URL: Lifting educational achievement through increased early childhood education participation
Hekia Parata | Education
Education Minister Hekia Parata has welcomed new provisional figures which show an increase in the number of children participating in early childhood education, particularly Māori and Pacific Island children. Provisional data for the first quarter of 2013 shows around 95.5 per cent of children that started school this year had participated in early childhood education. That’s up from 94.7 per cent at the same time last year. The provisional data also shows increases in participation rates for Māori and Pasifika children...
