New mentoring guidelines build confident teachers

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“New induction and mentoring guidelines will evolve how mentor teachers build the confidence, satisfaction and expertise of New Zealand’s newest teachers and their learners,” said Teachers Council Director Dr Peter Lind today.

Concern playcentres may lose funds - Wanganui Chronicle

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Wanganui Chronicle
Playcentres could lose as much as 70 per cent of their funding if the recommendations of an independent taskforce on early childhood education are adopted. Submissions on the Early Childhood Education Task Force report opened on June 15 and close on ...

Sir John Graham and John Taylor: Getting the best from school and country - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Most importantly, it is about promoting a sea change from excessively boring, mechanistic and assessment-driven teaching, to the celebration of whole subject expertise, the inculcation of good values, and the importance of all round student involvement ...

Teacher gender no issue for pupils - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: Teacher gender no issue for pupils Otago Daily Times Male teachers are not essential if research involving Otago school pupils is anything to go by. While concern in education circles about the declining number of men in the teaching profession has grown, ...

Proposal on the future of Health Camp Schools

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Submissions are invited on the Ministry's proposal on the future of Health Camp Schools. For boards, educational organisations and other interested parties

Our hungry kids: Split views over food and learning - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Photo / APN Feeding hungry children at school may stop their tummies rumbling in the classroom, but a study has found free breakfasts do not make much difference to learning. Associate Professor Cliona Ni Mhurchu, of the University of Auckland, ...

CPAG Calls For Govt Funded School Food Programme - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The Group's recently released report, Hunger for Learning cpag.org.nz - Hunger for Learning Brochure (pdf) , discusses the experiences of five Auckland schools which run breakfast programme and outlines the real educational advantages that these ...

Help needed to secure breakfast in schools programmes - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa is welcoming a report calling for the government to step in and help fund breakfast in schools programmes. The Hunger for Learning report from the Child Poverty Action Group says breakfasts should be provided ...

NZ's hungry kids: nzherald readers react - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Revelations thousands of New Zealand children need food from charities and schools to stop them going hungry has sparked a heated debate among nzherald.co.nz readers. More than 40000 children are being fed by charities ...

It's all about keeping students safe - The Ashburton Guardian

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The Ashburton Guardian
The school received $120000 of funding from the Ministry of Education and added around $30000 of school funding to help build a fence around the entire school to protect special needs students. The fence is around 1.8 ...

Rick Boven

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Chris talks to Rick Boven from the NZ Institute about their discussion paper, More Ladders, Fewer Snakes: Two Proposals to Reduce Youth Advantage...

Ideas for 24 July 2011 - The Nation's Youth

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We hear from two of the country's youngest councillors and Chris talks to Rick Boven from the NZ Institute about their discussion paper, More Ladders, Fewer Snakes: Two Proposals to Reduce Youth Disadvantage.

Wainui High set on toilet cameras - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
Wainuiomata High School will install cameras in toilets, despite a Privacy Commission warning it could breach pupils' privacy. The cameras would not be in cubicles but in the main washroom, principal Martin Isberg said. They were to stop vandalism, ...

Feature Guest - Professor Sir David Skegg

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It is his final week in the role of Otago University Vice Chancellor. He is Professor of Preventive and Social Medicine at the university, and his primary research interest is cancer epidemiology. He has acted as a consultant to the World Health Organisation and to the New Zealand government. In 1990, he was awarded an OBE for services to medicine and, in 2009, received a knighthood. He has contributed to the study of cervical, breast and prostate cancer, as well contraceptives and reproductive health.

Police investigate AUT's missing $500k

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Do you know more details? Email jared.savage@nzherald.co.nz Hundreds of thousands of dollars have gone missing from the accounts of a taxpayer-funded Auckland university. AUT is...

Maori 'thriving' at trades-focused education centre - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
The founder of a trades-focused education centre says Maori students thrive under its guidance. Stuart Middleton has set up a Tertiary High School at Manukau Institute of Technology, which has been running for about a year, and caters for students ...

Mana College stalwart fondly remembered - The Dominion Post

The Dominion Post

URL: Mana College stalwart fondly remembered The Dominion Post POPULAR MAN: Bruce Crowley, who passed away last month, will be remembered with fondness by many in the Mana College and Porirua community. Mana College hosted a service to remember popular teacher Bruce Crowley last month. Known as 'The Crow', ...