NZC Update 13 - Levelling the School Journal

URL: NZC Update 13 - Levelling the School Journal
This Update explains the recent changes in levelling processes for items in the School Journal and in the other instructional series for year 4–8 students.

NOTE: Based on work by NZCER, who are mentioned in the update.

Resourcing for Christchurch schools

URL: Resourcing for Christchurch schools
Anne Tolley | Earthquake Recovery
Education Minister Anne Tolley says that the movement of students away from Christchurch and within the city since the February earthquake will result in a redistribution of resources for schools. 3500 students from Christchurch remain enrolled in schools outside the city, while over 1500 students have moved to different schools within Christchurch...

High priority for schools reporting concerns to CYF

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Paula Bennett | Social Development and Employment
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett has asked Child Youth and Family to strengthen processes to respond better to school reports of abuse. “Teachers and principals know the children they teach, they know what’s normal for each child and what’s not,” says Ms Bennett. “I felt we could strengthen the priority process, so if teachers have genuine concerns about a child’s welfare, they get a rapid response.”...

Launch and signing of the kawa for Te Waihono a Kupe - Maori Caucus on Whanau Violence Prevention

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Tariana Turia | Social Development and Employment
Friday 16 September 2011; 10am
I couldn’t be prouder to be here today. This is an historic day – a powerful moment in our shared histories when a statement is being made about the state of our lives. This is a day when together - Te Kawerau a Maki, Ngati Whatua and Te Runanga a Iwi o Ngapuhi have stood tall...

Putting Kids First « Red Alert

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Our policy ensures that parents get plain language information they require on their child's achievement, progress and next learning steps without schools having the flawed national standards imposed on them. Labour will ...

TUMEKE!: The Miseducation of Anne Tolley - National Standards will ...

URL: TUMEKE!: The Miseducation of Anne Tolley - National Standards will ...
Internationally renowned educationalist, Professor John Hattie has advised the Government that National Standards could be the worst thing to ever happen to NZ Public Education, yet this Government continues to push ...

Let's All Have a Cup of Tea

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Why The Nation Will Fail National Standards As New Zealand approaches a national election we have the luxury this time around to be able to blissfully ignore the negative “hater and wrecker” proposals burping forth from ...

More on Labour's education policy | Kiwiblog

URL: More on Labour's education policy | Kiwiblog
I blogged yesterday on how Labour's policy appears to be keep National Standards, but rename them and don't give the Government the data. I suspect their policy has not matched their rhetoric as they realise there are so ...

Claim school being put under statutory management - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
A small school north of Dargaville in Northland says it has been told it will be put under control of a limited statutory manager because it included a disclaimer in its charter about national standards. Aranga School's charter says the standards are ...

Ministry of Education "bullying" Northland schools - 3News NZ

3News NZ

URL: Ministry of Education "bullying" Northland schools 3News NZ The threats came as a response to some adding a disclaimer in their school's charter that mention National Standards are forced upon them by the Ministry. "The ministry are bullying schools into doing it, making them do it, and then threatening them ...

Threats over National Standards disclaimers unacceptable - NZEI - Voxy

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Voxy
The schools have been told in a letter from the Ministry that their boards will be replaced if they don't remove a disclaimer in their charters saying they have referenced National Standards "under duress". That does not mean they are not complying," ...

'Bullying' Minister needs to butt out - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

Scoop.co.nz (press release)

URL: 'Bullying' Minister needs to butt out Scoop.co.nz (press release) “News emerging today that schools with charters complying with the National Standards, but carrying the rider 'submitted under duress' have been threatened with a Limited Statutory Manager (LSM) is a National disgrace. "What will a LSM actually achieve ...

Community Losing control of School? - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The board had initially excluded reference to the National Standards because they believed they would be more harmful to their students than helpful. The disclaimer in the charter stated 'This is being done under a directive from the Ministry of ...

Larry's Memo: September 16 - Newstalk ZB

Newstalk ZB

URL: Larry's Memo: September 16 Newstalk ZB The headline was that Labour was going to drop National Standards. In reality it seems that what Labour is proposing is a National Standards light. All the assessment data will be pretty much the same but where Labour's policy differs is that the data ...

Standards push diverting money into failure - Waatea News

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Waatea News
Labour's associate education spokesperson says it's time to stop diverting money into national standards that could be spent improving education outcomes for Maori and other groups. Labour's election policy includes as promise to no longer require ...

Copyright Amendment Act 2011

URL: Copyright Amendment Act 2011
Status: New
ID: act/public/2011/0072/7.0
Version: as enacted
Information type: act
Legislation type: public
Year: 2011
No: 72

Do People with Doctoral Degrees get Jobs in New Zealand Post Study?

URL: Do People with Doctoral Degrees get Jobs in New Zealand Post Study?
This study uses an integrated dataset maintained by Statistics New Zealand to analyse what percentage of a cohort of recent domestic doctoral graduates was employed in New Zealand and their industry destination up to four years post study.

Delay in funding announcement frustrates - Southland Times

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Southland Times
The Tertiary Education Commission has revised a proposed cut to training funding, but some Southland providers are still frustrated. The commission is responsible for managing the Government's $3 billion annual funding for tertiary education, ...

Women students asked: ?Are you OK?? - Voxy

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Voxy
"This report shows that students do not feel their institutions do enough to mitigate the risk of harassment in the campus environment", said Caitlin Dunham, National Women?s Rights Officer for the New Zealand Union of Students? ...

Number of schools threatened by ministry - NZEI - Radio New Zealand

3News NZ

URL: Number of schools threatened by ministry - NZEI Radio New Zealand The New Zealand Education Institute says it knows of a number of schools who were threatened with limited statutory management by the Ministry of Education, despite the ministry denying it did so. Appointment of a limited statutory manager would allow ...

Unacceptable threats made to schools over "National Standards" disclaimers

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The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says threats by the Ministry of Education to install limited statutory managers in a number of schools in Northland are unnecessary and unwarranted.

Polytechnics want to control student loan money - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Polytechnics in the main centres say they could do a better job if the Government gave them control of their students' loans and allowances, and let them distribute the money as they see fit. They say the change would protect the Government from loan ...

Speech: Anne Tolley - NZEI Annual Conference - Voxy

Voxy

URL: Speech: Anne Tolley - NZEI Annual Conference Voxy We are investing $60 million in the Positive Behaviour for Learning Action Plan, developed by the Ministry and eight education sector groups including NZEI. During the next three years, more than 7000 teachers will receive additional training in ...

170 teaching jobs cut in Christchurch - New Zealand Herald

Voxy

URL: 170 teaching jobs cut in Christchurch New Zealand Herald Because students have left the city since, nearly 170 teaching jobs are to be cut. Photo / APN Nearly 170 Christchurch teaching jobs are being slashed to reflect the number of students who have left the city's schools since the earthquakes. ...

Axe falls on Christchurch teacher jobs - Stuff.co.nz

Voxy

URL: Axe falls on Christchurch teacher jobs Stuff.co.nz Government funding for the equivalent of 167 fulltime teachers - or 4.5 per cent of Christchurch's 3690 work force - will be cut from next year as pupils have moved away from and within the city since the tremors, she said. Tolley said 3500 pupils ...

Christchurch teacher cuts short-sighted

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The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says moves to cut hundreds of teaching jobs in Christchurch are short-sighted and will come as a major blow to those schools and communities which are still trying to put themselves back together.

High schools first to get meningococcal C vaccine - New Zealand Doctor Online

3News NZ

URL: High schools first to get meningococcal C vaccine New Zealand Doctor Online Students at 13 schools in Northland, considered to be most at risk of contracting meningococcal C, will be the first to receive free vaccinations in a campaign beginning on 26 September. The schools in the high-risk area, listed in a Northland DHB ...

Teachers flag abuse 43 times every day - Stuff.co.nz

3News NZ (blog)

URL: Teachers flag abuse 43 times every day Stuff.co.nz The Government today launched an Education Assist package to encourage more teachers to report suspected child abuse to CYF. Teachers are already raising concerns about suspected child abuse on average 43 times every school day. Education Assist could ...

Sex ed shock for angry parents

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Schools are being accused of going too far in what they teach children about sex.Children as young as 12 are being taught about oral sex and told it's acceptable to play with a girl's private parts as long as "she's okay with it".In...

Response to abuse reporting vital - PPTA

URL: Response to abuse reporting vital - PPTA
The PPTA is welcoming the Govt's proposed new child abuse reporting hotline, but says it's the response to reported incidents that matters most.

Streamlined child abuse reporting for schools - Radio New Zealand

URL: Streamlined child abuse reporting for schools
Radio New Zealand
More than 8000 notifications of possible abuse or neglect were reported from schools last year, with 75% requiring further action. Ms Bennett says Child, Youth & Family needs to strengthen its reporting process and the prioritising of cases. ...

Fighting a losing battle - Stuff.co.nz

Stuff.co.nz

URL: Fighting a losing battle Stuff.co.nz New guidelines in school cafeterias were a start, but they were pulled by Education Minister Anne Tolley – "for no reason other than perverseness as far as I'm concerned: that was a terrible thing to do". She initially criticised a big project called ...

Kids suspended 'illegally' - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
The mother of a 12-year-old kicked out of school claims her son has been unlawfully stripped of his rights to an education and is backing calls for a chance to appeal suspensions. Youthlaw will submit a report to the Ministry of ...

At-risk pupils' programme threatened - The Dominion Post

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The Dominion Post
Ohorere Student Education and Transition Programme – run by Masterton Primary School – rehabilitates pupils, many of whom have severe behavioural problems, back to the schools from which they have been suspended or expelled. ...

Largest collection of NZ ebooks could be ready by Christmas

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The largest collection of New Zealand e-books could be ready by Christmas in an initiative to get New Zealand titles in digital format.

Parenting - issues faces NZ youth

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Dr Bronwyn Hayward is a senior lecturer in Politics and Social Sciences at Canterbury University specialising in young citizens. She discusses how change is affecting the next generation of young New Zealanders in how they think and act and the future trends that will affect our younger citizens and plan accordingly.

New choice for accountant training - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
International accounting body CPA Australia will launch a rival professional qualification for accountants in New Zealand from January 1. It will be the first time Kiwi accountants have had a choice of organisations to get their public practising ...

Plea not to invite students to quit Canterbury - The Press

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The Press
Tertiary education providers outside Christchurch are being asked not to "lure" students away from Canterbury. Tertiary Education Union (TEU) national president Sandra Grey said institutions should use a "moral judgment" and not try to lure students ...

Mass vaccination plan to stop meningococcal outbreak - New Zealand Herald

French Tribune

URL: Mass vaccination plan to stop meningococcal outbreak New Zealand Herald Dr Mills said the programme would target the highest risk group of those aged between 1 and 20, with the most at risk - high school children - the first to receive the free meningococcal C vaccination. Those out-of-school-aged under 20 will be able to ...

Vice-chancellor first among equals - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: Vice-chancellor first among equals Otago Daily Times Prof Harlene Hayne has become the University of Otago's first woman vice-chancellor. Photos by Peter McIntosh. The University of Otago's new vice-chancellor is an American woman. But she's Otago through and ...

Maori MP applauds Dunedin school's leadership, courage - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: Maori MP applauds Dunedin school's leadership, courage Otago Daily Times The Maori flag flying at North East Valeey Normal school in Dunedin. Photo by Stephen Jaquiery. A Maori Party MP has weighed in over the forwarding of a racially offensive email to a Dunedin school, ...

Two-layer datacentre boosts Auckland University - Computerworld New Zealand

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Computerworld New Zealand
A move to a two-layer datacentre infrastructure has provided major benefits to the University of Auckland. Late last year the university went to RFP to upgrade its datacentre in Grafton Road. ...

Top building apprentice in Central North Island announced

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Sanson apprentice Tom Evans has been named the Central North Island Region Registered Master Builders Carters 2011 Apprentice of the Year.

Waikato University science teacher named Kudos finalist

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University of Waikato Faculty of Education senior lecturer Dr Anne Hume has been nominated as a finalist in the 2011 Kudos awards for her commitment to science and educating future scientists.

Microsoft searches for NZ's most innovative school teacher

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The hunt is on for 2011's most innovative school teacher with Microsoft's Innovative Educator Awards.