Schools Excursion Incursion & Camp Guide 2025

Education systems need to focus more on independent critical thinking and rational, evidence-based learning and problem-solving to find answers to many of the unprecedented environmental, social and economic challenges facing humanity, experts say.

While personalised support is widely recognised as the most effective way to address maths anxiety, many teachers struggle to deliver this level of support at scale within busy classrooms.

Female principals in public schools are regularly enduring misogynistic and sexist violence in their roles, only to be met with ‘suck it up princess’ attitudes from their employer, alarming new research has warned.

Armed with the clarity of hindsight tempered by a wry dose of humour, principal Lisa Holt admits she made a ‘significant rookie mistake’ when she threw her hat in the ring for the top job at Rosebud Secondary College.

From shielding a dead body on school grounds, to performing CPR on a colleague or carrying entire communities through devastating natural disasters, Australian principals are now working as first responders – and with huge personal cost, new research has found.

Launching sensitive conversations with students that raise concerns about child sexual abuse can alter lives – but they can also be easily tucked in the ‘too hard’ basket, deemed too awkward or problematic to initiate in schools.

The 2023 TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) results have brought a combination of hope and concern for New Zealanders, this being the first time scores have increased in a decade, however a new achievement gap has emerged and another persists.

Government cuts to STEM education funding, along with the cost-of-living crisis, are threatening the future of STEM skills in New Zealand, industry professionals say.