Teacher funding ratios to remain the same

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Hekia Parata | Budget 2012

Education Minister Hekia Parata has today moved to put parents’ and teachers’ minds at rest following decisions made in Budget 2012. Ms Parata says the Government has decided not to make any change to teacher:student funding ratios. “We have heard the concerns of parents and are reversing this part of our education plan...

Class size to be included in contracts - The Press

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The Press
I would like someone to say how much has been spent setting up 2 charter schools and how much will be spent once these schools are up-and-running. I bet at this stage there is an open cheque-book to make sure it doesn't fail.

Cuts at ministry urged instead of schools - Radio New Zealand

New Zealand Herald

URL: Cuts at ministry urged instead of schools Radio New Zealand Mr Walsh says the Government should not try to make savings from frontline teaching positions. He says the Government could also cut its planned trial of charter schools and scholarships that send children from poor families to private schools.

Tackling what lies beneath - Manawatu Standard

Manawatu Standard

URL: Tackling what lies beneath Manawatu Standard The group's most recent report was on charter schools. "I do think it's very interesting that the very same things that were said in 1988 [after the Picot review and education reforms] that the whole revolution was suppose to fix, 24 years later ...

Parata looks for new ways to cut costs

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Education Minister Hekia Parata isn't giving up on her conviction that student achievement must be raised.

Parata defends class size backdown

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Education Minister Hekia Parata says she cancelled plans to increase class sizes after hearing criticism from teachers and the public.

Hekia Parata explains education back-down

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The Education Minister, Hekia Parata, says the policy was a trade off from the outset but it was a trade off parents couldn't accept.

'Huge relief for parents, students, teachers' - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: 'Huge relief for parents, students, teachers' Stuff.co.nz It means there will be no changes to the teacher-student funding ratios. More than 1000 schools nationwide stood to lose Government funding as a result of the changes announced in last week's Budget, and hundreds of thousands of children would have ...

Government backdown thrills wary teachers | Otago Daily Times ...

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"We are firmly focused on raising student achievement and getting five out of five of our kids succeeding, and we continue to believe that investing in quality teaching and professional leadership is the best way to do this," she ...

Private school funding 'at expense of state schools' - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Mr Minto says educational achievement of Maori and Pasifika pupils, as well as those from poorer families, will be put at risk by larger class sizes. He says it is very unusual for the education sector to be so unified in opposition to a policy and the ...

Education correspondent analyses Government backdown

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Education correspondent John Gerritsen analyses the government backdown on class sizes.

NZEI applauds Government's class size backdown

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Education groups say they are thrilled by the government's decision to halt its plan to change class sizes in schools.

Class size backdown political

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The Government's backdown over school funding changes was a political, rather than educational decision, critics say.

U-turn will leave fiscal hangover - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: U-turn will leave fiscal hangover Stuff.co.nz Parents were unequivocally on the same page as teachers, so the Government also risked ceding to teachers the moral high ground it won during the stoush over national standards. Overnight on Wednesday in London Mr Key was still defending the policy, ...

Class size U-turn - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Class size U-turn Stuff.co.nz LATEST: In a major u-turn, Education Minister Hekia Parata says staff pupil ratios will not change. The planned changes announced in last month's Budget were to have saved the Government around $174 million over four years. Parata said the Government ...

Class size backdown leaves $114m shortfall - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Class size backdown leaves $114m shortfall Stuff.co.nz BUCK STOPS HERE: Education Minister Hekia Parata's stocks have slipped amid calls for her to be stood down over the class size fiasco. Prime Minister John Key says she will stay. The Government has torn up plans to change school funding in a ...

John Armstrong: Total surrender inevitable on botched policy

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No more compromises; just capitulation - complete and utter. Hekia Parata yesterday surrendered to the inevitable less than two days after saying she was not going to budge any further on the vexed question of teacher-pupil ratios.Further...

'Yes, we've won... we're keeping our technology teachers'

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Intermediate principals and teachers felt a great sense of relief yesterday after the Government backed down on increases in class sizes.Northcross Intermediate principal Jonathan Tredray believed parents were the deciding factor."That...

Public can be assured NZ education system is high performing

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The latest OECD Report (2012): OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: New Zealand has confirmed this view.

Correspondence School under review

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The Ministry of Education is again reviewing the Correspondence School - as teachers say they've lost confidence in the school's leadership.

The thinking competency

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Lisa Smith explains how Rototuna School helps teachers develop rich understandings of the key competencies. This approach involves engaging with research, exploring personal experience, building a framework of the language of the competency, and then modeling the competency in the classroom.

Draft Literacy and Numeracy Implementation Strategy released ...

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The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) has developed an Adult Literacy and Numeracy Implementation Strategy and we invite you to provide feedback.

Thinking and reading comprehension

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Julie Cowan from Willowbank School explains how she supports students to become strategic, reflective, and metacognitive readers and thinkers.

NCEA grading improving: report - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
However, it found teachers wanted more support from the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) to help them assess students' work against the national standards. A survey of 1780 teachers found 61 per cent wanted more access to resources such as ...

UFB in schools: learning without limits seminars

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The Ministry of Education Ultra-fast Broadband in Schools (UFBiS) programme is running Learning without Limits seminars to help you understand the potential of the Network for Learning. Starting from 23 July, the seminars will be held in 24 locations around New Zealand over 8 weeks...

Training programme for Maori trustees welcomed - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
The Office of the Maori Trustee in Gisborne has welcomed a move by the Chamber of Commerce in Hawke's Bay, to organise a specialist governance training programme for trustees of 10 Maori Trusts. The programme will give trustees skills in strategic ...

Maori child poverty needs more attention - Waatea News

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Waatea News
Maori child advocacy group Ririki wants the needs of Maori and Pasifika children to be made the number one priority when making policy for children. Its executive director, Anton Blank, says the government should be concerned at Unicef report which ...

Grant for Maori into Tertiary Education initiative - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Currently the project finds jobs and internships for Maori students or graduates in the finance and IT sector, but can now also look at getting young Maori who are not studying into vocational and trades training. Project leader Maria Paenga says ...