Few see downside to state cuts - Stuff.co.nz

Stuff.co.nz

URL: Few see downside to state cuts Stuff.co.nz The debacle over national standards was a symptom of a broader problem in the sector, she said. Schools also felt they were not getting the support they needed to deal with the growing issue of bullying, which led to parents being concerned for the ...

Varsity academic has overstepped his role - Waikato Times

URL: Varsity academic has overstepped his role
Waikato Times
So I wondered why, in presumably one of his first press releases in his new role, he chose to attack the Government's national standards policy. This seems a strange stance for a person, given the huge responsibility for training teachers for the next ...

Bad start need not prevent later school success: study | Otago Daily *...*

URL: Bad start need not prevent later school success: study | Otago Daily *...*
Doing badly at primary school is not always a barrier to achieving good NCEA results, says a report from a study that has followed 500 young people throughout their education.

Will public schools pay for $2.5m worth of incompetence? - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

URL: Will public schools pay for $2.5m worth of incompetence?
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Minister of Education Anne Tolley must answer for a $2.5 million botch-up, which saw private school benefit at the same time as the Government is sacking 170 Christchurch teachers, Labour education spokesperson Sue Moroney says. “At a time when schools ...

Education symposium to discuss national standards and assessment

URL: Education symposium to discuss national standards and assessment
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 ...

NZC Update 14 - Creating educationally powerful connections

URL: NZC Update 14 - Creating educationally powerful connections
This Update explores educationally powerful connections in the digital world through case-studies of how such connections are enabling and enriching students’ learning.

Updated ELL guidelines

URL: Updated ELL guidelines
The Ministry has updated the guidelines provided for reporting the progress and achievement of English language learners to parents to be consistent with the requirement of NAG2A.

Concern over proposed cuts to undergraduate teacher training

URL: Concern over proposed cuts to undergraduate teacher training
The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa is adding its concern to proposed changes to teacher training at Massey University.

Massey proposals will erode the quality of teacher training

URL: Massey proposals will erode the quality of teacher training
Trainee and beginning teachers are angry over proposed changes to teacher training programmes at Massey University.

Definition of theses written in Te Reo Māori ~ Tertiary Education ...

URL: Definition of theses written in Te Reo Māori ~ Tertiary Education ...
The weighting was approved by the TEC and the Minister for Tertiary Education and a mechanism for reporting theses written in te reo Māori will be introduced in the Single Data Return (SDR) in 2012. Additionally, the SRG ...

Education Freedom of Association Amendment Act 2011

URL: Education Freedom of Association Amendment Act 2011
Status: New
ID: act/public/2011/0080/13.0
Version: as enacted
Information type: act
Legislation type: public
Year: 2011
No: 80

Pupils kitted out to survive - Southland Times

URL: Pupils kitted out to survive
Southland Times
In June a group of Southland Girls' High year 13 enterprise students also started converting redundant wheelie bins into survival kits. Girls' High Young Enterprise Scheme teacher Michelle Diack said the community response had been excellent. ...

New head of College of Creative Arts appointed - Massey News (press release)

Massey News (press release)

URL: New head of College of Creative Arts appointed Massey News (press release) Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey has announced that Associate Professor Claire Robinson will lead the College of Creative Arts from next year. Dr Robinson is currently the college Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Operations). ...

Best Brains Britain-Bound Awarded Woolf Fisher Scholarships

URL: Best Brains Britain-Bound Awarded Woolf Fisher Scholarships
Unravelling the discrepancies in quantum gravity theory, boosting New Zealand's growth by improving international commercial law and tax policy, and examining regional integration in South East Asia, will be researched by three of New Zealand's top ...

Navigating Maori futures subject of new book - Massey News (press release)

Massey News (press release)

URL: Navigating Maori futures subject of new book Massey News (press release) A book about Māori futures will be launched today at Te Aute College, a school synonymous with preparing young Maori to be leaders within their communities and nationally. The author, Professor Sir Mason Durie of Massey University, is an old boy of the ...

West Auckland Trade Academies Announced - Voxy

URL: West Auckland Trade Academies Announced
Voxy
The academies will enable 16 and 17 year olds enrolled at school to gain practical skills through study at tertiary institutions and in the workplace while studying for NCEA credits and tertiary qualifications. A new West Auckland Trade Academy will ...

Unemployed youth being targeted as trainee scaffolders

URL: Unemployed youth being targeted as trainee scaffolders
The scaffolding industry is recruiting new trainees direct from the Limited Service Volunteer programme to help boost the workforce for Christchurch’s rebuild. The Limited Service Volunteer (LSV) programme is a six-week residential course for unemployed ...

John Key closes school used to promote National Party - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

URL: John Key closes school used to promote National Party
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
... that has devastated staff and other schools in the area. “This is a school which boasts an incredible 85% success rate, and is doing so well that the Education Review Office said it should be a model for the rest of the country,” Dr Rotmann said. ...

From Naenae to making hit video games - The Dominion Post

The Dominion Post

URL: From Naenae to making hit video games The Dominion Post Outside of school, my associate and mentor during my consulting days, Michael Simpson, probably had the biggest impact on shaping my world view and encouraging ongoing learning outside of a formal educational institution. ...

'Visionary' wanted for rector role - Timaru Herald

URL: 'Visionary' wanted for rector role
Timaru Herald
The school drew up a "person specification", saying it was looking for a "visionary leader" who could take the school into the future. This person would also be "committed and passionate about boys' education", a high achiever in learning, ...

Canterbury Uni invites staff to resign - TVNZ

URL: Canterbury Uni invites staff to resign
TVNZ
Canterbury University is calling for staff to consider taking voluntary redundancy as it struggles to balance the books after losing students because of the earthquakes. In a letter emailed to the university's 3000 staff yesterday, Vice-Chancellor Rod ...