Encouraging response to ECE Taskforce consultation

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Anne Tolley | Education
Education Minister Anne Tolley says there has been a great response from the public and the early childhood education sector to calls for submissions during consultation on the independent ECE Taskforce report. “The eight-week consultation began in June, and so far there have been 1637 submissions, which is extremely encouraging,” says Mrs Tolley.
“Consultation closes on 8 August, and I would urge everyone - parents, families, whānau, employers and the ECE sector - to make sure their voice is heard...

Green Paper for Vulnerable Children

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Paula Bennett | Social Development and Employment
Social Development Minster Paula Bennett joined Sir Peter Gluckman, Green Paper Champions, MPs and the public in Aotea Square today to launch the Green Paper for vulnerable children. “Too many children are being hurt, abused, neglected and badly let down but we can change this and now is time to act,” says Ms Bennett...

Texts To The Editor: 27/07/11 - Hawke's Bay Today

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Hawke's Bay Today
Excellent article by Bruce Bisset July 18 re National Govt policy on ECE cuts, proposed In Home Childcare cuts and ridiculous National Standards. What are they doing to our future generation? Our wee shining stars. How are families supposed to cope ...

ECE Services Fear Closure

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There is a growing groundswell of concern from parents, educators and teachers from portions of the Early Childhood education sector that the recent report, initiated by the Minister of Education, could not only result in increased childcare costs ...

Narrow focus road to education failure - The Dominion Post

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The Dominion Post
... of educational reform focused on new national curriculum and assessment methods, our schools remain in desperate need of transformation. Thousands of young people choose truancy each day rather than face the tedium and irrelevance of school. ...

NCEA changes raise concern about students being guinea pigs

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Yasmeen Musa is a year 11 student at Whangarei Girls High, who has spoken out about changes to NCEA standards. We also hear from Chairperson of the Secondary Principals Council Julia Davidson and Deputy Chief Executive of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority Bali Haque.

Controversial proposals on helping children to be unveiled

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The Social Development Minister, Paula Bennett, says a paper on vulnerable children to be published today is controversial and will make people uncomfortable.

Summit aims to triple number of Maori getting degrees - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Last year nearly half of the 2840 Auckland students who left school without any qualification were Maori. Photo / Greg Bowker More than 200 tertiary providers will meet in Auckland today to find ways of getting more Maori students ...

iPads in schools - are we missing the point? - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

iPads in schools - are we missing the point?
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Decisions about which tools to use – from school camps and calculators to iPads - become a lot easier to make when you understand the purpose and value of education, and the cost of not doing it well. What this underlines is the inherent gap between ...

Push for training of school board trustees - Waikato Times

Waikato Times

URL: Push for training of school board trustees Waikato Times Lengthy Government interventions at more than a dozen Waikato schools have prompted calls for mandatory training for boards of trustees. Just as Fairfield College's intervention has been downgraded, the Education Ministry has released figures showing ...

Study grant cuts hurt refugees - agency - Stuff.co.nz

Stuff.co.nz

URL: Study grant cuts hurt refugees - agency Stuff.co.nz With the Government's cuts to refugee study grants about to come into effect, refugee students will need extra help and support, an agency says. Last year the Government cut refugee study grants from next year. The grants, which began in 2003, ...

Our hungry kids: Charity bringing back free milk to schools - New Zealand Herald

New Zealand Herald

URL: Our hungry kids: Charity bringing back free milk to schools New Zealand Herald Glenavon School principal Elaine Herbert, who remembers getting school milk as a child, with 7-year-old students Darren Iese and Kairangi Takai-Latu. Photo / Richard Robinson. The days of giving kids milk in school are about to ...

Hunger in land of milk and honey - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
In a land where a state-school principal in one part of Auckland can demand every child come to school with a designer-brand, $1000 tablet computer. A land where the Government can throw $1.77 billion to greedy and unwise investors who lost their money ...

Brian Rudman: Hunger in land of milk and honey

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For years, local celebrities have been popping up on our screens in their safari gear, imploring us to sponsor a poverty-stricken child.A child in some poor, badly governed, Third World country, of course. The Herald's 'Our Hungry...

Dementia caregiver lauds training as population ages - The Nelson Mail

The Nelson Mail

URL: Dementia caregiver lauds training as population ages The Nelson Mail The Wood Retirement Village caregiver Chris Climo was one of 80 graduates at the seventh annual Nelson Tasman Industry Training ceremony at Annesbrook Church and Community Centre last night. The graduates received national certificates in industries ...

Linwood College ready for classes - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
Almost $1 million has been spent repairing Linwood College so pupils can return on Monday for the first time since February 22. Pupils and teachers were forced to move to Cashmere High School in March, after Linwood College's buildings were riddled ...

Missing uni cash: priest quits job - New Zealand Herald

Otago Daily Times

URL: Missing uni cash: priest quits job New Zealand Herald Photo / Paul Estcourt A priest working as a senior executive at the Auckland University of Technology has resigned after "accounting discrepancies" involving hundreds of thousands of dollars. Jonathan Kirkpatrick was chief executive of the AUT Business ...