An enhanced focus on quality and improvement in Early Learning Services
Published: 18 May 2021
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- Early learning
- Education
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- Parents
- Schools
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Published: 18 May 2021
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.
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.
Published: 18 May 2021
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on all aspects of life around the world. In Aotearoa New Zealand, significant disruption to ECE and schooling has occurred through lockdowns, closure of individual centres and schools, changing alert levels, and from the ongoing uncertainty.
Published: 29 Apr 2021
ERO is updating its approach to review and evaluation, initially in centre-based early childhood services
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.
Published: 06 Apr 2020
The newly developed indicators of quality for early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand are now available on the ERO website.
Published: 04 Apr 2024
New research from the Education Review Office (ERO) has found that the new Aotearoa New Zealand’s Histories Curriculum is being taught in all schools, but not all of the content is being taught.
Published: 19 Jun 2020
Learning from home under Covid Level 4 and Level 3.
Published: 02 Aug 2021
Our 3 newly published Early Childhood Education sector resources complete the suite of Ngā Ara Whai Hua resources that support evaluation for improvement in early childhood services.
Published: 10 Dec 2020
Insights Newsletter from Nicholas Pole, Te Tumu Whakarae mō te Arotake Mātauranga | Chief Executive and Chief Review Officer
Published: 25 Jun 2020
Insights Newsletter from Nicholas Pole, Te Tumu Whakarae mō te Arotake Mātauranga | Chief Executive and Chief Review Officer
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.
Published: 09 Mar 2020
ERO is now resuming longitudinal (1 to 2 year) reviews but will not be restarting other individual school education reviews and reporting until later in the year. However, we do want to capture the learning and innovation that is happening in the sector at this time.
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.
Published: 06 Dec 2021
Published: 19 May 2021
Insights from Nicholas Pole, Te Tumu Whakarae mō te Arotake Mātauranga | Chief Executive and Chief Review Officer
Published: 12 Apr 2021
New reports, published today by the Education Review Office (ERO), highlight the importance of high-quality science teaching for improving outcomes in science for New Zealand tamariki.
Published: 28 Aug 2020
Insights Newsletter from Nicholas Pole, Te Tumu Whakarae mō te Arotake Mātauranga | Chief Executive and Chief Review Officer
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.