Innovative education policy one step closer

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John Banks | Education

The establishment of Partnership Schools|Kura Hourua is one step closer with the introduction of the Education Amendment Bill, Associate Education Minister John Banks said today. “The Bill sets out the legal framework for this exciting new type of school which is based on international best practice but tailored to New Zealand’s unique education and social environment,” Mr Banks said. “The Partnership Schools|Kura Hourua model has been developed to assist those students whose needs are not being met in the current education system...

NZCER student engagement conference in September / News ...

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NZCER student engagement conference in September. 30 July 2009. Improving learning involves engaging the minds, hearts, and imaginations of young people. It means building on what they already know, believe, care about, and hope for ...

University Job: Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow ...

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The position offers the opportunity to work as part of a larger research team through our partner organization, the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. The research fellow/senior research fellow will enjoy the ...

Understanding National Standards results - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Understanding National Standards results Stuff.co.nz Since 2010, schools have been required to report to parents at least twice a year on the progress of pupils against the standards, but it was only in May this year that school-level results had to be sent to the Education Ministry. The Education Review ...

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 At school, Adam is a house leader and is on the pupil council. He plays several musical instruments, and enjoys drawing and designing houses ... She hoped Adam would be provided with a reader-writer at high school, but most primary schools were not ...

Bad Teachers cost their poor students | Whale Oil Beef Hooked | A ...

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Lord Rees, the Astronomer Royal and a Cambridge professor, said the middle-class dominance at many top institutions was explained by the “killer fact” that half of all pupils do not receive the quality of teaching needed to ...

The Propaganda Begins

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National testing is seen to be forcing children into a constrained, imprisoning, mental and social straitjacket. In fact, however, everybody really knows that the rest of the curriculum is worthless and inaccessible if the pupil ...

Failed experiment should be left to die - Sunday Star Times

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Sunday Star Times
One of the accepted virtues of the recent national standards release was that it confirmed just how much educational excellence is associated with ethnicity and culture. Long before secondary school, Maori kids lag behind other races in reading ...

Mana says no to educational failure - Harawira - Voxy

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"Charter schools are supposed to help underperforming Maori and PI kids" said Harawira "but the American model they're basing it on has a 40% dropout rate of black kids. Well guess what - if that's the level of underachievement our government wants ...

Tolley takes charge on charter schools - Mahuta - Voxy

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It was somewhat ironic but hardly surprising that Anne Tolley stepped in to answer questions about charter schools in Parliament today given it was Ms Tolley who recruited Ministry boss Lesley Longstone, a proponent of charter schools in the United ...

Govt may not action kohanga reo advice - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
It also recommends the Prime Minister appoint an interim independent advisor who'll oversee and facilitate work between the Kohanga Reo National Trust and its government partners. The report aims for the partnership to achieve goals such as creating a ...

Kohanga groups think about changes to pre-schools - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
The Tribunal's report says the Crown should to apologise to the country's kohanga reo because, it says, they suffered significant prejudice from successive governments forcing them to comply with the same early-childhood education regulations as ...

Crown apology sought for harm done to kohanga reo - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Education Minister Hekia Parata says the Government acknowledges the important role kohanga reo play in education and the report will be assessed alongside the Government's current work on early-childhood funding and a plan for Maori language in ...

Kohanga reo 'vindicated' by tribunal - NZ City

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The board accused the Crown of treating kohanga reo as early education providers, thereby undermining its kaupapa, or philosophy, and halving attendance rates. The tribunal released its report on Thursday, finding that the early childhood education ...

Kohanga reo in crisis, report says - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
A Waitangi Tribunal report says 3000 kohanga reo infants and toddlers face a crisis because their buildings are not up to code, and 172 language nests across the country could close. The warning comes in Matua Rautia, the report on the Kohanga Reo ...

Kohanga reo 'can make a real difference' - The Dominion Post

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URL: Kohanga reo 'can make a real difference' The Dominion Post Speaking after a ruling from the Waitangi Tribunal yesterday, Kokiri Pukeatua Trust chairman Kuini Puketapu said the kohanga reo movement could make a real difference for children. The tribunal found that the movement, established in the 1980s to ...

Govt warned over future of te reo Maori - TVNZ

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The future of te reo Maori is at stake if more support is not offered for kohanga reo, the Government is being warned. The Crown's treatment of the early education centres has been sharply criticised by the Waitangi Tribunal in a report published today.

Waitangi Tribunal 'arrogant' for wanting Crown apology - Radio New Zealand

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The Tribunal has recommended that the Crown revise its early childhood education policies and apologise for severe prejudice to kohanga reo centres for policies in the past decade. It says the Government should change its funding system for kohanga reo ...

'Double-bunked' schools on cards - Stuff.co.nz

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The bill also introduces charter schools, proposes the development of national student numbers, and gives teachers the right to seize and search student cellphones. Mt Albert Grammar School headmaster Dale Burden says flexible timetables could be ...

'Flexible-timetabling' on the cards for schools - TVNZ

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The time-shifting changes are covered in the Education Amendment Bill, lodged in Parliament last week, and extend nationwide the flexible timetabling allowed in Christchurch schools after the Canterbury earthquake. The bill also introduces charter ...

Fee Rises Outpace Inflation - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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WITT is the first polytechnic to speak out about the funding , telling the Taranaki Daily News this morning that Taranaki's unique Māori dialect may soon be extinct with the loss of foundation-level funding to the polytechnic. [Read more...] ... "We ...

Literacy the workplace accident 'elephant in room' - Voxy

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Voxy
Research has found that most New Zealand adults can read and write straight forward, familiar information but around half have significant literacy and/or numeracy gaps that affect their ability to manage the more complex demands of their jobs. Mr ...

Joyce needs to step in to protect student voice - Robertson - Voxy

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The decision to remove student representation from the Board of the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) is anti-democratic and robs students of their voice, says Labour's Tertiary Education, Skills and Training spokesperson Grant Robertson. "There has ...

Anger over school closures still festering - TVNZ

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TVNZ
Meanwhile, The Ministry of Education published the rationales behind the proposals online today and the individually-tailored documents have already been provided to the schools. Deputy Secretary, Regional Operations, Katrina Casey says her team has ...

Staff paid from school funds as errors persist - Otago Daily Times

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URL: Staff paid from school funds as errors persist Otago Daily Times Ministry of Education chief information officer Leanne Gibson said 87,119 school staff were paid this week, and each successive pay round had seen a reduction in the number of errors. However, with a payroll of more than 90,000 it was not uncommon to ...

Uni gets $21m system to manage students | Otago Daily Times ...

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The University of Otago is part-way through a $21 million project to replace its "ageing" student management system, with a new streamlined system allowing students to fill out more forms online.