Reforming New Zealand Secondary Education: The Picot Report and the Road to Radical Reform

by Roger Openshaw

Book Overview

During the late 1980s, the report Administering for Excellence (the Picot Report), and the Labour Government's definitive policy response, Tomorrow's Schools, ushered in a new era in New Zealand. In what was seen as a decisive stroke, New Zealand's 110 year old three-tiered education system was swept away to be replaced by a two-component system, consisting of a new Ministry of Education and individual learning institutions. This timely book argues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230606261
• ISBN13: 9780230606265
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"