Document dump: Warning uni students were moving to dole
Fears that students struggling with job losses and higher costs would drop out altogether
Fears that students struggling with job losses and higher costs would drop out altogether
Nearly all childcare centres will reopen under alert 2. But some families may stay away.
Secondary schools are angry they won't get support for the loss of international students
Schools may get compensation for foreign students lost due to Covid-19.
Toys, sandpits and other currently banned delights will be allowed again.
Private schools say the loss of international students during lockdown has hit them hard.
It's the second time the school has tried and failed to get teachers vaccinated.
The tests will take place regardless of whether people have symptoms or not.
No one who lived through it will ever forget the great New Zealand lockdown of 2020.
Schools are officially open again - but many are not expecting any students.
Sandpits stay closed; parents advised to wait in cars at dropoff if necessary.
We say: The Government's call to "go hard and go early" appears to have paid off.
WE SAY: It is a big deal to start relaxing our mental programming of the past month.
Playgrounds can now open at childcare centres but are still closed in schools and parks.
Schools and early childhood centres will open on April 29
Centres reveal safety measures as they prepare to reopen.
Schools expect only 5 to 10 per cent of students to turn up in alert level 3.
Morrinsville College principal's warning: 'Children can contract Covid and they can die'.
Hipkins: 'We are not being too heavy-handed on this.'
There are five new cases of Covid-19 today. There was a further death - a woman in her 70s from St Margaret's rest home in Te Atatu. Education Minister Chris Hipkins says that distance learning will continue 'for some time'.
An Auckland mum is on a mission to spread calm after return to school furore online.
The Early Childhood Council had called for centres to remain closed until alert level 2.
Some childcare centres will stay closed, but most schools will open on April 29.
PM confirms parents will decide if children go back to school.
The council wrote a letter to the Education Minister about the issue of reopening.
NZQA holds firm against reducing NCEA requirements during the pandemic.
Childcare centres want to stay closed at level 3 because of the risk of spreading virus.
Some families forced to "put their lives on the line", while others stay safe.
School, as children knew it, no longer exists - or won't for a while, writes Vera Alves.
The Ministry of Education has released new information.