Education

Waimate High School teacher Stuart Albrey wants students to develop a passion for farming and it's working. His ag classes are full and a Corriedale sheep stud on the school grounds means hands-on… Audio

Whanganui school students will be the first in the country to be vaccinated at school from the beginning of the next school term.

At least 1600 students aged over 16 along with around 700 teachers… Audio

From early next term high school students in Whanganui over the age of 16 will receive their first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine. Bruce Jones is the Whanganui District Health Board's communicable… Audio

A new report is highlighting the fruits of educating tamariki in te reo Māori.

The Education Review Office has released a report highlighting why tamariki Māori excel when they're immersed in their… Audio

A report into Māori Medium education has shown although they have exceptional outcomes for students - they are still under resourced across the board. The first of its kind Education Review Office… Audio

Parliament's launched an inquiry into the so-called truancy crisis. Official figures in May showed more than 60,000 students are classified as chronically absent, missing at least three days of school… Audio

Technology commentator Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to talk about Amazon opening its Australian store to New Zealand customers and what that might mean for New Zealand retailers and other online stores… Audio

Celia Hay, the Director of the New Zealand School of Food and Wine, speaks to Nathan Rarere about the understaffed hospitality industry and how most hospitality students have already been snapped up.

A new study has found that older New Zealanders are starting to care more intensely about climate change and are increasingly accepting that humans are behind the crisis. Over 56-thousand Kiwis… Audio

For today's How to Write feature we speak to careers expert, Caroline Sandford, about how to write a cover letter. Audio

A report from the Education Review Office is sounding the alarm about slipping standards in the teaching of maths at primary schools. ERO says teachers' capability to teach maths is of particular… Audio

There's a call to better educate young men and boys to quit the cat-calls, locker room talk and the sharing of nude photos and videos. It follows the release last week of a survey of sexual assault… Audio

An academic says the idea that changes to a major research fund to favour Māori and Pasifika academics will dilute it is disgusting. The $315 million a year Performance Based Research Fund will now… Audio