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This article analyses research literature and policy texts to investigate the extent to which culturally responsive education policies can improve Māori achievement in schools. It presents a snapshot of current levels of Māori inequity, which is followed by an account of the history of Māori education policy to illustrate the origins of the current situation. Contemporary policies for Māori education, based on cultural responsiveness, are analysed in terms of their potential to succeed in overcoming Māori inequity. While it is important for teachers and schools to engage in culturally responsive practice, blind faith in these policies as "the solution" to Māori underachievement is unrealistic, and has the potential to place unfair responsibility for raising Māori student achievement on schools and teachers, rather than on government or policy itself.

This article unpacks and critiques the scholarship of Elizabeth Rata on the politics of knowledge in education. Rata represents a widespread, though covert, influence within the global academy of an imperialist form of philosophical universalism which has particular significance for Aotearoa New Zealand due to her vocal opposition to Kaupapa Māori education and Māori politics more generally. This article uses critical discourse analysis (CDA) to focus on the arguments of one key article, in order to expose its philosophical weaknesses. Our analysis shows that Rata's scholarship is based on misconceptions of several key terms and concepts, which inexorably lead to inadequate arguments and invalid conclusions, and undermine the cogency of her claims about the 'dangers' of Kaupapa Māori education.

This paper discusses the design of a problem‐based learning approach that seeks to embed industrial knowledge in the enterprise resource planning (ERP)‐related curriculum of universities. It describes a project that is developing a business reference model for public administration. This reference model is to be implemented in the leading ERP system SAP R/3. Teaching cases are developed through collaboration between universities and industry. The paper argues that this approach is in alignment with the recommendations of key curriculum documents and educational approaches.

20 Incidents and outbreak management21 Health protection surveillance; 22 Essential statistics and epidemiology; 23 Conducting epidemiological studies in health protection; 24 Using evidence to guide practice in health protection; 25 Quality assurance and audit; Section 6 New and emerging health protection issues; 26 New and emerging infectious diseases; 27 New and emerging environmental hazards and situations; 28 Global disasters and risk reduction strategies; 29 Sustainability; Appendices; Appendix 1: SIMCARDs for dealing with infectious diseases

AbstractRevised productivity accounts recently released by Statistics Canada are used to estimate a Klump–McAdam–Willman (KMW) normalized CES supply‐side system for the half‐century 1961–2012. The model permits distinct rates of factor‐augmenting technical change for capital and labour that distinguish between short‐term versus long‐term effects, as well as a non‐unitary elasticity of substitution and time‐varying factor shares. The advantage of the Canadian data for this purpose is that they provide a unified treatment of measurement issues that have had to be improvised in the US and European data used by previous researchers. In contrast to previous results, we find that an elasticity of substitution and distinct factor biases of technological progress are not well determined by the model. For the Canadian data, the KMW model does not appear to provide a framework that overcomes the classic Diamond–McFadden–Rodriguez non‐identification result. That impossibility theorem is manifested in our findings, not overcome by them.RésuméEst‐ce que les biais de facteurs et la substitution entre facteurs de production sont identifiables? Résultats pour le Canada. On utilise les données révisées sur la productivité récemment publiées pat Statistiques Canada pour calibrer un système d'offre normalisé à la Klump–McAdam–Willman (KMW) avec élasticité constante de substitution pour la période 1961‐2012. Le modèle permet un changement technique qui implique des taux distincts d'augmentation de productivité pour le travail et le capital qui distingue entre les effets à court et à long terme, ainsi qu'une élasticité de substitution non‐unitaire et des parts variables des facteurs dans le temps. L'avantage des données canadiennes pour ce genre d'analyse est que les problèmes de mesure ont été traités de manière uniforme alors que dans les données américaines et européennes, utilisées antérieurement par les chercheurs, le traitement des problèmes de mesure a été improvisé. Contrairement aux résultats antérieurs, on découvre qu'une élasticité de substitution et les biais du progrès technique en faveur de divers facteurs de production ne sont pas bien déterminés par le modèle. Pour les données canadiennes, le modèle KMW ne semble pas fournir un cadre de référence qui permette de surmonter le problème classique de non‐identification soulevé par les résultats de Diamond–McFadden–Rodriguez. Le théorème d'impossibilité reste entier dans les résultats obtenus et ne sont pas surmontés par es nouveaux résultats.