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News: tagged with "education"

• School gardens taking shape for free Christchurch garden festival

  Posted: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: gardens, education, event, Community
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 22nd February 2021 Plants, flowers and vegetables are taking up every spare inch of space at six regional schools as designs are finalised for the Rātā Foundation School Gardens exhibitions at Grow Ōtautahi in March

• Lunchtime Seminar: Equity in early childhood education

  Posted: Thursday, February 18, 2021 in: Healthy Christchurch Notices With tags: seminar, children, wellbeing, development, families, services, education
  Kia ora koutou. You are invited to a joint Waka Toa Ora and Child Poverty Action Group seminar: Equity in early childhood education - How can we improve children’s wellbeing? Date: Tuesday 9th March 2021.Time: 12.45 to 2.15pm

• Pegasus Health (Charitable) Ltd Scholarships 2021

  Posted: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 in: Training With tags: funding, maori, migrants, education, health, pacific, qualification
  Pegasus Health invites Christchurch-based tertiary institution students to apply for a health workforce development scholarship

• Council offers students hands-on learning opportunities

  Posted: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environment, education, waste, recycling, children, youth
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 18th January 2021 Christchurch school students will get hands-on lessons this year on how to minimise their waste thanks to a free Learning Through Action programme run by Christchurch City Council

• New relationships and sexuality education guidelines for schools

  Posted: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: education, sexual health, Relationships, sexuality
  Beehive media release: 8th September 2020 Two new sets of guidelines are being provided to schools to strengthen the teaching around relationships, health and sexuality, Associate Education Minister Tracey Martin announced today

• One-stop jobs and training shop goes live

  Posted: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 in: Resources and Information With tags: employment, Training, education, services, information, support
  The Government has launched a new online, phone and onsite service to help New Zealanders connect to a range of employment support and products for workers and businesses affected by COVID-19, announced Minister of Education Chris Hipkins and Minister for

• Getting Through Together Digest: 24th May 2020

  Posted: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 in: Newsletters With tags: newsletter, resilience, mental wellbeing, support, funding, grief, education, maori, campaign
  Kia ora. How are we doing, team? It's become really apparent over the past week that we're all in different places at the mo - some of us are rushing back amongst it, while others are still playing it safe from our homes

• Getting Through Together Digest: 20th May 2020

  Posted: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 in: Newsletters With tags: newsletter, mental wellbeing, resilience, lockdown, workplace, education, support
  Kia ora

• Getting Through Together Digest: 17th May 2020

  Posted: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 in: Newsletters With tags: families, newsletter, wellbeing, education, resilience, campaign, lockdown
  Kia ora. It's a big week ahead Aotearoa, with school heading back tomorrow and many more of us stepping out of our bubbles. After so long in noho rāhui/ lockdown, it's totally normal for you to be experiencing mixed emotions right now

• Getting Through Together Digest: 13th May 2020

  Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 in: Newsletters With tags: newsletter, wellbeing, mental wellbeing, resilience, campaign, lockdown, workplace, education, grief
  Kia ora. Well, what a week?! As we grapple with what a return to alert level 2 on Thursday will mean for us, we'll all be feeling different emotions

• UC launches FutureU $7500 grants for businesses and employees affected by COVID-19

  Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 in: Training With tags: funding, education, qualification, Training
  People facing redundancy, suspension or significant reductions in work hours as a result of the economic impact of COVID-19 can now upskill or change careers with the help of a University of Canterbury Study Grant

• New fast-track to professional Engineering degree for ex-pilots and technicians

  Posted: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 in: Training With tags: qualification, education
  The University of Canterbury’s College of Engineering is offering a new opportunity that fast-tracks entry into a professional engineering degree - especially tailored for technically skilled workers whose jobs may have been impacted by the pandemic

• UC launches new Bachelor of Youth and Community Leadership degree

  Posted: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 in: Training With tags: qualification, education, leadership, young people, Community development
  University of Canterbury media release: 24th September 2019 A unique new degree from the University of Canterbury (UC) serves to inspire future leaders in our community, providing them with vital building blocks to champion change in a changing world

• Get help with back to school costs

  Posted: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 in: Resources and Information With tags: resources, children, families, education, funding, support, services
  Deborah Lemon from Rehua Marae has compiled the following comprehensive list of where families can access a bit of help with getting the kids back to school

• New approach needed to keep people off benefit

  Posted: Thursday, September 13, 2018 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: employment, wellbeing, research, education, Report, welfare
  Beehive media release: 12th September 2018 New research shows that about half of all of the people who left the benefit system following the 2012/2013 welfare reforms were back on the benefit within 18 months

• Education sessions on screening for women

  Posted: Friday, September 7, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: education, health, women, cancer, screening
  ScreenSouth is responsible for the administration of the National Cervical Screening Programme and BreastScreen Aotearoa in Canterbury

• Find out about the Inclusive Education Action Group

  Posted: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: disabilities, education
  The Inclusive Education Action Group (IEAG) is a charitable organisation that advocates for change in the education system