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Marsden Welcomes Connah Podmore As 2025 Artist In Residence
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:58:41 +1300 | Samuel Marsden Collegiate School
Marsden’s Artist in Residence programme extends beyond the school community, with Connah also leading a workshop for local primary school students. The residency will culminate in an exhibition of both Connah’s and our students’ work at Te Auaha ...More >>
Greens Call For Govt To Scrap Proposed ECE Changes
Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:25:30 +1300 | Green Party
The Government’s proposed changes remove obligations to honour te Tiriti o Waitangi and mana whenua status of tangata whenua, undermine qualification requirements for teachers, and reduce protections for teachers More >>
Attendance Rates Rising But Not Good Enough
Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:10:29 +1300 | New Zealand Government
In Term 4 of 2024 58.1 per cent of students attended school regularly, an increase of 5.1 percentage points from 53 per cent in Term 4 of 2023. Attendance rates across all equity index groups increased from 2023 to 2024.More >>
Stop Early Childhood Education Going The Same Way As School Lunches, NZEI Te Riu Roa Says
Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:05:25 +1300 | NZEI Te Riu Roa
“The school lunches changes have cut costs while torpedoing quality and even introducing safety risks. Now we’re facing quality cuts to young children’s education – even saying teachers don’t need to be qualified to teach in the classroom – and ...More >>
Harmful And Outdated: Government Standardised Testing Move Is Dangerous
Fri, 21 Mar 2025 09:18:49 +1300 | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The Government's decision to tender for new standardised assessment tests from year 3 risks shifting teacher efforts from personalised teaching and learning to over-assessment, Ms Madden says.More >>
Principals Stunned As Ministry Looks For New Reading, Maths Tests
Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:25:18 +1300 | RNZ
The Education Ministry has blindsided schools by going to market for a new national test. More >>
National Standards Returning By Stealth
Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:20:07 +1300 | New Zealand Labour Party
Having our tamariki undergo standardised testing from a young age only fuels anxiety and stress for students and parents. It pits students against each other and only reinforces in children who don’t have the same out-of-school support that they’re ...More >>
Volunteers With Intellectual Disabilities Contribute More Than 32,000 Hours In 2024
Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:48:37 +1300 | Student Volunteer Army
The SVA Service Award is a nationally-recognised framework to celebrate the impact of volunteering. Users log hours in the SVA web app, building a Summary of Service to showcase their achievements and receiving pins when they reach key milestones.More >>
Education Sector Leaders Oppose Proposal To Scrap Expert Teachers Of Literacy And Māori
Mon, 3 Mar 2025 11:56:24 +1300 | Te Akatea
Education leaders say the Minister’s decision disrespects the mana and expertise of Resource Teachers and places schools and teachers in the impossible situation of having to comment on this proposal when they are desperate for any additional ...More >>
Calls To Ditch NCEA Tests Expose A Deficit In School Leadership
Mon, 3 Mar 2025 11:26:33 +1300 | ACT New Zealand
NCEA exists to offer real knowledge and skills, and set real standards – not to give qualifications to everyone. Testing against real standards makes the system accountable, ACT Education spokesperson Laura McClure says.More >>
Residency Fast Tracked For Primary Teachers
Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:40:15 +1300 | New Zealand Government
From 26 March, the streamlined process allows eligible primary teachers with a job offer to apply for residence. They will be able to apply for residence without first working for two years, provided they have an employment offer from an accredited ...More >>
Gisborne School To Close After Student Numbers Dwindle
Sat, 22 Feb 2025 16:33:00 +1300 | Zita Campbell - Local Democracy Reporter
Current students will move to other schools in the local network.More >>
Together We Can Solve The Teacher Shortage
Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:49:21 +1300 | Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood NZ
The Ministry of Education has admitted that the sector will have an under supply of 750 primary teachers and 500 secondary teachers this year – as opposed to the projected surpluses of 1050 primary school teachers and 61 secondary teachers.More >>
With A Little Help From Their Friends: School Challenges
Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:57 +1300 | University of Auckland
Peer friendships and caring social connections with teachers and other school community members are central to students’ experiences of school, according to two recently published reports from the Our Voices project at Waipapa Taumata Rau University ofMore >>
Teacher Enrolments Increasing At Te Rito Maioha
Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:37:24 +1300 | Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood NZ
“As a bicultural ITE provider, committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, our focus is on ensuring a quality education so that our tauira (students) are classroom-ready using field-based learning, and secondly, that the needs of our tauira are prioritised,” ...More >>
Schools To Accelerate Maths Achievement
Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:28:26 +1300 | New Zealand Government
Schools participating will receive funding for staff involved based on the number of children taking part. It will be used to pay for staffing as well as cover costs associated with an AI tutoring tool. An evaluation of the trial will inform how to ...More >>
Future Safety Stars: Air New Zealand Reveals Schools For Safety Winners
Wed, 22 Jan 2025 11:04:47 +1300 | Air New Zealand
The nationwide initiative invited Kiwi kids to put their creative spin on safety for the opportunity to receive one of five $10,000 grants to go toward helping Kiwi tamariki achieve their dreams.More >>
NZ’s Te Pā O Rākaihautū Wins 2025 Zayed Sustainability Prize In Global High Schools – East Asia & The Pacific Category
Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:24:33 +1300 | Zayed Sustainability Prize
The school was recognised for its groundbreaking Puku Māra project, which uses indigenous biocultural technology to address global challenges such as climate change, food insecurity, and land degradation.More >>
Report Finds ECE Regulation Is Not Fit For Purpose
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:47:16 +1300 | Early Childhood Council
“Many of the concerns we raised on providers’ behalf, including our community-based members, have been heard. Change is desperately needed and it’s now on the way, thank goodness.”More >>
ECE Regulation Shake-up Welcomed By Home-based Providers
Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:03:15 +1300 | Tiny Nation
The report makes clear recommendations around the need to simplify the regulatory framework for ECE providers. This includes revising the criteria that providers are licensed by to ensure that they are necessary and proportionate to the risks that ...More >>
