Media items selected by the New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA) as an update on secondary education and union issues in the news, with the main focus on New Zealand.
All links open to the actual article on the news website.
1. Government review calls for new body to represent teachers (audio)
2. PPTA says Teachers Council review won't lift teaching standards (audio)
3. Secondary principals support Teachers Council replacement
4. PPTA outs charter school hopefuls
5. New schools will help NZ to pass mark, says Parata
6. Consultation on Teachers Council review welcomed
7. Teachers could cough up for reformed Council
8. Salisbury's fight for survival ends in victory
9. D-Day for five Chch schools looms
10. Our Pacific community: Charting Pasifika's progress in NZ
11. Self-belief central to Kelston's improving grades, says principal
12. 'Right to success' belief can cause students to struggle
13. IRD can help sort Novopay problems
14. Education key to combating playground cyber bullying
15. Turnover set for Girls' High board
16. Students share ways sport makes a difference
17. Synthetic highs taking their toll on young
18. They can live like a legend
19. Gifted children policy bid
20. Martin Thrupp: National Standards comparisons impossible
21. Parents urged to vote in Board of Trustees elections
22. Academy chains decide where children go to school (UK)
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SecondaryEd news 21 May 2013
SecondaryEd news 20 May 2013
Media items selected by the New Zealand Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA) as an update on secondary education and union issues in the news, with the main focus on New Zealand.
All links open to the actual article on the news website.
1. Review critical of Teachers' Council
2. NZTC Review Proposals: An Education Profession for the 21st Century (all the docs on MoE website)
3. Minister could be given power to appoint Teachers Council
4. New professional body for education proposed
5. Troubled kids need more help - expert
6. Educational initiative to inspire young Maori people
7. Programme for troubled teens at risk
8. Support for NCEA growing
9. Parents taking to NCEA
10. School trustees to receive $14.5m training boost
11. Kura unlikely to benefit from council intervention - chair
12. Expert teachers to be recognised in new initiative
13. Disorientated school tramping party rescued in heavy fog
14. Sex offender could be up for release
15. Food in schools: Work needed first - PM
16. Greater self-governance for teaching profession welcomed
17. NZEI Supports Independent & Elected Teachers Council
18. Iwi advocate welcomes spending on Maori education
19. Sussex academy pays £100,000 to use 'patented' US school curriculum (UK)
20. ‘Extravagant’ expenses and £393K ‘irregularities’ (UK)
