Delegates support scrapping national standards - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
Several speakers on Sunday criticised the refusal of Labour leader David Shearer and other MPs to say a Labour-led Government would abolish national standards in reading, writing and maths. Delegates also supported a motion that if the party comes to ...

PM unconvincing on education - Greens - Voxy

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Voxy
... development for teachers is disingenuous given that professional development in the primary sector has been narrowed to a focus on National Standards and the Government have a Bill before the House promoting unregistered teachers in Charter schools ...

Letters 17 November 2012 - New Zealand Listener

URL: Letters 17 November 2012
New Zealand Listener
Further to your November 10 Editorial on charter schools (“A tale of long tails”), this Government continues to exaggerate the “one in five” it claims are failing in public education, while remaining mute on the one in five children growing up in ...

Union meetings hit schools - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
The meetings are to discuss the latest round of pay negotiations with the Ministry of Education, as well as other issues affecting teachers such as national standards and the prospect of performance pay. One meeting was held on Thursday at Birchwood ...

Skills crisis: Tragic skills mismatch shuts rising generation out of jobs - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
In a 2006 survey, 14 per cent of our adults could not read a simple document such as a map or a timetable and 20 per cent could not carry out a one-step calculation. Up to about 1970, people with such low skills could still walk out of school into ...

Schools of the future - The Press

The Press

URL: Schools of the future The Press Children still require literacy and numeracy. But the new curriculum is designed to foster the more general ... It is just all the things you would expect of a modern adult work environment, Sofo says. Like toilets that are part of the rooms. "Students ...

2013 Youth Guarantee - Tertiary Education Commission

URL: 2013 Youth Guarantee - Tertiary Education Commission
Providers may choose to deliver the National Certificate in Educational Achievement (NCEA) only, but must do so using the unit or assessment standards that are directly mapped to one or more of the Vocational Pathways.

Fears for Maori education project - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
Negotiations are under way over the future of an education project helping to lift the achievement of Maori students. However, the Post Primary Teachers' Association and Labour education spokeswoman Nanaia Mahuta say the Government has largely ...

Schools shake-up upsetting children - Timaru Herald

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Timaru Herald
The Education Ministry announced proposals in September to close 13 Christchurch schools and put 26 through some form of merger. Since the announcement, principals of affected schools say pupils are acting the way they did after the quake. Branston ...

Hagley could help stave off closures - Stuff.co.nz

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"We do adult literacy classes at Rowley Ave, Shirley and Aranui schools." Ace funding has been progressively scaled back over the ... "It is only for courses with embedded numeracy and literacy." Those courses could be a pathway into a career for ...

Minister's threat to uni on funding - New Zealand Herald

New Zealand Herald

URL: Minister's threat to uni on funding New Zealand Herald Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce is threatening to force the university to take more engineering students, even though the university says this could cause layoffs elsewhere on the campus. This year's Budget put an extra $42 million into ...

NZEI and ministry to meet over Novopay - 3News NZ

3News NZ

URL: NZEI and ministry to meet over Novopay 3News NZ The Novopay fiasco comes on the back of protests over National Standards and a humiliating back down on plans to increase class sizes and cut technology subjects. But Mr Key is backing his minister. “Hekia Parata's doing an outstanding job,” he said.

Pay shambles for teachers a failure of accountability - The Dominion Post

URL: Pay shambles for teachers a failure of accountability
The Dominion Post
These are the same teachers who are told by neo-liberals that they are failing a ''tail'', need constant monitoring through National Standards and are so lazy the only way they'll get results is to be subjected to performance pay. Ad Feedback. Can you ...