Questions to Ministers – Vote Education—Gifted and Talented Education – Parliament

June 23 2009

Nikki Kaye: What initiatives is the Government proposing in order to deliver system-wide change to help gifted and talented students?

Hon ANNE TOLLEY: One example would be that in December of this year the Government plans to publish resources to support gifted education in all New Zealand schools, including identification tools and quality teaching standards. Those resources are designed to promote system-wide change to help gifted and talented students, rather than the very limited and isolated change that the spending on professional development has produced so far.