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- Supporting students with speech, language and communication needs
- Information for schools about teacher aide funding
- National Transition Guidelines for students with additional learning needs
- PB4L – Positive Behaviour for Learning
- Entering into a Specialist Education Agreement (previously known as Section 9 Agreements)
- Special Assessment Conditions (SAC)
- Supporting children and young people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
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- CPR Training and Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) in schools
- Communicable diseases in early learning services and schools: a guide to legal powers
- COVID-19 (novel coronavirus)
- Health and safety requirements for school and early learning service leaders
- Health and safety leadership
- Health and Safety requirements for boards and school leaders
- Implementing the Health and Safety at Work Act — a guide for early learning services
- Worker participation
- Practice framework resources for health and safety
- Professional development in health and safety
- Monitoring, reporting and assurance
- Risk identification, assessment and management
- School trips overseas and exchanges
- Property, procurement and school transport
- Buying goods and services for schools
- Buying advice for common categories
- Buying basics
- Conflicts of interest (COI)
- Running a competitive buying process
- Writing a specification of requirements
- Evaluating a supplier's offer
- Collaborative contracts explained
- Buying with other schools
- Sharing staff members across schools
- Key contract considerations
- Managing contracts
- Contract registers
- Checking your property after a major incident
- Health and safety management
- School construction projects within the COVID-19 Protection Framework (traffic light system)
- Safe use and electrical equipment testing
- Fire safety
- Hazardous substances on school sites
- Health and Safety Charter
- 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
- Property projects led by schools and by the Ministry
- 10 Year Property Plan - information for consultants
- Role of the project manager
- School Bus Procurement
- Supplier panels
- Technical information for ICT contractors
- Weathertightness remediation
- Pokapū Waka Kura
- Opportunities for construction suppliers
- Leasing and hiring land and buildings
- Maintenance, repairs and security
- Projects and design
- Property planning
- Roles and responsibilities in property management
- Property training and events
- School facilities
- Bike and fitness tracks at schools
- Billboards on school grounds
- Boilers for school heating
- Car parks
- Cellphone towers on school sites
- Energy, water and waste management
- Historic heritage features on school sites
- Houses for teachers and caretakers
- Offsite manufactured buildings for new spaces at schools
- 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 property procurement
- Planning property procurement
- Specifying requirements
- Approaching the market
- Evaluating supplier offers
- Awarding a contract
- Conflicts of interest (COI)
- Insurance
- Procurement exemptions
- Emergency and urgent procurement
- Contracts for school-led property projects and maintenance
- Contracts for Ministry-led property projects
- 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
- Technology class school bus
- Te pūtea tūnuku ki ngā kura Māori
- Route design
- School transport contacts
- Te Mahere Taiao – The Environmental Action Plan for School Property
- Buying goods and services for schools
- 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
- Sports and cultural leave funding
- Roll returns (monitoring)
- School staffing
- Staffing for roll growth
- 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 report (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
- Decile 1–7 schools and kura choosing to opt-in to the donations scheme
- Examples for Decile 1-7 Schools/Kura opting in to the Donations Scheme
- Decile 8–10 Schools/Kura and Schools/Kura Not Opting In to the Donations Scheme
- Examples for Decile 8–10 Schools/Kura and Schools/Kura 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 principals
- Secondary teachers
- 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, therapists, ATSSD and special education assistants
- Foreign language assistants
- Adult and community education staff
- 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
- Teacher aide pay equity claim
- Administration support staff in schools pay equity claim
- Kaiārahi i te reo pay equity claim
- Librarian and library assistants pay equity claim
- Science technician pay equity claim
- Teachers' pay equity claim
- Therapists pay equity claim
- The pay equity claims process
- Changes to the Equal Pay Act
- Actions for schools for pay equity claims
- Digital technology
- Cyber security in schools
- New Zealand's network of schools
- Ministry Bulletin for School Leaders | He Pitopito Kōrero
- School terms and holiday dates
- 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
- Research and statistics
- Communities of Learning | Kāhui Ako
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- Changes in education
- Establishment of Te Mahau within a redesigned Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga | Ministry of Education
- The Equity Index
- Curriculum and assessment changes
- Aotearoa New Zealand's histories and Te Takanga o Te Wā
- Digital Technologies and Hangarau Matihiko learning
- Strengthening learning support
- The Education Resourcing System (ERS) programme
- Education Work Programme
- Holidays Act Compliance – schools payroll
- 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
- Healthy Active Learning
- Carbon Neutral Government Programme in New Zealand schools
- Ngā iti Kahurangi - Improving Classrooms in Small or Remote Schools
- National School Redevelopment Programme
- Privacy Act 2020 – resources for schools and early learning services
- Counselling In Schools
- SSRSS and TRSS superannuation compensation – schools payroll
- Highest Needs Review
- Coastal flood risk management project
- Strategies and policies
- Attendance and Engagement Strategy
- Ka Hikitia – Ka Hāpaitia
- The Statement of National Education and Learning Priorities (NELP) and the Tertiary Education Strategy (TES)
- Action Plan for Pacific Education 2020–2030
- Tau Mai Te Reo
- Child Protection Policy
- Mōu Te Reo
- Te Ahu o te Reo Māori
- Te Hurihanganui
- Te Rāngai Kāhui Ako ā-Iwi
- Te Rautaki Rawa Kura – The School Property Strategy 2030
- Wellbeing in education
- Information releases
- Advice seen by our Ministers
- Disclosure of expenses
- Issue-specific releases
- Growing Māori Medium Education
- Urgent Response Fund
- Workforce Development Councils
- The Statement of National Education and Learning Priorities (NELP) and the Tertiary Education Strate
- Rebuild at Christchurch Girls High School
- Extending eligibility to student support to people who were affected by the Christchurch mosques terror attack
- Early Learning Regulatory Review
- School Donations
- Education and Training Bill
- Massey University Early Literacy Research Project
- 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
- Refresh of the National Curriculum for Schooling
- Attendance
- Information sharing agreements
- School Building Performance
- Strategies for Literacy and Mathematics & Statistics, and for Te Reo Matatini and Pāngarau
- Budget 2021 Information Release
- 2020 Early Learning Services Complaints and Incidents Report
- Ventilation in Schools
- Making an official information request
- Responses to Official Information Act requests
- 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 school 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
- Education (Vocational Education and Training Reform) Amendment Act 2020
- Education (School Donations) Amendment Act 2019
- Regulations to better support international students
- Definition of a domestic student
- The National Administration Guidelines (NAGs)
- The National Education Goals (NEGs)
- 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 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 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 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