Minister welcomes Rotorua education initiative

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Hekia Parata | Education

Education Minister Hekia Parata and Rotorua MP Todd McClay have announced a major initiative aimed at improving the educational success of Rotorua’s children and young people. Ms Parata says the new education-focused initiative is all about growing healthy, safe, well-educated children and young people in Rotorua...

Speech to the Early Childhood Council’s Annual Conference, Rotorua

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Hekia Parata | Education

Tēnā koutou katoa and greetings to you all. I’m really pleased to be able to join you all again at your annual conference. I’d like to thank your President Maria Johnson, and Chief Executive Peter Reynolds for their welcome. I would like to start by thanking you all for the work you do. Children are our most important investment.  The work you do in nurturing their development represents an invaluable contribution to New Zealand’s future wealth, health and happiness...

Govt releases PwC report on Pay Period 4

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Steven Joyce | Education

Minister Responsible for Novopay Steven Joyce today released the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report on complaints and notifications in regards to Pay Period 4 of the schools’ payroll. Pay Period 4, which was paid on the morning of 15 May, paid 84,577 people a total of $162.29 million. The PwC report shows that complaints and notifications were received regarding 0.42 per cent of staff across the country, 36 staff were notified as not paid, 122 were overpaid, and 195 underpaid. Affected staff were from 247 schools or 10.1 per cent of schools in the payroll system...

Education Aotearoa - All stories - Obituary - Elwyn S Richardson QSO

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Richardson is best known for his book In The Early World, published by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research in 1964. The book, an account of his experience developing his child-centred educational ...

National standards data not comparable enough to release - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
With last year's national standards data due to be published as soon as next week, new research shows that the introduction of National Standards into primary schools shows extreme variability in the processes underlying judgments against the standards ...

Parata: Early Childhood Council Annual Conference - Scoop.co.nz (press release)

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
We have also set a target at the critical bridge of National Standards. We want to see 98 per cent of all school entrants having participated in quality ECE in 2016, and 85 per cent of all 18 year-olds having achieved NCEA Level 2 or an equivalent ...

NZEI supports independent Teachers Council elected "by teachers, for teachers"

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NZEI Te Riu Roa has welcomed recommendations that the Teachers Council be beefed up to become an independent organisation that can better provide leadership for the profession and support for high quality teaching.

Editorial: New body for teachers key to change

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School teaching ought to rank among the most respected of professions. Those who educate our children are every bit as important to us as, say, doctors or lawyers, arguably more important. Education is essential to everyone's chances...

Govt eyes school board mergers - New Zealand Herald

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URL: Govt eyes school board mergers New Zealand Herald School Trustees Association general manager Ray Newport said 1,056 of New Zealand's 2,384 state and state-integrated schools - not including 80 Maori schools - had already declared results because no vote was needed. - Herald on Sunday. By Chloe ...

Homework club to boost Pasifika learning - The Press

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The Press
So they tackled the problems at the root, establishing a homework club to encourage Pasifika youth to take pride in learning. "There are so many reports from the Ministry of Education to show that Pasifika always underachieve at NCEA," Jeff Magele said.

PPTA assumptions unfounded - Gisborne Herald

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Gisborne Herald
The same was said about the establishment of the kohanga reo movement, the iwi authorities movement, iwi Treaty claims etc, and yet the evidence is that all these have been successful models. The same can be said about wananga when established, and ...

Call for schools to use Whanau Ora approach - Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand
The former heard of the Kohanga Reo movement, Dame Iritana Tawhiwhirangi, says schools should use the Whanau Ora welfare scheme approach to health and social development. Speaking on Friday at a symposium in Wellington on the impact of poverty ...

State schools reviewing place of religious classes - Stuff.co.nz

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Stuff.co.nz
God has been pulled from the classrooms of dozens of state schools in the past two years, as experts call for children to be taught about a wider range of faiths and values. More than 50 state schools have cancelled Bible-based education in school ...

Education Ministry to replace 2700 relocatable classrooms

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The Ministry of Education is preparing for a multi-million-dollar revamp of nearly half of the country's stock of prefabricated school classrooms.