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Feature: Education minister Anne Tolley talks about primary school national standards and ranking schools, 30 June
2009.
Listen to Anne Tolley on Morning Report (Thursday, 29 June) discussing the public availability of National Standards in primary schools. The standards, which come in next year, would make it possible for people to rank schools. |
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Subtext: Subtext, Issue 72, 29 June
2009.
British school headteachers to get more control over budgets; Teachers lack incentives to improve teaching, report says; Britain's new business and education super-ministry to tackle recession; Small King Country community brings the polytech to town; Flexible training proposed to alleviate ECE teacher shortage; British teachers offered £10,000 bonus to teach in tough schools; Harvard alumni lend directly to students in innovative loan scheme |
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Feature: Roger Moses recognised in Queen's Birthday Honours, 2 June
2009.
Roger Moses, headmaster of Wellington Boys' College and the Education Forum's deputy chair, has been awarded an ONZM (Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit) in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Mr Moses was awarded the ONZM for his services to education. |
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Feature: Budget 09: Private schools' $35m lifeline wins applause, 29 May
2009.
Private schools are "delighted" with the Budget's $35 million funding announcement as they had been struggling with a "crippling capped funding regime for the past 10 years".
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Subtext: Subtext, Issue 71, 27 May
2009.
In Subtext this month: Australian universities seek to attract private finance; Kiwi home-schoolers take on the world and win; Charter schools appearing worldwide; Private schools and girls top NCEA exam pass list; More than 100 groups line up to run trades academies; New Zealand 'top of the class' in science excellence; 'School chains' website aims to boost choice; 'Achievement gap' in United States schools causes 'permanent recession'. |
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Feature: National Standards Consultation, 18 May
2009.
The government has released consultation papers for its National Standards proposals, and is to hold meetings about its proposals around the country. The Standards establish clear expectations of progress and achievement in reading, writing and mathematics. The Ministry has also developed examples of plain language reports for parents so to help them better support their child’s education. |
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Op Ed: Issue 127, Positive outlook on curriculum, 12 May
2009.
By Kevin Donnelly. During her time as Minister for Education, Julia Gillard has made her stance, and that of the Australian Government, very clear on school curriculum.
Mirroring concerns about falling standards and state and territory dumbed-down curriculums, Gillard describes herself as a traditionalist and argues for a back-to-basics approach to learning |
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Subtext: Subtext, Issue 70, 30 April
2009.
In Subtext this month, Govt making waves throughout the education sector; Top schools to manage failing ones, government proposes; Change agent Iain Taylor gets Manurewa Intermediate moving; National standards will enable league tables for primary schools; Foreign student industry growing but well below peaks; Business links bring £10.3 billion to universities; Report considers success secrets of world-class universities; Top state secondary schools seek zoning exemption; Register for private schools finds broad approval |
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Op Ed: Issue 126, Teachers should be rewarded for performance, 14 April
2009.
By Roger Kerr. Talk of performance-based pay for teachers often provokes heated reactions in education circles. This is odd. What else would you pay teachers (or anyone else) for if not their performance? Surely not for non-performance? |
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Feature: Expel protectionism from schools , 11 April
2009.
By John Roughan (published in the NZ Herald). State schooling is a nominally free, egalitarian service largely run by a fiercely unionised teaching profession for the protection of its members. The profession lives in abiding fear of the idea that schools should compete to attract students, because that would threaten its control of the system's methods and philosophy, not to mention its members' job security, pay scales and career paths. |
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Subtext: Subtext, Issue 69, 30 March
2009.
In Subtext this month: Fast-track teacher training offered to recession-hit UK high-fliers; Obama calls for merit-based pay for teachers, backs charter schools; Australia to recruit university research students overseas; UK universities ask government to back money-spinning research; Public–private partnerships in education continue to emerge around the world; Spain must accelerate education reform to meet social pressures - OECD |
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Op Ed: Issue 125, The summit’s over – now for the next step, 7 March
2009.
By Phil O'Reilly. There was general agreement that we should use the downturn to upskill our people. What a great outcome that would be: to emerge into the upturn better skilled than before. |
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Subtext: Subtext, Issue 68, 26 February
2009.
In Subtext this month: For-profit managers get results in Philadelphia public schools; Global 'export education' on the rise, NZ benefitting; Computers in class key to struggling school's success; Pre-paid college tuition plans take-off in USA; Traditional teacher certification 'hinders student learning'; NZ private schools struggling – should govt pick up tab?; PPPs making headlines around the world; Scottish thinktank advocates school choice, autonomy; University tuition fees 'no obstacle to access' |
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Op Ed: Issue 124, A fresh approach to school choice?, 15 December
2008.
By Roger Kerr. Parents who have long understood the benefits of being able to choose the schooling option that best suits their child will be encouraged to see the new government’s signal of a fresh approach on this issue. |
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Feature: The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, 11 December
2008.
A comparison of the mathematics and science achievement of primary school students in 37 countries, including New Zealand. |
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Feature: Kiwi kids behind Kazakhstan in science, 11 December
2008.
Primary school children's science achievement has plummeted to its worst level in 14 years. An international study shows New Zealand year 5 pupils are doing worse in maths and science than children in more than half the other 36 countries surveyed. Business advocacy group Business New Zealand says the findings are deeply concerning.
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Feature: A proposal to improve secondary
school and teacher quality, 2 December
2008.
Written by Byron Bentley and Roger Moses. Without talented, enthusiastic and qualified teachers in our classrooms, New Zealand cannot hope to have a first-class, first-world, compulsory school system. This document puts forward six proposals to ensure that quality teachers remain a feature of our classrooms. |
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Media release: New paper recommends reform of teaching conditions and school management to boost quality teachers , 1 December
2008.
Significant reforms to teacher training and pay and school management are necessary to encourage quality teachers to all New Zealand schools, says a new paper from the Education Forum. |
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