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Axe looms over six-monthly school reports
National Standards have gone, and six-monthly reports on students may soon be axed.
No uniform, stationery, bag or even shoes: kids too poor for school
Poverty means 200 Kiwi kids desperately need help to start school with the right gear.
Learning local: Stink bug threat turns kids on to science
Told to welcome "a real scientist", a child protested: "But we are all scientists!"
New Rotorua Girls' High principal starts
Sarah Davis has been named the new principal of the school.
Teachers barred for almost 600 matters in five years
Teachers' registrations were cancelled or suspended for 128 sexual matters.
Screentime for kids: Warning over 'alarming' toll on young Kiwi pre-schoolers
Mum tells of her sons' scary "addiction" to screens" in response to study.
Kiwi education company goes under owing $350K fine
Auckland Academy of Learning is in liquidation.
Comment: Radical education shake-up comes with risks
The Tomorrow's Schools regime has been in place for 30 years with very mixed results.
John Tamihere: Everyone has the right to dream
We have a model that can achieve meaningful change. Let's use it, argues John Tamihere
Future bright after years of grinding brings results
A $30,000 scholarship and excellence endorsement have spelled a good start to 2019.
NCEA results now live as NZQA bolsters staff numbers
The nail biting and head scratching can stop - Results for 2018 NCEA results are out.
SIT plans takeover of Telford
SIT will submit proposal to take over Telford agricultural training campus in Balclutha.
Nervous wait for 165,000 students with NCEA results out today
More than 165,000 students nationwide will be able to check their results today.
Northland polytech offers helping hand
NorthTec eager to help Taratahi students facing bleak future
Alwyn Poole: Be best teaching aide your child ever has
COMMENT: Don't leave life opportunities of your young ones up to schools or bureaucracy.
Time to speak up on ideas from school taskforce
COMMENT: So often it has been our ministry imposing fads on our schools.
Keep gender identity issues out of the classroom, says poll
People are evenly divided on gender identity/biological sex in child sports teams.
Student chaos: Schools use force on pupils '13 times a day'
About 0.2 per cent of children with extreme behaviours are "creating chaos" in schools.
Focus: New restraint regulations for students
The New Zealand Herald talks to Parkside School regarding new restraint regulations for students.
Agribusiness diploma saved dairy farmer from ruin
The financial skills required to run a dairy farm can come as a shock to many.
Veteran youth worker back to the streets
Veteran Otara youth worker Sully Paea back on the streets to help at-risk kids.
Kaye to tour NZ on school reform
The National education spokesperson will visit 30 cities in early 2019.
The gap between the rich and poor at university in New Zealand
This summer we look back at the big stories of the year. This is from September.
No place like home for Mount Maunganui's Allan Goodhall
Allan Goodhall retired from Mount Maunganui College on June 1.
Northpower offers summer internship for students
Northpower has started a 20-week summer intern programme for university students.
Dismissed childcare worker receives just 2c in final pay cheque
The early childcare worker had her employment terminated via email.
Paul Little: The game of the name
COMMENT: Education Minister has declined a request from Victoria University of Wellington.
Steve Braunias: One year in the life of a Year 7 pupil
The intermediate experiment: Steve Braunias on the life of a Year Seven.
The school production with an unusual subject
Flaxmere Primary School production on kauri dieback. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Farm education provider Taratahi placed in liquidation
Declining student numbers add to Taratahi's financial and operational pressures.
Unfair health care: What's going wrong?
What's going wrong with our health system?
Minister torpedoes Victoria University name change
Victoria University's name will not be changing.
Political Roundup: The battle for our school system
COMMENT: Competitive school model has created 'too many losers and not enough winners'.