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Education protest draws 2000 marchers
An estimated 2000 people marched in downtown Auckland this afternoon in protest at the Government's education reforms.
Charter schools should have Ombudsman scrutiny - committee
Charter schools, which will not be subject to the Official Information Act, should be able to be investigated by the Ombudsman…
Big squeeze in Auckland schools
Already-full schools face being made to cram in more students as the Government struggles to cope with the growth in Auckland's…
Vic knocks Auckland off its perch
The University of Auckland has been knocked off its perch in a ranking of universities on the research performance of academic…
New glitch creates more Novopay blunders
More than 1600 school staff in the first pay period of the new financial year were overpaid because of a new glitch introduced…
Chch not the model for school network changes - Parata
There are no plans to replicate the way Christchurch schools have been rationalised elsewhere in the country, Education…
Geoff Cooper: Education's double gift less inequality and more growth
In 2003, Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Lucas wrote that "of the tendencies that are harmful to sound economics, the…
Education
Peter O'Connor: Public education is a treasure we must protect
Teachers know they are in an ideological battle over the future of public education, writes Peter O'Connor…
Paedophile faces preventive detention
A former Northland teacher has pleaded guilty to a further 25 charges, including five charges of sexual assault, at Kaitaia…
Diplomat adds sixth language to CV
Meet the new generation of New Zealand diplomats.
Key urges kids to learn Mandarin
Prime Minister John Key wants more students to consider learning Mandarin.
Peter Calder: Bilingualism great, if you've time
The 23 children in the classroom at Richmond Road School in Ponsonby are sitting on the mat, just like…
Talent2 payroll privacy breach
The company behind the flawed Novopay system has sent a number of schools the wrong emails about yet-to-be-processed actions…
Allyson Gofton: Do the maths - NZ strategy wrong
Whatever his teacher and vice-principal thought, it was solved here, in a country village school, by a teacher doing it…
Kiwi pair awarded top scholarship
Two New Zealand students have each received $100,000 scholarships to attend a prestigious American University that has current…
Another privacy breach
The Ministry of Education is the latest Government department to admit to a privacy breach.
Future proofing computer training
Education Archives
At the start of the academic year, thousands of students around the country opened their texts in computer…
Primary Education
Parata changes answer to Parliament
Education Minister Hekia Parata has corrected an answer to Parliament about the resignation of Education Secretary Lesley…
National
Sea rescue mirrors 2010 incident
A fisherman rescued from his sinking boat on Friday had survived a similar incident three years ago.
Secondary Education
Teacher's strange illness
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A teacher from an exclusive Auckland school is subject to investigation, understood to be over a mystery…
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