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Maori, Pacific, special needs will be priorities in schools review
Terms of reference for review of Tomorrow's Schools focus on responding to child's needs.
Terms of reference for review of Tomorrow's Schools focus on responding to child's needs.
Language students are almost five times as likely as home sciences to achieve excellence.
'Toolkit' will ensure all NZ students learn about money, driving and other life skills.
Only two polytechnics report significantly more students this year despite free fees.
Parents say charter schools picked up children excluded from other schools.
Whangarei trust denies ministers are giving it "preferential treatment".
Draft guidelines issued after army let primary school kids handle guns last year.
The NZ Initiative argues that we have "placed a deceit at the heart" of NCEA.
Polytech and vocational training leaders meet in Manukau tomorrow to map a survival plan.
"I was being treated like a downgrade of a person" - Amber Knight, aged 12.
Some in the education sector say Ministry pressuring schools to build "flexible" spaces.
Review of Tomorrow's Schools should not try to stop competition - it benefits the pupils.
No one shrugs their shoulders or says "I dunno" in Katie Pennicott's class.
Board does not want to contribute to dismantling initiative "which is achieving so much".
Education summits in May will kick off wide-ranging reforms.
Four-fifths of schools now ask parents for "donations" ranging from $7 to $1225 a year.
Seventy per cent of schools will scrap donations if Labour pays $150 per student instead.
Educationalist David Hood says Tai Wānanga shows what all schools need to do.
Whangarei's Te Kapehu Whetu school is not fazed by Govt intention to end charter schools.
History and civics should be taught in schools and senior levels should not be single sex.
A new year with no national standards is welcomed by teachers' union NZEI Te Riu Roa.
An Auckland school has put in place a social media-free policy - even after school hours.
"When I first arrived at the school, everyone was so down, it was really dark."
Students say some teachers tell them to give up without checking on their actual progress.
Applications have opened for relocation grants for overseas and expatriate Kiwi teachers.
Auckland schools are hiring teachers from smaller towns and overseas to meet demand.
A huge overseas recruitment drive will help in schools this year but many still have gaps.
Education Minister Chris Hipkins has kicked off work to review NCEA.
A school has been forced to pull two people out of retirement to fill teaching positions.