Education helps restore Māori culture

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Pita Sharples | Education

Kaupapa Māori education has been part of the renaissance that has helped rebuild Māori people and culture in recent decades, according to the Associate Minister of Education, Dr Pita Sharples. In a hard-hitting speech to the World Indigenous Lawyers’ Conference at Waikato University this afternoon, Dr Sharples said the destructive forces of colonisation were turned around in the 1970s and since...

Let parents choose assessments, says Shearer

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Education is shaping up as a major political battleground, after Labour revealed it would give parents the power to withdraw their child's school from controversial national standards.

Labour: need reading recovery « Your NZ

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A New Zealand Council for Educational Research evaluation found that Reading Recovery was effective for different students and in a range of contexts, with those who started off furthest behind making the greatest gains.

National responds to Labour's education plan

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National's education spokesperson is Hekia Parata.

Labour outlines education policy

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The Government says Labour's new education policies are flawed, expensive and unnecessary.

Stop debating and feed the kids, says Shearer

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Labour's new education policy includes $40 million in pledges to feed all children in low-decile schools and to extend a reading recovery programme to cover all schools. Party leader David Shearer outlined the policies in a keynote...

Labour's $19m vow to feed children

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Labour's new education policy includes up to $19 million a year to give a free daily meal to all children in low decile schools.Labour leader David Shearer announced the policy in a keynote education speech today.He said Labour...

Labour plans free food for some schools

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Labour would roll out free food to 650 of the lowest decile primary and intermediate schools in the country.

Free meal policy good, but more needed: KidsCan

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A children's charity supports Labour leader David Shearer's policy to give free daily meals to all children in low decile schools, but believes a targeted approach to supporting the most needy children should be the key focus.KidsCan...

PM dismisses Labour's grand education plans

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There's little appetite in Government for more free food to be served up at low decile schools.

Labour's free food in schools no silver bullet

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Labour's vision for the future of education - including free food for children most in need - has some academics questioning whether it's the best use of scarce resources.

Ministry's new system fails to pay

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The Ministry of Education has confirmed 5000 staff have been underpaid and 15 not at all in the first run of the new school payroll system, but says the errors were just "teething problems".The new computer payroll system, Novopay,...

Fono looks at way forward for education in South Auckland

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A fono in South Auckland on September 15 will be focussing on how we make every local school a great school and respond in particular to the needs of Maori and Pasifika learners.

Call to lower school age to four

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Children could be packing their bags to start primary school a year earlier if a proposal to lower the entrance age goes ahead.

Teachers 'getting too close to students'

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Teachers are getting too friendly with their students and the blame is being levelled at teacher training institutions.

Uniforms to mask inequality

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Once the preserve of secondary, private or religious schools, primary schools are increasingly using uniforms to mask the disparity between social classes at primary level.

Bullies drive girl from school before exams

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A 15-year-old Christchurch girl has been bullied out of school just seven weeks before important exams begin.

Poor decision to close two special residential schools

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A University of Canterbury (UC) professor believes the decision to close two residential special schools in New Zealand is the wrong option.

Historical Trauma Research and Development in the Aotearoa Social Services Sector

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Seminar with Keynote Speakers Dr Eduardo Duran and Professor Karina Walters.
J3 Lecture Theatre, Gate 3, 74 Epsom Ave, Epsom, Auckland (View map). Free Parking available at Gate 2
21 September 2012

School costs parents more

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The amount parents paid in school donations jumped more than $23 million between 2008 and 2010 - a 31 per cent increase over a time in which Government funding for schools increased by 8 per cent.Ministry of Education figures show...

Gifted Kids share their stories in September

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Gifted Kids is pleased to announce the Annual Sharing Nights that are taking place throughout the country in September. Sharing Nights are an opportunity for Gifted Kids students to showcase the learning they have been undertaking throughout the ...

Thousands of children to receive free books before holidays

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From today until the end of term, tens of thousands of school children in more than 530 low decile schools will begin to receive two free books each from literacy charity Duffy Books in Homes.