Inequality is not confined to income and wealth; it is in our healthcare and education systems. Is Labour trying to reverse the trend?
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Communities of Learning | Kāhui Ako - System-wide change in Education
A response from the Minister of Education to the recent contribution by Steve Maharey (Can we finally agree on how to run schools).
Read MoreCan we finally agree on how to run schools?
New Zealanders have been arguing about education since the Royal Commission on Social Policy in the 1980s told them the needs of all students were not being met. After thirty years of debate confusion reigns. But there is a way forward
Read MoreHow to make a world-class university
University education is a privilege, not a right, and if we treated it that way we might just get better results
Read MoreOn John Roughan's confusions
John Roughan's column on why paying "voluntary" school fees is a good thing confuses me. I think that's because it is very confusing.
Read MoreJohn Roughan: I already am contributing, thanks
It feels good to pay for your child's education, says the columnist. Yes, and I already am, I reply
Read MoreRaising kids with grit, not high test scores
We are right not to get too bogged down in educational rankings, but we mustn't ignore their obvious warnings
Read MoreNational & Labour offer same new years resolutions
National and Labour made very big , but very different announcements this week. However the political thinking behind them both was almost identical and was all about eliminating the negative
Read MoreA bit of spotted dick goes a long way
In the words of Orson Wells ‘Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.’ School lunches could make citizens out of all of us.
Read MoreHow to pass national standards – according to Hekia Parata
In which I work my way through the minister's explanations of national standards and award myself a gold star for effort
Read MoreCharter Schools: Friend or Foe?
Area men, women panic as Key, Banks unveil December surprise.
Read MoreClever politics leave voters in a vacuum
Fear and greed may be the motivating emotions in the market place, but information is the life-blood of democracy. The voters of 2011 need a transfusion before they visit the polling booth on Saturday.
Read MoreACT: The Education President?
Through the looking glass with ACT’s Stephen Whittington, to a world where rich folk form a political party that exists only to help poor folk.
Read MoreMoneyball in the classroom
What educationalists in New Zealand can learn from newspapers in Los Angeles.
Read MoreParents and pupils—pawns in a power game
The stand-off between teachers and politicians over the introduction of national standards in schools is simply a side-show in a much bigger struggle over who controls the country’s education system
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