Education

Principals south of the Bombay Hills say the superior fund-raising ability of high-decile Auckland schools is creating a gap with the rest of the country.

Fees from foreign students and donations are… Audio

Principals say high-decile Auckland schools can afford more opportunities for their students than schools in the rest of the country.

Annual report figures show the city's decile eight, nine and ten… Audio

The Deep Green Bush School, just outside of Clevedon in south Auckland, has ditched the classroom for the outdoors. The nature-immersion school is the first of its kind to be registered with the… Audio

A couple of weeks ago, Napier's city council proposed a bylaw which would mean no chemicals or detergents could enter the city's stormwater network, effectively banning car washing on the side of the… Audio

Auckland's high-decile state schools are topping up their government funding with millions of dollars more than similar schools in other parts of the country thanks to international students and, for… Audio

International students are helping many Auckland schools make millions of dollars, much more than similar schools in other parts of the country.

Macleans College in Auckland reported the single… Audio

The navigator on a Polynesian vaka currently making its way around Aotearoa/New Zealand is helping youth in her native Tahiti to re-learn the ways of the sea. Moeata Galenon is an employment… Video, Audio

Secondary school principals around New Zealand are increasingly worried by delays to regulate the vaping industry.

More than 60 health, community and school organisations have written an open letter… Audio

Early childhood teachers' pay talks have been put on hold because both the employer and the teachers' union say current government funding makes reaching a fair deal impossible. Part way through… Audio

A documentary series that tells the stories of white New Zealanders who are confronting our colonial past and present, 250 years after Cook’s arrival. Video

A curly question in last week's NCEA Level 2 maths exam has prompted dozens of complaints, with a university maths professor saying those who put the test together 'messed up'.

The question asked… Video, Audio

National's agriculture spokesperson Todd Muller wants more balance in how the country's education system portrays farmers.

His comments come in response to a question in a Level 3 English paper that… Audio

The Government has delayed the awarding of tenders to run school buses that carry 40 million children a year after a union raised safety concerns.

Documents show these concerns being raised with… Audio

Insight - The government's school donation scheme has not even started and schools are already looking for ways to push its rules to the limit. John Gerritsen investigates how far they will go to give… Video, Audio

The government's policy to fund schools based on their students, rather than ask families for donations, counterintuitively means some schools will have to make some tough choices. Audio

It has not started yet but some schools are already looking for ways to get around the new system.

Principals have told our education correspondent John Gerritsen that some schools are setting up… Audio