URL: More social workers in low-decile schools
Paula Bennett | Social Development
A further 80 schools will be covered by the expansion of Social Workers in Schools (SWiS) when students return to classrooms from this week. Social Development Minister Paula Bennett announced the expansion of SWiS to all decile 1-3 schools last year, with coverage planned to increase from 285 to 673 schools. There will be 35 new full time social workers starting the 2013 school year at primary schools in Kaipara, Greater Auckland and the South Island...
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Pacific students ready to step into the trades
URL: Pacific students ready to step into the trades
Steven Joyce | Pacific Island Affairs
A unique partnership between tertiary education organisations (TEOs) and Pacific churches has seen hundreds of Pacific people trained to help in the Christchurch rebuild, says Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce and Pacific Island Affairs Minister Hekia Parata. The two groups combined to implement the $6 million Pacific Trades Training Initiative, which is part of the Government’s wider $42 million Skills for Canterbury package to maintain the expanded training pipeline for trades people for the Canterbury rebuild...
Steven Joyce | Pacific Island Affairs
A unique partnership between tertiary education organisations (TEOs) and Pacific churches has seen hundreds of Pacific people trained to help in the Christchurch rebuild, says Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce and Pacific Island Affairs Minister Hekia Parata. The two groups combined to implement the $6 million Pacific Trades Training Initiative, which is part of the Government’s wider $42 million Skills for Canterbury package to maintain the expanded training pipeline for trades people for the Canterbury rebuild...
'Change in education is needed' - Marlborough Express
URL: 'Change in education is needed'
Marlborough Express
The vocationally focused tertiary high school in Manukau, Auckland, allows students looking to drop out of high school at year 11 to study at high school level while gaining career skills at a tertiary level. Two-thirds of its students are Maori and ...
Marlborough Express
The vocationally focused tertiary high school in Manukau, Auckland, allows students looking to drop out of high school at year 11 to study at high school level while gaining career skills at a tertiary level. Two-thirds of its students are Maori and ...
New teachers can't find jobs - New Zealand Herald
URL: New teachers can't find jobs
New Zealand Herald
New Zealand Secondary Principals' Council chairman Allan Vester said the fact that good-quality graduates were struggling for jobs could deter the next wave of students from choosing education. "I've heard anecdotally of university or training college ...
New Zealand Herald
New Zealand Secondary Principals' Council chairman Allan Vester said the fact that good-quality graduates were struggling for jobs could deter the next wave of students from choosing education. "I've heard anecdotally of university or training college ...
Parents pick up tab for Govt underfunding - Hipkins - Voxy
URL: Parents pick up tab for Govt underfunding - Hipkins
Voxy
"National has no problem finding extra money in their Budget to bail out private schools, and they're willing to splash the cash around setting up new Charter Schools, but they're not willing to fund our public schools adequately. That says everything ...
Voxy
"National has no problem finding extra money in their Budget to bail out private schools, and they're willing to splash the cash around setting up new Charter Schools, but they're not willing to fund our public schools adequately. That says everything ...
Ministry pay glitch is karma, quips Parata - Stuff.co.nz
 Newstalk ZB | URL: Ministry pay glitch is karma, quips Parata Stuff.co.nz Education Ministry staff received little sympathy from their minister, Hekia Parata, after their pay did not arrive as expected yesterday morning. The glitch gave an unwanted taste of what teachers have been going through with Novopay - and the ... |
Govt pits schools against each other - NZ First - Voxy
URL: Govt pits schools against each other - NZ First
Voxy
"I recall watching Mr Key walk into a room full of secondary school teachers who were going to unite together with their primary school peers over the National Standards issue. "Within moments he convinced them to turn on their primary peers by saying ...
Voxy
"I recall watching Mr Key walk into a room full of secondary school teachers who were going to unite together with their primary school peers over the National Standards issue. "Within moments he convinced them to turn on their primary peers by saying ...
Threats and ploys to get voluntary fees - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Threats and ploys to get voluntary fees
Stuff.co.nz
The money went into operational costs, subsidised trips, classroom materials, sports programmes, broadband and IT expenses. ''We're conscious that our fees are relative high compared to most others but I think it reflects that we deliver a quality outcome.
Stuff.co.nz
The money went into operational costs, subsidised trips, classroom materials, sports programmes, broadband and IT expenses. ''We're conscious that our fees are relative high compared to most others but I think it reflects that we deliver a quality outcome.
Schools steer clear of fee incentives - Stuff.co.nz
 Scoop.co.nz | URL: Schools steer clear of fee incentives Stuff.co.nz Despite primary and secondary state education being nominally free, parents contribute more than $100 million a year in fees that cannot be legally enforced. Principals say it's a struggle to keep schools up with 21st-century expectations with what ... |
Feature Guest - Dame Wendy Pye
URL: Feature Guest - Dame Wendy Pye
Founder and managing director of Wendy Pye Group, self-made multimillionaire and the first living woman inducted into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame.
Founder and managing director of Wendy Pye Group, self-made multimillionaire and the first living woman inducted into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame.
Weltec Welcomes Incentives for Apprentices and Employers
URL: Weltec Welcomes Incentives for Apprentices and Employers
The Wellington Institute of Technology welcomes the recent announcement by Prime Minister John Key on financial incentives for new apprentices and their employers.
The Wellington Institute of Technology welcomes the recent announcement by Prime Minister John Key on financial incentives for new apprentices and their employers.
Institute To Improve Learning For All
URL: Institute To Improve Learning For All
New Zealand’s first university-based Institute of Education will focus on improving the learning outcomes for all children.
New Zealand’s first university-based Institute of Education will focus on improving the learning outcomes for all children.
New master’s degree unique in New Zealand
URL: New master’s degree unique in New Zealand
New master’s degree unique in New Zealand Innovative work-based learning programmes to be launched in Auckland In a first for New Zealand, Otago Polytechnic is launching two innovative, high-level qualifications designed specifically to be undertaken ...
New master’s degree unique in New Zealand Innovative work-based learning programmes to be launched in Auckland In a first for New Zealand, Otago Polytechnic is launching two innovative, high-level qualifications designed specifically to be undertaken ...
4 Mount Albert schools to benefit from extra social workers
URL: 4 Mount Albert schools to benefit from extra social workers
“Four of schools in the Mount Albert electorate will benefit from an expansion of the Government’s Social Workers in Schools (SWiS) programme” says National MP Melissa Lee.
“Four of schools in the Mount Albert electorate will benefit from an expansion of the Government’s Social Workers in Schools (SWiS) programme” says National MP Melissa Lee.
Govt ignored advice before private school's integration
URL: Govt ignored advice before private school's integration
The Government ignored advice from the Ministry of Education and Treasury that the private school Wanganui Collegiate should not become a state integrated school.Radio New Zealand has obtained information under the Official Information...
The Government ignored advice from the Ministry of Education and Treasury that the private school Wanganui Collegiate should not become a state integrated school.Radio New Zealand has obtained information under the Official Information...
Call to explain Witt CEO's sudden exit - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Call to explain Witt CEO's sudden exit
Stuff.co.nz
Mr Little, who was on the Tertiary Education Commission board for four years and Witt Council from 2008 until 2010, said during his tenure there had often been talk of the need for TEC to make an example of a polytech that had made bad decisions by ...
Stuff.co.nz
Mr Little, who was on the Tertiary Education Commission board for four years and Witt Council from 2008 until 2010, said during his tenure there had often been talk of the need for TEC to make an example of a polytech that had made bad decisions by ...
Zone woes hit hard at Redcliffs School - Stuff.co.nz
URL: Zone woes hit hard at Redcliffs School
Stuff.co.nz
... at Redcliffs School. TINA LAW. Last updated 05:00 31/01/2013. Rachel Ono. IAIN MCGREGOR/Fairfax NZ. CLASS ACTION: Redcliffs School teacher Rachel Ono prepares her classroom for another year at the Van Asch Deaf Education Centre in Sumner.
Stuff.co.nz
... at Redcliffs School. TINA LAW. Last updated 05:00 31/01/2013. Rachel Ono. IAIN MCGREGOR/Fairfax NZ. CLASS ACTION: Redcliffs School teacher Rachel Ono prepares her classroom for another year at the Van Asch Deaf Education Centre in Sumner.
Parents sought for online Triple P Positive Parenting trial
URL: Parents sought for online Triple P Positive Parenting trial
Parents of children aged 3-4 years who exhibit inattentive and overactive behaviour are sought for a study of the Triple P Positive Parenting Programme.
Parents of children aged 3-4 years who exhibit inattentive and overactive behaviour are sought for a study of the Triple P Positive Parenting Programme.
Time for a fresh page at Girls' High - Stuff.co.nz
 Stuff.co.nz | URL: Time for a fresh page at Girls' High Stuff.co.nz The Christchurch Girls' High School principal has welcomed pupils back this week - something that looked unlikely two months ago when she was controversially sacked by the school's board of trustees. "We've been through a bit of a rough old time, but ... |
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