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Education Minister Nick Smith announced today that the Homai Vision Education Centre in Auckland would become part of the state school network from next July.

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Education Minister Nick Smith today announced the selection of forty schools that will participate in next year's $10 million trial of self managing property funding, during a visit to Waihi Colleg

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Education Minister Nick Smith today announced that agreement had been reached between the Ministry of Education and the He Huarahi Tamariki Trust on the ongoing funding and support for the Porirua

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Education Minister Nick Smith today announced changes to the National education guidelines (NEGs) that give schools a clear direction that basic literacy and numeracy skills must be the priority in

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The Minister of Education, Nick Smith, and the Minister of Social Services, Work and Income, Roger Sowry, announced today the schools that will be invited to participate in the Government's expande

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Education Minister Nick Smith today announced the Government decision to establish a New Zealand Teaching Council in response to the Green Paper on Teacher Education and the report released today f

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Education Minister Nick Smith today responded to NZEI's statement on the NZCER report Ten Years On: How Schools View Educational Reform saying that the union is launching yet another negative attac

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  • Education

Conservation Minister Nick Smith has lodged a formal complaint with Police over a guide for sabotage and eco-terrorism on the Greens' Internet site.

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  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith has lodged a formal complaint with Police over a guide for sabotage and eco-terrorism on the Greens' Internet site.

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  • Conservation

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that he had approved the major Resource Management Act (RMA) consents for the new Clifford Bay Port development proposed by Tranz Rail.

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today officially opened New Zealand's sixteenth and largest mainland marine reserve, Te Tapuwae o Rongokako in a dawn ceremony at the reserve, sixteen kilometres no

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Education Minister Nick Smith, during a visit to Paula's Preschool in Nelson, today launched a new resource that will help improve the quality of early childhood education throughout the country.

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced that Three Foot Six Ltd, the company behind Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings production, has been granted consents to film on several areas of publ

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Conservation Minister Nick Smith today signed an agreement with Ports of Auckland Ltd that will see Pollen Island transferred to the Department of Conservation and managed as a scientific reserve.

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Education Minister Nick Smith today announced that more than 1,300 school property improvement projects, ranging from upgraded classrooms to an auditorium, have been approved under the Financial As

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Education Minister Nick Smith today said Government is committed to helping He Huarahi Tamariki, a school for teenage mothers based in Porirua.

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Education Minister Nick Smith today called on Labour to stop fudging and come clean with their plans for the Education Review Office.

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  • Education

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today congratulated the groups involved in the construction of the Otira Viaduct on the project's approach to conservation of the area.

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  • Conservation

Education Minister Nick Smith today announced at Christchurch Hospital, the establishment of a new school in Christchurch to provide an education for children with long-term illnesses throughout th

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Education Minister Nick Smith today announced the establishment of a new school in Wellington to provide an education for children with long-term illnesses throughout the lower North Island as part

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Prime Minister Jenny Shipley and Education Minister Nick Smith today announced a new education initiative in North Otara to strengthen education for urban Maori and Pacific students.

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The goal of every child being able to read, write and do maths by age nine, is brought closer today with the announcement to expand the HIPPY pre-school learning programme, said Prime Minister Jenn

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  • Education

Prime Minister Jenny Shipley and Education Minister Nick Smith today released the Education Review Office's positive report on bulk funded schools at Avondale College in Helen Clark's Mt Albert ele

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Education Minister Nick Smith today announced the establishment of Felix Donnelly College as a new state special school, at Tuakau, south of Auckland.

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