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This media monitoring service is provided by the PPTA as an update on secondary education and union issues in the news, with the main focus on New Zealand.
Daily news 10 Mar 2010 E-mail
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 10:27


Government funding cuts hit the Ministry of Education with, job cuts announced, apparently this will mean the Ministry will be more efficient, less bureaucratic. 

New on the Education Counts website:

  • Non-formal and formal learning – Adults in education This fact sheet looks at the percentage of adults aged 25 to 64 engaged in some form of study in 2006. In particular, it includes new information on the total rate at which adults participated in non-formal learning. The fact sheet also looks at hours spent in non-formal learning, and whether adults were doing this for work-related or personal reasons, and explores how these differ by gender, age, education level, and labour force status.
  • Pasifika peoples in tertiary education in New Zealand: 2008 This factsheet includes gender information on Pasifika tertiary education students, the qualifications students are taking, where they are studying, field of study, student allowances and loans and other important characteristics of Pasifika students. Also included is information on Pasifika employees in industry training and some comparisons with international students from the Pacific.
  • Pasifika tertiary education students by ethnicity: 2008 This factsheet includes gender information on the ethnicities of New Zealand’s Pasifika tertiary education students. It shows the trends in participation in tertiary study for the various Pasifika ethnicities: what qualifications Pasifika students are taking, where they are studying, their field of study, their ages, and other important characteristics of Pasifika students.


While some teachers rail against the Teachers' council  registration fee increase, a group of Senior Officers from Qatar’s Professional Licensing Office for Teachers and School (QORLA) will be taking part in a study tour around New Zealand this week see what is being done in New Zealand in practice and how teachers are licensed here.

In Waimea Internet lesson scares teens into suppression while in the Hawkes Bay cyber bullying at Hereworth is in the news.

Adult Education holds on in Kaikoura where ACE secures tutor from Christchurch and the High School seeks names for honours board

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Daily news 9 Mar 2010 E-mail

ODT editorial on the Phoenix centre " It seems there will be two possible outcomes from the ministry's decision: the returning of meeting the needs of such pupils to schools will be a success; or more children will be truants, and more will be suspended or even excluded from school. 

The good and the bad of teachers/teaching - With heart and soles; Morrinsville College head of science receives the inaugural Prime Minister's Science Teacher Prize; Schools hire security;  and Teacher's assault trial date set.

International women's day yesterday Tariana Turia visited the teen parent unit at Heretaunga College and Gordon Gampbell discusses fresh evidence about the gender pay gap.

Government computer hardware contracts come up for grabs which may be of interest to school boards

At Tertiary level Joyce announces tertiary funding changes providers will lose some funding if their students suffer high failure and drop out rates.

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Daily news 8 Mar 2010 E-mail

 

Front page headline in the Dominion Post today Teachers attacked by the hundred based on ACC figures.Colin James makes the point teachers make " The real school infrastructure is what is inside the heads of the future workforce: how smart it is, how smartly it works and how it can make life better and richer". And there is a John Hartevelt  opinion piece on young people as political footballs in Saturday's Dom Post.

The MoE  - Findings of Review of Alternative Education and Future Directions document suggested closing alternative education centres and reintegrating troubled pupils into secondary schools - the Otago Daily Times reports Alternative education centres are still under threat, and follows up on the Phoenix Centre closure MP wants replacement for Phoenix Centre.

Two new education reports (Feb) on the Auditor General's website from the Central government: Results of the 2008/09 audits report -   Part 9: Accountability for public funding of integrated schools and Part 11: Our audit role in Māori immersion schools.

NZ Herald education news - AUT is mentoring 150 boys in six Auckland high schools.  Export education is New Zealand's fifth biggest export earner.  The Sunday Herald reports a fire in Dargaville High School and in Rotorua police intercepted a posse of boys armed with a knife, a wheelbrace and an iron bar, on their way to attack students from another school.

Education and Science select committee will next meet on 17 March to consider the 2008/09 financial review of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, the New Zealand Teachers Council, Career Services, Landcare Research New Zealand Limited, and the Tertiary Education Commission.

And in the Southland Times School bus driver charge dropped "The child at the centre of the alleged assault got more than he bargained for in court yesterday when Judge Kevin Phillips had a constable escort him to the court cells. Afterwards he told the boy to respect his parents and do what he was told – "you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself".

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