebel coalition - Hawke's Bay Today
Hawke's Bay Today | URL: More schools join rebel coalition Hawke's Bay Today Teachers below mark, p2More Hawke's Bay primary schools have shown a lack of faith in the Government's National Standards and are refusing to comply with the Ministry of Education's controversial directive. Ten Hawke's Bay schools have joined a ... |
Has the Govt's 'National Standards' education policy been a success? - New Zealand Herald
Hawke's Bay Today | URL: Has the Govt's 'National Standards' education policy been a success? New Zealand Herald Prime Minister John Key used a visit to a school close to his heart with a "special friend" Australian leader Julia Gillard, to acknowledge the national standards hadn't gone as smoothly as planned. He was at Glen Taylor school in Glendowie, ... |
Tertiary pass rates unlikely to be manipulated - TEC - TVNZ
URL: Tertiary pass rates unlikely to be manipulated - TEC
TVNZ
Performance-linked tertiary education funding is unlikely to tempt universities and polytechnics to manipulate their pass rates by accepting lower quality work from students, says the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC). "The whole idea is not to be ...
TVNZ
Performance-linked tertiary education funding is unlikely to tempt universities and polytechnics to manipulate their pass rates by accepting lower quality work from students, says the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC). "The whole idea is not to be ...
Transforming the RTLB service
URL: Transforming the RTLB service
A new service will be in place for 2012. The Ministry is working with the sector to redesign the RTLB service.
A new service will be in place for 2012. The Ministry is working with the sector to redesign the RTLB service.
Speech: Murray Mccully - Resilience In The Pacific Conference - Victoria ... - Voxy
URL: Speech: Murray Mccully - Resilience In The Pacific Conference - Victoria ...
Voxy
No matter what else we do, the Pacific will not flourish if we do not invest in improving educational outcomes for young people. Currently we spend something like $67 million annually on educational support in the Pacific. When we sat down for our last ...
Voxy
No matter what else we do, the Pacific will not flourish if we do not invest in improving educational outcomes for young people. Currently we spend something like $67 million annually on educational support in the Pacific. When we sat down for our last ...
Automotive Training Centre to offer Automotive Trades Progra - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
URL: Automotive Training Centre to offer Automotive Trades Progra
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
South Auckland Automotive Training Centre (ATC) has been established as a charitable trust to fill the current gap between the largely theory-based training made available through the tertiary education system, and industry training for those employed ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
South Auckland Automotive Training Centre (ATC) has been established as a charitable trust to fill the current gap between the largely theory-based training made available through the tertiary education system, and industry training for those employed ...
Bullying victim returns to school - The Dominion Post
 The Dominion Post | URL: Bullying victim returns to school The Dominion Post Jacob Hamilton returned to Levin's Waiopehu College as the mother of a former pupil contacted The Dominion Post to say she had pulled her daughter out of the school because bullying had become so bad. Sara Hirini said her daughter, now 15, suffered six ... |
National needs to remember the SM Principle
REF: The Dominion Post, Thursday 17 Feb 2011, B5
...with schemes like Community Max the issue in th end come down to accountability for public money - and whether it can be properly monitored...
...with schemes like Community Max the issue in th end come down to accountability for public money - and whether it can be properly monitored...
Healthy futures - Auckland stuff.co.nz
 Auckland stuff.co.nz | URL: Healthy futures Auckland stuff.co.nz Pipettes and petrie dishes will be playing a big part in the lives of some Pacific Island students from now on. Otahuhu College has launched a health science academy targeted at helping Pacific Island students work towards a future career in health. ... |
Pupils show enterprise - Times Online - Auckland
 Times Online - Auckland | URL: Pupils show enterprise Times Online - Auckland A BUSINESS challenge where teams create mock companies and compete against each other has been chosen as the ideal way to integrate students into a new school – and a fresh way of learning. Ormiston Senior College opened the doors ... |
'landmark' Course Launched For Special Education - Voxy
URL: 'landmark' Course Launched For Special Education
Voxy
Prior to that he was bullied and teased by pupils and misunderstood by teachers who thought he was lazy and non-compliant. Today he is aa successful, happy 29-year-old who works fulltime for a government agency and his mother, who works in special ...
Voxy
Prior to that he was bullied and teased by pupils and misunderstood by teachers who thought he was lazy and non-compliant. Today he is aa successful, happy 29-year-old who works fulltime for a government agency and his mother, who works in special ...
UCOL enrolments confirm vocational approach to study
URL: UCOL enrolments confirm vocational approach to study
The pattern of enrolments for the first semester at UCOL in Palmerston North suggests students are taking a more vocational approach to their choice of study programmes. There are also indications that Government policies linking student loans to study ...
The pattern of enrolments for the first semester at UCOL in Palmerston North suggests students are taking a more vocational approach to their choice of study programmes. There are also indications that Government policies linking student loans to study ...
‘Skills for Life’ opportunity for students
URL: ‘Skills for Life’ opportunity for students
Seventy two students from Tauranga and the Western Bay of Plenty have been given an amazing opportunity to sharpen up their skills on an internationally renowned Dale Carnegie training course, thanks to the generosity of the Acorn Foundation and ...
Seventy two students from Tauranga and the Western Bay of Plenty have been given an amazing opportunity to sharpen up their skills on an internationally renowned Dale Carnegie training course, thanks to the generosity of the Acorn Foundation and ...
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