Minister opens new $28 million school in Papamoa

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Anne Tolley | Education
Education Minister Anne Tolley has today officially opened a new school at Papamoa, which will eventually have the capacity to cater for 1200 Year 7-13 students. The $28 million project was brought forward as part of the Government’s economic stimulus programme, which has seen 400 new school buildings being constructed around New Zealand since 2009. “The new Papamoa College is a fantastic boost to the area,” says Mrs Tolley...

Q+A: Interview with Steven Joyce - transcript - TVNZ

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URL: Q+A: Interview with Steven Joyce - transcript TVNZ We are currently loaning $30 million a year to people training to be pilots. $30 million a year. Most of them don't go on to get jobs as pilots, either in the commercial or general aviation sphere. The write-off for pilot training in terms of write-off ...

Glenholme 007: Literacy Teacher: Required Readings for Course

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Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Langer, J. (2001). Beating the odds: Teaching middle and high school students to read and write well. American Educational Research Journal, 38, 4, 837-880. ...

Government needs to be called to account - NZEI - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says serious questions need to be asked about what the government's National Standards Sector Advisory Group is actually achieving. The group is meeting for the fourth time today after it was set up by the ...

Tolley dismissing experts' opinions - Gisborne Herald

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Gisborne Herald
I would also question her office's claims that the majority of schools are implementing National Standards, as I wonder how many are forced to under the threat of boards of trustees sackings. I put my faith in those who work directly with my child, ...

Principals urge parents to oppose national standards - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
The Principals Federation has called on school trustees to join its opposition to the national standards in reading, writing and maths. The organisation says the Government has ignored principals' and teachers' criticisms of the national standards. ...

NCEA Report: Level 2 seen as minimum for success in today's world - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
There was also a "huge variance within schools" across the deciles but policies that have been recently introduced to lift achievement, such as the controversial National Standards, have been designed to do so "regardless of decile, gender or ethnicity ...

Alarm as science falls victim to national standards | David ...

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Labour's Research, Science and Technology spokesperson David Shearer says he is alarmed, but not surprised, by reports that science education is being pushed out of classrooms to make way for National Standards in numeracy and literacy. ...

Mike's Blog: and!! What ?? does this like mean??

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Until the expert attention is applied to them my school will not be fully compliant with the national standards regime. This does not mean I am a rampant anti standards campaigner, it means that I am taking a considered professional ...

Report reveals ECE shortcomings

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New Zealand's biggest study into literacy teaching at childcare centres - where under-5s are cared for and prepared for school - has revealed some alarming findings. * 330 Childcare centres were inspected. * 60% were lacking...

Government ignoring own review on ECE for under-2s

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The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says it's a pity the government isn't listening to its own commissioned research on early childhood education for under-2s.

Schools want help with disruptive pupils - Otago Daily Times

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URL: Schools want help with disruptive pupils Otago Daily Times The Phoenix Centre in Forth St, which worked with disruptive pupils who needed help readjusting their behaviour, closed more than a year ago following an independent evaluation of the service which found it was not meeting the Ministry of Education's ...

Pink picnic a stand against bullying - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Pink picnic a stand against bullying Stuff.co.nz Palmerston North Girls' High School students had a picnic in pink to ward off bullying in their school. More than 200 girls crammed into the school's hall for pinky bars and pink marshmallows for the lunchtime event, which was organised by the school's ...

Tolley: They still ride horses, don't they? - Stuff.co.nz

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Mrs Tolley said the horseriding reference, in an email to Gisborne Mayor Meng Foon, was only light-hearted and some pupils in the Gisborne area already went to school by horse. But Labour says the East Coast MP was bullying Mr Foon in her email and ...

Squeeze to be put on students - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Squeeze to be put on students Stuff.co.nz Hundreds of millions of dollars in savings have been targeted in new measures that put the squeeze on the interest-free student loans scheme. Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce said last night that "a few thousand" people failing to meet ...

Minister angry at Mayor's stance - Gisborne Herald

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Gisborne Herald
Mrs Tolley was annoyed the Mayor went public with his comments supporting a student protest hikoi over the issue this week without first checking the facts with her. In an exchange of e-mails, Mrs Tolley expressed her disappointment that the Mayor did ...

Parents give school sharing a pass mark - The Press

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The Press
The first term ended yesterday with 11 schools still operating in shifts or sharing sites with other schools since reopening after the February 22 earthquake. Education Minister Anne Tolley said this month that Heaton Intermediate would return to its ...

Parents who stumble on words may help children learn language

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Parents who stumble over their words need not worry - it may even help their children learn to talk.Sentences peppered with 'ums' and 'ers' can be easier for children to follow than those uttered with complete fluency, researchers...

Court rules polytechnic lecturers can have their agreement

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TEU members at six polytechnics have won an important case before a full bench of the Employment Court that allows them to negotiate the type of employment agreement that they choose. Yesterday the court decided that TEU members at Northtec, Unitec, ...

Student passes below the average - Waikato Times

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Waikato Times
For the third year running, Waikato high school students were last year behind the NCEA national average in the majority of levels. New Zealand Qualifications Authority figures show pass rates at levels one, two and three went up across the region, ...

NCEA Report: Mangere College must do better - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
John Heyes, Principal of Mangere College, says the lowly statistics fail to explain the full story. Photo / Dean Purcell On paper Mangere College has some of the lowest achievement rates in the country but principal John Heyes says ...

NCEA Report: Level 2 seen as minimum for success in today's world - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
NCEA Level 2 - today's equivalent of the old sixth form certificate - is now regarded as the minimum qualification needed to succeed in the modern world. But, according to the latest NCEA results not all of our students are ...

NCEA Report: Sir Edmund school making good progress - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Photo / Dean Purcell After receiving some "very low" NCEA results in 2009, Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate staff decided it was time to take action. They called a teachers-only day, targeted "at risk" students and worked on a mentoring plan - involving ...

BoP Polytechnic wins tender for Immigration Training - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The Department of Labour announced last week that Bay of Plenty Polytechnic had won the tender for delivering a new tertiary qualification for immigration training. Currently immigration advisers are not required to hold formal qualifications to become ...

Papamoa College officially opened - The Bay of Plenty Times

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URL: Papamoa College officially opened The Bay of Plenty Times Mayor Stuart Crosby, Education Minister Anne Tolley and BOP MP Tony Ryall watch as Shay Ridley cuts the ribbon at Papamoa College's official opening. Photo / Claire Fraser. Local iwi, dignitaries and ...

Schools 'free to decide' on facial piercings - New Zealand Herald

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URL: Schools 'free to decide' on facial piercings New Zealand Herald By Vaimoana Tapaleao Some students will be able to express themselves freely after their school waived a rule against facial piercings. New Plymouth Girls' High School this week announced it would drop a rule where students were only allowed to have ...

Dictionary gift delights primary school - The Daily Post

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URL: Dictionary gift delights primary school The Daily Post Learning: Sunset Primary School is encouraging students to take control of their own learning. Photo / Ben Fraser 110411bf1 Sunset Primary School students are getting help to become independent learners. The Rotorua North Rotary Club has donated 50 ...