Too soon to declare qualifications dead
ROGER SMYTH tempers suggestions that qualifications are dead with some compelling evidence.
Revisiting NZ school qualifications 130 years on
Twenty years after NCEA was first mooted, New Zealand is once again revisiting its qualification system. FIONA CASSIE looks at the 130-year-plus history of our school qualification system.
Transforming teaching – using apps in maths
Teachers and lecturers collaborate on an exciting new research project to investigate the impact of using applications (apps) in primary mathematics. By JUDE BARBACK.
Life after National Standards: business as usual, or opportunity for change?
Rachel Helyer Donaldson talks to schools about finding the new normal now that National Standards are a thing of the past.
Sensitive subjects: Parents desperate for education system change
Jude Barback is privy to some distressing stories from parents of their experience of New Zealand’s school system. They cannot be fully told for privacy reasons, yet equally they should not go unheard as the Tomorrow’s Schools Review considers moving some of the key decision-making away from boards of trustees.
Spotlight on RTLBs – Making changes that work
John McRae speaks to a Resource Teacher of Learning and Behaviour to get a better insight into the vital work they carry out in Kiwi schools.
The gender divide: men in ECE
KATE RUSSELL investigates why there are so few male early childhood education teachers in New Zealand.
Free lunches in schools – a closer look at the initiative to feed our...
You may not have heard of Kaitao Intermediate School but you’ve probably driven past. The school sits in the Western Heights area of Rotorua, home to Mt Ngongotaha and the Skyline, one of the...
Emerging from The Mind Lab
Kristin School teacher, NATHAN CALVERT was among the first 130 teachers to undertake The Mind Lab by Unitec’s Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Practice (Digital and Collaborative Learning). He was named as the winner of the NEXT Foundation Expert Teacher Award. Here, Education Review asks him about the award, the course and the future.
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