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A place for Pasifika in early education
16 January 2019
Opinion: More recognition of Pasifika culture in early childhood education would lift barriers to enrolment for Pacific families, writes Vaovasamanaia Meripa Toso.
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New Year Honour for Professor Jones
3 January 2019
Congratulations to Professor Alison Jones from Te Puna Wānanga who was named a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year Honours list for services to education and sociology research.
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End of Tomorrow’s Schools neoliberal experiment
17 December 2018
Opinion: Negative comments from prominent Auckland principals is confirmation Tomorrow’s Schools Taskforce report has got it right, writes Professor Peter O'Connor.
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Help closer to home for teachers with struggling readers
3 December 2018
Teachers in West Auckland will have easier access to specialist training to help struggling readers with the opening of Colwill School’s Reading Recovery Subcentre.
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More men in helping professions
27 November 2018
Ahead of International Men’s Day on Monday 19 November, a second-year social work student reflects why more men are needed in the social good sector.
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NZ needs more earthquake engineers
23 November 2018
Major destructive earthquakes in Christchurch and Kaikoura have highlighted the need for qualified earthquake engineers.
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The cost of our nation’s cultural heritage too high?
19 November 2018
Opinion: An Environment Court decision has paved the way for the destruction of the special cultural heritage landscape at Ihumaatao, near Māngere, exposing flaws in New Zealand’s heritage protection mechanisms.
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A message to Minister Hipkins for a brighter teaching future
16 November 2018
Opinion: Until the Government addresses the status of the profession, teaching will remain in crisis, says Associate Professor Wayne Smith.
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The evolutionary miracle of language
14 November 2018
Opinion: From gestures, to pantomime, to modern speech: what makes human language so unique? Emeritus Professor Michael C. Corballis takes a close look.
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Scientist stars of The Good Sh*t to meet the teachers
9 November 2018
Teachers have the chance to meet with Liggins Institute scientists who fronted a frank TV documentary about gut bugs transfer research.
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Focus on Māori family well-being wins Marsden funding
8 November 2018
A project looking at how Māori families have strived for whānau ora (whānau wellbeing) across the 20th century has won $622,000 in Marsden funding.
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‘Your son Jayden needs our help’
5 November 2018
Opinion: A new 'predictive modelling' system to identify young people on the road to dependency fails basic principles, writes Associate Professor Simon Denny.
