Workload could drive schools to dump NCEA, say principals

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School principals say the NCEA is too much work for teachers and the problem could prompt more schools to adopt alternative qualifications.

Refined marking system for NCEA - Stuff.co.nz

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"Students have often felt a bit aggrieved that where they have got a merit extremely well, they still got a merit." Although the new system would give greater recognition for how exactly pupils achieved, some would ask whether the system was going ...

School gets speedy - Times Online - Auckland

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URL: School gets speedy Times Online - Auckland A SECONDARY school is experiencing the possibilities of ultra-fast broadband with its internet upgrades. The Ministry of Education's (MoE) School Network Upgrade Project (SNUP) was completed at Pakuranga College ...

Students get chance to try trade training - Wanganui Chronicle

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URL: Students get chance to try trade training Wanganui Chronicle TIMBER TEASER: Rob O'Keefe (left), principal of Rob O'Keefe Joinery, was among the 25 companies drumming up student interest in trades training in Wanganui last week. Photo / Supplied "Hands-on" experience was offered hundreds of Wanganui secondary ...

Kiwi teacher on mission to ban the word 'gay' - TVNZ

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URL: Kiwi teacher on mission to ban the word 'gay' TVNZ Teacher Warren Bowers, who has written a paper with Victoria University Lecturer Ann Hardie, has banned pupils from saying 'gay'. - Source: Fairfax A primary school teacher has told his pupils they are not allowed to say 'gay' in his classes. ...

Ovation for retiring head of university - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: Ovation for retiring head of university Otago Daily Times Born and raised in Auckland, Prof Skegg attended the private secondary school King's College. He moved south to study medicine at Otago and also travelled on exchange to Harvard University, before he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford ...

500 works for one of NZ's biggest college art events - Voxy

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URL: 500 works for one of NZ's biggest college art events Voxy More than 120 artists from all over the country will take part in one of the biggest New Zealand school art events, the 15th annual Carmel College exhibitions in Auckland on August 12-14. Last year more than 500 works were entered with almost 50 ...