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Principals Stunned As Ministry Looks For New Reading, Maths Tests
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 9:25 pm | RNZ
The Education Ministry has blindsided schools by going to market for a new national test. More >>
Tertiary Institutions 'Should Not Assume Funding Will Be Maintained'
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 9:08 pm | RNZ
The Tertiary Education Commission has indicated some tertiary institutions could face funding cuts next year. More >>
Government Stuck In The Past With ‘Relationship And Sex Education Guidelines’
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 1:17 pm | University of Auckland
Pacific scholars and advocates from across the country have highlighted the importance of an education that reflects the diverse realities of our communities, to better support and build a stronger and more unified society. More >>
Canadian Philanthropist Announces $4m Donation To Endow NZ Scholarships
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 10:20 am | University of Auckland
Past scholars of the programme have gone on to roles across a wide cross section of careers and to further study. Three have since been awarded prestigious Rhodes Scholarships to Oxford University, with one awarded a Gates Fellowship to Cambridge ... More >>
'Hōhā': Te Reo Māori Teaching Students 'Left In The Dark' Over Delayed Scholarship Payments
Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 7:08 pm | RNZ
Teaching students are struggling to meet the demands of full-time study without the money. More >>
Overhauling New Zealand’s Apprenticeship System Could Engage Youth And Boost Our Economy
Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 2:33 pm | The New Zealand Initiative
Schools are primarily geared toward university-track education, even though only about one-third of school leavers enrol in degree programmes," said report author Michael Johnston. More >>
Unitec And MIT Celebrate More Than 20 Years With ASB Polyfest
Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 1:40 pm | Unitec
This year, for the first time, the providers have joined forces to sponsor the Tonga stage while also supporting James Cook High School as stage hosts. More >>
Overhauling New Zealand’s Apprenticeship System Could Engage Youth And Boost Our Economy
Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 10:59 am | The New Zealand Initiative
Schools are primarily geared toward university-track education, even though only about one-third of school leavers enrol in degree programmes. More >>
Kaikōura Principal Calls On Teachers To Consider Small Town Life
Tuesday, 18 March 2025, 8:22 pm | David Hill - Local Democracy Reporter
A Kaikōura primary school sees benefits in being small, as it welcomes a new principal. More >>
UC Welcomes 2025 Erskine Programme Fellows
Tuesday, 18 March 2025, 10:58 am | University of Canterbury
Each year, up to 90 distinguished Erskine Fellows join UC to share their expertise through the programme, while 25 UC academics receive Erskine Grants, enabling them to teach internationally and expand their expertise. More >>
UCOL Celebrating New Graduates Across The Rohe
Monday, 17 March 2025, 5:30 pm | UCOL
656 graduates will walk across stages throughout Manawatū, Wairarapa, Horowhenua, and Whanganui between 18 March and 4 April to receive their qualifications. More >>
Tauranga Boys’ College Wins Cooney Lees Morgan Regional Schools’ DebatingChampionships
Monday, 17 March 2025, 3:31 pm | NZ Schools' Debating Council
Students debated in three preliminary rounds, on topics ranging from the appropriate length for parliamentary terms to the best approach to raising children in a digital world. More >>
Nursing Scholarship Open For Applications
Monday, 17 March 2025, 3:00 pm | Whanau Awhina Plunket
The annual scholarship provides financial support of $3,000 to a full-time nursing student of Ngāi Tahu descent who is in their final year of study. More >>
Language Is A ‘Central Element In Being Māori’ – Using Structured Literacy To Teach Te Reo Misses The Point
Saturday, 15 March 2025, 8:49 pm | The Conversation
Using structured literacy to teach te reo Māori is more about an educational ideology than about understanding the essence of New Zealand’s Indigenous language. More >>
Ngāti Rārua Acknowledges Professor Sandy Morrison’s Academic And Leadership Excellence
Friday, 14 March 2025, 5:40 pm | Te Runanga o Ngati Rarua
Professor Morrison has worked tirelessly to elevate mātauranga Māori within academia and beyond. Her expertise, leadership, and unwavering dedication to the empowerment of whānau, hapū, and iwi have had a profound impact across Aotearoa. More >>
Surge In Young Parents’ College Enrolments
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 8:46 pm | David Hill - Local Democracy Reporter
The Karanga Mai Young Parents' College is overcoming its challenges through community support. More >>
Dr Bird Achieves Academic Goal
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 5:16 pm | University Of The South Pacific
For Dr Bird, the path to achieving her PhD was forged in her mind from when she began her education in the Solomon Islands. It was a journey filled with so many ups and downs, but in her words, the idea of giving up was ‘never in my vocabulary.’ More >>
University Of Auckland Performs Strongly In QS 2025 Subject Rankings
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 10:43 am | University of Auckland
This year, the University of Auckland has five subjects in the Top 50 and an impressive 27 subjects in the Top 100, marking an increase of two subjects in the Top 100 compared to 2024. More >>
School Lunches: Give Schools Option To Use In-School And Community Providers Immediately, Union Says
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 8:54 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Te Manukura | President Ripeka Lessels is calling for schools to be given the option as the union releases a survey of more than 200 principals & area school kaiako about the new lunch programme, which finds almost 80% of respondents were ‘not satisfied’ ... More >>
Auckland Schools Express Concern Over Future Of Free Lunch Programme
Thursday, 13 March 2025, 6:35 am | Mary Afemata - Local Democracy Reporter
Sean Teddy from the Ministry of Education says meal services will continue despite Libelle Group's liquidation, with Compass Group stepping in to assist. More >>
School Lunch Provider Turns To Australia For Help
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 9:07 pm | RNZ
With its main food manufacturer, Libelle, in liquidation, the School Lunch Collective has turned to Australia to ensure it had enough meals. More >>
School Lunches Are For Kids, Not For Pigs
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 7:27 pm | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Taxpayers’ Union Communications Officer, Alex Emes, called this “a misuse of taxpayer-funded food. More >>
Billion-dollar Business Lessons From Kiwi Entrepreneur
Wednesday, 12 March 2025, 10:13 am | University of Auckland
Big news for budding business students: Jamie Beaton, the youngest New Zealander to build a billion-dollar company, is returning to where it all started at the country’s top-ranked tertiary institution, the University of Auckland. More >>
Pōwhiri And Mihi Whakatau Welcome Students To The New Study Year At Whitireia And WelTec
Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 12:49 pm | Whitireia and WelTec
Whitireia and WelTec provide wraparound support options for ākonga and this is the place to discover all the options available to them. The events also involve local businesses, so there are fun activities and giveaways for ākonga to enjoy and get ... More >>
Complaints About Lunches Frustrate Principal Whose Students Go Without
Friday, 7 March 2025, 8:55 pm | RNZ
"Is the food going to the right people? These people that are so complaining, are they the ones that really need the food?" asks an intermediate principal. More >>
Teacher Aides Call For Pay Equity To Be Upheld On International Women’s Day
Friday, 7 March 2025, 1:57 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
Teacher aides will begin discussions across the country next week — and vote later this term — on whether to endorse taking legal action under the Equal Pay Act against the Ministry of Education. A review of their pay, required under the Equal Pay Act ... More >>
Empowering The Future: Leaders Programme Continues To Inspire
Thursday, 6 March 2025, 6:03 pm | Wairoa Young Achievers Trust
Throughout 2024, the WYAT Wairoa College Aspiring Leaders Programme engaged two groups - Year 7 & 8 aspiring leaders and Year 13 prefects - in hands-on leadership development, with sessions alternating between Wairoa College and the EIT Institute of Sport and ... More >>
Announcing The 2025 Fulbright US Cohort
Thursday, 6 March 2025, 4:42 pm | Fulbright New Zealand
Fulbright New Zealand Executive Director, Penelope Borland, says the latest group of US grantees travelling to Aotearoa is testament to a deeply held, shared commitment to the betterment of our world. More >>
No Frills Teaching Council Needed - PPTA
Thursday, 6 March 2025, 9:01 am | PPTA Te Wehengarua
The Teaching Council has opened consultation this week on a proposal to increase practising certificate renewal fees from $464 to $501 for the next three years. More >>
Students Left 'Demotivated And Dejected' By NCEA Exam Results
Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 3:29 pm | RNZ
Some students are so stressed by new high-stakes NCEA exams they are suffering extreme anxiety and sleeplessness. More >>
Student Wellbeing Probed On Biggest Campus In Aotearoa New Zealand
Wednesday, 5 March 2025, 8:41 am | University of Auckland
Recommendations on how to better support students are likely to come later this year and facilitating connection will be key. More >>
Call For Education Minister Erica Stanford To Take Over School Lunches Programme
Tuesday, 4 March 2025, 7:11 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa President Ripeka Lessels says Associate Minister David Seymour has failed to resolve the problems introduced to the programme when he altered it to cut costs and now Minister Stanford needed to step in. More >>
Auckland Dean Welcomes Medical Training Places
Tuesday, 4 March 2025, 5:30 pm | University of Auckland
“Every New Zealander knows our health system is under strain, and we need a range of solutions to meet those needs. The announcements are excellent news. The University of Auckland looks forward to offering more places for students to study medicine.” More >>
Step In Right Direction To Increase Pacific Scholars
Monday, 3 March 2025, 3:30 pm | University of Auckland
Pro Vice-Chancellor Pacific Professor Jemaima Tiatia-Siau and her team welcomed 72 Pacific scholarship recipients to the University with an event at the Fale Pasifika ‘Anau ‘Aiga on 26 February. More >>
Education Sector Leaders Oppose Proposal To Scrap Expert Teachers Of Literacy And Māori
Monday, 3 March 2025, 11:56 am | Te Akatea
Education leaders say the Minister’s decision disrespects the mana and expertise of Resource Teachers and places schools and teachers in the impossible situation of having to comment on this proposal when they are desperate for any additional ... More >>
Michael And Suzanne Borrin Foundation Announces Postgraduate Scholarship & Travel And Learning Award Recipients
Friday, 28 February 2025, 5:35 pm | The Borrin Foundation
In collaboration with Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence, the Borrin Foundation is proud to support up-and-coming Māori scholars as they undertake advanced legal study. More >>
Government Delivers Another Gut Punch To Māori With Proposal To De-fund Expert Teachers
Friday, 28 February 2025, 5:18 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa president Ripeka Lessels says the proposal is another blow to Māori after Education Minister Erica Stanford recently cut Te Ahu o te Reo, a highly effective te reo learning programme. More >>
Whakanoa Weaves Cultural Safety Into Medical Training
Friday, 28 February 2025, 4:23 pm | University of Auckland
The steps Centre for Brain Research director Sir Richard took back in the 1990s culminated in a whakanoa – spiritual clearing ceremony – for more than 200 second-year medical students at the University this week. More >>
Government Must Act Now To Save Waitara Childcare Centre
Friday, 28 February 2025, 3:57 pm | Early Childhood Council
Waitara & District Community Childcare were given 90 days’ notice to vacate the LINZ building they occupy – handing them the impossible task of finding a new building and obtaining a Ministry of Education operating licence, a process that typically ... More >>
Substantial Decline Early Childhood Education Services Downgraded Or Closed For Non-Compliance With Regulations
Friday, 28 February 2025, 10:53 am | Office of Early Childhood Education
The number reduced by more than 40% - from 320 services in 2023 on a downgraded licence or closed for non-compliance to just 185 services (note that the figure for 2024 is provisional data). More >>
Team Behind University’s First Pacific Strategy Spans The Moana
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 12:32 pm | University of Auckland
Hon Pesetatamalelagi Barbara Edmonds says it was good to be amongst Pacific students and to have in-depth discussions focused on economic policies. More >>
Hoardings Go Up, Petition Signed As Early Childhood Teachers Wait For Proposed Reforms To Hit Cabinet
Thursday, 27 February 2025, 12:20 pm | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa National Executive representative for early childhood education Zane McCarthy says the recommendations prioritise the interests of corporations who receive millions in tax-payer funding, so they can put profits above quality early education. More >>
School Lunch Provider's Boss Says It's 'Mission Critical' To Meet KPIs
Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 8:44 pm | RNZ
It comes after Compass Group admitted halal meals it delivered to schools were not halal certified. More >>
Business School Celebrates Triple Crown
Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 2:00 pm | University of Auckland
The Business School's commitment to excellence, academic quality and innovative programme design were among several areas that impressed assessors from the Association of MBAs, an institution known for stringent criteria that evaluate teaching, curriculum ... More >>
Charter School Agency Announces New Application Round
Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 11:20 am | The Charter School Agency
New school applicants must complete the EOI forms by 24 March 2025. More >>
What’s Trending With Kiwi Students? CensusAtSchool 2025 Kicks Off
Tuesday, 25 February 2025, 7:24 pm | CensusAtSchool
Over the coming months, tens of thousands of students from Years 3–13 will take part, answering questions about everything from their screen time and tech use to their favourite foods, pets, sleep habits, gaming behaviour, and even what word they ... More >>
AUT Course Closures Send A Worrying Message
Tuesday, 25 February 2025, 12:19 pm | Tertiary Education Union
Auckland University of Technology to close postgraduate programmes in Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Human Rights. More >>
Gisborne School To Close After Student Numbers Dwindle
Saturday, 22 February 2025, 4:33 pm | Zita Campbell - Local Democracy Reporter
Current students will move to other schools in the local network. More >>
University Of Auckland Unveils Its World-Class Recreation Centre Hiwa
Friday, 21 February 2025, 5:09 pm | University of Auckland
With an innovative vertically ‘stacked’ design, it centralises the University’s sport and recreation services into a single premises, overcoming the spatial constraints of its central city location. More >>
Together We Can Solve The Teacher Shortage
Friday, 21 February 2025, 3:49 pm | Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood NZ
The Ministry of Education has admitted that the sector will have an under supply of 750 primary teachers and 500 secondary teachers this year – as opposed to the projected surpluses of 1050 primary school teachers and 61 secondary teachers. More >>
Solving Teacher Shortage Is About Valuing Teachers And Decent Pay, Says Union
Friday, 21 February 2025, 10:49 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
NZEI Te Riu Roa Te Manukura | President Ripeka Lessels says shortages forecast in the latest teacher demand and supply planning projection are an ongoing pressure for primary schools and a major stress for school leaders. However, there are solutions, ... More >>
More Effective And Lasting Solutions Needed For Teacher Shortages
Friday, 21 February 2025, 9:26 am | PPTA Te Wehengarua
“The Government’s attempts to address the shortage by importing teachers from overseas, employing unqualified staff and lowering the re-entry requirements for teachers who have been out of the profession for a while, are a bandaid on the significant ... More >>
With A Little Help From Their Friends: School Challenges
Thursday, 20 February 2025, 4:08 pm | University of Auckland
Peer friendships and caring social connections with teachers and other school community members are central to students’ experiences of school, according to two recently published reports from the Our Voices project at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of More >>
New Kindergarten For South Otago
Thursday, 20 February 2025, 2:14 pm | Whanau Manaaki Kindergartens
The kindergarten came about after parents approached the Playcentre seeking more early childhood education for their children. Playcentre regional support lead Judy Hinton says the initiative has been community-driven, and it’s been a positive ... More >>
Award-Winning Composer Penelope Axtens Appointed To Creative NZ Lilburn Residency
Thursday, 20 February 2025, 9:17 am | Victoria University of Wellington
Professor Kim Cunio, Head of School at the NZSM, says that he and his colleagues are delighted that Penelope will be taking up the CNZ residency, describing her as “an award-winning composer with a distinguished career in Europe since 2002”. More >>
Teacher Enrolments Increasing At Te Rito Maioha
Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 1:37 pm | Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood NZ
“As a bicultural ITE provider, committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, our focus is on ensuring a quality education so that our tauira (students) are classroom-ready using field-based learning, and secondly, that the needs of our tauira are prioritised,” ... More >>
Polymath Raises $1.5M NZD Pre-seed, Co-led By Blackbird And GD1 To Make Maths More Fun Than Roblox
Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 9:07 pm | Polymath
Polymath is the learning game that kids actually want to play. Kids on Polymath play for half an hour on average. After investigating the data on students who play Polymath regularly and those who don’t, the team found that kids playing regularly learned ... More >>
Applied Doctoral Scheme Boosts University And Industry Partnership
Tuesday, 18 February 2025, 2:08 pm | University of Auckland
The Scheme, funded for $20m over five years, is a programme to equip a cohort of graduates pursuing advanced research interests with hands-on skills from project management and finance to commercialisation and entrepreneurship. More >>
As New Charter Schools Open, We Still Know Too Little About How They Worked Last Time
Monday, 17 February 2025, 9:54 pm | The Conversation
Charter schools enjoy smaller classes and better teacher-pupil ratios. But big questions remain about their success rates – and why the public system isn’t better resourced. More >>
ANZIIF Partner With Lloyd’s To Present The 2025 Lloyd’s Innovators Scholarship
Monday, 17 February 2025, 5:27 pm | ANZIIF
This initiative is designed to recognise and empower future leaders in the insurance industry, providing them with an opportunity to develop their knowledge and expertise. More >>
