Education
ECEs wary of new Education Ministry investigative squad
Early childhood service owners are wary of plans for a squad to investigate potential fraud and safety failures.
The Education Ministry is reinstating the Provider Assessment Group which ceased… Audio
Education Ministry reinstates early childhood care investigation team
The Education Ministry is reinstating a special squad to investigate financial fraud and safety breaches in early childhood education services.
Thousands of students protest for urgent climate action
Thousands of children have abandoned their classes for the day, all in the name of climate action.
School Strikes 4 Climate were held in a number of big cities for the first time since September… Video, Audio
School students go on strike for climate crisis
Classrooms throughout the country have been abandoned today, as school students go on strike to draw attention to the climate crisis.
Young people want to see urgent action taken to reduce emissions… Audio
Taranaki hospitality school opens student hostel to homeless
A Taranaki hospitality school says opening up its student accommodation to homeless people was an easy decision to make.
The Pacific International Hotel Management School is housing about 50 people -… Audio
Christchurch 'climate action campus' a first-of-its-kind
From May next year the campus will take students from eight schools who will get their hands dirty with everything from conducting experiments to growing vegetables and rearing chickens.
Rebuilding foreign student numbers will take 10 years, MPs told
The government body charged with attracting foreign students is warning MPs it will take 10 years to rebuild the $5 billion-a-year international education industry.
Ashburton principal calls for better management of phones
Amid the recent suspension of a Methven secondary school pupil and growing calls from the local community for the use of phones in schools to be banned, a principal says the use of phones needs to be…
Methven school to review phones after student suspended
A pupil at Mount Hutt College has been suspended after they allegedly filmed a fellow student before distributing the footage to others "with the intention of humiliating them".
Schools hoping for strong enrolment in sports after slump in 2020
A study found 48 percent of secondary students represented their school in sport last year - the first time the figure's dropped below 50 percent.
'It's urgent now': Roughly 35% student allowance applications still to be finalised
Some tertiary students have been unable to afford basic necessities as they wait for their StudyLink allowances to be approved.
Primary principals complain of blunt, damaging staffing system
Primary school principals have warned that the system for deciding how many teachers each school gets is blunt and even damaging.
Parenting: supporting rainbow students
Senior Researcher at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research Mohamed Alansari tells Lynn Freeman about a survey and research to support rainbow students and communities. Audio
Employees' cyber smarts and the phone market bounces back
Technology correspondent Bill Bennett joins Lynn to look at the new research that's found a big discrepancy in what employers think their workers know about cyber security - and what they actually… Audio
System for deciding how many teachers for schools too blunt - Principals
Primary school principals are warning that the system for deciding how many teachers each school gets is blunt and even damaging.
They have been telling a panel convened by the teacher union, the… Audio
Government announces $7.4 million for youth impacted by Covid-19
Nearly two dozen youth organisations across the country will receive more than $7.4 million following a government announcement in Rotorua today.
A serious shortage of Māori and Pasifika midwives
A Māori midwife says National midwifery services have been falling short of meeting the needs of Māori and Pasifika women whose pregnancies are overepresented in still birth and neonatal death. The… Audio
International student educators under increasing pressure
Redundancies and funding cuts are putting people who work with international students under increasing pressure.
They say New Zealand will struggle to restore its foreign enrolments if schools… Audio
International educators struggling to stay afloat: 'We're all just floundering'
People who work with international students are warning that redundancies and funding cuts are putting them under increasing pressure.
Waikato University cutting 17 roles from science faculty
The Tertiary Education Union is unhappy that the University of Waikato is cutting 17 roles from its science faculty.
The university says the jobs add up to 12 full-time equivalents and the net loss… Audio
