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The Government is making further improvements to the way juries are selected and managed with new legislation currently before Parliament, the newly appointed Minister for Courts Wyatt Creech said

The Government is making further improvements to the way juries are selected and managed with new legislation currently before Parliament, the newly appointed Minister for Courts Wyatt Creech said

"I am extremely concerned at the pre-emptive industrial action planned by the secondary teachers union, the PPTA.

Education Minister Wyatt Creech today welcomed new international research on adult literacy rates and expressed optimism for literacy levels in the future.

The Minister of Education is giving an assurance that new base pay rates will be exactly the same for primary and secondary school principals 12 months after the current contract expires.

Education Minister Wyatt Creech announced today that the Government will provide $7 million in funding for private training establishments in the 1998 academic year.

The Government today announced significant remuneration increases for the country's 2,660 secondary, area and primary school principals.

The independent Ministerial Review Panel reviewing the Education Review Office has already considered an earlier version of the PPTA's review of ERO, the acting Minister responsible for ERO Wyatt C

Parents, teachers and communities are being given a taste of how the Government's new special education policy Special Education 2000 will benefit them, through a 'roadshow' of meetings over the ne

The Government will spend more than $11 million over the next three years to ease the workload faced by teachers who teach in te reo Maori, Education Minister Wyatt Creech and Associate Education M

The Government's Education Strategy for Maori is about to take another step forward, through a series of regional meetings to gather information from communities.

"The Labour Party's plan to force schools to pull out of direct resourcing of teachers' salaries is a short sighted u-turn on policy it originally brought in," Education Minister Wyatt Creech said

The Government has introduced new legislation into Parliament which contains measures to guide schools when suspending students and to help overcrowded schools when enrolling students.

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Enrolment Schemes - to avoid overcrowding or the likelihood of overcrowding in schools.
With regard to enrolment schemes the Bill will:

Students with special education needs will receive substantially more funding for their schooling next year following the approval of the next phase of the Government's special education policy, Sp

The dates for terms and holidays for state primary and secondary schools have been set for the next three years, Education Minister Wyatt Creech announced today.

The Education Minister is taking the next step in the decision making process on the merger of Massey University and Wellington Polytechnic by seeking submissions from the public and interested gro

Tertiary education funding of $1.14 billion has been allocated to the country's universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and wananga for the new academic year.

A new Form 1 to 7 high school, to be called Elizabeth Park College, will be established in Invercargill in 1999, Education Minister Wyatt Creech announced today.

The new Social Studies curriculum document launched today challenges students to investigate issues in society, and to explore different perspectives and values, Education Minister Wyatt Creech sai

Mr Zhu Kaixuan, the Minister of Education, People's Republic of China will visit later this month to examine aspects of the New Zealand education system, Education Minister Wyatt Creech announced t

The Education Minister is encouraging as many people as possible to consider playing a role as a member of their local school's Board of Trustees.

Education will be strengthened at five South Auckland schools through extra Government funding of up to $9 million over three years, Education Minister Wyatt Creech announced today.

The Government Green Paper which reviews the way teachers are trained and sets out possible improvements for the future has been released by the Minister of Education.