2012-01-27 10:54:32 // Esther Goh
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Wellington company Educa is one of the new wave of startups out to shake up education by improving communication between early childhood providers and parents.
2012-01-25 17:34:59 // Siobhan Leathley
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With government and corporates alike onside, nonprofit Kiwipedia is out to make learning about New Zealand’s animals more fun.
2011-11-21 14:38:39 // Hazel Phillips
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National is promising to deliver ‘better’ outcomes for tertiary students and the taxpayers who support them in one of its latest policies – but it could have unforeseen consequences for extramural students, Massey University Extramural Students' Society president Ralph Springett warns.
2011-11-01 11:20:47 // Esther Goh
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Howick College's head of junior science Steve Martin believes students today aren't fully challenged in school. The Virtual Lesson project changes that.
2011-08-24 11:24:45 // Esther Goh
Balance sheets at tertiary institutions are looking increasingly healthy thanks to increasing student enrolments and government funding.
2011-07-06 10:08:14 // Idealog
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Soon kids in South Korea will walk free from book-laden backpacks, with digital textbooks set to lighten the load on their backs. Last week the country announced its plan to spend US$2 (NZ$2,4) billion on the development of digital textbooks with the aim to replace paper in all schools by 2015.
2010-02-15 10:41:07 // James Hurman
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Many of the speakers at TED touch on their lack of education or conventional intelligence. But there's one thing they all have in common.
2010-02-12 09:34:03 // Jehan Casinader
// Idealog #25: features
With our major export sectors under pressure, the science sector could become the saviour of our economy—but first, says Jehan Casinader, it seems we need to save science.
2009-09-28 08:15:00 // Su Yin Khoo
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Here's the video that pitched Sesame Street to the networks in 1969. Great insight into how they researched for and developed the show.
2009-07-14 16:55:25 // Deirdre Coleman & Deirdre Robert
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It might sound like science fiction, but being able to accurately predict and offer customised treatment for disease based on an individual’s genetic makeup, plus social and environmental factors, is well within reach, according to Professor Nikola Kasabov of AUT University.
2009-05-21 23:39:44 // Vincent Heeringa
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How did 100 talented entrepreneurs pick an idea only Murray Hewitt would think is cool?
2008-07-04 14:48:01 // Matt Cooney
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Steve Maharey says he’ll relish swapping cabinet for the campus as he heads back to run Massey University. But just what can a politician do for a university?
2007-10-25 09:23:34 // Gena Tuffery
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Ideas are free—and ideas people can be bloody cheap too. Gena Tuffery looks behind the corporate façade and meets the creative interns getting by on company handouts and whatever’s left in the fridge. Plus: When to stick it out and when to just stick it.
2007-06-21 13:49:10 // Jason Kemp
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A key challenge for policy makers is how to tell a compelling story with numbers. It is not easy to visualise the impact of change in a meaningful way—but help is now at hand.
Ironically it doesn’t come from the business intelligence (oxymoron alert) community—it is more the result of being able to add graphical tools and creative vision to the core data. The person driving this vision is Dr Hans Rosling a global health professor. Google like the approach so much that they have now invested in the gapminder software developed by Rosling
