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Ministry of Education New Zealand

Contact the media team

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 027 560 5387

This email and phone number are for news media enquiries only.

For all other enquiries, check out the contact us page.

Contact us

Journalists wanting information about individuals need to get permission before we can respond to media queries about them. Ask the people in question to complete the privacy consent form, then scan and send it to the media inbox, along with your query.

Media privacy consent form
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The Official Information Act and media responses

We take our obligations under the Official Information Act 1982 seriously. That includes responding to requests for official information via media queries.

Official Information Act and media responses

Education Counts

The Education Counts website provides useful research, data and statistics, including:

Find a school

Find an early learning centre or service

Education snapshot by region

Early childhood statistics

Schools and teacher statistics

Truancy

Stand-downs, suspensions, exclusions and expulsions from school

Ministers' media releases on the Beehive website

Minister Stanford's media releases

Minister Simmonds' media releases

Minister Seymour's media releases

Other education agencies

A number of New Zealand education agencies provide information and resources about studying and teaching in New Zealand.

Education agencies