Gareth Morgan’s political party pledges to delay National Standards at primary school and slash NCEA at college.
Toby van Rensburg says words are not so daunting now he is a student at Summit Point School. Toby van Rensburg felt dreadful when he was criticised by a …
“This Government brought in National Standards to give parents more information about their children’s achievement. National Standards rely on teacher’s judgments. So to support teachers to make consistent judgments and to help streamline their …
The internationally recognised leader in distance learning and online education will share his expertise on digital technology and its impact on the family at a symposium hosted by early childhood teacher education provider New Zealand Tertiary College …
Were you, or someone close to you, let down by the education system? Did you finally get the help you needed? Are you open about your dyslexia, or do you keep it private to avoid judgement? Or are you a teacher with ideas about how the education system …
Three factors contribute the most to the lower levels of bachelor’s degree study among Māori and Pasifika – prior performance in school, socio economic status and parents’ educational attainment. The methodology allowed all three factors to be …
No NCEA exams until a student’s final year of school is an interesting policy to put on the education agenda, says PPTA president Jack Boyle. “We’re over-assessing our young people and have been for a long time. Students deserve a quality education and …
Teachers’ pay rates should be based on how much progress their students make in their learning, a report says.The report by the right-wing think tank NZ Initiative says performance-based systems of evaluating and paying teachers…
Expectations are a funny thing. We all have a sense, as we set out on the great adventure of parenthood, of our hopes for our kids. We imagine self-sustaining successful adults who, on their own thrilling adventure towards adulthood,…
The School Journal is now published by the Ministry of Education’s Lift Education arm, along with the twice-yearly Junior Journal, in both print and digital form. In 2014, the editors started workshops for new Maori and Pasifika contributors, with …
Elite schools are accelerating social divisions by taking the best students from poor areas – and it’s time for a system re-think, a principal says.
New Zealand needs to be “much bolder in the way it measures and responds to school performance” to fix failing schools, a new report has claimed.
