"We congratulate Professor Martin Thrupp, School of Educational Leadership and Policy, at Waikato University, who has
been awarded a very rare Honorary Doctorate from the University of Turku, Finland," said Cherie Taylor-Patel, President
of the New Zealand Principals' Federation (NZPF).
The Honorary Doctorate recognises Professor Thrupp's significant research contributions to multinational and
international school and educational reforms. His most recent research focuses on global education business and
privatisation developments in education in Finland, Sweden and New Zealand.
"Professor Thrupp has been praised for his insights by Finnish academics and his outstanding contributions to research
on Finnish comprehensive schooling," she said.
Professor Thrupp is well known to school principals in New Zealand as the author of "The Search for Better Educational
Standards - A cautionary Tale", a critique of the national standards policy, and his many other publications and
research articles for which he has won awards, including receiving the prestigious McKenzie Award of the New Zealand
Association of Research Excellence in 2016. He is currently a columnist for the NZ Principal magazine of the Principals
Federation.
"As a profession, we could not be more proud that Professor Thrupp has been singled out as a leading international light
in the field of educational policy research and that his work has been acclaimed with this extremely rare Honorary
Doctorate from the University of Turku," she said.