Latest Education Policy Headlines
Minister - Don’t Throw The Baby Out With The Bathwater
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 19:02:49 +1300 | Early Childhood Education
“Getting rid of Pay Parity in the Early Childhood Education (ECE) sector will send a message that we don’t value qualified teachers,” says Kathy Wolfe, CE Te Rito Maioha. Pay Parity is not yet fully implemented, however when it is it “will ...More >>
Health, Food Prices And Affordable Housing Top Priorities For Kiwis
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 12:19:43 +1300 | Horizon Research Limited
Kiwis are telling the government to focus most on improving health, rising food prices and affordable housing. Horizon Research presented a list of 42 issues and asked adults nationwide which were the most important for the current government ...More >>
An “invisible Wall” Is Crippling NZ Classroom Achievement: Experts
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:54:35 +1300 | ACORN
Our educational system is failing one in 10 students More >>
Education Leaders Call On PM To Save School Lunch Programme
Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:58:29 +1300 | NZEI
Aotearoa’s education sector leaders have jointly written to the Prime Minister, urging him to continue investing in Ka ora Ka Ako (the Healthy School Lunches Programme) at current levels. Leaders of schools, early learning peak bodies and unions say ...More >>
Academic Witch-hunted For Criticising Military Boot Camps For Young Offenders
Mon, 11 Mar 2024 10:28:22 +1300 | Socialist Equality Group
By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group New Zealand’s far-right government and sections of the media this week launched a furious witch-hunt against an academic who criticised plans to cut spending on school lunches and to establish military ...More >>
Hāpai Dissapointed Govt Funded School Lunch Programme Up For Review
Fri, 8 Mar 2024 09:42:01 +1300 | Hapai Te Hauora
Hāpai Te Hauora, Aotearoa's leading Māori Public Health organisation is extremely concerned that the coalition Government has confirmed the government-funded school lunch programme, Ka Ora Ka Ako is under review. Another devastating blow, on hauora ...More >>
Health Coalition Launches Petition To Protect School Lunches
Thu, 7 Mar 2024 17:48:05 +1300 | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Health Coalition Aotearoa has today launched a petition calling on the Government to protect free school lunches - Ka Ora, Ka Ako, and not make cuts to the programme. The programme offers 230,000 students in about 1,000 of the least advantaged schools’ ...More >>
Food In Schools Top Priority Say Principals
Thu, 7 Mar 2024 12:24:44 +1300 | New Zealand Principals' Federation
Minister Seymour's latest comments to scrap or severely limit the Food in Schools programme has upset school Principals across the country. The Minister claims that there is wastage of food, it is inefficient and not required in many cases. "The ...More >>
Strong Support For School Lunches With Over 16,000 Signatures In 24 Hours
Thu, 7 Mar 2024 11:06:30 +1300 | New Zealand Labour Party
The Government must commit to funding free and healthy school lunches, as thousands of people sign the petition to keep them, education spokesperson Jan Tinetti says. “Teachers, parents and school communities are incredibly passionate about the free ...More >>
Is Mr Seymour Intending To Increase Staffing To Cover His Latest Brain Wave?
Wed, 6 Mar 2024 14:08:37 +1300 | Tai Tokerau Principals' Association
Seymour said he hoped the Government would make progress on an ambitious student data collection programme to track the effectiveness of the Government’s various student interventions — s uch as school lunches . Do you think that every intervention ...More >>
Dignity NZ Applauds New Zealand Government's Commitment To Fund Free Period Products In Schools
Tue, 5 Mar 2024 15:06:03 +1300 | Dignity NZ
Dignity NZ, a leading period product provider dedicated to creating period equity and ending period poverty, expresses its relief and appreciation for the New Zealand government's decision to continue funding free period products in schools. This announcement ...More >>
The Ministry Of Education Fails To Provide For The Future Of Rolleston
Mon, 4 Mar 2024 17:41:34 +1300 | Rolleston College
Rolleston College Principal Rachel Skelton: The Ministry of Education has announced they have chosen to strip back, redesign, and delay the new campus for Rolleston College. They have also indicated they have no “appetite” or commitment to progress ...More >>
New Zealand’s Hungry Teens Four Years Behind In Their Learning - Free School Lunches Provide Solution
Mon, 4 Mar 2024 10:15:59 +1300 | Health Coalition Aotearoa
Food poverty has contributed to New Zealand’s poor performance in an international educational achievement test for 15-year-olds, reigniting calls for broader access to free healthy school lunches. "The 2022 PISA (Program for International Student ...More >>
Ministry Of Education’s Unreasonable Omissions In NZSL In Education Strategy
Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:48:23 +1300 | Office of the Ombudsman
The Chief Ombudsman says the Ministry of Education acted unreasonably when it failed to ensure its strategy for progressing access to education in New Zealand Sign Language included specific ways to achieve its goals. Mr Boshier today published his opinion ...More >>
Prime Minister's Punitive Welfare Sanctions Will Harm Children And Their Learning
Mon, 19 Feb 2024 18:28:20 +1300 | NZEI Te Riu Roa
New Zealand’s largest education union, NZEI Te Riu Roa, strongly condemns the punitive sanctions against people on welfare benefits Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced this afternoon, saying that any sanctions a government takes ...More >>
Children Working To Help Their Families Fly Under Radar: CPAG
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:13:46 +1300 | Child Poverty Action Group
As many as 15,000 teenagers are taking on paid work to help pay for family basics and government agencies urgently need to find out how many are dropping out of school to do so, the Child Poverty Action Group says. CPAG is urgently calling for adequate ...More >>
New Report To Support Maths Teaching, Tackle Maths Crisis
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 09:27:02 +1300 | Education Review Office
Maths is incredibly important, yet achievement in New Zealand has declined significantly over the last 20 years. Less than half of Year 8 students are meeting expectations in maths, and a new report from ERO has found that many teachers are not confident ...More >>
Mātauranga ILG Welcomes Discussion On Māori Education
Wed, 14 Feb 2024 12:14:08 +1300 | Matauranga ILG
Mātauranga Iwi Leaders Group (MILG) and Pou Tangata welcomes the discussion on Māori education achievement following the group’s first hui with Education Minister, Hon Erica Stanford, in Waitangi last week. “I was encouraged by the Minister’s ...More >>
Te Tai Tokerau Principals Cannot Wait For Their Schools To Be Funded At The Rate Of $60000 Per Pupil
Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:58:04 +1300 | Te Tai Tokerau Principals Association
Te Tai Tokerau Principals Association calls upon the government to ensure all state schools are funded at the same level as Charter schools, $60000 per child per yea NZEI, having had to request the details from the Ministry of Education using the ...More >>
OIA Shows The Eyewatering True Cost Of Charter Schools
Wed, 14 Feb 2024 09:14:44 +1300 | NZEI
The National and ACT experiment with charter schools that ran from 2014 to 2018 cost up to $48,421 per student annually, more than six times the average funding spent on students in state schools, new OIA documents released to NZEI Te Riu Roa ...More >>