TipsLong-Term Fiscal Schools Challenge
Page updated 22 Feb 2012
Structure of your submission
You might find it helpful to structure your advice in the following way:
- Set out the challenges (the task section and regional coaching sessions will help you to do this)
- Set out a range of possible options to address the challenges
- Analyse the impacts of the various options
- Recommend the option or options that seem to be best, and justify why you have made this recommendation.
Referencing
If an idea you use comes from somewhere else, please reference it. Any referencing system is acceptable, as long as:
- it is clear that the relevant idea is borrowed and not original, and
- a reader would be able to find the original source going by the reference information you provide
Presentations
It is important that you convey your ideas and analysis clearly in the presentation – even the best ideas, if not communicated in a clear way, can be hard to understand and appreciate.
For some helpful tips on presentation skills, see the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's Monetary Policy Challenge website: http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/challenge//howtoplay/2974656.html
We suggest that finalists run through their presentations at their schools, either in front of a class or in a school assembly, to practice before their presentation at the Treasury.
