$1.28m for top talent to try out high-tech jobs

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Wayne Mapp | Science and Innovation
About 200 of our best scientific, engineering and technology undergraduate students will get a taste of working for innovative high-tech businesses this summer, announced Science and Innovation Minister Wayne Mapp today. “We are investing $1.28 million so businesses can hire undergraduate interns to do research and development projects over the university summer holidays,” said Dr Mapp. “This Government wants to see better connections and more collaboration between science and business. These internships contribute to this goal"...

Education Standards and National Standards « The Standard

URL: Education Standards and National Standards « The Standard: The guys at RSA Animate provide their illustative talents to a quite brilliant and wide ranging lecture by Sir Ken Robinson on the topic of education. In the space of just over 10 minutes, he ranges from it's industrial beginnings ...

“…Labour promises to drop National Standards…” | whoar.co.nz

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Labour is promising to drop the controversial National Standards in all primary schools if it is elected this year. Education spokeswoman Sue Moroney has just announced a five-step plan to lift children's achievement in ...

Political Dumpground: Labour Promises Better Standards

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Labour has provided the sensible alternative to National Standards schools were craving to be able to assess their students properly. One brush does not suit all students and the National Standards National was planning to ...

Labour would scrap National Standards – TVNZ | REDSTAB NEWS

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Labour would scrap National StandardsTVNZNational introduced the benchmark testing system for reading, writing and maths in 2009 despite opposition from te...

Need for urgency in implementing National Standards | Otago Daily ...

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National Standards should be given a chance to prove their worth, Keith Furniss, of Dunedin, says.

Media People: Handy Tips

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NZPF VOWS TO CONTINUE FIGHT AGAINST NATIONAL STANDARDS 'Today's decision by the Boards Taking Action Coalition (BTAC) to make their charters compliant, is in no way indicative of giving up the fight against National Standards,' ...

Maori flag critic not sorry - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
Mr Portman said he sent the email because the school principal was against National Standards but was "teaching all this Maori culture, which is basically culture that's been made up as it goes along". He had sent the email in good faith and on behalf ...

Labour to put National Standards cash towards helping kids catch up - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Teachers have battled the National Standards system since it was announced and many schools have rejected it. Photo / Christine Cornege Labour has promised to drop National Standards and redirect $36 million worth of funding ...

Labour would abandon national standards - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
The Government's controversial national standards would be abandoned by Labour under new election policy the party announced on Wednesday. Labour has released part of its education policy, for lifting achievement in primary schools. ...

Labour promises to drop National Standards - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Labour has made an election promise to drop the controversial National Standards in all primary schools. Photo / Christine Cornege Labour is promising to drop the controversial National Standards in all primary schools if it is ...

Govt's bullying tactics not appreciated - Timaru Herald

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Timaru Herald
An Oamaru school that was handed down a punishment for not complying with the Government's National Standards for Education has reluctantly set a forced target. Pembroke School was scheduled to host a Pacifika Fono (meeting) last month, ...

Labour puts curriculum at centre stage - Voxy

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Voxy
'School principals throughout the country will welcome the news that Labour's education policy, released today, puts the New Zealand Curriculum centre stage again,' said Peter Simpson, President of the New Zealand Principals' Federation. ...

Labour would ditch national standards - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
Education spokeswoman Sue Moroney said the national standards had been a "huge distraction" for schools and parents which "had to stop". "They are not moderated, they differ from school to school, and are therefore neither national nor standard," ...

Greens back Labour's new education policy

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Labour says it will dump the controversial national standards for reading, writing and maths introduced by the current government.

Celebrate the positive, educator advises

URL: Celebrate the positive, educator advises: A highly-respected educator and spiritual healer, Dr Rangimarie Pere, has urged Maori to celebrate what they have.

NOTE: Book mentioned...
Author: Turuki Pere, Rangimarie.
Title: Te wheke [[text] : a celebration of infinite wisdom / Rangimarie Turuki Pere.
Publisher: Gisborne, N.Z. Ao Ako Global Learning N.Z.Ltd, 1991.

Ministry disappointed by rejection of offer

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The Ministry of Education is deeply disappointed that the New Zealand Educational Institute has rejected its offer to settle the Kindergarten Teachers, Head Teachers and Senior Teachers’ Collective Agreement (KTCA)

Plea for funding as ECE centres close - New Zealand Herald

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URL: Plea for funding as ECE centres close New Zealand Herald Funding cuts to early childhood education have forced some centres to close down and left others straining to make ends meet. File photo / Thinkstock Early childhood education (ECE) funding cuts have forced centres to close down and ...

MPs told of early education centre struggles - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Parliament's Education and Science Select Committee today considered a petition asking the Government to restore subsidies it lowered in 2010. Last year funding for early childhood education centres changed so that they were subsidised to have 80% of ...

Poverty report highlights importance of early childhood education funding - NZEI - 3News NZ

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URL: Poverty report highlights importance of early childhood education funding - NZEI 3News NZ The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) report 'Left Further Behind' confirms the importance of investment in early childhood education, the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) says. NZEI says the recent CPAG report identifies that investment in ...

Kindergarten teachers reject settlement offer over cuts to non-contact hours

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Kindergarten teachers have rejected their latest settlement offer and are sending a clear message to the government over plans to cut two hours of their non-contact, professional release time.

Free market could work in education - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
Educational achievement defines employment options more than ever. It is much harder for a 15-year-old to leave school with no qualifications and pick up a job or apprenticeship. These pupils are staying on, yet the system has not adjusted sufficiently ...

Ben Mills: Bullying victims need a quick, effective system - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Seventy-seven per cent of excluded students (under 16) are out of school for at least a month, and 39 per cent for at least three months. While some of the blame sits squarely on the shoulders of schools and the Ministry of Education, ...

Old bricks in new hub - Auckland stuff.co.nz

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URL: Old bricks in new hub Auckland stuff.co.nz A new $14.9 million building will be the new hub for the Blind and Low Vision Education Network New Zealand. The old school that housed students in the 1960s and 1970s has been demolished and a new state-of-the-art campus raised in its place. ...

NZ gets higher share of international students - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
The OECD's annual report on education shows New Zealand has significantly increased its share of the international student market in the past decade. The report says New Zealand had just 0.4% of the world's international student enrolments in 2000, ...

Canterbury uni students' grades improve after quake - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Canterbury University students who helped clean up after the region's earthquakes have seen their grades improve. Photo / Mark Mitchell Canterbury University students' grades have improved despite the disruptive earthquakes that have rocked the city ...

iPads for kids - learning tools or lazy parenting?

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Children as young as two are using iPhones and iPads to access thousands of education apps.

Teacher's big heart earns top marks - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Photo / Steven McNicholl Not many primary school teachers are so close to their students that they invite their entire Year 6 class to their wedding - but Amy Holder isn't just any teacher. The 24-year-old Wakaaranga School teacher always goes above ...

University boosts Dunedin by $754.2m - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
Dunedin reaped economic benefits to the value of $754.2 million from the University of Otago last year, according to a university report. This was equivalent to about 17% of the city's gross domestic product. ...

SpongeBob SquarePants causes learning problems - study

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The cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is in hot water from a study suggesting that watching just nine minutes of that programme can cause short-term attention and learning problems in four-year-olds.The problems were seen...

Aspiring Maori leaders hear MPs' experiences

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Maori health and wellbeing organisation Te Ora o Manukau says young upcoming Maori leaders are feeling inspired following a leadership hui by two veteran Maori politicians.

'Compare Tool' to help people make smart career choices

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Comparing two job options just got a whole lot easier with the development of a new online tool by Careers New Zealand.

Youth Scholarship Awards

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Thirty 16 and 17 year olds were recognized at a scholarship award ceremony at UCOL on Wednesday, receiving certificates in front of proud family members and UCOL teaching and support staff.

Wellington school benefits from Medibank grant

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Children at a small, inner-city Wellington school will soon be able to grow their own vegetables and enjoy communal meals thanks to a grant from the Medibank Community Fund.

Students show no fight to Uni fees increase - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
The decision to raise all student fees at Waikato University next year was passed without question at a university council meeting yesterday. From 2012, all domestic tuition fees will increase by the maximum allowed, 4 per cent – meaning an annual ...

Teacher's big heart earns top marks - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Amy Holder's Year 6 students have nothing but praise for their award-winning teacher. Photo / Steven McNicholl Not many primary school teachers are so close to their students that they invite their entire Year 6 class to their ...

Nelson parents want alternative school - Nelson Mail

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Nelson Mail
Lara Cusdin is one of six parents wanting to set up a democratic school similar to one that has been proposed in Golden Bay. "In our view there's no alternative style of education after pre-school in Nelson," Ms Cusdin said. Democratic schools allowed ...

Minister announces Hawke's Bay trades academy - Voxy

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Voxy
Minister of Education Anne Tolley has given the green light for the opening of the Hawke's Bay Schools Trades Academy @ EIT next year. One of ten that will open around New Zealand in 2012, the trades academy will provide practical skills training for ...

Continuing a 'fine tradition' - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: Continuing a 'fine tradition' Otago Daily Times A continuance of tradition was one of the first official duties for University of Otago vice-chancellor Prof Harlene Hayne yesterday at her inaugural council meeting as the institution's new chief executive. ...