Philip Harding: Big questions for Govt's new overseers of our teachers
With all the complexities and these weighty matters for Educanz to resolve, how will the "independent voice" of the profession know that it is on track?
With all the complexities and these weighty matters for Educanz to resolve, how will the "independent voice" of the profession know that it is on track?
She aced her level 3 NCEA exams at only Year 12 and now a bright spark Auckland student has scooped gold in an international geography competition.
A new report says there is no evidence that programmes are providing teens a more effective pathway to further education and training.
Many teachers would like students to be able to do external assessment "online, anytime", NZQA says.
NCEA results suggest boys are beginning to catch up with girls in their senior school years.
Evidence has emerged showing the grades of boys are finally catching up with girls' since a radical overhaul of the secondary school exam system.
The principal at Northcote's Hato Petera College has been suspended from his role as chief executive of the school's hostel and three managers have resigned.
Teachers' unions always insist they are professional bodies serving the interests of education, not just their members.
A carving programme that fostered passion and changed attitudes to learning has been announced as the supreme winner of the Prime Minister's Education Excellence Awards.
Schools are struggling to find maths and science teachers, while middle management jobs are going begging as senior staff retire.
The finances of every public secondary school in NZ are being investigated by the Office of the Auditor-General hunting for breaches over charges to parents.
Four students have been excluded from one of the country's top schools for taking and sending images that constituted "harassment".
An Auckland high school has lost a court battle to keep a child with Asperger’s out of the classroom.
Financially strapped secondary schools are cutting back on classroom activities, dropping field trips, and ditching science experiments.
Green Bay High School is going to one of the country's highest courts to fight to keep a teenager with Asperger's out of the classroom.
School leaders should be commended for standing firm on the type of building that suits the Grammar philosophy and pedagogy, writes John Morris.
Students will be sitting exams on computers by the end of this year, as NZQA plans to get rid of some paper-based exams altogether as soon as 2018.
Three of Auckland's biggest public high schools are seeking to build international student hostels on site so they can boost numbers and reap the financial rewards.
An Auckland girls’ school has banned an anonymous messaging app, after students reported problems with bullying and nasty comments.
Principals at poorer schools have defended the huge drop-off in the number of students gaining UE, rejecting accusations they push students into "soft" subjects.
Students at a Bay of Plenty high school were so determined to pass NCEA they stayed after hours, and during the holidays to make it through.
Two high school students from Tauranga and their robot will be heading to the United States this weekend hoping to become world champions.
A St Bede’s Board of Trustees member has quit in the wake of a rowing controversy involving two pupils.
Rather than trying to come up with a figure for our pay adjustment, our claim is obvious - 5.5 per cent, the same obscenely generous figure the authority deemed necessary for MPs, writes Steve McCabe.
Students are not being taught enough "space and shape" mathematics and the "huge" learning gap is hurting achievement, the Ministry of Education says.
Ongoing problems with Novopay and why a struggling charter school has not been shut down have been raised with the Ministry of Education in a select committee hearing today.