Education
Primary teacher pay talks begin
Primary teachers' pay talks kick off today with their union, the Educational Institute, seeking a 16 percent pay rise. The institute says a big increase is needed to attract more people into the… Audio
Outcry in Blenheim over review of college merger plan
A $63 million plan to put Marlborough's two main colleges on one site needs to go ahead, the district's mayor says.
Teachers' wish list
Teacher are leaving the profession citing low salaries and being drowned in administration duties. Lynda Stuart of the NZEI tells us what teachers really want. Audio
Emphasise Māori knowledge, students tell summit
The school system should include greater recognition of Māori culture and knowledge, students invited to the government's first education summit say.
Govt will be held to account on education plans - Welby Ings
The Education Minister Chris Hipkins has appointed eight specialist advisors to make sure the Government doesn't lose track of what it's being told as it seeks to launch a sweeping overhaul of the… Audio
Dentists despair over NZ kids' rotting teeth
Dentists despairing over the growing number of children with rotting teeth say the only real cure is ending poverty. Children as young as 18 months have teeth so badly decayed they have to be pulled… Audio
What next for NZ's education system? Chris Hipkins responds
Education Minister Chris Hipkins discusses plans for the future of education in New Zealand with Susie Ferguson. He says at the weekend's education summit participants ranked health and wellbeing… Audio
Calls for change from education summit
The government has kicked off its quest to develop a vision for the future of education with the first of two summits. Education Minister Chris Hipkins compared the work of nearly 800 invited… Audio
Education system 'needs to change' - summit
Nearly 800 people shared their goals for the education system at a weekend event aimed at helping the government develop a vision for the future of education. The education summit in Christchurch… Audio
Govt moves to address dwindling teacher numbers
The Education Minister has released a strategy to help address the looming teacher shortage.
'The children have no books in their language'
A group of linguists from the University of Auckland is trying to help save a local language under threat in Papua New Guinea. They've been running literature workshops in Bougainville with the aim of… Audio, Gallery
'Can't allow another generation to slip through the educational cracks'
The head of a new panel set to review New Zealand's education system does not want to see another generation "slip through the educational cracks".
Summit sets sights on making NZ education best in world
A "nationwide conversation" on how to make New Zealand's education system the best in the world will be led by Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft.
David Klein - Plant Man
David Klein is a science communicator based in Wellington. Last summer he cycled around the country presenting Tour de Science - a show that explained how all the big things in the universe are made… Audio
Medical Museums: scholastic, or just sickening?
Dr Simon Chaplin is director of culture and society at London's Wellcome Trust, the world's second largest non-governmental funder of medical research, and co-founder of the Human Genome Project… Audio
Photography project aims to capture child's-eye view
A project that gives primary school children disposable cameras so they can shoot the world as they see it is being rolled out around the country.
Smile! You're on Candid Camera - primary school style
The national launch of the My World My Vision project, which will see 400 disposable cameras distributed to children, took place at Laingholm Primary School in West Auckland. Video, Audio
Education funding gap 'no surprise' - National
Claims of a funding shortfall left by the former government have spread from health to education.
Children in low-income areas speak better Māori
Children in low-income neighbourhoods are an average of two years ahead of those in affluent areas in a test of te reo Māori, a study has found. Audio
Māori children learning te reo better in low decile schools
Children from low and mid-decile schools have recorded the highest average scores in a national test of te reo Māori. The National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement assessed children in Years 4… Audio
