Pilot screening programme to benefit 1500 Rotorua children with learning difficulties
2 Mar, 2021 10:04 PM
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One in five students are affected by a learning difficulty of some kind. Photo / Getty Images
One in five students are affected by a learning difficulty of some kind. Photo / Getty Images
Rotorua Daily Post
Close to 1500 Rotorua students will be screened for learning, visual and processing disorders and supported to overcome any challenges, thanks to an innovative programme being rolled out across the city from next month.
The Rotorua Schools Collaborative Screening Project 2021 is being facilitated by the Empowered Learning Trust, which has received $60,000 from Rotorua Trust for the project.
College reaches 200 apprentice milestone Date published: 10 February 2021
PDS apprentices Drew Keane (left) and Charlotte Larkin (right)
A campaign by Hopwood Hall College to train 300 new apprentices in 12 months has reached a landmark milestone during National Apprenticeship Week.
The Rochdale-based college has just placed its 200th student into an apprenticeship and now hopes to smash its original target of reaching 300 by September 2021.
The students have been placed in businesses across Greater Manchester but the majority are in and around Rochdale.
They include Charlotte Larkin, 21, and Drew Keane, 18, who are working at Littleborough-based fire door manufacturer PDS.
Julia Heap, principal and CEO of Hopwood Hall College, said: “We are delighted to have reached the 200 milestone after we launched our pledge in September 2020, which demonstrates by working collaboratively we can make a difference by transforming lives together. 200 people are now in employment and
Lawyers circle Tyro as outage drags on
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Payments company Tyro has entered the cross hairs of class action lawyers as a catastrophic failure of 10,000 terminals entered its 10th day.
The offending device.
Class action firm Bannister Law confirmed on Wednesday it was investigating potential claims on behalf of businesses that have been unable to accept eftpos payments since Tuesday evening last week.
“Some businesses have been left with the woefully inadequate situation of accepting cash payments only, losing essential revenue. In this difficult time, they require every cent to survive and pay their overheads,” the law firm said in a statement.