New ZealandShortage of skilled Novopay staffThe minister responsible for the troubled Novopay teacher payroll system says there is a shortage of skilled people to help fix it.09 Mar 10:08 PM
New ZealandUniversities face copyright actionAll eight of New Zealand's universities are being taken to the New Zealand Copyright Tribunal for refusing to agree to an increased annual licence fee which allows lecturers to copy authors' work for students.09 Mar 09:05 PM
OpinionDr Peter Lind: Scepticism ignores complexityDoes the experience of lecturing university undergraduates prepare teachers adequately to teach children and adolescents? Dr Peter Lind gives his view.09 Mar 04:30 PM
New ZealandCompensation for schools a possibilityPrime Minister John Key says compensation to schools to halt legal action over the Novopay system is a possibility, if the teacher unions would agree to a package.08 Mar 10:09 PM
New ZealandMaths skills fall with new methodSchoolchildren have got worse at basic arithmetic skills since the introduction of new teaching methods designed to lift the country's poor performance in maths.08 Mar 04:30 PM
New ZealandThe great maths divisionWeekend Herald stories about how children learn maths at school have prompted a flood of responses from readers and experts. Andrew Laxon explains what the argument is about.08 Mar 04:30 PM
New ZealandFree milk for school kidsKids at Kamo Primary School at the northern end of Whangarei are split down the middle over an offer of free milk from New Zealand's biggest company, Fonterra.08 Mar 04:30 PM
EconomyStudy visas drop despite Govt fixesThe number of new international students approved to study in New Zealand has dropped nearly a quarter since 2009 despite government measures to boost the industry.07 Mar 04:30 PM
Personal FinanceWealthy Kiwis not passing on skills to kids - studyAre wealthy Kiwis passing on their financial knowledge to children.06 Mar 07:27 PM
New ZealandRegional polytechs facing underfunding - LabourRegional polytechnics are important to their communities, and the National-led government is underfunding them, two Labour politicians say.06 Mar 05:20 AM
New ZealandPeter Nicolle elected president of firefighters unionA Wanganui fireman is now heading the country's firefighters union and says he wants to develop much closer and clearer relationships with the Fire Service on his watch.05 Mar 08:50 PM
New ZealandParents frustrated by truancy chargeA Masterton father accused of failing to ensure his 15-year-old daughter attended school says his family has been put through hell and his wife had a nervous breakdown.05 Mar 06:24 PM
New ZealandParata blasted over Longstone payoutPrime Minister John Key has defended the $425,000 payout of former Education Secretary Lesley Longstone after a year's service, saying it was the "bare minimum".05 Mar 06:23 PM
New ZealandLack of multi-language planYoung New Zealanders are at a huge disadvantage to Australian and European students because so few are learning a second or third language.05 Mar 04:30 PM
New ZealandLongstone's hefty severence payoutFormer Education Secretary Lesley Longstone received a $425,475 payout after her resignation at the end of last year, it has been revealed.05 Mar 05:39 AM
New ZealandTeachers protest Novopay problemsNovopay Minister Steven Joyce says there is "a wider range of villains" behind the troubled payroll system than the National MPs whose offices are being picketed today.04 Mar 09:30 PM
New ZealandOtago Polytech bucks enrolment trendIn a positive development for Dunedin's tertiary education industry, Otago Polytechnic predicts higher student numbers later this year.03 Mar 10:24 PM
OpinionJohn O'Neill: Charter schools totally undemocraticThe chances of the most disadvantaged students getting any benefit from a PPP school may be no better than the toss of a coin, writes John O'Neill.03 Mar 08:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: It's not dumb to want a better lifeOh-kayyyy. So Mike Williams, a former Labour Party president, calls parents who try to get their kids into higher decile schools "dumb", writes Deborah Hill Cone.03 Mar 08:30 PM
OpinionEditorial: Maths at your fingertips a key life skillIt is many years since our primary schools adopted "new maths".01 Mar 04:30 PM
New ZealandTeaching change needed: maths expertNew Zealand's foremost mathematician has spoken out against the way maths is taught in schools, saying children need to know basic arithmetic before they try to start problem solving.01 Mar 04:30 PM
KahuLeaked document threatens schoolsA leaked document threatens to sabotage an ambitious bid for an $800,000 "tele-medicine" scheme for remote Far North schools.27 Feb 04:30 PM
New ZealandIllness gets overlooked - schoolsDr Lance O'Sullivan says he would not see most of Kaitaia's children with skin infections if he didn't go into schools to look for them.26 Feb 04:30 PM
New ZealandBoards wary on charter schoolsSchool boards of trustees want charter schools to be limited to three only, set up on a trial basis for three to five years, and assessed by an independent research programme.26 Feb 04:30 PM
