Stories by John Gerritsen

Organisations representing early childhood services and teachers are divided over calls for mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse.

The Education Review Office also warned nearly half the early childhood services it visited in the past financial year breached regulatory or licensing criteria.

Qualifications Authority figures show students went into exams with fewer NCEA credits under their belts than in any of the previous three years.

The chief ombudsman, Judge Peter Boshier, has defended his office's record on complaints about schools following calls for a faster route for resolving disputes.

An assessment has found big gaps in schools' cybersecurity and recommends a multi-million-dollar boost to school funding for IT.

The Education Review Office is worried about children's safety at a Petone school.

The schools enrolments are bouncing back with about 2500 English language students in the country.

Schools are facing a number of hurdles as they try to rebuild their lucrative foreign student enrolments in a competitive market.

The government is promising to extend learning support to thousands more disabled children through a substantial overhaul of the $1.2 billion special education system.

Teachers and principals at primary and secondary schools look set to refuse a $6000 pay rise describing it as disappointing and hard to stomach.

The Tertiary Education Union has lowered the pay rise it is seeking for university staff from 8 percent to 7.2 percent.

From lack of motivation to increased dependence on mobile phones, secondary schools are counting the cost of the pandemic.

School attendance hit a new low in the second term with just 39.9 percent of children going to school regularly.

Testing shows children's achievement in technology and the arts has fallen but in te reo Māori it held steady and even improved.

A family has complained to the Human Rights Commission over a school's refusal to let their five-year-old autistic son attend.

The Education Review Office warns New Zealand has worse school attendance than other English-speaking countries and many parents don't care if their children miss classes.

Associate Education Minister Jan Tinetti says test results indicate the pandemic has set children's learning back by months.

Nearly three years of pandemic-related disruption has damaged learning in some schools and left others almost unscathed.

Youth Law and the children's commissioner warn that children are being kicked out of class without good reason while the government dallies on setting up a school disputes panel.

American universities increasingly see New Zealand as a good place to send students to study diversity and indigenous issues, Education New Zealand says.

The warning comes from an independent evaluation of a trial-run of online tests in reading, writing and maths involving 16,000 mostly Year 10 students in July.

The Attendance Service has investigated 16,771 new cases of serious truancy in the first half of this year.

The threat of hackers has stalled a $40m school IT project for more than a year.

Officials approve of recent changes at Te Pūkenga but question marks remain over its financial viability and its core missions, according to a report.

Several thousand university staff walked off the job today in support of their claim for an eight percent pay rise.