Students

Amid the talk about the best ways to improve school attendance, Lesieli Oliver has been quietly getting on with the job.  Audio

The pandemic smashed the international education sector - but are foreign students returning to our shores? Audio

It's the time of year when students are deciding what classes they'll take in 2023. Research by the agency ZipRecruiter has found the top 10 university majors that people most regret taking. Professor… Audio

Best of 2022 - A new educational programme beams farmers into urban classrooms to talk about agriculture with school children. Audio

Tourism Minister Stuart Nash is looking at ways to get more students into seasonal jobs, including shifting the university year by six weeks. Jesse speaks to a fruit grower about the proposal. Audio

Tertiary students are more than twice as likely as the rest of us to be living in damp and mouldy homes.

That's the finding of a survey of 522 students by researchers at the University of Otago.

And… Video, Audio

Two Dunedin students have been taken to hospital after falling from a roof and a balcony during St Patrick's Day celebrations in the city's student quarter.

Some students have been drinking since the… Video, Audio

Dunedin police sergeant Aaron Burgess has told Checkpoint there has been another incident of a student falling during St Patrick's Day partying.

"We've just had another incident where an intoxicated… Video, Audio

Happiness and a sense of belonging at school is key for children's progress and good health. Kathryn is joined by Mohamed Alansari, senior researcher at the New Zealand Council for Educational… Audio

The St Peter's Cambridge school chair has told Checkpoint the police are investigating historical abuse against former students.

An investigation launched in 2019 at the prominent Waikato boarding… Video, Audio

Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins told Checkpoint it is “certainly a possibility” by Christmas that Aucklanders could have more freedoms while still being restricted within the regional Covid… Video, Audio

A fundraising initiative has been set up to address the digital divide affecting hundreds of pacific students in Auckland disrupted by the Covid-19 lockdown.

Educational inequities have arisen from a… Audio

The University of Canterbury's outreach programme UCMeXL aims to help Pacific students achieve higher results in all NCEA levels. It's been going for 10 years and Riki Welsh from the University's… Audio

The next round of school holidays are looming. Auckland has been shown the light at the end of the tunnel, Tuesday 21 September, when Cabinet has penciled in a move to alert level 3.

Even then… Audio

There are growing fears students at low decile schools will fall behind or give up on studies all altogether if lockdown drags on.

Many are juggling essential work, waiting on devices and looking… Audio

The Avondale College exposure has left other Auckland schools racing to have their students tested.

Thousands of Auckland school students have been mingling with Avondale College students over the… Video, Audio

Nnew research out of the University of Oxford shows that quitting maths at age 16 may have an adverse effect on brain development. Professor Roi Cohen Kadosh is the senior author of the study. Audio