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Innovative Student Solutions Shine In Massey University's 2025 Grand Ideas Competition
Tuesday, 20 May 2025, 12:24 pm | Massey University
Three standout ideas were ultimately awarded a share of the $10,000 prize pool supported by Massey Enterprise. More >>
Learning Support In Schools At Breaking Point, Report Finds
Monday, 19 May 2025, 6:25 pm | RNZ
Teachers and principals are calling the situation "dire", according to a new report. More >>
Early Childhood Education Sector Confidence Survey Results 2025
Monday, 19 May 2025, 8:00 am | Office of Early Childhood Education
The results of the 2025 confidence survey, which the Office of Early Childhood Education (OECE) conducts annually in the last few weeks before the Budget is released, show that the sentiment in the sector is at an all-time low. More >>
A Life Of Service: Celebrating The Career Of Luamanuvao Dame Winnie Laban
Saturday, 17 May 2025, 3:31 pm | RNZ
Feature - "I've always been aspirational for others. We, Pacific people, have been brought up that we are the people of the 'we' and not the 'me'". More >>
School Support Staff Protest Outside Erica Stanford's Auckland Office For More Pay
Friday, 16 May 2025, 4:13 pm | RNZ
It comes amidst recent pay equity changes. More >>
Karamū High Champions Kindness With Pink Shirt Day
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 7:36 pm | Karamu High School
This year, Pink Shirt Day in Aotearoa carries the theme “Mauri Tū, Mauri Ora – Stand Together”, a reminder that stopping bullying requires collective action and a shared commitment to inclusivity and wellbeing. More >>
New Zealand’s First Independent Nurse Training School Approved; First Students In July 2025
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 8:47 am | Healthcare Academy of New Zealand
It is the first time an independent education provider in New Zealand has gained accreditation for a nursing training programme – a milestone that will support more enrolled nurses entering the healthcare workforce, strengthening the sector. More >>
The Office Of ECE’s Response To The Green Party’s ECE Policy Announcement
Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 1:40 pm | Office of Early Childhood Education
“Although the Greens’ policy removes the ability for private enterprise to use ECE as a money making endeavour, it’s not foolproof. The policy still leaves room for community organisations running ECE centres to divert public funding to other ... More >>
New Bill Gives Minister Power To Keep Making It Up As She Goes
Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 10:06 am | Tertiary Education Union
“This legislation contributes nothing to the financial ‘viability’ of or the quality of education within the system or any individual or federated providers. It provides no certainty to our members, who still have jobs in neglected institutions, ... More >>
Venture Taranaki Launches New Platform To Connect Students And Teachers With STEM Learning Experiences
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 8:10 pm | Venture Taranaki
STEM Outreach Experiences supports a locally relevant curriculum that taps into the wealth of industries and experts that our region already has to offer. More >>
Register Your Interest For The Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA) UniVol Graduate Programme
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 7:26 pm | Volunteer Service Abroad
The UniVol programme places selected graduates into 10-month volunteer assignments with VSA partners across the Pacific and beyond, in a range of areas like education, youth development, conservation, and community engagement. More >>
New Deck Of Cards Designed To Deal Out A Greener Future
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 12:28 pm | University of Auckland
The colourful cards offer prompts for deep discussion, creativity and actions to help turn around the environmental crisis, says Associate Professor Sally Birdsall from the University’s Centre for Climate, Biodiversity and Society – Ngā Ara ... More >>
Maths Support Funding A Mixed Bag Say Principals
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 12:09 pm | NZ Principals Federation
The funding is intended for early intervention - $4million for maths checks at year 2 - $56 million for 143 full time maths intervention teachers for targeted support for years 0 - 6 students, and $40million for small group tutoring for up to 34,000 ... More >>
New Research Highlights Gaps In Financial Education For Diverse Learners
Monday, 12 May 2025, 8:19 pm | Massey University
Through surveys and interviews with 87 families, the study sought to understand the values, practices and expectations surrounding financial learning in the home. More >>
The Small Regulatory Shift That Could Have Big Impacts On Mokopuna Māori
Saturday, 10 May 2025, 3:38 pm | RNZ
Teachers say removing requirements to recognise cultural identity in early childhood centres is recolonisation, and a backward step. More >>
Gisborne Mayor Invites Act Leader David Seymour To Witness Mayors’ Role In Schools And Community
Friday, 9 May 2025, 8:41 pm | Zita Campbell - Local Democracy Reporter
Stoltz has participated in a campaign promoting school attendance with posters being put up at most schools and around town. More >>
Kiwi Kids Once Led The World In Reading – This 1950s Primary School Syllabus Still Has Lessons For Today
Friday, 9 May 2025, 6:54 pm | The Conversation
Compared with today’s structured literacy and standardised testing, the 1953 reading syllabus was a remarkably non-prescriptive blueprint for both teachers and pupils. More >>
Principals At Odds Over New Relationships And Sexuality Framework
Friday, 9 May 2025, 5:46 pm | RNZ
Consultation on the draft relationships and sexuality framework for school is closing, and some primary principals worry it is too explicit for their pupils. More >>
Discovering The True Nature Of Horses
Friday, 9 May 2025, 2:31 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
“It’s a 35,000 year-plus history: watching horses, hunting horses, taming horses, riding horses, cultivating our fields, transporting goods, going to war with horses." More >>
New Pay Equity Law Locks Teachers Out Of Process
Friday, 9 May 2025, 11:49 am | PPTA
“The new legislation has a far narrower set of possible male-dominated profession comparators that can be used to form the basis of a claim. Comparators must be from the same employer, or a similar employer or within the same industry or sector." More >>
Open Polytechnic Celebrates Auckland Graduation
Friday, 9 May 2025, 11:01 am | Open Polytechnic
The Auckland ceremony was the first of three for Open Polytechnic, with the second ceremony to come in Christchurch on 20 May and Wellington on 27 May. Including those awarded in absentia, around 1150 graduates will receive their diploma or degree from ... More >>
VetMAP Students Celebrate Graduation Milestone
Friday, 9 May 2025, 10:28 am | Massey University
VetMAP was introduced in 2020 as an outcome of the PhD research of Professor Eloise Jillings, Ngāti Maru, which explored access to veterinary education for Māori. The initiative is a targeted entry and support pathway offered by Tāwharau Ora School ... More >>
Kaiapoi School’s Creative Solution To Staffing Challenges
Thursday, 8 May 2025, 7:43 pm | David Hill - Local Democracy Reporter
Increased teacher release time has been a headache for some schools, but Kaiapoi North School has made the most of the extra resourcing. More >>
UC Business School Celebrates Global Recognition
Thursday, 8 May 2025, 12:56 pm | University of Canterbury
Ranked #2 in New Zealand for employment outcomes and employer reputation (QS 2025), UC delivers on its promise to produce highly skilled, work-ready graduates. More >>
Oaklynn Specialist School in New Lynn has closed indefinitely for new enrolments
Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 4:59 pm | RNZ
Principal calls for government to prioritise highly vulnerable and complex young learners and their whanau. More >>
Dame Winnie Laban Awarded Honorary Doctorate Recognising Achievements For Pasifika
Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 2:38 pm | Victoria University of Wellington
The Honourable Luamanuvao Dame Winnie Laban DNZM, will be awarded an honorary doctorate by Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington at the graduation ceremonies this May. More >>
Secondary Teachers Initiate Bargaining Amidst Teacher Shortage And Pay Equity Tensions
Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 1:01 pm | PPTA
More than a third of schools that responded to the survey have teachers working in subjects they are not specialists in because they simply cannot find the teachers. The survey was responded to by almost 150 principals of state secondary and area More >>
Leaked Documents Say Kāhui Ako School Programme 'Set To Be Disestablished'
Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 2:46 pm | RNZ
Leaked documents suggest the $118 million programme will be axed 'effective from Budget 2025'. More >>
PPTA Calls On Minister Stanford To Come Clean On Kāhui Ako
Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 11:09 am | Post Primary Teachers' Association
Kāhui Ako provide an alternative and greatly valued career path for about 4000 teachers around the motu and they need clarity about their future, says Chris Abercrombie PPTA Te Wehengarua president. More >>
Proposed Changes To Relationships And Sexuality Education Will Put Children At Risk
Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 10:11 am | Queer Endurance in Defiance
By removing reference to our existence, the government is actively putting gender-diverse children at risk of abuse. This is a deliberate choice that has been made to put children in harm’s way, and it has been done because the government does not care. More >>
More High-Achieving Teens Heading Overseas After Finishing School
Monday, 5 May 2025, 4:17 pm | RNZ
"It's a pity that our very top students are going overseas, and I think sometimes it's more perception than reality," one principal says. More >>
‘Focus On The Basics’: Whanganui Mayor Pushes Back On Education Minister’s Truancy Appeal
Friday, 2 May 2025, 8:35 pm | Moana Ellis - Local Democracy Reporter
“To ask councils to get involved in tackling truancy is a contradiction to the directive we have been given,” Whanganui mayor Andrew Tripe said. More >>
Mayors: School Attendance Isn’t Our Job
Friday, 2 May 2025, 7:57 pm | Jonathan Leask - Local Democracy Reporter
Ashburton's mayor says as a community leader, keeping children in education has better outcomes - but it isn't his job. More >>
Commissioner To Lead Bargaining With Education Sector
Friday, 2 May 2025, 4:26 pm | Public Service Commission
The Commissioner will work alongside the Secretary for Education, Ms Ellen MacGregor-Reid, and other Ministry staff, who will remain actively involved in the negotiations. Their advice and expertise will be central to his decisions. More >>
Ara Students Design Kids’ Activities For Open Christchurch
Friday, 2 May 2025, 3:05 pm | Ara Institute of Canterbury Ltd
The Monster Architecture Treasure Hunt and Colour Me Mountfort colouring-in pages have been created to encourage children to learn more about many of the central city buildings featured in the 2025 festival programme. More >>
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 >>
