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Foreign masters degree enrolments soar as August rule change looms

Education Ministry figures showed more full-time international students enrolled for degrees last year than domestic students.

Delay to new curriculum heralded as significant win for teachers, school leaders

School leaders had voiced their concerns around the content and timing - and Education Minister Erica Stanford has listened.

Tom Phillips granted right to home-school children before disappearing with them

Phillips took the children on the run for nearly four years.

New local initiative increasing attendance at Waikato and Canterbury schools

Show Up and Shine encourages attendance by offering the class with the highest attendance rate in each school a free visit to Ninja Valley, a privately-owned playground.

How can we catch the lost students?

Trades trainers hope the shifting of government money from free university fees to vocational pathways will give students a better start in their work life

Focus on Jobseekers leaves youth falling through cracks and harder to place once 18 - Mayors' Taskforce

It comes as StatsNZ data points to rising youth unemployment.

Is the 'brain drain' real - and is it really a problem?

Annual New Zealand citizen departures have risen from 0.44 percent of the population in 2021 to 1.34 percent in 2025.

Government considered phasing out fees-free university scheme before axing it

The policy which covers the cost of students' third year of tertiary study will be gone in the upcoming Budget.

Auckland charity Painga Project aims to boost children's eye care

The Painga Project hopes to put 7000 pairs of glasses on the faces of children in high equity index schools each year, through its purpose-built mobile optometry clinic.

Students studying on campus at Massey University rising but union leader says sites a'ghost town'

The number studying remotely was nearly 2000 more than in 2016, but the on-campus figure was the lowest point in a steady decline from a high of 9705 in 2016.

Students question university affordability after government scraps fees-free scheme

Some University of Auckland students are questioning whether they can afford to continue their studies, while others say they feel "tricked" by the government.

Education Review Office releases guide to help parents understand schools' performance

The Education Review Office guide provides practical advice on choosing a school, understanding performance, asking questions and raising concerns.

'It will be very disruptive': Grant Robertson on scrapping of fees-free policy

The former Labour finance minister says students and parents have been budgeting with fees-free in mind.

PM Christopher Luxon 'very relaxed' about Winston Peters' fees-free Budget 'leak'

The Prime Minister says he got 'Heathered' on the radio.

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa formalises partnership with Oxford University

The partnership will create curatorial residences for Māori at the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford later this year.

Employers' groups and unions divided over the merits of scrapping third-year fees-free

The government's proposal to scrap the third-year fees-free tertiary scheme and redirect some of the funds towards trades training is being welcomed by business leaders.

Call for Rotuman people to speak language or it could be 'lost forever'

About 8000 Rotumans live in New Zealand, one community leader says.

Mother fears disabled son's new transport provider isn't up to the job

An Auckland mother says changes to ministry-funded school transport for disabled students are putting vulnerable children at risk.

Help! My child only reads graphic novels

Rather than hindering or holding back reading skills, reading graphic novels can actually help develop them.

Green Party criticises govt's 'outrageous' decision to scrap fees-free tertiary education

Finance Minister Nicola Willis confirmed the scheme would be ditched in the upcoming budget.