John Gerritsen

Compulsory New Zealand history lessons that start next year may need to come with a warning.

An expert panel has warned the draft Aoteaora New Zealand Histories Curriculum deals with traumatic… Audio

An expert panel has warned that compulsory New Zealand history lessons next year could upset some children and lead to difficult classroom discussions.

The panel convened by the Royal Society of New… Audio

Education is one of the biggest areas of spending for the government at around $18 billion a year.

Schools take a big chunk of that money and they are hoping this week's Budget will provide help with… Audio

An independent report shows the Education Ministry is preparing to take a tougher line on fraud by early childhood services.

The review of a special unit that identified and raided high-risk early… Audio

Thousands of early childhood teachers will get a pay rise next year thanks to a $170-million funding boost announced by the government today.

Education Minister Chris Hipkins says the money will be… Video, Audio

The Government has announced a pay parity plan for some early childhood teachers worth $170 million. In a pre-Budget announcement this morning, the Education Minister Chris Hipkins said the government… Audio

New Zealand teenagers are spending 42 hours a week on the internet - one of the highest figures in the world and double what it was in 2012.

The finding comes from the OECD's Programme for… Audio

It will be months before senior students at Hutt Valley High School are back in the classroom fulltime after being forced out because of toxic mould.

The Education Ministry fronted up to some angry… Audio

Hundreds of teachers are not meeting a mandatory requirement to improve their knowledge of te reo and tikanga Māori.

The Teaching Council says it is taking a cautious approach to the rule, which… Audio

An Auckland school has excluded a boy with autism despite pleas from the Children's Commissioner to let him stay.

Judge Andrew Becroft stepped in after the thirteen-year-old boy asked for his help.

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The mother of an autistic boy says she is heartbroken that her son's school has decided to exclude him, despite the intervention of the Children's Commissioner.

The thirteen-year-old was suspended… Audio

Hutt Valley High School remains hopeful the Education Ministry will demolish and replace a major classroom block that has been closed after the discovery of black mould.

Yesterday, all 1700 students… Audio

The Education Minister has defended his ministry's handling of serious problems that forced Hutt Valley High School to close an entire block of classrooms.

Hundreds of senior students will have to… Audio

Early childhood service owners are wary of plans for a squad to investigate potential fraud and safety failures.

The Education Ministry is reinstating the Provider Assessment Group which ceased… Audio

A special Education Ministry squad investigating potentially dodgy early childhood providers has been on hold since the end of October.

The Provider Assessment Group made surprise visits to high-risk… Audio

Redundancies and funding cuts are putting people who work with international students under increasing pressure.

They say New Zealand will struggle to restore its foreign enrolments if schools… Audio

The number of New Zealanders enrolling in the nation's polytechnics and universities has grown rapidly this year.

The increase in numbers mean some institutions will ask for more government funding… Audio

Some Auckland secondary schools are reporting unusual and unpredictable behaviour from students and they believe the Covid-19 pandemic is to blame.

They say their counselling services are stretched… Audio

The government will be asked to foot the bill as universities report big increases in New Zealand students enrolling.

So far four universities, Canterbury, Victoria, Lincoln and Otago, have revealed… Audio

Half the country's universities are reporting a big jump in enrolments from local New Zealanders.

Canterbury, Victoria, Lincoln and Otago universities are all starting the year with more students… Audio