Will NZ’s education system overhaul leave vulnerable learners even further behind?Adrian Schoone, Auckland University of Technology
Adversity can follow NZ kids to the classroom. Can schools make a difference?Maryam Ghasemi, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau and Ladan Hashemi, City St George's, University of London
More women are professors, but gender gaps continue to plague NZ universitiesKim Hebert-Losier, University of Waikato; Ceridwen Fraser, University of Otago; Heather Hendrickson, University of Canterbury; Kelly Burrowes, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; Shannon Davis, Lincoln University, New Zealand, and Tangiwai Rewi, University of Waikato
Lived experience is often dismissed – but we should recognise it as a form of expertiseSnita Ahir-Knight, University of Otago and Hazel Godfrey, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
NZ’s costly fees-free scheme did little to widen access to tertiary education – new studyLisa Meehan, Auckland University of Technology and Cristóbal Castro Barrientos, Auckland University of Technology
Why claims of ‘transformational’ school reading improvement are prematureJohn Milne, Auckland University of Technology
A rushed new maths curriculum doesn’t add up. The right answer is more timeDavid Pomeroy, University of Canterbury and Lisa Darragh, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
The Cambridge factor: how influential NZ schools hastened the demise of NCEAStuart Deerness, Auckland University of Technology
From fear to fluency: what our students learned when they used AI across an entire courseAlexander Richter, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Ishara Sudeeptha, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
The end of open-plan classrooms: how school design reflects changing ideas in educationLeon Benade, Edith Cowan University; Alastair Wells, Auckland University of Technology, and Chris Bradbeer, The University of Melbourne
AI in the classroom is hard to detect – time to bring back oral testsShahper Richter, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau and Patrick Dodd, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
NCEA isn’t perfect but NZ shouldn’t forget why it was introduced in the first placeDavid Pomeroy, University of Canterbury
Financial literacy is about more than personal responsibility – wealth and inequality should be part of the new curriculumJennifer Tatebe, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; Derek Shafer, University of Waikato, and Marta Estellés, University of Waikato
AI is driving down the price of knowledge – universities have to rethink what they offerPatrick Dodd, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Big changes to NCEA and polytechs must deliver the skills NZ urgently needsLisa Maurice-Takerei, Auckland University of Technology
