John Gerritsen

Education Minister Chris Hipkins has stepped in to try to broker an end to the teacher strikes that are causing massive disruption around New Zealand.

On Tuesday thousands of Year 9 students have a… Audio

Parents are bracing themselves to cope with five weeks of industrial action from secondary teachers. Video, Audio

Susie Ferguson presents coverage of the 2018 Budget, with expert analysis and commentary from RNZ correspondents. Audio

Susie Ferguson presents coverage of the 2018 Budget, with expert analysis and commentary from RNZ correspondents. Audio

Thousands of teachers chanted, shouted and marched in towns and cities around the country today in the first ever joint strike by primary and secondary school teachers. They say the government's offer… Video, Audio

An unprecedented joint strike by primary, secondary and area school teachers could close more than 2,000 schools, keeping more than 700,000 children at home.

Members of the Educational Institute and… Audio

Primary, secondary and area school teachers are banding together for an historic joint strike in support of their pay claims on Wednesday.

In Hawke's Bay, 95 percent of schools have told the Ministry… Audio

Thousands of children called on adults to get real about climate change in mass protests around the country today. Video, Audio, Gallery

Secondary school principals are the latest group of school staff to lodge a pay claim with the Education Ministry. They're after a 15 percent pay rise, another week of annual leave and $1000 a year to… Audio

The Qualifications Authority has delivered a humiliating blow to a struggling polytechnic, Unitec, lowering its quality rating and describing its educational performance as marginal. Unitec is now in… Audio

Has the government's tertiary fees-free policy failed? RNZ education correspondent John Gerritsen joins Susie Ferguson with the analysis. Audio

The government has announced an overhaul of NCEA, which will put more emphasis on external assessment and stop students from cherry picking which standards they will attempt. Education Correspondent… Video, Audio

The Education Minister says imminent strike action by teachers is unjustified. Chris Hipkins says the government's $1.2 billion offer is the largest in a decade and the strike won't achieve any… Audio

After 30 years of Tomorrow's Schools, the goverrnment's looking at a shake up that might just take us full circle.  Audio

Parents and special needs experts are fed up with teachers who refuse to change the way they teach to help children with learning or behaviour problems. They say children are misbehaving and having… Audio

The government is hoping a combination of scholarships and school-based training will head off a shortfall of nearly 2500 teachers by 2025. Education Correspondent John Gerritsen reports. Audio

The government is considering a "national interest test" for screening major investments by foreign companies, saying it needs the power to stop purchases that might harm public health and safety or… Audio

Less than four weeks after a terrorist attacked two Christchurch mosques Parliament has passed a law banning the semi-automatic weapons he used to kill 50 people. MPs voted near unanimously last night… Audio

Schools in the poorest communities are doing just as good a job as those in the richest, according to research by the New Zealand Initiative think tank. It has figured out how much of a students'… Audio