‘Risk of suicide, mental health and other problems high’ Foreign students’ lives are at risk because of a lack of culturally-appropriate counselling and mental health support, according to health services. Staff from Auckland District Health Board and Asian Family Services told the ISANA International Education Association Conference in Wellington that they were seeing more international students who were suicidal or…
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Sourced Content Gaining an overseas education has earned Denil Philip a management career in one of the most exciting industries of the future – Biomedical Engineering. Biomedical engineers combine engineering, medicine and biology to improve the quality of our lives by solving healthcare problems. Denil, from Adoor in Kerala, held a Bachelor in Electronic and Biomedical Engineering from TKM Institute…
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Laura Walters Stand First: The Education Minister is working hard to provide certainty as the Government begins its vocational education overhaul. The Government’s biggest reform of the vocational education sector in 25 years was initially met with strong opposition, but a softly-softly approach has brought the majority on board. Issue on Priority Education Minister Chris Hipkins named an overhaul of…
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Supplied Content Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) has welcomed the Government’s announcement of Vocational Education Reforms, saying that it would accrue advantages to students in South Auckland. Chief Executive Gus Gilmore said that a single nationwide institute will help to streamline apprenticeship system, remove duplication and preserve flexibility to innovate and meet the needs of their local community. “MIT has…
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Kieran Madden In just over a decade, the ‘Growth Mindset’ has graduated from an exciting theory to accepted wisdom in classrooms across the world, now embraced wholeheartedly by many New Zealand educators. There is good science behind Stanford University Psychologist Carol Dweck’s theory that one’s belief about whether their intelligence, abilities, and talents can be developed has a big influence…
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Charlie Dreaver Both unions representing teachers, The New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) and the Post-Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) have confirmed that they will be taking legal action against Novopay. They have been told by Novopay that the new rates and backpay for union members, which took effect from July 1, 2019, will not be paid until September 11, 2019. Representatives…
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Laura Williams From The House in Wellington July 28, 2019 New Zealand’s youth MPs challenged the Government to lift the success of students by making a more culturally inclusive education system. The challenge was laid down at Youth Parliament 2019 Select Committee hearings. Educators need to regain the trust of non-European families who feel failed by the education system and…
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A Correspondent A couple, whose work visa under essential skills had been declined, had appealed to the Immigration and Protection Tribunal against their liability for deportation. A few years ago, the couple had been issued a Deportation Liability Notice as they were found by Immigration New Zealand (INZ) to have been excluded from Australia in 2005 and were alleged to…
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John Gerritsen Early childhood services are worried that they cannot afford to keep up if kindergarten teachers win the same big pay rises as school teachers recently got. They say their teachers are often paid $20,000 to $30,000 less than kindergarten teachers with the same qualifications and experience, and the government needs to increase their subsidies so they can pay their teachers…
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Hamilton, July 15, 2019 An Auckland man has been jailed for six-and-a-half years for possessing, distributing and producing images of child sexual exploitation. Customs started investigating the 33-year-old man in July last year, after receiving information from an overseas agency that a New Zealander had uploaded, or exported, such images to a Canadian-based messenger app. Interview and Arrest Customs identified…
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