Better Public Achievement Information

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Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata has today outlined the Government’s approach to improving the quality and use of achievement information at year, school and national level. Public Achievement Information (PAI) will be available on the Ministry of Education’s ‘Education Counts’ website. It will allow parents to see how their child’s school is performing and will allow the Government to see how well the system is doing as a whole in order to raise achievement for all learners...

Charter schools are 'pigs', says professor - 3News NZ

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URL: Charter schools are 'pigs', says professor 3News NZ Imagine if NZ had no national standards in food saftey? Well we have no similar standards in education as teachers think it would poorly reflect on them. Its like protesting against food saftey standards by the dirtiest food sellers/handlers around as ...

Govt unveils school 'league tables' plan

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Hekia Parata has revealed how the Government will publish schools' national standards results, ERO reports and NCEA data.

Website plan for national standards data - New Zealand Herald

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URL: Website plan for national standards data New Zealand Herald Prime Minister John Key said in July that the national standards data the ministry had collected from schools on how well children were doing in reading, writing and maths was "too ropey" to provide to parents. Mr Key said it would be difficult for the ...

Schools told to release standards data - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Schools told to release standards data Stuff.co.nz Schools have been told to disregard the advice of a primary teachers' union and instead release controversial National Standards performance information. Chief Ombudsman Dame Beverley Wakem has written to all schools after some brushed off requests ...

Schools must release national standards, Ombudsman rules

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An Ombudsman has ordered primary schools to release controversial national standards information.

Ministry considering regional education targets - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
A discussion document obtained by Radio New Zealand says that in September the ministry will publish targets for achievement against the National Standards in reading, writing and maths. It says the targets will be national and regional. Educators are ...

Pupils Reminisce As John Key Reopens Te Koraha | Stuff.co.nz

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More than 60 years after they left Rangi Ruru Girls' School, former pupils recall air-raid drills and mischief involving Christ's College boys.

ROD CARR: ''It's a case of the university becoming leaner.'' - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: ROD CARR: ''It's a case of the university becoming leaner.'' Stuff.co.nz The quakes have put the university under pressure because fulltime-equivalent domestic student numbers have fallen by about 1800 and international students by 400, insurance costs have jumped and staff costs continue to rise. To return to a surplus ...

Tertiary education for the rich, not the poor « Workers Party (NZ)

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The recently unveiled budget contained an actual cut to the tertiary education budget, when recently the budget has seen below-inflation increases. ... Information Technology students, which follows a roughly five year cycle of not enough students being trained in IT, a furious rush to train more students in a short period of time, an over supply of students which leads to cuts and collapses of training institutes which then leads to not enough students being trained again.

Puppet course attracts students - Stuff.co.nz

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A puppet, animated film and gaming paper originally designed as a summer school programme to attract more students to the University of Canterbury has developed into a fully fledged course.

Polytechnic collaboration benefits West Coast

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Tai Poutini Polytechnic and Open Polytechnic collaboration benefits West Coast In a first for the West Coast, students who have completed the New Zealand Diploma in Business with Tai Poutini Polytechnic will now be able to enrol in a Bachelor of ...