September 30, 2004

Damning Discrepancy Between ERO Report And Teacher Registrations

ERO’s report on the quality of year two beginning teachers raises serious questions about the teacher registration process, according to New Zealand First education spokesperson Brian Donnelly.

“Teachers must do a minimum of 2 years of probationary service before they are fully registered. The ERO report suggests that large numbers of incompetent teachers are gaining registration.

“Once a teacher is registered it is very difficult to deregister them. In order to maintain a high quality teaching force, the registration process must be rigorous and robust. ERO’s report suggests that it is not.

“The Minister of Education should call the Teachers Council into his office to explain the discrepancy between ERO’s figures and the proportion of teachers gaining full registration after 2 years,” said Mr Donnelly.

ENDS

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>