$20m recovered in student loans from overseas

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Steven Joyce | Revenue

The Government’s programme to collect overdue student loan repayments from overseas-based borrowers has now brought in $20 million, with a further $2.9 million under payment arrangements, Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce and Revenue Minister Peter Dunne say. The scheme began in late October 2010 as a pilot targeting 1000 Australian-based borrowers and has recently been extended to 57,000 borrowers, largely in Australia and the United Kingdom, over the next two and a half years...

Bard Wired: "Future-oriented learning and teaching" report now online

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Author(s): Rachel Bolstad and Jane Gilbert, with Sue McDowall, Ally Bull, Sally Boyd and Rosemary Hipkins [New Zealand Council for Educational Research]". Posted by Rachel at 12:14 PM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to ...

School groups worried by national standards requests

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School groups are concerned news organisations are trying to get hold of schools' results in the national standards in reading, writing and maths, in order to make league tables.

Kick the tyres before driving policy - The Dominion Post

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The Dominion Post
The Government's national standards policy on the other hand, while also vilified by the teacher unions, was largely welcomed by parents fed up with the politically correct jargon that permeates report cards and the view that there are no failures, ...

Public not misled on class size savings, says Govt - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
The Government has conceded not all the savings it planned on making from increasing class size ratios would have gone towards improving the quality of teaching. The Government last week reversed its Budget plan to change the teacher-student ratio.

Supporting future-oriented learning: A new report

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The Ministry of Education has just released a report we prepared for them entitled Supporting future-oriented learning and teaching – a New Zealand perspective. It’s great to have this work out in the public sphere, and given its focus I think it may be of particular interest to you in our Shifting Thinking community. The report [...]

Professor Sir Mason Durie to speak in Taranaki - Te News

Te News

URL: Professor Sir Mason Durie to speak in Taranaki Te News Māori academic Professor Sir Mason Durie will deliver one of his last public lectures at the TSB Showplace in New Plymouth tomorrow to celebrate Massey University's Te Mata o Te Tau lecture series. Sir Mason, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Assistant ...

Teenpower Violence Prevention Toolkit Launched

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Hot of the press this week are the Teenpower Violence Prevention Resources for use by all groups and individuals. The resources were created with in collaboration with local schools and have been trialed by teachers, youth leaders and teenagers with ...

Childcare chain probed over $1.6m funding

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The country's biggest chain of childcare centres has been overclaiming more than $1.6 million after charging for teachers who listed in two places at once.Kidicorp was also found to have claimed money from the Ministry of Education...

School students to tackle global business issues - Massey News (press release)

Massey News (press release)

URL: School students to tackle global business issues Massey News (press release) Massey University's Pro Vice-Chancellor of the College of Business Professor Ted Zorn says Massey is committed to supporting young entrepreneurs as they will go on to help shape the future of New Zealand and the world. “Our college vision is 'creating ...

Bay of Plenty Polytechnic welcomes Dr. Helen Anderson

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Dr. Anderson joins the Polytechnic as Director Academic, bringing a wealth of experience in nearly all levels of education. Her previous posts in the tertiary sector include Academic Director at Manukau Institute of Technology and roles at Unitec and the ...

Massey partnership aims to grow Taranaki business - Massey News (press release)

Massey News (press release)

URL: Massey partnership aims to grow Taranaki business Massey News (press release) Taranaki businesses will be able to tap into world-class expertise to help them grow, with the signing of an innovative agreement between Venture Taranaki and Massey University tomorrow. University Vice-Chancellor Steve Maharey says the partnership ...

All Good give 25,000 bananas to kids in need!

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Children at four schools around the country will be tucking in to over 25,000 Fairtrade bananas for a year delivered weekly by All Good Bananas in partnership with The KidsCan Charitable Trust

Head bows out after 46 years in education - Taranaki Daily News

Taranaki Daily News

URL: Head bows out after 46 years in education Taranaki Daily News In 13 days that extra little something will leave the Manukorihi Intermediate school gates for the last time, wrapping up 21 years of service. Mr Niwa, principal of the school for the last 11 years, leaves behind his daughter, Nicky Niwa, ...