Angus Fletcher: Education more vital than politics - Politics - NZ Herald News

Angus Fletcher: Education more vital than politics - Politics - NZ Herald News

School violence spike "a community issue": NZ Education Institute | NATIONAL News

School violence spike "a community issue": NZ Education Institute | NATIONAL News: "Figures show the rate of stand-downs for assaults on students by five to ten-year-olds has jumped 77% since the year 2000 ."

Keep up outdoor education, teachers told | Stuff.co.nz

Keep up outdoor education, teachers told | Stuff.co.nz

95 academics lose their jobs | Stuff.co.nz

95 academics lose their jobs | Stuff.co.nz: "Nearly 100 university staff have been made redundant this year as funding per student drops for the first time in six years."

Ministry of Education - Software agreements for schools

Ministry of Education - Software agreements for schools

Scoop: Single-sex schools reduce gender gap in education

Scoop: Single-sex schools reduce gender gap in education

Review of special needs education - Newstalk ZB

Review of special needs education - Newstalk ZB: "Special needs education systems are to be reviewed, but the Government is making it clear the sector will not be getting any extra money"

Mum wants tougher rules on bullies | Stuff.co.nz

Mum wants tougher rules on bullies | Stuff.co.nz: "A Christchurch mother wants changes to school discipline rules as her nine-year-old son faces further abuse from a boy stood down for assaulting him."

Scoop: Minister Releases TOR For Special Education Review

Scoop: Minister Releases TOR For Special Education Review

Govt moves to stop 'waka jumping' | Stuff.co.nz

Govt moves to stop 'waka jumping' | Stuff.co.nz

Schools review panel quits - education - national | Stuff.co.nz

Schools review panel quits - education - national | Stuff.co.nz: "An education review panel that threatened to close eight rural Tararua schools has disbanded, with its seven members saying they have been harassed, telephoned late at night and threatened."

Teachers to get help to curb pupil violence | Stuff.co.nz

Teachers to get help to curb pupil violence | Stuff.co.nz: "The Government plans to curb schoolyard misbehaviour as new figures reveal a growing number of attacks on teachers and pupils."

Therapy funding battle won - news - the-press | Stuff.co.nz

Therapy funding battle won - news - the-press | Stuff.co.nz: "Education Minister Anne Tolley yesterday reversed that decision, saying children already receiving additional therapy at 23 New Zealand schools would continue to be funded in their current school. However, no new pupils would be eligible for the funding."

Principals to be set standards | Stuff.co.nz

Principals to be set standards | Stuff.co.nz: "A new set of professional standards for school principals is set to be issued within two months."

At-risk youth biggest losers in drastic cuts to education - National - NZ Herald News

At-risk youth biggest losers in drastic cuts to education - National - NZ Herald News: "Training places for at-risk young people are being cut just as the Government prepares to roll out a new 'youth guarantee' scheme for 16- and 17-year-olds."

Tsunami of students stretches uni budgets - National - NZ Herald News

Tsunami of students stretches uni budgets - National - NZ Herald News: "if the Government does not lift its cap on student numbers, universities could be forced to turn away school leavers with University Entrance for the first time in living memory."

Community goes on the march for its schools | Stuff.co.nz

Community goes on the march for its schools | Stuff.co.nz

Invercargill child, 3, eye-gouged playmates | Stuff.co.nz

Invercargill child, 3, eye-gouged playmates | Stuff.co.nz: "A three-year-old who was removed from an Invercargill preschool for assaulting children in 'spasms of anger' this past year is part of a growing national problem, early childhood workers said."

Support for shift to middle schools in NZ | Stuff.co.nz

Support for shift to middle schools in NZ | Stuff.co.nz: "At age 10 or 11, Kiwi children graduate from primary to intermediate school. Just two years later, with hormones typically raging, they shift to secondary school.

'We're asking children to cope with an awful lot of things at the time when there are lots of other things going on in their lives,' clinical psychologist Sarah Calvert says."

National standards set for delivery to primary schools - National - NZ Herald News

National standards set for delivery to primary schools - National - NZ Herald News: "Minister of Education Anne Tolley has announced the timeline for implementing National Standards into the nation's primary and intermediate schools."

Scoop: New Scholarships Increase Choice In Education

Scoop: New Scholarships Increase Choice In Education: "Associate Minister of Education Heather Roy today announced a new scholarship initiative that will enable students from low-income families to attend independent secondary schools that they and their families would previously not have been able to afford."

Special education centre threatened by funding cuts - National - NZ Herald News

Special education centre threatened by funding cuts - National - NZ Herald News

Radio New Zealand News : Stories : 2009 : 08 : 02 : Education guarantee for youth to be announced

Radio New Zealand News : Stories : 2009 : 08 : 02 : Education guarantee for youth to be announced: "Prime Minister John Key is to announce details of an education guarantee for youth at the National Party conference on Sunday."