Minister announces New Zealand will host the 4th International Summit on the Teaching Profession

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Hekia Parata | Education

Education Minister Hekia Parata welcomes the news that New Zealand has been successful in the bid to host the fourth International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) in March 2014. “The Summit is a great opportunity for the top performing education systems from around the world to hear how other countries manage and develop the critical area of teaching quality. I am delighted that New Zealand’s bid to host this prestigious event for the teaching profession has been accepted,” says Ms Parata...

Greens Mislead Public About Partnership School Funding

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John Banks | Education

Metiria Turei’s claim that Te Kotahitanga funding is being canned to fund Partnership Schools has no basis in fact, Associate Minister of Education John Banks said today. “Ms Turei’s claim is akin to saying that government environmental programmes are being canned to pay for the Greens’ $50,000 parliamentary funded asset sales referendum. It’s an absurdly long stretch of the bow to connect the two,” Mr Banks said...

Making Education Count: Developing and Using International ...

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New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Educational Research." International. In AARE 2008 International Educational Research. Indicators of Educational Quality. Making education count: developing and using ...

Govt Trading Successful Maori Programmes For Charter Schools - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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The Government is canning one of the most successful programmes for lifting Maori educational achievement, because it is funnelling money for Maori kids into charter schools, the Green Party said today. “The charter schools legislation's wafer thin ...

Parata Doesn't Care about Maori Education - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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URL: Parata Doesn't Care about Maori Education Scoop.co.nz (press release) “John Key once said of Hekia Parata 'Find me a person who cares more about Maori education'. Right now he must be regretting his comments after Parata axed the Te Kotahitanga programme, an educational programme with a proven record of lifting ...

Exploring the impact of poverty on children's learning - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Guest speakers includes Dame Iritana Tawhiwhirangi, an advocate of Māori language education and the Kōhanga Reo movement; Professor Jonathan Boston, Co-chair of the Expert Advisory Group on Solutions to Child Poverty and Director of the Institute for ...

Research Analyst / Senior Research - Maori Pacific Jobs

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The Comparative Education Research Unit at the Ministry of Education manages New Zealand's participation in large-scale international research and assessment studies sponsored either by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) or the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). We lead projects in New Zealand which require special analyses and understanding of student assessment data, and ...