New Zealand universities still rank in the top 3% world-wide despite slippage in the latest tables says the Acting Chair of Universities New Zealand Professor Harlene Hayne. . . .
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Academic Colleges Group (ACG), New Zealand’s leading independent educational services provider, has significantly expanded its Tertiary and Careers Division with the acquisition of New Zealand Management Academies (NZMA).
NZMA has campuses at Sylvia Park and Otahuhu in Auckland, a campus in Hamilton and serves around 3,000 domestic and international students. NZMA provides programmes from . . .
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ndia is already the second-largest source of international students to New Zealand. In order to attract even more Indian students, Education New Zealand, the New Zealand government agency for international education, plans to launch a number of road shows and fairs in India . . .
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Improving the entrepreneurial skills of tertiary students is one of the 15 live education projects at the new Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Tertiary Education Centre (STEM-TEC) at AUT University. To achieve this, the project is currently establishing a STEM Student Entrepreneurs Club to encourage graduates to stimulate innovation in the New Zealand tech sector. . . .
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The country’s top private tertiary performers and the increasing importance of private tertiary providers were celebrated at the Independent Tertiary Education New Zealand Awards held in Queenstown last week.
ITENZ, the national organisation representing 52 per cent of NZQA-registered private tertiary institutions, recognised students, tutors and education providers at the awards held as . . .
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Four new Partnership Schools to open. Education Minister Hekia Parata today announced the Government has signed contracts to open four new Partnership Schools in 2015.“These new schools will help raise educational achievement, in particular for those groups of students who have for a long time been under-served by the mainstream system,” Ms Parata says. . . .
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Use of gadgets and parents too busy to talk suspected of hindering children’s language development. Fewer children starting school can speak in sentences, prompting an investigation by education chiefs.Primary schools around the country have noted a decline in the spoken-language abilities of new entrants and the Ministry of Education will look into the reports.
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ONLINE-Student is the first major Immigration New Zealand (INZ) ONLINE service to go live. The new service is available to full fee paying, scholarship, exchange and English language students. Students will find the login box here:
Student applicants will still need to provide passports, either through Visa Application Centres offshore or, if the applicant is already in New Zealand, through the . . .
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The Government will invest $10 million over five years to increase the provision of Asian languages in schools, Education Minister Hekia Parata announced. . . .
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AUT University strives to provide a safe environment for its students to study, learn and live in. As part of that commitment, AUT will trial a new smartphone application (“app”) which was launched at AUT’s two student accommodation houses: Akoranga Student Village and Wellesley Student Apartments last week. AUT is the first university in the world to offer this nationwide, off-campus servic . . .
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New Zealand’s international education industry has seen its strongest January to April enrolment period on record with an 8 per cent increase, or an additional 5,100 international student enrolments on the same period last year. . . .
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A team of Auckland University students have won first place in the innovation category, a $50,000 cheque and the experience of a lifetime at Microsoft's Imagine Cup World Finals. . . .
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Compelling research shows learning outcomes for children with dyslexia can be vastly improved.
Specialised, early intervention can significantly boost success at school for a child with dyslexia, a pilot study shows. . . .
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A programme focused on improving behaviour in schools is having a positive impact in classrooms across New Zealand, Education Minister Hekia Parata says.
The findings, released today, are from an ongoing evaluation into the Positive Behaviour for Learning School-Wide (PB4L) programme. The evaluation is being carried out by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER).
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The tertiary education sector continued to produce strong educational performance in 2013, Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister, Steven Joyce says.
The Tertiary Education Commission today released the 2013 Education Performance Indicators (EPIs) for providers receiving Student Achievement Component (SAC) funding which shows performance against the four EPIs of course completion . . .
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International students will be able to apply online for New Zealand visas in the next few weeks, when Immigration New Zealand’s new service goes live.
Immigration ONLINE – Student will allow international students around the world to apply, pay fees and upload supporting documents online. The new service will be available to full fee paying, scholarship, exchange and English languag . . .
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Creative Learning Corporation (OTCBB:CLCN), owner and developer of Bricks 4 Kidz,(R) Challenge Island(R), and Sew Fun Studios(R), the highly-popular children's education and enrichment programs, is pleased to announce that BFK FRANCHISE COMPANY, LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of Creative Learning Corporation) has recently awarded a master franchise in New Zealand to KidzBlock Ltd. The Agreemen . . .
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Microsoft New Zealand today announced it is donating $1M in cash, software and services investment to the High Tech Youth Network to provide pathways for young, underserved Kiwis into the IT industry.
Microsoft New Zealand Managing Director, Paul Muckleston, made the announcement today at One Tree Hill College in Penrose, where Prime Minister John Key joined with students and the CEO of the Hig . . .
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4 August 2014, Auckland. Academic Colleges Group (ACG) is pleased to announce the acquisition of the New Zealand Career College (NZCC).
The New Zealand Career College is a private tertiary education provider since 2002 and has been ably led by Mr. Feroz Ali. NZCC offers a range of certificate and diploma courses in Early Childhood, Health, Business, English and Electronic trades
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With university entrance on the minds of many high school students at the moment, leading New Zealand property trust Keystone New Zealand Property Education Trust has opened its doors for suitable candidates for its 2015 property scholarships, which are due to close on 20th August.
Keystone New Zealand Property Education Trust - more commonly known as Keystone Trust - gives students a hand up int . . .
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Teacher-training institutions can now access a digital resource that enables schools to share learning resources and best practices, Associate Education Minister Nikki Kaye says.
Pond, the online learning hub built by Crown-owned company Network for Learning, aims to become a central environment in digital discovery and participation for schools.
It is currently available to 700 primary and . . .
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The Government is sponsoring a big push for more enrolments in Level 6 and 7 engineering courses in the country’s institutes of technology and polytechnics (ITPs), Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Steven Joyce says.
Mr Joyce today launched a new Engineering - Education to Employment (E2E) initiative to promote engineering as a career to students, with bridging course . . .
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Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce and Education Minister Hekia Parata today welcomed the release of the 2014 mid-year Better Public Service results, which show great progress towards the Result Areas 5 and 6 education targets.Result 5 targets increasing the proportion of 18-year-olds with NCEA level 2 or equivalent qualification to 85 per cent by 2017, while Result . . .
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Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce and Education Minister Hekia Parata today announced that 5,250 student places will be available across New Zealand’s 22 Trades Academies in 2015. This is an increase of 750 places from the current allocation of 4,500 places.
Trades Academies provide opportunities for young people still enrolled in school to undertake part of . . .
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AIS group students from Iwami Chisuikan High School were the focal point of the official launch of Education New Zealand’s Game On English Programme, which was attended by Prime Minister John Key and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Villa Maria Winery on Monday 7July.
The Game On English Programme is an initiative undertaken by ENZ as a result of the Japanese government’s desir . . .
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A new online tool to help educators lift the literacy and numeracy skills of young New Zealanders was launched in Wellington today at the National Symposium for Literacy and Numeracy for Adults by Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills.
The “Youth Option” for the Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool is tailored for young learners between the ages of 15 an . . .
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Many New Zealand students are among the most financially literate, and score higher than the OECD on average, Education Minister Hekia Parata says.
The results of the New Zealand Financial Literacy Report are based on findings from the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study, which assessed the financial literacy of 15 year-olds at that time.
New Zealand was one . . .
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International student numbers in New Zealand look set to grow again following the worst effects of the global financial crisis and the Christchurch earthquakes, according to ministers.
The newly-released International Education Snapshot 2013 full year report provides a window into the trends in New Zealand’s international education industry for the 2013 academic year.
Last year, N . . .
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Mike Scott, an electrical tutor at Bay of Plenty Polytechnic was one of only 12 educators to be awarded a prestigious 2014 Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award in Wellington last night.
Presented by the Minister for Tertiary Education, Hon Steven Joyce, the Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards celebrate New Zealand’s finest tertiary teachers - as recognised by their organisations, collea . . .
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New Zealand students completed a record number of undergraduate degree qualifications in 2013, according to new data released today by the Ministry of Education.
In 2013, 25,800 domestic students completed bachelors degrees, an increase of around 400 on the 25,400 who completed degrees in 2012, and 24 per cent higher than the 20,800 who graduated in 2008.
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