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Mākereti Papakura, The First Indigenous Woman To Study At Oxford, To Be Awarded A Posthumous Degree
Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 8:06 pm | Te Wananga o Aotearoa
The degree will be awarded at a ceremony presided over by the University’s Vice-Chancellor later this year in Oxford’s Sheldonian theatre. Members of Mākereti’s family and representatives of the Māori community are expected to attend. More >>
Kaiapoi School At Capacity Just 7 Years After Redevelopment
Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 5:22 pm | David Hill - Local Democracy Reporter
Kaiapoi High School is continuing to grow, prompting calls for new classrooms. More >>
Kindergartens Aotearoa Supports Government Move To Pay Teacher Registration Fees
Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 1:47 pm | Kindergartens Aotearoa
Education Minister Erica Stanford announced that $53 million in budget 2025 will pay Teaching Council fees for early childhood, primary and secondary teachers through to 2028. More >>
Students Unite As One - Speaking Up For Unity In Aotearoa - Race Unity Speech Awards And Hui 2025
Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 11:15 am | Race Unity Speech Awards
Twenty one regional representatives ranging from Years 11 to 13 (ages around 15-18) will come together for the Speech Awards semi-finals, final and a hui at Ngā Kete Wānanga Marae, Manukau Institute of Technology, Ōtara Campus. More >>
University Rocks Geology Education With New Garden
Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 12:54 pm | University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury is bringing local geology to life with a new garden featuring over 200 rocks, ancient fossils and a mini volcano. More >>
Minister Takes Steps To Support Teachers
Monday, 28 April 2025, 8:29 pm | Early Childhood New Zealand
We hope this announcement forms part of a larger education workforce strategy to encourage teachers to choose this profession, and for others, to remain in the profession. More >>
Teacher Registration Funding Is A Positive Step
Monday, 28 April 2025, 3:47 pm | Early Childhood Council
This initiative addresses the ECC’s concerns about the Teaching Council’s impending registration fee increase. More >>
Principals Welcome Government Teacher Registration Relief
Monday, 28 April 2025, 3:12 pm | NZ Principals Federation
"Principals welcome this initiative," said Gavin Beere, who heads up the NZPF Executive Pou on policy. More >>
PPTA Welcomes Government Decision To Pay Teachers’ Practising Fees
Monday, 28 April 2025, 10:09 am | PPTA
Teaching is an extremely rewarding and amazing profession; it is also an increasingly challenging and demanding one, so we need to everything possible to keep all of our experienced and skilled teachers in the workforce. Paying their Teaching Council ... More >>
Minecraft Version Of Historic New Zealand Farm Being Used As Educational Tool
Saturday, 26 April 2025, 5:41 pm | RNZ
Sow the Seed subject advisor Suzy Newman said it complemented new study units they created for year 7-10 students' science and agricultural curriculum. More >>
New Classrooms For North Canterbury Kura
Friday, 25 April 2025, 4:01 pm | David Hill - Local Democracy Reporter
Te Kura o Tuahiwi has new classrooms ready for term two. More >>
Govt Vocational Education Reforms Will Cause Massive Disruption
Thursday, 24 April 2025, 4:13 pm | NZCTU
“The NZCTU remains fundamentally opposed to these reforms, which will create further disruption across the sector and come off the back of a period of disruption and change in the sector over the past five years,” said NZCTU Acting President Rachel ... More >>
Te Wānanga O Aotearoa Celebrates 40 Years Of Transforming Education
Thursday, 24 April 2025, 10:26 am | Te Wananga o Aotearoa
From humble beginnings in a double garage in Te Awamutu, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa has grown into the second largest tertiary institution in Aotearoa – distinctly Māori, community-based, and built on the foundation of whānau transformation through education. More >>
Kindergartens Aotearoa Opposes Government Putting Business Interests Before Children In Early Childhood Education
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 1:14 pm | Whanau Manaaki Kindergartens
In announcing changes, the Minister for Early Childhood Education David Seymour focused on making it “easier to do business” the “thriving market” for early childhood education, and compliance costs, rather than on children and families or education. More >>
Parents Reject ECE Deregulation: "Children’s Safety Is Not Optional"
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 1:05 pm | My ECE
ECE Parents’ Council spokesperson Michelle De Bono said that it was not about red tape — it was about children’s lives. More >>
ECE Regulation Change Timeline Welcomed By Providers
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 12:10 pm | Early Childhood Council
“It’s good progress to have a clear timeline approved by Cabinet. We can expect changes within the next 18 months, ensuring the regulatory improvements can happen as soon as possible,” said ECC CEO Simon Laube. More >>
Lowering Teacher Qualifications Is A Cheap Fix With A Lifelong Cost
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 11:09 am | Early Childhood New Zealand
“While there was a pressing need for a review,” says Kathy Wolfe, CE Te Rito Maioha, “the review needs to ensure that quality education, best practice, and the wellbeing and education of our tamariki are kept at the centre of any decision ... More >>
Cuts To ECE Required Practices: Paving The Way For Baby Farming
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 11:05 am | Office of Early Childhood Education
Chief advisor to the OECE, Dr Sarah Alexander said that a market approach does not work when goals are to improve outcomes for children because ECE is a public good like schools. More >>
Teacher-Led Early Childhood Education: The Cornerstone Of Our Future
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 10:57 am | New Zealand Kindergartens
“The reference to possible legislative change within the Education and Training Amendment Bill raises serious concerns for us. Any dilution of the qualified, teacher-led workforce would be a regressive move with long-term consequences for tamariki, and ... More >>
ECE Sector Review Changes An Opportunity For Innovation
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 10:56 am | Early Childhood Education
The changes include introducing new licensing criteria for all ECE services by the end of September, following the recommendation to change or merge approximately three-quarters of the current licensing criteria. More >>
Barnardos Welcomes The Beginning Of ECE Sector Review Changes And Remains Committed To Ensuring Teacher-led ECE Thrives
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 10:53 am | Barnardos Aotearoa
“It’s encouraging to see the review progressing and the recommendations considered by Cabinet in such a short time. This gives us hope that tamariki are being put first, and that they will be able to access a greater quality of early care and education ... More >>
ECE Sector Leaders Partnership Welcomes Reform, But Raises Red Flags Over Potential Workforce Changes
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 10:50 am | Early Childhood New Zealand
“We remain concerned about the lack of information about Review Recommendation 10,” says Kathy Wolfe, CEO of Te Rito Maioha. “And we are troubled by the reference in the Minister’s release about changes in the Education and Training Amendment ... More >>
ECE Services Welcomes Approval Of Regulatory Review Recommendations
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 10:43 am | Advocates for Early Learning Excellence
“ECE managers and teachers have been confused by conflicting regulations, tied up with overburdensome paperwork and moving goal posts, which has taken time, resources and quality interactions away from children’s learning.” More >>
Passion For Community Led To School Board Role
Friday, 18 April 2025, 2:30 pm | David Hill - Local Democracy Reporter
A Kaiapoi school board of trustees presiding member is encouraging people to stand in this year's board elections. More >>
‘Major Headache’ For Schools If Kāhui Ako Cut – Principals
Friday, 18 April 2025, 2:26 pm | David Hill - Local Democracy Reporter
North Canterbury schools say there weren't consulted over plans to scrap the Kāhui Ako education scheme. More >>
Spotlight Falls On New Zealand’s Confucius Institutes In Wake Of Australian Closures
Friday, 18 April 2025, 12:37 pm | RNZ
Jason Young, director of the New Zealand Contemporary China Research Center at Victoria University of Wellington, said it was time for New Zealand universities to reconsider how best to use their limited resources to offer courses in Chinese language and ... More >>
2025 Critic And Conscience Of Society Award Winner Advocates For Health Policy Action
Thursday, 17 April 2025, 2:24 pm | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
Sponsored by the philanthropic trust The Gama Foundation, the annual award recognises an academic’s role under the Education and Training Act 2020 to act as the critic and conscience of society. More >>
UCOL Cuts Will Cause Lasting Damage
Thursday, 17 April 2025, 10:11 am | Tertiary Education Union
The proposal impacts on the roles of approximately 27 academic staff and 47 administration and support staff in areas like disability support, enrolment and cultural support. More >>
New Zealand Professor's Paper Is One Of Century's Most-Cited
Wednesday, 16 April 2025, 3:27 pm | University of Auckland
University of Auckland Professor Ginny Braun co-authored this century’s third most-cited scientific paper, which shows researchers how to conduct `thematic analysis’ of qualitative data. More >>
Turnitin To Release Findings Of Survey On The Impacts Of AI In Education
Wednesday, 16 April 2025, 11:14 am | Turnitin
Responses to the online survey revealed that while the education community is generally positive about the impacts of AI in education, the line between “using AI to enhance students’ learning” and “cheating” is still undefined. More >>
Inaugural Oceania Seabird Symposium Underway At University Of Auckland
Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 2:29 pm | University of Auckland
The three-day symposium organised by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) runs from 14-17 April. More >>
Disability And Progress: Relational Recoil From AI’s Silver Bullet.
Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 1:35 pm | Maxim Institute
The idea of a “cure” thus sounds tempting. Elon Musk’s Neuralink, for example, promises to “restore autonomy” and “unlock human potential.” More >>
The ADA NSW Selects Brightspace To Support Member Growth By Providing A More Enhanced Learning Experience
Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 9:31 am | D2L
ADA NSW provides hands-on practical skills workshops in its clinical space and digital dentistry training, including using artificial intelligence (AI), 3D printing, and high-definition intraoral scanning in its state-of-the-art digital learning space. More >>
Consultation Starts On New Draft Sexuality Education Framework
Monday, 14 April 2025, 3:07 pm | RNZ
Winston Peters called the previous guideline "woke" and "out of touch" but the Education Minister says Peters has had no influence over the new framework. More >>
Celebrations As EIT Hawke's Bay Students Graduate
Friday, 11 April 2025, 3:47 pm | EIT Hawkes Bay
In total, EIT awarded 2,241 diplomas, degrees and postgraduate qualifications to Hawke’s Bay-based learners who finished their studies last year. More >>
US Academic Takes Reins On Pacific Housing Research
Friday, 11 April 2025, 3:39 pm | University of Auckland
Miller grew up listening to stories about life in traditional Indigenous Hawaiian housing communities, known as kauhale. His father passed on stories about his childhood, growing up in a ‘camp’ in Hawaii, where the community lived simply in clusters ... More >>
UCOL Ākonga Awarded $28,000 In Freemasons Willson Lewis Scholarship
Friday, 11 April 2025, 1:44 pm | UCOL
Eleven Manawatū akonga have been awarded Freemasons Willson Lewis Scholarships yesterday totalling $28,000 to assist them with their studies and career advancement. More >>
Learning Support Is Desperately Needed In Early Childhood Education
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 8:16 pm | Early Childhood New Zealand
“We must and we should do better. The government need to immediately reactivate the inactive Learning Support Groups to address the list of ECE concerns demonstrate they are taking this issue seriously,” says Cathy Wilson, CE, Montessori Aotearoa ... More >>
NZ Atom-Smashers Honoured With Top Science Prize
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 4:31 pm | University of Auckland
The Breakthrough Prize was to recognise research with the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest smasher of atoms, which has revealed information about the fundamental properties of matter, energy, and the early universe. More >>
Principals Support NZEI's Call For Learning Support Boost
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 6:53 pm | NZ Principals Federation
We have been clear with the Minister from the very beginning, saying that the major problem in our education system is the lack of behavioural and learning support services that hinder our teachers' ability to teach and our principals to lead. More >>
Principals Reject Removal Of Objectives For School Boards
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 6:28 pm | NZ Principals Federation
Leanne Otene, President of the New Zealand Principals' Federation (NZPF), says the new version tilts the law too heavily towards compliance and performance measurement. More >>
“Are We Teaching Our Kids To Fail?”
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 10:18 am | Maxim Institute
Career advisors have pointed out that the system largely caters to the 30% of students who go to university, leaving those interested in trades with limited guidance. More >>
The Government’s Free Speech Bill Is Hypocritical
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 9:46 am | Tertiary Education Union
If passed into law, the Bill will create a burdensome reporting and compliance regime universities will have to wade through, all designed to ensure Don Brash can book a room on campus next time he wants to give a seminar on behalf of Hobson’s Pledge. More >>
$2.5b Investment Needed To Stop Tamariki Sitting On Learning Support Wait Lists
Tuesday, 8 April 2025, 7:12 am | NZEI Te Riu Roa
2024 data obtained by NZEI Te Riu Roa showed children under five waiting six months to access the Early Intervention Service in some regions, which has huge impacts on their learning and oral literacy. More >>
Toi Ohomai Ākonga To Gain Invaluable Experience At TRENZ
Monday, 7 April 2025, 1:54 pm | Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology
This year, TRENZ will be hosted in Rotorua on 6-8 May, providing an exceptional platform for Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology ākonga (students) to immerse themselves in the tourism industry. More >>
Girdlers’ Scholarship Winner Aims To Help Advance Pacific Issues On Global Stage
Monday, 7 April 2025, 12:23 pm | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
Clara Ballantyne, aged 18, attended Columba College in Dunedin. She will study History and Politics in a cross-disciplinary undergraduate degree that aligns perfectly with her diplomatic aspirations. More >>
Young Mathematics Talent Bound For Cambridge With Sir Douglas Myers Scholarship
Monday, 7 April 2025, 12:10 pm | Universities New Zealand - Te Pokai Tara
A recent graduate of Auckland Grammar School, Ethan has demonstrated exceptional ability in mathematics, achieving awards for Calculus, Chemistry, English, Physics, and Statistics in 2023. More >>
Bridging The Equity Gap In Education: How Digital Resources Are Leveling The Playing Field For Students
Saturday, 5 April 2025, 6:02 am | Hugh Grant
Bridging education’s digital divide is crucial. Discover how online tools, AI-driven platforms, and device initiatives are transforming access and equity for students. More >>
Whitireia And WelTec Celebrate Over 1,000 Students In April Graduation Ceremonies
Friday, 4 April 2025, 2:02 pm | Whitireia and WelTec
This special occasion marked the first of two graduation ceremonies in April, where over 1,000 ākonga will take their next steps equipped with the skills and knowledge to make a lasting impact in their communities. More >>
Powering The Future: NZSE College And Royal New Zealand Navy Forge Educational Partnership
Friday, 4 April 2025, 11:02 am | NZSEG
The signing of the agreement took place at the NZSE College’s Auckland City campus, between NZSEG CEO Wendy Liao and Commander Dave Rogers, Naval Specialist Training at the Royal New Zealand Navy. More >>
UCOL Lecturer Internationally Published & NZ Vet Nurse Of The Year
Thursday, 3 April 2025, 3:24 pm | UCOL
Marcus Flintoff’s final article for NZVNA, has been published in the same edition that his interview for winning their Vet Nurse of the Year award will be included. More >>
Number Of Foreign Students Continues To Rise, Select Committee Told
Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 9:22 pm | RNZ
Foreign students contributed more than $3 billion to the New Zealand economy last year, MPs at a select committee have been told. More >>
New Frontier On The Horizon For The New Zealand Māori Arts And Crafts Institute
Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 11:52 am | NZMACI
It’s an exciting time with some new frontiers for Te Puia | New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute as four new staff have joined the team in significant roles. More >>
Draft English Curriculum Lacks Connection With Reality
Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 1:45 pm | PPTA Te Wehengarua
Moving away from a curriculum that is underpinned by Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a seriously backward move, says Chris Abercrombie. More >>
Record Number Of Māori And Pacific Midwifery Graduates At Ara
Friday, 28 March 2025, 3:22 pm | Ara Institute of Canterbury Ltd
Among the record 10 Māori and two Pasifika graduates, two had babies while studying and all are now either self-employed or joining the ranks at the hospitals and birthing units around the motu, with four already established in their own whānau Māori-focused ... More >>
50th Anniversary Of ASB Polyfest Starts Next Week
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 4:03 pm | ASB Polyfest
This year’s ASB Polyfest will see 291 groups performing across six stages at the festival. These groups come from 77 schools from across the Auckland region and will see students compete with pride and passion, to win the honour of being the top school ... More >>
More Than 900 Set For Ara Graduation Ceremonies On Friday
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 3:46 pm | Ara Institute of Canterbury Ltd
The biggest graduating cohort is in Health Practice, with 233 qualifications being awarded across nursing, midwifery, medical imaging, and others contributing to New Zealand’s vital healthcare sector. More >>
Latest Cohort Of Ngā Ahurei A Te Apārangi Fellows Announced
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 12:09 pm | Royal Society Te Aparangi
Distinguished Professor Geoff Chase FRSNZ, Chair of the Academy Executive Committee, said the latest Fellows demonstrate the strength of Aotearoa New Zealand’s research communities. More >>
Tertiary Education Commission Faces Another Round Of Damaging Cuts
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 5:11 am | PSA
Ordering more cuts when the Government knows costs can only be saved by reducing the TEC workforce shows how little the Government cares about those who help our tertiary education sector function effectively. More >>
National Recognition For Focus On Animal Welfare
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 9:17 pm | Otago Polytechnic
The biennial award is named after high profile veterinarian John Schofield, whose work focused on the welfare of animals used in research and teaching. This 3Rs award was created to recognise similar achievements by others in this important area of ... More >>
