Bruce Bisset: No thoughts for non voting kids - Hawke's Bay Today

Hawke's Bay Today

URL: Bruce Bisset: No thoughts for non voting kids Hawke's Bay Today Ditto for the national standards debate. These so-called standards for primary schools were dumped on educators with no consultation, and despite a significant number of schools saying they don't want a bar of them - because they won't work - smiling ...

Shifting Thinking workshop….shifts

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We had planned to hold a Shifting Thinking Workshop at the St James Theatre in Wellington on 25-26 August 2011. We have now decided to postpone it until 2012. We felt that we needed more time in order to make it the event we wanted it to be. We want to make Shifting Thinking very [...]

Debbie Mayo-Smith: Big payoff from five-minute investment - New Zealand Herald

URL: Debbie Mayo-Smith: Big payoff from five-minute investment
New Zealand Herald
...$6923.08 in salaried time... This figure represents two individuals, one on $70k per year, the other at $50k, both spending three full working weeks splitting first and last names apart manually, one by one by one in a huge Excel spread sheet. The pity is that instead of three weeks and two staff members the entire project could have been accomplished with three clicks of a mouse, by one person. What a shame that neither had known about the simple Excel function 'Text to Columns' (or asked around)...

Disadvantaged NZ youth bottom of OECD league - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
It recommends radical reforms including widespread use of computer-based e-learning, putting students on to pathways to work from the first year of intermediate school (Year 7), giving employers more input into what schools teach and giving all ...

Kiwi students making most of Internet access - New Zealand Herald

Sydney Morning Herald

URL: Kiwi students making most of Internet access 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 ...

Scholarships boosted for Maori/Pasifika Students - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
... research undertaken within the Ngai Tahu Research Centre hosted at the University of Canterbury. Individual colleges also offer scholarships reserved for Maori and Pasifika students. The College of Engineering High Achievers Awards, for example, ...

University starting classes in resort - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: University starting classes in resort Otago Daily Times The University of Otago says it is "not ruling out" establishing a campus in Queenstown, as it launches its first programme of classes in the Queenstown Resort College tomorrow. Academics and staff from both tertiary ...

The Reith Lectures

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In the first of five Reith Lectures Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi explores the human aspiration to be free...

Energy Efficiency Training Courses Now Available - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The IRHACE Industry Training Charitable Trust (IITCT) and the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA) have co-funded the development of four online web based training courses to provide high quality industry training to improve electricity ...

Suicide top cause of death for young - The Nelson Mail

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The Nelson Mail
A health needs assessment conducted by the Nelson Marlborough District Health Board has found there were 83 suicides in the region between 2003 and 2007. Nelson Bays Primary Health suicide prevention co-ordinator David Hough said New Zealand lost about ...

Student thrives on tough routine - The Daily Post

The Daily Post

URL: Student thrives on tough routine The Daily Post HARD WORK: Reporoa College students take part in a recent Cactus programme. Photo / Supplied 110711cactus1 Maia Ria put herself through a gruelling routine to develop her leadership skills. The 16-year-old Reporoa College student was one of the ...

School's iPad requirement 'divisive'

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An Auckland state school that has put the latest iPad on its 'compulsory stationery list' could be creating a two-tiered schooling system, a Labour education spokeswoman says.

Dear parents, please buy your child an iPad - TVNZ

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TVNZ
In a letter to parents of year 9 students, Orewa College principal Kate Shevland told parents that an "affordable computing device" such as an iPad or Netbook would be required in the classroom in 2012. The decile-nine school's "preference" was the ...