Education

Auckland students in lockdown who are struggling to learn without home internet connections.

The Education Ministry says it is spending $8 million to maintain the 45,000 household connections it… Audio

Now into their fourth lockdown, some Auckland schools are still trying to find ways of ensuring their students can connect to the internet and learn from home.

The government last year connected… Audio

The National Party says University Entrance pass rates for 2020 were at serious risk of a dramatic fall because of Covid-19.

Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says the Qualifications Authority… Audio

There are calls for the government to pay for more home internet connections for school students in Auckland.

The city is on to its fourth lockdown and secondary principals say online learning is… Audio

Over the year Selwyn Community education in Auckland runs over 600 classes, with about 900 people a week taking classes in pottery, woodworking, and Japanese among other courses on their packed… Audio

To mark World Hearing Day, we talk to Dr David Welch, Head of Audiology, at the University of Auckland about their "Dangerous Decibels" education, screening programmes for hearing loss in New Zealand.

The Principals Federation is disappointed by the reaction to its call for members to defy a directive that forces them to enrol students kicked out of other schools for violence.

Speaking to RNZ this… Audio

Students are calling on the government to re-invent their Covid-19 health messages for a younger audience.

Despite the most recent Covid-19 cluster being centred around a school, some students have… Audio

The Principals Federation has called for its members to defy a directive that forces them to enrol students kicked out of other schools for violence.

Federation boss Perry Rush says schools aren't… Audio

It has been a year since New Zealand's first case of Covid-19, with more than a quarter of a million Auckland school students now spending their ninth week learning from home in lockdown. And they're… Audio

Today talented author, satirist, public speaker and broadcaster David Slack is talking about the tradition of the father of the bride speech at weddings. He talks about how to write the speech and if… Audio

A Māori university students association leader in Auckland says the government has been too general in its Covid-19 messaging and they are having to take matters into their own hands to ensure their… Audio

The Principals Federation has advised its members to defy legally binding directives to enrol violent children who have been kicked out of other schools.

It says principals should consider refusing… Audio

The Principals Federation is challenging the authority of the Ministry of Education to order schools to enroll violent children.

It has told its members to consider contesting any directed enrolment… Audio

Papatoetoe High School Principal Vaughan Couillault told Checkpoint it is a tough week for everyone around the school community, but they are there to offer support. 

He said he has a skeleton crew… Video, Audio

Auckland parents and students are once again getting on with at-home schooling for the fourth time in a year.

About 250,000 children are being taught from home this week as Tāmaki Makaurau endures… Audio

Nearly 700 university staff are losing or leaving their jobs because of a financial hole left by falling foreign enrolments.

The cuts began last year and many are being made through early leaving or… Audio