Gloriavale school under fire over sexist curriculum

August 2, 2015: | NZ Herald | Lynley Ward | Politicians seek probe into sect’s teachings. Politicians will demand answers from education bosses over what secretive Gloriavale school is teaching girls – besides how to expertly wash men’s clothes. The Education Review Office will be hauled before the Education and Science Select Committee…

Bible clear: Separate roles for men and women – Gloriavale teacher

May 21, 2015: | NZ Herald | Kirsty Johnson | Pupils at Gloriavale follow curriculum designed to prepare them for life inside isolated Christian community. Students at the school run by secretive Christian community Gloriavale sit qualifications up to three years early so they can focus on a more “practical” education – including…

West Coast MP dismisses calls to shut Gloriavale school: Stuff

April 30, 2015: By Jody O’Callaghan | Stuff | A call to close Gloriavale’s school over concerns of oppression has been rejected by West Coast MP Damien O’Connor. An educational researcher has criticised Gloriavale Christian Community School for depriving young people of their human rights, and said it should be closed. Quality Public…

Indian student in NZ being sent back

October 16, 2006: | Hindustan Times | Indo-Asian News Service | Venkata Siva was sponsored by the Gloriavale Christian community to study English and Agriculture. An Indian student in Greymouth, New Zealand, is being sent back to India after he fell out with a commune that supported his visit. Venkata Siva Rayavarapu, 22,…

Officials give Cooperite school a pass

January 12, 1994: | The Press | Colin Espiner | The Cooperite Christian sect’s Spring-1 bank school, in North Canterbury, is up to standard, says the Education Review Office. The Ministry of Education has publicly aired reservations about the quality of the curriculum offered at ‘ Springbank, but the office’s first audit of…

Ministry fails sect schools

August 6, 1993: | Press | Colin Espiner | TWO schools run by the Cooperite Christian sect have been refused provisional licences by the Ministry of Education. Ministry and Department of Social Welfare officials, acting on information from the police, visited a school and an early childhood centre at the Cust Christian Community’s…

Probe today of sect’s schools

August 4, 1993: | Press | Colin Espiner | The Ministry of Education will today investigate two schools run by the Cooperite Christian sect. The police have advised the ministry that two schools, one of which is a kindergarten, are operating without a licence at the Cust Christian Community’s Haupiri property in north…

Education ‘inadequate’

August 4, 1993: | Press | Children in the. Cooperite communities should receive their education in an ordinary school, says a former sect member. Mr Mel Hansen, whose children were taught by the Cooperite school at Cust, said yesterday that he hoped the Ministry of Education’s investigation into the sect’s Haupiri schools would…