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To achieve CREST Gold, students take on a very significant challenge (an estimated 100 hours work outside their school curriculum).

Education Minister Wyatt Creech has dissolved the Board of Trustees of Awarua School in Northland and a Commissioner has been appointed to carry out the board's functions.

Several incidents have occurred in recent days at secondary schools, despite agreements made with the PPTA to refrain from industrial action while employment negotiations were going on, Education M

The Minister of Education Hon Wyatt Creech will today hand over $50,000 to Graeme Dingle, head of the Project K Trust.

Introductory remarks Thank you for inviting me here today to speak to the Annual Conference of the New Zealand Association of Private Education Providers.

The Government will not slash funding of all schools who choose to take the Fully Funded Option, as suggested by the PPTA and other teacher organisations.

"The Government's new Family Start programme has taken a big step forward, with the signing of the first contract for the delivery of Family Start services," the Ministers of Education, Health and

"The level of reported dissatisfaction amongst school teachers is disappointing, and in stark contrast to what I frequently see at the chalk-face," Education Minister Wyatt Creech said today.

Education Minister Wyatt Creech today announced further components to the Government's Special Education 2000 Policy.

Education Minister Wyatt Creech today firmly rejected claims that the Government was cutting funding for students with special education needs and that students would not benefit from Special Educa

"Martin Cooney's claim on TVNZ's Holmes show last night that my office was involved in a "conspiracy" to topple him is completely false.

The Minister of Education said today he would be closely examining the Education Review Office report into schooling in the Far North.

The Wairarapa electorate has been stretched even further north with the release of new electorate boundaries, Wairarapa MP Wyatt Creech said today.

Schools can look forward to having all of their outstanding deferred maintenance cleared by the new millennium, Education Minister Wyatt Creech announced today.

The Minister of Education today announced a further component to the Government's Special Education 2000 policy with the establishment of new support for 5-7 year old children with high special edu

The examination of schooling in the Taumaranui region is part of the Ministry of Education's normal day-to-day business of looking at how best to deliver education when school rolls are forecast to

The Government has announced the new Universal Tertiary Tuition Allowance rates for students
and tertiary providers in the 1999 academic year.

The Minister for Courts announced today that former Deputy Secretary of Justice, Mr Mel Smith, will carry out an independent review of court security.

Education Minister Wyatt Creech today expressed a hope that pay talks with the secondary teachers' union, the PPTA, could get underway very shortly.

The Government is very confident that education policies in place are already making improvements to Maori achievement and participation in education," Education Minister Wyatt Creech and Associate

Education Minister Wyatt Creech made public today that last Friday he contacted the PPTA directly to appeal to them to begin the teacher pay negotiations immediately in the interests of all concern

The Government today announced plans to put almost 600 new special education teaching positions in schools throughout the country.

The Government today announced plans to put almost 600 new special education teaching positions in schools throughout the country.

Primary school principals have been given a clear message today that the Government's proposed assessment of primary school children is needed to improve academic achievement.