Press Release – The New Zealand Initiative Wellington (Thursday, 10 June 2021): Every secondary school should provide every student with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in their endeavours after graduation. However, new research from the New Zealand Initiative shows that this …
Wellington (Thursday, 10 June 2021): Every secondary school should provide every student with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in their endeavours after graduation.
However, new research from the New Zealand Initiative shows that this might not be the case.
Results suggest that some low decile schools might be doing a better job at preparing their students for completing a tertiary qualification.
However, new research
from the New Zealand Initiative shows that this might not be
the case.
Results suggest that some low decile schools
might be doing a better job at preparing their students for
completing a tertiary qualification.
Using data on
more than 500,000 students enrolled at nearly 500 secondary
schools, Policy Analyst Joel Hernandez shows that there are
high-performing schools across all deciles.
Among
high-performing schools (the top 10%), low decile schools
tend to outnumber their middle- and high-decile peers,
however.
This is the case when we consider the share
of students that go on to complete a tertiary qualification
one, three, five and seven years after
Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 6:15 am
A well-functioning education system is vital to equip our
children for life.
However, a new report from The New
Zealand Initiative says it is not clear whether the
education system is serving our children as well as it
should.
Educational Performance and Funding in New
Zealand: Are our children getting the education they
deserve? takes a closer look at the evidence on New
Zealand students’ educational achievement and examines
whether a lack of funding may be playing a
role.
Authors Senior Fellow Dr David Law and Policy
Analyst Joel Hernandez focused on results from three
international education surveys; the Progress in