News | New Zealand Council for Educational Research

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Shifting Thinking workshop....shifts. We had planned to hold a Shifting Thinking Workshop at the St James Theatre in Wellington on 25-26 August. We have now decided to postpone it until 2012. We felt that we needed more time in order to ...

National Standards - Big News

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Today, more than 300 schools handed their charters to the Ministry of Education without National Standards information because they believe setting targets for student achievement using National Standards will produce ...

Steiner Standards | 95bFM

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MP3 Steiner Standards. MP3, 6m23s, 1.5MB, first broadcast 15 July 2011. Lucas discusses the National Standards with Dee Whitby, Principal of Michael Park Steiner School, and why the standards just don't apply to Steiner schools. ...

What do YOU want from education? - Manawatu Standard

Manawatu Standard

URL: What do YOU want from education? Manawatu Standard According to Sir Ken Robinson and many educational experts, this is called the Industrial Model. Schools were formed to create batches of cookie cutter graduates that fit into an industrialised society. There is a fabulous YouTube video which explains ...

Pupils gain no benefit from repeating a year at school - The Dominion Post

Sydney Morning Herald

URL: Pupils gain no benefit from repeating a year at school The Dominion Post Repeating a year in school does not help pupils in the long term, a study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has found. Countries in which pupils repeated years tended to have worse educational results overall. ...

Secret History of Social Networking (Part 2)

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BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones presents episode two of The Secret History of Social Networking. This week, the rise of Facebook; what made it so darn popular, and why did competitors like Bebo and My Space largely fall off the radar?

The Secret History of Social Networking (Part 1)

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BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones traces the story of social networking from the early days of computing and the 60s counterculture, through to today's mega-corporations worth billions of dollars.

TR-10 emerging technologies

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Jason Pontin, the editor-in-chief of the Technology Review, starts picking out 10 emerging technologies he thinks are most likely to shape the future and change our world.

National Chemistry conference at UCOL

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The International Year of Chemistry is being marked at UCOL this coming week, as it hosts the National Chemical Education Conference.

Ian Gordon Fellow expert on English language teaching

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It will be a homecoming of sorts next month for Victoria University’s 2011 Ian Gordon Fellow Professor Jack Richards, an internationally renowned specialist in second and foreign language teaching.

We're sitting ourselves to death - The Dominion Post

The Dominion Post

URL: We're sitting ourselves to death The Dominion Post A study released this year in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology that followed nearly 5000 Scottish men concluded that spending two or more leisure hours in front of a screen doubles the risk of a heart attack. ...

New dental clinic to service 5000 Bay students - The Bay of Plenty Times

The Bay of Plenty Times

URL: New dental clinic to service 5000 Bay students The Bay of Plenty Times He is assisted by Otumoetai Primary student Taya Nicholson and Sally Webb, chairwoman of the BOPDHB. Photo / Joel Ford. Looking up at the gleaming light, National MP Simon Bridges is taken back to his childhood days of visiting the school dental clinic ...

Hard lessons for Wellington's shaky schools - The Dominion Post

The Dominion Post

URL: Hard lessons for Wellington's shaky schools The Dominion Post Houghton Valley School now has children in both its hall and library after a seismic assessment showed a single-storey double classroom needed work, principal Barry Schon says. "While it wasn't a huge risk, it [was] advisable to get a bit of remedial ...

Longbeach School continues to grow - The Ashburton Guardian

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The Ashburton Guardian
Former deputy principal Trish Campbell was on hand for the official opening of the latest class and said when the schools first combined, staff thought it was great to have four classrooms and a library. "Since then there has been so many changes and I ...

School drugs crackdown - New Zealand Herald

Newstalk ZB

URL: School drugs crackdown New Zealand Herald Schools are cracking down on Kronic and other forms of synthetic cannabis, amid fears that they are the drug of choice for students who are trying to get past drink-drive checkpoints. Secondary Principals' Association president Patrick ...

More students take to legal highs - TVNZ

Newstalk ZB

URL: More students take to legal highs TVNZ Secondary school principals are pleading with the Government to move with urgency to stamp out synthetic drugs like Kronic while students are on their holiday break. The call comes as more stories emerge of "out of it" teenagers - some as young as 13 ...

Kiwi students making most of Internet access - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Research has found that 96 per cent of New Zealand students aged 15 had a computer at home in 2009. That's up from 79 per cent in 2000 and slightly more than the OECD average of 94 per cent. Ninety-two per cent also had the internet at home compared ...

Worms turn pupils to conservation - Northern Advocate

Northern Advocate

URL: Worms turn pupils to conservation Northern Advocate Especially pleasing is the increasing role that students are playing in planning and designing them," Ms Botting said. Leslee Allan, principal at Kaurihohore School at Kauri, near Whangarei, said the awards enabled the school to develop several linked ...