Stories by John Gerritsen

However, schools and polytechnics had about half as many foreign enrolments as before the pandemic.

There are question marks over what the disestablishment of Te Pūkenga will mean for the millions of dollars of loans between different parts of the mega-institute.

But figures show Year 13 students only attend school 50 percent of the time.

New Zealand's 15-year-olds are among the best in the world for creative thinking, according to a rare piece of good news from the OECD's Pisa tests.

It was just one feature of the Education and Workforce Select Committee's review of the government's education budget.

Provisional data shows 62 percent of children attended school regularly in the first 10 weeks of the school year.

The Education Ministry has paused major staff cuts, saying a legal challenge could force it to start all over again.

Six months after ordering Te Pūkenga to stop work, the government has told it to resume cost-cutting and asset sales at its polytechnics.

Proponents say the curriculum updates could case a "step-change" for education, but will fail without good teacher training.

The work would have made it a lot easier for students to continue studying even if they moved towns and would also save on course accreditation and approval costs.

"The university is deeply disappointed by this failure of service," Massey's provost said in a message to students.

Only a fraction of pupils met the government benchmark for attendance in all four terms of 2023, new figures reveal. Audio

Teen fans of William Shakespeare are not sure his plays should be compulsory content.

A quarter of schools say their school needs an increase of more than $100,000 a year.

More than a third of the country's 27 quake-prone school buildings were built in the past 20 years and include almost an entire Auckland secondary school. Audio

Budget 2024 includes $2.5 billion in new spending over four years for education and a further $429 million in redirected savings, most of it from the Ministry of Education.

Compulsory Shakespeare and grammar lessons will feature in a new-look secondary English curriculum that ranges from contemporary New Zealand authors to Chaucer and Beowulf.

Universities warn changes to teacher education won't fix teacher shortages, and that it is not realistic to expect teachers to graduate fully prepared to work.

A report shows the government is canning Reading Recovery just as changes to the long-standing programme have ensured it doubles young children's reading progress.

教育专家表示，在小学阶段引入学科专家教师或将有助于提升教师整体水平。

Large numbers of recently-appointed primary teachers lack the most basic school qualifications, new research shows. Audio

The national institute of skills and technology is paying $2000 a day to specialist advisors looking into how to replace the mega entity.

Charter schools will likely get higher per-student funding than most state schools, and evidence of their efficacy is mixed.

Annual reports show Otago and Canterbury universities recorded deficits last year.

Reintroduced charter schools will be tightly monitored, but a lack of transparency in reporting was a key criticism they faced last time around. Audio