John Gerritsen

The Tertiary Education Union is warning of a crisis in universities and polytechnics, as our education correspondent John Gerritsen explains. Audio

The International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study will assess children's emerging literacy and numeracy, and their social and emotional skills, as our education correspondent John Gerritsen… Audio

Education researchers are worried replacing the decile system will make it harder to monitor the impact of disadvantage on children, as our education correspondent John Gerritsen reports. Audio

Te Aratika Academy charter school has 22 students but is being funded as if it has 67. But ACT Party leader and under-secretary for education, David Seymour, says that's normal. Audio

Educators say the ongoing concentration of Pakeha students in high-decile schools is bad for schools and bad for society. John Gerritsen reports for RNZ's Insight programme. Audio

A discussion document from the New Zealand Qualifications Authority's reivew of University Enterance qualifications has some surprising revelations about the links between school performance and… Audio

Students may have missed out on excellence grades due to a serious mistake in an NCEA maths exam last year, which was added to the paper too late to be checked. Audio

Berhampore School is a magnet for children with special needs and it's worried it will have to turn children away if it introduces an enrolment zone so it can get more classrooms. Audio

Is the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on subsidising foreign students to do PhDs in New Zealand well spent? RNZ's education correspondent John Gerritsen canvasses the differing views. Audio

The Tertiary Education Commission has abandoned its goal of eliminating disparities between Maori and Pasifika students, and other students, by next year. The commission has launched a new push to… Audio

Education groups are urging the Government to boost spending on creches and kindergartens. Audio

There's debate over the rules around new top teacher roles in Communities of Schools. Critics say the rules impede the appoitnment of department heads and deputy principals. Others say the new jobs… Audio

Judge Andrew Becroft says he's astonished children haven't been asked for their views on the Education Amendment Bill, and wants MPs to stop working on it until they are. Audio

The Human Rights Commission and disability advocates are urging a parliamentary select committee to toughen legal protections for disabled school children. John Gerritsen reports. Audio

Auckland school principals are worried they won't be able to find relievers to fill in when teachers are sick or on leave this year. They say it is making it difficult to release their best teachers… Audio

The quake's forced one small school to close and the five remaining in and around Kaikoura are expecting behavioural problems to emerge among some of their students. Audio

The Education Ministry says its keeping abreast of rapid school growth even though principals say they're having to use libraries, staff rooms and even hallways for teaching space. Audio

Some schools up and down the country are struggling against a lack of classroom space as the academic year begins. Audio