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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), ...
Monday, January 7, 2013
Inaugural Lecture by Professor Saville Kushner
URL: Inaugural Lecture by Professor Saville Kushner
Educational Achievement and Other Illusive Outcomes: How the measureable overwhelms the immeasurable.
6pm: Members’ Lounge, Old Government House, Cnr Waterloo Quadrant and Princes Street, City Campus
7pm: Lecture Theatre 102, OGH-G36 (located at Old Government House)
20 February 2013
Educational Achievement and Other Illusive Outcomes: How the measureable overwhelms the immeasurable.
6pm: Members’ Lounge, Old Government House, Cnr Waterloo Quadrant and Princes Street, City Campus
7pm: Lecture Theatre 102, OGH-G36 (located at Old Government House)
20 February 2013
Playing fields to give way to classrooms - The Aucklander
URL: Playing fields to give way to classrooms
The Ministry of Education has revealed 200 new classrooms need to be added to schools throughout the city by 2017 to make room for an extra 5400 children. Schools are being encouraged to build up rather than out, but the ministry admits some innercity ...
The Ministry of Education has revealed 200 new classrooms need to be added to schools throughout the city by 2017 to make room for an extra 5400 children. Schools are being encouraged to build up rather than out, but the ministry admits some innercity ...
Dropouts victims of counting blunder - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Dropouts victims of counting blunder
"The growing importance of NCEA Level 2 means the New Zealand Qualifications Authority is working to ensure that all those who have successfully gained the qualification are aware of their achievement," Poutasi said. A report to Education Minister ...
"The growing importance of NCEA Level 2 means the New Zealand Qualifications Authority is working to ensure that all those who have successfully gained the qualification are aware of their achievement," Poutasi said. A report to Education Minister ...
Revealed: Where our students are being suspended the most - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Revealed: Where our students are being suspended the most
Rotorua principal Violet Pelham has no qualms about her school topping the list for the most suspensions in the past school year, saying her hardline response to bad behaviour makes the school safer than many others. The Education Ministry keeps a ...
Rotorua principal Violet Pelham has no qualms about her school topping the list for the most suspensions in the past school year, saying her hardline response to bad behaviour makes the school safer than many others. The Education Ministry keeps a ...
School's out for pupils with poor behaviour - Stuff.co.nz
URL: School's out for pupils with poor behaviour
Pupil exclusion from Christchurch schools up to October 31 last year was 1.7 per 1000 pupils, up from 1.3 the previous year. ... "Our board and our parents are really clear about the sorts of reasonable expectations we have of every student at the ...
Pupil exclusion from Christchurch schools up to October 31 last year was 1.7 per 1000 pupils, up from 1.3 the previous year. ... "Our board and our parents are really clear about the sorts of reasonable expectations we have of every student at the ...
Rising suspensions at Christchurch schools - The Press
URL: Rising suspensions at Christchurch schools
Pupil exclusion from Christchurch schools up to October 31 last year was 1.7 per 1000 pupils, up from 1.3 the previous year. ... "Our board and our parents are really clear about the sorts of reasonable expectations we have of every student at the ...
Pupil exclusion from Christchurch schools up to October 31 last year was 1.7 per 1000 pupils, up from 1.3 the previous year. ... "Our board and our parents are really clear about the sorts of reasonable expectations we have of every student at the ...
School search changes to put 'pupils and teachers' in danger - TVNZ
 The Farming Show | URL: Principals fear law changes will affect safety at schools Their views relate to the Education Amendment Bill before Parliament, which includes changes to the school powers of surrender, retention, search and seizure. Teachers would be unable to search pupils or their property if the bill becomes law, but ... |
Principals fear law changes will affect safety at schools - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Principals fear law changes will affect safety at schools
Their views relate to the Education Amendment Bill before Parliament, which includes changes to the school powers of surrender, retention, search and seizure. Teachers would be unable to search pupils or their property if the bill becomes law, but ...
Their views relate to the Education Amendment Bill before Parliament, which includes changes to the school powers of surrender, retention, search and seizure. Teachers would be unable to search pupils or their property if the bill becomes law, but ...
Editorial: Law should give teachers rights to keep school safe
URL: Editorial: Law should give teachers rights to keep school safe
For several years, teachers have been grappling with their right to search pupils who they suspect are carrying illicit drugs or weapons at school. At the core of their concern is the need to strike a balance between the right of...
For several years, teachers have been grappling with their right to search pupils who they suspect are carrying illicit drugs or weapons at school. At the core of their concern is the need to strike a balance between the right of...
School Principals' Search Powers Face Restrictions... | Stuff.co.nz
URL: School Principals' Search Powers Face Restrictions...
School principals fear they could soon be powerless to confiscate weapons and illicit drugs from pupils, under changes to the Education Act. ... teachers would not be able to search pupils at all. "This effectively meant if a teacher saw a student putting a knife, drugs or stolen property in their bags and asked them to hand it over, the student could just say 'no'," he said. ... know when it will be. It sends a clear warning to students that that type of behaviour is not permitted." ...
School principals fear they could soon be powerless to confiscate weapons and illicit drugs from pupils, under changes to the Education Act. ... teachers would not be able to search pupils at all. "This effectively meant if a teacher saw a student putting a knife, drugs or stolen property in their bags and asked them to hand it over, the student could just say 'no'," he said. ... know when it will be. It sends a clear warning to students that that type of behaviour is not permitted." ...
Student allowances a thing of the past for post-graduate students - New Zealand Herald
URL: Student allowances a thing of the past for post-graduate students
When the changes were announced, Mr Joyce said the Government wanted to focus student allowances on the first years of tertiary study and on students from low-income families. But a recent survey indicated cutting student allowances would result in a ...
When the changes were announced, Mr Joyce said the Government wanted to focus student allowances on the first years of tertiary study and on students from low-income families. But a recent survey indicated cutting student allowances would result in a ...
Student allowance eligibility tightened - Otago Daily Times
URL: Student allowance eligibility tightened
When the changes were announced, Mr Joyce said the Government wanted to focus student allowances on the first years of tertiary study and on students from low-income families. But a recent survey indicated cutting student allowances would result in a ...
When the changes were announced, Mr Joyce said the Government wanted to focus student allowances on the first years of tertiary study and on students from low-income families. But a recent survey indicated cutting student allowances would result in a ...
Student allowance cuts to go ahead - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Student allowance cuts to go ahead
''The reduction in the number of people participating in tertiary education in 2011, as the labour market gradually strengthened and in response to the movement of the birth bubble through the youth population, has led to a drop in the numbers borrowing.
''The reduction in the number of people participating in tertiary education in 2011, as the labour market gradually strengthened and in response to the movement of the birth bubble through the youth population, has led to a drop in the numbers borrowing.
Catching up with world class Kiwis: Judith Hanratty - New Zealand Herald
URL: Catching up with world class Kiwis: Judith Hanratty
Ms Hanratty is chairwoman of the Commonwealth Education Trust, which invests in the education, training and development of primary and secondary school teachers in Commonwealth countries. However, eight years ago before she retired, Ms Hanratty was ...
Ms Hanratty is chairwoman of the Commonwealth Education Trust, which invests in the education, training and development of primary and secondary school teachers in Commonwealth countries. However, eight years ago before she retired, Ms Hanratty was ...
Stalwart of Lincoln University gets MZMN - Southland Times
 Southland Times | URL: Stalwart of Lincoln University gets MZMN He served on the Council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities from 2008 to 2011, was a director of Te Tapuae o Rehua, a partnership of tertiary institutions and Ngai Tahu which was aimed at lifting Ngai Tahu and Maori katoa participation and ... |
Principal going after 21 years - Otago Daily Times
 Otago Daily Times | URL: Principal going after 21 years Born and raised in Kaitangata, Mrs Beck spent her entire teaching career at the school, with the exception of her first year out of training teaching in Gore. ''The kids are great, the teachers are hard-working. We have very good staff.'' Mrs Beck said ... |
UCOL books look good as cuts bite - Stuff.co.nz
URL: UCOL books look good as cuts bite
The most recent report published by the Tertiary Education Commission on tertiary sector performance showed UCOL was making steady progress in the areas of student course completion. However, while its financial performance met government targets, ...
The most recent report published by the Tertiary Education Commission on tertiary sector performance showed UCOL was making steady progress in the areas of student course completion. However, while its financial performance met government targets, ...
Holiday surprise, courtesy Novopay - Otago Daily Times
 Otago Daily Times | URL: Holiday surprise, courtesy Novopay The Education Ministry is unfazed that a payroll error gave a Dunedin man $1700 even though he is not a teacher. Labourer Rory O'Mahony (27) said when he asked a bank teller in Dunedin to change an automatic payment date at Christmas so the payment ... |
Potentially lucrative education deals with Shanghai envisaged - Otago Daily Times
 Otago Daily Times | URL: Potentially lucrative education deals with Shanghai envisaged Mr Christie told the Otago Daily Times the delegation was given a ''very receptive'' welcome during a series of meetings they attended, including from senior members of the Shanghai foreign affairs office and Shanghai education sector representatives ... |
Ex-serviceman's pain high school pupils' gain - Otago Daily Times
 Otago Daily Times | URL: Ex-serviceman's pain high school pupils' gain So in December 2011, he resigned and less than a month later, he had moved with his family to Dunedin, where he is now director of the Logan Park High School Service Academy. He describes it as a ''military-style'' alternative education programme for ... |
'Sleepover' pay issue for schools - New Zealand Herald
URL: 'Sleepover' pay issue for schools
The memorandum said the case was "likely to have ramifications in other parts of the education sector and other "sleepover" situations outside of the residential disability sector". The national secretary of the Service and Food Workers Union, John ...
The memorandum said the case was "likely to have ramifications in other parts of the education sector and other "sleepover" situations outside of the residential disability sector". The national secretary of the Service and Food Workers Union, John ...
Schools are 'socially toxic' - Stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Schools are 'socially toxic' About twenty years ago, the Government announced an education shake-up and introduced a new initiative called Tomorrow's Schools in which changes were to be made to accommodate the learning needs of New Zealand's youth. I became quite excited ... |
Principals sabbatical reports recently added
URL: Principals sabbatical reports recently added
Principals' sabbatical reports added in November and December 2012 look at the following:
Principals' sabbatical reports added in November and December 2012 look at the following:
- The current and potential use of emerging new technologies to support greater student control, engagement and achievement across the curriculum and development of stronger, more responsive home school learning partnerships (Mike Bain, Te Mata School).
- Developing effective strategies and techniques for working with the high rate of childhood anxiety currently presenting in our schools (Marie Barrett, St John Bosco School).
- Principal clusters, how they work in a strategic way to share skills, support others and collaboratively raise students outcomes (John Channer, Fraser Crescent School).
- U6 schools: their leadership teams, the responsibilities of DPs and APs, how planning teams are organised and to investigate how the design of classroom spaces can promote teaching and learning (Mark Gregory, St Joseph's School).
- How medium to high decile schools with a low percentage of Māori and Pasifika students successfully engage family and whānau in their children's learning to help raise student achievement (Pam King, Kauri Park School).
- The impact of ICT has on student learning and the various ways schools are able to sustain the financial costs associated with this (Nick Reed, Ashhurst School).
- Initiatives in schools that enhance the learning of maths for at-risk Year 2-4 students (Alan Russek, Dargaville Primary School).
- A comparative study of the UK based aspiring principal training, share collegiate knowledge, expertise and strategies for the support and better retention of first-time principals and principals (Tom Parsons, Queen Charlotte College).
Where there's a world of information - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Schools shake-up PR job from hell
Company director Mark Blackham said factors in the education announcement would "challenge the world's best PR exponents". "Christchurch schools have to be reorganised, thousands of people will be affected and all of them fear change that affects their ...
Company director Mark Blackham said factors in the education announcement would "challenge the world's best PR exponents". "Christchurch schools have to be reorganised, thousands of people will be affected and all of them fear change that affects their ...
Student numbers up in line with rebuild - The Press
 The Press | URL: Student numbers up in line with rebuild The CPIT now sits at the top of the Tertiary Education Commission's performance of tertiary education organisations review for its 2011 academic year. It came top in terms of course completion, second in completion of qualifications and scored highly ... |
Student entrepreneurs win council's youth award for community ...
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The University of Waikato student entrepreneur ENACTUS group wins the Innovative and Creative Ideas and Projects Award at the Hamilton City Council Recognyz Youth Awards. ... ENACTUS is a global umbrella for tertiary students to work as a club to use their learning to enhance their local community through economic, social, and environmental initiatives. ENACTUS Waikato currently has 44 members who are studying at Waikato Management School, and the ...
The University of Waikato student entrepreneur ENACTUS group wins the Innovative and Creative Ideas and Projects Award at the Hamilton City Council Recognyz Youth Awards. ... ENACTUS is a global umbrella for tertiary students to work as a club to use their learning to enhance their local community through economic, social, and environmental initiatives. ENACTUS Waikato currently has 44 members who are studying at Waikato Management School, and the ...
Schools shake-up PR job from hell - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Schools shake-up PR job from hell
Company director Mark Blackham said factors in the education announcement would "challenge the world's best PR exponents". "Christchurch schools have to be reorganised, thousands of people will be affected and all of them fear change that affects their ...
Company director Mark Blackham said factors in the education announcement would "challenge the world's best PR exponents". "Christchurch schools have to be reorganised, thousands of people will be affected and all of them fear change that affects their ...
Teachers struck off for assault, fraud - Stuff.co.nz
Teachers struck off for assault, fraud
New Zealand Educational Institute president Ian Leckie said that teachers being struck off the register showed the council was doing its job. "This is a system that will take those people away from children," he said. "That in itself is the safeguard ...
New Zealand Educational Institute president Ian Leckie said that teachers being struck off the register showed the council was doing its job. "This is a system that will take those people away from children," he said. "That in itself is the safeguard ...
Puna reo agrees kohanga has suffered - Radio New Zealand
URL: Puna reo agrees kohanga has suffered
An Auckland-based Maori pre-school outside of kohanga reo agrees with a Waitangi Tribunal suggestion that kohanga has suffered under the policies of successive governments. The Government is currently considering five recommendations of a tribunal ...
An Auckland-based Maori pre-school outside of kohanga reo agrees with a Waitangi Tribunal suggestion that kohanga has suffered under the policies of successive governments. The Government is currently considering five recommendations of a tribunal ...
Maori Affairs Minister congratulates New Year's Honours recipients - TangataWhenua.com: Maori News & Views
URL: Maori Affairs Minister congratulates New Year's Honours recipients
Also receiving this high honour of CNZM is Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith, an internationally renowned researcher, and advocate of kaupapa Maori; and Dr Turoa Royal whose commitment to Maori education has been demonstrated through his on-going ...
Also receiving this high honour of CNZM is Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith, an internationally renowned researcher, and advocate of kaupapa Maori; and Dr Turoa Royal whose commitment to Maori education has been demonstrated through his on-going ...
CPIT Student Numbers Swell As Rebuild Gets Underway... | Stuff.co.nz
URL: CPIT Student Numbers Swell As Rebuild Gets Underway... | Stuff.co.nz
Student numbers undertaking trades courses have jumped by more than 25 per cent from 710 equivalent fulltime students (EFTS) in 2011 to 900 this year. At the beginning of this month, the polytechnic had 545.4 EFT ...
Student numbers undertaking trades courses have jumped by more than 25 per cent from 710 equivalent fulltime students (EFTS) in 2011 to 900 this year. At the beginning of this month, the polytechnic had 545.4 EFT ...
'Student city' still the cheapest for study - Stuff
URL: 'Student city' still the cheapest for study - Stuff
Christchurch emerged as the third cheapest place for students, at $14,880 a year. The report found that the cost of living as a student had risen 23.7 per cent between 2004 and last year. Spending wisely, today's average Kiwi ...
Christchurch emerged as the third cheapest place for students, at $14,880 a year. The report found that the cost of living as a student had risen 23.7 per cent between 2004 and last year. Spending wisely, today's average Kiwi ...
College deals with debt of more than $1m - Stuff.co.nz
URL: College deals with debt of more than $1m
It was offered a 20-year extension of its repayment period as long as the loan was repaid in full by 2030, but it declined, saying the $80,000 annual payments would be to the detriment of its pupils' learning. A report to Education Minister Hekia ...
It was offered a 20-year extension of its repayment period as long as the loan was repaid in full by 2030, but it declined, saying the $80,000 annual payments would be to the detriment of its pupils' learning. A report to Education Minister Hekia ...
Two school sites cost $17 million - New Zealand Herald
URL: Two school sites cost $17 million
Last November Education Minister Hekia Parata and Associate Minister Craig Foss announced 3ha in the middle of the 120ha Shotover Country development had been secured for a 450-pupil primary school, which is not expected to open until February 2015 ...
Game addicts worry parents - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Game addicts worry parents
Nayland College is tackling the problem head-on by forming a computer club and making gaming more social. Problem ... He said it could be quite damaging and he had seen some children drop out of university or school - "and often they were bright kids".
Dyslexia no bar to fame - Southland Times
 Southland Times | URL: Dyslexia no bar to fame These are just a few famous people rumoured to have had dyslexia - and now Invercargill pupil Xavier Thompson can add his name to that list, since the release of his first book How Dyslexics Think. Published by Craigs Design and Print in Invercargill ... |
Film shining a light on the darkness of dyslexia - Otago Daily Times
 Otago Daily Times | URL: Film shining a light on the darkness of dyslexia It is ''inevitable'' that the number of applications for special assessment conditions under NCEA will increase when a documentary directed by the son of a Hollywood actor about dyslexia is made widely available, Dyslexia Foundation of New Zealand ... |
University leader’s award well-deserved - Lincoln Chancellor
URL: University leader’s award well-deserved - Lincoln Chancellor
The Officer of New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) awarded to retired Lincoln University Vice-Chancellor Emeritus Professor Roger Field was highly deserved recognition for a tertiary education leader who had given his heart and soul to serving New Zealand’s ...
The Officer of New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) awarded to retired Lincoln University Vice-Chancellor Emeritus Professor Roger Field was highly deserved recognition for a tertiary education leader who had given his heart and soul to serving New Zealand’s ...
New Year Honours: John Morris ONZM - New Zealand Herald
URL: New Year Honours: John Morris ONZM
These included introducing Cambridge International Exams and establishing the Association of Cambridge Schools New Zealand, which he chaired from 2002 until his retirement. Mr Morris said that while favouring Cambridge exams over NCEA had caused ...
These included introducing Cambridge International Exams and establishing the Association of Cambridge Schools New Zealand, which he chaired from 2002 until his retirement. Mr Morris said that while favouring Cambridge exams over NCEA had caused ...
Publishing educator becomes Dame - Stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Publishing educator becomes Dame Will the honour boost the launch of her latest educational publishing programme? Perhaps in a Commonwealth country, she says, but probably not in the US. "You don't take these awards for that reason." More importantly, "I think it brings a lot of ... |
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