Labour wrong on youth education & training

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Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment

Labour once again stands accused of putting the worst possible spin on youth education and training, Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce says. “The reality is that the latest HLFS shows that just under 80 per cent of all 15-19 year olds in New Zealand are enrolled in education or training, with the total numbers up from 238,000 to 243,000 in the last quarter,” Mr Joyce says...

Maths report shows negative impact of government policy

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National Standards have already started to negatively impact on children’s learning, a report today shows.

Maths report shows negative impact of govt policy - NZEI - Voxy

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Voxy
But Khandallah Primary School Principal Louise Green says National Standards are an inflexible tool and result in a system where educators are being forced to teach-to-test. It also means important teacher time and resources are taken away, making it ...

Aid urged for maths underachievers - Stuff.co.nz

Newstalk ZB

URL: Aid urged for maths underachievers Stuff.co.nz About 50 per cent of primary schools could improve their pupils' maths results if they used assessment data to adapt the curriculum to meet their needs, an Education Review Office report issued yesterday says. Most schools are good at identifying ...

Teachers 'need more development time' - MSN NZ News

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MSN NZ News
Principals' Federation president Philip Harding says the suggestions in the report are helpful and constructive, but wondered if the implementation of National Standards wasn't helping teacher development. "The processes we had to develop to simplify ...

Let's make every child a winner - The Press

The Press

URL: Let's make every child a winner The Press Christchurch-based fitness industry professional Bevan James Eyles believes children will benefit most when adults move on from the eternal debate about competition versus participation in kids' sport. ... There's a scene in the film Dead Poets Society ...

Officials meet as Novopay frustrations increase - TVNZ

Otago Daily Times

URL: Officials meet as Novopay frustrations increase TVNZ The group, including Ministry of Education officials, heads of principals and teachers groups, and unions, also discussed a technical review of the Novopay software, to determine if it's fit for purpose, and whether it can be fixed. Phil Harding from ...

Ipads open the way for students to learn in a fresh new way - Waikato Times

Waikato Times

URL: Ipads open the way for students to learn in a fresh new way Waikato Times Other classrooms at Leamington make use of iPads daily, but room one is the first class in which every student has their own personal device. When the ... As children do their work, the technology in the classroom means the children have the ability to ...

Inside the Novopay debacle - Manawatu Standard

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Manawatu Standard
... to upskill to become payroll experts (and in the large number of New Zealand's smaller schools, that job fell to already overloaded principals dealing with property, finance and personnel issues, along with the ever changing National Standards ...

Stress builds over Novopay debacle - Taranaki Daily News

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Taranaki Daily News
A Taranaki principal is asking how long it will be before the problem-plagued Novopay system starts to affect the performance of teachers in the classroom. Errors for this pay period affected about one third, 40 staff, at New Plymouth Girls' High School.

Teacher steps up, but no pay to go with post - Stuff.co.nz

Stuff.co.nz

URL: Teacher steps up, but no pay to go with post Stuff.co.nz Timaru Boys' High School teacher Tracey Atwool is one of the faces of the Novopay scandal - she has not been paid by the Ministry of Education since December last year. After three years working at the high school, this year was to be her first in a ...