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Universities say travel ban has done 'incalculable' damage to China relationship.
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Well-known scientist calls on Massey not to cull only biology course of its kind in NZ.
'Good on ya': Parents respond to dangerous Auckland school parking
This battle with parents' school parking is just the tip of the road cone.
Environmental education expo to engage youth
New Zealand's youngest district councillor will feature as the keynote speaker.
Christchurch mosque hero still can't sleep: 'I could have done better'
One year on, counselling has not erased the trauma.
Mosque-attack victims remembered: 'The world weeps,' students sing in moving waiata
Manurewa school composes song for mosque attack victims.
Focus: 160 students perform waiata for Linwood Mosque leaders
Focus: A massed choir of 160 students in James Cook High School's Māori immersion unit Puutake sang a specially-composed waiata for leaders of Christchurch's Linwood Mosque, who visited the school one year after the March 2019 attacks. Video / Sylvie Whinray
Are these Auckland's worst school pick-up parents?
Jenni Mortimer uncovers outrageous number of parents pinged for school parking offences.
Mum to call for review of school's moustache policy
The review will consider whether the moustache policy will go.
New data to reveal New Zealand's best high schools
Researchers claim to have found fairer way to measure rich and poor schools' performances.
Teachers to use digital atlas of original Māori names in lessons
Digital atlas can now be used to teach school students about colonisation.
Massey scientists fear jobs will be scrapped before 'innovation complex' opens
Massey scientists who advised on new complex fear they'll lose their jobs before it opens.
Australian 3-year-old boy who died on bus farewelled
Toddler was found dead on a childcare bus hours after he was supposed to be dropped off.
Are we doing enough to prepare kids for the water?
A grieving mother has issued a plea for swimming lessons to be mandatory for all children.
Watch: Kiwi mum's heartbreaking plea after disabled 12yo 'attacked' at school
"I am my daughter's voice and I will scream to be heard if need be. Bullying is not okay."
Jake Bailey: Finding you can be right but still wrong
COMMENT: Just because you ask why doesn't mean you will get the right answer.
Kiwi scientists critical to coronavirus test device fear for jobs
They helped develop a NZ-made device to test for Covid-19. Now they fear for their jobs.
Principal self-isolates after Italy trip, visits school first
Principal of Albany Senior High visited northern Italy last week and has self-isolated.
Letters: There's nothing wrong with renting
Rental housing was the easiest, most economical way to move from one place to another.
'White middle-class' fight over housing near school
Kiwibuild developer lashes out at 'little white middle-class community'.
Alwyn Poole: Point poverty finger here
Comment: 'Poorly aimed interventions are of no use what-so-ever.'
Universities warn more staff cuts on the horizon
Universities are grappling with the financial losses from the coronavirus travel ban.
More teachers staying in the classroom into their 70s
The number working past retirement age has also more than doubled in the past 10 years.
Yolanda Huo: Is Latin dead?
COMMENT: No wonder NZ's level of numeracy, literacy and science has declined since 2009.
Coronavirus classroom fears: Agency wants halt on foreign teachers
Will fear of travelling trump NZ as safe haven for overseas teachers?
Lack of help for dyslexic students has high social cost, say experts
More than fifty percent of inmates show up positive for dyslexia, according to an expert.
Out of the classroom and into the forest - what a way to learn!
This is not new-age hippy education.
Children learn to rewire their brains
Brain exercises are giving children the gift of understanding.
Focus: Barbara Arrowsmith-Young, discusses brain exercises
Focus: Canadian founder of Arrowsmith schools, Barbara Arrowsmith-Young, discusses "brain exercises" that can help kids overcome learning problems such as dyslexia. Video / Jason Oxenham
Coronavirus: Auckland university freezes staff hires due to travel ban
More than $30 million in revenue is at risk.
'Changes extremely dramatic': Teachers reject NCEA proposal
The proposal would see biology, chemistry and physics dropped at level 1.
Drowned teen too shy to say he couldn't swim, says mum
Chase Swanson-Ewing dived from river pontoon and never resurfaced.
Childcare 'hit squad' finds widespread breaches
Breaches by home-based services jumped from 15 in 2018 to at least 52 in 2019.