Creative and Integrated Learning in the Classroom - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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More recently the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) agreed to publish a book on the topic. The academics worked in five primary schools of varying deciles in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty, covering a range of year levels.

Lessons from Chile's troubled education system - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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“We've recently seen teachers protesting against the proposals to further privatise New Zealand's education system, which could see the introduction of charter schools, performance-based pay for teachers, national league tables for primary schools and ...

Politics With Paul – Scrapping National Standards? - Salient

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... culture of teaching and learning and assessment within schools”, leading to a limited and far less stimulating primary experience, as evidenced by the international experience of the public reporting of national testing; and ...

Mixed reception for Budget's education provisions - Otago Daily Times

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Principal associations are divided over the Ministry of Education's plans to invest $80.5 million into lifting the educational achievement of young people.

Education programmes to take cut - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Education programmes to take cut Stuff.co.nz Underperforming Ministry of Education programmes will be cut as Government makes way for an extra $60 million spend over four years to improve the behaviour and education of young people. Education Minister Hekia Parata made the pre-Budget ...

Bringing community into school life - Auckland stuff.co.nz

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URL: Bringing community into school life Auckland stuff.co.nz The report identified a "lack of sense of purpose and direction for the school", unsound teaching practises in some classrooms and a curriculum that was not personalised to Rongomai students or the community. "The principal's leadership of the school ...

ECE budget cuts would push up charges, close centres - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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They had lost funding for having 80 per cent or more teachers qualified. They had lost funding for the professional development of teachers. They had lost funding to maintain pay parity between teachers in early childhood centres and their colleagues ...

Tech divide in schools feared

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Education historians want teachers to question whether iPads and tablets are the way of the future for today's schools - but they don't wish for learners to live in the past.

Push to teach pupils about suicide | Otago Daily Times Online News ...

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Last month the family started a petition urging the Queensland state Government to introduce education programmes on bullying and suicide to the school curriculum similar to the way students learn sexual education. So far it ...

Will.i.am's $100k donation surprise - Stuff.co.nz

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URL: Will.i.am's $100k donation surprise Stuff.co.nz My family taught hard work pays off, they stressed the importance of a good education and work ethic, and gave me the best chance to achieve my dreams," he said. "Even if just one person from New Zealand can go on to do well then this will be worth it.