New Zealand Qualifications Authority Board appointments

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Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata today announced the appointments of Pauline Winter and Andrew McKenzie to the New Zealand Qualifications Authority Board. Ms Winter and Dr McKenzie will replace Shona Smith and Keith Taylor, whose terms have expired. “Pauline and Andrew bring with them extensive governance experience. Andrew has a strong record of public service going back more than three decades, and Pauline has worked at a high level in the public and private sectors.”...

New tertiary education board appointments

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Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment

Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce today announced new appointments to the boards of Education New Zealand and the Tertiary Education Commission. John Spencer has been appointed as the Chair of the Tertiary Education Commission. Mr Spencer replaces Sir Harawira Gardiner who is standing down from his role on the Tertiary Education Commission. “Mr Spencer is a highly capable individual who brings a wealth of experience in governance, finance and business”, Mr Joyce says...

Record number of prisoners in employment training

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Anne Tolley | Corrections

Corrections Minister Anne Tolley says a record number of prisoners are now employed in on-the-job training or trades training programmes which lead to qualifications. Offenders in Corrections Inmate Employment (CIE), including Release to Work programmes, increased by 175 to 3,144 in June, well over a third of all prisoners and the highest ever number engaged in formal training and employment activities...

Government to review teachers' council - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Director of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (Robyn Baker);. Leader of the Teaching and Learning Research Initiative;. Board member of the Australian Council for Educational Research;. Chair of the Education Committee for the Royal Society of New ...

Principals Applaud Academics’ Action

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President of the New Zealand Principals’ Federation, Paul Drummond today applauded New Zealand’s leading educational researchers for taking a public stand against league tables. The Prime Minister has suggested that parents want league tables so ...

100 academics opposed to league tables « The Standard

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These countries all have tried aspects of national testing and league tables. Any difference to their rate of underachievement? So tell me, if it failed to make an impact in those countries, how will it make a difference here?

OPINION: Measure then fix – why 107 academics are wrong - National Business Review

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URL: OPINION: Measure then fix – why 107 academics are wrong National Business Review These include socio-economic and other intake differences (such as ethnicity, student transience rates, the proportion of English language learners or children with special needs) and other school and area characteristics (local labour market, urban ...

Love & learning: Big debates in early childhood education

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As the number of infants and toddlers entering early childhood education continues to grow, a Victoria University researcher has been investigating what the role of the teachers of very young children should be.

Small Business: Improving workplace literacy to build profit

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Katherine Percy, CEO of Workbase , the language, literacy and numeracy service provider. How common is it for NZ workers to have below par literacy/numeracy abilities?</str

Small Business: Literacy training improves staff confidence

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Remeny Weber, training coordinator and the Section Head, Pathology at Labtests, on the company's experience using the Workbase literacy programme. Labtests is an Auckland company with 600 s

Innovative CPIT team receive teaching excellence award

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17 July 2012 - Embargoed until 8.00pm, Tuesday 17 July 2012 Innovative CPIT team receive teaching excellence award The CPIT Restaurant, Wine and Bar Team received a Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching Award at The Tertiary Teaching Excellence ...

Ako awards showcase world class tertiary education system

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TEU congratulates the 12 recipients of Ako Aotearoa Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards, many of whom are TEU members.

School stand-down and suspension figures released today

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Tuesday, July 17 School stand-down and suspension figures released today The Ministry of Education has today released figures on the numbers of learners who were stood down, suspended, excluded and expelled from New Zealand state and state-integrated ...

School suspensions reach 12-year low

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New figures show the proportion of school students suspended, stood-down, expelled or excluded from school has reached its lowest point in 12 years.

Changes to the status of exchange students — Ministry of Education ...

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Schools which are approved to operate school to school student exchanges must be signatories to the Code of Practice for the Pastoral Care of International Students, and are fully responsible for the student exchange.

Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award for Otago Polytechnic

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Media release: Otago Polytechnic STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 8.00PM, TUESDAY 17 JULY Prestigious Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award for Otago Polytechnic Lecturer Sixth year in a row Otago Polytechnic educators honoured

Special schools' closure hailed - Stuff.co.nz

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Education Minister Hekia Parata announced a review of New Zealand's four residential schools in May. More than 360 submissions ... Surely that will mean dis-establishing catholic, maori immersion and other 'special' schools as well? Or is it just a ...

New face welcomes students - Auckland stuff.co.nz

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URL: New face welcomes students Auckland stuff.co.nz The new principal at Papakura South primary school has five years of experience behind him as deputy principal at Mangere's Nga Iwi School but the feeling that "the buck stops with me" is a little nerve-racking, he says. But with the extra support new ...

School improved, ERO finds - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
A Supplementary review of Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Otepoti by the Education Review Office has found significant improvement in the Maori immersion school.