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100,000 workers set to walk off the job next week

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An estimated 100,000 teachers, nurses, and healthcare workers across New Zealand are set to strike next week in what is being called the nation’s...

“Parents should be furious”: Stanford slams timing of teachers strike

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Education Minister Erica Stanford has condemned the Post Primary Teachers’ Association’s (PPTA) decision to begin seven days of rolling strikes starting today, saying “parents...

Secondary teachers launch seven-day strike over pay and conditions

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More than 21,000 secondary and area school teachers will begin seven days of rolling strike action from Tuesday after rejecting the government’s latest pay...

MAGs considers splitting in two

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Mount Albert Grammar School, Auckland’s second-largest high school, is considering splitting into separate middle and senior schools to manage a projected roll of 4500...

Teacher gets Home Detention for indecent acts involving 11-year-old

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An Auckland primary school teacher in her 30s, who held a senior role, was sentenced to home detention after pleading guilty to grooming and...

Parental attitudes improving but term-time holidays still drive truancy, ERO finds

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A new Education Review Office report shows attitudes toward school attendance have improved significantly since 2022, with more parents and students valuing regular attendance,...

Harvard sued after morgue manager sold donated bodies on black market

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that Harvard University can be sued by families whose relatives’ donated bodies were illegally sold on the...

A major aspect of our education provision for marginalised children in NZ

Alwyn Poole -

There is absolutely no doubt that a child from a home with – low education outcomes of the parents, only one parent in the...

Mystery buyers to revive Auckland University Bookstore

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Mystery new owners with bookselling experience have purchased the failed Auckland University bookstore Ubiq, which went into liquidation in July and closed on August...

Napier tutor convicted of indecent assault on students sentenced to Home Detention

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Entomologist and tutor Rashmi Kant, 51, has been convicted of indecently assaulting three of his school-age students while tutoring them in 2023 and 2024. The...

Teaching Council under investigation over procurement and conflicts of interest

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The Teaching Council, responsible for teacher registration, professional standards and education programme approvals, is under investigation by the Public Service Commission following a complaint...

Educators unite for ‘historic’ nationwide strike on 23 October

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In a historic first, primary school teachers, primary principals, school support staff and Ministry of Education specialist staff will all strike together on 23...

Oxford debate club president faces no confidence vote over Kirk comments

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George Abaraonye celebrated the assassination of the conservative activist he once debated. The incoming president of the Oxford Union, George Abaraonye, faces disciplinary proceedings and...

Thirteen schools with the Secret Sauce for improvement

Alwyn Poole -

Looking at the University Entrance for Leavers Data for every high school in NZ it becomes clear that there are some good things happening. The...

Rolling teacher strikes leave thousands of secondary students without classes this week

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Thousands of Year 12 and 13 students across New Zealand missed classes on Monday as secondary teachers began a week of rolling industrial action...

Calls to deport Massey Uni Communications Professor after Charlie Kirk comments

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National MP for Southland Joseph Mooney challenged the conduct of Massey University’s Professor of Communication, Mohan J Dutta, who described Charlie Kirk as a...

Oxford Union president-elect condemned for comments on Charlie Kirk assassination

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Oxford Union president-elect George Abaraonye has faced backlash after leaked messages appeared to show him celebrating the shooting of US conservative activist Charlie Kirk,...

Secondary teachers to strike next week after rejecting government pay offer

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Secondary school teachers will stage a four-day partial strike next week after overwhelmingly rejecting the government’s improved pay offer. The Post Primary Teachers’ Association confirmed...

Irish teacher fined €225,000 in ongoing “transgender pronoun” dispute

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Irish teacher Enoch Burke has been fined €225,000 by the Irish High Court after continuing to reject instructions to use transgender pronouns at Wilson’s...

Resist Gender Education condemns Law Commission proposals on girls’ rights and single-sex schools

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The Law Commission’s latest report, Ia Tangata, has drawn strong criticism from advocacy group Resist Gender Education (RGE), which says the recommendations threaten the...

Academic apologises for “hanging” remark about dairy industry leaders

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Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) senior research fellow Dr Mike Joy has apologised after sparking backlash with a LinkedIn post suggesting dairy industry CEOs...

Police seek information on historic abuse allegations at West Auckland schools

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Police are appealing for information as they continue to investigate allegations of historic sexual abuse linked to several West Auckland schools during the 1980s...

Schools make kids crazy

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Almost one-third of government schools nationwide in the U.S. are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill...

Teachers’ union may vote on strike after pay offer rejected

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The Educational Institute (NZEI/Te Riu Roa) is considering whether to ballot members on industrial action after two weeks of stop-work meetings with primary teachers,...

Former students allege sex offender teacher used 2-way mirror to film abuse

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Former students of Timothy Fisher, a convicted child sex offender and former drama teacher at Stratford High School, have accused him of using a...

Minnesota Catholic leaders warned Walz schools were “under attack” two years before Minneapolis shooting

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In an April 14, 2023 letter to Governor Tim Walz, Minnesota Catholic Conference Executive Director Jason Adkins and MINNDEPENDENT president Tim Benz said Catholic...

Principal faces fraud charges totalling $548k in Palmerston North

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Former Ross Intermediate principal Wayne Kevin Codyre, also known as Wayne Jenkins, has been charged with 52 counts of obtaining by deception, allegedly defrauding...

Interesting Article: The No. 1 secret to their success—and parents should teach it early

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Great article here. According to Jennifer Breheny Wallace: “During my six years of researching hundreds of high-achieving kids, I’ve found that the real engine behind long-term...

New Plymouth Boys’ High apologises for excluding student from speech finals, FSU to provide training

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After a mediation supported by the Free Speech Union (FSU), New Plymouth Boys’ High School acknowledged that Oliver Jull was excluded from participating in...

Name suppression lifted for former teacher convicted of sex acts on student

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Myah Leanie Adams, a 27-year-old former Auckland teacher, had her two-year prison sentence for sexual conduct with a 15-year-old student reduced to 10 months...

Convicted teacher abused nine girls despite warnings and police red flags

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Auckland teacher Timothy Fisher, recently jailed for abusing nine girls and creating child exploitation material, was able to continue teaching despite prior indecency convictions,...

U.S. revokes 6,000+ international student visas for law violations and security concerns

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The US State Department has revoked more than 6,000 international student visas, citing violations of US law, overstays, and national security concerns. Officials said the...

Teachers and nurses plan strikes as pay and staffing disputes escalate

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Two of the country's largest public sector unions are preparing strike action in the coming weeks, as teachers and nurses accuse the government of...

Stanford limits Māori in early reading books

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Education Minister Erica Stanford has ordered that new additions to the "Ready to Read Phonics Plus" series for five-year-olds exclude Māori words except for...

Labour no-show on NCEA changes briefings

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The Government repeatedly offered Labour briefings on upcoming NCEA reforms, but Education Spokeswoman Willow-Jean Prime failed to respond to initial invitations and later formally...

Government proposes replacing NCEA with new national qualifications

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The Government has announced a plan to overhaul New Zealand’s secondary school qualification system, proposing to replace NCEA with two new national certificates aimed...

Two major problems with the proposed English curriculum

Alwyn Poole -

I have been writing curriculum in NZ since I started teaching in 1991. This developed into writing a full curriculum– all core subjects and 32...

Here’s why Western education is doomed

Rachel Marsden -

The meteoric rise of feelings-first schooling has ended academic excellence. As someone who hadn’t set foot inside a grade school for decades, I knew something...

Covid lockdowns devastated an entire generation of children

Ian Miller -

In what we now understand were completely theatrical attempts to control the Covid-19 pandemic, experts demanded and politicians mandated all sorts of intrusive policies. Mask...

Learn how to think, not what to think

Averil Drake -

The history of modern schools, why critical thinking was never the plan and what is the way forward? “Are we raising future generations incapable of...

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