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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.

Minister for Economic, Regional and Industry Development Jim Anderton today announced a $30,000 Industry New Zealand grant for economic development in the Thames Valley Region.

The funding comes on top of $88,000 for strategy development in the region and a $75,000 grant for a pilot programme working with language learners and tourism.

Maori Language Week is upon us and provides all in New Zealand with the opportunity to celebrate te reo Maori.

Kua tau mei te Wiki Reo Maori ki runga ki a tatou, me te tuku huarahi ki te katoa o Aotearoa ki te whakanui I te reo Maori.

Answers to 16 questions on forestry policy posed by the New Zealand Institute of Forestry (Wellington section) for a political forum.

A High Court Judge says the Government's new Sentencing and Parole laws will `must inevitably pull sentencing levels up'

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.

National will not produce costings of its policy programme despite earlier promises that it would.

A Royal New Zealand Air Force P3 Orion departed Whenuapai at 7:12 am this morning to monitor the passage through the Tasman Sea of vessels carrying nuclear fuel

IN CONFIDENCE

19 July 2002

Minister of Education

Progress on initiatives to support the implementation of the NCEA

Irrigation is vitally important to New Zealand, and a variety of ways to fund new schemes will be considered in the future, Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton says.

A nationwide telephone interpreting service will be a priority for the next Labour Government, Ethnic Affairs Minister George Hawkins says.

Employing additional community advisors in the Office of Ethnic Affairs will mean better communication, a better informed government and a stronger base for New Zealand’s ethnic communities, says Ethnic Affairs Minister, George Hawkins.

The government is to introduce a new telephone interpreting service to allow better communication between New Zealand’s growing ethnic community and key government departments.

The Thames-Coromandel District Council will receive an ex-gratia payment of up to $330,000 in response to last week’s civil emergency, Civil Defence Minister George Hawkins announced today.

New figures show a big drop in violent crime over the last 10 months, Police Minister George Hawkins said today.

A nationwide telephone interpreting service will be a priority for the next Labour Government, Ethnic Affairs Minister George Hawkins says.

Community and Voluntary Sector Minister Steve Maharey is promising that Labour in government will continue to strengthen the community and voluntary sector and improve its relationship with government.

Director-General of Conservation Hugh Logan says DOC welcomes the chance to be involved in discussions about the future of important conservation and heritage areas at Young Nick's Head.

Greenpeace has been protesting a ‘cover-up’ over GM sweetcorn when it was told the test results in May 2001.