Education reporter, NZ Herald
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Principal to iwi after land return: 'You're the boss now'
Five Rotorua schools have lifted Māori achievement to the same as other students.
Record deal: Iwi buys land under top Auckland school for $97m
The college becomes our 145th school transferred to iwi under treaty settlements.
'Bureaucratic lunacy': Boy banned from bus, told to use $2300-a-year taxi
Parents say a taxi will cost taxpayers far more than letting their son on a school bus.
NZ's new Covid job market: Hundreds rush into real estate to catch boom
Job losses and a booming property market are driving hundreds into real estate.
Campbells Bay School pōhutukawa saved
Group hopes saving the trees will set a precedent for future school designs.
Huge leap in mothers in distress, financial hardship in Auckland lockdown
Charity data points to significant job losses in Auckland's lockdown.
Papatoetoe High School principal in the eye of the Covid storm
Papatoetoe High School principal has been a voice of empathy in an angry storm.
PM and principal's 'frank' talk on Covid victims' social media pile-on
'Until you have walked in the shoes of somebody you don't know what they're experiencing.'
'Level 3 lite': Attending school is 'parent's judgment'
"It is the parent's judgment as to whether or not their child needs to be at school."
MIT student leader urges 'give South Auckland a break'
'We are just asking for a little more support to our community.'
Students 'incredibly disappointed', orientation scrapped
"We really wanted to give new students that first-year experience."
Auckland parents 'gutted' over latest lockdown
"I stress about it all. But it's the right thing to do." - Loren Duly, mother
Covid-19: MIT student studied above Manukau rail station
Student studied at venue on top of Manukau rail station and next to main bus station.
'Dark hole in the soul': The Covid generation's final-year school kids
"Bad things might happen, and you just have to take it and go with it."
Legal fight for disabled children heads to court
Human Rights Review Tribunal picks up legal claim filed in 2008.
Teacher deregistered after marrying girl he taught in primary school
Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal says teacher's misconduct was "at the most extreme".
Children barred from school bus by 1904 law
Parents are driving kids to school because of a 1904 law barring them from school buses.
Wellwishers cheer Papatoetoe High School
'We are pretty chill right now': Students get on with studies despite crisis.
Papatoetoe High School willing to 'pay the price' to get rest of NZ open again
"If that's the price we pay to get the economy back and rolling again, we'll pay it!"
School lunches feed pensioners in lockdown
"I didn't realise it was so good, and I'm grateful that the kids are getting this."
'Good news' turns bad at Papatoetoe High School
High school staff test negative - "no news is good news".
Lockdown family's Wi-Fi nightmare
'I got like really stressed about it because I love my teacher.'
Papatoetoe High staff test negative
Three out of five teachers considered 'close contacts' have tested negative so far.
Empty schools, kindies as lockdown starts
All but 11 of Auckland Kindergarten Association's 120 kindies are empty.
'A couple of hours long': Papatoetoe High School families at testing station told go elsewhere
Two-hour wait in the rain for Covid testing at Papatoetoe High School.
Schools swing into gear - no holiday this time
No holiday for kids as Zoom classes gear up again.
Kiwi kids in world's largest trial of games to teach self-control
BestStart will test games to improve self-control with 1600 children.
On-job teacher training scheme postponed
Kiwis return from overseas to train as teachers - even in maths and science.
Worried parents swamp tuition firms after NZ school maths achievement slumps
'Overseas this is the norm, and we're seeing it increasingly ... adopted by NZ families.'
Review slams AUT 'culture of not resolving issues'
AUT head Derek McCormack has apologised but will not resign.
NZ history curriculum slammed as 'unbalanced'
Draft curriculum proposes 'three big ideas' - all about Māori and colonisation.
Maths results hit record low: Experts called in to help students
Principals say there's a void of leadership in maths education.
Maths failures: It doesn't add up
How can we turn around a 27-year decline in our knowledge of maths?
Back to school: Kiwis returning due to Covid ease teacher shortage
Teaching vacancies listed in January dropped by a third from January last year.
Feeding hungry kids: Forward one step, back one step
About 640 schools will start getting free school lunches, but 1300 have lost free milk.
Boys' schools ask parents to pay more in voluntary donations
'Boys get the priority', says McAuley High School principal Jan Waelen.
Reading revolution: The new way your kids will be taught to read
Schools are getting 2.4m copies of new phonics-based reading books - will they work?
How to teach skills for workplace of next generation
Teachers aim to lift students' aspirations above mere grades.
War of words as experts clash over how to teach kids to read
Debate raging between experts on whether phonics is the way to teach reading or a "fad".
NCEA-lite? Lockdown credits questioned after schools boast best-ever results
Bonus credits have averted a drop in NCEA pass rates despite Covid lockdowns.
School computer network blocks 2000 online threats a minute
Threats included a spike in the first week after schools reopened following the lockdown.
Covid generation's NCEA moment of truth
Schools are anxious to see what impact lockdowns had on NCEA achievement.
Covid hits children's enjoyment of learning
ERO recommends mentoring programmes to help students enjoy learning after Covid.
Students face emotional challenge confronting NZ history, study warns
Teachers will need to respond to students' emotions when they learn about NZ history.
Commercial contractors win school lunch tender
Big companies get most school lunch contracts as time pressure overrules local jobs.
Kids say: Lasagne please, but no fish
Lasagne proves the most popular dish in school lunch scheme.
City tragedy: A sad, synthetics-induced death on Queen St
Grim moment on the Golden Mile as homeless man dies on a prime strip of Queen St.
NZ door opening for 500 students a month?
Decision expected soon on next cohort of overseas students coming into NZ.
Covid kept rich kids in school, scared poor kids away
Second lockdown in August affected Auckland students' attendance rates more.
Kiwi kids slide further in maths and science
Expert says streaming excludes some kids from challenging maths problems.
An Auckland school's symbol is the pōhutukawa. Now it's clashing with parents over plan to cut seven down
Campbells Bay School's symbol is a pōhutukawa - but it plans to fell its seven trees.
Tiny school sent staff to Disneyland
The Audit Office names multiple schools for accounting breaches.
Another cannabis referendum? Vote proposed on decriminalisation
Citizen-initiated referendum proposed on decriminalising cannabis.
New study: Why are Kiwi kids falling behind in reading?
A new study has identified a key cause behind our children's falling reading skills.
NZ buys another Covid vaccine, mandatory masks from today
Second vaccine will be available in the third quarter of 2021.
Schools in talks with Govt to get 150 foreign students and parents into NZ
Families would pay for their stay in quarantine hotels.
Barber shops shut in Auckland CBD - 'blame Mayor Goff'
Barber shop directs complaints to Phil Goff after closing three stores.
What's your qualification worth? Use our calculator to find out
Does it pay to get a degree? It all depends on what you study.
PhD students told: 'Take a break, pick fruit'
Foreign doctoral students advised to take a 'holiday' and pick fruit.
Exam blunder: Students given wrong test paper - and no one realised
Level 2 students were given a Level 3 exam by mistake.
Mother allegedly assaults 13yo boy on school grounds at lunchtime
'I haven't seen anything like it,' principal says. Police are now investigating.
Lottery proposed to ease 'genius' test for medicine
Medical students suffer breakdowns under pressure to achieve 95 per cent grades.
Queen St schools and shops close as Covid bites
A sixth Queen St campus is closing and 40 Queen St shops are now vacant.
Iwi buys four Auckland schools for $50m-plus
Iwi buys four North Shore and West Auckland schools in $50m deal.
Covid brings Air NZ flight attendant down to earth
Former teachers return to the classroom after airline jobs disappear.
'Mixed messages': Auckland Covid pub owner sent to isolation - while his 73yo mum stays home
Greenhithe pub owner sent to Jet Park because he lives with his mum, aged 73.
Election 2020: Our diverse 40 new MPs
Who are they? They include our first African, Latin American and Sri Lankan MPs.
High-profile Nat MPs Brownlee, Smith, Bishop set to lose seats
Up to 20 seats could change hands tonight, most - but not all - to Labour.
NZ opens door for 250 graduate students
Government will let in 250 postgraduate students from next month.
Communities split over free school lunches
Full list: Which schools will get free school lunches?
Free school lunches: Wellington and South Island
Full list: Who gets free school lunches in Wellington and the South Island.
Free school lunches: North Island (except Wellington)
Full list: North Island schools getting free school lunches (except Wellington).
'Deluded' child-led teaching blamed for NZ's education slide
Business think-tank blames NZ educational decline on our 'child-centred' teaching.
Hundreds of academics face redundancy as universities try to claw back millions of dollars
Hundreds of academic jobs at risk if NZ border stays closed.
Principal gives up office as school roll swells
Students learn in the old staffroom, offices and library as school outgrows space.
Teacher hit boy on head to teach psychology
Teacher struck student's head to teach about rewards and punishments.
Auckland Grammar accused of racist anti-Asian school assembly skit
Students reportedly handed out Oscars for maths and science to "Ching" and "Chong".
Hundreds of teachers' jobs at risk as foreign students dwindle
Banning foreign students may cost hundreds of teachers' jobs.
NZ bars manager for 86 new childcare workers
Childcare centre manager for 86 planned staff blocked by border closure.