Raising quality in early childhood education

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Hekia Parata | Education

Education Minister Hon Hekia Parata has today released a series of recommendations on how to improve the quality of early childhood education (ECE). The recommendations are the findings of two advisory groups which were established in January of this year to focus on improving the quality of ECE services, particularly for those children under the age of two. “I welcome the recommendations and thank the advisory groups for identifying many practical solutions that can be implemented quickly.”...

Career and subject choices critical

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Hekia Parata | Pacific Island Affairs

Pacific Islands Affairs Minister, Hekia Parata, welcomes the report of the Pacific Adolescent Career Pathways Report recently released. “Matching subject choices at secondary school to your career hopes and dreams is critical for Pacific students,” says Ms Parata. The research by the Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs in 2010 found a significant mismatch between what students hoped to do, and the subjects they chose...

Minister welcomes Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa – Samoan Language Week

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Hekia Parata | Pacific Island Affairs

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Pacific Island Affairs Minister Hekia Parata encourages all to participate in the Samoan language week celebrations beginning Sunday 27 May. “The theme this year, O le vāfealoa’i: strong and respectful relationships, is a fitting theme for this years’ Samoan language week, as Samoa also celebrates 50 years of independence and the signing of a Treaty of Friendship with New Zealand,” says Ms Parata...

Education 2013 School Staffing Order 2012

URL: Education 2013 School Staffing Order 2012
Status: Modified

ID: regulation/public/2012/0097/12.0

Version: as made

Information type: regulation

Legislation type: public

Year: 2012

No: 97

Current as at date: 21/05/2012

A Sociological Inquiry into Teachers' Curriculum Decision Making

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Seminar with Graham McPhail, hosted by the School of Critical Studies in Education.
Room N614, N block, Faculty of Education, Gate 4, 60 Epsom Ave, Epsom (View map)
30 May 2012

Huge opposition to charter schools - Newstalk ZB

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Newstalk ZB
Education experts hope the Government will soon see how much opposition there is to the idea of charter schools. Members of the Charter Schools Working Group spoke to around 400 people at a packed public meeting in south Auckland last night.

South Auckland may not trial charter schools - Voxy

Newstalk ZB

URL: South Auckland may not trial charter schools Voxy Catherine Isaac confused and delighted 400 people at the public meeting held in South Auckland with her announcement last night that there has been no decision to trial charter schools in South Auckland. No region has been settled on and South Auckland ...

South Auckland charter schools prove a tough sell for working group - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

New Zealand Herald

URL: South Auckland charter schools prove a tough sell for working group Scoop.co.nz (press release) Chief charter schools advocate Catherine Isaac had a hard time selling the Government's controversial plan when she spoke to an audience in South Auckland on Monday night. Around 400 people packed the Otahuhu Town Hall to discuss the merits of ...

Charter schools meet with some resistance - New Zealand Herald

New Zealand Herald

URL: Charter schools meet with some resistance New Zealand Herald By Nick Smith Politicians have embarked on a bold new experiment to set up profit-making, privately sponsored charter schools, replacing struggling state schools in poor neighbourhoods. All they need are guinea pigs - and Tamaki Intermediate could be ...

Students try to save school but to no avail - New Zealand Herald

New Zealand Herald

URL: Students try to save school but to no avail New Zealand Herald Or, says principal Tony Horan, the site could be used for one of the new business-sponsored charter schools being set up as part of the deal by which Act MP John Banks agrees to prop up John Key's Government. Officials have told Horan that is an option ...

Govt doing a rethink of move to bigger class sizes - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
In a pre-Budget announcement Ms Parata changed class size ratios, including some increases to divert $60 million in funding for teacher recruitment and training over four years. "It is an explicit trade-off between quantity and quality," she said ...

Govt rethinks move to bigger class sizes - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
About 215 schools providing technology subjects (cooking, sewing, art, ICT, woodwork and metalwork) for other schools could be affected more adversely than the Government expected. The primary teachers' union, the NZEI, last week accused Education ...

NZEI welcomes recommendations to improve quality for under-5s

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The education sector union NZEI Te Riu Roa has welcomed recommendations made to the Government from two advisory groups about ways to improve the quality of early childhood education, particularly for children under two.

NZK Applauds Recommendations to Raise Education Quality - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Kindergarten teachers are supported with professional development and the infrastructure to effectively plan, assess and evaluate learning and teaching. Teachers support children exploring their interests, at their own pace, to develop the skills, ...

ECE quality recommendations welcomed - Voxy

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Voxy
Implementing and funding steps such as specialised professional development for teachers working with under-twos, regulating for low ratios and group sizes and working with health professionals would bring positive outcomes for children, she says.

Principals and teachers to launch urgent claim on class size to protect children's learning

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Principals and teachers will be asked to support an urgent proposal aimed at reducing class sizes when they meet next month to vote on the claim they will put forward during their collective agreement negotiations, an emergency summit of NZEI's elected leaders agreed this weekend.

Resources developed for schools - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: Resources developed for schools Otago Daily Times "Every school has a flag pole. We could strap turbines to them to generate electricity for schools." The projects stemmed from a concern for the future of science education in New Zealand primary schools, Mr Wallace said. It prompted the University of ...

Kids caught between statistics and dogma - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
But, as Diane Ravitch, research professor of education at New York University, noted in the New York Review of Books, the documentary is riddled with statistics that are plain wrong. The movie ignores the 37 per cent of charter schools performing worse ...

Time for Nats to Support Frontline Teaching - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
New Zealand First has accused the Government of wasting money marketing educational National Standards instead of helping the frontline teaching of basics such as reading, writing and numeracy. Education spokesperson Tracey Martin says the Government ...

Budget attacks specialist teaching - Greens - Voxy

Otago Daily Times

URL: Budget attacks specialist teaching - Greens Voxy In addition, schools are being required to narrow their focus to meet the National Standards. "The effect of these combined policies will be a loss of skilled teachers in primary and intermediate schools who have inspired children to learn through ...

Nats attack education at every level « The Standard

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In primary and secondary education, teachers report they have less and less time to teach because they're constantly having to assess whether their pupils can jump over arbitrary bars for the national standards. They're a ...

Farmers oppose class size increase - SunLive

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SunLive
Government plans to increase class sizes will disadvantage rural children and may put workers off taking jobs in rural area says Federated Farmers education spokesperson Jeanette Maxwell. “Federated Farmers calls for the government to rethink its ...

Principal weighs tough choices - Manawatu Standard

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Manawatu Standard
Ross Intermediate principal Wayne Codyre said the net result would be either the loss of four front-line teaching positions, and a resulting increase in class size, or the end of technology classes. "There are no winners in this.

Schools face teacher cuts threat - The Nelson Mail

The Nelson Mail

URL: Schools face teacher cuts threat The Nelson Mail "It is becoming clear that the focus on national standards will be at the detriment of other very important aspects of learning and opportunities that generations of New Zealand children have enjoyed." Woodwork.

$511.9m for initiatives, but principals wary - Otago Daily Times

New Zealand Herald

URL: $511.9m for initiatives, but principals wary Otago Daily Times Education Minister Hekia Parata wants to see 98% of all children participating in early childhood education, and at least 85% of 18-year-olds achieving NCEA level 2 or an equivalent qualification in 2016. The bid to raise pupil achievement meant ...

Gil Laurenson: Decile-one schools - know them before you judge them - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Articles on education constantly refer to the 20 per cent tail of under-achievement in New Zealand which the PISA studies have revealed, and give the impression, that all those students either attend decile-one schools or live in South Auckland.

Good employment law crucial to good vocational training - Nzweek

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Nzweek
Teachers must be included in governance and delivery decisions about vocational education and training according to Education International's special advisor David Robinson. Dr Robinson, who was speaking at a UNESCO International Congress on vocational ...

Pasifika students at risk - Education Review Office - 3News NZ

3News NZ

URL: Pasifika students at risk - Education Review Office 3News NZ By Sanele Chadwick Pasifika students are still most at risk of not achieving in New Zealand schools according to the Education Review Office. This Samoan Language Week, campaigners are calling on the Government to address the issue, by giving more ...

Students, disabled hit hardest in Budget - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
Students and the disabled will be the biggest losers among a multitude of small cuts across the gargantuan welfare bureaucracy that will help fund new services for jobless youth. Student allowances are being trimmed by $47.7 million (7.4 percent) in ...

Govt technology move 'huge blow' to schools - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: Govt technology move 'huge blow' to schools Otago Daily Times In the Budget, the Government cut the majority of teacher to pupil ratios from 1:29 to 1:27.5, eliminating the technology teacher ratio of 1:120. "As part of the changes to teacher-student ratios, technology staffing for year 7 and 8 learners is now ...

Intermediates face big teacher losses - Stuff.co.nz

Stuff.co.nz

URL: Intermediates face big teacher losses Stuff.co.nz GUIDING HAND: Tawa Intermediate technology teacher Ian Bunckenburg "Mr Bunks'' with 11-year-old pupil Alistein Tavila. Hundreds of technology teachers nationwide could lose their jobs, and aspiring builder Matt McAlpine, 11, only has two words to say: ...

Cuts to education 'a drive back to the 50's' - principal - TVNZ

3News NZ

URL: Cuts to education 'a drive back to the 50's' - principal TVNZ A reduction in funding for intermediate schools could send education back to the 1950's one principal says. This week's "zero" Budget revealed that funding to specialist subjects such as music, art and woodwork and food technology for year 7 and 8 ...

Budget brings 'natural disaster' for schools - Stuff.co.nz

3News NZ

URL: Budget brings 'natural disaster' for schools Stuff.co.nz At least 1000 primary and intermediate school technology teachers throughout the country could lose their jobs thanks to changes buried deep in the Budget, according to teachers. In yesterday's Budget, the education vote was boosted to $12.4 billion.

Too soon to talk about redundancies - education ministry - TVNZ

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TVNZ
It is too soon to know how changes in funding for schools announced in yesterday's Budget will affect staffing levels, says the Ministry of Education. The "zero" Budget revealed that funding to specialist subjects such as music, art and woodwork and ...

Kids learning the tough lessons | Stuff.co.nz

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Meanwhile, the Education Review Office has proposed leading a think-tank with the New Zealand Qualifications Authority and the commission to monitor the teaching and assessment of financial education in schools.

Private Training Establishments ~ Tertiary Education Commission

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This is part of the ongoing commitment to improving educational opportunities and achievement for 16 and 17 year olds, and will provide up to 3000 more Youth Guarantee places over the next four years by making existing ...

Wānanga ~ Tertiary Education Commission

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This is part of the ongoing commitment to improving educational opportunities and achievement for 16 and 17 year olds, and will provide up to 3000 more Youth Guarantee places over the next four years.

Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics ~ Tertiary Education ...

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This is part of the ongoing commitment to improving educational opportunities and achievement for 16 and 17 year olds, and will provide up to 3000 more Youth Guarantee places over the next four years by making existing ...

Choice In Education | Kahurangi School

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In May 2011 the Kahurangi Educational Trust filed an application with the Ministry of Education (MOE), to establish a special character school in Golden Bay. Coming under Section 156 of the Education Act, the ... We believe this proposal is very strong and provides choice and alternatives for the children of Golden Bay and yet within a school environment which covers the NZ Curriculum, National Standards and NCEA. We will keep you updated with any news as we ...

University of Canterbury's 2013 student recruitment drive

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This weekend the University of Canterbury will officially launch a bold new marketing campaign as part of its 2013 student recruitment drive, which will include national television advertising and a new red and black visual identity.

The OC: School of hard knocks - New Zealand Herald

New Zealand Herald

URL: The OC: School of hard knocks New Zealand Herald And although schools like Otahuhu College are closing the gap, their NCEA and University Entrance pass rates are still nowhere near the national average. Only 32 per cent of the school's Year 11 students passed NCEA Level 1 in 2010, compared to 75 per ...

Girls nurse training plan - Stuff.co.nz

Stuff.co.nz

URL: Girls nurse training plan Stuff.co.nz Nursing aspirations: Marlborough Girls' College Year 13 students Georgia Romana and Amber Pearson, both 17, are studying a nursing foundation course at Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology part time while going to school.

Student allowance regime will hit architecture - Voxy

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Voxy
The new regulations announced in the Budget for tertiary students will hit architecture students very hard says the chief executive of the Institute of Architects, Beverley McRae. "It means that architecture students will receive student allowances for ...

Kawerau School closer to opening - SunLive

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SunLive
The Ministry of Education has announced its one step closer to opening the new Year 7-13 Kawerau School with the appointment of the school's board of trustees. The new school is expected to opening by term one next year and will be located on the ...

Gisborne's first Tongan immersion unit blessed - Gisborne Herald

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Gisborne Herald
THE first Tongan bilingual unit in the district and one of 30 in the country was opened and blessed at Kaiti School yesterday. Ministry of Education Pasifika senior manager for early childhood and regional education Dr Lesieli Tongati'o said the day ...

College in gun as roll tumbles - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Northland College, in Kaikohe, has received a damning report from the Education Review Office, which says longstanding property and financial issues at the school are compromising students' education. There are 11 Northland schools that have Ministry ...

School goes digital after Powerco grant - Wanganui Chronicle

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Wanganui Chronicle
TECHNOLOGY: St Marcellin School students show technology skills. Nygllhuw Morris, PowerCo Trust chairperson discusses iPad learning with senior students Liam Ander (left) and Quinn Tauroa as they study The Real Pochahontas, their current literacy unit ...

Iwi Invites Employers to Take on 400 Unemployed Māori Youth - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Throughout the Kahungunu rohe, there are around 1700 Māori youth on all main benefit types. And even more of our young people are not in employment, education, in training or on benefits, often being financially supported by whānau members.

Kids learning the tough lessons - Stuff.co.nz

Stuff.co.nz

URL: Kids learning the tough lessons Stuff.co.nz "If you want it to become an integral part of the curriculum then you must provide the professional development and the training that's required for teachers." The latest progress report on the national strategy for financial literacy in December noted ...