NCEA tests employers hiring school-leavers - Taranaki Daily News

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URL: NCEA tests employers hiring school-leavers Taranaki Daily News A decade on and getting to grips with NCEA is still a challenge for employers recruiting school- leavers. In its 11th year the country's secondary school qualification system, NCEA, has already seen a number of changes, meaning employers of ...

Internet in schools as 'vital' as electricity - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
The ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in Schools 2011 report, undertaken by Research New Zealand, looked in detail at how technology was being used in schools and its impact. The report also found that during a typical school week ...

School books give way to e-learning - The Nelson Mail

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The Nelson Mail
For some Nelson students, this year could see the end of trusty ballpoint pens and 1B5 exercise books, as high schools across the region embrace the digital age. Garin College principal John Boyce said this year could be the last students at his school ...

iPads oust books from schoolbags - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: iPads oust books from schoolbags Stuff.co.nz CLASS ACTION: Laurel Baird has spent $1500 to kit out her children Henry, 15, Elijah, 8, Victoria, 13, and Noah, 12 with shoes, bags, stationery and uniforms for their new school year. An increasing number of schools are "inviting" pupils to bring ...

Parents struggling with rising digital education costs - TVNZ

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TVNZ
Schools should be doing everything they can to help students adapt to an increasingly digital world, said education expert Noeline Wright, from Waikato University, on TV ONE's Breakfast this morning. "It's just looking at what kind of learning tools ...

Building the future of science and mathematics at Kuranui - Voxy

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Voxy
The South Wairarapa's secondary school, Kuranui College, continues its push to provide innovative 21st Century teaching with the completion of a modern, custom-built building to help deliver its science and mathematics curriculums.

Trust Board seeks funding for school lunch programme - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Te Aupouri Maori Trust Board in the Far North is working this week to find a way to continue providing school lunches for hungry pupils. The Ministry of Social Development has told the Board it can't continue using some of the money it receives through ...

Rolls up but fees remain the same - The Nelson Mail

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The Nelson Mail
Fees would remain the same, at $190 a student or $250 a family, even for students attending the Nelson Trades Academy, which caters to all school in the region except Nelson College. Garin College principal John Boyce said his school's roll would ...

School has its biggest roll ever - The Ashburton Guardian

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The Ashburton Guardian
By Amanda Durry January 31, 2012 Carew Peel Forest School has started the year with its biggest ever roll after 10 new enrolments yesterday. The school started with 68 students for 2012, just ahead of its previous high of 67 students two years ago when ...

Mum forks out $1500 for pupils' needs - The Dominion Post

The Dominion Post

URL: Mum forks out $1500 for pupils' needs The Dominion Post $260 went on a new uniform for Noah, attending Tawa Intermediate, while Victoria's Tawa College uniform cost about $380. Then there was another $150 on shoes, $60 on haircuts, about $55 each for schoolbags, $40 on lunchboxes, and other sundry items ...

Northland school fights to keep its senior class

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Northland's Moerewa School has been fighting to retain its senior class, and says its NCEA results prove its stance is the right one.

Pupils' marks factor in funding decisions | Otago Daily Times Online ...

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Academic results of pupils recruited to the Otago University Advanced School Sciences Academy will be scrutinised as part of a funding analysis to consider whether the two-year-pilot scheme will attract future finance, a university. ... Academy students from the first intake last year "have only within the last couple of weeks had their NCEA results confirmed" and, in some cases, pupils would still be finalising their 2012 study choices. "We are also flat-out running ...

Exchange with Chile offers opportunities

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A new relationship between Tai Poutini Polytechnic and a Chilean outdoor education provider will see students travel to Chile and Antarctica every year and could lead to TPP hosting international MBA students on the West Coast.

Pupils' no-show could see school closed - 3News NZ

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URL: Pupils' no-show could see school closed 3News NZ By Anna Burns-Francis A Dunedin primary school is on the brink of collapse after half its students left over the holidays. Rotary Park School has just 34 pupils now, and only a third of them turned up for the first day, following allegations their ...

Teacher calls time on 33 years at college - The Press

The Press

URL: Teacher calls time on 33 years at college The Press SOUR NOTE: Linwood College head of music Tony Ryan says the lack of progress over his white-zoned Redcliffs home is frustrating. After 33 years of making music come to life for pupils at Linwood College, Tony Ryan is leaving the school and Christchurch ...