URL: Pasifika Education Plan shows good progress
Anne Tolley | Education
Education Minister Anne Tolley says a mid-term review of the Pasifika Education Plan (2009-2012) shows positive results in early childhood education, schooling and the Youth Guarantee for Pasifika children and young people. The review found that Pasifika participation in early childhood education (ECE) has increased by 9.5 per cent since 2009. It also showed some improvement in NCEA Level 2 attainment, good retention levels at secondary schools, and that twenty per cent of Youth Guarantee places are being filled by Pasifika 16 and 17 year olds.... read more
Thursday, August 4, 2011
School determined to reject national standards - Radio New Zealand
URL: School determined to reject national standards
Radio New Zealand
The principal of a Northland school says it will continue to reject national standards, despite a warning letter from the Ministry of Education. Keri Milne-Ihimaera is the head teacher of Moerewa School where 99% of the pupils are Maori. ...
Radio New Zealand
The principal of a Northland school says it will continue to reject national standards, despite a warning letter from the Ministry of Education. Keri Milne-Ihimaera is the head teacher of Moerewa School where 99% of the pupils are Maori. ...
Business and science a winning formula - Stuff.co.nz
Business and science a winning formula
Stuff.co.nz
Linking science with big business has been a hit for Auckland university-based group Chiasma, which says expanding that model to other universities would boost the economy. The University of Auckland-based group has around 2000 members - a third of ... and more »
Stuff.co.nz
Linking science with big business has been a hit for Auckland university-based group Chiasma, which says expanding that model to other universities would boost the economy. The University of Auckland-based group has around 2000 members - a third of ... and more »
Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards
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Pioneering work to reverse low rates of achievement among Māori and Pacific learners wins science educator supreme teaching excellence award The Prime Minister, Rt Hon John Key, has awarded leading biological scientist, Professor Michael Walker (Te ...
Pioneering work to reverse low rates of achievement among Māori and Pacific learners wins science educator supreme teaching excellence award The Prime Minister, Rt Hon John Key, has awarded leading biological scientist, Professor Michael Walker (Te ...
More Maori interested in science needed - TangataWhenua.com: Maori News & Views
URL: More Maori interested in science needed
TangataWhenua.com: Maori News & Views
... scholarships to Maori university students, because it couldn't find any interested in science. Rangahau Ahumara Kai, or Plant and Food, is now planning to attract younger Maori to science by offering scholarships to college and high school pupils. ...
TangataWhenua.com: Maori News & Views
... scholarships to Maori university students, because it couldn't find any interested in science. Rangahau Ahumara Kai, or Plant and Food, is now planning to attract younger Maori to science by offering scholarships to college and high school pupils. ...
Business and science a winning formula - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Business and science a winning formula
Stuff.co.nz
The University of Auckland-based group has around 2000 members - a third of science students at the institution - and holds regular workshops and events to educate students about science-related business skills. Merely raising awareness among science ...
Stuff.co.nz
The University of Auckland-based group has around 2000 members - a third of science students at the institution - and holds regular workshops and events to educate students about science-related business skills. Merely raising awareness among science ...
Staff and students support crime and politics at Vic
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Staff and students at Victoria University will be holding a rally tomorrow, at Thursday 4 August at 1.15pm in the Hunter Courtyard, Kelburn Parade, to protest plans to close down the university’s Crime and Justice Research Centre, and to disestablish two ...
Staff and students at Victoria University will be holding a rally tomorrow, at Thursday 4 August at 1.15pm in the Hunter Courtyard, Kelburn Parade, to protest plans to close down the university’s Crime and Justice Research Centre, and to disestablish two ...
Child poverty policy launched - Otago Daily Times
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Child poverty policy launched Otago Daily Times Reintroducing the training allowance would cost a maximum of $4000 a year for each person but provide overall savings of $10000 as people with a degree spent six months less on a benefit. "When I was on the DPB, I used the training allowance for child ... |
Save our playcentre - Auckland stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz (blog) | URL: Save our playcentre Auckland stuff.co.nz This comes after the Early Childhood Education Taskforce Report, commissioned by the government to investigate its investment in early childhood, proposed reducing playcentre funding by 63 percent. Truly a Kiwi practice, playcentres are parent-led ... |
Experts warn early childhood cuts might be needed
URL: Experts warn early childhood cuts might be needed
Renewed warnings have been made that the Government might need to cut early childhood subsidies to allow it to direct more funding to poor and at-risk families.
Renewed warnings have been made that the Government might need to cut early childhood subsidies to allow it to direct more funding to poor and at-risk families.
Bullying prompts young refugees to help - The Dominion Post
URL: Bullying prompts young refugees to help
The Dominion Post
When he began school at St Bernard's College as a year 9 pupil many teachers made an effort to help him. But he felt isolated for six months, sitting by himself in class, he said. "To fit in you have got to learn the language. ...
The Dominion Post
When he began school at St Bernard's College as a year 9 pupil many teachers made an effort to help him. But he felt isolated for six months, sitting by himself in class, he said. "To fit in you have got to learn the language. ...
School Kids Impress with Financial Literacy
URL: School Kids Impress with Financial Literacy
TVNZ’s Fair Go presenter Gordon Harcourt never ceases to be amazed at the level of people’s naiveté and ignorance he encounters especially when investigating anything to do with high interest, high risk loans. However he was equally surprised ...
TVNZ’s Fair Go presenter Gordon Harcourt never ceases to be amazed at the level of people’s naiveté and ignorance he encounters especially when investigating anything to do with high interest, high risk loans. However he was equally surprised ...
Finalists announced in School is Cool competition
URL: Finalists announced in School is Cool competition
More than 2500 entries have been received in what is believed to be New Zealand’s largest ever online children’s art competition. Thousands of children from early childhood centres and primary and intermediate schools around the country took part ...
More than 2500 entries have been received in what is believed to be New Zealand’s largest ever online children’s art competition. Thousands of children from early childhood centres and primary and intermediate schools around the country took part ...
High hopes for low decile schools - Voxy
URL: High hopes for low decile schools
Voxy
Next week high school students will return to their old primary and intermediate schools to dispel some of the myths around what to expect when making the jump to secondary school. The Duffy Books in Homes School Leader assemblies allow schools to ...
Voxy
Next week high school students will return to their old primary and intermediate schools to dispel some of the myths around what to expect when making the jump to secondary school. The Duffy Books in Homes School Leader assemblies allow schools to ...
School roll count change impact being felt - Otago Daily Times
URL: School roll count change impact being felt
Otago Daily Times
"This change will mean they get funding for the actual amount of students who are in classrooms. "Any savings will go towards off-setting the cost of initiatives which improve the transition between school, tertiary education and employment, ...
Otago Daily Times
"This change will mean they get funding for the actual amount of students who are in classrooms. "Any savings will go towards off-setting the cost of initiatives which improve the transition between school, tertiary education and employment, ...
Maori school continues battle - Southland Times
URL: Maori school continues battle
Southland Times
The trust fighting to save it has gone past the three-month deadline given to show the Ministry of Education that it can be viable. The Maori total-immersion school's auditorium was to be demolished in April because the ministry deemed it too large for ...
Southland Times
The trust fighting to save it has gone past the three-month deadline given to show the Ministry of Education that it can be viable. The Maori total-immersion school's auditorium was to be demolished in April because the ministry deemed it too large for ...
Whangarei kids benefit from new breakfast scheme - Northern Advocate
 Northern Advocate | URL: Whangarei kids benefit from new breakfast scheme Northern Advocate TUCKING IN: Manaia View School students Alexianna Murray, 9, and Angel Rogers, 8, enjoy their breakfast. Photo / John Stone The fridges are packed with milk, the cupboards crammed with jars of peanut butter and the kids at Manaia View School could not ... |
Schools begin return to once compromised sites - Stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Schools begin return to once compromised sites Stuff.co.nz SETTLING IN: Linwood College pupil Jacob McHutchison, 13, gets himself a chair for the first day of term on Monday. Catholic Cathedral College has returned to its home in the shadow of the battered Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. ... |
Redcliffs School ends Sumner site-sharing - The Press
URL: Redcliffs School ends Sumner site-sharing
The Press
Its 300 pupils have been sharing with Sumner School since last term, but will soon shift to the van Asch Deaf Education Centre in Sumner. The Redcliffs School site has been off limits since the June 13 earthquakes while the stability of the cliff ...
The Press
Its 300 pupils have been sharing with Sumner School since last term, but will soon shift to the van Asch Deaf Education Centre in Sumner. The Redcliffs School site has been off limits since the June 13 earthquakes while the stability of the cliff ...
Music delights pupils - Star Canterbury
URL: Music delights pupils
Star Canterbury
Students from the North Canterbury Academy of Music visited primary schools throughout North Canterbury in July, performing concerts to showcase their talents and introduce children to a variety of instruments. The academy groups included orchestra, ...
Star Canterbury
Students from the North Canterbury Academy of Music visited primary schools throughout North Canterbury in July, performing concerts to showcase their talents and introduce children to a variety of instruments. The academy groups included orchestra, ...
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