Search Results

157 results in multiple government agencies

Housing Assets: A Paper for the 2013 Review of Retirement Income

This paper explores the connections between housing assets and retirement incomes. Older people’s high rates of home ownership today and rising house prices from about the…

Retirement Security and Financial Literacy in New Zealand: Policy Lessons from Abroad

  Most industrialized countries have in recent decades seen their long-standing retirement income policies challenged by demographic challenges (longer life expectancy and lower fertility rates), accompanied…

Secondary schools in 2012

This report contains the main findings from NZCER's 2012 national survey of secondary schools. The survey draws on responses from more than half the country’s secondary…

What can Pākehā learn from engaging in kaupapa Māori educational research?

This recent working paper focuses on how Pākehā have become involved in Māori-determined and controlled educational research, and what issues inhibit and facilitate their work. You…

Reflecting on purposes for learning science science

This report is one in a series written for the Ministry of Education in the Curriculum support for science strand of a wider project called Science…

Strengthening engagements between schools and the science community

This research aimed to generate evidence-based recommendations for strengthening partnerships between schools and the science community to support students’ science learning and engagement.  It was underpinned…

NCEA one decade on | Views and experiences from the 2012 NZCER National Survey of Secondary Schools

This report documents views and experiences of NCEA from NZCER's 2012 National Survey of Secondary Schools. Responses from teachers (1266) and principals (177) predominate, but the…

Building a future-oriented science education system in New Zealand: How are we doing?

This paper makes the case for deep and radical change to New Zealand's approach to science education. It discusses the implications of recent science education research…

Policy position papers

The 2013 review of retirement income policies considered the balance between eight separate objectives which overlap and sometimes even compete with each other. These position papers…

The Contribution of Wider Policies and Programmes to Living Standards of Older New Zealanders

In New Zealand as in most modern economies the bulk of the cash income required to support the living standards of older people in retirement comes…