The battle over the introduction of National Standards in our primary schools is likely to come to a head very soon. None of it will be pretty and, as always with such disagreements in education, the losers will be the children and the parents of New Zealand.
The Minister of Education has been backed into a corner by refusing to have any form of trial to test the Standards. Against very sound... Read More
The Fulbright-Cognition Scholar Award in Education Research is for a New Zealand educator or educationalist to pursue research in the US for three to five months, on a project designed to have an... Read More
The Cognition Institute mission is to inform and influence discussion, discourse and policy in education, based on high quality research and evidence. It also strives to connect educational... Read More
Iterative Best Evidence Synthesis (BES)
A key goal of the Cognition Institute Trustees is to support applied research projects that build on and further develop what we know works to improve... Read More
New Zealand is sitting on a cusp in relation to education and schooling. According to the international studies (TiMSS, PIRLS and PISA), we sit in the company of the best in the world – we have one... Read More
The Cognition Institute, New Zealand’s first independent education research and policy institute, was launched on Saturday.
“Debates in the education sector are too often marked by an over-emphasis... Read More
Teachers will have a tougher system of practising certificates in a proposed overhaul of registration rules.
The Teachers Council has released a consultation paper on proposed registration... Read More
Mount Albert Primary School principal Enosa Auvaa will research ethnic minority leadership in American schools at the University of Hawaii next year, as the second recipient of the... Read More
The power and value of this website will be in the contributions, comments and debates that we get from practitioners, intellectuals and policy makers (not mutually exclusive) to the research and... Read More