Principals push for fast-track, on-the-job teacher training
Principals want more fast-track trained teachers in their classes.
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Editorial: Graduates can become teachers more quickly
EDITORIAL: Fast track to classrooms could relieve the teacher shortage.
Secondary teachers reject pay offer, vote to strike
The Government needs to take responsibility to fix teaching, union says.
Decision on pay offer to secondary teachers today
Secondary teachers to reveal whether to accept offer of look to combined action
Academics: 'Our bosses are paid too much'
Academics want bosses paid no more than five times the lowest-paid workers.
Fees-free money could be better spent
Figures show free tertiary education is not serving any real need.
Boy, 2, kicked out of daycare over 7-hour day 'law'
Daycare: "Due to strict laws with Ministry of Education" child must attend 7 hours.
Massey's Auckland campus investigates 'cheating services'
Massey say they've received reports of students offering 'ghost writing' services.
Cheating investigation: Otago medical students' exam results withheld
Students fearing that everyone will be forced to resit exam after cheating allegations.
Fees-free students mostly Pākehā and under 19
25 per cent more people have taken up fees-free tertiary education since April
Western Bay principals take day to network
Western Bay of Plenty principals have the day off to build networks and discuss ideas.
Paula Tesoriero: Inclusive education better for all
COMMENT:Children with learning difficulties are not a problem in schools; it's the system.
Tighter controls may force higher childcare fees, centre closures
Tighter monitoring may force some childcare centres to close despite increased funding.
Focus: Kiddy Winks struggles to maintain 100 per cent qualified teachers
Shereen Varma, the manager of Kiddy Winks in Manurewa discusses the Government's announcement of a target increasing the number of ECE staff who are qualified from 50 per cent, to 100 per cent after 2022.
Govt targets salaries and higher child to teacher ratios
Plan sets out a range of recommendations which would help improve the education sector
School's 'friendship bench' helps lonely kids find a pal
Year 5 pupil Hanna Blackburn said the bench showed the school was a kind place to be.
Editorial: Prizes have their place in schools
EDITORIAL: Schools should not give up prizegivings.
Education unions agree to unite in campaign for more investment
Primary and secondary education unions are joining forces in their push for better pay.
Use of 'trivial' in exam stumps senior students
Level 3 history students won't be marked down for not knowing what trivial meant.
Wellington primary school teachers and principals marching through the central city
Wellington primary school teachers and principals marching through the central city as a week of rolling strikes across the country comes to a close.
School prizegiving debate: Kiwis divided over rewarding kids
The principal's choice sparked a nationwide conversation around the staple of schooling.
Psychologist on how prize-giving at schools can affect children
Psychologist on how prize-giving at schools can affect children. / Newstalk ZB
Primary school cancels prizegiving: 'Schools are not about ranking and sorting'
The school cancelled its prizegiving to improve intrinsic motivation and abolish ranking.
School driving scheme may teach parents too
At least half of parents of students at William Colenso College don't have licences.
International students add $50m to Northland
The research shows 590 jobs are also supported as a result.
Urgent review called for: Serious concern over preschool checks
The Before School Check is offered to every child after they turn four.
Crucial part of geography exam missing
A rushed colour print of more than 500 pages, 1100 sides, costs school $500.
Schools paying for teacher registration renewals
Paying for teacher registration would show 'considerable goodwill', AGS head says.
Struggling to learn: Understanding kids' different brains is 'like coming out of the fog'
Teachers say understanding kids' brains is 'like coming out of the fog'.
NCEA injustice: Poor schools not getting reader-writer help
A third of NCEA students at some schools are getting help to read and write exams.
How Pembroke School caters to one of their autistic students
Pembroke School principal Junior Togia talks about how they cater to one of their autistic students.
Editorial: Schools need a cure for learning disorders
EDITORIAL: Why do so many school children have diagnosed learning disorders?
Hawke's Bay teachers are 'resigning because of burnout'
Stressed Hastings teacher challenges Chris Hipkins to "spend a week in my classroom".
Struggling to learn: Can we rewire kids' brains?
Scientists believe that children's brains can be "rewired" by practice.