Cognition Education makes $2mil donation to benefit students - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Cognition Education Limited (CEL) recently announced a $2million donation to the Cognition Education Trust to benefit students in New Zealand schools.Cognition Education Ltd is a leading global education consultancy based in Auckland that works with ...

Great NCEA results in a difficult year

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PPTA junior vice president Doug Clark would like to congratulate students and teachers country-wide for excellent NCEA results despite a turbulent 2011. “It has been a difficult year for many with the Christchurch quakes and Pike River mining tragedy, ...

Funding cuts put end to PEI operation - Taranaki Daily News

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"We're talking about students who are generally unemployed, are caregivers or parents and left school at an early age," he said. "I'm not disrespecting our student base but to expect them to be achieving at a level similar to a university or polytech ...

Adjunct faculty to enhance students' learning at Waiariki - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Providing students with access to some of the leading movers and shakers in Māori and iwi development has driven the establishment of an adjunct faculty with Te Wānanga a Ihenga at Waiariki Institute of Technology. Deputy Chief Executive Māori, ...

Wellington teen gets big break - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Wellington teen gets big break Stuff.co.nz Waka Rowlands, 16, had been sure his school days were over – but, instead of showing him the door, Wainuiomata High School principal Martin Isberg congratulated him for landing the lead role in a short film now to premiere internationally. ...

PEI to close, 100 jobs lost - Taranaki Daily News

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New Plymouth's Practical Education Institute is to close and more than 100 workers to lose their jobs. A majority of those workers will stop getting a pay check within four weeks. A handful of staff will stay on until students currently enrolled with ...

Manawatu youth get free fees & transport for trades training

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Secondary students now have a great opportunity to earn a trades or technology qualification while they are still at school – at no cost. UCOL is heading one of the Government’s new trade’s academies – called U-Skills Central School Academy.

Students flock to U-Skills | Stuff.co.nz

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Places have filled in one of UCOL's four new trades academy courses for high schoolers.

Mother plus daughter = maths success for many - Massey News (press release)

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URL: Mother plus daughter = maths success for many Massey News (press release) Massey University's mother and daughter mathematics champions Dr Bobbie Hunter and Jodie Hunter are transforming the way Pasifika and Maori pupils learn maths in a bid to lift achievement levels. Ms Hunter has just joined the College of Education at ...