Education vital for Christchurch future - Voxy

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Voxy
National Standards are a crucial part of our plan to make sure children learn the basics at school, and build a brighter future for New Zealand. We're investing $36 million to develop programmes for kids needing extra support and we're placing 50 ...

ED Blog Survey Results - ED Blog

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Early readers were Wellington-based officials/ sector group people or tertiary education organisation (TEO) senior managers and liked education policy discussions – some of them don't like human interest stories (especially about a student's lost ... Some wanted fewer “endless university releases” and more coverage of PTE, vocational education, ITO, ACE, export education, students, Maori and Pasifika. .... Thumbs-Up – Jet Plane in New Tourism Training Building ...

Tertiary education body shuns major suppliers - Computerworld New Zealand

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Computerworld New Zealand
When the Tertiary Education Commission planned to migrate its legacy Unix applications to Windows, it decided to augment its resources rather than employ another full-time staff member. ...

The NZ Institute Scorecard | Kiwiblog

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GDP per capita C; household Wealth D; Labour productivity D; Innovation D; Educational Achievement B ... But hopefully the NZ Institute will keeps its scorecard going for many years, as an interesting ongoing assessment. ...

School holidays a smoking temptation - teacher - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
A Maori boarding school teacher says the most challenging times to enforce an anti-smoking policy is after the school holidays. Kere Mihaere is deputy principal at Turakina Maori Girls' College which has been praised by the Whanganui District Health ...

victim removed from school - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
The teenage girl at the centre of a Makoura College Facebook cyber-bullying scandal has been taken out of school because the harassment is continuing, her stepfather's lawyer says. The girl's father – Mauriceville fisherman Graham Clifford Thompson ...

Where have all the smart men gone? - The Dominion Post

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The Dominion Post
"Given gender patterns of educational attainment at school and current enrolments in tertiary study, this pattern of more women than men graduating is likely to continue for quite some time," says Callister. And the impact of this social trend has been ...

Fewer enrol at Otago University - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: Fewer enrol at Otago University Otago Daily Times Student numbers at the University of Otago have dropped for the first time in five years, partly as a result of an introduced enrolment limitation system for all the university's undergraduate degrees. ...

Waihi principal leaving - Bay Chronicle

Bay Chronicle

URL: Waihi principal leaving Bay Chronicle He said Waihi School was in good standing with several projects, including a new $2 million accommodation facility for the school's 60 boarders. It will be officially opened next month. The first five years he spent at the school were partly to build ...

Wellington pupil wins Rhodes scholarship - The Dominion Post

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The Dominion Post
A former Wellington College pupil is off to Oxford University after winning a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. Max Harris, 23, an Arts and Law graduate from The University of Auckland, will begin a Bachelor of Civil Law at the British university in ...