Stories by John Gerritsen

Just days after blocking unvaccinated teachers and volunteers from work, the Education Ministry advised schools that the same rules did not apply to parents entering classrooms or attending school…

Do teenagers in Auckland need to turn up to their end of year exams next week? Some of the city's schools are telling students it's up to them whether they sit their exam.

Schools have used stop-gap measures to replace unvaccinated teachers today.

School principals are hoping against hope their vaccination-resistant teachers will get a Covid-19 jab before midnight.

Some secondary schools in alert level 3 areas do not want their Year 9-10 students back until senior students have left for exams.

The government's decision to let 200,000 Auckland children return to school next week for the first time in three months has prompted a mixture of delight, relief, and worry.

Principals are figuring out how to cover classes on Tuesday when staff who have not had at least their first injection are no longer allowed on site.

A small King Country school expects all of its staff will be banned from its classrooms when the government's vaccine mandate takes effect next week.

Universities say their foreign enrolments have remained "astonishingly high" and they are hoping international students can return to the country in the middle of next year.

Daily attendance among Year 11-13 students in the first week of reopening ranged from a high of 48 percent for Year 13 students to a low of 38 percent among that year group.

Principals say some staff are presenting apparently bogus exemption certificates.

Children made the most of last year's lockdown but enjoyed school less than when they were physically present, according to an online survey.

Principals spoken to by RNZ said it was not worth risking people's health even though the ongoing lockdown was harming some children's learning.

Auckland secondary schools are preparing for Tuesday's partial reopening of their classes though some principals are questioning the government's decision.

There are growing calls for the government to cancel end-of-year school exams for students in Auckland.

The national polytechnic is making partnership with Māori the top priority for the nation's 16 polytechnics and institutes of technology.

Nearly 400,000 children in Auckland, Northland and Waikato are starting the final school term of the year learning from home today.

New rules say principals can apply for an exemption to offer exams only if in their opinion it was necessary to bring students on-site to sit them in person.

The uncertainty surrounding the reopening of Auckland schools has dented some secondary students' confidence and raised fears about NCEA exams.

School principals are confident their staff will comply with the government's order to get fully vaccinated before 1 January. Audio

The Tertiary Education Commission has given universities, polytechnics and other tertiary institutions 10 years to end persistent disparities between the pass rates of Māori and Pacific students and…

The government is facing a teacher backlash over plans to reopen Auckland's classrooms after the school holidays. Audio

Auckland early childhood centre owners are annoyed and anxious about the city's level 3 rule changes.

A lack of enrolments means the three residential special schools for disabled children have been costing the government as much as $890,000 per child per year.

An expert panel charged with reviewing the maths curriculum has exceeded its brief and called for a major overhaul of maths teaching in schools.