Education
Does NZ education policy align with recognised research?
Educator, researcher and parenting commentator Nathan Mikaere-Wallis of X Factor Education talks about the international research on what works in schools, and discusses how consistent New Zealand is… Audio
'Wagbot' gives school kids instant legal info
Children can get legal information about their rights at school at their fingertips, after a community law service developed a mobile chatbot.
Program gives school children instant legal advice
Teachers might need to be more careful when handing out detentions and suspensions thanks to a new system that advises children on their rights at school through their mobile phone. Audio
Watchdog group in PNG hopes to extend civics education
Transparency International Papua New Guinea is hoping to extend its civics education in schools' project. Audio
NZQA taking tougher line on low quality
An umbrella group for private tertiary institutions is welcoming what it says is NZQA's tougher stance on rooting out poor performers.
Engaging youth in civics
Only about 62 percent of 18-24 bothered to vote in the 2014 General Election. A group of teenagers wants to change that. They've set up the organisation Active Citizenship Aotearoa. Audio
Kōhanga Reo trust defends trustee dismissal
The Kōhanga Reo National Trust is defending its decision to dismiss a trustee whose actions prompted the Serious Fraud Office to investigate the trust's commerical arm.
NZQA missed red flags - tertiary institution body
A private tertiary institution group says there were lots of red flags the Qualifications Authority missed in letting disgraced Linguis International Institute operate as long as it did. Quality… Audio
Tertiary institution shut down over plagiarism problems
Students at a disgraced tertiary institution were getting away with cheating and being given doubtful pass marks for years before it was shut down.The Qualifications Authority this week deregistered… Audio
University can't meet demand for food parcels
Seventeen percent of the nearly 2000 students surveyed by Unitec regularly go without food or other neccessities because they can't afford them. Audio
Students getting 'terrible mixed message' on tourism careers
Tourism and hospitality careers are under-valued, despite being the country's largest export earner, and should be made University Entrance subjects again, a lecturer says. Audio
Students financial pressures
Students are going without food and even considering dropping out because of money worries. Audio
Private tertiary institution closed after widespread plagiarism
Widespead plagiarism and overcrowding has forced the closure of a private tertiary institution that once had 1000 foreign students enrolled.
17 percent of students can't afford food - study
'A couple of years ago we were talking about students only living on two-minute noodles, what you see in this survey is that one in seven students can't even afford those two-minute noodles.' Audio
Students go hungry to afford tertiary study
A new survey of Unitec students has found that Tertiary students are "regularly going without food or other necessities" because they can't afford them. The National President of the New Zealand… Audio
Labour to cut student visas and levy tourists
Labour leader Andrew Little says his party would cut thousands of visas for low-quality courses and introduce a tourist levy. Audio
Jackson refuses to be silenced by Ngaro 'threat'
Labour Party candidate Willie Jackson says he won't be keeping his mouth shut, despite an apparent threat from cabinet minister Alfred Ngaro. Video, Audio
Computing the truth
Professor Greenberg, from Victoria's School of Mathematics and Statistics, is a world-leading researcher in the area of mathematical logic - the part of mathematics that regards language as an object… Audio
Tertiary institutions face sanctions over Indian study visas
Fifteen tertiary institutions have missed a government target for reducing the number of failed study visa applications by Indian students.
15 institutions face sanctions over Indian study visas
A crack-down on international students from India has seen 15 tertiary institutions risk being penalised after missing a government target for sorting out incorrect and fraudulent study visa… Audio
