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Funding boost to move NCEA exams online

At least 58 NCEA exams will be moved online.

Covid-crushing NZ lures foreign students

Overseas inquiries to AUT University have almost doubled since the pandemic started.

Empty class: Inside the foreign student crisis

Decisions on how to let foreign students back next year are needed soon.

Govt to spend $4m on 300 new creative learning teachers

Jacinda Ardern said supporting the arts in schools is important, given the Covid-19 impact

Students stuck overseas can sit NCEA

Students stuck in China when the NZ border closed will be able to sit NCEA.

Third school's students complain over Black Lives Matter poster removal

Two Christchurch Girls' High School students say their posters were removed by staff.

Principals say $87m lockdown IT scheme a 'disaster'

Free internet routers have been given to hundreds of students who don't need them.

Ministry helps schools locate missing students

Many children have still not returned to school despite it being level 2.

Device delivery to at-home learners was 'logistical nightmare' principals say

Students finally get their learn-at-home devices - when they return to school.

'Champing at the bit': How schools are tackling rugby return

Some schools are playing sport only in groups of 10, others are more relaxed.

Preschool teacher fee hike could leave centres short of staff: lobby

Preschools are on the hunt for teachers but fear they could be driven away by a fee hike.

A quarter of Northland kids still at home

Attendance shows south-to-north pattern: 90 per cent in deep south, 75 per cent in north.

Staggered entry times: Children told to wait outside school gate

Some schools are still staggering start times although they no longer have to.

Looming recession tipped to boost polytechs

Polytech and wānanga domestic enrolments forecast to jump 33 per cent.

Principals 'pleasantly surprised' by 79% turnout

Principals "plesantly surprised" by school turnout of just under 80 per cent.

Focus Live: $278 million funding boost for early childhood education centres

The Government will reinstate the 100 per cent funding band for teacher-led ECE services after it was scrapped by the previous Government in 2010, PM Jacinda Ardern said.