John Gerritsen

NCEA results are out today and 140,000 teenagers will find out whether or not they passed.

Many principals were confident last year their students would be fine, but others warned the pandemic had… Audio

The Education Review Office has warned that some children lost ten weeks of learning in last year's lockdowns.

It surveyed thousands of students and teachers and says anxiety and under-achievement… Audio

A quarter of Auckland's five-hundred schools enrolled more students than their official classroom capacity by the middle of the year.

Education Ministry figures show the 130 schools exceeded their… Audio

New Zealand's 13-year-olds have recorded their worst-ever results in a major international maths and science test.

Their scores in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study or TIMSS… Audio

Principals hope frustrating delays in building new classrooms will soon be a thing of the past.

The Education Ministry is developing a catalogue of tried and tested designs schools can choose from to… Audio

Rural schools that are hard to staff are finding it harder than ever to recruit enough teachers for next year.

Principals say it's already difficult to attract New Zealand teachers to jobs in the… Audio

The government is hoping a deal with a British company will help revive the $5 billion foreign student industry when the borders reopen.

It has announced New Zealand's eight universities will… Audio

The Auditor-General has warned the pandemic is putting hundreds of millions of dollars of school income at risk.

In his report on this year's audits of school accounts John Ryan says schools earned… Audio

Academics and teachers are warning that a new mandatory NCEA literacy and numeracy test could be too tough for some pupils.

The Education Ministry has unveiled draft versions of standards that… Audio

Qualifications Authority figures show teenagers ended October with about 300,000 fewer NCEA results in the bag than at the same time last year.

The figures also show big variations in the way… Audio

The number of teenagers leaving school without a qualification is creeping up and last year reached levels not seen since 2014.

New figures show nearly 7500 or 12 percent of last year's school… Audio

The number of teenagers leaving school with no qualification rose for the second consecutive year in 2019, with boys and Māori worst off.

Education Ministry figures show 12 percent of last year's… Audio

Seven-and-a-half thousand teenagers left school without a qualification last year. The figure represents 12 percent of 2019's school leavers, that's one percentage point up from the previous year. In… Audio

The Education Ministry is advising schools not to practise violent offender drills with their students because they might cause fear and anxiety.

It also told them that teachers cannot stop parents… Audio

Christchurch principals are doubtful about official advice that they should not practice lockdown drills with their pupils.

The Education Ministry says drills for violent situations could cause fear… Audio

A thousand early childhood teachers have so little confidence in the early learning centres they work in that they wouldn't send their own children there.

The teachers were among 4000 who responded… Audio

NCEA and Scholarship exams start this morning, marking the beginning of the end of a school year disrupted by the pandemic.

Today's exams are ten days later than originally planned, a delay designed… Audio

Rule changes that will make it easier to crack down on dodgy early childhood centres are on the cards for next year.

Ministerial documents show the overhaul has been sparked by a rising number of… Audio

The Education Ministry is preparing to take a tougher line on early childhood centres that repeatedly breach minimum standards.

It is planning rule changes that will make it easier to direct early… Audio