John Gerritsen

The Tertiary Education Union is accusing universities of putting money before education with a plan to shorten their master's degrees. Audio

MPs have been told that principals with no technological savvy are holding back their schools and their students. Audio

The primary school union says the decision to publish individual schools' national standards results online is disastrous. Audio

The Government will publish individual schools' national standards results online from next month. Audio

The Ministry of Education is considering setting different national standards targets for schools in different regions. Audio

Secondary school principals are warning that the government's charter schools could damage New Zealand's good international reputation, by backing an experiment. Audio

People who've never worked in education before will be able to run the Government's new charter schools which will be able to have fewer registered teachers than state schools. Audio

School principals say government agencies are the weak link in child protection and there is little point in changes suggested by the coroner who investigated the deaths of the Kahui twins. Audio

Most of the low-income families receiving government scholarships to attend private schools are being left out of pocket, often by thousands of dollars. Audio

Teachers and principals want their standard-setting and disciplinary body, the Teachers Council, to shrug off government influence and become entirely independent. Audio

Opposition MPs have pressed the Education Minister to explain just when the Government started planing its failed class sizes policy. Audio

New figures show the proportion of school students suspended, stood-down, expelled or excluded from school has reached its lowest point in 12 years. Audio

School principals say the public wants tougher punishments for misbehaving students, not a softer line. Audio

The Minister of Tertiary Education, Steven Joyce, wants to tender out millions more dollars of polytechnic and wananga funding to competitors. Audio

Polytechnics are warning the government's decision to open millions of dollars of their funding to competition from the private sector could be the death knell for some institutions. Audio

The Education Review Office says only 22 percent of the schools it visited last year were working well with the national standards in reading, writing and maths. Audio

The Labour Party and the Tertiary Education Union say the government is making the wrong choices in tertiary education. Audio

New documents reveal that more than a thousand primary teachers would have lost their jobs next year if the government had gone ahead with its ill-fated changes to school staffing ratios. Audio

School unions say the Ministry of Education deliberately held back its latest roll-growth estimates so they could not be used to undermine the Government in the debate over class sizes. Audio

Early childhood educators are patting themselves on the back after the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked New Zealand's early childhood education system the ninth best in the world. Audio