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John Gerritsen

Education Correspondent at Radio New Zealand (RNZ)

Radio NZ #education correspondent. Will tweet my own stories, but also other RNZ education stories. #schools #ece #tertiary #teachers #students

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  • Hamilton principal to use truancy funds to tackle poverty

    1 day ago | rnz.co.nz | John Gerritsen

    A Hamilton principal said his local attendance service will likely use a government funding increase to help alleviate poverty. Associate Education Minister, David Seymour, on Wednesday announced next week's Budget would raise spending on tackling truancy by about 50 percent, with more funding for frontline services, a new case management system, and better data monitoring.

  • Stuff

    4 days ago | stuff.co.nz | John Gerritsen

  • Health school students win NCEA rule change

    4 days ago | rnz.co.nz | John Gerritsen

    About 150 vulnerable teenagers have won a reprieve from an NCEA rule that disadvantaged them. The students attended health schools for hospitalised and very ill students where they completed literacy and numeracy unit standards not offered by regular schoolsThe rule in question prevented the students from counting the standards toward their NCEA qualification if they returned to a regular secondary school - instead they would have to start again using the standards used by those schools.

  • Principals at odds over new relationships and sexuality framework

    6 days ago | radionz.co.nz | John Gerritsen

    Consultation on the draft relationships and sexuality framework for schools closes on Friday, and some primary principals worry it is too explicit for their pupils. Meanwhile, a group of health education experts are warning the proposed content is a backwards step that makes trans people invisible. The draft was published after the government canned guidelines for teaching the subject because New Zealand First objected to what it called "gender ideology".

  • Principals at odds over new relationships and sexuality framework

    6 days ago | rnz.co.nz | John Gerritsen

    Consultation on the draft relationships and sexuality framework for schools closes on Friday, and some primary principals worry it is too explicit for their pupils. Meanwhile, a group of health education experts are warning the proposed content is a backwards step that makes trans people invisible. The draft was published after the government canned guidelines for teaching the subject because New Zealand First objected to what it called "gender ideology".

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John Gerritsen
John Gerritsen @RNZeducation
17 Apr 24

'Dark day': Ministry of Education to cut 565 jobs https://t.co/7mlfGPstKM

John Gerritsen
John Gerritsen @RNZeducation
23 Nov 23

New govt has Education Minister - Erica Stanford; Minister for Tertiary Education and Skills - Penny Simmonds; Associate Education Minister (Partnership Schools) - David Seymour.

John Gerritsen
John Gerritsen @RNZeducation
29 Aug 23

Officials want even more job cuts at Te Pūkenga, briefing shows https://t.co/yGc9hWCuWr