Big boost for marketing of international education

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Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education
New Zealand's new international education agency will start operations with nearly double the budget of its predecessors, and with most of the increase directed to marketing. The new agency, which is scheduled to commence operations on 1 September will have a total operating budget of $84 million over four years, compared to the $44 million that was previously split across the Ministry of Education, NZTE, and the Education New Zealand trust...

Understanding NCEA: A relatively short and very useful guide for secondary school students and their parents

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NZCER Press
If you are a Year 9 or10 student, or a parent new to NCEA, this book is for you. It explains in plain language just how NCEA works – everything from standards, levels and credits to subject choice.

http://www.nzcer.org.nz/default.php?products_id=2770

Rose Hipkins – The shape of curriculum change

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Rosemary Hipkins presented this session at the CORE Breakfast seminar in Dunedin, March 2011, which sketched the overall shape of curriculum change in CIES schools.

A PowerPoint, used during the session, and link to the full Curriculum Implementation Exploratory Studies 2 report is included, as well as a discussion paper covering the key findings from the CIES project – The Shape of Curriculum Change summary.

Video, powerpoint and 2 reports are linked to at
http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/Curriculum-stories/Keynotes-and-presentations/The-shape-of-curriculum-change

Agency will benefit tertiary institutes - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
"The sale of our education expertise overseas is estimated to be worth at least $100 million annually," he said. University of Otago international pro-vice-chancellor Prof Sarah Todd said the extra funding would raise awareness about the quality of New ...

New Zealand Curriculum Reading and Writing National Standards wall charts

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MoE
Classroom wall charts were recently sent to every teacher of students in years 1–8 (distributed to schools 9 May 2011), who are learning within The New Zealand Curriculum. They summarise The New Zealand Curriculum Reading and Writing Standards for Years 1–8 and The Literacy Learning Progressions...

We've refreshed Educational Leaders!

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You will see that the home page of Educational Leaders is looking a bit different! The website is now two years old so we wanted to refresh its look and add in some new features and functions.

We hope these improvements will make the site even more useful for you. For example, we have highlighted the Leadership Development section in the centre of the home page and grouped its content into Leadership Programmes and Other Professional Information.

We are still in the process of making some final adjustments to our refresh. Most of the amendments should be completed in the next few days. Please feel free to give us feedback on the new look: contact@educationalleaders.govt.nz

Getting kids into trades

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Stella Clyde, teacher at Otamatea High School in Maungatoroto in the Kaipara District of Northland; Matt Turner, Owner of GAS Maungatoroto, a petrol station and workshop; and Brandon Moring, teenage apprentice mechanic at GAS Maungatoroto, former student of Otamatea High School, Maungatoroto.

hi-tech skills in demand - Stuff.co.nz

Stuff.co.nz

URL: hi-tech skills in demand Stuff.co.nz Scots College year 12 pupil Michael Moore-Jones, 16, will spend six weeks as an intern at MyCube, a company founded by Swede Johan Stael von Holstein. In 1995, Mr Holstein founded internet consultancy Iconmedialab International, which grew to employ ...

Skilled labour shortages loom after Budget cuts - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
The Industry Training Federation believes an expensive crisis is around the corner. Photo / Paul Estcourt Industry training organisations say skilled labour shortages are looming again after Budget cuts in industry training stretching ...

Campaign to kick-start bargaining at five polytechnics

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TEU members at five polytechnics will launch a major campaign on Friday evening to convince their employers that it is time to give up the legal challenges and start bargaining for site collective agreements as the Employment Court agreed should happen ...

An educational voyage on cutter - Marlborough Express

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Marlborough Express
Most similar vessels used for education, such as the Spirit of Adventure, are often not ideal for school groups, because they sometimes involve several days at sea, he said. Steadfast, a replica based on French pilot cutter from 1913, gave the students ...

Bullying forcing young nurses out of hospitals

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Bullying is forcing younger nurses out of the profession.

Govt urged to take over school food programme - New Zealand Herald

New Zealand Herald

URL: Govt urged to take over school food programme New Zealand Herald Child poverty campaigners want the Government to take over feeding hungry children in low-income schools after the supermarket chain Countdown torpedoed a Red Cross breakfast programme. Child Poverty Action Group co-director Alan ...

Area schools want more funding - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Area schools say they need more funding to help provide primary and secondary education to children in rural communities. About 90 area school staff and trustees are attending a two-day Area Schools Association conference in Wellington from Thursday. ...

New clinic caters for 7000 children - Waikato Times

Waikato Times

URL: New clinic caters for 7000 children Waikato Times OPEN WIDE: Dental therapist Sue McFarlane attends to student Oscar Smith's teeth at the new dental clinic at Frankton Primary School. A new dental clinic in Hamilton is to become a hub for 7000 children as nine other clinics close. ...

New media, young minds and Chch's green future

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New media is being used by people around New Zealand to post and discuss creative and exciting ideas for the Christchurch rebuild.

High note for young musos - Auckland stuff.co.nz

Auckland stuff.co.nz

URL: High note for young musos Auckland stuff.co.nz Mrs Pearson was the founding principal of KingsWay School, and was also the founding director of Laidlaw College School of Education. "She brings to the school a wealth of educational knowledge and experience," Mahurangi Christian School board of ...

Pasifika Students Celebrate Graduation - Voxy

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Voxy
One hundred and thirty four Pasifika students from Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) graduated with their peers, friends and family this week with celebrations taking place over two nights due to an increase in graduating numbers. ...