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Crafting The Future: A Deep Dive Into Auckland's Preschool Education System
Tuesday, 7 November 2023, 9:22 am | Fabric Digital
Auckland's commitment to early childhood education (ECE) is an investment in the nation's future. New Zealand's strategic plan for ECE aims for all children to participate in quality ECE, regardless of their background, enhancing participation, improving ... More >>
EIT | Te Pūkenga Graduate Youngest To Win Young Winemaker Of The Year
Monday, 6 November 2023, 7:35 pm | EIT Te Pukenga
An EIT | Te Pūkenga graduate has been named the 2023 Tonnellerie de Mercurey New Zealand Young Winemaker of the Year. At 22 years old, Alena Kamper, who now works as a Cellar Hand at Sacred Hill Winery in Hawke’s Bay, is the youngest person to ... More >>
Tertiary Students Encourage Rural Health Careers In Waikato And Auckland
Monday, 6 November 2023, 3:57 pm | Hauora Taiwhenua Rural Health Network
In a bid to tackle the severe lack of health professionals in rural communities, a team of tertiary students is heading to Waikato and Auckland to promote rural health careers to high school students. They are trying to inspire more young rural people ... More >>
Playcentre Encourages Outdoor Play For Play Week Aotearoa
Monday, 6 November 2023, 11:10 am | Playcentre Aotearoa
Playcentre Aotearoa is encouraging whānau at their early childhood education centres across the motu to find new ways, places and spaces to enjoy outdoor play with their pēpi and tamariki in recognition of Play Week Aotearoa (6-12 November 2023). Play ... More >>
Rocket Lab Awards $30,000 In Two University Scholarships To Support Rural Students And Women In STEM
Monday, 6 November 2023, 9:51 am | Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab USA Inc, (Nasdaq: RKLB), a leading launch and space systems company, has today awarded two scholarships worth $30,000 total to a young student aspiring to become a Māori health professional and a young woman determined to become an ... More >>
New Zealand Skills And Education College’s (NZSE) ATC Terminator Challenge 2023: A Test Of Mental Toughness And Teamwork
Friday, 3 November 2023, 4:42 pm | NZSE
Over the more than 15 years, ATC’s (Active Training Core) Terminator Challenge has solidified its reputation as New Zealand's ultimate showcase of mental fortitude, teamwork, and physical endurance. What began as a small event has now grown into ... More >>
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Announces The 2024 Winston Churchill Fellowships
Friday, 3 November 2023, 4:35 pm | Department Of Internal Affairs
Achieving better outcomes for our young people, palliative care and community-led marine restoration are just a few of the subjects covered by the 2024 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowships, announced by the Trust’s Board today. The Winston Churchill ... More >>
Telesia Excels In Global Chinese Language Competition
Friday, 3 November 2023, 1:00 pm | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Year 11 student Telesia Tanoa’i of Samuel Marsden Collegiate School has been named the top Chinese language student in Oceania and one of the top five Chinese learners in the world. The Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition is an international ... More >>
Win For ECE Providers As Ministry Of Education Confirms Common Sense Building WoF Approach
Friday, 3 November 2023, 12:13 pm | Early Childhood Council
The Early Childhood Council welcomes the Ministry of Education’s clarification they won’t automatically remove early learning centre licences if their building loses its warrant of fitness under new MBIE guidelines, after an ECC investigation. ... More >>
Principals Survey An Accurate Reflection Of Top Concerns
Friday, 3 November 2023, 11:55 am | Post Primary Teachers' Association
A national survey of secondary principals which found the top issues facing schools were providing support for vulnerable students and recrutiing quality teachers, is an accurate reflection, says Kate Gainsford, Chair of the Secondary Principals’ ... More >>
New Marsden Fund Grants Awarded To Support World-class Research In Aotearoa
Thursday, 2 November 2023, 11:13 am | Marsden Fund
Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden, the Marsden Fund, has allocated $83.59 million (excluding GST) to 123 research projects led by researchers in Aotearoa New Zealand. These grants support excellent research in the humanities, engineering, mātauranga, mathematics, ... More >>
Annual Free Pet Health Clinic Success
Thursday, 2 November 2023, 9:51 am | Southern Institute Of Technology
The Southern Institute of Technology | Te Pūkenga Free Pet Health Clinic held recently by the New Zealand Diploma in Veterinary Nursing students, crowned another successful year for the Vet Nursing staff and soon-to-be graduating students. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2311/4053522cf04f766713ad.jpeg" ... More >>
Low Participation Decreases Meaningfulness Of International Education Results
Wednesday, 1 November 2023, 1:46 pm | Post Primary Teachers' Association
New Zealand students’ low participation rates in the latest international reading, maths and science assessments shows its increasing irrelevance to many countries, says Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua acting president. He was commenting in ... More >>
TupuOra To Offer First Ever Māori Tutoring Programme For Kura And Wharekura
Wednesday, 1 November 2023, 9:37 am | TupuOra
Māori Education Provider, TupuOra, has announced the launch of tutoring programme, Tuku Marumaru for years 7 to 13 at Kura Kaupapa or Wharekura. Expressions of interest are now being accepted for kaiako, kura and ākonga seeking support or extension ... More >>
Wintec Supporting Pacific Scholars To Gain Skills To Benefit Their Home Communities
Monday, 30 October 2023, 5:43 pm | Wintec
Pacific Short Term Training Scholarship (STTS) recipients are studying at Wintec | Te Pūkenga to gain skills they can take home to improve their local communities. Pictured left to right: Back row - Robert (Solomon Islands), Brendon (Solomon Islands), ... More >>
SIT Nursing Students Use Skills At Council Heart Care Day
Friday, 27 October 2023, 9:37 pm | Southern Institute Of Technology
Around 80 Bachelor of Nursing Year 2 and New Zealand Diploma in Enrolled Nursing Level 5 students from SIT | Te Pūkenga School of Nursing (SoN), in a collaboration with The National Heart Foundation of New Zealand, were able to practise their clinical ... More >>
Velocity Named Academic Initiative Of The Year
Friday, 27 October 2023, 9:36 pm | University of Auckland
The University of Auckland's long-standing Velocity programme, a beacon of entrepreneurial development in New Zealand, has won the Global Entrepreneurship Network New Zealand (GEN NZ) award for Academic Initiative of the Year. GEN NZ is an international organisation ... More >>
Inflexible Building Rules Could See Ministry Of Education Suspend Early Learning Licences Overnight
Friday, 27 October 2023, 3:29 pm | Early Childhood Council
Lack of clarity with the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s new approach to building regulation could see Ministry of Education shut early learning centres overnight, leaving parents scrambling for care and massive disruption for ... More >>
Kiwi Researchers Gain Funding For Vital Climate Change Work
Friday, 27 October 2023, 11:52 am | University of Canterbury
Three University of Canterbury academics have been awarded research fellowships to explore ground-breaking solutions to global environmental problems. The Royal Society Te Apārangi has today announced 2023 Rutherford Discovery Fellowships will ... More >>
Te Pūkenga Teams Up With REANNZ To Deliver High Performance Wi-Fi To All Learners
Friday, 27 October 2023, 11:44 am | Te Pukenga
By the end of 2023, all ākonga (learners) and kaimahi (staff) of Te Pūkenga New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology will have access to free, secure, high-performance Wi-Fi across Aotearoa New Zealand. Te Pūkenga and Crown entity REANNZ are working ... More >>
St Laurence’s College Enhances Student And Teacher Experience With Boomi
Thursday, 26 October 2023, 5:50 pm | Boomi
Boomi™ , the intelligent connectivity and automation leader, has announced that St Laurence’s College (‘Lauries’) is using the Boomi platform to enhance the end-to-end experience of its 1,990 students, and 250 teachers and staff, from enrolment ... More >>
Open Polytechnic | Te Pūkenga Celebrates New Principal Academic Staff Members
Thursday, 26 October 2023, 9:37 am | Open Polytechnic
Four Open Polytechnic | Te Pūkenga Academic Staff Members, Dr Melissa McMinn (Initial Teacher Education), Dr Mathew Thomas (Engineering), Dr Waireti Roestenburg (Social Health & Wellbeing), and Dr Indu Peiris (Management and Economics) were recently ... More >>
SAE Auckland Launches New Songwriting Programme
Wednesday, 25 October 2023, 12:05 pm | SAE Auckland
SAE Auckland (SAE), a leading institution for creative media education, is thrilled to announce the launch of their new Songwriting Programme. This programme has received official accreditation and is set to commence in February 2024, opening ... More >>
Winners Of NZ's Biggest Start-up Challenge Announced
Friday, 20 October 2023, 6:29 pm | University of Auckland
The Velocity $100k Challenge has helped start-ups find success on a global stage, and this year, six new ventures have been given a kick-start that could see creative ideas burgeon into successful businesses. Construction and demolition waste, detection ... More >>
New Law Reform Project To Focus On Bail And Custodial Remand Practices In Aotearoa
Friday, 20 October 2023, 10:41 am | Victoria University of Wellington
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington is delighted to announce that the Michael and Suzanne Borrin Foundation has awarded Te Herenga Waka Centre for Justice Innovation a $714,504 grant towards the Custodial Remand before Trial or ... More >>
Massey University Vice Chancellor Faces Slew Of Angry Staff And Students Over Proposed Cuts
Thursday, 19 October 2023, 8:20 pm | Massey University Students Association
Massey Student Association Presidents, Hennessey Wilson and Aniva Feau address angry students. Massey University Vice Chancellor Jan Thomas faced angry staff and students at a protest at Massey Albany today, following recent announcements of significant ... More >>
State-of-the-Art Dolby-enabled Studio Realised At SIT Sound
Thursday, 19 October 2023, 2:47 pm | Southern Institute of Technology
Two years of work on a state-of-the-art sound studio recently completed at SIT Sound, has helped the institute gain recognition from international specialist audio company Dolby, as a Dolby Institute education partner. Doug Heath, Programme Manager for ... More >>
Posthumous Honorary Doctorate For Visionary Scholar ‘Epeli Hau’ofa
Wednesday, 18 October 2023, 4:04 pm | University of Auckland
Almost three decades after transforming how the world viewed the Pacific, the late Professor ‘Epeli Hau’ofa, visionary poet, writer and academic has been awarded a posthumous honorary doctorate from Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland. ... More >>
Big Ideas Behind Old Report Offer Hope For Modern-day Threats
Wednesday, 18 October 2023, 10:22 am | University of Auckland
Radical concepts presented by the 'father of ACC' in the 60s should be used to address contemporary challenges such as climate change and public health issues, says Richard Gaskins. The relevance of Sir Owen Woodhouse's groundbreaking 1967 report is examined ... More >>
Train Now: Pay On Success. Leading Technology Trainer’s Zero Student Cost Only Repaid Once Employed
Wednesday, 18 October 2023, 10:20 am | Mission Ready HQ
In a first for tertiary education in New Zealand, a top NZQA-rated tech-training provider is offering courses worth nearly $5000 that only need to be paid for once graduates are successfully employed. This pioneering approach is set to reshape tertiary ... More >>
Code-Ed and Hatch Early Learning Join Forces to Boost Literacy
Wednesday, 18 October 2023, 7:45 am | Code Ed Ltd
Auckland, NZ (October 16, 2023) — Two leaders in childhood education, Code-Ed Ltd (New Zealand). and Hatch Early Learning (United States), announced a new collaboration to create an expanded collection of print and digital resources to help students ... More >>
Capturing A Spot In Photo Finals
Tuesday, 17 October 2023, 2:04 pm | Te Pukenga
Just one word summed up how Cindy Griffith felt when she heard she was a finalist in the IHC Capture the Moment photography competition- ‘wonderful’. Cindy is an NMIT Te Pūkenga Community Living ākonga at the Marlborough Campus and her tutor, ... More >>
The Sound Of Success – Four Young Kiwi Musicians Share Their Talents With The World
Tuesday, 17 October 2023, 11:19 am | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
Four exceptional young classical musicians have been awarded a 2023 Kiwi Music Scholarship to help them pursue their dreams internationally. The annual Kiwi Music Scholarship is funded through the Kiwi Music Trust to recognise emerging classical musicians’ ... More >>
One Year Scholarship Awarded At Te Wānanga O Raukawa Open Day
Tuesday, 17 October 2023, 10:34 am | Te Wananga o Raukawa
A one-year study scholarship was awarded to Alize Apera-Ngaha (Ngāti Rārua, Ngāti Mahuta, Te Āti Awa, Muaūpoko) at the Te Wānanga o Raukawa Open Day held on Saturday 7 October. Alize says, “There are no words to express how happy I am to be awarded ... More >>
Otago Polytechnic | Te Pūkenga Ākonga Feature Strongly At Best Design Awards
Monday, 16 October 2023, 9:49 am | Otago Polytechnic
Otago Polytechnic | Te Pūkenga ākonga have won several medals at the Designers Institute of New Zealand Best Design Awards 2023. Otago Polytechnic’s Architecture programme featured strongly in the 2023 awards. Georgia Pope, who is in her first ... More >>
Principals Promise To Keep Politicians Accountable For Education Policy
Friday, 13 October 2023, 12:15 pm | New Zealand Principals' Federation
"Education drives our country’s future prosperity," says Leanne Otene, President of the New Zealand Principals’ Federation, "and we cannot afford to get education policy wrong this general election," she said. To help get ... More >>
Te Hurihanganui O Te Hiku Presents The Te Hiku Kete Pūrākau Challenge For Schools
Friday, 13 October 2023, 10:24 am | Te Hurihanganui o Te Hiku
Te Hurihanganui o Te Hiku is excited to introduce the Te Hiku Kete Pūrākau Challenge. An initiative that aims to engage schools across Te Hiku encouraging them to celebrate Māori history, knowledge, and pūrākau from our region. We warmly invite schools ... More >>
Rural Students Face Educational Barriers To Medical Training
Thursday, 12 October 2023, 5:21 am | University of Auckland
Students from rural schools are disadvantaged when applying to enter medical programmes by lower attainment levels at those schools. Students applying to enter medical programmes in Aotearoa New Zealand, after attending rural and regional schools, are disadvantaged ... More >>
Waikato’s Class Of 2023 To Graduate On Campus For The First Time
Wednesday, 11 October 2023, 11:49 am | University of Waikato
Wednesday 11 October 2023: The University of Waikato will mark a historic moment next Monday (16 October) as it welcomes its first cohort of students who will graduate at The Pā, the landmark new building at the heart of the University’s Hamilton ... More >>
Exceptional Minds, Exceptional Futures – 2024 Woolf Fisher Scholarship Recipients Announced
Wednesday, 11 October 2023, 9:59 am | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
Fundamental questions of memory, existence, and reality feature in the research interests of this year’s Woolf Fisher Scholarship recipients. Worth approximately $70,000 a year for up to four years, a Woolf Fisher Scholarship is one of the most ... More >>
Whanganui Attracts International Students
Tuesday, 10 October 2023, 5:55 am | Whanganui and Partners
Whanganui’s international education delegation has completed the Japanese portion of its assignment, meeting more than 40 agents and visiting six schools over a five-day period. The group also held a meeting with the Tokyo Board of Education and visited ... More >>
Tauhere UC Connect Talk: Medieval History In Ōtautahi
Monday, 9 October 2023, 9:56 am | University of Canterbury
As the University of Canterbury (UC) celebrates its 150th year, two historians will investigate medieval links in modern Ōtautahi Canterbury via a 600-year-old document. The Canterbury Roll is a five-metre-long 15th century genealogical text. Created ... More >>
Agricademy Expands With New Partnerships In Waikato And Southland
Monday, 9 October 2023, 9:54 am | Agricademy
Agricademy, a national provider of online training for dairy farming and wool, has this week signed two new farming industry experts as partners, expanding on-farm training opportunities to Waikato and Southland. Training Centric Ltd, founded and ... More >>
Edtech Leader Education Perfect Appoints Jonathan Morgan As New CEO
Monday, 9 October 2023, 9:45 am | Edtech
EdTech leader Education Perfect has appointed Jonathan Morgan as its new CEO to lead the organisation into its next stage of growth, support its global expansion and advance the organisation’s mission to provide equitable access to education ... More >>
UCOL | Te Pūkenga Whanganui Celebrates Record Scholarship Evening
Friday, 6 October 2023, 11:34 am | Universal College Of Learning
UCOL | Te Pūkenga ākonga (learners) and alumni from the Whanganui campus had a remarkable evening on Thursday, collecting an unprecedented number of scholarships. Whanganui Campus Manager, Bronwyn Paul, says it was the most scholarships UCOL had ... More >>
UCOL | Te Pūkenga Introduces Early Childhood Education Degree In Whanganui
Wednesday, 4 October 2023, 10:49 am | UCOL
UCOL | Te Pūkenga have announced that they will be offering a Te Tohu Paetahi Akoranga: Bachelor of Teaching (Early Childhood Education) at their Whanganui campus from 2024. The three-year degree, which will launch in the first semester next year with our ... More >>
Free Online Sand-art Series To Build Confidence In Te Reo Māori Learners
Wednesday, 4 October 2023, 10:36 am | Maia Studio
Te Onekura, a free online educational series, has been released to support ākonga at all levels of their reo journey. Translated as "The School in the Sand," Te Onekura is an innovative resource that combines the ancient wisdom of oneone (sand) ... More >>
EIT | Te Pukenga ACE programme uses simple scientific method to turn slash into cash
Monday, 2 October 2023, 6:40 pm | EIT Te Pukenga
An Edmund Hillary Fellow and Social Entrepreneur from Botswana has teamed up with EIT | Te Pukenga to help the Tairāwhiti and Wairoa communities eliminate slash and create business opportunities through a simple scientific method and co-creative ... More >>
Massey Cuts Outrageous And Short-sighted
Monday, 2 October 2023, 3:01 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Te Hautū Kahurangi | Tertiary Education Union will continue to fight back in the wake of more extensive proposed cuts that were announced at Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa | Massey University today. Vice Chancellor Jan Thomas has unveiled a new proposal ... More >>
New Research Highlights The Experiences Of Wāhine Māori Leading In Educational Settings
Monday, 2 October 2023, 1:11 pm | NZCER
Distinct qualities and models of leadership, cultural taxation, and the need for mentoring are among the key findings of a landmark new study on wāhine Māori in educational leadership. Me aro ki te hā o Hine-ahu-one | Wāhine Māori in Leadership ... More >>
Greater Support Needed For Aspiring Secondary School Wāhine Māori Leaders
Monday, 2 October 2023, 1:05 pm | Post Primary Teachers' Association
Robust, tailored mentoring programmes, innovative ‘apprenticeship’ models and more professional development opportunities are needed to support wāhine Māori who are or want to be school leaders, a new report has found. The report, Me aro ... More >>
Leaked University Of Auckland Survey Confirms Again, Academic Freedom Is Under Fire
Monday, 2 October 2023, 11:13 am | Free Speech Union
An internal University of Auckland survey has once again confirmed concerns that the Free Speech Union has raised for several years: academic freedom is under fire in New Zealand. This is a serious issue, but our leaders have their hands in the ... More >>
Off To Cambridge University To Gain A Fresh Perspective On The New Zealand Economy
Saturday, 30 September 2023, 8:00 am | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
Angus Baker, recipient of this year’s Sir Douglas Myers Scholarship has one mission: to be the best he can be. Originally from Gisborne, Angus is a recent graduate of Auckland Grammar School where he excelled in Economics, Mathematics, and French. ... More >>
Putting Equity At The Forefront Of Learning
Thursday, 28 September 2023, 6:56 pm | CORE Education
In early October the Due Drop Events Centre in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland will be packed with hundreds of educators for uLearn23, which focuses on multiple issues of learning inequity. Over two and a half days uLearn will bring together educators, ... More >>
ECE Rules Need To Drive Quality Education, Not Create Hardship.
Thursday, 28 September 2023, 3:49 pm | Early Childhood New Zealand
“Everyone agrees that there need to be rules and regulations to ensure the Early Childhood Education sector is safe, provides the best quality education possible, and that the rules are practical and can be implemented,” says Kathy Wolfe CE Te ... More >>
Concerns Over Mātauranga Engagement Programme Prohibiting The Expression Of Dissenting Views
Thursday, 28 September 2023, 3:48 pm | Free Speech Union
The Free Speech Union is concerned that the University of Auckland is failing to uphold academic freedom values in its upcoming Mātauranga Engagement Programme, says Jonathan Ayling, the Chief Executive of the Free Speech Union. “While the ... More >>
Ministry Of Education Uses Flawed Data To Impose Further Regulation On ECE Sector
Thursday, 28 September 2023, 9:46 am | Early Childhood Council
Closures of early childhood education centres and significant disruptions to services are on the cards in 2024 with the Ministry of Education set to enforce flawed regulations founded on incorrect data. From August 2024, new regulations contained in the Education ... More >>
Ara | Te Pūkenga Delighted To Host Indian Government Officials
Wednesday, 27 September 2023, 10:34 am | Te Pukenga
A visit from a delegation headed by the Hon Dr Rajkumar Ranjan Singh, Government of India Minister of State for External Affairs and Education was warmly welcomed by Ara leadership this week . Accompanying the Minster for an informal session with ... More >>
Largest ECE Survey In Years, Kōriporipo, Highlights Teachers Under Pressure
Wednesday, 27 September 2023, 9:17 am | NZEI
The largest survey of the early childhood sector in Aotearoa in recent years, Kōriporipo, shines a light on the immense pressures facing ECE kaiako and kaimahi and makes recommendations that could transform the sector. Undertaken by NZEI Te Riu Roa, the most alarming ... More >>
Small Wellington Primary School Celebrates 100 Years
Tuesday, 26 September 2023, 6:33 pm | St Anthony's School
On Friday 13 October, a small school in the seaside suburb of Seatoun Wellington, will start its weekend long 100-year celebrations with a mix and mingle event. St Anthony’s Primary School has been serving whānau, both Catholic and non-Catholic ... More >>
