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'A New Deal' will be a 'Better Deal' for Children
Friday, 17 October 2003, 4:07 pm | Early Childhood Council
Early Childhood Council CEO Sue Thorne today endorsed the Education Forum Report 'A New Deal' saying "The document provides some simple but powerful strategies to reform schools and redress declining educational performance." More >>
"Look at us" say the early childhood sector
Monday, 13 October 2003, 11:15 am | Early Childhood Council
The Early Childhood Council congratulates Deborah Coddington on her new book "Let Parents Choose". CEO Sue Thorne says she is thrilled that it is finally being recognised that a regulatory and funding model that takes the power away from politicians ... More >>
Schools of Excellence Welcomed
Tuesday, 23 September 2003, 9:21 pm | Early Childhood Council
The Early Childhood Council welcomes the National Party's 'Schools of Excellence' consultation document which provides an eagerly awaited opportunity for the education sector and parents to give input into major alternative education policy development. More >>
Early Childhood Council
Thursday, 11 September 2003, 9:07 pm | Early Childhood Council
Sue Thorne, Chief Executive Officer of the Early Childhood Council says the recently released report from Independent Schools of NZ advocating funding all schools at the same per student level reinforces what the early childhood sector has known for ... More >>
Ministry of Education swallows ECD
Thursday, 13 March 2003, 5:27 pm | Early Childhood Council
³The Early Childhood Sector has been taken completely by surprise by the Minister's announcement to merge the Early Childhood Development agency into the Ministry of Education says Sue Thorne, Chief Executive Officer of the Early Childhood Council, ... More >>
Parity for Kindergarten Teachers & families
Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 9:20 am | Early Childhood Council
The Government's own officials, the Minister's own industry advisory group and New Zealand's largest early childhood provider organisation warned against the serious flow-on effects of funding one type of early childhood service at a higher rate than ... More >>
Early Childhood Council joins the Education Forum
Monday, 25 November 2002, 9:35 am | Early Childhood Council
ECC President Ross Penman says, "The invitation reflects a growing acceptance of the importance of early childhood education as an integral part of education in New Zealand with a vital contribution to make in the later success and happiness ... More >>
Report Masks Success of Education and Care Centres
Thursday, 7 November 2002, 9:09 am | Early Childhood Council
Media Release – Early Childhood Council Flawed Report Masks Success of Education and Care Centres “The Early Childhood Council is appalled by the flawed report released by Linda Mitchell today on staff qualifications in the education and care sector,” ... More >>
ECC Speaks out on Minister's Plan
Thursday, 12 September 2002, 2:59 pm | Early Childhood Council
ECC acknowledges the good intentions of the Minister in attempting to provide some coherency in the planning of government policies that relate to the early childhood education sector. More >>
South Auckland Centre Hit By Education Strategy
Wednesday, 28 August 2002, 1:41 pm | Early Childhood Council
A South Auckland early childhood centre with a glowing Ministry of Education report is struggling to survive under a new government education strategy which disadvantages privately owned facilities. More >>
The Chosen Ones
Monday, 5 August 2002, 9:14 am | Early Childhood Council
The Government has now agreed to lift the rate of funding subsidy to the operators of free kindergartens, so they can pay their early childhood teachers the same as teachers in the compulsory sector. There can be no doubt that the selected teachers ... More >>
Flawed Tertiary Policy Threatens Early Childhood
Saturday, 3 August 2002, 5:52 pm | Early Childhood Council
Nowhere more are the flaws in the Government's Tertiary Policy exposed than in the early childhood sector. The majority of early childhood teachers graduate from private tertiary institutions, with the three largest suppliers of early childhood teachers ... More >>
Interim Playground Standards given the thumbs down
Wednesday, 31 July 2002, 6:25 pm | Early Childhood Council
The early childhood sector has send a resounding rejection of the US Playground Safety Standards to Standards NZ. More >>
