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Published: 04 Mar 2021
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Published: 04 Mar 2021
Published: 15 Apr 2021
This section explains how we review your home-based and hospital-based education and care service that is having an Education Review. Find out what you need to do and what you can expect from us.
Published: 31 Mar 2021
We carry out external evaluations at early childhood services, schools and kura to provide information on their performance and to support improvement for high quality education.
Published: 31 Mar 2021
We review school hostels and stand-alone hostels. This page links to the school hostel regulations and explains what happens in an ERO review of a hostel. The Hostel Assurance Statement and Self-audit checklist can be found on this page.
Published: 14 Apr 2021
State or state-integrated schools/kura that are new, merged, newly state-integrated or changing their status will have a Readiness Review. This page shows how these reviews are conducted.
Published: 04 Mar 2021
ERO reviews all early childhood services, kōhanga reo, schools and kura to help their learners flourish. We focus on what’s working well for learners/ākonga and what can improve.
Published: 28 Jun 2021
This ERO summary report focuses on how Kingslea School supports educational provision and positive ākonga outcomes at five Oranga Tamariki residences.
Published: 14 Apr 2021
State or state-integrated schools/kura that are new, merged, newly state-integrated or changing their status have a New School Assurance Review after they have completed their Readiness Review. We do the review within the first year of the school’s operation. This page covers the review process and documents needed included the School Evaluation Indicators and the School Self Audit and Assurance Statement.
Published: 15 Dec 2022
Published: 18 Feb 2021
Published: 06 Apr 2021
Published: 31 Mar 2021
This framework contains information about the process that the Education Review Office (ERO) uses for managing kōhanga reo reviews. This information forms part of ERO’s standard procedures for reviews of kōhanga reo.
Published: 28 May 2021
Wylie reports that there is very little research on the relationship between school governance and student learning. She suggests two reasons for this: (i) governance boards are not an essential feature of effective schools and (ii) it can be hard to separate the contribution of boards from that of school leaders, particularly where a board is school- based.
Published: 31 Mar 2021
ERO has updated its reporting format for registered private schools. This follows the introduction by the Government of the new criteria relating to the physical and emotional safety of students.
Published: 16 Mar 2022
If your school/kura has international students and is a signatory to The Education (Pastoral Care of Tertiary and International Learners) Code of Practice 2021 (the Code), we will review this during the ERO review of your school/kura. We review this by building on your self review of your international student programmes.
Published: 06 Apr 2021
The Chief Review Officer's credit card expenses.
Published: 28 May 2021
In this paper, Timperley begins by discussing the very limited nature of the research literature relating to the impacts of external reviews, adding that this has done nothing to dampen enthusiasm for them or to slow their spread. Nearly every educational jurisdiction that has an external review system mixes both accountability and improvement purposes, setting up an inherent tension.
Published: 31 Mar 2021
This section is for English-medium schools, kura, private schools and homeschoolers working with us during a review.
Published: 14 Apr 2021
This is a resource for parents of children who are homeschooled. It indicates the kinds of questions ERO reviewers may ask in a homeschooling review. You may wish to consider these in preparation for the review and use them yourself when you are thinking about how well homeschooling is going for your child.
Published: 04 Jan 2014
We worked closely with Te Rūnanga Nui o Ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori o Aotearoa (Te Rūnanga Nui) to develop and monitor a specialist review methodology for Te Aho Matua kura kaupapa Māori. These indicators are used during reviews in Te Aho Matua Kura Kaupapa Māori.