John Gerritsen

Changes to the NCEA qualification risk undermining the quality of education in secondary schools, a group of education experts from Victoria University has warned.

Primary school teachers and principals hope the public will support their decision to strike all day for the first time in 24 years.

Auckland school principals are worried that they have too few relief teachers to help them through the winter flu season.

A third of school buildings don't meet optimum standards for health and hygiene and a similar number fall short of Education Ministry standards for lighting, temperature and acoustics, a government…

The government is considering sacking Unitec's governing council after it revealed the institute is expecting further multi-million dollar losses.

Primary school teachers have rejected the Education Ministry's pay offer and will strike next month. Audio

Two Auckland charter schools should not be allowed to join the state system because they are little different to other schools in their area, the Educational Institute says.

Secondary principals are frustated by what they say is a lack of consultation in the government's NCEA review.

NCEA pass rates are lower than previously thought, some dropping dramatically, under a more accurate method for calculating the figures.

Skill shortages and strong business demand are encouraging more employers to take on apprentices, the Industry Training Federation says.

The School Trustees Association has surprised principals by suggesting they be removed from the boards that govern schools.

The Education Ministry needs to raise minimum standards and protect under-five year olds from cold, crowded and noisy early childhood centres, a group of researchers say.

Six New Zealand universities have slipped and two have improved in a global league table of the top 1000 universities.

A private training institute was enrolling foreign students with insufficient English, passing when it should have failed them, and offering an "inordinate" number of holidays.

Governance and management of the country's largest polytechnic, Unitec, is under scrutiny after it ran up a $31 million deficit and incurred a warning from its auditor.

Proposals for an overhaul of the NCEA qualification have met a mixed response from teachers cautious about the workload the changes might create.

Teachers of Latin and Sculpture are fighting plans to drop the subjects from the annual scholarship exams.

Children with disabilities and complex needs will get the biggest boost from education funding in the government's Budget.

Independent assessors are checking the marks of 2050 students at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa and enrolments in some courses have stopped following a Qualifications Authority investigation.

Pay talks for primary school teachers begin today and the outcome will be critical for resolving the teacher shortage, the New Zealand Educational Institute union says.

The school system should include greater recognition of Māori culture and knowledge, students invited to the government's first education summit say.

A plan to tackle teachers' unconscious bias against Māori students could deliver big improvements, schools that have already piloted a programme say.

The president of the Secondary Principals' Association says moving schools severely disrupts students' learning and without good data it is hard for schools to keep children up to speed.

Universities say schools' complaints about a desperate need for more teachers has contributed to a rise in enrolments in teacher education programmes.