You(th) Got Skills
6 December 2019

A newly launched video series shows how the skills young people have acquired at school and in their everyday lives are valued by employers.
6 December 2019
A newly launched video series shows how the skills young people have acquired at school and in their everyday lives are valued by employers.
6 December 2019
The Tertiary Education Commission’s Inspiring the Future programme includes Drawing the Future, an activity designed to help shape the career aspirations
6 December 2019
Throughout August and September, more than 500 students took advantage of the opportunity to find out more about trades and services careers
22 November 2019
A programme that provides strategies and training for parents and early childhood teachers who support tamariki on the autism spectrum
21 November 2019
A Māori form of art is being reinvigorated and now, for some students, opening doors back into education.
21 November 2019
A brand new initiative hopes to beat the learning slump this summer with two favourite Kiwi pastimes: cricket and reading.
21 November 2019
The latest data emerging from the Programme for International Student Assessment, shows that a sense of belonging at school has weakened among 15-year-olds.
24 October 2019
Twenty-nine Māori and Pacific student teachers have been awarded prestigious Kupe Scholarships in recognition of their high academic achievement and leadership
10 October 2019
Improving young people’s understanding of positive relationships and how to form their own healthy relationships
9 October 2019
New Zealand ShakeOut, our national earthquake drill and tsunami hīkoi, is happening at 1.30pm on Thursday 17 October.
9 October 2019
Innovative practices and partnerships with whānau and community to support learners to succeed were celebrated at the PM’s Education Excellence Awards
9 October 2019
A toolkit is now available to help young people and school leavers gain the core skills and knowledge they need to help launch their post-school lives.
12 September 2019
Pervasive ableist attitudes have been identified by young disabled New Zealanders as the biggest barrier to their participation in schools and communities.
12 September 2019
A group of 12 young people from around New Zealand has provided valuable perspectives into the Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy workstream
12 September 2019
Data on Māori and iwi learners will soon be more readily available, thanks to a new tool developed in partnership with iwi education leaders around the country.
30 August 2019
A “stand-out” lecturer in Māori media studies and creative writing at Auckland University of Technology is paying forward.
19 August 2019
For nearly 25 years, promising young musicians in Canterbury have been offered training and support from primary school to university through a unique programme
1 August 2019
Each year around 350 early childhood and school teachers receive awards to complete postgraduate diplomas.
1 August 2019
Choosing a career can be hard for some students, but Trade SpeedMeets being held in collaboration with schools and employers
1 August 2019
Family Planning offers teachers a range of support and resources around the relationship and sexuality part of the curriculum.
27 June 2019
Non-streaming of mathematics in NCEA Level 1 has achieved a marked increase in the number of Māori and Pacific students studying and achieving in the subject at
27 June 2019
Outstanding work is happening in early learning services, kura and schools across the country, as evidenced by the finalists in this year’s PM Awards
17 June 2019
New Zealand ShakeOut, our national earthquake drill and tsunami hīkoi, is taking place on Thursday 17 October at 1.30pm.
13 June 2019
Well-known historian and author Dame Anne Salmond has spent decades researching and exploring the first encounters
30 May 2019
A programme of career talks by local employers at Waimate High School is setting school leavers on the path towards successful careers.