Budget 2012: Reducing reoffending, victims of crime

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Anne Tolley | Budget 2012
Budget 2012 will contribute to a 25 per cent reduction in reoffending by 2017, and 18,500 fewer victims of crime every year from 2017, Corrections Minister Anne Tolley and Associate Corrections Minister Dr Pita Sharples say. The moves are part of the Prime Minister’s expectations for a more efficient and results-driven public service. A boost in alcohol and drug treatment, alongside increased education, skills training and employment programmes for prisoners, including remand prisoners, will lead to safer communities and better value for money for taxpayers...

Pupils may miss out with new ratios, says principal - Stuff.co.nz

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Last week Education Minister Hekia Parata announced changes to teacher-pupil ratios, a government funding formula for schools. New entrant ratios would remain at 1:15, the ratio for NCEA years 11-13 would be standardised at 1:17.3, and the ratio for ...

Shearer attacks class size move - Marlborough Express

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Marlborough Express
The Government's increasing of class sizes will be the defining issue of the Budget, Labour leader David Shearer says. Mr Shearer was in Blenheim on Saturday to speak at a Labour regional conference, held at the NMIT campus. He said Labour's challenge ...

Beware the law of unintended consequences - New Zealand Listener

New Zealand Listener

URL: Beware the law of unintended consequences New Zealand Listener But robust studies have shown that class size is not a prime determinant of successful educational outcomes. The perceived benefits of smaller classes have long been overstated in this country. And in the current climate of global austerity, ...

NZ POLITICS DAILY: Hot for teachers - National Business Review

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National Business Review
... Post Primary Teachers' Association, Canterbury Primary Principals' Association, and the NZ Educational Institute – joined, naturally, by Labour and the Greens – see Kate Shuttleworth's Sharp response to planned class size changes.

South Auckland meeting sparks fury over charter school idea

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Some South Auckland residents are furious a charter school could be trialled in their community, saying it is not wanted or needed.

Programme underway to improve science teaching - Voxy

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Voxy
With the quality of science teaching in primary schools in New Zealand under the spotlight, thirteen primary school teachers are part way through a teacher fellowship programme to help develop their science teaching skills. The teachers are spending ...

students losing out - ERO - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: students losing out - ERO Stuff.co.nz Schools are making little progress in improving the achievements of students from Pacific cultures , the Education Review Office says. That was despite Pacific students being the learners most at risk of not achieving, and after the Government's 2009 ...

Preschool students to be tracked - Hawke's Bay Today

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Hawke's Bay Today
Ethnically, previous preschool attendance ranged from 98.2 per cent for European children and 96.3 per cent for Asians down to 90 per cent for Maori and 85.9 per cent for Pacific children. The Education Ministry plans to call tenders later this year ...

'Little progress' in accelerating the achievement of Pacific learners - Voxy

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URL: 'Little progress' in accelerating the achievement of Pacific learners Voxy The Education Review Office's latest national report shows that minimal progress has been made to accelerate the achievement of Pacific learners in New Zealand schools. Improving Education Outcomes for Pacific Learners was released today and is ERO's ...

Workplace training boosts confidence - Northern Advocate

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Northern Advocate
A combination of Government-subsidies and company-funded training had enabled Downer to upskill around 2000 staff over the past six years. "Tertiary training institutions have a strong role to play but workplace literacy training is a critical plank ...

National condition assessment programme

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The Ministry has started a national programme to assess the condition of all state schools.

Growing professional learning communities

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Angela White, Head of the middle school at St Margaret's College, outlines her school's approach to supporting pedagogical change. Angela expands on the steps involved in introducing the change, integrating the change, and then sustaining the change.

ERO tracks the ongoing improvements on Coast - Gisborne Herald

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Gisborne Herald
AN Education Review Office report for East Coast schools and kura kaupapa Maori highlights some significant changes over the past 14 years. Three of the 18 East Coast schools and kura were judged to have such a high-quality report that their next ...

Education Programme for Disabled Children Under Threat - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Around 150 children from a few months old to high school ages are enrolled in nine conductive education centres around New Zealand, several of which are co-located with mainstream schools. The majority of children attending conductive education have ...

Childcare organisation well equipped to protect children - Voxy

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Voxy
"This level of training within their staff was an achievement in itself" Says Mrs Meynell. "But the pilot programme has seen footsteps poutama take things one step further by achieving a certificate qualifying one of their staff, Marina Jury, ...

More young people out of work in city - Stuff.co.nz

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The Education Ministry has proposed building stronger relationships between schools and tertiary providers to halt the worrying trend, saying the situation can not be allowed to continue. The number of Cantabrians aged 15 to 24 in employment has ...

iPods in classroom inspiring young minds - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: iPods in classroom inspiring young minds Stuff.co.nz TECHIE TEACHING: Emma Buckingham, left, Anika Waller and Elsa Weary show off the iPods students use as part of classroom learning at Timaru South School. Timaru South School students sit in class each day with a world's worth of knowledge in the palms ...

appalled by training shortfall - Stuff.co.nz

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A frontline cop has slammed the defensive training of New Zealand police officers after undergoing a shortened two-hour session in the Waikato. The "concerned frontline officer" now questions whether the shortened training sessions will lead to an ...

PM impressed with Chch pupils' invention - The Press

The Press

URL: PM impressed with Chch pupils' invention The Press IMPRESSIVE: St Thomas of Canterbury College pupils Sam Mackwell, left, and Sean Feast show their invention to Prime Minister John Key. Prime Minister John Key was "pretty impressed" with the emergency power generator created by six Christchurch pupils, ...

Class Act recipient awarded $100000 US scholarship - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: Class Act recipient awarded $100000 US scholarship Otago Daily Times By John Gibb on Tue, 22 May 2012 Former John McGlashan College pupil Jamie Band prepares to address an assembly at the school yesterday. Photo by Craig Baxter. Despite winning a $100000 United States university scholarship, and being offered entry to ...