Pathways to Institutional Improvement with Information Technology in Educational Management: IFIP TC3/WG3.7 Fourth International Working Conference on Information Technology in Educational Management July 27-31, 2000, Auckland, New Zealand

New Zealand schools have experienced unprecedented change during the lastdecade. Radical restructuring of the frameworks for both curriculum and qualifications followed a movement towards self-managementin 1989. The curriculum framework, consisting of seven essential learning areas, has been progressively introduced with completionnotexpecteduntil 2002. Thenew Qualifications Framework, based on unit standards, was launched in 1994. The introduction of unit standards signalled an emphatic mo...