Free after-hours care for under six-year-olds

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Tony Ryall | Health
Free visits to the doctor for children aged under six will be extended to after-hours under Government plans released today. Health Minister Tony Ryall says district health boards will work with local GP networks and after-hours clinics to extend free medical care for under-six year olds to after-hours at an estimated cost of around $7 million a year...

Bohally's glowing ERO report - Marlborough Express

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Marlborough Express
The report says about two-thirds of the 446 students were at or above national standards and most progress had been made in maths, followed by reading. Students were also engaged in their learning and had ''clear and high expectations'' about learning ...

Minister welcomes evaluation of Service Academies - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“Many of the young people involved, who were at risk of dropping out of education, are Maori and Pasifika and come from low-decile schools. “With the support of their schools and the New Zealand Defence Force these students are now motivated to learn ...

School leavers enticed into building trades - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
That's the message from the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation (BCITO), which is running a nationwide series of information sessions aimed at attracting school-leavers to the building trades. "The predicted increase in building ...

Black mark for Nats on youth jobs - Voxy

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Voxy
"It is estimated that 'disengaged youth' - young people not in work, education or training - cost New Zealand around $900 million a year. "On the other hand helping those young people into training or work can boost the economy by millions. ...

Student-staff ratios a dividing issue ... - TEU – Tertiary Education Union

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Labour, the Greens, Mana and the Maori Party all argue that student:staff ratios in tertiary education need to come down to protect quality,...

Treasury wrings a few more drops | TEU - Tertiary Education Union

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Treasury's Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update 2011 came out this week and it signalled even less money for the tertiary education sector in.

Workplace learning contributes to improved performance - report - Voxy

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Voxy
Established in 2005, the Learning Representative Programme is managed by the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions (NZCTU) and funded by the Tertiary Education Commission. Its main purpose is to train workers as Learning Reps to identify, advocate for, ...

Maori MBA working as planned - Waatea News

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Waatea News
The MBA taught at the Waikato-Tainui College for Research and Development at Hopuhopu is a partnership with Waikato University's Management School. It's just won an innovation award from the London-based Association of MBAs. Sarah-Jane Tiakiwai says ...

Kōtui delivers results for public library customers

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Customers using the new Kōtui service in public libraries are loving the improved service, says Glenn Webster, head librarian for Marlborough District Libraries, the first library service in the country to implement the new collection search-and-management ...

Wellington Scoops Adult Learning Awards

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Two outstanding community education providers from Wellington will receive Dynamic Community Learning Awards at this year’s Adult Learners’ Week launch to be held at Putiki Marae, Whanganui on November 1.

World Teachers Day to celebrate high quality teaching and learning

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Teaching students is way more important than being an All Black coach" - Graham Henry, July 2011. New Zealand is celebrating World Teachers Day today. (Saturday 29 October). World Teachers Day was established by UNESCO and is marked in over 100 countries.

Innovative business culture starts in the classroom - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The 42-year-old classroom innovator has authored a new educational resource which provides teachers with an easy-to-follow framework for maximising student achievement in science. Internationally respected University of Auckland Honorary Professor of ...

School 'bullied' parents over iPads - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: School 'bullied' parents over iPads Stuff.co.nz A parent of a pupil at Orewa College says Christmas will have to be cancelled in her household if the school continues to push forward with plans to make expensive tablet devices compulsory for junior pupils. Teachers at the school are currently being ...

Wellington school helps with $70000 - The Press

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The Press
A Wellington school that raised $70000 for earthquake-hit Christchurch schools helped "take away the loneliness of our toughest times", a principal says. South New Brighton School held a "thank you" assembly for Wellington's Ngaio School yesterday. ...

Pupils' ad rocks Fair Go awards - Marlborough Express

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Marlborough Express
Principal Simon Heath said Miss Moran had come back from a national conference focused on IT last year full of enthusiasm and had since won several awards with her students. The achievements had won the school thousands of dollars of technology, ...

Kaumatua's words spurred student to succeed - Stuff.co.nz

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"On my first day of secondary school the school's kaumatua issued a challenge to the Maori students to change the statistics on poor Maori performance and to make the most of the educational opportunities on offer. "I took his words to heart and ...

Students showcase skills in Digi Awards - Manawatu Standard

Manawatu Standard

URL: Students showcase skills in Digi Awards Manawatu Standard GOING DIGITAL: Cloverlea School pupils Eva Booth and Keeley Peachet, both 10, will walk the red carpet on Monday night for the inaugural Manawatu Digi Awards. Palmerston North's Regent Theatre will be packed out next week as hundreds of Manawatu ...