Minister extends her condolences to school community

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Hekia Parata | Education

Education Minister, Hekia Parata, has extended her condolences to Chair Greg Hollister-Jones and Principal Eoin Crosbie of Bethlehem College over the deaths of participants in their mission partnership programme in Kenya. Brian and Grace Johnston and Caitlin Dickson died in a minivan accident while travelling to the small village of Mahanga. “I have conveyed my condolences to Greg and Eoin this morning, extending to the school community and families during this time,” says Ms Parata...

Personal Futures Theme | The power of local and virtual communities

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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), ...

Submissions show intense opposition to charter schools - NZEI - Voxy

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Voxy
NZEI Te Riu Roa says it hopes the Government will listen to the overwhelming number of submissions opposing its flawed and dangerous charter school policy. With one week to go to closing date (24 January), already hundreds of submissions opposing the ...

Editorial: PPTA charter school ads over the top - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
The Post Primary Teachers' Association has taken out newspaper advertisements to alert the public that the opportunity to file submissions on legislation permitting charter schools expires in nine days. The news is unlikely to come as a jolt to the ...

Charter schools unlikely soon - SunLive

SunLive

URL: Charter schools unlikely soon SunLive Submissions for the Government's proposed charter schools close next week but Tauranga MP Simon Bridges says the outcome of the legislation is unlikely to affect Tauranga any time soon. The Government is inviting submissions from members of the public ...

Key backs Parata after horror year - TVNZ

The Dominion Post

URL: Key backs Parata after horror year TVNZ The New Zealand model will see charter schools run by private enterprises such as business, iwi or Christian groups who will have the freedom to decide school terms and hours. Advertisement. "Insult to injury". The Green Party says Key's ongoing ...

John Armstrong: Keeping minister on a gamble for Key

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The real question is how much confidence parents have in Parata - and whether National is stuck with a lame-duck minister.So John Key has given Hekia Parata the opportunity to atone for last year's woeful performance in the education...

Decision based on politics not ability - principal - Newstalk ZB

Stuff.co.nz

URL: Decision based on politics not ability - principal Newstalk ZB ... at on a wider scale. "Rather than the person, what we're concerned about is the Government policies, the policies that are ill-founded and destructive of New Zealand's quality public education system. Things like charter schools, things like league ...

Parata's job safe in shuffle - New Zealand Herald

Stuff.co.nz

URL: Parata's job safe in shuffle New Zealand Herald Prime Minister John Key says Education Minister Hekia Parata will be safe in an upcoming Cabinet reshuffle, despite her troubles last year, because she is hugely talented and one of National's best communicators. Education unions and Opposition MPs ...

call for IT course review - Stuff.co.nz

Waikato Times

URL: call for IT course review Stuff.co.nz New secondary school computing courses designed to create more highly skilled workers are proving too hard for many students and teachers. Now worried principals are calling for a review of the curriculum as IT experts predict a "major dilemma" ahead ...

More teacher-pay chaos predicted - Stuff.co.nz

Newstalk ZB

URL: More teacher-pay chaos predicted Stuff.co.nz Education Workforce group manager Rebecca Elvy said the start of the school year, when thousands of staff move schools and start new jobs, was ''always expected to be a challenging period in the introduction of a large pay system". Because of this, the ...