Stories by John Gerritsen

Budget 2024 includes $2.5 billion in new spending over four years for education and a further $429 million in redirected savings, most of it from the Ministry of Education.

Compulsory Shakespeare and grammar lessons will feature in a new-look secondary English curriculum that ranges from contemporary New Zealand authors to Chaucer and Beowulf.

Universities warn changes to teacher education won't fix teacher shortages, and that it is not realistic to expect teachers to graduate fully prepared to work.

A report shows the government is canning Reading Recovery just as changes to the long-standing programme have ensured it doubles young children's reading progress.

教育专家表示，在小学阶段引入学科专家教师或将有助于提升教师整体水平。

Large numbers of recently-appointed primary teachers lack the most basic school qualifications, new research shows. Audio

The national institute of skills and technology is paying $2000 a day to specialist advisors looking into how to replace the mega entity.

Charter schools will likely get higher per-student funding than most state schools, and evidence of their efficacy is mixed.

Annual reports show Otago and Canterbury universities recorded deficits last year.

Reintroduced charter schools will be tightly monitored, but a lack of transparency in reporting was a key criticism they faced last time around. Audio

Staff consulting firms were already asking some of the staff being made redundant to work for them.

An Education Review Office report found graduates from some universities felt better prepared than others, as did those from courses that involved more time in the classroom.

A new report warns schools and early childhood centres are failing autistic and other neurodivergent children on an epic scale.

Former teachers working at the Education Ministry are angry the ministry is refusing to count their teaching service when calculating redundancy entitlements.

Teachers can't even get students to stop vaping, so how will they police phones, asks one pupil.

An independent review warns NZQA must improve its internal operating model and its partnership with the exam vendor.

The number of apprentices and other on-job learners in the system dropped by 16,000 in a year, but enrolments in Te Pūkenga's loss-making polytechnics have grown.

The Qualifications Authority wants more students sitting online digital exams rather than paper-based exams.

A survey conducted by the Post Primary Teachers Association found 56 percent of principals had to employ untrained or unqualified teachers because no one else applied.

The government science agency's chief executive says it is proposing to refocus on its core functions to help relieve cost pressures.

Leaked documents show which divisions will bear the brunt of hundreds of proposed job cuts at the Ministry of Education.

The Qualifications Authority is capping the daily number of students who can sit crucial online NCEA tests next month. Audio

Covid-19? Symptoms including fever, vomiting, diarrhoea or head lice? Your children should be at home, new government guidelines say.

As the government announces a crackdown on truancy, students with high attendance rates say they ignore coughs and runny noses and go to class.

Funding for a major study following the lives of more than 6000 Kiwi children since 2009 has ended and the government is considering its future.