Journal article

Whereas it is expedient to make further and better provision for the education of the people in the Colony of New Zealand:
Be It Therefore Enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
1. The Short Title of this Act shall be " The Education Act, 1877."

Despite pessimistic American findings, a new Bristol University study suggests that, in certain circumstances, individual schools can make a significant contribution to their pupils' achievements.

Research shows that children from large families, especially later born children, can be disadvantaged in a number of ways.

The financial cost to a family with a handicapped child, whether living at home or away, is often very considerable. The Living with Handicap report of 1970 found the need for financial help "pressing", and Woodburn's study found that the 78 families with spina bifida children had 179 areas of extra expense. Special diets and equipment for children at home make inroads into the family budget.

Research shows sex differences in the development of children and adolescents. This review examines how these influence behaviour and attainment.

What do New Zealand secondary school students think of History?
Starting from an analysis of the entry statistics for School Certificate, University Entrance and Scholarship examinations from 1969 to 1975 to compare trends in History with those in other subjects, my study went on with a survey of pupil perceptions of History and Social Studies.

During the past fifteen to twenty years mathematicians and mathematics teachers have placed heavy emphasis on discovery modes of learning and on mathematical recreations, partly because such activities are thought to develop a positive attitude to mathematics and to give a better understanding of mathematics than older teaching techniques did.
Last year, Victoria University Mathematics lecturer Ms Megan Clark completed a study of the attitudes of senior primary school children in the Wellington area, to see what they felt about mathematics.

Problems of distance and communication are part of the heritage of the Pacific islands, spread as they are east and west over 5,000 kilometres, and with more than 1000 languages used among their 5 million people. In the past decade however, faster travel and telecommunications have begun to awaken a new awareness of common interests. It finds expression in scores of new co-operative activities and institutions: Air Pacific, the Pacific Forum, the South Pacific Bureau of Cooperation, the University of the South Pacific, to single out but a few.