Education
University of Otago cancels overseas postings for medical students
The University of Otago has cancelled some planned overseas postings for its medical students due to Covid-19.
The lure of quitting your job and going back to university
The power of education triumphing over an unsatisfying job in your 30s. Audio
Covid-19: Schools cancel overseas trips
Schools are cancelling class trips overseas because of travel restrictions and insurance problems related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Many schools have been trying to decide what to do about trips that… Audio
Teach kids in their own language, UN expert says
A United Nations expert says indigenous children must be taught in their own language and countries failing to do so could be in breach of human rights.
Rotorua mother takes high school over their moustache policy
A Rotorua mother is challenging the high school rule which bans moustaches on its pupils. Audio
Should porn literacy be taught in schools?
Clinical psychologist Robyn Salisbury believes porn literacy be on the sex education curriculum. She has edited a book Free to be Children: Preventing child sexual abuse in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is… Audio
Mum to call for review of school's moustache policy
The mother of a teenage boy who was told to shave his moustache or be suspended from school will call for a review of the rule.
Parents seek tax rebates on past camp fees
The government's school donation scheme could open a floodgate of requests for tax rebates on cost payments for things like school camps going back four years.
Parents seek tax rebates on past camp fees
The government's school donation scheme could open a floodgate of requests for tax rebates on payments to schools going back four years.
The scheme has made it clear payments many people thought were… Audio
Black market for university essays on the rise
There's a growing black market for university essays - with a university lecturer revealing they've seen mutliple copies of the same essay handed in. Figures obtained under the Official Information… Audio
Where school dinners are available obesity rates drop
A study in the UK has shown that where school dinners are provided the obesity rates in children also drop. Audio
Professor Stephanie Coontz: How to Make Your Marriage Gayer
Professor Stephanie Coontz recently wrote an opinion piece saying "many different-sex couples would have happier and more satisfying marriages if they took a few lessons from their same-sex… Audio
Students to explore history of colonisation through Māori digital atlas
Ngāi Tahu's digital atlas of the original Māori names for the South Island can now be used to teach young students about colonisation.
Covid-19 outbreak puts schools' overseas trips in doubt
Schools are struggling to decide if they should go ahead with overseas trips involving thousands of students in light of the Covid-19 outbreak.
Talking to tamariki about COVID-19
University of Canterbury Child and Family Psychologist Sarah Whitcombe-Dobbs is part of a panel event to explain how to deal with children's concerns around the COVID-19 outbreak.. She speaks to… Audio
Covid-19 puts schools' overseas trips in doubt
Schools are struggling to decide if they should proceed with overseas trips in the next couple of months.
The Covid-19 coronavirus has prompted travel restrictions in several countries, as well as… Audio
Covid-19: Business as usual at Auckland Grammar school
An Auckland school caught up in the fallout from the Covid-19 outbreak is continuing business as usual, despite one if its students being in isolation.
Auckland Grammar was notified at midday… Video, Audio
School librarians to lobby for cash
President of the School Library Association Glenys Bichan joins The Panel to talk about how school librarians are preparing to lobby the Government to require all schools to have a library and to ring… Audio
Parenting - Covid19: keeping children calm
Senior Researcher at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research, Mohamed Alansari speaks with Kathryn Ryan about what parents and educators can do to prevent children panicking about Covid19. Audio
The Y2K bug makes a comeback
Technology commentator Bill Bennett looks at how the millennium bug is back - because it never exactly went away. In trying to solve the problem, programmers pushed it back 20 years. And time's up… Audio
