2011 through lens of 'i' word - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
The subtext was that inappropriately qualified "advisers" were being employed to help principals run their schools - with half an eye to the implementation of National Standards. Subsequent revelations have shown the RNZ report to have been vindicated ...

Doing the honours - my way - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
We have you on record as saying you cannot understand why "the Government is bleating on about choice in education when it has spent the past three years trying to shove the nonsensical National Standards down the throats of primary teachers". ...

Charter school plans merit hearing | Otago Daily Times Online News ...

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I have been in education since 1991. I did a business degree, a teaching diploma, master's in education, and all that was talked about 20 years ago was the 20% achievement tail in New Zealand and how poor pupils, Maori ...

Charter schools for better learning…yeah, right. — Earthtalk at ...

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Each school had to submit a Charter for approval by the Ministry of Education, demonstrating how it would meet the learning needs of its students and the special character of its community. .... And, even more ironically, the current Minister of Education has recently written to another primary school, this time a decile one school in a rural community, ordering it to stop teaching an extraordinary senior class (up to 98% success in NCEA)and make the students go to a ...

school suspensions, expulsions halve - Stuff.co.nz

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"We had more students coming to us from other schools because of earthquake stuff and all that moving," Edmundson said. No school wanted to exclude a child but it was sometimes forced to when the pupil became a risk to other pupils, he said.

Computer Society to launch schools outreach programme ...

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NZCS piloted the ICT-Connect school outreach programme a couple of years ago, but although the feedback was positive, it needed to be properly funded. “The big lesson from the pilot was that you need to do it properly, you ...

Editorial: Saga exposes poor form from Tolley - The Dominion Post

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The Dominion Post
Included among them were that the school's NCEA accreditation was at risk, that students' work was not being adequately assessed, that the school's finances were deteriorating and that students were engaging in plagiarism. ...