John Gerritsen

The Teaching Council is asking the government to close schools and daycare centres immediately in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak.

The call comes in an open letter from the council's chief… Audio

Schools are cancelling class trips overseas because of travel restrictions and insurance problems related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Many schools have been trying to decide what to do about trips that… Audio

School librarians are fed up with repeated funding cuts and now they're calling for legal protection.

They want the government to pass a law requiring all schools to have a library and they want it… Audio

A survey shows one in five schools cut spending on their library last year. School librarians say that's terrible and they want the government to protect their funding and their place in the school… Audio

The number of teachers working past retirement age has more than doubled in the past ten years, and there are hundreds over the age of 75.

Education Ministry records show there were about 7000… Audio

Schools are exmploying thousands more teachers over retirement age and hundreds who are 75 or over.

Education Ministry figures show there were 7000 such teachers in 2018, double the number a decade… Audio

Parents of disabled children are telling the IHC they have had schools illegally refuse to enrol their children or set limits on how many hours they can go to school.

A new survey by the IHC also… Audio

Parents of disabled children have told the IHC their children are bullied at school, don't get enough support, and in some case have been blocked from enrolling altogether.

The organisation, which… Audio

Schools are figuring out what to do with the nearly $64 million they have received from the government's donation scheme.

A little over 1500 schools in deciles one to seven have signed up to the… Audio

Researchers want emergency planners to think bigger and prepare to isolate New Zealand from the rest of the world in a global catastrophe.

The government is focused on coping with a pandemic virus… Audio

Documents show the Education Review Office was poised to give a positive report to an early childhood service the Education Ministry wanted to shut down due to multiple rules breaches. The ministry… Audio

A special squad in the Education Ministry targeting substandard early childhood services has found multiple breaches of health and safety rules and put more than 14 poor performers out of business in… Audio

Schools are reopening from today and the Education Ministry is predicting they will need up to 900 more teachers during the course of the year.

It says the teacher shortage that has dogged many… Audio

Schools start to reopen from today and principals say they are still struggling with a shortage of quality teachers. Those contacted by RNZ say they have enough staff to start the year, but they are… Audio

Insight - The government's school donation scheme gets underway this year, but schools have been looking for ways to push its rules to the limit. John Gerritsen investigates how far they will go to… Video, Audio

Schools start to reopen from Monday next week and many are bracing themselves for roll growth and last-minute enrolments that will put pressure on staffing and classroom space.

Principals in… Audio

The government is going into 2020 with a massive workplan for the education sector.

It is making huge legislative changes for schools, merging all of the country's polytechnics and facing… Audio

Insight - Summer listening. A few of your favourite Insight programmes from 2019 including; the loss of identity suffered by Maori adopted into Pakeha families, the flogging-off of race tracks to save… Audio

It's the end of the year and we're looking back on some of the best bits.

We loved this teenager's response when speaking to John Gerritsen about her and her classmates having their access to their… Audio