Education Minister Chris Hipkins on disparity in school performance nationwide – "Some schools are performing really, really well. Some schools are not. And it’s not necessarily linked to decile" #nationnz @chrishipkins pic.twitter.com/G6VueBpbke
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Education Minister Chris Hipkins says when it comes to NCEA, some kids are being encouraged to accumulate whatever credits are necessary to get the qualification, regardless of whether that’s setting them up for life beyond school #nationnz @chrishipkins pic.twitter.com/dOCw4iNqpG
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Simon asks Education Minister Chris Hipkins if such a wide ranging review of our school system is necessary, when comparatively few schools seem to need that intervention #nationnz pic.twitter.com/xCyyyP2Spd
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Simon asks Education Minister Chris Hipkins if he's concerned by the level of push back against the current review of New Zealand's school system #nationnz pic.twitter.com/bRsDdmbEfr
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Education Minister Chris Hipkins won't put a number on how many jobs could be lost due to the proposed polytech merger but acknowledges it could be a 'significant number' #nationnz @chrishipkins pic.twitter.com/SFp4tBLrlm
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Simon Shepherd asks Education Minister Chris Hipkins if he thinks radical changes are needed across the school sector -"I do think that there are some big systemic weaknesses in the way we run our school system at the moment" #nationnz @chrishipkins pic.twitter.com/5MNDth3G1p
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Pete George
/ 7th April 2019Alan Wilkinson
/ 7th April 2019When politicians talk about education you generally give silent thanks that they are not teaching your kids.
Duker
/ 7th April 2019Even worse would be parents who dont understand what the word teaching a class means.
Hipkins a former ‘corporate teacher’ set up a task force of those involved in education
National Government had its own program for centralising of schools administration into hubs too – I forget the ‘catchphrase ‘ they used
national has teachers amoung its MPs too, but almost always doesnt use them as Minister of Education.
Gezza
/ 7th April 2019Certainly often chuckle as I see the teacher evident in Trevor’s handling of Question Time. Awards & subtracts brownie points. Even has his teacher’s pets.
Ray
/ 7th April 2019And non favourites, something a lot of us remember from our school days, not in a good way.
Bullying is strongly resisted in schools now or rather they have policies discouraging it but watching Parliamentary Question time shows it isn applied at that level.
I have in the past been critical of Chis Hipkins but he seems to be doing well with a traditionally difficult portfolio!