Education
Heavy demand for Canterbury University accommodation
Canterbury University has seen a large increase in demand for student accommodation, with more than half of the applicants missing out on a place this year. University of Canterbury Students'… Audio
WelTec and Whitireia students and staff in limbo over proposed closure
Last month the polytechnic revealed a plan to cut nearly 60 positions and over a dozen programmes.
More 15-year-olds being allowed to drop out of school
Some schools facing the most socio-economic barriers had early leaving rates up to 18 times higher than the overall numbers.
Auditor-General asked to look into food waste from school lunch programme
Campaigners say unopened lunches are a small fraction of the programme's waste problem. Audio
Campaigners ask Auditor-General to look into food waste from school lunches programme
Anti-food-waste campaigners have asked the Auditor-General to look into wastage in the school lunch programme as part of his inquiry into the scheme. New Zealand Food Waste Champions executive… Audio
Schools making own lunches without govt funding
Schools that make their own lunches for students, despite reduced funding from the government scheme, are using more lentils and less yoghurt to make ends meet. Education correspondent John Gerritsen… Audio
New digital whodunnit series spotlights epidemic of image-based abuse
A new digital whodunnit comedy series puts the spotlight on the dangers and growing epidemic of image-based abuse and bullying. Inspired by millennial television shows like Gossip Girl, The Sender is… Audio
Māori, Pacific removed from extra education funding priorities
Subsidies for disabled and students with low prior educational achievement will continue.
Foreign students paid $1b in fees last year
But the fees were about $100 million less than the pre-pandemic years of 2018 and 2019.
ECE centres struggling with underfunding, teacher shortages
Early childhood teachers and managers have said centres are struggling with teacher shortages, low enrolments and insufficient government funding. Some are alarmed by surprise changes to pay parity… Audio
Another school brings back traditional single-cell rooms
Shirley Boys High School is spending $800,000 to transform its open plan classrooms, built in 2019, into single-cell rooms.
Second Christchurch school ditches open plan classrooms
A second Christchurch school has made the costly move to ditch its near-new open plan classrooms. Rachel Graham has more. Audio
'Unnerving': Pay changes add more anxiety in childhood education
Some say centres are struggling with teacher shortages, low enrolments and inadequate government funding.
Trust faces criminal charges after boy badly burned on school trip
The nine-year-old boy was placed in a medically-induced coma.
Te Pūkenga disestablishment 'will not be completely equitable'
Polytechnics are unlikely to emerge from Te Pūkenga with the savings or debt they took into the mega-institute.
Closing the gaps for our tradies
Next, the call for a new national portal, to make it easier for trades apprentices to qualify and find placements. Audio
Makereti Papakura's whanau excited about Oxford Masters
Makereti (Maggie) Papakura's relative, June Northcroft Grant, tells us what her posthumous degree from Oxford means to her whanau Audio
Should young people have access to social media?
The push to get under-16-year-olds off social media is a cause that's united some high-powered women from all walks of life.
B416 group is parenting in action
The push to get under-16 year olds off social media is a cause that's united some high-powered women from all walks of life. Audio
Universities will be weakened by Budget focus on STEM and science - professor
The Budget allowed an emergency two-year four percent funding boost to lapse. Audio
