Why You Need To Learn About Science | Salient

URL: Why You Need To Learn About Science | Salient
Authored by the Prime Minister's science advisor, the Royal Society of New Zealand and the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, they suggest that science for non-professionals should be an integral part of curriculum in the ...

National Standards report card for John Key - Gisborne Herald

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Gisborne Herald
John is a nice, ambitious boy who is popular with other children. He shouldn't try to please everyone, though, or he won't get the things done that he should. Reading: John reads and comprehends well but performed poorly on the BMW assignment. ...

Government Funding For Special Schools Alarming - Voxy

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Voxy
Government has a missed a key opportunity with a $22.8 million funding announcement this week for the 'Success For All - Every School, Every Child' initiative (the response to the Special Education Review in 2010). The initiative aims to develop a more ...

Ralph Springett & Dave Crampton: Govt keeps distance from educational need - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Approximately 80 per cent of Massey University's 17000 distance students are over 25, contributing to the workplace and to society while they are studying. Photo / Supplied Concern is growing among so-called ...

Children's new advocate has proud record of cutting abuse - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
In his new national job, Dr Wills will have a key role advising on a "green paper" due to be published in August on child protection, including tracking at-risk children, possible mandatory reporting of child abuse, more use of schools for after-school ...

Universities plan for rapidly retiring staff - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
New Zealand universities, including the University of Otago, may soon have to recruit significantly more academic staff annually than they do now as rolls grow and their ageing workforces rapidly retire. ...

Unit standard-based degrees: proposed legislative change

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Information on the Ministry of Education's review of unit standard-based degrees.

Qualifications

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Current policy work on the qualifications system.

Credits crisis for NCEA pupils - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Some of the country's bigger high schools are cancelling more than half their pupils' NCEA enrolments - and some admit it's because the children aren't going to make the grade. In Auckland, the Education Ministry says it received two ...

Quake's impact on wellbeing studied - Stuff.co.nz

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Female tertiary students ate more and cried more than their male counterparts after the February earthquake, a Lincoln University study shows. The study questioned 684 students from the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT) and ...

Poor links between education and workplace exposed - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Business New Zealand says the high rate of youth unemployment shows there are poor links between education institutions and the workplace. Latest labour market figures issued by Statistics New Zealand show the youth unemployment rate has risen to 27.5% ...

Girls bullied teen into suicide - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Her death drew international attention and was among several high-profile teen suicides that prompted new laws aimed at cracking down on bullying in schools. By admitting to sufficient facts, they acknowledged that prosecutors could win a conviction if ...

New skills-training package expected for Christchurch - New Zealand Herald

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URL: New skills-training package expected for Christchurch New Zealand Herald The Prime Minister's dropped hints about the announcement, saying there will clearly be a great need for skills in the city as the rebuild gets underway. John Key says a number of agencies, including tertiary education providers, ...

Teen mums in school - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Teen mums in school Stuff.co.nz "If I'd been in an ordinary classroom, I couldn't have kept feeding him as easily during the day." Most of the students take English, maths and science, working through the three NCEA levels at their own pace. They often also choose to do computing, ...

Calton Hill School to be reviewed in two years - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
Education Minister Anne Tolley announced on Thursday it was likely Caversham, College Street and Calton Hill schools would be merged as a years 1-8 school on the Caversham site, with a campus on the Calton Hill site. The option (option 2b) was one of ...

Hawke's Bay prison inmates get pupils on a roll - Hawke's Bay Today

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Hawke's Bay Today
The first bikes restored by prisoners at Hawke's Bay Regional Prison have been given out to Hastings children. Part of the Hastings District Council iWay scheme, the project uses donated bikes and spare parts from dumped bikes at the Henderson Road ...

School starts day with brekkie - Wanganui Chronicle

Wanganui Chronicle

URL: School starts day with brekkie Wanganui Chronicle Breakfast is on every Monday to Friday morning at Tawhero School and it's free for all. Parents and teachers work in the kitchen off the hall bright and early each morning preparing everything from porridge to hot toast. Students, teachers and parents ...

Scientists' role to clean up 'mess' - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: Scientists' role to clean up 'mess' Otago Daily Times Dr West (55), former chief executive of AgResearch and former executive chairman of the Tertiary Education Commission, was commenting in a address to more than 460 University of Otago graduands in several science-related disciplines, ...

Boys-only classes create brighter future - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Boys-only classes create brighter future Stuff.co.nz The schools say segregation works, so when staff at Dawson Rd School in the Auckland suburb of Otara realised senior boys were suffering, it took the plunge. Principal Angela Funaki said end-of-year results showed junior boys started on an even footing ...

Anger as three schools to close - The Daily Post

The Daily Post

URL: Anger as three schools to close The Daily Post Got the numbers: Kawerau Intermediate principal Daryl Aim with the community petition supporting Option B. Photo / Lisa Tauroa Three Kawerau schools are being forced to close in a Ministry of Education decision that has angered the community. ...