Max Rashbrooke05:00, Jun 04 2021
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‘’Most education researchers, unsurprisingly, would say that a family’s background – its social and economic status – accounts for around two-thirds of the variation in kids’ marks, with schools determining as little as one-fifth.’’ (File photo)
OPINION: It’s that time of the year when parents start putting their children’s name down for high school – and for all the middle-class mothers and fathers fretting over where their offspring end up, I have a simple message: relax, it’ll be fine. Of course parents want the best for their children, and worry about the quality of their schooling.
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High school students facing housing deprivation have double the rates of depression and suicide risk, according to a large-scale study based on the Youth2000 surveys co-led by Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Auckland
In the first of four articles examining political donations in New Zealand, Pete McKenzie reports that leading academics are concerned our major political parties are using ‘barely legal’ tactics to hide the source of large sums of money. In May, news broke that donors to the Labour Party were being prosecuted by the Serious Fraud Office over breaches of campaign finance laws. Remarkably, four of the six parties that have recently held seats in.