Josephine Howse

Josephine Harle Howse is a New Zealand academic administrator. In 2022 she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education.

Academic career

Howse completed a Bachelor of Arts in 1988 and a Master of Education Administration in 1992, both at Massey University. Her master's thesis was on secondary professional development courses at the University of Auckland's Kohia Centre. Howse later completed a PhD at the University of Tasmania at Launceston, with a thesis on the strategic management changes in New Zealand polytechnics in the 1990s.

Howse worked at the Auckland University of Technology, where she led the Centre for Professional Education. She led the development of the qualification for Secondary Teacher Education Training and Tertiary Tutor Training, as well as managing the centre into the new School of Education and Social Sciences.

Selected works