Schools from around the Bay of Plenty and Rotorua have taken up the Showquest challenge - preparing short but powerful performances exhibiting art, music, dance,... Read More

New Zealand's largest free science, technology, engineering, and mathematics festival is returning for 2023. Since 2018 STEMFest has been nurturing the Bay of... Read More

The Great Kiwi Bookathon takes place in June, encouraging tamariki and their whanau to read, while raising awareness, and much needed funds for Blind Low Vision... Read More

It's time to get ready for the New Zealand phenomenon that is The Big Sing. The Big Sing - TBS - is a regional secondary schools choral festival that takes place... Read More

The Ministry of Education's latest pay offer to head off another primary teachers strike includes a new $4500 lump sum payment. Teachers had called off strike... Read More

Teacher unions have suspended all industrial action following a meeting with Education Minister Jan Tinetti. Tinetti organised a meeting between the Post Primary... Read More

The government is unveiling its so-called 'no frills' 2023 Budget, focused on the cost of living and building better infrastructure in the face of climate... Read More

New Zealand's 10-year-olds have recorded a statistically-insignificant drop in performance in a major international reading test. Their average score of 521... Read More

Thirty-eight damaged schools in the Bay of Plenty Education Region are amongst over 500 North Island schools which have been identified by the Ministry of Education... Read More

The Government is marking the delivery of one million period product packs delivered to schools across Aotearoa. Minister of Education Jan Tinetti says as a result,... Read More

The government will give schools a temporary alternative to new online literacy and numeracy tests that many teenagers have found too hard. It is also deferring... Read More

A primary school principal has labelled the government's class size policy a "slap in the face", saying the education minister must be "crazy" if she thinks... Read More