Category: Education

Kevin Sharp – New Zealand’s largest specialised digital design school is bringing the first-ever free digital media foundation course to the Bay of Plenty. From April, ACG Yoobee School of Design will deliver a brand new Level 2 vocational pathway programme in Tauranga. Targeted at creative 16-19 year olds, the 24-week course is the perfect introduction to creative industries, and…

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Venkat Raman – A team of three first year Massey University enginnering students brought home the top prize that they won at the ‘Engineers Without Borders’ (EWB) competition held in Melbourne a few months ago. The team, comprising Demi Noakes, Lydia McGlashan and Nathaniel McTaggart, created a practical stove for villagers in remote Nepal. The stove vents smoke from cooking…

Paul Gibson – ‘Success for All – Every School, Every Child’ is the government’s vision and work programme to achieve a fully inclusive education system. However, as revealed in a recent Radio New Zealand interview, reports of a Papakura school’s resistance to enrolling a child because of their disability, clearly shows that the government has a way to go to…

Venkat Raman In what is seen as the global first, Auckland University of Technology (AUT) has just launched a new service that aims to promote safety among its international student community, with a round-the-clock monitoring facility. Called ‘2Life Help,’ the service is an AUT initiative in collaboration with Skyhook Services, a global leader in location technology and ‘First Security,’ stated…

Staff Reporter Organisers of the first international conference on ‘Body, Mind & Self’ have called for papers from scholars, academics and others involved in the related fields. Victoria University of Wellington and the Society for Philosophy and Culture (formerly known as the Society for Global Philosophy) are hosting the Conference in Wellington from July 24 to 26, 2015. Wellington Mayor…

Staff Reporter Wellington based New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) has ranked the Auckland Institute of Studies (AIS) as ‘Category 1’ education provider. The rating comes at a propitious time as the Institution (which has two campuses in the Mt Albert Western Springs area) celebrates its Silver Jubilee this year. EER Rating The rating is based on a report by ‘External…

Staff Reporter New Zealand and Taiwan were on the same page at the annual Taipei International Book Exhibition held in the capital of the Republic of China (Taiwan). New Zealand’s pavilion at the Fair, held from February 11 to 16, 2015 at the Taipei World Trade Centre, was a star attraction, rich with our literature and art, including books, Maori…

David Shearer In my younger years, I was a schoolteacher. My father was a school principal, my sister is a teacher and my wife Anuschka worked as a teacher and in reading recovery for several years. We have two children at high school. As you might expect, education is often a topic at family mealtimes. For decades, New Zealand’s education…

Jane Silloway-Smith Uniforms are washed and ready to wear; iPads are fully charged; and backpacks are laden with fresh stationary supplies. It is time to head back to school. My children are still a couple of years away from taking part in this yearly ritual, but already I feel the pressure. Will they like school? Will they do well there?…