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This study of decision-making strategies used by students in their last year at high school opens the discussion on the effectiveness of the transition from school to the work place or higher...
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Who is encouraging them? Is it the media, their friends, their mothers or, in a surprise result from this study, their fathers?
| Year published: 1995 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
As industry has restructured itself, become leaner and meaner, attitudes to work have changed. In the USA worried corporation heads have called for schools to teach children to be good workers. The...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Are schools able to prepare children for the stresses of unemployment? This follow-up study of school leavers, seven years later, looks at the effects of finding yourself in an unsatisfactory job,...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most young adults at school are satisfied with their schooling, their homes and friends. But fear of not finding a job is universal and debilitating. This survey should be absorbed by all politicians...
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Careful analysis of where school leavers go reveals that many who have the ability to benefit from a university education do not get one. They are mainly children from lower-class...
| Year published: 1992 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
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-...
| Year published: 1991 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A Planning Council economist sees market forces, plus education, as the only route to well paid, sustainable, full employment. Professor Snook says the figures don't back up the dogma...
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Adolescents delight in 'Low Culture' Films such as Police Academy. They may be the sort of films adults carefully avoid but they are full of lessons and are ideal teaching material.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Five years ago 88 percent of students in an average high school thought there would be a devastating war in their lifetimes. How have perceptions changed? A follow-up study.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article