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Teaching stars: transforming the education profession, our third education report, aroused suspicion, emotion and attention when we released it this week. We dared to say those two terrible words: performance pay. Read more
This week, the Ministry of Education – in partnership with the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment – released their Tertiary Education Strategy for 2014-19. The overarching aim of the strategy is to create better linkages between education and employment, especially in ensuring the skills and competencies of graduates meet the changing demands of the labour market. Read more
John Morris, co-author of Teaching Stars: Transforming the Education Profession, being interviewed on TV ONE Breakfast show on 5 March 2014. Read more
Wellington (3 March 2014): New Zealand has made a good start towards lifting the status of teaching, but the pace of change could be sped up if pay scales were linked to performance, not seniority. That is one of the findings of The New Zealand Initiative’s latest report Teaching Stars: Transforming the teaching profession. Read more
Last week the QS World University Rankings by Subject were released, highlighting the top 200 universities in the world for individual academic subjects. With as much grandeur and status as the Oscars (or the Rugby World Cup), these rankings are considered to be highly influential worldwide in signalling the quality and reputation of universities. Read more
The government proudly announced this week that the percentage of students leaving school with minimum qualifications needed for a good life (NCEA Level 2) rose from two-thirds (67 per cent) in 2008, to over three-quarters (77 per cent) last year. Even more positively, the percentage of Māori students leaving school with NCEA Level 2 has increased from 44 to 59 per cent. Read more
In 2012, Madam Ong laid a police complaint against her son’s teacher who had cut his hair prior to an exam and threatened to deduct marks for his scruffy haircut. Singapore’s Minister of Education, Mr Heng Swee Keat, contacted the school for their story and publicly agreed with one media commentator, that Madam Ong had caused a hullabaloo. Read more
The start of this year's election race has seen politicians accused left, right, and centre of bribing their electorates. John Key was first off the mark with his super teacher policy. Read more
Teachers are our most important educational asset – the single biggest influence on student achievement in schools. Teaching must become a profession of status so that New Zealand can attract the best and brightest and keep them, and ensure that teachers are always improving their practice to lift student achievement. Read more
Wellington (23 January 2014): The New Zealand Initiative has welcomed the introduction of a four new tiers of teaching positions as a huge step toward lifting the educational performance of New Zealand’s schools. The think tank has long been a strong advocate for such a policy, which was announced by Prime Minister John Key today as part of his State of the Nation address. Read more