URL: Education professor says small classes improve teaching
Prime minister John Key, speaking from London, says the government has to do a better job of explaining government policy to New Zealand parents while his education minister Hekia Parata has had the backing of some educational experts who downplay the significance of small classes in optimising students' educational achievement. This is not the view of Massey University's Professor of Education, John O'Neill, who explains why.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Robin Duff: Govt's class size debacle leaves a handful of options - New Zealand Herald
URL: Robin Duff: Govt's class size debacle leaves a handful of options
New Zealand Herald
A number of capable New Zealanders applied, but presumably the State Services Commissioner couldn't be sure they would be willing to oversee the dismantling of the public education system via charter schools, class-size increases, attacks on teachers ...
New Zealand Herald
A number of capable New Zealanders applied, but presumably the State Services Commissioner couldn't be sure they would be willing to oversee the dismantling of the public education system via charter schools, class-size increases, attacks on teachers ...
School leaders urge ministry to give staffing figures - Radio New Zealand
URL: School leaders urge ministry to give staffing figures
Radio New Zealand
School leaders say they do not believe the Government's estimate that half of all state and integrated schools will gain teachers under new staffing ratios in 2013. They say they know of no primary or intermediate school that will be better off and ...
Radio New Zealand
School leaders say they do not believe the Government's estimate that half of all state and integrated schools will gain teachers under new staffing ratios in 2013. They say they know of no primary or intermediate school that will be better off and ...
John Armstrong: Parata should have welcomed offer of meeting
URL: John Armstrong: Parata should have welcomed offer of meeting
Hekia Parata was yesterday handed the political equivalent of a get-out-of-jail-free card. She all but threw it back in the faces of those who gave it to her.Yesterday's emergency summit of education sector groups representing teachers,...
Hekia Parata was yesterday handed the political equivalent of a get-out-of-jail-free card. She all but threw it back in the faces of those who gave it to her.Yesterday's emergency summit of education sector groups representing teachers,...
School groups say save money and keep school staffing levels
URL: School groups say save money and keep school staffing levels
School sector groups say the government can avoid cutting teacher numbers and save millions of dollars from its education spending by cutting staffing at the education ministry and deferring new initiatives.
School sector groups say the government can avoid cutting teacher numbers and save millions of dollars from its education spending by cutting staffing at the education ministry and deferring new initiatives.
Class sizes: Alliance calls for immediate discussion - New Zealand Herald
URL: Class sizes: Alliance calls for immediate discussion
New Zealand Herald
"We urge the Government to reverse the staffing announcements made in the Budget," NZEI president Ian Leckie said at a press conference following the meeting, "including increases in class size, and enter into immediate discussion with the joint sector ...
New Zealand Herald
"We urge the Government to reverse the staffing announcements made in the Budget," NZEI president Ian Leckie said at a press conference following the meeting, "including increases in class size, and enter into immediate discussion with the joint sector ...
Trustees call for end to class size confusion - New Zealand Herald
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Trustees call for end to class size confusion New Zealand Herald By Audrey Young The NZ School Trustees Association is calling for an end to confusion over class sizes as president Lorraine Kerr prepares to meet Education Minister Hekia Parata this morning over the schools crisis. "The problem with all of this is ... |
Arguing that class size won't affect teaching quality is 'utter rot' - New Zealand Herald
URL: Arguing that class size won't affect teaching quality is 'utter rot'
New Zealand Herald
By Dita De Boni Bigger class sizes will drive more people to the private school sector, says Dita De Boni. Photo / Thinkstock Apparently we can all swallow John Key/Bill English's 'austerity budget' because we are sensible New Zealanders, ...
New Zealand Herald
By Dita De Boni Bigger class sizes will drive more people to the private school sector, says Dita De Boni. Photo / Thinkstock Apparently we can all swallow John Key/Bill English's 'austerity budget' because we are sensible New Zealanders, ...
Schools ponder Budget's impact - Otago Daily Times
URL: Schools ponder Budget's impact
Otago Daily Times
Education Minister Hekia Parata said schools would have three years to meet the new class size ratios set out in the Budget announcement last month. Schools nationwide would also take a large cut in specialist teaching, in areas such as arts and ...
Otago Daily Times
Education Minister Hekia Parata said schools would have three years to meet the new class size ratios set out in the Budget announcement last month. Schools nationwide would also take a large cut in specialist teaching, in areas such as arts and ...
Increasing Class Sizes May Disadvantage Disabled Students - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
URL: Increasing Class Sizes May Disadvantage Disabled Students
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The changes to funding ratios for schools detailed in the 2012 Budget means there is likely to be increases in class size for years 2 to 10. This will impact on many disabled students, including those with learning needs and behavioural issues.
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The changes to funding ratios for schools detailed in the 2012 Budget means there is likely to be increases in class size for years 2 to 10. This will impact on many disabled students, including those with learning needs and behavioural issues.
Interactive map: Class sizes - what you think
URL: Interactive map: Class sizes - what you think
There is mounting concern across the country about the effect of new class ratios on intermediates and middle schools. Zoom and click through the above interactive map to see what parents and teachers around New Zealand have told...
There is mounting concern across the country about the effect of new class ratios on intermediates and middle schools. Zoom and click through the above interactive map to see what parents and teachers around New Zealand have told...
Class size report ignored: Principal - Hawke's Bay Today
URL: Class size report ignored: Principal
Hawke's Bay Today
A Hawke's Bay school principal is astounded the Government is increasing class size despite commissioning academics, including herself, to write a report advising against such changes. Hastings Girls' High School principal Geraldine Travers was part of ...
Hawke's Bay Today
A Hawke's Bay school principal is astounded the Government is increasing class size despite commissioning academics, including herself, to write a report advising against such changes. Hastings Girls' High School principal Geraldine Travers was part of ...
Double Standards: Private schools receive Government funding ...
URL: Double Standards: Private schools receive Government funding ...: They say their savings will go towards improving teacher training, which they claim is a more important factor in educational achievement than class size. On the other hand, last week saw Key publicly embarrassed by his past ...
Tackling what lies beneath - Manawatu Standard
 Manawatu Standard | URL: Tackling what lies beneath Manawatu Standard DEDICATION: Ivan Snook, awarded an honorary doctorate from Massey University, fears we are reinventing the education wheel yet again. A Palmerston North professor who has been in the education sector for more than 50 years has recently been awarded an ... |
NZ says no to larger schoolrooms
URL: NZ says no to larger schoolrooms
A nationwide survey has given a strong indication that New Zealanders don't want larger class sizes.The street survey conducted by APN newspapers from Whangarei to Dunedin showed most people stood alongside education groups in their...
A nationwide survey has given a strong indication that New Zealanders don't want larger class sizes.The street survey conducted by APN newspapers from Whangarei to Dunedin showed most people stood alongside education groups in their...
Parata's office gets new faces
URL: Parata's office gets new faces
Education Minister Hekia Parata has a new team of advisers as pressure grows over class sizes.
Education Minister Hekia Parata has a new team of advisers as pressure grows over class sizes.
Ministry probes 'university' claim by wananga - Radio New Zealand
URL: Ministry probes 'university' claim by wananga
Radio New Zealand
A Maori tertiary education provider is being investigated over claims it's breaking the law by calling itself a university. David Rankin, of Nga Puhi, has complained to the Ministry of Education about Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi's use of the words ...
Radio New Zealand
A Maori tertiary education provider is being investigated over claims it's breaking the law by calling itself a university. David Rankin, of Nga Puhi, has complained to the Ministry of Education about Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi's use of the words ...
Dunedin school rolls down 1437; decline to continue - Otago Daily Times
URL: Dunedin school rolls down 1437; decline to continue
Otago Daily Times
By John Lewis on Wed, 6 Jun 2012 Dunedin schools have lost 1437 pupils in the past nine years - the equivalent of 53 classrooms full of children - and Statistics New Zealand demographers are predicting the decline will continue.
Otago Daily Times
By John Lewis on Wed, 6 Jun 2012 Dunedin schools have lost 1437 pupils in the past nine years - the equivalent of 53 classrooms full of children - and Statistics New Zealand demographers are predicting the decline will continue.
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