Hands off our school, says angry principal - The Daily Post

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The Daily Post
The Ministry of Education (MoE) is being accused of acting like a dictator in its attempts to silence schools' opposition to national standards. Implementation of the national standards has been ...

Education Ministry accused of bullying another school - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
A Northland school claims its anti-National standards stance has seen it bullied by the Ministry of Education. Photo / Christine Cornege A second Northland school is claiming to have been bullied by the ...

Training changes could be key in combating worker shortages - Newstalk ZB

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Newstalk ZB
The head of one of New Zealand's largest employers believes the answers to worker shortages lie in training changes. Allied Work Force Group chief executive Mike Huddleston says his view is backed up by a new survey which shows nearly 50 percent of job ...

Videos for first-time principals

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These videos have recently been added to the suite of resources developed as part of the First-time Principals Programme. The material was collected from FTP mentor symposia and FTP residential meetings. They will be of interest to all leaders.

• Mary Chamberlain: Leadership and the New Zealand Curriculum

• Hana O'Regan: Māori Succeeding as Māori in Education

• Michael Absolum: Quality Assessment

• Accents: a Broader Cultural Perspective

• Stuart McNaughton: Finding out about Literacy in your School

Few quick fixes for excluded students - Stuff.co.nz

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Last year 139 students were excluded from Waikato high schools, with most absent for at least a quarter of the year before their cases were resolved. More than 15 per cent of those children were out of school for six months or more and two of the four ...

Good sex education works - studies - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Good quality and comprehensive education programmes in schools can delay the first time a teenager has sex and reduce risk-taking behaviour, international studies show. Their findings are backed by Family Planning chief executive ...

Sex education more evidence that the world has gone mad - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
All those things are happening in our schools right now, as this newspaper has reported this week, and if that's not madness, then I don't know what is. I nearly choked when I read what the Family Planning Association's health promotion director ...

Single-sex schools rate poorly - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Single-sex schools rate poorly Stuff.co.nz "It seems those students were put on a more linear path that didn't work. Here we get to choose our way and gender doesn't come into it." GENDER BLEND : Wellington High School pupils Thomas Raethel , 16 , and Tess Norquay ,

Wellington school's $4.5m leaky building bill

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A leaky Wellington primary school built as a prototype for more than $5 million less than 10 years ago is now costing nearly as much to repair.

Teachers use GPS to track children

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Daycare centres in Sweden have started using GPS systems and other electronic tracking devices to keep tabs on children during excursions - a practice that has raised ethical and practical questions.Some parents are worried day...