Stories by John Gerritsen

Victoria University is selling millions of dollars of property to help cover its losses.

由教育部牵头进行的学生福祉调查显示，学生诉求的多样性成为当下教育工作者面临的重要问题。与学生群体相比，家长则更关注孩子在生理和心理健康方面的保障。

Nearly 10,000 intermediate and secondary pupils participated in a study to help the Education Ministry develop ways of measuring student wellbeing.

Universities were blaming this year's deficits on factors including lower than expected domestic enrolments and higher costs.

Nearly half the teenagers who sat the first run of new NCEA maths and writing tests earlier this year failed.

One said doing so would be "almost be a vote-changer", suggesting the party did not understand their role.

Monthly approvals to home-school were much lower this year than at the end of 2021 and start of 2022.

RNZ asked school principals what impact nearly three years of Labour government have had on their schools. Audio

基础教育数据表现欠佳，八年级科学课合格率仅20%，一些人认为基础教育改革已经到了不得不提上日程的程度；另一些人则将成绩下滑归咎于新冠疫情。

Education researchers are divided over the state of the school system as it comes under increased scrutiny.

A briefing paper said the TEC expected reduce the funding of Massey, Victoria and Otago universities, AUT and Te Pūkenga's polytechnics due to low enrolments.

Some universities are reluctant to set deadlines for ensuring Māori and Pacific students are as successful as other groups of students.

A Tertiary Education Commission briefing shows officials want deeper staff cuts at the national polytechnic and workplace training organisation Te Pūkenga.

Internal reporting shows attendance services are struggling with schools and other agencies as they tried to get the most serious truants back to class.

此外，充满负能量的家庭环境、帮派对青少年的影响、生活成本等诸多问题也是导致新西兰青少年旷课率上升的原因。

Poverty, insecure housing, rising costs and weak parenting were also common themes in reports covering covering a period last year when truancy reached 14 percent.

新西兰移民局的数据显示，超过一半的学生来自南非、印度、中国和菲律宾的移民家庭。

A spike in enrolments of new migrant children has surprised some schools.

Schools have hired 84 attendance officers to help get more children to class every day, the government says. Audio

The Secondary Principals' Association is alarmed by survey results that indicate its members are more likely to suffer abuse and stress than other people.

About 10 percent of teachers said they did not enjoy maths and were not confident teaching it but all teachers agreed teaching maths was important, the study found.

Foreign students are returning to polytechnics faster than expected, Te Pūkenga says.

Te Pūkenga's leaders have revealed the national polytechnic and workplace training organisation is heading for another big deficit this year.

Official figures show that is the worst figure ever recorded, beating 14 percent of students in 2012.

The recommendation is expected to end a protracted pay dispute between the Ministry of Education and the Post Primary Teachers Association.