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A single pathway cannot meet the needs of students who want post-secondary education writes Stuart Middleton I opened my Sunday paper the day before the start of the new school year to read the exciting statement in an advertisement for ...

Post-secondary institution should recruit students in proportions that reflect the region they serve, writes Stuart Middleton I was astounded to read recently that Alaska State University had announced in tones seemingly ambivalent, shocked and celebratory that a milestone had been ...

A focus on technology has scuppered old-fashioned technical skills, writes Stuart Middleton. There is a lot of talk these days about technology and its impact on our lives, the role it plays in an information economy and, of course, the ...

A pathways project in slow motion A day might be a long time in politics but a year is a mere flick of the eyelid in education systems where change proceed at a pace that makes glaciers look like films ...

At tertiary level the completion of post-secondary qualifications is the only acceptable measure. A New Zealand Treasury official once said to me in a somewhat exasperated tone “But no-one is responsible for educational failure!” And he had a point. Accountability ...

We are living in the decade of accountability writes Stuart Middleton Education seems to need a word or two, a slogan, each decade to rally around. The 1990’s gave us “competitive advantage” – that simply made clear to us that ...

Educators need to think about doing things differently Along with the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein is credited with the much quoted dictum: “You can’t continue to do the same thing and expect different results.” It is also, I believe, ...

Higher education should have accepted the skills challenge rather than fight a rearguard action to protect its patch, writes Stuart Middleton. At last, I thought, one of the English-speaking education systems has got it right. The incoming government of Julia ...

Higher education should have accepted the skills challenge rather than fight a rearguard action to protect its patch, writes Stuart Middleton. At last, I thought, one of the English-speaking education systems has got it right. The incoming government of Julia ...

Stuart Middleton compares apples with Apples – and he likes both. When I started school the teacher had a view that we should be taught to read and write. Putting aside reading for the moment, we certainly got on with ...