Skills
English Beats Maths in the Employability Stakes
Australia’s most employable school subject is English.
Competition
Australia Sets the Standard for Standards
Students problem solve their way to international success in Standards Olympiad.
School systems
The Enigma that is the New Zealand Education System
NZ education statistics are not just appalling with regard to wealth. For ethnicity 61% of Asian students leave school with UE, 43% of European, 24% of Pasifika and 19% of Maori. Girls also exceed boys by significant margins.
NZ has many issues to tackle in terms of education. One is the political malaise. Of the last 18 years 12 have been National Party led and 6 Labour Party led. National typically makes a lot of noise but fundamentally change very little. The current government has typified that. They also create large divisions and govern for the middle/upper class.
Behaviour
Have We Been Designing Behaviour Frameworks Around Different Theories of Change?
Our conversation about behaviour begins one step too late.
Mentoring
Why Empowering Teachers is the Most Powerful Form of School Leadership
Moving away from a purely top-down model of leadership towards one grounded in empowerment.
