URL: Combating poverty more important than measuring it
Paula Bennett | Social Development
Addressing the causes of poverty instead of debating how it’s measured is the Government’s main focus, says Social Development Minister Paula Bennett. ‘’The Government is committed to taking action to combat poverty. This is in stark contrast to the Labour Party which just talks about how it should be measured,’’ Mrs Bennett says...
Monday, August 20, 2012
New obligations for youth
URL: New obligations for youth
Paula Bennett | Social Development
Today marks the start of comprehensive Youth Services for disengaged young people says Social Development Minister Paula Bennett. More than $148 million in wrap around support services will help young people on benefit and those at risk of going onto benefit, to be independent. “Youth Services start from today, but will be transitioned in over time as each individual is matched with a service provider,” says Mrs Bennett...
Paula Bennett | Social Development
Today marks the start of comprehensive Youth Services for disengaged young people says Social Development Minister Paula Bennett. More than $148 million in wrap around support services will help young people on benefit and those at risk of going onto benefit, to be independent. “Youth Services start from today, but will be transitioned in over time as each individual is matched with a service provider,” says Mrs Bennett...
Charter School survey responses
Charter School survey responses
STA News
Responses to the STA News Charter School survey are available... Outlines public opinions about the policy.
REF: STA News, August 2012, page 2
STA News
Responses to the STA News Charter School survey are available... Outlines public opinions about the policy.
REF: STA News, August 2012, page 2
NZCER national secondary survey
NZCER national secondary survey
STA News
This is a regular survey process, undertaken every few years, which is designed to seek feedback and views from boards of trustees, secondary principals, secondary teachers, and parents/caregivers, on a wide range of matters relating to secondary education... to provide valuable information to the education sector about what's happening in our schools and the impact of recent policy changes as these play out in practice, and to monitor trends over time.
REF: STA News August 2012, page 12
STA News
This is a regular survey process, undertaken every few years, which is designed to seek feedback and views from boards of trustees, secondary principals, secondary teachers, and parents/caregivers, on a wide range of matters relating to secondary education... to provide valuable information to the education sector about what's happening in our schools and the impact of recent policy changes as these play out in practice, and to monitor trends over time.
REF: STA News August 2012, page 12
Waving – or drowning? | Professional learning for 21st century | at ...
URL: Waving – or drowning? | Professional learning for 21st century | at ...
A new report is out this month from NZCER that adds to the '21st century' schooling conversation that they have been championing for several years: Bull, A. & Gilbert, J. (2012). Swimming out of our depth? Leading learning in ...
A new report is out this month from NZCER that adds to the '21st century' schooling conversation that they have been championing for several years: Bull, A. & Gilbert, J. (2012). Swimming out of our depth? Leading learning in ...
news In detail - Knowledgespeak
URL: news In detail
Knowledgespeak
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of five new publishers in its digital preservation archive. The publishers are: Duke University Press, NZCER Press, New Prairie Press, Mathematical Sciences Publishers and Copernicus Publications.
Knowledgespeak
The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the participation of five new publishers in its digital preservation archive. The publishers are: Duke University Press, NZCER Press, New Prairie Press, Mathematical Sciences Publishers and Copernicus Publications.
A Poke and a Prod on National Standards - Red Alert - Labour Party
URL: A Poke and a Prod on National Standards - Red Alert - Labour Party
But let's get back to the real question: Will National Standards and League Tables improve the learning and achievement of young people to be well rounded citizens? Simple answer: No. National Standards are a blunt instrument to assess ... Does that mean Labour supports an amendment to the Official Information Act to prevent the public and media from being able to access school assessment data? Because unless you are not prepared to change the law, I'm not ...
But let's get back to the real question: Will National Standards and League Tables improve the learning and achievement of young people to be well rounded citizens? Simple answer: No. National Standards are a blunt instrument to assess ... Does that mean Labour supports an amendment to the Official Information Act to prevent the public and media from being able to access school assessment data? Because unless you are not prepared to change the law, I'm not ...
Data dishonest says principals - Taranaki Daily News
URL: Data dishonest says principals
Taranaki Daily News
South Taranaki principals are concerned that well-rounded education will suffer with the release of National Standards data later this year. Hawera Primary School principal Neryda Sullivan said that a child's school experience was much more than two ...
Taranaki Daily News
South Taranaki principals are concerned that well-rounded education will suffer with the release of National Standards data later this year. Hawera Primary School principal Neryda Sullivan said that a child's school experience was much more than two ...
Government's National Standards approach could publicly identify students and teachers
URL: Government's National Standards approach could publicly identify students and teachers
Leaders of principals’ and teachers’ groups say the Government's plans to publish National Standards data reveal that there is a serious risk of publicly identifying individual primary school students and teachers.
Leaders of principals’ and teachers’ groups say the Government's plans to publish National Standards data reveal that there is a serious risk of publicly identifying individual primary school students and teachers.
ERO drops decile rankings from reports - NZ City
URL: ERO drops decile rankings from reports
NZ City
From September 30, information including data from the new national standards, along with Education Review Office reports, schools' annual reports and NCEA statistics will be posted on a website. The data for the first 12 months won't all be in the ...
NZ City
From September 30, information including data from the new national standards, along with Education Review Office reports, schools' annual reports and NCEA statistics will be posted on a website. The data for the first 12 months won't all be in the ...
Charter-schools policy debate - New Zealand Listener
 New Zealand Listener | URL: Charter-schools policy debate New Zealand Listener By agreeing to this pointless exercise, it has unsettled the education sector, whose goodwill it needs – or at least whose spittingest, clawingest extremes of hostility it needs to avoid – in order to bed in national standards and continue the fine ... |
School faith plan raises doubts - Stuff.co.nz
URL: School faith plan raises doubts
Stuff.co.nz
Plans for a school to teach creationism as well as evolution have raised doubts over how the Ministry of Education will ensure children are properly educated under the Government's charter schools framework. The Manukau Charitable Christian Trust is ...
Stuff.co.nz
Plans for a school to teach creationism as well as evolution have raised doubts over how the Ministry of Education will ensure children are properly educated under the Government's charter schools framework. The Manukau Charitable Christian Trust is ...
Teachers "gobsmacked" at Minister's poverty claims
URL: Teachers "gobsmacked" at Minister's poverty claims
Teachers and principals from schools in poorer areas are shocked and astounded at the Social Development Minister's claims that measuring poverty is "too difficult because children move in and out of poverty on a daily and weekly basis."
Teachers and principals from schools in poorer areas are shocked and astounded at the Social Development Minister's claims that measuring poverty is "too difficult because children move in and out of poverty on a daily and weekly basis."
Poverty scale too hard to tackle - The Bay of Plenty Times
URL: Poverty scale too hard to tackle
The Bay of Plenty Times
NZEI Te Riu Roa national president and former Tahatai Coast School principal, Ian Leckie, said the Government was prepared to spend huge amounts measuring and publishing "dodgy and untested" National Standards but was not prepared to measure ...
The Bay of Plenty Times
NZEI Te Riu Roa national president and former Tahatai Coast School principal, Ian Leckie, said the Government was prepared to spend huge amounts measuring and publishing "dodgy and untested" National Standards but was not prepared to measure ...
Lack of funds threatens special-needs programme - Stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Lack of funds threatens special-needs programme Stuff.co.nz However, despite winning this year's national award for outstanding programme, the trust may have to close because of funding cuts. With annual operating costs of $192,000, the trust needs about $132,000 from outside sources to stay open. |
Maori: achievers and grievers? - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Maori: achievers and grievers?
Stuff.co.nz
The early church schools educated children in Maori and many children were literate albeit not in English. The Native Schools had a mission, generally ... assimilate the children into European ways. This separate school system remained in place until 1969.
Stuff.co.nz
The early church schools educated children in Maori and many children were literate albeit not in English. The Native Schools had a mission, generally ... assimilate the children into European ways. This separate school system remained in place until 1969.
News of centre's closure devastates - Otago Daily Times
 Otago Daily Times | URL: News of centre's closure devastates Otago Daily Times A Ministry of Education spokesman said a ministry resourcing audit found the school's Community Learning Centre appeared to be operating outside the Adult Student in Secondary Education policy. "On that basis, the Logan Park High School board of ... |
Motherhood still a career killer - Stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Motherhood still a career killer Stuff.co.nz Women have been entering the workforce for a fair few decades now and pouring out of universities and higher education, too. But structurally we may as well be stuck in the 1950s for all the adjustments that have been made to social attitudes about ... |
New payroll system for teachers starts today
URL: New payroll system for teachers starts today
From today, a new company is in charge of running the country's biggest payroll, which pays a hundred thousand teachers and other school staff each fortnight.
From today, a new company is in charge of running the country's biggest payroll, which pays a hundred thousand teachers and other school staff each fortnight.
Vouchering an Educational Adventure - Scoop.co.nz
URL: Vouchering an Educational Adventure
Scoop.co.nz
I asked, knowing Marshbaum wouldn't disappoint me. “Downsized the faculty. All those rich college graduates were hurting our bottom line. Hated to downsize Greenblatt, though. Thirty years on the job. Twice recognized as the state's best history ...
Scoop.co.nz
I asked, knowing Marshbaum wouldn't disappoint me. “Downsized the faculty. All those rich college graduates were hurting our bottom line. Hated to downsize Greenblatt, though. Thirty years on the job. Twice recognized as the state's best history ...
Students failing to grip helping hand - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Students failing to grip helping hand
Stuff.co.nz
Funding worked out at $13175 a student, including $500 a head for pastoral care such as mentoring or parental/whanau involvement. Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce said the low rates were because about half the students were on two-year courses, ...
Stuff.co.nz
Funding worked out at $13175 a student, including $500 a head for pastoral care such as mentoring or parental/whanau involvement. Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce said the low rates were because about half the students were on two-year courses, ...
New principal for merged schools - Stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: New principal for merged schools Stuff.co.nz Chair of the new school Board of Trustees, Wayne Lowther, said there were 146 students on the roll already, and they had been assigned Education Ministry funding for 7.2 staff, including the principal. The school to open on the Strathmore site would be ... |
UC editor wins national John Harris literary award
URL: UC editor wins national John Harris literary award
A University of Canterbury (UC) editor Bronwyn Matthews has just been award the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa’s prestigious John Harris literary award for her work on the Treasures of the UC Library book.
A University of Canterbury (UC) editor Bronwyn Matthews has just been award the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa’s prestigious John Harris literary award for her work on the Treasures of the UC Library book.
Whakamarama School trials new learning initiative
URL: Whakamarama School trials new learning initiative
Whakamarama School is set to become the first North Island school to pilot a child-directed learning programme in the hope of boosting the school's dwindling roll.From Term 1 next year, the Discovery Learning programme could be...
Whakamarama School is set to become the first North Island school to pilot a child-directed learning programme in the hope of boosting the school's dwindling roll.From Term 1 next year, the Discovery Learning programme could be...
Kingslea School: A State School With A Difference | Stuff.co.nz
URL: Kingslea School: A State School With A Difference | Stuff.co.nz
Teachers at Kingslea follow the national curriculum and pupils work to achieve the National Certificate of Educational Achievement, but the teaching methods differ from a mainstream classroom. The classes are small, with just five pupils per teacher. The pupils arrive at the school on ... Lomax said many pupils had gaps in their learning. Some were capable of doing NCEA level one in some subjects, but might not know their seven-times table. To teach at a school like ...
Teachers at Kingslea follow the national curriculum and pupils work to achieve the National Certificate of Educational Achievement, but the teaching methods differ from a mainstream classroom. The classes are small, with just five pupils per teacher. The pupils arrive at the school on ... Lomax said many pupils had gaps in their learning. Some were capable of doing NCEA level one in some subjects, but might not know their seven-times table. To teach at a school like ...
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