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Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 6:15 am A well-functioning education system is vital to equip our children for life. However, a new report from The New Zealand Initiative says it is not clear whether the education system is serving our children as well as it should. Educational Performance and Funding in New Zealand: Are our children getting the education they deserve? takes a closer look at the evidence on New Zealand students’ educational achievement and examines whether a lack of funding may be playing a role. Authors Senior Fellow Dr David Law and Policy Analyst Joel Hernandez focused on resul...

Increased spending won't fix Kiwi students' academic decline - report Newshub 1/03/2021 Dan Satherley © Video - The AM Show; Images - Getty/The AM Show/NZ Initiative David Law on The AM Show. A new look into what's going wrong with New Zealand's education system says it's unlikely we'll be able spend our way out of the problem. Over the past 15 years Kiwi kids' academic performance has fallen behind their international peers, despite rising NCEA pass rates.  The decline shows up in three different surveys - the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), th...

Ta’allum’s AMAG shines in prestigious international TIMSS assessment  27 Feb 2021 - 8:54 A letter of appreciation from the Ministry of Education and Higher Education to Ta’allum. The Peninsula Doha: Ta’allum Group’s Al Maha Academy for Girls (AMAG) received official notification of their strong performance in the TIMSS (Trends in Mathematics and Science Study) — a prestigious international comparative assessment.  The Academy significantly exceeded the Global average of 500 points. Their success was honoured in a ‘Letter of Achievement’ received from the Undersecretary of ...

Press Release Delivered by the Honorable Win Gatchalian, Senator of the 18th Congress: Mr. President, esteemed colleagues, I take the floor today to present a sobering assessment of the quality of education being provided to children enrolled in Philippine elementary, junior and senior high schools. In the same way that students are tested at the end of a lesson to gauge how well they have mastered the skills and knowledge taught to them, we must also assess the efficacy of the education system itself in imparting the requisite skills and knowledge for future generations of Filipinos to survi...

Good afternoon Programme Director, Ladies and Gentlemen! Today, we are gathered here to announce the 2020 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination results.  We are announcing these results in the context of what the NDP 2030, enjoins us to do, that “by 2030, South Africans should have access to education and training of the highest quality, leading to significantly improved learner outcomes.  The performance of South African learners in international standardised tests, should be comparable to the performance of learners from countries at a similar level of development and with simil...