Michael Johnston: Publishing National Standards may do more harm than good - New Zealand Herald

URL: Michael Johnston: Publishing National Standards may do more harm than good
New Zealand Herald
National Standards in reading, writing and mathematics for students in Years 1-8 are now in their third year of implementation, and Fairfax Media recently published data facilitating the comparison of schools on the performance of their students ...

Govt approach seen as wrong - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
School principals say Government policies like national standards and charter schools will not reduce under-achievement. They say the most successful initiatives for addressing the problem involve engaging families and communities, rather than ...

NZEI backs call to close National Standards website - Voxy

URL: NZEI backs call to close National Standards website
Voxy
Fuseworks Media · Fuseworks Media. Wednesday, 3 October, 2012 - 14:25. NZEI Te Riu Roa says it strongly supports the call for the National Standards website to be closed following revelations that nearly half of National Standards assessments are wrong.

Report shows National Standards data 'fatally compromised' - Voxy

Voxy

URL: Report shows National Standards data 'fatally compromised' Voxy A Ministry of Education report which lays bare the huge variability in teachers' marking of children's school work against the National Standards has confirmed once and for all that the nationwide data drawn from the Standards is essentially worthless ...

Parata warned against publishing national standards data - Radio New Zealand

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URL: Parata warned against publishing national standards data Radio New Zealand Education officials warned the Government that if it published full national standards data it would risk providing opponents with justification for criticising it. Education Minister Hekia Parata released information on Friday showing how nearly 2000 ...

Principals point to flaws in Standards - Auckland stuff.co.nz

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Auckland stuff.co.nz
Mrs Alderson says if the public only looks at the National Standards data on the website educationcounts.govt.nz then the children at her school "would be hugely disadvantaged". She says there is more supporting information on the website than she ...

Finnish expert sounds warning on NZ's fast-tracked teacher training - New Zealand Herald

URL: Finnish expert sounds warning on NZ's fast-tracked teacher training
New Zealand Herald
Graduates will receive six weeks' teacher training and will then be placed in front of secondary classrooms as part of the controversial initiative to fill jobs in lower socio-economic schools next year. The Teach First New Zealand course focuses on ...

The Christchurch school debacle - Otago Daily Times

URL: The Christchurch school debacle
Otago Daily Times
When the proposals were announced last month, there were claims they were part of a wider strategy to close intermediates and a prelude to introducing charter schools (already a controversial subject in its own right). Closing schools is always a ...

Cross-Party Panel Provides Hope For Education

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After being thoroughly disappointed with the minister of education’s speech this morning, PPTA annual conference delegates were given a political ray of hope.

Principals sabbatical reports recently added

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Principals' sabbatical reports added in September look at the following...

Learning to learn - NEW section on NZC Online

URL: Learning to learn - NEW section on NZC Online
This new section draws together research, ideas, examples, and resources to support the NZC principle of learning to learn.

Industry leader welcomes Home-based Childcare Review

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ECE industry leader Jenny Yule is welcoming the opportunity to work closely with Government as it reviews home-based childcare. Ms Yule, who founded PORSE, New Zealand’s largest home-based childcare provider, said the review was a great opportunity to ...

Waikato University Rises In Latest World Rankings

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The latest set of world rankings released today has seen the University of Waikato at its highest ranking ever.

TEDx event features Kiwi innovators

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TED talks are coming to Auckland tomorrow, with the sold out TEDx event featuring a number of local innovators.

Deal done for Indonesian students - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
A boom in joint agricultural research is tipped to result from a higher education handshake between Jakarta and New Zealand, with agreements signed off by both countries, heralding a flood of cashed-up Indonesian exchange students here. Massey and ...

University of Auckland climbs rankings - New Zealand Herald

Telegraph.co.uk

URL: University of Auckland climbs rankings New Zealand Herald The University of Auckland has gained ground in a table ranking universities from around the world. Times Higher Education's world university rankings, revealed today, show Auckland sitting in 161st spot, up 12 from last year, when it was ranked in ...

Shakespeare in schools - to be or not to be? - Stuff.co.nz (blog)

Stuff.co.nz (blog)

URL: Shakespeare in schools - to be or not to be? Stuff.co.nz (blog) One of the most disturbing pieces of information that came to light last weekend was this piece about Shakespeare teaching (or the potential lack of) in high schools. According to proposed changes, a level three NCEA English component that asks ...

Waikato Student Scoops Top Scholarship To Cambridge

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Waikato Student Scoops Top Scholarship To Cambridge University A Waikato University computer science student has been awarded a prestigious Woolf Fisher Scholarship, worth about $100,000 a year for up to four years, to study for a PhD at Cambridge ...

Hawera head teacher elected to NZEI presidency

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4 October, 2012 Immediate Release Hawera head teacher elected to NZEI presidency Hawera kindergarten head teacher Judith Nowotarski is to be the new national president of NZEI Te Riu Roa. Judith was voted in at the institute’s annual meeting in Rotorua ...