Minister considers issues raised by judicial review

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Hekia Parata | Education

Education Minister Hekia Parata says the safety of children is paramount and was at the forefront during the process to expand the Intensive Wraparound Service and close two and retain two residential schools. Ms Parata says she will carefully consider yesterday’s High Court’s decision on the closure of Salisbury School.
“The judgment identified issues that I now need to consider in any fresh decision about the school. I will take some time to do that but I am not going to appeal this decision.’’...

Minister acknowledges new combined Board of Trustees for Deaf Education Centres

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Hekia Parata | Education

Education Minister Hekia Parata has today welcomed the formation of a combined Board of Trustees for Kelston Deaf Education Centre and van Asch Deaf Education Centre. “Today’s celebration marks a significant step towards providing a nationally consistent service for learners who are deaf or hearing impaired. “The van Asch and Kelston Boards have each provided strong leadership in the past. The formation of the new Board will combine those strengths and provide unified leadership for the two Deaf Education Centres.

Minister acknowledges new combined Board of Trustees for Deaf Education Centres

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Hekia Parata | Education

Education Minister Hekia Parata has today welcomed the formation of a combined Board of Trustees for Kelston Deaf Education Centre and van Asch Deaf Education Centre. “Today’s celebration marks a significant step towards providing a nationally consistent service for learners who are deaf or hearing impaired. “The van Asch and Kelston Boards have each provided strong leadership in the past. The formation of the new Board will combine those strengths and provide unified leadership for the two Deaf Education Centres...

The 16th International Conference on Thinking | ICOT13 » Held in ...

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Dr Jane Gilbert. Dr Jane Gilbert is Chief Researcher at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. She was previously Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Victoria University of Wellington (1995-2003), ...

NZ education under-performing - Parata - The Dominion Post

The Dominion Post

URL: NZ education under-performing - Parata The Dominion Post And she said the studies confirmed that national standards should be embedded into routine practise. Education researcher Cathy Wylie, who recently published her book Vital Connections, was not surprised to see New Zealand's performance had dropped.

Education standards slip under National - Voxy

New Zealand Herald

URL: Education standards slip under National Voxy "The Government also chose not to make science a priority under its flagship National Standards policy. As schools put more focus on the National Standards subjects of writing, reading and maths other subjects such as science were always likely to suffer.

Child Poverty Recommendations Show Strong Maori Focus - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
The emergence of Kohanga Reo, Kura Kaupapa Maori and tertiary wananga have been hugely important for Maori development. We are seeing a steady improvement in the achievement levels of Maori students in these settings. Lifting Maori educational ...

L3 alignment of NCEA with the NZC completed

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The three-stage alignment of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) with The New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) has been completed.
NCEA Levels 1 to 3 are now aligned to NZC Levels 6 to 8.
Completing this alignment positions the curriculum at the heart of teaching and learning programmes for all senior secondary students.
Whatever their qualification goals all senior secondary students, including Māori and Pasifika, those with special learning needs, those who have English language learning needs and those from low socio-economic backgrounds, will benefit from the flexible pathways that NCEA offers.
The curriculum creates opportunities for teachers to design quality teaching and learning programmes which are responsive to each learner and their unique learning contexts, and which prepare them for appropriate pathways that will bring them success.

Airport grant will help adults with poor literacy skills - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
Auckland-based organisation Workbase - an adult language, literacy and numeracy provider - has been helping Kiwi employees for years and now a pilot reading programme hopes to assist even more. Workbase is one of 12 charities from around the country ...

Parata's closure of special needs school unlawful - New Zealand Herald

New Zealand Herald

URL: Parata's closure of special needs school unlawful New Zealand Herald In one study, all but two students at a boys' school were found have been victims of abuse, Ms Chen said. Salisbury School had lost confidence in Ms Parata and her officials, she added. Twenty-two girls were to be affected by closing Salisbury. The aim ...

School children's safety 'paramount' - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
"In that very same meeting, Salisbury Board put forward a proposal for their own provision of co-educational schooling at Salisbury," Ms Parata said. Earlier this year Ms Parata backed down on a pre-budgetary decision to increase class size. There have ...

Canterbury Māori Trades Training Programme Receives $1m

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Media Release - joint statement from Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT) and Hawkins Construction 13 December 2012

Principal bashed by pupil's uncle - The Press West Coast

3News NZ

URL: Principal bashed by pupil's uncle The Press West Coast An Upper Hutt primary school principal suffered a split head and bruised ribs after a "sustained beating" from a relative of one of his pupils. The pupil's uncle laid into St Joseph's School principal Peter Ahern during a meeting over his nephew ...

Novopay: Now it's overpaying teachers

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Schools are reporting large and unexplained overpayments in holiday pay in Novopay's end-of-year cycle.

Science-loving teacher tops NZ - Stuff.co.nz

Stuff.co.nz

URL: Science-loving teacher tops NZ Stuff.co.nz She will use the money to visit a science education guru in the United States - and a lucky colleague may get the call to tag along. An awards ceremony at the school was held yesterday and principal David Reardon said staff and students were ...