
Half of school reports 'unclear'
About half of school reports to parents on national standards are unclear and the assessments they contain lack dependability, a new report has found.
About half of school reports to parents on national standards are unclear and the assessments they contain lack dependability, a new report has found.
An Auckland high school teacher has been found guilty of serious misconduct following a number of bullying incidents of students.
COMMENT: Tribal authorities have an important role to play in lifting the lives and aspirations of their people.
Newmarket School will get a four-storey high classroom block to cater for its growing roll as part of an $8.7 million redevelopment of the site.
The Government's charter school model has been branded "an unworkable mirage" by former MP John Tamihere.
Two huge wind tunnels and Australasia's biggest strong wall are being used in experiments, research and tests.
Treasury officials disagreed with a decision to target schools' operational funding to at-risk students, an initiative eventually
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A UK teacher has sent a powerful reminder to a pupil that life isn't all about tests.
How do we prepare our kids to face a world of easy credit, consumerism and high cost housing?
Staff at playcentre in Dunedin frustrated at the destruction of a vegetable garden they and their pupils have been cultivating for the past 18 months.
From energy drinks and 'rubbish food day' to vege gardens and lolly bans, a new survey of lunchboxes exposes two tales of eating behaviour in NZ schools.
Teachers' body the Education Council appears to be opposing the Education Ministry's proposal to shake up the school funding system.
COMMENT: The Labour Party is introducing smart, innovative plans that are investing in our future.
Education Minister Hekia Parata talks about the decision on Redcliffs School.
Redcliffs School spokesman Mark Robberds and Principal Rose McInerney speak after the Government's decision was announced.
Christchurch's Redcliffs School will stay open, it has been announced.
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More than 100 schools across the country have signed up to an SPCA programme aimed at reducing animal abuse. Teachers can include
A new computer-based Māori-language learning program is achieving extraordinary results by giving students practical exercises.
Prepare to embark on a quest of your own to discover the incredible world of "the Hobbit" as modern archaeological science uncovers perplexing secrets hidden in time.
Digital technology will be formally made part of the New Zealand Curriculum - the first change since 2007.
An Auckland childcare centre faces a raft of charges for misrepresenting the government subsidy it was receiving to parents.
School principals uncertain about their right to discipline international students have asked the Ministry of Education to clear up confusion.
A better approach is urgently needed to target a high-risk group of school-aged Kiwis having unprotected sex.
A musician who now leads the Maori Language Commission wants to make Maori language compulsory in primary schools.
A teacher who kicked the back-side of a Year 9 student with a hearing impairment because he wasn't listening has kept his job.
Two top high schools Principals have accused education officials of doing nothing to address a "crisis" over a shortage of maths and physics teachers.
The country's largest secondary school will use drug-sniffer dogs to drive the zero tolerance message home to students.