The European dual education pathway might give our less academic students a better chance of work success.
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Rather than pushing governments aside, educators must work with them. By Stuart Middleton.
More »Get thee to a factory (or office, institution or whatever)
Getting high school students used to the idea of work is critical to career orientation.
More »When education fails, it only creates jobs in education
Some of the mythology around Bill Gates talks of how he dropped out of Harvard. Burst through the top would be more accurate than drop out of the bottom. By Stuart Middleton.
More »Been there done that… and it did not really work
Twenty years ago when Campus Review was started, I had just returned to the tertiary sector in New Zealand after a time as a secondary school principal, a time of unprecedented change in school administration. I got back just in ...
More »Mixed marriages a merger of equals
The world of education is a funny place. It remains one of the last bastions of the struggle between the classes - only in this instance it is the struggle between academic and vocational. In Canberra, a decision has been ...
More »Tongue-tied by language
One of the exciting and challenging ways in which New Zealand and Australia has changed over the past 50 or so years has been the explosive flowering of linguistic diversity in our communities. This change has been an uneasy one ...
More »Surge of energy turns the lights on at last
Here in New Zealand it has been the between-semester break for education institutions, not that educators get a break with the conference season in full swing. I get a sense that a mood for change is developing. New Zealand ...
More »NZ and Australia need closer education ties
International Education might well have a much stronger brand were it an Australasian brand rather than two separate brands, both of them with their own issues. Since the early 1980s New Zealand and Australia have had a formal agreement to ...
More »Seamless educational journey a must
In the world of DIY there are products which allow you to deal with gaps as they appear or even in new work to maintain those continuous lines and surfaces that lead to a quality finish. Continuity of progress is ...
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