Education

More than 22,000 school teacher aides are looking at a substantial pay increase - as the Ministry of Education and union NZEI Te Riu Roa have agreed to a deal on their pay equity claim.

Along with… Audio

Good news for the struggling tertiary education sector - officials have signalled work is underway to allow foreign students to return to New Zealand.

Auckland's mayor Phil Goff has asked the… Audio

An open letter to Associate Education Minister Tracey Martin, with fourteen and a half thousand signatures, warns about the future of one of the oldest players in New Zealand's early childcare sector.

One of the country's largest sporting events for school pupils has been cancelled for the first time in 17 years due to Covid-19.

The AIMS Games sees more than 11,000 students compete in a variety of… Audio

Excited but exhausted - that's how students are finding returning to the classroom a week after the lockdown.

While school attendance has fallen slightly, principals report attendance is gradually… Audio

For more than 100 years, untold hours have been spent with a grid of squares, a set of clues, and a pencil for novices, a pen for the brave. Audio

Wainuiomata's Dahlia Malaeulu is a teacher, an advocate for Samoa and Pasifika education and also an author. She has written series of children's books Mila's My Gagana and now a new e-book Teine… Audio

Schools are caring for thousands of foreign teenagers who came to New Zealand to study and now cannot leave.

Principals say some international students want to go home, but could not get seats on… Audio

Hong Kong-based writer and lawyer Antony Dapiran believes Beijing is keen to re-shape Hong Kong into an image that is a lot more to their liking. And he says they're happy to have a "puppet" like… Audio

With experts estimating that a 'toilet plume' can travel six feet in every direction, and considering many public toilets aren't even equipped with lids, commercial bathrooms could be forever changed… Audio

Originally from Oklahoma, Matt is a PhD student at Lincoln University. He's working with Callaghan Innovation and Agriseeds on promoting better health and nutrition for dairy cows, sheep and deer. Audio

Finally tonight, after seven weeks off, students returned to school this week.

But what was life like under lockdown for young New Zealanders?

RNZ Youth Affairs Reporter Katie Doyle went to… Audio

Students and teachers will be getting some Friday feeling today, as the first week back for schools draws to a close.

Attendance across the country on the first day was around 80 percent, although… Audio