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Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
Tuesday, 22 June 2004, 12:00 am | Early Childhood Council
In claiming in the House that privately-owned early childhood services on average receive nearly three times the funding of community-owned services, the Minister of Education has risked seriously misleading his colleagues. More >>
Time now to listen to the "real" stakeholders
Thursday, 10 June 2004, 8:40 am | Early Childhood Council
A long time coming, via a poorly constructed and implemented planning process that took three times longer than was intended, the Early Childhood Regulatory Review Consultation document was released this week by the Ministry of Education. More >>
Mallard's Damage Control for Budget Day Blunder
Wednesday, 9 June 2004, 2:20 pm | Early Childhood Council
The Minister of Education is desperately trying to counter the bad press received for his early childhood Budget Day blunder which discriminate against families who choose privately-owned centres for their children. More >>
Time to start listening to Parents
Tuesday, 1 June 2004, 8:50 am | Early Childhood Council
The Government would be well advised to take heed of the findings in the Maxim Institute's report "A Snapshot of what Parents think of Schooling in New Zealand" says Sue Thorne, CEO of the Early Childhood Council. More >>
A Bouquet to Steve Maharey
Friday, 28 May 2004, 1:13 pm | Early Childhood Council
"Increasing the rate of the childcare subsidy and number of working families eligible to receive the subsidy has been warmly received by the early childhood sector," says Sue Thorne, CEO of the Early Childhood Council. More >>
The Socialist Road to Free Childcare
Thursday, 27 May 2004, 8:40 pm | Early Childhood Council
"The announcement of 'Free Early Childhood Education' is a great sound bite and has instant political appeal, but parents (and Consumer Affairs) should have a close look at the fine print here" warns Sue Thorne, CEO of the Early Childhood ... More >>
Who May Be Employed In Preschools In The Future
Friday, 14 May 2004, 10:08 am | Early Childhood Council
The Early Childhood Council supports the Minister of Education's recent clarification of who may be employed in Preschools in the future. More >>
Renowned family psychologists is coming to NZ
Tuesday, 20 April 2004, 9:11 am | Early Childhood Council
Steve Biddulph, author of "Raising Boys" and the "Secrets of Happy Children" will be speaking in Auckland on 1 and 2 May 2004. Steve's honest, simple and powerful books are in 4 million homes in 27 languages around the world. ... More >>
I¹d rather be a Hammer than a Nail.
Tuesday, 6 April 2004, 2:22 pm | Early Childhood Council
It is intriguing that the Minister can see a sledgehammer coming so early before next year's election (see Mallard release Brash to take sledgehammer to education). He might well be concerned. Not about what Don Brash might introduce as an education ... More >>
Enterprising Women
Wednesday, 10 March 2004, 8:34 am | Early Childhood Council
"We are heartened to hear that at the top of the list of initiatives in Ruth Dyson's Ministry of Women's Affairs integrated plan to improve women's lives, is Promoting women's success in enterprise," said Sue Thorne, CEO of the Early ... More >>
Preschoolers Matter too Minister
Wednesday, 25 February 2004, 8:45 am | Early Childhood Council
Minister Mallard has seen sense and agreed to cease closing schools, he should now act quickly to remove the threat of closure from preschools as well. More >>
Parents Do Know Best
Tuesday, 24 February 2004, 4:48 pm | Early Childhood Council
Mark Harrison's book Education Matters: Government, Markets and New Zealand Schools, launched in Wellington today, adds more weight behind those who argue that parents are best placed to make decisions about the education of their children, Early Childhood ... More >>
Over supply of primary teachers a disgrace
Friday, 20 February 2004, 1:09 pm | Early Childhood Council
It is nothing short of astonishing that the NZ taxpayer has funded the training of twice as many primary teachers than are needed to meet demand and yet here in NZ we have an immediate shortage of some 1700 early childhood teachers. Mallard notes ... More >>
Bad Timing for Employment Bill
Monday, 15 December 2003, 10:07 am | Early Childhood Council
"The Education sector will effectively have just four weeks in which to consider the impact of the Employment Relations Reform Bill", says Early Childhood Council Chief Executive Officer Sue Thorne. More >>
Education Minister’s Grants Build White Elephants
Thursday, 11 December 2003, 3:01 pm | Early Childhood Council
Early Childhood Council President Ross Penman questions the $8 million in capital grants Œre-announced yesterday by the Minister of Education, which will apparently be used to extend or build more community managed early childhood centres. "This ... More >>
A Wee Note from Damien O'Connor
Thursday, 11 December 2003, 1:40 pm | Early Childhood Council
You do have to wonder about the value for money we get from providing taxes from our beloved leaders in Wellington. Every early childhood centre has by now received a letter from Damien O¹Connor, Minister of Racing telling us what an excellent opportunity ... More >>
ERA Amendments Not Welcome
Friday, 5 December 2003, 10:17 am | Early Childhood Council
"New employment relations legislation tabled in Parliament today that promotes collective bargaining and multi employer agreements above individual agreements is unwelcome by early childhood sector employees and employers," says ECC CEO Sue ... More >>
Early Childhood Cl questions super scheme fairness
Thursday, 20 November 2003, 11:38 am | Early Childhood Council
"NZEI's spokesperson Colin Tarr's press release, in which he tries both to defend the Government's discriminatory actions towards early childhood teachers and attack the Early Childhood Council as a bad employer, shows he must be visiting from another ... More >>
Robbing Peter to bribe Paul
Monday, 17 November 2003, 11:35 pm | Early Childhood Council
Already struggling to match the pay and conditions of teachers in the kindergarten sector, employers in the rest of the early childhood sector have taken another body blow with the introduction this month of the new taxpayer funded retirement scheme ... More >>
Union's narrow view of quality challenged
Monday, 20 October 2003, 10:39 pm | Early Childhood Council
NZEI are on their soap box yet again extolling the virtues of full training to a three year diploma level for all staff in the early childhood sector in yet another push to make the ECE sector a replica of the failing school model, says Sue Thorne, ... More >>
