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Labour's Policy to Scrap Bulk Funding Puts 1200 School Jobs at Risk Education Minister Nick Smith tackled Labour, in the General Debate in Parliament today, over its policy to scrap bulk funding sa

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

Education Minister Nick Smith today welcomed the announcement by Social Services Minister Roger Sowry that 27 schools in Northland, East Coast, Porirua and the Hutt Valley will be part of the new S

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

Education Minister Nick Smith today announced the Government's target of having all schools on the Internet by year's end.

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

Education Minister Nick Smith, in opening a Teacher Registration Board seminar today, welcomed the Board's initiative in taking the first step to develop a unified code of ethics for teachers.

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

Discussion Document First Step to Better Consistency Education Minister Nick Smith welcomed the release of the Working Party's discussion document on the issues of the length of the school day and

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

Conservation Minister Nick Smith and Department of Conservation staff are ecstatic at the success of the Kakapo Recovery Programme that has seen a record seven chicks hatch, four of whom are female

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith yesterday met with representatives of Te Runanga o Ngati Porou to progress negotiations to finalise the 1990 deal to return Mount Hikurangi into Ngati Porou ownersh

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Education Minister Nick Smith, at the opening of the "Educating Pasefika Positively" conference in Auckland, announced a new initiative to increase the number of Pacific teachers in the school sect

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

Conservation Minister, Nick Smith, today announced a further Crown contribution of $300,000 towards the purchase of the Otuataua volcanic stonefields, on the shores of Manukau Harbour, west of the

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Education Minister Nick Smith today welcomed the Literacy Taskforce's report, saying it provided a roadmap towards achieving the Government's goal that 'by 2005, every child turning nine will be ab

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

Conservation Minister Nick Smith yesterday released twelve of the worlds rarest ducks onto a predator-free offshore island in a bid to seed a second wild population.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today launched the new Department of Conservation Trainee Ranger Programme at Nelson Polytechnic, at which the Director General, Hugh Logan, and Nelson Polytechnic

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced the Government would initiate a formal investigation into a new National Park on Stewart Island by inviting the New Zealand Conservation Authority t

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Education Minister Nick Smith today announced that the Government would be investing $5 million, over the next two years, in 23 schools throughout New Zealand to lead the information technology rev

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

Conservation Minister Nick Smith is angry at signs of kukupa (New Zealand woodpigeon) poaching early in the fruiting season and said the Department of Conservation was already receiving information

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Prepared for Closing Address to Secondary Principals Association of New Zealand Conference

ROYAL LAKESIDE HOTEL, ROTORUA

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

Education Minister Nick Smith, in his first major education speech, to the Secondary Principals Conference in Rotorua, today stated that literacy and information technology would be his major prior

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that extensive protection works for Aoraki/Mount Cook village are underway and will be completed by July.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Education Minister Nick Smith today launched proposed new rules for school suspensions for consultation at a Conference of Nelson Principals, and invited schools and parents nationwide to study and

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

Conservation Minister pressing for prosecution

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Four chicks and seven fertile eggs so far!

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that the Pohatu Marine Reserve on Akaroa Peninsula had cleared its last statutory hurdle.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced a $1.6 million agreement between the Crown and the Aorangi Awarua Trust in the Central North Island to protect over 5,000ha of native forest, tussoc

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today launched Sea Week at the site of an illegal car dump on Himitangi Beach. Sea Week this year focuses on treasures of the coast.

  • Nick Smith
  • Conservation