Latest Education Headlines
Student work connects with community
Friday, 21 December 2018, 12:17 pm | Universal College Of Learning
UCOL Bachelor of Creative Media students contributed 2,835 hours and talent of pro bono work in 2018 to the local not-for-profit sector. More >>
Solid year for UCOL
Friday, 21 December 2018, 9:49 am | UCOL
UCOL has had a solid year, with 6,500 students studying at the regional polytechnic throughout the year and an anticipated financial surplus of around $900,000. UCOL Chief Executive, Dr Lynn, said “this is an outstanding achievement and as a strong, ... More >>
Architectural and Arts contributors recognised
Thursday, 20 December 2018, 3:26 pm | Auckland University of Technology
Countless New Zealanders’ and thousands of AUT students’ lives have been made a littler richer thanks to the spaces and sharing of art works made possible by the university’s new Honorary Doctors – Richard Harris and Sir James Wallace. More >>
Taratahi liquidation shows time for change is now
Thursday, 20 December 2018, 3:19 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Confirmation today that the Taratahi Institute of Agriculture [1] is to be liquidated proves that the tertiary education sector needs urgent reform - and that the tens of thousands of people that dedicate their working lives to teaching others need ... More >>
OMGTech!’s Mana Tangata programme delivers for youth
Thursday, 20 December 2018, 11:46 am | OMG Solutions
Last weekend, youth from all over the country gathered at Papatunauku Kokiri Marae in Mangere East to graduate from Mana Tangata youth leadership programme and celebrate their amazing success. More >>
Journalism educators are calling for action
Wednesday, 19 December 2018, 7:16 pm | Journalism Education Association of New Zealand
Conference Communique: Journalism Education Association of New Zealand Journalism educators are calling for action to support journalism at a time of falling student numbers and journalism school closures. More >>
UQ's entrepreneurs aim for a sustainable future
Wednesday, 19 December 2018, 4:47 pm | University of Queensland
Twelve teams of aspiring entrepreneurs are one step closer to achieving their goal of startup success after being selected for The University of Queensland’s ilab Germinate Plus accelerator program . More >>
Minimum wage boost for low-paid education workers
Wednesday, 19 December 2018, 4:22 pm | New Zealand Educational Institute
Today's announcement of a $1.20 per hour increase to the minimum wage next April will be welcomed by thousands of low-paid education workers as the first step towards a Living Wage. More >>
Journalism Education Call to Action
Wednesday, 19 December 2018, 10:02 am | Journalism Education Association of New Zealand
Journalism educators are calling for action to support journalism at a time of falling student numbers and journalism school closures. More >>
Unitec joins Datacom to Offer Unique Online Coding Course
Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 5:12 pm | Unitec
Unitec Institute of Technology has joined forces with Datacom developers to teach students how to build apps and websites with the launch of an online learning course for iOS app development. More >>
Māori and Indigenous Leadership to graduate
Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 2:23 pm | University of Canterbury
The world’s first graduates of the unique Master of Māori and Indigenous Leadership degree will receive their degrees this week in the University of Canterbury’s December graduation ceremonies. More >>
LearnCoach closes $1.5m seed round
Tuesday, 18 December 2018, 10:39 am | LearnCoach
Wellington-based education social enterprise LearnCoach has closed a $1.5m seed round to help scale up its online education platform. More >>
High School Scholarship For Outstanding Otangarei Student
Monday, 17 December 2018, 1:40 pm | Northland Foundation
Otangarei 12 year old Teru Carrington-Bartlett has been awarded this year’s Carlos Reed Scholarship, valued at $10,000. Administered by the Northland Foundation, the scholarship earns Teru five years of boarding at Epsom Girls Grammar School where ... More >>
PhD Milestone at AUT Law School – Māori land trust research
Monday, 17 December 2018, 11:28 am | Auckland University of Technology
Research examining the management of Māori land trusts is the focus of the first PhD awarded by the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Law School. Māori Land Court Judge, Layne Harvey, (Ngāti Awa, Rongowhakaata, Te Aitanga a Māhaki, Te Whānau ... More >>
More scholarships offered to attract Māori and Pasifika
Monday, 17 December 2018, 10:11 am | Lincoln University
Lincoln University is continuing its drive to increase Māori and Pasifika representation in tertiary study, by introducing a suite of scholarships in 2019. The $5000 scholarships are intended to assist those passionate about agriculture, science, tourism, Mātauraka ... More >>
Local support for new EIT Institute of Sport and Health
Saturday, 15 December 2018, 1:46 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology
Local companies and organisations have given millions of dollars in funding partnerships for a new sport and health centre being built at the Hawke’s Bay Regional Sports Park in Hastings. More >>
School boards of trustees cost-effective and under-valued
Friday, 14 December 2018, 4:19 pm | NZSTA
School boards of trustees have been the most cost-effective part of the education system for the past 30 years, says the New Zealand School Trustees Association. More >>
Tomorrow's Schools
Friday, 14 December 2018, 9:39 am | New Zealand Principals' Federation
Tomorrow's Schools Last Friday, the much anticipated Tomorrow's Schools final report was released by the Task Force. Most in our sector welcomed the report which signals some major changes. These changes are outlined under eight key issues in the Report ... More >>
New Zealand’s First Cyber Prep Academy
Thursday, 13 December 2018, 12:39 pm | Unitec
Auckland, 12 December 2018 – Unitec Institute of Technology, in partnership with managed security services provider SecOps NZ, is launching New Zealand’s first Cyber Prep Academy (CPA), designed to address the country’s cybersecurity skills ... More >>
Kiwis agree - give teachers what they need
Wednesday, 12 December 2018, 10:39 am | PPTA
Polling over recent months shows 89% of Kiwis want more money spent on education, ahead of other issues. More >>
Early Childhood Council presents petition to Parliament
Wednesday, 12 December 2018, 10:04 am | Early Childhood Council
The Early Childhood Council today delivered a petition to Parliament seeking scrutiny of the way the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is applied to Pasifika early childhood education teachers. More >>
Recruitment update: Teacher recruitment 2019
Wednesday, 12 December 2018, 9:39 am | Ministry of Education
Over 800 overseas teachers are ready for primary and secondary schools to interview for them to start at the beginning of next year. More >>
Open Polytechnic wins technology and innovation award
Tuesday, 11 December 2018, 7:10 pm | Open Polytechnic
Open Polytechnic wins technology and innovation award Open Polytechnic, New Zealand’s leading provider of online and distance learning, has scooped the Technology and Innovation award at the 2018 Wellington Region Business Excellence Awards. The awards, ... More >>
Positive pathway between EIT and Sport Hawke’s Bay
Tuesday, 11 December 2018, 4:37 pm | Eastern Institute of Technology
EIT and Sport Hawke’s Bay enjoy a particularly close relationship that is helped by being neighbours but says more about the organisation’s values being aligned. “Our relationship is multi-layered,” explains Ryan Hambleton, Sport Hawke’s ... More >>
NZ universities a ‘hot-bed’ of entrepreneurial talent
Tuesday, 11 December 2018, 10:03 am | Return on Science
New Zealand universities and research institutions are a ‘hot-bed’ of entrepreneurial talent. Innovative sci-tech ideas are coming through so fast that a student-led investment committee programme is expanding nationally to cope with demand. More >>
First All-Girl Team Wins Vector Epro8 Challenge
Tuesday, 11 December 2018, 9:30 am | Vector
The Auckland leg of a national schools engineering competition has been won for the first time by an all-girl team from Churchill Park School. More >>
Journalism education’s dynamic changes
Monday, 10 December 2018, 4:29 pm | Massey University
Journalism educators are driving dynamic changes in their institutions and their own association to meet the demands of changing requiements of employers and students. More >>
UC Motorsport race cars impress at international contest
Monday, 10 December 2018, 4:06 pm | University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury Motorsport (UCM) team dazzled the judges to take home multiple awards with their two custom-built race cars at the hotly contested international Formula Student competition in Australia this week. More >>
NZMA And Toi Ohomai Partner to Provide Degree Pathway
Monday, 10 December 2018, 2:24 pm | New Zealand Management Academies
10 December 2018 – New Zealand Management Academies (NZMA) have partnered with Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology to provide a pathway for higher level learning students to access Toi Ohomai’s Postgraduate Diploma in Management. More >>
Principals welcome Tomorrow's Schools Report
Monday, 10 December 2018, 9:44 am | New Zealand Principals' Federation
The New Zealand Principals’ Federation (NZPF) has welcomed the taskforce report on Tomorrow’s Schools, just released. More >>
Transformational change needed to reform Education system
Friday, 7 December 2018, 7:53 pm | Human Rights Commission
The Human Rights Commission welcomes the release of the Tomorrows Schools Independent Taskforce: “Our schooling futures: Stronger Together’ Report. More >>
Joint facility construction facing a delay
Friday, 7 December 2018, 7:26 pm | Lincoln University
Lincoln University and AgResearch have been advised by government that more time is required to assess the current business case for construction of their new joint facility. This means the current proposal could not progress before March, when the ... More >>
Effective co-governance the key to success
Friday, 7 December 2018, 2:16 pm | NZSTA
Proposed changes to school governing structures recommended by the Tomorrow’s Schools taskforce will take some time to work through, however NZSTA is delighted to see that the report recommends community-led school boards of trustees retain ... More >>
Tomorrow's Schools recommendations welcomed
Friday, 7 December 2018, 2:07 pm | NZEI
Our nation’s children are finally being put at the heart of the education system. More >>
Tomorrow’s Schools Taskforce provides bold, brave blueprint
Friday, 7 December 2018, 12:15 pm | Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says the release of the 31 recommendations from the Tomorrow’s Schools Independent taskforce is a genuine and game changing blueprint to radically change New Zealand education. More >>
Canterbury teachers named for inaugural fellowship
Friday, 7 December 2018, 11:17 am | Boma NZ
Ten motivated secondary school educators from across Canterbury have been named as the inaugural cohort of Boma NZ Education Fellows. More >>
Aspirations of Māori youth focus of Lincoln summit
Thursday, 6 December 2018, 4:30 pm | Lincoln University
Young Māori have gathered at Lincoln University for a summit to talk about their future. More >>
Aspirations of Māori youth focus of Lincoln summit
Thursday, 6 December 2018, 3:05 pm | Lincoln University
Young Māori have gathered at Lincoln University for a summit to talk about their future. More >>
Research projects share $1.4 million in funding
Thursday, 6 December 2018, 9:14 am | Teaching and Learning Research Initiative
The Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) supports partnerships between researchers and educators by funding projects expected to improve outcomes for learners. More >>
Microsoft helps Kiwi students learn to code in te reo Māori
Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 7:35 pm | Microsoft New Zealand
Global coding initiative features a new Minecraft tutorial in Māori to boost children’s engagement with IT More >>
VUWSA backs He Ara Oranga recommendations
Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 4:56 pm | VUWSA
Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association (VUWSA) receives the release of He Ara Oranga with open arms. More >>
Education needed to reduce impact of pornography on youth
Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 4:49 pm | Sexual Abuse Prevention Network
Sexual Abuse Prevention Network says the release of the Office of Film and Literature Classification’s research on New Zealand young people and pornography is an opportunity to look at how New Zealand is educating and talking to young people about pornography ... More >>
Porn and teens report should serve as a wake-up call
Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 4:12 pm | Family Planning
The Office of Film and Literature Classification’s (OFLC) survey of more than 2000 young people about pornography highlights that sexuality education provides an opportunity for a vital counter-narrative to porn that could reach most young New Zealanders. ... More >>
Arts student won’t let disability hold her back
Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 1:20 pm | University of Auckland
Criminology and Māori Studies student Alicia Kapa has been celebrated for inspiring others with disabilities. She was one of three finalists in the Youth Spirit category at the 2018 Attitude Awards, for a person under the age of 20 who lives with a disability ... More >>
Projects to improve outcomes for learners share $1.4M funds
Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 9:29 am | NZ Council for Educational Research
The Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) supports partnerships between researchers and educators by funding projects expected to improve outcomes for learners. More >>
Ministry response to NZEI Te Riu Roa ballot result
Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 9:21 am | Ministry of Education
NZEI members have voted to reject the Ministry’s revised offer to settle primary principals’ and teachers’ collective agreements. More >>
Reopening TIPENE (St Stephen’s School) website launched
Tuesday, 4 December 2018, 5:38 pm | TIPENE Reopening Committee
The TIPENE Reopening Committee has launched a website today [ 3/12/18 ], which will allow registration from families interested in sending their boys to the proposed new school. More >>
Enviroschools’ milestones a time to reflect
Tuesday, 4 December 2018, 4:44 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Waldorf School in Hamilton and Cambridge Primary School invite media to their respective Reflections on 6 December and 10 December. More >>
NZTC addresses ECE teacher shortage in practical ways
Tuesday, 4 December 2018, 1:36 pm | New Zealand Tertiary College
New Zealand’s largest provider of early childhood teacher education has taken decisive action to address the critical shortage of qualified early childhood teachers. More >>
NZ Wins big at 'Oscars of Education'
Tuesday, 4 December 2018, 9:22 am | The Mind Lab
The Global Reimagine Education awards are designed to identify the most outstanding initiatives aimed at enhancing higher education. At this year’s event, New Zealand’s foremost specialist postgraduate education facility, The Mind Lab, won three awards ... More >>
Wintec students to get 30% off bus travel from 2019
Tuesday, 4 December 2018, 8:42 am | Wintec
The discount will apply to BUSIT card rates in Hamilton and across the Waikato region at all times of the day and week. More >>
Architectural promise revealed in 2018 Student Design Awards
Monday, 3 December 2018, 11:04 am | New Zealand Institute of Architects
Victoria University of Wellington’s Emily Newmarch has won the top prize in the annual competition for final year students at New Zealand’s three Schools of Architecture. The Student Design Awards programme, which is staged by the New Zealand Institute ... More >>
MIT Releases Five-Year Plan for Pasifika Success
Friday, 30 November 2018, 2:06 pm | Manukau Institute of Technology
MIT Releases Five-Year Plan for Pasifika Success New Zealand’s largest tertiary educator of Pasifika students today announced a plan to unlock the full potential of this growing group of learners. “MIT is proud of the work we do in prioritising ... More >>
Public feedback provides guide for the future of NCEA
Friday, 30 November 2018, 11:10 am | Ministry of Education
Thousands of New Zealanders’ views on NCEA and its future have been captured in a report released by the Ministry of Education today. More >>
Secondary principals struggling with teacher shortages
Thursday, 29 November 2018, 3:55 pm | Post Primary Teachers' Association
Shortages are most severe in Auckland but are keenly felt in all major metropolitan areas and affect schools right across the country. More >>
Union members secure Living Wage win for AUT staff
Thursday, 29 November 2018, 1:40 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Union members secure Living Wage win for AUT staff Following successful strike action, members of the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) have voted to accept an improved offer from the employer that will remove all ... More >>
Albert Wendt Honoured for Service to Education
Thursday, 29 November 2018, 1:38 pm | SCOPA NZ
Professor Maualaivao Albert Wendt Honoured for Service to Education in New Zealand Professor Maualaivao Albert Wendt has been named as one of the recipients of the Samoa College Old Pupils Association (S.C.O.P.A) New Zealand ‘Lifetime Achievement ... More >>
Christchurch lawyer elected new Chancellor
Thursday, 29 November 2018, 11:33 am | University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury will be led by two women for the first time in its history after the election of Susan McCormack , a partner at Mortlock McCormack Law , as its next Chancellor, effective from 1 January 2019. More >>
Statement in support of Anne-Marie Brady
Wednesday, 28 November 2018, 5:27 pm | University of Canterbury academics
As colleagues of Professor Anne-Marie Brady, we welcome the statement by the Prime Minister that "I absolutely defend the right of academics to utilise their academic freedom and, of course, the rights that are granted to them through our legislation. ... More >>
Lincoln University in safe hands
Wednesday, 28 November 2018, 1:18 pm | Lincoln University
Lincoln University is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Bruce McKenzie as Acting Vice-Chancellor, a position he will take over from Professor James McWha in January of next year. More >>
