Education Forum Update
Welcome to the Education Forum Update. The Update is a regular round-up of all that is new at the Education Forum
website.
Visit our home page (www.educationforum.org.nz) for links to the following recently-added items: Hot topic:
a.. The myth of 'free' funding for early childhood education
Media releases:
a.. Parents in the zone when it comes to school choice, study shows b.. Giving with one hand, taking with the other c..
Free childcare for some will cost us plenty d.. Student allowances expansion a cost the country can't bear Speeches:
a.. School Choice, lessons from New Zealand: Norman LaRocque at the international conference on school choice held by
the Cato Institute in Washington DC. b.. A New Deal, making education work for all New Zealanders: Norman LaRocque's
speech to the Visionschools' conference. c.. A New Deal, choice and competition in the New Zealand school sector:
Education Forum member Sue Thorne to the Liberal Forum in Hamilton. OpEds:
a.. Issue 59, Why teachers should support the market, by Mark Harrison. b.. Issue 58, Centralised, highly unionised
system is failing students, by Mark Harrison. c.. Issue 57, Education voucher scheme simpler than it's made out, by Bill
English.
Features:
a.. Financial Reviews by the Education and Science Committee: Key staff from various government education agencies
front up to the Education and Science Committee and also answer written questions. b.. OECD Policy Briefs on education
issues: The OECD has recently released four education related Policy Briefs that are relevant to current policy
discussions in New Zealand. Subtext: Still fresh and online, our May edition of Subtext looks at how a new website
profiling the nation's secondary schools should be developed into a school ranking; we also speak to Susan Hassall, New
Zealand's only female head of a boys' secondary school and find out how PTEs did in the Performance Based Research Fund
results, plus much more.
News: Links to a range of domestic and international news including: NZ Budget stories; school claims funding
'ludicrously inadequate'; money for private school links; cut-price private schools set for launch; US's first college
voucher programme OK'd.