Education – Views & Research

New Zealand is cracking down on school attendance. Is it missing the bigger picture?

Scott Duncan, Auckland University of Technology; Andrew Gibbons, Auckland University of Technology, and Elizabeth Duncan, Auckland University of Technology

Will NZ’s education system overhaul leave vulnerable learners even further behind?

Adrian Schoone, Auckland University of Technology

Over the past decade, the number of students outside mainstream school has doubled to almost 15,000.

More women are professors, but gender gaps continue to plague NZ universities

Kim 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

A group of academics wearing gowns during a graduation ceremony

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

Lived experience is often dismissed – but we should recognise it as a form of expertise

Snita Ahir-Knight, University of Otago and Hazel Godfrey, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

People walking past each other, with some not clearly visible

Why claims of ‘transformational’ school reading improvement are premature

John Milne, Auckland University of Technology

A rushed new maths curriculum doesn’t add up. The right answer is more time

David Pomeroy, University of Canterbury and Lisa Darragh, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

The Cambridge factor: how influential NZ schools hastened the demise of NCEA

Stuart Deerness, Auckland University of Technology

NZ’s costly fees-free scheme did little to widen access to tertiary education – new study

Lisa Meehan, Auckland University of Technology and Cristóbal Castro Barrientos, Auckland University of Technology

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The end of open-plan classrooms: how school design reflects changing ideas in education

Leon Benade, Edith Cowan University; Alastair Wells, Auckland University of Technology, and Chris Bradbeer, The University of Melbourne

Human shakes hands with AI to show partnership.

From fear to fluency: what our students learned when they used AI across an entire course

Alexander Richter, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and Ishara Sudeeptha, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

NCEA isn’t perfect but NZ shouldn’t forget why it was introduced in the first place

David Pomeroy, University of Canterbury

Financial literacy is about more than personal responsibility – wealth and inequality should be part of the new curriculum

Jennifer Tatebe, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; Derek Shafer, University of Waikato, and Marta Estellés, University of Waikato

Female putting coin into piggy bank on a stack of text books in front of a blackboard

AI is driving down the price of knowledge – universities have to rethink what they offer

Patrick Dodd, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

AI in the classroom is hard to detect – time to bring back oral tests

Shahper Richter, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau and Patrick Dodd, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

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