Reconstructing Meanings Of Family: Lesbian/ Whanau And Families ...

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Fry, R., (1985) Its Different for Daughters, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Wellington. Hartman, A. (1996)“Social Policy as a Context for Lesbian and Gay Families: The Political is Personal” In Lesbians and ...

Forum commits to raising achievement goal

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Hekia Parata | Education

The Ministerial Cross-Sector Forum on Raising Achievement has agreed to work together on achieving success for all learners. Forum chair, Education Minister Hekia Parata, welcomed the commitment from all the Forum representatives. “We know that our education system is amongst the best in the world with four out of five kids successfully working towards getting the qualifications they need at school,” says Ms Parata. “But our goal is about getting five out of five...

Better support for vulnerable children

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Tony Ryall | Education

More Kiwi children will get a better start in life as a result of the Government’s Better Public Services targets, say social sector Ministers Tony Ryall, Paula Bennett and Hekia Parata. “Too many children are let down, abused or neglected. We know there is a link between early childhood experiences and poor health, substance abuse, poor educational outcomes and unemployment in adulthood,” Social Development Minister Paula Bennett says. ...

Government sets public sector 5-year targets

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John Key | Deputy Prime Minister
Prime Minister John Key and Deputy Prime Minister Bill English today announced a set of ambitious targets the Government has set for the public sector to achieve over the next five years. “These targets are central to the Government's plans to create a public service that is more innovative, enterprising, driven, and focused on results,” Mr Key says. These measurable targets, which will be reported on regularly, sit underneath the 10 challenging results the Government announced in March for the public sector to achieve over the next five years...

Education targets to boost skills & employment

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Steven Joyce | Education

The Government’s Better Public Service targets for education are about giving more New Zealanders the opportunity to succeed, and increasing the skill level of our workforce, Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce and Education Minister Hekia Parata say. The Government has two targets for boosting skills and employment: ...

Increased focus on smart online govt services

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Steven Joyce | Economic Development
Smart new online services will make it easier for the New Zealand public and businesses to interact with the Government, Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce and Internal Affairs Minister Chris Tremain say. Targets set for the Government’s planned one-stop online shop for businesses (Better Public Services Result 9) and for New Zealanders to complete transactions with government easily online (Result 10) were released today by Prime Minister John Key. The targets are:...

Market model leaves schools to die - New Zealand Herald

New Zealand Herald

URL: Market model leaves schools to die New Zealand Herald Class sizes, performance pay, charter schools, national standards, league tables - they're all distractions that suck up time, money and energy while doing ...

Call to review Tomorrow's Schools model - New Zealand Herald

3News NZ

URL: Call to review Tomorrow's Schools model New Zealand Herald "We found in a vast majority of cases that the schools were serving students who ... "The law requires a board to ensure all students can attend a reasonably ...

How to pick a school for your children - The Dominion Post

The Dominion Post

URL: How to pick a school for your children The Dominion Post I have noticed many kids who are overly "accelerated" (eg, do level 3 NCEA subjects in ... I fail to see how even the rawest of data i.e test scores is useless, it is an ... Just do a quick word-find on words like excellence, high achievement,etc and ...

Minister's Education Forum Should Focus On Helping Learners Who Most Need It

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The education union NZEI Te Riu Roa today called on the Education Minister's newly convened education forum to focus on the real challenges to boosting success for students who are not achieving (the target group for making a difference), not on ideological agendas.

Claim Auckland schools skew zones - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
The Ministry of Education is being called on to investigate a US researcher's claim that most Auckland secondary schools intentionally skew enrolment zones to ...

Enrolment zones skewed to exclude poor children - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
The Education Ministry declined to appear on Morning Report on Monday, but has issued the following statement: ''The purpose of an enrolment zone is to ...

Skewed enrolment zones prompts calls for re-think - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
One said she removed the names of undesirable students from her school's ... The Education Ministry declined to appear on Morning Report on Monday, but has ...

Waffle and words won't increase skills and knowledge - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
... a lack of ambition and the absence of any concrete actions to get there, says Labour's Tertiary Education, Skills and Training Spokesperson Grant Robertson.

Pupils' business project true to life | Stuff.co.nz

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Art and business, school and the real world, all combined in a Sanson School project at the weekend.

beehive.govt.nz - Appointments to Network for Learning Limited Board

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“With a board and chief executive in place we will be even closer to delivering an online network for schools that will enable improved access to education resources for learners and help lift student achievement.'' ...

Fears as truancy funding slashed - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
Nelson Tasman district truancy service chairman and Nayland College deputy principal Trevor Olley said schools had ... We work with the school, with the students and the family to find out what the problems are. ... Pupils rally to teacher's call ...

School spirit impresses new headmaster - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
The head of a Palmerston North college is set to become Auckland Grammar's new headmaster. ... Students need to be engaged and interested. Photo / ...

Pupils set emerging tech-idea challenge - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: Pupils set emerging tech-idea challenge Otago Daily Times About 50 senior secondary school pupils from Dunedin, Cromwell and Gore ... The 2012 Otago Technology Innovation Challenge aimed to introduce pupils to ...

Educator role 'not just mum' - Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times

URL: Educator role 'not just mum' Otago Daily Times New Zealand Home Early Childhood Education Association president Carol Stovold explains the ... Syria to fore at foreign policy school ... Invercargill, The Courier - Timaru, Queenstown Times - Queenstown, Extra! schools publication ...