Youth Unemployment: A review of the situation in New Zealand.

One Hundred Early School Leavers: An in-depth longitudinal study of 100 early school leavers, 1974 to 1977 by Carol Cameron and Ian Livingstone.

Job Scarcity in the Bay of Plenty: An extract from a recently completed survey of school leavers ...

A school which wishes to do more than make an intelligent guess at how well it is preparing its pupils for their working lives, and the transition to work, may find many of the questions Carol Cameron asked a good basis for a postal questionnaire, or even Social Studies field ...

Author Index - Authors are listed alphabetically on pages 2 and 3, with references given to the numerical list, pages 6 to 16.
Subject Index - Subjects are listed alphabetically on pages 4 and 5, with references given to the numerical list, pages 6 to 16. The subject headings are ...

Alcohol use is a fact in our society, and so are the alcohol-related problems that it creates. The economic and social costs involved - pressure on hospital and medical services, loss of productive man-hours, marriage breakdown - to name only some of the more obvious,are now widely recognized. And so ...

Last year the Hamilton branch of the New Zealand Association for Gifted Children produced a radio programme, broadcast by 1YW Hamilton, on the gifted child and the school situation. The participants included a psychologist, a teacher, a community advisory officer (CAD), the mother of David, a gifted child, and Robert ...

Enhancement in pupils' decision-making skills was chosen as one of the goals of an experimental project because, in 1974, when the project began, increasing interest was being shown in decision-making education but little was known about strategies or outcomes. The Drug Education Development and Evaluation (DEDE) Project was designed to ...

Handling children's anger can be perplexing, draining and anger-provoking for adults.

Figures on the extent of violent and disruptive behaviour in schools tend to be unreliable, mainly because of the difficuities of definition that are involved. However, recent studies indicate that behaviour of this kind is more common in secondary than in primary schools, among boys rather than girls, in urban ...

What do young people think of the urban environment and of the recreational facilities available to them? In order to get some insight into these questions a number of pupils in some Auckland intermediate and secondary schools were asked to write essays on their activities outside the school.

Parent involvement in pre-school education in New Zealand commonly takes three forms: parent helping, parent education and parent organization and administration.