Margaret M ... - New Zealand Council for Educational Research

URL: Margaret M ... - New Zealand Council for Educational Research
The 2011 fellowship. Applications for the 2011 fellowship are currently open and will close on 30 September. Applications must be related to the topic of children and physical risk. Details and the application forms are included below. ...

Key answers protesters at Hawke's Bay meeting - Hawke's Bay Today

URL: Key answers protesters at Hawke's Bay meeting
Hawke's Bay Today
Protesters held placards advocating against state asset sales, overseas troops, the 90-day employment trial period, National Standards, and cuts to Early Childhood Education and DOVE family violence funding. Protest organiser Aaron Dustow said the ...

Kat's Blog: Hard Nosed Bitch

URL: Kat's Blog: Hard Nosed Bitch
I don't think I'm alone in thinking this, and though I've never met her, her steadfastness to things like the much disparaged National Standards, and her constant refusal to answer to media on any terms other than her own ...

Education symposium to discuss national standards

URL: Education symposium to discuss national standards
Educational researchers, assessment experts and educators will be meeting to discuss national standards and educational assessment practices at a national symposium this week. The Symposium on Assessment and ...

Act says Labour fixing employment problem it created

URL: Act says Labour fixing employment problem it created
Labour's unveils employment package for young people but is accused by Act of offering an expensive band-aid to the problem it created when it scrapped the youth minimum wage.

Labour unveils youth training package - Newstalk ZB

Otago Daily Times

URL: Labour unveils youth training package Newstalk ZB Leader Phil Goff has released his party's skills training package. It'll see dole payments converted into subsidies for employers to fund 9000 new apprenticeships, 5000 new training places created for 16 and 17-year-olds and extra support for at risk ...

Computers in schools - New Zealand Herald

URL: Computers in schools
New Zealand Herald
Photo / APN Throughout the recent controversy sparked by Orewa College when it included iPads or similar wireless computing devices on its stationery list for Year Nine students there was much talk about the prohibitive price, society's increasing ...

College girl charged - Marlborough Express

URL: College girl charged
Marlborough Express
A Marlborough Girls' College student has been arrested on three charges of assault and one of intentional damage after allegedly assaulting teaching staff on Monday, police say. Sergeant John Butson, of Blenheim, said the college had co-operated with ...

CPIT staff launch third strike

URL: CPIT staff launch third strike
CPIT staff who are union members have today gone on strike for a third time, leaving their jobs at 2pm this afternoon. The union and polytechnic management had been negotiating a new collective agreement all morning. However, employers refuse to move from their ...