Chester Borrows: No simple answers to education woes - Wanganui Chronicle

Wanganui Chronicle

URL: Chester Borrows: No simple answers to education woes Wanganui Chronicle The Government has attracted a scrap with the teaching fraternity regarding the implementation of national standards. I think it is time we recognise that there is a big chunk of our community who do not learn in school. The difference in the past was ...

The Challenge to Care in Charm City: Consider New Zealand's Approach

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According to Dr. Hipkins who is a distinguished Chief Researcher of New Zealand's Council for Educational Research, New Zealand doesn't believe that school learning should be entirely based on epistemology, ...

Timely focus on career help - Gisborne Herald

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Gisborne Herald
Dr Karen Vaughan, researcher for the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, was recently interviewed by National Radio. As she and others pointed out, it has probably never been satisfactory to have a sole careers councillor as the expert ...

Cook Islands students perform well in NCEA qualification - Radio New Zealand International

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Radio New Zealand International
A new analysis of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement shows Cook Islands students performing well compared with Pacifica students at school in New Zealand. NCEA is the standard qualification for secondary students in New Zealand but is ...

Schools struggle to teach curriculum - The Dominion Post

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The Dominion Post
A new report from the Education Review Office shows 18 per cent of schools can provide minimal or no evidence of adopting the principles it was built on such as the Treaty of Waitangi and community engagement. Wellington's Clyde Quay School principal ...

Families forced to sacrifice early childhood education to make ends meet

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Fee increases in early childhood education are helping push up the cost of living and families should not be forced to sacrifice their children’s education to make ends meet, says the education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa.

TEU Tertiary Update Vol 14 No 26

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TEU challenges change proposals at Victoria Victoria University of Wellington is currently undertaking five separate change proposals affecting academic staff. Two of these are located in the Faculty of Education, where management claim there is ...

‘Review It!’ another success for students’ associations

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NZUSA is congratulating Massey University students’ associations on the launch of Review It!, a new survey designed to review courses and improve quality and student choice, developed in collaboration with Massey University. Launched just this semester, ...

Maori students top Weltec trades study completion ates - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Young Maori learning trades are better at finishing their courses than all other students at the same Hutt Valley technical institute. The success is being put down to the new Tamaiti Whangai Academy, a initiative run by Wellington Institute of ...

School principal heads north - Timaru Herald

Timaru Herald

URL: School principal heads north Timaru Herald Raising the profile of Timaru's smallest primary school has taken six years, but principal Shaun Brooker is now starting to see a change. He joined Timaru Christian School when it was at its North St site and there were just 34 pupils. ...

Computers in schools could prevent youth crime - think tank - TVNZ

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TVNZ
Improvements in schools could be the answer to solving issues like excessive drinking and drug use, obesity and teenage pregnancy according to a New Zealand think-tank. The New Zealand Institute has released a report which recommends two proposals that ...

Should new technology like iPads be in schools?

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Orewa college has asked Dr David Parsons, a senior lecturer in information technology at Massey University, to evaluate its pilot iPad programme next year. Dr Parsons is also the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning.