New Zealand's Education Minister announces end to open-plan classroom construction following widespread school feedback about noise and behavioral challenges. Government shifts to standard designs ...

More American investors are immigrating to New Zealand since April 2025. While it's not quite yet a stampede, it's growing.

The government has confirmed a one-off national day of reflection for survivors of abuse in care will take place on Wednesday ...

The end of open-plan classrooms in New Zealand, recently announced by Education Minister Erica Stanford, marks yet another ...

A national day to acknowledge the abuse, harm and pain hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders experienced in state and faith-based care will be held on No ...

Matthew Hooton has more than 30 years’ experience in political and corporate strategy, including the National and Act parties ...

Official changes are expected within weeks - so how has a school that did away with the standard two years ago fared?

But recent weeks have seen an announcement from Education Minister Erica Stanford that the government will no longer build ...

The Opposition leader says there is no justification for Education Minister Erica Stanford to have been using a personal email address to access work documents, including unreleased pre-Budget ...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Erica Stanford is this Government's MVP. Once again, she is taking an inexplicably stupid thing in schools, ditching it, and going back to common sense.

Streeter’s mother, Erica Stanford, found out earlier this year that the recipient of her son’s heart lives in Olathe, Kansas. The news felt surreal as Streeter’s aunt, Erin Streeter, lives ...