Two Election Year Reports in the NZ Education System – Part 1

Below is the first of two reports looking at the NZ School system as we move towards an election. They are longer than the usual Kiwiblog read but it has been a significant piece of work with great contributions from both the public and leaders in the field. Either download to read – or they both print well if you are inclined to read better that way.

If we want a great country, economy, future we need MASSIVE change in education NOW.

The first report: ” The Appalling Condition of our State Education System … and … How to be World Leading in Just 19 Years” is multi-faceted and has significant contributions by leading experts in the field of Education.

The report ends with 13 recommendations to turn around our antiquated and failing system.

To me the key recommendation is to create a state of the art, information and communications based Crown Entity for Parenting – to assist from pregnancy through to early adulthood. This has some very good supporters including Neuro-Science Educator Nathan Wallis (who is well worth getting to comment).

I am on the Education Panel for the NZ Economics Forum for Thursday and Friday of this week. The reports will be available there and I will be referring to aspects of them.

This is a link to the forum: https://events.waikato.ac.nz/events/new-zealand-economics-forum-2023

Very happy to talk and/or answer questions. Education should be a huge issue this election – as I quote Cameron Bagrie: 

“I challenge anyone to pick a better indicator today where the economy is going to be in thirty years than the education outcomes of the past and next decade. Education today defines the economy in thirty years. The school kids of today are the business owners and leaders of tomorrow. We are in trouble if you look at attendance and achievement.”

Happy to talk or answer questions: alwyn.poole@gmail.com