Minister provides assurances to schools

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Hekia Parata | Budget 2012
Education Minister Hekia Parata says no school will lose more than two full-time teachers (FTTEs) as a result of the policy changes in Budget 2012. “As we've previously said, about 90% of schools will either gain, or have a net loss of less than one FTTE as a result of the combined effect of the ratio changes and projected roll growth,’’ Ms Parata says. “We have examined the effect on the other 10 per cent of schools, and some would be affected more than we would accept...

Education vision doesn't add up - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
We have had the charter schools move, goodness knows to what end other than for someone somewhere to attempt to make a pile of dosh out of education, or to inculcate some religious persuasion or other. Altogether it seems to add up to a bean counter's ...

John Parker: Quiet learning is banished from open-plan classrooms - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Photo / Thinkstock John Parker, a writer of children's books, worries about one of the downsides of charter schools. Charter schools are coming to New Zealand. And we learn that some may feature open-plan classrooms - big spaces with few walls, ...

Education minister learns the hard way class size not to be sniffed at - The Dominion Post

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Despite suggestions to the contrary, for instance, no-one – not Treasury Secretary Gabriel Makhlouf, Education Secretary Lesley Longstone or Ms Parata – has said class size doesn't matter. They've actually explicitly said the opposite – that it does ...

PM back-pedalling an admission of class size blunder - Voxy

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A sudden decision to claw back funding from so-called education savings is an admission by the National Government that it made a huge mistake in deciding to increase class sizes, says Labour Leader David Shearer.

Government class size policy in tatters - NZEI - Voxy

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URL: Government class size policy in tatters - NZEI Voxy "It is also very concerning that the Ministry continues to use misleading information to justify its bigger class size policy." "The Prime Minister today talked about a "massive increase" in the number of teachers in the past decade and the Minister of ...

More Students, Less Learning? | Massive Albany

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Student numbers are a big debating point at universities, and as education becomes more mainstream and attainable, questions must be asked as the student population rises. Will 300 students be able to concentrate in one ...

Class size crisis 'doesn't stop at Intermediates' - Voxy

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'Parents remain deeply disturbed by the idea of increasing any class size,' he says. 'They know their children will not benefit from being in bigger classes and teachers agree.' 'We want quality teaching going on in our class-rooms so that we can ...

Schools to lose max of two teachers

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Education Minister Hekia Parata announced schools will lose no more than two full-time teachers (FTTEs) under the new policy.

Govt moves to reassure schools on class ratios - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Labour leader David Shearer said Labour would reverse the changes to class size ratios and would review the changes National is making to teacher qualifications. "Quite clearly smaller class sizes are better for children's learning.

Ministers' kids skip big classes - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
By Isaac Davison Nearly half of the Government's Cabinet ministers send or have sent their children to elite schools which are unlikely to feel the effects of changes to classroom sizes. A Herald survey of ministers found that at least seven of the ...

Class backdown a mess of National's own making - New Zealand Herald

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URL: Class backdown a mess of National's own making New Zealand Herald By John Armstrong Prime Minister John Key's belated intervention and subsequent order that major changes to funding formulas governing school class sizes be reworked has stopped an embarrassing political mess from becoming a catastrophe for National.

Parata is forced to redo her homework - New Zealand Herald

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URL: Parata is forced to redo her homework New Zealand Herald By Audrey Young Education Minister Hekia Parata will meet school principals at the annual conference of the Association of Intermediate and Middle Schools today. Photo / Brett Phibbs Schools will lose no more than two teaching positions under new class ...

Education Minister to front up - NZ City

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URL: Education Minister to front up NZ City The Education Minister's expected to field plenty of questions as she faces intermediate school principals in Auckland today. The New Zealand Association of Intermediate and Middle Schools is getting together for a two-day conference.

Contradictions in tertiary budget a sign of ignorance - Voxy

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John Key's display of ignorance in Parliament today on the difference between rates of student allowances and student loan living costs is another example of National's shambolic and contradictory education budget, Labour's Tertiary Education ...

Why I'm not worried about struggling students » TVHE

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The recent budget reduced the number of students who are eligible for the student allowance, particularly for postgraduate students. There have since been almost daily articles in the newspapers lamenting the students' ...

New blind school will make a difference - Auckland stuff.co.nz

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URL: New blind school will make a difference Auckland stuff.co.nz Mr McKenzie's experienced huge advances in blind education in New Zealand. He left the Parnell blind school in 1965, just as the Homai College for the Blind opened "way out in the country". Blind children left their families to come and live at the ...