Stories by John Gerritsen

The tertiary education sector is having another hard year - with half of universities expecting to be millions of dollars in the red.

The Employment Relations Authority has found fault with major job cuts at the Ministry of Education.

Compulsory tests will ensure fewer children fall through the cracks at school, says the head of the Education Review Office.

A looming deficit and complicated IT problems prompted the government to order the Qualifications Authority's board to step up its oversight of the organisation.

The national polytech has been ordered to hire consultants to lead major cost cutting. Audio

Crimson Global Academy chief executive Jamie Beaton says the company wants to extend its online model to a charter school.

The emails have fuelled secondary school English teachers' fears about the likely content of their rewritten curriculum. Audio

At least one in five Alfa carbines and Alfa hunters brought into NZ in three years has been passed on to criminals, police say. Audio

A briefing paper from April said 139 schools were over 105 percent of their classroom capacity.

Foreign student enrolments doubled in 2023 from a historic low the year before, but only universities were close to their pre-pandemic levels.

However, schools and polytechnics had about half as many foreign enrolments as before the pandemic.

There are question marks over what the disestablishment of Te Pūkenga will mean for the millions of dollars of loans between different parts of the mega-institute.

But figures show Year 13 students only attend school 50 percent of the time.

New Zealand's 15-year-olds are among the best in the world for creative thinking, according to a rare piece of good news from the OECD's Pisa tests.

It was just one feature of the Education and Workforce Select Committee's review of the government's education budget.

Provisional data shows 62 percent of children attended school regularly in the first 10 weeks of the school year.

The Education Ministry has paused major staff cuts, saying a legal challenge could force it to start all over again.

Six months after ordering Te Pūkenga to stop work, the government has told it to resume cost-cutting and asset sales at its polytechnics.

Proponents say the curriculum updates could case a "step-change" for education, but will fail without good teacher training.

The work would have made it a lot easier for students to continue studying even if they moved towns and would also save on course accreditation and approval costs.

"The university is deeply disappointed by this failure of service," Massey's provost said in a message to students.

Only a fraction of pupils met the government benchmark for attendance in all four terms of 2023, new figures reveal. Audio

Teen fans of William Shakespeare are not sure his plays should be compulsory content.

A quarter of schools say their school needs an increase of more than $100,000 a year.

More than a third of the country's 27 quake-prone school buildings were built in the past 20 years and include almost an entire Auckland secondary school. Audio