by dbak580 | May 10, 2024 | Media release, News, Successful Literacy and Learning
From term 1 in 2025, all state schools will teach reading using the structured literacy approach. This approach is called a Better Start Literacy Approach and the project was funded by A Better Start E Tipu e Rea. We are so pleased to see it being offered to tamariki...
by dbak580 | Feb 7, 2024 | Events, Media release, News
The Symposium will be held on Wednesday 10th April 2024 April in Auckland. Please click here to find out more and see the details about the programme. We are excited to announce our Keynote Speakers, Professor Harriet Hiscock and Professor Ken Ong. As well as Dr...
by dbak580 | Jul 4, 2023 | Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Updates
The number of children globally with diabetes may have spiked 40 percent over the past three decades, which has seen calls for Kiwis to change their lifestyle. Director of A Better Start National Science Challenge Wayne Cutfield spoke with AM Show’s co-host Ryan...
by dbak580 | Jun 23, 2023 | Events, Media release, News
A Better Start is excited to be a part of this years New Zealand Science Festival. With our very own A Better Starts’ Deputy Director Professor Barry Taylor joining Healthier Kiwis: A National Science Challenges Panel to discuss how can we improve the health and...
by dbak580 | May 30, 2023 | Healthy Weight, Media release, News, Updates
Beyond Smokers and their Lungs “With complex modelling of new data, we are further analysing the decline in the number of preschool children who are overweight and obese. This decline is unlike any other country in the world and importantly has occurred almost...
by dbak580 | Apr 27, 2023 | Media release, News, Newsletter, Resilient Teens
Nick leads the big data analysis of ‘resilient teen’ outcomes and is part of the ‘Big Data’ team at A Better Start National Science Challenge. Nick is a Research Fellow at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health within the Dunedin School of...
