Bill will help improve education success for young New Zealanders

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Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata says the Education Amendment Bill, introduced today, includes a number of changes which will help improve education outcomes for learners. “Changes to the Education Amendment Bill will provide more clarity for schools and Boards of Trustees, and ensure children’s needs remain the central focus for our educators,” says Ms Parata...

Conference to discuss the future of teacher education - InfoNews.co.nz

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The New Zealand Council for Educational Research, New Zealand Teachers' Council, New Zealand Post Primary Teachers Association, and New Zealand Educational Institute will be represented at the conference. Share ...

Education Aotearoa - All stories - Professionals - you be the judge!

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Great Spaces for Teachers is a new initiative linked to the New Zealand Council for Educational Research's Teacher Workplace Survey. It is open to schools that sign up to do the survey before 30 November 2012.

National standards belittle people like me, says Adam - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: National standards belittle people like me, says Adam Stuff.co.nz He needs more time to sit exams, and if he was able to answer questions verbally he would get a much higher result, but he says the national standards testing system does not allow that to happen. Adam, who attends Westburn School, said he was below ...

Student searches allowed in charter school bill - Stuff.co.nz

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Legislation allowing for charter schools includes measures for existing state schools to search students - including their text messages - and to change the school timetable. The latest Education Amendment Bill was introduced into Parliament last night.

Bill 'will help improve education success' for young NZers - Voxy

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"Changes to the Education Amendment Bill will provide more clarity for schools and Boards of Trustees, and ensure children's needs remain the central focus for our educators," says Ms Parata. "School Boards of Trustees play a critical role and their ...

Student teachers told to go overseas - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Student teachers told to go overseas Stuff.co.nz The bombshell was dropped by an Education Ministry-contracted speaker, who advised students at a seminar last week to go overseas for work as there would be jobs for only 20 per cent of them. The students also heard that only 40 per cent of new ...

Tamariki And Mokopuna in the Context of the Extended Whanau - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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“The Kohanga Reo has always prioritised the role of the extended whanau in children's general wellbeing based on the principle of early intervention as espoused by the Maori elders thirty years ago in 1982,” said Dame Iritana Tawhiwhirangi, Trustee of ...

Cyber-bullying takes its toll on teenager - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Cyber-bullying takes its toll on teenager Stuff.co.nz What the guy did was he went online to the kids who went to [the new school] and said that he was going to be a new student - that he was starting school the following week and that he wanted some friends and could they friend him on Facebook.

Schools grieving - Longstone - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Schools grieving - Longstone Stuff.co.nz For many schools the announcement was ''very good news'' because they could start creating a 21st-century learning environment for their pupils, Longstone said. ''What we cannot do is nothing. That is the key issue,'' she said. The ministry has also ...

School closing on NZ's most inspiring teacher

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The Dunedin teacher awarded New Zealand's most inspiring teacher will be back in the job market next year, with her school closing at the end of this year.Jan Stevens won this year's award after a five-week search run by Warehouse...