new zealand initiative

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending October 9

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The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND 1  Short Poems of New Zealand by Jenny Bornholdt (Victoria University Press, $35) “Initially, she thought of six lines and under … Read more

A ‘rot at the core of schooling’? The new report that gets education in NZ wrong

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New Zealand’s schools are far from perfect, but Auckland school principal Claire Amos argues that a newly-released report critical of our education system is riddled with biased assumptions. This week the New Zealand Initiative published their latest missive addressing the supposed “rot at the core of schooling in New Zealand”. Briar Lipson’s report titled New … Read more