Education

Opportunities for New Zealand Teachers at home

It’s a great time to consider returning to teaching in New Zealand schools and early childhood services. Increasing secondary rolls, new Government measures leading to more opportunities for primary teachers, plus the national shortage of qualified early childhood teachers, lead to a demand for experienced New Zealand and overseas qualified teachers.

New Zealand's social wellbeing continuing to improve

The Social Report 2006, released today by the Ministry of Social Development, shows that New Zealanders' social wellbeing is continuing to improve. This year's report for the first time also looks at how New Zealanders' wellbeing has changed over the last 20 years. Of the 18 indicators tracked from the mid-1980s, the majority have improved. New Zealanders are better educated, they’re healthier and more of them are in paid work

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New Zealand Listener: From Here to Eternity

Thanks to Kiwi ingenuity, the first trans-tasman radio-astronomy link has been created.

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Interest free student loans

Student loans are now interest free for borrowers living in New Zealand. Eligible borrowers have been entitled to a write-off of all the interest charged on their loan from 1 April 2006. "Generally, to be eligible for an interest free student loan, you will need to have lived in New Zealand for 183 or more consecutive days (about six months)," Andrew Minto, Inland Revenue National Manager, says.

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NZ Herald: Three NZ universities rated among world's top 200

Three New Zealand universities have been rated among the world’s top 200 for the second year in a row. The University of Auckland came in at 52, Otago at equal 186 and Massey at equal 188 in the second annual Times Higher Education Supplement rankings. But Auckland has done particularly well, leaping 15 places from last year.

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ERO School & Early Childhood Education Reports

The Education Review Office is the government department which reviews and reports publicly on the quality of education in all New Zealand schools and early childhood education services.

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NZ Herald: NZ News now website and magazine

It has provided news and information to New Zealanders in Britain since 1927, but after 79 years the weekly New Zealand News UK newspaper has ceased publication. It is another newspaper that has fallen foul of the internet with the company opting for a daily updated internet site to bring news to the estimated 100,000 New Zealanders in Britain.

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NZ Herald: Values To Be Part Of New Curriculum

Values will be taught as part of the school curriculum to fill a void left by those parents not instilling them in their children at home. As part of an Education Ministry review, a comprehensive list of values to be taught in schools has been put together, the Dominion Post newspaper reported today. This will bring the 10-year-old curriculum in line with what is already being taught in many schools.

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Unlimited: Fast times at Onehunga High

In 2002 Onehunga High School's principal, Chris Saunders, was approached by old boy Tony Falkenstein (now head of Bartercard, Just Water and others) with a proposal to start the country's first high-school business school. Little more than six months (and close on $700,000) later, Onehunga Business School opened. The first entrepreneur students graduated last year.

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Unlimited: Multi-Choice

There is almost no data in New Zealand about executive education. The only figures available - Tertiary Education Commission statistics on domestic MBA students - show the number of New Zealanders doing MBAs fell from 790 in 2001 to 724 in 2003. But these figures don't include big new intakes into courses like those offered by the Auckland Institute of Studies and the Auckland University of Technology and, more importantly, they don't show the burgeoning appeal of non-MBA executive education.

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