Ethics Backlash After Private School’s Social Media Experiment Goes Wrong. Badly.
Victim blaming results after parents raise ethics concerns about a school’s social media experiment
NZ’s Education Gets Another “F” in UNICEF Report. Why you Shouldn’t Educate Your Kids in New Zealand
New Zealand has been placed towards the bottom of the heap in a new UNICEF report on educational attainment based on results from the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Since 2000, the OECD has been evaluating the knowledge and skills of the world’s 15-year-olds through its PISA test. More than 510,000 students in…
International Students Ripped Off, Lied to About Residency Bonus Points for the Regions
Are you an international student? Have you been told you can gain bonus residency points if you study in a region of New Zealand? You may find the following interesting. Read it and contact us to share your experience. International students are being duped by unregulated education agents overseas to study in the regions to…
Early Childhood Sector Spin and Propaganda. Why you Should NOT Put your Children in NZ’s Baby Farms
Are you a working parent looking for good quality childcare for your young children? Maybe you’re thinking about moving to New Zealand because you’ve been told its a ‘Great Place to Raise Kids’? Think again. Take a look at the following problems in the early childhood sector in NZ, you may want to reconsider your…
Schools Warned not to Set Debt Collectors on Families that Don’t Pay ‘Voluntary Donations’
New Zealand is getting an F in its international education rankings, and its NCEA high school qualification has fallen into disrepute. The NCEA, a second-rate ‘made-in-NZ’ substitute for the Cambridge International Examinations, has been called a …credit accumulation exercise. The NCEA system encourages schools and students to choose soft-option unit standards and easier achievement standards…
Russian Migrants Not Happy With Their Kids’ Education, nor the Lack of Culture in New Zealand
There’s an interesting article in Russia Beyond the Headlines on 31 May 2015 describing the experience of Russian migrants in New Zealand: Russians chase the New Zealand Dream. It will resonate with many of our readers, not just the Russians but those who are migrants from Western Countries. According to Russian immigrants, New Zealand…
5,000 Teachers Working in New Zealand are Unauthorized to Teach
Still think that NZ has a great education system? take some time to read the headline in today’s NZ Herald headline 5000 teachers working in NZ ‘unauthorised’ More than 5000 teachers working in schools across the country in the last year were unauthorised, while another 400 did not appear on any Teachers Council records, the…
