New school site purchased in the Queenstown area

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Education Minister Hekia Parata and Associate Minister Craig Foss today confirmed the site for a new primary school in the Queenstown area. The three-hectare site in the Shotover development, adjacent to the Lake Hayes Estate, is located in an area expected to experience significant population growth in the next 15 years. Hekia Parata said: “Confirmation of the agreement to purchase is excellent news. Queenstown is growing and the community needs extra schooling capacity. The Shotover site is well-located and will ensure young learners are well-catered for...

Robin Duff: Educational equity key to success - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
... these economic conditions impact much worse on Maori and Pasifika correlates strongly with the lower achievement data, on average, of these groups. Are our high rates of child poverty and related lower achievement to be solved by the education ...

Local teacher gets top job - Stratford Press

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Stratford Press
She says some of the shifting goal posts are ambiguous. "On the one hand they say they are going to lift post-graduation qualifications, but then they are pushing charter schools that would not need to appoint qualified teachers. There is no crises in ...

Chch teachers plan further protest action - Voxy

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"We're talking here about mega-sized schools, double bunking and charter schools. These are reforms which will not benefit children's learning and it's particularly unfair that Christchurch children are being treated in this way." The meeting will be ...

Longstone scapegoats collective over Novopay blunder

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Imagine what would happen if the already shambolic Novopay system had to deal with a hundred thousand individual contracts – the result would quite simply be chaos.

Teachers struggle with system - Auckland stuff.co.nz

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There have been more than 8000 logged errors since Novopay was introduced by the Education Ministry in August. They include overpayments, underpayments and sometimes no payments at all. Relief teacher Ron Elma from Te Atatu Peninsula has been ...

Novopay victims given free overdrafts - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
They are offering school staff interest-free overdrafts in the wake of continuing problems with the Ministry of Education's new payroll system, which has left many employees without pay for up to four months. New Zealand Bankers' Association chief ...

Principals slam ministry - Stuff.co.nz

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Principals are having their careers destroyed by frivolous complaints and the Education Ministry has been accused of failing to support those appointed to school boards. Secondary Principals' Association of New Zealand president Patrick Walsh said ...

More than 90% of schools complete end-of-year process

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More than 90 per cent of schools have now completed their end-of-year pay process, with the Ministry of Education continuing to support schools still finalising them.

Special Schools Co-Ed: Female Students 'At Risk... | Stuff.co.nz

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High-needs female students will be at risk of sexual abuse, including rape, if they attend a co-ed residential school for students with disabilities, a lawyer for Nelson's Salisbury School says. Education Minister Hekia Parata announced last ... six hours a day, but 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In an affidavit to the court, Parata said measures to ensure student safety at Halswell would include accommodating boys and girls in separate, secure, well-monitored villas.

Calls out for limited statutory manager

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The Christchurch Girls' High School board of trustees has asked the Education Ministry to intervene at the school before principal Prue Taylor returns.

Student enrolments down | Otago Daily Times Online News : Otago ...

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Student numbers at the University of Otago have taken another hit, with total enrolments for the year now expected to be 1.9% down on last year. ... The proposed budget for 2013 predicts the enrolments environment will stay flat next year, with a slight increase in domestic full-time students from 17,426 EFTS forecast this year to 17,638 next year. Full-fee paying international EFTS are forecast to fall for the second consecutive year from 1555 predicted this year to 1487 ...

Tertiary Education Commission head resigns yet again - Stuff.co.nz

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Tertiary Education Commission head Belinda Clark has quit - her second abrupt resignation in almost two years. The TEC confirmed yesterday that Ms Clark would step down as chief executive in February, after just 18 months in the job. A statement said ...

Green goals a reality for schools - Voxy

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... away with the standard of entries this year, from schools right across the country. It was fantastic to see that both students and teachers are enthusiastic about environmental education and learning outdoors," says Andrew Clearwater, Chairman of ...

Wasteland turned into thriving school vege garden - Voxy

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Footsteps' national team of home-based early childhood teachers and staff worked on the garden which is on Brookfield school property, alongside 10 children from the FYD's Project K programme who painted a mural of a Taurikara, the school's Maori ...

Tauranga Boys set for sport-based learning - The Bay of Plenty Times

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The Bay of Plenty Times
Sports Director at Tauranga Boys', Darrell Boyd, is overseeing the roles of three specialists in English, Mathematics and Physical Education who will then work with teachers in those areas at the eight schools. Boyd says the great thing ... One of the ...

Gardening Grants Give Little Green Fingers A Boost

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Children at six North Island rural schools will be encouraged to get their hands dirty as they develop vegetable gardens and orchards after being selected as the lucky winners of $2000 gardening grants. Rural Women New Zealand and Farmlands will ...

Govt to help pay universities' rebuild bill

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The Government has offered support to the University of Canterbury as it struggles under a hefty earthquake repair bill.

Quake-hit university to get help

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The University of Canterbury says the Government has agreed to provide support to help ensure the tertiary institution remains financially viable in the medium to long term.