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Three reports commissioned as part of the stocktake of New Zealand's school curriculum indicate that the curriculum is sound, Associate Education Minister Marian Hobbs said today.

Thank you for inviting me to speak here this evening. And thank you for being here as part of your professional development.

Your conference has a theme “The Politics of Early Childhood Education”.

Funding has been approved to continue researching the progress of more than 500 children who the Ministry of Education began monitoring nine years ago, Education Minister Trevor Mallard said today.

Education Minister Trevor Mallard today confirmed that level 2 of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) would be introduced next year.

Results from a pilot study tracking Porirua and Christchurch school leavers will be used to further refine the government’s plans to introduce an Education and Training Leaving Age.

The Government’s flagship Modern Apprenticeships programme has exceeded expectations, with new figures showing more than 3,000 young New Zealanders are now signed up under the scheme.

Associate Minister of Education Marian Hobbs says she will work with the Rawene-Omanaia school communities spokesman, Kaikohe lawyer Doug Blaikie, to find a solution to the area's school transport concerns.

It is a great honour for me to be here with so many of my Australian colleagues and with so much talent and intellectual firepower.

It is a pleasure to be back at a Navcon conference, surrounded by so much talent, so much intellectual firepower. A year ago at Te Papa, I closed the first Learning@schools conference open to all teachers.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today.

Your conference is a landmark event and one that I am very pleased to have the opportunity to open.

I am pleased to be here to represent the Government this evening at the launch of this significant national education partnership programme with Maori.

Education Minister Trevor Mallard has welcomed the decision by secondary teachers to enter into alternative dispute resolution as a way of breaking the impasse in the collective agreement negotiations.

Education Minister Trevor Mallard has received a report that shows there are practical and realistic ways to reduce workload associated with the implementation of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement.

New Zealand’s involvement with a major e-learning project for schools has been discussed at a meeting of Australian and New Zealand Education Ministers in Auckland today says Education Minister Trevor Mallard.

The establishment board of trustees appointed for the new primary school in Rototuna is set to add an exciting level to the school network in Hamilton.

Education Minister Trevor Mallard has approved $7.88 million for new property at Westlake Girls’ High School in Auckland.

Over nine hundred school principals are benefiting from a rollout of brand new laptop computers in their offices.

IN CONFIDENCE

19 July 2002

Minister of Education

Progress on initiatives to support the implementation of the NCEA

Funding for the five specialist centres of research excellence (CoRE) chosen in March and criteria for the allocation of an additional $58 million provided for new centres in the May budget has now been confirmed, Associate Education (Tertiary Education) Minister Steve Maharey said today.

Education Minister Trevor Mallard has urged PPTA to bring their decision on an alternative dispute resolution forward to the weekend.

Education Minister Trevor Mallard said a survey released on NCEA today was politically motivated and fundamentally flawed.

Associate Education Minister Marian Hobbs says a nationwide review of school transport is in progress. It is due to report at the end of 2002. The Rawene-Omanaia school transport situation will be considered within this review.

Hutt South MP Trevor Mallard today paid tribute to the Lower Hutt SeniorNet group and the work that they were doing to ensure older New Zealanders were armed with the computer and technology skills that their grandchildren take for granted.

Details of the decision-making framework for joint public-private sector investments at our tertiary institutions were outlined today by Associate Education (Tertiary Education) Minister Steve Maharey and Education and Associate Finance Minister Trevor Mallard.