Focus on youth employment continues

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Paula Bennett | Social Development and Employment
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett says the Government’s high priority on young people continues through the Job Ops with Training and Skills for Growth programmes. “Since 2009 this Government has backed nearly 12,000 young people into work by giving them a job and valuable experience through the Job Opportunity employer subsidy,” says Ms Bennett. Job Ops paid $5,000 to an employer to take a young person off benefit and employ them for a minimum of six months...

Local Bodies: Jane Clifton Sucked in by the Spin!

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The New Zealand Council for Educational Research revealed inconsistency and confusion due to the rushed implementation and high levels of concern from parents and teachers. A recent review of the Ministry of Education by ...

Rebel schools succumb to national standards pressure - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Some schools refusing to use the national standards in reading, writing and maths are giving in to Government pressure, official figures show. The pressure was evident in Otago this week when the Education Ministry refused to let a rebel school host a ...

National standards not needed - The Dominion Post

Otago Daily Times

URL: National standards not needed The Dominion Post OPINION: As hundreds of schools defy the Government over national standards, we need to ask why the Government refuses to value the opinion of educators, why it ignores the depth of feeling coming from those school communities which are taking a stand, ...

Tolley 'mistress of demotivation' - Voxy

Voxy	URL: Tolley 'mistress of demotivation' Voxy Education Minister Anne Tolley is turning a blind eye to her own ministry's findings that show huge concern about students being demotivated by national standards, says Labour's Education spokesperson Sue Moroney. "Anne Tolley is not listening," Sue ...

Steve Chadwick: What working together means - The Daily Post

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The Daily Post
National standards in education is another potboiler that Minister Tolley has adroitly got offside with educationists on and her latest was the assurance last week that play centres will not have a 70 per cent funding cut after all but there is still ...

Call for culture to be acknowledged in national standards - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
A Porirua school principal says more children from Pacific Island backgrounds will succeed at school if the Ministry of Education recognises the importance of their culture in the national standards. A report for the ministry shows half of all Pasifika ...

Pasifika schools say national standards fail their pupils

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Schools teaching Pasifika children say their pupils are set up to fail under the controversial national standards.

National Standards opposition brings unwarranted punishment

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The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa is appalled by the type of punitive action taken against a north Otago school which is standing up against National Standards. Pembroke School in Oamaru was to have a hosted a Pasifika Fono last Friday in conjunction ...

Outrage at treatment of school - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: Outrage at treatment of school Otago Daily Times "The Government says putting a focus on Pasifika education is a top priority, and yet here they are playing politics. New Zealand Educational Institute president Ian Leckie agreed. He said the action was disgraceful because it not only punished ...

Few Maori students earn Maori performing arts credits - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Statistics compiled by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority show very few Maori secondary school students are gaining NCEA credits in Maori performing arts. Figures show 2286 pupils are earning the credits, out of 29763 students who could be doing ...

Call for laptops for Kiwi students - TVNZ

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TVNZ
The New Zealand Institute is urging the Government to consider buying laptops for all Kiwi school students. The think tank is set to meet with the Ministry of Education and warns the ultra fast broadband rollout will be pointless for schools if there ...

Kiwi students urged to take action for climate change - Voxy

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Voxy
UNICEF NZ (UN Children's Fund) is calling on students, parents and teachers to reduce the amount of cars driven to school on Thursday 22 September to support a global action campaign against climate change. Thousands of students are already set to take ...

University staff take industrial action - Auckland stuff.co.nz

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Auckland stuff.co.nz
Auckland University staff will take industrial action this weekend at a Courses and Careers Day for prospective students. For nine months the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) has been negotiating with the university for staff to keep their current ...

Secondary middle leaders

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This newly launched section provides a range of information, tools, and resources to support secondary middle leaders as they lead change in relation to The New Zealand Curriculum.

Visit the refreshed secondary middle leaders site

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If you're a middle leader in a secondary school you might like to check out your dedicated space on NZC Online. This area of the site has been recently refreshed. It provides a range of information, tools, and resources that support secondary middle leaders as you lead change in relation to The New Zealand Curriculum.

Reminder: NAPP 2012 applications close soon

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Don't forget that the application process for the 2012 National Aspiring Principals Programme (NAPP) closes on Monday 29 August, 2011. Further information and applications form are available at this link:

NAPP 2012

Contact the NAPP coordinator for your MoE region if you need further information:

• Northern: Micheal King mking@cognition.co.nz

• Central North: Jill Lunn jlunn@waikato.ac.nz

• Central South: Geoff Childs geoffchilds@xtra.co.nz

• Southern: Denis Pyatt pyatt7@hotmail.com

Graduate schemes win-win situation

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Nurturing talent allows businesses to invest in the future, writes Val Leveson Several of the top companies operating in New Zealand, such as ANZ, Telecom and Meridian Energy, have programmes to help graduates understand what they...

Varsities not rolling in cash - Maharey

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Growing surpluses are not a sign universities are awash with cash, Massey University's head says.

Equality for refugee-background tertiary students

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Wellington, New Zealand, 23 August 2011 - A campaign to have refugee-background students recognised as an equity group in government policy and at universities and polytechnics will be launched today at the Victoria University Law School in Wellington at 5pm.

Sustainable future in good hands at Waikato University

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The University of Waikato has appointed a sustainability co-ordinator to help the university continue to develop as a leader and role model in regard to sustainability issues, says Vice-Chancellor Professor Roy Crawford.

Charity receives funds from award winning student volunteer - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Megan Turner from East Otago High School was named as winner of the Award, which recognises secondary school students' service to the school and the community. The Award is jointly run by TrustPower and the Waitaki Council and is part of the TrustPower ...

'Girls can do anything' Willie Apiata tells schoolkids - Stuff.co.nz

Stuff.co.nz

URL: 'Girls can do anything' Willie Apiata tells schoolkids Stuff.co.nz Te Horo School pupils have received a handwritten letter from SAS hero Willie Apiata inspiring them to "prepare your body, mind and soul and nothing will stop you". After choosing Mr Apiata as the subject of a project on heroes, Year 6 and 7 pupils ...

Mayfield School embracing technology - The Ashburton Guardian

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The Ashburton Guardian
Since being hooked up to high-speed broadband in term one this year, the school has invested in three iPads to trial and principal Greg Wilson expects other schools to take notice if student achievement results improve. ...

Pupil's service rewarded - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: Pupil's service rewarded Otago Daily Times To be considered, pupils had to have given service to school or community projects, treated others with care and respect and been a good ambassador for the school and the Waihemo region. Megan chairs the East Otago High School student council and is ...