URL: Red tape cut for international students
Nathan Guy | Immigration
Minister of Immigration Nathan Guy has announced changes to health screening rules which will reduce red tape for international students and other migrants, while protecting the public health system. “From July this year, international students will no longer need to supply full medicals. Unless they have other health conditions, they will only need to be screened for tuberculosis. “This will greatly reduce the cost and hassle for around 62,800 students who will save around $17 million a year in medical costs...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Taking a “future focus” in education
URL: Taking a “future focus” in education
Shifting Thinking
Last month I twice gave a presentation called “Taking a future focus in education: What does it mean?”. The first time was for a CORE Education Breakfast Seminar in Wellington (their breakfast seminars are excellent, by the way, and well worth the early morning start), and the second was a repeat session for NZCER’s in-house [...]
Shifting Thinking
Last month I twice gave a presentation called “Taking a future focus in education: What does it mean?”. The first time was for a CORE Education Breakfast Seminar in Wellington (their breakfast seminars are excellent, by the way, and well worth the early morning start), and the second was a repeat session for NZCER’s in-house [...]
Entry point: sharing power and responsibility
URL: Entry point: sharing power and responsibility
Shifting Thinking
At the last Shifting Thinking conference I was involved in the play Rachel wrote to start day 2. That was the first public drama/theatre experience I’d been part of for a few years. Last week Elizabeth and I planned our 2012 workshop: entry point – Sharing Power and Responsibility. Even though we are friends from [...]
Shifting Thinking
At the last Shifting Thinking conference I was involved in the play Rachel wrote to start day 2. That was the first public drama/theatre experience I’d been part of for a few years. Last week Elizabeth and I planned our 2012 workshop: entry point – Sharing Power and Responsibility. Even though we are friends from [...]
Global and local participation
URL: Global and local participation
Shifting Thinking
This entry point at the 2012 Shifting Thinking Workshop will explore ideas about what it means to “participate and contribute” as a 21st century learner/citizen. Ambitiously, I’d like to focus on this question in relation to both the present (e.g. how are learner-citizens participating and contributing within their schools, to their communities, and to the [...]
Shifting Thinking
This entry point at the 2012 Shifting Thinking Workshop will explore ideas about what it means to “participate and contribute” as a 21st century learner/citizen. Ambitiously, I’d like to focus on this question in relation to both the present (e.g. how are learner-citizens participating and contributing within their schools, to their communities, and to the [...]
Gordon Campbell on charter schools, and DoL mining backdown - Scoop.co.nz
URL: Gordon Campbell on charter schools, and DoL mining backdown
Scoop.co.nz
These days though, the Act Party are probably the last outpost of the “made in America” idolatry, with Act's enthusiasm for charter schools being the most recent example of the party's inclination to swoon over second-hand imports from America, ...
Scoop.co.nz
These days though, the Act Party are probably the last outpost of the “made in America” idolatry, with Act's enthusiasm for charter schools being the most recent example of the party's inclination to swoon over second-hand imports from America, ...
NCEA pass rates continue to rise - Radio New Zealand
URL: NCEA pass rates continue to rise
Radio New Zealand
Pass rates for the NCEA qualification continued to rise in 2011, but children from poor backgrounds and Pacific Island and Maori students still lag, according to new figures. The Qualifications Authority figures released on Monday also show that ...
Radio New Zealand
Pass rates for the NCEA qualification continued to rise in 2011, but children from poor backgrounds and Pacific Island and Maori students still lag, according to new figures. The Qualifications Authority figures released on Monday also show that ...
Specialist Teacher Outreach Service
URL: Specialist Teacher Outreach Service
Support available to students who are enrolled in their local school and funded through the Ongoing Resourcing Scheme.
Support available to students who are enrolled in their local school and funded through the Ongoing Resourcing Scheme.
Principals' sabbatical reports recently added
URL: Principals' sabbatical reports recently added
Principals' sabbatical reports added in March...
Principals' sabbatical reports added in March...
WelTec students excel in Grow Wellington - Summer of Tech - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
URL: WelTec students excel in Grow Wellington - Summer of Tech
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
When Jody Bullen of Yonix took on WelTec students Ian Somerville and Samuel Haktka as interns through the Summer of Tech scheme, he got a lot more than he bargained for. Mr Bullen was apprehensive about using interns but because he likes to promote ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
When Jody Bullen of Yonix took on WelTec students Ian Somerville and Samuel Haktka as interns through the Summer of Tech scheme, he got a lot more than he bargained for. Mr Bullen was apprehensive about using interns but because he likes to promote ...
Albany staff taste Pasifika fare at campus umu | infonews.co.nz New ...
URL: Albany staff taste Pasifika fare at campus umu | infonews.co.nz New ...
His team at the Pasifika Directorate is committed to promoting educational achievement for Pasifika students, under the proviso that “failure is not an option”. “We need your help, because together we can do it,” he said.
His team at the Pasifika Directorate is committed to promoting educational achievement for Pasifika students, under the proviso that “failure is not an option”. “We need your help, because together we can do it,” he said.
School a world leader - Auckland stuff.co.nz
 Auckland stuff.co.nz | URL: School a world leader Auckland stuff.co.nz Paulina Pannen from Indonesian teacher training college Sampoerna School of Education was impressed by the learning environment. Students teaching each other what they know is very different to how she's used to doing things, she says. |
Free fruit helps fend off school-sores - report - Radio New Zealand
URL: Free fruit helps fend off school-sores - report
Radio New Zealand
A taxpayer-funded Fruit in Schools programme has had a dramatic side-effect in banishing school sores among children in some Whangarei schools. A new report - Empty Food Baskets - commissioned by a Child Poverty Action Group found a third of the pupils ...
Radio New Zealand
A taxpayer-funded Fruit in Schools programme has had a dramatic side-effect in banishing school sores among children in some Whangarei schools. A new report - Empty Food Baskets - commissioned by a Child Poverty Action Group found a third of the pupils ...
Kids go hungry at Whangarei schools - New Zealand Herald
URL: Kids go hungry at Whangarei schools
New Zealand Herald
It found at least 1793 children in Whangarei - 33 per cent of school population attending the decile one to four schools - received food assistance weekly, with some getting food more than once a week. All 14 decile one and two schools and five of ...
New Zealand Herald
It found at least 1793 children in Whangarei - 33 per cent of school population attending the decile one to four schools - received food assistance weekly, with some getting food more than once a week. All 14 decile one and two schools and five of ...
City pupils given ukuleles to lift harmony - The Press
 The Press | URL: City pupils given ukuleles to lift harmony The Press TUNEFUL: Claudia Crosland, right, plays in the Chisnallwood Ukulele Band led by Judith Bell, left, as Natalie Slade sings at the programme launch yesterday. Twenty Christchurch schools have been given free ukuleles in an attempt to brighten spirits in ... |
Pupil, 12, puts research before hair - Nelson Mail
URL: Pupil, 12, puts research before hair
Nelson Mail
Nelson Intermediate's 400 pupils watched in shock as teacher Nick Pratt chopped off 12-year-old Zoe Rousselle's long hair. Mr Pratt, too, was daunted as he nervously cut then shaved his pupil's locks. He had been surprised when he received an email ...
Nelson Mail
Nelson Intermediate's 400 pupils watched in shock as teacher Nick Pratt chopped off 12-year-old Zoe Rousselle's long hair. Mr Pratt, too, was daunted as he nervously cut then shaved his pupil's locks. He had been surprised when he received an email ...
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