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How do you rate a secondary school's performance? For many parents the decile rating becomes the default measure. Read more
Dr Eric Crampton talks to TVNZ Breakfast about our new report In Fairness to our Schools. He explains the results of our innovative new tool that enables the performance of schools to be properly measured and how it can be used to provide better outcomes for all students in New Zealand. Read more
Monday saw Wellington’s Lambton Quay come alive with a joyful parade celebrating Māori Language Week. Yet, when asked whether her government would make te Reo compulsory in schools Prime Minister Ardern dodged the question, explaining instead that even if the government wanted to do this, New Zealand lacks the necessary teaching workforce. Read more
A new report has found that New Zealand spends 5.5% of our national income on schooling - the seventh highest in the OECD. Chief Economist Dr Eric Crampton spoke to Mike Hosking and said larger class sizes are not a bad thing - if you have good quality teachers. Read more
During a visit to a new London charter school in 2015, then-Mayor Boris Johnson sparred with a 12-year-old over the year the Roman Empire converted to Christianity (313 AD). Johnson was wrong (by a year) and dumbstruck by the knowledge of the inner-city children. Read more
We at the Initiative share Education Minister Hipkins’s desire for a stronger vocational sector. But we are less convinced that centralising the sector will solve the problem. Read more
The very best part of grad school was the drinking. Well, not so much the drinking. Read more
The opportunities of industry-based qualifications are highly underestimated in New Zealand. It is therefore laudable that earlier this month, Minister of Education Chris Hipkins proposed reforms to the vocational sector that include industry-based education. Read more
The government’s proposal to reform New Zealand’s underachieving vocational education sector is laudable, but there are still concerns that need to be addressed, says a new research note from The New Zealand Initiative. The research note, Hands-on: New suggestions to reform New Zealand's vocational sector, identifies what changes need to be implemented to ensure the vocational education sector is given the same positive level of attention as a university education: Industry training has to become more attractive for students and employers alike in order for it to be seen as a successful career path The roles of different educational institutions in the vocational sector have to be clearly defined to manage expectations, and Existing institutions must be independent and self-reliable so that they look for partners early and don’t count on the government to step in once the business model has proven to be dysfunctional for many years. Read more
Few parents would give their child a cough medicine that had not been trialled. The potential risks of doing so are endless. Read more