What makes one student successful in his or her first year of university study, and another struggle or fail? First year students were followed, questioned, and the results point to things both the students and their secondary schools can do.

As part of a larger study of the junior school, video recordings were made of new entrants busily adjusting to school learning. Here are fascinating insights into learning, interaction, and classroom climate.

Mainstreaming brings new demands and requires new criteria for creating (and judging) quality education. Research reveals good practice.

What are the best ways of preventing and coping with injuries to small children? Parents, trained teachers, and supervisors of early childhood centres were questioned. This research was carried out for the N.Z. Accident Compensation Corporation.

Observing at school camps gives a brief picture of how attitudes can be improved.

Two articles, the first on school-based enterprises in Australia and changes research suggests (New Zealand information too): the second a report from Britain called 'Impoverished by the Need to Make Money.'

The latest clues come from a walk in the park and an owl at pre-school. Here are new insights which will help us adjust the learning we ask of children and the way we assess what has been learnt.

Being told the answer can actually stop you remembering it. When and how the answer is given is very important. This research from the frontiers of science may be the beginning of big changes In teaching techniques.

Very practical advice, arising from research, which takes the chill from this task we all want to face with as much courage as the children.

Most high schools 'bend the rules' for some pupils. The obvious results are good: less truancy, less bad behaviour, even more work. But there are bad effects: rules set aside, 'make-work', and poor role models. Research in the USA is very relevant for us.