Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Last chance for Maori Party to listen its voters – PPTA - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

URL: Last chance for Maori Party to listen its voters – PPTA
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Submissions by the very groups the government says it wants to help with its Education Amendment Bill – including Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu – have made it very clear they do not want charter schools, PPTA president Angela Roberts said. Roberts urged the ...

'A' is for Average - Scoop.co.nz

URL: 'A' is for Average
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In some classes, at all educational levels, we don't even require students to know anything more than hand signals, preparation of crib sheets, and techniques of paraphrasing five different articles and calling the result a research paper—assuming the ...

More school trustees needed

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Nominations close for the 2013 School Trustee Elections at noon on Thursday 16 May, and trustees are still required for schools across New Zealand. Considering we need 15,000 school trustees, compared with 120 candidates for parliament, the huge scale ...

Students warned against 'distracting social culture' - Otago Daily Times

URL: Students warned against 'distracting social culture' - Otago Daily Times
He said he smiled when students near graduation became worried ''that everything of significance has already been discovered''. In fact, ''we do not yet have cures for most diseases'' or did not even yet know ''what dark ...

School costs keep pressure on all year round - Stuff.co.nz



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URL: School costs keep pressure on all year round
Stuff.co.nz
The uniform at state secondary school for boys Wellington College requires students to be kitted out with the school T-shirt, shorts, jersey, and belt, and in the winter months black shoes ($76) and socks ($12). Like most schools Wellington College has ...

Gore trial cuts school absence rates - Stuff.co.nz

URL: Gore trial cuts school absence rates
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Since 2010 the Gore trial has noted a drop in unjustified absence rates at one Gore school of about 43 per cent and a survey done on a breakfast club at another school showed the 30 students on average taking part reported having 77 per cent more energy.