Story: Country schooling

More links and websites

• Our history | Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu

  ‘Our history’ is a timeline on the Correspondence School website.

• Statistics – Education counts

  This page links to statistics on schooling, tertiary education and other New Zealand education topics.

More suggestions and sources

• Addison, Jon. A history of school buses. Wellington: Department of Education, 1977.
• Arnold, Rollo. Settler Kaponga 1881–1914: a frontier fragment of the western world. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1997.
• Cumming, Ian, and Alan Cumming. History of state education in New Zealand, 1840–1975. Wellington: Pitman, 1978.
• Garner, John, and Catherine Forde. The Correspondence School: golden jubilee history, 1922–72. Wellington: Correspondence School, 1972.
• Openshaw, Roger, and others. Challenging the myths: rethinking New Zealand’s educational history. Palmerston North: Dunmore, 1993.
• Parkyn, G. W. The consolidation of rural schools. Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1952.