When New Zealand freestyle skier Finley Melville Ives pulled off a dream run to clinch his first World Cup gold medal in Calgary, Canada, over the weekend, his snowboarding twin brother Campbell was ...

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Significant teacher shortages are likely this year, the Ministry of Education is warning, and the shortfall could end up being more than 3000.

A Hawke’s Bay student has achieved an incredible result in her Te Reo Scholarship exam, despite sitting it two years early. Maieke Thompson, from Hastings Girls’ High School, sat the New Zealand ...

Whatever the configuration, outdoor pools are a summer staple in New Zealand. We asked both staff and Spinoff readers to ...

Principals told Checkpoint that lunches for their Muslim students have contained ham, despite the consumption of pig products ...

School friendships and social connections are vital to positive student experiences so need to be actively fostered, according to findings from the Our Voices project at the University of Auckland.

Penelope Axtens has been announced as the 2025 Creative New Zealand (CNZ) New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī (NZSM) Composer-in-Residence at the Lilburn Residence.

A “well-liked” school teacher and film-maker who gave teen girls cannabis and assaulted one sought to avoid conviction after ...

David Seymour says his new lunch regime is stabilising, but critics don’t think the final product is worth the $130m savings.

Despite overall road fatalities remaining steady in the past 12 months (2023–2024), youth fatalities fell another 6% (from 321 to 302). For the fourth consecutive year, young drivers have accounted ...