John Gerritsen

Today's announcement follows a series of trials with Year 10 students that found many didn't know how to use capital letters and full stops and didn't know there were 60 minutes in an hour.

Universities and students' associations warn rising living costs are hitting students especially hard this year.

Universities' arms-race against cheats took a step forward today with the activation of software that can detect the use of Artificial Intelligence systems such as ChatGPT.

Poor results in trial NCEA tests have been heart-breaking for teachers and students in Pacific nations.

An independent evaluation says it is likely the design of new NCEA maths and writing tests is unfair on Māori and Pacific teenagers.

Teachers and principals are warning they cannot cope with the pace and scale of changes to the school system.

All five North Island universities say they have started the year with fewer full-time-equivalent domestic students than the same time last year. Audio

A small King Country training centre double-claimed government funding for hundreds of students even after it had been told not to.

The figure was among several paragraphs marked for deletion in a ministerial briefing published by the Ministry of Education.

Thousands of striking teachers rallied, chanted and shouted at Education Minister Jan Tinetti in the first ever strike involving kindergarten, primary and secondary school teachers.

Thousands of teachers are walking off the job over stalled pay talks with the Ministry of Education.

The Education Review Office says schools must do more to stop racist bullying of children from ethnic communities. Audio

Some early childhood centres do not know how they will cover the cost of pay parity for their teachers.

The Early Childhood Council warns some early childhood centres have blundered into pay parity for their teachers and cannot afford it.

Schools in Wellington and Auckland will suffer the biggest losses as the population of school children drops during the next 10 years.

This year's expected strike of about 50,000 school and kindergarten teachers comes after years of pandemic-driven disruptions and soon after cyclone-related school closures.

Some teachers agree the Qualifications Authority unwittingly made trial NCEA literacy and numeracy tests too difficult last year.

High failure rates in new literacy and numeracy tests have led to friction between the Qualifications Authority and Ministry of Education. Audio

Principals of the most flood-damaged schools say it will be many weeks before they reopen their classrooms.

Universities are encouraging students to attend their lectures in-person in an attempt to avoid a repeat of last year's often-deserted lecture theatres.

Covid, bad weather and the price of petrol are among the challenges schools have encountered in their first few days of the new school year.

Education Ministry figures show serious truancy spiked last year, with nearly 40 percent more than in 2021.

A group of health experts is urging the government to expand its free lunch scheme to more schools.

Flooding in Auckland has dashed hopes of a trouble-free start to the school year but principals are confident their biggest problem of the past three years, Covid-19, will cause a lot less disruption…

Members of the secondary school teachers' union are poised to take industrial action from next week.