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Call For Mandatory Child Protection Training For Teachers
Monday, 30 December 2024, 2:49 pm | RNZ
Teachers are in prime position to notice signs of child abuse or have a child confide in them, but it is not mandatory for them to know how to respond or report it. More >>
No Christmas Cheer For Te Pūkenga Staff
Friday, 20 December 2024, 1:57 pm | Tertiary Education Union
The Minister of Tertiary Education and Skills, Penny Simmonds, has belatedly announced, at the last possible minute before Christmas, that the Government still plans to proceed with their plan to disestablish Te Pūkenga but no key decisions have been ... More >>
Seven Students Have Been Awarded Owens Scholarships For 2024
Thursday, 19 December 2024, 9:32 am | Acorn Foundation
The award winners have shown a significant commitment to their schools and the community, with strong ideas about their future goals. More >>
Historic Appointment For Māori Education - Te Wānanga o Raukawa Appoints Professor Meihana Durie As Tumuaki
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 7:01 pm | Te Wananga o Raukawa
As Tumuaki, Meihana is committed to continuing Te Wānanga o Raukawa’s kaupapa Māori approach and enhancing its impact on Māori communities. More >>
Barnardos Aotearoa Welcomes Regulatory Review Of Early Childhood Education (ECE)
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 6:16 pm | Barnardos
Barnardos Aotearoa is pleased to have been heard, alongside other ECE sector leaders and the thousands of submissions, by the Ministry of Regulation who conducted a review of ECE earlier this year. The Ministry has made 15 key recommendations in response ... More >>
Regulatory Review Report Misses Mark On Quality And Safety
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 5:34 pm | Kindergartens Aotearoa
We continue to be concerned that private centres are trying to use the government’s review of regulations to drive down quality and reduce teachers’ pay so they can make greater profits from taxpayer funds. More >>
Parents Alarmed By Optional Standards Proposal For Early Childhood Services
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 5:27 pm | My ECE
The ECE Parents Council spokesperson, Michelle De Bono said that standards are not just checkboxes; they are the backbone of quality care and education and making them optional would jeopardise children’s well-being and development. More >>
Te Rito Maioha Responds To Regulatory Review Of Early Childhood Education (ECE)
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 5:18 pm | Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood NZ
To remove the need for qualified teachers or “dumb down” qualifications does not solve the teacher shortage! The appropriate response to staff shortages is to put in place an effective ‘teacher education workforce strategy’. More >>
There’s Much For The ECE Profession And Public To Be Worried About – Analysis Of The ECE Regulations Report
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 5:04 pm | Office of Early Childhood Education
Chief advisor to the OECE, Dr Sarah Alexander said that the terms of reference for the review meant that the advice provided by the Ministry for Regulation to Minister Seymour would be biased. More >>
Qualified Teachers Essential To Quality ECE, Say Kaiako
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 12:11 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The report, released on Wednesday, recommends what it calls "greater flexibility in workforce qualifications" to support access to & quality of ECE, however teachers say this doesn't address the true causes of the shortage of teachers and will place ... More >>
Report Finds ECE Regulation Is Not Fit For Purpose
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 9:47 am | 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
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 9:03 am | 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 >>
Sector Responds To Regulatory Review Of Early Childhood Education (ECE)
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 5:40 am | Early Childhood New Zealand
“As a sector, we have been calling on the govt to put children first & create a set of regulations that support the education and protection of our children while also supporting the ongoing viability of ECE service provision,” says Kelly Seaburg, ... More >>
Regulatory Review Of Early Childhood Education (ECE) Has Delivered A Balanced Set Of 15 Key Recommendations
Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 5:30 am | New Zealand Kindergartens
The review’s recommendations respond to the call for clearer regulations and improved transparency – including the use of public funding, data and evidence, and strong and more mature working relationships with regulators that can ensure regulations ... More >>
Country Kindy Successfully Repels Ministry Of Education’s Aggressive Approach In Legal Action, Raising Renewed Questions
Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 4:59 pm | Early Childhood Council
“MoE doesn’t seem ready to face accountability for what they did to Country Kindy. In this case they even engaged high-powered lawyers to try to bully its opponent into the ground – when is enough, enough?” said ECC CEO Simon Laube. More >>
Lack Of Strategy For Addressing Long-Standing Early Childhood Workforce Problems Hurts Children’s Education
Tuesday, 17 December 2024, 4:50 pm | Office of Early Childhood Education
Nicola Willis’s office forwarded her copy of the briefing paper to Minister Seymour because to quote: “the issues raised fall within the portfolio responsibilities of Hon David Seymour, associate Minister of Education”. More >>
Fellowship Tops Off Big Year For Te Manawahoukura Rangahau Director
Friday, 13 December 2024, 9:05 pm | Te Wananga o Aotearoa
Te Manawahoukura director Dr Becky Kiddle (Ngāti Porou, Ngāpuhi) received the Mana Tūānuku Research Leader Fellowship from the Royal Society Te Apārangi. More >>
New Early Childhood Service To Open In Glenorchy
Friday, 13 December 2024, 8:55 pm | Kowhai Valley Creche
The Crèche will open to enrolled children based in Glenorchy on Monday 27 January 2025. More >>
2024 Recipient Of Margaret May Blackwell Travel Fellowship Announced
Thursday, 12 December 2024, 2:33 pm | NZCER
The fellowship, established in 1988, supports those working in or around early childhood education to study overseas to gain further experience and subsequently to disseminate that information for the benefit of early childhood education in New Zealand. More >>
University Of Waikato Improves Sustainability Ranking, Remains Among The World’s Best
Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 10:09 pm | University of Waikato
Waikato's ranking of 112= out of 1,744 participating institutions sees it move into New Zealand's top four. Its score is 85.4 out of 100, an improvement on last year's 81.9. More >>
We Are The University Open Letter: Cuts To Marsden Funding For Humanities And Social Sciences
Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 9:34 pm | We are the University
By tightening the bottleneck of researcher funding, Collins is crushing the ability for new ideas and new teachers to enter the realms of humanities and social sciences, consequently disincentivizing students' study of these subjects. More >>
New Zealand Men Main Reason For Bad Slump In Literacy, Numeracy Test
Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 9:01 pm | RNZ
And an educator says she is not surprised. More >>
STAND Tū Maia An Essential Service, Say School Principals
Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 4:06 pm | NZ Principals Federation
"The number of whanau, children and schools that have benefitted from STAND Tū Maia is immeasurable," said Leanne Otene, President of the New Zealand Principals’ Federation. More >>
Resist Gender Education Welcomes ERO’s Recommendation That Relationships & Sexuality Education Curriculum Be Reviewed
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 9:42 pm | Resist Gender Education
Although the ERO Report contains much useful information about the education needs of students in this era of online abuse and pornography, it also perpetuates some of the confusion and misrepresentation that has led to the current crisis and parental ... More >>
UC Challenge Helps Students Turn Waste Into Wonderful
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 7:24 pm | University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury’s annual ‘Redesign with Waste Challenge’ inspires students to transform waste into innovative opportunities. More >>
Valuing Education Workers Is Key To Reducing Industrial Action, Says Union
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 4:34 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
“It's a pity Governments haven't valued teaching enough to make decent pay offers and that it takes educators having to take industrial action to really shift conditions in which tamariki learn.” More >>
NZARE Responds To Marsden Fund Announcement
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 3:34 pm | NZARE
The Marsden Fund is already one of the only funding opportunities for research in education in this country. More >>
Young Professional Foresters’ Exchange Programme: Meet The 2025 Candidates
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 10:54 am | New Zealand Institute of Forestry
From March to May 2025, these young professionals will bring their expertise, curiosity, and passion to their host organisations. In turn, the host employers will gain fresh perspectives and insights from these emerging leaders in forestry. More >>
New Christchurch Charter School Announces Principal
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 10:52 am | Christchurch North College
With a career spanning nearly two decades in leadership roles, Justin brings a wealth of experience, a passion for pastoral care, and a proven ability to re-engage students with learning. Notably, he served as Deputy Principal – Pastoral Care at Catholic ... More >>
Review Of Relationships And Sexuality Education Significant And Welcome
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 9:18 am | Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa
The RSE curriculum was last reviewed in 2007 and much has changed since, particularly with the rise of social media, pornography, bullying, and cyber bullying. And what tamariki, rangatahi, and their whānau need and want to know has changed too. More >>
Funding Awarded To Six Educational Research Partnerships
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 9:17 am | Teaching and Learning Research Initiative
This project will hear from tauira Māori fluent in te reo attending wharekura and then university, about opportunities to maintain te reo Māori in higher education. More >>
New ERO Research Finds Relationships And Sexuality Education Too Inconsistent, Impacting Students
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 8:51 am | Education Review Office
"Relationships and sexuality education plays an important role in teaching students to identify and reject misinformation and harmful attitudes. Nearly all parents and students want relationships and sexuality education taught in New Zealand’s schools." More >>
Review Of Relationships And Sexuality Education Welcomed
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 8:43 am | PPTA
“In an increasingly fractured and online world, it is important that parents and whānau know what their rangatahi are learning at school. Nowhere is this more important than in relationships and sexuality education.” More >>
Skewing Marsden -- QPEC Response
Monday, 9 December 2024, 9:46 pm | Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC
The Minister's policy suggests a disturbing Government outlook that seriously undervalues the benefit of critical social sciences and humanities across the range of human activity. We urge the Minister to reverse her decision. And we urge other organisations ... More >>
It’s All About Maths This Week In Auckland
Monday, 9 December 2024, 10:23 am | University of Auckland
The 9-13 December event is a joint meeting of the New Zealand, Australian and US maths societies. More >>
Old Boy Appointed As Headmaster At Westlake Boys High School
Monday, 9 December 2024, 9:44 am | Westlake Boys High School
Paul Fordham succeeds David Ferguson who served as Headmaster for 15 years and is taking on a long-signalled new role as CEO of the newly founded The Teachers Institute in the New Year. More >>
Te Tumu Herenga Waka, The Oldest University Marae In Aotearoa, Reawakened After Years-long Closure
Sunday, 8 December 2024, 8:51 pm | RNZ
The marae will again provide "shelter and warmth" to students, as it has done for nearly four decades. More >>
The BUSY School Announces New Campus In Auckland
Saturday, 7 December 2024, 8:40 pm | The BUSY Group
The new campus will provide young people with an alternative to traditional schooling, re-engaging students who have struggled in mainstream settings. More >>
Scholarships Empower Future Business Leaders
Saturday, 7 December 2024, 8:37 pm | University of Canterbury
A Master of Business Administration (MBA) scholarship offering like no other in New Zealand has been awarded to three emerging Canterbury business leaders. More >>
Christmas Bypass For School Principals
Friday, 6 December 2024, 10:31 am | TTPA
While in hospital awaiting a triple bypass operation, TTPA President, (Brendon Morrissey, can’t help but wonder what end of year announcements await the education sector this coming week. He says “It’s become a pattern in recent years for the government ... More >>
Minister Seymour’s ECE “Achievements” In His First Year
Friday, 6 December 2024, 9:28 am | Office of Early Childhood Education
Chief advisor to the OECE, Dr Sarah Alexander said that Minister Seymour had been effective in encouraging ECE operators and groups who don’t prioritise the well-being of children to come out of the woodwork. More >>
Deans Condemn Minister’s Cut To Humanities And Social Sciences Research Funding
Thursday, 5 December 2024, 9:15 pm | DASSH
The Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities represents 44 universities from Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia and is calling for an immediate reversal of the decision to disband the Humanities and Social Sciences Panels. More >>
New Zealand Schooling System Should Provide For All, Not The Chosen Few
Thursday, 5 December 2024, 4:29 pm | PPTA
“A two-tier system of schooling, where one tier is desperately under-funded and under-resourced, while another tiny tier is funded to succeed, is not the way we do things, and not what most New Zealanders want for our public education system”, ... More >>
New Charter Schools Announced
Thursday, 5 December 2024, 4:18 pm | Ministry of Education
"This is a huge day for education in New Zealand and recognition that diverse learning options have a place in our communities," Ms Lee says. More >>
Life Saved One Day After Attending Training Event
Thursday, 5 December 2024, 10:19 am | Surf Life Saving New Zealand
For four days, the 19 lifeguards participated in advanced rock rescue training, specialised Inflatable Rescue Boat driving skills and the latest critical care first aid techniques. More >>
New Research Highlights The Critical Role Of Whānau In Kōhanga Reo
Thursday, 5 December 2024, 10:00 am | NZCER
This research highlights the way kōhanga reo do things. How everyone works together to give expression to the mana of mokopuna, and where whānau are recognised as ‘experts in their own right’. It’s a Māori way of doing and being that represents the ... More >>
Marsden Fund Changes Disgraceful
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 6:00 pm | NZTEU
Tumu Whakarae – Tiriti | National President – Tiriti Dr Julie Douglas says “this is an extremely shortsighted move that belies a harmfully narrow world view of what does and doesn’t add value to society.” More >>
New Māori Education Action Plan Light On Detail
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 4:58 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The plan looks very much like a mirroring of the new English medium literacy and structured mathematics curricula. We cannot see a focus on pūtaiao science or Aoteraoa histories, both important subjects for Māori ākonga, says Ripeka Lessels, the incoming ... More >>
UCOL Lecturer Honoured With Prestigious International Award
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 2:17 pm | UCOL
The international accolade from the London Institute of Skills Development recognises Dr. Nathan's outstanding contributions to education, research, and innovation in multiple countries, including Malaysia, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Australia, the ... More >>
Youth Voices Central To Project Aimed At Better Well-being
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 11:54 am | University of Auckland
Led by researchers at the University of Auckland, the project wants to inform policies and services that will improve young people’s lives, with the added authenticity of having been co-designed by young people themselves. More >>
ECE Sector Praises Minister’s Openness To New Ideas And Willingness To Listen
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 6:03 pm | Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood NZ
“As a sector we recognise that we all have different philosophies, however we are bound by our quest for teacher-led, quality ECE that celebrates the rich diversity of our sector,” says Kelly Seaburg, Director of Advocates for Early Learning Excellence. More >>
From Delivery Room To Wintec: Janet Taiatini's Māori Midwifery Legacy
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 11:03 am | Wintec
From her early days as a nurse in 1982 to becoming one of the longest-registered Māori midwives in the country, Janet's journey reflects not just her personal growth, but also the evolution of midwifery care in New Zealand. More >>
New Zealand Ranks Highly In Most Popular University Destinations For Students From Cambridge Schools
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 11:02 am | Cambridge International
For Kiwi students, domestic fees paid for Australian universities were a drawcard. Globally, over a third of schools surveyed say more of their students heading overseas. More >>
Te Wānanga O Aotearoa Appoints Evie O’Brien As New Chief Executive
Monday, 2 December 2024, 11:32 am | Te Wananga o Aotearoa
Ms O’Brien has had an extensive career in leadership roles in tertiary education, most recently as Executive Director at the Atlantic Institute, based at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. More >>
Kiwi Kids’ STEM Education At Risk
Monday, 2 December 2024, 9:53 am | Engineering New Zealand
Funding for STEM initiatives that boost the core curriculum has significantly declined in recent years, and STEM education providers are closing or facing uncertain futures due to a lack of financial support. More >>
Empowering Pasifika Students To Shine With New Scholarship And Dedicated Space
Friday, 29 November 2024, 12:53 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
Te Herenga Waka and the Fale Malae Trust, supported by Grant Thornton, have launched the 2025 Fale Malae Development Scholarship, offering Pasifika undergraduate students an opportunity to apply for six $15,000 scholarships to pursue postgraduate study. More >>
Principals Honour The Legacy Of Angus Hikairo Macfarlane (CNZM)
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 7:58 pm | NZ Principals Federation
As a professor and leader in educational psychology, Angus contributed an enduring body of research, including his renowned Educultural Wheel, a framework blending cultural and pedagogical practices to empower both teachers and learners. More >>
NZ’s GeoHealth Lab: 20 Years Of Impactful Research
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 3:35 pm | University of Canterbury
Since 2004, Te Taiwhenua o te Hauora | GeoHealth Laboratory at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury has combined geospatial science and public health research to address societal health challenges across Waitaha Canterbury and Aotearoa ... More >>
Book Empowering Children’s Voice To Be Gifted To Every New Zealand Primary School
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 3:17 pm | Save The Children
Supported by Life Education Trust and Save the Children, ‘The Wolf and the Hocus Pocus’ is the latest story from Avril McDonald, the award-winning author, which aims to give all children access to tools that help them manage tough emotions and ... More >>
New Hearings Report Backs ‘Child-Centred’ Vision For ECE
Thursday, 28 November 2024, 10:31 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
The hearings report backs a child-centred vision of early education that ensures culturally responsive learning for tamariki Māori and Pasifika, prioritises the health and safety of all tamariki, and provides enough additional learning support. More >>
