Stories by John Gerritsen

Teachers said some children could not talk in sentences of more than four or five words. Audio

The government wants some polytechs to stand alone and to group the other, weaker ones together - but this option will be costly, advisers say. Audio

The government is hoping to increase the minimum notice of a strike to at least seven calendar days.

教育部呈递给政府的一份简报显示，该部希望到今年年底时能增加61个新学区，届时让学区总数达到1282个，覆盖新西兰略超一半的中小学。

An Education Ministry briefing to the government showed it expected to add 61 new enrolment schemes by 2025. Audio

The government has unveiled plans to group the weakest polytechnics together and let the strongest stand alone.

The government's charter school legislation will break labour, human rights and free trade provisions, according to the Council of Trade Unions.

Charter schools are a recipe for disaster that will loot resources from state schools, MPs have heard.

Kura kaupapa Māori are hailing a Waitangi Tribunal decision as a major breakthrough in their push for self-determination.

Principals are frustrated and worried by a decision to halt 100 school building projects.

Degrees that can be completed in the workplace as an apprenticeship instead of in a lecture hall are in the pipeline.

David Seymour says the late changes are necessary to stop teacher unions from hamstringing the schools.

The new finance system will be useful for the institutes that replace it and stopping it would cause significant cost increases, the mega-institute says.

Some industries could revolt and set up their own training programmes if they don't like the government's plans for apprenticeships and workplace training.

Most polytechnics will need millions of dollars in extra funding to pay the bills once they are cut free from mega-institute Te Pūkenga.

The tertiary education sector is having another hard year - with half of universities expecting to be millions of dollars in the red.

The Employment Relations Authority has found fault with major job cuts at the Ministry of Education.

Compulsory tests will ensure fewer children fall through the cracks at school, says the head of the Education Review Office.

A looming deficit and complicated IT problems prompted the government to order the Qualifications Authority's board to step up its oversight of the organisation.

The national polytech has been ordered to hire consultants to lead major cost cutting. Audio

Crimson Global Academy chief executive Jamie Beaton says the company wants to extend its online model to a charter school.

The emails have fuelled secondary school English teachers' fears about the likely content of their rewritten curriculum. Audio

At least one in five Alfa carbines and Alfa hunters brought into NZ in three years has been passed on to criminals, police say. Audio

A briefing paper from April said 139 schools were over 105 percent of their classroom capacity.

Foreign student enrolments doubled in 2023 from a historic low the year before, but only universities were close to their pre-pandemic levels.