Preferred Bidder announced for the first public private partnership in schools

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Craig Foss | Education

Associate Minister of Education, Craig Foss has today announced Learning Infrastructure Partners as the Preferred Bidder for the first school property public private partnership (PPP) in New Zealand. Learning Infrastructure Partners was one of three consortia short listed. The proposals were reviewed by the Ministry of Education, Treasury officials and specialist advisors...

Preferred bidder announced for PPP schools - Voxy

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Voxy
Associate Minister of Education, Craig Foss has today announced Learning Infrastructure Partners as the Preferred Bidder for the first school property public private partnership (PPP) in New Zealand. Learning Infrastructure Partners was one of three ...

Editorial: Lessons to be learnt on class size issue - The Dominion Post

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The Dominion Post
Teachers' union NZEI has taken issue with Mr Makhlouf expressing the view that improving teacher quality will do more to lift pupil achievement than reducing class sizes. It says he should stick to his knitting. By making well- researched ...

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Performance Pay misses Point - Voxy

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Voxy
'The suggestion that performance pay would prompt higher quality teaching in primary schools misses the point,' said Paul Drummond, President of the New Zealand Principals' Federation. 'We would agree with the Minister of Education that in school the ...

New Zealand should leapfrog failed performance pay agenda for education

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The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa says principals and teachers oppose performance pay linked to student achievement outcomes because evidence shows this has a negative impact on quality teaching and children's learning.

Pasifika Education Research Priorities: Using research to realise our vision for Pasifika learners

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This document will be of interest to researchers and others with an interest in Pasifika education. Its purpose is to encourage a collaborative, coordinated approach to gathering quality research-based evidence in key areas which can be used more effectively in policy and practice fr improved educational outcomes for all Pasifika learners.

Closing the widening health gap between rich and poor

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Professor Michael Baker from the University of Otago in Wellington led the research published in the Lancet - he says what's needed is a concerted multi-sectoral government response.

John Langley: Business tools can help education - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Photo / Thinkstock Derision for speech given to business circle is unfair, writes Dr John Langley, chief executive of Cognition Education Auckland. On Tuesday the Secretary to the Treasury, Gabriel Makhlouf, gave a speech to the Transtasman Business ...

Allegations of Victoria University 'cheating the system' for funding

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New Zealand Herald
The amount of money given to tertiary institutions is partly based on the proportion of staff involved in research. The allegations claim that Victoria University is altering working agreements so that staff appear to not be employed when the audit is ...

Funding system at fault, not Victoria University - Voxy

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Voxy
Accusations that Victoria University "rorts" the government's tertiary education funding system highlight the model's poor design and inadequacies, the Green Party says. Green Party tertiary education spokesperson David Clendon said the Performance ...

Horizon Project - Technology Outlook for NZ Tertiary Education ...

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The Advisory Board is a 'who's who' of e-learning in the tertiary education scene in New Zealand, some 36 people including Gordon Suddaby, Cathy Gunn, Mark Northover, Mark Brown and WCeL team leader Nigel ...

Home-grown doco shows how tertiary study can change lives

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Tongan Netane Takau felt he was destined for a life going nowhere, being no-one, but a decision to come to New Zealand to stay with his Aunty changed all that… His journey and that of fellow Unitec students, Vicky Te Puni and Alex Riley, is ...

Local schools in line for ultra-fast broadband - Wanganui Chronicle

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Wanganui Chronicle
Ultrafast Fibre, one of the Government's four ultra-fast broadband partners, on Thursday named 23 schools in Hamilton, Tauranga, New Plymouth and Wanganui that will be able to connect to the network by July. The Wanganui schools are Carlton School, ...

Focus on youth jobs - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
"My interest in, and enthusiasm for trades training is as strong as ever and alongside my work on the employment summit, I am also working on the updating of industry training so it ties in with NCEA for trades training in the workplace.

More kids on mood-stabilising drugs - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
This month, the school, which caters for 166 primary and secondary school pupils in the lower North Island who are deemed too ill to attend mainstream schools, hosted local principals, Education Ministry staff, and Capital & Coast District Health Board ...

Only in extreme cases - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
This month, the school, which caters for 166 primary and secondary school pupils in the lower North Island who are deemed too ill to attend mainstream schools, hosted local principals, Education Ministry staff, and Capital & Coast District Health Board ...