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Roger Partridge

Chairman & Senior Fellow

Roger Partridge is chairman and a co-founder of The New Zealand Initiative and is a senior member of its research team. He is a regular commentator in the media on public policy and constitutional law. He led law firm Bell Gully as executive chairman from 2007 to 2014, after 16 years as a commercial litigation partner. He is an honorary fellow of the Legal Research Foundation, a charitable foundation associated with the University of Auckland and was its executive director from 2001 to 2009. He is a member of the editorial board of the New Zealand Law Review and was a member of the Council of the New Zealand Law Society, the governing body of the legal profession in New Zealand, from 2011 to 2015. He is a former chartered member of the Institute of Directors, a member of the University of Auckland Business School advisory board, and a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.

Phone: +64 4 499 0790

Email: roger.partridge@nzinitiative.org.nz

Recent Work

League tables and the power of information

Opponents of the concept of publishing school league tables advised this week that parents would be confused and misled by such information. Instead, they expect parents to study ERO reports, search school websites, browse through newsletters, interview teachers, and generally undertake their own due diligence to find out whether schools are turning out “kids who have taken control of their own learning” rather than just focusing on “readin’, writin’ and ‘rithmetic”, as one school principal put it. Read more

Roger Partridge

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22 June, 2012

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