Strong financial report card for tertiary institutions

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Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education
Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce has welcomed a report showing that New Zealand’s tertiary institutions continue to record strong financial positions. The report, released today by the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC), shows that tertiary institutions have improved their financial position year-on-year between 2008 and 2010. The report shows that in 2010, all sub-sectors improved on their 2008 surplus:...

Ministry punishes school - Otago Daily Times

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URL: Ministry punishes school Otago Daily Times A North Otago primary school has become the first in Otago to be publicly punished for non-compliance with the Ministry of Education's National Standards. Pembroke School, in Oamaru, was to have hosted a Pacifika Fono ...

School reports leave parents in the dark - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Thousands of parents will have been left confused about whether their children were on track to meet National Standards judging by the state of their school reports. A new Ministry of Education report has found that only a third of ...

Clear evidence of deep and widespread concern about National Standards

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The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says an evaluation report into National Standards counters government claims that concern about National Standards is confined to a small group of politically-driven activists.

High standards failure rate for Pasifika children - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
An evaluation of national standards indicates half of all Pasifika children failed to reach the benchmarks in reading, writing and maths last year. Radio New Zealand's education correspondent says the report for the Ministry of Education also shows ...

Report shows many Pasifika children failing standards

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A major study of the first year of the controversial national standards, shows that half of all Pasifika children fail to reach the benchmarks in reading, writing and maths.

Education sector and Tolley at loggerheads again - 3News NZ

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URL: Education sector and Tolley at loggerheads again 3News NZ Factor in the removal of teachers rights to discipline kids, and the coresponding decline in respect, and its no wonder educational outcomes have suffered. We have incompetent teachers because teachers are bound to be trained in the education industry ...

Positive response to new youth policy - Taranaki Daily News

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Taranaki Daily News
Young mothers at a New Plymouth parenting unit believe a new youth welfare policy requiring teenage parents on benefits to undergo training before their child's first birthday is a good thing. "It's definitely something to give a go. ...

ACT Party criticises schools, calls for bulk funding - Radio New Zealand

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URL: ACT Party criticises schools, calls for bulk funding Radio New Zealand ACT Party leader Don Brash launched his party's education policy with an attack on poor grammar, bad teachers and the NCEA. The policy, launched on Sunday, calls for the same level of government funding for all schools and the removal of school zones. ...

Brash finds one school a shining example - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Brash finds one school a shining example Stuff.co.nz By and large, he said, students were being "schooled, not educated". But Tu Toa School was different, he said. "Tu Toa School in Palmerston North operated as a charitable trust, though funded by Government, has since 2005 been taking on Maori children ...

More new entrants getting kicked out of school

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With Fiona Ayers - child and educational psychologist. Iosua Esera - Petone Central school principal. Ian Leckie - President of the primary teachers' union, the New Zealand Educational Institute.

More bad behaviour among youngest children - union - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Ministry of Education figures show schools stood down five-year-olds 70 times last year, and six-year-olds in 131 instances. There were six suspensions of five-year-olds and 20 of six-year-olds. New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) president Ian ...

Young troublemakers acting out - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
Growing numbers of naughty new entrants being stood down from school for bad behaviour are often undiagnosed with special conditions like ADHD, foetal alcohol syndrome, autism or Asperger's syndrome, Auckland child educational psychologist Fiona Ayers ...

Students seek extra lessons - The Press

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Many Christchurch students are seeking extra help to get their studies back on track after disruptions this year. High school students in Canterbury have missed several weeks of classes after schools were forced to close because of earthquakes and two ...

Schools: Barring kids not answer - Stuff.co.nz

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Schools in Marlborough are taking a restorative approach to dealing with disruptive pupils and problem behaviour in the schoolyard to reduce the number stood down and suspended. Figures released by the Education Ministry show the number of pupils stood ...

Woman pleads guilty over student truancy - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
The elderly guardian of a young school student has pleaded guilty at Wellington District Court to a charge involving the child's repeated truancy. The charge relates to 46 absences from school from May to August last year. The Crown lawyer told the ...

Teaching jobs at risk as doubts raised over school funding

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Education Minister Anne Tolley is refusing to extend full funding to earthquake-affected schools in Christchurch despite a plea from a teachers' union.

Call for full funding for quake-hit schools and ECE centres until end of 2012

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The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa is officially calling on the government to extend full staffing and funding to earthquake-affected schools and early childhood centres in Canterbury until the end of next year.

Crown ordered into Kohanga Reo mediation

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The Crown breached the Treaty of Waitangi in relation to kohanga reo and has been ordered to attend mediation with the movement.

Schools can teach US and NZ about disasters - Voxy

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Voxy
There are lessons for both the United Sates and New Zealand from the way Kiwi primary and intermediate school children are taught how to prepare for disasters. Ian Axford (New Zealand) Fellow, Victoria Johnson, has spent seven months studying New ...

Police kept in dark over school stabbing

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The primary school where a 10-year-old boy was stabbed after a lunchtime "tackling" game did not report the incident to the police.A Year 4 boy from Jean Batten Primary School, in Mangere, brought a kitchen knife from home and stabbed...