Teaching kids how to make guitars can get them hooked on engineering

Teaching kids how to make guitars can get them hooked on engineering

6 years ago

When kids make guitars, they learn the math and science, but also the importance of mechanical precision, the design process…

Vocational education to take centre stage in schools

6 years ago

343 schools will receive $3000 each to run trades-based events for their students.

Are maintenance costs jeopardising school swimming lessons?

6 years ago

Public schools are not building new pools and many of those already in existence may be decades old and need…

New youth vaping study splits opinion

6 years ago

While there's no 'epidemic' in NZ, Māori health advocates remain concerned and have called for government action.

Op-Ed: A deeper look at the new Climate Change Resources

6 years ago

What good teacher would want to ban Thunberg from the classroom materials? If we want to empower children to respond to the…

How to implement new digital technologies content

6 years ago

MoE shares its new "model process of steps for schools to follow in implementing the digital technologies curriculum content".

A math teacher’s plea: Let’s keep pi irrational

6 years ago

The challenge for the mathematics teaching community will be about increasingly creating and sustaining a healthy balance in our classrooms…

OK computer: to prevent students cheating with AI text-generators, we should bring them into the classroom

6 years ago

If we teach students to write things a computer can, then we’re training them for jobs a computer can do,…

How a year of trying to buy nothing made me a smarter shopper and a better teacher

6 years ago

It started as a New Year’s resolution driven by guilt and a touch of sibling rivalry – but by the…

Education workforce: What does NZ need?

6 years ago

What about the valuable pool of older, talented teachers who could be encouraged to return but have been put off…