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Prime Minister Jenny Shipley and Education Minister Nick Smith today launched 'Legislation for Learning' - a discussion paper on making the Education Act work better for students, at the celebratio

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"S.P.I.C.E. FOR EDUCATION"
Standards, Pride, Innovation, Choice, Excellence

Plaza International Hotel, Wellington

Kia Ora Hui Hui Tatou Katou

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Nelson College, Nelson

Kia Ora Hui Hui Tatou Katoa

Good afternoon and thank you for the welcome. Can I acknowledge Lennane Kent and the organising team.

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Education Minister Nick Smith today announced Government decisions on a new assessment policy for primary schools that includes new diagnostic tools, the development of exemplars of pupils' work ac

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Thank you for this opportunity to address your conference.

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Education Minister Nick Smith is shocked and surprised at just how backward looking Labour's education policy has become following Helen Clark's address to the NZEI Conference today.

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Education Minister Nick Smith today gave a flavour of National's education policy in a keynote speech to the PPTA annual conference in Wellington, emphasising standards and innovation.

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Education Minister Nick Smith says that Labour's Early Childhood Education Policy would slow growth in the sector and that the funding provided is miles  away from the promises they had to go

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Sorrento in the Park, One Tree Hill Domain, Auckland

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Education Minister Nick Smith today announced the development of a comprehensive Adult Literacy Strategy to parallel the Government's literacy and numeracy goals for children, in a speech to the Wo

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Education Minister Nick Smith today welcomed early indications that fewer students are being permanently suspended from schools and that schools are making effective use of the new rules introduced

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Education Minister Nick Smith today launched Te Kete Ipurangi ? the Online Learning Centre, a website based resource for schools, at Karori West Normal School in Wellington.

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Education Minister Nick Smith told the Association of Bulk Funded Schools conference in Taupo that funding for all schools would turn into a fiasco under Labour's policy to take away the choice of

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Education Minister Nick Smith, during a visit to Tauranga today, announced his approval for Bethlehem College to integrate into the state school system as a composite school, effective from October

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Education Minister Nick Smith, at Kariaka Marae near Ruatoria, today announced approval for New Zealand's first combined boards of trustees for two groups of schools on the East Coast.

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Education Minister Nick Smith, in response to the teacher's union claim for parity for kindergarten teachers, today said that the union's proposition would unfairly discriminate against other early

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Education and Conservation Minister Nick Smith today launched NIWA's Sea and Learn Programme on board the 28 metre research vessel Kaharoa, at Kings Wharf in Wellington.

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National Library, Wellington

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Education Minister Nick Smith today launched Te Puna, the National Library's new on-line information access system and announced that he had approved the National Library's restructuring plan.

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The Government will set up the Higher Learning Sector Taskforce to map a strategic vision for our tertiary education sector, Minister for Tertiary Education Max Bradford said today.

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Dr Smith said it was vital for New Zealand's future that our top maths, science and technology teachers were up with the latest developments in their specialist areas and that teachers were enco

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Nearly $14 million will be invested in teacher development, bursary awards and enterprise education over the next three years, Education Minister Nick Smith announced today.

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Education Minister Nick Smith today announced, as part of Kidsafe Week, that all school minibuses would be required to have seatbelts installed for Ministry of Education school bus contracts.

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Education Minister Nick Smith says New Zealand must perform better in maths at all levels if we are to build a knowledge economy in the new century, and the Government needed to take new initiative

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