Call For National Languages Policy A Step In Right Direction - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Our Māori, Pasifika and migrant populations bring a richness of language strengths which could be contributing more to our educational and economic wellbeing as a city. As the Royal Society has highlighted, for monolingual students there may be ...

Education 'experiment' not the way - Auckland stuff.co.nz

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URL: Education 'experiment' not the way Auckland stuff.co.nz For Mrs Alderson and the principals association, the major concerns are that charter schools will be less transparent, have less accountability, they do not have to implement the New Zealand curriculum nor do principals need an educational background ...

Case for Partnership Schools: Giving Choice to Those Without - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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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 ...

Parata ignored Education Ministry warning - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Parata ignored Education Ministry warning Stuff.co.nz Education Minister Hekia Parata ignored warnings from officials who said it could be too early to make sweeping school changes in Christchurch because of changing demographics, documents show. Schools and the community have repeatedly told Parata ...

Child poverty experts aim for action - Stuff.co.nz

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Those priorities include the Government passing on child support payments, warrants of fitness for rental housing, young parents receiving top quality support and education and collaborative food-in-schools programmes. Dr Jilly Evans, a cancer ...

Are MBA's worth the paper they're written on? - Hunter Valley News

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Hunter Valley News
Some trends were obvious: more business Master's programs shrinking from 16 to 12 or even eight courses (a shame, in my view) and a higher proportion of online or self-directed learning (another shame, if it leads to less classroom time and interaction ...

Long-awaited school on way - Waikato Times

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Waikato Times
Since opening in 2008, Te Totara has grown from a roll of 58 to 555 and is opening roughly one classroom of new entrants each month. "We plan for that growth and we're comfortable with it, but certainly by 2015 we would be starting to creak," Mr Sheedy ...

Novopay decision soon - but more pain to come: Joyce - Southland Times

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URL: Novopay decision soon - but more pain to come: Joyce Southland Times Novopay Minister Steven Joyce will decide whether to ditch the error-hit education payroll software within a fortnight, but warned such a move would lead to greater pain in the short term. To mark six months since the Australian-developed software was ...

Principals question PWC Novopay Numbers

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The Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) update on the latest teachers’ pay round appears to be out of sync with reported school experiences. The report indicates a total of 1,662 staff as not paid, under paid or over paid, while a survey of school principals ...

School staff picket over Novopay shambles - Stuff.co.nz

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Two weeks ago about 100 South Taranaki school staff protested in Hawera and Stratford to let people know that many in the community were still being affected by Novopay. New Zealand Educational Institute North Taranaki president Ramona Taogaga said ...

School slams truancy process as case dropped - The Dominion Post

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Kuranui College in Greytown laid charges under the Education Act last September against the year-11 pupil's parents, who cannot be named. The school claimed they had failed to improve their daughter's attendance despite letters, conferences and ...

Parents frustrated by truancy charge

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A Masterton father accused of failing to ensure his 15-year-old daughter attended school says his family has been put through hell.Truancy charges against the parents of the Kuranui College student were dropped in Masterton District...