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SIT Young Chefs Achieve Silver And Bronze Medals In Regional Competition
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 6:13 pm | Southern Institute Of Technology
Southern Institute of Technology Cookery students, Yari Mowatt and Sam Kissell recently tasted success at the 2024 South Island Regional Cook-off of the Nestlé Golden Chef's Hat Award, coming away with silver and bronze medals, as well as a brand new award ... More >>
From ECE To Degree – Students Of All Ages Can Now Study Wool
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 6:10 pm | Campaign for Wool NZ
Wool in Schools programme is expanding to maximise opportunities for primary-aged children, while new initiatives will include early childhood education (ECE) and introduce secondary education modules. More >>
Submissions Closing Date Extended For The Education And Training Amendment Bill
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 4:51 pm | The Education and Workforce Committee
The Chair of the Education and Workforce Committee has extended the closing date for public submissions on the Education and Training Amendment Bill. The closing date for submissions is now Thursday, 25 July 2024. More >>
Union Says Standardised Tests Will Not Help Young Learners
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 1:54 pm | NZEI
The union says that teachers and principals have been calling out for more learning support to help children and that the announcement of standardised testing is a backwards step. More >>
Special Recognition For UC Academic Appointed King’s Counsel
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 11:58 am | University of Canterbury
UC’s Professor Philip Joseph has been appointed as a King’s Counsel (KC) in recognition of his outstanding service and dedication to the field of law. More >>
MFAT Scholarship Numbers Increase At SIT
Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 1:40 pm | Southern Institute of Technology
Southern Institute of Technology has seen a noticeable increase in the number MFAT (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade) scholarship students from Pacific Island nations choosing to come to the deep south for their studies this year. More >>
First Professional Qualification Announced For Aotearoa NZ
Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 8:59 am | FASD-CAN
FASD-CAN and Toitu te Waiora are pleased to announce that NZQA have approved the Support a person with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and two associated skill standards. More >>
Maths Micro-credential Course To Fill Gap In Teacher Knowledge
Monday, 1 July 2024, 6:33 pm | Kapuhipuhi Wellington Uni Professional
The 5-point micro-credential course will develop positive mathematical identities of both learners and teachers, enabling teachers to support students with diverse mathematics learning needs to move away from mathematical misunderstandings and misconceptions. More >>
Government Helps Over 95,000 School Children Catch The Reading Bug
Monday, 1 July 2024, 2:38 pm | Duffy Books in Homes
During Government Book Week, just under 100,000 school children will receive two brand-new books of their choice to take home, own and read. The books will be presented at special assemblies held at each school during this week. More >>
Well-Meaning Tourists Pose A Threat To Kea, Study Shows
Monday, 1 July 2024, 9:32 am | University of Canterbury
Tourists’ irresponsible behaviour around kea, such as feeding the birds, poses a potential threat to the species’ survival, new UC research has found. More >>
University Of Auckland’s Free Speech Policy More Likely To Stifle Conversation: Free Speech Union Submits Feedback
Friday, 28 June 2024, 12:59 pm | Free Speech Union
University of Auckland’s drafted Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom Policy needs fundamental changes if it’s going to achieve the desired goals, says Paul Moon, Co-Chairperson of the Inter-University Council on Academic Freedom (IUCAF). More >>
Empowering Wellington Parents To Speak Up About Sexualised And Identity-based Content In School
Friday, 28 June 2024, 12:50 pm | Let Kids Be Kids
Parents, grandparents, and community leaders concerned about sexualised and identity based content being taught in schools without parental consent, are invited to attend a public presentation by Penny Marie, founder of ‘Let Kids Be Kids'. More >>
Schools Battle Winter Ills, ‘Impossible’ To Get 90% Attendance
Thursday, 27 June 2024, 6:29 pm | David Hill - Local Democracy Reporter
North Canterbury schools say they are determined to stay open as they battle staff sickness and student attendance. More >>
New Zealand’s ‘Brainiest’ Students Compete For Brain Bee Glory
Thursday, 27 June 2024, 4:30 pm | University of Auckland
Almost 200 senior school students were abuzz with excitement when they visited the University's Centre for Brain Research and competed in the Brain Bee challenge. More >>
Edgewalking And Wayfinding: Exploring The Values Of Whānau Pasifika In Our Education System
Thursday, 27 June 2024, 12:01 pm | NZCER
New research has explored the attitudes and beliefs of whānau Pasifika in relation to the NZ education system, particularly their notions of success. More >>
School Holiday Activities At Whanganui Regional Museum
Thursday, 27 June 2024, 9:18 am | Whanganui Regional Museum
The Winter school holiday programme focuses on Matariki celebrations with fun STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) activities to suit a variety of ages and ability levels. More >>
Wellington Students Compete To Build A Novel Tsunami Alert System
Wednesday, 26 June 2024, 4:16 pm | Toka Tu Ake EQC
The annual challenge is part-funded by EQC Toka Tū Ake and promotes interest in natural hazards research and STEM among Wellington Region’s high school students. More >>
Rushed Consultation On Charter Schools Shows Government’s Complete Disconnect From Communities
Wednesday, 26 June 2024, 3:04 pm | PPTA Te Wehengarua
The Government’s decision today to fast track public consultation on proposed charter schools legislation shows it is out of touch with parents and local communities, says Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua president. More >>
Open Polytechnic Celebrates First Graduates Of Funeral Directing Programme
Wednesday, 26 June 2024, 1:16 pm | Open Polytechnic
Open Polytechnic, a business division of Te Pūkenga, and New Zealand’s specialist provider of online and distance learning, celebrated the first graduates of its Funeral Directing programme at ceremonies held in Christchurch and Auckland recently. More >>
Lisa Reihana’s Stunning Digital Artwork Unveiled At University Of Auckland
Wednesday, 26 June 2024, 12:56 pm | University of Auckland
Māramatanga is the first major digital work to be commissioned by the University of Auckland Art Collection. It is one of the largest artworks to reside at the City Campus and one of the only digital artworks currently on permanent display. More >>
ASB To Teach Fraud And Scam Awareness In Schools
Wednesday, 26 June 2024, 8:40 am | ASB
ASB is teaching the next generation of New Zealanders how to spot fraud and scams with its new ScamWise workshop in schools. More >>
Century Old Harakeke Gifted To Wintec Māori Midwifery Students As Resource To Make Muka Pito
Tuesday, 25 June 2024, 5:01 pm | Wintec
Left to right back: Alroy Walker, Faye Blossom, Janet Taiatini, Ada Te Huia, Rosemary Murray, and De Cleaver. Left to right front: Wintec Midwifery ākonga Sarah Richards and Hinemoa Mills. (Photo/Supplied) Muka Pito, an alternative and traditional way ... More >>
Addressing Cultural Misappropriation Through Law
Tuesday, 25 June 2024, 2:45 pm | University of Auckland
From tā moko filters on Snapchat to a Pākeha television presenter posting a picture of a monkey wearing a korowai on Instagram, culture, particularly Indigenous culture, is regularly used inappropriately, and New Zealand law is failing to protect it. More >>
Breaking The Gender Barrier To Become An Early Childhood Teacher
Tuesday, 25 June 2024, 1:55 pm | Office of Early Childhood Education
Half of NZ’s population is male but only 3 percent of early childhood education (ECE) teachers are men. More >>
How To Discuss Your Kids’ Setbacks? University Study Investigates
Tuesday, 25 June 2024, 1:00 pm | Auckland University
A University of Auckland-led study investigated links between how parents discuss setbacks with their children and the children’s fear of making mistakes. More >>
Charter Schools Legislation Contains Unpleasant Surprises
Tuesday, 25 June 2024, 12:45 pm | Post Primary Teachers' Association
New charter schools legislation, introduced to Parliament last night, contains some unpleasant details that the Government has deliberately not been upfront about, says Chris Abercrombie, PPTA Te Wehengarua president. More >>
Parliament Needs To End The Charter Schools Experiment And Properly Fund Public Schools
Tuesday, 25 June 2024, 7:32 am | Aotearoa Educators Collective
AEC challenges all political parties to vote against the Education and Training Amendment Act legislation that has been introduced to Parliament. The legislation not only allows for charter schools, but also for parent voice to be taken away from ... More >>
Te Akatea Inc. Chief Executive Officer Bruce Jepsen Wins Te Hapori Matahiko National Award
Tuesday, 25 June 2024, 5:01 am | Te Akatea NZ Maori Principals' Association
Jepsen said, "It is an honour to serve Iwi, hapu and whānau advocating, fostering and leading Māori achievement and driving positive outcomes for all tamariki” More >>
NZEI Te Riu Roa Opposes Expensive Charter School Experiment
Monday, 24 June 2024, 6:51 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa opposes the Education and Training Amendment Act legislation introduced to Parliament today which makes provisions for charter schools and allows the Minister to force public schools to convert to charter schools. More >>
Announcing The Recipients Of The 2024 BDO Sir Henare Ngata Scholarship For Māori Accounting Students
Monday, 24 June 2024, 5:40 pm | BDO New Zealand
Now in its third year, the BDO Sir Henare Ngata Scholarship is for Māori accounting tauira (students) in their penultimate or final year of study, with an aim to support, empower and grow our future generations of Māori accountants. More >>
Tertiary Students Encourage Rural Health Careers In Waikato And Bay Of Plenty
Monday, 24 June 2024, 1:44 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 are heading to country areas of Waikato and Bay of Plenty to promote rural health careers to high school students. More >>
SIT Students Learn The Art Of Traditional Weaving
Monday, 24 June 2024, 1:04 pm | Southern Institute Of Technology
Southern Institute of Technology and Te Wānanga o Aotearoa ākonga (students) of Kawai Raupapa: Certificate in Māori and Indigenous Art have been on a rewarding journey in learning the traditional skill of Māori weaving, and now the fruits of ... More >>
How To Win At Sonic Arts
Monday, 24 June 2024, 12:24 pm | Robin Maconie
In more recent history the emergence of electronic, tape, and computer music as a field of creative inquiry has revived and extended old habits of influence and preferment against a perceived threat of contamination of the arts by science and technology. More >>
New Report Highlights How Schools Can Support UE Success For Māori And Pacific Students
Monday, 24 June 2024, 10:11 am | NZCER
The study identified five foundational conditions that supported the schools’ success and five types of initiatives that they employed to support high UE attainment for ākonga Māori and Pacific students. More >>
Women In Leadership Gather From Pacific Rim Universities
Sunday, 23 June 2024, 12:47 pm | Auckland University
The cultural complexities for women advancing into leadership roles in Pacific Rim universities will be explored at a weekend meeting at the University of Auckland. More >>
Report Demonstrates ECE Centres Prioritising Quality Education
Friday, 21 June 2024, 12:24 pm | Early Childhood New Zealand
For the first time the Ministry has reported on adult:child ratios in the sector while using an evaluation framework that tracks progress towards the three goals of Raising Quality, Improving Equity and Enabling parental choice. More >>
New NZ Study Reveals Unique Language On The Ice
Thursday, 20 June 2024, 10:28 am | University of Canterbury
University of Canterbury graduate Dr Steph Kaefer’s doctoral research is one of the first to investigate colloquial Antarctic English vocabulary exclusive to the English-speaking research stations, focusing on the United States, British Antarctic, ... More >>
Fulbright-Ngā Pae O Te Māramatanga 2024 Graduate Award Announcement
Thursday, 20 June 2024, 9:38 am | Fulbright NZ
Fulbright New Zealand and Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence, are pleased to announce that Finley Ngarangi Johnson (Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Kahungunu) is the 2024 recipient of the Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga ... More >>
Stage Direction And Hate Speech Detection Feature In Diverse Cohort Of 2024 Fulbright NZ Graduates
Thursday, 20 June 2024, 9:15 am | Fulbright NZ
Fulbright New Zealand has today announced the 15 recipients of this year’s New Zealand Graduate Awards. These prestigious awards enable New Zealand graduate students to undertake postgraduate study or research at US institutions. More >>
Early Childhood Teachers Head To Parliament To Save Pay Parity Scheme
Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 3:02 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Early childhood kaiako and tamariki will go to Parliament tomorrow to present their eleven thousand-strong petition calling on the Government to ensure the current pay parity scheme for qualified early childhood teachers continues in the face of sweeping ... More >>
Standardised Testing In New Zealand Schools – Expert Q&A
Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 2:57 pm | Science Media Centre
An advisory group for the Minister of Education recommends that students take “checkpoint” tests every year to assess their progress in maths and reading. More >>
Kiwi Students Up With The Top In International Assessment Of Creativity
Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 2:22 pm | PPTA Te Wehengarua
Aotearoa New Zealand students’ performance is up among the top in an OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) of creativity, results released this week show. More >>
The Curriculum MAG’s Evidence Base Falls Short
Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 12:36 pm | Aotearoa Educators Collective
This report points to a significant shift in curriculum for teachers and principals and in Aotearoa. The size of this change needs to be underpinned by a strong and robust research base. This report is not that. More >>
Young People Debate Their Future At Whau Schools Debate
Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 11:18 am | Whau Pasifika
The Whau Pasifika Festival proudly presents THE WHAU SCHOOLS DEBATE, a riveting evening of intellectual exchange and community spirit. Join us on Wednesday, 10 July, from 6pm to 8.30pm at the Kelston Boys High School Library for ... More >>
Why Choice In Education Really Is Choice
Tuesday, 18 June 2024, 7:56 pm | Maxim Institute
Who profits when independent schools are shut out? More >>
New Internship Empowers Next Generation Of Conservation Guardians Through Collaboration And Partnership
Tuesday, 18 June 2024, 2:58 pm | UCOL
It aims to empower kaitiakitanga (guardianship) of te taiao (the environment) while offering paid conservation experience to those entering the field. More >>
Ombudsman Investigates Complaint Re Charter Schools OIA Request
Tuesday, 18 June 2024, 12:42 pm | PPTA Te Wehengarua
The complaint from PPTA Te Wehengarua relates to its request in March for information about the Government’s policy, advice and costings for the re-introduction of charter schools. More >>
Lincoln University Launches Joint Institute With Huazhong Agricultural University
Monday, 17 June 2024, 7:16 pm | Lincoln University
Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki Lincoln University eagerly awaits the arrival of its inaugural cohort of students in August 2024, following the establishment of a new Joint Institute with Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU) in China. More >>
SIT Screens Arts’ Students Gain Regional And International Attention
Monday, 17 June 2024, 6:37 pm | Southern Institute Of Technology
Three talented SIT Animation students feature in this year’s Toon Boom Educational Showreel. More >>
New Research On The Opportunities And Risks Of Generative Artificial Intelligence For Education
Monday, 17 June 2024, 1:18 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
The report, Welcome to the Machine: Opportunities and Risks of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Education, written by Senior Fellow Dr Michael Johnston, will help educators and policymakers navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of AI in education. More >>
Teachers’ Unions Need To Stop Prioritising Politics Over Pupils
Monday, 17 June 2024, 11:29 am | Taxpayers' Union
Responding to reports that the teachers’ unions are once again prioritising politics over pupils and opposing the recommendations made by the government’s Ministerial Advisory Group, Taxpayers’ Union Campaigns Manager, Connor Molloy said: “Every ... More >>
Advisors Urge Annual Literacy And Numeracy Tests, Cursive Handwriting Lessons For Students
Sunday, 16 June 2024, 5:58 pm | RNZ
Proponents say the curriculum updates could case a "step-change" for education, but will fail without good teacher training. More >>
In A Landscape Of Disinformation, Schools’ Pride Week Is More Important Than Ever
Friday, 14 June 2024, 7:21 pm | InsideOUT
Schools’ Pride Week Aotearoa is a celebratory week of events and activities to help foster a sense of belonging for rainbow young people within their schools and communities. In 2023, over 60% of New Zealand secondary schools took part. More >>
Government Commitment To Specialist Schools is Concerning For Building An Inclusive Education System
Friday, 14 June 2024, 5:40 pm | Te Kahui Tika Tangata Human Rights Commission
The Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD) Committee has made it clear that education of disabled students should not be provided in separate environments in isolation from students without disabilities. More >>
Partnership Recipe For Success Delivering ‘Kick For The Seagulls’ Programme
Friday, 14 June 2024, 9:46 am | UCOL
The graduation was a proud moment in time for these ākonga as they celebrated their success of completing the 17-week programme that teaches literacy and numeracy skills through the language of sport. More >>
Preparing Criminal Justice Students For The Real-world
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 7:07 pm | University of Canterbury
Criminal justice students at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) are gaining a realistic understanding of the complexities of the criminal justice system by following the lives of fictional characters Chris and Jimmy. More >>
Tātau Tātau o Te Wairoa Celebrates Graduation Of First Horticulture Cadets And Expansion Plans
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 7:03 pm | Tatau Tatau o Te Wairoa
These cadets have successfully completed their level 3 horticulture certification over the last 3 years while working on orchard. More >>
SIT Engineering Students Experience Of ‘Renewables’ A First
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 4:38 pm | Southern Institute Of Technology
Held on May 20th - 21st, the field trip incorporated Meridian Power Stations at White Hill Wind Farm near Mossburn, and the Manapouri Hydro Station at West Arm on Lake Manapouri. More >>
academyEX Lifts Engagement Across All Marketing Channels With Brand-new Campaign
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 1:44 pm | academyEX
Their new explainer video, ‘Find your EXfactor’, has lifted engagement by an incredible 76% across all channels (and left a trail of giant confetti all over the Newmarket office floor). More >>
Wintec Students Collaborate To Educate The Community Around Diabetes And Fall-prevention
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 1:02 pm | Wintec
Another key objective of the service was to respond to the health needs of the community, providing a service that positively impacts the health status of those in areas where there is the greatest need. More >>
