Speech to the Tamaki Learning Provider's Hui

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Hekia Parata | Education

Tēnā koutou katoa, Talofa lava, Kia orana, Mālō e lelei, Ni sa bula vinaka, Taloha ni, Fakaalofa lahi atu, and greetings to you all. Good morning everyone. He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata
What is the most important thing in the world? People, people, people...... babies, infants, toddlers, our youngest learners, who will grow up to be our school students, go on to be interns, apprentices, trainees, scholars, our young adults, parents, leaders...

Youth organisations given funding

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Nikki Kaye | Youth Affairs

Youth Affairs Minister Nikki Kaye today announced funding for six organisations offering diverse services to young people. “I am allocating a total of $59,000 across six organisations providing initiatives ranging from helping disadvantaged youth to giving cultural opportunities to young people in rural communities,” Ms Kaye said...

Restorative Justice, Culture of Care in Schools, and Restorative ...

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Successful Schooling for Maori Students in the 21st Century: Issues, Challenges and Alternatives (pp. 46-57). Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) Press. Posted by Dr Tom ...

Insight for 14 April 2013 - Charter Schools

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The government's planned partnership schools, publicly-funded private schools inspired by the charter schools that run in many US states, have attracted supporters and critics.

Education protest draws 2000 marchers

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An estimated 2000 people marched in downtown Auckland today in protest at education reforms that have led to charter schools.Banner waving teachers and supporters gathered outside the shopping mall at Elizabeth Square before heading...

Growing te reo Māori capabilities

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Tracey Hopkins outlines te reo Māori professional development programme in place at Hukanui School. Tracey explains how teachers are supported in their own personal learning, and also in their teaching of te reo Māori to their students.

Parata believes early learning rates inflated - Radio New Zealand

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URL: Parata believes early learning rates inflated Radio New Zealand Figures released this week show more than 95% of new school entrants this year had some form of early childhood education, up slightly on last year. Participation rose for Pasifika children to 88%, and to nearly 92% for Maori. However, Ms Parata says ...

Our so-called “world-class” - New Zealand Education Review

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New Zealand has long boasted of its world-class education system, and it received confirmation of this in a recent OECD report. The OECD Review on Evaluation and Assessment Frameworks for Improving School Outcomes ...

Charter schools should have Ombudsman scrutiny - committee

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Charter schools, which will not be subject to the Official Information Act, should be able to be investigated by the Ombudsman, a parliamentary committee has recommended.Proposed changes to legislation bringing in charter schools...

Select committee ignores submissions on charter schools

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The Education and Science Select Committee’s decision to recommend the government’s plan to establish charter schools (outlined in the Education Amendment Bill) with only minor changes flies in the face of public opinion says PPTA president Angela ...

Speech: Standing up for education standing up for democracy | Voxy ...

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National testing, bulk funding, voucher systems, performance pay, the privatisation of education these are the things we are standing here against. And who is it we stand against? We stand against a government that refuses ...

Stand up for kids: Queen Street march protests at threats to public education - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Green Party MPs Metiria Turei, Catherine Delahunty, Denise Roche, Eugenie Sage, and Gareth Hughes joined with teachers today to protest against the GERM education reforms that have led to Charter Schools and which threaten our first class public ...

Teachers rally against reform - Stuff.co.nz

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Proposed charter schools, which would operate as semi-independent commercial enterprises, were one of the Government's tools for abrogating responsibility for education, Mr Potaka said. "From the Government's point of view they want someone else to ...

Protests against education reform - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Protests against education reform Stuff.co.nz They are protesting against what they say is a proposed implementation of a Global Education Reform Movement, which could see the imposition of charter schools, performance-based pay for teachers, national league tables for primary schools and ''super ...

Cantabrians march to Gerry Brownlee's office - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Cantabrians march to Gerry Brownlee's office Stuff.co.nz Hundreds of Christchurch teachers marched to Earthquake Minister Gerry Brownlee's office to protest against charter schools, Novopay, national standards, and other issues to New Zealand's education system. The march this morning is one of several ...

Education protests send clear message - Labour - 3News NZ

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URL: Education protests send clear message - Labour 3News NZ "We're really concerned about the standardisation of education, the one size fits all model that the current government are trying to impose, the introduction of charter schools, which will have unqualified, unregistered teachers," he says. "They won't ...

Teachers march over education policies - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Teachers march over education policies Stuff.co.nz Hundreds of Christchurch teachers took to the streets on Saturday to protest against the "GERM" of charter schools, Novopay, national standards and performance pay for teachers. The group descended on Earthquake Recovery Minister and Ilam MP Gerry ...

Education a bright spot for NZ children according to UNICEF - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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However, she says recent policy changes such as National Standards which risk encouraging teachers to “teach to the test” and charter schools which will be able to employ unqualified people to teach, will inevitably start to undermine our curriculum ...

Speech to the Tamaki Learning Provider's Hui, Glen Innes - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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For Maori children the participation rate increased by 1.4 per cent to just under 92 per cent, or about 14,000 (of the 15,300) children, who started school this year. For Pasifika children the participation rate increased by 1.9 per cent to around 88 ...

Job matching system helps students find work | Computerworld New ...

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A realtime job matching system installed last year by Student Job Search has enormously improved the ability of students to apply for jobs, says CEO Paul Kennedy. “It's been a great leveller for us. Previously they had to ...

Education and support transforms the lives of NZ teenage mum

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New Zealand has the second highest rate of teenage births among developed countries, after the US, and a University of Canterbury researcher has found young parents need access to respectful, one-stop, wrap-around support services.

Special report: Lessons for cheats about fairness

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It's a subject schools and universities don't like to dwell on - the likelihood that students may be cheating their way to academic success and higher qualifications.Officially, there is little evidence of a problem. Just 360 students...

The Starpath Project | New Zealand Education Review

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Starpath set about working with the schools to collect, organise, and analyse student achievement data and to base individual student profiles, targets, and plans on these data. The project helped schools advise on students' educational ... One school increased level 3 NCEA results by 18 per cent, while another has taken its level 1 pass rate from 40 to 60 per cent and its level 2 rate from 40 to 58 per cent. Starpath's redesigned parent-student-teacher conferencing ...

Response to NZ Herald, 12 April 2013, on Auckland roll growth

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This information was sent to the New Zealand Herald on 12 April 2013, in response to their story on school roll growth in the Auckland region.

NCEA behind bars | New Zealand Education Review

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Corrections have partnered with Open Polytechnic to provide Get Ahead with NCEA, an education programme which will help prisoners achieve NCEA qualifications over the next two years. Under the programme offenders will receive two hours of .... “A lot of these guys have had little or no education or positive achievements in their lives and it's a real pleasure to see how they react when they pass their first assessment. They display real pride and they obviously feel ...

Maori learners benefit from work-based training - research - Voxy

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At the same time, figures recently released by the Tertiary Education Commission show a significant improvement in the performance of Maori learners in industry training between 2010 and 2011. Credit achievements were up from 55 per cent to 62 per cent ...

Education system focus of Treasury chief's visit - Otago Daily Times

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URL: Education system focus of Treasury chief's visit Otago Daily Times While giving nothing away on education spending in the forthcoming Budget, he highlighted underachieving Maori and Polynesian students, and also assistance for underperforming teachers. Mr Makhlouf, the former principal private secretary to British ...

New Pasifika director appointed by Massey - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Tongan-born Dr Malakai Koloamatangi has been appointed as the new Pasifika director within the Office of the Assistant Vice Chancellor (Māori and Pasifika). Dr Koloamatangi replaces Professor Sitaleki Finau and will continue to promote and implement ...

Take the Learning in the Workplace 2013 survey; the results might ...

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Jane Hart is an independent advisor on Workplace Learning & Collaboration. Here she writes about how to support learning, performance and collaboration in the social workplace. On 7 February 2013, at the Learning ...

PBRF report shows Postgrad students missing out - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Results showing up in the Performance Based Research Fund report, released this week, beg some questions about hidden trends occurring in the tertiary education sector says the NZ Union of Students' Associations (NZUSA). “A significant component of the ...

Whitireia research recognised in latest PBRF round

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Whitireia has received a significant increase in the latest funding round from the Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF). Funding has more than doubled since the previous Quality Evaluation which occurred in 2006, giving the polytechnic over $1 million ...

Index of collective agreements

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This page lists all the current collective agreements for those employed in state and state-integrated schools in New Zealand.

Maori school's stellar marks shake up the system - Waikato Times

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URL: Maori school's stellar marks shake up the system Waikato Times Students at a Maori secondary school are achieving some of the highest academic results in the Waikato, outshining private schools and bucking national trends. Nga Taiatea Wharekura, a decile 3 school in Rotokauri, Hamilton, has taken mainstream ...

A foot in the door - Otago Daily Times

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URL: A foot in the door Otago Daily Times Typically, on three days each week, the 14-year-old (he turns 15 this month) heads straight from Dunstan High School to the offices of Alexandra-based ICL Chartered Accountants, where his duties include filing, mail sorting and banking. Sharing the job ...

Parents pay as company pumps up childcare fees

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New Zealand's biggest home childcare provider is rewording its contracts to impose mandatory charges above and beyond the publicly-funded 20 hours' "free" childcare.Porse says it cannot afford to provide nannies within the $11-an-hour...

School's outdoors - Otago Daily Times

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URL: School's outdoors Otago Daily Times With the help of Project Crimson and the Mazda Foundation, the school was able to convert an unused area of the school's grounds into an educational space for pupils to enjoy, including native planting and an edible-plant garden. A bird-watching area ...