Cognition Education has been awarded the contract to manage the English, ESOL and Literacy Online websites (http://englishonline.tki.org.nz/) for the Ministry of Education. This three year contract will entail Cognition’s management of a variety of online communities for teachers, production and publication of resources to support teachers as well as quality assurance of teacher submitted resources across all three sites.
The Cognition Institute leads the way in evidence-based educational thought leadership
The Cognition Education Trust announced its major new philanthropic initiative when it launched the Cognition Institute in Auckland on Saturday 31st October.
Twenty-six schools in the Pataka-Takanini area have banded together to improve their school governance.
The schools are collaborating to improve the effectiveness of their boards of trustees in areas ranging from strategic planning to the new New Zealand curriculum. They are working with Cognition Education which is providing the necessary professional development for their trustees.
Digital technologies in schools support high-tech NZ workforce
Although the recession has hit the New Zealand workforce hard, and there are less jobs available, the IT sector is one area crying out for new graduates. The Digital Technologies Guidelines (DTG) project that has been operating in a number of secondary schools throughout New Zealand, is working to alleviate this problem by equipping graduates for the ICT sector.