Stories by John Gerritsen

Nearly 400,000 children in Auckland, Northland and Waikato are starting the final school term of the year learning from home today.

New rules say principals can apply for an exemption to offer exams only if in their opinion it was necessary to bring students on-site to sit them in person.

The uncertainty surrounding the reopening of Auckland schools has dented some secondary students' confidence and raised fears about NCEA exams.

School principals are confident their staff will comply with the government's order to get fully vaccinated before 1 January. Audio

The Tertiary Education Commission has given universities, polytechnics and other tertiary institutions 10 years to end persistent disparities between the pass rates of Māori and Pacific students and…

The government is facing a teacher backlash over plans to reopen Auckland's classrooms after the school holidays. Audio

Auckland early childhood centre owners are annoyed and anxious about the city's level 3 rule changes.

A lack of enrolments means the three residential special schools for disabled children have been costing the government as much as $890,000 per child per year.

An expert panel charged with reviewing the maths curriculum has exceeded its brief and called for a major overhaul of maths teaching in schools.

Auckland secondary school principals are worried they will not be able to find enough teachers to meet growing enrolments next year.

Some Auckland parents are frustrated the Ministry of Health will not let their children return to boarding schools in other regions.

Auckland principals say students will lose at least 33 days of classroom time because of the city's lockdown, hugely impacting on their NCEA qualification.

The country's oldest state school, Nelson College, is facing insolvency unless it can convince the government to fast track the sale of some of its assets.

Auckland school principals are expecting only small numbers of children will return to school when the city shifts to alert level 3.

The pandemic and the government's $64 million donation scheme combined to cut roughly $170m from schools' locally-raised income last year.

It seems the influence of the Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield is no match for peer pressure, with most teens in alert level 2 not bothering to wear face masks in class.

Thousands of school-aged Auckland children are logging on for school every day with the city now into its fifth week of level 4 lockdown.

University students in Auckland have mixed feelings about their lockdown learning.

From karaoke to TikTok, Auckland's teachers are using every trick they can think of to keep their pupils interested in learning through the lockdown.

Auckland principals say they will need to run catch-up lessons after lockdown, but will have less classroom time to do that than they did last year.

Just when thousands of school kids are relying on computers to connect with their teachers, a new report has linked digital devices to worse achievement.

Auckland parents and children are resigned to at least two more weeks of remote learning in level 4 with the likelihood of more at alert level 3.

Some teenagers and principals are relieved the government has agreed to delay the start of NCEA and scholarship exams by two weeks.

School principals say some children with special education and behaviour needs do not cope well with remote learning.

Principals said devices made a big difference for home learning and the government should subsidise or provide computers for children whose families could not afford them.