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The purpose of the group is to increase awareness of rare and undiagnosed disorders within the New Zealand Parliament and support policies and initiatives that enhance equity, wellbeing, and social inclusion for people living with rare or undiagnosed disorders, and their families.
Joining winner Shan Liu, a Year 10 Westlake Boys High School student, in this year’s hotly contested finale were New Zealand School of Music student, Wellington based pianist Otis Prescott-Mason and Henry Meng, a current piano and composition student at the University of Auckland’s School of Music.
Hawera in Taranaki has managed to achieve a milestone many communities across the country are striving to reach. The team at South Taranaki Rural Health Group recently struck 100 per cent fully immunised for all enrolled children under 8 months old.
Pharmac’s Director Pharmaceuticals, Geraldine MacGibbon, says funding these medicines would provide more treatment options to use around the time of surgery, or if people’s cancer is at a later stage and they can’t have surgery.
Standardised testing of children as young as seven, twice a year, is an outdated and harmful strategy, NZEI Te Riu Roa Principals Council chair Stephanie Madden says. 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.
Ruthe surpasses the previous youngest sub-four-minute milers: Olympic Champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen (who ran 3:58.07 at 16) and Cam Myers (who clocked 3:55.44 at 16). He also knocked down the New Zealand U19 and U20 mile records of 3:58.41, previously held by his training partner and pacemaker, Sam Tanner.
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