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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 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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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 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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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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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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"The Government has commenced an information campaign to make young New Zealanders aware of the 1 December changes to the drinking laws," Education Minister, Nick Smith and Justice Minister, Tony R

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Education Minister Nick Smith today released the final report of the Working Party that reviewed the length of the school day and the school year saying the recommendations would benefit students

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Education Minister Nick Smith today announced the first set of integrated schools to receive Government assistance for expansion to accommodate roll growth, at St Patrick's School in Kaiapoi.

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Next year tertiary students will be able to pay their loans back faster and will pay less interest because of the bringing forward of changes to the Student Loan Scheme, Tertiary Education Minister

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Labour's so-called ‘generous' Student Loan Scheme is a myth, Minister for Tertiary Education Max Bradford said today.

Mr Bradford said Labour's policy was vague and oversold.

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Education Minister Nick Smith says parents have a right to information about the National Assessment decisions made by Government so they can get more reliable information on how well their childre

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Education Minister Nick Smith today announced a new approach to funding rural schools through an Isolation Index at the Nelson/Marlborough/West Coast Principals Association Conference in Nelson.

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Education Minister Nick Smith today opened the rebuilt Panguru Area School in Northland. The School was ravaged by flood in January and has been rebuilt on higher land at a cost of $4 million.

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Hui Hui Tatou Katou

I, like others, want to start with thank yous.

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