John Gerritsen

Government agencies are encouraging every foreign student in the country to stay here for the summer.

The campaign by Education New Zealand and other organisations is part tourism promotion and part… Audio

The government is redirecting millions of dollars from attracting foreign teachers and using it instead to pay for more New Zealanders to train as teachers.

It is doubling to 540 the number of places… Audio

Fifty schools have changed their minds on the government's school donation scheme.

Forty-five eligible schools are opting into the scheme for the first time next year and five are leaving it.

The… Audio

The Education Ministry has confirmed NCEA and Scholarship exams could go ahead if the covid alert level were to rise back up to three.

Principals had worried a level three lockdown might force the… Audio

Principals are blaming conspiracy theories about the pandemic and economic turmoil for persistently low school attendance in Northland.

Education Ministry figures show average daily attendance in the… Audio

Northland principals have warned that conspiracy theories about the pandemic and economic turmoil are harming school attendance in Northland.

Education Ministry figures show average daily attendance… Audio

More than 1000 student teachers can graduate with less classroom experience than usual after the Teaching Council lowered its minimum standards.

The pandemic has hampered students' ability to go into… Audio

Schools are starting to consider laying off extra teachers they have been paying for with fees from foreign students.

They and polytechnics, universities and private institutions are turning their… Audio

Auckland principals are confident changes to the NCEA have not undermined the qualification's credibility.

The government is allowing the city's students to earn more bonus credits than teens in… Audio

The principal of Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate Senior School wants the Qualifications Authority to let schools decide if their students should sit NCEA exams in November. Kiri Turketo, says many… Audio

Some high-decile schools are facing shortfalls of many thousands of dollars from donations and fundraising this year because of the pandemic.

Principals say it's a combination of economic hardship in… Audio

A Whakatāne primary school is disappointed it is the only school in the town that is not in the government's free school lunch scheme.

St Joseph's Catholic School is worried it will lose enrolments… Audio

Auckland pre-schools are worried they won't survive if the city's level three lockdown extends into next week. Under level three rules, only the children of essential workers and those who cannot stay… Audio

Auckland school principals are worried the three-day shutdown of the city's schools will be extended. The move to level three has sent about 250-thousand children home. Steve Hargreaves from the… Audio

Hundreds of principals are urging the government to scrap a divisive education scheme that costs a $100 million a year, most of it in extra pay for teachers and principals.

The Principals Federation… Audio

The Principals Federation wants the government to stop spending a hundred-million-dollars a year on the previous government's flagship education scheme, the communities of learning.

The scheme pays… Audio

Staff at fifteen Otago schools have reported more than 200 verbal and physical attacks in a five week survey. Teachers, principals and teacher aides say they were punched, slapped, kicked and sworn… Audio

School principals are disappointed with law changes the government has made for the physical restraint of children. It gave teachers and principals just a day to respond to the plans, which will allow… Audio

Schools, universities and polytechnics are figuring out what to do with thousands of foreign students who will have to stay in the country over the summer holidays.

There are about 50,000… Audio

Principals say the Covid-19 border restrictions will stop them hiring foreign teachers to fill next year's vacancies.

They say they are still struggling with a shortage of good teachers and they want… Audio