Latest from Ministry of Education

Transient students struggle to catch up

Turnover rates at some schools are sitting at around 56 per cent - more than half of the children who start the year don't finish there.

Truancy services' focus may shift

School dropout levels fall over past 10 years

Teens in Third World schooling

Our neediest teenagers are often being educated in "Third World" conditions without trained teachers, textbooks or standard school services.

A far better alternative to dropping out

Joyce: Uni bar not Govt fault

School under fire for hosting Act meeting

Sect pupils in a class of their own

Imagine a New Zealand school whose books had words blacked out or pages removed and large parts of the curriculum were simply not taught.

Tolley promises 'hard' fight for school funding

Anne Tolley has told secondary schools the Government is serious about education, but the next few years will not see a great deal of new money.