Editorial: All Aboard for a Game of Educopoly

Abstract

At the end of 1993, education in New Zealand was in a state of quiet confusion as it negotiated its way through the stalls of the marketplace into which it has been thrust, with its customers (students), its business associates (experts in public relations and packaging) and its wares (measurable outcomes). It's now all aboard for the game of Educopoly, with many still not sure of the rules. Some even felt they weren't included and could not make it past "Go". For Educopoly, like all market games, is competitive, and not to be a winner is to be a loser, or at least, to be condemned to pay rent on others' property and to rely for sustenance on an ever diminishing Community Chest.