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Three NZ high schools are defying Ministry of Education orders to enrol expelled students. Video / NZ Herald
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Expelled students turned away and elopement on the rise | Focus Morning Bulletin July 18, 2024
In today’s headlines with Chereè Kinnear high schools defy ministry orders, Darlene Tana’s future in Parliament and why more Kiwi couples are opting to elope.
'Unlawful': Three schools defy Ministry of Education, refuse to enrol students
The Education Ministry instructed three schools to enrol excluded students. They refused.
High school counsellors were awarded $1.8m for workplace stress - now that's being challenged
Kath and Ron Cronin-Lampe were awarded damages after dealing with 32 deaths.
ESOL teacher shortage puts schools under pressure
Education leaders have described having to use libraries and halls as classrooms.
'Appalled': Teachers' fears after leaked emails show new curriculum plans
Emails fuel English teachers’ fears about the likely content of rewritten curriculum.
More opportunities to succeed or privatisation? Charter schools debate ramps up
$153m was put aside in the Budget for their re-establishment with some opening in 2025.
Govt introduces standardised testing in primary schools
The 'progress monitoring' checks will focus on reading, writing and maths.
'Opened the door and out came a flood': Suburb has 36 temporary classrooms half a century old
They were intended to last 20 years. But Govt cuts mean they'll have to last even longer.
New Zealand’s 10 busiest builders
Winners of highest value of construction projects in 2023: BCI Central names top 10 in NZ.
Tertiary Education Minister Penny Simmonds slams Te Pūkenga priorities
Govt is defending shifting balance of tertiary education costs from providers to students.
Pause in Education Ministry job cuts after union challenge
The ministry has made a series of decisions that cut more than 700 roles to save money.
Letters: 'A' for effort on education; minister wrong about speed limits
OPINION: 'The NZEI always talks absolute rubbish, so they should be ignored.'
More than $8m spent on redundancies at one Govt ministry
Thousands of roles have been cut, or are on the line, across the public sector.
Sir Ian Taylor: David Seymour's stance on school lunches 'ridiculously divisive'
OPINION: For many children, school meals are the only meals they can look forward to.
Another 146 job losses at Ministry of Education take total past 700
The ministry's digital division will cut about 146 positions.
Union files legal action against Ministry of Education over job cuts
A total of 755 roles are proposed to be slashed.
Ministry intervenes in Hamilton college just one term after it opens
A limited statutory manager has been appointed at Mangakōtukutuku College.
'Let down': Budget funds charter schools at cost of much needed teacher aides, unions say
Schools run on smell of oily rag, while $150m given to 'ineffective' charter scheme: union
Education gets $2.9b new funding for new classrooms, teachers, IT and initiatives
This is the coalition Government's first Budget.
Ryman Healthcare selling controversial former university campus after profit plummets
The Ministry of Education transferred the land to the university for just $10 in 2014.
Public sector cuts: Education ministry prepares to use consultants
Consulting firms already asking ministry staff being made redundant to work for them.
Act leader David Seymour announces $153m to fund return of charter schools
The restoration of charter schools is part of Act's coalition agreement.
Watch live: Question time - School lunches scheme gets new, cut-back funding
The free school lunch programme was initially launched by Labour in 2019.
Ministry of Education now producing daily school attendance data
Reporting by schools is voluntary but will become mandatory next year.
Million-dollar donor's long wait for sports centre almost over
Philanthropist says he will be more excited once a construction contract has been signed.
Claire Trevett: Luxon and Stanford visit the 1980s; method in Shane Jones' fast-track madness
Stanford's education shift has shades of the 1980s about it, but it might work.
Official docs reveal Govt warned NZ school cellphone ban ‘may not be warranted’
The Ministry of Education looked at policies from Europe, Australia, the USA and Asia.
'Reckless': 170 jobs on line at Kāinga Ora and housing agency as axe falls across public sector
Workers have been told not to make a decision 'on a whim'.
Watch: PM distances himself from Peters' 'defamatory' remarks, literacy boost announced
The NZ First leader's comments overshadowed a Government policy announcement on education.
'It's destroyed me': School's struggle with asbestos removal
The Ministry of Education is considering giving schools more help with asbestos problems.
Editorial: Common sense finally prevails with phones being banned in NZ classrooms
OPINION: Measures which came into force yesterday are long overdue.
Erica Stanford outlines her top six priorities in education
Education Minister Erica Stanford outlines her top six priorities in education. Video / NZ Herald
Watch: Schools that flout cellphone ban will be audited by ERO, PM warns
Work programmes would soon be announced relating to the priority areas.