The first ever National Standards for reading, writing and maths have been released in New Zealand. It’s not a comprehensive list and some schools are conspicuous by their absence. It’s early days yet and there is no way to tell if the acceptable standards of one school are equivalent to the acceptable standards of another,…
Another strong earthquake hit Christchurch at 1.35pm today. The mag 4.2 quake, only 12km deep, was centred 20km east of the city. Geonet described it as “strong” and said it was followed by a smaller 3.8 quake at 2:01pm. Public Id: 2012p713691itNZST: Friday, September 21 2012 at 1:35:03 pm Intensity: strong Depth: 12 km Magnitude:…
This was in today’s edition of the New Zealand Herald: “A Syrian job applicant was told he should change his name to something more Kiwi because conservative southerners would think twice about working with him. The Syrian, a 22-year-old Auckland-based man with a civil engineering degree, was applying for a graduate position within architectural business…
Continuing in our series of Migrant Tales – first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand. Today’s tale was sent in by Zeb, who left India to undertake a degree in New Zealand. Upon graduation Zeb found his ethnicity a barrier to finding employment, resulting in discrimination at every turn. If you are…
Continuing in our series of Migrant Tales, first hand accounts of the migrant experience of New Zealand taken from locations around the net. Today’s tale was first published on an emigration forum. The author is an expat living in the South Island, and tells of the difficulties that immigrant teachers have securing employment. The impending…
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