Taking action to raise quality in early childhood education

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Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata has announced the establishment of two working groups to improve quality early childhood education for young children. “We are taking action to make sure all early childhood education services are of the highest possible quality,” says Ms Parata. “The early years of children’s lives are crucial for learning and development, and every single one of our children deserves the best education they can get...

Key's power play won't stop the bills going up - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
But trialling two non-performing schools in South and West Auckland as "charter schools" will hardly revolutionise our education system, let alone society. But the third platform is very serious. Selling our electricity cash cows goes to the heart of ...

Union never learns lesson on incompetent teachers - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Photo / Supplied Why the fuss over charter schools? Given the hysterical ranting from teacher unions, you'd think we were returning to caning on the backside. It won't be compulsory for students to attend what are, essentially, alternative choices for ...

Politics With Paul – Scrapping National Standards? - Salient

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Great Barrier to education - The Aucklander

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The Aucklander
Ministry of Education northern regional manager Bruce Adin confirms Great Barrier Island is not zoned for any state secondary school. He says only schools which are likely to be overcrowded have zones which are part of an enrolment scheme.

Union never learns lesson on incompetent teachers - New Zealand Herald

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By Deborah Coddington Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Minds shows how to deal with difficult Los Angeles students. Photo / Supplied Why the fuss over charter schools? Given the hysterical ranting from teacher unions, you'd think we were returning to ...

Language a life experience - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Language a life experience Stuff.co.nz Making foreign languages relevant to students is one of the best ways to encourage learning a language, according to the new head of languages at Marlborough Girls' College, in Blenheim. Hilary Hunt started in the role this year and said languages do ...

Working groups need to deliver strong message on quality ECE

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The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa hopes two new working groups on early childhood education will deliver a strong message to the government to restore funding levels and commit to a fully qualified teaching workforce.

Manu Korihi News for 13 February 2012

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...Te Aupouri Maori Trust Board in the Far North is looking at alternative ways to help children who go to school hungry...

Launch of trades training - Otago Daily Times

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By John Gibb on Sat, 11 Feb 2012 A new foundation programme launched as part of an Otago Polytechnic Maori trades training initiative will help counter New Zealand's significant skills shortage, polytechnic chief executive Phil Ker says.

Kiwis pay extra for good schools, backyard - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
By Michael Dickison New Zealanders want safe backyards for their children and access to good schools - and will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for them. The trend echoes an Australian survey of real estate agents, which found Aussie home buyers ...

Minister positive about the role of student associations - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Minister Joyce commented that “any institution that doesn't have a dialogue with students isn't doing its job right.” The Minister was positive about the role of student associations in discussions with their institutions. He said it was important that ...

Students tackle thorny problems on Cactus - The Daily Post

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The Daily Post
A new batch of Rotorua secondary school students are tackling the police-led military style programme Cactus. The 2012 Cactus neighbourhood policing project started at Western Heights High School this week with 25 students from a range of backgrounds ...

Hundreds of unfit teachers in class

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Hundreds of teachers have criminal convictions and many are not fit to teach, newly released figures show.

Hundreds of teachers have criminal convictions

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Hundreds of school teachers have criminal convictions, but the vetting body says that is a low figure when considering the 100,000-strong workforce.

Polytechnic enrolments on a high

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Polytechnic leaders say relatively high unemployment is continuing to drive people into tertiary education, though more are studying part-time.

Top class effort by RGHS trio - The Daily Post

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The Daily Post
Gisele Foster, Leanna Hill and Tara Moberly blasted through their National Certificate of Educational Achievement exams in 2011 receiving top grades, which has them among the brightest students in Rotorua. Year 13 student Gisele said she wanted to ...

University generates millions for the Waikato

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The University of Waikato and its students generated $770 million in the Waikato economy last year – 4.5% of the region’s annual revenue.

Welly whiz-kid sees hi-tech future for education - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Welly whiz-kid sees hi-tech future for education Stuff.co.nz Cardow said the traditional school system created uniformity among students and a reliance upon its structures. It created work-ready individuals who were productive from the moment they were employed. "Schools should be places to let students learn ...