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19/03/2013 - New Zealand Needs More IT Professionals
New Zealand employers don't have enough software developers to do the job... more
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13/03/2013 - Ways To Teach Maths
Should you teach the algorithm or the understanding? Perhaps it depends on the children's learning styles. more
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28/02/2013 - + - * /
Why can't New Zealand kids do basic maths — and does it even matter? more
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21/02/2013 - Mad scientist lab for Auckland Kids
High Tech Youth Studios are run across New Zealand and the Pacific. The strength of the Staff and volunteers is enhanced by their connection to each other and via the programmes run in these studios. The studios provide a creative and safe after-school learning environment where young people from our communities work with adult mentors to explore their own ideas, develop skills and build confidence in themselves through the use of technology and science.
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22/01/2013 - Education Crisis in South Africa
"Today in South African townships and in rural schools stories abound of teachers arriving drunk at school, if they arrive at all." more
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04/12/2012 - Learning Styles Can Help Africa
Some of the shocking statistics from South African schools:
- 66% of Grade 6 pupils got 29% or less for mathematics;
- Only 24% of Grade 3 pupils got above 70% for proficiency in their home language;
- Not a single pupil in Grade 9 in Limpopo got above 80% for maths
- Only 2077 of 944397 pupils in Grade 6 got 70% or more for maths.
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03/12/2012 - 8th in global education league table
New Zealand ranks eighth in global education league table (read more)
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09/10/2012 - Our new group profile layout
Click here to see our new Learning style group profile layout. Our group profiles are free of charge at present, all you need is a group of students with completed Learning style Analyses (LSA). See our FAQ for more details.
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09/10/2012 - Why children fail at writing
Why children fail at writing - is it texting, computer games or the fading culture of books? read more
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25/09/2012 - Why teachers are furious
"It is a brave new world of assessment, measurement and accountability, and schoolteachers are baulking on the threshold. However many times you weigh the pig, they warn, it won't get any fatter. Worst of all, they say, the scales are wonky." more