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New school principals need more support, particularly new principals in small schools, ERO research shows

Published: 13 Jul 2023

Principals are crucial to the quality of education. A growing number of principals across New Zealand are new to the role. In 2023, more than a third of principals have been in the role for less than five years, an increase from a quarter in 2014. New research from ERO has found that only a quarter of new principals feel prepared when they start.

Topics:
Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre
Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools

Time to talanoa: ERO joins Pacific Education Ministers at CPEM 2023

Published: 20 Mar 2023

The Conference of Pacific Education Ministers (CPEM) brings together Education Ministers, agencies and experts from across the Pacific to share what we collectively know about achieving the best outcomes for learners.  

Topics:
Pacific
Māori
Audience:
Education
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools

New Zealand’s learners from ethnic communities achieve well at school but encounter widespread racism, new research finds

Published: 15 Mar 2023

New research from the Education Review Office (ERO) looked at how school classrooms up and down the country are becoming more ethnically diverse and found that by 2043, a quarter of our learners will be from ethnic communities. In Auckland nearly half (43 percent) of learners will be Asian.

Topics:
Te Ihuwaka | Education Evaluation Centre
Audience:
Academics
Education
Parents
Schools

Education in NZ failing disabled learners, new research finds

Published: 28 Sep 2022

New research from the Education Review Office (ERO), in partnership with the Office for Disability Issues and the Human Rights Commission, has found that education across NZ schools and early childhood services is failing disabled learners.

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Parents
Schools

Poutama Reo provides unity of purpose in te reo Māori revitalisation

Published: 21 Sep 2022

Equity and excellence, barrier free access to Māori language, culture and identity for all students is a step closer with today’s launch of Poutama Reo the improvement journey for te reo Māori in English-medium schools. It will also benefit whānau, hapū and Iwi.

 

Topics:
Te reo Māori
English-medium
Resources
Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Parents
Schools

Insights from ERO's Chief Review Officer - July 2022

Published: 28 Jul 2022

Tēnā koutou  

Our mahi is to inform and facilitate improvement in early childhood services, schools and kura. We do this through our institutional reviews and system-wide evaluation and research that is focused on the provision of education and the care of learners. As I periodically do through ERO’s Insights Newsletter, I want to share some of our findings with you.

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools

Essential for early childhood services to address non-compliance

Published: 25 Jul 2022

Review findings over the last few years have identified a growing concern about the rate of non-compliance with regulatory standards and associated licensing criteria in early childhood services.

Over the last three years, ERO found only a slight improvement in the percentage of services meeting regulatory standards from 74-76% in 2020 to 80% in 2022. Services with non-compliance that pose an unacceptable risk to children rose by 4%, from 8% in 2020 to 12% in 2022.

Audience:
Education

Students learn best in safe and effective learning environments

Published: 25 Jul 2022

The responsibility of keeping tamariki safe while in the care of their school, kura, and early learning service is the responsibility of every adult.

In the education system, ERO plays an integral role in their protection by reviewing and having an oversight of effective child protection policies and processes. We aim to provide schools and early learning services with the ability to quickly identify any gaps in their policies and processes.

Audience:
Education

New Te Ihuwaka report to support culturally responsive teaching in ECE

Published: 10 Feb 2022

Te Ihuwaka's (ERO's Education Evaluation Centre's) latest early childhood education good practice report, published today, looks at how children’s cultures and languages can be reflected in everyday practice, supporting their learning and wellbeing.

Audience:
Early learning

Working with ERO during COVID 19

Published: 01 Feb 2022

We understand the importance of continuing the mahi and we have developed approaches to work safely with schools, kura and early learning services in all phases of the Covid 19 Protection Framework, including onsite and in person visits under Red and Orange.   

Audience:
Academics
Early learning
Education
Māori-medium
Parents
Schools

ERO research finds leaders, education professionals, communities, whānau and iwi rally to support Māori learners and whānau

Published: 28 Jan 2022

The Education Review Office - Te Tari Arotake Mātauranga (ERO) today released research reports exploring the impact of the 2021 second wave of national lockdowns on Māori learner success. The three reports reveal the compounding impacts of the pandemic with many Māori learners and whānau continuing to face inadequate access to household necessities, digital devices, internet connectivity, and a lack of suitable resources for te reo Māori learning.

Audience:
Māori-medium
Schools