Education

School attendance appears to have improved dramatically this year.

Weekly figures for term one show on most days as many as 88 percent of children were at school, much better than the same period… Audio

Secondary teachers begin six weeks of strike action today. Members of the Post Primary Teachers Association are refusing to teach Year Eleven students, prompting many schools to ask that year group to… Audio

Meet the winner of the Prime Minister's Science Teacher Prize, Doug Walker. His hands-on experiments, exciting demonstrations, and development of a new general science course have seen science… Audio

Ka Ora, Ka Ako was launched in 2019 to help families facing food insecurity - is it doing its job? Audio

Meet the winners of the 2022 Prime Minister's Science Prizes! We go behind the scenes with the Emerging Scientist, Science Teacher and Future Scientist winners to learn about cutting-edge research… Audio

Teens from Flaxmere College are saddling up ponies and swinging mallets, learning to play the sport of polo.  Video, Audio

The Education Ministry's latest figures show just 34 percent of Pasifika students attended school regularly in term four last year, half what it was at the same time a year earlier.

Overall, just… Audio

The newly developed Common Practice Model is going to inform how literacy and maths is taught in primary and secondary schools in the coming years. But what does that mean, and what are the teaching… Audio

A programme that teaches self-regulation of emotions and behaviour to preschool children is to be rolled out in early childhood centres around the country. The ENGAGE programme, developed at the… Audio