Education Press Releases

St John’s College Hockey 2012 itinerary for the year starts with a summer boot camp at Pheasant Tail Lodge in the Bay of Plenty, and ends with a trip to Melbourne to the Champions Trophy.

Three inspiring teenagers will have their first year of tertiary study partially funded after being awarded scholarships through the GABA Charitable Trust and the Cartier BereavementTrust.

The Kawerau Community is hugely disappointed at the Minister of Education and her decision to proceed with the closure of Kawerau Intermediate against the wishes of the parents/caregivers and wider community.

The Westlake Girls’ High School Young Enterprise Scheme company K.E.E.P. (Kids’ Emergency Evacuation Plan) has just produced a picture book targeted at 5-7 year olds, teaching them what to do in the case of an earthquake or tsunami.

The International Travel College (ITC) were delighted to be announced as a finalist at the inaugural Westpac Central Business Awards, at Oram’s Marina.

Today youth “ambassadors” from Computer Clubhouses across New Zealand will converge on the national flagship Clubhouse in Manukau for one week to develop high-tech projects around the summit’s theme “We are One – We are Many – We are Change” by creating computer-generated animations, art, music, radio and video documentaries, robots, and 3-D modeling.

Hamilton, 3 July 2011. St John’s College Hockey is learning that home is where the heart is when it comes to their school hockey development. Up until 2010, the school had struggled to field a hockey team to compete competitively in the Waikato secondary schools’ competition, and the solution came from a surprise quarter.

Budget 2011 changes to the Student Loans Scheme will encourage personal responsibility and get better value for taxpayers.

Budget 2011 will provide up to $42 million for trades training for the Canterbury region, Tertiary education Minister Steven Joyce says. Funding is being set aside for up to 1500 additional training places as part of a comprehensive cross-agency response to meet additional demand for labour for the reconstruction programme called “Skills for Canterbury”.

John Key has stated that Budget 2011 will include changes to KiwiSaver, Working for Families, and student loans to ensure they remain affordable in the future. Budget 2011 will ensure growth is built on the foundation of savings, exports and productive investment.

Training and event facilities provider Cliftons has launched its Art Prize, and is seeking entries from emerging artists from across Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore by 27 April 2011.

BusinessNZ welcomes vocational pathways. The Education Minister has announced new vocational pathways for the Youth Guarantee Scheme. The Youth Guarantee Scheme allows 16 and 17 year to study towards their NCEA in both schools and tertiary organisations.

In July this year hundreds of high school students from Cape Reinga to Bluff will converge in the capital city to tackle international issues and work towards a better future through the forum of the UN General Assembly. The most enquiring young New Zealanders who have a passion for global issues will be representing United Nations member states in New Zealand’s annual Model United Nations conference and discussing the same issues challenging world leaders in New York and Geneva.

Education Minister Anne Tolley says 143 Christchurch schools, 88 per cent of the total number, will have re-opened by the end of this week. It is also expected that 234 early childhood education services, or 69 per cent, will be open.

Education Minister Anne Tolley says that alternative plans are in place for over 1700 students from two of the Christchurch schools severely damaged in last week’s earthquake, with planning well underway for all of the city’s school students.

Education Minister Anne Tolley has praised Canterbury teachers and principals for their resilience and positive attitude following the recent earthquake.

Little Kickers is the largest provider of pre-school football (soccer) in the U.K. for children aged 18months – 7 years. After much anticipation Little Kickers arrives in West Auckland.

Education Minister Anne Tolley will travel to London for the Education World Forum 2011 and the British Education Training and Technology (BETT) expo.

IT consultancy Equinox Limited will launch a CCBA preparation programme in early 2011 to assist business analysts in passing the new IIBA® intermediate certification for business analysts – the Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA).

The number of international students enrolled to study in New Zealand is continuing to increase, says Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce.