Month wait for O.E.C.D. report on N.Z. education
By
DIANA DEKKER
in London The Organisation for Economic and Cultural Development’s report on education in New Zealand should be published in a month’s time, an O.E.C.D. spokesman in Paris said yesterday. “It will be an extremely measured and judicious report distinctly favourable to New Zealand,” he said. The report follows the visit of three O.E.C.D. examiners to New Zealand last year. The Minister of Education, Mr Wellington, visited Paris in connection with it last November. In the interim, a “flyer” from the report, taken from the draft, has been published in an O.E.C.D. newsletter distributed in New Zealand. The spokesman said the
final report would contain some of the ideas in the “flyer,” but among many ideas and put in context. “There seems to be some idea in New Zealand that the report will be highly critical but this is not the case at all,” the spokesman said. “It is not so that it is an attack on the education system.” He said the “flyer” contained questions teased out of the report and intended to provoke lively debate at the meeting attended by Mr Wellington in November. At the meeting, the Minister had answered questions arising from the report and the final draft would contain that record as well as the report itself. “The report will contain the examiners’ report and the record of the meeting. “It is pretty supportive of
what goes on in New Zealand.” The spokesman said he could not discuss the contents of the final report before its publication. It was one of several hundred publications put out by the O.E.C.D. each year but would be “quite substantial” in size. The reason for this had been that the examiners had got to know New Zealand so well. He said the points in the newsletter could, because of the way they were put, appear much sharper than the report itself.
“It must be seen as a whole. It would be illadvised for, anyone reading the newsletter to assume it took the form of an attack on the education system in New Zealand because this just isn’t so,” he said.
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