The Education Review series is seven high-quality, separate, subject-specific titles providing a valuable resource for educators, managers and education professionals.

Latest Issue April 2013 – Postgrad Schools of Education

• Ed's Letter All a-twitter in education
• Feast or famine: the supply of new teachers Is the current oversupply of new teachers being managed adequately? Or are we preparing for the next teacher shortage? JUDE BARBACK looks into the tricky business of predicting demand.
• Meet our future teachers Education Review asks two teacher education students about their expectations about their chosen course and career. We will follow their progress each year in Postgrad Schools of Education.
• Selection onto ITE programmes JUDE BARBACK looks at how providers are navigating their way through a mix of strict and flexible Teachers’ Council requirements for selection processes into initial teacher education programmes.
• Enrichment or acceleration or both? How to best provide for gifted students. The research shows the enrichment classes are not enough to cater for gifted students. What should schools be doing instead? JUDE BARBACK investigates.
• NCEA behind bars A new initiative between Corrections and the Open Polytechnic is hoped to reduce crime through education.
• Current challenges in secondary schools A new report on New Zealand’s secondary schools provides many useful insights into current issues for teachers and schools, writes New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) chief researcher CATHY WYLIE.
• Educating the educators Education Review was there to witness the official opening of the New Zealand Curriculum Design Institute in Hamilton.
• The new kid on the block The official opening of Massey’s Institute of Education heralds an exciting new step for teacher education in New Zealand, even in the face of job losses and political indecision surrounding the move to postgraduate initial teacher education. JUDE BARBACK reports.
• Teacher tips Education Review asks four teachers from very different schools about what it’s really like to teach in their school.
• Getting a second chance As MIT’s School of Secondary Tertiary Studies’ foundation students leave the nest with their NCEA qualifications in tow, Education Review looks at the difference MIT is making in giving students for whom mainstream secondary schooling has not worked, a second chance.
• A sensitive issue: workplace harassment in higher education MARCUS HENNING and PETER ADAMS look at the forms workplace harassment takes in higher education and discuss strategies to reduce its occurrence.
• Are good teachers born or made? Education Review takes a fresh look at this question in light of the controversy surrounding Teach First NZ’s programme and the proposal for charter schools.
• Beyond the classroom walls Education Review looks at why Education Outside the Classroom (EOTC) is such an important part of curriculum-based learning.
• Unpicking the Kiwi ties of an online university Education Review follows up on the results of an investigation into an online university with New Zealand associations.
• User-friendly guide to doctoral research A new book by Margaret Walshaw, Getting to Grips with Doctoral Research, aims to give prospective doctoral students a taste of what’s really involved. Education Review takes a look.
• The e in e-learning: what it really means for 21st Century education MICHELE MOORCROFT considers the role of e-learning in The New Zealand Curriculum and how it will affect students of the 21st century.
• Budget 2013 - what does it have in store for education? In today’s Budget announcement, $900 million has been flagged for education initiatives across early childhood, primary and secondary education in the current year and over the next four years.Budget 2013 initiatives include:Early childhood education ($172.5 million of operating funding over four years)
• Bouquets and brickbats for Budget ‘13 Educational bodies have applauded many of the outcomes of yesterday’s Budget announcements, but are less pleased with others.