John Gerritsen
Disappearing students: How NZ is wasting opportunities with our Chinese graduates
More than 100,000 Chinese students have studied in New Zealand in the past 20 years. What impact do those graduates have on the China-New Zealand relationship and is New Zealand making the most of… Audio
Secondary principals abandon pay talks, consider strikes
The government is facing the prospect of yet more strikes in schools.
Secondary principals have walked away from their pay talks with the Education Ministry, with unions saying it doesn't have enough… Audio
Education: Principals' boycott delays Ministry decisions
Primary and intermediate school principals say their refusal to cooperate with the Education Ministry is putting the ministry under pressure.
Educational Institute members started the boycott in July… Audio
Govt downplays potential job losses in polytech overhaul
The government is playing down the prospect of job losses in the wake of its decision to can the 11 industry training organisations and amalgamate all 16 polytechnics into one institution.
The… Audio
Polytechnics set for biggest ever shake-up in NZ history
By this time next year, the nation's 16 polytechnics will be rolled into a single super institute with more than 100,000 students and responsibility for nearly all of the country's on-the-job… Video, Audio
AUT denies political pressure behind room cancellation
AUT is denying the Chinese government pressured it into cancelling a booking for an event marking the 30th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Audio
Youth climate strikers seek trade union support
Organisers of the youth-driven climate change movement, School Strike for Climate, want adults to down tools and join in.
They're approaching unions to get their support for a general strike at the… Audio
Tertiary enrolment rates fall by a third
Men have been opting out of tertiary education at a greater rate than women and polytechnics are bearing the brunt.
Ministry of Education figures show the percentage of the adult population enrolling… Audio
Education Minister refuses 'crisis' meeting with ECE groups
Four of the biggest early childhood groups are seeking a crisis meeting with the Education Minister, Chris Hipkins, over the state of their sector. They say centres are struggling to survive because… Audio
ECE centres worried about kindergarten pay rises
Early childhood services are worried a huge pay disparity for their teachers will get even worse if kindergartens get the same big pay rises that school teachers won last month.
They say their… Audio
Kindergarten teachers seek pay rise
Kindergarten teachers have become the latest group of teachers to ask the government for a big pay rise. RNZ education correspondent, John Gerritsen, has the details. Audio
Principals preparing for next round in pay battle
Primary school teachers have resoundingly voted to accept the Government's latest pay proposal – but primary principals have rejected their latest offer.
RNZ's education correspondent, John… Audio
Primary, intermediate principals reject pay offer
Primary and intermediate school principals have rejected the latest government offer, holding out for pay parity with secondary principals and higher salaries for those at the helm of the smallest… Audio
Record number of early childhood complaints
The Education Ministry investigated and upheld a record number of complaints about early childhood services last year. The investigations resulted in 19 referrals to police and 22 to the Teaching… Audio
2018-19 a horror financial year for polytechs
Polytechnics had a horror year last year losing tens of millions of dollars as student enrolments at most of the 16 institutions continued to fall.
And it's not going to get better any time soon with… Audio
High decile schools disadvantaged by donation policy
Principals at high decile schools have warned MPs that they are tackling problems like incest and drug addiction and they shouldn't be excluded from the government's policy of scrapping donations. Audio
Pay offer 'gutting' for principals of small schools
The pay offers aimed at breaking the deadlock in the teachers' pay dispute have come as a kick in the guts for hundreds of small primary school principals, who say they will end up receiving less pay… Audio
Secondary teachers call off strike next week
The secondary teachers union has called off a series of rolling one-day strikes scheduled for next week. Does this signify a breakthrough in the talks between the Post Primary Teachers Association and… Audio
Principals fear missing out on learning support leaders
Principals are anxious their school might miss out on one of the 600 new learning support coordinators who will organise help for children with special needs from next year.
The government announced… Audio
Better pay offers essential to settling industrial stalemate - principals
School principals warn that talks aimed at solving the industrial stalemate between the government and teacher unions will fail unless the government improves its pay offers to teachers. Audio