Stories by John Gerritsen

Rural school principals are struggling to cope with the demands of their job and the Educational Institute says it wants more help for them. Audio

Parental pressure is stopping early childhood centres from providing cake at children's birthdays, teachers say.

A principal who faked her own performance appraisal and put her husband's signature on it has been struck off the teachers' register.

The Ministry of Education was "too scarce with the truth" with schools about their likely future following the 2011 Canterbury earthquake, the Chief Ombudsman says. Audio

More than 36,000 children skipped classes to take holidays during a single school term last year, and principals warn there's a cost in students' achievement. Audio

Teachers have complained about early childhood centres serving mouldy bread, ignoring halal rules, and providing cake three times a day, an Auckland researcher says. Audio

Half of the early childhood services surveyed for a new report were regularly serving children unhealthy food like cakes and chips.

Enrolments fell at three big Auckland tertiary institutions last year, while Canterbury institutions continued their recovery, annual reports show.

Some teachers cannot read, write and do maths well enough to do their job, the Education Council says.

Education leaders are warning that one of the government's flagship education policies will fail without more support and big changes.

Falsely claiming a New Zealand university degree is about to get much harder thanks to a new secure system for recording students' qualifications. Audio

Children need to feel welcome in their own schools, and that includes letting them choose which uniform version to wear, the PPTA says. Audio

An internal investigation has been launched after the Education Ministry pulled the plug on a school rebuild it had promised two years earlier.

Parents will face increased creche fees or lower quality education after the government's "unfair" Budget, early childhood education groups say.

About 200 schools were under capacity last year and nearly 500 others were in danger of overcrowding, official documents show. Audio

The surprise closure of four business courses at an Auckland tertiary institution over plagiarism means students will be transferred and re-assessed for English language skills.

More than 300 foreign students will have to transfer to another institution after NZQA discovered significant problems at an Auckland tertiary college. Audio

Children can get legal information about their rights at school at their fingertips, after a community law service developed a mobile chatbot.

An umbrella group for private tertiary institutions is welcoming what it says is NZQA's tougher stance on rooting out poor performers.

Widespead plagiarism and overcrowding has forced the closure of a private tertiary institution that once had 1000 foreign students enrolled.

Fifteen tertiary institutions have missed a government target for reducing the number of failed study visa applications by Indian students.

A decile one kura kaupapa Māori in Kaitaia has the best scholarship achievement rate in the country, RNZ analysis shows.

Staff fear a $3.6 million bailout will not stave off job and course cuts at the West Coast's Tai Poutini Polytechnic.

Most of the first eight charter schools are good at teaching and testing children from Māori, Pasifika and poor backgrounds, an independent evaluation says.

New Zealand's university system has ranked seventh best in the world in an annual global league table, but only after allowing for the size of the economy.