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Over 2,760 three and four year old children will be benefiting from 20 hours free early childhood education (ECE) at 82 services across Hawke's Bay. Announcing the local figures, Labour MP Rick Barker said uptake of the Labour-led Government's 20 ... More >>
The good number of early childhood education centres throughout New Zealand that have opted in to the Government's 20 hours free ECE programme, which kicks off today, is very positive, because it will mean more 3 and 4 year olds have better access ... More >>
The early take up of free early childhood education shows a high level of commitment from services despite the complexity of this policy and the implementation challenges it poses. More >>
The appalling uptake for Labour’s ludicrously-named ’20 hours free’ scheme can hardly come as a surprise given the chorus of criticism of the policy from the early childhood sector, says National’s Early Childhood spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
A successful literacy programme which has been breaking the cycle of ‘booklessness’ among low-decile primary school children is now turning its sights to kindergarten children as well. More >>
The families of over 40,000 children that attend kindergarten will benefit from the 20 hours free policy, according to New Zealand Kindergartens Inc. President Karen Boyes says NZ Kindergartens have whole-heartedly adopted the 20 hours free initiative. More >>
For most centres the government is providing only a subsidy of the real cost. This mirrors the situation with school funding where education is nominally free but parents are asked to pay a wide range of fees and “voluntary donations”. The outcome ... More >>
Kindergarten teachers' negotiators and the Ministry of Education and Kindergarten Associations have reached a settlement on kindergarten teachers' terms and conditions, the education union NZEI Te Riu Roa says. More >>
Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that the take-up rate of the Labour-led Government's 20 hours free Early Childhood Education policy is a vote of confidence in the initiative. More >>
The Duffy Books in Homes Early Childhood Education Programme will see books put into the homes of children from 45 low-decile kindergartens taking part in the pilot programme. More >>
Winz beneficiaries are the latest to cry foul over Labour's '20 hours free' scheme, says National's Early Childhood spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
It's Ministerial negligence that the 20 free hours policy goes live on Monday and the Education Minister still does not know the answers to simple questions about his own policy, says National's Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. More >>
The 20 Hours Free Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy can save mums, dads and their children thousands of dollars a year, and will benefit a wide range of different families, says Education Minister, Steve Maharey. More >>
ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Heather Roy today congratulated Education Minister Steve Maharey for pulling off, what may be, the biggest scam in New Zealand's history of Early Childhood Education. More >>
Plans to monitor Labour’s so-called ’20-free hours’ policy are a joke and the Education Ministry knows it, says National Party Education spokeswoman Katherine Rich. More >>
The case of a Wellington woman who became seriously unwell after consuming excessive amounts of the controversial additive aspartame in chewing gum underlines the urgent need for consumer information and warnings about potential side effects, Green Party ... More >>
Island Bay parents now faced with the prospect of having to send their children miles away to gain an education - rather than down the road to the nearest school - are the latest victims of Labour's broken election promises, ACT New Zealand Education ... More >>
How is government going to ensure three and four year olds who attend Quality Parent-led ECE services get the same opportunity for free education as those who choose teacher-led services? More >>
Education Minister Steve Maharey would do well to return to pre-school himself - perhaps then he might learn that 'free' early childhood education means 'no payment required', ACT New Zealand Education Spokesman Heather Roy said today. More >>
The New Zealand Playcentre Federation is proud to celebrate all their volunteers during Volunteer Awareness Week. More >>
The largest private provider of early childhood education (ECE) in New Zealand is the latest to announce a hike in fees to cover Labour's ludicrously named '20 hours free' scheme, says National's Paula Bennett. More >>
There is great uptake of the optional 20 hours free amongst early childhood centres that really care about early childhood education rather than returning a profit – and that’s as it should be, says NZEI President Irene Cooper. More >>
The Government's '20 free lie' is seriously jeopardising the $1.1 million a year Auckland Kindergartens receive from charitable trusts, says the Auckland Kindergarten Association (AKA). More >>
The controversy over a Tauranga childcare centre's increased charges for some children and the imposition of an 'optional charge' by the Auckland Kindergarten Association has further exposed the flaws in the government's 20 free hours early childhood education ... More >>
The Christchurch City Council is to offer 20 Hours Free Early Childhood Education to all three and four-year-olds who attend its three early learning centres. More >>
Labour’s '20 Hours Free' ECE has turned into a $20-a-day extra charge for parents, and wage cuts for educators, says National’s Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
Jemma never imaged seven years ago that she would now own and manage not one but three child care centres, manage a farm, while juggling being a wife and mother of four children. More >>
The New Zealand Principals’ Federation has spoken out against the news that schools will be banned from selling unhealthy food. More >>
Action to discourage schools from selling food high in fat, salt and sugar are a welcome step in the right direction. More >>
The Education Minister has finally conceded that Labour's Budget announcement of a maximum of 18 children for junior primary school classes was a major shift from what was originally promised says National's Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. More >>
The 2007 edition of “Magic Places”, the adult's guide to young children's artwork, was launched at the New Zealand Playcentre Federation Conference in Rotorua at the weekend. The popular book has been rewritten, and illustrations updated, and includes ... More >>
Early childhood education centres across the country will receive grants of $4.3 million to help more staff become qualified teachers, Education Minister Steve Maharey said today. More >>
Marion Pilkington, of Auckland, has been appointed President of the New Zealand Playcentre Federation, succeeding Mrs Robynn Kopua of Lower Hutt in continuing the Playcentre goal of ‘families learning and growing together’. More >>
The New Zealand Playcentre Federation today welcomed the Education Minister, the Hon. Steve Maharey to its 60th anniversary Conference, and challenged him to support the role of parents in education. More >>
Kohanga Reo, deaf education centres, special needs classes in high schools, intermediate schools, music groups and public health nurse-led groups join pre-schools and primary schools learning how to sneeze safely this winter, with a view to reducing the rate ... More >>
Charlotte Niuia-Tofa and her husband sat down and made a plan in 2001 to both earn a tertiary qualification so they could ensure a positive financial future for themselves and their three children, 8, 10 and 13 years old. More >>
The National Party spokesperson for ECE, Paula Bennett's comments on early childhood education are growing increasingly hysterical and silly, says Education Minister Steve Maharey. More >>
The Government is misleading early childhood education (ECE) centres yet again, says National’s Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
As established and proven early childhood education providers that always put education and care for children first, New Zealand Kindergartens Inc. support the opportunity to provide parents with access to Free ECE. More >>
The announcement of funding increases for early childhood education this afternoon supports free 20 hours and should encourage more centres to opt in as July 1 approaches. More >>
The Labour-led government is committed to giving our children the best possible start in life through quality, affordable early childhood education (ECE) and by promoting and encouraging healthy, active young lives, said Education Minister Steve Maharey. More >>
Budget 2007 will deliver kōhanga reo increased funding of $13.9 million over four years, said Education Minister Steve Maharey and Associate Education Minister Parekura Horomia. More >>
Early childhood education centres have ordered 259,000 forms to sign parents up to the Labour-led government's 20 Hours Free policy, which will roll out from 1 July, says Education Minister Steve Maharey. More >>
The Education Minister has admitted that his veiled threats to a commercial early childhood education (ECE) chain led to a significant drop in its share price, says National’s Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. More >>
The Education Minister's obvious distaste for privately run early childhood education centres (ECE) is ironic, given their utmost importance to the delivery of '20 hours free', says National's Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. More >>
“It is unfortunate Southland Kindergarten Association has been used as a political football when our Association and staff are merely trying to get this 20 Hours Free policy in place by the due date of July 1. I am concerned we have been painted as ... More >>
The First NZCER national survey of early childhood education provides excellent baseline data for services to measure progress against as the government's 10-year strategic plan rolls out. More >>
The first proof that the Government’s ’20 hours free’ policy will hit parents squarely in the pocket or drive early childhood education centres (ECE) to the wall has arrived, says National’s Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
The Education Minister must immediately assure New Zealand parents that a moratorium on private early childhood education centres (ECE) is not on the cards, says National's Associate Education spokeswoman Paula Bennett. More >>
New research on early childhood education in New Zealand reinforces the need for a moratorium on any further public funding of private, for-profit early childhood education services, the union representing early childhood teachers, NZEI Te Riu ... More >>
If something looks and sounds too good to be true it probably is. In the run-up to the 2005 election many promises were made - nothing unusual in that. However many were policies made up on the hoof in what was essentially a bidding war between the ... More >>
10 Early Childhood Education Centres will benefit from Establishment Funding grants worth nearly $400,000 to either start up or extend their services and centres, says Education Minister Steve Maharey. More >>
Ensuring effective teaching for all students and making secondary teaching a first choice profession are the key goals of PPTA’s Secondary Teachers’ Collective Agreement (STCA) claim lodged with the Ministry of Education. More >>
It has been revealed that the Education Minister was warned by his officials last year that there was a need to contain ‘unrealistic expectations’ in relation to the ‘20 hours free’ policy, says National’s Associate Education spokeswoman, ... More >>
When I was growing up, I wanted to be an All Black. Now I was a fine rugby player from all accounts – but at 12 stone for a flanker I was too light, and so Auckland Second B was the best I got. The other day I asked some of my mokopuna what they ... More >>
Steve Maharey has released two new resources which highlight and build on the success of the Centres of Innovation (COI) programme in Early Childhood Education (ECE) centres. More >>
The Education Minister is in complete denial over the mass rejection of his 20 hours free policy, says National’s Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. In answers to questions in Parliament today Steve Maharey claimed he was ‘puzzled’ by the ... More >>
The Montessori Association of NZ is advising it's members not to join the 20 Free Hours in July, 2007. The association has urged early childhood members to take a long term view of the effect this funding policy could potentially have on their ... More >>
The Education Minister is continuing to dodge questions over the details of the 20 hours free early childhood education policy (ECE), and the industry is fast losing patience, says National's Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
Canterbury and Westland kindergartens will be taking up the government's free ECE funding. More >>
Te Tari Puna Ora O Aotearoa/NZ Childcare Association is committed to the 'free 20 hours' because it reduces the cost to parents and increases access to early childhood education for children. More >>
New Zealand's largest representative body of licenced early childhood centres is telling its members to steer well clear of the Government's proposed 20 free hours policy, says National's Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
The Labour Government has done little to stem a growing complacency about pupils spending time away from school, says National’s Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. More >>
Although the majority of students successfully learn to read and write, the Ministry of Education is putting greater emphasis on assisting students who struggle in these areas, including those who have been identified as dyslexic. More >>
Ministry of Education and Microsoft renew Agreement Providing the Latest Software to New Zealand Schools More >>
The Education Minister's introduction of the enrolment form parents will need to fill out to get 20 free hours of early childhood education is just the start of what will become a bureaucratic nightmare, says National's Associate Education spokeswoman, ... More >>
The Minister of Education, Steve Maharey, has today launched the latest phase of the roll out of the 20 Hours Free Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy, which will allow parents to start signing their children up. More >>
"Steve Maharey appears to have changed his tune again on whether parents who refuse to pay an optional charge can be refused entry to an early childhood education centre," says National's Associate Education spokeswoman Paula Bennett. More >>
National Party Education spokeswoman Katherine Rich is questioning whether taxpayers received value for money from a poorly targeted TV ad campaign for the Government's fraudulent 20 hours free policy. More >>
It is pleasing that the NZ Police at a recent media launch released 18 balloons in memory of 18 children who have died from child abuse since 2002. All child abuse, and especially such violent child abuse, horrifies the whole community. More >>
New Zealand is one of the worst countries in the developed world when it comes to numbers of men working in early childhood centres, but has the potential to be one of the best, says a visiting early childhood education expert. More >>
A new survey by the Early Childhood Council exposes Labour's '20 free hours' as a flawed policy that education providers simply cannot deliver, says National's Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
Education Minister Steve Maharey is not fooling the early childhood education sector with his assurances that his '20 free hours' policy will not reduce the quality of education available, says National's Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
A new study in the March/April 2007 of Child Development shows that the more time that children spend in centre-based care before kindergarten the more likely they are to display aggressive and disruptive behaviours during later stages of development. More >>
Steve Maharey's promise of '20 free hours' could see the parents of those children most in need of the policy having to pay more for early childhood education than they do now, says National's Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich. More >>
Coping with difficult behaviour and coming up with creative play ideas are challenges for anyone looking after young children. For Barnardos KidStart caregivers and parents in the Top of the South, help is at hand. More >>
The latest 'Competent Children, Competent Learners' research reinforces the importance of effective Early Childhood Education (ECE) in starting a pattern of successful learning at an early age, says Education Minister Steve Maharey. More >>
More than half of the early childhood centres north of Auckland will not be eligible for the Government’s ’20 free hours’ scheme, says National’s Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
Labour MP Shane Jones has slammed commercial operators in the early childhood sector as money hungry profit-seekers, says National's Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
The National Party has once again displayed their lack of clear and consistent policy with their confused position on 20 Hours Free Early Childhood Education, says the Education Minister, Steve Maharey. More >>
There have been more than 200 phone calls from parents to the information line for the 20 Hours Free Early Childhood Education campaign, within three days of the first television advertisement, says Education Minister Steve Maharey. More >>
A school at risk of being fenced in-two in order to meet Ministry of Education regulations should be left alone to get on with its primary function, teaching children, says National’s Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
“Labour should tell the public immediately how much they’re spending on marketing the ’20 hours free’ policy, when the programme itself is still the subject of sector consultation,” says National Party Associate Education spokeswoman (Early ... More >>
The Auckland Kindergarten Association's decision to opt out of '20 free hours' until the Minister changes the policy makes perfect sense, says National Party Associate Education spokeswoman Paula Bennett. More >>
From 1 st July 2007 all eligible early childhood services can voluntarily choose to enter into the Government’s policy to provide up to 20 hours free early childhood education (ECE) to three and four year olds in teacher-led services (such as kindergarten, ... More >>
The Government continues to slip and slide on it's '20 hours free' policy, with former Education Minister Trevor Mallard confirming in the House that the policy offers only a 'discount', not '20 hours free', says National Party Education spokeswoman ... More >>
By 1 July the Government and Education Minister Steve Maharey need to find a way of delivering on a campaign promise to provide 20 hours per week of free pre-school education to three and four-year-olds throughout the land. More >>
The Education Minister continues to dodge questions over '20 free hours' and claims that early childcare centres will not force parents into paying top-up fees for the Government scheme, says National's Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
New Zealand First Maori Affairs spokesperson Pita Paraone has welcomed the Maori Affairs select committee's confirmation of his terms of reference for an inquiry into Maori participation in early childhood education. More >>
Just four months out from the implementation of the Government’s $140 million ‘20 free hours’ childcare scheme, officials have admitted they have no idea how the scheme will actually work, says National’s Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula ... More >>
The Government's ill thought-out '20 hours free' childcare scheme is coming apart at the seams, and they need to move quickly to tell parents what will be happening when it starts on July 1, says National's Early Childhood spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
The Government promise of ‘20 hours free’ childcare will force some parents into signing contracts with their provider, thereby locking them into years of paying ‘optional charges’, says National Party Leader John Key. More >>
An Montessori Association of NZ (MANZ) survey has found most Montessori early childhood centres remain uncertain about offering the government’s 20 hours free early childhood education. More >>
Takapuna, Auckland – Sport and Recreation Minister, Trevor Mallard today launched PlayGym, a movement philosophy from GymSports New Zealand, to assist in the brain and body development of children under 5 years. More >>
Aotearoa has been blessed with many philosophers, analysts, and generally wise prophets employed under the guise of the teaching profession. One of these early teachers – author of the rather originally named novel, ‘Teacher’ – was Sylvia Ashton-Warner. More >>
The New Zealand Educational Institute supports the Government’s policy of providing 20 hours free education for three and four years olds but is concerned about the level of funding non profit early childhood education centres will receive to deliver ... More >>
Following on from the Christmas and school holiday period, some parents are struggling to meet children’s needs to adequately function at school. More >>
Thank you for inviting me here today. It is always refreshing to be able to spend time with our youngest New Zealanders. More >>
Sport and Recreation Minister Trevor Mallard today launched PlayGym, a resource aimed at keeping kids active, during a launch at Takapuna Kindergarten in Auckland. More >>
8 February 2007 Media Release: Hungry kids need policies to end poverty Reports of more than 80,000 children arriving at schools hungry each day should be a wake-up call to the government to end child poverty. Instead it has been a shameful spectacle ... More >>
Over 90 percent of early childhood centres surveyed by Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa/NZ Childcare Association (NZCA) will either offer the government’s 20 Hours Free service or are still considering the issue. More >>
Police and Transport Minister Annette King has backed a new road safety campaign near schools aims to reduce the special risks faced by New Zealand's young and vulnerable children as they go to and from school. More >>
The NZ Police road safety campaign which aims to get drivers to slow down near schools is being supported by school principals. The principals appear in a television advertisement which marks the introduction of the police programme on 7th February, the start of ... More >>
New Zealand First Education spokesperson, Brian Donnelly, says the rejection of the Government’s 20 free hours subsidy rate by large numbers of for-profit centres has been inevitable since the policy was first announced. More >>
Fetu'u Moana Catholic Early Childhood Centre is the first Tongan/Catholic-established early childhood education centre in New Zealand. Known as Fetu’u Moana Catholic Early Childhood Centre, the concept began in 2003 following consultations with the ... More >>
An Early Childhood Council (ECC) survey has found few early childhood centres intending to offer the Government¹s 20 hours free early childhood education. More >>
An Early Childhood Council (ECC) survey has found few early childhood centres intending to offer the Government¹s 20 hours free early childhood education. More >>
A survey showing that only one in five early childhood centres will offer the Government’s ’20 hours free’ scheme shows just how flawed the policy is, says National Party Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
New Zealand First Education spokesperson, Brian Donnelly, says the rejection of the Government’s 20 free hours subsidy rate by large numbers of for-profit centres has been inevitable since the policy was first announced. More >>
Education Minister Steve Maharey knows he cannot deliver on his promise of '20 hours free' early childhood care and is now hinting at reviewing funding rates for the scheme, says National's Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
“The Minister of Education, Steve Maharey, has oversimplified the reality of parents being able to access 20 hours of free early childhood education” says EC Leadership spokesperson Tanya Harvey. “For the Minister to say on TV One’s Breakfast programme ... More >>
In little over a week, many thousands of New Zealand school children will be returning to school, ironically at a time when the fickle weather is finally settling into what a Kiwi summer ought to be. More >>
As the summer school holidays draw to a close, parents are often caught off-guard with their preparation for back to school. More >>
The Government must immediately review how it will monitor the $140 million pot of cash it has dedicated to ‘20 hours free’ early childhood education, says National’s Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
Barnardos New Zealand has opted to offer the Government’s 20 hours a week free early childhood education for three and four year olds in its Early Learning Centres and KidStart, its home-based education and care service. More >>
Education Minister Steve Maharey's plea for more time to sort out the issues of under-capacity for the Government's "20 hours free" early childhood education policy is too little too late, says National's Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
The Government knew that almost half of early childhood education services would not be able to meet demand for the 20-hours-free policy when it was promised to parents in 2005, says National's Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
NZEI Te Riu Roa, the union representing early childhood and primary teachers, says the Teachers Council processes are fair and robust. The Teachers Council has just released information on decisions made in the 14 months since its inception. More >>
Education Minister Steve Maharey must give parents an assurance that children attending an early childhood centre where a teacher force-fed, hit and ignored distressed toddlers are now safe from such unacceptable treatment, says National’s Education spokeswoman, ... More >>
The announcement of the funding rates to cover the Government’s new 20 Hours Free ECE policy for 3 and 4 year old children from 1 July 2007 has met with a mixed reaction from Kindergartens. More >>
NZEI Te Riu Roa, the union representing early childhood teachers, is pleased to see the Government has announced the funding rates for its policy of providing 20 hours free education for 3 and 4 year olds from July next year. More >>
The early announcement of Government rates for 20 hours free early childhood education (ECE) is pleasing because it allows services to explore the implications for their budgets, says Nancy Bell, chief executive of Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa/NZ Childcare ... More >>
Funding rates for Labour's policy of 20 hours free early childhood education for all three and four-year-olds, were announced today by Education Minister Steve Maharey. More >>
Funding of $6 million will create and retain over 400 places for children at 28 new and expanding early childhood education centres across the country, Education Minister Steve Maharey announced today. More >>
Criticising schools for spending money on beautifying their grounds is hypocritical when the Government has just spent $11 million on prison landscaping, says National’s Education spokeswoman, Katherine Rich More >>
A new funding policy for early childhood services in NZ may have a detrimental effect of the ability of NZ families to access Montessori education in the future, say Montessori Association of NZ Co-Presidents Jan Gaffney and Sophie Hamilton. More >>
Many playcentres and kohanga reo will be forced to close under the Government's policy on early childhood education, says National's Associate Education spokeswoman, Paula Bennett. More >>
Children with physical disabilities due to motor disorders or developmental delays have been benefiting from the good work done by Conductive Education Canterbury (CEC) for the last 14 years. More >>
Toddling, walking, climbing, running – they are all ways children will be helping other children in a Crofton Downs park this week. (ED: Wed 29 Nov, 11am) More >>
When Marina Jellyman of Manurewa left school she doubted her ability to go on to any form of tertiary education. Today she is on the path to achieving Manukau Institute of Technology’s new early childhood education degree. More >>
Dr Pita Sharples today raised concerns in the House about the omission of kohanga reo from the list of approved early childhood centres who will qualify for twenty hours of free childcare. More >>
The 2005-06 Annual Report of the New Zealand Teachers Council reveals a definitive shift in focus towards providing leadership for sound educational outcomes for all learners. More >>
The children of Kidsfirst Kindergartens Templeton last week demonstrated an awareness of the important work being done by Orana Wildlife Park for the conservation of animals, when they presented a $500 cheque as a platinum sponsor of the giraffe house. More >>
Labour’s promise of 20 hours free early childhood education for all three and four-year-olds is a hoax, says National’s Associate Education spokesman, Tau Henare. More >>
Despite well-documented, long-term benefits, early childhood education remains the “forgotten link” in education policy around the globe, with half of the world’s countries having no early childhood policy and providing woefully inadequate financing ... More >>
NetSafe – The Internet Safety Group announced the success of the trials of their newest training, for staff of Early Childhood Education services (ECE) in New Zealand. 127 staff from ECE services[1] around New Zealand have taken part in a trial of NetSafe’s ... More >>
NZEI Te Riu Roa is pleased that the Government has set the date by which early childhood education centres must ensure that half of their teachers are qualified. Education Minister Steve Maharey today announced that from December 31 next year, early childhood ... More >>
Government sets timeframes to lift quality in early childhood education The government has confirmed dates for initiatives to further improve quality in early childhood education, says Education Minister Steve Maharey. More >>
The early childhood education sector is continuing to suffer because of problems with the New Zealand Teachers Council, says National’s Associate Education spokesman, Tau Henare. More >>
Getting children moving during their preschool years helps to build strong foundations for learning later in life. More >>
The latest exhibition at MOTAT Toys: Science at Play opens up a world of discovery of the science that makes toys work. Opening October 14 until the end of January 2007 the interactive exhibition is aimed at five to 12 year olds and will fascinate ... More >>
Montessori educated children have better social and academic skills than children who attend traditional schools, a United States study has revealed. The study was reported in the September 29 issue of Science. More >>
The Director of the New Zealand Teachers Council, Dr Peter Lind, urges New Zealanders to acknowledge how important teachers are to their communities and the future development of the nation. More >>
Education Organisation Welcomes Food Guidelines More >>
A physiotherapist at a school for students with cerebral palsy and an early childhood head teacher have today been awarded research scholarships by the education union, NZEI Te Riu Roa. More >>
Irene Cooper of the NZEI has released new codes of practice for school teachers, allowing some physical contact between teachers and students. Margaret Mooney of the PTA hopes the revised rules will encourage more men to enter the profession. More >>
New Zealand's largest representative body of licensed early childhood centres has called for a partnership between Government and childcare organizations to encourage more men into childcare. More >>
New Zealand¹s largest representative body of licensed early childhood centres has called for a partnership between Government and childcare organizations to encourage more men into childcare. More >>
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