URL: It’s not how much money, but how it’s used – OECD education survey
Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister, Hekia Parata, today welcomed a new report showing New Zealand students are continuing to perform well compared with their overseas counterparts. The OECD programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report assessed whether a country’s wealth had a bearing on attainment at school. New Zealand was singled out as a top performer achieving better-than-average results despite its comparatively low gross domestic product. Ms Parata says the report shows expenditure levels should not be a barrier to achievement...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
It's not how much money, but how it's used - report - Voxy
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Voxy
Education Minister, Hekia Parata, today welcomed a new report showing New Zealand students are continuing to perform well compared with their overseas counterparts. The OECD programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report assessed whether ...
REPORT: http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/50/9/49685503.pdf
Voxy
Education Minister, Hekia Parata, today welcomed a new report showing New Zealand students are continuing to perform well compared with their overseas counterparts. The OECD programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report assessed whether ...
REPORT: http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/50/9/49685503.pdf
Treasury gives incoherent advice to Education Minister - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
URL: Treasury gives incoherent advice to Education Minister
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
But Professor O'Neill points out that Hattie himself notes that increasing class size is poor policy. • The Treasury's view is just plain wrong. There is excellent, high quality research on class sizes that can inform policy that has been ignored.
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
But Professor O'Neill points out that Hattie himself notes that increasing class size is poor policy. • The Treasury's view is just plain wrong. There is excellent, high quality research on class sizes that can inform policy that has been ignored.
Do school rankings really matter? - Stuff.co.nz (blog)
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Stuff.co.nz (blog)
The class size thing. And in primary school country, the resignation of an Auckland principal over the madness that is National Standards. This came after news that the government is "considering" (read: planning) whipping up a set of handy league ...
Stuff.co.nz (blog)
The class size thing. And in primary school country, the resignation of an Auckland principal over the madness that is National Standards. This came after news that the government is "considering" (read: planning) whipping up a set of handy league ...
NZ top education performer, but policy counterproductive - Voxy
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Voxy
This report should not be used as an opportunity to adopt Treasury's misguided advice about increasing class size in order to free up money in education or for further experiments with charter schools and league tables". The report stresses that ...
REPORT: http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/50/9/49685503.pdf
Voxy
This report should not be used as an opportunity to adopt Treasury's misguided advice about increasing class size in order to free up money in education or for further experiments with charter schools and league tables". The report stresses that ...
REPORT: http://www.pisa.oecd.org/dataoecd/50/9/49685503.pdf
NZ top school performer despite low funds - New Zealand Herald
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URL: NZ top school performer despite low funds
New Zealand Herald Despite New Zealand schools receiving lower funding than many other OECD countries, students here are among the world's top achievers, according to a new report. An OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) report, released today, ... |
NZ top performer in education report - Newstalk ZB
Newstalk ZB | URL: NZ top performer in education report Newstalk ZB New Zealand has been named a top performer in an international report looking at whether a country's wealth had an effect on achievement at school. The OECD programme for International Student Achievement found greater national wealth or higher ... |
Supporting mathematics learning
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This Update is for the school leadership team. It discusses initiatives designed to support student achievement in mathematics and illustrates how schools are addressing the needs of students who are not progressing as expected. It will help you as a team to review how your school currently addresses underachievement in mathematics.
This Update is for the school leadership team. It discusses initiatives designed to support student achievement in mathematics and illustrates how schools are addressing the needs of students who are not progressing as expected. It will help you as a team to review how your school currently addresses underachievement in mathematics.
Mātauranga Māori: Māori in Education - Salient
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The government is also aware of the increasing number of Māori and Pacific peoples in higher levels of tertiary education and therefore in an effort to supporting educational achievement, there must needs be co-operative ...
The government is also aware of the increasing number of Māori and Pacific peoples in higher levels of tertiary education and therefore in an effort to supporting educational achievement, there must needs be co-operative ...
Kaupapa Maori cancer training programme funding now available - TangataWhenua.com: Maori News & Views
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TangataWhenua.com
(RadioNZ)The Cancer Society has developed a kaupapa Maori programme, to support Maori with cancer. Kia ora – E te iwi, is for anyone who has to cope with cancer whether a patient, carer, or health professional. Providers who have trained facilitators ...
TangataWhenua.com
(RadioNZ)The Cancer Society has developed a kaupapa Maori programme, to support Maori with cancer. Kia ora – E te iwi, is for anyone who has to cope with cancer whether a patient, carer, or health professional. Providers who have trained facilitators ...
School milk ready to roll - New Zealand Herald
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New Zealand Herald
The first Fonterra Milk for Schools packs destined for Northland schools have made their way down the production line and into a coolstore, ready to be trucked north. Fonterra business manager beverages Craig Irwin said the production run in Takanini ...
New Zealand Herald
The first Fonterra Milk for Schools packs destined for Northland schools have made their way down the production line and into a coolstore, ready to be trucked north. Fonterra business manager beverages Craig Irwin said the production run in Takanini ...
Asia in the hunt for top students to study there - New Zealand Herald
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New Zealand Herald
Photo / Mark Mitchell Top Asian universities are targeting international students in New Zealand and South Korea's "top eight" universities will be in Auckland this Saturday for a recruitment fair. Organiser Audrey Chung said the target group for ...
New Zealand Herald
Photo / Mark Mitchell Top Asian universities are targeting international students in New Zealand and South Korea's "top eight" universities will be in Auckland this Saturday for a recruitment fair. Organiser Audrey Chung said the target group for ...
New programme aims to increase youth employment - Newstalk ZB
 Newstalk ZB | URL: New programme aims to increase youth employment Newstalk ZB Industry Training Federation chief executive Mark Oldershaw says the Vocational Pathways programme is being piloted in schools this year and helps engage young people with industry early on. "It allows students to clearly identify a career path that ... |
Demolition protest shelved but tension high - Stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Demolition protest shelved but tension high Stuff.co.nz NO ENTRY: Gary Davis, a senior teacher at the 100-pupil Te Wharekura o Arowhenua school in Invercargill, stands outside the school's 400-seat auditorium building. An Invercargill Maori immersion school has shelved plans to take direct protest action ... |
Parents' school anxiety is beyond rational - The Dominion Post
 The Dominion Post | URL: Parents' school anxiety is beyond rational The Dominion Post You will probably find them discussing ''which school to choose''. In fact, ''kids' schools'' is up there with ''housing prices'' as the topic my peer group cannot stop talking about. Education - including the relative merits of public versus private ... |
Capital job for music teacher - Auckland stuff.co.nz
 Auckland stuff.co.nz | URL: Capital job for music teacher Auckland stuff.co.nz When the university's head of music arrived from the United States she found it bizarre that no universities here offered specific papers on Maori and Pacific music even though New Zealand is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. |
Chch schools recover from quake, but brace for change
URL: Chch schools recover from quake, but brace for change
Schools in Christchurch are still feeling the effects of the February quake a year after the event. Cracked playgrounds and roped-off buildings are reminders of the disaster and many schools' rolls are in flux as families move across the city or out of it altogether.
Schools in Christchurch are still feeling the effects of the February quake a year after the event. Cracked playgrounds and roped-off buildings are reminders of the disaster and many schools' rolls are in flux as families move across the city or out of it altogether.
Earthquake also reshapes Canterbury University
URL: Earthquake also reshapes Canterbury University
Canterbury University has been heavily reshaped by the earthquakes. It suffered damage to buildings, and also a significant drop in enrolments.
Canterbury University has been heavily reshaped by the earthquakes. It suffered damage to buildings, and also a significant drop in enrolments.
Financial reward for top Otago pupils | Otago Daily Times Online ...
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Three Otago students are financially better off after being named among the best and brightest pupils of 2011. ... Logan Park principal Jane Johnson said Mr Dawson had been an outstanding student academically and culturally and in leadership and sport. He had been a consistent high achiever, gaining maths scholarships in year 11 and ... In Southland, James Hargest College pupil Kate Maxwell was top in physical education. They received $2000 a year for up to ...
Three Otago students are financially better off after being named among the best and brightest pupils of 2011. ... Logan Park principal Jane Johnson said Mr Dawson had been an outstanding student academically and culturally and in leadership and sport. He had been a consistent high achiever, gaining maths scholarships in year 11 and ... In Southland, James Hargest College pupil Kate Maxwell was top in physical education. They received $2000 a year for up to ...
Too cool for school - Manawatu Standard
 Manawatu Standard | URL: Too cool for school Manawatu Standard As qualified teachers, both she and husband Wayne Higgison know what it is like to be in a classroom, but after being immersed in the traditional school regime, Jane decided to leave the profession five years ago and adopt the home-schooling method of ... |
Former pupil of KVC to return as principal - Otago Daily Times
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Otago Daily Times
By Bill Campbell on Tue, 21 Feb 2012 A former pupil will take over the role of principal at Kaikorai Valley College, Dunedin. Rick Geerlofs (53), East Otago High School's principal, will make the shift south in April, replacing retiring principal ...
Otago Daily Times
By Bill Campbell on Tue, 21 Feb 2012 A former pupil will take over the role of principal at Kaikorai Valley College, Dunedin. Rick Geerlofs (53), East Otago High School's principal, will make the shift south in April, replacing retiring principal ...
Students protected with a fresh approach - TechDay.co.nz
 TechDay.co.nz | URL: Students protected with a fresh approach TechDay.co.nz With the advent of school-wide use of Google Apps for email and portfolios of student work, AJHS had upgraded their Internet connection to 100Mbps. However, the previous firewall and VPN solution could only offer a speed of 17Mbps with all security ... |
Hard work pays for top young scholars
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There's nothing like proving your parents wrong - and that's just what St Cuthbert's student Jade Leung has done after being named one of only 10 premier scholars in the country.Hours of hard work in her final year of high school...
There's nothing like proving your parents wrong - and that's just what St Cuthbert's student Jade Leung has done after being named one of only 10 premier scholars in the country.Hours of hard work in her final year of high school...
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