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Mark Bracey: Why phonics isn't the silver bullet to improved reading

Opinion: Learning to read can come naturally as a child is exposed to text in a fun way.

Summer reads: Tertiary education, training courses, jobs - your best Covid-based options

What kind of training will lead to secure jobs as we recover from the Covid recession?

Who benefits from fees-free? The swing from polytechnic to university

More than three-quarters of fees-free students came from decile 6 to 10 schools

Shock after much-loved Canterbury school principal's sudden holiday death

Alan John Sutton died of a heart attack while in Ashburton on Sunday.

Summer reads: Unravelling the world of early childhood education

How to find a way through the myriad of daycare options.

New opportunity to be 'good Treaty partner'

Tāwhiao McMaster says history must reflect Māori as well as Pākeha versions of events.

Private v public schools - what's best for your kids?

When it comes to schooling, can money buy success?

Summer jobs for students: Who's hiring - and what they'll pay

Plenty of young people want - or need - to earn while they don't learn.

Home-schooling enrolments soar due to Covid

The Covid-19 pandemic has driven NZ's biggest-ever increase in home-schooling enrolments.

Kids allegedly locked in rooms, smacked, fed mouldy food: Daycare centre probed

Parents say children were locked in rooms, smacked, and fed mouldy bread.

Emily Baragwanath: Why kill Latin studies?

Opinion: If education isn't about raising aspirations then what is it about?

Bad timing: 2871 new Auckland CBD students units offered, planned

Twin-block planned when international students were plentiful.

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.

Massey professors hit out over controversial science shake-up

More than 70 Massey professors make rare and direct appeal to chancellor over shake-up.

Local Focus: Building future scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians

Getting kids to solve problems "from the ground up". Made with funding from NZ On Air.