URL: Independent Novopay review welcomed
Craig Foss | Education
Associate Education Minister Craig Foss has welcomed confirmation that the Novopay payroll project will be the subject of an independent review. “While the Ministry of Education’s new payroll project is still in its early stages, the number of issues resulting from the payroll transition has been unacceptable. The review will be comprehensive and thorough,” says Mr Foss. The independent post implementation review will commence in early 2013...
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Key competencies in the classroom | New Zealand Council for ...
URL: Key competencies in the classroom | New Zealand Council for ...
This webpage provides information for educators to support the use of the NZCER teacher and student surveys: Key competencies in the classroom. This page provides links to information about the development of the surveys, and ideas ...
This webpage provides information for educators to support the use of the NZCER teacher and student surveys: Key competencies in the classroom. This page provides links to information about the development of the surveys, and ideas ...
Kawea te wairua o te kupu
URL: Kawea te wairua o te kupu
NZCER Press
Agnes McFarland (Ētita)
Ko te tuhituhi o te whakaritenga o te whakaar
NZCER Press
Agnes McFarland (Ētita)
Ko te tuhituhi o te whakaritenga o te whakaar
o o tēnei pukapuka he whakatakoto huarahi ki ngā kāinga kōrero i tipu i roto i ngā tau kia kaua e wareware kia kitea ō mātau, ō tātau kanohi ngā kaituhi, ēnei kaituhi ki ngā hapori reo o tōu whānau, hapū, iwi. Kai kona te tika, kai kona te ora, kai kona e hora ai te kupu kia kaua e noho noa ki runga i te whārangi kohokoho, maremare ai. Koia te kaupapa o tēnei tuhituhi kia tipu ngā momo whakataurite, te anga whakaputanga o ngā whakahoutanga o te whakaaro mā tātau katoa ngā kaituhi me te hunga kai te piki ake...
Vital connections: Why we need more than self-managing schools
URL: Vital connections: Why we need more than self-managing schools
NZCER Press
Publication type: Book
Author(s): Cathy Wylie
What was the real effect of the radical Tomorrow’s Schools reforms? Has New Zealand’s school system improved as a result? What changes are needed now to meet our expectations of schools?
This is the definitive and compelling story of New Zealand school self management over more than two decades. Cathy Wylie explores the paths taken and the growing tensions of a system that left too much to chance...
Partnership schools | Kura hourua
URL: Partnership schools | Kura hourua
Learn more about the Partnership Schools | Kura Hourua, the Working Group and the process and timeline for establishment.
Learn more about the Partnership Schools | Kura Hourua, the Working Group and the process and timeline for establishment.
Profile and Trends 2011: New Zealand's Tertiary Education Sector
URL: Profile and Trends 2011: New Zealand's Tertiary Education Sector
This is edition 14 in an annual series on the tertiary education sector
This is edition 14 in an annual series on the tertiary education sector
John Langley: Radical change needed in schools - National - NZ Herald News - New Zealand Herald
URL: John Langley: Radical change needed in schools - National - NZ Herald News
New Zealand Herald
Grow and develop our educational leaders in a clear and systematic manner focusing on teaching and learning and the environments that enhance that. Always, without fail, see education as a team effort between children and young people, teachers, ...
New Zealand Herald
Grow and develop our educational leaders in a clear and systematic manner focusing on teaching and learning and the environments that enhance that. Always, without fail, see education as a team effort between children and young people, teachers, ...
Education boss grilled by committee - Otago Daily Times
 3News NZ | URL: Education boss grilled by committee Otago Daily Times Ms Moroney asked what had happened to savings from the failed class size policy, tagged to fund post-graduate teacher training. Ms Longstone said the money was no longer there, as a result of a backdown on changes to class size. "At the time I was ... |
Novopay will deliver benefits for schools - Otago Daily Times
 Otago Daily Times | URL: Novopay will deliver benefits for schools Otago Daily Times That is why I and other teachers and education groups were invited on to the reference group. The ministry wanted the views of professionals who know the pressures on schools and who could give a straight-forward opinion, however uncomfortable it might ... |
Ministry will review school payroll introduction
URL: Ministry will review school payroll introduction
The Ministry of Education says school administrators were not to blame for any problems with the novopay pay system and is promising an independent review.
The Ministry of Education says school administrators were not to blame for any problems with the novopay pay system and is promising an independent review.
Teacher pay admission: Could have done better - New Zealand Herald
 3News NZ | URL: Teacher pay admission: Could have done better New Zealand Herald Photo / Mark Mitchell. Expand. Secretary for Education Lesley Longstone. Photo / Mark Mitchell. Secretary for Education Lesley Longstone has admitted she would introduced the Novopay school payroll system in a different way if she had a second chance. |
Can the results of student achievements be used to assess teachers and teaching?
URL: Can the results of student achievements be used to assess teachers and teaching?
You are invited to hear one of the world’s leading and experienced educational researchers discussing the problem of assessing teaching using value-added models based on student achievement.
The University of Auckland, Faculty of Education, Room A201, A Block (Level 2), Gate 3, 74 Epsom Ave, Epsom. (View map). Free parking available at Gate 2.
10 December 2012
You are invited to hear one of the world’s leading and experienced educational researchers discussing the problem of assessing teaching using value-added models based on student achievement.
The University of Auckland, Faculty of Education, Room A201, A Block (Level 2), Gate 3, 74 Epsom Ave, Epsom. (View map). Free parking available at Gate 2.
10 December 2012
Working relationships in schools need to be looked at
URL: Working relationships in schools need to be looked at
The School Trustees Association says the Ministry of Education is becoming too involved in the employment dispute at Christchurch Girls High, but it also says the board there should have sought advice earlier.
The School Trustees Association says the Ministry of Education is becoming too involved in the employment dispute at Christchurch Girls High, but it also says the board there should have sought advice earlier.
Evaluation of Literacy and Mathematics Additional Learning Programmes for Students 2011
URL: Evaluation of Literacy and Mathematics Additional Learning Programmes for Students 2011
This research report outlines the findings of an evaluation of the Literacy and Mathematics: Programmes for Students 2011, a Ministry of Education initiative to provide additional teacher time to enable selected schools to organise programmes for students who were assessed as ‘below’ or ‘well below’ the National Standards in mathematics, reading or writing.
This research report outlines the findings of an evaluation of the Literacy and Mathematics: Programmes for Students 2011, a Ministry of Education initiative to provide additional teacher time to enable selected schools to organise programmes for students who were assessed as ‘below’ or ‘well below’ the National Standards in mathematics, reading or writing.
Planning guidelines for secondary schools
URL: Planning guidelines for secondary schools
Guidance for boards of trustees and secondary school leaders undertaking annual planning, focusing on the school charter and annual target setting.
Guidance for boards of trustees and secondary school leaders undertaking annual planning, focusing on the school charter and annual target setting.
Govt agrees in principle to support Canterbury TEIs - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
URL: Govt agrees in principle to support Canterbury TEIs
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Cabinet has made an agreement in principle to provide capital support to Canterbury's three Tertiary Education Institutions for their earthquake rebuilding programme, Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce says. “The University ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Cabinet has made an agreement in principle to provide capital support to Canterbury's three Tertiary Education Institutions for their earthquake rebuilding programme, Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce says. “The University ...
Engaging Pasifika families - Owairaka School builds a fale
URL: Engaging Pasifika families - Owairaka School builds a fale
The staff at Owairaka School have explored ways to build deep connections and partnerships with the many cultural groups and families at their school. Principal Diana Tregoweth and her staff went on a professional development trip to Samoa to help them to understand the culture of their Samoan students. This story tells how the community subsequently worked together to bring an element of Samoan culture to the school in the construction of a traditional fale.
The staff at Owairaka School have explored ways to build deep connections and partnerships with the many cultural groups and families at their school. Principal Diana Tregoweth and her staff went on a professional development trip to Samoa to help them to understand the culture of their Samoan students. This story tells how the community subsequently worked together to bring an element of Samoan culture to the school in the construction of a traditional fale.
Growing school to be secondary - Stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Growing school to be secondary Stuff.co.nz The school - located in Rototuna, Hamilton - will also build two new classrooms to cater for the growing number of students. Principal Marianne Spiller said the roll had grown by about 60 children over the past four to five years and she expected to ... |
Colleges stay suspended until new year - New Zealand Herald
 New Zealand Herald | URL: Colleges stay suspended until new year New Zealand Herald "The suspension will not be lifted on any of the four PTEs until there is full compliance with their obligations under the Education Act 1989 and the Immigration Act 2009," said the acting head of Immigration NZ, Steven McGill. "Prosecution action is ... |
Sponsors get new school off to good start - New Zealand Herald
URL: Sponsors get new school off to good start
New Zealand Herald
"It's about making that transition and giving that quality education to those kids without making it a hardship and ensuring for them the ability to be present in our school, to look smart and a big thing is to have pride in their appearance and hence ...
New Zealand Herald
"It's about making that transition and giving that quality education to those kids without making it a hardship and ensuring for them the ability to be present in our school, to look smart and a big thing is to have pride in their appearance and hence ...
Single-sex site share for schools mooted - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Single-sex site share for schools mooted
Stuff.co.nz
The Education Ministry mooted closing two single-sex high schools and moving Christchurch Girls' High School to the Christchurch Boys' High School site as part of its education overhaul in the region. However, the ministry says no options have been ...
Stuff.co.nz
The Education Ministry mooted closing two single-sex high schools and moving Christchurch Girls' High School to the Christchurch Boys' High School site as part of its education overhaul in the region. However, the ministry says no options have been ...
Hard calls for Salisbury parents - Stuff.co.nz
 The Nelson Mail | URL: Hard calls for Salisbury parents Stuff.co.nz The school's board is seeking a judicial review of Minister of Education Hekia Parata's decision to close the school, with the case heard in the High Court at Wellington yesterday. Justice Robert Dobson has reserved his decision. If the closure goes ... |
John Hinchcliff: Universities need to branch out to meet needs - New Zealand Herald
URL: John Hinchcliff: Universities need to branch out to meet needs
New Zealand Herald
The president of Stanford said there was a tsunami changing the face of university education as lectures are being replaced by imaginative, creative and interactive experiences. Professor Mitchell Dunier of Princeton University, teaching sociology to a ...
New Zealand Herald
The president of Stanford said there was a tsunami changing the face of university education as lectures are being replaced by imaginative, creative and interactive experiences. Professor Mitchell Dunier of Princeton University, teaching sociology to a ...
NZ ranks eighth in global education league table - Otago Daily Times
URL: NZ ranks eighth in global education league table
Otago Daily Times
The test compares the performance of 50 'developed world' countries in cognitive skills and education attainment, drawing on existing data from the international OECD-Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), The Trends in International ...
Otago Daily Times
The test compares the performance of 50 'developed world' countries in cognitive skills and education attainment, drawing on existing data from the international OECD-Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), The Trends in International ...
Learning Media scoops 3 awards for educational publishing
URL: Learning Media scoops 3 awards for educational publishing
Learning Media has won three out of six awards at the recent CLNZ Educational Publishing Awards:
Learning Media has won three out of six awards at the recent CLNZ Educational Publishing Awards:
BSCITO and Careerforce merger makes progress - Scoop.co.nz (press release)
URL: BSCITO and Careerforce merger makes progress
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
BSCITO and Careerforce merger makes progress 28 November 2012 Plans to merge industry training organisations Building Services Contractors ITO (BSCITO) and Careerforce are making good progress. BSCITO and Careerforce merger makes progress ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
BSCITO and Careerforce merger makes progress 28 November 2012 Plans to merge industry training organisations Building Services Contractors ITO (BSCITO) and Careerforce are making good progress. BSCITO and Careerforce merger makes progress ...
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