Data from the National Survey of Secondary Schools shows many principals expressing concern about plans to replace NCEA.

Teaching to the North-East responds to the marginalisation of particular groups of students with a way of teaching intended to increase equity in the education system. One way this marginalisation ...

Despite making major advances in educational provision, Māori and Pasifika children continue to lag behind other groups, in New Zealand, achieving disproportionately lower results on national averages ...

NZCER began regular surveys of primary schools in 1989, focusing on the impact of the educational reforms that began then. In 2003, we added secondary schools. We survey each schooling level every 3 ...

From a one-roomed school in the remote Far North of New Zealand, Elwyn Richardson became a radical and internationally-renowned teacher. This is his story and it is as inspirational and timely for ...

In 2022, the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) identified a range of schools at which the University Entrance (UE) attainment of ākonga Māori and Pacific students was at least 10% higher ...

This study offers insights to support kaiako to work alongside autistic children in ways that honour each learner’s identity and foreground their sensory experiences within the curriculum. Guided by a ...

Weaving Te Whāriki, ubuntu philosophy, and Zulu beadwork together to support personalised leadership development Journal article 2026 ...

Weaving Te Whāriki for autistic children with threads from sensory world Journal article 2026 ...

This article presents the hybridisation model of leadership (HMOL), a resource to support culturally relevant leadership practice for early childhood education (ECE) centre managers. The model draws ...

Supporting vulnerable students, having too much asked of their school and recruiting quality teachers are among the biggest issues facing secondary schools in Aotearoa, new NZCER research has found.

NZCER has completed work on interim mapping tables that support the interpretation of PAT Pānui | Reading Comprehension and PAT Pāngarau | Mathematics results in relation to the Ministry of ...