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The Government has promised to lift the achievement of school students as results show national pass rates for most NCEA…

1. Preschools may get right to bar unvaccinated children

The Government is again releasing National Standards data later this month in a new standardised format that will seem to…

1. Rule enforcer ticketed, towed

The Minister of Education could be given the power to appoint Teachers Council members and the council…

1. Teachers' sin a school secret

I am sitting at the back of a university physics class while the students cluster in small groups around the whiteboards…

1. Kiwis creating technology to help autistic kids

The Pacific community has stamped its mark firmly on New Zealand society. There are 20,000 more Niueans living here than…

1. Social housing legislation passes first hurdle

In the wake of the Novopay debacle and other underwhelming government IT projects, Inland Revenue is embarking on the biggest…

1. Tardy student borrowers owe $427m

School children are being taught how to read and write by watching Hollywood blockbusters with subtitles.

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A school breakfast programme run by Fonterra and Sanitarium may be extended to five days a week with…

1. Jacinda Ardern: Govt must improve the lot of our children (59 comments)

There won't be any changes to legislation around the controversial partnership schools despite opposition parties continuing…

1. Charter schools fall in

A powerful earthquake has hit Russia's Far East with slight tremors spreading westwards as far as Moscow. Marina Kolomiyets…