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- Supporting children who are deaf and hard of hearing
- Behaviour services to help schools and students
- Te Kahu Tōī, Intensive Wraparound Service (IWS)
- Supporting students with speech, language and communication needs
- Information for schools about teacher aide funding
- National Transition Guidelines for students with additional learning needs
- Entering into a Specialist Education Agreement (previously known as Section 9 Agreements)
- PB4L – Positive Behaviour for Learning
- Supporting children and young people with autism
- Special Assessment Conditions (SAC)
- Where else can I get information?
- In-Class Support funding for students with ongoing learning needs
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- Glossary
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- Property, procurement and school transport
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- Checking your property after a major incident
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- Managing asbestos in schools
- Managing contractor health and safety
- Managing thermal comfort in classrooms
- Moulds and fungi
- Risks and hazards on school property
- Traffic management at schools
- Urgent health and safety work
- Classroom ventilation assessment toolkit
- Information for infrastructure suppliers
- Automatic vehicle location technology
- Health and safety incident reporting on Ministry-led construction projects
- Performance management of construction suppliers and consultants
- Property projects led by schools and by the Ministry
- 10 Year Property Plan - information for consultants
- Role of the project manager
- School Bus Procurement
- Technical information for ICT contractors
- Weathertightness remediation
- Pokapū Waka Kura
- Design Review
- Leasing and hiring land and buildings
- Maintenance, repairs and security
- Projects and design
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- Roles and responsibilities in property management
- School facilities
- Bike and fitness tracks at schools
- Billboards on school grounds
- Boilers for school heating
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- Cellphone towers on school sites
- Energy, water and waste management
- Historic heritage features on school sites
- Houses for teachers and caretakers
- Playgrounds on school sites
- Learning support and specialist school related facilities' property entitlement
- Rest facilities at schools
- Running a hostel
- Swimming pools at schools
- Teen Parent Units
- School Transport
- School Transport Assistance
- Accidents and incidents on school transport
- SESTA
- School bus route maps
- Bus Controllers
- School transport for directly resourced schools
- School transport for Māori-medium schools
- Te pūtea tūnuku ki ngā kura Māori
- Technology class school bus
- Route design
- School transport contacts
- School Transport Hub | Pokapū Waka Kura
- Property staff contact details
- Schools' planning and reporting
- Funding and financials
- Resourcing – operational funding and staffing entitlements
- School board elections funding
- Operational funding
- Secondary Tertiary Alignment Resource (STAR)
- Additional relief teacher funding
- Roll returns (monitoring)
- School and kura staffing
- Staffing for roll growth
- Provisional rolls for schools and kura 2023
- Resource teacher learning and behaviour (RTLB) support funding
- Special purpose units (activity centres, teen parent units, other)
- Principals’ salary grades
- Attached teacher staffing and funding
- Technology provision for Years 7 and 8
- Ongoing Resourcing Scheme
- Reading recovery travel reimbursements
- Extraordinary Roll Growth funding
- ACC claims
- Ngā Manu Kōrero funding
- Emergency Staffing Scheme
- Interim Response Fund (IRF)
- School funding for Programmes for Students (PfS)
- Forms for resourcing
- Non-teaching staff – funding for settlement of collective agreements
- Funding for small schools
- ESOL funding
- Boarding Allowances
- International Student Wellbeing Strategy 2019/20 funding
- Property funding
- Furniture and equipment funding for state schools
- Furniture and equipment for integrated schools
- Property Maintenance Grant
- Capital and maintenance funding for integrated schools
- Vandalism funding
- 5 Year Agreement (5YA) funding
- Accelerated Modernisation Scheme
- Non-Teaching Space funding
- Site extensions
- Learning support property modifications
- Teaching space funding
- Board funding for property projects
- Sustainability Contestable Fund
- School Investment Package
- Accommodation for Learning Support Coordinators
- Council rates paid by schools
- Managing school finances
- Schools annual financial statement resources
- Insurance
- Fees, charges and donations
- Donations Scheme FAQs
- What families/whānau need to know about school/kura donations
- Examples of what families/whānau need to know about school/kura donations
- Schools and kura with an EQI of 432 and above choosing to opt-in to the donations scheme
- Examples for Decile 1-7 Schools/Kura opting in to the Donations Scheme
- Schools/Kura with an EQI below 431 and Schools/Kura Not Opting In to the Donations Scheme
- Examples for Schools/Kura with an EQI of 431 and below and Schools/Kura Ineligible or Not Opting In to the Donations Scheme
- ACC claims
- School tax issues
- Resourcing – operational funding and staffing entitlements
- People and employment
- Become a teacher or return to teaching
- Principals and teachers
- Primary principals
- Primary teachers
- Secondary teachers
- Secondary principals
- Area school principals
- Area school teachers
- Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu Early Childhood teachers
- Kindergarten teachers
- Police vetting for schools and kura Māori
- Performance management
- Scholarships, awards and funding for people working in schools
- Non-teaching staff
- Support staff
- Caretakers, cleaners and canteen staff
- Ground staff at a secondary or area school
- Te Aho o te Kura Pounamu specialist and support staff
- Specialist residential school non-teaching staff
- Kaiārahi i te Reo and therapists
- Foreign language assistants
- Community Education Staff (ACE and OOHMA)
- Employment agreements
- Pay, leave and personal development
- Pay
- Staffing Incentive Allowance
- Isolation Allowance
- High Priority Principals’ Allowance
- Priority Teacher Supply Allowance
- Advanced Classroom Expertise Teacher Allowance
- Associate Teacher Allowance
- Māori Immersion Allowance
- Normal School Allowance
- Principal Recruitment Allowance
- Resource Teacher Learning and Behaviour
- Specialist Teacher Allowance and Specialist Classroom Teacher Allowance
- Special School Principals’ Allowance
- Leave for principals and teachers
- Non-teaching time for teachers
- Principal job shadow exchanges
- If you’re shifting schools
- Surplus staffing
- Medical retirement for principals and teachers
- Resignation, dismissal and retirement
- Pay equity
- Pay equity claims in the education sector
- Pay equity funding
- Librarians and Library Assistants' Pay Equity Claim
- Science Technicians' Pay Equity Claim
- Administration Support Staff in Schools Pay Equity Claim
- Kaiārahi i te reo Pay Equity Claim
- Therapist Pay Equity Claim
- Teacher Aide Pay Equity Claim
- Teachers' Pay Equity Claim
- The pay equity claims process
- Changes to the Equal Pay Act
- Actions for schools for pay equity claims
- Digital technology
- ICT helpdesk
- ICT risk management
- Data and information management
- Authentication
- ICT incidents
- Your school or kura's IT network
- Software
- Adobe software for schools
- Antivirus software for NZ schools
- Apple technology in schools
- Google software for schools
- Microsoft software for schools
- Running updates: keep your systems updated
- SketchUp licensing
- Video conferencing options and guidance
- Turnitin
- Digital Identity for Online Learning (DI4OL)
- Devices
- School DNS – domain name registration service
- Generative AI
- New Zealand's network of schools
- Ministry Bulletin for School Leaders | He Pitopito Kōrero
- School terms and holiday dates
- More information on setting term dates, holidays and closing days
- Archive from 1986 to 2022
- Teacher-Only Days 2023 and 2024
- 2022 Accord Teacher-Only Days for secondary schools and wharekura
- 2021 Accord Teacher-Only Days for secondary schools, wharekura and area schools
- 2020 Accord Teacher-Only Days for secondary schools and wharekura
- Accord Teacher-Only Days for primary settings
- Area Schools Accord Teacher-Only Days
- Minister's agreement to fewer half-days
- Board information
- Supporting students
- 16+ years
- Information for tertiary students
- Tertiary administration
- Policies and strategies
- Previous COVID-19 bulletins for tertiary and international education providers and students
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- Communities of Learning | Kāhui Ako
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- Our work
- About us
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- Strategies and policies
- Attendance and Engagement Strategy
- The Statement of National Education and Learning Priorities (NELP) and the Tertiary Education Strategy (TES)
- Action Plan for Pacific Education 2020–2030
- Ka Hikitia – Ka Hāpaitia
- Tau Mai Te Reo
- Child Protection Policy
- Mōu Te Reo
- Te Ahu o te Reo Māori
- Te Hurihanganui
- Te Rāngai Kāhui Ako ā-Iwi
- Wellbeing in education
- Te Rautaki Rawa Kura – The School Property Strategy 2030
- Changes in education
- The Equity Index
- How the Equity Index works
- How the Equity Index applies to funding
- The EQI shift and impact on other initiatives
- The EQI and ISO: How we calculate funding
- FAQs – Equity Index
- The Isolation Index
- How the Isolation Index works
- Isolation Index: What the changes mean for schools and kura
- The EQI and ISO: Examples of transition funding
- Establishment of Te Mahau within a redesigned Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga | Ministry of Education
- Curriculum and assessment changes
- Aotearoa New Zealand's histories and Te Takanga o Te Wā
- Digital Technologies and Hangarau Matihiko learning
- Strengthening learning support
- Pourato
- Education Work Programme
- Holidays Act compliance – Ministry payroll
- Data for Wellbeing programme (was Integrated Education Data – iEd)
- Ministry Engaged 10YPP Consultants
- Rebuilding Christchurch Schools
- Growing our teacher workforce
- Carbon Neutral Government Programme in New Zealand schools
- Healthy Active Learning
- National School Redevelopment Programme
- Ngā iti Kahurangi - Improving Classrooms in Small or Remote Schools
- Privacy Act 2020 – resources for schools and early learning services
- Counselling In Schools
- Highest Needs Change Programme
- Final pay when ending a job
- KiwiSaver remediation and compensation - Schools Payroll
- SSRSS and TRSS superannuation compensation – schools payroll
- Flood risk management project
- Te Mahere Taiao – The Environmental Action Plan for School Property
- Holidays Act compliance – Schools payroll
- Te Haratau
- Curricula and NCEA big change information relevant for ITEs
- Schools payroll remediation
- The Equity Index
- Information releases
- Advice seen by our Ministers
- Disclosure of expenses
- Issue-specific releases
- Abbey's Place Childcare Centre - Licence Review Process and recommendations for improvement
- Urgent Response Fund
- ‘Every School Day is a Big Day’ – national communication campaign
- Workforce Development Councils
- School Opening Hours Regulations
- The Statement of National Education and Learning Priorities (NELP) and the Tertiary Education Strate
- Rebuild at Christchurch Girls High School
- Growing Māori Medium Education
- Extending eligibility to student support to people who were affected by the Christchurch mosques terror attack
- School Donations
- Education and Training Bill
- Massey University Early Literacy Research Project
- Early Learning Regulatory Review
- Education (Early Childhood Services) Amendment Regulations 2019
- Ka Ora, Ka Ako | Healthy School Lunches Programme
- Education and Training Bill 2020
- Apprenticeship Support Programme
- Action Plan for Pacific Education 2020-2030
- Secondary School Attendance in Auckland under Alert Level 3
- Budget 2020 Information Release
- School Building Performance
- Refresh of the National Curriculum for Schooling
- Attendance
- Budget 2021 Information Release
- 2020 Early Learning Services Complaints and Incidents Report
- Information sharing agreements
- Literacy & Communication and Maths Strategy
- Budget 2022 Information Release
- Ventilation in Schools
- Healthy Food and Nutrition in Schools
- Export Education Levy
- Highest Needs Review and Change Programme
- Cyber Security and Digital Support for Kura and Schools programme
- Education and Training Amendment Bill (No.3) and Regulatory Systems (Education) Amendment Bill
- Wānanga Enabling Framework Information Release
- Making an official information request
- Responses to Official Information Act requests
- Responses to Official Information Act requests 2022
- Responses to Official Information Act requests 2021
- Responses to Official Information Act requests 2020
- Responses to Official Information Act requests 2019
- Responses to Official Information Act requests 2018
- Responses to Official Information Act requests 2017
- Transparency statement about information gathering for regulatory compliance purposes
- Legislation
- Education and Training Act 2020
- Education and Training Act 2020: Regulatory Impact Assessments and Supplementary Analysis Report
- The Education and Training Act 2020: Parents, whānau and students
- The Education and Training Act 2020: Information for Boards
- The Education and Training Act 2020: Early Learning me ngā Kōhanga Reo
- The Education and Training Act 2020: Te Tiriti o Waitangi
- The Education and Training Act 2020: Information for the disability sector
- The Education and Training Act 2020: Information for principals and teachers
- The Education and Training Act 2020: Tertiary Education and Training
- Education and Training Act 2020: Improving schools' planning and reporting
- Education and Training Act 2020: Prohibiting the provision of NCEA offshore
- Education and Training Act 2020: Strengthening Te Kura's Governance Arrangements
- Definition of a domestic student
- National Education Goals (NEGs) and National Administration Guidelines (NAGs)
- Education (Vocational Education and Training Reform) Amendment Act 2020
- Education (School Donations) Amendment Act 2019
- Regulations to better support international students
- The Education and Training Amendment Bill (no. 3)
- Regulatory Systems (Education) Amendment Bill
- Wānanga Sector Framework
- The Education and Training Amendment Bill
- Education and Training (Teaching Council Fees And Costs) Amendment Bill
- The Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 2)
- Education and Training Act 2020
- Publications
- Briefing documents for Incoming Ministers
- Budget 2023
- Budget 2020
- Summary of Vote Education and Vote Tertiary Education initiatives
- Vote Education and Vote Tertiary Education initiatives Budget 2020 - five year funding breakdown
- Funding boost for early learning
- Supporting Māori learners, Kōhanga Reo, and revitalising te reo Māori
- Trades and Apprenticeships Training Package
- More school lunches for learners
- Adult and Community Education - a modern approach to night classes
- Paving the way for a fully qualified early learning workforce
- Further investment to move NCEA exams online
- Budget 2021
- Budget 2022
- Education Budget 2022 Highlights
- Support for Early Learning Services
- Support for Schools
- Support for Student Engagement
- Budget 2022 Investment in Supporting All Schools to Succeed
- Māori Education Investment
- Continued Investment in School Infrastructure
- Education Summary of Initiatives 2022
- Tertiary Education Summary of Initiatives 2022
- Budget 2019
- Budget 2019 Information Release
- Summary of Education Portfolio Budget 2019 initiatives
- Education Portfolio Initiatives Budget 2019 - Five year funding breakdown
- Government introduces donations scheme for Decile 1-7 schools
- Te Kōhanga Reo Contingency Fund - Budget 2019
- Creatives in Schools
- Changes to strengthen NCEA
- Government invests to bolster teacher supply
- Budget 2019 funding for students at risk
- Increased learning support for pre-schoolers
- National Education Growth Plan
- Increased support for Deaf and hard-of-hearing students, and assistive technology
- Increased resources for ESOL in schools
- New funding for Pacific Education through Budget 19
- Budget 2018
- Annual Reports
- Statement of Intent
- Education circulars
- The Education Gazette
- Long-term insights briefings