John Gerritsen

Auckland's ongoing shortage of secondary teachers is forcing some schools into compromises or to abandon some subjects altogether, principals say.

Increased demand for trades and health training has boosted enrolments at Manukau Institute of Technology by more than 70 percent compared to last year. Audio

Alarm over falling student achievement has prompted calls for a radical overhaul of the school system.

The Ministry of Education has enlisted a team of experts to tackle New Zealand children's poor performance in maths.

Primary and intermediate school principals are calling on the Ministry of Education to do more to turn to turn around New Zealand children's declining performance. Audio

As schools begin reopening this week, principals say their number one priority is their students' mental health.

Schools have not even reopened for the year and they are already preparing emergency plans for dealing with another lockdown.

Immigration New Zealand figures show there are just 38,954 foreign students in the country and education providers have little prospect of raising that figure this year.

Education Minister Chris Hipkins said the provisional 2020 results were similar to previous years and in some cases slightly better.

Students can now see how they performed in their end-of-year exams and whether they have achieved an NCEA certificate, after results were published online this morning.

Schools have told the Education Review Office that some children lost 10 weeks of learning in last year's lockdowns, but the overall impact of the pandemic is still unclear.

After years of criticism the Education Ministry has finally reined in delays for specialist help for disabled pre-schoolers that critics said were appalling and outrageous.

Covid-19 has driven the biggest-ever increase in home-schooling enrolments - although home educators expected a larger jump.

There are hopes the online learning the pandemic forced on schools this year will permanently change the way many teachers work.

Education Ministry figures show a quarter of Auckland's 503 schools had enrolled more students than their official classroom capacity by the middle of the year.

The Auditor-General has warned that the national polytechnic could lose $53 million this year and double that amount next year.

New Zealand's bad results in an international maths and science test are being blamed on factors including grouping children by their ability and the previous government's national standards in…

School principals hope a new set of off-the-shelf classroom designs will eliminate frustrating delays in building new rooms.

Some rural school principals say they will have to resort to online teaching next year because they cannot find enough staff.

The government has announced a deal it hopes will create a cohort of foreign students who will be ready to enter New Zealand when the borders open.

The Teaching Council has backtracked after warning the government this year that it lacked the statutory power to prosecute people who teach illegally.

The Auditor-General is warning that hundreds-of-millions of dollars of school income is at risk because of the pandemic and schools must budget carefully to avoid financial problems.

Academics and teachers are warning a new mandatory NCEA literacy and numeracy test could be too tough for some teens.

Teenagers had about 300,000 fewer NCEA results in the bag last month than at the same time last year, according to Qualifications Authority figures.

A national study of primary school children has found a fall in performance in writing for some eight-year-olds but next to no change in reading.