Tag: Schools
‘You feel a little bit less cautious’ – families adjusting to...
By Soumya Bhamidipati, RNZ News journalist
The orange light pandemic setting in Aotearoa New Zealand has brought a sense of relief for parents, as the...
NZ moves to orange: Experts respond to change in traffic light...
RNZ News
Covid-19 restrictions for all of New Zealand will ease from midnight tonight but a leading epidemiologist says the country is divided over its...
Tension still high in PNG’s Mt Hagen after school fight leads...
By Rita Peki in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea
A few shops and buildings in Papua New Guinea's Western Highlands provincial capital Mt Hagen have...
Covid-19 will be in ‘just about every NZ school’ soon, says...
By John Gerritsen, RNZ News education correspondent
Education Minister Chris Hipkins has warned that nearly every New Zealand school and early childhood centre will have...
About 1400 NZ school teachers refuse vaccination against covid-19
By John Gerritsen, RNZ News education reporter
New Zealand Education Ministry figures indicate just 2.4 percent of school teachers -- about 1400 people -- have...
Northland principal faces ‘vindictive’ abuse for backing vaccine mandate
By Ella Stewart, RNZ News reporter
A Northland high school principal says she has been accused of being "complicit in mass genocide" by people opposed...
PNG teacher helpless as vandals fire ravages Takubar classrooms
By Poreni Umau in Kokopo, Papua New Guinea
Women wept among the smoking remains of melting water tanks, hot corrugated iron and the fresh smell...
Laurens Ikinia: Trash cans and study, a short story of Papuan...
COMMENT: By Laurens Ikinia
The above photo is an image of how I grew up in Papua.
But before I share my story, I would like...
‘Don’t turn away any student’, Marape tells PNG schools
By Gynnie Kero in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape has instructed schools to enrol all children who turn up for the...
Universities need to boost ‘poor sister’ community engagement, forum told
This special debate, held 29 September 2020, aimed to present and discuss approaches on reopening schools or resuming classes post-covid-19. The panellists also gave...
Student safety still a concern as PNG covid infection cases hit...
By Aileen Kwaragu in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinean parents have been assured that everything is being done to ensure the health and safety of...
PNG schools follow no-mask-no-entry rule amid growing covid cases
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Schools in Papua New Guinea's National Capital District resumed yesterday, with strict covid-19 protocols in place, and with several turning away...
NZ health officials condemn ‘hostile’ social media attacks on virus family
Pacific Media Centre
Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) staff are calling for restraint and calm as a New Zealand family in isolation for Covid-19...
Manila brands volunteer teachers as ‘terrorists’, say Lumad advocates
By Jean Bell in Auckland with additional reporting by Rahul Bhattarai
Volunteer teachers are being maliciously labelled as "terrorists" by the Philippine government while paramilitary...
Educator calls for less ‘tick-box teaching’ and more creativity
Professor Welby Ings ... talking "disobedient thinking" at TedxAuckland in 2013, some of the ideas underpinning his new book. Video: TedxTalks
Despite being expelled from...
Fiji government challenged over Indonesian soldiers in school rebuild
By Nasik Swami in Suva
The Fiji government has no say in the Adopt a School programme by donor countries, Parliament has been told in...
Free lunch for some Fiji schools, cyclone classroom damage $42m
By Maggie Boyle in Suva
Students attending schools managed by TISI Sangam, Fiji's largest non-government organisation, in some cyclone-ravaged areas will be provided lunch for...
