Stories by John Gerritsen

Only 46 percent of pupils attended classes regularly last term, Education Ministry figures show.

The number of unqualified people working as school teachers has more than doubled since the Covid-19 pandemic began and three of them are principals.

Falling enrolments and a skewed funding system are behind the super-institute's looming deficit.

Massey University wants to sell or lease nearly all of the Albany campus it has occupied for 30 years.

The estimates come amid warnings from secondary principals about shortages.

The Tertiary Education Minister says local management will decide if the hundreds of redundancies the super-institute had planned for April should go ahead.

Seven schools had serious financial problems last year and auditors warned of potential problems at a further 13.

New Zealand students may be some of the worst-behaved in the world. Or they might just have less tolerance for disruption in the classroom, a new survey has found.

A leading education researcher warns new high-stakes NCEA literacy and maths tests could do more harm than good.

Super-institute Te Pūkenga has halted its multi-million-dollar transformation and the fate of hundreds of staff is in limbo.

排名下降的趋势至少从2009年时就已经开始了。

Phones, hunger and bad teachers were among problems revealed as New Zealand teens' scores dipped further in the PISA tests of reading, writing and maths. Audio

New Zealand was not alone, with overall average scores for maths, reading and science dropping in the 81 countries and economies participating in the tests.

Some former charter schools are interested in the government's plans to revive the publicly funded private schools.

Early childhood services say they are running on a knife edge after enrolments dropped and record numbers went out of business.

Secondary school principals warn they are struggling to find enough good teachers to staff their classrooms next year.

By the end of this year, close to 600 jobs are likely to have been cut from three of the nation's eight universities.

The government underestimated the cost of passing on school and kindergarten teachers' pay rises to ECE teachers by $253 million.

The Tertiary Education Commission says there is no evidence of a systemic problem with apprentices achieving too few qualification credits each year.

Thousands of students are hoping to avoid a repeat of Friday's online assessment crash.

Businesses are pocketing thousands in subsidies for apprentices who gained no credits - and insiders say some are doing it deliberately.

Teachers are angry the New Zealand Qualifications Authority blocked some students from logging into online exams this morning.

Only 47 percent of students came to school regularly in term 2 this year, an improvement on the same term last year, but one of the worst figures on record.

The Association of Counsellors warns school counselling services are badly over-stretched and need more funding from the next government.

National training institute Te Pūkenga is refunding more than $500,000 in fees to plumbing, gasfitting and drainlaying apprentices.