About Us
Secondary Futures - Hoenga Auaha Taiohi is a broad-ranging discussion with New Zealanders about how secondary schooling can make more students more successful 20 years from now.
We've been asked to create a vision for secondary education to guide us
for the future - and we need your ideas to help shape the vision.
The Secondary Futures project is government funded, though not government driven. We started work in 2004.
Four Guardians lead the project, set the work direction and protect its integrity.
We work with the education sector and a wide range of people from
different communities including: young people, parents, business, local government and other government agencies.
We use our own specially designed tools to give New Zealanders the
opportunity to start thinking about the future. If we start thinking
about the future now, we can also think about our preferred option for
schooling and work out what we need to do to achieve it.
Through research, discussion and sharing information and ideas,
Secondary Futures plans to make sure New Zealanders get a chance to
influence education policy, from a futures perspective.
Find out more about how we work.
What are People Saying?
Mason Durie about the value of futures thinking:
"We seldom have the opportunity to think long term about the future, because we are all locked into the urgency of the day. For many of us, the most we can think about is tomorrow... If you look far enough into the future, it's possible that you might be able to anticipate the change and make the shift in direction before it is forced upon you."
Dan, Young Entrepreneur Wellington about Secondary Futures:
"...we're thinking about shaping education to a more modern individual. I think that's a constant re-evaluation because human beings are developing and they're changing with each consecutive generation. Ongoing analysis I suppose of how we're educating people is pretty important, and then we can apply the knowledge learned."
More Information
In October 2005, Secondary Futures prepared a briefing for the incoming Minister of Education.
This briefing provides an overview of Secondary Futures, what we have achieved and what we are planning to do next.
