Government Cuts Education Funding As Youth Jobless Rate Climbs
Young people can’t find work, can’t afford study and are leaving the country in record numbers, yet the Government is still cutting education support.

Young people can’t find work, can’t afford study and are leaving the country in record numbers, yet the Government is still cutting education support.

Young New Zealanders are leaving, unemployment is climbing, and the Government’s answer is to make tertiary education harder to afford.

Cold flats. Empty fridges. Rising power bills. Student leaders say tertiary students are being abandoned during the worst cost-of-living crisis in years.

$230 for a school ball? Parents are pushing back, and asking when school events became luxury experiences.

After a year of Erica Stanford’s wrecking-ball education reforms, Labour has finally put something on the table, and it’s bigger than just undoing the damage.

Erica Stanford’s SMART assessment system promises clarity—but teachers say it means more paperwork and less education.

Holocaust education should teach universal lessons about racism and genocide, not become a narrow political narrative.

Erica Stanford says Year 8 maths is improving. The Ministry’s own numbers suggest the truth is more complicated.

When AI can instantly generate essays and answers, the old education model starts collapsing fast. The real crisis isn’t students using AI, it’s politicians still pretending rote learning prepares kids for the future.

If Te Tiriti can be removed from education policy, what’s left is not neutral — it’s a choice about whose voice matters.