Sharples welcomes cross-party support for reading programmes

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Pita Sharples | Education

Associate Education Minister Dr Pita Sharples welcomes the belated interest of the Labour Party in the Government’s decision to increase funding to reading programmes in primary schools. “Labour’s leader may not realise that the 2011 Budget allocated $6.5 million to expand family-based literacy programmes to all decile one, two and three schools, building on the Reading Together programme...

Tempers flare at public meeting about charter schools

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Tempers flared at a public meeting on Charter Schools in Auckland last night.

Jim Traue: Advantage lies at home when it comes to education

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The debate on how we deal with the "tail", the one in five pupils Hekia Parata says are seriously under-performing, has been skilfully channelled down one path, that of the failure of the schools. They are at fault and have to make...

Visionary Education Policy Not So New

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Maxim Institute Senior Researcher Steve Thomas says Labour leader David Shearer’s speech yesterday outlined a policy that is contradictory.

Reading Recovery Not The Solution

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The Labour Party’s pledge to provide Reading Recovery in all schools is no quick fix to New Zealand’s unsatisfactory levels of literacy, says an education expert.

Editorial: Breakfast is not too much to ask

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It is hard to believe any child in this country has to go to school hungry yet some do. Teachers in low-income areas attest that pupils regularly turn up having had no breakfast.It is hard to believe because a bowl of cereal and...

Optional national standards won't confuse - Shearer

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Labour Party leader David Shearer has rejected suggestions that making national standards optional for schools would create a confusing dual education system.In a keynote speech yesterday, Mr Shearer said the controversial national...

Long-term literacy vision

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Media release . Sept 10 2012 ________________________________________ From: Allan Campbell, Christchurch, member; Jack Bovill, chair, London ________________________________________ Labour leader David Shearer sees the provision of work for their parents as the ultimate ...

Free food to fill bellies will help kids learn - principal

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It's not quite dry bread v deli boxes, but the packed lunches of pupils at a decile 1 and a decile 10 school are markedly different - simple sandwiches at Russell School in Cannons Creek, while fruit, biscuits, treats and focaccia bread feature at Khandallah School.

UC in top three percent of leading world universities

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Despite two natural disasters in the past two years in Christchurch, the University of Canterbury has maintained its ranking among the top three percent of the world’s universities.

AUT University receives international recognition

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The latest set of world rankings has placed AUT University in the top 500 for the first time. As New Zealand’s newest university it is a significant achievement to already be receiving international acknowledgment. AUT is also New Zealand’s ...

Teacher shortage likely as school roll predictions skyrocket

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Preparing future teachers is becoming more important than ever before according to a Waikato University academic who says predictions on school roll totals up to the year 2030 show New Zealand will be facing a teacher shortage in the next few ...