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Understanding Commitment and Enduring Involvement in Outdoor Recreation in New Zealand

Maintaining or increasing participants’ commitment to their recreation pursuit is an important goal for the recreation sector. Declining participation has been attributed to larger socio-demographic trends,…

NEMP Writing, Reading and Mathematics Report 2010

In 2010 the National Education Monitoring Project (NEMP) examined what a nationally representative sample of New Zealand students in year 4 and year 8 know and…

Scoping support for New Zealand Sign Language users accessing the curriculum Part II: A New Zealand Overview

Language instruction to children with hearing loss requires the highest level of competency at the earliest age levels in order to optimize neural plasticity providing the…

Scoping support for New Zealand Sign Language users accessing the Curriculum Part I: An international literature review

This literature review has focused on the needs of those deaf children for whom visual communication through a Sign Language is beneficial for their educational development.…

How can tertiary education deliver better value to the economy?

This paper asks how tertiary education can deliver better value to the economy. It is based on a presentation given at the New Zealand conference of…

Sport and recreation in New Zealand Pasifika Communities

One of the fundamental issues underpinning this research is the simple question of why Pasifika should be encouraged to participate in sport and recreation. There is…

Outputs and outcomes of the government’s tertiary education expenditure 2005-2009

This report synthesises the inputs, outputs and outcomes of the government’s tertiary education expenditure over the period 2005 to 2009 in eight key funds. In total,…

Education for Sustainability in New Zealand Schools: Summary Report

This Summary Report summarises an evaluation of three Education for Sustainability (EfS) professional development programmes being funded by the Ministry of Education: the Enviroschools Programme, the…

How does New Zealand's education system compare? OECD's Education at a Glance 2010

Every year, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) publishes "Education at a Glance", a set of indicators that compares the education systems of its…

Te Piko o te Māhuri: The key attributes of successful Kura Kaupapa Māori

The research project examines the key attributes of successful kura and how and why the attributes contribute to kura being successful. The research adopted a strengths…