Primary schools accounted for almost eight in 10 stand-downs and suspensions handed out for physically assaulting school staff last year, according to Ministry of Education figures released under the Official…
Two New Zealand primary schools have stopped posting photos and videos of their pupils on Facebook, saying artificial intelligence has made it too easy for children’s images to be copied,…
The University of Otago’s biggest building project, an eight-storey home for its Christchurch medical campus, will be officially opened this week after years of delays and cost rises that have…
The Secretary for Education has cancelled Gloriavale Christian School’s registration after an ERO review found it met seven of the eight criteria for a private school but failed the one…
A solution made up for a senior chemistry class and left in a cupboard for years turned into an explosive black powder, and the Defence Force detonated it on the…
A survey of 1238 Victoria University of Wellington students found 38 percent went without a meal in the previous week and 38 percent missed classes because they could not afford…
The teachers who will have to make the Government’s new school qualifications work are not convinced they are needed. New research from the New Zealand Council for Educational Research has…
The Government has confirmed a specialist school for Gisborne by Term 1 of 2028, the first to serve the East Coast and the third announced in a year.
More than 10,000 young New Zealanders walked out the school gate for the last time in 2025 without a single formal qualification to their name. Ministry of Education figures reported…
An Education Review Office report finds AI is now near universal in New Zealand schools, but most have no rules for students and teachers fear it is dulling critical thinking.
A South Auckland intermediate school has called off its camp this year because most of its families could not find the money to send their children, in a decision the…
A New Plymouth primary school that once queued up to put iPads in front of its youngest pupils has packed the tablets away and gone back to pen, paper and…
Dunedin becomes the country’s science playground for the next five days, with the New Zealand International Science Festival opening today for a run of more than 60 events aimed squarely…
An Eastern Bay of Plenty couple have become the first parents in New Zealand prosecuted for failing to ensure their children were enrolled at school, in a case the Ministry…
A west Auckland primary school is shifting children out of four classrooms these school holidays after two years of testing finally traced a stubborn smell to chemicals in the ground…
Thousands of New Zealanders training to become nurses, teachers, midwives and social workers say the compulsory unpaid placements they must finish to qualify are pushing them into debt, and many…
Hundreds of small and rural schools across New Zealand are in line for cleaner, more reliable drinking water after the Government committed 30 million dollars to fix ageing pipes, bores…
In a dawn ceremony at Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ngāti Rangi in Ohakune, the iwi (tribe) this week unveiled a traditional Māori star compass built to teach the next…
Correction · 23 May 2026 An earlier version of this article said the Curriculum Insights and Progress Study “tracks how children feel, not how they perform”. That was wrong. The…
Less than half of New Zealand five-year-olds passed the country’s new phonics test after a full year of schooling, according to data released by the Education Ministry on Monday. Results…
The Ministry of Education has pushed the mandatory start date for the new national curriculum for Years 0 to 8 out to 2029, a major shift from the staggered timetable…
The Education Review Office has released a new Guide to Schools aimed at helping parents and whānau choose a school, understand how their child’s school is performing, ask the right…
The number of New Zealand students studying on Massey University’s three campuses has started to climb again for the first time in a decade, but the union representing staff says…
Tens of thousands of New Zealand university students have had their personal details swept up in a global hack of the learning platform Canvas, leaving lecture materials and assignment portals…
Auckland’s early childhood education centres are slashing fees, throwing in meals and in some cases offering an entire year of free care, as operators try to fill empty spots in…
For rural school communities across New Zealand, the fuel crisis is no abstract economic headline. It shows up in the daily calculation of whether a family can afford the petrol…
Sixteen students from a small Banks Peninsula school found themselves speaking live to a NASA astronaut orbiting the Earth at roughly 28,000 kilometres an hour on Monday night, in a…
Early childhood education (ECE) plays a critical role in the development of young children in New Zealand. The Ministry of Education regularly collects and publishes data to monitor participation rates,…
In the evolving educational landscape of New Zealand, schools are at a crossroads of technological transformation. With the shift towards digital learning, the pressure on educational institutions to upgrade and…