Thought Leaders

Rose Hipkins is a Chief Researcher at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Rose has particular expertise in the key competencies, curriculum and assessment, science education and secondary education. Rose's current research programme includes ongoing investigations of the implementation of the New Zealand Curriculum (2007) and in particular:

• the nature of key competencies and their impact on the taught curriculum in different learning areas
• alignment of the curriculum and the NCEA, and other ongoing NCEA-related issues
• science teaching and learning for the 21st century, including teaching for "systems thinking" in science
• issues and challenges in relation to assessment for learning and evidence-based decision-making in teaching

Professor Sir Peter Gluckman is the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor and a former New Zealander of the Year. Until recently, he was Director of the Liggins Institute and of the National Research Centre for Growth and Development. His previous roles include Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland and Assistant Professor at the University of California in San Francisco. A former paediatrician, Sir Peter has spent the greater part of his professional life in research. He is a globally renowned thinker in the field of endocrinology, with a particular focus on foetal and child growth. 

Please click here to read and watch his address from the Auckland Education Summit held on the 11th of May 2011.

Tapu is a freelance journalist for the NZ Herald. She has had an extensive career in both mainstream and Maori and Pacific media. In 2002 she won Pacific Print Journalist of the Year and she has served for a number of years on the Broadcasting Standards Authority. Please click here to read and watch her address at the auckland Education Summit held on the 11th of May 2011.