Education

The Māngere enviro-hub is a Kainga Ora-owned site which has been repurposed from housing to an area with a community garden, composting and tree planting in the heart of South Auckland. Audio

52 children who the Waitara centre have been left with nowhere to go and families left reeling .

A Waikato high school said it closed on Friday out of an abundance of caution after receiving two threats on Thursday.

A Dunedin bus driver has told the High Court that it looked like an older student taunted and wanted to fight the 14-year-old now accused of his murder.

"These are free meals being paid by the tax payer, they are very good according to many of the people receiving them," Associate Education Minister David Seymour told Checkpoint. Audio

Shocked witnesses can be heard swearing in a phone video as they watched a short, frenzied fight that resulted in a 13-year-old fatally stabbing a Dunedin student.

A court case between two parents about whether their daugher should go to an elite school has reinvigorated an old debate: state or private? Audio

"For the last eight days in a row we've had food that has been produced by Pita Pit," one principal at a school cutting back says.

New Zealand Food Safety's deputy director general said the complaint was that special dietary meals- such as those for students with allergies - were labelled for the wrong student.

After weeks of late, unsuitable or unsavoury lunches, two schools had sa first opportunity to speak to an actual person from the provider. Audio

The education minister says easier residency rules for primary teachers will make New Zealand a more attractive place to move. Audio