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Education Minister Nick Smith wants bullying eliminated from New Zealand schools and is committing $1.3 million over the next three years to help schools get on top of the problem.

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

Conservation Minister Nick Smith today announced appointments to the New Zealand Conservation Authority (NZCA).

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

Education Minister Nick Smith today announced the establishment of a working party between the Ministry of Education, The Correspondence School and the Open Polytechnic to explore the option of an

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

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

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

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

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

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

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

Education Minister Nick Smith today launched the education blueprint for health and physical education saying the document had greater potential to improve the health of New Zealanders than hundred

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

"The suggestion from Labour's health spokesperson that Health Funding Authority Chief Executive Phil Pryke's resignation is somehow linked to administration of the Waiting Times Fund is nonsense,"

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Education

Education Minister Nick Smith today visited Panguru in Northland and announced that Panguru Area School would be rebuilt on higher land as quickly as possible to ensure the education of the pupils

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

Deputy Prime Minister Wyatt Creech said today he was looking forward to helping give New Zealanders increased confidence in their health services.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Education

"The School Trustees' Association's work on school operations' grants will be fed into a Government review of the structure of the grants," Education Minister Wyatt Creech said today.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Education

Corrections Minister Nick Smith today released the first six month results of inmate drug testing showing good progress in reducing prison drug use.

  • Nick Smith
  • Education

The Minister of Education today welcomed the Education Review Office's report on schooling in Mangere and Otara and the acknowledgement of the gains that have been made in those schools since 1996.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Education

The Minister of Education today announced the introduction of a new property funding regime for integrated schools to be implemented in the 1999 school year.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Education

The Government is cutting the student loan interest rate in line with the downward trend in market rates - benefiting all those with a student loan, both existing and former tertiary students.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Education

"Secondary school teachers will end the school year today (Friday) without a pay increase," Education Minister Wyatt Creech said.

  • Wyatt Creech
  • Education