John Gerritsen

The school system should include greater recognition of Māori culture and knowledge, students invited to the government's first education summit say.

A plan to tackle teachers' unconscious bias against Māori students could deliver big improvements, schools that have already piloted a programme say.

The president of the Secondary Principals' Association says moving schools severely disrupts students' learning and without good data it is hard for schools to keep children up to speed.

Universities say schools' complaints about a desperate need for more teachers has contributed to a rise in enrolments in teacher education programmes.

The Education Ministry has found evidence of problems including abuse of children, poor health and safety and inappropriate staff behaviour in early childhood centres.

The era of steady increases in NCEA pass rates may be coming to an end.

An independent report on charter schools has deliberately avoided examining the schools' educational success because it is too early to judge their impact.

The government has warned the early childhood sector it could step in to limit the detrimental effects of competition and it wants to turn the tide away from privatised education.

Tertiary institutions are blaming immigration policies for big swings in foreign student enrolments that are likely to cost millions of dollars this year.

Pasifika early childhood teachers are warning that the supply of teachers who speak Pasifika languages is drying up because the English-language standard for entry to teaching courses is too high.

Early childhood teachers are critical of a gun safety kit an early childhood company has created for under five-year-olds.

Immigration New Zealand refused most of the study visa applications from some education agents in India, Vietnam and the Philippines last year.

Early childhood centres are struggling to hire qualified teachers and say a massive teacher shortage is to blame.

Babies and toddlers may be suffering toxic levels of stress because of unsafe minimum staffing in early chidhood centres, advocates say.

Some early childhood centres are repeatedly falling below the minimum staffing levels designed to keep children safe, teachers say.

Whanganui principals are worried enrolments at some of the city's schools have fallen as low as 50 or 60 children and they might need government intervention.

The West Coast's Tai Poutini Polytechnic has no hope of repaying its debts and will get a bailout, Education Minister Chris Hipkins has announced.

Employers are continuing to exploit foreign students and they're getting better at covering their tracks, groups that represent migrant workers say.

The government's zero-fee policy for new tertiary students has increased administration costs, but is having little impact on enrolments, universities say.

Young women on internships and work placements in a range of professions have been subjected to abuse and harassment, universities and students' associations have confirmed.

Young people are increasingly making a last-ditch effort to get NCEA and University Entrance by completing NCEA standards in the summer holidays.

Teachers are contributing to Māori children's poor performance at school, the head of the Education Ministry says.

The Labour Party's Māori MPs are confident the government will not shut down the Māori-run charter schools they support.

Disturbing complaints about racism in schools have emerged from a study involving nearly 1700 children. Audio

The number of study visa applications lodged with Immigration New Zealand in India plummeted last year, as did the proportion of failed applications, Immigration figures show.