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Bitten 9 times at daycare
The distraught parents of an infant who needed hospital treatment after being repeatedly bitten by a 2-year-old boy at a preschool.
The distraught parents of an infant who needed hospital treatment after being repeatedly bitten by a 2-year-old boy at a preschool.
There will be less chance of dodgy teachers resurfacing at other schools under legislation to be introduced in Parliament today, Education Minister Hekia Parata says.
A principal and her husband siphoned off more than $30,000 from a decile one school in South Auckland and splashed out on themselves.
Respectful attitudes to sex would become a core part of sex education in schools under an overhaul recommended to the Govt.
Finding the right school is not an easy task. There are many complications, not least the relevance of data available on each school, and ongoing debate about the value of the qualifications offered.
In the second of our three-part education series we investigate what's gone wrong - and how more time with better-trained teachers could help our kids lead the world again.
New Zealand's most at-risk school students should receive similar funding as those who are attending controversial charter schools, those involved in alternative education say.
The Government is working towards more charter or partnership schools beyond the five already approved Prime Minister John Key said ahead of the opening of the first one today.
National has managed to win praise from many of its usual critics - even the teacher unions - for its latest policy to try to lift student achievement.
PM John Key is today expected to unveil a plan that will allow the boards of some poorly performing schools to hire high performing principals with big pay incentives.
Education Minister Hekia Parata is preparing for an embarrassing drop in New Zealand's education rankings in an international survey next week.
Parents are fuming at early-childhood education centres that charge for public holidays, when the doors are shut and children are not able to attend.
Older long-term unemployed people look set to lose out in a radical reshuffle of foundation education which will give higher priority to young people.
A delay in getting at-risk youth back into education can have life-long consequences, education experts say.
The Education Minister has defended national standards despite an independent report which found teachers get them right only 60 per cent of the time.
Nearly half of the millions of dollars mistakenly overpaid to teachers by Novopay has not been given back - with repayment rates as low as $2.50 per week agreed on.
The Novopay debacle is being blamed for delaying the release of National Standards data - an excuse described as odd by a leading unionist.
Parents should have the option to drop their 4-year-old off at school, says a principal who is set to open a preschool on his school's grounds.
Schools are bracing for the biggest changes to their funding in seven years, as officials measure how rich or poor their pupils' families are.
At 3pm every weekday it’s a circus outside most primary schools in the country as parents vie for a parking space so they can collect their children.
Children's marks in National Standards will be artificially lowered this year because last year's assessment was too easy.
The report plans for the creation of a "Finishing School for New Zealand Political Aspirants - the Cabbage Boat Academy", writes Toby Manhire.
The Government might look at merging the boards of small neighbouring schools that struggled to get enough suitable candidates for this week's nationwide board of trustee elections.
Editorial: The Teachers Council, the registration body that ought to speak with the authority of the New Zealand Law Society or Medical Association, never offers a view on educational issues.
School children are being taught how to read and write by watching Hollywood blockbusters with subtitles.