February 15, 2010
Increased funding is presently coming into Hawke’s Bay from central government that is directly targeted at retaining our young people in education, training and/or work. With this, the key challenges from my perspective for 2010 will be:
How can we make the best possible use of these funds for the benefit of youth and the region?
And [...]
February 2, 2009
BayBuzz posed the question: Should our educational system be more focused on equipping students with “practical” skills to enter the workforce successfully, or on catering to students’ broad intellectual development?
Before I launch into my latest thoughts on this very interesting question, I would like to congratulate Tom Belford and BayBuzz for devoting an issue to [...]












