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Does Housing New Zealand have a system to track the hours worked by consultants, and if so, how many hours have been logged by consultants working on the Enterprise Transformation Programme and what has been the cost to date of this work?
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18 Mar 10 |
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How much is expected to be spent on overseas travel by officials and consultants/contractors relating to the Enterprise Transformation Programme in 2010?
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18 Mar 10 |
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How much has been spent on overseas travel by officials and consultants/contractors relating to the Enterprise Transformation Programme to date, and provide details of each trip, purpose, destination, dates of travel, costs of travel, costs of accommodation, number of staff sent and their positions in the organisation?
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18 Mar 10 |
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What is the range and average of length of service of Housing New Zealand staff broken down by salary band?
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18 Mar 10 |
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What are the names of the consultants or contractors, the types of service generally provided by each, the budgeted and actual costs and the dates of the contracts (includeing the date commenced and completed) for each consultant or contractor that has been engaged by Housing New Zealand Corportation, and paid more than $5000, or for which more than $5000 is budgeted to be spent in the current financial year?
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18 Mar 10 |
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Are plain language school reports to be written in parents’ first languages?
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18 Mar 10 |
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Does plain language for reporting to parents vary according to the community the school serves?
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18 Mar 10 |
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How does she define plain language for the purpose of reporting to parents?
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18 Mar 10 |
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How will schools demonstrate that the National Administration Guidelines relating to plain language reporting are being met?
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18 Mar 10 |
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Can she outline her understanding of why trialling the standards is being called for; and outline her reasons for opposing trialling?
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18 Mar 10 |
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Can she outline how the National Standards will raise achievement and the evidence she has for her view?
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18 Mar 10 |
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Was her Ministry consulted before the School Trustees Association wrote to Boards in relation to the implementation of national standards, and if so what input did they provide?
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18 Mar 10 |
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In which electorates has she held a public meeting to explain national standards and what is her plan to hold meetings in each of the other electorates?
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18 Mar 10 |
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Does she consider Speech and Language Therapists and Educational Psychologists "back office" jobs in the Ministry of Education?
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18 Mar 10 |
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How many public meetings has she addressed on her recent tour and what was the average attendance at each meeting?
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18 Mar 10 |
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Of the 150,000 students she claims are failing how many does she believe are failing in writing?
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18 Mar 10 |
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Of the 150,000 students she claims are failing how many does she believe are failing in reading?
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18 Mar 10 |
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Of the 150,000 students she claims are failing how many does she believe are failing in maths?
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18 Mar 10 |
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What is the government's policy with regard the development of league tables based on national standards?
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18 Mar 10 |
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Do parents have the right to withdraw their children from the tests which lead to national standards and if so how do they do this?
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18 Mar 10 |