Early access to Apprenticeships Re-boot

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Steven Joyce | Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment

New apprentices will be able to access the Government’s re-boot subsidy towards tools and off-job costs and start training sooner, following an announcement today by Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce. The ‘Apprenticeships Re-boot’ which was due to start on April 1, will instead commence immediately...

Govt 'showing breath-taking arrogance' over charter schools - Voxy

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Voxy
The Government is showing breath-taking arrogance in calling for applications from organisations wanting to set up discredited charter schools before the controversial legislation has even passed through parliament. NZEI National Secretary Paul Goulter ...

Charter schools 'outrageous attack on democracy' - Voxy

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Voxy
Today's Ministry of Education release requesting applications for charter schools before the legislation allowing them has been agreed by parliament is outrageous. The applications have to be in by 16 April - two days before the Select Committee even ...

Charter schools push against process: NZEI - NZ City

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NZ City
The newly-established Charters Schools Authorisation Board, chaired by charter school working group chairwoman and former ACT president Catherine Isaac, will review the applications and provide advice to the minister of education on which ones should ...

Key and Banks need to explain why they have dismissed parliamentary process over charter schools

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The Government is showing breath-taking arrogance in calling for applications from organisations wanting to set up discredited charter schools before the controversial legislation has even passed through parliament.

Ministry of Education seeks charter school sponsors - TVNZ

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TVNZ
The Ministry's Authorisation Board will review the applications and advise Education Minister Hekia Parata which applicants should be considered. The legislation that would allow charter schools to operate is still being considered by a select committee.

Wealthy Kiwis not passing on skills to kids - study

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Wealthy Kiwis often fail to pass on their financial knowledge to their children, research from Massey University has revealed.The university interviewed 31 people who each had a net worth of $1 million or more and found a third...

Meeting the teacher a challenge - Nelson Mail

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URL: Meeting the teacher a challenge Nelson Mail Of course, sometimes teachers do know better than you, but it doesn't help the innocent parent, trying to find out one or two things about their struggling and/or unhappy child's progress, and wondering if his or her faltering achievement could be ...

Learning to learn: A school-wide approach

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Gregor Fountain from Wellington College has found that the focus on learning to learn has de-centered the teachers a little as they need to be able to stand back and help the students develop the capacity to find their own answers. He also challenges us to think about what learning to learn might look like in different learning areas.

No confidence in Novopay - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
That time came away from classroom time as Novopay was available only during school hours. The Novopay call centre was hard to contact, he said. It took from 15 minutes to an hour and 25 minutes for phones to be answered. When they were answered, ...

Six months without a correct pay - Northern Advocate

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Northern Advocate
"What you've got is these schools out there under attack from so many avenues - national standards, charter school and Novopay, and they get on with it and get the job done without the support of the government, which I think is unbelievable," Mr ...

Carterton school tries a new way to spell it out - Wairarapa Times Age

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Wairarapa Times Age
Working on language structure awareness not only benefited spelling, but also vocabulary development and reading skills, she said. New Zealand children were struggling more with writing than reading, with 32 per cent performing below national standards.