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Sensible Sentencing’s Attack on Justice Coalition
Tue, 13 Aug 2013 13:19:12 +1200 | Justice Coalition
“Garth McVicar’s public attack on the newly formed Justice Coalition was unjustified and incomprehensible”, says Coordinator, Kim Workman. He is referring to ‘Child Abduction debacle blamed on Justice Coalition’, a Sensible Sentencing Trust media ...More >>
Stopping Hate Speech Via Internet: UN Anti-Racism Committee
Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:51:45 +1200 | UN News
The United Nations committee tasked with combating racial discrimination today opened its latest round of work in Geneva with a focus on stopping the spread of racist hate speech on the Internet and social media networks, as well as the need to use ...More >>
Youth migration a focus of International Youth Day
Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:04:22 +1200 | NZ Union of Students' Associations
Young people are in the spotlight today with the United Nations’ International Youth Day taking on the theme of youth migration as a way to emphasise the positive contribution young migrants make to societies of origin, transit and destination.More >>
Government Releases Education Report Card
Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:57:18 +1200 | New Zealand Government
Education Minister Hekia Parata says releasing comprehensive data on how New Zealand children are doing at school is an important part of this Government’s approach to raising the achievement of all our kids in education.More >>
Boys Achievement Statistics Flawed
Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:22:19 +1200 | Wellington Institute of Technology
Referring to an article published in The Dom Post today, Boys slip further in school's co-ed class, Linda Sissons, Chief Executive of the Wellington Institute of Technology commented, “The article refers to the achievement statistics for 5 boys studying ...More >>
Reading Recovery not responsible for underachievement
Mon, 12 Aug 2013 11:56:47 +1200 | University of Canterbury
A University of Canterbury (UC) education professor says Reading Recovery is not responsible for the lack of change in the long tail of underachievement in New Zealand school children, as recently suggested by some New Zealand researchers.More >>
Nagasaki Message: Need for Education on Nuclear Disarmament
Mon, 12 Aug 2013 10:33:10 +1200 | UN News
In his message to a ceremony marking the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Nagasaki, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed that the benefits of nuclear disarmament must be spread worldwide through education.More >>
NorthTec’s Performance Is Consistent But Can Do Better
Fri, 9 Aug 2013 15:08:25 +1200 | NorthTec
NorthTec has performed with consistency over the last 12 months but can do better, Chief Executive Paul Binney told stakeholders at its recent Annual Review Meeting (Thursday 25 July).More >>
Public Health Priorities Must Change
Fri, 9 Aug 2013 13:24:39 +1200 | New Zealand First Party
Public health costs in New Zealand are set to soar unless we seriously target obesity says New Zealand First. University of Otago researchers have found that obesity and excess body weight are set to overtake smoking as the major cause of declining health ...More >>
Greater accountability needed for NZ's charter school
Fri, 9 Aug 2013 13:19:13 +1200 | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
“This past week has been a poor one for so-called Partnership Schools, New Zealand’s version of charter schools. It is now clear that the authorisation process does not meet the standards expected of open and transparent government, according to the ...More >>
Education Key to Prosperous Lives
Fri, 9 Aug 2013 12:01:56 +1200 | US State Department
Data on student learning gathered by aid workers in partner countries is helping the United States develop effective local strategies to teach reading to 100 million children by 2015, says the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development.More >>
Sports stars and local community join to help fight diseases
Wed, 7 Aug 2013 15:02:36 +1200 | Joint Press Release
Vodafone Warriors players made a surprise appearance at Glen Innes Primary School to help launch Auckland DHB’s new rheumatic fever prevention programme that aims to reduce the incidence of the disease in some of central Auckland’s most vulnerable ...More >>
Mid, Far North schools collect $8400 NRC environmental award
Wed, 7 Aug 2013 13:39:11 +1200 | Northland Regional Council
Pakaraka School has become one of the first mid-North schools to receive its funding from this year’s $20,000 Northland Regional Council Environmental Curriculum Awards (ECAs). More >>
Partnering up for community’s carers
Mon, 5 Aug 2013 16:32:17 +1200 | UCOL
A group of students enrolled in the new jointly delivered National Certificate in Health, Disability and Aged Support were last week welcomed to Horowhenua Learning Centre (HLC) by representatives from UCOL’s Faculty of Health Science, and HLC.More >>
Army Teaches Wrong Lesson in Nation's High Schools
Mon, 5 Aug 2013 10:53:30 +1200 | War Is A Crime
This summer the world will pause to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most Americans are still supportive of Truman's decision despite overwhelming historical evidence the bomb had "nothing ...More >>
School Milk on the Moove to the Bay of Plenty And Gisborne
Fri, 2 Aug 2013 17:22:54 +1200 | Fonterra
Children in the Bay of Plenty and Gisborne regions are being treated to their first school milk packs from this week as Fonterra celebrates its fifth regional launch as part of the nationwide rollout of Fonterra Milk for Schools.More >>
Do We Want School or Education?
Fri, 2 Aug 2013 16:23:00 +1200 | Robert J. Burrowes
As our world continues to unravel in response to the impact of our uneconomic activities on ecological systems, it is obviously worth asking searching questions about the nature of modern society.More >>
Unveiling Female Muslim Teachers So Students See Their Lips
Fri, 2 Aug 2013 11:15:04 +1200 | Richard S. Ehrlich
The Philippines, Asia's only Catholic-majority country, has ordered Muslim women to remove their facial veils when teaching the government's experimental curriculum of Arabic language and Islamic values, because students benefit by "seeing the teacher's ...More >>
Telecom to Support Network For Learning
Fri, 2 Aug 2013 10:32:55 +1200 | Telecom New Zealand
Telecom announced today it has been selected as Network for Learning’s (N4L) technology partner for the delivery of a fast, reliable and safe online educational environment for New Zealand schools.More >>
Speech on managed network for schools
Fri, 2 Aug 2013 10:29:56 +1200 | New Zealand Government
It is great to be here in the heart of South Auckland at Mangere Central School. It is also great to be here with our Prime Minister and Education Minister Hekia Parata who are both strong advocates of equality of opportunity in our education ...More >>
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