New ATI to get innovation to market faster

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Steven Joyce | Science and Innovation

The Government has today announced the structure for a new Advanced Technology Institute that will become a high-tech HQ for innovative New Zealand businesses. “The main purpose of the Advanced Technology Institute is to help get our best, most innovative ideas out of the lab and into the marketplace more quickly,” says Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce...

Today in politics: Thursday, July 12 - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
The Ombudsman will meet the education secretary over the refusal to release primary school national standards data. The Dominion Post last month asked the Education Ministry for all of the standards data it had received from schools. The ministry ...

Helping the elite to shine - The Dominion Post

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The Dominion Post
Ironically, I assume Rosemary McLeod is also a supporter of the flawed National Standards system. This does assume that all children are equal and that all of them "should" be at exactly the same point in their education journey at exactly the same ...

The govt's go-to education expert sets the record straight

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A leading educational advisor discusses; class sizes, league tables, decile rankings, performance based pay for teachers.

Charter schools 'not anti-teacher' - The Dominion Post

The Dominion Post

URL: Charter schools 'not anti-teacher' The Dominion Post Auckland University's Peter O'Connor is inciting parents to oppose the Government's plan to pilot a New Zealand model of charter schools ("Education wars will only intensify in runup to charter schools", June 22).

NZ lags in teaching about religion - scholar - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
... facing a growing rebellion against its anti truancy programme. Photo / Anti-truancy programme caned by welfare organisations · Alwyn Poole has 50 students from Year 7 to Year 10 at Mt Hobson Middle School John Roughan: How charter schools may look ...

Look at the real reasons why some children are not achieving

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NZEI Te Riu Roa says that the Government needs to invest more in quality early childhood education and sound education policies if it is to make a difference to vulnerable children living in poverty.

Look at real reasons some children underachieve - Voxy

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Voxy
The Government needs to stop experimenting with league tables, charter schools and National Standards which are all likely to increase inequity, and instead improve funding and support for existing programmes with demonstrable success." Tweet ...

Year 9 and 10 students not assessed properly - ERO - 3News NZ

3News NZ

URL: Year 9 and 10 students not assessed properly - ERO 3News NZ ... in years nine and 10. It said 57 percent had partially effective processes, and 36 percent had minimally effective or ineffective processes. Schools needed to use achievement information better, plan to improve outcomes for priority students, and ...

New kura prepares to open doors - Nelson Mail

Nelson Mail

URL: New kura prepares to open doors Nelson Mail The school will have 54 pupils and four teachers when it opens on July 23, and will provide an immersed Te Reo Maori education. Board of trustees member Dayveen Stephens said the kura was an off-shoot of the Kohanga Reo movement that began about ...

No, voluntary means voluntary - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
"As you are aware, no student should be denied information or privileges available to other students by a board attempting to recover payments and there should be no communication with students and/or their families suggesting there are such ... And in ...

High School Students drive towards farming careers

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This week Taratahi hosts twenty-five Primary Industry Trades Academy (PITA) students at its Wairarapa Campus for a full week of practical skills training. These aspiring farming students have already developed some skills in livestock handling, fencing ...

$1 million investment in Maori Trades Training - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The Government will invest a further $1 million into Maori trades training in Christchurch, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment, Steven Joyce announced today.

Parents dismayed by merger of Kawerau schools

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Kawerau parents say they're devastated that a High Court judge has ruled Kawerau Intermediate must close.