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The Education and Training Act 2020 underwent proposed amendments to better recognize the role of wānanga in New Zealand’s tertiary education system. [4] These changes focused on providing a new framework for the country’s three current wānanga: Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, Te Wānanga o Raukawa, and Te Whare Wānanga Awanuiārangi.
Playcentre is an early childhood education and parenting organisation which operates cooperative parent-led early childhood education centres [1] throughout New Zealand. While the concept originated in New Zealand, [5] it is now also established in Japan. [6] [7] Their mission is stated as "Whānau Tupu Ngātahi - Families growing together."
Te Whāriki is a bi-cultural curriculum that sets out four broad principles, a set of five strands, and goals for each strand.It does not prescribe specific subject-based lessons, rather it provides a framework for teachers and early childhood staff (kaiako) to encourage and enable children in developing the knowledge, skills, attitudes, learning dispositions to learn how to learn.
The University of New Zealand system – where it was the only degree-granting university in New Zealand – lasted until 1961. [3] Now the colleges are independent universities in their own right, and since 1961 four new universities have been created: Auckland University of Technology, Lincoln University, Massey University and Waikato University.
In 1935, secondary school education was made free by the First Labour Government. [20] State schools are crown entities, meaning they are government-owned and retain the strong governmental and parliamentary oversight and control in common with other New Zealand crown entities. State schools are the most common in New Zealand. [21]
The total amount of student loan debt in New Zealand has increased from 934 million [52] in 2002 to 16 billion [53] in 2021. In 2003, the average student loan debt was 12,280. [54] According to recent data that was published November 2022, the average student debt in New Zealand is now around $24,000. [53]
The Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre of New Zealand (OPC) renamed Hillary Outdoors Education Centres, is a New Zealand-based not-for-profit trust with two centres in the North Island. Founded in 1972 by Graeme Dingle with Edmund Hillary as patron, Hillary Outdoors has been delivering outdoor programmes to school age students for over ...
On 26 July, the New Zealand Educational Institute's early childhood teacher members voted to accept a collective agreement with the Ministry of Education that will put early childhood education teachers' pay on par with primary and secondary school teachers. As part of the terms, early childhood education teachers will receive a pay rise of at ...