School standards: Must try harder - New Zealand Herald

New Zealand Herald

URL: School standards: Must try harder New Zealand Herald This variation is no bad thing - schools are encouraged to choose teaching methods to suit their environment and, in introducing National Standards, the ministry deliberately avoided setting a uniform test because of experience overseas, where national ...

The NZ government's unpopular policies - New Zealand Listener

New Zealand Listener

URL: The NZ government's unpopular policies New Zealand Listener (Not to even get started on charter schools, which, come to think of it, might be exactly what the future holds for that policy the way things are going for the Government.) It's not necessarily the actual policies that are the problem, in that ...

Speech: Turia – NZAPEP conference - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

URL: Speech: Turia – NZAPEP conference
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
In short, there has been a virtual festival of learning from exploring the strength of foundation pathways in numeracy and literacy right through to international education and careers bench-marking. The thousand dollar question of course is – what ...

The National Administration Guidelines (NAGs)

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Information about The National Administration Guidelines (NAGs) - statements of desirable principles of conduct or administration for specified personnel or bodies

Schools all ears for ministry talks - The Press

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The Press
Linwood Intermediate principal Lee Walker, whose school is earmarked to close, said every school he knew of had lodged requests for this information under the Official Information Act (OIA). Principals wanted to see the information Education Minister ...

Parata rejects Canterbury schools funding claims - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Parata rejects Canterbury schools funding claims Stuff.co.nz Half the $1 billion the Government has promised to invest in Canterbury schools in the next 10 years would have been spent anyway, Labour's associate education spokesman Chris Hipkins says. “The National Government boldly promised it was ... so the ...

More time given for school merger response - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Education Minister Hekia Parata has assured the principals of five schools in Christchurch which face being merged into a single school, that they will have further opportunities to respond to the proposal. The Government wants to merge Aranui High ...

Anger over Christchurch Maori school closures - 3News NZ

3News NZ

URL: Anger over Christchurch Maori school closures 3News NZ The Government has proposed to close or merge seven out of 10 schools which offer Maori education in the quake damaged city. Shirley Intermediate is one of them and principal Geoff Seive, attending a Pasifika leaders conference in Wellington today ...

Industry Training for the Primary Industries - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Federated Farmers welcomes the new Primary Industry Training Organisation (Primary ITO), following the formal merger launch yesterday of the AgITO and Horticulture ITO. This follows July's merger of the Seafood ITO and the NZITO (meat and dairy …

Joyce to visit India to boost education, business links - Invest in NZ

URL: Joyce to visit India to boost education, business links
Invest in NZ
Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Steven Joyce will lead a delegation to India tomorrow to lift New Zealand's profile as a destination for international students and to support our tertiary institutions and companies seeking to ...

Net lessons for teachers - Northern Advocate

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Northern Advocate
... ready to learn but things happen over the course of their growing up," he said. Though they have huge potential as education resources, networking sites such as Facebook have also been linked to proliferating incidents of cyber-bullying by school ...

We've set up a Facebook page

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Destiny Church plans DIY school

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Destiny Church's Bishop Brian Tamaki is calling on hundreds of skilled tradespeople and labour from within church ranks to build a new school in two months over summer.The church is moving from its Mt Wellington base to its "City...

Look to Local Success for Maori and Pasifika students « Red Alert

URL: Look to Local Success for Maori and Pasifika students « Red Alert
Its important to recognise that in education more should and must be done to lift achievement outcomes for all our children. There are two distinct paths, under the current Government, National standards, league tables and ...

Students plan to fight fees increase

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Victoria University students say they will fight plans to increase their fees by eight per cent.The university wants to raise fees for education, humanities, and social sciences papers by twice as much as the law allows, reported...