David Farrar: Blair had lessons for both National and Labour - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Will National be content with national standards (which are entirely laudable), or will they propose more substantive reforms? Blair talked of Clement Attlee, who led the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955, and served as Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951. ...

School national standards rebellion grows - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Ministry of Education figures show nearly one in five schools is defying the Government over its national standards in reading, writing and maths. The ministry has almost finished working its way through 2025 school charters, which this year must ...

Lessons from Blair for National and Labour | Kiwiblog

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Will National be content with national standards (which are entirely laudable), or will they propose more substantive reforms? I also nominate the Labour MP whom I think could make the most credible advocate of reform. ...

Chris Hipkins MP » Blog Archive » Schools tight on standards protest

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Rimutaka MP Chris Hipkins is backing the stance of schools in Upper Hutt united in their opposition to the Government's introduction of national standards in reading, writing and mathematics, saying they are ''rushed and ...

Principals' sabbatical reports recently added

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Principals' sabbatical reports added in June and July 2011 look at:

• leadership and pedagogy, in particular building leadership capacity within students and staff (Dawn Ackroyd, St Oran's College).

• ways in which primary school principals utilise professional supervision, including their personal mentoring, to support them in their role as educational leaders (Margaret Coleman, Star of the Sea School, Christchurch).

• the changing role of senior management: from deputy principal to learning leader (Brian Hinchco, Papatoetoe Intermediate School).

• how schools are implementing the revised New Zealand curriculum with an emphasis on the future focus dimension of the principles, and e-learning. (Kevin Payne Cloverlea School).

• research into student achievement reporting to boards by principals, specifically annual target reporting (Stuart Priddy, Loburn School).

• how schools in the UK have balanced the requirements of national standards with the delivery of an innovative, student lead inquiry based curriculum (Jeanette Shearer, Isleworth School).

• learning pathways available within diverse school communities and identifying successful leadership school improvement models (Julie Small, Fairfield College).

Playcentre takes on Parliament

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Protesters – some still in nappies – are claiming proposed changes to early-childhood education could spell the end of playcentres.

Providers of special education retained - Times Online - Auckland

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Times Online - Auckland
THE prospective students of a controversial school development will remain with their current education providers should construction of the new facility be scrapped or not completed in time. The building of Thurston Place College ...

All schools set to get an education on autism - The Bay of Plenty Times

Wairarapa Times Age

URL: All schools set to get an education on autism The Bay of Plenty Times Autism New Zealand this week announced a project to help schools improve access to education for those on the autism spectrum. Chief executive Alison Molloy said a tool kit had been developed and would be delivered to every school in the country, ...

What happens to our students?

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New Zealand is getting more educated. Between 1986 and 2009 the number of Kiwis with a university degree rocketed from 100,000 to 538,000. But just what this means for the country is unclear. As the recession took hold a couple...

Marion Fairbrass - learning difficulties

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Chairperson of SPELD New Zealand, Marion Fairbrass discusses whether children with learning difficulties are falling through the cracks of our schooling system.

CPIT values staff commitment

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CPIT is working closely with the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) to update a collective agreement that has seen little change, other than across the board salary increases, since it was agreed in 1993.

Foreign students generous spenders - Hawke's Bay Today

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Hawke's Bay Today
Local experts say international secondary school students in Hawke's Bay can contribute as much as $1 million per school to the local economy each year. According to Immigration New Zealand statistics, last month there were 140 international secondary ...

Q+A: Winston & Gluckman interview transription - TVNZ

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TVNZ
Robert, Lord Winston is professor of Science and Society at Imperial College. He's a medical doctor, a former British MP and television presenter of programmes like Child of Our Time and The Human Body. You will have seen him. ...

Announcements and updates

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Christchurch earthquakes key information for principals, boards, schools, ECE services, parents, and international students and their parents...

School system success - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Like Christmas, NCEA-bashing season starts earlier every year and is now in full swing. Usually the complaints involve accusations of grade-rigging and jiggery-pokery behind the scenes to make schools appear to be doing a better job than ...

Our hungry kids: Free bagels put a ring around school hunger - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
By Jordyn O'Shea Dawson School students Harlem Phillips (left) and Dominic Kautapa Manuka tuck into their bagels donated by Abe's. Photo / Sarah Ivey An Auckland business is doing its part to stop kids going hungry at school. ...

Pre-teens dream of kids and dole - Stuff.co.nz

SundayNews.co.nz

URL: Pre-teens dream of kids and dole Stuff.co.nz Alison Sutherland, who works in Wairarapa schools with children who have behavioural problems, says many of the boys she deals with – who haven't even reached their teenage years – can only see being the father of children and living with their mothers ...

Skegg turns a page in career - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: Skegg turns a page in career Otago Daily Times Prof Sir David Skegg finished an almost eight-year tenure as the vice-chancellor of the University of Otago, yesterday. Photo supplied. Departing University of Otago vice-chancellor Prof Sir David Skegg will take ...

Clowns crying for circus school - Sunday Star Times

Sunday Star Times

URL: Clowns crying for circus school Sunday Star Times The city's internationally renowned circus school has pulled the plug on its training programme because the ongoing earthquakes have damaged its specialist facilities. The CircoArts programme, run by the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology ...

Jobs for parents and food for hungry kids - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Many readers will have been taken aback this week by revelations in the Herald series on the number of children turning up at schools hungry each day. The problem is not new but it has clearly become worse, accentuated by the recession and made more ...

Weltec Students Build Houses for Christchurch - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
WelTec trades students have built the houses as part of their programme of study at WelTec. The students, most aged between 16 and 25, with the backing of the WelTec Council wanted to show their support for Christchurch by donating the houses to Mayor ...

Students now out of tents - Stuff.co.nz

Stuff.co.nz

URL: Students now out of tents Stuff.co.nz Construction began in March on The Kirkwood Village and in April on The Dovedale Village to house staff and students after buildings were damaged in the February earthquake. Vice-Chancellor Rod Carr said The Kirkwood Village was finished and all but ...

Rotorua schools' breakfast programmes - The Daily Post

The Daily Post

URL: Rotorua schools' breakfast programmes The Daily Post KICK START: Rotorua Intermediate student Jabel Martin, left, and teacher Shannon Sosich are making sure their class is well-fed. Photo / Stephen Parker 060711sp15a Rotorua Intermediate class has started its own breakfast club for students who are ...

What happens to our students? - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Thousands of university students will today receive an email telling them they are the chosen ones. Their responses will unlock the secrets of what benefits - if any - a university education provides. As the recession took hold a ...

About-turn by UCOL questioned - Wanganui Chronicle

Wanganui Chronicle

URL: About-turn by UCOL questioned Wanganui Chronicle The cost of moving Wanganui's arts students back to the city's first polytech has made architect Mark Southcombe question the decision to merge that polytech with UCOL and move it across town. Mr Southcombe designed two buildings in the first ...

Jobs to go at industry training organisation - Newstalk ZB

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Newstalk ZB
Staff at Christchurch based industry training organisation Careerforce have been told jobs are to go, but the company won't say publicly how many are at risk. The health industry focused ITO is seeking to merge with another ITO, ...