This report examines the challenges and opportunities for pathways from secondary education to industry and trades training in New Zealand. It highlights systemic issues and proposes comprehensive reforms to strengthen these pathways. It finds that nearly twice as many New Zealand school leavers fall into unemployment compared to those who undertake workplace-based learning.

This report has been prepared to help educators and policymakers navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) in education. The report calls for a science-based approach to using AI in classrooms.

This research note reveals the year in which non-academic employees started to outnumber academics at New Zealand's universities.

In this report, researchers examine the discourse surrounding the recent push to remove 'streaming' from New Zealand primary and secondary schools. Streaming, or the grouping of students with peers of similar academic attainment, is widespread in New Zealand schools, just as it is in many countries.

In this report, the authors argue that the New Zealand Education and Training Act should be amended to enable more than one professional body for the teaching profession to be established.