Erica Stanford
Education Minister
Topics
- NCEA replacement and curriculum changesQuiet since 28 Oct 2025
- National Party leadership speculation 2026Quiet since 7 Sep
- Secondary teachers' pay dispute 2025Quiet since 18 Dec 2025
- School boards Treaty requirement removalQuiet since 8 Dec 2025
- Ka Ora, Ka Ako school lunch programme issuesQuiet since 21 Mar 2025
- Māori words in school reading booksQuiet since 4 Sep 2025
- Under-16 social media ban billQuiet since 29 Aug
- School curriculum and Ministry of Education controversiesQuiet since 30 Sep
- Erica Stanford Indian emails remarkQuiet since 29 May 2025
- School learning support funding and cutsQuiet since 14 Jun 2025
- Draft school curriculum 2025 reactionQuiet since 6 Nov 2025
- NCEA changes and level 1 resultsQuiet since 17 Jan 2025
All stories
October 2026
- Christopher Luxon visits Bay of Plenty farmers and residents
- Ministry modelling suggests more students may fail new secondary curriculum
- Erica Stanford implements significant changes to the school system
- Maths and reading results show improvement for primary school students
- Teaching Council apologises after review finds failures in Timothy Fisher case
+1 - National proposes requiring students to complete Year 11+2
September 2026
- ‘OIA-able’: When consultation is not the same thing as influence
- Education minister and principals' federation at odds over recent speech
- Ombudsman investigates claims Ministry of Education officials bypassed OIA
- Ministry of Education launches review after leaked video regarding OIA comments
+3 - National promises screen ban in early childhood education
- Immigration NZ spent $85,000 to deport sick overstayer
- Prime Minister Luxon to lead penultimate post-Cabinet press conference
August 2026
- Luxon defends prioritising rates cap over social media ban
- Officials found to have deliberately misled MPs about failed IT project+2
- Labour to support government bill banning social media for under 16s
- National introduces social media ban for those under 16
- Minister directs reinstatement of climate change in school curriculums
- Luxon confident of support after failed leadership challenge
- Erica Stanford denies involvement in plot against Christopher Luxon
- Christopher Luxon survives National Party leadership challenge
- National MPs meet for urgent caucus meeting regarding Christopher Luxon
- Christopher Luxon faces National Party caucus meeting over leadership
- Senior National Party MPs consider leadership challenge against Christopher Luxon
- Waikato and Gisborne schools to receive solar panels through government scheme
- New selection process announced for Parent Resident Visa
- Government unveils nine new industry-led secondary school subjects+2
- Luxon apologises for remarks regarding small business mentality
- Government shifts $20 million into classroom-based teacher training
July 2026
- Immigration IT project costs rise by $6 million
- Labour seeks copy of social media ban bill before offering support
December 2025
- Parliamentary committee investigates social media regulation and alcohol advertising bans
- Erica Stanford receives petition to reinstate Treaty obligations for school boards
- Ministry advised Education Minister to consult Māori on Treaty clause changes
November 2025
- Advocate responds to Minister over Te Tiriti school list
- Lake Alice survivors awarded compensation of up to $600,000+5
- Luxon and Stanford address media during Auckland school visit
- Government education reforms face opposition as changes continue into 2026
- New bill to prevent schools from opting out of international testing
- Most primary school principals likely to quit within five years
- Ian Taylor questions government leadership following Hobson’s Pledge claims
- Luxon to introduce legislation banning social media for under-16s
- New draft curriculum aims to reduce Māori achievement gap
- Unions criticise Education Minister's plans to restructure Teaching Council
- Government to remove school board Treaty of Waitangi requirement+3
- Chinese tourists can now travel to New Zealand visa-free via Australia
October 2025
- Erica Stanford defends new draft school curriculum amid criticism+1
- Government releases full draft curriculum for years 0 to 10
- Government reports increase in primary school phonics achievement rates
- Hospitality sector fears NCEA changes will increase staff shortages
September 2025
- Clergy chain themselves to MP Erica Stanford's Auckland office
- Religious leaders protest outside minister's office over Palestinian statehood decision
- Education minister absent from teachers' conference in Christchurch+1
- Government announces new residency pathways for skilled migrants+2
- Government announces $413m investment in school infrastructure upgrades+4
- Stuart Nash removed from government trip to the United States
- Petition to keep outdoor education in secondary curriculum gains support
- Three pedestrians injured in serious Manurewa crash
- Memorial bench lost in Tasman floods found on Kāpiti Coast
- Man found dead in Christchurch bar toilet
- New secondary school subjects to be phased in from 2028+2
- Deportation law changes respond to Mama Hooch rapists, says Stanford
- New Sara Cohen specialist school opens in Dunedin
- Government to strengthen deportation rules for serious offenders
- Educators claim Treaty and Māori content removed from new curriculums+1
- Adopted teenager granted visa to live with suspected people-traffickers
August 2025
- Eighty-nine principals call for halt to NCEA replacement plans+3
- Government announces new visa for business investors
- Secondary teachers return to negotiations following widespread industrial action
- Secondary teachers strike across Aotearoa over pay negotiations+4
- Judith Collins corrects claim regarding secondary school teacher pay+1
- Government launches writing action plan to improve student achievement+2
- Christopher Luxon says government is focused on the economy
- Academic criticises removal of Māori words from early reader books
- Expert questions decision to remove Māori words from new reading books
- Secondary school teachers to strike next Wednesday over pay negotiations
- Education Minister bans Māori words from new junior reading books+4
- Federated Farmers welcomes new seasonal worker visas
- Labour spokesperson declined offers to be briefed on NCEA reforms
- Education Minister thanks students for finding errors in maths resources
- Luxon and Stanford hold press conference at Auckland school
- Government plans to scrap NCEA and introduce new qualification system+1
- Kura Kaupapa Māori express concern over proposed NCEA replacement
- Government proposes replacing NCEA with new school qualifications+1
- Government proposes replacing NCEA with new national qualifications+4
July 2025
- NZEI takes Government to court over resource teacher funding cuts
- New Crown agency to manage school property portfolio+1
- Government to stop building open-plan classrooms in schools+2
- Prime Minister expected to announce Tāmaki Makaurau by-election date
- Government plan aims to double international education sector economic impact+1
June 2025
- Government considers electronic monitoring for some asylum seekers and migrants
- Nearly 200 applications received for investment residency visas
- Chinese travellers to use electronic travel authority for New Zealand transit
- National and Labour MPs clash over state care redress system
- Government announces visa waiver trial for Chinese visitors from Australia
- Union considers legal action over cuts to resource teaching roles
- Government announces new Parent Boost visa for migrant families
- New Parent Boost visa to launch in September+2
May 2025
- Erica Stanford regrets remarks comparing Indian emails to spam
- Selwyn district receives $108 million for new school and classrooms
- Luxon defends Stanford over comments regarding emails from India
- New funding for schools in Greater Christchurch and Selwyn
- Wellington kura to receive $35 million upgrade after decades of waiting
- More teachers and learning support staff promised in Budget 2025
- Budget 2025 allocates funding for Māori education and learning support
- Budget 2025 includes funding boost for student learning support+2
- RNZ blocked from reporting on confidential education pre-Budget report
- Stanford and Radhakrishnan clash over email remark in Parliament
- Government announces $100 million for maths support in schools
March 2025
- Seymour knew of Libelle liquidation risk before Stanford
- Education ministers meet to discuss school lunch programme issues
- Tongan family fights deportation order to remain in New Zealand
- Ministers fail to meet over school lunch programme issues
- Erica Stanford seeks explanation from David Seymour over school lunch issues+1
February 2025
- Lake Alice survivors named New Zealander of the Year finalist
- New Zealand-born teenager offered residency after deportation threat+1
- NZ First MPs criticise Green MP for using name Aotearoa
- Deportation of New Zealand-born teenager to India put on hold
- Erica Stanford says David Seymour overstepped regarding teacher-only days+1
- Fijian teen to be deported over special education cost concerns
January 2025
- New visa rules aim to attract digital nomads to New Zealand
- Government to allow digital nomads to work remotely in New Zealand+1
- NCEA level 1 pass rates decline due to new requirements+3
- NCEA Level 1 achievement rates show decrease in provisional data
- North Canterbury schools support NCEA level 1 qualification
November 2024
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