What is Imagination? In the dispositions cards, we say that mental playfulness is the key to imagination. It is the inclination and ability to play with ideas in your head, which helps you formulate and explore new ideas in the test-bed of your own mind. It is important to know what to look for with […]# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-04-09T22:17:57+0000

Doing I’m currently working on a part 2 to my initial report into the NZ curriculum changes. At this stage I am in the ‘drawing things together’ phase. What the latest OIA docs make clear is the MAG came in with a plan, and reviewing the refresh work done to date was not a big […]# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-04-09T04:30:03+0000

In amongst all the prescriptiveness of our new ‘knowledge-rich’ curriculum, the Minister is still asserting that dispositions are important. What’s missing in the curriculum is HOW teachers might go about eliciting them. Here is something that might help. In 2023, Guy Claxton, Becky Carlzon and I did work to help teachers with the very question […]# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-04-05T23:18:23+0000

NZAS has sent made submissions to the final phase of the Science System Advisory Group. In addition its full detailed four page submission (available on our Submissions page), the NZAS Co-Presidents have provided a brief submission outlining their view of what successful reform science system reform should look like.   The overview is reproduced here: Thank you for seeking this second round of input on the future of our research and science system. We broadly agree with and support the first Science System Advisory Group report and look forward to your final report and hope that it will have the desired impact. The nature and length of the Phase 2 submissions has led us to submit a b

GFANZ President Rob Elshire gave an oral submission to the Health Select Committee on the Gene Technology Bill.  The writing for this was a team effort by the GFANZ Council. Our position: GFANZ does not support this bill in its current state. We do, however, support a broad te Tiriti led process through which a... The post Gene Technology Bill – Oral Submission to Health Select Committee appeared first on Genomics for Aotearoa New Zealand. # Content-Attribution # Source: genomics.nz Content Creator: Rob Elshire Date: 2025-03-21T02:39:28+0000

Read the full release on our Press Releases pages. # Content-Attribution # Source: scientists.org.nz Date: 2025-03-12T02:43:58+0000

‍“AI is constantly incorrect, environmentally damaging and such a stupid way of learning. I started studying so I could be taught by professionals, not a robot telling me slop gathered from hundreds of places on the internet,” the student said. University of Auckland students criticise introduction of artificial intelligence tutors in business and economics course - NZ HeraldStudents at New Zealand ’s biggest university are outraged artificial intelligence (AI) tutors will be used in a business and economics course. Three AI... www.nzherald.co.nz  ‍

Hi, Last Thursday, I received another set of OIA documents from the Ministry of Education, in response to my request for emails between the members of the MAG. The documents add further detail and understanding of how the MAG was able to co-opt the powers of the Ministry. They also give a first, small glimpse […]# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-02-26T07:58:38+0000

‍“The power of the data analysis science stuff, is you can get people to agree on what's happening and once you've done that, they can all start talking about how to solve the problem,” he says.“It's a way of having a discussion that helps bring people together. The Press www.thepress.co.nz  ‍

The Government is promising that a relaxation of gene technology regulations will provide economic growth for the country, but critics fear the new bill is too loose and a step too far.“It is using a bulldozer to crack a nut,” Jack Heinemann, professor of genetics at the University of Canterbury, tells The Detail. The 'bulldozer' of a bill set to change gene-editing laws - NewsroomToday from The Detail: Experts agree that advances to GMO technology means laws need to change. But just how those changes look is contentious. newsroom.co.nz  ‍

Fear is spreading across the sector the tertiary education funding boost for universities secured in the 2023 Budget, which equated to $64 million a year, could be cut for next year.‍ Fears uni funding lifeline to be cut | Otago Daily Times Online News www.odt.co.nz  ‍

‍It takes more than eight years since starting to study for a nurse to have higher cumulative earnings than someone who worked a minimum wage job during that time and up to 12 years for a social worker. The financial challenges of lengthy unpaid placements, along with the potentially decade-long wait to see the financial rewards of these degrees, make it particularly difficult for individuals with dependents and older people looking to retrain to enter these professions. Unpaid placements leave teachers and nurses lagging financially, finds studyNew UC research highlights financial challenges for trainee teachers, midwives, nurses, and social workers due to long degre