beehive.govt.nz - Review of Teachers' Council to begin

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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 ...

No school rankings but data available to public - Parata - 3News NZ

3News NZ

URL: No school rankings but data available to public - Parata 3News NZ ... years of teaching experience) that I don't know what I'm doing and I am the reason we have a tail of underachievement. That that brings me to another lie... it isn't 1/5 or 20% failing - it is less than 14% according to proper research conducted by ...

Do We Need National Standards to Prevent a Race to the Bottom ...

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One of the better arguments for the adoption of national standards is that it is necessary to prevent a race to the bottom among states and localities. States wishing to look good rather than actually be good may be tempted to ...

Groups interested in charter schools - The Press

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The Press
The Government's intention to create charter schools in New Zealand, starting with trials in Christchurch and South Auckland, was announced as part of the National-ACT coalition agreement last December. Charter schools will be publicly funded and run ...

School discipline figures show improvement - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
Otago schools appear to have a good grasp on dealing with pupils with severe behaviour, the latest Ministry of Education school disciplinary figures show.

Parata's newsletter tip defied - Manawatu Standard

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Manawatu Standard
"If schools had not shared with their communities the issues surrounding the class size issue then parents would not have been informed," he said. "In an ideal world we would not have to worry, however, politicians . . . make mistakes, so if as a ...

Concerns over secret G30 education meeting - Newstalk ZB

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Newstalk ZB
The G30 group was formed in the wake of the Governmentâ s class size back-down. It has been touted by Education Minister Hekia Parata as a way of ensuring such a disconnect with the sector does not happen again. PPTA General Secretary Kevin Bunker ...

Class size policy dogs Minister in select committee

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Opposition MPs have pressed the Education Minister to explain exactly when the Government started planning its failed class sizes policy.

Schools can refuse to enrol disabled pupils - The Press

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The Press
He attributes his son's personal and academic success to the dedication of educational specialists during his primary school years. "Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined my son would come this far. I was told he would be institutionalised ...

Online school to revolutionise learning - Stuff.co.nz

Stuff.co.nz

URL: Online school to revolutionise learning Stuff.co.nz Money flowed and he took his place in a possible future history of education. Like the ... The school day will be flipped: students will learn the ideas at home from Khan or a similar agent, then go to school to do the practical problems under the ...

Some schools better at keeping Maori in education

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The Secondary Principals' Association says the methods used by schools which are more successful at keeping Maori students in education, need to be examined.

Religious education only brainwashes - Stuff.co.nz (blog)

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Stuff.co.nz (blog)
Was reminded of that old yarn this week as a procession of "Bible in Schools" programme advocates popped up to defend their access to state primary school classrooms. They were only teaching values, they said; not belief. They only wanted to make ...

Reading, writing - and religion. Really? - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Slotting into the curriculum somewhere between history, social studies and cultural studies, it seems a natural and appropriate way of educating students about a raft of faiths such as Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam - and perhaps atheism. Then ...

Post-grad students fume over lost allowances | TEU - Tertiary ...

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Architects are worried that their profession will also suffer, as are science students. Fifth-year clinical psychology student Heather Gordon from Canterbury University says she cannot physically fit part time work into her study ...

School makes electronic kit compulsory - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
Year 9 students at a Nelson college will be required to bring their own electronic devices to school from next year, in a move the school says will "revolutionise" education.