25 March 2014 at 9:00 am
Beyond the Summit: the world visits New Zealand education
The fourth International Summit on the Teaching Profession in Wellington on 28 and 29 March will bring Ministers of Education from the top-performing education systems around the world to New Zealand.
The Summit is co-hosted by New Zealand, the OECD and Education International. It draws together representatives of the highest achieving and fastest improving education systems in the world, as measured by the OECD through the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) survey. Invited attendees include Ministers of Education, teacher leaders, and heads of national teachers’ unions.
The theme for the 2014 Summit is ‘Excellence, Equity and Inclusiveness – High quality teaching for all’.
On either side of the Summit, the delegations have opportunity for bilateral meetings with government leaders and officials in Wellington and also for visits to peak bodies and education providers. These include a chance to see how education is delivered on an urban marae in Auckland, and how Christchurch schools and early childhood education centres are responding to the post-quake challenge.
Government officials across various agencies are working together to support the visits by the international delegations, which include education leaders from Hong Kong, Japan, Germany, Poland, Singapore, the Netherlands, UK, USA, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland and Sweden. There are also invited observers coming from Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Vanuatu, Cook Islands and Solomon Islands.
For more information about the International Summit on the Teaching Profession, see the ITSP webpage.
