
Early childhood teachers win big pay hike
Early childhood teachers will get big minimum pay rises in the Budget.
Early childhood teachers will get big minimum pay rises in the Budget.
Parents appear evenly split over whether to send their children back to school.
The lockdown has widened educational gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged kids.
Cabinet documents show the struggle - and cost - of quickly rolling out online learning.
Fears that students struggling with job losses and higher costs would drop out altogether
Nearly all childcare centres will reopen under alert 2. But some families may stay away.
Secondary schools are angry they won't get support for the loss of international students
Schools may get compensation for foreign students lost due to Covid-19.
Toys, sandpits and other currently banned delights will be allowed again.
The tests will take place regardless of whether people have symptoms or not.
No one who lived through it will ever forget the great New Zealand lockdown of 2020.
Small schools to get better lights and insulation in bid to restart economy.
Tiresa Tufue received a computer but it was addressed to another student and taken away.
Schools are officially open again - but many are not expecting any students.
Sandpits stay closed; parents advised to wait in cars at dropoff if necessary.
We say: The Government's call to "go hard and go early" appears to have paid off.
WE SAY: It is a big deal to start relaxing our mental programming of the past month.
Playgrounds can now open at childcare centres but are still closed in schools and parks.
Schools expect only 5 to 10 per cent of students to turn up in alert level 3.
Morrinsville College principal's warning: 'Children can contract Covid and they can die'.
Nathan Wallis was slammed for pillow featuring the confederate flag.
Ministry says closing schools and childcare reduces deaths by only 2 to 4 per cent.
Hipkins: 'We are not being too heavy-handed on this.'
There are five new cases of Covid-19 today. There was a further death - a woman in her 70s from St Margaret's rest home in Te Atatu. Education Minister Chris Hipkins says that distance learning will continue 'for some time'.
An Auckland mum is on a mission to spread calm after return to school furore online.
The Early Childhood Council had called for centres to remain closed until alert level 2.
Some childcare centres will stay closed, but most schools will open on April 29.
PM confirms parents will decide if children go back to school.
The council wrote a letter to the Education Minister about the issue of reopening.
NZQA holds firm against reducing NCEA requirements during the pandemic.