Virus, recession keep kids away from school
Students forced to work to support families, or can't afford bus fares and lunches.
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Choosing childcare: How to decide what's best for your child
Take a checklist when you're choosing daycare, but in the end it's love that counts.
Schools to get $50m boost to help with student attendance
A $52m urgent response fund is aimed at helping schools get more students back to school.
Choosing childcare: How young is too young?
NZ children are going to ECE younger and for longer. Is that a bad thing?
Hundreds of Auckland pupils missing school each day due to sickness
At one Auckland school, about 130 kids and staff were off due to illness from colds.
Daycare teachers' hours cut due to Covid fears
Union says new flexible-hours contracts are illegal.
PhD candidate says some post-grad students should be let in as essential workers
Doctoral students from overseas are hoping to be let back in to NZ as essential workers.
Choosing childcare: From daycare to kindergarten - what are the options?
A guide to a bewildering menu of childcare options.
Mandatory police vetting call after paedophile worked on children's TV show
Judge Andrew Becroft wants child protection laws strengthened to safeguard kids.
Price war for children as daycare hours dip
Booming childcare supply comes on stream just as demand drops due to Covid-19.
Minimum wage hikes slash value of study
You can still earn more with a degree - but the relative gain is shrinking.
Paedophile who abused girls later worked on kids' TV show What Now
Jason Gunn's production company apologises after contractor was not vetted.
Kiwi mum and dad's crusade against porn
Couple lift lid on disturbing online world our kids are exposed to in new documentary.
School brawls: Social media, gang culture and Covid-19
"They think it's America, that it's east versus west, versus south."
Flight attendant's contact with new Covid cases impacts schools, rugby training
Whānau affected by the exposure this morning learned the Covid test was negative.
Funding boost to move NCEA exams online
At least 58 NCEA exams will be moved online.
Covid-crushing NZ lures foreign students
Overseas inquiries to AUT University have almost doubled since the pandemic started.
Empty class: Inside the foreign student crisis
Decisions on how to let foreign students back next year are needed soon.
Govt to spend $4m on 300 new creative learning teachers
Jacinda Ardern said supporting the arts in schools is important, given the Covid-19 impact
Students stuck overseas can sit NCEA
Students stuck in China when the NZ border closed will be able to sit NCEA.
Third school's students complain over Black Lives Matter poster removal
Two Christchurch Girls' High School students say their posters were removed by staff.
Principals say $87m lockdown IT scheme a 'disaster'
Free internet routers have been given to hundreds of students who don't need them.
Ministry helps schools locate missing students
Many children have still not returned to school despite it being level 2.
What's your child up to online? How to help
Website offers advice for parents on porn, bullying and screen time.
Private schools pay back wage subsidy after Govt says they are ineligible
'People have said 'why are you applying for the subsidy? You guys are the rich ones'.'
Half of pre-schoolers still at home
Many parents are still at home and/or afraid to send their children back to centres.
Iconic Reading Recovery programme may change, slammed for lack of 'spill over'
Education Ministry will 'strengthen' Reading Recovery after critical evaluation.
Bonus NCEA credits offered due to lockdown
Bonus NCEA credits will compensate students for lost classroom time.
Pulotu Selio Solomon: 'If I kept living like that, I'd be on dialysis before too long'
Pulotu Selio Solomon talks to Elisabeth Easther about his upbringing and life.
Teacher aides win historic pay equity deal
Another big step towards equal pay for NZ women and men.
School pupils, whānau resilient after eight weeks at home
Teacher Sandy Bornholdt said "it wasn't 'just in case' learning it was 'just in time'".
$200m problem: Why is Wellington's central library closed?
It wasn't damaged in the Kaikoura earthquake, it's not even technically earthquake prone.
Device delivery to at-home learners was 'logistical nightmare' principals say
Students finally get their learn-at-home devices - when they return to school.