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Subtext: Subtext, Issue 62, 26 June
2008.
In Subtext this month: School vouchers making headlines; Too much regulation hindering education; New book highlights best practices in PPPs; Private tutoring on the rise in many countries; Bureaucrats outnumber teachers and researchers; 'Irrational' Australian funding system set for overhaul; Family better than centres for young children's development, research suggests; Private schools increasingly popular in NZ, figures show. |
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Presentation: International developments in school choice, 14 June
2008.
By Norman LaRocque to The Fraser Institute, Canada. This presentation looks at different types of school choice initiatives and raises questions about the role of government in education. |
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Presentation: Early childhood education in New Zealand and Australia: Lessons for policy design, 12 June
2008.
By Susan Thorne and Norman LaRocque to a World Bank seminar in Washington DC. This presentation gives an overview of early childhood education (ECE) in New Zealand and Australia; policy frameworks for ECE in New Zealand and Australia; and relevance to developing countries. |
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Presentation: Higher education financing, 11 June
2008.
By Norman LaRocque to The Fraser Institute, Canada. This presentation looks at tuition fees and student loan schemes around the world. |
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Speech: Bulk funding is dead: long live bulk funding, 10 June
2008.
By Norman LaRocque to the Henderson Rotary Club. This presentation looks at school self-management and autonomy around the world and how, globally, the trend in recent years has been toward greater decentralisation of education decision-making. |
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Presentation: Bulk funding is dead: long live bulk funding, 10 June
2008.
This presentation provides support material to the speech Bulk funding is dead: long live bulk funding. |
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Speech: Zero fees and a universal student allowance for
New Zealand?, 16 April
2008.
Speech by Norman LaRocque to the Hamilton East Rotary Club |
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Presentation: Zero fees and a universal student allowance for New Zealand?, 16 April
2008.
This presentation provides support material to the speech 'Zero fees and a universal student allowance for New Zealand' |
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Media release: New member for Education Forum from Independent Schools of NZ, 13 March
2008.
The Education Forum is pleased to welcome the new executive director of Independent Schools of New Zealand (ISNZ), Deborah James, as a member. |
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Oped: Issue 117: Don't demonise private education, 11 March
2008.
By Jennifer Buckingham. Significant and increasing numbers of children are attending religious institutions for their education. |
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Feature: Made in Sweden: the new Tory education revolution, 10 March
2008.
This summer, at least 25,000 children will drop out of English schools without a single qualification to show for their years of compulsory education. Some 240,000 will graduate from primary school unable to read or write properly ... It will, tragically, be just another year in one of the world's highest-funded education systems. |
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Oped: Issue 116: No longer choosing choice, 4 March
2008.
By Andrew Coulson. It is possible to give all families access to a free education marketplace – by dramatically expanding and liberalizing existing choice programs, or adopting new ones. But you can't expect current programs to produce free-market results in the absence of free markets. |
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Oped: Issue 115: Lagging in the reading stakes, 21 February
2008.
By Tom Nicholson. What is going on? In the last two weeks we have celebrated the success of New Zealand’s 15-year-olds in an international survey of Reading, Numeracy, and Science called PISA.
But then a week after the PISA results were published the Ministry released results of another international study which found that New Zealand’s 10-year-olds came 24th out of 45 participants which is a very average result. |
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Oped: Issue 114: Time to change way we judge schools, 6 February
2008.
By John Langley. There is a dilemma over school funding. How schools are funded is always a touchy subject. It has been an ongoing debate for years and won't go away as long as the present funding structures exist. Invariably principals, trustees and teachers say there is never enough money. |
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Oped: Issue 113: Science and maths: could we do better?, 1 February
2008.
By Roger Kerr. Parents worrying about their children’s aptitude and interest in science and maths, and concerned about how they might fare in the school year ahead, would have been alarmed to read in late December of the sharp decline in maths and science teachers without relevant qualifications. |
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Media release: National's student loan position a barrier to tertiary education quality, 31 January
2008.
The National Party announcement that, if elected, it will not reverse Labour's 'no interest' student loan policy means the continuation of an unaffordable and wasteful tertiary education policy whatever the election result, says the Education Forum. |
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