Stories by John Gerritsen

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.

A predicted fall in the number of school children could cost hundreds of teachers their jobs next year.

The leaders of the secondary teachers' union, the Post Primary Teachers Association, want schools to stop grouping students in low and high ability classes by 2030. Audio

The OECD's annual report on education warns too many young people in developed countries may be enrolling in degrees.

The Education Review Office is planning a crackdown on schools that fail disabled children, saying some are breaking the law by actively discouraging children with disabilities.

Principals spoken to by RNZ said two-and-a-half years of Covid-19 disruption had left many young people short of the motivation and credits they needed to get their NCEA qualifications.

Schools are trying to find extra teachers and tutors so they can spend their share of $20 million for catch-up learning.

Schools are finding out today how much money they get under the new equity index system that replaces school deciles next year.

Research shows people who struggle with reading and maths as teenagers suffer lasting disadvantage, especially if they are women or Māori.

The percentage of domestic university students who are men has reached an all-time low of 39 percent, and it is worrying universities.

National Party leader Christopher Luxon told RNZ 100,000 were chronically truant - that figure is incorrect.