Education 'going in wrong direction' - The Bay of Plenty Times

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The Bay of Plenty Times
Ian Leckie says New Zealand's world-class education system is going "backwards" because of changes such as charter schools, national standards, league tables and performance-based pay. He has just returned to Tahatai Coast School after spending two ...

Charter schools totally undemocratic - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
The Education Amendment Bill before a parliamentary select committee provides for a new type of public private partnership (PPP) school in New Zealand. The Government has gone to considerable lengths to trumpet New Zealand's first PPP to build and ...

Speech: The Case for Partnership Schools - John Boscawen - Voxy

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Seventh, there is overwhelming overseas evidence that properly monitored charter schools, as they are known overseas have been very successful, despite the opposition's efforts to argue otherwise. Sweden for example introduced 'free schools', their ...

Chch groups investigate starting charter schools - The Press

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The Press
However, the Partnership School Working Group has received 35 indications from parties keen to open a school. Group chairwoman and former ACT president Catherine Isaac said most indications came from disadvantaged groups, including Maori and ...

School fees hit hard - Auckland stuff.co.nz

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URL: School fees hit hard Auckland stuff.co.nz ... full $200 donation, and another 7 per cent make a part payment. "The ministry pays schools to deliver what could be described as a narrow definition of education, classroom-based curriculum basics," Whangaparaoa College principal James Thomas says.

Disabled pupils' welfare 'ignored' in Ashburton - New Zealand Herald

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New Zealand Herald
However, the special needs pupils are still being dropped off hundreds of metres away from their classroom because the bus is too big to access the campus. Ashburton College deputy principal Grant Congdon also questioned the tendering process, saying ...

Teachers to picket over Novopay - Stuff.co.nz

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The Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA) is still building a legal case to see either the Ministry of Education, or contractor Talent 2, should be held responsible for the multiple problems with its members' wages. Hundreds of New Zealand ...

Nationwide protesters call for help in Novopay debacle

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School staff, are protesting outside the offices of government MPs this morning asking for more action over the Novopay debacle.

Teachers protest Novopay problems

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Novopay Minister Steven Joyce says there is "a wider range of villains" behind the troubled payroll system than the National MPs whose offices are being picketed by frustrated teachers today.Members of the New Zealand Educational...