Stories by John Gerritsen

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

Staff consulting firms were already asking some of the staff being made redundant to work for them.

An Education Review Office report found graduates from some universities felt better prepared than others, as did those from courses that involved more time in the classroom.

A new report warns schools and early childhood centres are failing autistic and other neurodivergent children on an epic scale.

Former teachers working at the Education Ministry are angry the ministry is refusing to count their teaching service when calculating redundancy entitlements.

Teachers can't even get students to stop vaping, so how will they police phones, asks one pupil.

An independent review warns NZQA must improve its internal operating model and its partnership with the exam vendor.

The number of apprentices and other on-job learners in the system dropped by 16,000 in a year, but enrolments in Te Pūkenga's loss-making polytechnics have grown.

The Qualifications Authority wants more students sitting online digital exams rather than paper-based exams.

A survey conducted by the Post Primary Teachers Association found 56 percent of principals had to employ untrained or unqualified teachers because no one else applied.

The government science agency's chief executive says it is proposing to refocus on its core functions to help relieve cost pressures.

Leaked documents show which divisions will bear the brunt of hundreds of proposed job cuts at the Ministry of Education.

The Qualifications Authority is capping the daily number of students who can sit crucial online NCEA tests next month. Audio

Covid-19? Symptoms including fever, vomiting, diarrhoea or head lice? Your children should be at home, new government guidelines say.

As the government announces a crackdown on truancy, students with high attendance rates say they ignore coughs and runny noses and go to class.

Funding for a major study following the lives of more than 6000 Kiwi children since 2009 has ended and the government is considering its future.

Agents say fraud and tougher rules are driving high refusal rates for foreign students applying from India.

Many are enjoying the new curriculum, according to a review, but teachers want more help deciding what to teach. Audio

National action is needed to rein in critical levels of violent and disruptive behaviour in schools, says the Education Review Office.

The tertiary education funding body is willing to subsidise more trainees in scaffolding and piano tuning, but doesn't want to pay for any increase in student numbers for primary teaching.

The University of Canterbury has taken extra steps to ensure psychology students understand they have to work with gender-diverse clients.

Parents are frustrated and want to know how their children compare, the Education Review Office says.

Callaghan Innovation is tens of millions of dollars short of money for urgent building work - some of which is needed to keep staff safe in outdated laboratories.

Parents, children and teachers are urging the government to leave funding for the free school lunch programme, Ka Ora Ka Ako, untouched.