URL: Govt funds Pacific trades initiative for Christchurch
Steven Joyce | Pacific Island Affairs
The Government is providing $6 million to support Pacific peoples enter into trades training in 2012 and 2013 to assist with the Christchurch rebuild, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Steven Joyce and Minister of Pacific Island Affairs Hekia Parata announced today. The initiative, part of the Government’s wider Skills for Canterbury contingency package of $42 million, is providing up to 300 fees-free places in trades training throughout New Zealand...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Update on 2012 PLD
URL: Update on 2012 PLD
MoE
MoE
From this year, PLD is being prioritised according to the need of schools to support learners and raise student achievement, particularly for Māori learners, Pasifika learners and learners with special education needs. Regional offices will confirm the PLD allocations to those schools which have been successful...
Community Scoop » OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment ...
URL: Community Scoop » OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment ...
In a context where there is a general consensus against national testing in primary education, the introduction of Standards is seen as an alternative way to make information about student learning more consistent and ...
In a context where there is a general consensus against national testing in primary education, the introduction of Standards is seen as an alternative way to make information about student learning more consistent and ...
Tamihere keen to bring charter school system to west - New Zealand Herald
URL: Tamihere keen to bring charter school system to west
New Zealand Herald
Opposition to charter schools was short-sighted, he said. He cited a 2009 Stanford University report which detractors often quote from. It found 17 per cent of charter schools reported significant academic gains over traditional schools, ...
New Zealand Herald
Opposition to charter schools was short-sighted, he said. He cited a 2009 Stanford University report which detractors often quote from. It found 17 per cent of charter schools reported significant academic gains over traditional schools, ...
Manna from Mana - bigger classes, less money - The Dominion Post
 The Dominion Post | URL: Manna from Mana - bigger classes, less money The Dominion Post Despite a raft of experts claiming class size is a major (but not the only) factor in effective teaching, new Education Minister Hekia Parata, who has impressed me with her enthusiasm, gleefully quoted a recent OECD education survey that says that ... |
Education should not be a government cash cow - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
URL: Education should not be a government cash cow
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
If Treasury really wanted to free up money in education and improve teacher quality it would reinstate the teacher professional development that the government has taken away and stop wasting tens of millions of dollars on National Standards”.
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
If Treasury really wanted to free up money in education and improve teacher quality it would reinstate the teacher professional development that the government has taken away and stop wasting tens of millions of dollars on National Standards”.
in the rush to 'e-learning', are we losing sight of our goals? | BioBlog
URL: in the rush to 'e-learning', are we losing sight of our goals? | BioBlog
One of the 'big things' in schools these days seems to be the increasing expansion of e-learning. I've written previously on one school's decision to require all its new students to have iPads, or similar tablet-style computers.
One of the 'big things' in schools these days seems to be the increasing expansion of e-learning. I've written previously on one school's decision to require all its new students to have iPads, or similar tablet-style computers.
Programming in schools - SunLive (blog)
 SunLive (blog) | URL: Programming in schools SunLive (blog) So I do understand the pressures on the curriculum writers and our school systems to provide a 'rounded education'. Schools cannot do it all, which is one of the founding principles of the IdeaShed – one which seemed to hit a note with the teachers ... |
Education: 'you get what you pay for' - The Ashburton Guardian
URL: Education: 'you get what you pay for'
The Ashburton Guardian
By Amanda Durry February 28, 2012 Education may not be completely free in New Zealand but parents get what they pay for, a local principal says. The debate about school donations has been sparked once again, with figures showing that New Zealanders ...
The Ashburton Guardian
By Amanda Durry February 28, 2012 Education may not be completely free in New Zealand but parents get what they pay for, a local principal says. The debate about school donations has been sparked once again, with figures showing that New Zealanders ...
Young beneficiaries offered incentives - NZ City
 Newstalk ZB | URL: Young beneficiaries offered incentives NZ City A $10 a week incentive will be paid to young people who continue in training, complete a budgeting course and for teen parents who do a parenting course. Young people will also have their rent and power paid for them with an allowance and payment card ... |
Telecom lands Ministry of Education contract for leased laptop computers - Geekzone
URL: Telecom lands Ministry of Education contract for leased laptop computers
Geekzone
Telecom Rentals Ltd., Telecom's technology finance subsidiary, has won a multimillion dollar contract to provide leased laptops to primary and secondary schools across New Zealand. The three-year deal with the Ministry of Education, one of the largest ...
Geekzone
Telecom Rentals Ltd., Telecom's technology finance subsidiary, has won a multimillion dollar contract to provide leased laptops to primary and secondary schools across New Zealand. The three-year deal with the Ministry of Education, one of the largest ...
Ministry of Education signs Telecom Rentals - Computerworld New Zealand
URL: Ministry of Education signs Telecom Rentals
Computerworld New Zealand
By Randal Jackson | Auckland | Monday, 27 February, 2012 Telecom Rentals has signed a three-year deal with the Ministry of Education to replace some 45000 laptops leased to eligible teachers and principals at 2500 schools nationwide.
Computerworld New Zealand
By Randal Jackson | Auckland | Monday, 27 February, 2012 Telecom Rentals has signed a three-year deal with the Ministry of Education to replace some 45000 laptops leased to eligible teachers and principals at 2500 schools nationwide.
Police join with Napier schools to combat truancy - All About Hawke's Bay
URL: Police join with Napier schools to combat truancy
All About Hawke's Bay
Police, schools and social services in Napier are joining forces to combat truancy in the area. Police will be actively targetting students skipping school and returning them to their respective school. Offenders will be targetted by police, ...
All About Hawke's Bay
Police, schools and social services in Napier are joining forces to combat truancy in the area. Police will be actively targetting students skipping school and returning them to their respective school. Offenders will be targetted by police, ...
Leaving NZ plan for 1 in 5 students - 3News NZ
 3News NZ | URL: Leaving NZ plan for 1 in 5 students 3News NZ By 3 News online staff Nearly 20 percent of Kiwi students plan to leave the country once their studies are finished, according to a new Colmar Brunton survey. The survey of over 1000 tertiary students, conducted for Student Job Search, showed that job ... |
Central Lakes Trades Academy kicks-starts careers - Voxy
URL: Central Lakes Trades Academy kicks-starts careers
Voxy
Fully funded by the Ministry of Education, the academy enables students to work towards a vocational qualification as part of their NCEA level 2 studies. The students spend four days a week at their high school and one day a week as part of the Academy ...
Voxy
Fully funded by the Ministry of Education, the academy enables students to work towards a vocational qualification as part of their NCEA level 2 studies. The students spend four days a week at their high school and one day a week as part of the Academy ...
35 school pupils also learning trade - Otago Daily Times
 Otago Daily Times | URL: 35 school pupils also learning trade Otago Daily Times By Lynda Van Kempen on Tue, 28 Feb 2012 This 35-strong group of pupils from Central Otago, Wakatipu and Wanaka high schools is the first to take part in the Central Lakes Trades Academy through the Otago Polytechnic's Cromwell campus. |
Bus a big hit with Polytech students - The Ashburton Guardian
URL: Bus a big hit with Polytech students
The Ashburton Guardian
By Amanda Durry February 28, 2012 Mid Canterbury students are shipping out of town by the bus load as more students see the benefit of a free service offered by Aoraki Polytechnic. A free bus service to the polytechnic's Timaru campus was introduced ...
The Ashburton Guardian
By Amanda Durry February 28, 2012 Mid Canterbury students are shipping out of town by the bus load as more students see the benefit of a free service offered by Aoraki Polytechnic. A free bus service to the polytechnic's Timaru campus was introduced ...
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