Ministry of Education
Topics
- Asbestos in children's coloured sand recallsQuiet since 23 Dec 2025
- Ka Ora, Ka Ako school lunch programme issuesQuiet since 21 Mar 2025
- Māori words in school reading booksQuiet since 4 Sep 2025
- NCEA replacement and curriculum changesQuiet since 28 Oct 2025
- Primary teacher pay dispute 2025Quiet since 21 Sep 2025
- School curriculum and Ministry of Education controversiesQuiet since 30 Sep
- Gloriavale Christian School registration reviewQuiet since 17 Nov 2025
- Secondary teachers' pay dispute 2025Quiet since 18 Dec 2025
- Wesley College hostel closureQuiet since 18 Nov 2025
- Draft school curriculum 2025 reactionQuiet since 6 Nov 2025
- Oxford Area School assaultQuiet since 24 May 2025
- School learning support funding and cutsQuiet since 14 Jun 2025
All stories
October 2026
- Investigation into tutor following allegations of inappropriate behaviour
- Haeata Community Campus to run its own school lunch programme
- Ministry modelling suggests more students may fail new secondary curriculum
September 2026
- David Seymour campaigns for government to buy Epsom university site
- ‘OIA-able’: When consultation is not the same thing as influence
- Ombudsman investigates claims Ministry of Education officials bypassed OIA
- Ministry investigates leadership concerns at Horowhenua College
- Ministry of Education launches review after leaked video regarding OIA comments
+3 - Ministry of Education moves to cancel Gloriavale school registration
- Ministry of Education cancels Gloriavale Christian School registration+2
August 2026
- Defence Force responds to hazardous substance found at schools
- Former Christchurch principal accused of withholding complaints from school board
- Minister directs reinstatement of climate change in school curriculums
December 2025
- Gloriavale Christian School registration to be cancelled from 23 January
- Gloriavale Christian School registration to be cancelled in January+2
- Thousands of students stood down for physical assaults in 2024
- Rotorua student honoured for 13 years of perfect school attendance
- Auditor-General scrutinises school spending on travel and hospitality+3
- Schools and childcare centres responsible for asbestos sand clean-up costs
- Ministry advised Education Minister to consult Māori on Treaty clause changes
November 2025
- MIKI Sand Art Set recalled due to potential asbestos contamination
- Superdeal NZ issues further recall for coloured sand due to asbestos
- New bill to prevent schools from opting out of international testing
- Ministry of Education supplied asbestos-tainted sand to schools
- Ministry of Education website error may affect abuse redress claims
- Bay of Plenty schools close following asbestos-contaminated sand recall
- Ministry of Education reviews future of Gloriavale Christian School
- Schools and early learning centres contact ministry over asbestos sand recall
- Dozens of schools contact Ministry of Education over asbestos-contaminated sand
- Schools and early learning centres urged to stop using contaminated sand
- Wesley College kitchen worker charged with alleged sexual offending of student
- Gloriavale school granted extension to respond to Ministry concerns
- Wesley College challenges Ministry of Education order to close hostels
- New draft curriculum aims to reduce Māori achievement gap
- Ministry of Education defends draft curriculums with less Māori content
- Unions criticise Education Minister's plans to restructure Teaching Council
- Wesley College hostels ordered to close by Friday+1
October 2025
September 2025
- Teachers claim non-disclosure agreements create secrecy around education changes+1
- Waikato teenager unable to attend school after being excluded+1
- Primary school teachers and staff to strike in October+3
- Petition to keep outdoor education in secondary curriculum gains support
- Piripiri School closed following fatal shooting of Tom Phillips
- Sir Brian Roche calls latest teacher pay offer fair
- Educators claim Treaty and Māori content removed from new curriculums+1
- Government rejects proposal for new university agency
August 2025
- Schools adjust to new Ministry of Education opening hour instructions
- Ministry suspects some schools are opening fewer days than required
- Thirty suppliers apply to deliver government school lunch programme
- Regular school attendance drops in term two
- Candidates announced for Tāmaki Makaurau by-election
- Secondary teachers strike across Aotearoa over pay negotiations+4
- Primary school teachers begin stop-work meetings over stalled pay talks
- Academic criticises removal of Māori words from early reader books
- Children's Commissioner calls for urgent closure of Gloriavale Christian School+2
- Expert questions decision to remove Māori words from new reading books
- Education Minister bans Māori words from new junior reading books+4
- Education Ministry bans children's book containing many Māori words
- Primary teachers reject Ministry of Education pay rise offer
- New senior secondary school curriculum delayed following teacher feedback
- Number of school leavers without qualifications reaches decade high
July 2025
- Secondary teachers union rejects pay offer
- Nanogirl Labs unlikely to pay Inland Revenue debt
- Ministry of Education specialist staff strike over pay and remote work
- Internal documents reveal problems with school curriculum rewrite
- New Crown agency to manage school property portfolio+1
- Government to stop building open-plan classrooms in schools+2
June 2025
- Drinking water at 71 schools contaminated with E coli
- Ministry of Education to regulate asbestos removal in schools
- Union considers legal action over cuts to resource teaching roles
- Whanganui school programme uses sport and culture to boost engagement
- Southland caterer sentenced to home detention for tax evasion
- Shirley Boys High School to transform open plan classrooms
May 2025
- Government to increase prosecutions for school truancy+3
- RNZ declines request to assist Education Ministry leaks investigation
- Student hospitalised after assault at rural Canterbury school
- Investigation launched after child critically injured at Pukekohe school
- Iwi initiative addresses school attendance in Whanganui and South Rangitīkei
- Schools lodge 171 formal complaints about revamped lunch programme
March 2025
- Principals surprised by government move to procure national testing system+3
- David Seymour defends school lunch programme against critics+1
- South Island schools face uncertainty as lunch provider enters liquidation
- School lunch provider must provide daily evidence of food quality
- Ministry of Education bans specific school lunches after student burnt
February 2025
- Principals' Federation calls for return to previous school lunch system
- Gisborne's Cobham School to close in June
- Hundreds of school lunches left uneaten across New Zealand
- Ministry error leads to teacher shortages for 2024 and 2025
- Ministry of Education projects teacher shortages for coming years+1
- BestStart investigates after two toddlers escape Mt Eden daycare
January 2025
- Two toddlers escape from Auckland daycare after door left open
- Wellington residents oppose tree removal at Wellington Girls' College