Musing on motivation and NCEA

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21st Century Thinking
Just recently I’ve been thinking about what motivates secondary students to want to learn, and specifically the complex but important relationship between motivation/engagement and NCEA. So often we hear that kids won’t learn anything (in their senior secondary years) unless there will be a reward of credits for the effort they make. Pretty much every [...]

Fear over beneficiary child changes

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Early childhood experts are in shock after a government decision to make education compulsory from the age of 3 for children of welfare beneficiaries.The decision, announced by Social Development Minister Paula Bennett yesterday,...

Welfare reforms target kids' education, health

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Parents face having their benefits slashed in half if they don't send their children to school or early childhood education centres and enrol them with a doctor.

Teacher shortage looms

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A higher birth rate and an ageing workforce mean hundreds of teachers could be needed to meet a staff shortage as school rolls surge over the next decade, figures show.Professor Roger Moltzen of the University of Waikato said Ministry...

NZ tops OECD list for government spending on education

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The OECD's annual report on education says the New Zealand government spends more of its budget on education than any other developed country.

Screening of teachers an urgent priority

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A mentoring organisation with 10 years’ experience in screening male mentors says the Secondary Principals’ Association and Teachers’ Council call for more rigorous screening of teachers is well overdue.

School, iwi start free health clinic in Whangarei

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A Northland iwi and a Whangarei school have joined forces to run a free health clinic - not just for pupils but for anyone who needs it.

Gifted Kids Tamaki

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MEDIA ADVISORY Gifted Kids Tamaki Presents “THINKNASIUM – All systems are GO!” 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 ...

Today’s 9 year olds - tomorrow’s problem gamblers?

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A study of gambling habits in Pasifika families ( mothers and children ) has revealed children as young as nine are betting with money. Of the nearly 900 children surveyed, almost all (94%) reported playing housie and/or card games and 27% reported playing ...

TEU Elects First Polytechnic President

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Lesley Francey from the Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) will be the new president of the Tertiary Education Union next year, after the union’s members elected her in a ballot over the last fortnight. Lesley Francey beat the other candidate, Richard ...

Parents to be prosecuted over child's truancy

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The parents of a Wairarapa high school student will be prosecuted for failing to ensure the child's attendance at school after two and a half years of ongoing truancy issues.Kuranui College in Greytown says the prosecution under...

'Big shock' over condemned school building

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A building at Dannevirke South School has been condemned, displacing 175 pupils.A report by Kell Engineering shows block A, which encompasses seven classrooms, the administration office, teacher resource rooms and the library, has...

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.