Teachers, principals dismayed by National's education policy

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Primary school teachers and principals are crying foul over the National Party's education policy. They're opposed to National's plan to make schools more accountable for their results.

School principals angry at National's education policy

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Primary and intermediate school principals say they're angry and despondent at the National Party's education policy.

Paula Bennett admits not seeing evidence before cutting Training ...

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A 2001 New Zealand Council for Educational Research Report claims that maternal education is a better indicator of child performance than paternal education, and that the importance of the maternal level of education ...

Good golly Ms Tolley | g.blog

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NZEI is also concerned that National wants to shift the resourcing model to 'incentivise school performance' as it suggests that money will be removed from those schools which are not complying with 'National Standards' or ...

Election | National Education Policy To See League... | Stuff.co.nz

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Key said the overall National Standards data would be very complex and tough to make in to a league table. "It's not as straight forward as putting together a league table," he said. "What you can do is get good data if you go ...

New proposals morph National Standards | Mana | Movement of the ...

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He says the government has advertised a contract for an IT project leader to develop a framework which aims to standardise teacher evaluation of students against national standards and effectively eliminate a teacher's ...

Education: Standards continue to divide - New Zealand Herald

Bloomberg

URL: Education: Standards continue to divide New Zealand Herald Photo / Thinkstock National Standards, class sizes and funding issues and addressing cuts made to early childhood education look to be big issues in the education sector this election. National's controversial National Standards have generated much ...

Secret proposals morph National Standards - Mana - Voxy

New Zealand Herald

URL: Secret proposals morph National Standards - Mana Voxy MANA educations spokesperson John Minto says it seems clear the government has serious plans to morph National Standards into National Testing after the election. He says the government has advertised a contract for an IT project leader to develop a ...

Nats open door to primary school league tables - Stuff.co.nz

New Zealand Herald

URL: Nats open door to primary school league tables Stuff.co.nz Data about achievement in the NCEA was already published and more "good sharing" of data about a student's progress could make a huge difference to their results, she said. "Maybe we need to do some work making sure the results for all students are ...

Election 2011: Latest updates Nov 21 - New Zealand Herald

Otago Daily Times

URL: Election 2011: Latest updates Nov 21 New Zealand Herald #votenz 9:37am: John Minto of the Mana party has said the current government aims to standardise teacher evaluation of students against national standards and effectively eliminate a teacher's professional judgement of their students. ...

98% of new entrants to have been in ECE - National - Newstalk ZB

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Newstalk ZB
Mobile ECE services will be brought back for rural areas and the party has pledged to retain the 20 hours free care for three and four year olds. National standards will continue to be rolled out and a new category of specialist trade teachers ...

"National Standards" obsession drives education policy

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National's education policy for schools is one dimensional and is all about tick-the-box compliance driven by the flawed "National Standards", says the education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa.

Nats plan personality tests for new teachers - New Zealand Herald

New Zealand Herald

URL: Nats plan personality tests for new teachers New Zealand Herald Currently, NCEA results of secondary schools are released but other details, such as the number of early school leavers and the qualifications they have, are not. Frances Nelson of the NZEI teacher union said she was concerned about the incentives ...

Teachers, schools will be put under spotlight: National - Otago Daily Times

New Zealand Herald

URL: Teachers, schools will be put under spotlight: National Otago Daily Times The policy said schools should be accountable to parents and to taxpayers for student achievement, but the current model was not working as well as it should. "Parents invest heavily in their children's education, both in cost and emotionally. ...

Nat education policy 'unfunded, un-costed and reheated' - Voxy

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Voxy
"Furthermore the school modernisation projects are likely to be done by private public partnerships, thereby privatising our state assets to spend money privatizing our schools. "Labour's policy is focused on modernising teaching and learning, ...

Nats' education policy under attack - Stuff.co.nz

3News NZ

URL: Nats' education policy under attack Stuff.co.nz The controversial National Standards programme in primary and intermediate schools would take its "next step" with schools required to start publishing their results next year. National would not publish its own league tables of school performance ..

National to build a better education system - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“We are also working hard to modernise schools. In our first term we've opened 18 new schools and built 400 new school buildings, and we've allocated $1 billion from our Future Investment Fund to build on that progress in the next five years. ...

National plans to lift education game - TVNZ

New Zealand Herald

URL: National plans to lift education game TVNZ Tolley said the party's policy aims to lift student achievement by improving the performance of the schooling system. "We are determined to increase accountability and give parents better information, from early childhood education through to primary ...

National will strengthen skills training - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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A re-elected National Government will further strengthen the industry training sector so it can do a much better job for employers and trainees, says National's Tertiary Education spokesman Steven Joyce. “National will encourage a complete ...

National's education policy - close down successful Maori programmes - Voxy

Newstalk ZB

URL: National's education policy - close down successful Maori programmes Voxy National's education policy released today left out one important feature --- its apparent commitment to close down any successful Maori programme if the school principal and community criticise National Standards, says Labour's Associate Education ...

Timaru classroom goes global - Timaru Herald

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Timaru Herald
Another focus of the conference was the use of technology in classrooms. "I'm really interested in mobile learning – cellphones, iPods. As a geography teacher it's excellent. Students can take photos on their phones when you're outside, ...

Moerewa up in arms over closure of school class - Radio New Zealand

Newstalk ZB

URL: Moerewa up in arms over closure of school class Radio New Zealand It says their NCEA pass rates have gone from poor to outstanding. But Education Minister Anne Tolley has directed the school to end a satellite arrangement it has with an Auckland college. Moerewa Community Trust chairman Ngahau Davis says the ...

National to restrict student loan borrowing - New Zealand Herald

New Zealand Herald

URL: National to restrict student loan borrowing New Zealand Herald File photo / NZ Herald Students borrowing money to study will face tighter restrictions under National's education policy, announced today. Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce said National was committed to retaining the interest-free loan scheme ...

NCEA is working « Red Alert

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Interesting that not ONE blogger has attempted to defend adding another layer of National testing to the already over-strtched education budget. I guess thats because to do so would raise accusations of hypocrisy when ...

Schools told to get wise to cyber-baiting - TVNZ

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TVNZ
"The thing about a classroom is it is a closed door environment and if there is injustice kids want to capture it and share it and prove 'it's not just me'," he said. "That's one side of it, the other is just to be belligerent. ...

University fee boost feared - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: University fee boost feared Otago Daily Times The university raised its domestic student fees this year by 6.3%, after council members approved a maximum 4% hike in 2010 alongside a further 2.3% increase to cover a GST rise. Otago University Students' Association education officer Katie Reid, ...

Wellington students launch web-based tool to encourage young NZers to vote - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
A group of Massey University students from Wellington have taken the initiative to launch a non-partisan web based tool to encourage young New Zealander's to vote in this year's Election. As part of a third year Massey University Design & Business ...

Kicked out of school at seven - Star Canterbury

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Star Canterbury
A Christchurch school says it had no choice but to ban a violent autistic 7-year-old pupil to keep staff, and other pupils, safe. The boy has pushed over a staff member, who broke her wrist in the fall, given his teacher aide a black eye, and scratched ...

Communication leader to head College of Business - Massey News (press release)

Massey News (press release)

URL: Communication leader to head College of Business Massey News (press release) A specialist in management communication, workplace wellbeing and organisational change will head Massey University's College of Business from next year. Professor Theodore (Ted) Zorn is currently head of the Department of Management Communication at ...