The economic and educational impacts of disengagement from education are profound to any nation. The Pacific education sector, and access to education more broadly, is under threat by the region’s…
The 2013 New Zealand Disability Survey estimated that nearly one in four New Zealanders have recognised limitations that cannot be eliminated by an assistive device. Although some services exist to…
Approximately 15% of New Zealand children live in households without adequate and safe food. This level of food-insecure children is concerning as food insecurity and hunger have been linked to…
Teachers play a critical role in sustaining societal education provision for children or tamariki. However, Aotearoa, like the rest of the world, has been experiencing a significant shortage of teachers.…
Young people, or ākonga, within the youth justice system are a unique cohort of learners in many ways. While ākonga are awaiting a court trial, they could be placed in…
The New Zealand Curriculum will be refreshed over the next five years to make it clearer, more relevant and more explicit about what learners need to understand, know and do.…
Incredible Years Autism programmes are a recent extension of the basic Incredible Years programmes, with the specific focus on children on the autism spectrum and the caregivers and teachers who…
The New Zealand healthy school lunches programme is an initiative by the New Zealand Government to reduce food insecurity by providing access to free, nutritious lunches for all learners at…
The Alert Program® (ALERT) was developed by occupational therapists, Williams and Shellenberger, in the United States. ALERT promotes a shared language to communicate arousal levels in children, and provides tools…
Food insecurity is a real issue for many children in New Zealand. Published results from the New Zealand health survey in 2015/16 (Ministry of Health, 2019) showed that approximately 19{268379e7bb83c1fc9f698263331cef5dcd152766c81d5236cf53b316f30399bc}…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Himalayan Trust, along with their local implementation partners, have been making significant efforts across the Solukhumbu region (Nepal) to improve access…
The New Zealand Ministry of Education |- Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga was trialling an Oral Language and Literacy initiative (OLLi) to support early literacy and oral language skills among…
Delivering the best programme possible means understanding what works and what doesn’t work. This means listening to the community and the programme delivery team. In collaboration with Allen + Clarke,…
