School visits very constructive

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Hekia Parata | Education

Education Minister Hekia Parata says her engagement with schools proposed for closure or merger in greater Christchurch has so far been extremely thoughtful and constructive. Ms Parata has offered to visit all the schools proposed for closure or merger in greater Christchurch.  Of the 37 schools the Minister wrote to, 35 have taken her up on her offer. Ms Parata visited 12 schools last week and will return to Christchurch today for the remainder of the week to meet with the other 23 schools...

NZCER Annual Report « Cluster Creative

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NZCER Annual Report. Back to Top. « Branding. Our Latest Projects. NZCER Annual Report · Branding · City Eyes book · Planet Design Website · Taxi Impact website · Wareham Cameron + Co · RSA newsletter · NZCER Annual Report ...

Schools named for 'Sport in Education' initiative - Voxy

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Voxy
'Sport in Education' has the support and involvement of the Ministry of Education, the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, New Zealand Secondary Schools Sports Council and New Zealand Olympic ...

Single site schools – opportunity + innovation

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Innovative 21st century single site school proposed for Aranui

R&D boost for $37b Maori economy - New Zealand Herald

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URL: R&D boost for $37b Maori economy New Zealand Herald After training in Wellington, the students will then head out to work in several of FoMA's member trusts and incorporations to experience the day-to-day running of a Maori enterprise, Mitchell said. "The programme will help meet the increasing demand ...

Research to benefit kids - The Daily Post

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The Daily Post
Miss Moore said receiving the scholarship was really exciting and a great opportunity to engage with whanau, children, local community and teachers working with Maori children in mainstream education. The centre's manager, Carole Dean, said the ...

Language on knife edge - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
In measured but unequivocal terms, it says the Crown has undermined the kohanga reo movement by a process of remorseless assimilation into the wider early childhood education regime. By developing policy frameworks that erased the distinctiveness of ...

Public sector cuts: Cost of state cutbacks tops $38m - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
The commission's survey showed the Education Review Office was the oldest department with an average age of 56 years, while the Ministry for the Environment was the youngest at 39 years. The Ministry of Social Development took the most amount of time ...

The Prosperity Index | Kiwiblog

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Attacking the teachers, forcing a narrow focus on reading, writing and arithmetic, bringing in charter schools and creating large 'economy of scale' schools to break down lower level social interaction in education means the government can begin to exert more ... I note that there is very little here about educational outcomes or achievement. .... Excellent vision inspiring passes for drug tests and creating opportunity and diminishing domestic violence and child abuse ...

Skills pipeline vital for the future - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
That paradigm affects everything from our immigration policies, industry bodies, research funding to the education system, from early childhood to the tertiary sector. Like all live systems, to be successful it must be intuitive, connected and ...

beehive.govt.nz - Minister sends best wishes to NCEA students

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Education Minister Hekia Parata wishes all NCEA students in New Zealand the best during their examinations. "As NCEA examinations begin on 9 November, it is a critical time for our students and I wish them the very best ...

Number of school payroll problems soar - New Zealand Herald

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URL: Number of school payroll problems soar New Zealand Herald During question time a fortnight ago, Associate Minister of Education Craig Foss said 100 teachers were either not paid or underpaid during the last pay cycle and 390 teachers were overpaid. Today in question time that figure was raised to 3227. The ...

Auckland principal leaders support plan to halt cooperation - Voxy

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URL: Auckland principal leaders support plan to halt cooperation Voxy "Because of the hours spent on the Novopay shambles, we must prioritise work that is about directly supporting student learning, not take on more new compliance issues around National Standards, for example." They say the ongoing debacle of Novopay, ...

Ministry considers helping schools with audit costs - Radio New Zealand

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URL: Ministry considers helping schools with audit costs Radio New Zealand The association acknowledges that will harm government policies, including the national standards in reading, writing and maths, but says its members are too busy with the payroll problems to take on anything else. President Jill Corkin, of Snells ...

Further Assistance To Help Schools With Payroll System

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The Ministry of Education and its payroll provider Talent2 will be providing further assistance to schools to help address issues with the new payroll system.

Payroll errors don't affect pay - ministry - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
The association acknowledges this that will harm Government policies like the national standards in reading, writing and maths, but says its members are too busy with the payroll to take on anything else. President Jill Corkin of Snells Beach Primary ...

Christchurch Girls' High stand-in tries to restore calm - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Christchurch Girls' High stand-in tries to restore calm Stuff.co.nz The man now leading Christchurch Girls' High School is working hard to ensure normality is restored after outrage over the sacking of principal Prue Taylor. Peter Sawyer, the school's deputy principal since 2008, was appointed acting principal on ...

Porirua College: New buildings, new attitude - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Porirua College: New buildings, new attitude Stuff.co.nz Fighting, graffiti and vandalism at Porirua College disappeared when it said goodbye to dark corridors and concrete, cell-style buildings. The school's 1968 design was replaced by four integrated "whanau-style" houses with state-of-the-art equipment ...

Attracting the next generation of IT workers - Computerworld New Zealand

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Computerworld New Zealand
Computerworld recently tagged along to an ICT Connect event at Lynfield College, organised by the Institute of IT Professionals (IITP) to evangelise IT careers in schools. The initiative sees New Zealand technology workers volunteer about an hour of ...

School's IT initiative backed by charity - Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times
The improved connectivity would help the roll-out of e-xcellerate, which would see the school run an e-learning pilot, undertake professional development of staff and ascertain how best to ensure every pupil at WHS had access to the requisite devices ...

Dad thanks 'hero' for saving his life - Stuff.co.nz

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For Invercargill solo dad Marty Keen, it was important to show Ruru Specialist School pupil Chris Bode's classmates how much he appreciated their friend - and so he did. Mr Keen met pupils yesterday at a short ceremony at the school, where he thanked ...

143,000 students prepare for examinations

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More than 143,000 candidates are preparing for this year's NCEA and New Zealand Scholarship examinations being held from 9 November to 4 December.