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uLearn 16 – Meet our winner
It was fantastic to meet so many of our readers at uLearn 16 in Rotorua last week - not least…
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Fitbit Charge – we have a winner…
Congratulations to Margaret Littlejohn, business manager at Sancta Maria College, Auckland, who has won a Charge HR Fitbit worth $259.95.
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New NZEI president seeks quality public education for all kids
Lynda Stuart, new president of NZEI Te Riu Roa, says she is driven by a belief in quality public education…
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Māori resource teacher honoured for her work
A resource teacher of Māori, based at Waitara East School in Taranaki, has been given one of the highest honours…
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Cycling on the curriculum in Gisborne primary
Cycling has become a big part of life at Kaiti School in Gisborne. The decile one primary school has its…
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Housing crisis now an education crisis, says NZEI
The NZEI is backing calls for a national strategy to end homelessness amid mounting evidence that thousands of children who…
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Multi-million dollar college revamp finally underway
A sod-turning ceremony at Western Springs College this week marked the start of a $79 million redevelopment - the largest…
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Top students rewarded with employment offers
A group of students from St. Andrew's College in Christchurch has launched a business offering low cost tutoring as a…
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Education Act Update passes first reading
A legislation update to New Zealand’s education system has passed its first reading.
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Support staff angered by lost pay
School support staff have reacted with anger to the Ministry of Education’s decision to not pay up to 6,000 annualised…
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New tourism course inspires Māori and Pasifika students
In a first for New Zealand education, a group of high school students has graduated from Manaaki Tãpoi (cultural tourism)…
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Bringing the wider world into your school
These days, schools open their doors to all sorts of wonderful and exciting visitors - authors, illustrators, All Blacks, singers…
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Staying sane when your workload is crazy
While much of the population seems to be under the impression that teachers work six-hour days and have masses of…
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Education funding advisory group report released
Education minister Hekia Parata has welcomed the report from the Funding Advisory Group and acknowledged the finding that six out…
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Using broadcasting to engage your school community
Every school day at 8am, 15 students report for duty at Cactus TV, the in-house broadcasting program at Glen Eden…
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More than half of NZ schools now in Communities of Learning
More than half of New Zealand’s schools are now officially working together in Communities of Learning (COL).
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Educators rally to resist global funding proposal
Unprecedented combined meetings of 60,000 PPTA and NZEI Te Riu Roa members have begun around New Zealand.
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$2.36M more for Asian language teaching in schools
A new round of Government funding has enabled a further 63 schools to add Asian language classes to their curriculum.…
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Why good acoustics in big learning spaces are worth every cent
In an Innovative Learning Space, good acoustics are everything when it comes to teaching and learning...
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Work begins on $4M upgrade at Bayswater School
Work has begun on a $4M upgrade at Bayswater School on Auckland's North Shore. The redevelopment will include the construction…
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Life for a first-time principal at Queen’s High School, Dunedin
Di Carter is a first time principal at Queen's High School in Dunedin, not far from where she was born…
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Nominations open for Māori Language Awards
Educators have until September 14 to nominate colleagues who are raising the status of te reo Maori for a Māori…
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Laptops in the classroom: a help or a hindrance?
Recently we were surprised to hear about laptops being banned at prestigious Sydney Grammar School. The principal, Dr John Vallance,…
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Teachers a precious resource, say Kiwis
Most New Zealanders believe that the quality of teaching staff is significantly more important than class sizes, resources or management…
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Using community connections to raise resilient kids
Excessive use of technology can cause us to disconnect from ourselves, from knowing who we are and how to relate…
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