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The latest from our expertsEXPERT OPINION: Addressing school start times for the health and wellbeing of teens in Aotearoa
Members of the School Start Time Study Advisory Group: Sleep-In to Stay Well Members: Charmaine Barber, Sarah Hetrick, Liza Edmonds, Rachael W Taylor, Mohamed Alansari, Leigh Signal, Jillian Haszard, Jacinta Oldehaver, Barbara Galland. Sarah Hetrick and Racheal...
EXPERT OPINION: Literacy expert dissects new literacy, numeracy model & National Parties education policy
Literacy expert dissects new literacy, numeracy model & National's education policy The National Party has released its education policy, the same week a government document redefining the curriculum has also been released, termed a common-practice model. This...
Expert Opinion: Will the Government’s new literacy strategy work?
Professor Gillon, Deputy director of the Better Start National Science Challenge and Director of the Child Wellbeing Research Institute at the University of Canterbury, was invited to attend the launch of the Ministry of Education’s Literacy & Communication and...
EXPERT OPINION: Are free school lunches a good investment?
by Professor Boyd Swinburn, Professor of Population Nutrition and Global Health, School of Population Health, University of Auckland Stories of children going to school on empty stomachs with no lunches in their school bags hit us hard. There is a desperate...
EXPERT OPINION: How Delta is affecting NZ children
by Dr Mavis Duncanson, Director of the NZ Child and Youth Epidemiology Service Early in 2020 the United Nations signalled that children may experience poor health outcomes as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Harmful effects were expected to fall more...
