Advanced trade, technical and professional qualifications – identifying demand Last Publication Date: 01 May 2008 Demand for people in the workplace with advanced skills is increasing. Having more people with advanced qualifications is one part of the solution. This report finds…
Research par excellence: The factors associated with higher research quality in New Zealand tertiary education organisations Last Publication Date: 01 May 2008 This report applies statistical modelling to the results of the 2006 Performance-Based Research Fund Quality Evaluation to identify the staff characteristics associated with higher research quality.
Outcomes of Early Childhood Education: Literature Review Last Publication Date: 01 May 2008 This literature review was commissioned by the Ministry of Education to provide policy makers with a synthesis of research that analyses the impact of early childhood…
Why are there so many short jobs in LEED? An analysis of job tenure using LEED Last Publication Date: 28 Apr 2008 The main objective of this paper is to investigate the use of earnings spells in LEED as a measure of job tenure. The paper was motivated…
Housing, Economic Change and the Governance of Metropolitan Areas Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2008 This paper considers how large cities have been adapting policies for homes and neighbourhoods in ways that are of relevance to the Auckland Metropolitan Area. The…
Settlement Patterns and the Geographic Mobility of Recent Migrants to New Zealand Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2008 Twenty-three percent of New Zealand’s population is foreign-born and forty percent of migrants have arrived in the past ten years. Newly arriving migrants tend to settle…
Complexity and social work theory and practice Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2008 Social Work Now, Issue 39, pages 15-20. Most social workers, wherever they work, deal with complex life situations in their practice. If situations were not difficult in…
Levels of meaning and the case for theoretical integration Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2008 Social Work Now, Issue 39, pages 21-28. Cognitive therapy tends to focus on how the client’s thoughts distort reality and lead to anxiety and depression. But what…
Practicing place: everyday contexts in child and family welfare Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2008 Social Work Now, Issue 39, pages 29-37. Place, and its corollary, displacement, lie at the centre of child welfare practice. Child neglect, the issue that more than…
Complex approaches to wicked problems: Applying Sharon Berlin’s analysis of “dichotomous thinking” Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2008 Social Work Now, Issue 39, pages 38-48. This article will consider one approach to ‘thinking about thinking’ as developed in Sharon Berlin’s early but seminal paper on…