URL: Samoan translation of NCEA book launched at Porirua College
New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) director Robyn Baker says the organisation is looking for partners to help fund the printing and distribution of large numbers of the book so that it can be provided free ...
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Charter schools can set curriculum - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Charter schools can set curriculum
Stuff.co.nz
Charter schools will have "greater flexibility" to set their own class sizes than those in the state sector, the businesswoman leading the trial says. The terms of reference for how the Government's controversial education pilot will operate have been ...
Stuff.co.nz
Charter schools will have "greater flexibility" to set their own class sizes than those in the state sector, the businesswoman leading the trial says. The terms of reference for how the Government's controversial education pilot will operate have been ...
League tables putting kids on path to nowhere - New Zealand Herald
 New Zealand Herald | URL: League tables putting kids on path to nowhere New Zealand Herald The fact that apparently scarce funds are also being directed into charter schools, which by Hattie's measure are even less effective than class size (a .20 effect size), is not at all inconsistent. No more inconsistent, anyway, than safeguarding ... |
Will charter schools face same restrictions? - Delahunty - Voxy
URL: Will charter schools face same restrictions? - Delahunty
Voxy
Charter schools are to receive Government funding while being run by companies or non-profit organisations and can set teacher pay and their own school timetable. The terms of reference for how charter schools will operate in New Zealand have now been ...
Voxy
Charter schools are to receive Government funding while being run by companies or non-profit organisations and can set teacher pay and their own school timetable. The terms of reference for how charter schools will operate in New Zealand have now been ...
Govt 'lets Charter Schools off the hook' on National Standards - Voxy
URL: Govt 'lets Charter Schools off the hook' on National Standards
Voxy
If the Government is making National Standards voluntary for charter schools it should give the same freedom to all other primary schools, NZEI Re Riu Roa National President, Ian Leckie said today. The terms of reference for the NZ Model of a Charter ...
Voxy
If the Government is making National Standards voluntary for charter schools it should give the same freedom to all other primary schools, NZEI Re Riu Roa National President, Ian Leckie said today. The terms of reference for the NZ Model of a Charter ...
Parata hits stormy waters - The Dominion Post
URL: Parata hits stormy waters
The Dominion Post
Mrs Tolley battled her way through a drawn-out struggle to implement the controversial National Standards in primary schools. Ms Parata seems to be at the start of an even tougher assignment. In last week's Budget, it was confirmed she would drive ...
The Dominion Post
Mrs Tolley battled her way through a drawn-out struggle to implement the controversial National Standards in primary schools. Ms Parata seems to be at the start of an even tougher assignment. In last week's Budget, it was confirmed she would drive ...
Editorial: Parents should see past mess over class sizes - New Zealand Herald
URL: Editorial: Parents should see past mess over class sizes
New Zealand Herald
Over the past few years, despite their best efforts, they have failed to stir public discontent over policies such as the introduction of national standards. Whatever the unions argued, parents showed themselves, by and large, to be only too keen to ...
New Zealand Herald
Over the past few years, despite their best efforts, they have failed to stir public discontent over policies such as the introduction of national standards. Whatever the unions argued, parents showed themselves, by and large, to be only too keen to ...
Education groups meet to oppose Government plans - Stuff.co.nz
 The Dominion Post | URL: Education groups meet to oppose Government plans Stuff.co.nz Under moves announced in the Budget about 245 schools stood to lose between one and seven teachers, although the Government pulled back from the most extreme impact saying no more than two full-time teaching staff would be lost at any school in the ... |
Key called hypocrite over class sizes - New Zealand Herald
 3News NZ | URL: Key called hypocrite over class sizes New Zealand Herald Ms Parata has now said no school will lose more than two teachers over a three-year period that schools will have to make the required changes to their staffing. However, that has failed to placate educational groups. Those groups - the Association of ... |
More changes to education policy - SunLive
URL: More changes to education policy
SunLive
“Over the past few days, it has been recognised because intermediate schools have a large number of Year 7 and 8 students, they have been the hardest hit by changes in the staffing formula. “As a result, the Minister of Education announced no school ...
SunLive
“Over the past few days, it has been recognised because intermediate schools have a large number of Year 7 and 8 students, they have been the hardest hit by changes in the staffing formula. “As a result, the Minister of Education announced no school ...
Class size opposition grows - New Zealand Herald
URL: Class size opposition grows
New Zealand Herald
By Kate Shuttleworth and Claire Trevett Schools are being urged to meet new class size ratios within the next three years. Photo / Thinkstock The education sector has joined forces to campaign against changes to class sizes and the Government's support ...
New Zealand Herald
By Kate Shuttleworth and Claire Trevett Schools are being urged to meet new class size ratios within the next three years. Photo / Thinkstock The education sector has joined forces to campaign against changes to class sizes and the Government's support ...
Education decisions reinforce need for child-centred policy - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
URL: Education decisions reinforce need for child-centred policy
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“There is ample evidence that educational success is increased where children get a good start in the early years, have adequate incomes and arrive at school with a full tummy, have educated parents who engage in their child's education, ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
“There is ample evidence that educational success is increased where children get a good start in the early years, have adequate incomes and arrive at school with a full tummy, have educated parents who engage in their child's education, ...
Education sector 'in an uproar' over cuts - union - TVNZ
The Dominion Post | URL: Education sector 'in an uproar' over cuts - union TVNZ In an unprecedented move a coalition of six school unions is meeting in Wellington today to decide what action to take in a protest over the Government's proposed cuts to teaching staff. The education sector is furious over the Government's plan for ... |
It is about how big a change | Kiwiblog
URL: It is about how big a change | Kiwiblog
Likewise if you are from the right and you say say the minimum wage does impact employment but class size does not impact quality of learning, then you are also being a hypocrite. Let us take an extreme example for ..... The next point is that we have every private school in NZ, the very schools that the majority of this government caucus sends their own children, telling us that class size is an important factor in educational achievement. (the hypocrisy is palpable) ...
Likewise if you are from the right and you say say the minimum wage does impact employment but class size does not impact quality of learning, then you are also being a hypocrite. Let us take an extreme example for ..... The next point is that we have every private school in NZ, the very schools that the majority of this government caucus sends their own children, telling us that class size is an important factor in educational achievement. (the hypocrisy is palpable) ...
MP explains the latest education sector reforms | Backing the Bay ...
URL: MP explains the latest education sector reforms | Backing the Bay ...
Last week we announced further education reforms as a precursor to this week's budget. Our goal is to lift educational ... Our goal is to lift educational achievement across the board for all kiwis kids, including those who grow up in and around Wairoa. As a result the ... We want to see all our children reach their potential and that's why we aim to have 85% of all 18-year olds achieve a minimum of a Level two qualification, NCEA 2 or equivalent by 2016. Education is a ...
Last week we announced further education reforms as a precursor to this week's budget. Our goal is to lift educational ... Our goal is to lift educational achievement across the board for all kiwis kids, including those who grow up in and around Wairoa. As a result the ... We want to see all our children reach their potential and that's why we aim to have 85% of all 18-year olds achieve a minimum of a Level two qualification, NCEA 2 or equivalent by 2016. Education is a ...
School set to gain under education reform slams cuts - TVNZ
URL: School set to gain under education reform slams cuts
TVNZ
Some intermediate schools stood to lose up to four teachers as a result of the changes, which have since been capped at two teachers per school. But Education Minister Hekia Parata has stressed large secondary schools will actually gain funding as a ...
TVNZ
Some intermediate schools stood to lose up to four teachers as a result of the changes, which have since been capped at two teachers per school. But Education Minister Hekia Parata has stressed large secondary schools will actually gain funding as a ...
Gordon Campbell on the turmoil in education - Scoop.co.nz
URL: Gordon Campbell on the turmoil in education
Scoop.co.nz
by Gordon Campbell The Budget changes in education are following a pattern, which seems to have been learned at the Murray McCully School of Management. On the basis of what seems to be a personal animus against the professional staff involved, ...
Scoop.co.nz
by Gordon Campbell The Budget changes in education are following a pattern, which seems to have been learned at the Murray McCully School of Management. On the basis of what seems to be a personal animus against the professional staff involved, ...
Education ain't broken, why fix it? - Auckland stuff.co.nz (blog)
 Auckland stuff.co.nz (blog) | URL: Education ain't broken, why fix it? Auckland stuff.co.nz (blog) Add National Standards, a teacher appraisal system, performance pay, and charter schools and you get the bigger picture. You can almost the smell the Business Roundtable on his breath. Has anyone really understood the need for all these changes? |
Tech teachers could teach Parata a lesson - The Dominion Post
 The Dominion Post | URL: Tech teachers could teach Parata a lesson The Dominion Post After all, how can you apply national standards to school productions? For those who don't understand the current school curriculum, "technology" is the old "manual" training with design and a few other PC bits added. When I was of intermediate-school ... |
Principals irked by funding - Wanganui Chronicle
URL: Principals irked by funding
Wanganui Chronicle
Former Education Minister Anne Tolley allocated more than $800000 in extra funding to the school last year while it negotiated the school's application. In Budget 2012 the ministry awarded the school more than $3 million over two years.
Wanganui Chronicle
Former Education Minister Anne Tolley allocated more than $800000 in extra funding to the school last year while it negotiated the school's application. In Budget 2012 the ministry awarded the school more than $3 million over two years.
Teacher fears loss for pupils - The Press
URL: Teacher fears loss for pupils
The Press
Technology teacher Nev Brydon stands to lose his job, but he is more concerned about what pupils will lose under the Government's education changes. "I'm brassed off I might lose my job, but that is not the problem," the Breens Intermediate School ...
The Press
Technology teacher Nev Brydon stands to lose his job, but he is more concerned about what pupils will lose under the Government's education changes. "I'm brassed off I might lose my job, but that is not the problem," the Breens Intermediate School ...
Principals deny standing ovation - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Principals deny standing ovation
Stuff.co.nz
The Greater Wellington Secondary School Principals' Association has rejected claims it gave Education Minister Hekia Parata a standing ovation, saying its custom is to stand when a Crown minister enters and leaves the room.
Stuff.co.nz
The Greater Wellington Secondary School Principals' Association has rejected claims it gave Education Minister Hekia Parata a standing ovation, saying its custom is to stand when a Crown minister enters and leaves the room.
Support parties concerned at class size changes - Radio New Zealand
URL: Support parties concerned at class size changes
Radio New Zealand
National looks likely to come under pressure from its political allies to resolve the fallout over the Government's new teacher-pupil ratio policy. The Government announced in the Budget in May it is setting new teacher-student ratios in schools that ...
Radio New Zealand
National looks likely to come under pressure from its political allies to resolve the fallout over the Government's new teacher-pupil ratio policy. The Government announced in the Budget in May it is setting new teacher-student ratios in schools that ...
Govt allies must force National to reverse class size increases - Voxy
 Voxy | URL: Govt allies must force National to reverse class size increases Voxy Labour Leader David Shearer is calling on the Government's allies to use their combined political muscle to force National to ditch its plan to increase class sizes. "Parents, children and teachers are overwhelmingly opposed to National's plan to ... |
Impact of education policy changes not revealed - Maori Party - Voxy
 Newstalk ZB | URL: Impact of education policy changes not revealed - Maori Party Voxy Maori Party education spokesperson Te Ururoa Flavell has revealed his party's disappointment that the full implications of education policy changes were not identified in pre-budget briefings. "We are concerned that sufficient detail was not shared ... |
200 children march over cuts - Otago Daily Times
 Otago Daily Times | URL: 200 children march over cuts Otago Daily Times However, the Government was serious about tackling continued underachievement of Maori and Pasifika pupils, and an education system had to cater for "all New Zealand", she said. "Technology is not going to be taken off anyone, we are going to work with ... |
Crash! Another Maori PM hope trips and falls - New Zealand Herald
 New Zealand Herald | URL: Crash! Another Maori PM hope trips and falls New Zealand Herald Until this week, Hekia Parata was on the way to becoming New Zealand's first Maori Prime Minister. She presents well and lacks any self-doubt. Having that old strategic master, Wira Gardiner, as her husband and confidante doesn't hurt, either. |
Mixed reaction over student 'blockade' protests - TVNZ
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Mixed reaction over student 'blockade' protests TVNZ A student rally that brought central Auckland streets to a standstill will regroup next week to plan further protest action. Students say they will be forging ahead with the Blockade the Budget demonstrations, and are planning protests in Auckland and ... |
Students concerned at coverage of police at Budget protest - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
URL: Students concerned at coverage of police at Budget protest
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Only 5 mins into the march, Police began dragging students from the crowd with choke holds. Many students have expressed their confusion and anger at the extreme reaction from the Police. Post-graduate Sociology student Jarred Marks had this to say: ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Only 5 mins into the march, Police began dragging students from the crowd with choke holds. Many students have expressed their confusion and anger at the extreme reaction from the Police. Post-graduate Sociology student Jarred Marks had this to say: ...
Police break up student protest | Otago Daily Times Online News ...
URL: Police break up student protest | Otago Daily Times Online News ...
Students say some of their number had clothes ripped as they were dragged away by police, during the latest protest in central Auckland over tertiary education cuts.
Students say some of their number had clothes ripped as they were dragged away by police, during the latest protest in central Auckland over tertiary education cuts.
“…Students arrested at Auckland protest…” | whoar.co.nz
URL: “…Students arrested at Auckland protest…” | whoar.co.nz
Protesters had moved from Queen Street to Auckland Police Headquarters where they surrounded the building demanding their “political prisoner” colleagues be released. Protester Hayden East said the numbers dwindled ...
Protesters had moved from Queen Street to Auckland Police Headquarters where they surrounded the building demanding their “political prisoner” colleagues be released. Protester Hayden East said the numbers dwindled ...
Google funds Canterbury course - The Press
URL: Google funds Canterbury course
The Press
The global giant hopes to show the next generation that programming is far from the popular image of nerds typing in a dark room by funding specialist teacher training through Canterbury University. Tim Bell, the university's deputy head of computer ...
The Press
The global giant hopes to show the next generation that programming is far from the popular image of nerds typing in a dark room by funding specialist teacher training through Canterbury University. Tim Bell, the university's deputy head of computer ...
Schools Need 100Mbps Per 1000 Users - Computerworld New Zealand
URL: Schools Need 100Mbps Per 1000 Users
Computerworld New Zealand
Specifically, US educational institutions will need networks that deliver broadband performance of 100Mbps for every 1000 students and staff members in time for the 2014-15 school year. That's the conclusion reached by the State Educational Technology ...
Computerworld New Zealand
Specifically, US educational institutions will need networks that deliver broadband performance of 100Mbps for every 1000 students and staff members in time for the 2014-15 school year. That's the conclusion reached by the State Educational Technology ...
Quarter of 'dream' students in Oz - New Zealand Herald
URL: Quarter of 'dream' students in Oz
New Zealand Herald
Photo / Supplied, Facebook More than a quarter of school students who started a million-dollar mentoring programme have moved to Australia. Among those who left was Aroha Ireland, the girl chosen by Prime Minister John Key to attend Waitangi ...
New Zealand Herald
Photo / Supplied, Facebook More than a quarter of school students who started a million-dollar mentoring programme have moved to Australia. Among those who left was Aroha Ireland, the girl chosen by Prime Minister John Key to attend Waitangi ...
'Easy path' for learners backfires - New Zealand Herald
URL: 'Easy path' for learners backfires
New Zealand Herald
Photo / Richard Robinson A student-mentoring scheme has found that many Pasifika students are being forced to leave school early because they are taking the wrong subjects. I Have A Dream, which has mentored a group of Mt Roskill young people from ...
New Zealand Herald
Photo / Richard Robinson A student-mentoring scheme has found that many Pasifika students are being forced to leave school early because they are taking the wrong subjects. I Have A Dream, which has mentored a group of Mt Roskill young people from ...
Govt hasty in student debt collection measures - NZ City
URL: Govt hasty in student debt collection measures
NZ City
Newly obtained Government documents suggest the government may have jumped the gun when it ramped up measure to recover student loan debt. Newly obtained Government documents suggest the government may have jumped the gun when it ramped up measure to ...
NZ City
Newly obtained Government documents suggest the government may have jumped the gun when it ramped up measure to recover student loan debt. Newly obtained Government documents suggest the government may have jumped the gun when it ramped up measure to ...
Upset at school bus policy - Whangarei Leader
URL: Upset at school bus policy
Whangarei Leader
A school bus policy is causing nightmares for some parents who say it is divisive and takes away freedom of choice. But the Ministry of Education says taxpayers should not foot the bill if students decide not to attend their nearest school.
Whangarei Leader
A school bus policy is causing nightmares for some parents who say it is divisive and takes away freedom of choice. But the Ministry of Education says taxpayers should not foot the bill if students decide not to attend their nearest school.
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