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CINCH Christchurch: Community information for Christchurch and the surrounding areas
Ebsco Megasearch: Access to thousands of full text magazines and abstracts. Our Ebscohost access includes: Masterfile Premier, Australia/NZ Reference Centre, Academic Search Premier, Health Source - Consumer & Nursing/Academic Editions, Business Source Premier, World Magazine Bank & Marshall Cavendish Science Reference Center.
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries.
Live and Learn in Christchurch and Canterbury @ localeye: links to educational organizations, businesses and groups in the region.
From localeye - Your online guide to Christchurch and Canterbury.
Any Questions: Feature live librarians online helping kids find and use quality internet sources for their homework, and help build students' search and information skills.
Apprentice Training New Zealand: Co-ordination of apprenticeships, especially engineering, baking and plastics
Architects Education and Registration Board
Artists in Schools: A national curriculum support service for secondary school teachers and students of the visual arts, and arts co-ordinators in schools in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Circulars online
Computers in New Zealand schools: Computers in New Zealand Schools is New Zealand's only magazine for teachers, from pre-school to tertiary level, who use computers and the Internet in the classroom. The journal publishes articles, many by teachers themselves, on all aspects of computers in education, with emphasis on practical applications and on professional development.
Danz in schools: This is the site for the Ministry of Education's National Secondary Schools Arts Coordination Project - Dance.
Deaf Education Aotearoa New Zealand (DEANZ) Matauranga Taringa Noa Iho Aotearoa
edCentre: Online gateway to education information. It provides access to educational services and advice for organisations and people at all stages of their lives.
Education @ Te Puna Web Directory: Links to New Zealand organisations and information.
Education Counts: The goal of Education Counts is to increase the availability and accessibility of education statistics and research. Access statistical data, quantitative information and research about the education sector.
Education Forum: association of individuals who have a common concern for the future direction of New Zealand education.
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC): Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world's premier database of journal and non-journal education literature of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966.
eLearn: Tertiary e-learning portal which aims to facilitate the sharing of e-learning information in New Zealand. It will help people to access information about tertiary education providers and the e-learning courses that they offer, various tertiary education-related services, and digital learning objects. The portal aims to encourage collaborative activity between educators, government, communities and industry.
Environmental Education Directory: The directory contains resources relating to the sustainable management of the New Zealand environment. It contains New Zealand produced material and has been devised for practical use by teachers, councils and community groups or individuals.
Future Problem Solving (FPS): Future Problem Solving is a year long programme where students, working in teams, learn and apply a six-step problem solving process which provides them with the tools to tackle problems which they will meet throughout their life.
Literacy Aotearoa New Zealand
Maths Week: 11th - 15th August 2008. Maths Week is a time to highlight the usefulness and importance of learning maths. This site contains free resources for teachers, along with activities and competitions for students.
Modern Apprenticeships Ngā Pia Onāianei: new workbased education initiative for young people that combine the best of the apprenticeship tradition with a modern twist.
Montessori Association of New Zealand Inc.(MANZ)
National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications
National Education Monitoring Project (NEMP)
New Zealand Association for Research in Education (NZARE): NZARE is an association which welcomes all those with an interest in educational research. It aims to foster a high standard in the practice of educational research.
New Zealand Association of Private Education Providers
New Zealand Council for Educational Research: The New Zealand Council for Educational Research is an independent educational research organisation with a bicultural focus. We have an international reputation for producing quality educational research and research-based resources.
New Zealand Education Gazette: Published fortnightly and contains all the teaching vacancies for New Zealand schools. It also publishes general notices and articles of interest to teachers in New Zealand.
New Zealand Literacy Portal: The New Zealand Literacy Portal is designed to provide a knowledge base of adult literacy information contributed by both New Zealand and international organisations. It provides a rich source of information for all people in New Zealand interested in adult literacy.
New Zealand Reading Association (NZRA): The New Zealand Reading Association consists of regional councils which encourage membership of teachers, parents, and literacy educators.
Open Courseware @ MIT: "a large-scale, Web-based publication of the educational materials from the MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] faculty's courses." It provides course materials (such as lecture notes, reading lists, and problems sets) for hundreds of MIT courses in dozens of academic disciplines ranging from aeronautics to women's studies.
The Schooling Strategy 2005-2010: The government has developed a Schooling Strategy to improve social and academic outcomes for all students, by focusing attention on those factors that make the biggest difference for student learning. It has been developed with input from the schooling sector and community interests.
Secondary Principals' Association of New Zealand (SPANZ)
State of Education in New Zealand: Annual publication presents a picture of New Zealand�s education system with indicators on participation, achievement, effective teaching, labour market outcomes and resourcing across the early childhood, schooling and tertiary sectors.
State Schools Terms and Holidays: From the Ministry of Education.
Statistics New Zealand Schools Corner: Schools Corner contains activities and information for teachers and students and teachers pages.
Studyit: for NCEA students: "Your one stop site for achieving in NCEA. Find what you need to know, contact subject teachers, and get encouragement from other students."
Te Hiringa i te Mahara: a resource for Māori secondary school teachers and contains all sorts of information, including links to Maori performing arts and culture
Te Kaupapa Mātauranga Mō Te Iwi Māori Maori Education Trust
Teacher Reference Center (TRC): Journal Information for K-12 Teachers & Librarians. This index of over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals, and books is now also offered free via the EBSCOhost platform. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more.
teachers@work: Covers the impact of the web on education as well as reviewing web sites for educators.
Team up: Team up with your kids, their teachers and your whānau to encourage and support your kids as they learn. Assistance for parents who want to be involved in their childs learning. Covers early childhood through to secondary school.
TEd: NZ's Tertiary Education Portal: Combines the resources of a number of government and non-government agencies and organisations to provide both learners/students and Tertiary Education Organisation staff with access to comprehensive information and services relevant to tertiary education in New Zealand.
The Commonwealth of Learning: The Commonwealth of Learning is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. COL is helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training.
Training Opportunities Directory: for job-seekers usually 18 years and over usually with low qualifications who meet eligibility criteria. Training is fully subsidised. It offers the opportunity for people to learn new skills, and to make more of those they have, by gaining qualifications and 'hands-on' experience in real workplaces. There are at least 1500 programmes running throughout the country - all designed to help people achieve their employment goals. From the Tertiary Education Commission
Workbase: the National Centre for Workplace Literacy & Language: An independent non-profit organisation that aims to improve the literacy, numeracy, language, information technology and communication skills of the New Zealand workforce.
WorkSite: your gateway to skills and work PaeMahi: Combines the resources of a number of Government agencies to help you make decisions about work. It provides information about education and training, career planning, finding work, finding employees and establishing and operating a business as well as publications and other information about working in New Zealand.

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