Decision on South Dunedin schooling

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Anne Tolley | Education
Education Minister Anne Tolley has announced her final decisions on the review of schools to strengthen education provision in the South Dunedin area. The reorganisation of primary schools for years 1 – 8 children will see the formation of two new merged schools, and will provide an extra $1.8 million in Education Development Initiative funding to help transition students and raise achievement for primary education in South Dunedin...

Christchurch schools set to return to home sites

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Anne Tolley | Earthquake Recovery
Education Minister Anne Tolley has confirmed that Avonside Girls’ High School and Shirley Boys’ High School in Christchurch will temporarily return to their home sites for up to two years. “I have to emphasise that this is a temporary measure, and that the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) has only agreed to the sites being used for up to two years,” says Mrs Tolley. “Their return also depends on there being no more adverse events that might affect the safety or viability of these sites.”...

Federation enlists Maori Principals against Tolley - Waatea News

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Waatea News
The Principals Federation is welcoming the support of Maori principals to its campaign against national standards. He says it's not the answer to lifting Maori under-achievement. Schools already know the children who are underachieving, ...

Tolley turns heat back on Teachers - Waatea News

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Waatea News
Principals Federation president Peter Simpson has accused Mrs Tolley of ramming through her national standards assessment system at the expense of Ka Hikitia. But Mrs Tolley says it's not about resources. “It's a matter of teachers from the school ...

Standards battle set to continue - The Nelson Mail

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The Nelson Mail
The battle over national standards is far from over, and schools should be making their voices heard, says a spokesman for a group of schools protesting the changes. Boards Taking Action Coalition spokesman and Island Bay School principal Perry Rush ...

Another School Bites The Dust: Forbury School Falls Under Tolley's Axe - Voxy

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Voxy
What strikes me is that for all Tolley's talk of National Standards for primary school kids and improving their achievement levels, here was a school, in Forbury, doing just that and without the need for any centrally imposed standards! ...

Focussing on developing student's passions

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In the process they are giving the impression that our school system is failing and that the obvious answer is to introduce National Standards. A few things ought to be clarified before New Zealand heads down the same failing solutions ...

Bay Steiner school told to present standards - Hawke's Bay Today

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Hawke's Bay Today
Anne Tolley StandardsNational Standards are assessment benchmarks for pupils in Years 1 to 8 in reading, writing and mathematics. The benchmarks place pupils' achievement at four different levels: well below, below, at, ...

Auckland Education Summit Lays Foundation for Change

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Auckland needs a success strategy that will allow the education sector to stimulate the radical changes required to enhance Auckland’s economy and society. That’s the view expressed by the 180 leaders from across the city’s political, commercial, ...

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Advance notice: NAPP 2012

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The application process for the 2012 National Aspiring Principals Programme (NAPP) opens on Monday 1 August, 2011 and closes on Monday 29 August, 2011. Further information and an application form will be available on the Educational Leaders website towards the end of July, at this link.

Nick Hedley: visualising data

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Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and founding director of the department's Spatial Interface Research Lab.

Merged institutions will aid up-skilling

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Merged institutions will aid up-skilling of young ready for economic growth says Deputy PM at Telford ceremony...

'Big Push' protest over early childhood education cuts - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: 'Big Push' protest over early childhood education cuts Stuff.co.nz Protesters make their way up Queen St in Auckland to oppose cuts to early childhood education. Hundreds marched up Auckland's Queen St today to protest Government cuts to early childhood education. The election year protest dubbed the "Big Push" by ...

Heartbreak, tears over school's closure - Otago Daily Times

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URL: Heartbreak, tears over school's closure Otago Daily Times There was little time for anger at Forbury School yesterday as parents and pupils were simply heartbroken over the Ministry of Education's decision to close its doors. After a review of South Dunedin schools, the Minister of Education Anne Tolley said ...

Wellington college to close main block due to quake risk - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Wellington East Girls' College is to close its main block after it was found to be below the standard required to withstand a moderate earthquake. Wellington City Council identified the main block and the school's hall as being potentially quake-prone ...

Five Dunedin schools to merge - New Zealand Herald

Otago Daily Times

URL: Five Dunedin schools to merge New Zealand Herald Minister of Education Anne Tolley has revealed that five Dunedin schools are going to merge due to a decline in student numbers. File photo / Christine Cornege Five south Dunedin schools will be merged into two, Education Minister Anne Tolley announced ...

Students go eco-friendly - Taranaki Daily News

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URL: Students go eco-friendly Taranaki Daily News Students at Coastal Taranaki School are getting hands-on lessons in sustainability that teach them how to grow fruit and vegetables and be environmentally aware. There are two women - one dressed in colourful clothes, one with a beaming, open face. ...

Startling rise in levels of obesity - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Startling rise in levels of obesity Stuff.co.nz WEIGHTY TALK: Students from St Dominic's College in West Auckland, from left, Claire Caballes, Sivi Brown, Sam Richards and Janet Tekori, talk about body image and how they try not to judge on body size. An unwillingness to confront obesity is costing ...

Truant's mum says ministry action 'sucks' - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
A mother of six children has criticised the education system after she was taken to court because her teenage son skipped school. Rita McClutchie, 44, was convicted and fined $150 this week for failing to ensure ...

Teachers, children tired by long school terms

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Teachers and children say they are tired and fed up as they near the end of an unusually long first half to their school year.

Quake-prone buildings at 23 Wellington schools - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Quake-prone buildings at 23 Wellington schools Stuff.co.nz A city council assessment in 2008 rated it as potentially quake-prone, which prompted the Education Ministry to carry out its own assessment. That assessment, which the school received last week, revealed the main block was about half the strength it ...

Civil Defence centres are in at-risk schools - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
Nine Wellington schools identified as buildings below earthquake standard are also designated as Civil Defence local emergency centres. But Wellington Regional Council emergency management head Rian van Schalkwyk said the problem affects only a small ...

Christchurch's schools get a listening ear - Newstalk ZB

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Newstalk ZB
Teachers and principals at Christchurch's Catholic schools are benefiting from a listening ear to help them cope following the earthquakes. Principal of St Mary's School in Hokitika, Karen Payne, has been seconded to the city for the rest of the year. ...