A Tauranga school is setting the bar high in teaching New Zealand history, despite the Prime Minister finally making it compulsory. This comes as Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Otepou reached a major milestone.
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Report reveals severe behavioural issues in Northland
This week Te Tai Tokerau Principals Association released a 69 page report into severe behavioural issues in primary and intermediate schools in Tai Tokerau.
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Teacher aides fight for living wages
A Tuhoe mother is scared to go shopping in case her card declines. Judith Boynton, 51, a teacher aide in South Auckland who helps children with special needs earns less than the trolley pushers at her local supermarket.
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Polytechs struggling to keep doors open
Te Hautū Kahurangi along with polytechnic students and association representatives are angry that two years of appeals to the Labour government have led to nothing more, they say, than promises to review a funding model which has already failed the country's polytechnics.
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Aspiring Māori neurosurgeon closer to his dream
Whiti Hoori is a step closer to pursuing his dream of becoming a neurosurgeon after winning the University of Auckland’s Top Achievers Award.
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Northland students dive virtually into kauri knowledge
Northland students get to experience the inner workings of kauri trees via new virtual reality technology. With kauri dieback prevalent in forests across the North, organisers hope students take away a deeper understanding of how they can help curb the disease from spreading.
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Rugby fan and teacher reaps rewards of working in Japan
One kaiako reaping the rewards of working overseas is rugby fan Paul Maoate who has been working in Japan for more than 20 years.
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Youth Parliament join the fight against suicide
Eighty-four young New Zealanders between the ages of 10 and 19 died by suicide in the 2018 - 2019 period. Eleven of them were under the age of 15. These damaging results has lead Tauranga's youth parliament member Moana Anaru Palmer to support the standardised mental health check-ups that's looks to lessen the number of youth suffering from depression.
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Low decile schools look forward to additional support
The new "School Donations Amendment" could see decile 1-7 schools receiving up to $150 per student per year in funding, if they agree not to request donations from parents or caregivers.
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"We can't sit back and let that be a shallow statement"
After 250 years, the British High Commissioner to New Zealand has issued a formal expression of regret to the iwi of Tūranganui a Kiwa for the deaths of at least five Māori at the hands of Captain Cook and the crew of the Endeavour.
