Updates
The latest from A Better StartThe Better Start Literacy Approach will be in Schools in 2025!
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...
Announcing the 2024 A Better Start National Science Challenge Symposium
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...
Wayne Cutfield tells AM Show, NZ has one of the fastest climbing rates of Diabetes
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...
Healthier Kiwis: A National Science Challenges Panel
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...
World No Tobacco Day 31st May 2023
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...
Q&A with Dr Nick Bowden
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 Medicine at the...
EXPERT OPINION: Addressing school start times for the health and wellbeing of teens in Aotearoa
Members of the School Start Time Study Advisory Group: Sleep-In to Stay Well Members: Charmaine Barber, Sarah Hetrick, Liza Edmonds, Rachael W Taylor, Mohamed Alansari, Leigh Signal, Jillian Haszard, Jacinta Oldehaver, Barbara Galland. Sarah Hetrick and Racheal...
EIT | Te Pūkenga researcher relishes working on worthwhile project in home region.
Dr Rachael Glassey is a Senior Research Fellow in the newly created Te Kura I Awarua Rangahau Māori Centre at EIT | Te Pūkenga. Rachael, 33, joined EIT | Te Pūkenga last year to work on a community research project, Nourishing Hawke’s Bay: He wairua tō te kai. She...
EXPERT OPINION: Literacy expert dissects new literacy, numeracy model & National Parties education policy
Literacy expert dissects new literacy, numeracy model & National's education policy The National Party has released its education policy, the same week a government document redefining the curriculum has also been released, termed a common-practice model. This...
Read our August update
Say hello to our August 2022 update. Read it HERE Find out about our new innovative sleep trial for babies; what teachers and schools think of our literacy programme which is being rolled out nationwide; watch our latest child health and wellbeing webinars; read...
Evidence-based support for parents of autistic children
A new research project is underway to provide evidence-based support for parents of autistic children. Researchers will evaluate whether web-based content and online virtual coaching interventions can support autistic children with their social communication, as...
Wanted: 600 babies for innovative sleep trial
Six hundred babies and their whānau are being recruited for an innovative new sleep study in Aotearoa. The Moemoeā study, funded by A Better Start National Science Challenge, will provide babies and their families with a sleep intervention toolkit to test over six...
