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Primary Principals' Association backs government funding announcement

The government pledged to spend $131 million on improving students' reading, writing and maths in this year's budget.

Live: Christopher Luxon and Education Minister Erica Stanford to make education announcement

The PM and the Education Minister will take questions following the announcement in Lower Hutt.

Teachers raise concerns as NCEA replacement confimed

The government is replacing NCEA with the New Zealand Certificate of Education with much more emphasis on exams.

RNZ Education·curriculum

After a full year of schooling, less than half of 5 year olds pass new phonics test

Education Ministry results show 47 percent of the 4209 children who did the 40-week phonics check in term four last year were "at or above expectations".

Auckland Grammar School welcomes government's proposed NCEA replacement

The government on Saturday released further details about the new secondary school qualification framework, which is expected to begin replacing NCEA from 2028.

Global student network more vulnerable after successful system hack - experts

The Canvas system is used by 9000 institutions, but was offline for two days.

Live: Christopher Luxon and Erica Stanford deliver NCEA update

Education Minister Erica Stanford confirmed the NCEA replacement would bring a new grading scale, compulsory subjects, and assessment requirements.

Government commits $212m to continue school lunch programme - but changes coming

David Seymour acknowledged there were "teething issues" with the scheme, but complaints had fallen by more than 92 percent.

Striking students call on the government to do more to fight climate change

The students' efforts weren't appreciate by the Associate Education Minister - who hoped their absence from school would be marked "unjustified".

Waitangi Tribunal calls for immediate halt to changes to education legislation affecting Treaty

It says the changes are as bad as the Treaty Principles Bill in its attempt to erase the Crown's duties.

Foreign masters degree enrolments soar as August rule change looms

Education Ministry figures showed more full-time international students enrolled for degrees last year than domestic students.

Delay to new curriculum heralded as significant win for teachers, school leaders

School leaders had voiced their concerns around the content and timing - and Education Minister Erica Stanford has listened.

Tom Phillips granted right to home-school children before disappearing with them

Phillips took the children on the run for nearly four years.

New local initiative increasing attendance at Waikato and Canterbury schools

Show Up and Shine encourages attendance by offering the class with the highest attendance rate in each school a free visit to Ninja Valley, a privately-owned playground.

RNZ Education·higher-ed

How can we catch the lost students?

Trades trainers hope the shifting of government money from free university fees to vocational pathways will give students a better start in their work life

Focus on Jobseekers leaves youth falling through cracks and harder to place once 18 - Mayors' Taskforce

It comes as StatsNZ data points to rising youth unemployment.

Is the 'brain drain' real - and is it really a problem?

Annual New Zealand citizen departures have risen from 0.44 percent of the population in 2021 to 1.34 percent in 2025.

RNZ Education·higher-ed

Government considered phasing out fees-free university scheme before axing it

The policy which covers the cost of students' third year of tertiary study will be gone in the upcoming Budget.

Auckland charity Painga Project aims to boost children's eye care

The Painga Project hopes to put 7000 pairs of glasses on the faces of children in high equity index schools each year, through its purpose-built mobile optometry clinic.

RNZ Education·higher-ed

Students studying on campus at Massey University rising but union leader says sites a'ghost town'

The number studying remotely was nearly 2000 more than in 2016, but the on-campus figure was the lowest point in a steady decline from a high of 9705 in 2016.